Dr. J. Bond Johnson passed away quietly in his sleep Saturday, March 25, 2006, in Long Beach, Calif., from complications due to cancer.

J. Bond Johnson received the most attention in recent years for having photographed in 1947 for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram the wreckage of the controversial “UFO Crash” in Roswell, N.M. He was sent by his editor to photograph the debris from the crash that had been transported to Gen. Ramey’s office at Fort Worth Army Air Station. He shot a series of six photographs (both sides of three glass plates from a Speed-Graphic camera), of which five survive in the collection at the University of Texas at Arlington. These photos are the only known pictures of this famous and controversial debris. Although a minor incident in his life, this event would come back later to include him in UFO investigations.

Survivors: Wife, Elizabeth; son, Jerry Johnson; daughters, Jan Johnson and Joyce Jackson, all of California; grandchildren, Jennifer Shull of New York and Aaron Jackson of Hawaii; and sister, Elaine J. Carroll of Fort Worth.

Published in the Star-Telegram on 4/2/2006.

Some of J. Bond Johnson’s work:

The two pictures above are two of the photos taken by James for his paper (and in the book’s credit, this publication is named), the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, on that fateful day, July 8th, 1947. The first picture is of Major Jesse Marcel holding part of the Roswell Wreckage. This photo was taken by Mr. Johnson on July 8th, 1947 at the Fort Worth Army Air Base. The second photo is of General Ramey, at the Fort Worth Army Air Base, showing reporters the remains of the downed Weather Balloon, another photo by Mr. Johnson.

The Army had just received the wreckage recovered at Roswell (New Mexico) which was almost immediately flown to the Fort Worth Army Air Base earlier. The media was permitted to see a part of the wreckage and talk with members of the staff (although Major Marcel stated in personal interviews long after this date that General Ramey ordered him not to say anything, he just posed for pictures). These two photographs are found in the book The Roswell Incident (by Charles Berlitz and William Moore, pages 32 & 33 in the hardback edition, published by Gossett & Dunlap, New York, NY, 1980).

Raw UFO Stories

A sampling of the stuff you can find in the AlienZoo Research Center

6/12/2000

AlienZoo resident ufologist Jim Dilettoso’s article Mission Control explores UFO research, ET technologies, and moments in ufology’s past.

Editor’s Note: This article originally ran in June of 2000. It mentions an AlienZoo Research Center that was being developed, but is no longer in use due to technical issues.

I love raw UFO data. Raw unadulterated, unfiltered, un-interpreted witness stories.

I am interested in direct experiences, especially from people who were just minding their own business, then WHAM, something extraordinary happened. It happens all the time - a giant UFO flies directly overhead, close enough to read the galactic license plate number, and sometimes, they even get a picture.

I have been told many, many stories over the years. I have seen many pictures too, and some of them are quite remarkable. But pictures can be “faked” or “mistaken.” They can also be very cold and impersonal. I like the energy of a human being telling me about their encounter with a non-human. I can feel the moment. I like it when a reliable, sensible investigator reports a good case to me. It trips my trigger when some new shred of evidence or scientific breakthrough vindicates the now haggard, discredited story teller. It was just this week that a noted physicist demonstrated that light can travel up to 300 times faster than previously known (see story below). This means that the debunkers who say that aliens couldn’t travel to Earth in any reasonable period of time now have to eat Spock.

It’s like weaving a tapestry or rug. My grandmother taught shuttle-loom weaving at a university in West Virginia. She had looms everywhere at her farm. Inside, outside, everywhere- rugs in motion. I loved seeing how little bits of cloth strips evolved into a complex pattern of symmetry and stimulating images.

I have been in the UFO field, collecting data, since 1977. I’d like to take you through a guided tour of how I collect my strips of cloth (the raw data), and stories. Like colored yarn and rug-rags, little pieces saved and set aside until needed later. AlienZoo recently initiated an on-line database and research center. You can see the .research center’ button at the top of this screen (on the menu bar). Have you ever clicked on that button? If you have, then you have seen the tapestry that the AlienZoo team has been weaving. We have had it operating for about a month now. Currently we are testing the AlienZoo search engine, loading data and cases, and building a user-friendly interface.

AlienZoo has some excellent news feeds and human editors. In addition, I do at least 3-4 hours a day on the phone with investigators who I network with; and 3-4 hours a day on the net. I subscribe to CAUS, SKYWATCH, Louise Lowrey’s World of the Strange, Bufo Calvin, George Filers Files, Mitch Batros EC/TV, and Joe Trainor’s UFO RoundUp. I visit at least 100 websites a day.

