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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 4 Ted Owens Box 1171 Libby, Montana 59923 LIBBY, MT APR 5 PM 1983 59923 USA 20c Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove 190 25th Avenue San Francisco, California 94121 === Page 2 of 4 April 2, 1983 Jeffrey Am now trying to get the Australian government to bring me there to end the worst drought in their history, in exchange for my UFO Base. If I am successful, then I will pay you and Scott $50,000.00 each for your book, and will get it published myself. Ted Owens PK Man === Page 3 of 4 Spokane, Wash., Fri., April 1, 1983 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW # Pastors claim God using Helens to make his point LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) -- Two ministers in cities near Mount St. Helens say God is using the volcano and the economy to tell Longview and Kelso residents to be more religious, charitable and caring of their families. "We feel that God is using the Spirit Lake flood situation, the river, and the mountain and the bad economy to get people's attention and get the community back to its spiritual moorings," said The Rev. Dave Minor, pastor of Columbia Heights Assembly of God Church in Longview. He and The Rev. Sam Poe, pastor at the Bible Truth Christian Fellowship in Lexington, see a message of fire and brimstone in the volcano's eruptions. "We're not saying it's doomsday. We're standing on the brightest day in the history of these cities if we listen to what God has to say," Minor said. The cities along the Cowlitz River are within 45 miles of the volcano that erupted with the force of a hydrogen bomb on May 18, 1980. While living with the threat of more eruptions, about 45,000 people in the valley are threatened with a wall of water that would rush down the Toutle and Cowlitz rivers if a debris dam breaks at Spirit Lake. The Army Corps of Engineers installed an emergency pumping operation on the lake near the volcano to lower the lake level until a permanent solution is found. The timber-dependent area also has been blasted by the recession. Although geologists and economists believe there are other explanations for the recession and the volcano, Minor says, "I believe God is in control of those things." Poe says the communities have "singularly been blessed by God" in the past, but have strayed from the Christian ideals of their Christian founders. April 1, 1983 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS I believe that this newsclip is remarkable and extraordinary. Both church ministers say that they believe that "God" is using volcanic explosions and bad economy (two very dissimilar things) to bring a "message" to the people. That "God" is using the nature catastrophes AND the bad economy to "get the people's attention".......... Of course, this is EXACTLY what my work has been about...and what I have been telling you about: My UFOs are "using" both of these, and other, mechanisms, to get the people's attention, and the government agencies' attention! And the ministers are actually on the right track! They know nothing about my UFOs...but my UFOs have told me (and the fact is published) that they work for God...they and Nature, as a team. The further point that the ministers make is that the "demonstrations" from "God" are to get the people back to "spiritual moorings"...and teach the people to be "more religious, charitable, and caring of their families." They are accurate here, too. Remember...the point of my UFOs causing an attack on the Economy, higher ups, etc., etc., is to pressure someone, somewhere, to provide their Base...from which all of the negative, destructive mechanisms of the UFOs will be dismantled...and replaced by positive, helpful mechanisms...which will actually change human nature world-wide toward peace, brotherhood, love for each other, block wars, etc. It is true...and if you do not believe me, then perhaps you can believe the two ministers...whom I have never met and do not know..."God" (the force my UFOs work for...and whom Dr. Mishlove describes as "the Phenomenon" in his book about my work, which has not been published) is indeed using the Mt. St. Helens volcanic explosions, and many other catastrophes, to "make the point." Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 4 of 4 UFOs attack scientists Sagan's recovered SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) -- Astronomer CARL SAGAN has made a "full and complete" recovery from complications that followed an appendectomy and has been discharged from a hospital. Sagan, 48, developed internal bleeding after an emergency appendectomy March 19 at Tompkins Community Hospital in Ithaca, New York. He was transferred to Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse two days later, and discharged Friday. Hospital spokesman Robert Vaccarelli quoted Sagan's wife, ANN DRUYAN, as saying the Pulitzer Prize-winning author was "anxious to get back to work." Sagan, a Cornell University professor, was host of public television's popular "Cosmos" series. SPACS 4/3/83 April 3, 1983 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS As I told you not long ago, my UFOs are now attacking scientists, because scientists have actively contributed to the blocking of the UFOs acquiring their Base, and have attacked me. The AMA attacked me in Ft. Worth, Texas, years ago (falsely)...and have since paid heavily forit, losing heavy membership and having many major things go wrong for them. Anyway, see the above newsclip. Sagan is the first scientist to be attacked by my UFOs, as far as I can determine from my limited approach to newspapers. An appendectomy is a comparatively simple matter; just a minor thing...and certainly no complications should stem from it. (I can speak with some authority because I stood beside surgeons operating for about two years at the Gaston Hospital in Dallas, Texas, as medical secretary, and took shorthand notes as the surgeons operated. So I know what I am talking about.) Hynek and several hundred other scientists now can expect an attack from my UFOs. Before closing, let me say that I expect a major earthquake on the West Coast soon... nothing less than 7 on the Richter and perhaps an 8. Destruction will be devastating. Also let me tell you that all of the catastrophic explosions around the U.S. that are taking place are being caused by the UFO Sun Attack...the earth being heated from its core outward, plus rays being diverted downward by the four giant UFOs around Earth. Owens 7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8304 Newspaper Files https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/14218ac4ee7e1526e833691a4eb922a9.pdf 621ccdd4785e05c5e67944aed1ab9735 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/58cc1f1ce94d100689d9c1d6227fb881.txt 8240dbc8412a183d74ec60cf1a00d768 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1983 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 92 Please show to Scott May 3, 1983 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS A "severe earthquake" of 6.5 on the Richter shook up California yesterday, Monday. * The earthquake was a 'caused' event. My UFOs (SIs) and I caused it to happen. Read my letter to you of April 3, 1983: "I expect a major earthquake on the West Coast soon...nothing less than 7 on the Richter and perhaps an 8." I just missed the Richter 7 by .5, but will try to rectify the error. The day I wrote you, May 3, my SIs made telepathic contact and gave me a "PK Map" or "psi-force map" and instructed me on how to activate it. The earthquake yesterday was the result. San Francisco was to be the bullseye...but the epicenter, as I understand it, was just below San Francisco about 200 miles. This sad demonstration is being carried out in desperation by my UFOs to prove the utter reality of them, and of me. To get their Base, so that constructive measures can then be placed into motion. But until that occurs, earthquake psi-force will be continued; the Sun Attack will continue to cause devastating weather; the Bermuda Triangle overlay will continue to be in effect...and so on and so on. Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens * "The most destructive earthquake to strike California in a decade." (CNN News) Who reading this file would want to believe that half alien rain could cause all this chaos. But that is the fact. Owens May 4, 1983...to my astonishment my UFOs have given me permission to describe to you in detail how Monday's California earthquakes were caused by a psi-force attack. The SIs gave me a map, telepathically, of the State of California. They told me to use mental imagery and picture the ocean moving powerfully northward along the shoreline of California, and picture the land moving southward simultaneously and to keep repeating the action...as one would slide one's hands back and forth against each other, creating friction. This mental imagery, they assured me, coupled with my half-alien mind containing other-dimensional powers, would create the Richter 7 I desired. And since they knew that I was deeply concerned about possible deaths of innocent people, I was to embody the thought of safety for the people into the psi-force process. Well, I got the earthquake. It was very close to a 7. And no one was killed. Owens === Page 2 of 92 UFOs attack Economy # Double-digit joblessness SPRN 4/13/83 ## February figures show 30 states above 10 percent mark WASHINGTON (AP) -- Thirty states had double-digit joblessness in February and unemployment in West Virginia hit 21 percent, the highest for any state since the government began tracking these statistics in the late 1960s, the Labor Department said Tuesday. Oregon had the worst unemployment figures in the Pacific Northwest, reporting a 13.1 percent jobless rate this year compared with 12.9 percent in February 1982. Idaho was close behind with 13 percent unemployment, up from 11.5 one year earlier. Washington state's 12.8 percent figure compared with 12.5 percent in February 1982. And Montana had 10.6 percent unemployment this past February, up from 10.1 one year earlier. The state-by-state and metropolitan area employment statistics, which are not adjusted for such seasonal variations as weather and school closings, showed that nine states joined the list of those with jobless rates of 10 percent or more in February, compared with the same month a year earlier. Twenty-two of these states had unemployment rates that reached or exceeded the national seasonally unadjusted rate of 11.3 percent in February, and jobless rates were above the national average in 100 of 233 metropolitan areas surveyed by the government. In another report, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said the size of the student labor force continued to decline over the year ended Oct. 31, 1982 "as the tail-end of the post-World War II baby boom was completing high school." It said the number of job-seekers between the ages of 16 and 24 shrank by a half million, with 60 percent of the decline taking place among high school-age youths. The state-by-state employment analysis showed that West Virginia, where mining industry layoffs have had a ripple effect on the state's heavily industrialized economy, the jobless rate soared nearly 8 percentage points over the year -- from 13.1 percent in February 1982 to 21 percent this past February. Seven metropolitan areas, paced by a 25.9 percent rate in Johnstown, Pa., had joblessness at or above 20 percent of their respective labor forces. Other cities with the highest jobless rates were Modesto, Calif., 23.8 percent; Duluth-Superior, Minn., 22.2; Sharon, Pa., 21.9; Kankakee, Ill., 21.4; Stockton, Calif., 20.4; and Youngstown-Warren, Ohio, 20.1. Only the Raleigh-Durham, N.C., area with an unemployment rate of 4.8 percent, came under the 5 percent level. Following West Virginia on the roster of states with the highest jobless rates in February were Michigan, 16.5 percent; Alabama, 16.1; Ohio, 14.5; Pennsylvania, 14.1; Illinois, 13.8; Tennessee, 13.6; Indiana, 13.2; Oregon, 13.1; Idaho, 13.0; Washington state, 12.8; and Wisconsin, 12.7. UFO Project # Cafe caters to the hungry poor 4/29/83 BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) -- The hungry can eat for free in William Land's restaurant, where a covered metal tin for donations substitutes for a cash register. The Cozy Kitchen Cafe opened Wednesday in Land's Belleville home, where a hand-painted sign reads: "No charge for food items. This restaurant is operated on donations only, that no one who comes leaves hungry because of a lack of money. Donate only you can..." The idea sprung up about three months ago when a woman whose food stamps did not arrive came to him in tears because all she had to feed her children the night before was cooked potato peelings. "The thing that bothered me was the tears in her eyes," Land said Wednesday. "I told my wife, 'Let's start being a doer.'" He said it's time people did more than sit in church on Sunday. Land said he gave the woman some food and began the three-month task of setting up the restaurant. He got a restaurant license and must keep records to show that sales tax on the food and any food sales is paid. Land, a retired boilermaker, said he and his wife, Dorothy, and their foster daughter, Cindy, were financing the restaurant out of their $1,700 monthly income. The cafe is open between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. daily, but Land said he would reopen any time day or night for hungry people. The cafe is simple in fixtures and furniture and can seat 15 people. A microwave oven and a commercial coffee maker sit on a shelf behind the counter. The pan marked "donation" hangs on a wall near the back door. But in its first three hours of operation, five people had stopped by for free food. "Write the story any way you want to," Land said. "Send me the hungry people." The menu includes sandwiches that can be heated in the oven, potato chips, soda, coffee, milk and tea. For breakfast there are donuts and cereal. Wednesday's menu at noon featured country ham and beans that Land said he had cooked Tuesday night. "This is not strictly for St. Clair County," Land said. "This is for hungry people. I don't care if they come from New York or New Orleans." Note: This is the sort of thing the ETs want me (working with them from our base) to cause to happen all over the world! this kind of action and thinking. Owen === Page 3 of 92 5-5-83 postmark UFOs attack scientists Sagan's recovered SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - Astronomer CARL SAGAN has made a "full and complete" recovery from complications that followed an appendectomy and has been discharged from a hospital. Sagan, 48, developed internal bleeding after an emergency appendectomy March 19 at Tompkins Community Hospital in Ithaca, New York. He was transferred to Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse two days later, and discharged Friday. Hospital spokesman Robert Vaccarelli quoted Sagan's wife, ANN DRUYAN, as saying the Pulitzer Prize-winning author was "anxious to get back to work." Sagan, a Cornell University professor, was host of public television's popular "Cosmos" series. SAGAN SPRESS 4/3/83 April 3, 1983 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS As I told you not long ago, my UFOs are now attacking scientists, because scientists have actively contributed to the blocking of the UFOs acquiring their Base, and have attacked me. The AMA attacked me in Ft. Worth, Texas, years ago (falsely)...and have since paid heavily forit, losing heavy membership and having many major things go wrong for them. Anyway, see the above newsclip. Sagan is the first scientist to be attacked by my UFOs, as far as I can determine from my limited approach to newspapers. An appendectomy is a comparatively simple matter; just a minor thing...and certainly no complications should stem from it. (I can speak with some authority because I stood beside surgeons operating for about two years at the Gaston Hospital in Dallas, Texas, as medical secretary, and took shorthand notes as the surgeons operated. So I know what I am talking about.) Hynek and several hundred other scientists now can expect an attack from my UFOs. Before closing, let me say that I expect a major earthquake on the West Coast soon... nothing less than 7 on the Richter and perhaps an 8. Destruction will be devastating. Also let me tell you that all of the catastrophic explosions around the U.S. that are taking place are being caused by the UFO Sun Attack...the earth being heated from its core outward, plus rays being diverted downward by the four giant UFOs around Earth. Owens === Page 4 of 92 # California town afire after quake ## Downtown buildings collapse; All of the state feels temblor SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A severe earthquake struck the small San Joaquin Valley community of Coalinga on Monday afternoon, collapsing buildings, sparking fires and injuring an estimated 50 people, authorities said. The quake, which struck about 4:45 p.m. and registered an estimated 6.5 on the Richter scale, was felt throughout California - from Sacramento to Valencia, and as far east as Reno, Nev. "There are buildings collapsed" in Coalinga, said a Fresno County Sheriff's Department spokesman who declined to identify himself, "and any time you have buildings collapsed, you have people inside and their injuries are pretty serious." "You can't believe the fires down there," said the unidentified pilot of a private plane monitored on Fresno County's emergency radio network. "The downtown section is finished... It looks like a real disaster." The University of California seismographic station at Berkeley measured the quake at 6.5 on the Richter scale and put the epicenter five miles northeast of Coalinga, said Wallace Ravven, public information officer for the university. That community, a town of about 7,000 people about 200 miles southeast of San Francisco, apparently took the brunt of the temblor. Lindsay Daniels, assistant administrative officer for Fresno County, said there was "major structural damage as far as buildings are concerned, fires in the city itself and possible injuries." A switchboard operator at Coalinga District Hospital said injuries were coming in to the facility, but was unable to provide numbers or the extent of the injuries. Chris Courtney, Fresno County Emergency Services coordinator, estimated there were up to 50 casualties, and said he was concerned (Continued on page 2) # Earthquake----------(Continued from page 1) he was concerned about students at West Hills College, located in the area. Ambulances from Fresno, Kings and Tulare counties and Lemoore Naval Air Station were dispatched to the area. In Golden, Colo., the U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Center estimated the earthquake at 6.1 on the Richter scale, said spokesman John Minsch. THE QUAKE WAS felt throughout the state, with reports coming from Fresno, San Jose, Bakersfield, San Francisco, Sacramento and Valencia, north of Los Angeles. The temblor also was felt as far east as Reno, Nev. The quake hit at about 4:45 p.m. and was felt in San Francisco as a gentle rolling motion which lasted for about 10 seconds. Other areas reported the duration at up to 20 seconds. In the Capitol in Sacramento, the shaking brought a Senate Finance Committee hearing to a halt at about 4:45 p.m., shaking chandeliers for several minutes. "In my living room, my hanging plants from the ceiling and a chandelier swung in an arc of about 10 or 12 inches, so it was a pretty good one," said Jerry Rankin of the Santa Barbara News-Press. RANKIN SAID THE quake was a rolling one which felt like the area's strongest since August 1978, when a tremor derailed a train and caused millions of dollars in damage. ## Bay Area feels a roll; Committee action halted as Capitol is shaken Seward Bartley, a reporter at the Hollister Free-Lance newspaper, said a woman who called the paper said it seemed to last forever. "It was very long. It started slowly, it rocked us and it just continued," Bartley said. The San Andreas and Calaveras faults cross in Hollister, 110 miles southeast of San Francisco, and earthquakes are common there. Bartley said long-distance telephone service was disrupted briefly after the quake, but quickly began working again. "I was sitting at my kitchen table and I looked up and my lamp and plants were rocking, so I grabbed my son and just sat down on the floor," said Debbie Purvis of Davis, near Sacramento. THE RICHTER SCALE is a measure of ground motion as recorded on seismographs. Every increase of one number means a tenfold increase in magnitude. Thus a reading of 7.5 reflects an earthquake 10 times stronger than one of 6.5. An earthquake of 3.5 on the Richter scale can cause slight damage in the local area, 4 moderate damage, 5 considerable damage, 6 severe damage. A 7 reading is a "major" earthquake, capable of widespread heavy damage; 8 is a "great" quake, capable of tremendous damage. The San Francisco earthquake of 1906, which occurred before the Richter scale was devised, has been estimated at 8.3 on the Richter scale. === Page 5 of 92 my air-force demonstration # Coalinga quake 'disaster, miracle' COALINGA, Calif. (AP) -- Hundreds of aftershocks chased residents from their damaged homes Tuesday as they tried to clean up more than $25 million in damage from a powerful earthquake that injured 47 people but caused no reported deaths -- a "disaster and a miracle." The Monday afternoon earthquake, registering 6.5 on the Richter scale, damaged virtually every home in this rural community and reduced the refurbished downtown area to rubble, ripping the brick facades from buildings, snapping gas lines and rupturing water mains. Many of the town's 7,000 residents spent the night in tents, on mattresses on their lawns or in cars, and on Tuesday people whose homes suffered less damage wandered in the sunshine examining the damage. No one was reported missing, said Fresno County Sheriff's Lt. Merrill Wright, who spent the night at the scene. "It was a disaster and a miracle," said Fresno County Supervisor Deran Koligian. "The disaster was that everything was demolished. The miracle was there were no fatalities." Most of the injured suffered cuts and bruises and were treated and released from hospitals in several counties. Six people with more serious injuries were transferred to other hospitals. The quake, centered five miles north of this oil and farming community 200 miles southeast of San Francisco, struck at 4:45 p.m. and rippled along a 450-mile stretch from Sacramento to San Bernardino and into western Nevada. Houses were hurled from their foundations, roofs gave way, large buildings collapsed in clouds of dust and ruptured gas lines sent 40- to 50-foot flames raging into the sky before they were controlled. "There's no part of the city that's untouched," Mayor Keith Scrivner said Tuesday. "All of the residences are damaged, half of them extensively. It's terrible, everybody's going to lose a lot." Brick fronts were torn from many of the two-story, 60-year-old buildings downtown. The area, refurbished a dozen years ago, is "completely going to be demolished and hauled away -- the entire original buildings in the city of Coalinga," Scrivner said. But he was optimistic: "We can build it again, and we will." Coalinga city spokesman Bob Semple said preliminary estimates put damage at $25 million to the eight-block downtown commercial area alone. He said 300 of 2,600 homes suffered major damage. Great Falls Tribune 5/4/83 my air-force demonstration # Earthquake occurs on unknown fault LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The strong earthquake in Coalinga occurred along a previously unknown fault that parallels but probably is separate from the huge San Andreas fault, seismologists say. Scientists determined the center of Monday's jolt, which measured 6.5 on the Richter scale, was 20-30 miles east of the 600-mile San Andreas. The jolt was centered along a fault apparently unconnected to San Andreas, said Kate Hutton, a California Institute of Technology researcher. "We can't be absolutely certain of that, but we wouldn't think it would be," Hutton said. Geologist Darrell Herd of the survey's headquarters in Reston, Va., said seismic maps fail to show a fault at the location of the Coalinga quake. "It did not occur on any previously mapped or named fault zone of recent origin in the immediate Coalinga area," Herd said in a telephone interview with the Los Angeles Times. "There are some old faults there, but this earthquake does not appear to have happened on any of them." In recent years, he said, scientists have discovered a series of small faults in the area, which is a transition zone between valley floor and mountain slopes. "These faults are crudely parallel to the San Andreas, but don't seem to be connected to the San Andreas," Herd said. Hutton and Jerry Eaton of the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, Calif., said it's unlikely that the temblor might foreshadow another huge quake along the San Andreas, which has produced huge shocks such as the one that devastated San Francisco in 1906. Nevertheless, scientists continued to warn that a major earthquake will happen again. "We know it's inevitable and likely in our lifetime," said Dr. Tom Heaton, a seismologist with the geological survey. The quake was bad news to scientists who hope to learn to predict earthquakes by monitoring foreshocks, he added. The Coalinga quake produced a series of aftershocks but apparently was not preceded by any lesser temblors. === Page 6 of 92 my air-force demonstration # Aftershocks continue to rattle quake-ravished California city COALINGA, Calif. (AP) -- Hundreds of aftershocks chased California residents from their damaged homes Tuesday. Between shocks, Coalinga residents tried to clean up more than $25 million in damage from a powerful earthquake that injured 47 people but caused no reported deaths. The Monday afternoon earthquake, registering 6.5 on the Richter scale, damaged virtually every home in the rural community and reduced the refurbished downtown area to rubble. It ripped the brick facades from buildings, snapped gas lines and ruptured water mains. Many of the town's 7,000 residents spent Monday night in tents, on mattresses on their lawns or in cars. And on Tuesday people whose homes suffered less damage wandered in the sunshine examining the damage. No one was reported missing, said Fresno County Sheriff's Lt. Merrill Wright, who spent the night at the scene. "It was a disaster and a miracle," said Fresno County Supervisor Deran Koligian. "The disaster was that everything was demolished. The miracle was there were no fatalities." Most of the injured suffered cuts and bruises and were treated and released from hospitals in several counties. Six people with more serious injuries were transferred to other hospitals. The quake, centered five miles north of this oil and farming community 200 miles southeast of San Francisco, struck at 4:45 p.m. and rippled along a 450-mile stretch from Sacramento to San Bernardino and into western Nevada. Houses were hurled from their foundations, roofs gave way, large buildings collapsed in clouds of dust and ruptured gas lines sent 40- to 50-foot flames raging into the sky before they were controlled. "There's no part of the city that's untouched," Mayor Keith Scrivner said Tuesday. "All of the residences are damaged, half of them extensively. It's terrible, everybody's going to lose a lot." Brick fronts were torn from many of the two-story, 60-year-old buildings downtown. The area, refurbished a dozen years ago, is "completely going to be demolished and hauled away -- the entire original buildings in the city of Coalinga," Scrivner said. But he was optimistic: "We can build it again, and we will." Coalinga city spokesman Bob Semple said preliminary estimates put damage at $25 million to the eight-block downtown commercial area alone. He said 300 of 2,600 homes suffered major damage. Hundreds of aftershocks were recorded. Some measuring as much as 4.0 on the Richter scale rocked the town every hour or so, sending residents scurrying into the streets. Gov. George Deukmejian declared a state of emergency for Fresno County, setting the stage for large-scale state and federal assistance. Great Falls Tribune 5/4/83 # Earthquake damage Journalists survey downtown Coalinga, Calif., Tuesday morning after an earthquake that measured 6.5 on the Richter scale and caused an estimated $25 million in damage. To the surprise of authorities, no deaths have been reported. Forty-seven people, however, were known to be injured. The 7,000 residents of the city Tuesday grappled with damage and battled hundreds of aftershocks, some reaching 4.0 on the scale. Story, additional photos on 2-A. (AP Photo) === Page 7 of 92 Note: Am enclosing affidavit from a responsible weather scientist, if I could control Florida (and I did) all I had to do was to expand the "mass" of psi-force to blanket the entire United States instead of just Florida. Owens May 4, 1983 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS Please read this file carefully. All events that have happened in the newsclips...have been caused. Now, if you have studied my previous work...you know that whenever an unusual event occurs that is a "record" happening...or once in a decade, or 50 years, or 100 years...it is inevitably one of the phenomena that I am working on. Look through this Sun Attack file and see the number of "record" happenings. You might say, it is my UFO trademark. For those of you who are not too good at reading...I have even written in the important things to notice, which deal with my work. I wince...whenever I have to include a newsclip of how the UFOs are clobbering a "higher up"...yet I have to do so. I am really a reporter telling what my UFOs are doing...the only one in the world who can do so...so I have to be objective, in the interest of Truth. I know that the "higher ups" and government bigwigs would be furious with me...but it just has to be laid out. Incidentally, the sign given me by my UFOs...circle with a bar through it...seems to be the Greek sign "PHI"...I have found out. My friend, George Delavan, has told me that he saw a TV show where some weather experts declared that all of the recent tornados, volcanos, etc., were no accident...that something unusual was happening...and another of the experts said that the Pacific ocean had turned 17 degrees warmer than normal. It is interesting that the east coast, west coast, midwest and south have been racked up with catastrophic weather...yet this corner of Montana has been untouched by it. Just a reminder...your life, and the lives of your own family...depend on me and what my UFOs and I do, believe it or not. If this Report is not enough to convince you of my UFOs reality, and the reality of my work...then I will be happy to increase the effects 100 times. You have to realize that time and distance are irrelevant in ESP...and my own discovery (which I have proven by now)... is MASS. I.e., what I can do I can escalate, or magnify 100 times, if I wish. PyreCre, the Egyptian Power, recently telepathd, and taught me how to pinpoint human beings with a destructive effect, if it is necessary. On April 20, while working on this file, all the power in Libby went off. After a while it came on again, then my son Teddy and I began to talk what we were going to do when we got our Base, and the power went off again. Please read the enclosed file very carefully...and THINK. Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 8 of 92 UFO Sun Attack # El Nino responsible for unusual weather St. Res 5/4/83 WASHINGTON (AP) -- More than 800 deaths and $7 billion in damage worldwide have been caused by floods and drought linked to unusual Pacific Ocean air and water movements, a government researcher reported Tuesday. The effect on agriculture in many developing nations has been particularly devastating, totaling nearly $5 billion, according to a study by Joan Hock of the National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service. Her report came during a panel discussion of the cause and effects of changes in Pacific Ocean temperature and winds, known as the southern oscillation, or El Nino. Originally named by South American fishermen, the phenomena was given the Spanish name for "child" after the Christ Child, because it often happens around Christmas. Occurring every eight to 10 years, this seemingly small and simple change in the ocean can affect weather worldwide. It apparently caused a drought in Australia, last winter's mild temperatures in the United States, storms in California and floods on the Gulf Coast and Central America. Because of the changes, monsoons failed to occur in India and Sri Lanka. "We are just beginning to understand the mechanisms that cause it, the mechanisms that drive it," said John V. Byrne, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The current change was first measured last fall and appears to be among the most severe occurrences of El Nino in a century or more, said Eugene Rasmusson of NOAA's Climate Analysis Center. The reasons for the change have not yet been discovered, Rasmusson said. But scientists say the change occurs when trade winds blowing west across the Pacific die down and the currents that follow the winds also lose strength. That allows warm water from the western parts of the ocean -- usually piled up by the wind and currents -- to slosh back to the East. There are indications that the oscillation is starting to swing back to normal, but it may be too soon to tell. UFO Sun Attack 2--Missoulian, Wednesday, May 4, 1983 # El Nino wreaks havoc with world weather patterns Compiled from AP and staff reports WASHINGTON -- More than 800 deaths and $7 billion in damage worldwide have been caused by floods and drought linked to unusual Pacific Ocean air and water movements, a government researcher reported Tuesday. The effect on agriculture in many developing nations has been particularly devastating, totaling almost $5 billion, according to a study by Joan Hock of the National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service. Her report came during a panel discussion of the cause and effects of changes in Pacific Ocean temperature and winds, known as the southern oscillation, or El Nino. Originally named by South American fishermen, the phenomena was given the Spanish name for "child" after the Christ Child, because it often happens around Christmas. Occurring every eight to 10 years, this seemingly small and simple change in the ocean can affect weather worldwide. It apparently caused a drought in Australia, last winter's mild temperatures in the United States, storms in California and floods on the Gulf Coast and Central America. Because of the changes, monsoons failed to occur in India and Sri Lanka. "We are just beginning to understand the mechanisms that cause it, the mechanisms that drive it," said John V. Byrne, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The current change was first measured last fall and appears to be among the most-severe occurrences of El Nino in a century or more, said Eugene Rasmusson of NOAA's Climate Analysis Center. The reasons for the change have not yet been discovered, Rasmusson said. But scientists say the change occurs when trade winds blowing west across the Pacific die down and the currents that follow the winds also lose strength. That allows warm water from the western parts of the ocean -- usually piled up by the wind and currents -- to slosh back to the East. The changes in ocean temperature drive fish from their normal grounds and affect climate through relocating storm systems and by changing the amount of energy and moisture absorbed from the sea into the air. There are indications that the oscillation is starting to swing back to normal, but it may be too soon to tell. According to Hock's studies, the changes have generally produced wet weather in the United States. Storms in California and the Gulf Coast have damaged crops, costing farmers millions of dollars, she said. Overall, 80 people have been killed in storms and floods in the Pacific and Gulf states. A spokesman for the National Weather Service in Missoula said Tuesday night that "El Nino" might have had some influence on the unusually mild Montana winter. But the spokesman was reluctant to give sole credit to the weather phenomenon. He said that the flow of air in the jet stream this winter blew vicious storms into California -- storms that would usually find their way into Montana. In some cases, he said, Montanans benefited from a "split flow" in which storms whistled through British Columbia and California but still missed Montana. === Page 9 of 92 Set in motion June 14, 1982. Owens SUN HEAT UFO UFO EARTH UFO UFO === Page 10 of 92 June 14, 1982 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS Dr. Mishlove's book is not out (Mishlove/Rogo). The Base has not been supplied. I have been forced to sell personal effects to maintain the family. Therefore: I have taken this case to my UFOs. They have empowered me to give a further demonstration (as differentiated from their own work.) For quite a long while my giant UFOs over Earth (called volcano ash by some nitwits) have been deflecting the suns rays into outer space, thus giving Earth (and the U.S.) horrendous storms, rains, floods, etc. Now, this date, I am signaling my giant UFOs over Earth to REVERSE the process and REFLECT THE SUNS RAYS DOWN ONTO EARTH DIRECTLY, with special, selective effect on the United States. For those who have doubts about my powers, and my link with my UFOs, inside six months (that is, from this day on for six months) there should be TERRIBLE HEAT, unusual heat, on the Earth...causing fires and many other effects, one of which will be drought. Perhaps then you will be finally convinced. The mechanism has been set in motion today, irrevocably. Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 11 of 92 May 15, 1979 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN In early April, 1979, I was interested in doing a story on the work of Ted Owens (PK Man) and selling the story to National Enquirer in Lantana, Florida. But both Enquirer and myself wanted Owens to give some kind of demonstration of his powers (alleged by Owens to be connected with UFOs). At that time Florida was in the midst of a terrible drought, so I asked Owens if he could bring rains to Florida in order to alleviate the drought. Owens agreed to do so. He sent a written confirmation of his agreement to me and to Enquirer on April 15, 1979. He promised, via my phone call to him, to deliver the rains "in a few weeks." Within ten days (April 25, 1979) enough rain fell to end the drought in Florida completely. As a matter of fact, the rainfall broke the weather record for Florida rainfall in the time period. Then there were further rainstorms, helping Florida even more. This statement is a simple statement of fact, made at the request of Owens, and is a true statement. Wayne Grover 3282 Parade Pl. Lantana, Florida 33462 Sworn to and subscribed to before me, the undersigned authority this 15th day of May, 1979. Notary Public, State of Florida at Large. My Commission Expires: NOTARY PUBLIC, STATE OF FLORIDA AT LARGE MY COMMISSION EXPIRES DEC. 28, 1980 BONDED THROUGH MUROSKI-HUCKLEBERRY, INC. === Page 12 of 92 Wayne H. Grover 3282 Parade Place Lantana, Florida 33462 21 May, 1979 To Whom It May Concern I began working with Ted Owens via telephone in February of this year. I studied his past work in depth, I contacted many of the people who have been involved with him in past PK experiments and I was commissioned by the National Enquirer to write a story about the entire event. I asked Ted to set up a PK demonstration for further study. He agreed to do so even after having had to prove to so many other people that he was what he purported to be. This demonstration was to last for a year and would be a control of the weather over the state of Florida. It was to begin 1 March, 1979. Mr. Owens said he and the SIs, (space intelligences) would produce several kinds of weather phenomena characteristically out of chronological sequence for normal meteorological conditions. Whether what followed was pure coincidence or applied PK power is up to the individual to determine for himself. In Owens history of PK effects, this "coincidence" rate has been maintained with an odds ratio of thousands to one. Among the weather phenomena that Owens predicted for Florida for the period were: EM, (electromagnetic Effects), heat, water effect, hurricanes controlled to turn over Florida, particularly Lantana, and UFO sightings. Within a week after the demonstration started, the Florida panhandle had the heaviest rains in their history. It was not the normal rainy season for that area. The rest of Florida had an exceptionally dry winter, so much so in fact that it was on the verge of a serious drought. Water was rationed, people fined for using it on wrong days, etc. As a side light, Ted called me one night and mentioned the EM attacks to come. The next 48 hours saw power failures across the state followed by abnormal sun spot activity which interrupted the three major TV networks broadcast for several days. This was followed by more blackouts which are still happening at this writing. On Easter Sunday, I called Ted Owens and asked him to end the dry period that Florida was experiencing. He agreed both verbally and in writing. He also amended the PK map which he had sent me to show where the phenomena would occur. Within ten days, Florida has the heaviest rainfall in recorded weather history. Much more rain fell than during === Page 13 of 92 any hurricane. Owens had said he would pour down "tremendous" rains upon Florida. This is a matter of record that it rained like no time in previous recorded history. Miami received over 16 inches. All of central and south Florida were flooded. Weather men were puzzled because this rain came out of the Gulf of Mexico where it had formed suddenly, then moved over southern Florida where it stopped and produced the tremendous rains. This was fully six weeks before the end of the normal dry season. Ten days later, Tampa, on the Gulf coast of Florida was hit by the same freak storms, flooding the city and causing millions of dollars in damage. It was declared a disaster area. Again, the coincidence. Or was it? As of this writing, Ted Owens has told me that Florida will now experience a heat wave created by a special UFO parked in orbit and focusing the sun's rays down to our green state of Florida. Only time will tell if this too happens like the rest of Owens predictions. As a sidelight: I am a graduate of the USAF weather school and have over 25 years experience in the field. I am a professional writer, and in my opinion, Mr. Ted Owens is certainly not of normal abilities. Only scientific testing will determine if he has a part space alien brain. In the meantime, Ted Owens may be what he claims. Wouldn't it be a pity if mankind laughed at this "looney", only to find that he alone held the key to their salvation. A fellow named Noah once went about his business while others laughed to their content. I stand ready to help any project that will explore Mr. Owens abilities to give him the opportunity to do as directed by his SIs. Wayne H. Grover Free Lance Journalist Sworn to and subscribed to before me, the undersigned authority this 21st day of May, 1979. Notary Public, State of Florida at Large. My Commission Expires: NOTARY PUBLIC, STATE OF FLORIDA AT LARGE MY COMMISSION EXPIRES DEC. 28, 1980 BONDED THROUGH MUROSKI-HUCKLEBERRY, INC. === Page 14 of 92 Queen Elizabeth and President Reagan step from the Britannia Saturday morning before her trip to Yosemite National Park. Later, during the drive to the park, two Secret Service agents and a deputy sheriff escorting the royal motorcade were killed in an auto accident. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Three escorts killed in crash during queen's visit to park S.F. Res 3/6/83 YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) -- Two Secret Service agents and a deputy sheriff died in a traffic accident Saturday as they escorted Queen Elizabeth II's motorcade up a winding Sierra Nevada highway to Yosemite National Park, authorities said. Officer Jim Fulton of the California Highway Patrol at Stockton said details of the accident were sketchy, but it was "a triple fatal -- two Secret Service agents and a Tuolumne County deputy sheriff." The victims' identities were not immediately available. The queen was unharmed. Fulton said the vehicles were among 15 escorting Elizabeth from Castle Air Force Base to Yosemite, where she and her consort, Prince Philip, are to spend a quiet weekend after a full week of pomp and ceremony. The 2½-hour drive from the base to the park follows a winding, scenic highway that cuts through the Sierra Nevada foothills. The queen, on her first visit to the West Coast, left San Francisco on Saturday morning after a dockside celebration attended by several thousand people. Caterers dressed in Elizabethan costumes dispensed Cheerios cereal and doughnuts to those who braved rain to say "cheerio" to the royal couple. The send-off incorporated red, white and blue fireworks and a hot air balloon originally scheduled to greet the queen Thursday. That festive welcome for the royal yacht Britannia was washed out when Pacific storms forced the royal couple to fly rather than sail to the Bay area. At Yosemite, the royal couple was to stay at the Ahwahnee Hotel, where their sixth-floor suite has a view of Glacier Point, Yosemite Falls and the Royal Arches. "This is the queen's, shall we say, down time for the entire visit," said Sandy Burke, spokeswoman for the British consulate in San Francisco. "It's her R&R, so to speak." For more than a week, the queen and her husband, Prince Philip, weathered protests and receptions. They were cheered by thousands, booed by thousands more and serenaded by Perry Como, Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett. They mingled with presidents, millionaires, athletes, movie stars and high-technology factory workers. They covered at least 1,000 miles in limousines, planes, four-wheel drive vehicles and a Navy bus. They ran the culinary gamut from Delta asparagus and goat cheese to enchiladas and refried beans. Elizabeth and Philip arrived Feb. 26 at San Diego's Broadway Pier for the queen's first visit to California. Two days later at Los Angeles' City Hall, Elizabeth thanked the United States for its support last year when the British successfully fought to retake the Falkland Islands from Argentine invaders. She also noted she was retracing the route of Sir Francis Drake, who claimed what is now California 400 years ago. "But I want to assure you, Mr. Mayor, that I am not here today to press that claim," the queen told Tom Bradley. The carefully planned itinerary, scheduled to end Monday when Elizabeth and Philip depart for Seattle and then Canada, was foiled more than once by volatile weather. A fierce storm prevented the royal party from sailing in the HMY Britannia from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, where the queen and Duke of Edinburgh braved a four-wheel drive ride up the winding, fog-shrouded road leading to President Reagan's mountaintop ranch. The deluge, which sent a tornado hurtling down on Los Angeles, later forced the royal couple to abandon plans to sail by yacht from Long Beach to San Francisco, where thousands had paid to ride in five boats meeting the Britannia at the Golden Gate Bridge. The rain abated somewhat during the royal stay in the Bay area, but the storm of protest intensified, following the queen wherever she went. More than 5,000 uninvited guests waving Irish flags and signs opposing Britain's presence in Ireland showed up for the gala state dinner given by President Reagan for the queen at the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum on Thursday night. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Reagan escort wrecks motorcycle 4/30/83 HOUSTON (AP) -- A Houston police officer crashed his motorcycle while escorting President Reagan's motorcade into town on Friday. The officer, Sgt. Ralph Gonzales, suffered sprains and bruises, and Reagan consoled him for a time before he was placed in an ambulance. The accident, on Airport Boulevard as Reagan's motorcade headed for the Gulf Freeway into the city, caused a 10-minute delay in the president's journey. Reagan, accompanied by aides and Secret Service agents, got out of his armored limousine, and walked about 100 yards to Gonzales, who lay in the street while ambulance workers tended his injury. On his way, he picked up a police service revolver from the street and handed the weapon to a bodyguard. Secret Service agents surrounded the president and shouted "Get Back, get back" to reporters and cameramen who ran to the scene. The president bent over the officer and talked to him for several minutes. Then Reagan got back into his car and resumed the ride into town, stopping at Cenikor Foundation, a drug rehabilitation center. Aides later said that Gonzales had collided with Officer Harold Prothero, who escaped injury. Gonzales, who is 32, was taken to Southwest Memorial Hospital, where he was reported in satisfactory condition with a sprained neck and bruises. Gonzales said later that when Reagan appeared at his side, "I thought I was dreaming." "He was very kind, what I remember. I think he asked me was I OK and I told him I was sorry that I blocked the motorcade," the officer said in a telephone interview from his hospital room. "I don't think I was in my right mind," Gonzales said. "I do recall seeing Mr. Reagan, the president. I didn't realize I'd actually had a wreck until I was in the ambulance." "I was blocking two buses coming out of the airport," he said. "As the motorcade approached, the presidential car came by. As it was coming by, I accelerated, going up to check the next intersection. All I remember then is people standing around." Police spokesman Larry Troutt said apparently Prothero and Gonzales intended to seal off the same intersection. Reagan said of the officer "He was conscious and aware of what was going on." The officer apparently hit a street sign when he was thrown from his bike. Deputy chief of staff Michael Deaver told reporters that as the accident occurred Reagan said, "My God, I think he hit the sign." Deaver said Reagan insisted on getting out of the limousine when it stopped. === Page 15 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" (Note: symbolic) # Stone slabs fall off Capitol wall 1 S/R 4/29/83 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Almost 100 square feet of stone veneer on the West Front of the Capitol crumbled minutes after President Reagan addressed a joint session of Congress in the building, prompting renewed calls on Thursday for renovation of the oldest part of the historic structure. About a dozen large sandstone slabs, each about eight inches thick, crashed into an inner courtyard terrace from the west wall of the House of Representatives wing between 6 and 6:30 p.m. PDT Wednesday night. That was only a few minutes after Reagan finished his speech on Central America to the joint session assembled in the House chamber. No one was injured in the crash; the inner courtyard, a level below the main Capitol terraces, is not usually visited by the public. But the incident immediately renewed the decades-old debate over the deteriorating West Front and whether it should be extended further to the West or simply restored in place. House advocates of extending the front an additional 22 feet toward the National Mall, providing an additional 147,000 square feet of office space within the building, said the incident should prompt Congress to approve their plan. "If the American people really knew the condition of their Capitol, they'd be screaming for us to take action," said Rep. Jerry Lewis, R-Calif. "Our Capitol is falling apart." Lewis serves on a House Appropriations subcommittee that earlier this week approved $70.5 million for the extension, which is also supported by Capitol Architect George White. White and others argue Note: The above and below are symbolic of how the UFOs are taking apart the U.S. government, until they get their Base. Owens. