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-{\typoscale[1200/] The UFO Reality}
+{\typoscale[1200/] The \sc{ufo} Reality}
 
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@@ -56,61 +56,47 @@ whereabouts of individual contactees.
 
 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 course, 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 attention to several errors of accuracy in the second revision of the manuscript.
+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 attention to several errors of accuracy in the second revision of the manuscript.
 
-Britton Wilkie contributed the re-drawing of the diagram accompanying 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.
+Britton Wilkie contributed the re-drawing of the diagram accompanying the \sc{Torres Rebus}, and also provided me access to the actual source of the \journaltitle{Allende Letters} cited in Section 31.\fnote{\journaltitle{The Allende Letters}, a magazine publication issued in 1968 by Universal Publishing and Distributing Company, New York.} 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 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\ednote{what photo? page num ref? back cover?} by Carrie Boretz.
 
-* The Allende Letters, a magazine publication issued in 1968 by Universal Publishing and Distributing Company, New York.
-PREFACE
+\chap 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 suddenly became a V-shaped formation of smaller UFO lights, disappeared, 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.
+Shortly after putting on a play during which a comic \sc{ufo} in a coolie hat descends to dispense holiday cheer, I was faced with the incredible and mind-bending coincidence of seeing a dilating \sc{ufo} light which suddenly became a V-shaped formation of smaller \sc{ufo} lights, disappeared, 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 communicate with them.
-
-These presences were hypnotically compelling. At one time, I actually 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
+At that time, I contacted a local \sc{ufo} data collector who told me that he was more interested in \dq{craft} than in \dq{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 \sc{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 \sc{ufo} lights, and several times woke from sleep and walked to the window, feeling that \sc{ufo} presences were outside, and that they wanted me to communicate with them.
+
+These presences were hypnotically compelling. At one time, I actually heard a humming \dq{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 \sc{ufo} contactee may undergo. These may include feeling \dq{alien} as an individual, unreasonable anger, elation or depression, enhanced ESP abilities, and the development of alternate technological systems.
+
+\break
+
+\cent{\null\vfill
+
+{\typoscale[1300/]\caps\rm Congratulations!}
+
+\vskip 2em
+
+{\typoscale[1100/]The \sc{ufo} Reality]
+\vfill
+}
+
+\break
+
+
+---Touch my finger.
+
+---Okay.
+
+---Hey, I'm a Martian! . . . Surprise! You're pregnant!
+International Children's Joke
+
+By now, there have been so many \sc{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
@@ -120,14 +106,14 @@ 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
+frustration. In Jung's thought, the \sc{ufo} was a fiery archetypal symbol
 
-. . of what? The symbolic significance of the UFO has not so far been
+. . of what? The symbolic significance of the \sc{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
+concentrate on the human effects of \sc{ufo} experience, as I have observed
+2 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} R'EALITY
 
 them in the course of two years of interviews with purported UFO
 contactees.
@@ -137,21 +123,21 @@ 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
+concerned with the effect which \sc{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
+""contactee." I saw my first \sc{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
+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.”
+spontaneous mediumistic occurrences popularly known as ''seeing a
+ghost."
 
-This UFO was a light exterior to me, which I actually saw physically.
+This \sc{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.
@@ -170,22 +156,22 @@ 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
+Subsequent to the publication of my \sc{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
+me on the street and told me that they had also seen \sc{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
+report and drawing of this sighting with the \sc{ufo} Data Collection Center
 in Northfield, Illinois. Again, I left out the connection with spiritualism, 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
+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
@@ -200,8 +186,8 @@ 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 California. 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
+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.
 
@@ -211,55 +197,55 @@ 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 coercion and a number of word-of-mouth horror stories on contactees and
 psychics who had been confined to mental institutions or forced to take
-4 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+4 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
 
 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, concomitantly, 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
+UFO-associated inner experiences to any psychiatrist and, concomitantly, doubts as to this FBI-ham's sanity. After all, what person in his
+right mind would place such an odd \sc{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.
+relation of the true nature of my \sc{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
+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 psychiatric problems in conjunction with this nurse, but evidently had either
+psychokinetically subsequent to \sc{ufo} contact. He mentioned no psychiatric 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
+My other peculiar \sc{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
+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.
+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
-CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY - 5
+
 
 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
+I had mentioned nothing about my \sc{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. Specifically, he described my recent dream of a vegetable planet. I had recently
 made several small sculptures of people emerging from flowers and
@@ -270,7 +256,7 @@ 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
+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
@@ -280,7 +266,7 @@ 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
+him nothing of my \sc{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.
@@ -294,10 +280,10 @@ 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.
+perceive reality has been permanently changed by my \sc{ufo} contact.
 
 In 1974, I was not yet aware of how completely my perceptions had
-6 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+6 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
 
 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
@@ -305,18 +291,18 @@ 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
+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
+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.”
+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
@@ -334,53 +320,53 @@ 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
+Captain Billy's Whiz Bang Joke Book and (with a certain degree of black
 humor) degrees of expanded perception within the context of the execution 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, telepathic 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
+
+daily occurrences lights appearing here and there in my house, telepathic messages to "'look outside the window: we are here," followed by
+newspaper reports of \sc{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
+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 commerce with spirits?
+Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship. Notice the word "'spiritual." Does this
+mean ''supernatural'" or "'holy"? Or what does it mean to have commerce 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
+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
+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
+of immeasurable assistance. He tipped me off to the \sc{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
-8 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+At any rate, Lobo brought me the \sc{ufo} Hotline literature interleaved
+8 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
 
 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
@@ -391,13 +377,13 @@ 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
+Upon subscription, I not only received my \sc{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
+deliberate lunacy, I sent the \sc{ufo} Hotline 'firess release to the Salem
 News, expecting the same thundering silence that similar releases have
 occasioned from some of the larger papers.
 
@@ -411,7 +397,7 @@ 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 subsequently came down to the Magik Mirror and did a very complimentary
-article on my “‘spaced-out” condition.
+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
@@ -420,72 +406,72 @@ 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,”
+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.
+of the \sc{ufo} hotline.
+
+The necessity of expressing Monroe's experience reawakened the
 
-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
+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
+I wrote *"The Astrebus' (which deals with the circumstantial aspects
+of \sc{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.
+heightened perception and ability as related to \sc{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'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
+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,
+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
+1 completed one entire novel (about \sc{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
-10 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+10 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
 
-debate with individuals from a certain “UFO Two” group. These
+debate with individuals from a certain "UFO Two" group. These
 lectures were on spirit contact, but this debate took on definite theological 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
+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
+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.
 
@@ -516,9 +502,9 @@ 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 psychic accuracy and mentioning that I thought there was a link between
-CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 11
 
-areas of psychic perception and UFO manifestation.
+
+areas of psychic perception and \sc{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
@@ -541,16 +527,16 @@ 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
+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.
+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
+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
+"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.
@@ -559,61 +545,61 @@ 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.
+astrally or ""mentally," in the way spirits operate.
 
 A spiritualist would have called this moving Tinkerbell-like light a
-12 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+12 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
 
-“spirit light,” but I felt a more powerful presence than is usually
+"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
+conviction about small \sc{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.”
+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.” 
+about this \sc{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.
+newspaper) that another \sc{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
+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
+Public talk of \sc{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
+experience Top Secret, and filed it away in my \sc{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. *‘Congratulations,” I told her, smiling, ““That’s wonderful! Do you remember any
-news?”’
+store in Salem saying that a \sc{ufo} had come to her in a dream. *'Congratulations," I told her, smiling, ""That's wonderful! Do you remember any
+news?"'
 