Our Search Engine is located in the upper left corner. You can find topics on every story we have in our archive, as well as reviews and ratings on the hundreds of UFO related Websites that we have reviewed. It takes some experimenting to find the right process, but you’ll get the hang of it. UFO research is certainly not a one button operation.

Below are some of the reports I have encountered. They’ve been put through the AlienZoo sorting and saving process to become either a tagged and filed raw report, or been made into a feature story. By using the Alien Zoo Research Center and Search Engine, like I do, you can find hundreds of strings and bits of information that will help you formulate your own version of the truth, or at least a weird story.

Wisconsin UFO stops car

MILLSTON - The witness reports, “I was traveling down US Highway 12. . . on May 14, 2000, at 5:00 PM when my car’s engine suddenly was killed and I had to coast to a stop. My car refused to start. I got out to lift up the hood. I heard a humming sound coming down the road from the east. I looked and it was a disk shape object that looked like a huge top, spinning on the road. I ran inside my car and looked at it and it suddenly became airborne. It shot straight up about 75 yards from my car. It scared the living hell out of me. I did not tell anyone because they would not believe me. I will never travel this road again. I had to report this to someone.”
(Thanks to NUFORC — National UFO Reporting Center)

North Dakota disc formations

DICKINSON, ND — “On March 3, 2000, I again saw the discs traveling north a little to the west of me. I saw five out front with 25 to 30 UFOs flying in a straight line formation at perfectly spaced intervals. This is when I became really alarmed because there were so many. I counted to five and they were gone. The first time I had time to count to eight seconds and the second time seven seconds before they just got too away far to see. They must be traveling around 10,000 miles per hour.”

“In the summer of 1985, my girlfriend and I had a campfire going at Cedar Dam when a weird lightning formation lit up the sky for 10 to 15 seconds going east and west. There were no clouds. A half hour later an object from the same direction started coming towards us. It had no lights and was silhouetted in the glow from the full moonlight. It was glass like in appearance and had the shape of a sphere, but the light made it look like it was five or eight sided like an octagon. It flew directly over us at low altitude, so slow that I thought it would fall out of the sky. I tried to walk with it until it got out in front of us and disapeared.” (Thanks to Dave Fugere)

New Jersey cigar-shaped craft spotted

“On May, 15, 2000, I was taking a break from mowing the lawn to grab myself a beer, and just take a look at the full moon. It was still daylight outside at 7:30 PM, when out of nowhere a cigar shaped craft appeared. It was fully lit up like a piece of the sun flying high up above the moon. Never in my life have I seen a craft completely bright from distance. It looked like the sun itself. I ran into house to find camera and went back outside to see craft fade into the sky. Minutes later the craft reappeared moving slowly, and again faded away. A few minutes later, a single engine dark green plane was chasing the craft. This was for real.” (Thanks to NUFORC Director)

Scientists break speed of light

PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY - Jonathan Leake, Science Editor writes, “Scientists claim they have broken the ultimate speed barrier: the speed of light. In research carried out at Princeton, particle physicists have shown that light pulses can be accelerated to up to 300 times their normal velocity of 186,000 miles per second. The implications, like the speed, are mind-boggling. On one interpretation it means that light will arrive at its destination almost before it has started its journey. In effect, it is leaping forward in time.

Exact details of the findings remain confidential because they have been submitted to Nature, the international scientific journal, for review prior to possible publication.

The work was carried out by DR Lijun Wang, of the NEC research institute in Princeton, who transmitted a pulse of light towards a chamber filled with specially treated Caesium gas. Before the pulse had fully entered the chamber it had gone right through it and traveled a further 60 feet across the laboratory. In effect it existed in two places at once, a phenomenon that Wang explains by saying it traveled 300 times faster than light.”

The research is already causing controversy among physicists. What bothers them is that if light could travel forward in time it could carry information. This would breach one of the basic principles in physics - causality, which says that a cause must come before an effect. It would also shatter Einstein’s theory of relativity, since it depends in part on the speed of light being “un-breachable.”

Wang said, “Our light pulses did indeed travel faster than the accepted speed of light. I hope it will give us a much better understanding of the nature of light and how it behaves.”

Wang emphasizes that his experiments are relevant only to light and may not apply to other physical entities. But scientists are beginning to accept that man may eventually exploit some of these characteristics for interstellar space travel. June 4, 2000. GFs Note: If speeds greater than the speed of light are possible, then flight to the 43 planets already located is not as time consuming as once thought.

(From George Filer’s Files)

UFOs might be real, French say, military leaders finish 3-year study

May 27, 2000 - High-level French military officials, including retired generals from the French Institute of Higher Studies for National Defense, a government financed strategic planning agency, recently took a giant step, openly challenging skepticism about unidentified flying objects.

