This stretch of desert north of Las Vegas teams with rumors of alien visitors, but don’t expect to find many answers. 

BY JAY CLARKE at the Miami Herald

I had lunch here the other day with an alien.

He was small, orange, had a big bald head and oval bug eyes. He also didn’t have much to say, probably because he was a life-sized inflatable plastic toy.

But our E.T. did attract a lot of attention from visitors to this remote desert locale, a center of alleged UFO activity. That reputation comes because Rachel is situated sort of near the super-secret Area 51, the reputed U.S. military testing ground for captured alien spaceships and other hush-hush gizmos.

Trouble is, you can’t really get close to Area 51 and its Groom Lake locale. Base borders are well patrolled and trespassers are warned that guards are authorized to use deadly force.

Rachel lies on the state-named Extraterrestrial Highway, 27 miles from Area 51. There’s nothing here but a UFO-themed restaurant cum gift shop named Little A’Le’Inn. That’s where I met my alien lunch-mate.

The Little A’Le’Inn does a roaring business serving lunch to tour groups and other visitors who drive over from Las Vegas, 2 ½ hours away. Most of us dined on Alien Burgers, then browsed among racks of UFO-themed doodads such as mugs, key chains, T-shirts and, fittingly, saucers.

We even ran into a local UFO guru, Chuck Clark, who just happened to come by when our group was visiting. Of course, he also just happened to carry with him copies of his for-sale handbook on Area 51.

According to Clark, Area 51 is not a total mystery. His handbook reproduces photos of the Area 51 base made from satellites and other vantage points, showing its very long runway (30,000 feet) and dozens of hangars and support buildings.

”JANET” FLIGHTSActually, he said, there are regular flights to Area 51 on ”Janet” aircraft. The ”Janets” are a fleet of government-operated 737s that shuttle workers from Las Vegas to Area 51 and probably also to other sensitive sites. Painted white with a red stripe, the planes are often seen at Las Vegas’ McCarran airport.Actually, he said, there are regular flights to Area 51 on ”Janet” aircraft. The ”Janets” are a fleet of government-operated 737s that shuttle workers from Las Vegas to Area 51 and probably also to other sensitive sites. Painted white with a red stripe, the planes are often seen at Las Vegas’ McCarran airport.As for the occasional mysterious sightings in the area, many explanations have been offered. Clark himself describes a pulsating light he saw in the vicinity of the Area 51 base that he thought was a flare until it suddenly moved at a speed he calculated at 9,000 to 14,000 miles an hour.

Actually, he said, there are regular flights to Area 51 on ”Janet” aircraft. The ”Janets” are a fleet of government-operated 737s that shuttle workers from Las Vegas to Area 51 and probably also to other sensitive sites. Painted white with a red stripe, the planes are often seen at Las Vegas’ McCarran airport.As for the occasional mysterious sightings in the area, many explanations have been offered. Clark himself describes a pulsating light he saw in the vicinity of the base that he thought was a flare until it suddenly moved at a speed he calculated at 9,000 to 14,000 miles an hour.But most other sightings, he says, can be attributed to such things as flares, satellites,

meteors, stars and planets, military operations, jet engine afterburners, rockets and missiles, weather balloons, vehicle lights and airborne debris.

Another UFO observer attributes the strange glowing orbs to government testing of particle beams, a sort of sub-atomic plasma.

Still, Clark says UFOs could be from another dimension, could carry time travelers or be extraterrestrial spaceships.

That’s the stuff UFO seekers like to hear, but chances of casual tourists seeing something outworldly here are virtually nil, particularly if they are day visitors.

Other than at Rachel, our tour group saw little relating to UFOs. We stopped for a photo op at the ”black mailbox,” a notorious site for UFO-sighting that since has been replaced with a white mailbox. We paused to shoot pictures of the green Extraterrestrial Highway sign the state of Nevada erected on Highway 375.

STOP OR WE’LL SHOOTAnd we drove to a spot on that highway where a gaggle of signs prohibit further travel.And we drove to a spot on that highway where a gaggle of signs prohibit further travel.On a ridge above those signs, which warn of ”deadly force,” armed personnel stand guard from a pair of white SUVs.

