We are delighted to tell the readers that Haunted Skies 6 is now with us.
We
had a great time at the BUFORA Conference and met many well respected researchers.
Thank you Matt Lyons, Heather Dixon and John Wickham for looking after us so
well. It was great to see our friend Dot Street.
22nd September 2012 LAS VEGAS -- Former Air Force Col.
Charles Halt accused the federal government of a UFO cover-up that involves a
secret agency to deal with what might be extraterrestrial visitations. “I’m firmly convinced there's an agency, and there
is an effort to suppress,” Halt told an audience of 200 people Saturday
night at the Smithsonian-affiliated Museum.
From Mick Walters
Room in the Roof Writing Group Renegade
Writing Group Newcastle Writing Group
Presents
an evening of poetry and prose for the Dyslexia Association of
Staffordshire
Charity reading event
Venue: Staffordshire University conference room at the
Thompson Library
DATE: Friday 19th October 2012
TIME: 7pm for 7:30pm prompt start
Come along and
enjoy an interesting evening of readings from Room in the Roof, Renegade and
Newcastle writing group
Authors books available
TICKETS: £3.00 all proceeds going to the charity.
From Jim Peniston New book coming….
We are pleased to be able to make a major
announcement today.
We have received and decided to accept an offer from a major US publishing
house in respect of our book. The book will be published by St. Martin's Press
and the provisional title is Rendezvous at Rendlesham. St. Martin's Press is
one of the largest publishers in the United States and we are pleased to be
working with a company that has a proven track record of publishing books from
some of the world's best-known authors.
It is our belief that the Rendlesham Forest incident is a bigger and more
significant UFO case than Roswell. It is our intention, in this book, to place
into the public domain everything that we know about the extraordinary series
of events that took place at Bentwaters and Woodbridge, both during the
encounters themselves, and in the aftermath. While there have been previous
books on the subject, they have been written by people in the UFO community.
Now, the military personnel at the heart of this incident will finally have
their say.
This case has been devilled by misinformation, disinformation and by people
wanting to write themselves into the story. We intend to set the record
straight and tell the full story of these extraordinary events for the first
time. We do so in order to reveal the truth about events that we believe are of
immense historical significance and public interest. We also do so for the men
and women stationed at Bentwaters and Woodbridge at the time, many of whom have
suffered as a result of what happened. It is our hope that the publication of
this book will lead to the wrongs they have suffered being righted.
In writing this book we have decided to work with former UK Ministry of Defense
employee Nick Pope. There are several reasons for this. Nick is an experienced
author, journalist and broadcaster with a high mainstream media profile both in
the UK and in the US, where he now lives. More importantly, his 21-year government
career means that he understands the culture and ethos of the military
personnel at the heart of this story in a way that ufologists do not. The fact
that one of his postings was to MoD's UFO project, where he undertook a cold
case review of the Rendlesham Forest incident, means that he is intimately
familiar with the intricacies of this case. Finally, the fact that he held - as
did we - a TS/SCI security clearance, means that he understands the
sensitivities involved.
We are also working with a lawyer, Pat Frascogna, who is advising us on a wide
range of legal issues associated with the case. As an attorney, Pat is also
making a series of carefully targeted Freedom of Information Act requests for
documents relating to our military service and to the Rendlesham Forest
incident more generally. This will supplement the significant number of
government and military documents that we have already amassed.
We appreciate that people will have many comments and questions, but for the
time being, we have little further to say. Clearly our priority now must be to
concentrate on the book itself. We will make further announcements when we have
something relevant to say (e.g. notification of the publication date), but
neither we nor Nick will enter into discussions with people over this before
publication, except in the case of those with direct involvement in these
events, who we will be speaking to as part of the process of putting together
the book. Generally speaking, we will not be engaging with the UFO community on
this. Our book is not about ufologists, but about the men and women who served
at the twin bases of Bentwaters and Woodbridge and were caught up in these
extraordinary events.
We hope you are as excited about this major new development as we are and we
look forward to sharing with you the definitive insiders' account of the
Rendlesham Forest incident.
John Burroughs and Jim Penniston, September 26, 2012
From Jason who contacted us recently.