This report takes an important position in stating that aggression from UFOs may be real.

(By Leslie Kean The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

New Crop Circle photos from Peter Sorensen

Peter Sorensen is the worlds leading videographer of Crop Circles. He is a maverick researcher who has gained the respect of the entire research community. He takes photos and videos from a helicopter. AlienZoo posts his photos as they come in, which is usually the day after the circle is discovered. See the amazing Crop Circle images in our gallery, and check back often for the latest images.

New UFO Photos from the Billy Meier Case

The Billy Meier Case is the most controversial UFO case in history. These photos are from the 1976 sightings in Switzerland. Although the book Contact from the Pleiades released many photographs, these three have never been seen before. The pictures are raw, but soon-to-be-tested. They look like an Aladin’s lamp UFO from a 1950 science fiction movie, but the earlier photographs that I examined actually test out as a 21-foot diameter beamship, which can time travel. The one that I find most interesting has the camera tripod in the frame and three UFOs hovering above.

AlienZoo is currently adding more photos and UFO sighting reports to the research center. Be sure to check out these and many other UFO cases, and remember to make regular visits to see the updates and new additions to the UFO files!

ET SEx - The Extra Terrestrial Stock Exchange

Where the “Greys” put their “green”

6/5/2000

AlienZoo resident ufologist Jim Dilettoso’s article Mission Control explores UFO research, ET technologies, and moments in ufology’s past.

Exactly how much money does an ET make? After all, there is a lot of training and skill required to make that long trek from the Pleiades to Earth. There’s the hazardous duty pay for the dangers of hyper-dimensional time-space travel, not to mention the shots that the Earth military takes at the ET spaceship. Plus, when do they collect? Maybe the ET’s wife is collecting all the while, but what if ET never gets home?

Alas, ET probably doesn’t use money anyway. At least not on their planet. They have an anti-greed telepathy which means they probably use a simple social system of trade and barter. On this planet there are some real requirements for some real money. Remember Jeff Bridges in John Carpenter’s Starman? When he needed some money, it was a real problem. I liked David Bowie’s technique in The Man Who Fell To Earth. He started a company, World Enterprises (WE) which made all the latest technology from portable communication gadgets to mini-disk digital recorders and players, as well as all the hit music and video software. ET-Bowie ran his world empire from an abandoned warehouse decorated with massive towers of TVs, where he monitored all possible channels of entertainment and global news.

His real mission was to fix his spaceship and get home. That took some real doing, like collaborating with every major corporation that could supply and manufacture yet-to-be invented materials. So he supplied them with the design technology and took some of the stock in their company. In return, they supplied him with the needed components. All parties prospered magnificently.

Invest in Alien Technology

In his now infamous book, The Day After Roswell the late Lt. Col. Philip Corso US Army (Ret) listed over 20 companies that he claims benefit from ET Technology. They were in fact “given” ET technology to research and inevitably-manufacture and market. These technologies include the transistor, fiber optics, the laser, composite materials and the computer chip. The companies listed are the blue chip industrial complex of America and the world. The products and companies listed have totally changed the world, regardless of the actual source of their technology.

Corso’s book and his claims have been extremely controversial. There are camps deeply entrenched on both sides. Is he telling the truth that DuPont, Intel, and SpectraPhysics(lasers) have mass produced Alien advancements? Or is Corso just another highly decorated military intelligence officer who broke his secrecy oath while concocting a whopper. (A whopper that, by domino effect, made Bill Gates the richest man on the planet).

Well, without further comment or judgement on the truth of Corso’s claims, let’s do a little exercise in assessment and investment. First, I researched each and every company listed by Corso. Second, I researched the corporate affiliation of every military person and government official alleged to be connected with the ET situation. (Including members of the power elite MJ-12). Third, I investigated companies listed by Corso who started processes in motion that greatly benefited sudden success stories. Xerox for example, not only single handedly started the copy revolution, but their Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), created the computer user interface-GUI, that literally launched Apple, and subsequently Microsoft, into massive innovations and profits.

Finally, for a little sugar, I included a couple of entertainment companies who make Science Fiction, like Disney and Fox. I then built a stock investment portfolio based on the findings.

Toso’s ET Stock Exchange - ETSEX

Every Stockbroker knows of the tried and true systems for predicting and creating stock portfolios. The Wall Street Journal assembles it’s panel of experts quarterly. Superstitions that seem to hold true include the trend that if the AFC wins the SuperBowl, then the market will go down. The height of a woman’s hemline in fashion is inversely proportionate to the stock market. One investment club has even used a monkey to throw darts. I have created a method that is at least as accurate to analyze companies.

