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Lima Area UFO Research Associates

May/June 2011

Issue # 7

2011 MUFON of Ohio Summer Conference

"50 Years of Abduction Experience - Setting the Record Straight"

Saturday, July 16th, 201110 am to 6 pm

Ashland County Sheriff's Office Annex - Ashland, Ohio Join us in hearing the real stories of two of the most well-known abduction cases in all of Ufology;

Betty and Barney Hill and Travis Walton.

Open Panel Q & A with our guest speakers to wrap up the conference

Joined by Phyllis Budinger of Frontier Analysis Ltd. who

performed forensic analysis of abduction evidence for the Betty and Barney Hill Case

$20 non-MUFON of Ohio members ($18 if ordered in advance)

$10 MUFON of Ohio members ($8 if ordered in advance)

Mufon Midwest Regional Independance Day Sky Watch Project!

7/4/2011

On Independence Day, American Citizens are always taking to the lakes and parks andall over the countryside shooting and watching firework displays! It is our belief thatbecause more Americans are looking up on this night more than any other, common



people are seeing objects that don't resemble fireworks, thus reporting is increased onthis date! This also shows that MUFON is the place to report these sightings and that’sone of the reasons that prompted us to try this Sky Watch Project!

Over the last two years I have documented, from the CMS,multiple sightings in manystates on this date. Some, but not all of these sighting reports described the same typeof objects, with the same flight patterns and colors! (Orange Orbs/Lights) For Example: If

one goes to the CMS and does a search under event date 7/4/2010 and a specific state,say MO.... 9 sighting reports pop up and the information from those cases that match willshow you multiple sightings of Orange Orbs/Lights/Fireballs with some reports givingdirections of flight paths and times of the sightings... From there it is very easy to makea time line and flight path for these Objects! Doing this from state to state is how wecame to our conclusions about this project! This can be confirmed by anyone willing togo to the CMS and make the effort to go through sighting reports!

Last year, I recorded 33 sightings in 14 states and developed a time line on some ofthese sightings, and there were many more sighting of Orange Orbs but not have enoughinformation with them to be included in my study, just doing this in my spare time while

training to be a FI! Going through the CMS state by state and compiling the reports andbreaking them down was a fairly easy process. We noticed One of the reports yieldedan off duty police officer who witnessed the same Orange Orb Object at close range andhad missing time, leading the Field Investigator to think ‘PossibleAbduction’!

At this point we realized that this is the one night of the year Americans are watchingthe sky above and that must be the reason for more reports coming in than usual! So theidea was born…

It is our feeling that this would be a win-win project for us (MUFON) and the public! Wewill be calling on the public to participate with us in a mass sky watch project in an effort

to try to identify these strange objects in the sky! Once the Reports have been compiledand the data will be researched and objects classified, we will report our findings back tothe public via the MUFON JOURNAL, MUFON's Website and various other Mufon socialnetworks such as Facebook, Twitter, My Space as well as MUFON Sponsored RadioPrograms! Working together with the public and the transparency of the project is exactlywhat MUFON needs to confirm our mission that we ( all volunteers) work for the publicand provide a useful service to the communities we live in. With that said, the possibilityexists that this project would also prompt more people to Join MUFON and get involvedin the movement!

Our idea is to start this project as a Regional Project. If this project bares fruit, we

believe this system could expand to a National Sky Watch Day annually and become awell-known event that could be sponsored within MUFON sections across the nation togenerate funds and public awareness to MUFON Sections at the Local Level! The WestCentral Section of Arkansas MUFON is willing to do this work after the Sky Watch Eventand report our findings to our State Director Norman Walker for Confirmation on ourconclusions prior to release of the data to the public! One more thing I should mention isthat this project would also be a useful Training tool for new Field Investigators and FItrainees to participate in and make the public aware o f Convenience and Easy use of theCSM Option! We see this as a Healthy Project with Great Possibilities for MUFON andthe Public!

-art icle forwarded by Bill Jones, state MUFON director



By Evan Dashevsky 10:47AM on Jun 1, 2011

The FBI's real life X-Files investigated A memo from FBI agent Guy Hottel that many believe proves

Roswell's crashed saucer (more on that below).

It's one of many FBI docs now available.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation's newly-revamped online"Vault" gives the public easy access to formerly-secretdocuments that detail everything from counter-terrorism

investigations to rundowns on prominent individuals and

potentially "subversive" national organizations.