-“Cancer,”” she replied, ““is due to a chemical imbalance in the atmosphere. Things come to me like that. I’'m psychic.”
+"Cancer,"" she replied, ""is due to a chemical imbalance in the atmosphere. 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.
+psychical \sc{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
@@ -628,7 +614,7 @@ 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
+conjunction with the heavy incidence of \sc{ufo} sightings in the North
 Shore area.
 
 At the time of the dream, I was trying to decide whether to have an
@@ -644,7 +630,7 @@ 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
+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.
@@ -655,7 +641,7 @@ 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
+14 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
 
 Certainly, if I had chosen this atmosphere over my personal
 enterprises I would have been in trouble. Additionally, during the early
@@ -671,24 +657,24 @@ 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
+advertise in the \sc{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 stoppage was an encouragement to continue, that I was on the riéht track.
+Registry (as distinct from the International \sc{ufo} Registry) and I do
+associate time anomalies with \sc{ufo} contact. I felt that this clock stoppage 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
+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
+working several times in conjunction with \sc{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.
@@ -700,14 +686,14 @@ 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
+my cuckoo clock and time anomalies connected with \sc{ufo} sightings on
 the North Shore.
 
 I received back a polite note indicating that this might be possible and
@@ -719,14 +705,14 @@ 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 information on UFO sightings. I also put the sign UFO Registry out on the street
+was giving psychic readings, discussing magic and collecting information on \sc{ufo} sightings. I also put the sign \sc{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,
+International \sc{ufo} Registry (publishers of Ufology and the \sc{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.
+International \sc{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
@@ -744,7 +730,7 @@ 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
+16 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{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
@@ -755,7 +741,7 @@ 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
+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.
 
@@ -764,11 +750,11 @@ possibly have seen was a transdimensional kennel.
 
 There has been quite a bit of agitation recently in the small parapsychological 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
+these inexplicable butcherings with \sc{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
+This veterinarian's assistant from Salem probably did see a flying
 rectangular object made of light, just as a graduate student in engineering I talked to in Salem probably did see the complex crystal rotor he
 describes seeing on a hillside in Northern New England.
 
@@ -787,7 +773,7 @@ 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
@@ -798,18 +784,18 @@ 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
+The following is a series of actual \sc{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:
+these following \sc{ufo} narrations in chronological sequence:
 
 ONE
 6/24/717
-Having decided to arrange these UFO sightings in chronological order, I
+Having decided to arrange these \sc{ufo} sightings in chronological order, I
 went early to my office this morning and opened my file, which I
 thought was in chronological order.
 
@@ -824,55 +810,55 @@ 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.
+group, but would be interested in any information on \sc{ufo} sightings.
 She told me that there was a group of people meeting in Andover who
 had experienced visions of beings descending to bring news of global
 catastrophe. Her voice was trembling, and I felt that she had been
-profoundly affected by some sort of experience. I declined Joy Summery’s invitation to join her UFO group, but told her that plenty of other
+profoundly affected by some sort of experience. I declined Joy Summery's invitation to join her \sc{ufo} group, but told her that plenty of other
 people in this area had been having visions of global catastrophe.
-18 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+18 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
 
 TWO
-Helen O’Laughlin is a young black woman who sometimes reads tea
+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
+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
+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.
+also of a friend who had seen a \sc{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
+announcer had taken a news call the night before about a \sc{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
+He also told me that there was word that this \sc{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
+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 identifying himself only as *‘an astronomer’* had called the paper to report
+publication of the news of this Bellingham sighting an individual identifying 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
@@ -901,8 +887,8 @@ 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.
+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
@@ -915,20 +901,20 @@ 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
+20 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{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
+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.”’
+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.”’
+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
+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
@@ -948,7 +934,7 @@ 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.”
+interested. Sincerely, Diana Bradley."
 
 Congratulations, Diana!
 
@@ -956,28 +942,28 @@ 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
+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,
+
+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.”
+middle wearing a black outfit, pilot's outfit, lights around the edge."
 
-This was a small craft, Mrs. Kubouski elaborated: “Itdid . . . the best
+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.”
+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
+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
+by a neighbor whose son had been in to see me about his \sc{ufo} sighting
 earlier in the Spring of 1976.
 
-Monroe’s UFO report may be found in the Fall 1976 issue of Ufology
+Monroe's \sc{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
@@ -985,7 +971,7 @@ 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 Bradley sightings, I can include both with a clear conscience, with the
-additional news that Mrs. Monroe’s TV set was malfunctioning at 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.
 
@@ -1004,13 +990,13 @@ 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
+22 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
 
-the sun. Against his father’s advice, Phaeton drove his chariot too fast
+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
+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
@@ -1044,11 +1030,11 @@ 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 entertainment to begin—is actually transported into outer space as the theatre
+In the rocket movie, the audience---while waiting for the entertainment 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!
 
@@ -1056,7 +1042,7 @@ In Star Wars, intergalactic battles are being conducted by strange-looking monst
 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 comfortably human and understandable about the UFO entities I have heard
+significances of fable. So far as I can perceive, there is nothing comfortably human and understandable about the \sc{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
@@ -1087,12 +1073,12 @@ 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
+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 \sc{ufo} REALITY
 
 then I was walking by and saw your sign and I thought I would come in
-here.”
+here."
 
 This woman spoke in heavily-accented but educated English, and was
 trembling. It seemed that she was afraid of her experience with UFOs,
@@ -1117,14 +1103,14 @@ 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
+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.
+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
@@ -1134,17 +1120,17 @@ 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 —
+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
+things and could only conclude that--- as was predicted in the Revelations
 
-of St. John—we are now experiencing the end of the world.
+
+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
+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.
@@ -1178,28 +1164,28 @@ 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,
+sighting, and she admitted that she had not only dreamt of \sc{ufo} entities,
 but subsequent to her sighting had tried to astral project herself out
 toward these entities.
-26 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+26 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{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 atmosphere. 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.
+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
+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?”
+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
@@ -1209,8 +1195,8 @@ 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
+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
@@ -1218,13 +1204,13 @@ 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.
+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?
 
@@ -1245,14 +1231,14 @@ 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.
+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
+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
@@ -1261,7 +1247,7 @@ 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
+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
@@ -1270,14 +1256,14 @@ and told me that he had experienced another odd incident in January of
 
 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
+28 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{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.
+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
@@ -1295,35 +1281,35 @@ 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.
+"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.
+phone giving psychic readings and doing \sc{ufo} research.
 
 This engineer then told me that he once saw colored lights flashing in
 the sky over around the railroad yards. He is convinced these lights were
 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.”
+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 |
+
+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.
+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
@@ -1332,20 +1318,20 @@ 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,
+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.”
+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”
+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 statement that the ““plane might hit the star’’ shows an interesting suspension
+suppose that they invented these incidents. Particularly, Donna's statement 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
@@ -1354,13 +1340,13 @@ 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 (remember the vet’s assistant who sent in the Melaril blank) and wonder if
-30 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+I am intrigued by the two rectangular UFOs seen in this area (remember the vet's assistant who sent in the Melaril blank) and wonder if
+30 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{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.
+object that made a round hole in McCarthy's pond.
 
 FIFTEEN
 Frankie called me initially to tell me that in 1972, while he was harvesting tobacco in Canada near Simco, Ontario, he was looking out the
@@ -1372,7 +1358,7 @@ 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
+property. He connects his sighting of the \sc{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.
 
