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@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ As a practicing psychic reader and surrealist poet, people have been my major fi
 
 First, I suppose I should state my own credentials in this matter. I am a \dq{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 \dq{spirit light} phenomena which I sometimes experience while giving a psychic reading, or as part of spontaneous mediumistic occurrences popularly known as \dq{seeing a ghost.}
 
-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.  Five or ten minutes later, a light appeared down the tracks which I thought was the train light, but this light disappeared and no train arrived.
+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. Five or ten minutes later, a light appeared down the tracks which I thought was the train light, but this light disappeared and no train arrived.
 
 When the train finally came, I boarded it silently, and went directly home. I felt that as well as seeing a light in the sky I had experienced an altered state of consciousness analogous to trances and\slash or states of psychic insight, and I was extremely frightened.
 
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ My other peculiar \sc{ufo} friend during the year of 1974 was a young man who ha
 
 At this time in history, I cannot relate for sure whether this witch's English instructor \e{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 \dq{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 was at that time giving an acting class which advertised \dq{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 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.
 
@@ -172,13 +172,13 @@ As a recent contactee freakout, the first survival tactic which I learned was de
 
 During that year, I had an occult store in Salem which was basically a year-long celebration of the destiny of the United States as linked to expanded perception. The one-dollar bill bears the great seal of the United States, which shows to all an eye atop a pyramid, meaning the building of concrete items by the use of psychic perception. While in Salem, I built the \bt{Witch City Whiz Bang}. My \bt{Whiz Bang} cited the old \bt{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 daily occurrences lights appearing here and there in my house, telepathic messages to \dq{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 \dq{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.
+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 daily occurrences lights appearing here and there in my house, telepathic messages to \dq{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 \dq{generator whine} which was heard clearly by my husband after I woke him from a deep sleep to assert that my extra-terrestrial friends were just outside the window.
 
 My marriage did not survive this situation. Clearly, I was not insane and could take care of my daily activities, could even conceal portions of my experience in order to seem rational, but I had become a different person with a set of mental experiences different from my husband's usual experiences and different from most people's inner and outer experiences.
 
 I was beginning to feel more at home with Lobo and Bethiwitch, and a few older psychics and spiritualists who have managed to maintain a dual existence within such groups as the Spiritualist Church and the Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship. Notice the word \dq{spiritual.} Does this mean \dq{supernatural} or \dq{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: 
+An elder of one of these organizations told me a very interesting story. I will repeat this more or less verbatim: 
 \Q{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.}
 \noindent Which was probably that they would not be able to tell the future. At one time, I had considered calling this book: \bt{Two Years in the Bird Box}.
 
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ When I got there, I found myself suddenly debating eight people, or was it ten (
 
 I heard myself quoting everything from ancient Indian literature to the New Testament, and actively taking the position that these Twos had mistaken negative spirit contact and meditative states of mind with actual journeys off this physical planet. A confusion of planes!
 
-This is reflected recently in the confusion among the gurus of the transcendental meditation business as to whether they actually are flying or just fly in their minds, or are levitating or just levitate in their minds.  Although represented in the press as evidence of a sharpster mentality, this dilemma may represent a very important and natural confusion.
+This is reflected recently in the confusion among the gurus of the transcendental meditation business as to whether they actually are flying or just fly in their minds, or are levitating or just levitate in their minds. Although represented in the press as evidence of a sharpster mentality, this dilemma may represent a very important and natural confusion.
 
 After my unexpected public debate was over, I felt lightheaded and faint and rather puzzled. I felt that the issue of astral transport versus spaceships was important, but not that important. Why had I been so adamant?
 
@@ -270,15 +270,15 @@ Ben listened patiently to my description of the light. He believed me, he said,
 
 This was some comfort.
 
-The next morning, there was a report on the radio (or was it the 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?
+The next morning, there was a report on the radio (or was it the 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 \bt{The Witch City Whiz Bang}? Yes. But there are limits even to deliberate lunacy.  Public talk of \sc{ufo} lights in my bedroom might certainly brand me as hysteric.
+But, wasn't I already a deliberate lunatic? The author of \bt{The Witch City Whiz Bang}? Yes. But there are limits even to deliberate lunacy. 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 \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 \sc{ufo} had come to her in a dream. \dq{Congratulations,} I told her, smiling, \dq{That's wonderful! Do you remember any news?}
+Shortly after I had classified this experience, \label[salemdream]\wlabel{a woman came into my store in Salem saying that a \sc{ufo} had come to her in a dream.} \dq{Congratulations,} I told her, smiling, \dq{That's wonderful! Do you remember any news?}
 
 \dq{Cancer,} she replied, \dq{is due to a chemical imbalance in the atmosphere. Things come to me like that. I'm psychic.}
 
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ Imagine my surprise to find it ticking! About thirty seconds after I had located
 
 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 \sc{ufo} sightings on the North Shore.
 
-I received back a polite note indicating that this might be possible and telling me that they would file my observations. I assume they did file this letter, under \B{M} (for \B{M}ad) or perhaps under \B{U} (for \B{U}nidentified), or maybe \B{S} (for \B{S}chizophrenic) or was that \B{S}urrealist? OK: \B{S} for \B{S}urrealist.  Hello there. Rosie. Whoops! Was that a flying object?
+I received back a polite note indicating that this might be possible and telling me that they would file my observations. I assume they did file this letter, under \B{M} (for \B{M}ad) or perhaps under \B{U} (for \B{U}nidentified), or maybe \B{S} (for \B{S}chizophrenic) or was that \B{S}urrealist? OK: \B{S} for \B{S}urrealist. Hello there. Rosie. Whoops! Was that a flying object?
 
 Now: back to my arrangements.
 
@@ -356,631 +356,282 @@ Perhaps we are trying to communicate to ourselves that we are being visited from
 
 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 \sc{ufo} narrations in chronological sequence:
 
-\sec ONE
+% ONE
+\nonum\sec ONE
 \rightline{6\slash 24\slash 717}
+\vskip 0.5em
 
 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.
 