And we drove to a spot on that highway where a gaggle of signs prohibit further travel.On a ridge above those signs, which warn of ”deadly force,” armed personnel stand guard from a pair of white SUVs.That’s about it for anyone venturing into this UFO country. Commercial Area 51 tours from Las Vegas, which go to Rachel, require a full day and cost around $195. But you can drive out to Rachel on your own. Just bring a full tank of gasoline, lots of water and an open mind.

Information: www.travel nevada.com.

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Scientists, revelers and people who’ve been abducted come together in McMinnville

ANGELA YEAGER
Statesman Journal

May 18, 2006

Marius Dekker doesn’t want to talk about his experience being abducted by aliens — even though he is giving a speech about the subject this weekend.

Vancouver, Wash., resident Dekker, 70, is a retired chemical engineer and scientist who will be speaking about his abduction experience at a workshop on UFOs at 10 a.m. Saturday.

“It is a very good possibility I was abducted. I can’t go into it on the phone,” he said, after being asked to explain his abduction experience.

“You’ll just have to come see my talk. I’m not going to get into the whole story on the phone. It first happened in Holland, when I was 16. I suspect I was abducted. I am examining these things now.”

Dekker’s workshop is part of the McMenamins UFO Festival, which is Friday and Saturday in downtown McMinnville. There also is a preview event at 7:30 tonight at the Kennedy School in Portland, featuring a screening of the 1994 Showtime movie “Roswell.”

The event is in its seventh year and brings the serious and the goofy sides of aliens and UFOs together. There are workshops and forums with speakers on UFOs and alien abduction, as well as more light-hearted events such as the UFO Costume Parade at 1 p.m. Saturday, which is followed by an Alien Pet Costume Contest at 2 p.m.

Dekker was selected to speak because of his research into abduction; he is one of the festival’s many scheduled speakers.

Dekker is retired, but worked as a chemical engineer in Alberta, Canada, and as a math, physics and chemistry professor at Capilano College in Vancouver, British Columbia.

He said he started believing in aliens later in his life.

“I grew up as a scientist and a real nerd and had little use for UFO talk,” he said. “Over the course of many years, I have reversed my feelings about them.”

This will be Dekker’s first time attending the UFO Festival in McMinnville. He refused to give any details on what he will talk about for his speech, other than to say he will chronicle the “long story” about why he believes he was abducted. He would say, however, that “missing time” is one of the main elements that abductees find they have in common.

“It’s the most telling sign,” he said. “People wondering, ‘Where have I been in the last three hours?’”

When asked if that could just be memory loss, Dekker explained: “People might think they just had a memory lapse, but there’s usually more to it.”

Another high-profile speaker at this year’s festival is Jesse Marcel Jr., who will give the keynote speech to promote his new book, “Roswell: It Really Happened.”

According to Tim Hills, the project historian with McMenamins Pubs, Marcel is a big name in the UFO community.

Marcel Jr. will speak at 7 p.m. Friday at the Mack Theater and will follow his speech with a reception and book signing in a tent that will be set up next to the Hotel Oregon on Evans Street.

Aside from people giving serious speeches about UFOs and aliens, there are those who go to the festival as an excuse to paint their faces and put on pairs of antennas to parade through downtown McMinnville.

The UFO Costume Parade is one of the highlights of the event each year and is organized by McMenamins and the McMinnville Downtown Association. The parade will feature more than 24 entries this year, including floats and marching bands.

The Salem-area Star Trek club USS Destiny plans to participate in this year’s parade. Salem resident Craig Martin, a member of USS Destiny, said members dressed in officer’s uniforms as well as others from a separate Klingon club will be on the back of a flatbed truck for the event.

“I’m going to be in a ‘Next Generation’ commander’s uniform because I’m the commanding officer of the club,” Martin said.

“We try to interact with other groups doing the same kinds of things we are. And it’s a good way to advertise for new members,” he said.