UFO over Staffordshire
One summer night in 1994 I had taken my
daughter & some of her friends ice skating in Solihull. On the way back we
travelled along the M42/M6 towards Lichfield. As we exited the Motorway at
Coleshill, right in front of us was a strange light in the sky. The evening was
late, probably getting on for 10.00pm, but a very clear night, the sun had not
yet set & really was like day light. The light in the sky looked exactly
like a fluorescent strip light just hanging there as clear, bright & as
sharp as anything. I asked my daughter & the other passengers if they could
see the light & they all could. We were all absolutely amazed as to what it
could be. The girls in the car were quite scared by what they were seeing as it
was most extraordinary & all I could think was “that shouldn't be there”
The light was about one inch to one inch
& a half in size. We saw it for a good few minutes as we drove off the
motorway and towards Lichfield past the Bellfrey golf club. Past the Belfry, we
only saw it intermittently through the trees as the road twisted & rose
& fell. Just before we got to the Bassetts Pole round about we lost sight
of the light all together. At the Bassetts Pole round about we had a clear view
of the sky & the light was nowhere to be seen.
By biggest regret is that I didn't stop
the car to get a better / longer look. I didn't stop for two reasons, firstly I
needed to get my daughters friends back to their parents & secondly the
girls including my daughter were all a bit upset by the light & I didn't
want to alarm them more.
When I first saw the light it appeared to
be vertical. However as the road twisted & turned I could see that the
light was actually inclined at an angle of about 45 degrees. Years later in a
record shop I saw an image that was exactly like what I had seen. It was the
album cover of David Gray's "White Ladder" record
From Chris Hanson Marathon man x3
As many of you know in September last
year, Holly my daughter was born almost 3 months early. She weighed just
2lbs 5ozs she was very poorly and spent over three months in the
special care baby unit (SCBU) at Kettering Hospital.
She had lots of problems, including
bleeding on her brain, bleeding in her lungs and a pronounced heart murmur. Of
course we could never have anticipated this and found ourselves somewhat
bewildered and terribly worried for Holly. What we didn't expect was
the SCBU accommodating us within the unit so we could be close to
Holly. The thought of leaving her overnight was unbearable.
The unit has created a parents suite
- funded entirely through charitable donations to allow Mums and Dads to
be by their baby's side. We will never forget how kind and compassionate the
staff was and I would love to raise some funds for the parent’s suite. I'm
therefore intending to trace Holly's steps and run from my house to the
SCBU on Sunday the 16th September, a distance of approximately 70 miles. I
will be leaving my house at 6am and hope to complete the run in 12 hours. Kindest
regards Chris, Jo and Holly x x Chris did the run of 70miles!
From Jools
Has anyone reported seeing strange lights
in the sky last night over
the Birmingham city centre/Edgebaston? I looked out my window about 10pm
and saw something really bright, it looked different to a star or planet, I got
my binoculars(which arent [sic] very good) and I saw three bright lights
together, couldn’t see anything else. I noticed a plane or helicopter in
distance near to it but they went. The lights got hidden from my line of
view behind tree for a while and when i [sic] looked out again they where [sic]
higher in the sky, [sic] It looked odd not a plane, was wondering if it was the
space station or something like that it was odd to say the least I’m not sure
if any stars or planets would look like that. Let me know if you heard anything
about what it was, can’t find anything online this morning.
The British UFO
Research Association presents:
BUFORA 50th Anniversary
Conference
Dining and luxury facilities within
the Holiday Inn at
LONDON-KINGS CROSS BLOOMSBURY
1 KINGS CROSS ROAD LONDON, WC1X
9HX England
Hotel Front Desk: 0207 833 3900
Conference speakers are covering a
wide range of new material for this special year marking a half century of one
of the oldest and internationally respected UFO groups, continuing its research
and investigation into the phenomenon. For more information visit us at www.bufora.org.uk
Sponsored by:
Part of the Healings of Atlantis magazine group
Timetable: (speaker biographies and
subjects appear below the timetable)
SATURDAY:
Starts at 10.00
Lionel Beer
Anecdotes and Conspiracy
Heather Dixon
UFOs - Developing an understanding of
the Reality behind the Myths.
John Spencer
Political, Cultural & Social
influences of UFOs.