@@ -1380,7 +1366,7 @@ 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
+I told Frankie that I do feel there is a connection between \sc{ufo} and
 spirit phenomena in that both are using pranic or astral ehergies to
 actualize.
 
@@ -1389,7 +1375,7 @@ 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
+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.
@@ -1401,15 +1387,15 @@ 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 manufactured 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?”’
+*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
@@ -1420,7 +1406,7 @@ 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
+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
@@ -1438,14 +1424,14 @@ 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
+reading, but when she saw the \sc{ufo} sign on my door she was interested
 in talking about a sighting in Pennsylvania during which several people
 experienced a high-pitched whining sound which vibrated the inner ear.
 
 They saw a light or noticed some other visual phenomena initially, but
 the main aspect of this Pennsylvania sighting was this peculiar vibration
 effect.
-32 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+32 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{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
@@ -1456,11 +1442,11 @@ 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
+newspaper. This ad reads in part: "New England: a hotbed of alien
+activity."" A need was stated in this ad for \sc{ufo} reports, so I called the
 number listed and got an answering service.
 
-They told me that this UFO Studies Instityte which had been listed in
+They told me that this \sc{ufo} Studies Instityte which had been listed in
 the paper was actually Charlie Giftie.
 
 With a name like Charlie Giftie, I thought (this pseudonym closely
@@ -1470,34 +1456,34 @@ 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,
+This letter was eight pages in length and detailed both aspects of Giftie's
+own \sc{ufo} experience and other significant sightings around the world,
 one of which was documented by a photo taken in October of 1974 at
 5:30 P.M. near Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy.
 
-Giftie stated that: ““statements made here may sound strange, but so is
-the UFO phenomenon itself.” He offered as examples of this strangeness: the Bible, The Origin and Destiny of Man by Edgar Cayce,
+Giftie stated that: ""statements made here may sound strange, but so is
+the \sc{ufo} phenomenon itself." He offered as examples of this strangeness: the Bible, The Origin and Destiny of Man by Edgar Cayce,
 Mysteries of Time and Space by Brad Steiger and Somebody Else Is On
 The Moon by George Leonard. Giftie also announced that he himself
 was about to publish a book entitled: UFOs and the USA or The
-Monolith’s Prostitute. The Monolith’s Prostitute was scheduled to be
+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
+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.”
+rights involving merely reporting a \sc{ufo} sighting."
 
 Giftie stated in other parts of this form letter and during subsequent
 phone conversations that he had been illegally placed under restraint
 twice for insisting on the reality of 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!”’
+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 freedom
@@ -1510,10 +1496,10 @@ 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!
+"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.”
+As St. John the Divine was once recorded as stating: '""The word was
+made flesh and dwelt among us."
 
 I wrote to Giftie explaining that I thought he had probably experienced some sort of mind-altering contact with beings from another
 dimension, and that there was a possibility that now he might be more
@@ -1529,12 +1515,12 @@ 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
+Specifically, these details will be entitled *""Notes on Torres."" This
+34 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{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 satisfactorily the events which are described in Section 30. It was a real monolith of
-an experience, and I think it is best—as the whale did to Jonah —just to
+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.
 
@@ -1554,25 +1540,25 @@ 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
+that he had a \sc{ufo} photo which had been taken near Lake Marichibo in
 Venezuela. 
 This photo, he said, had been snapped by one of his cousins when a
 UFO manifested to a group of people who were traveling on an excursion bus near the lake. It was taken in 1968, Torres told me, but his
 relatives had waited until 1970 to have it developed. He was reluctant to
 bring this photo to my office, although he was ready to quite
-enthusiastically discuss the possibilities of UFO and spirit contact. He
+enthusiastically discuss the possibilities of \sc{ufo} and spirit contact. He
 told me that his mother had been reluctant to develop this film and then
 when it was finally developed did not want to show the photo to anyone
 outside the family. Torres felt that showing the photo to me might be a
 violation of her confidence. In connection with such niceties of thought,
 he talked to me for a long while on the mechanics of human destiny.
 
-“Iamhere,” he told me, ‘‘inevitably. Though I think I have the choice
-to do or not to do anything at all—such as pick up my coat or close the
-door—there is no choice. It is all pre-ordained.”
+"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.
@@ -1591,8 +1577,8 @@ college and insisted that the picture was no good for submitting anywhere withou
 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
+However, this amateur \sc{ufo} buff was too sure of the futility of
+duplicating a \sc{ufo} picture to listen, and so alienated me with his
 comments on the nature of photographic evidence that I might have
 blown a circuit on his photo-duplication equipment if this was July 1977.
 
@@ -1603,8 +1589,8 @@ 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
+piece of information: the ""8"" or *'B"' which appears faintly in the dusky
+background of the Torres \sc{ufo} photo is a bleedthrough from the film
 backing and not due to fakery or madness in the composition of the
 picture.
 
@@ -1619,7 +1605,7 @@ 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
+36 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
 
 sunnyside up in the middle.
 Alsa, this UFQ does resemble the human female breast us it might be
@@ -1631,9 +1617,9 @@ FIGURE ONE
 
 Facsimile of photo developed
 July 1970
-CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 37
 
-The object recorded on the Torres UFO photo is altogether unearthly.
+
+The object recorded on the Torres \sc{ufo} photo is altogether unearthly.
 Unlike the vehicles represented in Star Wars and other science-fiction
 adventures, it shows no evidence of rocket propulsion devices but seems
 simply to be hovering sideways in the air in front of a darkened horizon.
@@ -1647,24 +1633,24 @@ 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
+In shape, Torres' flying fried egg resembles several other elliptical
+objects which have received publicity in the small \sc{ufo} journals such as
 Ufology and Flying Saucer Review.
 
 NINETEEN
 Itis a shame that most contactees are not carrying cameras. A paramedic
 who had come into the Psychic Center to have a tea-leaf reading with her
-mother came in to see me and report that she had seen a UFO in the Fall
+mother came in to see me and report that she had seen a \sc{ufo} in the Fall
 of 1976 in Brighton, Massachusetts, not far from where I am now living.
 
 She says she was walking down Washington Street, which is the main
 street of Brighton Center, toward Newton, when she became aware that
 there was an unusual light in the sky. This woman had the idea that this
 light was following her, and then dismissed this idea as being crazy. She
-went on into her sister’s apartment, where she had been heading at the
+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,
+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
@@ -1676,7 +1662,7 @@ 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
+38 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
 
 windows. These windows were perfectly square, she says.
 
@@ -1686,48 +1672,48 @@ am struck by two aspects of her sighting. First of all, this troublesome
 plane.
 
 Remember that both Donna and her brother (Sections 11 and 14)
-described seeing airplanes in connection with their sightings? In Donna’s case, th2 plane was described (illogically) as “‘about to hit a star,”’
-and in her brother’s New Hampshire sighting a plane is reported as
+described seeing airplanes in connection with their sightings? In Donna's case, th2 plane was described (illogically) as "'about to hit a star,"'
+and in her brother's New Hampshire sighting a plane is reported as
 literally buzzing the car just before he looked up to notice an unusual
 light in the sky.
 
-The idea that a light plane would see a UFO light hovering over a
+The idea that a light plane would see a \sc{ufo} light hovering over a
 church and then calmly change course and go about its business is
 questionable. At the controls of such a plane, there would be a human
 being subject to such reactions as panic or curiosity. Additionally, it is
 very dangerous to ram full speed into the early morning stars.
 