“Last year, we just had bales of hay on the truck. This year, the Klingons thought it would be cool to have a table in the middle with peace talks going on, which sounds like a lot of fun to me.”

McMenamins UFO Festival

What: Festival brings out-of-this-world workshops, speakers, costume parade and live entertainment to McMinnville.
When: 7 to 11 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday; preview event is 7:30 tonight in Portland.
Where: Downtown McMinnville
Call: (888) 472-8427

UFO Author, researcher, identifies new kind of spherical unidentified flying object, visible in photos and electronic tracking (radar, etc.) but not visible visually.

Las Vegas, Nevada (PRWEB) April 27, 2006: “There are objects in the sky that have not been identified,” says Anna Karyl, author of “The Kelly Incident,” a novel based on the true 1955 alien encounter in Kelly, Kentucky, “and I have photographed one of them.

“In 2004,” the author explained, “I visited an open-air structure outside of Las Vegas and using a simple digital camera, I took photos of the architecture. Standing in the center of the structure and shooting upward through the open girder-like beams, I saw nothing at all in the sky at the time this photo was taken. But when I downloaded the photos, there was a metallic-like silver orb in the sky over the structure.”

The author said that the unidentified, apparently identical silver orbs were also captured on film and video all over the world that same year, many within a month of her photographic sighting – and often, those objects were not seen by the naked eye, though they show up clearly on film, on videotape and on digital media.

“2004 was an eventful year for UFO sightings,” Karyl said. “I took the photo of the silver sphere in April. I had the image analyzed – in the process, we discovered that this silver sphere had distinct physical features. There were, for instance, on the orb’s surface, eight visible black oval objects, looking very much like windows. The analysis showed that the object had three dimensions, that it was a sphere rather than a disk.

“That same month,” she explained, “apparently identical silver orbs were video-taped over Venice Beach, California – one was even video-taped in Iran. Later that year, a very similar silver orb was photographed in St. John’s, Newfoundland. However, surely the biggest unidentified silver orb story of the year was the appearance of a formation of eleven silver spheres tracked by a Mexican Air Force reconnaissance aircraft over Ciudad del Carmen, in Campeche, in March of 2004.”

On March 5, 2004, a Mexican Air Force Merlin C26A of Squadron 501 – an aerial reconnaissance aircraft equipped with both high-tech Forward Looking Infra-Red (FLIR) and sophisticated air-to-air radar designed to detect airborne drug smugglers – was making a routine flight during an official Mexican Air Force anti-narcotics operation. This Mexican Air Force Merlin C26A is a sleek turbo-prop aircraft, the military equivalent of the Fairchild Metro III 22-seat commuter airliner. Carrying a wide variety of high-tech military-specification sensors, as well as technology to record all radar and FLIR traces, the Merlin C26A is widely used by the US Air Force and Air National Guard – as well as by the Mexican Air Force – in drug interdiction operations.

According to reports from the pilot, Mexican Air Force Major Magdaleno Jasso Nunez, along with reports from his other two crew members – FLIR operator Lieutenant Mario Adrian Vazquez and radar operator Lieutenant German Ramirez – eleven glowing “mysterious round shaped objects” showed up on both the infra-red FLIR system and on radar. These objects even briefly surrounded the airplane, and then disappeared. Yet at no time were the objects visible to the naked eye, even though they were clearly tracked and digitally recorded by both FLIR and radar as the spheres flew in close proximity to the Mexican Air Force recon plane. These extended sightings were recorded electronically, as were radio transmissions between the Merlin C26A and their ground controller.

Following this sighting, Mexico’s Department of Defense Staff analyzed the recorded data and concluded that there was no logical explanation for what occurred on that day. This conclusion was officially announced by Mexico’s Secretary of Defense, General Clemente Vega Garcia, commander of all of Mexico’s armed forces, who also released recorded infra-red digital images of the spheres made by the FLIR during this extended in-flight encounter. In making this announcement, the Secretary of Defense confirmed that this electronic sighting was the largest confirmed UFO event over Mexican airspace since wave of UFOs sighted – and videotaped – over Mexico City in July of 1991.