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Office walls crumbled on U.S. ambassador S/R 4/19/83 BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- "All of a sudden my office collapsed," said U.S. Ambassador Robert Dillon describing the car-bomb blast Monday at the U.S. Embassy. Dillon, clad in a jogging outfit, escaped from the rubble by climbing through a window onto a seventh-floor balcony, re-entering the building a few floors lower down and then descending to the street. "I was standing up with a telephone in one hand and a T-shirt in the other. I was preparing to go out and jog, when all of a sudden my office collapsed," the silver-haired ambassador, still in jogging clothes, told reporters several hours after the explosion. "I was unable to move. Someone picked the rubble off me. My secretary and deputy, Bob Pugh, pushed the rubble off me. I went out the window and down a few floors and then out." Dillon said he was unhurt except for "a few cuts." The ambassador was rushed in a bulletproof limousine escorted by police to his residence in suburban Yarze, but returned to the embassy in late afternoon to inspect the damage. Dillon, a Middle East specialist who served previously in Turkey and Egypt, said both President Amin Gemayel and Prime Minister Shafik Wazzan contacted him. "Both of them feel as I do that we can't let this stop our work. We've got to continue," Dillon said. "The negotiations will go ahead. It's a tragedy and you can imagine how sad and angered we all are, but it doesn't change anything. The U.S. mission will continue." The Reagan administration is sponsoring talks between Israel and Lebanon on the withdrawal of more than 70,000 foreign troops from Lebanon. Robert Dillon escaped unhurt except for a 'few cuts' 2 === Page 16 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Hammer thrown at Hirohito TOKYO (AP) -- A 14-year-old boy hopped a fence and hurled a hammer 50 feet toward Emperor Hirohito Friday, but it landed at the base of a pillar supporting the palace veranda where the monarch was waving to thousands of subjects on his 82nd birthday. Witnesses heard the boy scream "death to the Emperor" as he was pinned by some of the 1,500 police on duty and taken into custody, Kyodo news service reported. It said he also was armed with a four-inch fruit knife and 24 small stones. The Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper said the boy, who was not identified because he was a minor, told police he planned the attack to "give trouble" to his father. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Italian cabinet resigns ROME (AP) -- Premier Amintore Fanfani and his four-party coalition Cabinet resigned Friday, clearing the way for a general election in June. Fanfani, a Christian Democrat, submitted the resignation of his government -- Italy's 43rd since World War II -- to President Sandro Pertini. The presidential palace said Pertini asked the 75-year-old premier to continue as caretaker. The Socialists, a partners in Fanfani's five-month-old coalition, are pressing for an early election and political sources said there was virtually no chance of forming a new government. The palace statement did not mention a possible election. S.P. Rev 4/30/83 UFOs attack "higher ups" # CIA leader died in embassy blast ## Death count is expected to reach 47 S.P. Rev 4/20/83 BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Searchers recovered six more bodies from the bomb-shattered U.S. Embassy Tuesday and continued their grim task, with at least 47 people believed killed in the worst attack ever on a U.S. facility. There were 24 confirmed deaths and 23 other people were missing and presumed dead. Embassy spokesman John Reid said eight Americans were confirmed dead and eight others were missing from the massive explosion at lunchtime Monday. Among the confirmed dead was Robert Clayton Ames, the CIA's Near East and South Asian analyst, officials said in Washington. EVEN IN DEATH, it is unusual for any CIA employee abroad to be identified. State Department spokesman Alan Romberg said only that Ames was in Beirut "on consultations at the time of his death." He said the request any other CIA staff "traveling consultation He said dle East the State Department. Peterson refused to answer further questions about CIA activities in Lebanon. State Department records show that Ames was born March 6, 1934, and had served as an economic and commercial officer in South Yemen from 1969 to 1970; in Beirut, 1970 to 1971, and in Tehran in 1973, and as a political officer in Kuwait in 1973. ROMBERG SAID Johnston was assigned to Beirut in January. He had previously served in Singapore, Tehran and Bonn. The privately owned Central News Agency said the bombing was an attempt to kill U.S. presidential envoy Philip C. Habib and his assistant Morris Draper. It quoted unnamed government officials as saying Habib and Draper had been scheduled to be at the embassy when the bomb exploded at 1:05 p.m., but were delayed by the presidential office that es- nd se UFOs attack "higher ups" # Chernenko missing again from major Soviet event New York Times S.P. Rev 4/23/83 MOSCOW -- Konstantin U. Chernenko, who has been regarded as the No. 2 official in the Soviet hierarchy since the death of Leonid I. Brezhnev, did not appear Friday at one of the major events on the Kremlin's political calendar. It was the third absence of the 71-year-old member of the ruling Politburo from a major gathering since his last public appearance on March 30. As a result speculation increased that he was either ill or in political trouble. Chernenko was the only Moscow-based member of the Politburo not on the podium at the annual Lenin Day meeting in the Palace of Congresses. When Chernenko did not appear in East Berlin earlier this month to deliver a speech at a Marx memorial meeting, East German officials said they had been told he was ill. Earlier this week he was the only one of the 13 Politburo members who was absent from a Kremlin meeting on agriculture that was addressed by Yuri V. Andropov, the Soviet Communist Party leader. If the accounts of illness are correct, they mark a sharp change for Chernenko, who has generally appeared to be one of the more robust members of the Politburo. === Page 17 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Spectator tries to arrest ex-CIA chief S.F. EX 4/28/83 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former CIA Director Stansfield Turner's appearance before a congressional panel to speak against the MX missile took a bizarre turn Wednesday when a man tried to place him under a citizen's arrest for murder. Turner was just beginning his testimony to a House Armed Services subcommittee when the man stood up and announced he intended to take the retired admiral with him to a federal magistrate. Two staff aides placed themselves on either side of the man and Turner began the first sentence of his testimony, which the demonstrator promptly interrupted. The man then tried to take hold of Turner, but he pulled away and was escorted to a side room while the man was led out of the hearing room and turned over to Capitol police. The man has been seen at several congressional hearings this year trying to approach Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger, but police have kept him away. Police did not issue an immediate report on the man Wednesday. When calm was restored, the subcommittee chairman, Rep. Ronald Dellums, D-Calif., invited Turner to begin again. "Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, and I would like to get on to some non-violent discussion of things like nuclear weapons," Turner quipped. In his testimony, Turner disputed the conclusion of a presidential advisory commission that the MX was needed to induce the Soviets to bargain seriously on strategic arms control. Instead, he said, the Soviets probably would match the missiles with new weapons on their own. The commission, whose recommendations were endorsed by President Reagan last week, also said that proceeding with the MX program was vital to show U.S. resolve both to the Soviets and America's allies. "There is a reasonable argument that the United States will look weak and confused if we do nothing in the next few months other than cancel the MX," Turner said. But there are alternatives, he added, including acting more rapidly to deploy nuclear-tipped cruise missiles on land, submarines and bombers. While saying the MX should be scrapped, Turner did endorse three other recommendations of the commission: developing small, mobile intercontinental missiles; using the number of warheads rather than missiles and other launchers as the basis for arms-control negotiations; and deploying some small missile-firing submarines to supplement the fleet of large Trident subs. The small, mobile missiles, which would take a decade to develop and deploy, have gained support from some critics who oppose the MX, but the program is expected to be an expensive one. TURNER UFOs attack "higher ups" Argentina jails critical admiral BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- The chief of the critical Southern Naval Zone got a year in jail Wednesday for criticizing the way his superior handled last year's disastrous Falkland Islands war with Britain, the official news agency Telam reported. Telam said Adm. Horacio Zaratiegui, under arrest since he was replaced as commander of the southern zone Sept. 20, was found guilty of "insubordination, disrespect and usurpation of command." S.F. EX 4/28/83 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Two rockets streak over house where Shultz, aides slept S.F. EX 4/28/83 BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Two Chinese-made Katyusha rockets streaked over the U.S. ambassador's home where Secretary of State George P. Shultz and aides were sleeping early Sunday, and officials said they were investigating whether the attack was an assassination attempt. First Lt. Alan Burghard, a 24-year-old Marine sentry from Parsippany, N.J., said the 122mm rockets barely missed the single-story villa of Ambassador Robert Dillon and "sounded like a freight train." He said there was no damage or injuries at the residence, but that the rockets could have inflicted "a lot of injuries and destroyed a good section of the ambassador's house" if they had hit the residence in the pine-wooded Beirut suburb of Yarze about five miles east of the capital. The attack came less that two weeks after terrorists blew up a truck packed with explosives outside the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, killing at least 49 people including 17 Americans. (Continued on page 2) === Page 18 of 92 1983, Spokane, Wash. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Bomb mailed to PM defused; another injures SpRes 3/16/83 LONDON (AP) -- A letter bomb addressed to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was safely defused Tuesday, but a similar device exploded at the U.S. Navy's European headquarters, slightly wounding a petty officer. Both were contained in white envelopes, addressed by hand, and no one claimed responsibility, U.S. and British spokesmen said. At Scotland Yard, a spokesman said both letters were incendiary devices, but "we don't know who sent them." The first one went off in the Mayfair office of U.S. Naval Intelligence on South Audley Street, some 200 yards from the U.S. Embassy where a letter bomb was detected and defused on Feb. 2. It was addressed to the Naval Communications Unit and exploded as Senior Chief Petty Officer John E. Williams III opened it. He suffered a slightly burned hand, was treated on the spot by a Navy doctor and continued working, said Cmdr. Irwin Sharp, the public affairs officer. A press aide to Mrs. Thatcher said the letter bomb sent to her office was detected as the mail was being routinely sorted at lunchtime with stepped-up security checks imposed after a letter exploded at her office last Nov. 30. That device caused facial burns to the prime minister's office manager. The Animal Rights Militia, an underground group that opposes experiments on animals and the fur trade, asserted responsibility for that bomb. No arrests have been made. Press Association, Britain's domestic news agency, said police might be linking Tuesday's mail-bombings to the recent dispatch of letter explosives to the U.S. And Soviet Embassies here. An obscure Ukrainian nationalist group, Makhno's Secret Army, claimed responsibility for those earlier devices. It is named after Nestor Makhno, an anarchist active in the Ukraine in 1917-18. Police refused comment on the Press Association report. The last letter bomb known to have been sent by the Animal Rights Militia was delivered to a fur company in London on Feb. 28 after others had been received by politicians, the Agriculture Ministry, the Canadian Embassy and fur traders. Three hours before the device exploded at the U.S. Navy office, Press Association's Glasgow bureau received a letter signed by the "Scottish National Liberation Army" -- SNLA. It threatened attacks Tuesday and Wednesday "in reprisal" for plant closures in Scotland's steel industry. That group asserted responsibility for a series of letter-bomb incidents in recent months. # 3 more ousted at EPA UFOs attack "higher ups" SpRes 3/26/83 WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Reagan administration, in a continuing effort to clean up the Environmental Protection Agency, asked for and received the resignations Thursday of the acting head of the agency and two other high officials under investigation by congressional committees, EPA sources said. Dr. John Hernandez, who took over as acting administrator just two weeks ago and immediately became the focus of congressional investigations, will turn in his resignation formally today, according to a source close to Hernandez. Another agency source, who also spoke on condition he not be identified, said Assistant Administrator John A. Todhunter and EPA General Counsel Robert M. Perry were also resigning. The resignations were requested in meetings late Thursday afternoon with White House aide Joe Ryan. "The White House apparently feels that if those three are taken away, then the congressional investigations will taper off," said one source. They are just the latest in a series of firings and resignations as the Reagan administration has struggled to control an expanding congressional probe into allegations of conflict of interest, political manipulation and mismanagement at the agency. It started with the president's firing of Rita Lavelle, chief of the toxic waste dump cleanup program, on Feb. 7. Thursday's departures make it a total of eight top EPA officials who have been fired, asked to resign or quit, and that does not count several others on the staff of the eight. Anne M. Burford resigned as head of the agency on March 9, saying she did so because she had become the focus of many of the congressional investigations. Hernandez, who had been deputy administrator at EPA for two years, was picked as acting administrator after Mrs. Burford resigned. A former professor at New Mexico State University, Hernandez expressed an interest in taking the job permanently, but almost immediately he found himself the subject of congressional inquiry into his handling of a report on dioxin contamination in Michigan. EPA officials in Chicago testified that Hernandez ordered them to cooperate with Dow Chemical Co. in revising the report, which in its final version removed a section concluding that Dow's Midland plant was the major source of dioxin contamination in the area. Perry has been questioned by a congressional committee into apparently conflicting statements he made about whether he kept a "green book" listing derogatory comments about certain employees. Allegations being investigated against Todhunter include that he received a $1,664 payment from a former employer after starting work at the EPA. The firm subsequently received a $40,000 no-bid contract from Todhunter's office, although Todhunter denied any involvement in the award. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Specter squashed Senatorial squash claimed a victim as Sen. ARLEN SPECTER, hit by a GOP colleague's racquet, left the court with a bone fracture under his eye. Specter, R-Pa., received six stitches at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and was told to lay off squash for six to seven weeks. The accident occurred at the Capitol Hill Squash Club during a game with Sen. ROBERT PACKWOOD, R-Ore. SpRes 3/10/83 === Page 19 of 92 UFO attack "higher ups" St. Paul Sunday Pioneer Press February 13, 1983 w 5A # Fired EPA official denies accusations WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rita Lavelle, the official whose firing by President Reagan set off a firestorm at the Environmental Protection Agency, said Saturday she is "willing and anxious" to defend her actions in office. In her first public comments since she was fired, Lavelle denied she had entered into "sweetheart" deals between the EPA and polluters or that the agency had manipulated the $1.6 billion hazardous waste cleanup fund for political purposes. She said she also knew nothing about automatic paper shredders being run after hours to get rid of sensitive documents. "My record is a good record and I am proud of it," she said. "I can defend every action I have taken. I am willing and anxious to do so." The furor at the agency started Feb. 4 when the EPA announced Lavelle's resignation as the assistant administrator of the Superfund hazardous waste program. Lavelle's aides said she planned to appeal the firing to her longtime friend, presidential counselor Edwin Meese. However, before she could do that the White House issued a curt one-sentence announcement of her dismissal and Meese was quoted as saying he knew Lavelle only slightly. Lavelle said she has since talked to Meese and she said, "I feel very close to him. I have felt he was watching me through my career." Lavelle, speaking to reporters at her lawyer's office, said her included a list of people she believed to be tainted by the scandal. something to hide. I most certainly do not." In the wake of Lavelle's firing, a number of allegations have swirled around the program she headed and six House and Senate committees have started their own investigations. She denied writing a controversial memo that EPA officials have given as a principal reason EPA administrator Anne Gorsuch decided to fire her. The memo attacked EPA general counsel Robert Perry for being too tough on industry, saying "He is systematically alienating the primary constituents of this administration, the business community." Lavelle said the comments were written by one of her aides, whom she would not identify. She said they did not reflect her thinking and she had never seen them until questioned about them by a reporter. Lavelle also defended settlement agreements the agency has made with chemical companies to clean up dump sites. Four House committees have given notice they are looking into those agreements because of a concern that the companies were let off too lightly. Investigators are looking especially at a dump in Seymour, Ind., where 24 companies agreed last October to pay $7.7 million to remove 50,000 barrels of chemical waste. In return, the EPA agreed to free the companies from any liability for the site after the contamination is removed, the House aides said. UFO attack "higher ups" # Resignation under pressure WASHINGTON (AP) -- Isidoro Rodriguez, director of minority affairs in the Agriculture Department, has resigned under pressure, a senior department official said Wednesday. Rodriguez was placed on administrative leave last week after President Reagan was asked at a news conference about a memo Rodriguez had written in which it was suggested that some controversial changes be made in federal civil rights guidelines. The memo was rejected before it reached Agriculture Secretary John R. Block, but Reagan nevertheless was asked about it at the news conference. Reagan said he was not aware of the memo but that he would have Block look into it. UFO attack "higher ups" Spokane, Wash., Sat., March 26, 1983 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW 3 # 5 more EPA officials quit under fire WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Reagan accepted the resignations Friday of five more Environmental Protection Agency officials who were under fire in Congress. That cleared the agency's management decks for the return of its pioneer chief, William D. Ruckelshaus. The president denied that the continuing turmoil and staff turnover at the agency reflected badly on his administration, declaring, "no proof of wrongdoing has been presented in all of this fuss." But those who turned in their resignations had all been involved in the multiple congressional investigations into allegations of mismanagement at EPA. John W. Hernandez, named just two weeks ago to serve as acting EPA administrator, spent most of that time before congressional committees defending himself against allegations he had favored the chemical industry in decisions as deputy EPA administrator. Hernandez was replaced by Lee Verstandig, who will serve as acting administrator for the next month until the Senate confirmation of Ruckelshaus, who was persuaded by Reagan early this week to return to the job he held in the early 1970s. Leaving: Hernandez, left, Perry, and Daniel. In addition to Hernandez, resignations were also announced for EPA General Counsel Robert M. Perry, Associate Administrator John A. Todhunter, Paul C. Cahill, director of EPA's Office of Federal Activities, and John Daniel, who had served as Mrs. Burford's chief of staff. Reagan on Friday again defended the record of Anne M. Burford, the EPA chief who resigned under fire on March 7. "I never would have asked for her resignation," he said, denying reports that her departure had been engineered by White House aides. He said in spite "of all the allegations and all the accusations... no proof of wrongdoing has been presented in all of this fuss." Of those leaving Friday, Reagan said, "Some of those have let us know for quite some time that they wanted out. They wanted to leave." However, EPA sources, who spoke on condition they not be named, said the resignations were requested by Joe Ryan, assistant personnel director at the White House, who made the demands in a series of meetings late Thursday in Hernandez' office. The sources said the White House, in an effort to control the political damage from the long-running EPA crisis, wanted to remove all officials who have been implicated in the congressional investigations and to smooth the way for Ruckelshaus' return to the agency. === Page 20 of 92 2/24/83 # Two more EPA leaders fired WASHINGTON (AP) - President Reagan fired two more top officials of the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday, and a key congressman said he expected several other ousters to follow. One source said Reagan wants "to clean house at the agency." Sources both within and outside the White House confirmed that Reagan had obtained the resignations of Inspector General Matthew Novick and Assistant Administrator John P. Horton of the EPA. Reagan had fired another assistant administrator of the agency, Rita M. Lavelle, on Feb. 7. Rep. James H. Scheuer, D-N.Y., who heads one of several congressional investigations of the agency, said Novick was fired after he had released an audit critical of the EPA's handling of its financial records. "He was jettisoned," Scheuer said at a hastily called news conference. "He was asked very nicely to walk the plank." Sources who spoke only on condition they not be named said Novick was offered another job within the administration but was told by the president that he wants "to clean house at the agency." Earlier, Lavelle, denying suggestions she made "sweetheart deals" with industrial polluters before Reagan fired her as the agency's head of the "superfund" program, told Congress she was the victim of a suspicious boss - Anne M. Burford - who was herself guilty of mismanagement. Burford, who was Anne Gorsuch before her marriage Sunday, was traveling in the West on Wednesday, and would not discuss Lavelle's testimony when questioned by reporters in Phoenix, Ariz. She was asked about the dismissals in a news conference at Tempe, Ariz., where she gave a speech at the law school of Arizona State University, and said only, "There is no official announcement." Her speech was 10 minutes in getting started. The audience was told she was "on the phone to Washington." A White House official characterized Novick's and Horton's departures as "part of an effort to strengthen middle-level management at EPA, particularly in the superfund area." The superfund is the $1.6 billion account for cleaning up toxic waste dumps. The White House source said no other (Continued on page 2) # House panel says Reagan covering up for EPA WASHINGTON (AP) - A House subcommittee said Tuesday that testimony from EPA employees raises "more than a suspicion" that President Reagan's refusal to hand over EPA documents amounts to a cover-up of agency wrongdoing. The documents may support allegations of the EPA's political manipulation of the $1.6 billion superfund for cleaning up hazardous waste sites, said Rep. John Dingell, the Michigan Democrat who heads the subcommittee. In a letter sent to Reagan, Dingell said his panel has "received sworn, direct testimony that the documents which you have withheld for five months ... contain references to political manipulation in the administration of the $1.6 billion superfund." "Mr. President, the time has arrived for you to meet your assurances," Dingell said in his letter. "There exists more than a suspicion that documents are being withheld to cover wrongdoing." In Santa Barbara, Calif., deputy White House press secretary Larry Speakes said Reagan had not received Dingell's letter. "The president indicated he will not use executive privilege to cover up wrongdoing," Speakes said, referring to Reagan's statement in a nationally broadcast news conference last month. Speakes also said the president "has instructed the Justice Department to look into wrongdoing. The administrator of the EPA referred certain allegations of wrongdoing to the Justice Department. We are willing to make documents available to Justice." Another congressman released a "hit list" of political opponents among EPA employees, meanwhile, and EPA Administrator Anne McGill Burford said she would accept an independent investigation of the problem-plagued agency. Dingell also said the panel has received sworn testimony from three EPA employees indicating that former EPA Assistant Administrator Rita M. Lavelle may have committed perjury when she denied knowing that her former employer was partly responsible for one California dump. And he said other witnesses testified about a possible "hit list" of political opponents within EPA. Dingell did not elaborate on the "hit list." But the chairman of another subcommittee investigating EPA, Rep. James Scheuer, D-N.Y., released a copy of such a list, which was unsigned and undated, and an aide said it came from an EPA employee considered reliable. The list contains the names of scientists and researchers and includes such assessments as "an environmentalist, should go" and "reported to be liberal and an environmentalist." One notation read: "a follower, needs guidance, won't stand out in front, definitely keep." Scheuer called the list "very disturbing.... The sketches on these respected scientists are not only outrageous on their face, but also call into question the integrity of the entire agency's approach." EPA spokesman Rusty Brashear said the agency would have no comment on the list released by Scheuer. "Until we have some hard and fast evidence as to the authenticity and origin of this list, it would be inappropriate for us to comment at this time," he said. 3/2/83 === Page 21 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Nkomo flees from African homeland Sp Rev 3/10/83 GABORONE, Botswana (AP) -- Joshua Nkomo, the patriarch of Zimbabwe nationalism, has fled to Botswana after 13 months of political warfare with Prime Minister Robert Mugabe and three days in hiding to escape Mugabe's troops. The Botswana government said Nkomo, the 65-year-old co-leader with Mugabe of the successful guerrilla war against white rule in the former British colony of Rhodesia, crossed the border Tuesday. A Western diplomat who asked not to be identified said he made the 385-mile trip from Bulawayo, his stronghold in southwest Zimbabwe 60 miles from the border, by Land Rover. An aide in Bulawayo said Nkomo decided to seek asylum in Botswana when the Zimbabwe government refused to guarantee his safety. President Quett Masire's government said Nkomo would remain temporarily in Botswana "while he explores all possible ways of assisting to resolve the situation in his country." The government, anxious to preserve its good relations with Mugabe, said Nkomo would not meet reporters, and government spokesmen refused to say where he was staying. "It is embarrassing enough having him here," said one official. A spokesman for Mugabe, who is in New Delhi at the non-aligned summit meeting, said Nkomo bolted "unconventionally" and illegally. He pointed out that Nkomo's passport was seized in February. Some observers suggested Nkomo might move on to Zambia, north of Botswana and Zimbabwe, where he and his guerrilla army were based during the Rhodesian civil war. Mugabe and his forces were based in Mozambique, and the two armies operated independently, in different parts of the country. After the war Mugabe, a member of the dominant Shona tribe, won a majority in the 1980 election that brought black rule to Zimbabwe. Despite his majority, he formed a coalition government with Nkomo, the leader of the minority Ndebele tribe in western Zimbabwe, and the Shona and Ndebele guerrillas from their two armies were merged with troops of the old Rhodesian army. Mugabe fired Nkomo in February 1982, accusing him of plotting a coup, and Ndebeles began deserting the army and taking to the bush as bandits. After they were accused of killing more than 100 people in robberies and ambushes in western Zimbabwe, Mugabe sent the elite North Korean-trained 5th Brigade of Shonas to the area. Nkomo accused the troops of killing scores of innocent Ndebeles and villagers estimated the fatalities in the hundreds. NKOMO UFOs attack "higher ups" ## Road safety chief quits New York Times Sp Rev 4/2/83 WASHINGTON -- Raymond A. Peck, Jr., the Reagan administration official who has stirred sharp disputes by rescinding numerous automobile safety standards, announced Friday that he had resigned his post as administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. However, the suddenness of Peck's announcement and his intention to remain at the agency as a consultant has fueled speculation that his resignation was requested by the administration. Senior government officials familiar with the situation said that it was Peck's style, not his policies, that may have brought him into disfavor. One high official characterized him as unpredictable. His resignation becomes effective May 21, after which he intends to serve for an indefinite period as a paid consultant. Administration officials denied that Peck had become a liability and praised his work. Elizabeth Hanford Dole, secretary of the Department of Transportation, released a statement "expressing her gratitude for his dedicated public service and indicated her respect for Ray's desire to seek new challenges." Peck said, "There is not the slightest bit of accuracy to any inference that I am not leaving at my own will." UFOs attack "higher ups" # 7 Reagan aides fired; 'a new team' wanted WASHINGTON (AP) -- Seven of President Reagan's nine special assistants for public liaison have been fired, administration sources said Wednesday. The new director of that White House operation said it was because she wanted "a fresh start, a new team." Faith Ryan Whittlesey, who took over for Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Dole as head of the Office of Public Liaison, called the advisers in one by one over the past two days to tell them they would be replaced. Wednesday evening she confirmed the staff shakeup, but would not say publicly who was being ousted. Officials who spoke on the condition that they not be identified publicly said all but two of the special assistants who handle White House liaison with outside interest groups were being replaced. Whittlesey said she had not cleared the dismissals with the president. "But I'm a team player," she said in a telephone interview. White House Chief of Staff James A. Baker III oversees the public liaison office. Whittlesey said "we will make every effort to place" the dismissed aides in new administration jobs. Among those ousted were Virginia Knauer, consumer affairs adviser, and Robert F. Bonitati, Reagan's labor adviser. Others let go were aides who handled liaison with minorities, the Jewish community, consumers, business, agriculture and religious groups, the source said. Whittlesey, who went to the White House after serving two years as Reagan's ambassador to Switzerland, confirmed the firings Wednesday evening. Sp Rev 3/31/83 UFOs Attack "higher ups" ### Aborigine 'moons' royals WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- Prince Charles invited Maori opera star Kiri Te Kanawa to sing at his wedding, but that didn't stop another aborigine from flipping his grass skirt to expose his bare bottom before the royal couple Wednesday. The 34-year-old heir to the British throne and 21-year-old Princess Diana were being driven out of the Wellington airport when Maori activist Te Ringa Mihaka ran onto the road. "He was wearing a piu piu -- a Maori grass skirt," said a police spokesman. "He swung around and flung up the skirt to expose his naked posterior. We don't know whether they were looking at him." Sp Rev 4/21/83 === Page 22 of 92 U.S. Attack "higher ups" # Reed has Reagan's favor despite probe SPRW 3/15/83 WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Reagan has "full confidence" in Thomas C. Reed, the president's spokesman said Monday, even though a federal grand jury and a congressional subcommittee are investigating the investments of the national security official. Larry Speakes, deputy White House press secretary, said Reed's case is being reviewed by national security adviser William Clark who will meet later this week with Rep. John Dingell D-Mich., chairman of the subcommittee investigating Reed. Speakes said "the president has full confidence in Tom Reed." Asked if Reed should step aside, Speakes said, "I don't think he's offered to step aside and I really have no judgment on whether it would be the proper thing to do or not." Speakes emphasized that Reed is not on the White House staff, even though he was commissioned as a special assistant to the president, and argued that the security council is a "separate entity" from the White House staff. Reed, a former secretary of the Air Force, is a consultant to Clark and has an office at the National Security Council. In addition, he is vice-chairman of the presidential commission that is reviewing the nation's strategic nuclear forces and trying to find a basing mode for the MX missile. Reed says Democrats are to blame for the heat he is getting from Congress. He was not available for comment Monday, but while in Las Vegas Saturday for a speaking engagement, he said a 1981 investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission of his stock dealings is being reviewed by Congress because of what he called "the political fun and games in Washington." He has denied any wrongdoing. The allegations center around Reed's March 4, 1981 purchase of $3,125 worth of options to buy stock in Amax, a company whose board of directors included Reed's father. A day after the purchase, a takeover bid was announced by Standard Oil of California and the stock shot up in price, giving Reed a $427,000 profit. The SEC filed a complaint against Reed, charging insider trading, an illegal practice involving buying or selling securities on the basis of information not publicly available. The case was settled when the SEC dropped the complaint in December 1981 and Reed, who did not admit wrongdoing, agreed to a court order not to buy or sell securities based on inside information. He also agreed to put $427,000 into escrow -- the amount he allegedly made on the deal. A federal grand jury in New York "is in the preliminary stages of an investigation" into Reed's stock dealings, according to a statement from the U.S. attorney's office in New York. Meanwhile, the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on oversight and investigation is looking into how the SEC handled the case and why Reed was granted a top-secret "Q" clearance that would permit him access to some of the nation's most sensitive military secrets. U.S. Attack "higher ups" # Burford, under fire, quits EPA job SPRW 3/10/83 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Anne McGill Burford quit as chief of the troubled Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday, while the White House announced it would release all documents congressional investigators had demanded in their investigations of the EPA. Despite the resignation and President Reagan's agreement to surrender the documents, House investigators said their inquiries into EPA management of the $1.6 billion "superfund" would continue. Rep. Mike Synar, D-Okla., chairman of one subcommittee investigating charges of mismanagement and political manipulation of the fund, was asked if Burford's resignation meant an end to the EPA investigations. "It may in the media, but it won't in the Congress," he said. "Burford's departure is not the issue. The issue is the operation of the Environmental Protection Agency and the implementation of our environmental laws." ## Events that led to resignation -- Page 19 Sen. Robert T. Stafford, R-Vt., chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, also said his committee will continue its close scrutiny of EPA operations. The resignation of the EPA chief came as chairman of House investigating subcommittees exerted new pressure for release of the documents -- documents which Burford had continually refused to supply, leading to a contempt of Congress charge against her amid a widening investigation of the agency. "Without an end to these unfortunate difficulties, EPA is disabled from implementing its mandate and you are distracted from pursuing the critical domestic and international goals of your administration," Burford wrote in her letter of resignation. Reagan, noting he accepted her resignation "with great regret," said she had "faithfully and honestly carried out your mission of helping this nation cleanse its air and water and make wiser use of its lands..." "Your resignation today is an occasion of sorrow for us all," Reagan said. "But it is more than that: it is an act of unselfishness and personal courage that once again demonstrates your loyalty to the nation." Burford had been under considerable pressure to quit, but Reagan had continued to defend her. He said in Klamath Falls, Ore. last Saturday that she could "stay as long as she wants to." The 40-year-old Burford, whose conservative policies had angered many environmentalists, had also said repeatedly that she would not quit despite calls for her resignation from such prominent Republicans as House Minority Leader Robert Michel of Illinois. Larry Speakes, the chief deputy (Continued on page 3) U.S. Attack "higher ups" # 'Wolfman' misses LONDON (AP) -- A man wearing an outsize wolf's head lunged at Princess Michael of Kent, as if to bite her on the neck, while she was touring an exhibition Monday. He missed, and her bodyguard dragged him away. The princess did not press charges, and a police spokesman said later that the 18-year-old attacker was released early Tuesday in the custody of his parents. He was not identified. "He will return to Kensington police station at a later date when inquiries are completed. There are no charges and there will be no court appearance. We understand the man was working as some sort of promotional personality at the exhibition," said the spokesman, who in accordance with British practice declined to be named. The attack took place as the 38-year-old wife of Prince Michael of Kent, a first cousin of the queen, was touring a home improvement exhibition in West London. The man, who witnesses said was over 6 feet tall and was also wearing a long brown cloak, lunged at the princess as she was talking with others touring the exhibit. SPRW 3/8/83 === Page 23 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" # White House 'sold' at auction as unemployed protest plight By JILL LAWRENCE Associated Press SPRN 3/16/83 WASHINGTON -- The White House was sold at a mock sheriff's sale Tuesday between chants of "Fire Reagan" from some 2,000 unemployed workers who came from across the country for a rally and a day of lobbying Congress about their plight. "We want jobs, not cheese," said Greg Tekavec, a Westinghouse rail worker laid off five months ago from his job in Wilmerding, Pa., near Pittsburgh. "People are getting their utilities shut off. The banks are trying to foreclose their homes and repossess their cars. We are getting fed up with what they're doing to us," said Tekavec. THE NATIONAL UNEMPLOYED Network, a loose alliance of emergency committees nationwide, said forty cities were represented at the rally. Among the crowd, identified by buttons and placards, were steel workers from Pennsylvania, out-of-work people from Detroit assembly lines, and glass, mine, railroad, textile and service workers. "Stay the course -- lose everything," said one placard. Other signs urged Congress to "Save Our Homes" and spend "Money for Jobs, Not for War." "You didn't get here a minute too soon," Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., told the rally at the Capitol. "There are a number of people in the government that are trying desperately to ignore you." CONYERS SAID DEMOCRATS are as guilty as Republicans. "The Democrats are getting ready to sell out on a compromise jobs program that won't put a million people back to work -- and there are 13 million people out of work in America," he said. The activities, coordinated by unemployment groups in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, started with folk and rock songs adapted for the occasion. The rally also featured a skit in which John and Jane Q. Public, fed up with soup kitchens and living out of their car, decide to fire President Reagan. "Oh Ronnie, what will we do? Will I have to sell the china?" asked a woman playing the role of Nancy Reagan. "GOLLY GEE, MOMMY, I don't know. I've never been in this situation. There must be help for us somewhere," the stand-in president replied, as shouts of "Cheese" arose from the crowd. "There are no jobs in Pittsburgh," or Toledo, Rochester, Lorain, Cleveland, Baltimore or Butler, said worker after worker in the sea of signs on the Capitol steps. "I cashed my last unemployment check yesterday," complained Charles Paknik, an Ohio Valley machinist who said he'd been out of work since 1981. "It used to be, one phone call and I'd get a job. Now I can't even get a dish-washing job," said Paknik, who added he'd been forced to give up his house in Shadyside, Ohio, and move in with his wife's parents in Big Wheeling Creek, W.Va. Mike Ziemianski of Wheeling, W.Va., said he has a master's degree in industrial administration and has been trying unsuccessfully since last summer to find a job. "I've written to 530 companies," he said, displaying a ledger book in which he had charted his job search. "I haven't even had a job interview." Carl Denker of Rochester, N.Y., recruited for an engineering job in Dallas, was in the process of moving when the Dallas firm went bankrupt 15 months ago. Denker said he fell behind on his mortgage payments and, when the bank told him it was going to foreclose, sold the house immediately. "I basically gave it away instead of having the bank foreclose. I lost about $20,000," said Denker, 54. UFOs attack "higher ups" ## Rights commissioner sued SAN DIEGO (AP) -- The head of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission is being sued for more than $100,000 by the San Diego Urban League, which accuses him of removing funds from its bank accounts when he was its executive director. Dr. Walter Miles, the league's chairman, said Thursday the agency hopes to recover more than $10,000 that Clarence Pendleton allegedly paid himself for unused vacation time before he resigned last March 31 to accept the federal post. The suit also seeks $100,000 in punitive damages. Pendleton was sworn in as chairman of the Civil Rights Commission last April 5. The suit, filed in Superior Court, contends Pendleton used league funds for his own benefit and for purposes other than league business. SPRW 3/26/83 === Page 24 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Reagan lawyer's wife slain SP Rev 3/26/83 PALOS VERDES ESTATES, Calif. (AP) -- The son of President Reagan's tax lawyer was booked for investigation of murder Friday after his mother's nude, battered body was found in a bedroom of the family home, officials said. Michael David Miller, 20, was taken into custody after an emotional embrace with his father, Roy D. Miller, who has worked with Reagan for about 15 years. Marguerite Miller, 52, appeared to have died from a blow to the head, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Sgt. Al Sett said. He said the murder weapon had not been determined, but several items were taken from the home as evidence. It was the second domestic tragedy in a family that friends described as extremely close. Michael's older brother, the Millers' only other child, committed suicide in 1981 while undergoing psychiatric treatment. Authorities said Michael, an unemployed health food enthusiast who played the violin, had been undergoing psychiatric treatment for depression in recent months. The son, Michael David Miller, voluntarily came to the police department here," said Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Jerry Beck. "An interview was conducted with him, at which time he made admissions concerning the death of his mother." Authorities refused to say what those admissions were. Miller, 53, first saw his wife's bloody eyeglasses as he entered the front door of their modest home in this small, exclusive city some 25 miles south of downtown Los Angeles. "He called his wife's name, and when there was no response, he went to a neighbors' house and called the police," said police Sgt. Ed Jaakola. Police found her body in the bedroom, but said Miller never saw his wife's body. Sett said an autopsy was scheduled for Friday afternoon to determine the exact cause of death. Miller, a partner of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, handled the sale of the Reagans' Pacific Palisades home. He is a tax specialist who deals with wills, trusts, probates and estate planning. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Russian diplomat expelled SP Rev 4/1/83 LONDON (AP) -- Britain ordered the expulsions of a Soviet diplomat and journalist Thursday and barred another Kremlin envoy from returning because of "unacceptable activities" -- a phrase the government uses to describe spying. The Foreign Office said assistant air attache Col. Guennadi A. Primakov and second secretary Vladimir V. Ivanov "have engaged in activities incompatible with their status." Primakov was given seven days to leave and the Foreign Office said Ivanov, currently abroad, would not be allowed back. 1983, Spokane, Wash. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Sen. Randolph quitting post after 50 years SP Rev 3/10/83 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. Jennings Randolph, a New Deal Democrat through a congressional career spanning 50 years and nine presidents, announced Wednesday he's retiring, declaring "there is a season and a time for every purpose." Randolph, the only remaining national legislator to have served during President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first 100 days, announced he will not seek re-election when his term expires in 1984. # world UFOs attack "higher ups" ## Turin's deputy mayor arrested TURIN, Italy (AP) -- Police have arrested the Socialist deputy mayor of Turin and three other senior local officials on corruption charges in a bribery scandal that threatened to topple the left-wing government. Police said the four officials, all members of the Socialist Party, were suspected of taking bribes in exchange for the awarding of public contracts and the sale of city-owned real estate. The arrests late Saturday night brought to 16 the number of politicians and officials arrested in the scandal. SP Rev 3/14/83 UFOs attack "higher ups" ## Soviet leader poses for photos MOSCOW (AP) -- Yuri V. Andropov met and posed for pictures Friday with Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega in an appearance that seemed aimed at ending speculation about the Kremlin chief's health. Soviet sources said Andropov, 68, was hospitalized last week for treatment of kidney and heart problems. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Malawi rebel leader assassinated HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- The leader of a rebel Malawi political party was assassinated and his bullet-riddled body dumped near the center of the Zimbabwe capital of Harare, authorities said Friday. Attati Mpakati, 50, president of the outlawed Socialist League of Malawi known as Lesoma, was last seen alive five days earlier when he arrived in Harare by air from Maputo, Mozambique, the Information Ministry said in a statement. "He did not arrive at the Harare address he had given on immigration papers at the airport," the statement said. It said his body was found Monday by the side of a principal street, Samora Machel Avenue, named after Mozambique's Marxist president. The ministry said he was "assassinated by unknown persons." SP Rev 4/2/83 SP Rev 1/26/83 # Canadian legislator arrested QUEBEC (AP) -- Parti Quebecois legislator Gilles Gregoire was arrested Friday and arraigned on seven charges of "sexual immorality with minors of the female sex." He pleaded innocent. The 56-year-old co-founder of Quebec's governing party was charged under the provincial Youth Protection Act. Sgt. Claude Beaurivage of the Quebec City police force, which arrested Gregoire Friday afternoon at his office, said the charges involve seven girls aged 12 to 17. The offenses allegedly took place between September 1982 and January 1983, in Quebec City and suburban Vanier. Beaurivage said police began investigating after they received a formal complaint from the parents of one of the girls. === Page 25 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Soviet calls new Reagan anti-missile plan 'insane' SPRE-S 3/27/83 MOSCOW (AP) - Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov attacked President Reagan's anti-missile plans Saturday as an "insane" and "extremely perilous" strategy aimed at rendering the Soviet Union helpless to U.S. nuclear attack. He declared, "The Soviet Union will never allow them to succeed. It will never be caught defenseless by any threat. Let there be no mistake about this in Washington." IF THE UNITED STATES could knock out attacking Soviet missiles, Washington could launch a nuclear first strike and Moscow would be unable to respond, Andropov said in an interview in today's edition of the Communist daily newspaper Pravda. Reagan's plans, announced in a speech Wednesday, represent "a bid to disarm the Soviet Union in the face of the U.S. nuclear threat," the Soviet leader said. "It is time they (the Americans) stop devising one option after another in search of the best ways of unleashing nuclear war in the hope of winning it," he added. IN WASHINGTON, STATE Department press officer Anita Stockman declined to comment directly on Andropov's interpretation of the Reagan speech, saying, "We have clearly stated our position." Referring to earlier Soviet criticism, she noted that Reagan emphasized in his speech that he was outlining a long-term research effort to be carried out "consistent with our obligations under the ABM (Anti-Ballistic Missile) treaty." "The treaty does not prohibit research into ballistic missile defense concepts," Stockman said. "The president foresees this effort taking place on a very broad time scale," she said, noting that Reagan said the task "may not be completed before the end of this century." "At this stage we are only talking about accelerating research into the feasibility of new concepts for ballistic missile defenses," she said. ANDROPOV, NOTING REAGAN'S comments about growing Soviet military strength, said the United States has ample forces and accused the president of pursuing an "extremely perilous" strategy aimed at making the United States "the world's dominating military power." Andropov, who was reported hospitalized last week for treatment of kidney and heart problems but then held meetings with visiting dignitaries Friday, spoke of Reagan's "impudent distortions of the Soviet Union's policy." He acknowledged the Kremlin's milit... UFOs attack "higher ups" # White House 'vibrations' lift ban on Beach Boys WASHINGTON (AP) - Interior Secretary James Watt hurriedly replaced the capital's welcome mat for the Beach Boys on Thursday after being set straight by one of their favorite "California Girls." And when Nancy Reagan got done, the president himself put a heavy foot to him. Reagan, it seems, is a fan of the surfin' sound as much as his wife. So after learning that Watt had banned the Beach Boys and other rock groups from the capital's July 4 celebration, he handed the Interior Secretary a stark reminder of what happens when your aim is bad: A plaster of paris foot with a hole in it. Watt, who earlier complained that "hard rock" music had attracted the "wrong element" to the traditional fireworks extravaganza on the Mall, proclaimed himself a likely fan of the Beach Boys, whose performances had drawn hundreds of thousands of people in years past. "The president is a friend of the Beach Boys and he likes them, and I'm sure when I get to meet them I'll like them." (Continued on page 2) SPRE-S 4/8/83 Q UFOs attack "higher ups" # Idaho's Rep. Hansen indicted by grand jury SPRE-S 4/18/83 WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted Rep. George V. Hansen, the flamboyant Idaho Republican, on charges of failing to disclose financial dealings including loans from Texas millionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt. The 52-year-old, seven-term congressman who once undertook a personal mission to Iran to try to free U.S. hostages became the first person ever charged with violating the Ethics in Government Act for making false statements on the financial disclosure forms that law requires. The four-count indictment returned in U.S. District Court in Washington charged Hansen with leaving out major transactions on the financial disclosure forms he filed with the House of Representatives for the years 1978 through 1981. It was not the first time Hansens' finances had landed him in hot water. In 1975 he pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges of filing late and false campaign finance reports. He received a two-month prison sentence, which was suspended, and paid a $2,000 fine. Specifically, the grand jury charged Thursday that Hansen failed to disclose: * A $50,000 personal loan made to him and his wife, Connie, in her name in 1978 by the First National (Continued on page 7) === Page 26 of 92 Beach boys 4/8/83 (Continued from page 1) Watt said, standing in a drizzling rain after emerging from his session at the White House. He said he still would go ahead with his decision to bring in Las Vegas crooner Wayne Newton for this year's main event. As for the Beach Boys, "We'll look forward to having them here to entertain us again, as soon as we can get that worked out." Reagan's chief spokesman, Willie Nelson fan Larry Speakes, suggested a more specific timetable: inviting them back for this July 4. A spokesman for Watt, Tom DeRocco, said later the secretary's remarks were intended as an expression of hope that the Beach Boys could make a July 4 date, but he had not been in touch with the group to issue a formal invitation. The group's rhythm guitarist, Al Jardine, said in Moncton, New Brunswick said he did not believe it had a July 4 engagement, and, "I would sure like to make those plans right around Washington, D.C. if possible." As for the secretary's expression of hope, Jardine said: "That's certainly kind. We'd certainly like to come back and make peace with the administration." Jardine said members of the group opposed Watt's drive to ease acreage off the California coast for oil drilling. Asked if he would accept Watt's apology for the whole episode, Jardine laughed and said, "California's in a delicate position right now. We have to be careful about what we concede." Lead singer Mike Love referred to the foot trophy: "If the shoe fits, wear it." Watt, who has managed to stand off environmentalists, Indians, congressmen and other critics, raised the white flag just hours after it was apparent, in the wake of a flood of protest calls from around the nation, that the Beach Boys still enjoyed Good Vibrations elsewhere in the administration. Presidential aide Michael Deaver was the first to send Watt the White House message. "Anybody who thinks the Beach Boys are hard rock must think Mantovani plays jazz," he declared. He mentioned his wife and children had loved their capital performance. Next came word from Mrs. Reagan: "I like the Beach Boys." And Speakes said he wouldn't be a bit surprised if the president did, too. According to the interior secretary, he then got a call from the first lady. "She said that the Beach Boys were fans of hers, and her children had grown up with them, and they're fine outstanding people, and there should be no intention to indicate that the cause problems." "Which I agree with," Watt added. Radio stations across the country had been deluged with calls criticizing Watt's original decision, and members of Congress had a field day with it. Reagan, in a speech to several thousand Catholic educators, joked, "It's a pleasure to break away from crisis negotiations. You're the first to know this: I've just called in Ambassador Phil Habib to settle the Jim Watt-Beach Boys controversy." By that time, however, the secretary already had eaten crow on the White House lawn. Watt emerged from the Oval Office carrying Reagan's foot-shot trophy. Asked whether he would apologize to the Beach Boys, Watt said, "I don't know that I owe them an apology, but I apologize to anybody that thinks they need one." In the Senate, Sen. Robert J. Dole, R-Kan., invited the Beach Boys to perform at a July 4th charity concert in Kansas. UF De attack "higher ups" Speer 4/11/83 Leading Demo liberal is dead SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- U.S. Rep. Phillip Burton, 56, an environmental champion and Democratic liberal in Congress since 1964, died Sunday after complaining of back pains. Burton was stricken in his local residence in the Sir Francis Drake Hotel just before midnight Saturday. Officials said the death was from natural causes. Burton, a leader of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party in California since the 1950s, was regarded as one of the shrewdest of the state's politicians. A friend of labor, Burton often was described as coming close to being a "political boss" in the conduct of his district. In his own San Francisco district, Burton's greatest accomplishment was regarded as the formation in 1972 of the 35,000-acre Golden Gate National Recreation Area. === Page 27 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Protesters greet Reagan Sp Rev 4/7/83 PITTSBURGH (AP) -- President Reagan, taking his pitch for high technology job retraining amongst a sea of unemployed steelworkers, ran into one of the largest protest demonstrations of his presidency Wednesday. After a tour of the Control Data Institute, where 125 jobless steelworkers are being trained to repair computers, Reagan spoke to the National Conference on the Dislocated Worker while thousands stood outside in a cold rain waving signs and chanting. "Reagan, Reagan, he's no good. Send him back to Hollywood," they said. Among the banners: "Reagans Friends Get Tax Breaks. Steelworkers Get Pink Slips." And: "Buck Stopped Here When Ronald Reagan Took Office." The president, whisked into the hotel through an underground garage, could see only a smattering of the crowd, which police estimated at 3,500. But he acknowledged that he was in hostile territory when he departed from his text to say, "I come to you not only as a speaker but as a possible victim." He noted that many at the bipartisan gathering might like to see him dislocated from his job. "We as a nation owe an obligation as well as a helping hand to those who pay the price of economic readjustment," the president said in the prepared part of his speech. "Government -- federal, state and local -- should provide support for job training and re-employment assistance." As the president was speaking, several hundred protesters stormed one entrance to the hotel, hoping to confront him. They were kept back by city police, some with dogs. No arrests were reported, although two policemen carried a woman from the crowd and put her in a patrol van. (Continued on page 2) # Protesters- Reagan was taken inside the hotel through an underground parking area, beating the crowd who screamed, "Reagan is a coward!" Anger and skepticism were evident in the computer classroom as well as on the street outside the conference hotel. UFOs attack "higher ups" AP photo Rep. Stokes, right, is congratulated by his brother, former Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes, after making statement. UFOs attack "higher ups" # nation Sp Rev 4/7/83 ## Disease center boss resigns ATLANTA (AP) -- Dr. William H. Foege, brought in to head the National Centers for Disease Control amid controversy six years ago, announced his resignation Wednesday with a "sense of accomplishment" and an eagerness to tackle new tasks at the agency. In a letter to Dr. Edward N. Brandt, assistant U.S. secretary for health, Foege, a Chewelah, Wash., native, asked for "approval to shift responsibilities" and leave his post as director. Foege, 47, said no pressure or policy conflicts contributed to his decision. "I'm not quitting with a sense of frustration," he said in an interview. "I just decided it's time for a change." Sp Rev 4/12/83 # Ethics boss claims racism led to drunkenness charge CLEVELAND (AP) -- Rep. Louis B. Stokes, chairman of the House Ethics Committee, on Monday denied he was drunk when stopped by Maryland police for an alleged traffic violation, and blamed the allegation on racism. "I have been patently aware that I am a black man in a predominately white society," the Ohio Democrat said at a news conference at a Baptist church. "I always knew that someday racism and bigotry in the media would raise its ugly head against me." Stokes was stopped by police in the Washington suburb of Montgomery County, Md., early March 25. Stokes denied that he requested congressional immunity from arrest. "If the Montgomery County police have a case, they ought to charge me and take me to court. I waive immunity," Stokes said. === Page 28 of 92 Jury charges analyst with selling secrets 4/29/83 WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal grand jury charged a retired Defense Department intelligence analyst Thursday with selling, for $32,000, secret U.S. reports about the Middle East to Libya and ex-CIA Agent Edwin P. Wilson. Waldo H. Dubberstein, 75, who retired as a Middle East specialist for the Defense Intelligence Agency in March, 1982, was named in a seven-count indictment returned in U.S. District Court in suburban Alexandria, Va. He was charged with bribery, conspiracy to defraud the government, disclosing secret and top-secret information and concealing his alleged Libyan contacts from Pentagon security officers. Dubberstein is the first person charged in the Wilson affair for actions taken while he was employed by the U.S. government. The grand jury said Dubberstein traveled secretly to Tripoli, Libya, under an assumed name in the spring of 1978 where he allegedly met four or five times with Libyan intelligence officers to discuss the deployment of military forces in the Middle East. At the time, Dubberstein was responsible for DIA reports on Libya and Egypt, among other countries, and was cleared to see top-secret material and Sensitive Compartmented Information, which is primarily ultra-secret material gathered by U.S. electronic spying. Justice Department spokesman John Russell said Dubberstein had worked as an analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency from 1947 to 1971 before he resigned and moved to the Pentagon. The indictment, quoting Defense Department regulations, said his position was designated "critical sensitive," which means that he "could bring about... a material adverse effect on the national security." Former President Jimmy Carter has said in his memoirs that during this period Egypt, a U.S. ally, and Libya, its radical North African neighbor run by Moammar Khadafy, came close to armed conflict. === Page 29 of 92 WFOs attack Hansen calls charges 'trumped-up' Sp Res 4/16/83 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rep. George V. Hansen pleaded innocent Friday to charges of concealing financial information and accused the Justice Department of bringing a "phony and trumped-up" case to court. The Idaho Republican had little to say during a 15-minute arraignment, but turned defiant afterward as he stood in the rain outside the U.S. District Court building. He bitterly accused the Justice Department of persecuting him for his political stands and said he properly filed with the House the financial disclosure forms he's accused of falsifying. "If you want to know how phony and trumped-up these charges are, just ask yourself how a Justice Department bureaucrat can make an intelligent decision on congressional report filing when they've never seen the inside of the ethics committee files and can't for sure know what any congressman or senator really has done," Hansen told reporters. The four-count indictment against Hansen was returned by a federal grand jury April 7, the first indictment ever brought under the financial disclosure provisions of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978. Hansen was charged with leaving out major transactions on the financial disclosure forms from 1978 through 1981, including loans from Texas millionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt. During the 15-minute arraignment before U.S. District Judge Joyce Hens Green, Hansen's attorney, Frank A.S. Campbell, said the case presents "complex and novel issues of law and facts." Campbell said he would file a motion to dismiss the indictment, adding that in his view the Justice Department was violating the principle of separation of powers between the executive and legislative branches. Mrs. Green gave Campbell until May 2 to file his pre-trial motions and tentatively set a June 20 trial date. In his brief news conference under a circle of umbrellas, Hansen noted that he has fought what he called Internal Revenue Service intrusion in citizen's lives -- and speculated his political stand was linked to the indictment. "Maybe this is a good day, April 15 (the tax-filing deadline), to note what can happen to anyone who aggressively tries to protect the rights of private citizens against abusive practices of the Internal Revenue Service and the Justice Department," he said. A written statement handed out to reporters said the department "proceeds against me under a defective theory of law which attempts to criminalize the financial reporting system governing Congress, a system which in fact is to be administered and enforced primarily and exclusively by Congress." "Many of my colleagues agree that in trying to apply the criminal law here beyond its legitimate bounds, the Justice Department is attempting to intimidate Congress itself. With the issuance of this indictment, it has fallen to my hands to defend the constitutionally based independence of Congress from this attack by the executive." WFOs attack "higher up" France ousts suspected Soviet spies Sp Res 4/6/83 PARIS (AP) -- In the biggest spy sweep in French history, France's left-wing government Tuesday expelled about 50 Soviet diplomats and officials for trying to steal military secrets. The Soviet Embassy called the expulsions an unjustified political act by the government of Socialist President Francois Mitterrand, and said France would have to bear the negative consequences. The Interior Ministry would not state the exact number of Soviets who hastily left the country on a special plane sent from Moscow. French news reports said 47 Soviet officials were involved, including the third-ranking official at the Soviet Embassy. They said 40 deportees were diplomats, two were journalists and five were officials with Soviet commercial institutions in Paris. The Interior Ministry said the Soviets were deported because of "systematic" espionage activities "particularly in the military domain." The French purge put a serious strain on French-Soviet relations, which have been steadily deteriorating since the election victory two years ago of Mitterrand's Socialists. Mitterrand has four Communists in his Cabinet, making France the only major West European country with Communist ministers. (Continued on page 12) === Page 30 of 92 D Reds attack "higher ups" # Dellums named in drug case Sp Rev 4/16/83 WASHINGTON (AP) -- A former House employee told authorities he obtained drugs for Rep. Ronald V. Dellums, D-Calif., and two lie-detector tests indicated he was telling the truth, a federal magistrate and a prosecutor revealed Friday. Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel Bernstein told a court hearing the tests were administered to Robert Yesh by the Drug Enforcement Administration and the House ethics committee. The DEA and the House panel are investigating drug use on Capitol Hill by congressional employees and possibly by members of Congress. Bernstein mentioned the polygraph tests during the sentencing for Yesh, who earlier pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges. The 13-year former employee of the House doorkeeper's office received one year in prison and three years' probation for one cocaine possession count and a second count of conspiracy to possess cocaine. Bernstein filed court papers that include a cooperation agreement between Yesh and prosecutors that said, "Robert Yesh admits that at the request of a U.S. congressman and his aide, Robert Yesh has personally supplied them in the past with small quantities of cocaine and marijuana at the U.S. Capitol. Robert Yesh also admits to other personal knowledge of drug trafficking by another senior congressional aide and other employees at the U.S. Capitol." During the sentencing, U.S. Magistrate Arthur L. Burnett identified the congressman as Dellums and the aide as John Apperson, legislative assistant to Dellums. The magistrate said that Yesh's involvement with drug dealing on Capitol Hill "gives this court some concern as to how many members of Congress may be using cocaine or drugs." ② # Teamster boss will resign next week to avoid prison CHICAGO (AP) -- An ailing Roy L. Williams agreed Friday to resign his $225,000-a-year job as Teamsters union president next week to remain out of prison while appealing a conviction for conspiring to bribe a senator. U.S. District Judge Prentice H. Marshall said he would stay a provisional 55-year sentence after the union leader's attorney assured the judge Williams would submit his resignation to the court Tuesday. It would become effective by 5 p.m. Wednesday. Williams, who suffers from severe emphysema, had been hospitalized at Park Lane Medical Center in Kansas City on Tuesday with severe breathing problems. But a few hours after the ruling, Williams was released and headed for his farm home southeast of Kansas City, according to James Berry, president of the hospital. The government had sought an immediate resignation, but defense attorney Raymond Larroca asked for the added time so Williams could step down at a Teamsters executive board meeting next Tuesday in Scottsdale, Ariz. "There is no real danger," Larroca said, adding that Williams wanted "to say goodbye to his friends and leave with a minimum of dignity" after being a union member for 45 years. Larroca said that even though Williams did not attend Friday's hearing he had approved the text of his resignation agreement over the telephone. The agreement was reached on what the government's chief prosecutor called, "a day of reckoning" for Williams, 68, who had been ordered to report to a federal prison hospital by the end of the day. Douglas Roller, chief of the Justice Department's Chicago Strike Force, said after the hearing that he was satisfied with Marshall's order. It bars Williams from any participation in the affairs of the Teamsters and affiliated agencies between now and when the resignation takes effect. WILLIAMS ③ # Finland expels Korean envoy HELSINKI, Finland (AP) -- North Korea's ambassador has been ordered expelled from Finland, allegedly for trying to bribe the speaker of Parliament with $5,000 tucked into a bouquet of flowers. Foreign Ministry spokesman Alek Aalto said the government decided Thursday that Ambassador Yu Jae Han must go but set no deadline for his departure. Government sources, who spoke on condition they not be identified, said Yu had been trying to prevent the International Parliamentary Union from holding its next general meeting in Seoul, capital of South Korea. They said his activities were disclosed to authorities by Johannes Virolainen, who was president of the union and speaker of Parliament before losing his parliamentary seat in national elections last month. Reds attack "higher ups" # Austria shifts to right; chancellor plans to quit Sp Rev 4/25/83 VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- A shift to the right in Austria's parliamentary elections Sunday cost the governing Socialists their absolute majority and Chancellor Bruno Kreisky announced he would resign after 13 years in office. The 72-year-old Kreisky, the longest-serving leader in Western Europe, said he would remain as leader of the Socialist Party, however, and stay on as caretaker chancellor to conduct negotiations with the other parties in the 183-seat National Council, or parliament. The People's Party led by Alois Mock took at least four seats from the Socialists. During the campaign, Kreisky said he would not form a coalition government if his party failed to hold its majority control. According to state television projections, the Socialists will have no more than 91 seats in Parliament, compared with their current 95, while the People's Party added at === Page 31 of 92 UFO attack "higher ups" # Defense chief quits Salvadoran regime SpRes 4/19/83 SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) -- Gen. Jose Guillermo Garcia resigned Monday as defense minister, ending a bitter power struggle with some commanders who accused him of bungling the war against left-wing guerrillas. Garcia, 49, summoned reporters as rumors circulated that he would step down and told them: "I always thought that one day I would hold a news conference for you with only one question asked and one answer given. This question has an answer: Yes. I believe you understand what I'm referring to." In the latest armed forces feud, the air force commander, Col. Juan Rafael Bustillo, threatened last week to refuse Defense Ministry orders unless Garcia resigned. Last January, Col. Sigifredo Ochoa Perez, considered one of the army's best combat leaders, staged a six-day mutiny with his 1,200 soldiers in northern Cabanas province. The rebellion ended when Ochoa agreed to go to the Salvadoran Embassy in Washington as military attache. Military sources said at the time that, as part of the compromise settlement, Garcia had pledged to resign in three months. President Alvaro Magana accepted Garcia's resignation and named Gen. Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, commander of the national guard, to head the Defense Ministry, a presidential aide said. The aide, Francisco Jose Guerrero, said the Constituent Assembly still had to ratify the president's choice. Military sources said the 44-year-old Vides Casanova has a reputation as a tough administrator. Garcia told the news conference he had tendered his resignation to Magana on March 18, but the president did not act on it until Monday. "I hope the president continues with a team that supports the democratic process, which is the country's salvation," Garcia said. "What worries me is that the people might be defrauded, because the people deserve more than has been given them." He called for armed forces unity and expressed hope that the government would follow through with its pledge to hold elections. Elections had been scheduled for March 1984, but Magana, at the urging of President Reagan, recently announced they would be held this December. **A message from Garcia.** UFO attack "higher ups" # U.S. diplomat expelled ## Kremlin says he was caught with radio used for espionage MOSCOW (AP) -- The Kremlin ordered the expulsion of a U.S. diplomat Thursday and charged he was caught "red handed" in Moscow with radio equipment used for spying. The U.S. Embassy confirmed that that Richard W. Osborne, a first secretary in the economic section, had been declared persona non grata by the Soviet government and was making preparations to leave the country with his wife and two young daughters. His departure date was not known. Embassy spokesman Frank Tonini said he had "no comment" on the substance of the Soviet allegations against Osborne, and the diplomat was not available for comment. In Washington, White House spokesman Larry Speakes declined comment, saying, "We don't have anything on that." Izvestia, the Soviet government newspaper, said that Osborne "was detained red-handed in Moscow on March 7, this year, while working with espionage radio apparatus." "Confiscated from him was a set of portable intelligence special-purpose apparatus for the transmission of espionage information via the U.S. Marisat communications satellites, and his own notes which were written in a pad made of paper quickly soluble in water, and which exposed Osborne's espionage activities," Izvestia said. The report also was distributed by the official Tass news agency and read on Soviet evening television news. Izvestia provided no details about Osborne's detention and the embassy refused all comment. SpRes 3/11/83 === Page 32 of 92 8 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW Fri., April 29, 1983, Spokane, Wash. Note: Below is symbolic! It shows that U.S. military is "grounded" and helpless if my UFOs stop them. Owens The USS Enterprise gets help from tugs in San Francisco Bay Thursday afternoon. AP photo UFO Project (Note: Symbolic) Grounded Navy carrier freed S-P Rev 4/29/83 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Just a mile from home after eight months at sea, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise ran aground Thursday on a sandbar in San Francisco Bay before high tide and tugboats pushed it free. After more than five hours in the grip of shifting sand, the ship was freed at 3:25 p.m. PDT and headed toward port to the cheers of hundreds of onlookers, according to Master Chief Delmar Messer. As high tide reached the listing, stranded warship, tugs rocked and pivoted the ship as if it were "a car stuck in mud," said Petty Officer Ron Ostarello. "You have to rock it back and forth to get it free." Some of the estimated 6,000 officers and crew gathered on the low side and water was added as ballast in an effort to help the dozen tugboats pulling and pushing the huge vessel. No planes were aboard when the ship struck the sandbar at the entrance to the Alameda harbor area. The Enterprise is commanded by Capt. Robert J. Kelly, but was under the control of harbor pilots at the time of the incident. "We don't know why it happened," said Senior Chief Petty Officer Fred Larsen, asked to explain the situation. "The skipper is ultimately responsible for what happens aboard his ship, but there'll be an investigation to determine who, if anyone, is responsible." It was the fourth Navy accident in eight months in northern California. Hundreds of reunions were spoiled by the snafu. Mascara ran and fancy clothes hung limply in a slow drizzle as about 1,000 people, many of them wives waiting for sailor husbands, stood on the dock. UFO Project (Carolyn) Jet crashes at Navy's secret weapons center DAHLGREN, Va. (AP) -- A Navy jet crashed Thursday at the Navy's high security Dahlgren Surface Weapons Center, a Navy spokesman said. Amos Clary, a civilian spokesman for the center, said he understood there were injuries but no deaths. He declined to give any details, saying all information was being handled through Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Maryland, where the plane was based. Dahlgren lies along the Virginia side of the Potomac River about 40 miles south of Washington. Note: Carolyn Valentine, mechanic on these planes at this secret weapons center, was my pupil! I trained her when she flew to me at Vancouver! Owens === Page 33 of 92 U For Sun Attack 4/21/83 # Seeking the sun? Look away, Dixie Associated Press Temperatures plunged to record lows Wednesday in at least two dozen cities from the Great Lakes to the Gulf Coast for the third straight day. It made ice cubes of millions of young peaches and apples hanging on the trees in the Deep South, where Atlanta and other cities were colder than Anchorage, Alaska, which had a low of 32. (In sharp contrast with much of the nation, Spokane enjoyed a pleasant 69 for a high.) The worst Dixie freeze ever so late in the (Continued on page 3) # Cold- 4/21/83 (Continued from page 1) season wiped out fruit and vegetable crops from the Carolinas to Arkansas while a lingering storm stalled spring in the Northeast Wednesday with up to 18 inches of snow. Snow fell for a second day from Maryland across eastern Pennsylvania, northern New Jersey and eastern New York, causing numerous traffic accidents, resulting in at least two deaths. In Georgia, where temperatures dipped as low as 12 degrees in the northern part of the state, Gov. Joe Frank Harris asked state and federal officials to survey the damage to peach and apple orchards as the first step in seeking federal crop disaster relief. It was 30 degrees in Atlanta, setting a low record for the date for the third straight day. In Augusta, Ga., the mercury hit 27, and in Athens, Ga., it was 28. In North Carolina, it was 27 in Asheville, 28 in Charlotte and Raleigh, and 30 in Wilmington. Other Deep South cities reporting records included Nashville, Tenn., 26; Chattanooga, Tenn., 28, Huntsville, Ala., 30; and Charleston, S.C., 31. Tim Mercier of Blue Ridge, chairman of the Georgia Apple Commodity Commission, said about 75 percent of the north Georgia apple crop appeared to be lost. "They will only have enough apples left for roadside sales this fall," said state Agriculture Commissioner Tommy Irvin. Butch Ferree, head of the Georgia Cooperative Extension Service's horticulture department, said peach growers in the northern third of the state were "devastated." "We probably won't pick a peck of peaches above Interstate 20," Ferree said. As for the consumer, Ferree said, "If summer ever comes, you'll find peaches, but at a slightly higher price." In North Carolina, peach grower Bobby Fryar of McLeansville tried to save the 2,000 trees in his orchard by spraying water to form a protective coating of ice, but he said it didn't work because it didn't warm enough during the day to melt the ice. record lows" low record for date for the third straight day" "Atlanta and other cities were colder than Anchorage, Alaska" "The worst Dixie freeze ever" "If summer ever comes" === Page 34 of 92 "record lows" "60 cities" "never had snow fallen so late" WAS Sun Attack SYRES 4/20/83 # Snow buries Northeast's spring flowers Associated Press A freak April snowstorm sacked spring again Tuesday, crushing blossoming flowers under a foot of snow in the Northeast, while the mercury tumbled to record lows in nearly 60 cities from Chicago to Savannah, Ga. Out West, officials were keeping an eye on a 1½-mile lake created when a mountain collapsed into Spanish Fork Canyon and blocked a river, routing all 22 families from the railroad community of Thistle, Utah, and threatening to unleash a 150-foot wall of water on another town should the mud dam give way. Snow fell on the 30th day of spring in scattered areas from Arkansas to Maine, with heavy accumulations in parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and southern New England. Never had snow fallen so late in the season in parts of Arkansas and New Jersey. Snow coming down as fast as 2 inches an hour was blown into waist-high drifts in places, causing numerous accidents on the highways. A snowplow even skidded off the road at Bennington, Vt. The New England coast was pounded with a "typical nor'easter," gale winds up to 40 mph. About half a foot of snow was expected in the New York City area, where fat, wet flakes started pouring down shortly after dawn. In Pamona, N.J., near Atlantic City, Bud Dietzmann, a weather specialist for the Federal Aviation Administration, said, "This is the latest we've ever had accumulation, a measurable amount." "It's almost like Christmas out the window now," said state police Sgt. Kenneth Stone at the Shelburne Falls barracks in western Massachusetts where about a foot of snow had fallen in some areas. It startled some Southerners not accustomed to much of the white stuff anytime, much less in late April. === Page 35 of 92 UFO attack (Sun) # California coast gone with wind? SPRes 3/11/83 New York Times LOS ANGELES -- The tropical storms that swept scores of homes into the Pacific Ocean and closed parts of the scenic oceanside highway this winter have fundamentally eroded long stretches of the California coast. Some marine scientists say the state has entered a period of intense weather, confirmed and accelerated by this winter's storms, that will slice deeper and deeper into California's coastline of more than 1,000 miles until many beaches have been washed into the sea. "We are on an eroding coastline," says Dr. Douglas L. Inman, director of the Center for Coastal Studies of Scripps Institute of Oceanography in San Diego and the leading proponent of the view that many California beaches are doomed. Not all specialists in the field share his view, but most agree that the state's shoreline has been receding since 1978. And they say that over the last 30 years, when most development along its coast occurred, California was experiencing an atypical period of very mild weather. They say it is foolhardy for the federal government to foster home-building on the coast through subsidized flood insurance and low-interest disaster loans after storms. For years, Easterners have joked that someday part of California would fall into the sea because of a giant earthquake. The long-predicted earthquake hasn't happened, but the sea is slowly chipping away at the state's golden energy, and many scientists say it is a relentless process. This year was caused by a storm in January and another last week that hammered the shore with waves up to 16 feet high. From San Diego to points north of San Francisco, beaches have disappeared, the sand carried into the ocean by powerful tides. Roads and beach parking lots have been washed away. Piers that had stood for decades are gone. On Thursday, residents of Big Sur, a coastal village about 125 miles south of San Francisco, were carefully watching a huge chunk of rain-soaked mountain that has shifted toward the sea. The section of earth -- a quarter-mile long, 300 feet wide and 100 feet high -- moved about six feet Wednesday, dropping onto California Route 1, the Coastal Highway. That scenic road, often closed by winter storms, is also blocked about 25 miles to the south. Geologists said it would be two or three days before they knew whether the piece of mountain had stabilized or posed a danger to nearby residents. Thirty miles north of Big Sur, in Carmel, which has long boasted of having one of the most scenic white sand beaches in America, the beach is gone, covered by the sea. In Del Mar, a town of 5,000 near San Diego, 68 oceanfront homes and five other buildings were damaged by waves last week, while the depth of sand on the beach has been eroded by as much as 20 feet. Here in Los Angeles, the surf now laps over vast areas of beaches where, a few weeks ago, lifeguard stations stood and bathers sunned themselves. Coastal erosion has been a fact of life for decades along the East Coast -- in New Jersey, in North Carolina and elsewhere. "the latest spring freeze on record" -- "record low temperatures" UFO Sun Attack SPRes 4/22/83 # More fruit, vegetable crops are ruined by cold in South Associated Press The latest spring freeze on record wiped out more fruit and vegetable crops across the Deep South on Thursday, and officials warned that peach prices were likely to double. For the fourth consecutive day, record low temperatures were set across the Southeast. It was at least 10 degrees colder in parts of Dixie than in Fairbanks, Alaska -- just 150 miles from the Arctic Circle -- as temperatures dropped into the 20s across the Carolinas, northern Georgia and Tennessee, with sub-freezing records also posted in northern Alabama. The freeze has killed millions of dollars worth of peaches, apples, strawberries, tomatoes, blueberries, tobacco and eggplants across the Southeast and in pockets of Illinois and Indiana. Some farmers tried to save their orchards by burning old tires, piping heated water around their plants, covering them with plastic or spraying them with water which froze, insulating them from frost. Throughout South Carolina, which produces three times as many fresh market peaches as Georgia and leads the nation, officials estimated that at least half the $60 million crop had been destroyed. In the Ridge and Piedmont areas of the state, loss approached 90 percent. In Georgia, agriculture officials said the peach crop in the entire northern half of the state was damaged and North Carolina officials said at least 98 percent of that state's $10 million crop was wiped out. UFO Sun Attack # Western Greece shaken ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- A moderate earthquake shook western Greece on Friday but there were no reports of damage or casualties, the Athens Seismological Service reported. It said the quake was centered 171 miles west-northwest of Athens in the Ionian seabed off the island of Lefkas. The service said the tremor registered 4.6 on the Richter scale of ground motion, meaning it was capable of causing damage in the local area. SPRes 4/2/83 UFO Sun Attack SPRes 4/19/83 # Mudslides continue to grow, menacing towns THISTLE, Utah (AP) -- A mudslide that has created a 1½-mile-long reservoir which washed out this tiny railroad town continued to grow Monday, breaking a pipe being laid to siphon the rising water, officials said. Another mudslide began Monday in Payson Canyon, parallel to the one in Spanish Fork Canyon. "That (Payson Canyon slide) has every bit as much potential as this does," said Utah County Sheriff's Lt. Gary Clayton. Clayton said geologists were worried the new slide would back up Payson Creek, creating a danger if it broke and sent water cascading into the city of Payson, at the canyon's mouth about three miles away. UFO Sun Attack # Flooding continues in South Associated Press A stubborn storm postponed spring with up to 2 feet of snow Wednesday from the Mexican border to Minnesota and flooded the Deep South with as much as 10 inches of rain that drove some people to the rooftops. Hundreds of people in the Mississippi Valley from Illinois and Missouri to Louisiana and Mississippi were driven from their homes by rivers overflowing near record levels. Many highways were awash in floodwaters and many schools closed while tornadoes danced through Dixie and baseball-size hail bombarded Natchez, Miss. SPRes 4/7/83 === Page 36 of 92 # Good Morning. ## Today is SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 1983. In the news: A 13-month-old boy's **second** transplanted liver in 10 days appears to be working better than the first (Page A3) . . . The Great Salt Lake, swollen by **record** rainfall, is **swallowing** beaches and growing larger (Page D16) . . . The aborted **Soviet** manned space flight appears to have been a **close call** (Page A14) . . . Former Olympic **swimming** champion and actor **Buster Crabbe** is dead at 75 (Page A4) . . . An expanded news briefing appears on Page A2. UFOs Sun Attack SPRes # Great Salt Lake is becoming greater SPRes 4/24/84 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The Great Salt Lake, swollen by record rainfall and the spring runoff of melted snow, is swallowing beaches and lapping against dikes in a slow-motion disaster that may cost $60 million in damage. The 75-mile long, 50-mile wide lake is expected to reach 4,204 feet above sea level in June -- its highest level in 62 years. Earlier, authorities predicted a peak of 4,203 feet and $30 million in damage. The extra foot of water has doubled the damage estimate. The lake, a remnant of ancient Lake Bonneville, which covered parts of Utah, Idaho and Nevada 12,000 years ago, has no natural outlet and depends on evaporation to rid itself of excess water. That makes a forecast of precipitation for this week even more unwelcome. "Beginning Sunday, we'll have three to four days of rain and snow," said Gerald Williams, National Weather Service hydrologist. "It will have a significant effect. Not only does it contribute precipitation, but it slows evaporation." J. Stanley Elmer, field operations planner with the state Lands and Forestry Division, warned the lake could go even higher than 4,204 feet. "We've got lots of water up there in the mountains and lots more to come down," Elmer said. State officials have estimated damage could reach $150 million if the shallow lake, which averaged 35 feet in depth, topped 4,205 feet above sea level. The Department of Natural Resources is studying several ideas to stem the flooding, including a scheme to pump water into the state's western desert. But none of the projects could be completed in time to stop this year's crisis. On the west shore of the lake, beaches at Great Salt Lake Marina and Saltair Resort are inundated. Dune buggy rental and snack shops are islands. Utah Lake State Park has been closed, and damage there could reach $3 million. Meanwhile, the lake creeps closer to Interstate 80, Utah's main east-west artery, and batters dikes protecting wildlife sites. "record rainfall" "it's highest level in 62 years" === Page 37 of 92 Peak erupts TOKYO (AP) -- Mount Asama erupted early Friday, spewing columns of fire and ash and setting off a minor tremor, officials of the Central Meteorological Agency said. There were no reports of casualties from the eruption. The volcano, 88 miles west of Tokyo, erupted April 26 and Dec. 2 last year. SPRES 4/10/83 UFOs Sun Attack AP photo moke rises from Mount Asama er Friday's eruption. The 8,330-foot vol- no, 88 miles west of Tokyo, spewed ash over the Kanto district. UFOs Sun Attack SPRES 4/10/83 world ① ② UFOs Sun Attack Town prays to halt lava NICOLOSI, Sicily (AP) -- Townspeople marched in a religious procession Saturday to ask their patron saint for protection against rivers of lava from Mount Etna's latest eruption. The town is six miles from the most advanced point of the lava, which began flowing three weeks ago. The marchers prayed to St. Agatha to halt the destructive flow and carried a veil believed to have belonged to her. The march ended in a chapel built to honor St. Agatha after another lava flow stopped in 1866 following a similar procession. The latest lava flow has destroyed or damaged several buildings and cut a highway. But it has caused no injuries, and experts say there is no immediate danger to Nicolosi or other population centers. ③ UFOs Sun Attack A river of lava flows from erupting Kilauea Volcano. Hawaii's Kilauea calms down VOLCANO, Hawaii (AP) -- Kilauea, the world's most active volcano, was quiet Sunday morning after an eruption that forced the third evacuation so far this year of this area's 150 residents. "It's too early to say the eruption is over, but it's certainly stopped for now," said Jon Erickson, spokesman for Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Harmonic tremor, which indicates the underground movement of molten rock and is a key indicator of possible activity, was at a low level, said Ken Yamashita, spokesman for the U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Observatory. Inflation at the volcano's summit had increased, indicating that magma, or molten rock, was not draining into a rift zone on the volcano's eastern side. That zone is is 3.6 miles from the affected Royal Gardens subdivision. === Page 38 of 92 UFOs Sun Attack SpRev 3/4/83 AP photo Lava from Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano moves down Queen Street in Kalapana, a heavily forested subdivision. The house at the bottom of the photo was later buried by the lava, one of two that have been destroyed during the eruption which began a week ago. Eight or nine other homes are in the lava's path. No injuries have been reported. nation UFOs Sun Attack Kilauea erupts again SpRev 3/29/83 VOLCANO, Hawaii (AP) -- Lava fountains up to 90 feet high were pouring from a 200-foot-long fissure in Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano on Monday, scientists said. The fountaining, just inside the the boundary of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, was in the volcano's east rift zone, which has been erupting sporadically since Jan. 3, said Jon Erickson, a park ranger. The latest eruption has produced a 600-foot lava flow into a nearby forest area, Erickson said. No developed property was threatened by the new lava flow, he said. UFOs Sun Attack Spokane, Wash., Sun., April 10, 1983 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW Volcano calm; lava flow continues SpRev 4/10/83 VOLCANO, Hawaii (AP) -- Kilauea volcano fell silent Saturday, but lava from its latest eruption continued flowing through a remote hillside subdivision where it destroyed several homes, authorities said. "We can't really say the eruption is over," said Jon Erickson, spokesman for Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. "When it stops it stops." About 150 residents of the Royal Gardens subdivision, routed Friday and Saturday for the third time since the volcano began its eruption Jan. 3, had been ordered evacuated Friday as an 18-foot high, 900-foot-wide wall of lava approached their homes on the volcano's slopes. But a vent in the volcano fell silent Saturday morning, and the level of activity dropped to its lowest point since Jan. 3, Erickson said. Roadblocks were lifted and residents were allowed back home. Five structures were destroyed overnight by lava, Erickson said, and a sixth -- a model home for the subdivision -- was "totally isolated, surrounded by lava, there is no way to get to it." No