Most all of the companies, without exception, are excellent performers. Some, like IBM and Honeywell, have had their ups and downs over the decades, but always bounce back with bull-bull results. Others, like TRW and Wackenhut, have security control over most every classified military-industrial complex facility in the US, and therefore receive billions in government contracts that don’t show up as part of the P/E. The ETSEX companies are also the primary contractors of the components of every major aerospace contract for the last 50 years.

I have two portfolios. One is the penny stock grouping of selected companieswhose technology or management roots can be traced to alleged ET connections.

I have provided a set-up of these companies on Yahoo Investment watch. This lists obscure companies like ZYGO and Ciena, as well as Coherent Lasers. If you follow this link (Yahoo Finanace) it will take you to a table that provides hourly updates of the stocks listed. Just bookmark the site and go there periodically. You may be surprised to notice that these stocks move characteristically MORE than the DJIA. There are also links there to read more abut the companies.

Second is the Blue Chip Listing. This includes Monsanto, IBM, ATT, RAND, TRW, Ingersol-Rand, and Intel. These companies are also some of the most active and profitable of Wall Street Stocks.

Although I have had much experience with Wall Street Investment Bankers, I am not a broker or an investment banker. This portfolio is created as an intellectual curiosity. It is a co-incidence that these stocks perform well. In November, I invested a theoretical $10,000 in these portfolios. My investment is now worth $21,000. That’s over 100% profit in 6 months. This is by no means an endorsement of any company or an advisement to buy. I will keep this portfolio active for you to peruse at your leisure. And I will update and comment on some of the companies listed IN TWO WEEKS.

If ET is behind these companies, I am sure that he now has enough money and equipment to go home. But with this kind of return, why would he want to? Life is pretty good here on Earth.

The Legend of Vladimir Terziski

Terziski researched German UFOs of the 1930s. Were the Germans assisted by aliens?

5/29/2000

AlienZoo resident ufologist Jim Dilettoso’s article Mission Control explores UFO research, ET technologies, and moments in ufology’s past.

“You look like millionaire on vacation,” were the first words I ever heard from Vladimir Terziski. This was back in 1990. It was a typical UFO conference . the usual mix of researchers and sheep-herders at a San Diego resort. That year.s Alien Agenda Conference (one of Tim Beckley.s finest) was teeming with a fresh buzz of excitement. Erik Beckjord had just cold-cocked Bill Cooper. Christa Tilton had revealed her pregnancy with an alien. And Vladimir just revealed that the Nazis had built UFOs. Conferences don.t get any better.At the time, I was used to hearing foreign accents. Brits and Frenchmen in rock and roll, Germans and Chinese . even Italians with a Southern drawl . at my company, Village Labs. But there was something very strange about the way Vladimir said “meel-yunayre un vay-kashun” that made me stop and ponder. He reminded me of the TV comedian Yakov Smirnoff.Vladimir spoke with authority. He was very precise. He selected words carefully. Why was he addressing me, though? It was then when I realized that he didn.t really know me from UFO-TV, or my lab work. I thought he might have wanted simply to talk to my exotic blonde friend.”So, did you hear my lecture?” he asked.”Sorry, we missed it,” I replied. “Please allow us to introduce ourselves. I am Jim Dilettoso and this is Susan Gordon. And you are . . . ?”

“I am so pleazeded too meat you,” Vladimir replied with a conviction and warmth that belied the intellectual rigor that had been bred into the core of the Hungarian.s being. “I am scientist from Russian Academy of Sciences. Do you have UFO video we can trade?”I let him know that I wasn.t there actually speaking this time, that my band, UFAUX, was performing at the banquet party. (I had long since discovered that you can stay out of the line of fire if you perform at these things, instead of speak!) Problem was, my UFO video collection was back in Arizona.”Great. I.ll come to Arizona,” Vladimir confirmed.And after a full weekend of more deliberate intellectual intoxication than a man should be allowed, we headed back to Arizona. So did Vladimir, who drove a Volvo station wagon pumped full of videotapes and paperwork, with only a slight amount of room for the cooler. I never did hear him lecture, but once he was at my ranch, I got the full monty. We actually became great friends.