-These “‘planes” connected with UFO lights seem to have defied the
+These "'planes" connected with \sc{ufo} lights seem to have defied the
 ordinary laws of time and space and also the ordinary set of human
 reactions one might expect from a pilot encountering a large glowing
 object . . . or even a small glowing object.
 
-The second aspect of this paramedic’s sighting which is of particular
-interest is that she is the fourth person in this area (the vet’s assistant,
-William McCarthy, Donna’s brother Michael) to report rectangular
+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
+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
+[ don't know why I should reject any of these stories. After all, I have
+seen \sc{ufo} lights several times: once on the railroad tracks and once on
 the walls of my bedroom. There was no airplane in my bedroom at the
 time of my sighting, but I did hear a crack in the air which was audible to
 both myself and my son in the next room.
-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.
+The \sc{ufo} phenomenon seems to be a controlled phenomenon.
 
 TWENTY
 A blonde psychic reader of about forty years of age nailed me to the wall
@@ -1736,19 +1722,19 @@ 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
+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
+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,
+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
+ridiculing his stories of the original \sc{ufo} contact, and invented the trip to
 the other side of the moon in order to be outrageous.
 
 Sure, Shanti: tell me another one.
@@ -1757,16 +1743,16 @@ 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
+""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.
+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
+40 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
 
 mechanism.
 
@@ -1774,12 +1760,12 @@ 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.”
+"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
+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.
@@ -1790,19 +1776,19 @@ 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.
+Nevertheless, shortly after failing to locate Adamski's book, I myself
+did perform as a \sc{ufo} on April Fools Day.
 
 This was in the course of a trip to California which I had been planning
 to take for several months. When I made my plans, I had no intention of
-acting as anyone’s UFO or even freaking out mildly into any aspects of
+acting as anyone's \sc{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
+I did intend to query Warren Sequoia about his \sc{ufo} sighting in
 person, but that was just out of passing curiosity, as I had intended to
 confine my data collection to sightings within the Boston area.
 
@@ -1812,7 +1798,7 @@ toured the city, decided to write a long poem (Trip 1011/Destination
 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
@@ -1835,27 +1821,27 @@ 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,”
+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”
+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
+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
+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
+42 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
 
 out and mingled with the crowds.
 
@@ -1865,8 +1851,8 @@ 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
+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
@@ -1885,11 +1871,11 @@ 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
+became not passively a contactee, but actually the \sc{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,
+going to become a \sc{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
@@ -1897,15 +1883,15 @@ 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
+"Special ESP privileges on Friday and Saturday nights for the ESP
+guest and spouse."
 
-I wonder if this has anything to do with Giftie’s monolith (Section
+
+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
+Just as [ was about to describe how I became a \sc{ufo} in the process of
 purchasing cigars.
 
 Really: the Executive Services Program representative just walked
@@ -1913,8 +1899,8 @@ 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
+The difference between the Parker House \sc{ufo} and my transformation
+into a \sc{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?
@@ -1926,21 +1912,21 @@ 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.
+"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 communications which ‘“mean something” to an individual, all of this
+This was similar to the feeling of *'significance" which I recognize as
+being part of the psychic reading situation, when I am relating communications 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, particularly 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.
+about my mathematical ideas as these relate to \sc{ufo} phenomena, particularly in the area of time/space anomaly. He told me that he himself
+was involved with \sc{ufo} research, and was in fact planning to attend an
+upcoming international \sc{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 compartment.
-44 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+44 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
 
 s
 
@@ -1957,7 +1943,7 @@ 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
+"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
@@ -1970,7 +1956,7 @@ 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.
+store with a ""60% off'' sign in the window.
 
 At the time of our conversation, I exchanged addresses with Karnstedt, 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
@@ -1979,19 +1965,19 @@ 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.”
+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!”
+*""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.
@@ -2009,7 +1995,7 @@ 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
+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.
@@ -2017,21 +2003,21 @@ 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
+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?”’
+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.”’
+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
+46 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{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
@@ -2047,19 +2033,19 @@ 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.”
+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?
+: Are you aware of the psychic factor in \sc{ufo} contact?
 Yes.
 
 : How do you deal with this in your operations?
 
-: By accepting that a certain percentage of UFO sightings are of that
+: By accepting that a certain percentage of \sc{ufo} sightings are of that
 origin.
 
 : How did you become interested in UFQs?
@@ -2071,20 +2057,20 @@ on UFOs during World War II.
 
 No!
 
-: Have you any knowledge of Nazi activity linking the “occult’” and
-“mediumship”* with UFO or war planning activities?
+: Have you any knowledge of Nazi activity linking the "occult'" and
+"mediumship"* with \sc{ufo} or war planning activities?
 
 Yes.
 
 My correspondent added that he was ** going to Europe this summer to
-contact UFO specialists and related people.”
+contact \sc{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
@@ -2099,37 +2085,37 @@ 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,
+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
+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
+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
+48 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{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.
+wanted to report a \sc{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.”
+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
+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
@@ -2141,9 +2127,9 @@ 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
+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
+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
@@ -2154,11 +2140,11 @@ 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
+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
@@ -2166,7 +2152,7 @@ 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.
+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
@@ -2178,7 +2164,7 @@ 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
+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
@@ -2198,21 +2184,21 @@ American dated May 16, 1977. This details the story of a retired maintenance man
 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”
+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
+50 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{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 experienced a UFO sighting while at Virginia Beach. He connected this
+was conducting just outside my office and told me that he had experienced a \sc{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
+he described as a ""spasmodic reaction' of his entire nervous system. He
 spoke several times of physical spasms as connected with his visionary
 experience.
 
@@ -2224,12 +2210,12 @@ 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,
+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.”
+everything."
 
 Why would anyone be ashamed of these perceptions? Congratulations, Mary Beth, on the beauty of your thought.
 
@@ -2242,32 +2228,32 @@ 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, somehow registers thought physically.
+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, somehow 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
+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
+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:”
+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
+Diaries and Diagrams on \sc{ufo} Contact
 
-“Door, where’d you learn all this?”
-—Catullus
+"Door, where'd you learn all this?"
+---Catullus
 
 by E. Macer-Story
 Copyright 1977 E. Macer-Story
@@ -2280,18 +2266,18 @@ 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
+52 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
 
-experts on UFO activity and altered states of consciousness.
+experts on \sc{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
+pigeon. Capablanca's girl friend then becomes jealous and there is a
+wild disturbance. He has a \sc{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
+witnessed the \sc{ufo} and took the picture. He believes he is a psychic
 healer and wants to demonstrate this by giving Macer-Story healing
 treatments.
 
@@ -2317,7 +2303,7 @@ 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
@@ -2325,7 +2311,7 @@ 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.
+Pinto's inspirational compositions. Pinto was not present.
 
 Note in the following diagram that these various pieces are not really
 connected except associationally.
@@ -2334,13 +2320,13 @@ DIAGRAM ONE
 Boston
 New York California
 
-6@\ O¢—-}-0
+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
+Torres \sc{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.
 
@@ -2350,21 +2336,21 @@ 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
+name and the location of the \sc{ufo} sighting, which actually did take place
+54 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
 
 in South America in 1969.
 