Lunch approximately begins at 1.15
Afternoon session
Jenny Randles (via live video link)
3 cases that changed BUFORA
Lionel Fanthorpe
Behind all the Anomalous reports
Clas Svahn
Ghost Rockets
SUNDAY:
Starts 9.15
Lionel Beer Introducing the second day speakers:
Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos
The FOTOCAT Database: A tool for the present and the future
John Hanson
Rendlesham: More UFOs and anomalies
Lunch approximately 12.00
Afternoon session
Richard Conway
Our way to the stars (L.E.N.R. and
demonstrations)
Geoff Falla
Vehicle Interference Cases
Tony Eccles
Amnamnesis project
Dave Newton
Fascination of UFOs
Ross Hemsworth
Rendlesham Forest New experiences
& views
Closing words from Matt Lyons,
Chairman session closes at 7.00 pm
For further details about BUFORA, Please visit our website pages at
www.bufora.org.uk
This conference is dedicated with respect and gratitude of all the hard
work in research and investigation of all BUFORA contributors over the last
five decades, including those who have passed away. The legacy lives on, which
would have pleased our first chairman, Nigel Stephenson.
Nigel Stephenson, our first chairman
and images of the inaugural conference tickets.
Lecture biographies and summary of
presentations:
Hon. President Lionel Beer:
Lionel
Beer was a founder member in 1962 and with Nigel Stephenson (Founder-Chairman)
arranged the BUFOA inaugural convention. He has served as an officer/director
almost continually since, concentrating on publicity, lectures and conferences.
BUFORA chairman 1977-79, publisher of Spacelink magazine 1967-71. Instigator of
the first formal UFO study course in London, at Morley College. 1979, featured
on BBC National TV news. Other interests include earth mysteries, ephemera,
Forteana, outer space and steam railways. Life member of the National Trust. Lionel’s
father, E.J.Beer, was a pioneer of viscose rayon.
Lionel
started his Spacelink book service in 1967, which supplies a diverse range of
books from authors in the UFO, Crop Circle, Ancient Mysteries, History and
Cryptozoology genres. He published ‘The Moving Statue of Ballinspittle’ in 1986
and also founded the Travel, earth and Mysteries Society (TEMS) in 1992. He
also founded the Metropolitan Water Board Railway Society in 2003, to preserve
a 2ft railway close to his home in Middlesex.
Lionel
is also a life member of English heritage, ASSAP and Kempton Great Engine
Society.
Presentation:
Lionel
will give an anecdotal overview of some notable general and personal thoughts
and stories from the last five decades of BUFORA. He will also reveal some
information that has never been known in the public domain before.
Heather Dixon:
Heather
Dixon is the National Investigations Coordinator for BUFORA and past editor for
the now defunct Strange Times Magazine.
She has had a lifetime interest in extraordinary human experiences
specifically focusing her research into claims of high strangeness cases
reported to BUFORA, near-death experiences and reports of after-death contact.
Her
interest in the UFO subject began in the seventies whilst living and working in
the USA where her father was an aeronautical engineer in the Space Programme
during the sixties and seventies.
She
has also conducted many years of extensive research into an area of abnormal
psychology known as Cluster B personality disorders including Psychopathy. She specifically focuses her research into
the emotionally distressing psychological effects upon the partners and
families of those who have experienced the impact of these disturbing and
destructive relationships.
Presentation:
UFOs
- Developing an understanding of the Reality behind the Myths
Examining
the nature of perception and beliefs and how these dramatically influence the
reporting of a sighting, particularly in relation to claims of high strangeness
experiences, and the responsibility of the investigator to the witness in
conducting objective and rigorous research.
John Spencer:
John
Spencer was an active researcher of the paranormal for over thirty years. He
held many offices, including Chair, of the British UFO Research Association,
and was an active member and/or researcher for the Ghost Club, the Society for
Psychical Research (SPR), and the Association for the Scientific Study of
Anomalous Phenomena (ASSAP).
He
was also a member of many active local groups and led research teams
experimenting into such phenomena as ghosts, poltergeists, PK, ESP, survival of
spirit, alternative healing, channelling, etc.
John
has given many lectures to paranormal research groups, astronomical societies
(including both Oxford and Cambridge Universities) and other scientific
institutions.
John
regularly appeared in the media. He has contributed to many newspapers
throughout the U.K., featured on hundreds of local and national radio stations,
has broadcast in live debates or 'phone ins' to Hong Kong, the Falklands,
Germany, Cyprus, Japan, Russia and the Soviet bloc, as well as within the U.K.
He has appeared in several television programmes covering the UFO and
paranormal phenomena within the United States, Belgium, Austria and Spain, as
well as appearances in the United Kingdom.