-I found, to my surprise, that the early part of my file is not in
-chronological order, but grows more chronological as time goes on.
-Apparently, right after moving from Salem I paid little attention to exact
-sequence.
-
-The first note which comes to hand is dated 10\slash 26\slash 76 and is signed by
-Joy Summery of Andover, Massachusetts. In this note, which was
-slipped under my door, Ms. Summery asks me for information on my
-\sc{ufo} group and tells me that there is a lot of interest in \sc{ufo}s in Andover.
-
-I called Joy Summery on the phone and told her that I had no \sc{ufo}
-group, but would be interested in any information on \sc{ufo} sightings.
-She told me that there was a group of people meeting in Andover who
-had experienced visions of beings descending to bring news of global
-catastrophe. Her voice was trembling, and I felt that she had been
-profoundly affected by some sort of experience. I declined Joy Summery's invitation to join her \sc{ufo} group, but told her that plenty of other
-people in this area had been having visions of global catastrophe.
-
-
-TWO
-Helen O'Laughlin is a young black woman who sometimes reads tea
-leaves. Shortly after I moved into my office, she came nervously in to
-see me and told me that she and several other people had seen \sc{ufo}s in
-Roxbury, the black section of Boston.
-
-Helen told me that she had been lying down with her boyfriend, half
-asleep, when she felt physically ''touched'" by something which hit her
-in the chest. She woke and went to the window. Up in the sky was a
-bright green light which was moving around in a jerky way.
-
-Her boyfriend, Helen says, saw a ''white shadow'' in the room at the
-same time.
-
-When Helen checked with friends, she found that others in the same
-neighborhood had seen lights in the sky at approximately this same time
-in the evening. She gave me the names of;several of these people, and
-also of a friend who had seen a \sc{ufo} light in Arizona.
-
-THREE
-On 10\slash 21\slash 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 \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 \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\slash 12\slash 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 \sc{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
-that any bright light in the sky on 10\slash 12\slash 76 must have been the star
-Sirius.
-
-
-I called the Bellingham police department on 10\slash 22\slash 76 and talked to
-the officer who had seen the \sc{ufo}. Sgt. Mullhaven told me that he had
-seen at home before being called by the station a multi-colored light in
-the sky which was flashing on and off. This was visible, Mullhaven told
-me, for about five hours and was seen from several locations. He gave
-
-- me the name of the night dispatcher who had taken the original calls.
-
-When I finally reached this dispatcher on the phone, he was cooperative and told me that something had indeed occurred concerning a light
-in the sky which was seen simultaneously from several different locations in the area.
-
-This light is reported to have flashed on and off and changed colors. It
-was in the sky for five to six hours and was witnessed by several private
-citizens and three police officers.
-
-It is difficult for me to understand how this light could possibly have
-been the star Sirius. In his book Gods of Aquarius, Brad Steiger mentions the visionary connection of \sc{ufo}s to the star Sirius, speculating on
-beings who may have come from the vicinity of this star.
-
-I doubt that three non-visionary patrolmen could seriously have
-confused the star Sirius with a flashing light or a flashing light with the
-star Sirius.
+I found, to my surprise, that the early part of my file is not in chronological order, but grows more chronological as time goes on. Apparently, right after moving from Salem I paid little attention to exact sequence.
+
+The first note which comes to hand is dated 10\slash 26\slash 76 and is signed by Joy Summery of Andover, Massachusetts. In this note, which was slipped under my door, Ms. Summery asks me for information on my \sc{ufo} group and tells me that there is a lot of interest in \sc{ufo}s in Andover.
+
+I called Joy Summery on the phone and told her that I had no \sc{ufo} group, but would be interested in any information on \sc{ufo} sightings.  She told me that there was a group of people meeting in Andover who had experienced visions of beings descending to bring news of global catastrophe. Her voice was trembling, and I felt that she had been profoundly affected by some sort of experience. I declined Joy Summery's invitation to join her \sc{ufo} group, but told her that plenty of other people in this area had been having visions of global catastrophe.
+
+% TWO
+\nonum\sec TWO
+
+Helen O'Laughlin is a young black woman who sometimes reads tea leaves. Shortly after I moved into my office, she came nervously in to see me and told me that she and several other people had seen \sc{ufo}s 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 \dq{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 \dq{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 \sc{ufo} light in Arizona.
+
+% THREE
+\nonum\sec THREE
+
+On 10\slash 21\slash 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 \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 \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\slash 12\slash 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 \jt{Milford Daily News}, a woman gave me the name of a police officer who had witnessed the \sc{ufo}. She also told me that subsequent to publication of the news of this Bellingham sighting an individual identifying himself only as \dq{an astronomer} had called the paper to report that any bright light in the sky on 10\slash 12\slash 76 must have been the star Sirius.
+
+I called the Bellingham police department on 10\slash 22\slash 76 and talked to the officer who had seen the \sc{ufo}. Sgt. Mullhaven told me that he had seen at home before being called by the station a multi-colored light in the sky which was flashing on and off. This was visible, Mullhaven told me, for about five hours and was seen from several locations. He gave me the name of the night dispatcher who had taken the original calls.
+
+When I finally reached this dispatcher on the phone, he was cooperative and told me that something had indeed occurred concerning a light in the sky which was seen simultaneously from several different locations in the area.
+
+This light is reported to have flashed on and off and changed colors. It was in the sky for five to six hours and was witnessed by several private citizens and three police officers.
+
+It is difficult for me to understand how this light could possibly have been the star Sirius. In his book \bt{Gods of Aquarius}, Brad Steiger mentions the visionary connection of \sc{ufo}s to the star Sirius, speculating on beings who may have come from the vicinity of this star.
+
+I doubt that three non-visionary patrolmen could seriously have confused the star Sirius with a flashing light or a flashing light with the star Sirius.
 
 They saw something unusual.
 
-FOUR
-I have here now a note to myself dated 9\slash 15\slash 76. This concerns the \sc{ufo}
-sighting made by the woman who wrote to me on the '*have a happy
-day'' Melaril blank.
-
-Jane Franklin describes this sighting as having taken place near
-Reading, Massachusetts on Wednesday, September 8, at approximately
-7:45 P.M. She was driving her car down Concord Street in North
-Reading when she noticed two bars of light traveling along with her,
-above the car. Franklin pulled over to the side of the road and switched
-off the engine for a few minutes. Then these rectangular bars of light
-seemed to disappear.
-
-In her reply to my question on tranquilizers, which is dated 9\slash 17\slash 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
-
-
-symptoms in conjunction with her sighting. However, she writes that the
-night after seeing these rectangular bars she ''had a hard time falling
-asleep because the vision of what I saw was uppermost in my mind. I can
-still see a very vivid description of what I saw in my mind."'
-
-Just below my note about Jane Franklin's letter, I have written another
-note to myself, dated 9\slash 23\slash 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\slash 8\slash 76: *'Dear sir: I am writing
-to you in regard to your letter in the Salem Evening News. About a month
-ago on a Thursday night around 9:30 my boyfriend and I were driving
-down old Swampscott Road in Salem heading toward Swampscott. In
-the sky I noticed a very strange-looking craft. I asked my boyfriend if he
-thought it might be a plane. He said it definitely was not. We watched it
-for a few minutes. Then he took me home to my apartment.
-
-When I got in, I told my mother about it. It was saucer-shaped. It had a
-lot of lights blinking on and off in sequence. Red and white lights. My
-mother and I looked for it and found it. It was hovering over Swampscott
-and Salem for about an hour and a half that I know of. About 1:41 P.M. it
-started to head toward Marblehead very slowly. When it reached the
-ocean, it took off like a bolt of lightning. I never saw anything move so
-fast in my life.
-
-My mother and I looked for it in the sky for an hour after that, but we
-never saw it again.
-
-Please write back and let me know what you find out I am very
-interested. Sincerely, Diana Bradley."
+% FOUR
+\nonum\sec FOUR
 
