HAUNTED SKIES: 5th July 2012

It’s been a tiring few days following a visit from Richard D Hall, who interviewed me about the Haunted Skies books, and some other cases more up to date. These included an examination of an incident in 1994 when a retired Police Officer sighted a UFO while out fishing. As result of him informing the MOD, he was later subjected to some harassment. The investigator, John Jenkins spoke about his early investigation and then the retired officer gave his viewpoint. We also discussed what appears to be the recovery of an alleged implant and some harassment afterwards to the party concerned, who also gave her side of the matter. This took place in 1995.

Richard was very pleased with the interviews, and is in the process of ordering a number of books from the publishers, which will be available when the programme goes out in a couple of month’s time.

Devon Libraries have now begun to stock the books, which is also great news.

Don Ramkin from London sent us a photo of his gorgeous kitten.

Kevin Goodman has been in contact and tells us that his republished book Cradle of Contact  is due out on Amazon any day now.  Well done Kevin!  Kevin is also giving a talk at the Weird Weekend in August.

We wanted to show you the original cover for Haunted Skies, which we paid £40 for to some guy in Suffolk, who we met while walking through the forest. I gather he was peeved that we didn’t use it - sorry we changed our mind!

From our friend Roy Dutton,  a newspaper cutting about a recent visit that he had:

Dave Hodrien of the Birmingham UFO Group Chairman & Investigator:

On Sunday 17th June I, my father, brother and other members of BUFOG headed down to Suffolk for the 2012 Rendlesham UFO Conference. It was a really great day, with some excellent speakers followed by a visit to the forest. I’ve now uploaded a full review of the conference including loads of photos of the event. You can have a read on the Birmingham UFO Group website at the below link:

http://bufogarticles.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/2012-rendlesham-ufo-conference.html#more

Hope you enjoy the review. You have permission to forward the link via E-Mail or on any forums, although if you wish to copy the article it for use elsewhere please contact me directly for approval.

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Haunted Skies Blog for Monday 25th June 2012

Last Wednesday morning (Solstice) we drove to the Henge Bookshop in Avebury , and after having a chat with Esther and John, who are now selling Haunted Skies books, we came across a friend of ours, ‘Viv’. She was in the car park opposite with her friend Graham, and lives in Glastonbury. She is a talented artist and an old friend of ours. She drives ‘Luis’ the van, and it was Dawn who was the first to spot it. 

We then bumped into Denny Clarke, a lady who we knew from yesteryear, and who was showing some American tourists around the stones. We handed out some business cards and showed them the books and after kissing her goodbye, we walked around the stones and introduced ourselves to various people telling them what we were doing. Suffice to say there were not that many people about, as it was mid-week and the weather was not very good. 

We stopped off at Marlborough Library and spoke to a friendly librarian who asked that we leave a book with her in order to ask the committee whether they would be prepared to stock Haunted Skies.

We then went to the Red Lion public house and had a drink and chatted to Alfie the baby (well at least to his beautiful mum) before walking over the antique shop where we were shown some UFO books that had belonged to Andrew Collins, who used to live in the Avebury some years ago. The owner told us about a UFO sighting he had had with his daughter during the 1990s when they saw a cigar-shaped object showing flashing lights hovering over the village. 

We then made out way to Eastfields where we parked for the night in the car, after having visited the car park at the top overlooking the fields and speaking to tourists who were looking for the recently formed crop circle that had appeared a few days before. We were told this was a hoax, but didn’t see it ourselves.

After a hardy night we set off across country to Glastonbury, where we made our way to the Gothic Image bookshop where we were asked to leave two books for them to make a decision about stocking Haunted Skies. We then continued our journey to Devon where, after enduring the pouring heavy rain, we arrived at the publishers on the afternoon of Friday, by which time I had began to develop a heavy cold, which I still have today. No doubt sleeping out on the side of a rain-soaked hill is not good for your health!

We are in the process of completing Volume 6 which will cover the period of British UFO history between 1975-1977 and Dawn is proofing Volume 7, 1978-1979. I am working on Volume 8 which will cover just one year: 1980! And what a year that is going to be! 

Haunted Skies blog update published 15th June 2012

Currently we are working on Volume 7 which covers the period 1978 to 1979: an incredible jam-packed two years! We have also been in contact with Vice Admiral Nicholas Hill Norton who has been looking at our books, and have talked about his illustrious father.

We are sorry we have been out of circulation this was due to a serious health problem with a member of my family, but it appears it was not as serious as first thought (and it don’t get much more serious than that) but he is out of hospital, and hopefully doing well.

Robert Taylor, Dechmont Woods, Scotland: We have been in touch with Malcolm Robinson with regard to the Robert Taylor case as we want to ensure that our coverage of this case is thorough.(not forgetting the assistance of people like Philip Mantle, Gary Heseltine, Graham Birdsall, ‘Wee’ John Jenkins, and Andy Owens. What I would like to have seen, is the original illustration as drawn in the Police Officer pocket book (long gone).

Does any know the whereabouts of Roger Glover please? He was/is a Scottish UFO researcher and Malcolm would like to speak to him.

Marketing plan: Two books have gone out to a large bookstore in London (fingers crossed) another two have gone out to the Birmingham Evening Mail who will be reviewing the books and doing an article on us.

One has gone to a retired Colonel in the States who will be assisting us with a later book, and another has gone to Phil Hoyle and Roy Lake who have been very helpful over the years, and others have gone to the illustrators. We have Steven Franklin and Mick Walters who are helping us, but we need others if only to vary the work used in Haunted Skies so if anybody wants to assist us with illustrations and get their names in our books please contact us, and send some specimen work.

I spoke to Tony Pace in the week, who was formerly Director of Investigations with BUFORA, and he would like to contribute something for the 6th Volume with regard to his visit made to the Welsh coast in the late 1970s.

Father's Day cake

Jubilee day at  the Caravan site!

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