He told me that he was the Hungarian who was calling me in 1985. And that it was our many phone discussions that motivated him to defect to the U.S. Legend had it, though, that he was still a KGB double agent. That wasn.t possible, I thought: He.s too short to be a secret agent! Besides, he has the best UFO video collection I.ve ever seen.My home, the Flying Heart Ranch in Paradise Valley Arizona, was a great place to bring foreign dignitaries. A sprawling horse ranch built in 1947, with multiple guest houses and great oriental landscaping, my home made the perfect setting for getting someone to “loosen up.” And loosen up Vladimir did. I heard all about it. Not only did I get to see all the videos he had been collecting, but I got to hear about his day job . his spooky business.Vladimir was a “scientific investigator,” as he put it. His interest became his passion, and his passion became his assignment. He investigated the paranormal and scientific secrets of the Third Reich. He harbored no sympathies for the Nazis. He wasn.t even interested in the regime.s philosophy. But he was immersed in their secrets.In the ’70s and ’80s, the KGB controlled East Germany and East Berlin. This provided the basis for the unraveling of the bizarre tale of Hitler’s UFOs. Not only had the Third Reich built them, but the people who built them are still alive today . and building UFOs in South America. Vladimir had pictures to prove it all.The big question in Vladimir’s mind was not whether or not they had built UFOs, but whether or not aliens had helped. Having read Morning of the Magicians, I was well-versed in the concepts that the Third Reich had used . magic, astrology, sacred geometry, llamas, and priests from Tibet who barked at the moon to get more power. I didn.t know if any of it was true, but I appreciated Vladimir.s quick wit and tenacity.To me, the issues were much more fundamental. If Werner Von Braun et. al., the key Nazi space scientists, had worked on flying disks and levitation machines . with or without aliens . why did they build rockets and tin cans for NASA? Had the aliens abandoned them? Were the Germans holding back this secret knowledge? Was the Third . or Fourth . Reich alive and well in Brazil, building UFOs, commanding the New World Order from the Bilderberg-Hapsburg empire and keeping the traitor Nazis under their thumb at NASA? If any of this was true, then world politics far superceded any provincial rocket building.

Vladimir had a wealth of impressive knowledge of physics, aerospace, and UFO propulsion theory. But was he bamboozled, or was he putting in the plumbing? The pictures and blueprints he had were seemingly genuine. Other UFO investigators were also on the bandwagon. Valery Uvarov, Victor Kostrikin, and even famed Russian Cosmonaut Marina Popovich were convinced of their authenticity.As the years have gone by, Vladimir Terziski has become famous in these circles. His two-hour lectures, followed by three-hour question-and-answer sessions, can hold just about any standing-room only crowd. He.s frequently dismissed as a kook, but then again, most UFO investigators are known as that in some circles, just for different reasons. If aliens had helped the Third Reich, then God save us all.

The Billy Meier case: The simple farmer who talked with the star people

Remembering what it took to research the Meier photos two decades ago

5/22/2000

AlienZoo resident ufologist Jim Dilettoso’s article Mission Control explores UFO research, ET technologies, and moments in ufology’s past.

Talk about mixed messages.

I first heard of Billy Meier in 1977, when I was 28 years old. Lt. Col. Wendelle Stevens (USAF Ret.) and Jim Lorenzen, founder and director of APRO (Aerial Phenomena Research Organization), visited me to discuss testing UFO pictures taken by a Swiss man named Billy Meier. I had been in the music business both as a performer and producer, and my day job at that time was producing rock and roll tours for Alice Cooper and other big acts. Because of my job, I knew about the latest digital tools in both audio and digital image processing. I had an inclination of how to approach the project.

The UFO photos were the first I had ever seen. They amazed me. To this day, even, they.re some of the most amazing photos of UFOs I.ve ever seen. The whole story of Billy Meier was, to me, something really important, a matter that needed to be approached with utmost diligence and care. A woman from the constellation Pleiades actually had posed with her spacecraft so that Billy Meier could take pictures of her. If we just told the world about it, I thought, the world would become a totally different place. Looking back, I was totally naive.

Billy Meier lives in Switzerland, a politically neutral, democratic, panoramic, and beautiful country. This Swiss countryside was a great backdrop for the 500-plus photographs Billy Meier had taken. What a picturesque place it was for a date with a beautiful space woman, whose sports car could travel at the speed of light. Even better, she had taken Meier for a ride in one of the Pleiadians’ four types of spacecraft, traveled in time, and retrieved samples of their metals. At the time I couldn.t help but think, “Yeah! Switzerland is where it.s at!”

In the U.S., things were a little different. Trying to locate equipment and experts in image processing, to assist in testing UFO pictures, was a little frustrating. In 1978, computers were mainframes and workstations. State-of-the-art image-processing equipment had 64K of Ram and a 5MB hard drive . and the cost was $100,000. Desktop scanners cost $50,000 and up. Even worse, most of the equipment we needed resided in labs owned by or was contracted by the U.S. government and defense agencies. Wendelle Stevens and I made the rounds of trade shows (like the Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers), NASA labs, America.s finest companies (like IBM and Northrup), and organizations such as the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Navy. It was like “Mission Impossible.” Penetrating labs like Sandia and the Jet Propulion Laboratory required special credentials, and sometimes even a masquerade in order to get people to assist us.