-Congratulations, Diana!
+I have here now a note to myself dated 9\slash 15\slash 76. This concerns the \sc{ufo} sighting made by the woman who wrote to me on the \dq{have a happy day} Melaril blank.
+
+Jane Franklin describes this sighting as having taken place near Reading, Massachusetts on Wednesday, September 8, at approximately 7:45 P.M.\ \ She was driving her car down Concord Street in North Reading when she noticed two bars of light traveling along with her, above the car. Franklin pulled over to the side of the road and switched off the engine for a few minutes. Then these rectangular bars of light seemed to disappear.
 
-SIX
-At approximately the same hour of the evening on August 20, in a
-location not far from the location you report, Mrs. Kubouski, an elderly
-widow living in Salem, was lying down to go to sleep when, as she
-reports it, a "flashlight" strobed ""through her eyes." She went to the
-window and saw (Mrs. Kubouski speaks broken English, so I will render
+In her reply to my question on tranquilizers, which is dated 9\slash 17\slash 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 symptoms in conjunction with her sighting. However, she writes that the night after seeing these rectangular bars she \dq{had a hard time falling asleep because the vision of what I saw was uppermost in my mind. I can still see a very vivid description of what I saw in my mind.}
 
+Just below my note about Jane Franklin's letter, I have written another note to myself, dated 9\slash 23\slash 76. This note reads: \dq{Sign contract for office downtown. When I return to Lynn, both my electric clocks are twenty-five minutes slow.}
 
-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."
+% FIVE
+\nonum\sec FIVE
 
-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."
+Diana Bradley reports, in a letter dated 9\slash 8\slash 76: \ldq{Dear sir: I am writing to you in regard to your letter in the \jt{Salem Evening News}. About a month ago on a Thursday night around 9:30 my boyfriend and I were driving down old Swampscott Road in Salem heading toward Swampscott. In the sky I noticed a very strange-looking craft. I asked my boyfriend if he thought it might be a plane. He said it definitely was not. We watched it for a few minutes. Then he took me home to my apartment.
 
-At the bottom of this description of the Kubouski sighting, I have
-written the comment: ''That's about all I have to tell you, and now I have
-to go back and fix my dinner," w hich is actually one of Mrs. Kubouski's
-statements.
+When I got in, I told my mother about it. It was saucer-shaped. It had a lot of lights blinking on and off in sequence. Red and white lights. My mother and I looked for it and found it. It was hovering over Swampscott and Salem for about an hour and a half that I know of. About 11 P.M. it started to head toward Marblehead very slowly. When it reached the ocean, it took off like a bolt of lightning. I never saw anything move so fast in my life.
 
-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 \sc{ufo} sighting
-earlier in the Spring of 1976.
+My mother and I looked for it in the sky for an hour after that, but we never saw it again.
 
-Monroe's \sc{ufo} report may be found in the Fall 1976 issue of Ufology
-magazine.
+Please write back and let me know what you find out I am very interested. Sincerely, Diana Bradley.}
 
-At first I had hesitated about including the Kubouski sighting in this
-book because she was referred to me by Mrs. Monroe, and collusion or
-imagination might be suspected.
+Congratulations, Diana!
+
+% SIX
+\nonum\sec 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 \dq{flashlight} strobed \dq{through her eyes.} She went to the window and saw (Mrs. Kubouski speaks broken English, so I will render this as best I can): \dq{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.}
 
-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
-time Mrs. Kubouski called her on the phone to report that she had seen a
-square-dancing flying saucer.
+This was a small craft, Mrs. Kubouski elaborated: \dq{It did\ld\ the best way I can describe it\ld\ a square dance with pretty lights flashing, then went over the water near the electric power station toward Beverly.}
 
-After this event, Mrs. Monroe noticed unusual plastic-like pebbles or
-pieces of dust on a polished wooden table. She felt somehow that these
-unusual pieces of trash were connected to the flashing lights which she
-has seen in the sky on several occasions.
+At the bottom of this description of the Kubouski sighting, I have written the comment: \dq{That's about all I have to tell you, and now I have to go back and fix my dinner,} which is actually one of Mrs. Kubouski's statements.
 
-SEVEN
+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 \sc{ufo} sighting earlier in the Spring of 1976.
 
-Shortly after  had moved into my office in Boston, a man in red trousers
-interrupted me as I was writing. I was irritated at this interruption, but
-since I had left the door ajar, I let him come in. He talked enthusiastically
-about the large pseudo-Greek sculpture which I keep leaning against my
-office wall. We discussed the possible significance of \sc{ufo}s in terms of
-symbolic chariots of the gods:
+Monroe's \sc{ufo} report may be found in the Fall 1976 issue of \jt{Ufology} magazine.
 
-Phaeton was the son of Clymene, a sea nymph, and Helios, the god of
+At first I had hesitated about including the Kubouski sighting in this book because she was referred to me by Mrs. Monroe, and collusion or imagination might be suspected.
 
+Happily, due to the coincidence between the Kubouski and the Bradley sightings, I can include both with a clear conscience, with the additional news that Mrs. Monroe's TV set was malfunctioning at the time Mrs. Kubouski called her on the phone to report that she had seen a square-dancing flying saucer.
 
-the sun. Against his father's advice, Phaeton drove his chariot too fast
-and plummeted into the ocean. That is why, as the ancient Greek
-storytellers related, we have day and night and the end of the day seems
-to go so quickly and bloodily into the dark. Though, actually, this does
-not seem to make much sense since Phaeton's chariot is reassembled
-every morning to run freshly through the bloody dawn.
+After this event, Mrs. Monroe noticed unusual plastic-like pebbles or pieces of dust on a polished wooden table. She felt somehow that these unusual pieces of trash were connected to the flashing lights which she has seen in the sky on several occasions.
 