John
has appeared in several 'sell through' video productions for sale in the U.K.
and abroad. He has been, and is, consultant and writer for several projects on
UFOs, ghosts and other paranormal subjects, including a major Carlton TV
production. He was also consultant to a major multimedia (CD-ROM) project which
outsold all previous titles in its first month of release.
John
was consultant to an Usborne Book project involving many paranormal-subject
titles, and was principal author and series editor of a book series written in
conjunction with the Sci-Fi Channel and published by Orion.
Presentation:
The
Political, Cultural and Social influences on UFOs.
Since
they were ‘officially’ recognised as a phenomenon in their own right in 1947
the subject of UFOs has gone through many migrations and evolutions. In this
talk John Spencer discusses those influences, and charts the progress of the
UFO phenomenon in parallel with the political, cultural and social changes over
those 65 years highlighting what questions such changes bring, and what answers
might be possible
Jenny Randles: (via Video link)
Jenny
joined BUFORA in the early 1970s and was a council member during the 70s, 80s
and 90s. She was coordinator of the National Investigations Committee between
1981 and 1994. She also ran UFO Call, a BUFORA news update service from its
inception to the late 90s and produced a number of publications for the
organisation.
During
this period BUFORA pioneered several initiatives, including the creation of a
training programme and postal course to help develop investigator skills. It
also saw the adoption of the code of practice to give protection to witnesses
as well as a moratorium and eventual ban on the use of regression hypnosis.
Jenny
edited the publication, Northern UFO News, for 25 years and has written 50
books about UFOs and the paranormal. She has scripted and presented TV and
radio programmes on the subject for the BBC and was the story consultant on the
ITV series, ‘Strange But True?’ that ran between 1994 and 1997, writing the
books based on the show.
Presentation:
THREE
CASES THAT CHANGED BUFORA:
My
presentation will look at three case investigations from my time with the
BUFORA NIC. Each one had a major influence on how we thought about the UFO
phenomenon, or about how we needed to investigate the subject.
There
are many cases that I could select, but I have opted for the following three:
(1) Peter Day, Oxfordshire, movie footage
from 1973:
This
case taught many lessons including the need to interview all possible witnesses
and cross correlate evidence and the importance of patience when seeking a
resolution.
(2) Mass witness sighting, across the UK,
New Year’s Eve 1978:
This
was an encounter that revealed important clues about witness perception –
showing the need to work backwards from what is being described to what was
actually present.
(3) The multiple mid-air encounters over the
UK in summer 1991:
A
series of sightings involving commercial aircraft that unfolded only when we
discovered how to open the barriers of disclosure of evidence. As a result we
learned that unsolved UFOs often go unreported, can cause a threat to public
safety but that to dig deeper we need to temper how we talk about the mystery
that we investigate.
Lionel Fanthorpe:
Lionel
was born in Dereham, Norfolk, England and worked as a Journalist in Cromer,
before training as a Teacher. He was Further Education Tutor at Gamlingay
Village College in Cambridgeshire until he was head-hunted to become the Chief
Training Executive for the Phoenix Timber Group in Essex. For over ten years he
was Headmaster (Principal) of a big Comprehensive High School in Cardiff.
Lionel
is President of ASSAP (The Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous
Phenomena) and Patricia is First Lady. His showbiz career started with Anglia
TV and BBC Look East way back in the 'fifties.
He's
now a popular TV and Radio presenter and celebrity guest on chat shows. He's
also a singer-songwriter with a CD album of Unsolved Mystery songs for Voice
Print Records: Lionel's lead singer for John Downes and the Amphibians. He's
also the author of over 250 books -- several of which his wife, Patricia, co-authored
with him.
His
qualifications include a Government Teaching Certificate from Cambridge
University's Institute of Education with an Advanced Main Subject Distinction,
an Upper Second Class BA Honours Degree, Fellowship of the College of
Preceptors (equivalent to a Master’s degree) and Fellowship of the Chartered
Institute of Management (equivalent to an MBA or an M.Sc. in Management
Science).He's currently Director of Media Studies at Cardiff Academy. He’s a
member of the Ghost Club, Mensa and the Welsh Academy.
Lionel
is President of Jumbo GB, the bikers' charity which helps children with special
needs.
As
a former Harley Davidson owner currently riding a big Kawasaki 1500 Drifter,
he’s President of a Bikers’ Charity called Jumbo, who take kids with special
needs and their parents for fun days out.
He’s also a fully ordained Anglican Priest. He’s a qualified weight–training instructor
and a Dan Grade martial arts instructor. He often works an eighteen hour day
seven days a week – and he loves every minute of it!