Some said the case was a hoax, but lab results differed

We persevered, though, and eventually had found many professionals, who under secrecy and non-disclosure agreements tested these UFO pictures. The secrecy was critical. These labs were not generally authorized to perform personal projects, like testing UFO pictures. So when other UFO researchers, hell bent on getting into the case, made inquiries into some of the places we had been, they would, as agreed, deny any involvement on their part in testing the Billy Meier UFO photographs. Although not one lab found the pictures to be a hoax, UFO clubs like APRO and the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) were claiming that it was a hoax, and debunker Kal Korff the natural champion.

The curiosity for me was why people claiming the Billy Meier story was a hoax would display so much passion. We discovered lies and deception from debunkers . conspiracy and deception that would continue to the present day. And like all the major cases, there was a major effort to discredit everyone from Meier and his family to the investigators on the case . including me, the guy behind the investigation.

Even though we found no evidence of a hoax, I still can see how the whole story sounds a little fishy. After hearing telepathic whispering, Meier, a one-armed farmer, rides his moped out into the woods to rendezvous with Semjase, a 400-year-old Pleiadian sage. The Pleiades form the “seven sisters” constellation venerated by the Greeks, Mohammed, the ancient Egyptians (whose Temple of Hathor is oriented toward the constellation), and the Japanese (who call that constellation Subaru). The Dogon tribe of Africa, the Lakota-Sioux, and the Ojibiwa each have had contact with people from that constellation. But not a simple farmer. Billy Meier claimed to have over 100 face-to-face contacts with Semjase. In time, these contacts would continue.

Soon, I would be testing metal samples, and would be purchasing my own image-processing computer. There was even talk of some Pleiades books and a documentary film. I had to juggle work on UFO research with a busy schedule of rock and roll tour promotion.

Getting down to business

We decided to go somewhere to perform testing . somewhere like NASA-JPL. I would do the research, get some names, call Wendelle Stevens, talk about it in our own code, and go.

From the front gate onward, we faced little obstruction. We had credentials and access materials that literally gave us the run of the place. Although every building was available to us, we always met our confederate in the cafeteria or the ERC (employee recreation center). We took the photos in their picture form, and showed them to our contact over a hot dog or chipped beef, then proceeded to the confines of a NORAD looking room, where the latest in image-processing equipment could be found. We just had at it . the image-processing experts sat with us in a secure facility at the Deep Space Network, looking at pictures of UFOs. Things seemed too convenient, indeed.

We actually thought we were getting away with something, as we were granted free access of this place, using expensive equipment, and getting opinions from leading folks in the space program. As time went on, though, I increasingly suspected that someone knew our every move and was opening doors, if not outright sanctioning the caper. Test results were always “positive” . no evidence of a hoax. But the situation was a lot deeper than that. These people were as amazed as we were at the quality of the pictures. This led to many ancillary discussions about the other evidence, the metal samples, the landing tracks and most importantly, the actual contacts. It seemed to us that we were actually giving briefings at a very high level.

And nobody could talk about it, let alone videotape it.

I had an idea. The Voyager Spacecraft fly-by of Jupiter was coming up. We were working on the world tour of legendary rock band The Moody Blues. We.d propose, I thought, to call the tour . and album . Voyager, get photos and video from JPL during the fly-by, and use them in the tour. NASA loved it, and so did the Moodies. At the same time, Junichi (Jim) Yaoi from Nippon TV hired us to acquire images from JPL and get them to Japan. Cameras were the key: We had a second reason to be on site. Soon, we.d be heading to every lab with a video camera. Not only were we given full-access press passes, we were given one off the press suites in Von Karman . the media-relations center at NASA. National Geographic and Ted Koppel had to walk through our suite to get to their desks.

Eventually, we got all of the video we needed. But we still couldn.t talk about our experiences.

When Stevens and Welch showed up with a box of rocks, things really started to get strange. First things first: Do an inventory. In an aircraft hangar at the Scottsdale, Arizona airport, we carefully placed each specimen on a black dropcloth that was the size of a basketball court; the rock specimens covered the entire dropcloth. The chart of potential scientists to conduct the tests was almost as large. In the end, we selected Marcel Vogel of IBM. Not only had he developed colored TV phosphors and magnetic emulsion for floppy disks, he had been working in paranormal research with astronaut Edgar Mitchell and his Institute of Noetic Sciences. This was the right guy: He was credible, open-minded, and best of all, he had an incredibly advanced lab with the latest in scanning electron microscopes.

