Earth (57 page)

16.
Rivas, op. cit.

17.
Letter from Gerald Light to Meade Layne, received April 16, 1954. Light gave his address as 10545 Scenario Lane, Los Angeles 24. In the 1970s, researcher William Moore tried in vain to trace the witness, though, as he notes in
The Roswell Incident
, a Gerald Light was employed in the early 1950s as director of advertising and sales promotion for CBS Columbia in Los Angeles. As for the other three witnesses, several previous attempts had been made to contact all of them about Light's story, but none would discuss the matter or even acknowledge receipt of letters concerning it.

18.
Berlitz, Charles, and Moore, William,
The Roswell Incident
, Granada, 1980, pp. 119–20.

19.
McElroy, Henry, “American Renaissance 2012,” April 13, 2012, henrymcelroy.wordpress.com

20.
Light, Michael,
100 Suns
, Jonathan Cape, London, 2003, chronology section.

21.
Personal communication, Woodstock, Virginia, May 8, 1998.

22.
ufocrashbook.com/eisenhower.html

CHAPTER FIVE: PUBLIC LANDINGS

1.
Fry, Margaret-Ellen,
Link to the Stars
, with a foreword by Desmond Leslie, privately published, 2009, pp. 1–4. I have supplemented this account with periodic updates sent to me by Margaret. She has also authored another book,
Who Are They?
(privately published, 2004). For signed copies, contact The Secretary, WFIU, 5 The Broadway, Abergele, Conwy, Wales, LL22 7DD.

2.
Report form to Contact (UK) signed by Steve Fredrick Costello, July 1, 1978.

3.
Fry, op. cit., p. 4.

4.
Piper, Linda, “UFO kids urged ‘phone home,'”
News Shopper
, Bexley (and other local areas), September 4, 2002.

5.
Piper, Linda, “Did you spot this 1955 UFO?”
News Shopper
, Bexley, September 18, 2002.

6.
Fry, op. cit., pp. 209–10.

7.
Hanson, John and Holloway, Dawn,
Haunted Skies: The Encyclopaedia of British UFOs,
Volume 1, 1940–1959
, CFZ Press, Bideford, Devon, 2010, pp. 171–4.

8.
Information supplied to me by Margaret Fry, who knew Doris Jacques.

9.
Hanson and Holloway, op. cit., p. 169.

10.
Personal interview, April 5, 2011.

11.
Hanson and Holloway, op. cit., pp. 174–5.

12.
Fry, op. cit., p. 210.

13.
Fry, op. cit., p. 211.

14.
Fry, Margaret-Ellen,
Who Are They?
p. 2.

15.
Fry,
Link to the Stars
, p. 212.

16.
Ibid., pp. 4–5.

17.
Luton, Tina, “The Day Westall High Stood Still,”
Inspire
, Issue 3, April 2011, pp. 52–5, published by the Communications Division for the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, Melbourne.

18.
Ryan, Shane, “The Forgotten Story of Melbourne's 1966 Westall Flying Saucer Incident,”
UFO Matrix
, Vol. 1, Issue 6, 2011, pp. 13–14.

19.
Luton, op. cit.

20.
Ryan, op. cit., p. 16.

CHAPTER SIX: TALES FROM THE VIENNA WOODS

1.
Good, Timothy,
Alien Base: Earth's Encounters with Extraterrestrials
, Century, London, 1998, also published by Avon Books, New York, 1999, pp. 233–8.

2.
Wanderka, Josef,
Meine UFO-Kontakt and Sichtungsdokumentation
, 1975, sent to the author in January 1983. Translated by Dorothee Walter.

3.
Personal interview, Vienna, September 6, 1996.

4.
Creighton,
Gordon, “A Weird Tale from the Vienna Woods,”
Flying Saucer Review
, Vol. 24, No. 6, April 1979, pp. 20–1.

CHAPTER SEVEN: INFILTRATION

1.
Wilkins, Harold T.,
Flying Saucers on the Attack
, Ace Books, New York, 1954, p. 46.

2.
Anderson, Carl A.,
Two Nights to Remember
, New Age Publishing Co., Los Angeles, 1956.

3.
Lecture at a conference in Reno, Nevada, July 10, 1966.

4.
Ibid.

5.
Wilkins, op. cit., p. 261.

6.
Lecture, Reno.

7.
“Dr. Hermann Oberth discusses UFOs,”
Fate
, May 1962, pp. 36–43.