-Though I have changed Torres’ name, the dates and auxiliary information are accurate to the best of my knowledge. The novel which is
+Though I have changed Torres' name, the dates and auxiliary information 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 personality 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 misinterpretations, so that you can see how complex the “‘contactee™ situation
+journals. I-have retained sequentially all of my mistakes and misinterpretations, 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
+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 contactees might believe that they are experiencing a descent into madness.
 Persons experiencing this sort of communication might also, as they
@@ -2378,7 +2364,7 @@ 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
+seemed morose and wanted his \sc{ufo} photo back. Probably on the
 subconscious level he was picking up telepathically that I was interested
 in another man.
 
@@ -2391,7 +2377,7 @@ 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
@@ -2412,7 +2398,7 @@ 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
+"'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.
 
@@ -2433,12 +2419,12 @@ 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 situation of UFO photo, psychic healing, Torres’ infatuation with me and
+Somewhere in the process of moving this pendulum, the entire situation of \sc{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
+56 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
 
 hysterically (which sometimes happens when I get an insight while
-meditating: frequently the mechanism of these ‘‘paranormal events”
+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
@@ -2448,7 +2434,7 @@ 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
+I gave Torres back his \sc{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 exposures on this particular roll of film had .also shown numbers on the
@@ -2456,12 +2442,12 @@ 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,
+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
@@ -2477,7 +2463,7 @@ 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-quiz” spirit where he would be traveling outside the country. I read
+A man had asked me in a "'twenty-questions" and "ESP quickie-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
@@ -2488,7 +2474,7 @@ 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 Edinburgh University or prep school in the British Isles. (I had originally
+pursue the idea that some "'Kinkaid?"' may have taught at some Edinburgh 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.)
 
@@ -2498,7 +2484,7 @@ 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.”
+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
@@ -2516,7 +2502,7 @@ 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
+58 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{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
@@ -2525,7 +2511,7 @@ beyond my understanding at this point.
 
 5/5/71
 
-It has occurred to me that the name ‘“‘Fox™ which occurred as an
+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
@@ -2534,8 +2520,8 @@ 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
+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?
 
@@ -2545,7 +2531,7 @@ 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
+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.
@@ -2559,39 +2545,39 @@ consistently. Somehow connected with UFOs or (and this is an interesting possibi
 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
+
+'""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
+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, 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
+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
+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
+of the idea of manipulation of human beings by \sc{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
+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
@@ -2604,7 +2590,7 @@ 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
+60 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
 
 California. So, whatever spirit was playing tricks with me at least has
 access to the Boston Public Library.
@@ -2612,14 +2598,14 @@ 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
+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-deceased 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
+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
@@ -2627,7 +2613,7 @@ Operation Dancing Dog. 1 hope I can logate the book.
 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 ectoplasmic appearances does not correspond to the date of his Uncle’s death. He
+my suddenly speaking Spanish. I tell him no. The date of the ectoplasmic 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
@@ -2640,13 +2626,13 @@ 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
+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
@@ -2661,7 +2647,7 @@ 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.”
+"It doesn't like this."
 
 Later (and this actually, to my immediate hilarity, happened) another
 shadowy cloud materialized stubbornly over Esquire, where Torres had
@@ -2671,7 +2657,7 @@ 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
+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
@@ -2683,15 +2669,15 @@ 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
+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 professionally, and began to do this when I was in New York City. As I picked
-62 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+62 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
 
 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
+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.
@@ -2699,17 +2685,17 @@ 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
+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
+is true that in context of the original \sc{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.
+otherwise, does resemble \sc{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
@@ -2725,26 +2711,26 @@ 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.
+entity's.
 
-Definitely, I will cease my “healing” treatments, as I believe that the
+Definitely, I will cease my "healing" treatments, as I believe that the
 effects derived stem partially from my own energies triggered somehow
-CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 63
+
 
 by the trickster entity working through Torres. In this context, I do not
-know what to make of the original UFO photograph.
+know what to make of the original \sc{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,
+Bogota, Colombia. Since the \sc{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 Gardenia and relates for me also to an organization in Canada which is now
+appearance. This has resonance for me of Pinto's strange opera Gardenia 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 universities, according to the book jacket blurb. I wonder if he was ever in
@@ -2767,10 +2753,10 @@ nowhere.
 
 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.”
+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
-64 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+""You are not lying," he told me. "'But your channels are not clear"" I
+64 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
 
 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
@@ -2778,7 +2764,7 @@ 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
+time, all matters of healing and \sc{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
@@ -2792,8 +2778,8 @@ 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 relationship to my dilemma and Torres’ psychological problems and also, as I
-believe, channel Torres’ healing energies mediumistically, why am I
+entities can cause me to locate a library book with a humorous relationship 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?
@@ -2801,34 +2787,34 @@ So: what happened?
 TORRES REBUS 5/28/77
 Pieces:
 
-one: Macer-Story, the author of “Notes on Torres.” A psychic and
+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. Additionally, 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
+for fifteen years. He has a \sc{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
-CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 65
+
 
 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 significant parallels between Operation Dancing Dog and details of Torres’
-and Macer-Story’s writings and private lives. Fox-Knipscheer’s novel
+international intrigue entitled Operation Dancing Dog. There are significant 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.”
+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.
+six: A spirit or \sc{ufo} entity (or entities) influencing Torres and Macer-Story.
 
-NEW YORK ‘ BOJSTON CALIFORNIA
+NEW YORK ' BOJSTON CALIFORNIA
 
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@@ -2839,7 +2825,7 @@ 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
+her insights as to the connection between \sc{ufo} sightings and psychic
 phenomena. Additionally, they taught her, through Torres, to move the
 pendulum by psychokinesis.
 
@@ -2847,18 +2833,18 @@ 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
+66 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{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
+Materially, I now possess several color xerox copies of a \sc{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
+situation and peculiarities of Torres and \sc{ufo} intrigue, though UFOs are
 not mentioned specifically in the book.
 
 PLEASE CONSULT DIAGRAM TWO
@@ -2870,14 +2856,14 @@ 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
+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.”
+So endeth "Notes on Torres."
 
 Subsequent to sending this article off to the Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained, I was beset by further psychokinetic
 phenomena.
@@ -2891,16 +2877,16 @@ 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
+"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 unexplained.
 
 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 contact, it is the pranic energy circulation which is affected and sensitivity to ESP and spirit communication may be permanently enhanced.
+spectrum as occurring within the area of time-frequency. In \sc{ufo} contact, it is the pranic energy circulation which is affected and sensitivity 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,
@@ -2931,11 +2917,11 @@ 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 hemisphere term the “‘turn on.” I sense their psychic energy. Perhaps this is
-68 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+I do almost always feel twinges of what we here in the Western hemisphere term the "'turn on." I sense their psychic energy. Perhaps this is
+68 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{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
+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
@@ -2950,29 +2936,29 @@ 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
+embarrass the unwary \sc{ufo} contactee or the unprepared mystic on Easter
 Sunday.
 
-In South American and Mexican folk traditions, the ability to physically channel pranic energies is sometimes called *‘the powerful hand.”
+In South American and Mexican folk traditions, the ability to physically 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.
+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.
+"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
+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””\ednote{hyphenated?} into the pendulum string, but this is not an intellectual idea.
-CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 69
+at a distance. Physically-pranically I am sending the thought "sway-flex""\ednote{hyphenated?} into the pendulum string, but this is not an intellectual idea.
+
 
 THIRTY-ONE
 1/1/77
@@ -2984,27 +2970,27 @@ 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
+has been interrupting other \sc{ufo} gatherings with something-or-other
 delivered as a loud harangue.
 