Vogel was skeptical at first, but I had convinced him at least to take a look at what we had on our hands. He was as amazed about the findings as we could have ever imagined: Atomic elements 1 through 59 all were present in the same substance; organic materials were cold fused and micromachined. Vogel couldn’t imagine how it could be made. Although he had agreed to absolute secrecy, we discovered he had shared the findings with Richard Haines of NASA-Ames and Dr. James Hurtak (Keys of Enoch). We had a box weighing more than 30 pounds filled with these. The metal samples are the single most compelling evidence in the case. It wouldn’t be long, however, before some of the samples started to disappear.

Word spread quickly

Like the photolabs experience, nobody could talk about it. Nobody could talk about the fact that compelling evidence was available. Here is the stuff that these flying machines are made of in order to travel through time and space. What a breakthrough for physics and the whole of the aerospace community. Not only was here the atomic soup, but Billy Meier explaining how the materials are made, and how the ship flies. Unfortunately when it did leak out it was blasted as a scam. And no one listened.

Security was tight. Lee Elders and Tom Welch were ordained to keep the evidence intact, and keep the researchers quiet. My job was to find the labs, deliver the evidence, and take the debriefings. An invisible college was beginning to form. The scientists who we were visiting with the evidence were ravenous for more stuff. The UFO clubs were also ravenous that it was a hoax. Security was holding ground. No matter what the debunkers said, there would no information released to them. This was far too important for amateurs.

All would be revealed they said. In a book. This made sense: Security was going to control the leak of information by publishing a book.

Lee Elders.s book UFO Contact From The Pleiades came out in 1979. All hell broke loose. Everyone from Shirley Maclaine to Alan Klein (the Beatles. partner in ABKCO) wanted in on the scene. Pleiades was about to become a household word. We had meetings in the executive board room at Universal Studios with the all of the executive firepower that Universal had. There were Pleiadian books and music tapes galore. The Pleiadians were in. Barbara Marchiniak would now channel the Pleiadians. And MUFON was pissed, because we didn.t involve them in any of this.

But after all was said and done, the objective of the testing was getting lost in the shuffle. Was the goal to have evidence in hand to “prove the existence” of extraterrestrials? I thought that the purpose was to validate the case so that the face to face contact could be studied. Wasn’t the most important thing what the Pleiadians had to say? Where were they from? How did they think? What did they say?

Semjase had met Billy Meier face to face more than 135 times. She had brought other ETs with her . Ptah, Asket, and Quetzel. They all looked human. They had been coming to Earth for a long time. They gave Billy Meier amazing information about everything from science to philosophy. They were concerned about us . humans . their little brothers. We were, and still are, destroying ourselves and our planet. Nuclear-weapons proliferation, famine, disease, and pointless religions that miss the goals of spiritual evolution were the key topics of their message.

The messages ring true for me. There is something invigorating about the words of a woman from outerspace. You feel that the words are for you - for you to do something about the human condition. The more robust the attacks from the debunkers became, the more relevant the Pleiadian message became. The books came out; a movie was made; the Pleiadians were upon the world.

For further study:
A page that leads to a discussion of the metal-sample analysis; click on “Metal Samples”
Gary Kinder.s Light Years culminates three years of investigation into the Meier case
A letter by the author concerning Kal Korff’s views on the Meier case

Argues Cornet: Ufology Succeeds at Failure

Denouncer of ufology says science-minded research group will “make ufology obsolete”

4/11/2000

Written by Wiggz…also known as the AlienZoo prohibitor of dullness.

Bruce Cornet, Ph.D. once called himself a UFO researcher. But a year ago, he renounced ufology altogether, contending that it had degenerated into a pseudoscience.A geologist by academic training, Cornet saw how ufology, on its current trajectory, could never be accepted by credible scientific establishments, like NASA.s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He couldn.t tolerate how UFO research lacked grounding in the scientific method. In other words, in his view, UFO researchers weren.t observing and describing phenomena, forming hypotheses to explain phenomena, using hypotheses to predict other phenomena, or performing experimental tests of predictions by more than one experimenter..Ufology is based on the assumption that ET is already here. Within any type of scientific venture, you have to test those assumptions. To do so, you have to come up with better evidence and a basis for assumptions,. says Cornet. .Another assumption that I.ve heard many times is that the phenomenon is random and unpredictable. And yet, many people have not tested that assumption. I went out and tested it, and found that it wasn.t random at all..Cornet continues: .You have to be proactive. You have to go to areas where known activity has occurred. And you have to present yourself in a way that will demonstrate that you.re prepared to receive information. My success has been due not just to having camera and camcorder, but also because I would come back to the same spot time and time again, and wait patiently..To be proactive, Cornet and a core group of scientists have been engaged in forming SETV, the Search for Extraterrestrial Visitation. In simple terms, this organization agrees with the scientific methods of SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), for SETI has put together a method for identifying extraterrestrial intelligence. But SETV disagrees with the narrowness of SETI.s search methods . scanning the skies for ET radio signals.In contrast to SETI, SETV seeks to scan the skies primarily with visual instrumentation: magnetometers, Geiger counters, spectroradiometers (which detect light wavelengths and spectral bands emitted by lights), and an automated weather station (to read atmospheric conditions). The instruments would enable researchers to see more than just images. “Humans make lousy data recorders,” Cornet says, “The SETV project is an attempt to collect data by extending the human senses, via instrumentation, on an automated platform - one where humans are not involved - to collect unbiased data on a contact experience.”