Patricia
and Lionel were married in 1957 and Patricia acts as agent, manager, business
partner and PR exec as well!
Presentation:
Behind
All the Anomalous Reports:
When
honest and reliable witnesses report strange aerial phenomena -- and other
weird things -- what might be causing them?
Do reports of UFOs sometimes overlap strangely with more traditional
reports of the paranormal? We live in a very strange universe. Its mysteries and secrets are not easily
solved. Are we looking widely and deeply
enough at the possible phenomena behind all the reports?
Clas Svahn:
Clas
Svahn (1958- ) is a UFO-researcher, head of UFO-Sweden and journalist at
Sweden's largest morning newspaper Dagens Nyheter. He is the author of eleven
books and co-author or contributor to fourteen others on various topics from
UFOs and cults to unusual natural phenomena and the paranormal. He writes a
daily blog about UFOs since
2005.
He is vice chairman of Archives for UFO Research, the world's largest archives
on unusual and unexplained phenomena. Clas often travels to Britain to
cooperate with other archives and Ufologists and to bring back material to AFU.
He lives with his wife and two boys in Järfälla outside Stockholm.
Presentation:
Ghost
Rockets:
Ghost Rockets are one of the truly enigmatic
phenomena in UFO history. Not only did they crash into lakes in northern
Scandinavia, without leaving a trace; but they left depressions in the bottom.
They were also reported flying over Sweden, Norway and Finland in the thousands
in1946. These cigar shaped objects have continued to be reported up to this
day. Clas Svahn has talked to witnesses, interviewed military investigators,
researched secret archives and only months ago; he led an expedition trying to
find one of these crashed UFOs in a remote part of Sweden. A member of the
Archives for UFO Research, Clas will tell the stories never told and give you a
tour into the world’s largest archives for the unknown.
Sunday: Lionel Beer introduces day 2
Vicente Juan Ballester-Olmos:
Born,
Valencia (Spain), December 27, 1948
EDUCATION
Bachillerato
Superior, and Preuniversitario (Bachelor’s Degree), Colegio San José (Padres
Jesuitas), Valencia, 1967. Holder of Diploma in Fortran IV programming
language, Departamento de Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia, Facultad de
Filosofía y Letras, Valencia, 1973. Self-taught student of many scientific
disciplines
DUTIES
*1968-1973:
Founder and President, Círculo de Estudios sobre Objetos No Identificados
(CEONI), Valencia, Spain
*1969-1970:
Founder of Equipo Nacional de Investigadores (ENI), Spain
*1978-1982:
Coordinator of Consejo de Consultores de Stendek, Spain
*1983-1985:
Journal editor-in-chief, UPIAR Research in Progress, Milano, Italy
*1992-1999:
Director of Investigations, Centro de Estudios Interplanetarios (CEI),
Barcelona, Spain
*1997-2004:
Cofounder, Vice-president and Research Director, Anomaly Foundation, Santander
(Spain)
*2005:
member, Steering Committee, Euro UFO Network
*2009:
member, NICAP’s A-Team
MEMBERSHIPS
*Member,
representative, adviser, consultant to a number of the most important UFO
societies and journals in the world: Mutual UFO Network, Inc. (MUFON), J.A.
Hynek Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS), Society for the Scientific Exploration
(SSE), International Technical Specialist, National Aviation Reporting Center
on Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP), European Journal of UFO and Abduction Studies,
Cuadernos de Ufología, Revista UFO, amongst others.
BOOKS
PUBLISHED
A
Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, Center for UFO
Studies (Evanston, Illinois), April 1976. Foreword: by Jacques Vallée.
OVNIS:
El fenómeno aterrizaje, Plaza & Janés (Barcelona), 1978, 1979, and1984.
Foreword by Dr. Jacques Vallée.
Los
OVNIS y la Ciencia (with Miguel Guasp), Plaza & Janés (Barcelona), 1981,
and1989. Foreword by Dr. J. Allen Hynek.
Investigación
OVNI, Plaza & Janés (Barcelona), 1984. Foreword by Dr. Richard Haines.
Enciclopedia
de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS (with Juan Antonio Fernández), Plaza & Janés (Barcelona),
1987
Expedientes
insólitos, Temas de Hoy (Madrid), 1995. Foreword by Javier Sierra. Epilogue by
Dr. Jacques Vallée.