-I quote from a letter of protest: ‘“The book UFOs: Nazi Secret Weapon
+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.”
+have been harrassing \sc{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.
+these other \sc{ufo} investigators.
 
 THIRTY-TWO
 7/8/717
-My interview with Mark Simons, the rain therapy man, was overwhelming. 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.
+My interview with Mark Simons, the rain therapy man, was overwhelming. 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.
@@ -3017,12 +3003,12 @@ 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
+70 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
 
-he is identified as “‘occult historian.”
+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
+after my \sc{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
@@ -3036,9 +3022,9 @@ 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 embarrass your sister.”” Subsequent to this incident, Mark told me, he began to
+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 embarrass 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
@@ -3048,11 +3034,11 @@ 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
+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.
+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.
@@ -3064,7 +3050,7 @@ 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 psychiatric nurse who sees a low-flying plane jump ninety degrees in mid-air and
@@ -3076,18 +3062,18 @@ 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
+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.”
+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
+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.
+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.
 
@@ -3095,8 +3081,8 @@ 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
+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
@@ -3105,10 +3091,10 @@ 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.”
+"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
+Mark's birth is significantly rendered even, whereas the date of our
+72 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
 
 conversation, being a combination of 49 and 77, is significantly odd.
 
@@ -3118,42 +3104,42 @@ 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
+*Allende Letters"" which had to do with \sc{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!”
+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
+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
+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.”
+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
+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
+Simons once again broke off his narration on \sc{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: Introductory Space Science, volume I1, Department of Physics, United States
+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: Introductory 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.
@@ -3167,13 +3153,13 @@ Now, back once again seated in my office, I am going to copy section
 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.”
+how these phenomena may relate to the \sc{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?
+"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
+Mark Simons links \sc{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.
@@ -3187,7 +3173,7 @@ 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
+subsequent to his \sc{ufo} sighting in 1974, might very easily find psychic
 perception enhanced during any change of electrical balance in the
 atmosphere.
 
@@ -3199,26 +3185,26 @@ THIRTY-THREE
 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
+74 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{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, California.
+group of people who were planning a "UFO fair" in Oakland, California.
 
 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.
+they were planning to pull out all the stops at the \sc{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
+government \sc{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 Herrick, whom I do not know personally, is actively engaged in writing a
+writing a book which so evidently includes the ""'coincidental'"" aspects
+of meaningful \sc{ufo} contactee activity at.the same time as Simon Herrick, 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
@@ -3230,15 +3216,15 @@ 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
+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.
+it was a man asking for a "'rebirth"" experience.
 
-He told me that “‘rebirth” was all the rage now in California, and that
+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.
@@ -3246,7 +3232,7 @@ 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
@@ -3257,7 +3243,7 @@ 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
+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.
 
@@ -3265,35 +3251,35 @@ 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 resonant with meaningful coincidences which go nowhere.” Perhaps, as I
+"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 resonant with meaningful coincidences which go nowhere." Perhaps, as I
 discussed with Karnstedt, they are leading toward some sort of synchronistic 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
+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.””
+common to all.""
 
-Shenks adds: *“Well, I think an interesting, perhaps exciting book
-might be put together from your short pieces, such as “Notes,”
+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.”
+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 evolutionary histories, including Shenks’.
-76 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+evolutionary history does in fact intersect with quite a few other evolutionary histories, including Shenks'.
+76 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{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 exhibition.”” Agreed! Before I got your letter, I agreed with you!
+"UFO fair" contingent, to suggest: "It would take, then, a simple
+introductory piece to string them plausibly together in a kind of exhibition."" Agreed! Before I got your letter, I agreed with you!
 
 EXHIBITION THIRTY-FIVE
 I asked Mark Simons (having finally put down my California correspondence and walked over to the local phone) if he had gotten my letter
@@ -3306,8 +3292,8 @@ 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
+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
@@ -3316,7 +3302,7 @@ 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
+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
@@ -3325,20 +3311,20 @@ 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 disturbance. ] .
 
-“Why then,” asks Andrew Galligan, ““did I develop this enjoyment of
+"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
+levels during rain." '
+
 
-“Oh,” I answered, ‘“‘are you aware of the ionization effect during
+"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.”
+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
+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
@@ -3347,12 +3333,12 @@ 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
+known clearly. This is the basis of L. Ron Hubbard's Scientology
 program, though he applies the clearing of inner processes to a procedure 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 experienced.”
+auditing ""'a lot of (psychic phenomena) can be verified and experienced."
 
 The process of sorting, remembering and consciously dealing with
 personal concerns builds the ability to sort, remember and deal with
@@ -3362,7 +3348,7 @@ genuine psychical communications.
 
 This is true metaphysically.
 
-Galligan’s perceptions also have a physiological basis. In the human
+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
@@ -3372,11 +3358,11 @@ 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
+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
+78 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
 
-the excess solid phase.”
+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
@@ -3389,29 +3375,29 @@ 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
+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.”
+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
+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 imagination: ““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.”
+
+But let us now return ourselves to before his soul became his imagination: ""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.
 
@@ -3420,12 +3406,12 @@ 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
+explanations for all of these \sc{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
+irrational: the \sc{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
@@ -3442,7 +3428,7 @@ 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
+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
@@ -3451,7 +3437,7 @@ 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
+80 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{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
@@ -3466,12 +3452,12 @@ 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
+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
+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.
 
@@ -3484,24 +3470,24 @@ psychic fraud: this parallels several of the violent sex scenes in the book
 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
+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.”’
+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
+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
+'"'wailing,'' a name, and then several identifying characteristics came
 across to me psychically.
 
 This woman could not place the spirit according to these characteristics, but her mother told me that I had correctly described a childhood
@@ -3513,8 +3499,8 @@ 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.”’
+'"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
@@ -3525,8 +3511,8 @@ 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 continued after death.
 
-“‘How do I die?’” this spirit asked me, ‘‘No one can see me. How do 1
-die?”’
+"'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
@@ -3535,21 +3521,21 @@ 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
+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
+82 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{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.”
+and the sense that there was a depressive ''wailing'* in this woman's
+vicinity. This is not so different from cases of \sc{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 documentation in my files—is going to be of much help in understanding the
+do not feel that this information---although perhaps reassuring as documentation in my files---is going to be of much help in understanding the
 UFO reality.
 
 THIRTY-NINE
@@ -3559,38 +3545,38 @@ 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’’
+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.
+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?
+But is the \sc{ufo} experience then a mystical experience, some contact
+with transcendental reality? Does this \sc{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 Damascus 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?”’
+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.”’
+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
+real light, that this symbolizes Saul's conversion. As we might say, *'the
+light dawned,'" and he changed his views. The \sc{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
+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.
 
@@ -3598,16 +3584,16 @@ 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
+''see'' or in some other way perceive a \sc{ufo} light or ''craft,"' the
 contactee must participate in what our science fiction writers have called
-a ‘‘warping’’ of the ordinary time/space continuum.
+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 psychological 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
+In less secure individuals, a \sc{ufo} sighting may cause severe psychological 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
@@ -3620,15 +3606,15 @@ So: quite a few contactees can be found punting the sphere instead of
 going back to the source of the enigma.
 
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-What is the source of the UFO enigma?
+What is the source of the \sc{ufo} enigma?
 As has been documented in photographs published in newspapers
-84 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+84 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{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 manifestations, people are also experiencing strange dreams. “seeing”
+such as Flying Saucer Review the source of the \sc{ufo} enigma seems to be
+an unidentified flying sphere. In connection with these spheroid manifestations, 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 obsession with UFO lights, and delusions of personal “difference’ and
+after-effect which in its most negative manifestations can lead to obsession with \sc{ufo} lights, and delusions of personal "difference' and
 importance.
 