8.
Collyns, Robin,
Did Spacemen Colonise the Earth?
Pelham Books, London, 1974, p. 236.

9.
Oberth, op. cit.

10.
Lecture, Reno.

11.
Van Tassel, George, “The Perfect Defense,”
Proceedings
, Vol. 6, No. 2, May–June 1958.

12.
Lecture, Reno.

13.
Good, Timothy,
Alien Base: Earth's Encounters with Extraterrestrials
, Century, London, 1998, and Avon Books, New York, 1999, pp. 30–9. See also
The Shocking Truth
by H. Albert Coe, The Book Fund, Beverly, New Jersey, 1969.

14.
Clark, Jerome,
The Emergence of a Phenomenon: UFOs from the Beginning through 1959
, The UFO Encyclopedia, Volume 2, Omnigraphics, Inc., 1992, pp. 295–7.

15.
“Centralian Tells Strange Tale of Visiting Venus Space Ship in Eastern Lewis County,”
Centralia Daily Chronicle
, April 1, 1950.

16.
Clark, op. cit.

17.
Personal interview, Mount Palomar, California, August 19, 1976.

18.
Freed, David, “Emissary,”
Air & Space
(Smithsonian), Vol. 27, No. 3, August 2012, p. 22.

19.
quest.nasa.gov/aero/planetary/mars.html

20.
Good, op. cit., p. 246.

21.
Personal interviews, Ontario, California, 19–20 November, 1979.

22.
Sagan, Carl,
The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective
, Coronet Books, London, 1975, pp. 151–2.

23.
Steckling, Fred,
Why Are They Here? Spaceships from Other Worlds
, Vantage Press, New York, 1969, pp. 71–4. See also adamskifoundation.com or write to GAF International/Adamski Foundation (run by Glenn Steckling) at P.O. Box 1722, Vista, California 92085.

24.
“NASA awards CU-Boulder $3.3 million for Venus mission,” Metro Denver Economic Development Corporation News Center, metrodenver.org.

25.
Kean, Sam, “Forbidden Planet,”
Air & Space
(Smithsonian), Vol. 25, No. 5, October/November
2010, pp. 63–7.

26.
Interview on the Art Bell Radio Show, Coast to Coast FM, November 2, 2003.

27.
Recorded interview with Albert Coe by Dr. Berthold Schwarz, May 17, 1977.

28.
Zinsstag, Lou and Good, Timothy,
George Adamski: The Untold Story
, with a foreword by Lady Falkender, Ceti Publications, 1983.

29.
Leslie, Desmond and Adamski, George,
Flying Saucers Have Landed
, Wernie Laurie, London, 1953.

30.
Adamski, George,
Inside the Space Ships
, Arco Publishers and Neville Spearman Ltd., London, 1956, p. 56.

31.
Tolman, Alan G., “My Early Experiences with Flying Saucers and Early Contactee George Adamski,” provided for me by Glenn Steckling via Alan Tolman.

32.
Wilkins, op. cit., pp. 260–61.

33.
Leslie, Desmond and Adamski, George,
Flying Saucers Have Landed
(revised edition), Neville Spearman, London, 1970, pp. 248–9.

34.
Dohan, Henry,
The Pawn of His Creator: Early Contactees of Interplanetary Visitations
, edited and published posthumously by David R. Kammerer. Second, revised edition, August 2008, P.O. Box 96701, Las Vegas, Nevada 89193, p. 124.

35.
Good, op. cit., p. 105.

36.
Dohan, op. cit., pp. 245–6.

37.
Speech by Senator the Hon. G. Brown, Appropriation Bill (No. 2) 1962–63 (First Reading), from
Parliamentary Debates
, 14th May, 1963, p. ii, reproduced at the end of Dohan's book.

38.
Steckling, op. cit., p. 78.

39.
As reported in
Alien Base
, in June 1963 Apolinar Villa witnessed the landing of a large disc from which emerged four men and five women, ranging in height from seven to nine feet. Some had blond hair, some black—and others red.

40.
Lecture, Reno.

41.
Neues Europa
, January 1, 1959.

CHAPTER EIGHT: AIRBORNE ENCOUNTERS

1.
National Archives, DEFE-24-2013-1, pp. 273–82. If there is any truth to the Churchill/Eisenhower story, it is odd that in an official memo to the Secretary of State for Air and Lord Cherwell on July 28, 1952, Churchill asked: “What does all this stuff about flying saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth? Let me have a report at your convenience.” If he already knew enough to insist on a cover-up in the Second World War, why would he have needed to ask such a question?

2.
Malvern, Jack, “So, flying saucers—what's the truth, Churchill asked,”
The Times
, London, August 5, 2010, pp. 12–13.

3.
Kissner, J. Andrew,
Peculiar Phenomenon: Early United States Efforts to Collect and Analyze Flying Discs
. (Currently unpublished.)