Norway
in UFO Photographs: The First Catalogue (with Ole Jonny Brænne). UPIAR (Torino,
Italy), September 2008.
RECOGNITIONS
*1998:
Biographical quotation in Marquis Who’s Who in the World.
*2001:
Unique civil ufologist interviewed by the Revista Española de Defensa (official
publication of the Spanish Ministry of Defense):
http://www.anomalia.org/redef.htm
RESEARCH
EXPERIENCE
Vicente-Juan
Ballester Olmos has been investigating UFO phenomena since 1966, he is an
active promoter of scientific-oriented ufology and he is proactively focused to
team work. A correspondent and friend to the most noted figures of the field in
the last 35+ years.
Mr
Ballester Olmos is the author of over 340 publications, essays, articles, case
inquiries, bibliographies, book reviews, technical reports, etc. since 1965.
His bibliography can be consulted on-line in the following url:
http://www.anomalia.org/bibliog1.pdf
LECTURER
Mr
Ballester Olmos has given frequent speeches in many UFO congresses held in
Spain, France, England, Germany, Italy, and the United States of America.
DECLASSIFICATION
OF THE UFO FILES OF THE SPANISH AIR FORCE
From
1992 to 1999, Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos played a fundamental role in
promoting and supervising the start and development of the process of
declassification of UFO archives from the Spanish Air Force, through an active
cooperation with the Intelligence Section of the Air Operative Command (now
Combat Air Command).
Presentation:
THE
FOTOCAT DATABASE: A TOOL FOR THE PRESENT
AND THE FUTURE
From
year 2001, Mr Ballester Olmos is managing the FOTOCAT Project, an in-progress
project from the Spanish not-for-profit Anomaly Foundation, aimed to create the
largest worldwide catalogue of UFO cases where photographs, films or videos
have been achieved. 9,500 cases are recorded now.
Abstract
Preservation,
organization and scientific exploitation of data are the key words in the
development of FOTOCAT. The building of a catalogue of worldwide UFO and IFO
sightings where images exist is the aim of this project. Since year 2000, a
special archive of 11,000 reports has been created at a rate of 1,000 new
events per year, closing 2005 year-end. The material archive collects all
available information on every entry, including newspaper, journal and book
documentation, investigative reports, picture prints, slides, film & video
footage, and digital imagery. A computer-based databank containing over 20
basic data columns (FOTOCAT) gives shape to the catalogue. This lecture
explores the six FOTOCAT reports produced to date, theme reports (spherical
UFOs), year reports (1954 wave), country reports (Norway, France), or
country-year reports (Argentina 1965, Antarctica July 1965), and 3 in-progress
reports (ball lightning, Chile, 1947.) A general statistical overview of the
full catalogue is presented, along with a special report covering the Great
Britain cases known to this compiler.
John Hanson:
John
Hanson is a retired Police Officer from the West Midlands who served nearly
30years with the force, half of which was in the CID. He is the first to freely
admit that he previously had no interest in such matters and would had
dismissed such accounts out of hand, as fanciful or the result of a vivid imagination.
Following
the sighting of a UFO seen over Birmingham in 1995 his interest was triggered
and he decided to look for a rational answer - There wasn’t one. During the
same year he met Dawn Holloway, who is now his current partner. John and Dawn
decided to write a book entitled ’UFOS the Chronicle of a Phenomenon' believing
they were going to write four books! It took them 15years of research before
they tried again. They have now published four Volumes of an intended twelve
Volume series covering the British UFO period of the 20th Century, believing
that UFO history should be preserved as it forms part of our Social history.
Presentation:
Rendlesham
Forest, more UFOs and anomalies:
John's
talk is going to include a number of photographic images taken during many
visits to Rendlesham Forest over the years. He will also show a film which was
taken on the 27th of December 2000 that shows a peculiar number of lights
apparently hovering over the forest. He will also talk and show some
photographs of some anomalous objects which fell to earth there. The events
that took place at Rendlesham Forest will be outlined thoroughly in Volume 7 of
Haunted Skies.
Richard Conway:
Richard
Conway is the acting science officer for BUFORA. By profession he is a computer
programmer with some 15 years’ experience. His hobbies and "fringe"
interests include investigations into "free" energy technology such
as zero point, LENR, hydroxy gas production and other forms of energy
production, some scientifically explicable and others prone to controversy.
Richard holds post grad diplomas degrees in Economics, Computer Science and
Physics. Richard has been a member of
BUFORA for 20 years and is a fervent believer that one day we will reach the
stars through our own intellect.