-Actually, according to source books, Helios lent Phaeton his chariot
-and he drove it too close to the earth, so Zeus struck him down with a
-thunderbolt to keep the earth from catching fire.
+% SEVEN
+\nonum\sec SEVEN
 
-Phaeton must only have made this spectacular trip one time. In the
-sculpture that we were discussing, he is attended by a company of muses
-and the fires from his chariot do not seem to be very dangerous.
+Shortly after had moved into my office in Boston, a man in red trousers interrupted me as I was writing. I was irritated at this interruption, but since I had left the door ajar, I let him come in. He talked enthusiastically about the large pseudo-Greek sculpture which I keep leaning against my office wall. We discussed the possible significance of \sc{ufo}s in terms of symbolic chariots of the gods:
 
-6\slash 26\slash 77
+Ph\ae ton was the son of Clymene, a sea nymph, and Helios, the god of the sun. Against his father's advice, Ph\ae ton 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 Ph\ae ton's chariot is reassembled every morning to run freshly through the bloody dawn.
 
-I decided to skip the weekend before continuing with this entry. The
-information which comprises this book has been collected over a period
-of two years, and yet I still do find it difficult to cope with these realities
-in any concentrated dosage. There seems always to be the necessity to
-make a joke or small talk.
+Actually, according to source books, Helios lent Ph\ae ton his chariot and he drove it too close to the earth, so Zeus struck him down with a thunderbolt to keep the earth from catching fire.
 
-After we had discussed Greek mythology for a while, the man in red
-trousers told me that he had seen a strange unidentified light over the
-Aegean sea, which lies between Greece and Turkey. This was during a
-recent trip abroad and he was at this point traveling on a ship of some sort
-out among the smaller islands . . .
+Ph\ae ton must only have made this spectacular trip one time. In the sculpture that we were discussing, he is attended by a company of muses and the fires from his chariot do not seem to be very dangerous.
 
-The real 6\slash 27\slash 77
+\rightline{6\slash 26\slash 77}
+\vskip 0.5em
 
-Actually, I cheated and wrote the preceding before taking off for the
-weekend, while I 'still had all of these thoughts of chariots straight in my
-head. During the actual weekend, I did go to see the science fiction film
-Star Wars with my six-year-old son. While we were waiting for the large
-red curtain to pull back on the semi-circular screen, he suggested a new
-concept in motion pictures: the rocket movie.
+I decided to skip the weekend before continuing with this entry. The information which comprises this book has been collected over a period of two years, and yet I still do find it difficult to cope with these realities in any concentrated dosage. There seems always to be the necessity to make a joke or small talk.
 
-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\slash 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!
+After we had discussed Greek mythology for a while, the man in red trousers told me that he had seen a strange unidentified light over the Aegean sea, which lies between Greece and Turkey. This was during a recent trip abroad and he was at this point traveling on a ship of some sort out among the smaller islands\ld
 
+\vskip 1em
+\rightline{\e{The real 6\slash 27\slash 77}}
+\vskip 1em
 
+Actually, I cheated and wrote the preceding before taking off for the weekend, while I 'still had all of these thoughts of chariots straight in my head. During the actual weekend, I did go to see the science fiction film \filmtitle{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 itself levitates into another time\slash 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!
 There is no space and the film is beginning!
 
-In Star Wars, intergalactic battles are being conducted by strange-looking monsters and robots with very human feelings. This is the
-difference between the typical science fiction thriller and the \sc{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 \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
-portraiture of cupids, the man in the red trousers confessed that late at
-night over the Aegean he had seen a light which stood still in the sky.
-
-This light held steady for a few moments and then precipitated
-directly downwards at a high speed, after which it stopped in the sky,
-went straight back up again and disappeared. After careful consideration, said this man in red trousers, he did not think it could have been a
-shooting star, since the trajectory of an ordinary shooting star does not
-move directly downwards and then back upwards again (unless it is
-Phaeton resurrected).
-
-All of this, of course, was in the context of elaborate and nervous,
-casual discussion, and when this man in red trousers left, he very
-carefully shut the door.
+In \filmtitle{Star Wars}, intergalactic battles are being conducted by strange-looking monsters and robots with very human feelings. This is the difference between the typical science fiction thriller and the \sc{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 \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 portraiture of cupids, the man in the red trousers confessed that late at night over the Aegean he had seen a light which stood still in the sky.
+
+This light held steady for a few moments and then precipitated directly downwards at a high speed, after which it stopped in the sky, went straight back up again and disappeared. After careful consideration, said this man in red trousers, he did not think it could have been a shooting star, since the trajectory of an ordinary shooting star does not move directly downwards and then back upwards again (unless it is Ph\ae ton resurrected).
+
+All of this, of course, was in the context of elaborate and nervous, casual discussion, and when this man in red trousers left, he very carefully shut the door.
 
 This was in early October.
 