4.
The Kenny Young Archives and
UFO Frontier
by Kenny Young, edited by S. Patrick Feeney,
available via Amazon. (I have corrected details of some of the aircraft types.)

5.
Wilkins, Harold T.,
Flying Saucers Uncensored
, Arco, London, 1956, p. 137.

6.
See
Empire of the Clouds: When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World
by James Hamilton-Patterson, Faber and Faber, London, 2010.

7.
Supplied by Dr. Olavo Fontes, a Brazilian researcher, to Richard H. Hall, an American counterpart, March 15, 1958.

8.
Vike, Brian, “Lt. Col. Roy Jack Edwards tells his son of his UFO encounter as a test pilot,” americanchronicle.com/articles/50322 (January 26, 2008).

9.
Torres, Noe and Uriarte, Ruben,
The Other Roswell: UFO Crash on the Texas-Mexico Border
, RoswellBooks.com, 2008, pp. 23–6.

10.
Ibid., pp. 33–5.

11.
Ibid., p. 36.

12.
Ibid., pp. 45–9.

13.
Ibid., pp. 51–8.

14.
Personal communication, November 11, 2010.

15.
Ibid., pp. 63–7.

16.
Ibid., pp. 68–73.

17.
Possibly General Thomas D. White, who became assistant chief of staff for intelligence in 1944 and chief of staff for the U.S. Air Force in 1957.

18.
Torres and Uriarte, op. cit., pp. 83–4.

19.
Good, Timothy,
Need to Know: UFOs, the Military and Intelligence
, Pan Books, London, and Pegasus Books, New York, 2007, p. 55.

20.
Torres and Uriarte, op. cit., p. 91.

21.
Ibid., pp. 119–21.

22.
Good, Timothy,
Beyond Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Security Threat
, Pan Books, London, 1997, p. 537.

23.
Ibid., pp. 121–2.

24.
Randle, Kevin D., “Crash Goes the Del Rio Crash,”
UFO Magazine
, Vol. 24, No. 1, January 2011, pp, 18–19.

25.
Personal communication, January 7, 2011.

26.
Letter from Dr. Milton Torres to the Ministry of Defence, London, July 1988, released in October 2008.

27.
Cox, Billy, “UFO Chaser to Obama: ‘Open the Books!,'”
theufochronicles.com/2009/02/ufo-chaser-to-obama-open-books.html

28.
Letter to the Ministry of Defence, July 1988.

29.
Evans, Michael, “Close Encounter: the airman who tried to shoot down a UFO,”
The Times
, London, October 20, 2008.

30.
Letter to the Ministry of Defence, July 1988.

31.
Hoffman, Michael, “Retired Air Force pilot recalls attempt to shoot down UFO,”
Air Force Times
, October 20, 2008.

32.
Letter to the Ministry of Defence, July 2008.

33.
military-writers.com/airforce/milton_torres.html

34.
Spangler,
David, “Retired Air Force pilot tells of close encounter 50 years ago,”
Miami Herald
, October 22, 2008.

35.
O'Brien, Miles, in a transcript of
American Morning
, November 24, 2008.

36.
Letter to the Ministry of Defence, July 1988.

CHAPTER NINE: “A NEW WORLD—IF YOU CAN TAKE IT”

1.
Corso, Col. Philip J., with Birnes, William J.,
The Day After Roswell
, Pocket Books, New York, 1997.

2.
This information was revealed in a videotaped interview with Corso by the Italian investigator Maurizio Baiata.

3.
Corso, Philip J., USA Ret.,
Dawn of a New Age
, kindly supplied to me by the researcher Paola Harris, a friend of Corso. This section of Corso's manuscript for
The Day After Roswell
was not included in the book.

4.
Ibid., p. 156.

5.
Ibid., pp. 166–8.

6.
Ibid., pp. 157–8.

7.
Ibid., pp. 159–61.

8.
This brings to mind an interesting parallel. In July 1949, at White Sands, Daniel Fry, a rocket engineer for Aerojet General Corporation, encountered a landed craft and was invited aboard by its humanoid pilot, “A-lan.” At one point, Fry was astonished to notice the caduceus symbol in the craft. “You are perfectly correct when you point out that the symbol of the tree and the serpent is a common one in the history and the legends of your planet,” said A-lan. “The explanation is that we have, at least in part, a common ancestry. Tens of thousands of years ago, some of our ancestors lived on this planet, Earth….” (
The White Sands Incident
by Dr. Daniel Fry, Best Books Inc., Louisville, Kentucky 40218, 1966. See also my book
Alien Base
.)