Ruling out data the key to successful research

So ready to begin anew is Cornet that he doesn.t even allow the acronym UFO to enter his conversation. Instead, he prefers .AOP. — Anomalistic Observational Phenomena. The concept of a UFO brings with it too much cultural baggage: images of ETs riding spaceships. Cornet says the UFO field is teeming with people who aren.t properly trained. Even well-known CSETI (Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence, the group led by Dr. Steven Greer that.s devoted to mutual communication with extraterrestrial civilizations), assumes that non-human visitors are indeed of ET origin, regardless of the great lengths with which CSETI researchers are trained..Skeptics have had a heyday with ufology, because ufologists can.t eliminate all of the alternative explanations,. Cornet says. .When we collect and chart our data, our scientists have to eliminate possibilities down the line, until we finally come up with the most likely representation of what exists..One of the projects SETV would like to undertake is setting up an automated platform at civilian and military airports, so that a comprehensive portrait of aircraft lights can be drawn. Platform instruments would be calibrated to detect a specific wavelength of plane-related light. Spectroradiometers would detect tungsten, says Cornet, because most airplanes use bulbs made of tungsten filaments. Any light that measures outside of a calibrated bandwidth would be cause for further scrutiny of data..On our platforms, we.ll have smart software, which will be capable of analyzing the data stream coming in from any given target,. Cornet says. .The moment it hits something conventional, it.s going to stop tracking the object. It will continue to record something that doesn.t fit conventional characteristics..Two tracking cameras (part of the same platform system) separated by about 300 feet and running together, for example, could simultaneously study an object.s altitude and distance, by forming a triangle with the object. Instrumentation would take the guesswork out of describing aerial phenomena.SETV would like to develop “rapid deployment teams,” who would set up portable platforms in areas where sightings, and skywatchers, are common. Data culled from instruments could be compared with the descriptions made by skywatchers, who wouldn’t be aware of SETV’s presence in the area.”We’d just let it run and see what happens,” Cornet says. “If skywatchers report seeing one thing or another, we’ll have record of it. We’ll be able to analyze it, and tell them exactly what it was or wasn’t — assuming we can identify it. If we eliminate all possible known identifications for it, and yet still don’t have a positive identification, we’ll have a ream of data that tells other scientists why it is an unknown. The most important thing is that set of data will characterize the particular object that is being tracked.”If the object, or something similar, were to reappear in another area, SETV would be able to say it has seen the object before, ruling out what the object is not.

Gathering respect

Cornet and SETV are ultimately seeking the respect of the scientific community. Data, not speculation, is what counts in scientists’ purview.”You can’t be ridiculed for looking at data,” Cornet says. “With data, you can defend yourself.”Naturally, SETV needs money, perhaps $2 million per year over five years. But Cornet says he thinks SETV can operate for as little as $500,000 per year.Yet, Cornet won’t disclose the members of SETV, because their jobs could be jeopardized if their employers were to learn of their work with SETV. One of Cornet’s partners, though, did work with JPL on Mars missions, and this person will soon publish an article announcing the validity of the SETV project. The door of membership won’t be open to everyone, though: SETV will approach new members the way companies view hiring prospective employees, with a “What can you do for us?” attitude.In its early stages, SETV will expose itself to a great deal of opposition, primarily from supporters of SETI, who cannot seem to accept an ET hypothesis, which includes Earth visitation. SETV is in some ways a spin-off from SETI, consisting of persons who were frustrated by SETI’s narrow approach toward searching for ET intelligence.Regardless, Cornet and SETV will persist on its quest for scientific principles.”SETV will make ufology obsolete. It will make it nothing more than a Star Trek group,” Cornet says. “Ufology is in it for the speculation, excitement, and possibilities, without doing any of the homework.”