Presentation:
Ufology
and pseudo-science: never the twain shall meet:
In
this talk Richard Conway will dissect some typical claims of pseudo-scientists
and authors that purport to have found physical phenomenon that regular science
has missed, some inspired by the intervention or direct messages given by aliens.
He will describe a first-hand story that took place in Turkey and try and
depict common traits of those that proclaim radical theories. He will refer to
cases and events, some entrenched in Ufological lore and others on the
periphery of our subject but interesting nevertheless.
Geoff Falla:
Born
and educated in Guernsey, Channel Islands, Geoff developed interests in
unexplained phenomena and space research. A founder member of Guernsey
Astronomy Section in 1972, Geoff has also been a member of BUFORA since 1969.
He has specialised in case summaries describing reported effects on vehicles
during UFO sightings.
Presentation:
Vehicle
Interference Reports:
Geoff
will be giving us an insight in to the hundreds of mostly temporary effects on
vehicles, during close proximity to UFO sightings. With so many cases reported
on a worldwide basis, they include incidents involving aircraft, cars and
ships. Effects include power loss and lightning, radio interference and
navigation problems.
Tony Eccles:
Tony
Eccles has been a member of BUFORA and an accredited investigator since 1993.
His primary research interest is the Close Encounter of the Third and Fourth Kind.
As an ethnographer, his work explores the role of close encounter witnesses in
a modern world and the deeply rooted need in Western society for a connection
with a higher intelligence.
Previously,
Tony was also one of the co-founders of the Merseyside Anomalies Research
Association (MARA) in 1997. His book, A
Different Sky, was published in 2003 and documents reported strange sightings
and experiences from the Merseyside region over a ten year period.
Tony
Eccles has worked in the heritage sector for eighteen years and is currently
employed as the Curator of Ethnography at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in
Exeter. His blog, also called A Different Sky, is updated during lunchtime.
More on Tony can be at his website:
Presentation:
Amnamnesis
- a study of the close encounter experience.
In
2010, Tony re-initiated a BUFORA project called Anamnesis. This projected was
intended to study individuals who claimed to have experienced close encounter
events. It was hoped that by understanding an individual's life that the close
encounter experience would be better understood. This fresh approach to close
encounter research revealed some interesting characteristics.
Amnamnesis
was originally designed in 1981 by former investigator and sociologist Ken
Phillips and Dr. Alex Keul, a psychologist at the University of Salzburg. This
also led to the development of the Witness Support Group. Due to Ken’s untimely
death in the 1990s, the research project came to a halt. It is now hoped that
this witness study will continue but without a WSG.
Dave Newton:
Dave
Newton is an astrophysicist and former physics teacher who now works in IT
project management. He has been an amateur astronomer and active observer of
the night sky for over 30 years, and is a founder member of the Sunderland
Astronomical Society. Dave also has a lifelong interest in UFOs and strange
phenomena, and has been involved in many investigations over the last twenty years.
Presentation:
The
fascination of UFOs:
Dave
Newton will examine the UFO phenomenon from an astronomical perspective and
will re-evaluate the Extra Terrestrial Hypothesis in the light of 65+ years of
UFO evidence.
Ross Hemsworth:
Ross
Hemsworth is host of the TV chat show Now THAT'S Weird on Edge Media TV (Sky
Channel 200) and the radio show of the same name. He also presents a weekly
radio talk show called Nailing It which is syndicated globally.
A
former Director of the Laughlin UFO Conference (UFO Congress) before its sale a
couple of years ago to the current owners who moved it to Phoenix, Ross is no
stranger to Ufology. He was a media advisor to Exopolitics but decided to leave
after what he called 'too much internal battling and not enough real research'.
Presentation:
Rendlesham
Forest New Views and Experiences:
At
this year's BUFORA event, Ross will be taking a very different view on
Rendlesham Forest, after his own encounter there (witnessed by a team of
people) and will be showing an incredible photograph of what he believes to be
an 'inter-dimensional entity'.
So
far, the few people that have seen the picture have been thoroughly baffled and
can offer no logical or rational explanation for the strange creature that
appears to be above Ross's head. What is stranger, perhaps, is that Ross was
describing this exact being to the team before the picture was taken. The
picture was then relayed from a digital camera to a laptop in a car at the end
of Track 10 in front of the team, so no digital manipulation was possible.