-EIGHT
-A woman wearing a maroon coat came into the Psychic Center one
-winter morning and stood nervously about three yards from my door. She
-could not be persuaded to enter my office or to come close to me
-physically at all.
-
-Rita Warnock, who runs the Friendly Tearoom, had rapped on my
-door and told me that there was someone outside who wanted to report a
-\sc{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 . . . \sc{ufo}s," she told me. ""And
-
-
-then I was walking by and saw your sign and I thought I would come in
-here."
-
-This woman spoke in heavily-accented but educated English, and was
-trembling. It seemed that she was afraid of her experience with \sc{ufo}s,
-but felt impelled to speak about them nevertheless.
-
-On the preceding Saturday, 12\slash 28\slash 76, at nine or ten at night, she said,
-she had seen a reddish, circular light turning around, jumping to a new
-location, and then turning around again.
-
-She was able now to call this a \sc{ufo}, she told me, but in 1944 during
-World War II, when she had seen such phenomena in Hungary near the
-Danube River, she had not known what to label this sort of circular
-aircraft.
-
-In 1944 in Hungary, this woman had been outside and saw a white
-cloud which elongated, then became or was part of a brownish-grey
-airship of an unusual sort. Then there was an air raid siren, and the usual
-planes went up.
-
-After the planes had been up in the air and gone, this cloud came lower
-down toward the earth. Within this cloud, there was a smaller, circular
-ship which was shining in the sun.
-
-Three days later, while walking again by the Danube near an arcade,
-this woman and several other people---including a police officer---saw
-the brownish-grey ship again. But at this time no one knew what to call it
-or what it really might be doing. She said she thought at that time that it
-might be a Nazi secret weapon of soine sort.
-
-In 1953 in Boston, this woman was walking down the street on a
-Sunday and saw a "fish-like thing™ in the sky. This ship appeared to
-have facets of '"'scales" of some sort. It came low.
-
-The woman in the maroon coat said that she saw no people inside this
-scaly ship, but experienced telepathic contact of a sort she could not
-define.
-
-She stared at this ship for a while and then ran down the street to get
-other witnesses, but the corner store was closed and when she turned to
-start back the ship was gone.
-
-After telling me of these phenomena, this woman---still agitated---
-told me that she had read the Bible carefully to try to account for these
-things and could only conclude that---as was predicted in the Revelations
-
-
-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 31\tss{st}, 1976, just prior to the performance of my mummer's
-play New Day at the Psychic Center as part of the citywide First Night
-celebration, a heavy-set young woman came into my office and wanted
-to talk about astral projection.
-
-Really, astral projection was the last thing on my mind just prior to this
-event. The heavy snow and personal quirks of the staff and the actors had
-for the moment rooted me right to the spot. There was no getting out of
-it: we were going to have to do this event, snow or no snow.
-
-Imagine my consternation when this unexpected visitor began to
-describe the glowing blue discs she had seen in the sky over the Neponset
-Drive-in two years ago. I whipped out my notebook and took down a
-description of these discs. There were several of them. They glowed
-blue, and were traveling fast in a zigzag pattern. It seemed they came out
-of the water, went toward the sunset and then were gone.
-
-I asked her what movie was showing at the drive-in, and with an
-embarrassed flush of laughter she told me that it had been Dracula. She
-could not remember exactly what date this had been two summers ago,
-but told me that it had been a cold night and that the mosquitos were
-biting. She had gone out to the drive-in with her cousins, she told me,
-and no one in the car could really believe what they had seen, so they
-finished watching Dracula.
-
-After they got home, they heard on the radio that 4 woman somewhere
-else in the area had seen the same thing that evening when she went out
-by the water to look for her dog.
-
-This heavy-set young woman told me that her cousin Frank had
-experienced strange dreams the night after this summer sighting, but
-will not talk about them. He was sixteen years old at the time that the
-blue discs flew over. I 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 \sc{ufo} entities,
-but subsequent to her sighting had tried to astral project herself out
-toward these entities.
-
-
-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.
+% EIGHT
+\nonum\sec EIGHT
+
+A woman wearing a maroon coat came into the Psychic Center one winter morning and stood nervously about three yards from my door. She could not be persuaded to enter my office or to come close to me physically at all.
+
+Rita Warnock, who runs the Friendly Tearoom, had rapped on my door and told me that there was someone outside who wanted to report a \sc{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. \dq{I saw on TV, you know: what they call these now\ld\ \sc{ufo}s,} she told me. \dq{And then I was walking by and saw your sign and I thought I would come in here.}
+
+This woman spoke in heavily-accented but educated English, and was trembling. It seemed that she was afraid of her experience with \sc{ufo}s, but felt impelled to speak about them nevertheless.
+
+On the preceding Saturday, 12\slash 28\slash 76, at nine or ten at night, she said, she had seen a reddish, circular light turning around, jumping to a new location, and then turning around again.
+
+She was able now to call this a \sc{ufo}, she told me, but in 1944 during World War II, when she had seen such phenomena in Hungary near the Danube River, she had not known what to label this sort of circular aircraft.
+
+In 1944 in Hungary, this woman had been outside and saw a white cloud which elongated, then became or was part of a brownish-grey airship of an unusual sort. Then there was an air raid siren, and the usual planes went up.
+
+After the planes had been up in the air and gone, this cloud came lower down toward the earth. Within this cloud, there was a smaller, circular ship which was shining in the sun.
+
+Three days later, while walking again by the Danube near an arcade, this woman and several other people---including a police officer---saw the brownish-grey ship again. But at this time no one knew what to call it or what it really might be doing. She said she thought at that time that it might be a Nazi secret weapon of soine sort.
+
+In 1953 in Boston, this woman was walking down the street on a Sunday and saw a \dq{fish-like thing} in the sky. This ship appeared to have facets of \dq{scales} of some sort. It came low.
+
+The woman in the maroon coat said that she saw no people inside this scaly ship, but experienced telepathic contact of a sort she could not define.
+
+She stared at this ship for a while and then ran down the street to get other witnesses, but the corner store was closed and when she turned to start back the ship was gone.
+
+After telling me of these phenomena, this woman---still agitated---told me that she had read the Bible carefully to try to account for these things and could only conclude that---as was predicted in the Revelations 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
+\nonum\sec NINE
+
+On December 31\tss{st}, 1976, just prior to the performance of my mummer's play \playtitle{New Day} at the Psychic Center as part of the citywide First Night celebration, a heavy-set young woman came into my office and wanted to talk about astral projection.
+
+Really, astral projection was the last thing on my mind just prior to this event. The heavy snow and personal quirks of the staff and the actors had for the moment rooted me right to the spot. There was no getting out of it: we were going to have to do this event, snow or no snow.
+
+Imagine my consternation when this unexpected visitor began to describe the glowing blue discs she had seen in the sky over the Neponset Drive-in two years ago. I whipped out my notebook and took down a description of these discs. There were several of them. They glowed blue, and were traveling fast in a zigzag pattern. It seemed they came out of the water, went toward the sunset and then were gone.
+
+I asked her what movie was showing at the drive-in, and with an embarrassed flush of laughter she told me that it had been \filmtitle{Dracula}. She could not remember exactly what date this had been two summers ago, but told me that it had been a cold night and that the mosquitos were biting. She had gone out to the drive-in with her cousins, she told me, and no one in the car could really believe what they had seen, so they finished watching \journaltitle{Dracula}.
+
+After they got home, they heard on the radio that 4 woman somewhere else in the area had seen the same thing that evening when she went out by the water to look for her dog.
+
+This heavy-set young woman told me that her cousin Frank had experienced strange dreams the night after this summer sighting, but will not talk about them. He was sixteen years old at the time that the blue discs flew over. I 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 \sc{ufo} entities, but subsequent to her sighting had tried to astral project herself out toward these entities.
+
+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. \pgref[salemdream]---chemical pollutants in the atmosphere may cause cancer.
 
