A long overdue greeting to you.
Quite a lot to report since my last update before the summer. Much of the summer was spent helping to prepare for the debut issue of the new magazine, Phenomena, of which I?m proud to be a senior editor and contributor. We cover alternative history, UFOs, Earth mysteries, alternative health and science, the paranormal, fringe areas and much more ? all in an attempt to explore the nature of our reality and deal with cutting edge issues.
Phenomena issue one is now out on the newsstands across the U.S.
My own article, "Government UFO Documents: Does the Military Takes UFOs Seriously?" is a quick primer on eleven critically important official UFO documents. It includes a discussion of:
1. The famous 1947 Twining Memo stating the objects were real and not visionary or fictitious.
2. A January 31, 1949 FBI Memo stating the top secret nature of the UFO phenomena.
3. A 1951 USAF Intelligence Report describing an up-close and personal UFO encounter on July 9, 1951 by an F-51 pilot.
4. A well-known CIA Memo of December 2, 1952, addressed to the Director of the CIA, stating that "sightings of unexplained objects at great altitudes and travelling at high speeds in the vicinity of major U.S. defense installations are of such nature that they are not attributable to natural phenomena or known types of aerial vehicles."
5. A 1954 Maxwell Air Force Base Emergency Report, describing the entry into restricted airspace of an unknown object.
6. A 1966 report from Minot Air Force Base, describing the apparent landing of an exotic object near the base, which was able to disrupt radio communications of the investigating strike team.
7. Documents pertaining to the 1967 violation of air space at Malmstrom Air Force Base, one of the most spectacular of all air space violations, in which several ICBM missiles went off-line, apparently due to the actions of an unidentified glowing object hovering over the facility.
8. Documents pertaining to the 1975 violation of air space at Wurthsmith Air Force Base, describing yet more spectacular intrusions of restricted American air space by unknown and exotic objects.
9. A 1976 DIA report about the failed attempted intercepts of a UFO over Teheran. This remains one of the most vividly described UFO encounters in Defense Department records.
10. The 1981 Memo by Colonel Charles Halt about the landing of an unknown object outside the RAF Woodbridge NATO base in Britain, yet another spectacular case.
11. The 1990 Lambrecht Report regarding UFOs over Belgium, detailing the failed attempts of Belgian F-16s to intercept unknown triangular objects able to attain unheard-of speeds and aerial capabilities.
I encourage you to visit the magazine?s website at
http://www.phenomenamag.com/.
You will notice one that the first issue also features an article by Linda Howe regarding her research on an alleged abduction in Brazil from 2002. This case, as many of you know, has been hotly debated over the year, primarily via Internet groups, with the word "hoax" widely distributed. Indeed, MUFON recently sided with the hoax thesis earlier this summer.
Two things on this case. First, Phenomena as a publication is not taking sides one way or the other. We felt it was important, however, to allow Linda Howe to present her most comprehensive, concise, and up-to-date analysis of this case for a broad audience.
Secondly, the magazine?s second issue will feature a response by the most visible critic of this case, Brazilian UFO researcher A. J. Gevaerd.
I myself have had some questions about the so-called "fake" nature of the photographs, and wrote my own analysis of this on my website. Barring extraordinary developments, this is the last thing I intend to say on this case. If you?re interested, click here:
http://keyholepublishing.com/essays.htm
I recently had the privilege to speak at the first Earth Mysteries Conference, organized by Ericca Cordier and held in Laughlin, Nevada. Additional planned speaking engagements will be placed on my website in the near future; several are lined up for 2004.
Finally, the Sci Fi channel will be airing a new UFO-related documentary on Friday, October 24, discussing the very interesting Kecksburg, Pennsylvania crash case of 1965. Of course, the main expert for this case is Stan Gordon, who has spent many years researching it. I was pleased to have been interviewed earlier this year for this documentary, and will also appear on it. For a text version of the official press release, click here:
http://keyholepublishing.com/Kecksburg_press_release_september_29.htm
In addition to my work for Phenomena, research for Volume Two of UFOs and the National Security State proceeds apace. A somewhat slow pace at times, it is true, but still moving forward, not backward.
Finally, I should mention that I will not be publishing the full version of my current article on Government UFO Documents while it is available on the newstands. I imagine it will become available electronically at some point in the future, although I don?t yet know when.
In addition, I wrote a rather long article last summer on conspiracy theories and conspiracies that has not been published anywhere. A few people have read it, and I may make it available at some point in the future, depending on where and whether it gets published anywhere else. I confess I haven?t aggressively shopped it around yet, so we?ll see what happens.
Best regards,
Rich Dolan
http://keyholepublishing.com
"The whole visible world is only an imperceptible atom in the ample bosom of nature. No idea approaches it. We may enlarge our conceptions beyond an imaginable space; we only produce atoms in comparison with the reality of things."
-- Blaise Pascal