The aircraft under Major Jasso’s command was first approached by a single sphere – then another – then by nine others. When pursued at the aircraft’s top speed of nearly 300 mph, the spheres appeared on sensors to flee at high speed, only to return when the C26A returned to its course and resumed its anti-drug-smuggling reconnaissance mission. During this 30-minute extended encounter, the crew reported each of the spheres’ actions in real time – by radio. In addition, read-outs from the aircraft’s radar and FLIR equipment were recorded digitally, as well as observed by the crew. But at no time were these spheres sighted visually by the crew, or by anyone on the ground.

“These sightings of similar – if not identical – silver spheres continue around the world even now,” said Anna Karyl. “We can only hope that eventually science will take an interest in the phenomenon, and begin a sincere effort to understand these unknowns. It could be the most important event in human history.”

Anna Karyl is the author of “The Kelly Incident,” published by Gate-Way Publishing. The book is available from the publisher, from Amazon or from Barnes & Noble.

For more information, or to interview Anna Karyl via e-mail, please contact Ned Barnett – 702-696-1200.

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Our magical Circles Research tour is July 19 - 26, 2006 and we are taking bookings now. We hope this year you can join us. Our tour is tax-deductible as we are a 501(c)(3) non-profit. If you feel you would like to join us please email me with a physical address and I’ll mail you a comprehensive tour packet.

Our private visit inside Stonehenge is July 24 at sunset!

The Global Consciousness Avebury Project is set for July 22, and you can get an idea of what we’re doing at the following websites:

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This opportunity is educational, inspirational and lots of fun. We are open-minded researchers and enthusiastic about the science of subtle energy which we find in crop circles and old sacred places. We have daily experts, good hotels and pubs and you’ll enjoy yourself while learning. Our small tours are for the self-chosen few to make these personal advances.

If you wish to consider this opportunity please ask for the tour packet with itinerary and booking form, and call me if you have any questions.

Our Glastonbury tour is July 26 - July 31, 2006 and this information is in the tour packet. Here we visit places of true magic, places where Jesus walked, where Mary and thirteen saints of the early Culdee church are entombed. Also a Holy Well, the Tor, and much more. We’ll stay in a B&B. All transportation in Britian included, all breakfasts and fees paid.

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Everyone who signs on for either tour will receive $100. off Dr Heins Resonant Viewing classes in addition to a copy of each of his books, Opening Minds and Planetary Intelligence. Discount of 200. for two people signing up together and sharing a room.

New Ownership Brings Back Old Staff to Abduct AlienZoo.com from the Planet of Internet Obscurity

AlienZoo.com is back with a new owner, new design, new products, and most importantly a new goal: to bring back the community feel that made it one of the most popular UFO-related websites back in 1999.

Fittingly, the Phoenix-based site has risen from out of the ashes to rebuild a community of people with interests in all things alien, UFO, and the paranormal, while simultaneously providing researchers with a reputable resource in the alien and UFO genre. To do this, AlienZoo has already recruited several new contributors who will be writing fresh content and updating on new categories daily. AlienZoo is also actively seeking additional experienced writers to contribute articles and write for the blog. Each entry will have a comments feature where visitors of AlienZoo can reply, refute, agree or ask the author about any aspect of the article.

Ultimately, AlienZoo.com’s rejuvenated design, content and interactive features will provide people with a place to let their voice be heard, whether they are true believers or total skeptics. The Zoo is all about welcoming different views on different issues from different people, hence the name “AlienZoo.”

In addition to the revived community aspect of AlienZoo, over 190 new items have been added to the AlienZoo store. Everything from UFO videos and books to documentaries and abduction tales – the store is back and better than ever. As always, the Zoo will continue to keep its probing finger directly on the pulse of the alien and UFO communities, keeping an updated list of upcoming events such as conventions, conferences, and other gatherings.

The revamped site is ready to orbit the internet once again in search of intelligent life forms. So for anybody interested in anything alien, do like one famous bike-riding visitor did and “phone home.” Welcome back to AlienZoo.