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@@ -3648,7 +3634,7 @@ 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
+""The \sc{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
@@ -3660,28 +3646,28 @@ 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.”’
+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
+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)
+discussed Giftie's eight-page form letter on his \sc{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 investigations have been publicly criticized by several well-qualified experts in
-the UFO field, most notably J. Allen Hyneck of Northwestern University, who was a member of the original Project Blue Book before it
+and Project Blue Book. These government-sponsored \sc{ufo} investigations have been publicly criticized by several well-qualified experts in
+the \sc{ufo} field, most notably J. Allen Hyneck of Northwestern University, who was a member of the original Project Blue Book before it
 disbanded.
 
-In his book, The UFO Experience, A Scientific Inquiry, Hyneck
+In his book, The \sc{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
@@ -3694,22 +3680,22 @@ 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.”’
+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
+people involved with actively investigating the \sc{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
+disturbing stress due to the inner knowledge that the \sc{ufo} photos and
+data which they were examining did not relate to ''craft'" or "'flying
+86 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
 
-objects’” at all, but to a sort of alien manifestation beyond their immediate conscious comprehension.
+objects'" at all, but to a sort of alien manifestation beyond their immediate conscious comprehension.
 
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 7/18/77 '
-Lest I fall into this same *‘trap of implicit assumptions,”’ I would like at
+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, paragraph 4, from the abstract into the concrete) to suggest several explanations for problems in apprehension of UFOs.
 
 One of these problems is psychological. The other is practical. First of
@@ -3717,22 +3703,22 @@ 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
+is going to be possible to ''validate'" or "'invalidate'* a \sc{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. ’
+by science fiction books and films and *'official'' attempts to cope with
+the frequency of \sc{ufo} sightings, there is a problem for the average
+individual in actually apprehending the \sc{ufo} reality. '
 
-Unidentified ‘‘objects,’’ lights and paranormal occurrences such as
+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
+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
+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).
@@ -3742,8 +3728,8 @@ 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 information on my Hungarian contact in the maroon coat (p. 23) for information
-CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 87
+the \sc{ufo} magazines, was ''disjointed,"" but offering to swap information on my Hungarian contact in the maroon coat (p. 23) for information
+
 
 on Nazi occult activity during World War II.
 
@@ -3762,7 +3748,7 @@ 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 characteristics which are or are not humanoid. When people say ‘humanoid,’’
+by ---or should I say ''creatured'' ---by occupants with physical characteristics 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
@@ -3770,7 +3756,7 @@ arms, which are used to build spacecraft and other devices for transportation. I
 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 suppose that occupants of UFO craft are likely to have physical bodies. The
+In making the distinction humanoid or non-humanoid, then we suppose that occupants of \sc{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
@@ -3778,19 +3764,19 @@ 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 neighbor’s hallway as a dank and ghostly mist) to take on a variety of forms at
+example, communicating through a medium or appearing in your neighbor'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
+88 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{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!”
+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
@@ -3798,10 +3784,10 @@ 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 cosmic 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
+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
@@ -3814,7 +3800,7 @@ 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.
+"staging out'" of ideas which are in some way important or amusing.
 
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@@ -3824,11 +3810,11 @@ 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
+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.
 
@@ -3839,7 +3825,7 @@ 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.
+astral projection to contact \sc{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.
@@ -3867,10 +3853,10 @@ 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 interesting, since yesterday’s section on more highly evolved creatures
+including plaster-boarding and plumbing installation. I found this interesting, 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
+90 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
 
 ¢
 
@@ -3885,7 +3871,7 @@ 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
+7/14/77. On this particular news report, the \sc{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.
 
@@ -3897,12 +3883,12 @@ 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
+that the possibility of a White Plains \sc{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,
+J. Allen Hyneck's book, The \sc{ufo} Experience: A Scientific Inquiry to
+find the address of the \sc{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.
@@ -3913,10 +3899,10 @@ 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
+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,
@@ -3931,17 +3917,17 @@ 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
+respectable bibliography of \sc{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
+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
+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.
+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, infallible, and not subject to telepathic and/or emotional mental alteration.
@@ -3959,20 +3945,20 @@ 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
+In Hyneck's book The \sc{ufo} Experience: A Scientific Inquiry, he
+92 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
 
-mentioned Condon’s joking behavior, (Condon was, I hope you will
-realize, the head of this investigative committee) detailing: *“. . . Condon 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
+mentioned Condon's joking behavior, (Condon was, I hope you will
+realize, the head of this investigative committee) detailing: *". . . Condon 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
+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.”
+world."
 
-For some reason, Condon’s alleged behavior appeals to my theories
+For some reason, Condon's alleged behavior appeals to my theories
 on the extraterrestrial sense of humor.
 
 Happy Easter, everybody! .
@@ -3993,7 +3979,7 @@ 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
+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
@@ -4002,7 +3988,7 @@ 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.
@@ -4016,17 +4002,17 @@ 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.”
+"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
+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 disappointment, 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.
+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
@@ -4034,9 +4020,9 @@ 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.
+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
@@ -4047,7 +4033,7 @@ 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
+94 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
 
 called the woman from whom I was planning to rent loft space.
 
@@ -4084,22 +4070,22 @@ 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
+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 Investigations described by J. Allen Hyneck show mental alteration of a sort
+personally: The unusual antics surrounding the Air Force \sc{ufo} Investigations 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
+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 collective unconscious, satanic spirits or visitors from another galaxy) are
 intelligences with a highly-developed mental capacity and a strangely
@@ -4112,11 +4098,11 @@ 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
+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).
+South America (where the original Torres \sc{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
@@ -4125,19 +4111,19 @@ 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
+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
+work just as T am also concerned with psychic and possibly \sc{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
+96 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
 
 her leg separate after an influx of energy which she quite definitely
-attributes to UFO entities.
+attributes to \sc{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
@@ -4149,22 +4135,22 @@ 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.
+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
+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.’
+'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
+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 information.
 
 Of course, the effect on this woman is a strange spaced-out state of
@@ -4173,25 +4159,25 @@ 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 thematically with intergalactic space stations. I do not believe that this woman’s
+Ironic as this may seem, Dracula has absolutely nothing to do thematically 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 extraterrestrial contact should have begun in conjunction with a classic horror film
+
+It is and it is not funny that this woman's obsession with extraterrestrial 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?”’
+government to entitle one aspect of the \sc{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.”’
+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
@@ -4221,12 +4207,12 @@ 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
+98 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{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
+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.
@@ -4242,7 +4228,7 @@ 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
+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.
 
@@ -4256,7 +4242,7 @@ 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
+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
@@ -4264,7 +4250,7 @@ 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 enlightenment. In order to understand what was happening to her, Zeena went
 first to the Esalen Institute, where she practiced various forms of
@@ -4273,12 +4259,12 @@ 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
+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.
+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
@@ -4292,31 +4278,31 @@ 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 separated from her body, in conjunction with the presence of alien spirit
+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 separated 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
+mediumistically ---it was subsequent to this out-of-body experience that
+Zeena began to feel that \sc{ufo} entities were helping her to channel and
 balance her energies.
 