 % TEN
 \chap
 
-While I was out of town in January, a square black object fell through the
-ice of William McCarthy's pond in Wakefield, New Hampshire.
-"When state officials enlarged the hole in the ice," reports the Boston
-Globe. "They found no square black object or radioactivity . . . the
-state fish and game department took a sample of rock and sand from the
-pond for laboratory analysis. Otherwise there is nothing left to the story.
-Except: what made a hole three feet in diameter, perfectly rounded, the
-black hole in ice eighteen inches thick?"
-
-What indeed? I deeply regretted that I had been out of town at the
-time. On a different metaphysical errand, I had to be in touch with the
-Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained, and asked them if they
-had noted this event. They told me that they had indeed moted this
-unexplained event, and somehow in the course of the same phone call it
-evolved that I was requested to write an article on conceptions of time for
-the relativity issue of Pursuit magazine.
-
-I 'had already entitled this time concept ''Fluidice: Time as a Function
-of Prana," and coincidentally all of my diagrams did concern a square
-(potentially-disappearable) box of time.
-
-This article appeared in the Spring 1977 issue of Pursuit. I do not
-know how hot a large fluid ice box would be in this continuum, but I do
-link flexible time boxes to living thermo-nuclear bodies such as the sun.
-
-Certainly, such a box would not remain for long on the bottom of
-William McCarthy's pond.
-
-ELEVEN
-6\slash 26\slash 77
-
-I'would now like to talk about the interconnected sightings which were
-
-
-referred to me by Helen in the early Fall. Or are these really inter-connected?
-
-For sure, Helen knows all of the people involved. At first, when she
-gave me this set of three names I thought I would be facing a conspiracy
-of giggling girlfriends.
-
-To a certain extent, this was true: all three of them giggled nervously.
-However, the sightings which they described when I phoned them were
-each markedly different.
-
-Charlotte told me that in late May or early June of 1976 she was sitting
-outside on some steps in the South End of Boston and saw a green light
-blinking on and off in the sky. This light then stopped blinking and
-suddenly disappeared.
-
-Her friend Alicia told me that in July or August of 1976 she had been
-out on a cruise party in Boston harbor when she looked up and saw a red
-light which seemed to be as bright as the sun. This light was the size of a
-star. It went straight up and then straight across the sky like a helicopter.
-This was about four or five o'clock in the afternoon.
-
-The second time that Alicia saw this red light was in October of 1976.
-Again, she was down by the harbor. There was nothing to see in the
-vicinity but fog. A red light appeared in the sky. This light stayed in the
-same spot, moved quickly to another location, and then disappeared.
-When Alicia went to get someone else to come and see this light, she
-says she felt "'wrong where she was'' and experienced a sudden surge of
-nervous energy and fear.
-
-The third of the sightings which Helen referred to me tumed out to be a
-multiple sighting in itself. This took palce in Arizona when Donna and
-her brother Michael, who also live in the South End of Boston, were out
-in the Southwest visiting a relative. They were camped near a lake in a
-rural area and saw a strange white light high in the sky.
-
-Donna's sister, who lives in Arizona, says that several people have
-seen strange white lights in this location. Perhaps this is a haunted lake.
-
-While I was on the phone with Donna, her brother asked to talk to me
-and told me that he had experienced another odd incident in January of
-1977.
-
-He was driving through New Hampshire when an airplane flew low
-over his car. He felt curious about this particular plane for some reason,
-
-
-and looked up.
-
-In the sky was a star moving slowly. It went up gradually into the sky
-and disappeared. He was driving at that time and had to go under a
-bridge, so he could not watch the sky afterward for any length of time,
-but Donna's brother says he was sure this was some unusual occurrence.
-
-He experienced no unusual mental states connected with this sighting.
-All of these South End lights, though related by gossip, seem to have
-been quite wndividual in their manifestation. The descriptions do not
-tally, as would descriptions which were faked for effect.
-
-TWELVE
-One of the most interesting sightings which I have collected was reported to me accidentally by a railroad engineer who was looking for a
-new apartment.
-
-I was in the Psychic Center earlier than usual, talking to actors who
-were about to rehearse a scene from my play Eye of Fire, when the phone
-rang. On the other end of the line was a rather gruff-voiced individual
-who told me that he was calling about the apartment ad. When I told him
-that this was the Psychic Center, and I was not renting apartments, he
-told me that he was psychic himself.
-
-"I see a picture of George Washington near your face," he~declared.
-There are two one-dollar bills posted right beside the phone I was using,
-50 I told him to please go on and tell me more. He became friendly, and
-told me that he works as an engineer. I told him that my grandfather was a
-railroad engineer and explained that I was here at the other end of the
-phone giving psychic readings and doing \sc{ufo} research.
-
-This engineer then told me that he once saw colored lights flashing in
-the sky over around the railroad yards. He is convinced these lights were
-\sc{ufo}s. We made an appointment for him to come in and talk about his
-sighting, and I hung up the phone and went back to the actors. Five
-minutes later, the phone rang and a gruff voice said: ""I'm calling about
-the bungalow."
-
-When I told him that this was still the Psychic Center and that we were
-not renting apartments, he became embarrassed and eventually did not
-show up to talk about his sighting in more detail. Later on, I found out
-that Rita Warnock was indeed renting a bungalow and had put the
-
-
-Psychic Center's number into the real estate section of the Globe. So I
-had indeed contacted a genuine railroad engineer, and not a crank caller.
-I hope he found a bungalow with a good plumbing system. I have terrible
-trouble with my drains.
-
-THIRTEEN
-In February, a middle-aged woman in a flowered dress came into my
-office to report that *'something solid" had hit her while she was asleep
-at a relative's house.
-
-She woke and tried to place the source of this assault, but no one was
-in the room. This woman told me that she was shocked and frightened
-right after she woke, but cannot remember any strange dreams or odd
-behavior associated with her mini-\sc{ufo} experience.
-
-FOURTEEN
-I picked up a stack of papers and found I had misplaced a more detailed
-account of Donna's sighting in Arizona. She says this was on July 3,
-1976 at 4:30 A.M. near Lake Penablanca.
-
-She and her sister were sleeping in their car that night. They were
-awake, watching the stars, when a star moved left, went straight up and
-stopped as if to get out of the way of a plane which was passing. She says
-she was worried for an instant that this plane might "hit the stars."
-
-Then other lights started to move in the sky. These lights got smaller
-and smaller and then the sun came up.
-
-Both Donna and her brother seem to have been buzzed by a *'plane"
-of some sort which turned into a star, but there is absolutely no reason to
-suppose that they invented these incidents. Particularly, Donna's statement that the ""plane might hit the star'' shows an interesting suspension