To
know more, you will have to come to the conference!
For
more details on Ross , visit the following websites:
Ross
'The Hammer' Hemsworth
www.rosshemsworth.com
www.thehammershow.co.uk
Closing speech:
Matt Lyons, Chairman:
Matt
has been looking into the UFO phenomenon branching out from science and
astronomy. He joined BUFORA a few years ago and after becoming an accredited
investigator, worked on projects such as the complete magazine archive
digitisation and assisting to ensure all BUFORA case files and audio/visual
media were preserved and updated from the last 50 years of research and
investigation. Matt has appeared on T.V. radio and at UFO conferences and
enjoys the multiple skills, teamwork and wide ranging experience,
investigations and research that BUFORA has produced and continues to do so.
Your M.C. for the day is John
Wickham:
BUFORAs Press and Media officer:
John
has been interested in UFOs since childhood. He has been involved with BUFORA
since the late 1990s, & in that time has held different roles which include
Treasurer and Chairman. He is a BUFORA Accredited UFO investigator & has
also been a Paranormal Investigator for about 20 years. He has been an MC on
many occasions in the past & is a regular contributor to various BBC Radio
and TV programmes.
Supporting committee members and
associates:
Mark Easen:
Mark
joined BUFORA only a few years ago but had been active with local UFO groups.
His background is engineering and enjoys world travel. With his photographic
skills developed over many years, Mark has now become BUFORAs leading
photographic specialist, in addition to general investigations and his role on
the NIC. Mark also instructs with Heather Dixon on the Investigator Training
Course and also lectures on photography and UFOs.
Mark
will be filming the conference in this special anniversary year.
Dr. John McIntyre, MAsc, MMUEP, Doctor of Metaphysics, Laird of Kincavel
Investigations
and research support for delegates.
John
has spent over 20 years in the field of investigations; my experience has been
within Government departments, the Police Service and the fields of Accident
and Private Investigations. I hold a MAsc in the field of Advanced Criminology,
A degree in Metaphysics, A certificate in Accident Investigation and a Diploma
in Private Investigation.
He
is an Accredited Investigator and has been with BUFORA for over 12 months. As
well as investigating sighting reports with BUFORA, I also run my own
investigations into other areas of the paranormal.
Spacelink books:
http://www.spacelink.fsworld.co.uk/
Our
president, Lionel Beer also runs Spacelink books and he’ll have a large
bookstall of new, rare and diverse specialist publications to view purchase.
They will include books and magazines across the UFO, folklore and paranormal
spectrum. Consistently trading since 1967, this is an opportunity to browse for
a very large UFO collection all in one place.
Books by the speakers:
Many
of our speakers will have a selection of their published works available to
purchase and opportunities will be available to meet them and acquire signed
copies of their books.
Tickets:
Please go to the ticketing agent at www.bufora.eventbrite.com
This can be accessed via a link from
our website.
Rooms/meals/ bookings/parking:
The
hotel has many facilities, including health suites and more than one restaurant.
Please contact the hotel in advance, although you may wish to also take
advantage of the multitude of different restaurants this part of central London
has to offer. Parking is very limited at
the hotel if coming by car; there are a number of NCP car parks and similar
nearby, with an average day rate around the £20-25 price range.
Please book directly with the hotel
if you require a room or any of its other facilities offered.
Transport links:
Kings
Cross station in London is served well by the central London Underground system
including the tube stations and buses. Gatwick, Heathrow. Stansted and London
City airports are all a short travelling distance for longer journeys from the
U.K. or further abroad.
For
car parking, there are NCP car parks nearby but the hotel only has a very small
limited number of spaces. Please ensure you have parking locations noted to
minimise inconvenience in locating them once entering this part of London. If
you have satellite navigation, this will be very useful for locating the car
parks. Current prices range approximately £20-25 per day.
Please note that BUFORA reserves the
right to amend speaker schedules or timings in the run up to the event, from
which it may be required to engage a new speaker not on the published list.
BUFORA will not be liable for any refunds or cancellations to any ticket once
purchased. BUFORA does not accept any responsibility for room hire or meals issues
(reservation, cancellation or satisfaction) and this will be strictly between
the delegate (ticket holder) and hotel in the same way as if not connected to
the conference advertised.
BUFORA will provide refund or
opportunity to rebook a later venue in the highly unlikely case of cancellation
or unavailability of the venue.
The BUFORA committee, February 2012.
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