It's a fascinating resource. For example, we were able todiscover that the U.S. government spent actual time and money investigating the mid-1960s make-believeband, The Monkees. The curiously heavily-redacted Monkees dossier summarizes the pretend bands' television

show as "four young men who dress as 'beatnik types' and is geared primarily to the teenage market." During a

Monkees performance, a (name-redacted) source reports that an onstage screen flashed subliminal "left winginnovations of a political nature."

But the Bureau isn't all about keeping tabs on fake boy bands, assessing threatening letters sent to Colonel

Sanders, or probing Carl Sagan's tenuous connections to Central American terrorists. They also launched

numerous investigations into crazy supernatural stuff! The Vault's features previously secret FBI documentslooking into phenomenon usually reserved for Hollywood-style escapism. Here's a look at some of the most

fascinating real life X-Files.

Mysterious Cattle Mutilations

As early as the 1960s, ranchers throughout several western states reported themysterious deaths of stray cattle whose mutilated corpses were foundbutchered with near surgical precision and drained of their blood. Here's some

gory details from a 1979 letter between state officials:

[Officer] O'Dell said the steer's scrotum and penis had been removed with surgical precision — a feature common to all

previous mutilations — and indicated that patches of hair around the carcass seemed to indicate that the steer had beendropped or bounced — another feature common to all previous mutilations. The steer's intestines had been removed

through the hole where the scrotum had been cut out, but were not disturbed.

Slowly, the strange phenomenon — which evidently occurred with some frequency — began to move beyond

ranching circles into media and public at large. Rumors spread of helicopters and UFOs hovering over locationsshortly before the mutilated bovines were discovered.

As early as 1974, there was some collaboration between the FBI and state investigators looking into the

mutilations. But the record shows that by mid-decade local officials grew tired of ineffectual local

investigations and began petitioning the FBI to take the lead. These correspondences largely consist of local

press clippings detailing the bovine slayings backing up urgent appeals from senators and representatives. The



FBI, for its part, seemed mostly reticent to launch an investigation into this spree of mysterious — butdecidedly non-Federal — crimes. A 1975 letter from Colorado Senator Floyd Haskell to the Special Agent in

Charge (SAC) of the investigation epitomizes the urgency felt by ranchers in his state:

...The bizarre mutilations are frightening in themselves: in virtually all the cases, the left ear, left eye, rectum, and sex

organ of each animal has been cut away and the blood drained from the carcass, but with no traces of blood left on the

ground and no foot-prints.

In Colorado's Morgan County area, there have also been reports that a helicopter was used by those who

mutilated the carcasses of the cattle, and several persons have reported being chased by a similar helicopter.

After lamenting the disorganized and un-serious investigations undertaken by the Colorado Bureau of

Investigation, the Senator also goes on to describe a sort of mass hysteria overtaking his constituents.

Now it appears that ranchers are arming themselves to protect their livestock, as well as their families and themselves,

because they are frustrated by the unsuccessful investigation. Clearly something must be done before someone gets

hurt.

Apparently, the cattle mutilations became common enough that there was even an official mutilation form:

In 1979, a federal investigation into the mutilations was finallylaunched under the "Animal Mutilation Project." In March of

1980, we have a record of mysterious "flake" samples sent to

FBI lab for examination and identification. The flakescorresponded to "a U.F.O. [that] was reportedly observed by a

resident of Taos, New Mexico, reportedly hovering over a

pickup truck. The next morning the enclosed powder flakeswere reportedly recovered from the roof of the aforementioned

pickup." The flakes turned out to be white enamel paint.

Documented cases of animal mutilations largely subsided in theU.S. after the federal investigation began (though similar

incidences of "horse ripping" continued into the late-1990s inEurope). Officially, the authorities concluded that the mysterious mutilations were largely the work of natural

wildlife that would often attack the "soft" parts of deceased cows first, such as the ears, eyes, and genitals.

Though, to this day, many aspects of the mutilation phenomenon remain officially unexplained.

Roswell

The majority of the FBI's unexplained section is dedicated to UFOsightings, and in particular the reported "flying disc" which crashed in

Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. Roswell has been thrown back into thepublic's consciousness recently due to the implications in Annie

Jacobson's new book about Area 51.