-These UFO entities, Zeena asserts, are not in themselves wholly astral
+These \sc{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
+100 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{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 asserted, is not wholly a matter of expanded awareness. These entities
+The difference between human beings and \sc{ufo} entities, Zeena asserted, 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
+our ''material'' vibrational continuum, which is actually more dense
+electromagnetically than \sc{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.
 
@@ -4347,7 +4333,7 @@ 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 unavoidably an hour late, and would eventually be arriving. Just as I turned onto
@@ -4361,7 +4347,7 @@ 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
+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
@@ -4371,18 +4357,18 @@ 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
+'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.”’
+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
+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
+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
@@ -4390,21 +4376,21 @@ 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
+insurance or registration to identify itself as not being Lobc's property.
+102 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
 
-At any rate, subsequent to Lobo’s refusal to pay the two hundred and
+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
+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
+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
+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
@@ -4416,7 +4402,7 @@ for psychosomatic problems, which of course he certainly was experiencing at the
 
 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
+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.
 
@@ -4425,16 +4411,16 @@ 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?”’
+"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
+expansion of my consciousness which began with my \sc{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
@@ -4474,27 +4460,27 @@ 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
+104 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
 
 The pranic breathing involved in the process of photosynthesis is
-basic to an understanding of UFO activity. In discussing the pranic
+basic to an understanding of \sc{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
+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 electromagnetic spectrum.
 
-I am going to call this new property “insult” in memory of my
+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
+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 electromagnetic and pranic or astral dimensions.
+"warp'' in time which occurs at the junction between the electromagnetic 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
@@ -4502,21 +4488,21 @@ and the vertical representing the pranic or mental energies which intersect the
 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
+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 **Fluidice.” Fluidice is not a real box. It is a set concept. This Fluidice
+is a mathematical time point compartment which I have labeled **Fluidice." 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.
-CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 105
+
 
 However, although the electric and magnetic fields are oriented differently, 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
+which we have termed "'electromagnetic." All matter, as can be seen by
 examination of the sub-atomic electronic interactions, is electromagnetic in nature. At regular points of sequential time there are Fluidice
 compartments along the electromagnetic continuum, at vibratory nodes
 of time-agreement.
@@ -4526,18 +4512,18 @@ 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 contracts or expands under the influx of prana. This insult is analogous to
 the exparision and contraction of material objects under a flux of temperature. Pranic influx into the Fluidice-compartment can cause the
-time/space effects which we call ‘‘psychokinesis’ or “‘synchronicity.”
+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 consciousness which are associated with effects such as “‘illumination’” or *‘inspiration.” Since this time insult also occurs sub-atomically, it can be seen
+voices on electrical equipment and/or the unusual states of consciousness which are associated with effects such as "'illumination'" or *'inspiration." 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
+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
+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
@@ -4547,7 +4533,7 @@ 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
+106 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{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
@@ -4556,7 +4542,7 @@ 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 inexplicably “*simultaneous.” These are insulted chemical transitions. Photosynthesis is a life process and during this life process the chlorophyl-bearing
+observed, seem to be too *'rapid"' for accurate observation or inexplicably "*simultaneous." These are insulted chemical transitions. Photosynthesis 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)
@@ -4572,7 +4558,7 @@ 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 requirements and suddenly oxidize and reduce at the same time, in separate 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
+mediation by so-called "'dark responses," which have not been fully
 understood.
 
 Obviously, green vegetables are a bit spaced out in their behavior.
@@ -4580,15 +4566,15 @@ 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 carbohydrates and oxygen.
 
-To quote from an elementary chemistry textbook: *“The importance of
+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
+way by which solar energy is made available to living organisms."
+
 
 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
+have pointed out in my article, *"The \sc{ufo} Certainty," which appeared in
 the Everything for Everybody newspaper in August 1977, there are no
 strict guarantees in small particle physics.
 
@@ -4642,7 +4628,7 @@ 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
+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
@@ -4650,24 +4636,24 @@ 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
+qualities of the \sc{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
+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 evolution 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
+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
+
+"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.
 
@@ -4684,7 +4670,7 @@ 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
+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
@@ -4707,25 +4693,25 @@ 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
+plane as the performance of "'interdimensional rescue work."
+110 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{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 composition of the rough draft of this book (p. 103). Lobo’s sudden appearances and disappearances are not really accidental or coincidental. They
+very real confusion and exhaustion which were holding back my composition of the rough draft of this book (p. 103). Lobo's sudden appearances and disappearances are not really accidental or coincidental. They
 stem from his mediumship and psychic ability. Because he is an all-American
 drifter, 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
+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 correctly states that this faculty might never be missed in a routine screening
+destruction of ''creativity" in accidental brain damage, and very correctly 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
@@ -4737,7 +4723,7 @@ inventiveness and then declare that there is no such thing as creativity
 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
+been no \sc{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
@@ -4746,7 +4732,7 @@ 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
@@ -4765,7 +4751,7 @@ 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
+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
@@ -4787,21 +4773,21 @@ 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
+famed Interrupted Journey \sc{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
+connects \sc{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
+112 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{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
+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.
+shocked aftermath of her \sc{ufo} contact.
 
 It is odd that she would not notice this effect directly, after all the
 questioning she must have undergone.
@@ -4809,17 +4795,17 @@ 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
+really represent the reality of the \sc{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
+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
+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.
 
@@ -4830,13 +4816,13 @@ 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
+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
@@ -4852,8 +4838,8 @@ 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
+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
@@ -4870,19 +4856,19 @@ 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, 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
+specifically links the \sc{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
+114 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
 
 ability to persuade by hypnotic means. Some have identified mojo with
 sex, but though mojo includes (of course!) sexual persuasion, this
@@ -4891,32 +4877,32 @@ 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 Galligan confides that the chapters of the purported Air Force manual which
-he possesses were ‘‘smuggled” out of Air Force facilities.
+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.”
+secular \sc{ufo} publications. The only interesting bit of information in
+these chapters involves the admonition to would-be \sc{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
+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
+in ESP and \sc{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
+personally, since my \sc{ufo} sighting in 1973 I have learned quite a lot
 about mathematical theory and the nature of the electromagnetic spectrum.
 
 Of course, since I include the pranic energies in my view of the
@@ -4925,10 +4911,10 @@ and theories of numbers is going to differ from the standard interpretation.
 
 However, previous to 1973, I had no strong interest in the mathematical 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 publishing personal essays. This trend of thought began (p. 9) during the time I
-was experiencing my secondary UFO contact in 1975.
+was experiencing my secondary \sc{ufo} contact in 1975.
 
 Something happened to my interests and abilities, beginning in December of 1973. Whatever it was that reintegrated my capacities, that
 reality is the reason for this book.
@@ -4938,9 +4924,9 @@ 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,
+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
+opener. Actually, I think the same can be said for our \sc{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
@@ -4951,7 +4937,7 @@ THE END
 As was dictated by events
 September 2, 1977
 New York, N.Y. 10011
-116 °  CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+116 °  CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
 
 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
 
@@ -4977,12 +4963,12 @@ 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
+"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
@@ -5000,9 +4986,9 @@ 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
+"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.”
+the possibilities."
 
 Certainly, we would all like to be able to judge psychological situations impartially. It is true that no one on earth has this absolute faculty.
 
@@ -5011,7 +4997,7 @@ 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
+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
@@ -5019,8 +5005,8 @@ 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
+If I have hurt anybody's feelings, I would like to apologize. In order to
+118 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{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
@@ -5047,7 +5033,7 @@ 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
+*"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
+sending down a multitude of fine beams, Tass reported today."" New York Times
 9/23/77.