-of the usual time\slash space continuum.
-
-Additionally, I have noted down the news that her brother when eight
-or nine years old looked out a window at the factory roof opposite his
-apartment and saw something which he describes as a dome with a
-lighted rectangle beneath the arc and a triangle attached below the
-rectangle. He says he remembers this vision as if it were yesterday.
-
-I am intrigued by the two rectangular \sc{ufo}s seen in this area (remember the vet's assistant who sent in the Melaril blank) and wonder if
-
-
-v
-
-we are wrong to stereotype \sc{ufo}s as circular. Remember also the square
-object that made a round hole in McCarthy's pond.
-
-FIFTEEN
-Frankie called me initially to tell me that in 1972, while he was harvesting tobacco in Canada near Simco, Ontario, he was looking out the
-window of the house where he was staying when a round blue object
-zipped by about a half a mile away. This, he says, was an ellipse with a
-rounded bottom. It made no noise. Later, he and his friends found large,
-round burn marks about thirty-five feet in diameter.
-
-He says that the house he was staying in while harvesting tobacco was
-haunted. Frankie and his friends heard moaning and experienced other
-odd occurrences with spirit sounds and .lights while living on this
-property. He connects his sighting of the \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.
-
-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 \sc{ufo} and
-spirit phenomena in that both are using pranic or astral ehergies to
-actualize.
-
-I asked him if he thought that he himself was mediumistic or psychic
-in any way and he told me that he had been living in New Jersey in an
-apartment where the previous occupant had been found dead.
-
-Things began to move around all by themselves in this apartment, and
-a picture actually fell off the wall. Frankie told me to read Bishop Pike's
-book The Other Side in connection with this experience. He told me that
-his mother had also been psychic. She read the cards, he said, but never
-went into psychic reading professionally.
-
-While I was talking to Frankie on the telephone, I saw a flash of light
-pulse on the wall opposite. I took this to be some sort of signal that this
-particular phone call was important, and congratulated myself upon this
-occasion.
-
-After we had talked for a while about psychic phenomena and \sc{ufo}s,
-Frankie volunteered that he knew a German expatriate living in Canada
-
-
-who has proof that \sc{ufo}s were flying saucer-shaped aircraft manufactured by the Nazis during World War II. He had made a small model of
-this aircraft for this man, Frankie told me, but a round object has trouble
-moving in a straight line because of its shape. This model would not fly
-more than a few yards.
-
-*Oh really, Frankie?"' I replied. '"Would you mind giving me the
-address of this man in Canada?"'
-
-Frankie said that he would not mind, but that first he would have to
-locate one of his letters. He could not remember where he had put this
-and said he would call me back.
-
-In return for his calling me back, I said that I would do an \sc{esp}
-experiment with him. At 8 P.M. that night I would place an ordinary
-sewing needle on the surface of a glass of water and by long distance
-psychokinesis Frankie would cause this needle to float.
-
-I was a bit paranoid about Frankie's possible mental abilities as
-connected with neo-Nazi activities, since I had actually seen a flash of
-spirit light while talking to him on the phone, but at exactly 8 P.M. the
-needle sank. It precipitated directly to the bottom of the glass and
-remained at the bottom of the glass.
-
-When Frankie called me back the next day he was upset to hear about
-the behavior of this needle, but he did give me the correct address of the
-publisher of \sc{ufo}s: Nazi Secret Weapon along with the hope that I would
-extend his personal greetings to the editor, which I did in general, and
-received in return much interesting information, which will be detailed
-later on.
+While I was out of town in January, a square black object fell through the ice of William McCarthy's pond in Wakefield, New Hampshire.  \dq{When state officials enlarged the hole in the ice,} reports the \jt{Boston Globe}, \dq{They found no square black object or radioactivity\ld\ the state fish and game department took a sample of rock and sand from the pond for laboratory analysis. Otherwise there is nothing left to the story.  Except: what made a hole three feet in diameter, perfectly rounded, the black hole in ice eighteen inches thick?}
+
+What indeed? I deeply regretted that I had been out of town at the time. On a different metaphysical errand, I had to be in touch with the Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained, and asked them if they had noted this event. They told me that they had indeed moted this unexplained event, and somehow in the course of the same phone call it evolved that I was requested to write an article on conceptions of time for the relativity issue of \jt{Pursuit} magazine.
+
+I had already entitled this time concept \dq{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 \jt{Pursuit}.\ednote{See Appendix.} I do not know how hot a large fluid ice box would be in this continuum, but I do link flexible time boxes to living thermo-nuclear bodies such as the sun.
+
+Certainly, such a box would not remain for long on the bottom of William McCarthy's pond.
+
+% ELEVEN
+\nonum\sec ELEVEN
+\rightline{6\slash 26\slash 77}
+\vskip 0.5em
+
+I would now like to talk about the interconnected sightings which were referred to me by Helen in the early Fall. Or are these really inter-connected?
+
+For sure, Helen knows all of the people involved. At first, when she gave me this set of three names I thought I would be facing a conspiracy of giggling girlfriends.
+
+To a certain extent, this was true: all three of them giggled nervously.  However, the sightings which they described when I phoned them were each markedly different.
+
+Charlotte told me that in late May or early June of 1976 she was sitting outside on some steps in the South End of Boston and saw a green light blinking on and off in the sky. This light then stopped blinking and suddenly disappeared.
+
+Her friend Alicia told me that in July or August of 1976 she had been out on a cruise party in Boston harbor when she looked up and saw a red light which seemed to be as bright as the sun. This light was the size of a star. It went straight up and then straight across the sky like a helicopter.  This was about four or five o'clock in the afternoon.
+
+The second time that Alicia saw this red light was in October of 1976.  Again, she was down by the harbor. There was nothing to see in the vicinity but fog. A red light appeared in the sky. This light stayed in the same spot, moved quickly to another location, and then disappeared.  When Alicia went to get someone else to come and see this light, she says she felt \dq{wrong where she was} and experienced a sudden surge of nervous energy and fear.
+
+The third of the sightings which Helen referred to me tumed out to be a multiple sighting in itself. This took palce in Arizona when Donna and her brother Michael, who also live in the South End of Boston, were out in the Southwest visiting a relative. They were camped near a lake in a rural area and saw a strange white light high in the sky.
+
+Donna's sister, who lives in Arizona, says that several people have seen strange white lights in this location. Perhaps this is a haunted lake.
+
+While I was on the phone with Donna, her brother asked to talk to me and told me that he had experienced another odd incident in January of 1977.
+