In her book, Jacobson's inside source claims that the Roswell crash did occur and strange child-sized alien-like

bodies were recovered from the wreckage. However, according to Jacobson, the "crash" was part of a Soviet



plot to disrupt U.S. society and defenses — a plan inspired by the chaos that unfolded in the wake of OrsonWells' War of The Worlds mockumentary broadcast from 1938. Most disturbingly, Jacobson's source claims

there were actual child-sized human bodies recovered from the crash that were genetically or surgically altered

to resemble extraterrestrials-which is almost a stranger concept than visiting aliens.

Here's the text of a 1950 memo from Special Agent Guy Hottel to the FBI Director regarding the Air Force'sinvestigation into Roswell.

An investigator for the Air Force stated that three so-called flying saucers had been recovered in New Mexico.

They were described as being circular in shape with raised centers, approximately 50 feet in diameter. Each

one was occupied by three bodies of human shape but only 3 feet tall, dressed in metallic cloth of a very fine

texture. Each body was bandaged in a manner similar to the blackout suits used by speed flyers and test pilots.

According to Mr. [REDACTED] informant, the saucers were found in New Mexico due to the fact that the

Government has a very high-powered radar set-up in that area and it is believed the radar interferes with the

controlling mechanism of the saucers.

No further evaluation was attempted by S.A. [REDACTED] concerning the above.

This stands is some contrast to a 1947 memo from the Dallas FBI office to the Cincinnati branch which standsby the official story that the flying disc was a downed weather balloon.

There are literally hundreds of pages regarding UFO investigations in the FBI's vault. Much of these documents

include press clippings in addition to correspondences with private individuals and organizations inquiringabout the Bureau's investigations into the phenomenon.

Weekly (Ret. Major George) Filers Files Last Updated: Jun 8th, 2011

Australia Department of Defense has ''lost'' its UFO Files COULD there be any better fodder for Australia's conspiracy theorists? For decades, Defense officials dutifully

investigated an unknown number of UFO sightings being reported all over the country. Intelligence officersattached to the Royal Australian Air Force checked the known movement of aircraft against reported sightings,

and politely responded by mail to everyone who claimed they saw floating lights or flat saucers or streaking

vapor trails. Some of the files were marked as classified.Last year, the British government released a large part of its dossier on unidentified flying objects after

significant pressure from freedom- of-information applicants. More than 4000 pages of Defense Ministry

documents, detailing 800 reported encounters during the 1980s and 1990s were posted online.Fairfax sought access to the Australian version. But the response was more surprising than what the files might

have contained - the material has largely gone missing. The department spent two months searching its offices

for files that would be captured by the Herald's FOI application, which sought a ''schedule of records held by

the Department of Defense … which relate to unidentified flying objects''.

But in late May, the department's FOI assistant director, Natalie Carpenter, delivered a reply that seemedalmost designed to set online chat rooms alight with conspiracy chatter.

The only file Defense was able to locate was titled ''Report on UFOs/Strange Occurrences and Phenomena inWoomera''; the others had been destroyed.

Argentina Air Force to Investigate UFOs

Diario Tandil Newspaper reports the Argentinean Air Force has launched a

commission to investigate the UFO phenomenon. Tandil has been in the news due

to alleged “sightings” of unidentified flying objects and may become the subjectof investigations by this new commission? The brand new Comisión de

Investigación de Fenómenos Aeroespaciales, as it has been dubbed, will be

formed by civilian personnel and experts from the Fuerza Aérea Argentina (FAA)



whose mission shall be to “conduct a scientific study of aerospatial phenomena.”

Over many years, Tandil has been in the news due to alleged UFO sightings including photographs taken lastyear. Tandil has been mentioned more than once by UFO researchers. Many of them – according to their

theories and their personal truth – state that the city is a “transit corridor” for extraterrestrial flying objects.

Determining whether this is true or not is a task for the new commission created by the Air Force.

The LAURA Club News is a publication of the Lima Area UFO Research Associates, in Lima, Ohio. The study group meets on the3rd Wednesday of the month at the New Creation Lutheran Church (just west of Tom Ahl auto) in the upstairs church fellowship

hall at 7pm-please join us!

Contacts: President Mike Krick [email protected]; Secretary: Tom BowmanCo-editors: Robert and Marcia Prater

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