+He was driving through New Hampshire when an airplane flew low over his car. He felt curious about this particular plane for some reason, and looked up.
+
+In the sky was a star moving slowly. It went up gradually into the sky and disappeared. He was driving at that time and had to go under a bridge, so he could not watch the sky afterward for any length of time, but Donna's brother says he was sure this was some unusual occurrence.
+
+He experienced no unusual mental states connected with this sighting.  All of these South End lights, though related by gossip, seem to have been quite wndividual in their manifestation. The descriptions do not tally, as would descriptions which were faked for effect.
+
+% TWELVE
+\nonum\sec TWELVE
+
+One of the most interesting sightings which I have collected was reported to me accidentally by a railroad engineer who was looking for a new apartment.
+
+I was in the Psychic Center earlier than usual, talking to actors who were about to rehearse a scene from my play \playtitle{Eye of Fire}, when the phone rang. On the other end of the line was a rather gruff-voiced individual who told me that he was calling about the apartment ad. When I told him that this was the Psychic Center, and I was not renting apartments, he told me that he was psychic himself.
+
+\dq{I see a picture of George Washington near your face,} he declared.  There are two one-dollar bills posted right beside the phone I was using, so I told him to please go on and tell me more. He became friendly, and told me that he works as an engineer. I told him that my grandfather was a railroad engineer and explained that I was here at the other end of the phone giving psychic readings and doing \sc{ufo} research.
+
+This engineer then told me that he once saw colored lights flashing in the sky over around the railroad yards. He is convinced these lights were \sc{ufo}s. We made an appointment for him to come in and talk about his sighting, and I hung up the phone and went back to the actors. Five minutes later, the phone rang and a gruff voice said: \dq{I'm calling about the bungalow.}
+
+When I told him that this was still the Psychic Center and that we were not renting apartments, he became embarrassed and eventually did not show up to talk about his sighting in more detail. Later on, I found out that Rita Warnock was indeed renting a bungalow and had put the Psychic Center's number into the real estate section of the \jt{Globe}. So I had indeed contacted a genuine railroad engineer, and not a crank caller.  I hope he found a bungalow with a good plumbing system. I have terrible trouble with my drains.
+
+% THIRTEEN
+\nonum\sec THIRTEEN
+
+In February, a middle-aged woman in a flowered dress came into my office to report that \dq{something solid} had hit her while she was asleep at a relative's house.
+
+She woke and tried to place the source of this assault, but no one was in the room. This woman told me that she was shocked and frightened right after she woke, but cannot remember any strange dreams or odd behavior associated with her mini-\sc{ufo} experience.
+
+% FOURTEEN
+\nonum\sec FOURTEEN
+
+I picked up a stack of papers and found I had misplaced a more detailed account of Donna's sighting in Arizona. She says this was on July 3, 1976 at 4:30 A.M. near Lake Penablanca.
+
+She and her sister were sleeping in their car that night. They were awake, watching the stars, when a star moved left, went straight up and stopped as if to get out of the way of a plane which was passing. She says she was worried for an instant that this plane might \dq{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 \dq{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 \dq{plane might hit the star} shows an interesting suspension of the usual time\slash space continuum.
+
+Additionally, I have noted down the news that her brother when eight or nine years old looked out a window at the factory roof opposite his apartment and saw something which he describes as a dome with a lighted rectangle beneath the arc and a triangle attached below the rectangle. He says he remembers this vision as if it were yesterday.
+
+I am intrigued by the two rectangular \sc{ufo}s seen in this area (remember the vet's assistant who sent in the Melaril blank) and wonder if we are wrong to stereotype \sc{ufo}s as circular. Remember also the square object that made a round hole in McCarthy's pond.
+
+% FIFTEEN
+\nonum\sec 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 window of the house where he was staying when a round blue object zipped by about a half a mile away. This, he says, was an ellipse with a rounded bottom. It made no noise. Later, he and his friends found large, round burn marks about thirty-five feet in diameter.
+
+He says that the house he was staying in while harvesting tobacco was haunted. Frankie and his friends heard moaning and experienced other odd occurrences with spirit sounds and .lights while living on this property. He connects his sighting of the \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.
+
+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 \sc{ufo} and spirit phenomena in that both are using pranic or astral ehergies to actualize.
+
+I asked him if he thought that he himself was mediumistic or psychic in any way and he told me that he had been living in New Jersey in an apartment where the previous occupant had been found dead.
+
+Things began to move around all by themselves in this apartment, and a picture actually fell off the wall. Frankie told me to read Bishop Pike's book \bt{The Other Side} in connection with this experience. He told me that his mother had also been psychic. She read the cards, he said, but never went into psychic reading professionally.
+
+While I was talking to Frankie on the telephone, I saw a flash of light pulse on the wall opposite. I took this to be some sort of signal that this particular phone call was important, and congratulated myself upon this occasion.
+
+After we had talked for a while about psychic phenomena and \sc{ufo}s, Frankie volunteered that he knew a German expatriate living in Canada who has proof that \sc{ufo}s were flying saucer-shaped aircraft manufactured by the Nazis during World War II. 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.
+
+\dq{Oh really, Frankie?} I replied. \dq{Would you mind giving me the address of this man in Canada?}
+
+Frankie said that he would not mind, but that first he would have to locate one of his letters. He could not remember where he had put this and said he would call me back.
+
+In return for his calling me back, I said that I would do an \sc{esp} experiment with him. At 8 P.M. that night I would place an ordinary sewing needle on the surface of a glass of water and by long distance psychokinesis Frankie would cause this needle to float.
+
+I was a bit paranoid about Frankie's possible mental abilities as connected with neo-Nazi activities, since I had actually seen a flash of spirit light while talking to him on the phone, but at exactly 8 P.M. the needle sank. It precipitated directly to the bottom of the glass and remained at the bottom of the glass.
+
+When Frankie called me back the next day he was upset to hear about the behavior of this needle, but he did give me the correct address of the publisher of \booktitle{\sc{ufo}s: Nazi Secret Weapon} along with the hope that I would extend his personal greetings to the editor, which I did in general, and received in return much interesting information, which will be detailed later on.
 
 SIXTEEN
 
@@ -3115,7 +2766,7 @@ 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
-\sc{ufo} fair in California, someone else called me to talk about  'rebirth''
+\sc{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,