other homes appeared to be immediately threatened. Police and Civil Defense officials gave reporters a tour of the subdivision where burning boulders crashed from the top of the wall of lava and disintegrated as they slowly moved forward. The lava moved so fast Friday night that civil defense officials ordered all observers in the subdivision, even scientists, to stay one block from the front edge of the flow, said Officer Duane Rapoza of the emergency command at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. "It's quite a spectacular show, we can see the river flowing down the road from where we are sitting," Rapoza said. UFOs Sun Attack Hawaii volcano erupts SpRev 2/15/83 VOLCANO, Hawaii (AP) -- Simmering Kilauea Volcano bubbled to life again Monday with lava fountains bursting 20 feet into the air. The activity along a 100-yard vent was the first eruption since a two-week series of eruptions ended Jan. 18, according to Reggie Okamura, acting scientist-in-charge of the U.S. Geological Survey at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Like last month's eruptions, which featured spectacular curtains of lava measuring more than 200 feet high, Monday's eruption on the island of Hawaii was located in a remote section of the volcano's east rift zone, Okamura said. UFOs Sun Attack Kilauea eruption continues VOLCANO, Hawaii (AP) -- Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano continued to pour a steady stream of lava into a remote forested area Friday, and fountains shooting more than 300 feet in the air could be seen nearly 10 miles away. SpRev 2/12/83 === Page 39 of 92 UFOs Sun Attack # No talk about spring in much of the nation Associated Press SpRev 4/18/83 Heavy, wet snow snapped power lines and caused traffic accidents Sunday in New England, while temperatures in the Upper Midwest dipped to record lows and rain brought minor flooding to the Northeast. A city employee in Connecticut was still missing Sunday after apparently being swept into a storm sewer by runoff from a downpour Saturday, police said. UP TO 26 INCHES of snow fell on the mountain areas of central Vermont, and 17,000 residents were without power Sunday. Power lines also broke under heavy snow in southern Michigan, and as many as 15,000 customers lost power. In Slidell, La., the Pearl River crested above the flood stage for the second time in a week, but no new damage was expected. About 700 homes near Slidell were flooded last week, some to the roofs. "It's just going to keep water where it is a little longer. We're not expecting any new flooding," said St. Tammany Parish deputy Roxie Buras. The nearest gauge, in the upriver town of Pearl River, showed the river crested Saturday at 17.9 feet, 5.9 feet above the flood stage. On April 10, the river crested at 21.2 feet. A 13-YEAR-OLD Ft. Washington, Md. boy drowned after falling off a log into a rain-swollen creek. Christopher Cason was missing since Saturday, when he was swept into Henson's Creek in Oxon Hill, Md. A downpour Saturday dumped up to 3.7 inches of rain in Connecticut and Stamford police believe a public works employee was swept into a storm sewer culvert while he and another worker were clearing a storm drain. Police said Samuel L. Williams, 41, was still missing Sunday. "Record lows" FO "Unusual winter around the world" UFOs Sun Attack "mysteriously" # Adult birds on island vanish; chicks starve SpRev 3/15/83 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Almost the entire adult population of sea birds on Christmas Island in the Pacific has mysteriously disappeared, leaving thousands of chicks behind to starve to death, scientists disclosed Monday. Researchers said unusual weather changes may have caused the millions of birds to abandon the island, the first such massive disappearance of a total bird population ever recorded on a tropical atoll. Dr. Ralph W. Schreiber, curator of ornithology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County in California, said about 17 million birds representing 18 species either abandoned the island or perished. The sudden departure, which occurred between Schreiber's visits to the island in June and November of last year, was particularly devastating to the thousands of nestlings who starved to death after being left behind. Some bird species will lose at least an entire generation because of the disruption, Schreiber said. "What has happened there was a real shock and a catastrophe when put in the context of the breeding biology of these species," he said. The disappearance occurred during an unusual weather phenomenon known as El Nino, which results in a change in Pacific wind patterns, ocean currents and water temperatures. "This weather, which has resulted in an unusual winter around the world, is responsible for shifts in fish populations and changes in the habits of animals depending upon these fish, he said. Schreiber said in a telephone interview that many of the birds may be living in the air above more distant waters, waiting for weather conditions to change before returning to Christmas Island. The birds, which feed exclusively on fish and squid, are well adapted to spend most of their lives living within air currents and swooping down occasionally to feed, he said. "There are other islands nearby, but they are 60 to 100 miles away," Schreiber said. "Under normal conditions, birds from one island do not go to other islands and there is no reason to go to another island even in an emergency." The majority of the birds involved, mostly sooty terns and wedge-tailed shearwaters, have long life spans and are not in danger of dying out because of the breeding disruption, Schreiber said. UFOs Sun Attack # Odd fish drawn to warm waters off California SpRev 2/21/83 LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Unusually warm Pacific waters off the coast of Southern California are drawing varieties of marine life that don't normally winter here, scientists say. As evidence, scientists and fishermen report sights of seahorses off Huntington Beach this month, marlin near San Diego last month, jumbo squid and anchovies spawning along the coast, red crabs as far north as Santa Barbara, and yellowtail near Los Angeles. Scientists say these species are hundreds of miles north of their usual habitat, drawn by ocean temperatures 3 to 5 degrees above normal last month. "It seems that we're in the middle of a warm-water cycle," said Herb Frey, senior marine biologist with the California Department of Fish and Game. "The last time we experienced this was between 1957 and 1959." Referring to sightings of marlin and red crab, Frey said Tuesday, "This is indicative of the type of critter we'll be seeing. There will be a lot of oddballs out there." UFOs Sun Attack "Unusual" # Jellyfish invaders in Puget Sound SEATTLE (AP) -- A growing eight-mile-long mass of tiny dark-brown jellyfish has invaded the waters of Puget Sound, prompting reports that an oil slick was about to wash up on beaches, authorities say. Scientists say the concentration of the thumb-sized, bell-shaped animals is unusual and probably indicates rapid proliferation in a water pocket with near-ideal conditions of temperature and plankton on which to feed. "It was reported as an oil spill" on Wednesday, said Coast Guard Petty Officer Michael Rodrigues in Seattle. "We went out to investigate and it turned out to be jellyfish." (Continued on page 2) SpRev 4/9/83 "list was recorded" === Page 40 of 92 UFOs Sun Attack S/R 2/25/83 # Cause of Gulf tremors is still a mystery BILOXI, Miss. (AP) -- An atmospheric disturbance may have caused three tremors that "shook like crazy" along a 50-mile stretch of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, a physicist said Sunday. The Rev. Louis J. Eisele, director of the Seismic Observatory of Spring Hill College in Mobile, Ala., said his seismograph detected Saturday's tremors, but he didn't believe they were caused by earthquakes. "Normally an earthquake of sufficient magnitude to give me readings would have been recorded a longer time," he said. Eisele said he thought the shocks were caused by disturbances in the atmosphere that were reflected down to the earth's surface. "I don't have any idea what the origin was, but it could have been 100 or more miles away," he said. Military and civil defense officials said the shaking may have been caused by sonic booms from planes flying offshore over the Gulf of Mexico. A Harrison County Civil Defense official said he was told by Keesler Air Force base here that four F-4 fighters were spotted on radar. "reflected down to the earth's surface." (What my 4 UFOs are doing!) UFOs Sun Attack S/R 2/27/83 # Bizarre tremors shake Mississippi Gulf Coast BILOXI, Miss. (AP) -- Mysterious tremors shook a 50-mile stretch of the Mississippi Gulf Coast Saturday, knocking goods from store shelves and startling residents. "The French doors, they just shook, shook, shook," said Sophie Batten of Lyman. "I thought they were going to come off, they shook so much." "We don't know if they are earthquakes," said Richard Faul at the civil defense post in Gulfport. "We're still trying to find out what they were and where they came from." There were unconfirmed reports that some windows shattered and that pictures fell off walls in this sort of town. Biloxi residents said they felt three distinct tremors starting around noon and preceded by a thunder-like rumbling. The tremors were felt along the coast from Bay St. Louis to Ocean Springs. Terry Thompson at the Edgewater Shopping Mall Merchants Association in Gulfport said some shoppers became upset when merchandise began falling off the shelves, but there was no damage. Faul said officials thought the tremors might be the result of a sonic boom from passing aircraft. But a spokesman at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi said he did not know of any jets being out at the time. Geophysicist Bruce Presgrave at the U.S. Geological Survey's earthquake monitoring center in Colorado said the center had received many calls about tremors. "There's a possibility it's below our threshold, but I seriously doubt there are earthquake events in the area," he said. "Mysterious" "Bizarre" UFOs Sun Attack S/R 2/21/83 # U.S. helicopters join blizzard rescue effort BEIRUT, Lebanon -- U.S. helicopters Monday joined operations to rescue hundreds of people stranded by a blizzard along the Beirut-Damascus highway on the hills east of here. However, convoys of American Marines and Italian soldiers of the multinational peacekeeping force were denied permission to enter Syrian-controlled territory to aid in the rescue. The assistance of the multinational force was sought by the Lebanese government after Lebanese army and civil defense crews met with difficulties in reaching the snow-bound motorists because of deteriorating weather conditions. As many as 38 people have died since the blizzard struck Friday afternoon. It was described by the meteorological department here as the worst snowstorm ever to hit this country. Hundreds of cars were buried under 15 inches of snow, and many of the victims had frozen to death. So far, more than 270 people have been rescued. "worst snowstorm ever" "to hit this country" About 50 cars were found abandoned and their drivers and passengers believed to have sought refuge in available shelters. The frozen bodies of 10 men were found in an abandoned house. The winding mountain highway linking the Lebanese and Syrian capitals is controlled partly by Israeli troops and partly by Syrian forces. Both Israelis and Syrian cooperated in allowing Lebanese military and civil defense teams to pass through their lines to reach the affected areas. # world UFOs Sun Attack S/R 3/18/83 ## Heavy storm damage in Cuba MEXICO CITY (AP) -- High winds and heavy rains over 24 hours killed one person in Cuba, injured 79 and caused "serious material damage," Cuba's official news agency Prensa Latina reported Thursday. In a dispatch monitored here, the agency said more than 500 homes on the western flank of the island were damaged by the storm, which also knocked out electricity in an extensive area. Cuba's main electrical generating plant had to suspend operations because its primary electrical towers and power pylons were toppled, Prensa Latina said. It said at least a third of the country was blacked out. UFOs Sun Attack S/R 3/17/83 ## Strong winds lash Guatemala GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- Gale-force winds knocked out electric power and telephone service in a large section of Guatemala Wednesday and the government declared a nationwide state of emergency to deal with spreading damage. === Page 41 of 92 UFO Sun Attack # Battered Tahiti receiving help SP Rev 4/18/83 PAPEETE, Tahiti (AP) -- Food, batteries and water-purifying chemicals arrived over the weekend to help Tahitians cope with the devastation of Hurricane Veena, which killed one person and left 25,000 homeless. City halls received canvas tarpaulins for distribution to residents so they could cover their roofless houses. Except in the most hard-hit areas, schools were scheduled to open Monday for the first time since the storm struck last Tuesday. All of the South Pacific island's hotels had some damage, but remained open and with the approach of winter, it is off-season for the tourist business. Glass-bottom boats, which tourists take to see nature's undersea treasures, were wrecked. The hurricane, which packed winds as strong as 95 mph, injured 26 people. Officials estimated that Veena did $47 million worth of damage. They were still assessing the storm's damage to the Tuamotu Archipelago, east of Tahiti. Tahiti's western peninsula was hardest hit. Stores ran out of batteries, candles, food and saws to clear away trees that blocked roads and tore power lines. One power line, brought down by a falling tree, electrocuted a 28-year-old woman Tuesday. France sent 124 men from its 17th Parachute Regiment to help the island's civil defense department. AP photo **A damaged church** is surrounded by debris after Hurricane Veena hit the islands of Tahiti. UFO Sun Attack ## New storm slaps California Associated Press SP Rev 3/19/83 A Pacific storm ranking with the worst of an unforgettable winter hit the crumbling coast of California on Wednesday and a snowstorm that crippled parts of Colorado with snow 2 feet deep iced roads from Texas to Wisconsin. An oil rig off the coast of Texas reported winds gusting to more than 100 mph as still another storm in the Gulf of Mexico flexed its muscles. That storm caused widespread damage in Guatemala, knocking out electricity and telephone service in much of the country and hospitalizing at least 23 people. The government declared a nationwide state of emergency. # world UFO Sun Attack ## Peru asks for help SP Rev 3/26/83 LIMA, Peru (AP) -- President Fernando Belaunde appealed for international aid Friday for thousands of Peruvians made homeless by floods and mudslides that have taken nearly 200 lives and caused $200 million damage. "We appeal to the good will of friendly countries for food, medicine and clothes and to credit institutions for immediate loans," a presidential spokesman said. National police reported late Friday that a bus carrying 49 people was carried away by flood waters as it crossed the La Debora River about 600 miles south of Lima and there were only seven known survivors. On Wednesday, a mudslide crushed two buses on a mountain pass 25 miles east of Lima. ## Heavy snow falls in Colorado Associated Press UFO Sun Attack A cantankerous winter running out of time buried parts of Colorado in knee-deep snow Tuesday and another Pacific storm headed for California where losses have topped half a billion dollars. With one week to go until spring, schools closed, highways were blocked and hundreds of travelers whiled away hours at crippled airports as snow fell from Denver to Minneapolis. SP Rev 3/16/83 === Page 42 of 92 # Big storms hit California, Gulf of Mexico Associated Press SP/Rev 2/28/83 A huge Gulf of Mexico storm with 60-mph winds whipping up 25-foot seas crippled a floating oil rig Sunday, forcing the evacuation of 30 workers, while California was hit by still another Pacific storm. The second storm in two days dumped up to 3 inches of rain in Southern California. Mudslides tumbled down mountains and high winds knocked out electric power to thousands of homes. The roofs of three commercial buildings collapsed in the Los Angeles area. A tornado that one witness said looked like "a big gray wall mass dropping from the sky" ripped the roof off one house and seriously damaged several others near Santa Rosa in Northern California, and weather officials said the Golden Gate would be hit by another storm today. Los Angeles County Fire Department spokesman Dick Friend said the department received "about 200 calls" reporting downed wires, flooding and a couple of roof collapses. Avalanche warnings were posted for the eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada, where winds gusted to more than 70 mph. Florida was raked with gale winds and driving rains that caused flooding in coastal areas and washed out several major sporting events, including a PGA golf tournament and a car race in Miami. Rivers in parts of northern Florida were running at least 2 feet above flood stage and much more rain was expected. About 2 inches of rain fell in Fort Myers, Fla., in 11 hours ending at 6 p.m. EST, making it that city's wettest February on record with more than 10 inches of rain since the first of the month. During the 24 hours ending 5 p.m. EST, Hollywood in southern Broward County recorded 4.07 inches of rain and Fort Lauderdale recorded 3.65 inches. A coastal flood watch was posted for the east coast of Florida from Jacksonville south to Boca Raton, where tides were reported running 1½ to 3 feet higher than normal. The storm in north-central Gulf of Mexico sent gale warnings up across the Southeast from Louisiana to Georgia. Some rivers in southeastern Louisiana and southern Mississippi were as high as 4 feet above flood stage. "New February on record" UFO Sun Attack # Waterlogged Californians await more stormy blasts Associated Press SP/Rev 3/3/83 A Pacific storm stalled off the coast kept California under siege Wednesday with giant waves and mudslides splintering lavish homes and famous piers. Thousands of people were routed by floods up to the rooftops in places. The death toll from the West Coast storms that began over the weekend rose to 13, with more than 50 people injured. Among the dead was a 3-year-old boy buried about dawn in Clear Lake, about 125 miles north of San Francisco, when a wall of mud 300 feet wide swept down a hillside and crushed his home. Rain, mud and rocks closed major highways and railroads and parts of Arizona and Colorado were warned to expect up to a foot of new snow. Snow was already higher than houses in parts of the Sierra Nevada. "You want to know how high the water was?" asked Don Finney in one San Diego neighborhood. "Well, someone brought a boat down and my wife easily stepped into the boat from our roof." The National Weather Service, noting that it was the eighth consecutive day of rain in California, said Mount Wilson, Calif., had received 8 inches of rain in the past 24 hours, bringing its total for the week to 16 inches. And no end was in sight soon. "We've got bands of showers spinning off a weather system stalled offshore, and that pattern likely will continue into Thursday," said weather service forecaster Ron Wagner. Thundering surf as high as 16 feet shattered beachfront houses and businesses in southern California, where 1,000 homes had been destroyed or damaged since the latest storm hit the coast on Tuesday and about 1,000 people had been evacuated. Six landmark piers suffered severe damage. Four homes in the exclusive Los Angeles suburb of Malibu slid into the ocean and a fifth, owned by tennis star Billie Jean King and her husband Larry, was so damaged by the surf that it was condemned and torn down. The Kings had retained the home in a celebrated "palimony" suit filed by Ms. King's former lover, Marilyn Barnett, who claimed she had been promised the house. About 50 homes in the Santa Barbara area just north of Los Angeles were destroyed or damaged by waves. The man-made oil island Esther, about three-quarters of a mile off Huntington Beach was destroyed by surf and 2,750 gallons of oil was floating on the surface, Coast Guard spokesman Tom Heflick said. Only one derrick remained of the 150-by-178-foot island and "all other structures and most of the (Continued on page 5) UFO Sun Attack # nation Storms raking Dakotas, Dixie The Associated Press SP/Rev 3/8/83 A blizzard blocking highways with chest-high drifts whistled through the Dakotas on Monday, yanking down power lines and closing schools, while Dixie got another dose of drowning rain. At least six transmission towers toppled in the cities of Bismarck and Minot, N.D., under the weight of ice forming several inches thick, with 40-mph winds producing wind chill factors of 25 degrees below zero. But spring came early to some Yankee country, with temperatures in the 70s in parts of New York and Ohio and in the upper 70s in West Virginia. Record high temperatures were recorded in places such as Milwaukee, Minneapolis set new high marks for most of the first week of March. Heavy thunderstorms again dumped drenching rains on the Southeast, with Charleston, S.C., getting about 4 inches since Sunday. "Record high temperatures" === Page 43 of 92 California braces for brutal storm Spokane, Wash., Tues., March 1, 1983 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW Associated Press 3/1/83 A Pacific storm ranked among the most powerful of a brutal winter hit California on Monday, soaking southern foothills with up to 2 inches of rain after a soggy weekend of mudslides and floods that killed at least five people. Residents along the entire California coast prepared for winds gusting to 60 mph and waves up to 30 feet high, rivaling the ferocity of the four storms in the last week of January that left 11 people dead and damage estimated at $100 million, mainly to beachfront homes and businesses splintered by the giant surf. The full brunt of the latest storm wasn't expected to hit until early Tuesday. "The new storm will be as bad as anything we had this season," said Bill Hackel, a National Weather Service forecaster in Redwood City, Calif. By Monday afternoon, as the leading edge of the storm moved into Southern California from the north, 2.18 inches of rain had fallen in San Gabriel, with less in Pasadena, Santa Barbara and downtown Los Angeles. Another storm in the Gulf of Mexico pushed eastward with strong winds and heavy rains, causing some flooding in coastal areas from Louisiana to Florida and north to the Carolinas. That storm earlier crippled a floating oil rig off the coast of Louisiana, forcing the evacuation of 30 workers, and contributed to the crash of a twin-engine cargo plane north of Tampa, Fla., that killed the pilot. In California, up to a foot of rain was expected in the coastal mountains around Santa Cruz, about 80 miles south of San Francisco, where about two dozen people were killed in January 1982, when mudslides crushed hillside homes. About 3 inches was forecast in the San Francisco area. That comes in areas already drenched by two storms over the weekend. The rain was expected to turn to heavy snow in the Sierra Nevada, where 5 feet of snow had fallen in three days. Fifteen feet of snow was already on the ground at Norden, Calif., near Lake Tahoe, as compared with only 5 feet at this time last year. The latest California storm arrived just as the last two of the government disaster relief centers were closing down at Seal Beach and Malibu in Southern California. Other centers set up in Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and San Diego shut down last week. Cammie Conlon of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said 2,104 victims of the late January storms had applied for aid. The weather service issued a statement saying, "This major storm system should not be underestimated. Conditions along the coastline today will be as bad as any experienced so far this winter." And more trouble was on the way, according to forecaster John Plankingon. "There are more storms behind this one," he said. "A week's worth." Virgin Islands drenched CHARLOTTE AMALIE, Virgin Islands (AP) -- Ten inches of rain drenched the Virgin Islands of St. Thomas and St. John on Monday, flooding streets, triggering mudslides and stranding tourists. Most roads, offices and schools were closed, and the heavy rain that began late Sunday closed Harry S. Truman Airport here. Authorities said rain cascaded off the rugged mountain terrain on St. Thomas, causing mudslides that blocked the two main roads leading down into central Charlotte Amalie. 4/19/83 Downpours ruin crops in Florida MIAMI (AP) -- Swamped by unexpected downpours, Dade County farmers have been forced to plow under acres of tomatoes, potatoes, snap beans and squash, officials say. Heavy rains in southern Dade have ruined as much as 60 percent of the country's largest midwinter vegetable crop, the Dade County Cooperative Extension Department said Tuesday. "unaffected" I nation Boat capsized, two drown HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) -- Ten-foot waves churned up by recent storms capsized a pleasure boat Sunday, drowning a husband and wife and injuring their four sons, police said. The accident occurred about 1:30 p.m. when the family's 27-foot cabin cruiser began foundering, then flipped over a half-mile offshore, police Lt. Jim Walker said. Eight boats have capsized along the California coast during the past week, killing three people. "We warn people and we warn them and we warn them," Walker said, "but it doesn't seem to do much good." The couple's four sons, ages 24, 21, 19 and 13, were reported in good condition at Huntington Intercommunity Hospital. 2/21/83 === Page 44 of 92 UFO & Sun Attack # Blizzard kills 38 in Lebanon, postpones withdrawal talks BHAMDOUN, Lebanon (AP) -- A blizzard struck Lebanon's central mountains Sunday, killing at least 38 people, stranding scores of motorists in snowdrifts and forcing postponement of talks on foreign troop withdrawal. The multinational peacekeeping force of U.S. Marines, French paratroopers and Italian soldiers stood by for emergency life-saving missions in the mountains east of Beirut. Rescue squads from the Lebanese army, civil defense corps and Red Cross found the frozen bodies of 30 motorists in snow-buried cars on the mountain section of the Beirut-Damascus highway, police said. Gale-force winds generated by the storm hurled giant waves against the ancient Mediterranean city of Byblos 19 miles north of Beirut, drowning four people and damaging several seaside buildings, police said. Police also said four Lebanese soldiers perished in the rescue operation on the highway between the ski resorts of Mdeirej and Dahr el-Baidar, where 180 motorists were rescued and efforts continued to reach others. SPREW 2/21/83 UFO & Sun Attack # Bolivian flood toll near 100 SPREW 3/24/83 LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) -- The death toll rose to about 100 Wednesday in the worst flooding in 50 years in Bolivia's second largest city, Santa Cruz. It has made 40,000 homeless and destroyed 50,000 acres of prime farmland, rescue officials said. Civil defense officials said several villages were still buried under several feet of mud after Friday's flooding and they feared the death toll would rise to several hundred as rescue workers reached outlying areas. There were reports that several buses and trucks carrying passengers were buried under the mud. In Peru, at least six people were dead and more than 40 missing after weekend flooding and mud slides along the coast 180 miles north of Lima, civil defense officials said. Police put the death toll higher, at 30, and said more than 100 were missing. One of the dead was Telmo Mori Puga, 127 years old and reputed to be Peru's oldest citizen. "worst flooding in 50 years" # Snowpack below normal BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) -- The snowpack has below average water content across Montana, except for the southwestern and northwestern corners of the state, the U.S. Soil Conservation Service says. "Those two corners are only near average," said Phil Farnes, SCS snow survey supervisor. In central Montana the snow is only two-thirds of average," he said Wednesday. Measurements at nearly 250 points at the beginning of March showed that the January pattern of low snowfall and warm temperatures continued through February, Farnes said. Mountain snowfall from now until May will be critical to Montana's water supply, Farnes said. What falls in the next couple of months will determine whether shortages will be minor or severe," he said. About 75 percent of Montana's spring and summer streamflow comes from melting snow. The snowpack moisture readings by drainage include: Kootenai, 89 percent of normal; Flathead 85 percent; Upper Clark Fork 76 percent; Lower Clark Fork 86 percent; Bitterroot 81 percent. UFO & Sun Attack SPREW 3/10/83 "warm temperatures" UFO Project # Another shuttle engine ordered CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Still unable to predict a launch date, NASA put out the call Monday for yet another engine for the space shuttle Challenger, after a replacement for a cracked original also turned out to be defective. "It's dead," National Aeronautics and Space Administration spokesman Jim Ball said of the replacement engine. "The next step is to get another one." It may be the end of the week before the latest engine arrives, and the start of Challenger's maiden five-day mission appears unlikely before mid-March at the earliest. UFO & Sun Attack # Alaska Peninsula jolted PALMER, Alaska (AP) -- A pair of large earthquakes jolted sections of the Alaska Peninsula and the Aleutian Islands, but the Alaska Tsunami Warning Center said there were no reports of damage or injuries. SPREW 2/15/83 UFO & Sun Attack # No treading on thin ice TOWNSEND, Mont. (AP) -- There's nothing funny about what happened to the Broadwater Jaycees' ice fishing contest, whose prize was a $50,000 tagged trout. The sponsors said Friday that the contest is being canceled, because it was literally on thin ice. It has been so warm that ice is breaking up on Canyon Ferry Reservoir, where the contest was planned at the "Silos" recreation area between Winston and Townsend. This raised the possibility that anglers showing up for Saturday's contest might join the prize trout in the chilly waters of the big Missouri River impoundment. The Jaycees, who planned to charge $5 a head to benefit an out-of-state hospital, said Friday that they're angling now for cold weather -- so they can reschedule their fishathon in March. Meanwhile, carping ice fishermen will have to stow their maggots, cheese balls, tip-ups and ice augers. SPREW 2/19/83 It has been so warm -- "unseasonable" q UFO & Sun Attack # Storm kills 8 mountain climbers SPREW 4/4/83 SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- A sudden spring snowstorm with gale force winds killed eight mountain climbers and trapped 14 others Sunday on Mt. Insubong, a popular climbing course just north of Seoul, police said. Some 100 trained alpinists mounted an overnight rescue effort and by Monday morning eight bodies had been recovered and 12 people were rescued. Two were still missing. The victims, most of whom were college students, died from exposure to the freezing winds, police said. Four of those rescued were Japanese and the others Koreans. Insubong is known for a 450-foot cliff on top of the mountain where many Korean alpinists train before going on scaling expeditions abroad. The temperature in the mountains plunged to an unseasonable low of 23 degrees overnight. === Page 45 of 92 UFOn Sun Attack # Disneyland hit by high winds; riders stranded SpRes 4/6/83 ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -- Tornado-like winds roared through Disneyland Tuesday, knocking out power and stranding scores of terrified visitors on three rides swaying high above the sprawling amusement park, authorities said. Elsewhere, high winds smashed windows and peeled back a roof. One person was critically injured when he was struck by lighting. Authorities used cherry-pickers and firetruck ladders to rescue about 100 trapped riders, many of them youngsters. "We were halfway up and the wind started up so hard," said Renete Huegel, 38, who was vacationing from Ontario, Canada, with her husband, Heinz. "I was so scared I thought I was going to fall off." Phil Winkelaar from Alberta, Canada, brought his wife and four children to Disneyland for the first time. "There was no wind when we got in," said his daughter Susan. "The scariest part was when we were swaying from side to side." "I was freaking out," said her teen-age brother Garrett. "I was screaming and my sister said, 'Shut up. If you panic, I panic.'" The terrified children were taken to other Disneyland facilities where they were soothed by costumed characters such as Mickey Mouse. Power was knocked out to the People Mover and Sky Tower rides, said Anaheim Fire Department Inspector Norm Morgan. A strong burst of wind slammed into a Skyway gondola, which traverses the sprawling amusement park on a cable 30 to 40 feet above the ground, jerking a cable out of the guide wheel. The ride was shut down immediately, said Disneyland spokesman Joe Aguirre. Passengers said that while they were waiting to be rescued, a cold rain drenched them. No injuries were reported at the park. "We had to close off some of the 'Tomorrowland' area to let fire engines through -- the submarine attraction, the monorail, America Sings and the Matterhorn," Aguirre said. The heavy thunderstorm materialized when black clouds suddenly descended out of a clear blue sky shortly after noon. "It was just a heavy, black, swirling layer above us that developed over the city," said Anaheim Police Sgt. John Beteag. "Within 30 minutes the blue sky had disappeared." Winds also struck an industrial complex on the northeast side of the Anaheim, tearing off the roof of at least one building, Beteag said. Note: My son and I spent days at Disneyland, above, some years ago. Owens UFOn Sun Attack # Floodwaters sweep through Deep South a week of "bizarre weather" "worst flooding in 25 years" Rivers bloated by more than a foot of rain swamped the Deep South with record flooding Thursday, driving 25,000 people from their homes and isolating the 1 million residents of New Orleans. Within New Orleans, many streets were passable by nightfall as the water drained away. Eight people drowned, including two children swept away by floodwaters, bringing the death toll to 15 in a week of bizarre weather. The worst flooding in 25 years poured up to 6 feet deep late Wednesday and early Thursday through the state capital of Baton Rouge, La., and other towns in southern Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Louisiana Gov. David C. Treen declared a state of emergency in 16 of the state's 64 parishes, all in the southeastern part of the state. Mississippi Gov. William Winter also proclaimed a state of emergency. National Guard troops helped evacuate residents by boat and helicopter, mostly in Louisiana where authorities estimated the number of refugees at 20,000 to 25,000. The hardest hit area of Louisiana was in the east above Lake (Continued on page 6) SpRes 4/8/83 UFOn Sun Attack # Blizzard strands travelers in Colorado, New Mexico Associated Press SpRes 2/21/83 A blizzard building snowdrifts taller than a trucker's rig Sunday shut down a corner of New Mexico and part of Colorado, stranding hundreds of travelers in schools, churches, and wayside homes. Snow also slickened highways across parts of the Texas and Oklahoma highways into western Kansas, where up to 8 inches was expected. "We had a total whiteout," said Lt. Danny McPherson of the volunteer fire department in the farming community of Bennett, about 30 miles east of Denver on Interstate 70, as winds gusted as high as 68 mph on the Colorado plains. Later Sunday, as skies cleared, most Colorado highways opened and people stranded overnight continued on their way. But avalanche warnings were in effect in parts of the state until today. Emergency shelters had been set up in churches and schools in Limon, Hugo, Bennett, Trinidad and Walsenburg. In northeastern New Mexico, 14 inches of snow was whipped into 12-foot drifts, closing many highways, including Interstate 25, a major link between Albuquerque and Denver. "We can't even see out the front door," said state police dispatcher Pat Yardley of Raton, N.M., where streets were blocked by 8-foot drifts. "The cars in town are buried. You can't even see the cars any more." In eastern Colorado, the blizzard closed Interstate 25 from Trinidad south to the New Mexico line for most of Sunday. === Page 46 of 92 UFOs Sun Attack # Rains continue to swell rivers Great Falls Tribune 5/4/83 By The Associated Press The fifth straight day of torrential rain swelled the mighty Mississippi and Ohio rivers, caused an earthen dam to partially collapse and threatened new flooding Tuesday in Missouri and Kentucky. The small dam off upper Indian Lake in western Kentucky began to disintegrate after a spillway clogged. Two families were evacuated from their homes and authorities closed a stretch of U.S. 60, a major highway that forms a levee between the upper and lower sections of the lake. One-third of the dam had collapsed by Tuesday afternoon, and officials said the entire levee could give way Tuesday night. But they believed that water escaping from the 10-acre upper lake probably could be contained in the lower, 30-acre lake. Meanwhile, thousands of people in Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Pennsylvania and New York took stock of their losses from the 60 tornadoes that took seven lives since Monday. Missouri Gov. Christopher Bond asked President Reagan Tuesday to declare tornado-ravaged Greene County a federal disaster area, while Illinois Gov. James Thompson declared six central and southern counties in that state disaster areas. In Michigan, Gov. James Blanchard said he may seek federal disaster aid for the resort community of Harsens Island. THE WIDE OHIO threatened to rise over its banks near Louisville and downstream at Paducah and some streets were closed, but no major flooding was expected. However, the Green and Rolling Fork rivers of western Kentucky were 7 to 8 feet above flood stage and the Licking River ran over its banks from Blue Springs in northern Kentucky to the Ohio. High water, a swift current and scattered debris on the Ohio at Louisville forced cancellation of Wednesday's "Great Steamboat Race" between the Belle of Louisville and the Delta Queen of Cincinnati. Louisville officials Tuesday opened a disaster center to assist victims of Sunday's flooding, caused by backup in the storm sewer system. The city said 375 families were driven from their homes. "Minute amounts of precipitation can cause mammoth problems," said Chuck Jones, a spokesman for the Emergency Services and Disaster Agency in Illinois, which has been hit with flooding and tornadoes in recent days in a dozen towns in the southern two-thirds of the state. Most of the 65 families on Kaskaskia Island, Ill., have left their homes because the Mississippi spilled over and made roads impassable. In the southern Illinois town of Grafton, about 35 people were forced to delay their return to homes evacuated because of April flooding. The Illinois and Mississippi rivers join at Grafton, where river water was 9.5 feet above flood stage. "It's been three times within five or six months," Thelma Smith the mayor's secretary, said Tuesday. "Everyone is just worn out." Parts of Grafton were under water in December and again in April. In central Illinois, the 100,000 residents of Decatur and neighboring Mount Zion were told Tuesday to boil their water and limit its use because heavy rain had washed mud into Lake Decatur. In Lebanon, Ill., officials said high school classes likely will be canceled until Monday because of tornado damage. The Meramec River rose at a rapid clip before cresting Tuesday at about 37 feet in Times Beach, Mo., the dioxin-contaminated town. That was nearly 19 feet over flood stage and the water was 2 to 4 feet deep in town. However, all but five or six of the 65 remaining families had packed their belongings in rental vans and left town, officials said, and the water stopped 6 feet short of the "flood of the century" levels of December that virtually destroyed the town. POLICE PUT UP wooden barricades at entrances and exits to the town and began a curfew to protect abandoned property against looters. Upstream from Times Beach, 600 families were evacuated along the Meramec. The weather service said the Mississippi was expected to crest at 38 feet at St. Louis Thursday, 8 feet above flood stage. Further south, residents of Cape Girardeau, Mo., prepared to battle the Mississippi, which the weather service said would crest at 46 feet Saturday - half a foot higher than 1973's record of 45.5. In St. Francois County, authorities Tuesday searched the swollen St. Francis River for Barbara Wnuczek, 29, a Polish refugee who came to the United States in October. Her canoe capsized Saturday, and a companion told police he saw her disappear under the water. Kentucky authorities Tuesday said they had discovered four bodies in and near a car on a flooded road in Edmonson County. Ohio was hit with 11 tornadoes and flooding, and the death toll in the state due to the weather was put at four, with 27 injured. === Page 47 of 92 Spokane, Wash., Fri., March 4, 1983. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW # Floods continue, but storm fades Associated Press The California storm that caused $130 million in damage and killed 17 people moved on Thursday, but lingering floods chased more people from their homes and some who didn't want to leave were prodded out by police and National Guard troops. As the storm pushed eastward, heavy snow fell over parts of Arizona, southern Nevada and western Utah. Nine inches of snow covered Utah Highway 12 at Bryce Canyon and highways east of Monticello were closed. Flagstaff, Ariz., got half a foot of snow. The storm this week in California had routed more than 9,200 people and at least 5,000 remained cut off from their homes, mainly in the San Francisco Bay area. At least 1,000 homes were destroyed or damaged, including expensive beachfront homes in places such as Malibu. Pack mules carried supplies and fuel Thursday to about 20 people isolated by mudslides and flooding in Palo Colorado Canyon, about 125 miles south of San Francisco. About 7 residents have been plucked out of the canyon by Army helicopter. Elsewhere across the country, the third day of March produced stark contrasts. Kansas City, Mo., basked in record 79-degree weather as unseasonable warm warm settled across much of the country. Up to 9 feet of fresh snow in the past week in the Sierra Nevada left up to 30 feet on the ground near Squaw Valley, Calif. But temperatures were generally 20 to 25 degrees above normal from the central high plains to the Ohio Valley. California Gov. George Deukmejian asked President Reagan to declare a state of emergency in eight more counties, in addition to the 24 designated for disaster relief following the devastating storms in late January. Reagan got a glimpse of some of the storm damage during a helicopter flight from his mountaintop ranch near Santa Barbara to a luncheon speech in Los Angeles and a spokesman said he is expected to act quickly on the request. About 5,000 people remained displaced in the San Jose area, about 50 miles south of San Francisco, including 1,700 in the Alviso neighborhood. About 60 people who ignored a mandatory evacuation order were removed Wednesday night by police officers and National Guard troops. But Police Joseph McNamara denied reports that his officers ordered the people out at gunpoint. "record" "unseasonable" "temps above normal" === Page 48 of 92 Associated Press The primary school in Cockatoo, Australia, is engulfed in flames. UFO: Sun Attack # Aussie flames kill 60 SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Firefighters choking in billowing smoke struggled today to control raging brushfires that in 24 hours ravaged 500 miles of the drought-plagued southeast coast, leaving at least 60 people dead and 8,000 others homeless. Early government estimates put the damage at more than $97 million. Winds of 62 mph swept off the central Australian desert and pressed the reckless blaze through two states toward the Indian Please see Fires/4A AUSTRALIA South Australia Adelaide New South Wales Victoria Melbourne Fires Associated Press An unidentified husband and wife comfort === Page 49 of 92 Fires St Paul Dispatch 2/17/83 - [x] Continued from Page 1A Ocean. The flames left an ashen trail of even wasted towns, burned-out sheep farms and blackened skeletons of cars on the roads, authorities said. South Australian state fire officials said the charred vehicles contained the incinerated bodies of drivers and passengers, including a family of five, imprisoned by the inferno. "People are dying as they try to reach their homes," said a firefighter in Lorne, Victoria, where many of the townsfolk fled to the beach for safety. "We can't stop it ... It's just like a holocaust. We don't know where to start looking" for bodies. The firestorms engulfed Adelaide, a city of 1 million in South Australia, and burned out of control near Melbourne, the state capital of neighboring Victoria and Australia's second largest city after Sydney. Huge clouds of smoke and dust forced the closure of major airports in Melbourne and Adelaide. More than 4,000 firefighters in the two states battled the flames in 108 degree temperatures on Wednesday. Authorities said 12 volunteer firemen died near Cockatoo, a tiny hamlet 31 miles from Melbourne which was almost destroyed by the fire. While the men fought to stave off the blaze, Cockatoo mothers rushed 120 children ranging up to 12 years old to the local kindergarten school. "The children were wonderful, they never made a sound," said teacher Iola Tilley. "They placed wet towels over their heads and never complained despite the air being thick with smoke." "How they weren't killed by the flames or lack of air, is a miracle," said one of the fathers, David Adams, who sat on the school roof pouring water on the menacing fire. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser suspended his election campaign today and flew over the devastated areas aboard an air force jet, promising all possible federal assistance. He has declared a state of emergency in both South Australia and Victoria and ordered 1,000 members of the armed forces to help exhausted firemen. Victoria Premier John Cain said more than 2,000 homes had been destroyed in Victoria alone and police estimated at least 100 more were ruined in South Australia. UFOs Sun Attack Deep South stunned by snow, tornadoes Associated Press Sun 3/26/83 A record-breaking snowstorm swept across the South on Thursday, while tornadoes caused more than $5 million damage on Florida's Space Coast and marble-sized hail, mud and rain slicked roads in California. The Dixie storm killed four people in traffic accidents -- two in Georgia and two in South Carolina -- disrupted air travel and knocked out power to 37,000 homes and businesses. The Florida twisters hit Cocoa, Merritt Island and Melbourne early in the day, damaging three schools, hundreds of homes, two mobile home parks and many businesses and public buildings. Although heavy rains and high winds were reported, the tornadoes spared the nearby Kennedy Space Center, where the space shuttle Challenger is being readied for an April 4 launch. In California, meanwhile, rain, hail and ice plagued travelers, closing eight miles of the Pacific Coast Highway near Malibu in the south and causing a 10-vehicle pileup that injured three people in the Santa Cruz Mountains to the north. Some 10,000 people lost power for a time as a storm brought heavy rain, hail, thunder and lightning to the San Francisco area. The snowstorm in the Southeast surprised most forecasters, who had expected rain, said Vince DiCarlo of the National Weather Service in Atlanta. "We're breaking everything that was ever written for March," said DiCarlo as 7 inches of snow fell in Atlanta, where the record accumulation for all of March was only 4 inches in 1942. Snow depths of 4 inches or more were reported in the Carolinas and Alabama, and the Weather Service called the spring storm "statistically unusual." Only one of three runways at Atlanta's Hartsfield International Airport was open Thursday morning, and most flights were canceled, said airport spokesman John Braden. "All other flights are delayed," he said. "It'll be a while before they get back to normal." More than 35,000 customers lost power in Georgia, most in the Atlanta area. In Alabama, electricity was quickly restored to some 2,000 homes and businesses darkened by the storm. The buds on Atlanta's famed dogwood trees were shrouded with snow. Larry Snipes of the Georgia Crop Reporting Service said it was too soon to tell if the storm had seriously damaged the state's dogwood and peach trees. "record breaking" "breaking everything ever written for March" "statistically unusual" "surprised most forecasters" UFOs Sun Attack 3/83 Spring storms blast Midwest Associated Press Spring opened its act Monday with a heavyweight Midwestern snowstorm, freak floods that drove hundreds of people from their homes, and a chorus of howling rains and dancing tornadoes. At least four people were killed and several were injured in the violent weather, including a Purdue University student who died in an accident involving two snowmobiles and a sled in West Lafayette, Ind. A snowstorm worse than any of the winter in some areas botched up cities such as Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit and Fort Wayne, Ind., with half a foot or more of windblown snow. Drifts were waist high in parts of Indiana and southern Michigan, where up to a foot of snow fell. === Page 50 of 92 UFO Sun Attack Associated Press 3/2/83 A devastating Pacific storm hurled a tornado into downtown Los Angeles and another into Pasadena on Tuesday, while floods sent many Californians scrambling to rooftops and mudslides blocked highways and railroads. The death toll climbed to eight in the worst of a series of back-to-back West Coast storms since the weekend, with at least 25 injured Tuesday in the Southern California tornadoes. Hundreds of people were evacuated, including almost all of the riverfront community of Tehama, and expensive homes were swept down hillsides in a sea of mud. About 210,000 homes and businesses lost power. THE LOS ANGELES twister cut a three-mile scar of destruction, damaging about 100 homes and a hospital, ripping off the sides of buildings, tossing cars around like toys and taking off part of the roof of the Los Angeles Convention Center. A second tornado hit Pasadena, 10 miles north of Los Angeles, lifting one car at least 15 feet into the air and injuring the driver. Heavy winds also were reported in Santa Ana, 35 miles to the south, and the National Weather Service said it was checking reports that a tornado touched down there. The Los Angeles area also was jolted by the second earthquake in less than 14 hours, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. Terry Wallace at the California Institute of Technology seismological laboratory in Pasadena said preliminary readings indicated the quake at 12:18 p.m. PST measured 3.5 on the Richter scale and was centered "essentially in the same place" as Monday night's tremor in Inglewood. MEANWHILE, STORMS in the Gulf of Mexico drenched the Southeastern coastal states with heavy rains, but March came in like a lamb over most of the central part of the country. Ten men on a drifting barge in the storm-driven surf off the San (Continued on page 2) Downtown Los Angeles Univ. of So. Cal. Coliseum Broadway 31 St 43rd St Tornado Area "Dictions floods... in Rise..." "historic high marks..." "This county is wiped out..." "There hasn't been a disaster of this magnitude..." Thousands flee floods At least 10 killed; county 'wiped out' by rivers Associated Press Disastrous floods from almost 2 feet of rain in Dixie forced thousands more people to join the exodus Friday as rivers swelled to historic high marks and forecasters warned more water is on the way. The number of people displaced by flooding in the Gulf Coast states climbed to more than 27,000, with damage estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars. At least 10 people have been killed, including six in Mississippi, three in Louisiana and one in Tennessee. "This county is wiped out," said an exhausted Civil Defense chief, Jim Thornhill, helping with the evacuations in Columbia, Miss. "Marion County looks like a huge tidal wave just swept over it. There hasn't been a disaster of this magnitude to occur in the history of the county." (Continued on page 2) 'devastating Pacific storm' 'tossing cars around like toys' 3/2/83 Twisters----------(Continued from page 1)---------- Francisco coast were rescued by pilots in three helicopters equipped with baskets. The barge, base for a $1 billion sewer project, continued to rock wildly in the sea. Torrential downpours forced the closing of the famed San Diego Zoo on Tuesday for only the second time in its history. "We can hardly see out there, it's coming down so hard," said zoo spokesman Jeff Jouett. In Chino, Calif., 15 students were rescued from the top of a school bus that ran off a road, and in the Mojave area about 80 miles north of Los Angeles, seven students were retrieved from another bus stranded in floodwaters. NATIONAL GUARD troops and rescuers in boats helped evacuate hundreds, from the Sacramento River Valley of Northern California, to the shores of Malibu Lake near Los Angeles, where water was up to the eaves of some houses. Mobile homes floated away in some areas. Winds gusted up to 84 mph, snapping power lines to thousands of homes, up to 5 inches of rain fell in places, and parts of the Sierra Nevada was smothered by 7 feet of new snow. Tehama County Sheriff Ron Koenig said 500 to 800 people were evacuated along the Sacramento River, including the entire town of Tehama, and at least 300 homes were flooded in Red Bluff. "We were rescuing people off roofs," said Red Bluff police dispatcher Susan Myers. ABOUT 500 RESIDENTS of Santa Ana in Southern California, including occupants of city hall, the YMCA, and a small retirement home were evacuated after after 3 inches of rain fell during the morning. A fire department unit was dispatched to the Ramirez Canyon in the Malibu area where a number of "really big" homes were threatened by mudslides," said Dick Friend of the county fire department. One of the homes, belonging to actress-singer Barbra Streisand, was not believed in immediate danger. In the Santa Clarita Valley about 35 miles north of Los Angeles several homes in the Lost Canyon area were slipping into the rampaging Santa Clara River, Friend said. Another 100 people were evacuated when water surged over a dam and poured 5 feet deep trough a mobile home park near Santa Ynez, 100 miles northwest of Los Angeles. LOS ANGELES COUNTY Supervisor Kenneth Hahn said the area hit by the tornado, which touched down south of the University of Southern California and moved into the downtown area to the convention center, looked like a "real disaster, a war street." === Page 51 of 92 UFOs Sun Attack # Blizzard strands thousands in Colorado, Wyoming Associated Press SP Rev 3/7/83 A blizzard bombarding Colorado and Wyoming with more than 2 feet of snow in places blocked highways and closed airports Sunday, stranding thousands of travelers, while a Gulf of Mexico storm swamped the Southeast with up to 4 inches of rain. The Western storm brewed by the same system that left $203 million in damage in California last week, also whipped up a "freakish" tumbleweed blizzard near Rankin, Texas. Winds gusting at hurricane force Saturday piled the weeds 10 feet deep, blocking traffic on state Highway 349. At least one car was completely buried for a time. A utility worker in Colorado was electrocuted as the heavy, wet snow that began falling Saturday snapped power lines. Scores of traffic accidents were reported in Denver, where 18.7 inches of snow had accumulated by Sunday morning. Some suburbs got about 2 feet. About 1,200 people were forced to camp out for the night at Denver's Stapleton International Airport, where airlines provided sandwiches, blankets, pillows and even diapers and baby food. Hundreds of others were put up for the night in hotels. In southern Wyoming, the airport at Cheyenne also was shut down, and hundreds of motorists - many returning from ski resorts - were stranded in the Laramie area when a 100-mile stretch of Interstate 80 was closed. A National Guard armory opened as an emergency shelter with all the local motels booked up. The Wyoming highway patrol reported at least 75 accidents during the night and worked double shifts helping pull stranded cars and trucks from the roadways. Also closed were a 70-mile stretch of Interstate 25 from Cheyenne to Wheatland and Highway 191 from Rock Springs to the Utah border. But scores of Wyoming residents ignored the snow and sub-freezing temperatures in Cheyenne and Casper to camp out through the weekend outside banks which on Monday will start offering Wyoming Community Development homeowner loans at 9 3/4 percent interest. The Florida Panhandle was hit Saturday night with strong winds, heavy rain, and small hail. A twister touched down at the Holiday Isle Surf and Racquet Club, just east of Destin, damaging several cars. Four crew members from the tugboat Sharon B were treated for hypothermia Saturday night after their 60-foot vessel sank about three miles west of Pensacola where winds were gusting to 60 mph. In Macon, Ga., where just over 4 inches of rain fell, the National Weather Service said the water was deep enough to completely submerge several cars. One car was swept 200 yards down a creek when the rain washed out a road, but the driver was rescued. Severe thunderstorms also dumped heavy rains across much of Alabama and the Carolinas. "A blizzard bombarding Colorado and Wyoming..." "a Gulf of Mexico storm swamped the Southeast..." "a freakish tumbleweed blizzard..." "winds gusting at hurricane force..." UFOs Sun Attack # Storm blasts northern Plains Associated Press SP Rev 4/15/83 A blustery spring snowstorm spread a sticky frosting up to 17 inches deep across the northern Plains Thursday, breaking April snowfall records and forcing snowplows and cars off wind-blown highways. Brutal rain in Mississippi, meanwhile, sloshed water into homes that had been spared by last week's river flooding. At least 500 people were evacuated in Jackson and firefighters swam to a burning house in Vicksburg but still couldn't save it. "...breaking April snowfall records..." UFOs Sun Attack # Two earthquakes jar San Fernando Valley SAN FERNANDO, Calif. (AP) - Two minor earthquakes shook the San Fernando Valley briefly Saturday, shaking some residents awake, but causing no injuries or damage. The quakes measured 3.8 on the Richter scale, said Dennis Meredith of the California Institute of Technology Seismology Laboratory in Pasadena. The intensity was measured at 3.6 by the National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colorado. SP Rev 4/17/83 UFOs Sun Attack # Northern India drenched NEW DELHI, India (AP) - A cloudburst paralyzed transportation Friday in northern India and New Delhi, and the capital had its wettest day on record with 1 5/8 inches of rain. No casualties were reported. Flooding forced Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to cancel several stops on a plane tour of the northern state of Kashmir. SP Rev 4/16/83 "...wettest day on record..." UFOs Sun Attack # world SP Rev 4/16/83 # Heavy storm damage in Tahiti PAPEETE, Tahiti (AP) - Hurricane Veena left an estimated 25,000 of the 115,000 residents of Tahiti and Moorea homeless and caused about $47 million damage, officials said Friday. The damage estimate equaled the total damage caused by four previous hurricanes in French Polynesia since November. Veena ravaged Tahiti and nearby Moorea on Tuesday, killing one person and injuring 50. Officials said 3,043 homes were destroyed, 3,199 were damaged, most crops were washed out, roads were cut, and bridges were washed away. "...equaled the total damage caused by four previous hurricanes..." === Page 52 of 92 UFO San Attack # N. California drenched by a new Pacific storm Associated Press 3/14/83 A fresh Pacific storm doused soggy California with as much as 7 inches of rain, closing roads with dozens of mudslides and chasing some residents from their homes Sunday, while a departing New England snowstorm left snow a foot deep. A Jekyll-and-Hyde winter beginning its last week also sent floodwaters from torrential rain and melting snow gushing through the gambling mecca of Reno, Nev., blocking some bridges and forcing the evacuation of 40 prisoners from a jail, while police went door-to-door warning residents of the danger. Record cold in the 30s chased vacationing college students from the beaches across Florida, while weekend temperatures in some northern cities reached record highs. It was 55 on Saturday in International Falls, Minn., often the nation's coldest outpost, while Casper, Wyo., had a 59 and Marquette, Mich., posted a 47. Record Florida lows for the date were set Sunday at Daytona Beach, 35, and Orlando, 36. The 45 in West Palm Beach was a record for the third day in a row. Elsewhere in Dixie, temperatures dropped into the low 20s in northern Alabama with a March 13 record of 24 Huntsville, and an even 20 in Bridgeport. In Vermont, where a storm that was moving out to sea had dumped up to 15 inches of snow, icy roads were blamed for the death of a 29-year-old Bristol man whose car veered off the road and struck a utility pole Saturday. Snow was about a foot deep from the Hudson Valley in eastern New York to the mountains of Vermont and New Hampshire. The new storm out of the Pacific dumped up to 7 inches of rain on some areas of California where storms in late February and early March caused more than $200 million damage. It also delayed the return home of 1,700 people in the Alviso section of San Jose who have been displaced about two weeks. "The flooding is greater on the principal river systems in the central portion of the state than it was in early March and somewhat less in the north portions of California," said Bob Burnash, director of the California-Nevada River Forecast Center. The California Highway Patrol said crews had been dispatched to clear at least a dozen mudslides that were obstructing roads around the affluent suburbs of Marin and San Mateo counties in the San Francisco area. About 4.26 inches of rain was reported in Marin County for the 24-hour period ending at 4 a.m. Sunday. A Tehama County Sheriff's spokeswoman said some residents near the community of Tehama in northern California had left their homes voluntarily but that no formal evacuations were under way. The Sacramento River was expected to rise above flood stage at six points before receding to safer levels by Monday, the National Weather Service said. The Russian, Napa and Cosumnes rivers also were predicted to exceed flood stage at several points. "In Sacramento, this is now the wettest winter for this time of year that has been recorded in this century," said Burnash, who reported rainfall amounts of 7 inches overnight at Pioneer in Amador County. "A Jekyll-and-Hyde winter..." "Record cold..." "Record highs..." Record Florida lows..." "...the wettest winter recorded in this century." UFO San Attack # nation spray March 13, 1983 # Another snowstorm hits West Associated Press The West got another dose of winter Tuesday with snow falling from the western Dakotas to northern Arizona, and parts of Wyoming got up to 9 inches of new snow, closing schools, offices and highways. More snow and wind up to 40 mph were expected today. # Louisiana floodwater receding SLIDELL, La. (AP) -- Floodwater from the Pearl River was receding Tuesday in outlying neighborhoods of this New Orleans suburb where damage was estimated at $100 million, but it washed out a major highway bridge on the way. In about a dozen low-lying neighborhoods on the outskirts of town, the Pearl washed roof deep around a few homes, windowsill deep through many more. Others were dry islands behind sandbag levees. Officials estimated 25,000 people spent at least one night out of their homes in St. Tammany Parish and that, all told, 40,000 people were chased from their homes at least temporarily in the 16 Louisiana parishes that got the worst of the flooding. Another 11,500 people were displaced in neighboring southern Mississippi. === Page 53 of 92 UFO or Sun Attack # Severe snowstorm slashes through West Associated Press SPRW 4/5/83 An April blizzard, flinging chest-deep snow with 100-mph winds that toppled a freight train, virtually shut down cities across the West on Monday and then settled in for a siege expected to last two more days. "Travel is best handled with a Sherman tank," said meterologist Rich Douglas in Salt Lake City, where many traffic accidents were reported, including one involving 30 to 40 cars. The snowstorm and freak winds - called a "witches' brew" by one forecaster in New Mexico - closed highways, knocked out power and stranded travelers with drifts up to 15 feet high (Continued on page 2) # Storm - (Continued from page 1) across Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, northeastern New Mexico, western Nebraska, Kansas and the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma. AT LEAST FIVE DEATHS have been blamed on the storm since it hit the West Coast on Sunday. The stalled storm had dropped up to 5 feet of snow in 36 hours at the Alta ski resort east of Salt Lake City, 3 feet at Buckhorn Mountain in Colorado, and 2 feet at Crystal Reservoir west of Cheyenne, Wyo. Lander, Wyo., had 18 inches, while Fort Collins, Colo., had 16 inches, and Cheyenne, Wyo., 13 inches. Western Nebraska got about a foot and southwestern Kansas about 10 inches. ROOF-RIPPING winds, tree-toppling winds estimated at 100 mph roared out of northern Utah's snow-laden canyons. Winds clocked at 86 mph caused blizzard conditions that closed Hill Air Force Base near Ogden to all but emergency personnel. Dugway Proving Ground in the western Utah desert also closed, due to a power outage. UNION PACIFIC Railroad officials in Utah said winds toppled 12 flatbed cars of a 36-car train hauling truck trailers near the mouth of Farmington Canyon in Davis County about 7 a.m. There were no injuries. Thousands of people were without power in Utah. "Everytime we get one area repaired, another goes out," said Grant Pendleton, a spokesman for Utah Power & Light Co. Wet, heavy snow in Kansas snapped power lines and pulled down 27 utility poles, leaving about 2,500 people without electricity in the towns of Hutchinson and Nickerson, said Kansas Power and Light Co. spokesman Hal Hudson. In central and southeastern Wyoming, drifts were 15 feet high in places. AT THE U.S. STEEL iron ore mine at Atlantic City, Wyo., the snow was deep enough to bury cars, and 45 miners from the shift that began at 8 a.m. Sunday were still stranded Monday. They used graders and front-end loaders to "break a trail" and then drove four-wheel drive vehicles out to cars stranded on U.S. Highway 28. John Applegate, 31, of Lander, who works at the mine, said they also found several people trapped in stalled cars. In one was a couple and two small children who had been stranded for seven hours. "They were pretty cold," he said. He said the Highway Department planned to send up snowplows to try to bring about 100 stranded travelers and miners out in a convoy. THE HEAVY SNOW, falling at the rate of 2 inches an hour, set off several avalanches Sunday in the back country near Aspen, Colo. The U.S. Forest Service posted an avalanche warning for the central mountains around Aspen and Crested Butte. SPRW 4/5/83 "100 mph winds that... virtually shut down cities across the West..." "Travel is best handled with a Sherman tank..." "...freak winds, called a 'witches brew'"... === Page 54 of 92 U of I Sun Attack # Midwest blizzard squelches spring Associated Press SP Rev 3/27/83 A late March blizzard squelched spring Saturday with up to 18 inches of snow blown into waist-high drifts across the Midwest, sending cars and trucks skidding into ditches and blocking highways. Violent thunderstorms unleashed hail and tornadoes in Texas and Kansas, causing scattered damage, while temperatures dropped to record sub-freezing lows from Michigan deep into Georgia. The snowstorm, which swept out of the Rockies earlier in the week, was blamed for at least three deaths, one in Nebraska on Friday and two in Utah on Thursday. Heavy snow fell Saturday from western Nebraska, across northwestern Iowa and parts of northern Illinois into South Dakota, southern Minnesota and Wisconsin. In southern South Dakota and western Kansas, where up to 10 inches of snow had fallen, 40-mph winds reduced visibility to near zero. In eastern Kansas, nearly 2 inches of rain fell. Nolan Duke of the Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City, Mo., said, "Blowing snow and heavy snowfall have made travel across the central plains nearly impossible." "If you don't have any good, pressing reason to go out, just stay where you're at," said Art Umland of the National Weather Service in Sioux Falls, S.D. The weather service said the snowstorm also was a threat to newborn calves. In Nebraska, where some communities in the western part of the state got more than a foot and a half of snow with 4-foot drifts, officials also advised people to stay off the roads. "The situation is bad -- and it's deteriorating fast," said a spokesman for the Nebraska State Patrol in Lincoln as the storm continued into the night. Fonner Park race track in Grand Island, Neb., had to cancel its Saturday program. Two irrigation equipment factories at Lindsay and Valley called of Saturday shifts. School dances, dinners, bake sales and other weekend events across the state were canceled. Authorities in Omaha, where much of the snow was melting, said they had quit counting traffic accidents. And roads were closed "all over the state" Saturday, said Bob Munger of the state Roads Department in Lincoln. But Bob Elliott, president of the Box Butte County Wheat Growers in Nebraska, said the snow was "going to be really good" for winter wheat. "I think this is as good moisture conditions in the spring as we've had for a long time," Elliott said. South Dakota highways were all covered by "crust of frozen slush with some snowdrifts," a highway patrol trooper said. Snow depths ranged up to 8 inches by mid-morning, with forecasters expecting 15 inches in places. The heaviest snow fell in southeast South Dakota and along the northeastern slopes of the Black Hills. The snow raised havoc with road conditions. The first round of wet snowflakes Friday melted on the warm highways, then froze as temperatures dropped overnight. Then snow accumulated on top of the ice. The storm was blamed on an intense low pressure center over the Texas Panhandle that sucked moisture from the Gulf of Mexico across the middle of the country. A tornado touched down near Dayton, Texas, damaging at least two houses and uprooting trees, and in central Texas winds gusted to 58 mph. U of I Sun Attack ## Rough day in the channel FALMOUTH, England (AP) -- Gale-force winds lashed the English Channel Sunday, sweeping two yachtsmen overboard, capsizing a lifeboat and forcing the crews of two other vessels to abandon ship, the coast guard said. In the Atlantic, a ship caught fire and one seamen perished in the blaze. "It's one of the worst days we can remember," said a coast guard spokesman at this southwest English port. He said winds had reached 70 mph. Heavy rain swept central France, flooding the train station at Poitiers and halting railway traffic. === Page 55 of 92 UFO Sun Attack # Blizzard dies down after burying Iowa Associated Press Sp Res March, '83 A slow-moving spring blizzard spent itself over the Plains on Sunday after burying eastern Nebraska and shutting down most of Iowa, where police in one county had to use snowmobiles to get around. Three deaths were attributed to the storm. The heavy snow made, winter wheat farmers happy by dumping a moist, protective blanket over the crop, but the ice and blustery winds of up to 30 mph made the going difficult, if not impossible by car. Scores of churches canceled Palm Sunday services. The storm belted eastern Nebraska, western Iowa, southeastern South Dakota and southern Minnesota on Friday and Saturday. It had been expected to move to Wisconsin and Michigan on Sunday, but didn't. Things have died down quite nicely," Harry Gordon of the Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City, Mo., said Sunday evening. "This (storm) moved quite nicely." Winter storm warnings and watches in Wisconsin, Michigan and other Upper Midwest states were canceled Sunday, Gordon said. However, he added, travelers' advisories remained in effect in northeast Iowa, Wisconsin and all of Michigan. In southwest Wisconsin, snowfall Sunday amounted to 3 to 6 inches, the National Weather Service said. The Iowa State Patrol advised against travel on Interstates 29 and 80 in the central and western portion of the state, where scores of cars were left abandoned in median strips after skidding off the road. Many secondary roads were impassable. The neighboring Missouri River towns of Omaha, Neb., and Council Bluffs, Iowa, had about 13 inches of snow on the ground Sunday. That broke a 26-year-old record for a spring snow in Omaha. In Sioux City, Iowa, farther north, 10 inches of snow was on the ground. Two feet of snow fell on Lyons in northeastern Nebraska, but a dispatcher for the Burt County sheriff's office, Diane Hanneman, said weather-related problems appeared minor. "We've just had cars sliding off into ditches," she said. "There are cars that are blocking traffic, sitting in the middle of the roads -- several of them, in fact. But no serious accidents, thank goodness." But Jasper County, Iowa, sheriff's dispatcher Carol Marconi said at the height of the storm, "It's a zoo around here. We've pulled the wreckers off the streets. There's no visibility and there's no use killing somebody to pull a car out of the ditch." "shutting down most of Iowa." "burying eastern Nebraska..." "that broke a 26-year-old record..." UFO Sun Attack # Winter bows out with a vengeance Associated Press Sp Res 3/21/83 Winter stepped down Sunday with a stormy salvo, tossing snow from Salt Lake City to Chicago and causing bloody smashups on icy highways that last week were toasted by a warm sun. Thunderstorms unleashed heavy rains and tornadoes in the southeast, including one twister that destroyed eight homes and damaged a hospital and school in Leakesville, Miss., near Meridian. No injuries were reported. Another tornado ripped through a three-mile section near Thomas, La., near the Mississippi border, injuring three people and severely damaging three houses, three mobile homes and six cars and trucks. Sheriff B.B. "Benny" Rayburn said the 7 a.m. twister blew a house down around one woman, Aline Crain. "It was just flattened," he said. "It looked like something was just dropped on it." Mrs. Crain was hospitalized in stable condition with an injured leg, he said. Spring's debut was spoiled by up to 17 inches of new snow in Utah, 10 inches in Colorado and 8 inches in the Oklahoma Panhandle, with winter storm warnings or travelers advisories posted from the Texas Panhandle across Kansas and Missouri into northern Illinois. In upper Michigan, almost 2 feet of snow had fallen since Friday. While it was the seventh straight day of snow in Denver, the frigid blast came as a shock in Oklahoma and northern Texas, where the wind chill factor dipped below zero. "It was just like spring a couple of days ago," said Marvin Noyes of the state highway patrol in Guymon in the Oklahoma Panhandle, where 30-mph winds were building drifts. "We had 70 degrees and clear skies, then this thing hit. I don't know what happened." Icy roads were blamed for the death of Darla Marie Sykes, a 25-year-old Yukon woman who was killed Saturday when her car went out of control and hit a semi-trailer truck on U.S. 270 in the Panhandle, Noyes said. In Salt Lake City, "black ice" Saturday night on an overpass on Interstate 15 caused a chain-reaction collision involving 36 cars and trucks that sent 15 people to hospitals, four in serious condition. "It was just like spring a couple of days ago... I don't know what happened." "black ice" === Page 56 of 92 UFOs Sun Attack # Midwest residents brace for flooding Associated Press Sp Rev 5/1/83 Violent weather over the Midwest spawned heavy rains and swelled rivers past flood stage Saturday, and residents of Springfield, Mo., returned to a neighborhood torn up by a tornado that destroyed 100 homes and killed a 16-year-old girl. Flash flood watches were posted in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Missouri. Springfield authorities said many lives were saved because officials got a 10-minute warning about the approaching tornado Friday night from the National Weather Service, and activated sirens. Two other deaths were attributed to the weather by Missouri officials. The tornado first struck Republic, 20 miles southwest of Springfield, and damaged 14 homes there before disappearing into the clouds. It touched down again in Springfield. It was one of three twisters that hit southwestern Missouri Friday. In Springfield, at least 100 homes were destroyed and as many as 250 others had some kind of damage. Police Lt. John Black said 17 people were injured. "The National Weather Service had a report it was on the ground at Republic," said Lt. John Brooks. "They called us on a hotline we have set up, and told us to activate the sirens. We had 10 minutes before it hit. I feel that saved many, many lives." Two warehouses and a church were destroyed, and a shopping center was heavily damaged, police said. A 16-year-old girl was killed when the twister picked up the car she was riding in and turned it over. Another girl in the car was hospitalized with a concussion. "Power lines are still down throughout the area, and trees are uprooted everywhere," Brooks said Saturday. About 50 Missouri National Guardsmen patrolled the streets, and relief shelters were set up by the Red Cross in several churches. Residents were permitted to return to the stricken southwest part of town Saturday, where the tornado churned up homes and property in a 1 1/2-mile-long, 1/2-mile-wide path. Police arrested two people suspected of looting Friday night, and returnees had to show proof of residency. In Utah, state officials received word Saturday that President Reagan had declared a major disaster a mudslide that blocked Spanish Fork Canyon. The slide plugged up the canyon and has backed up the river, creating a natural reservoir and endangering the town of Spanish Fork, 11 miles below. The declaration permits affected residents to apply for low-interest federal loans. In central and southern Missouri, 6 inches of rain fell late Friday and early Saturday. The National Weather Service warned that the Black River would crest at 20.5 feet Saturday, more than 12 feet above flood stage at Annapolis, Mo., and the Current River would crest near 20 feet at Eminence, or about 10 feet above flood stage. Officials in Kentucky ordered some evacuations in the western part of the state Saturday and opened the Disaster and Emergency Services Center after reports of minor flooding. Tributaries to the Ohio River began to overrun their banks early Saturday in low-lying areas of Breckenridge, Daviess, Hancock, Henderson, McClean, Webster and Union counties. In Vicksburg, Miss., the swollen Mississippi River crept a fraction past flood stage and forced some evacuations from homes not protected by levees in low-lying areas. The river stood at an estimated 43.1 feet Saturday morning, just over an inch above flood stage. Southern California was soaked by another rainstorm Friday which brought the season's total to 30.79 inches. Normal rainfall for this time of year is 14.57 inches. UFOs Sun Attack # world Sp Rev 4/30/83 ## Landslide victims hunted QUITO, Ecuador (AP) -- Rescuers struggled in mud, fog and rain Friday hunting an estimated 100 to 200 victims of a giant landslide on the Pan-American Highway in central Ecuador. Fifty survivors and 32 bodies were reported recovered. An officer with the 150-man army unit leading the rescue effort said the search could take weeks, and "perhaps we will never find all the victims." Heavy rains sent the sea of mud and rock crashing down Wednesday on nearly a third of a mile of the highway 9,000 feet up in the Andes 190 miles south of Quito and a mile from the town of Chunchi. A Guayaquil newspaper said 13 vehicles were buried, including four interstate buses believed to be carrying more than 150 people. === Page 57 of 92 U.P.I. Sun Attack "This is supposed to be the desert season for southern California, but the rain is just not letting up..." # Record California rains continuing Associated Press S.F. Rev. 4/30/83 Thunderstorms swamped communities in Missouri and Kentucky with more than 4 inches of rain Friday, sweeping a woman from her apartment and chasing out scores of people with waist-deep floods, while California set records for wetness. Downpours during the night wrecked barriers holding back 4,000 gallons of oil accidentally spilled into a creek in Culver City, Calif., and the slick poured into the harbor at Marina del Rey. The snowpack in the Sierra Nevada reached the deepest ever recorded so late in the season, with more than 16 feet on the ground at Norden, Calif., near Donner Summit. Norden had reached a seasonal total of 767 inches - almost 64 feet - and just 21 inches short of the record set in the winter of 1951-52. California farmers, already hit by $300 million in losses from storms earlier in the year, were worried about serious flooding when the snowpack begins to melt. Rainfall totals for the season approached all-time records from San Francisco to Los Angeles and it was still coming down. "This is supposed to be the desert season for southern California, but the rain is just not letting up," said Nolan Duke of the National Weather Service's Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City, Mo. In the middle of the country, thunderstorms stretching from Oklahoma into the Ohio Valley sent floodwaters up to 4 feet deep through southern Missouri and central and western Kentucky. A couple of tornadoes touched down, but no damage was reported. Rescue crews in Houston, Mo., were searching the area around Brushy Creek and the Big Piney River for Ruby Reese, 55, who witnesses said was washed away Friday after a wall of her apartment beside the creek collapsed. "We had a torrent down here for a good four to five hours," said Houston City Administrator Pat McDonald. The water damaged up to 20 businesses, washed out roads and bridges and broke two water mains. "Gobs of hail fell from Oklahoma to Missouri," Duke said. It was as big as golf balls in Bartlesville, Okla., and Warsaw, Mo. The storms dumped 4.5 inches of rain in south-central Missouri with 4 inches reported at Lebanon, Mo., and Calhoun, Ky. "California set records for wetness." "Rainfall totals for the season approached all-time records..." U.P.I. Sun Attack # Quake strikes Colombia city; 200 are killed S.F. Rev. 4/1/83 POPAYAN, Colombia (AP) - A major earthquake struck southern Colombia Thursday, devastating this mountain city where hundreds of tourists had gathered for Holy Week. Estimates of the casualties ranged up to 200 dead and 500 injured. A witness said the shuddering earth "sent the roofs of many houses flying into the air as a cloud of dust covered the city." Another said "whole walls were collapsing" and the noise was deafening. From the air Popayan looked as if it had been bombed. Dust rose 1,000 feet over the city of 200,000 people. The quake hit at 8:15 a.m., lasted 18 seconds and knocked down buildings around the historic provincial capital. The tremor brought the Roman Catholic Cathedral down on as many as 100 early morning worshippers, but about 100 others escaped. Police said 25 bodies had been recovered from the rubble of the Spanish colonial-style church. Four lines of rescuers - girls and boys, tourists, soldiers, policemen and old men - passed bricks and timbers hand to hand from inside the church to trucks outside as they worked to free the trapped worshippers. Some of the rescuers, their hands bleeding from handling the jagged rubble, wept openly as they worked. An aftershock at 6:10 p.m. panicked survivors, some of whom became hysterical. The tremor sent some heavily damaged buildings tumbling down. San Jose Hospital reported 500 injured people had been admitted. Doctors there said supplies of plasma, medicine and even surgical thread were exhausted by mid-afternoon. Small planes ferried the (Continued on page 7) Earthquake Strikes Caribbean Sea COLOMBIA Bogota Popayan Pacific Ocean AP === Page 58 of 92 WDe Sun Attack # Many Colombians weep for earthquake victims SP Rev 4/2/83 POPAYAN, Colombia (AP) - Five thousand mourners, some weeping uncontrollably and others quietly sobbing, buried loved ones Friday who died in the Holy Thursday earthquake that devastated this Andean provincial capital. Most of the dead were elderly people, babies and teen-agers caught unaware when the quake struck. Many were killed in Popayan's 17th century Roman Catholic cathedral, which collapsed during early Mass. President Belisario Betancur attended the burial ceremony at a local cemetery, at which Archbishop Silverio Buitrago presided. The archbishop told reporters he granted a special dispensation so that Mass could be said on Good Friday. An emergency committee headed by Provincial Gov. Amalia de Salazar said 194 bodies had been identified by Friday afternoon, 179 in Popayan and 15 in surrounding towns. Rescuers said there were at least 40 more bodies that had not been identified, and searched through tons of rubble for more victims. Army helicopters ferried in tents, food and other emergency supplies and evacuated seriously injured victims. Some relatives of the dead fainted as Archbishop Buitrago, helped by 15 priests, said Mass before a makeshift altar erected on a pile of broken bricks. The bodies were buried in a corner of the cemetery untouched by the destruction. Much of the cemetery was heavily damaged by the temblor, which exposed hundreds of coffins and broke most open. Sanitation teams began collecting the remains, disinfecting them with quicklime and reburying them in a common grave. But many families objected and took their relatives' coffins to neighboring communities for reburial. With 700 people reported injured, the city's hospital and two clinics were jammed. Six helicopters were flying more severe cases to Cali, 66 miles to the north. An additional 1,300 people were treated for minor injuries and sent home. ![Photo of the interior of a damaged cathedral with people walking through the rubble] **27 died when the roof of Popayan's cathedral collapsed.** The quake, which measured 5.5 on the Richter scale, destroyed 3,000 buildings - approximately half of the city - and officials said 2,400 more were so badly damaged they would have to be leveled. Damage was also heavy in the nearby towns of Cajimio, Piendamo and Mondomo and dozens of villages in this part of Cauca province. Omar Henry Velasco, a former congressman from the area, said 80 percent of the buildings were destroyed in Cajimio, a town of 50,000 people 18 miles east of Popayan. Other officials said about 40 percent of the buildings in Piendamo, a town of 30,000, and in Mondomo, were destroyed or badly damaged. All 300 buildings in the village of Cajete reportedly were damaged beyond repair. A pall of fine dust hung over Popayan's ruins, and aftershocks added to the fears and misery of survivors. One strong one early Friday afternoon was felt in Buenaventura, Colombia's chief Pacific port 155 miles northwest of Popayan, but a fire brigade spokesman said no casualties or damage were reported. Most people in Popayan slept out in the open Thursday night or in makeshift shelters in the streets and parks, fearing the continuing shocks would bring down weakened walls on them. A particularly strong tremor at 10:10 p.m. touched off a wave of panic among survivors. The first, killer quake struck at 8:15 a.m. Thursday and lasted 18 seconds. It collapsed most of the roof and some of the walls of Popayan's 17th century cathedral as about 100 people were attending early Mass. Officials said 27 worshippers were killed and 60 were injured, some seriously. In one place, rubble stood 15 feet high. The 450-year-old city, in southwest Colombia nearly 6,000 feet high in the Andes, is famous for its churches, museums and other antique buildings of the Spanish colonial period and for its Easter processions. The city was crowded with tourists for Holy Week, but the U.S. Embassy in Bogota said it did not know if any U.S. citizens were among the victims. === Page 59 of 92 10 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW Tues., April 12, 1983, Spokane, Wash. AP photo **Rising floodwaters** forced this dog to climb on to the roof of its house in Strasbourg, France. Heavy rains have caused flooding throughout the area. UFOs Sun Attack # world **Hailstorm kills 13** S. Rev 4/12/83 DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- A severe hailstorm pelted 13 people to death, injured more than 200 and caused heavy crop damage in Bangladesh, the government said Monday. The Sunday storm in the Jessore district 90 miles west of the capital felled rice, wheat, cotton and vegetable crops, official reports said. Farmers had expected to harvest the rice within the next two weeks. No official estimate of the damage was immediately available. Bangladesh already is suffering serious shortfalls in foodgrains and has been forced to import about 1.2 million tons annually. === Page 60 of 92 UFO Sun Attack A8 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW Sun., April 10, 1983, Spokane, Wash. # Big storm moves east Associated Press Thunderous rains ended Saturday after claiming 10 lives and forcing 27,000 people to flee floodwaters in Louisiana and Mississippi, but the storm moved into Florida and spawned a tornado that killed three people. President Reagan pledged financial aid for areas awash after four days of rain. Many towns remained under threat of more flooding from up to 2 feet of rain. The 20,000 evacuees in Louisiana and 7,000 in Mississippi have begun returning home. Residents of Slidell, La., a New Orleans suburb and one of the fastest-growing areas of the state, were asked to leave Saturday because their turn had come to fight the waters of the raging Pearl River. Nevertheless, the sun broke out in the afternoon for the first time in days. And Jim Thornhill, the civil defense director of Columbia, Miss., where the wild Pearl consumed a levee, said, "We're definitely on the road to recovery." Alabama residents also saw the sun on Saturday, but rivers remained swollen and farmlands flooded. Rural flood warnings were posted for most of the rivers in central and western parts of the state. At Inverness, Fla., north of Tampa, a car "was picked up and slung to the ground about 200 to 300 feet from the roadway" by a tornado Saturday and three travelers were killed, Citrus County sheriff's Capt. Jim Hill. The National Weather Service said there were two confirmed twister touchdowns in Florida's Citrus County. In one, south of Lecanto, a tanker truck was overturned and a mobile home and four structures were damaged. In Washington, deputy White House spokesman Larry Speakes said the president would telephone Govs. Dave Treen of Louisiana and William Winter of Mississippi to tell them the Federal Emergency Management Agency would expedite any emergency aid it could provide to augment state and local relief efforts. He said the FEMA also began to process a formal presidential disaster declaration to enable the two hard-hit states to qualify for federal relief funds for flood victims and businesses. Nolan Duke of the National Severe Storms Forecasting Center in Kansas City, Mo., said the storm was "pretty much breaking up" after reaching the Atlantic. Duke said the storm was pushed ashore by a "big jet stream system" that barely budged for four days and relentlessly pounded the coastal flatlands day and night. The system was just like the one that brought devastating storms to California earlier this year, Duke said, only this one "had to wait to get to the Gulf before picking up moisture." The moisture fed the storm in an "unlimited supply, as long as the wind was blowing," Duke said, and "it just kept pumping and pumping with nothing to push it out of the way." Hard hit was Hattiesburg, Miss., where three people died after the Leaf River jumped its banks. About 1,000 homes and 250 businesses were damaged in Hattiesburg and 300 homes across the river in Petal, and 5,000 people were evacuated. UFO Sun Attack # 50 college rowers swept overboard; 1 student drowns SPRW 4/11/83 DURHAM, N.H. (AP) -- Waves whipped by gusting winds swamped crew boats from the University of New Hampshire on Sunday, killing one student and tossing at least 50 into the chill waters of Great Bay, authorities said. Eleven people were treated at hospitals, including one man held for observation and treatment of hypothermia, or low body temperature, hospital officials said. The others were released. The exact numbers of boats swamped and students involved were not immediately available. John Hose, director of university relations, said as many as six of the eight boats, called shells, may have been swamped in the rough waters at 11 a.m. Officials identified the dead student as freshman Glenn David Hayes of Bartlett. His body, clad in a blue sweatsuit, was spotted from a Coast Guard helicopter about 100 yards offshore late in the afternoon. The tide had receded, and firefighters wearing hip boots waded through the knee-deep water to retrieve the body. "The other eight people in Hayes' swamped shell had been rescued by a Fish and Game boat, Sgt. Wayne Vetter of the Fish and Game Department said. Hayes apparently tried to swim to shore, Vetter said. The helicopter, two guard boats and about a half dozen civilian boats were involved in the search, which began late Sunday morning. "We've rowed in worse stuff than this," said a member of the university crew club who asked not to be identified. "It was just one of those things. It came up fast and was kind of crazy." Three coaches, in launches, and 68 students, men and women, were taking part in the fund-raising exercise, a 30-mile row between Exeter and Durham, said university spokeswoman Phyllis Bennett. Cecily Croft, 22, a crew coach, said seven of the shells held nine-member crews and one held a five-member crew. "The water got really rough in middle of bay. The waves just came over the side and the boat sank," Ms. Croft said. She said she pulled eight women into her launch. "The launch almost sank and we tied to ride the waves and go to shore. It was very scary, but they stayed really calm ... I had some flotation equipment I threw out." "It came up fast and was" === Page 61 of 92 UFOs Sun Attack Spokane, Wash., Tues., April 12, 1983. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW 5 # River pours over Dixie levees, starts dropping Associated Press The yellow waters of the Pearl River topped sandbag levees Monday and flowed 15 feet deep through a suburb of New Orleans, but the worst appeared over in the historic Dixie floods that have displaced more than 52,000 people and left $625 million in damage. Elsewhere, the mighty Mississippi River surged up to 10 feet above flood stage in Missouri, near St. Louis, forcing scores of families to evacuate and washing snakes and rats into some homes. THE PEARL REACHED a record level in outlying subdivisions east of Slidell, La., 30 miles northeast of New Orleans, the area most affected by the flooding that began last week with as much as 20 inches of rain in parts of the Deep South. However, water began receding in some of those St. Tammany Parish subdivisions Monday as the Pearl River crested. "In some areas where it peaked at 7 feet it is already down to 3 or 4," said Beverly Eddins, a spokeswoman at St. Tammany Parish Civil Defense headquarters. An estimated 40,000 people had fled their homes in Louisiana, 11,500 in Mississippi, and several hundred others in other Southern states. Officials estimated the damage at $425 million in Louisiana and $200 million in Mississippi. MOST OF THE FLOOD refugees in Louisiana and Mississippi had returned to their mud-caked home by Monday as the sun came out. But the storm pushed into the Northeast, dumping as much as 4 1/2 inches of rain in Rhode Island and setting rainfall records for the month of April in places such as Philadelphia. Flood warnings were posted over all of Connecticut, all of Massachusetts -- except from Buzzards Bay and Cape Cod -- and along the Passaic River in New Jersey. Elsewhere, a strong snowstorm rolled into Colorado and Wyoming on Monday, dumping heavy snow in the mountains, triggering rain and thunderstorms for much of the state, and claiming one life -- a man struck by lightning near Grand Junction, Colo. Storm warnings, watches and advisories were issued for much of the area. THE MISSISSIPPI crested Monday at 10 feet above flood stage in Ste. Genevieve, Mo., forcing about 50 families to evacuate and nearly cutting the riverfront town in half. About 300 people remained out of their homes in West Alton, where the Missouri and Mississippi rivers join just above St. Louis. An earthen farm levee broke Friday just north of West Alton, letting the Mississippi River into about 20 square miles of St. Charles County, including the farming community of about 500 people. On the Illinois River in Illinois, about 170 families remained displaced in Peoria and Grafton. Although water levels were dropping slightly, it could be two to three weeks before residents will be able to return, officials said. LOUISIANA GOV. Dave Treen has asked that 16 southeastern Louisiana parishes -- along a 100-mile line extending from Baton Rouge eastward to the Mississippi border -- be designated a federal disaster area. ... a record level..." === Page 62 of 92 UFOs Sun Attack # Homes evacuated because of floods in the Northeast Sy Res 4/17/83 Associated Press More rain soaked the Northeast on Saturday, edging rivers over their banks, causing flash floods and mudslides and forcing families from their homes. Rescue crews in Maryland were looking for a boy swept away in a rain-swollen creek. About 6 inches of rain fell in the Catskill Mountains near the New York-Pennsylvania border, followed by about 6 inches of wet snow that fell as temperatures plunged early Saturday morning. The heavy snow snapped power in the area, cutting power to about 4,700 customers, the New York State Electric & Gas Corp. said. The nearby Susquehanna River was expected to crest at 22 feet, 4 feet above flood stage, on Saturday night in the Binghamton, N.Y., area, the National Weather Service said, but no serious flooding was expected. The rain pushed the Caliccon Creek above its banks in nearby Jeffersonville, N.Y., forcing the evacuation of 15 families for a few hours on Saturday morning, Fire Chief Gary Mathern said. ELSEWHERE in New York State, the National Park Service used canoes to rescue seven campers stranded on an island in the Delaware River at the private Upper Delaware Campground just north of the New Jersey border, Chief Ranger Ron Wilson said. No injuries were reported. In nearby Sullivan County, mudslides briefly blocked Route 97 in Barryville, the sheriff's department said. Up to 5 inches of rain fell in parts of northern New Jersey. Flash flooding was reported on the Musconetcong and Pequest rivers and parts of the Raritan River. All rivers and streams in southeast Pennsylvania and adjacent counties in southern New Jersey were at or above flood stage, the weather service said. The Coast Guard in Cape May, N.J., said the rain and 12-foot seas may have contributed to the sinking of a charter fishing boat with 18 people aboard. Cmdr. Lance Egan said two Coast Guard helicopters rescued all 18 from the boat before it sank. The victims were treated for exposure. The cause of the sinking had not been determined. FLASH FLOODS hit northeastern Pennsylvania, and a record 3.78 inches of rain was recorded Saturday at Wilkes-Barre Scranton Airport, topping the previous 24-hour April rainfall record set in 1947. "... a record..." "April rainfall record..." The rain, which began falling Friday, eroded roadsides and caused mudslides in the Wilkes-Barre area along the northern border with New York state, closing off Route 11, the main link between Wilkes-Barre and Berwick. Crews worked to reopen the highway Saturday. Standing water made driving difficult on the roadway along the Schuylkill River near Reading, Pa., and many basements in the area were flooded, officials said. "It's not impossible (to drive in the Reading area), but it could be closed if it gets worse," state Trooper Kirk Traite said. Cpl. Charles McCreary added, "I had pumps running in my basement from midnight on, and they couldn't keep up with the water." THE SCHUYLKILL River was expected to crest at 16 feet -- 3 feet above flood stage -- near Reading late Saturday. The Lehigh River at Walnutport in eastern Pennsylvania was at 10 feet -- 2 feet above flood stage -- early Saturday and was likely to crest late in the day. Farther south, in Oxon Hill, Md., rescuers searched Saturday for 13-year-old Christopher Cason of Fort Washington, Md., missing since Friday. Authorities fear he may have drowned when he was swept down a creek swollen by heavy rain as he and a friend tried to cross it on a fallen tree. It was the seventh consecutive wet weekend for the New York metropolitan area, breaking the 1874 record of 8.77 inches for April rainfall. "... breaking the 1874 rec" === Page 63 of 92 HFD Sun Herald 4/11/83 AP photo **Fighting rising** waters with sandbags was a non-stop assignment in Slidell, La. # Floods chase thousands; worst still to come SLIDELL, La. (AP) -- Residents of this New Orleans suburb packed sandbags and cleared out some of their belongings as the Pearl River, engorged by days of rain, crept past the record level set in a "100-year flood" of 1979. Civil Defense officials warned that the homes of 25,000 people were in danger, and all major highways between Louisiana and Mississippi in the Slidell area, were virtually closed by Sunday evening. An estimated 3,500 residents fled from low-lying subdivisions by noon Sunday following televised evacuation warnings. The water came up fast during the day, and many people who waited until afternoon had to get out in boats. Thousands more continued in their fourth day of non-stop sandbagging. Water stood up to 15 feet deep in some streets Sunday morning, an estimated 700 homes were flooded and officials said the worst was yet to come. St. Tammany Parish President Bruce Unangst said another 12 inches of water was expected to flood the area by this afternoon. The Pearl reached a record crest of 21.2 feet Sunday morning and began to fall. It was expected to fall to 20.4 feet by 7 a.m. this morning, the National Weather Service said. Civil Defense spokesman Sam Morton said a 22-foot crest, twice flood stage, had been predicted. "The previous record was 19.75 in 1979, which was supposed to have been 100-year waters," a level reached, on average, only once every 100 years. "We've already exceeded those levels," Morton said earlier Sunday. The worst flooding was expected to come in 10 subdivisions, where about 25,000 people live, near a scenic cypress swamp, Morton said. The city itself, seat of Louisiana's fastest growing parish with about 65,000 residents, was expected to remain dry. (Continued on page 2) "...crept past the record level..." "The Pearl reached a record crest..." === Page 64 of 92 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW Mon., May 2, 1983, Spokane, Wash. UFOs Sun Attack # More tornadoes, downpours Associated Press Swarms of thunderstorms dumped torrential rain in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys Sunday and scattered tornadoes from Missouri to Michigan damaged homes and other buildings and caused numerous injuries. More than 120 families were forced from their homes in Louisville, Ky., when water backed up chest-deep from storm sewers, and residents of towns in western Kentucky were flooded out for a second day. Swollen streams also forced the evacuation of homes in southwestern Ohio and in Missouri. At least 15 tornadoes spun across parts of Missouri, including one that touched down in the heart of the business district of O'Fallon, injuring four people and damaging businesses. Other tornadoes in Missouri injured four more people, damaged homes and caused an estimated $2 million damage to a printing plant at Linn in Osage County. Downed power lines also caused scattered power outages. A total of 21 tornadoes were reported in Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa, said Nolan Duke at the National Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City, Mo. "This should be about the end of tornado weather in Missouri for a while," Duke said. "Conditions have been just right for the past few days for tornadoes...." Thirty to 50 homes at Greenfield, Ill., were damaged by a late afternoon tornado and 15 people were injured, said Chuck Jones, a spokesman for the Illinois Emergency Services and Disaster Agency. A few other people were injured when tornadoes bounced across southern and central Illinois. High water hampered some rescue efforts and five homes had to be evacuated in Macon County because of flash flooding, Jones said. Two people were injured in Iowa when a tornado slapped the town of Hamburg, damaging some homes and farm buildings. Tornadoes also touched down Tecumseh and Peru, Neb., and a funnel cloud was sighted over northern Michigan. Missouri also suffered from the rain and scores of people had to be evacuated from their homes because of high water. "The flooding is all over the place in the east and much of the south," said Missouri emergency agency official Chester Schulze. "It's just the most unusual thing the way the rain seems to build when it gets to Missouri. It just keeps coming." Most roads were underwater in southern Indiana's Gibson County, where sheriff's deputy David Knowles said the county looks "like a big lake," and some highways were closed or washed out in Ohio and Kentucky. Snow mixed with rain fell in northwest Nebraska. Out West, a crackling thunderstorm packing pea-sized hail north of Los Angeles was accompanied by a report of a funnel cloud over North Hollywood. Thunderstorms also were reported around Portland, Ore., and a man was struck by lightning while working in his yard. Lightning also shattered a chimney and damaged trees at the home of Jean Brown. "I thought the world had come to an end," she said. Flooding in the southwestern part of Louisville was caused by the malfunction of gates at a pumping station for the storm sewer system, an aide to Louisville Mayor Harvey Sloane said. Police and firefighters began ferrying people from their flooded homes Sunday morning, and people in one area swam or waded through 4-foot-deep water to help their neighbors get out. Two Louisville schools were opened as emergency shelters. People living between the western Kentucky towns of Owensboro and Henderson were forced from their homes for a second consecutive day as the rain flooded low-lying neighborhoods. "Swarms of thunderstorms..." "It's just the most unusual thing the way the rain seems to build... it just keeps coming." ".. I thought the world had come to an end." === Page 65 of 92 ### Earth's polar switcheroo Q. The polarity of the Earth's magnetic field has reversed itself several times in the past and is expected to do so again. How is this possible? A. Nobody knows. The alignment of magnetic polarity in ancient rocks, which is thought to reflect direction of the Earth's magnetic field when the rocks were formed, seems to leave no doubt that the field is reversed every million years or so. The field itself is believed to be caused by the motion of a liquid "dynamo" in the Earth's hot metallic core, possibly driven by heat derived from radioactive decay, or by latent heat released when liquid metal in the core solidifies, or by gravitational energy released as denser material in the core sinks toward the middle, or some combination of these factors. Geophysicists have pointed out that some kinds of dynamos are known to spontaneously reverse their polarity because of "coupling" -- a combination of resonances of different periods in the electrical circuit they are connected to. Something similar might take place in the Earth, they suggest. Note: This will now be worked on by my UFOs, in the demonstration of their power. Owens ### Shuttle flight delayed again WASHINGTON (AP) -- The first launch of the new space shuttle, Challenger, was postponed again Thursday -- to the first week in April, at least -- because the satellite it is to carry aloft may have been damaged by a storm last month. There is concern over contamination of the Tracking Data Relay Satellite in the payload bay of the space shuttle," said Kennedy Space Center spokesman Dick Young at Cape Canaveral, Fla. "There is also concern over contamination which might affect several critical spring mechanisms." Crews had been working toward launch on March 28 or perhaps March 30. Lt. Gen. James A. Abrahamson, director of the shuttle program, declined to set a new date. S-P R-W 3/11/83 ### UFO Project ### Satellite's rockets damaged WASHINGTON (AP) -- Engineers trying to push a $100 million communications satellite into its proper orbit discovered Thursday that two of the craft's maneuvering rockets had been damaged and would not work. The satellite, which was supposed to revolutionize space communications, was launched from the Challenger space shuttle earlier this month but wound up in the wrong orbit when a booster rocket failed. S-P R-W 4/15/83 Note: My UFOs elected to foul up the communications satellite instead of destroying the space shuttle and its astronauts. Owens Texas PK Spokane, Wash., Mon., March 7, 1983 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW ### Blizzard of tumbleweeds blocks highway in Texas RANKIN, Texas (AP) -- Tumbleweed driven by winds gusting to hurricane force piled up 10 feet deep, blocking a highway for seven hours and burying at least one car and stranding others. Highway department workers used shovels and a front-end loader to clear State Highway 349 north of here Saturday while a dust storm reduced visibility in the area to near zero. "I have never seen anything like this," said Department of Public Safety Trooper Richard Izatt. "I think I've swallowed enough dust to last me 30 years." Gusts of 40 mph were common in western Texas, the National Weather Service said. A burst of 98-mph wind was recorded at the Davis Mountain Observatory. A 10-foot wall of weeds covered most of the highway about 16 miles north of here. One car was buried under 12 feet of tumbleweed. Izatt said he found several cars stranded at noon, when he reached the clogged stretch. Officials put up roadblocks to reroute traffic. Marie Stamper said her car became snarled in the weeds as she drove from Midland to Rankin. "I'm a Texan, but I've never seen this before," Ms. Stamper said. Terry Teate, an oil field geologist, said he saw the trunk and rear window of Ms. Martin's car as he drove toward Midland. ### UFO Project ### Missile goes down in California POINT MUGU, Calif. (AP) -- An unarmed Tomahawk cruise missile, one of the first test-launched from a Navy surface ship, crashed Sunday in an uninhabited mountainous area about 90 miles northwest of Los Angeles. The $1.5 million missile was supposed to have landed at a test range in Tonapah, Nev., about 300 miles from its launch aboard the destroyer U.S. Merrill, said Bob Holsapple, a Washington spokesman for the Joint Cruise Missiles Program. The destroyer was stationed off San Clemente Island, about 75 miles northwest of San Diego. There was no property damage and no injuries as a result of the 10:15 a.m. crash about 25 miles northwest of Ojai, said Point Mugu Navy Missile Test Center spokesman Ray Lucasey. Holsapple said the missile did not explode on impact and may be salvageable. That will be determined by its San Diego-based builder, General Dynamics' Convair Division, where the missile will be returned for analysis. The low-flying missile is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and has a range of between 500 and 700 miles, Holsapple said. S-P R-W 3/7/83 ### UFO Project ### Wing falls off B-52 bomber SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Most of one wing fell off a B-52 bomber Thursday after it cracked near the fuselage as the plane was being refueled on a runway at Mather Air Force Base. Some fuel spilled but there was no fire and no one was hurt, the Air Force said. "It's awfully incredible," said Mather chief information officer Capt. Louis Figueroa. He said 85 percent of the left wing fell off, breaking between the fuselage and the inboard engine pod. The eight-engined bomber has two pods containing two engines each on each wing. S-P R-W 3/11/83 === Page 66 of 92 Note: My SI is "talking" over my area. If you want to believe the "military officials" am sure they'll be glad to sell you the Brooklyn Bridge. Owens Spokane, Wash., Sun., May 1, 1983. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW D3 # Falling Soviet rocket spotted in Spokane Staff and wire reports SP Rev 5/1/83 A bright orange ball which flamed across the night sky Friday over the Pacific Northwest, prompting a swarm of UFO reports, was a falling rocket from a Soviet Cosmos satellite, military officials said Saturday. "I thought it was a jet airliner on fire when I first saw it," said John Killen, sports editor of the Lewiston (Idaho) Tribune. "There were two large burning lights that looked like they could have been engines on fire." Steve Lent of KBRO radio in Bremerton, Wash., more than 300 miles to the west, said he first thought it might be a plane, but added, "I've seen planes flying through clouds before, and it wasn't a plane." Several sightings also were reported in the Spokane area. Spokane County Sheriff's Lt. Richard Lovejoy said the objects were observed by the county's helicopter patrol. The report was confirmed by tower personnel at Fairchild Air Force Base and by security officers at Spokane International Airport, who said they saw 50 to 100 of the objects, deputies said. The county's emergency 911 system was flooded with calls from citizens who observed the objects apparently moving from north to south about 11:30 p.m., deputies said. It is unknown whether the rocket body disintegrated before striking the ground, said Del Kindschi, a public affairs officer with the North American Aerospace Defense Command. The Coeur d'Alene office of the Idaho State Police reported Saturday that the rocket was believed to have struck the Earth in the Elk Mountain area of Benewah County in the Idaho Panhandle. But the Benewah County sheriff's office later reported that the object was not believed to have hit the ground. Unlike other Soviet space materials recently returned to Earth, the launcher rocket is not thought to be radioactive, Kindschi said. The rocket had carried the satellite Cosmos 1457, launched Tuesday, according to Kindschi. The rocket re-entered the atmosphere north of Vancouver Island and sightings were reported from throughout the Northwest, Kindschi said. Despite the attention drawn by the rocket's fall, re-entry of space debris is not unusual, he said. UFO Project # More engine woes for Challenger SP Rev 2/27/83 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- NASA officials decided Saturday to replace a third defective engine intended for the space shuttle Challenger, which is already two months behind schedule for its maiden flight. The problem was another leak, this time in the No. 2 engine. The engine will have to be removed and inspected to see whether it can be repaired at Kennedy Space Center, officials aid. The latest difficulty could mean the launch will be postponed beyond the target date of March 20. But the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said it could not immediately determine how long the three-engine Challenger might be grounded. The leak, discovered Friday, was described as a crack in a hydrogen line leading to an engine component called an augmented spark igniter. The igniter triggers the burning of oxygen and hydrogen propellants during launch. The problem comes only three weeks after Challenger's No. 1 engine was removed because of a hairline crack that permitted gaseous hydrogen to escape into the tail section engine compartment. That difficulty was compounded by a faulty replacement engine. Another leak was discovered in its heat exchanger before the motor could be mounted on the space plane. UFO Project # nation SP Rev 3/4/83 ## Work on shuttle under way CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Technicians began repairing Challenger's engines Thursday, slicing out 10-inch sections of metal pipe that have been leaking hydrogen gas and delaying the new shuttle's maiden voyage. The five- to six-day task of replacing defective metal tubing will push the launch back to the end of March, space agency officials say. All three of Challenger's engines have sprung leaks, as has one replacement engine. Engine No. 1 and its replacement leaked from the manifold; Nos. 2 and 3 had the defective tubing. Aerospace officials blamed a design flaw and decided to replace the pipes on all Challenger engines. UFO Project ## Marine copter crash kills 6 SAN SIMON, Ariz. (AP) -- A Marine helicopter en route to maneuvers in California crashed in rugged country 12 miles east of this southeastern Arizona community, killing six people and critically injuring a seventh. The CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter, based at the Marine Corps Air Station in New River, N.C., crashed about 6 p.m. Sunday. Public affairs officer Gary Mosley at the Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, Calif., said there were seven people on board "and they were getting ready to participate in a combined arms exercise." Ross said the cause of the crash was under investigation. SP Rev 3/29/83 === Page 67 of 92 UFO Project # Jet engine explodes on runway SEATTLE (AP) -- An engine on a United Airlines 727 exploded as the jetliner was about to take off Wednesday, scattering engine pieces and closing a runway for about 45 minutes. There were no injuries reported. The plane did not leave the ground, said Donna Wilson, spokeswoman for the Port of Seattle which operates Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. There were 141 people aboard Flight 1151 to San Francisco and San Diego, United spokesman Joe Hopkins said. It was the second time in a week that an engine has blown on a United aircraft. On Friday, a United DC-8 from San Francisco landed safely in Reno, Nev., after an engine disintegrated over the Sierra Nevadas at 36,000 feet and debris punctured a wing, United said. None of the 185 people on board was injured. Boeing 727s have three engines, all near the rear. Hopkins said the engine that blew up was on the left side and had the explosion occurred in the air the plane could have remained in flight. The pilot had control of the plane at all times and taxied back to the hangar on the plane's own power, Hopkins said. Boeing spokesman Tom Cole said the cause of the explosion was not known. He did say the engines were designed to channel broken pieces out the back and keep them from ripping into the fuselage. "The engines are designed to contain broken pieces like that." Pieces swept from the west runway will be turned over to United. SP Rev 3/18/83 UFO Project Spokane, Wash., Fri., April 15, 1983. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW 11 # 'It was lonely' out there HONOLULU (AP) -- A Navy pilot who bailed out of his burning jet over the Pacific Ocean said Thursday he stayed in a one-man life raft for 18 hours because he feared he would drown if he swam for a bigger raft that was thrown to him. Lt. Cmdr. Gary J. Hagstrom said that as he sat in the raft he couldn't see his co-pilot -- only the circling search planes and the enormous waves. "It was a very lonely feeling," Hagstrom, 38, of Portland, Ore., said after returning to Honolulu. A Navy plane and two merchant vessels were searching Thursday for one of two Air Force rescue specialists who parachuted into the water Monday to help save Hagstrom and another downed Navy flier. Air Force Staff Sgt. Jeffrey Y. Jones, 26, of Kailua, Hawaii, was seen unconscious in the water after the rescue attempt Monday afternoon, and has not been spotted since. The other Air Force rescuer survived. Hagstrom returned to Honolulu on Thursday and met with reporters on the Matson container ship Lurline, which picked him up at dawn Tuesday near the spot where he bailed out of the Navy jet 750 miles northeast of Oahu. He said he and co-pilot Lt. Walter Joe Richardson, 26, of Homer, La., parachuted into the 15-foot swells shortly after noon Monday, minutes after their A-4 Skyhawk jet caught fire. "Everything happens so fast, it was weird," Hagstrom said. "It couldn't have been more than three or four minutes before I was into the life raft that comes in a backpack I had," he said. A lifeboat from a Japanese fishing vessel, Pacific Maru, later picked up Richardson and Air Force Staff Sgt. Steven Rodman, 27, of Phoenix, Ariz., who parachuted into the water but was unable to rendezvous with the fliers. UFO Project # Navy plane smashup: 14 missing; 1 rescued SP Rev 5/1/83 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- A Navy passenger plane, carrying 15 people, crashed into the St. Johns River on Saturday when one of its engines exploded and burst into flames five minutes after takeoff from Jacksonville Naval Air Station. Divers searched the wreckage and the murky river bottom, but only one survivor had been pulled out of the 10-foot waters seven hours after the plane went down. "There was one survivor. We can hope there are more," said Petty Officer 1st Class Don Savage, who was at the scene. Navy officials were contacting the families of the people aboard to tell them the plane had crashed and the passengers' fate was unknown, Ensign Erik Dahl said. All those aboard were Navy personnel based at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Dahl said. UFO Project # Faulty missile self-destructs CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- The first stage of a Trident missile test-fired from a submerged submarine malfunctioned Tuesday and the missile blew itself up 55 seconds after launch, military officials said. Earlier reports had quoted spokesman Dick Castellucci of the Space and Missile Test Center at Patrick Air Force Base as saying the missile veered off course and was destroyed by a range safety officer on the Air Force Eastern Test Range. But Castellucci later said he was misunderstood by reporters and that the missile had destroyed itself. SP Rev 4/20/83 === Page 68 of 92 Experts attempt to save satellite CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The world's biggest and costliest communications satellite, launched with fanfare from the space shuttle Challenger, traveled a misshapen orbit Tuesday as experts on the ground tried to improvise ways to salvage it. They voiced hope for eventual success. The new shuttle, meanwhile, was coasting like a seasoned traveler around the Earth. Its astronauts, quietly busy with metals processing and other scientific experiments, wondered if they had anything to do with the satellite's problems. "We don't really have a story for you," said Mission Control. "We'll probably be talking a lot about that post-flight." PLANS WERE to use the satellite's nozzles and the fuel it carries for small course corrections, to propel the satellite into its proper 22,300-mile-high orbit. The makers of the satellite and the rocket were meeting with NASA engineers to decide when and how to do that. The decision could take days. A lot was riding on overcoming the problems with the 2 1/2-ton, $100 million Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, which is needed urgently both for defense purposes and future missions of the shuttle. Without TDRS, a spacelab flight in September is practically an impossibility. Challenger commander Paul J. Weitz and his crewmen, pilot Karol J. Bobko and mission specialists Story Musgrave and Donald H. Peterson, who had ejected the satellite from their cargo bay late Monday, were asleep when the trouble began. They were in the second day of the ship's five-day inaugural flight. THE SPACE PLANE encountered a few first-mission annoyances, including a clogged filter in humidity ducts in a cabin fan. Peterson checked it and reported: "We found all kinds of junk of them, a whole bunch of screws, bolts and some washers and quite a bit of felt." He said the area was too tight to photograph the mess but "we wrapped it all in Scotch tape and saved it for you," and added "there is also a lot of blue lint in these filters." "The Challenger is operating near flawlessly," said flight director Randy Stone at a morning briefing. "The crew is feeling fine." There was no indication that the astronauts suffered from the space sickness that plagued others on the five flights of the first shuttle, Columbia. MUSGRAVE, 47, a practicing surgeon as well as astronaut, performed for the shuttle's television cameras in midafternoon: doing backflips and other feats of weightless legerdemain on the ship's mid-deck. Mission Control said he stayed up late Monday night, despite a very long day, to perform some checks on the space suits that will be used on a space walk during the mission. After the crew was awakened with martial music, Musgrave was eager to get on with the day's work. "We're going to come out of the chute running hard," he said. Weitz and Bobko fired Challenger's engines twice to begin a series of four course-changing maneuvers to meet a phantom target in space. The exercise was a rehearsal for later flights when astronauts will chase down satellites to service or repair them. THE ASTRONAUTS' next big day is Thursday when Musgrave (Continued on page 2) Satellite (Continued from page 1) and Peterson climb into the space suits and walk out into the airless void of the open cargo bay. The two Mission specialists will spend today checking out the suits which malfunctioned before a scheduled space walk on the last shuttle flight. What had been a perfect satellite deployment just before midnight turned sour 5 1/2 hours later when a firing of an attached booster rocket ended 20 or 30 seconds early. The satellite, instead of hovering over one spot along the equator, 22,300 miles high, tumbled into a 14,000-to-22,000-mile egg-shaped path. At that orbit, it could perform its intended functions some of the time. SPACE AGENCY officials hoped to use the satellite's small steering jets to guide the payload close to its intended orbit. Robert Aller, NASA's program manager for the satellite, said it carried 1,300 pounds of hydrazine, a propellant produced by the chemical reaction of chlorine, caustic soda and ammonia. "We feel that with several hundred pounds of the hydrazine system we can significantly correct the orbit to be near geosynchronous," he said. When a spacecraft is 22,300 miles high over the equator, its orbital speed matches the spin of Earth making it appear to be stationary over that spot. The term for that is geosynchronous. "Things are going better than we had hoped," Aller said. "We should be able to use the spacecraft (TDRS) in a normal fashion." THE HYDRAZINE normally is used to make minor corrections when a satellite begins to drift from its assigned place. Aller said the satellite had fuel to spare and that its lifetime would not be affected. At the end of its incomplete rocket burn, the satellite was tumbling. Mission control was able to stabilize and separate the TDRS from its heavy booster rocket before it failed altogether. Without elaborating on how they did it, he said: "They did a remarkable job in restoring the TDRS to a normal position." The satellite, once stabilized, responded perfectly to ground commands that extended its power-producing solar panels, booms and antennas. The satellite is critical to future shuttle flights and its deployment was the major goal of the mission, which is to establish the U.S. shuttle fleet as a dependable carrier of military, scientific and commercial cargo. IT IS THE FIRST of three TDRS satellites designed to serve as a space switchboard between Earth and as many as 26 satellites, including the planned shuttle fleet of four ships. A mission heavily dependent on having at least two TDRS satellites operating is the European Spacelab - a scientific laboratory scheduled for launch on the ninth shuttle flight next September. The second TDRS is scheduled for launch aboard the eighth shuttle in August. But because builders feel that at least two months checkout is needed to qualify the payload once in space, NASA and the European Space Agency have been working on a plan to support Spacelab with just one - the TDRS that apparently failed Tuesday. === Page 69 of 92 Spokane, Wash., Mon., March 7, 1983. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW 3 # Anybody out there in space? CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) -- The most intensive search ever attempted for intelligent life in outer space, the ultimate needle in the cosmic haystack, begins Monday when astronomers turn on a refurbished telescope in the Boston suburbs. The switchboard for a call from out there is a relatively puny radio telescope owned by Harvard University. But unlike other quests for messages from space, which have used observatories for a few hours at a time, this one will go on non-stop, around the clock, every day of the year. The effort, planned to last at least four years, is being directed by Harvard physicist Paul Horowitz and financed by the Planetary Society, a group co-founded by astronomer Carl Sagan. The scientists will search the northern skies with the Oak Ridge radio telescope, an 85-foot-diameter radio dish located in Harvard, a town about 25 miles west of Boston. "Most of the others have just looked at a few stars," said Horowitz. "You really need to look at a few million." His effort is different from his unsuccessful predecessors' in another way, too. "It uses rather sophisticated hardware," said Horowitz. "It's probably fancier than anything that's been used before." Will they find anything? "There are a few good, solid radio astronomers who think that within 10 to 15 years, a signal from an extraterrestrial intelligent civilization will be discovered," said Louis Friedman, executive director of the Planetary Society. "But most of us say the probability is that it will not be discovered in our lifetime." Note: Do you really think that the scientists and govt. are not desperate re my UFOs? Owens U.S. loses satellite and Russia fails UFO Project Spokane, Wash., Sat., April 23, 1983. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW 3 # Trio returns after space failure MOSCOW (AP) -- Three Soviet cosmonauts returned safely to Earth Friday after failing to dock their spacecraft with an orbiting 20-ton laboratory and cutting short the mission. It was the Soviets' first unsuccessful space venture in four years and presumably marred celebrations of Lenin's 113th birthday for prestige-conscious Kremlin leaders. Reporting the trio's soft landing in a "planned region" just north of the central Asian city of Arkalyk, 1,500 miles east of Moscow, the official Tass news agency said the cosmonauts "feel well." It blamed "deviation from the norm of the planned regime of approaching" for the failure of the docking. The landing of the Soyuz T-8 craft was shown briefly on the main Soviet television evening news, together with pictures of the three cosmonauts who appeared smiling after the flight. Air force Lt. Col. Vladimir G. Titov, 36, was in command of the craft on his first space flight. Engineer Gennady M. Strekalov, 43, and researcher Alexander A. Serebrov, 39, had each made one space trip before. First signs that the docking was in trouble emerged late Thursday, when Western groups monitoring the mission said the Soyuz and the orbiting Salyut 7 craft had passed within yards of each other, but failed to hook up. Soviet media waited until Friday morning to say the docking had failed and that Soyuz T-8 was returning to earth just 48 hours after it was launched. The Soyuz launch Wednesday and preparations for its docking with Salyut 7 had been announced with some fanfare as an evident prelude to the cosmonauts sending greetings to their comrades on earth on the occasion of Lenin's birthday. But Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov and other leaders attending Kremlin celebrations of Lenin's birthday received news only of a safe landing. Just after the time announced by Tass for the landing -- 5:29 p.m. (5:29 a.m. PST) -- a note passed between assembled Politburo leaders. Observers concluded it reported Soyuz T-8's return. The Salyut 7 spaceship was the scene of history's longest space mission -- 211 days by cosmonauts Anatoly Berezovoy and Valentin Lebedev last year. This week's mission was the first manned Soviet space mission since. === Page 70 of 92 St. Paul Dispatch 2/7/83 # World recession takes on look of Great Depression UFOs attack Economy EDITOR'S NOTE: "The world is in an economic crisis. The perpetuation of stagnation raises the specter of a possible breakdown." The warning comes from 26 economists of 14 nations who gathered recently in Washington. This is the first of a five-part series examining the recession in both its global dimensions and its impact on individuals in several countries. **By Charles J. Hanley** Associated Press First of five articles The world is scraping bottom in the deepest economic slump in a half-century. A quarter-million beggars crowd Mexico City's streets. Hundreds of merchant ships ride useless at anchor in Singapore harbor, castoffs in a time of shrunken trade. Men and women without work loiter in London's Trafalgar Square and pack soup kitchens in Paris. In Japan, farmers fearing a flood of cheap American oranges and beef march on the U.S. Embassy. **World at the Bottom** The global recession, a period of slow or no economic growth stretching back to 1979, "has begun to resemble the Great Depression of the 1930s," the Independent Commission on International Development, led by former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, pronounced after its latest meeting. And, it added darkly, "the magnitude of the problem dwarfs the magnitude of the practicable solutions." Economists in Washington feel a faint pulse of recovery in the United States -- housing and automobiles sales are up. But few expect more than a Please see Recession / 4A Continued from Page 1A half-hearted U.S. rebound this year, and most expect continued stagnation in many countries. Although the recession has reached every corner of the planet, the impact is uneven. Western Europe has been hit harder than the United States, and Japan less. Some relatively reliant poor countries, such as India, have been partly insulated. But others that survive from day to day by selling sugar, copper or whatever raw material to the great manufacturing nations are desperate. "Economic growth in the developing countries is less than the rate of growth of their populations. Their per-capita income is falling. That is a pretty bleak situation," Indian economist P.N. Dhar, an assistant U.N. secretary-general, said in an interview. "In southern Africa, this means an increase in absolute poverty, an increase in malnutrition." The concerns of world leaders are not purely economic. The recession has already helped topple governments or prime ministers in West Germany, Japan, Italy, Spain and Portugal. Prolonged high unemployment will threaten the current leadership in other capitals as well, and it could ignite violent upheavals in some of the most hard-pressed lands. Mexican businessmen reportedly counseled U.S. diplomats that the financial crisis in Mexico -- where the standard of living may be whittled back down to the 1970 level -- will make the Mexican masses "easy prey for demagogues." Politicians and economists, businessmen and the unemployed all look ahead uneasily in a world they hope has reached the depths: * The global economy that boomed in the 1960s, growing at an average of 5.5 percent a year, and pushed ahead at a 4.3 percent-a-year rate in the mid-1970s, simply stopped growing in 1981-82. Industrial nations may inch ahead in the next two years, forecasters say, but not at a "healthy" pace. * At least 30 million workers are without jobs in 24 Western industrial nations, three times the number of unemployed in the early 1970s. That does not include the uncounted millions of Third World jobless and penniless. The 10.8 percent U.S. unemployment rate is expected to dip slightly by 1984. But Western Europe's 10 percent jobless rate is expected to hit 12 percent by mid-1984. * World trade, lifeblood of the post-World War II global boom, has begun contracting. In West Germany, for example, orders for the autos, steel and other goods that Germans ship to the world fell 10 percent in 1982's last three months. Economists expect international trade to shrink 5 percent in 1983. Another statistic is the most chilling for many of the experts: The nations of the Third World owe more than $600 billion to foreign banks and governments, debts that have almost doubled in four years -- debts that suddenly are not being repaid. Such big borrowers as Brazil and Mexico are caught in a classic economic squeeze. When world interest rates rose in recent years, the payments due on their loans ballooned. But those same high rates slowed economic activity in the Western industrial nations, which consequently no longer needed as much Mexican oil or Brazilian sugar, and then only at lower prices. Without more dollars, German marks, British pounds, the Third World countries cannot pay their debts, or even -- in extreme cases -- feed their people. This cycle was repeated around the world, from the Philippines to Bolivia. The world price of cotton dropped from 92 cents a pound in 1980 to 57 cents, sugar fell from 43 cents a pound to 6 cents, copper is selling for less than the cost of production. The Third World's problems backlash on the industrial countries, pushing world trade deeper into its downward spiral. Q Cont'd === Page 71 of 92 The Mexicans, for example, are no longer the hungry customers they once were for U.S. goods. U.S. exports to Mexico are estimated to have slid to $12 billion last year, from $18 billion in 1981. The world recession illustrates better than ever how intertwined the world's economies have become. But behind the financial flow charts, beyond the staggering statistics, the specialists still argue over what precisely caused it all. "Some people say the whole thing started with the 1973 'oil shock,' like the Book of Genesis," said Dhar. "But the inflation really started before that." Some world prices were rising sharply in the early 1970s -- traceable to U.S. overspending for the Vietnam War and overproduction of dollars. But the quadrupling of oil prices intensified the inflation and pushed the world into the 1974-75 recession. High inflation persisted into the late 1970s, when a new redoubling of oil prices kicked it over into double digits. Western leaders decided to fight high prices by restricting money supplies and encouraging high interest rates. The "dearer" money brought down inflation, from an average 14 percent in 1980 to 7 percent in the industrial West. But these tight-money policies also discouraged new business investment, big trade deals, new loans to consumers -- in short, they slowed world economies. A further complication: money created in the 1970s inflation was moving in vast, uncontrolled streams around the world. Much of it poured into U.S. dollar investments, because of lucrative interest rates and other considerations. This made the dollar more valuable relative to other currencies. And that meant a Japanese automobile that once cost an American consumer $10,000 now cost $8,000. The result: pressures from U.S. automakers and workers to keep out cheaper competition. Such protectionism, repeated around the world, drags down world trade still more. Who or what is to blame for the world recession? The United States? The oil sheiks? Japan? An uncontrolled world currency system? Third World borrowers? U.S. Treasury Secretary Donald Regan's opinion: "For too many years, the world has been mesmerized by the modern-day money mentality... Too many nations -- including the United States -- have bought and bought and bought on a massive scale. And instead of paying, they say, 'Charge it.'" The opinion of Charles Schultze, who was chief economic adviser in the Carter White House: "Monetary restraint was overdone, especially in 1981 and the first half of 1982. Monetary policy attempted too much too quickly." The argument will go on. For years, governments and economists will theorize and tinker with policies and institutions. At the core of the debate is a quandary expressed plainly by The Times of London: "The main problem of the industrial world is that it has found no way of reducing inflation without raising unemployment." The British should know. Inflation has fallen to its lowest point there in 13 years. But at the same time almost one in seven British workers is without a job. TUESDAY: Jobless in Liverpool. 70s attack Economy # 10,000 show up seeking 46 jobs in Buffalo, N.Y. BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- About 10,000 job seekers showed up at the Anaconda American Brass plant here to apply for openings for 26 skilled craftsmen and 20 production workers, the company says. Five hundred people camped outside the employment office to make sure they were at the front of the line Saturday. "When we heard from our security people that applicants were camping out overnight and using bonfires to keep warm, we realized we had to open up a lot earlier," said David Velmosky, the company's labor relations supervisor. Anaconda, the Arco Metals division of the Atlantic Richfield Co., had planned to start accepting applications at 9 a.m. Velmosky and others began handing out forms at 5:30 a.m. and by 10 a.m. had distributed more than 7,000. The company said an estimated 10,000 forms were distributed. "We had hoped to be able to chat briefly with each applicant," Velmosky said. "But the size of the crowd made that impossible. Instead, we gave each a form and told him or her to fill it out and mail it to us." "We promised everyone we wouldn't begin screening for the new jobs until Friday, which would give all of them a chance to get their applications back." The openings, part of an $80 million expansion, were announced by the company last week. Anaconda currently employs some 730 workers at the plant. === Page 72 of 92 UFOs attack Economy # Double-digit jobless rate is reported by 30 states By MERRILL HARTSON Associated Press SP Rev 3/11/83 WASHINGTON -- Thirty states, paced by West Virginia with 20.4 percent of the labor force out of work, registered double-digit joblessness in January, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The state figures, which are not adjusted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics to reflect seasonal variations in the economy, showed that roughly 158,000 people out of West Virginia's 770,000 workers had no job. Bureau spokesman Kathy Hoyle said it was believed to have been the first time since the recession began in the late summer of 1981 that any state's jobless rate has reached or exceeded 20 percent. The report showed that 30 states and the District of Columbia had unemployment rates of 10 percent or above in January. Twenty-one states and the nation's capital had double-digit joblessness in December and unemployment rates were at or above 10 percent in 17 states in January 1982. WEST VIRGINIA'S 20.4 percent jobless rate compared with a national seasonally unadjusted unemployment rate of 11.2 percent in January, the latest report said. Following closely behind West Virginia was Michigan, with 17 percent joblessness and Alabama with 16.6 percent. Hawaii, at 5.6 percent, had the lowest jobless rate, followed by Kansas, 7.6 percent; Oklahoma and South Dakota, 7.7 percent. ## West Virginia leads states with 20.4 percent of workers unemployed. The coal mining industry in West Virginia was hardest hit by the recession, but the slump subsequently had a deep impact on construction, steel and small businesses. Nearly a third of the 165,000 members of the United Mine Workers union, many of them in West Virginia, have been laid off, and the union has cut its national staff in Washington. A COMPANION report released by the Labor Department on Thursday showed that West Virginia led the nation in the proportion of its labor force drawing unemployment compensation. Through the week ending Feb. 19, according to the Employment and Training Administration, the state's insured unemployment rate was 11.3 percent, compared with a national insured jobless rate of 4.3 percent. HERE ARE JANUARY'S seasonally unadjusted unemployment rates for the 50 states and the District of Columbia: West Virginia, 20.4 percent; Michigan, 17.0; Alabama, 16.6; Ohio and Pennsylvania, 14.9; Indiana, 13.8; Tennessee, 13.7; Oregon, 13.6; Illinois, 13.5; Wisconsin, 13.4; Washington state, 13.3; Idaho, 12.9; Kentucky, 12.4; Alaska and Nevada, 12.3; Rhode Island and Mississippi, 12.2; Also, California, 11.7; South Carolina, 11.6; Louisiana, 11.3; Arizona and Arkansas, 11.1; Iowa, Missouri, Montana, 10.9; New Mexico, 10.6; Florida and Minnesota, 10.4; District of Columbia, 10.3; Maine and North Carolina, 10.0; Wyoming, 9.9; Utah, 9.7; New York, 9.6; Colorado, 9.5; North Dakota, 9.4; Maryland, 9.1; New Jersey and Virginia, 9.0, and Massachusetts, 8.7; Also, Texas and New Hampshire, 8.5; Delaware, 8.4; Connecticut, 8.3; Georgia, 8.2; Vermont, 8.0; Nebraska, 7.9; Oklahoma and South Dakota, 7.7; Kansas, 7.6, and Hawaii, 5.6. UFOs attack Economy # Cash 'found' for jobless to stall crisis New York Times SP Rev 3/15/83 WASHINGTON -- An attempt to repeal the withholding provisions on savings and interest income continued to ensnare Senate efforts Monday to pass an emergency recession relief bill. The urgency to adopt the bill diminished slightly, however, as the Labor Department announced that it had found an extra $196.6 million to finance unemployment benefits in 27 states through the end of the week. The relief bill includes $5 billion to underwrite benefits in states that are running low on cash, and originally it was estimated that this money would be needed by Tuesday. "IT'S A SERIOUS situation," said Jack Hashian, a spokesman for the Labor Department. "But I don't think we're going to have anybody going without checks this week." ## Troubled states WASHINGTON (AP) -- Here is the list of 27 states, the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands, with the amounts of money they seek to borrow to ensure nonstop payment of unemployment benefits, according to figures released by the Labor Department on Monday: Pennsylvania, $248 million; Ohio, $223 million; Michigan, $210 million; Illinois, $201 million; Texas, $132.1 million; Wisconsin, $100 million; New Jersey, $65 million; Louisiana, $55 million; Indiana, $46.3 million; Minnesota, $43 million; Kentucky, $41.7 million; West Virginia, $40 million; Connecticut, $38 million; Missouri, $37 million; Tennessee, $35.5 million; Iowa, $35 million; Alabama, $33 million; Colorado, $32.8 million; Virginia, $32.1 million; Utah, $15.9 million; Idaho, $15.3 million; Arkansas, $14.9 million; Montana, $10 million; South Carolina, $8.5 million; District of Columbia and North Dakota, $8 million; Vermont, $5.5 million; Maine, $5 million, and the Virgin Islands, $725,000. No figures were available for Puerto Rico. === Page 73 of 92 # Jobless stream from West Virginia By STRAT DOUTHAT, Associated Press HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Benny Mannifield, unemployed for a year, watched his wife, Nida, give the neighbors one last, tearful hug. "There's just nothing around here any more," he said. "My unemployment compensation ran out the first of the month, so me and the wife and the dog are leaving." Like their counterparts in the Great Depression of the 1930s, the Mannifields on Friday abandoned their home in search of jobs and a future. "We're just leaving the house for the bank to take over," Mannifield said before departing for Roanoke, Va. A day earlier the U.S. Labor Department had announced that for the fifth straight month, West Virginia had the nation's highest unemployment rate. Gov. Jay Rockefeller's administration says the state's jobless rate is about 14 percent; the federal figure places it at 21 percent. Mannifield, a tall, friendly man in his late 30s, isn't interested in that debate. All he knows is that there are no jobs, and no prospects of jobs, in West Virginia. "I tried everything," he said. "I was a steel worker, earning about $30,000 a year," he said. "I had a good-paying job and good benefits. Now I've got nothing." According to the U.S. Census Bureau, West Virginia, which recorded a population increase during the coal boom of the early '70s, has been losing residents for the past two years. That comes as no surprise to Allen Cremeans, who runs a truck and trailer rental business in Huntington. "We see people coming in here all the time who are leaving the state," he said. "A lot of them say that they're out of work. They say they're tired of fooling with it." Like the Mannifields, most of the migrants are headed South. "A year ago everybody was going to Texas," Cremeans said. "These days, they're going to the Southeast, to Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas. Hardly anybody ever goes up North." He said many of his customers are too broke to afford trucks and have to settle for small trailers or sometimes just trailer hitches. "This is probably the hardest-hit city in the state," Cremeans said. "For a while there, somebody was coming in every day, looking for a job, but not any more. I think everybody's just given up." Talk of economic recovery rings hollow to many of the jobless in West Virginia, which economists say is likely to lag behind the rest of the country due to its dependence on coal and heavy industry. Although the national unemployment rate has been dropping in the past few months, West Virginia's has continued to rise -- jumping more than four percentage points since November. Slumping auto sales began affecting the state's steel mills nearly two years ago. Coal mine layoffs soon followed, and now the effects have trickled down into all sectors of the state's economy. Figures released this month by the state Employment Security Department indicate that 52,500 jobs have simply disappeared in West Virginia in the last three years, with the biggest losses coming in manufacturing and construction. **Mannifield** takes a last look before heading out. # Laid-off workers fill up carts at food giveaway COLUMBUS, Ind. (AP) -- Hundreds of laid-off workers showed up at an old supermarket Saturday to collect their share of $140,000 worth of food being distributed by Cummins Engine Co., this city's largest employer. "I had no idea this would be so huge," said one furloughed worker, Sharon Emily, who left the Cummins Food Fund Giveaway with two boxes of groceries, a large box of soap powder and bags of onions and apples. "I knew things were bad, but I didn't know how bad." Employees from the company's two unions, the Diesel Workers Union and the Office Committee Union, began raising money for the project in February. When their fund reached $70,000 by the end of March, the company agreed to match the contributions. Grocery carts filled with foods packed in Cummins' parts boxes were lined up in front of the old supermarket. Carol Donnell, who was at the site at 5:30 a.m. Saturday, said Cummins' 2,217 laid-off workers were sent letters explaining the program, and about 1,300 responded. === Page 74 of 92 Set in motion June 14, 1982. Owens SUN HEAT UFO UFO EARTH UFO UFO === Page 75 of 92 June 14, 1982 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS Dr. Mishlove's book is not out (Mishlove/Rogo). The Base has not been supplied. I have been forced to sell personal effects to maintain the family. Therefore: I have taken this case to my UFOs. They have empowered me to give a further demonstration (as differentiated from their own work.) For quite a long while my giant UFOs over Earth (called volcano ash by some nitwits) have been deflecting the suns rays into outer space, thus giving Earth (and the U.S.) horrendous storms, rains, floods, etc. Now, this date, I am signaling my giant UFOs over Earth to REVERSE the process and REFLECT THE SUNS RAYS DOWN ONTO EARTH DIRECTLY, with special, selective effect on the United States. For those who have doubts about my powers, and my link with my UFOs, inside six months (that is, from this day on for six months) there should be TERRIBLE HEAT, unusual heat, on the Earth...causing fires and many other effects, one of which will be drought. Perhaps then you will be finally convinced. The mechanism has been set in motion today, irrevocably. Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 76 of 92 May 15, 1979 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN In early April, 1979, I was interested in doing a story on the work of Ted Owens (PK Man) and selling the story to National Enquirer in Lantana, Florida. But both Enquirer and myself wanted Owens to give some kind of demonstration of his powers (alleged by Owens to be connected with UFOs). At that time Florida was in the midst of a terrible drought, so I asked Owens if he could bring rains to Florida in order to alleviate the drought. Owens agreed to do so. He sent a written confirmation of his agreement to me and to Enquirer on April 15, 1979. He promised, via my phone call to him, to deliver the rains "in a few weeks." Within ten days (April 25, 1979) enough rain fell to end the drought in Florida completely. As a matter of fact, the rainfall broke the weather record for Florida rainfall in the time period. Then there were further rainstorms, helping Florida even more. This statement is a simple statement of fact, made at the request of Owens, and is a true statement. __________ Wayne Grover 3282 Parade Pl. Lantana, Florida 33462 Sworn to and subscribed to before me, the undersigned authority this 15th day of May, 1979. __________ Notary Public, State of Florida at Large. My Commission Expires: NOTARY PUBLIC, STATE OF FLORIDA AT LARGE MY COMMISSION EXPIRES DEC. 28, 1980 BONDED THROUGH MUROSKI-HUCKLEBERRY, INC. === Page 77 of 92 Wayne H. Grover 3282 Parade Place Lantana, Florida 33462 21 May, 1979 To Whom It May Concern I began working with Ted Owens via telephone in February of this year. I studied his past work in depth, I contacted many of the people who have been involved with him in past PK experiments and I was commissioned by the National Enquirer to write a story about the entire event. I asked Ted to set up a PK demonstration for further study. He agreed to do so even after having had to prove to so many other people that he was what he purported to be. This demonstration was to last for a year and would be a control of the weather over the state of Florida. It was to begin 1 March, 1979. Mr. Owens said he and the SIs, (space intelligences) would produce several kinds of weather phenomena characteristically out of chronological sequence for normal meteorological conditions. Whether what followed was pure coincidence or applied PK power is up to the individual to determine for himself. In Owens history of PK effects, this "coincidence" rate has been maintained with an odds ratio of thousands to one. Among the weather phenomena that Owens predicted for Florida for the period were: EM, (electromagnetic Effects), heat, water effect, hurricanes controlled to turn over Florida, particularly Lantana, and UFO sightings. Within a week after the demonstration started, the Florida panhandle had the heaviest rains in their history. It was not the normal rainy season for that area. The rest of Florida had an exceptionally dry winter, so much so in fact that it was on the verge of a serious drought. Water was rationed, people fined for using it on wrong days, etc. As a side light, Ted called me one night and mentioned the EM attacks to come. The next 48 hours saw power failures across the state followed by abnormal sun spot activity which interrupted the three major TV networks broadcast for several days. This was followed by more blackouts which are still happening at this writing. On Easter Sunday, I called Ted Owens and asked him to end the dry period that Florida was experiencing. He agreed both verbally and in writing. He also amended the PK map which he had sent me to show where the phenomena would occur. Within ten days, Florida has the heaviest rainfall in recorded weather history. Much more rain fell than during === Page 78 of 92 any hurricane. Owens had said he would pour down "tremendous" rains upon Florida. This is a matter of record that it rained like no time in previous recorded history. Miami received over 16 inches. All of central and south Florida were flooded. Weather men were puzzled because this rain came out of the Gulf of Mexico where it had formed suddenly, then moved over southern Florida where it stopped and produced the tremendous rains. This was fully six weeks before the end of the normal dry season. Ten days later, Tampa, on the gulf coast of Florida was hit by the same freak storms, flooding the city and causing millions of dollars in damage. It was declared a disaster area. Again, the coincidence. Or was it? As of this writing, Ted Owens has told me that Florida will now experience a heat wave created by a special UFO parked in orbit and focusing the sun's rays down to our green state of Florida. Only time will tell if this too happens like the rest of Owens predictions. As a sidelight: I am a graduate of the USAF weather school and have over 25 years experience in the field. I am a professional writer, and in my opinion, Mr. Ted Owens is certainly not of normal abilities. Only scientific testing will determine if he has a part space alien brain. In the meantime, Ted Owens may be what he claims. Wouldn't it be a pity if mankind laughed at this "looney", only to find that he alone held the key to their salvation. A fellow named Noah once went about his business while others laughed to their content. I stand ready to help any project that will explore Mr. Owens abilities to give him the opportunity to do as directed by his SIs. Wayne H. Grover Free Lance Journalist Sworn to and subscribed to before me, the undersigned authority this 21st day of May, 1979. Notary Public, State of Florida at Large. My Commission Expires: NOTARY PUBLIC, STATE OF FLORIDA AT LARGE MY COMMISSION EXPIRES DEC. 28, 1980 BONDED THROUGH MUROSKI-HUCKLEBERRY, INC. === Page 79 of 92 Queen Elizabeth and President Reagan step from the Britannia Saturday morning before her trip to Yosemite National Park. Later, during the drive to the park, two Secret Service agents and a deputy sheriff escorting the royal motorcade were killed in an auto accident. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Three escorts killed in crash during queen's visit to park SF News 3/6/83 YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) - Two Secret Service agents and a deputy sheriff died in a traffic accident Saturday as they escorted Queen Elizabeth II's motorcade up a winding Sierra Nevada highway to Yosemite National Park, authorities said. Officer Jim Fulton of the California Highway Patrol at Stockton said details of the accident were sketchy, but it was "a triple fatal - two Secret Service agents and a Tuolumne County deputy sheriff." The victims' identities were not immediately available. The queen was unharmed. Fulton said the vehicles were among 15 escorting Elizabeth from Castle Air Force Base to Yosemite, where she and her consort, Prince Philip, are to spend a quiet weekend after a full week of pomp and ceremony. The 2½-hour drive from the base to the park follows a winding, scenic highway that cuts through the Sierra Nevada foothills. The queen, on her first visit to the West Coast, left San Francisco on Saturday morning after a dockside celebration attended by several thousand people. Caterers dressed in Elizabethan costumes dispensed Cheerios cereal and doughnuts to those who braved rain to say "cheerio" to the royal couple. The send-off incorporated red, white and blue fireworks and a hot air balloon originally scheduled to greet the queen Thursday. That festive welcome for the royal yacht Britannia was washed out when Pacific storms forced the royal couple to fly rather than sail to the Bay area. At Yosemite, the royal couple was to stay at the Ahwahnee Hotel, where their sixth-floor suite has a view of Glacier Point, Yosemite Falls and the Royal Arches. "This is the queen's, shall we say, down time for the entire visit," said Sandy Burke, spokeswoman for the British consulate in San Francisco. "It's her R&R, so to speak." For more than a week, the queen and her husband, Prince Philip, weathered protests and receptions. They were cheered by thousands, booed by thousands more and serenaded by Perry Como, Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett. They mingled with presidents, millionaires, athletes, movie stars and high-technology factory workers. They covered at least 1,000 miles in limousines, planes, four-wheel drive vehicles and a Navy bus. They ran the culinary gamut from Delta asparagus and goat cheese to enchiladas and refried beans. Elizabeth and Philip arrived Feb. 26 at San Diego's Broadway Pier for the queen's first visit to California. Two days later at Los Angeles' City Hall, Elizabeth thanked the United States for its support last year when the British successfully fought to retake the Falkland Islands from Argentine invaders. She also noted she was retracing the route of Sir Francis Drake, who claimed what is now California 400 years ago. "But I want to assure you, Mr. Mayor, that I am not here today to press that claim," the queen told Tom Bradley. The carefully planned itinerary, scheduled to end Monday when Elizabeth and Philip depart for Seattle and then Canada, was foiled more than once by volatile weather. A fierce storm prevented the royal party from sailing in the HMY Britannia from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, where the queen and Duke of Edinburgh braved a four-wheel drive ride up the winding, fog-shrouded road leading to President Reagan's mountaintop ranch. The deluge, which sent a tornado hurtling down on Los Angeles, later forced the royal couple to abandon plans to sail by yacht from Long Beach to San Francisco, where thousands had paid to ride in five boats meeting the Britannia at the Golden Gate Bridge. The rain abated somewhat during the royal stay in the Bay area, but the storm of protest intensified, following the queen wherever she went. More than 5,000 uninvited guests waving Irish flags and signs opposing Britain's presence in Ireland showed up for the gala state dinner given by President Reagan for the queen at the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum on Thursday night. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Reagan escort wrecks motorcycle 4/30/83 HOUSTON (AP) - A Houston police officer crashed his motorcycle while escorting President Reagan's motorcade into town on Friday. The officer, Sgt. Ralph Gonzales, suffered sprains and bruises, and Reagan consoled him for a time before he was placed in an ambulance. The accident, on Airport Boulevard as Reagan's motorcade headed for the Gulf Freeway into the city, caused a 10-minute delay in the president's journey. Reagan, accompanied by aides and Secret Service agents, got out of his armored limousine, and walked about 100 yards to Gonzales, who lay in the street while ambulance workers tended his injury. On his way, he picked up a police service revolver from the street and handed the weapon to a bodyguard. Secret Service agents surrounded the president and shouted "Get Back, get back" to reporters and cameramen who ran to the scene. The president bent over the officer and talked to him for several minutes. Then Reagan got back into his car and resumed the ride into town, stopping at Cenikor Foundation, a drug rehabilitation center. Aides later said that Gonzales had collided with Officer Harold Prothero, who escaped injury. Gonzales, who is 32, was taken to Southwest Memorial Hospital, where he was reported in satisfactory condition with a sprained neck and bruises. Gonzales said later that when Reagan appeared at his side, "I thought I was dreaming." "He was very kind, what I remember. I think he asked me was I OK and I told him I was sorry that I'd blocked the motorcade," the officer said in a telephone interview from his hospital room. "I don't think I was in my right mind," Gonzales said. "I do recall seeing Mr. Reagan, the president. I didn't realize I'd actually had a wreck until I was in the ambulance." "I was blocking two buses coming out of the airport," he said. "As the motorcade approached, the presidential car came by. As it was coming by, I accelerated, going up to check the next intersection. All I remember then is people standing around." Police spokesman Larry Troutt said apparently Prothero and Gonzales intended to seal off the same intersection. Reagan said of the officer "He was conscious and aware of what was going on." The officer apparently hit a street sign when he was thrown from his bike. Deputy chief of staff Michael Deaver told reporters that as the accident occurred Reagan said, "My God, I think he hit the sign." Deaver said Reagan insisted on getting out of the limousine when it stopped. === Page 80 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" (Base: symbolic) # Stone slabs fall off Capitol wall (1) S.F. EXAM 4/29/83 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Almost 100 square feet of stone veneer on the West Front of the Capitol crumbled minutes after President Reagan addressed a joint session of Congress in the building, prompting renewed calls on Thursday for renovation of the oldest part of the historic structure. About a dozen large sandstone slabs, each about eight inches thick, crashed into an inner courtyard terrace from the west wall of the House of Representatives wing between 6 and 6:30 p.m. PDT Wednesday night. That was only a few minutes after Reagan finished his speech on Central America to the joint session assembled in the House chamber. No one was injured in the crash; the inner courtyard, a level below the main Capitol terraces, is not usually visited by the public. But the incident immediately renewed the decades-old debate over the deteriorating West Front and whether it should be extended further to the West or simply restored in place. House advocates of extending the front an additional 22 feet toward the National Mall, providing an additional 147,000 square feet of office space within the building, said the incident should prompt Congress to approve their plan. "If the American people really knew the condition of their Capitol, they'd be screaming for us to take action," said Rep. Jerry Lewis, R-Calif. "Our Capitol is falling apart." Lewis serves on a House Appropriations subcommittee that earlier this week approved $70.5 million for the extension, which is also supported by Capitol Architect George White. White and others argue Note: The above and below are symbolic of how the UFOs are taking apart the U.S. government, until they get their Base. Owens. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Office walls crumbled on U.S. ambassador (2) S.F. EXAM 4/19/83 BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- "All of a sudden my office collapsed," said U.S. Ambassador Robert Dillon describing the car-bomb blast Monday at the U.S. Embassy. Dillon, clad in a jogging outfit, escaped from the rubble by climbing through a window onto a seventh-floor balcony, re-entering the building a few floors lower down and then descending to the street. "I was standing up with a telephone in one hand and a T-shirt in the other. I was preparing to go out and jog, when all of a sudden my office collapsed," the silver-haired ambassador, still in jogging clothes, told reporters several hours after the explosion. "I was unable to move. Someone picked the rubble off me. My secretary and deputy, Bob Pugh, pushed the rubble off me. I went out the window and down a few floors and then out." Dillon said he was unhurt except for "a few cuts." The ambassador was rushed in a bulletproof limousine escorted by police to his residence in suburban Yarze, but returned to the embassy in late afternoon to inspect the damage. Robert Dillon escaped unhurt except for a 'few cuts' Dillon, a Middle East specialist who served previously in Turkey and Egypt, said both President Amin Gemayel and Prime Minister Shafik Wazzan contacted him. "Both of them feel as I do that we can't let this stop our work. We've got to continue," Dillon said. "The negotiations will go ahead. It's a tragedy and you can imagine how sad and angered we all are, but it doesn't change anything. The U.S. mission will continue." The Reagan administration is sponsoring talks between Israel and Lebanon on the withdrawal of more than 70,000 foreign troops from Lebanon. === Page 81 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Hammer thrown at Hirohito TOKYO (AP) -- A 14-year-old boy hopped a fence and hurled a hammer 50 feet toward Emperor Hirohito Friday, but it landed at the base of a pillar supporting the palace veranda where the monarch was waving to thousands of subjects on his 82nd birthday. Witnesses heard the boy scream "death to the Emperor" as he was pinned by some of the 1,500 police on duty and taken into custody, Kyodo news service reported. It said he also was armed with a four-inch fruit knife and 24 small stones. The Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper said the boy, who was not identified because he was a minor, told police he planned the attack to "give trouble" to his father. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Italian cabinet resigns ROME (AP) -- Premier Amintore Fanfani and his four-party coalition Cabinet resigned Friday, clearing the way for a general election in June. Fanfani, a Christian Democrat, submitted the resignation of his government -- Italy's 43rd since World War II -- to President Sandro Pertini. The presidential palace said Pertini asked the 75-year-old premier to continue as caretaker. The Socialists, a partners in Fanfani's five-month-old coalition, are pressing for an early election and political sources said there was virtually no chance of forming a new government. The palace statement did not mention a possible election. S.P. Rev 4/30/83 UFOs attack "higher ups" # CIA leader died in embassy blast ## Death count is expected to reach 47 S.P. Rev 4/20/83 BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Searchers recovered six more bodies from the bomb-shattered U.S. Embassy Tuesday and continued their grim task, with at least 47 people believed killed in the worst attack ever on a U.S. facility. There were 24 confirmed deaths and 23 other people were missing and presumed dead. Embassy spokesman John Reid said eight Americans were confirmed dead and eight others were missing from the massive explosion at lunchtime Monday. Among the confirmed dead was Robert Clayton Ames, the CIA's Near East and South Asian analyst, officials said in Washington. EVEN IN DEATH, it is unusual for any CIA employee abroad to be identified. State Department spokesman Alan Romberg said only that Ames was in Beirut "on consultations at the time of his death." He said the request any other CIA s "travel consult He s dle Ea the State Department. Peterson refused to answer further questions about CIA activities in Lebanon. State Department records show that Ames was born March 6, 1934, and had served as an economic and commercial officer in South Yemen from 1969 to 1970; in Beirut, 1970 to 1971, and in Tehran in 1973, and as a political officer in Kuwait in 1973. ROMBERG SAID Johnston was assigned to Beirut in January. He had previously served in Singapore, Tehran and Bonn. The privately owned Central News Agency said the bombing was an attempt to kill U.S. presidential envoy Philip C. Habib and his assistant Morris Draper. It quoted unnamed government officials as saying Habib and Draper had been scheduled to be at the embassy when the bomb exploded at 1:05 p.m., but were delayed by the presidential offi- hat es- nd se UFOs attack "higher ups" # Chernenko missing again from major Soviet event New York Times S.P. Rev 4/23/83 MOSCOW -- Konstantin U. Chernenko, who has been regarded as the No. 2 official in the Soviet hierarchy since the death of Leonid I. Brezhnev, did not appear Friday at one of the major events on the Kremlin's political calendar. It was the third absence of the 71-year-old member of the ruling Politburo from a major gathering since his last public appearance on March 30. As a result speculation increased that he was either ill or in political trouble. Chernenko was the only Moscow-based member of the Politburo not on the podium at the annual Lenin Day meeting in the Palace of Congresses. When Chernenko did not appear in East Berlin earlier this month to deliver a speech at a Marx memorial meeting, East German officials said they had been told he was ill. Earlier this week he was the only one of the 13 Politburo members who was absent from a Kremlin meeting on agriculture that was addressed by Yuri V. Andropov, the Soviet Communist Party leader. If the accounts of illness are correct, they mark a sharp change for Chernenko, who has generally appeared to be one of the more robust members of the Politburo. === Page 82 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Spectator tries to arrest ex-CIA chief SPRN 4/28/83 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former CIA Director Stansfield Turner's appearance before a congressional panel to speak against the MX missile took a bizarre turn Wednesday when a man tried to place him under a citizen's arrest for murder. Turner was just beginning his testimony to a House Armed Services subcommittee when the man stood up and announced he intended to take the retired admiral with him to a federal magistrate. Two staff aides placed themselves on either side of the man and Turner began the first sentence of his testimony, which the demonstrator promptly interrupted. The man then tried to take hold of Turner, but he pulled away and was escorted to a side room while the man was led out of the hearing room and turned over to Capitol police. The man has been seen at several congressional hearings this year trying to approach Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger, but police have kept him away. Police did not issue an immediate report on the man Wednesday. When calm was restored, the subcommittee chairman, Rep. Ronald Dellums, D-Calif., invited Turner to begin again. "Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, and I would like to get on to some non-violent discussion of things like nuclear weapons," Turner quipped. In his testimony, Turner disputed the conclusion of a presidential advisory commission that the MX was needed to induce the Soviets to bargain seriously on strategic arms control. Instead, he said, the Soviets probably would match the missiles with new weapons on their own. The commission, whose recommendations were endorsed by President Reagan last week, also said that proceeding with the MX program was vital to show U.S. resolve both to the Soviets and America's allies. "There is a reasonable argument that the United States will look weak and confused if we do nothing in the next few months other than cancel the MX," Turner said. But there are alternatives, he added, including acting more rapidly to deploy nuclear-tipped cruise missiles on land, submarines and bombers. While saying the MX should be scrapped, Turner did endorse three other recommendations of the commission: developing small, mobile intercontinental missiles; using the number of warheads rather than missiles and other launchers as the basis for arms-control negotiations; and deploying some small missile-firing submarines to supplement the fleet of large Trident subs. The small, mobile missiles, which would take a decade to develop and deploy, have gained support from some in Congress who oppose the MX, but the program is expected to be an expensive one. TURNER UFOs attack "higher ups" # Argentina jails critical admiral BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- The chief of the critical Southern Naval Zone got a year in jail Wednesday for criticizing the way his superior handled last year's disastrous Falklands war with Britain, the official news agency Telam reported. Telam said Adm. Horacio Zaratiegui, under arrest since he was replaced as commander of the southern zone Sept. 20, was found guilty of "insubordination, disrespect and usurpation of command." SPRN 5/4/83 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Two rockets streak over house where Shultz, aides slept SPRN 5/2/83 BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Two Chinese-made Katyusha rockets streaked over the U.S. ambassador's home where Secretary of State George P. Shultz and aides were sleeping early Sunday, and officials said they were investigating whether the attack was an assassination attempt. First Lt. Alan Burghard, a 24-year-old Marine sentry from Parsippany, N.J., said the 122mm rockets barely missed the single-story villa of Ambassador Robert Dillon and "sounded like a freight train." He said there was no damage or injuries at the residence, but that the rockets could have inflicted "a lot of injuries and destroyed a good section of the ambassador's house" if they had hit the residence in the pine-wooded Beirut suburb of Yarze about five miles east of the capital. The attack came less than two weeks after terrorists blew up a truck packed with explosives outside the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, killing at least 49 people including 17 Americans. (Continued on page 2) === Page 83 of 92 1983, Spokane, Wash. # 3 more ousted at EPA SpRev 3/26/83 WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Reagan administration, in a continuing effort to clean up the Environmental Protection Agency, asked for and received the resignations Thursday of the acting head of the agency and two other high officials under investigation by congressional committees, EPA sources said. Dr. John Hernandez, who took over as acting administrator just two weeks ago and immediately became the focus of congressional investigations, will turn in his resignation formally today, according to a source close to Hernandez. Another agency source, who also spoke on condition he not be identified, said Assistant Administrator John A. Todhunter and EPA General Counsel Robert M. Perry were also resigning. The resignations were requested in meetings late Thursday afternoon with White House aide Joe Ryan. "The White House apparently feels that if those three are taken away, then the congressional investigations will taper off," said one source. They are just the latest in a series of firings and resignations as the Reagan administration has struggled to control an expanding congressional probe into allegations of conflict of interest, political manipulation and mismanagement at the agency. It started with the president's firing of Rita Lavelle, chief of the toxic waste dump cleanup program, on Feb. 7. Thursday's departures make it a total of eight top EPA officials who have been fired, asked to resign or quit, and that does not count several others on the staffs of the eight. Anne M. Burford resigned as head of the agency on March 9, saying she did so because she had become the focus of many of the congressional investigations. Hernandez, who had been deputy administrator at EPA for two years, was picked as acting administrator after Mrs. Burford resigned. A former professor at New Mexico State University, Hernandez expressed an interest in taking the job permanently, but almost immediately he found himself the subject on congressional inquiry into his handling of a report on dioxin contamination in Michigan. EPA officials in Chicago testified that Hernandez ordered them to cooperate with Dow Chemical Co. in revising the report, which in its final version removed a section concluding that Dow's Midland plant was the major source of dioxin contamination in the area. Perry has been questioned by a congressional committee into apparently conflicting statements he made about whether he kept a "green book" listing derogatory comments about certain employees. Allegations being investigated against Todhunter include that he received a $1,664 payment from a former employer after starting work at the EPA. The firm subsequently received a $40,000 no-bid contract from Todhunter's office although Todhunter denied any involvement in the award. # Specter squashed Senatorial squash claimed a victim as Sen. ARLEN SPECTER, hit by a GOP colleague's racquet, left the court with a bone fracture under his eye. Specter, R-Pa., received six stitches at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and was told to lay off squash for six to seven weeks. The accident occurred at the Capitol Hill Squash Club during a game with Sen. ROBERT PACKWOOD, R-Ore. SpRev 3/10/83 # Bomb mailed to PM defused; another injures SpRev 3/16/83 LONDON (AP) -- A letter bomb addressed to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was safely defused Tuesday, but a similar device exploded at the U.S. Navy's European headquarters, slightly wounding a petty officer. Both were contained in white envelopes, addressed by hand, and no one claimed responsibility, U.S. and British spokesmen said. At Scotland Yard, a spokesman said both letters were incendiary devices, but "we don't know who sent them." The first one went off in the Mayfair office of U.S. Naval Intelligence on South Audley Street, some 200 yards from the U.S. Embassy where a letter bomb was detected and defused on Feb. 2. It was addressed to the Naval Communications unit and exploded as Senior Chief Petty Officer John E. Williams III opened it. He suffered a slightly burned hand, was treated on the spot by a Navy doctor and continued working, said Cmdr. Irwin Sharp, the public affairs officer. A press aide to Mrs. Thatcher said the letter bomb sent to her office was detected as the mail was being routinely sorted at lunchtime with stepped-up security checks imposed after a letter exploded at her office last Nov. 30. That device caused facial burns to the prime minister's office manager. The Animal Rights Militia, an underground group that opposes experiments on animals and the fur trade, asserted responsibility for that bomb. No arrests have been made. Press Association, Britain's domestic news agency, said police might be linking Tuesday's mail-bombings to the recent dispatch of letter explosives to the U.S. and Soviet Embassies here. An obscure Ukrainian nationalist group, Makhno's Secret Army, claimed responsibility for those earlier devices. It is named after Nestor Makhno, an anarchist active in the Ukraine in 1917-18. Police refused comment on the Press Association report. The last letter bomb known to have been sent by the Animal Rights Militia was delivered to a fur company in London on Feb. 28 after others had been received by politicians, the Agriculture Ministry, the Canadian Embassy and fur traders. Three hours before the device exploded at the U.S. Navy office, Press Association's Glasgow bureau received a letter signed by the "Scottish National Liberation Army" -- SNLA. It threatened attacks Tuesday and Wednesday "in reprisal" for plant closures in Scotland's steel industry. That group asserted responsibility for a series of letter-bomb incidents in recent months. === Page 84 of 92 UF Os attack "higher ups" Spokane, Wash., Sat., March 26, 1983. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW 3 # 5 more EPA officials quit under fire WASHINGTON (AP) - President Reagan accepted the resignations Friday of five more Environmental Protection Agency officials who were under fire in Congress. That cleared the agency's management decks for the return of its pioneer chief, William D. Ruckelshaus. The president denied that the continuing turmoil and staff turnover at the agency reflected badly on his administration, declaring, "no proof of wrongdoing has been presented in all of this fuss." But those who turned in their resignations had all been involved in the multiple congressional investigations into allegations of mismanagement at EPA. John W. Hernandez, named just two weeks ago to serve as acting EPA administrator, spent most of that time before congressional committees defending himself against allegations he had favored the chemical industry in decisions as deputy EPA administrator. Hernandez was replaced by Lee Verstandig, who will serve as acting administrator for the next month until the Senate confirmation of Ruckelshaus, who was persuaded by Reagan early this week to return to the job he held in the early 1970s. Leaving: Hernandez, left, Perry, and Daniel. In addition to Hernandez, resignations were also announced for EPA General Counsel Robert M. Perry; Associate Administrator John A. Todhunter; Paul C. Cahill, director of EPA's Office of Federal Activities, and John Daniel, who had served as Mrs. Burford's chief of staff. Reagan on Friday again defended the record of Anne M. Burford, the EPA chief who resigned under fire on March 7. "I never would have asked for her resignation," he said, denying reports that her departure had been engineered by White House aides. He said in spite "of all the allegations and of all the accusations ... no proof of wrongdoing has been presented in all of this fuss." Of those leaving Friday, Reagan said, "Some of those have let us know for quite some time that they wanted out. They wanted to leave." However, EPA sources, who spoke on condition they not be named, said the resignations were requested by Joe Ryan, assistant personnel director at the White House, who made the demands in a series of meetings late Thursday in Hernandez' office. The sources said the White House, in an effort to control the political damage from the long-running EPA crisis, wanted to remove all officials who have been implicated in the congressional investigations and smooth the way for Ruckelshaus' return to the agency. UF Os attack "higher ups" St. Paul Sunday Pioneer Press February 13, 1983 w 5A # Fired EPA official denies accusations WASHINGTON (AP) - Rita Lavelle, the official whose firing by President Reagan set off a firestorm at the Environmental Protection Agency, said Saturday she is "willing and anxious" to defend her actions in office. In her first public comments since she was fired, Lavelle denied she had entered into "sweetheart" deals between the EPA and polluters or that the agency had manipulated the $1.6 billion hazardous waste cleanup fund for political purposes. She said she also knew nothing about automatic paper shredders being run after hours to get rid of sensitive documents. "My record is a good record and I am proud of it," she said. "I can defend every action I have taken. I am willing and anxious to do so." The furor at the agency started Feb. 4 when the EPA announced Lavelle's resignation as the assistant administrator of the Superfund hazardous waste program. Lavelle's aides said she planned to appeal the firing to her longtime friend, presidential counselor Edwin Meese. However, before she could do that the White House issued a curt one-sentence announcement of her dismissal and Meese was quoted as saying he knew Lavelle only slightly. Lavelle said she has since talked to Meese and she said, "I feel very close to him. I have felt he was watching me through my career." Lavelle, speaking to reporters at her lawyer's office, said she had "nothing to hide. I most certainly do not." In the wake of Lavelle's firing, a number of allegations have swirled around the program she headed and six House and Senate committees have started their own investigations. She denied writing a controversial memo that EPA officials have given as a principal reason EPA administrator Anne Gorsuch decided to fire her. The memo attacked EPA general counsel Robert Perry for being too tough on industry, saying "he is systematically alienating the primary constituents of this administration, the business community." Lavelle said the comments were written by one of her aides, whom she would not identify. She said they did not reflect her thinking and she had never seen them until questioned about them by a reporter. Lavelle also defended settlement agreements the agency has made with chemical companies to clean up dump sites. Four House committees have given notice they are looking into those agreements because of a concern that the companies were let off too lightly. Investigators are looking especially at a dump in Seymour, Ind., where 24 companies agreed last October to pay $7.7 million to remove 50,000 barrels of chemical waste. In return, the EPA agreed to free the companies from any liability for further cleanup at the site. Lavelle said the agreement was a good one and she was proud of the settlement. UF Os attack "higher ups" # Resignation under pressure WASHINGTON (AP) - Isidoro Rodriguez, director of minority affairs in the Agriculture Department, has resigned under pressure, a senior department official said Wednesday. Rodriguez was placed on administrative leave last week after President Reagan was asked at a news conference about a memo Rodriguez had written in which it was suggested that some controversial changes be made in federal civil rights guidelines. The memo was rejected before it reached Agriculture Secretary John R. Block, but Reagan nevertheless was asked about it at the news conference. Reagan said he was not aware of the memo but that he would have Block look into it. === Page 85 of 92 7th attack "higher ups" # Two more EPA leaders fired SP Rev 2/24/83 WASHINGTON (AP) - President Reagan fired two more top officials of the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday, and a key congressman said he expected several other ousters to follow. One source said Reagan wants "to clean house at the agency." Sources both within and outside the White House confirmed that Reagan had obtained the resignations of Inspector General Matthew Novick and Assistant Administrator John P. Horton of the EPA. Reagan had fired another assistant administrator of the agency, Rita M. Lavelle, on Feb. 7. Rep. James H. Scheuer, D-N.Y., who heads one of several congressional investigations of the agency, said Novick was fired after he had released an audit critical of the EPA's handling of its financial records. "He was jettisoned," Scheuer said at a hastily called news conference. "He was asked very nicely to walk the plank." Sources who spoke only on condition they not be named said Novick was offered another job within the administration but was told by the president that he wants "to clean house at the agency." Earlier, Lavelle, denying suggestions she made "sweetheart deals" with industrial polluters before Reagan fired her as the agency's head of the "superfund" program, told Congress she was the victim of a suspicious boss - Anne M. Burford - who was herself guilty of mismanagement. Burford, who was Anne Gorsuch before her marriage Sunday, was traveling in the West on Wednesday, and would not discuss Lavelle's testimony when questioned by reporters in Phoenix, Ariz. She was asked about the dismissals in a news conference at Tempe, Ariz., where she gave a speech at the law school of Arizona State University, and said only, "There is no official announcement." Her speech was 10 minutes in getting started. The audience was told she was "on the phone to Washington." A White House official characterized Novick's and Horton's departures as "part of an effort to strengthen middle-level management at EPA, particularly in the superfund area." The superfund is the $1.6 billion account for cleaning up toxic waste dumps. The White House source said no other (Continued on page 2) UFOs attack "higher ups" # House panel says Reagan covering up for EPA WASHINGTON (AP) - A House subcommittee said Tuesday that testimony from EPA employees raises "more than a suspicion" that President Reagan's refusal to hand over EPA documents amounts to a cover-up of agency wrongdoing. The documents may support allegations of the EPA's political manipulation of the $1.6 billion superfund for cleaning up hazardous waste sites, said Rep. John Dingell, the Michigan Democrat who heads the subcommittee. In a letter sent to Reagan, Dingell said his panel has "received sworn, direct testimony that the documents which you have withheld for five months ... contain references to political manipulation in the administration of the $1.6 billion superfund." "Mr. President, the time has arrived for you to meet your assurances," Dingell said in his letter. "There exists more than a suspicion that documents are being withheld to cover wrongdoing." In Santa Barbara, Calif., deputy White House press secretary Larry Speakes said Reagan had not received Dingell's letter. "The president indicated he will not use executive privilege to cover up wrongdoing," Speakes said, referring to Reagan's statement in a nationally broadcast news conference last month. Speakes also said the president "has instructed the Justice Department to look into wrongdoing. The administrator of the EPA referred certain allegations of wrongdoing to the Justice Department. We are willing to make documents available to Justice." Another congressman released a "hit list" of political opponents among EPA employees, meanwhile, and EPA Administrator Anne McGill Burford said she would accept an independent investigation of the problem-plagued agency. Dingell also said the panel has received sworn testimony from three EPA employees indicating that former EPA Assistant Administrator Rita M. Lavelle may have committed perjury when she denied knowing that her former employer was partly responsible for one California dump. And he said other witnesses testified about a possible "hit list" of political opponents within EPA. Dingell did not elaborate on the "hit list." But the chairman of another subcommittee investigating EPA, Rep. James Scheuer, D-N.Y., released a copy of such a list, which was unsigned and undated, and an aide said it came from an EPA employee considered reliable. The list contains the names of scientists and researchers and includes such assessments as "an environmentalist, should go" and "reported to be liberal and an environmentalist." One notation read: "a follower, needs guidance, won't stand out in front, definitely keep." Scheuer called the list "very disturbing.... The sketches on these respected scientists are not only outrageous on their face, but also call into question the integrity of the entire agency's approach." EPA spokesman Rusty Brashear said the agency would have no comment on the list released by Scheuer. "Until we have some hard and fast evidence as to the authenticity and origin of this list, it would be inappropriate for us to comment at this time," he said. SP Rev 3/2/83 === Page 86 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Nkomo flees from African homeland SP Rev 3/10/83 GABORONE, Botswana (AP) -- Joshua Nkomo, the patriarch of Zimbabwe nationalism, has fled to Botswana after 13 months of political warfare with Prime Minister Robert Mugabe and three days in hiding to escape Mugabe's troops. The Botswana government said Nkomo, the 65-year-old leader with Mugabe of the successful guerrilla war against white rule in the former British colony of Rhodesia, crossed the border Tuesday. A Western diplomat who asked not to be identified said he made the 385-mile trip from Bulawayo, his stronghold in southwest Zimbabwe 60 miles from the border, by Land Rover. An aide in Bulawayo said Nkomo decided to seek asylum in Botswana when the Zimbabwe government refused to guarantee his safety. President Quett Masire's government said Nkomo would remain temporarily in Botswana "while he explores all possible ways of assisting to resolve the situation in his country." The government, anxious to preserve its good relations with Mugabe, said Nkomo would not meet reporters, and government spokesmen refused to say where he was staying. "It is embarrassing enough having him here," said one official. A spokesman for Mugabe, who is in New Delhi at the non-aligned summit meeting, said Nkomo bolted "unconventionally" and illegally. He pointed out that Nkomo's passport was seized in February. Some observers suggested Nkomo might move on to Zambia, north of Botswana and Zimbabwe, where he and his guerrilla army were based during the Rhodesian civil war. Mugabe and his forces were based in Mozambique, and the two armies operated independently, in different parts of the country. After the war Mugabe, a member of the dominant Shona tribe, won a majority in the 1980 election that brought black rule to Zimbabwe. Despite his majority, he formed a coalition government with Nkomo, the leader of the minority Ndebele tribe in western Zimbabwe, and the Shona and Ndebele guerrillas from their two armies were merged with troops of the old Rhodesian army. Mugabe fired Nkomo in February 1982, accusing him of plotting a coup, and Ndebeles began deserting the army and taking to the bush as bandits. After they were accused of killing more than 100 people in robberies and ambushes in western Zimbabwe, Mugabe send the elite North Korean-trained 5th Brigade of Shonas to the area. Nkomo accused the troops of killing scores of innocent civilians, and villagers estimated the fatalities in the hundreds. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Road safety chief quits New York Times SP Rev 4/2/83 WASHINGTON -- Raymond A. Peck, Jr., the Reagan administration official who has stirred sharp disputes by rescinding numerous automobile safety standards, announced Friday that he had resigned his post as administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. However, the suddenness of Peck's announcement and his intention to remain at the agency as a consultant has fueled speculation that his resignation was requested by the administration. Senior government officials familiar with the situation said that it was Peck's style, not his policies, that may have brought him into disfavor. One high official characterized him as unpredictable. His resignation becomes effective May 21, after which he intends to serve for an indefinite period as a paid consultant. Administration officials denied that Peck had become a liability and praised his work. Elizabeth Hanford Dole, secretary of the Department of Transportation, released a statement "expressing her gratitude for his dedicated public service and indicated her respect for Ray's desire to seek new challenges." Peck said, "There is not the slightest bit of accuracy to any inference that I am not leaving at my own will." UFOs attack "higher ups" # 7 Reagan aides fired; 'a new team' wanted WASHINGTON (AP) -- Seven of President Reagan's nine special assistants for public liaison have been fired, administration sources said Wednesday. The new director of that White House operation said it was because she wanted "a fresh start, a new team." Faith Ryan Whittlesey, who took over for Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Dole as head of the Office of Public Liaison, called the advisers in one by one over the past two days to tell them they would be replaced. Wednesday evening she confirmed the staff shakeup, but would not say publicly who was being ousted. Officials who spoke on the condition that they not be identified publicly said all but two of the special assistants who handle White House liaison with outside interest groups were being replaced. Whittlesey said she had not cleared the dismissals with the president. "But I'm a team player," she said in a telephone interview. White House Chief of Staff James A. Baker III oversees the public liaison office. Whittlesey said "we will make every effort to place" the dismissed aides in new administration jobs. Among those ousted were Virginia Knauer, consumer affairs adviser, and Robert F. Bonitati, Reagan's labor adviser. Others let go were aides who handled liaison with minorities, the Jewish community, consumers, business, agriculture and religious groups, the source said. Whittlesey, who went to the White House after serving two years as Reagan's ambassador to Switzerland, confirmed the firings Wednesday evening. SP Rev 3/10/83 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Aborigine 'moons' royals WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- Prince Charles invited Maori opera star Kiri Te Kanawa to sing at his wedding, but that didn't stop another aborigine from flipping his grass skirt to expose his bare bottom before the royal couple Wednesday. The 34-year-old heir to the British throne and 21-year-old Princess Diana were being driven out of the Wellington airport when Maori activist Te Ringa Mihaka ran onto the road. "He was wearing a piu piu -- a Maori grass skirt," said a police spokesman. "He swung around and flung up the skirt to expose his naked posterior. We don't know whether they were looking at him." SP Rev 4/21/83 === Page 87 of 92 Reed has Reagan's favor despite probe WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Reagan has "full confidence" in Thomas C. Reed, the president's spokesman said Monday, even though a federal grand jury and a congressional subcommittee are investigating the investments of the national security official. Larry Speakes, deputy White House press secretary, said Reed's case is being reviewed by national security adviser William Clark who will meet later this week with Rep. John Dingell D-Mich., chairman of the subcommittee investigating Reed. Speakes said "the president has full confidence in Tom Reed." Asked if Reed should step aside, Speakes said, "I don't think he's offered to step aside and I really have no judgment on whether it would be the proper thing to do or not." Speakes emphasized that Reed is not on the White House staff, even though he was commissioned as a special assistant to the president, and argued that the security council is a "separate entity" from the White House staff. Reed, a former secretary of the Air Force, is a consultant to Clark and has an office at the National Security Council. In addition, he is vice-chairman of the presidential commission that is reviewing the nation's strategic nuclear forces and trying to find a basing mode for the MX missile. Reed says Democrats are to blame for the heat he is getting from Congress. He was not available for comment Monday, but while in Las Vegas Saturday for a speaking engagement, he said a 1981 investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission of his stock dealings is being reviewed by Congress because of what he called "the political fun and games in Washington." He has denied any wrongdoing. The allegations center around Reed's March 4, 1981 purchase of $3,125 worth of options to buy stock in Amax, a company whose board of directors included Reed's father. A day after the purchase, a takeover bid was announced by Standard Oil of California and the stock shot up in price, giving Reed a $427,000 profit. The SEC filed a complaint against Reed, charging insider trading, an illegal practice involving buying or selling securities on the basis of information not publicly available. The case was settled when the SEC dropped the complaint in December 1981 and Reed, who did not admit wrongdoing, agreed to a court order not to buy or sell securities based on inside information. He also agreed to put $427,000 into escrow - the amount he allegedly made on the deal. A federal grand jury in New York "is in the preliminary stages of an investigation" into Reed's stock dealings, according to a statement from the U.S. attorney's office in New York. Meanwhile, the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on oversight and investigation is looking into how the SEC handled the case and why Reed was granted a top-secret "Q" clearance that would permit him access to some of the nation's most sensitive military secrets. Burford, under fire, quits EPA job WASHINGTON (AP) -- Anne McGill Burford, chief of the troubled Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday, while the White House announced it would release all documents congressional investigators had demanded in their investigations of the EPA. Despite the resignation and President Reagan's agreement to surrender the documents, House investigators said their inquiries into Ford's departure is not the issue. "Burford's departure is not the issue. The issue is the operation of the Environmental Protection Agency and the implementation of our environmental laws." "It may in the media, but it won't." Sen. Robert T. Stafford, R-Vt., chairman of the Senate Environment, and Public Works Committee, also said his committee will continue its close scrutiny of EPA operations. The resignation of the EPA chief came as chairman of House investigators subcommittees exerted new pressure for release of the documents -- documents which Burford had continually refused to supply, leading to a contempt of Congress charge against her amid a widening investigation of the agency. "Without an end to these unfortunate difficulties, EPA is disabled from implementing its mandate and you are distracted from pursuing the critical domestic and international goals of your administration," Burford wrote in her letter of resignation. Reagan, noting he accepted her decision "with great regret," said he had "faithfully and honestly carried out your mission and honestly made wise use of its lands and water and make wise use of its lands and water and make wise use of its lands and water." "Your resignation today is an occasion of sorrow for us all," Reagan said. "But it is more than that; it is an act of usefulness and personal courage that once again demonstrates your loyalty to the nation." Burford had been under considerable pressure to quit, but Reagan had continued to defend her. The 40-year-old Burford, who had repeatedly said she would quit despite calls for her resignation from such prominent Republicans as House Minority Leader Michael of Illinois. Larry Speakes, the chief deputy, said she could "stay as long as she wants to." "I don't think he's offered to step aside and I really have no judgment on whether it would be the proper thing to do or not." Speakes emphasized that Reed is not on the White House staff, even though he was commissioned as a special assistant to the president, and argued that the security council is a "separate entity" from the White House staff. Reed, a former secretary of the Air Force, is a consultant to Clark and has an office at the National Security Council. In addition, he is vice-chairman of the presidential commission that is reviewing the nation's strategic nuclear forces and trying to find a basing mode for the MX missile. Reed says Democrats are to blame for the heat he is getting from Congress. He was not available for comment Monday, but while in Las Vegas Saturday for a speaking engagement, he said a 1981 investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission of his stock dealings is being reviewed by Congress because of what he called "the political fun and games in Washington." He has denied any wrongdoing. The allegations center around Reed's March 4, 1981 purchase of $3,125 worth of options to buy stock in Amax, a company whose board of directors included Reed's father. A day after the purchase, a takeover bid was announced by Standard Oil of California and the stock shot up in price, giving Reed a $427,000 profit. The SEC filed a complaint against Reed, charging insider trading, an illegal practice involving buying or selling securities on the basis of information not publicly available. The case was settled when the SEC dropped the complaint in December 1981 and Reed, who did not admit wrongdoing, agreed to a court order not to buy or sell securities based on inside information. He also agreed to put $427,000 into escrow - the amount he allegedly made on the deal. A federal grand jury in New York "is in the preliminary stages of an investigation" into Reed's stock dealings, according to a statement from the U.S. attorney's office in New York. Meanwhile, the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on oversight and investigation is looking into how the SEC handled the case and why Reed was granted a top-secret "Q" clearance that would permit him access to some of the nation's most sensitive military secrets. Events that led to resignation -- Page 19 'Wolfman' misses LONDON (AP) -- A man wearing an outsize wolf's head lunged at Princess Michael of Kent, as if to bite her on the neck, while she and her bodyguard dragged him away. The princess did not press charges, and a police spokesman said later that the 18-year-old attacker was released early Tuesday in the custody of his parents. He was not identified. "He will return to Kensington police station at a later date when inquiries are completed. There are no charges and there will be no court appearance. We understand the man was working as some sort of promotional personality at the exhibition," said the spokesman, who in accordance with British practice declined to be named. The attack took place as the 38-year-old wife of Prince Michael of Kent, a first cousin of the Queen, was touring a home improvement exhibition in West London. The man, who witnesses said was over 6 feet tall and was also wearing a long brown cloak, lunged at the princess as she was talking with others touring the exhibit. (Continued on page 3) === Page 88 of 92 UFOr attack "higher ups" # White House 'sold' at auction as unemployed protest plight SPRJ 3/16/83 By JILL LAWRENCE Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The White House was sold at a mock sheriff's sale Tuesday between chants of "Fire Reagan" from some 2,000 unemployed workers who came from across the country for a rally and a day of lobbying Congress about their plight. "We want jobs, not cheese," said Greg Tekavec, a Westinghouse rail worker laid off five months ago from his job in Wilmerding, Pa., near Pittsburgh. "People are getting their utilities shut off. The banks are trying to foreclose their homes and repossess their cars. We are getting fed up with what they're doing to us," said Tekavec. THE NATIONAL UNEMPLOYED Network, a loose alliance of emergency committees nationwide, said forty cities were represented at the rally. Among the crowd, identified by buttons and placards, were steel workers from Pennsylvania, out-of-work people from Detroit assembly lines, and glass, mine, railroad, textile and service workers. "Stay the course -- lose everything," said one placard. Other signs urged Congress to "Save Our Homes" and spend "Money for Jobs, Not for War." "You didn't get here a minute too soon," Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., told the rally at the Capitol. "There are a number of people in the government that are trying desperately to ignore you." CONYERS SAID DEMOCRATS are as guilty as Republicans. "The Democrats are getting ready to sell out on a compromise jobs program that won't put a million people back to work -- and there are 13 million people out of work in America," he said. The activities, coordinated by unemployment groups in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, started with folk and rock songs adapted for the occasion. The rally also featured a skit in which John and Jane Q. Public, fed up with soup kitchens and living out of their car, decide to fire President Reagan. "Oh Ronnie, what will we do? Will I have to sell the china?" asked a woman playing the role of Nancy Reagan. "GOLLY GEE, MOMMY, I don't know. I've never been in this situation. There must be help for us somewhere," the stand-in president replied, as shouts of "Cheese" arose from the crowd. "There are no jobs in Pittsburgh," or Toledo, Rochester, Lorain, Cleveland, Baltimore or Butler, said worker after worker in the sea of signs on the Capitol steps. "I cashed my last unemployment check yesterday," complained Charles Paknik, an Ohio Valley machinist who said he'd been out of work since 1981. "It used to be, one phone call and I'd get a job. Now I can't even get a dish-washing job," said Paknik, who added he'd been forced to give up his house in Shadyside, Ohio, and move in with his wife's parents in Big Wheeling Creek, W.Va. Mike Ziemianski of Wheeling, W.Va., said he has a master's degree in industrial administration and has been trying unsuccessfully since last summer to find a job. "I've written to 530 companies," he said, displaying a ledger book in which he had charted his job search. "I haven't even had a job interview." Carl Denker of Rochester, N.Y., recruited for an engineering job in Dallas, was in the process of moving when the Dallas firm went bankrupt 15 months ago. Denker said he fell behind on his mortgage payments and, when the bank told him it was going to foreclose, sold the house immediately. "I basically gave it away instead of having the bank foreclose. I lost about $20,000," said Denker, 54. UFOr attack "higher ups" ## Rights commissioner sued SAN DIEGO (AP) -- The head of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission is being sued for more than $100,000 by the San Diego Urban League, which accuses him of removing funds from his bank accounts when he was its executive director. Dr. Walter Miles, the league's chairman, said Thursday the agency hopes to recover more than $10,000 that Clarence Pendleton allegedly paid himself for unused vacation time before he resigned last March 31 to accept the federal post. The suit also seeks $100,000 in punitive damages. Pendleton was sworn in as chairman of the Civil Rights Commission last April 5. The suit, filed in Superior Court, contends Pendleton used league funds for his own benefit and for purposes other than league business. SPRW 3/26/83 === Page 89 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Reagan lawyer's wife slain SP Rev 3/26/83 PALOS VERDES ESTATES, Calif. (AP) -- The son of President Reagan's tax lawyer was booked for investigation of murder Friday after his mother's nude, battered body was found in a bedroom of the family home, officials said. Michael David Miller, 20, was taken into custody after an emotional embrace with his father, Roy D. Miller, who has worked with Reagan for about 15 years. Marguerite Miller, 52, appeared to have died from a blow to the head, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Sgt. Al Sett said. He said the murder weapon had not been determined, but several items were taken from the home as evidence. It was the second domestic tragedy in a family that friends described as extremely close. Michael's older brother, the Millers' only other child, committed suicide in 1981 while undergoing psychiatric treatment. Authorities said Michael, an unemployed health food enthusiast who played the violin, had been undergoing psychiatric treatment for depression in recent months. The son, Michael David Miller, voluntarily came to the police department here," said Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Jerry Beck. "An interview was conducted with him, at which time he made admissions concerning the death of his mother." Authorities refused to say what those admissions were. Miller, 53, first saw his wife's bloody eyeglasses as he entered the front door of their modest home in this small, exclusive city some 25 miles south of downtown Los Angeles. "He called his wife's name, and when there was no response, he went to a neighbors' house and called the police," said police Sgt. Ed Jaakola. Police found her body in the bedroom, but said Miller never saw his wife's body. Sett said an autopsy was scheduled for Friday afternoon to determine the exact cause of death. Miller, a partner of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, handled the sale of the Reagans' Pacific Palisades home. He is a tax specialist who deals with wills, trusts, probates and estate planning. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Russian diplomat expelled SP Rev 4/1/83 LONDON (AP) -- Britain ordered the expulsions of a Soviet diplomat and journalist Thursday and barred another Kremlin envoy from returning because of "unacceptable activities" -- a phrase the government uses to describe spying. The Foreign Office said assistant air attache Col. Guennadi A. Primakov and second secretary Vladimir V. Ivanov "have engaged in activities incompatible with their status." Primakov was given seven days to leave and the Foreign Office said Ivanov, currently abroad, would not be allowed back. 1983, Spokane, Wash. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Sen. Randolph quitting post after 50 years SP Rev 3/10/83 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. Jennings Randolph, a New Deal Democrat through a congressional career spanning 50 years and nine presidents, announced Wednesday he's retiring, declaring "there is a season and a time for every purpose." Randolph, the only remaining national legislator to have served during President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first 100 days, announced he will not seek re-election when his term expires in 1984. # world UFOs attack "higher ups" ## Turin's deputy mayor arrested TURIN, Italy (AP) -- Police have arrested the Socialist deputy mayor of Turin and three other senior local officials on corruption charges in a bribery scandal that threatened to topple the left-wing government. Police said the four officials, all members of the Socialist Party, were suspected of taking bribes in exchange for the awarding of public contracts and the sale of city-owned real estate. The arrests late Saturday night brought to 16 the number of politicians and officials arrested in the scandal. SP Rev 3/14/83 UFOs attack "higher ups" ## Soviet leader poses for photos MOSCOW (AP) -- Yuri V. Andropov met and posed for pictures Friday with Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega in an appearance that seemed aimed at ending speculation about the Kremlin chief's health. Soviet sources said Andropov, 68, was hospitalized last week for treatment of kidney and heart problems. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Malawi rebel leader assassinated HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- The leader of a rebel Malawi political party was assassinated and his bullet-riddled body dumped near the center of the Zimbabwe capital of Harare, authorities said Friday. Attati Mpakati, 50, president of the outlawed Socialist League of Malawi known as Lesoma, was last seen alive five days earlier when he arrived in Harare by air from Maputo, Mozambique, the Information Ministry said in a statement. "He did not arrive at the Harare address he had given on immigration papers at the airport," the statement said. It said his body was found Monday by the side of a principal street, Samora Machel Avenue, named after Mozambique's Marxist president. The ministry said he was "assassinated by unknown persons." SP Rev 4/2/83 SP Rev 3/26/83 ## Canadian legislator arrested QUEBEC (AP) -- Parti Quebecois legislator Gilles Gregoire was arrested Friday and arraigned on seven charges of "sexual immorality with minors of the female sex." He pleaded innocent. The 56-year-old co-founder of Quebec's governing party was charged under the provincial Youth Protection Act. Sgt. Claude Beaurivage of the Quebec City police force, which arrested Gregoire Friday afternoon at his office, said the charges involve seven girls aged 12 to 17. The offenses allegedly took place between September 1982 and January 1983, in Quebec City and suburban Vanier. Beaurivage said police began investigating after they received a formal complaint from the parents of one of the girls. === Page 90 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Soviet calls new Reagan anti-missile plan 'insane' SPrew 3/27/83 MOSCOW (AP) -- Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov attacked President Reagan's anti-missile plans Saturday as an "insane" and "extremely perilous" strategy aimed at rendering the Soviet Union helpless to U.S. nuclear attack. He declared, "The Soviet Union will never allow them to succeed. It will never be caught defenseless by any threat. Let there be no mistake about this in Washington." IF THE UNITED STATES could knock out attacking Soviet missiles, Washington could launch a nuclear first strike and Moscow would be unable to respond, Andropov said in an interview in today's edition of the Communist daily newspaper Pravda. Reagan's plans, announced in a speech Wednesday, represent "a bid to disarm the Soviet Union in the face of the U.S. nuclear threat," the Soviet leader said. "It is time they (the Americans) stop devising one option after another in search of the best ways of unleashing nuclear war in the hope of winning it," he added. IN WASHINGTON, STATE Department press officer Anita Stockman declined to comment directly on Andropov's interpretation of the Reagan speech, saying, "We have clearly stated our position." Referring to earlier Soviet criticism, she noted that Reagan emphasized in his speech that he was outlining a long-term research effort to be carried out "consistent with our obligations under the ABM (Anti-Ballistic Missile) treaty." "The treaty does not prohibit research into ballistic missile defense concepts," Stockman said. "The president foresees this effort taking place on a very broad time scale," she said, noting that Reagan said the task "may not be completed before the end of this century." "At this stage we are only talking about accelerating research into the feasibility of new concepts for ballistic missile defenses," she said. ANDROPOV, NOTING REAGAN'S comments about growing Soviet military strength, said the United States has ample forces and accused the president of pursuing an "extremely perilous" strategy aimed at making the United States "the world's dominating military power." Andropov, who was reported hospitalized last week for treatment of kidney and heart problems but then held meetings with visiting dignitaries Friday, spoke of Reagan's "impudent distortions of the Soviet Union's policy." He acknowledged the Kremlin's military UFOs attack "higher ups" # White House 'vibrations' lift ban on Beach Boys WASHINGTON (AP) -- Interior Secretary James Watt hurriedly replaced the capital's welcome mat for the Beach Boys on Thursday after being set straight by one of their favorite "California Girls." And when Nancy Reagan got done, the president himself put a heavy foot to him. Reagan, it seems, is a fan of the surfin' sound as much as his wife. So after learning that Watt had banned the Beach Boys and other rock groups from the capital's July 4 celebration, he handed the Interior Secretary a stark reminder of what happens when your aim is bad: A plaster of paris foot with a hole in it. Watt, who earlier complained that "hard rock" music had attracted the "wrong element" to the traditional fireworks extravaganza on the Mall, proclaimed himself a likely fan of the Beach Boys, whose performances had drawn hundreds of thousands of people in years past. "The president is a friend of the Beach Boys and he likes them, and I'm sure when I get to meet them I'll like them," (Continued on page 2) SPrew 4/8/83 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Idaho's Rep. Hansen indicted by grand jury SPrew 4/8/83 WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted Rep. George V. Hansen, the flamboyant Idaho Republican, on charges of failing to disclose financial dealings including loans from Texas millionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt. The 52-year-old, seven-term congressman who once undertook a personal mission to Iran to try to free U.S. hostages became the first person ever charged with violating the Ethics in Government Act for making false statements on the financial disclosure forms that law requires. The four-count indictment returned in U.S. District Court in Washington charged Hansen with leaving out major transactions on the financial disclosure forms he filed with the House of Representatives for the years 1978 through 1981. It was not the first time Hansens' finances had landed him in hot water. In 1975 he pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges of filing late and false campaign finance reports. He received a two-month prison sentence, which was suspended, and paid a $2,000 fine. Specifically, the grand jury charged Thursday that Hansen failed to disclose: * A $50,000 personal loan made to him and his wife, Connie, in her name in 1978 by the First National (Continued on page 7) === Page 91 of 92 Beach boys 4/8/83 (Continued from page 1) Watt said, standing in a drizzling rain after emerging from his session at the White House. He said he still would go ahead with his decision to bring in Las Vegas crooner Wayne Newton for this year's main event. As for the Beach Boys, "We'll look forward to having them here to entertain us again, as soon as we can get that worked out." Reagan's chief spokesman, Willie Nelson fan Larry Speakes, suggested a more specific timetable: inviting them back for this July 4. A spokesman for Watt, Tom DeRocco, said later the secretary's remarks were intended as an expression of hope that the Beach Boys could make a July 4 date, but he had not been in touch with the group to issue a formal invitation. The group's rhythm guitarist, Al Jardine, said in Moncton, New Brunswick said he did not believe it had a July 4 engagement, and, "I would sure like to make those plans right around Washington, D.C. if possible." As for the secretary's expression of hope, Jardine said: "That's certainly kind. We'd certainly like to come back and make peace with the administration." Jardine said members of the group opposed Watt's drive to lease acreage off the California coast for oil drilling. Asked if he would accept Watt's apology for the whole episode, Jardine laughed and said, "California's in a delicate position right now. We have to be careful about what we concede." Lead singer Mike Love referred to the foot trophy: "If the shoe fits, wear it." Watt, who has managed to stand off environmentalists, Indians, congressmen and other critics, raised the white flag just hours after it was apparent, in the wake of a flood of protest calls from around the nation, that the Beach Boys still enjoyed Good Vibrations elsewhere in the administration. Presidential aide Michael Deaver was the first to send Watt the White House message. "Anybody who thinks the Beach Boys are hard rock must think Mantovani plays jazz," he declared. He mentioned his wife and children had loved their capital performance. Next came word from Mrs. Reagan: "I like the Beach Boys." And Speakes said he wouldn't be a bit surprised if the president did, too. According to the interior secretary, he then got a call from the first lady. "She said that the Beach Boys were fans of hers, and her children had grown up with them, and they're fine outstanding people, and there should be no intention to indicate that the cause problems." "Which I agree with," Watt added. Radio stations across the country had been deluged with calls criticizing Watt's original decision, and members of Congress had a field day with it. Reagan, in a speech to several thousand Catholic educators, joked, "It's a pleasure to break away from crisis negotiations. You're the first to know this: I've just called in Ambassador Phil Habib to settle the Jim Watt-Beach Boys controversy." By that time, however, the secretary already had eaten crow on the White House lawn. Watt emerged from the Oval Office carrying Reagan's foot-shot trophy. Asked whether he would apologize to the Beach Boys, Watt said, "I don't don't know that I owe them an apology, but I apologize to anybody that thinks they need one." In the Senate, Sen. Robert J. Dole, R-Kan., invited the Beach Boys to perform at a July 4th charity concert in Kansas. Watt attack "higher ups" Speakes 4/11/83 Leading Demo liberal is dead SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- U.S. Rep. Phillip Burton, 56, an environmental champion and Democratic liberal in Congress since 1964, died Sunday after complaining of back pains. Burton was stricken in his local residence in the Sir Francis Drake Hotel just before midnight Saturday. Officials said the death was from natural causes. Burton, a leader of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party in California since the 1950s, was regarded as one of the toughest and shrewdest of the state's politicians. A friend of labor, Burton often was described as coming close to being a "political boss" in the conduct of his district. In his own San Francisco district, Burton's greatest accomplishment was regarded as the formation in 1972 of the 35,000-acre Golden Gate National Recreation Area. === Page 92 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Protesters greet Reagan Sp Rev 4/7/83 PITTSBURGH (AP) -- President Reagan, taking his pitch for high technology job retraining amongst a sea of unemployed steelworkers, ran into one of the largest protest demonstrations of his presidency Wednesday. After a tour of the Control Data Institute, where 125 jobless steelworkers are being trained to repair computers, Reagan spoke to the National Conference on the Dislocated Worker while thousands stood outside in a cold rain waving signs and chanting. "Reagan, Reagan, he's no good. Send him back to Hollywood," they said. Among the banners: "Reagans Friends Get Tax Breaks. Steelworkers Get Pink Slips." And: "Buck Stopped Here When Ronald Reagan Took Office." The president, whisked into the hotel through an underground garage, could see only a smattering of the crowd, which police estimated at 3,500. But he acknowledged that he was in hostile territory when he departed from his text to say, "I come to you not only as a speaker but as a possible victim." He noted that many at the bipartisan gathering might like to see him dislocated from his job. "We as a nation owe an obligation as well as a helping hand to those who pay the price of economic readjustment," the president said in the prepared part of his speech. "Government -- federal, state and local -- should provide support for job training and re-employment assistance." As the president was speaking, several hundred protesters stormed one entrance to the hotel, hoping to confront him. They were kept back by city police, some with dogs. No arrests were reported, although two policemen carried a woman from the crowd and put her in a patrol van. (Continued on page 2) ## Protesters- Reagan was taken inside the hotel through an underground parking area, beating the crowd who screamed, "Reagan is a coward!" Anger and skepticism were evident in the computer classroom as well as on the street outside the conference hotel. UFOs attack "higher ups" # nation Sp Rev 4/7/83 ### Disease center boss resigns ATLANTA (AP) -- Dr. William H. Foege, brought in to head the national Centers for Disease Control amid controversy six years ago, announced his resignation Wednesday with a "sense of accomplishment" and an eagerness to tackle new tasks at the agency. In a letter to Dr. Edward N. Brandt, assistant U.S. secretary for health, Foege, a Chewelah, Wash., native, asked for "approval to shift responsibilities" and leave his post as director. Foege, 47, said no pressure or policy conflicts contributed to his decision. "I'm not quitting with a sense of frustration," he said in an interview. "I just decided it's time for a change." UFOs attack "higher ups"  AP photo Rep. Stokes, right, is congratulated by his brother, former Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes, after making statement. Sp Rev 4/12/83 # Ethics boss claims racism led to drunkenness charge CLEVELAND (AP) -- Rep. Louis B. Stokes, chairman of the House Ethics Committee, on Monday denied he was drunk when stopped by Maryland police for an alleged traffic violation, and blamed the allegation on racism. "I have been patently aware that I am a black man in a predominately white society," the Ohio Democrat said at a news conference at a Baptist church. "I always knew that someday racism and bigotry in the media would raise its ugly head against me." Stokes was stopped by police in the Washington suburb of Montgomery County, Md., early March 25. Stokes denied that he requested congressional immunity from arrest. "If the Montgomery County police have a case, they ought to charge me and take me to court. I waive immunity," Stokes said. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 10 UFOs Sun Attack # Did volcano trigger flurry of storms? Spokane, Wash., Thurs., June 2, 1983. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW By DAVID LANGFORD Associated Press The jury is still out, but some of the nation's top weather watchers are suggesting that a volcano in Mexico was the culprit behind the recent destructive storms in the United States and around the world. Specifically, the March 1982 eruption may have triggered a sequence of climatological events that disrupted the flow of currents and trade winds in the Pacific Ocean, creating a phenomenon called "El Nino." It caused floods or droughts that killed 800 people and left $7 billion in damage on several continents. In the United States, government scientists say, El Nino was responsible for: * The winter storms that left $500 million in damage in California. -- The spring floods in Mississippi and Louisiana that forced 52,000 people from their homes with damage estimated at $626 million. * The more than 500 tornadoes that have killed 22 people in Texas alone. * The record snowpack in the Sierra Nevada and the Rockies that is producing destructive mudslides and flooding this week in the West. It has been the wettest spring on record in much of the nation from the Deep South to Chicago and across to New England, with many areas of the Northeast getting more than twice the normal amount of rain. Across much of the northern hemisphere it was the warmest winter in 25 years, on the average of 5 degrees warmer in the United States. El Nino, a vast oscillation of air and water in the Pacific, has occurred eight times in the past 40 years. Fishermen gave it the Spanish name for "child," after ### Mexican eruption may have set off wettest spring on record in U.S. the Christ Child, because it often appears around Christmas off the northwest coast of South America. But this time it started early, in May 1982. Scientists aren't sure why, just as they aren't sure what gives birth to El Nino in the first place. They do know what happens. Trade winds blowing west across the Pacific die down and the currents that follow the winds also lose strength. That allows warm water from the western parts of the ocean -- usually piled up by the winds and current -- to slosh back to the east. Alan E. Strong of the National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service in and other scientists have proposed that the present, extra-powerful El Nino was set off by the March 1982 eruption of the El Chichonal volcano 550 miles south of Mexico City. The eruption, which killed 187 people and destroyed villages and farms for miles around, also sent a cloud 3½ miles wide into the atmosphere. Murray Mitchell, senior research climatologist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said in Washington on Wednesday he tends to agree with the volcano theory, "but only for the lack of better information." "I think the jury is still out," he added. Mitchell said the cloud released into the atmosphere by the Chichonal volcano weakened the heat of the sun falling on the tropical Pacific by 1 percent to 2 percent, "and that could have slowed the trade winds that flow west." "That may not sound like much, but it's really quite significant," he said. While most scientists agree that the slowing or even reversal in the direction of the westward blowing trade winds allows El Nino to develop, most have no theories about what causes the shift in the winds every 10 years or so. "That's the big question," said Eugene Rasmusson of NOAA's climate analysis center, who doesn't buy the volcano theory. "I don't think you can rule it out, but the evidence is not very convincing," he said. While some meteorologists last fall predicted the United States would have its coldest winter on record, partly because of 22 volcanic eruptions around the world within a year, Donald L. Gilman, chief of the National Weather Service's long-range forecast branch, said his group used knowledge of El Nino to accurately forecast a warmer, wetter-than-normal winter in the South and East. The current El Nino has had a devastating effect on agriculture in developing nations, with damage estimated at nearly $5 billion, according to a study by economist Joan Hock of the National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service. Droughts in Australia, Mexico, southern Africa, India, Sri Lanka, the Philippines and Indonesia have claimed nearly 400 lives, with $4.6 billion in economic losses. Disastrous floods have occurred in Cuba, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. On the plus side, El Ninos discourage hurricanes in the Atlantic because they add unusual strength to the upper atmospheric jet stream. As one forecaster put it, it "blows the tops off" storms before they can become hurricanes. El Ninos usually last from six months to two years. This one, which is more intense than usual, is expected to taper off by September. === Page 2 of 10 UFO Project # Near crash caused by failure to fuel DC-9 Spokane, Wash., Thurs., June 2, 1983. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW By H. JOSEF HEBERT Associated Press SpRev 6/2/83 WASHINGTON -- A Republic jetliner's emergency landing in Arizona with virtually empty fuel tanks demonstrates anew that human error still threatens life in an industry where equipment failure is becoming more rare. Federal investigators disclosed Wednesday that the Republic Airlines DC-9 with 86 people aboard was not refueled before it departed Fresno, Calif., last Saturday, forcing the emergency landing at an airbase near Phoenix, 20 miles short of its destination. When the plane landed it had less than 5 gallons of fuel, enough for just 30 seconds of flying time, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. It was the latest in a rash of aviation incidents in recent months, some narrowly avoiding catastrophe, that have been linked to human oversight. For example: -- March 23: The pilot and co-pilot of a Frontier jet forgot to lower the landing wheels on their Boeing 737 and the plane, carrying 95 people, made an unexpected belly landing at the Casper, Wyo., airport. -- April 2: The pilot of a Republic DC-9 failed to turn on a fuel pump, causing the two engines to stall over the mountains of southern Utah. After gliding for four minutes the engines were restarted 4,000 feet above the mountain crests. -- May 5: Mechanics did not put critical seals onto oil plugs of all three engines of an Eastern L-1011 jumbo jet. On a flight to the Bahamas, oil leaks caused the three engines to stall over the Atlantic. One engine was finally restarted 4,000 feet above the water and the aircraft limped back to Miami. The National Transportation Safety Board estimates about 60 percent of all air carrier accidents involve directly or as a contributing factor some human failure. The most recent episodes have involved no injuries, although in at least three of the cases, including the emergency landing near Phoenix on Saturday, a catastrophe may have been only narrowly avoided, investigators said. They note that the crash of an Air Florida jet in January, 1982 in Washington was caused by the crew's failure to properly check the aircraft for accumulations of ice and snow. "We're trying to determine the underlying problem as to why these things happen," said Bob Buckhorn, a spokesman for the federal safety board. He said while the industry's equipment has improved, the human failings continue to surface. Recently the NTSB began "to put new emphasis on human performance" in its accident investigations, Buckhorn said. And members of the airline pilots union say the problem is not lessening with the introduction of the new, highly automated jetliners. Capt Paul Stone, a 26-year veteran pilot for Delta Airlines who has been studying the role of human performance in aviation accidents for the Air Line Pilots Association, said some such failures are bound to occur. But the union nonetheless plans an annual symposium beginning later this year in an attempt to head off crew errors. "We're talking about a small number of occurances," Stone said in a telephone interview. "We don't know how to quite deal with it. We try to publicize the incidents. We talk about discipline and complacency and errors. But I don't think we can ever get it to zero." In the case of Republic Flight 366, investigators said the plane was loaded with 15,000 pounds of fuel -- 2,124 gallons -- in its three tanks before it departed Phoenix last Friday on a flight to Fresno. The next day, the aircraft began its return to Phoenix. But 65 miles from its destination, a low-fuel warning light came on and one engine was shut down, or failed, as the crew began searching for a place to make an emergency landing. After the engine was restarted, the plane landed at Luke Air Force Base, 18 miles west of Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix. === Page 3 of 10 These predictions phoned Monday afternoon, Oct. 25, 1982 to Cliff Linedecker, National Examiner, West Palm Beach, Florida. Owens. President Reagan will not finish his term. (Mental or physical malfunction.) But should he somehow finish his term...he will definitely not be re-elected. There will be no "upturn" for U.S. economy in this next year, as govt. experts predict. The economy will get progressively worse; jobs will become scarcer and scarcer; and unemployment is heading non-stop for 20%. Failure of businesses and banks will increase dramatically this coming year. Although the general public does not suspect it, the Stock Market is sick with a "terminal illness" and this coming year could be when it collapses entirely...therefore the man on the street should get rid of his stocks and bonds. Any U.S. citizen should try to avoid flying in any military or commercial craft airplane because this next year the skies are going to become extremely dangerous from an effect known only to myself. I.e., U.S. people should not fly in airplanes. During this next year there will be freakish weather; actually caused by abnormal heat from the interior of the earth itself and from the sun's rays...solar flares...that is, flares from the sun, also will create havoc upon earth, during this next year. During this next year the people of the United States will rebel against the United States government in an unprecedented manner against the wasting of money of the administration... especially the top echelons of the administration...and the folly of the U.S. administration, the people who are supposed to be running the country. The people of the U.S. will begin to rebel in full force against the top government. Food will become scarce in the United States this coming year, as it becomes more and more expensive and fewer and fewer people have jobs and can buy it...as farmers go out of business... as breakdowns in government occur and as farms fail and more and more strikes occur; the trucking industry and probably the railroad industry making it more difficult to deliver food and pick up food and so forth...so the food problem is going to be a very big one for the American people this coming year. ...robberies, rape, burglaries, and so forth...will escalate to unprecedented proportions this coming year. The ordinary people, and families, will have to arm themselves and defend their loved ones as never before in the history of the United States. Keep their guns!!! Interest rates on houses and other items will skyrocket...will be much much higher than at present this coming year. What would be an interest rate at 15% now, for example, will go to 20% or 25% this coming year. It is going to be terrible. There will be outstanding freak weather this coming year. It will be caused by the earth heating up from the earth's core radiating to the earth's surface...it will become hotter and hotter and as the heat exudes from the earth's core in an unprecedented manner it will change the exterior of the earth with living things upon it. Also there will be unusual heat from the sun this coming year which will have a devastating effect upon earth. There will be also numerous giant solar flares in unprecedented number of scope. There will be an unprecedented number of military air crashes and air mishaps in the United States this coming year. The skies will not be safe. The black people of the United States will rise up in an unprecedented manner against whites and white authority. There will be an explosion of violence of blacks against whites this coming year. And white authority. Especially at higher levels of government. Nature itself is against the whole human race at the present time...for ruining its animals, its fish, its birds, its air, its water...and hell hath no fury like Nature in a war against anything or anybody. Finally, in my opinion alone, God, the omniscient and omnipresent force for good in this world. === Page 4 of 10 SATURDAY # Super storm hammers Southeast; tornadoes rack Texas Associated Press Another "super" storm bore down on the Southeast on Saturday, pounding neighborhoods with hail and flooding highways while unleashing more tornadoes on Texans already reeling from a double punch that killed 10 people. From Oklahoma to the Carolinas, relentless rains gorged rivers, while in Louisiana bayous overflowed. Hundreds were forced to flee their homes. In Mississippi, where the rising Pearl River threatened to match a 1979 record flood, a National Weather Service official called conditions "very grave." ELEVEN TORNADOES drilled through the dark Texas clouds early Saturday, including two that passed near Houston Intercontinental Airport, and authorities were trying to confirm other reported sightings in the early afternoon. A twister also struck a vacant lot in the southwestern Louisiana town of Carlyss, but caused no damage or injuries. About 60,000 people in the Houston area were without electricity, down from 200,000. In central Louisiana, a 34-year-old man drowned Saturday morning when his horse lost footing while trying to cross a flooded road-way, bringing to 25 the number of people who have died in storms across the Southeast since Wednesday. In central Texas, one woman was injured when a tornado destroyed her mobile home Saturday in Lee County. "I WAS HERE FOR Hurricane Carla in 1961 and we have more damage already," said John Caswell of Houston-Harris County Civil Defense. There were no immediate estimates of damage. About 500 people were evacuated because of flooding north of Houston, and 50 homes were evacuated near Beaumont, authorities said. Hail hammered parts of the state for the second straight day. Hail the size of golfballs battered Kerr County in central Texas. "They're already in trouble. So, this isn't going to make it any easier for them," said meteorologist Carolyn Kloth at the National Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City, Mo., of the stricken areas. If she lived there, she said, she'd be "cleaning up and feeling very nervous." ON FRIDAY, 10 people were killed and dozens injured when twisters danced through trailer parks and towns in southeastern Texas. About 1,000 families were left homeless. Friday's twisters dropped from the Texas sky in early morning and returned 11 hours later. Among the places devastated was a trailer park at Crosby, about 30 miles northeast of Houston. Eight of the 10 victims lived in mobile homes. As the vicious winds blew through Louisiana, they damaged schools, homes and barns. Friday night twisters cut through Chicot State Park and at Pine Prairie, but the damage was apparently confined to woods. The weather service on Saturday issued a tornado watch for most of central and southeast Texas and 34 parishes in Louisiana, saying another "super" storm cell was in the area. Flash flood watches were posted for much of Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Kentucky and for all of Louisiana. "Vicious winds..." SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS May 21, 1983 Cards on the table. I am causing the freak blizzards; the California earthquakes; the tornado attack signaling my UFOs and activating the proper powers to cause the effects. If this is doubted...simply check my past record of hundreds of documented happenings. Remember, I have affidavits from scientists, experts, police, etc. So why should this be any different? Certainly...I can be stopped by any form of force by the government...and then what happens? My UFOs have laid out a program for that contingency...destruction for the United States. So...what is the answer? The Base that my UFOs want. Six million dollars, non-taxable...to me, so that I can do it THEIR way. Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens Western News, Libby, Montana 5/25/83 ## Sheriff's reports The following cases were reported to the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office. May 10 Doug Williamson reported a possible UFO south of Libby. He said he observed a bright light with flames 400 feet off the ground, that was moving north. Williamson said it may be a USAF maneuver. May 12 Dorothy Chatiuk reported that she found her $600 vacuum missing from her hallway closet at her home on Mahony Road. She said she had not seen the cleaner in 10 days. Another "super" storm... hail and flooding highways while unleashing more tornadoes... ...relentless rains... I was here for Hurricane Carla in 1961 and we have more damage already... hail the size of golfballs..." === Page 5 of 10 W De Sun Attack # Stormy year eats up funds of Red Cross SP News 5/24/83 ## Money-raising effort starts; floods force 11,000 to flee ATLANTA (AP) -- "An incredible year" of disasters, including tornadoes and flooding in the South and a serious earthquake in California, has forced the American Red Cross into an emergency effort to raise money to continue its work, officials said Monday. Red Cross officials, meeting in Atlanta for their national convention, said the organization has spent all its disaster relief funds -- more than $33 million -- with more than a month to go in its budget year. Relief efforts to more than 1 million people have emptied the Red Cross' $18 million disaster budget, its $10 million reserve and another $5 million in private contributions. "THE RED CROSS does not intend to close its doors or shut down the services the American people have come to depend on us for," Red Cross President Richard Schubert said in announcing a drive to raise $12 million. "We have been there when the American people needed our help, and we know they won't let us down when we need theirs." Even without any more disasters, the Red Cross would wind up with a deficit of more than $3 million by the end of its fiscal year on June 30, officials said. However, experts have told the organization that the nation's recent spate of unusual weather could continue. "This has been caused by the weather patterns," Schubert said. "It's been just an incredible year." Meanwhile, floods continued to cause troubles in the South. Rivers gorged by up to 15 inches of rain ran amok near record levels through Texas and Mississippi, separating 11,000 people from their homes, but a siege of killer tornadoes subsided. THE DEATH TOLL reached 34 with a flurry of a dozen twisters and baseball-size hail in northern Texas late Sunday and early Monday, but the thunderstorms that had punished the Gulf Coast states for a week pushed northeastward into the central Atlantic Coast states and weakened. In southeastern Texas, where tornadoes beginning late last week left about 1,000 families homeless and killed 11 people, about 5,000 people had been evacuated along the San Jacinto River about 35 miles northeast of Houston. The river was flooding 4 feet deep over a dam on Lake Houston and just half a foot below a record level reached in 1979. Houston Lighting & Power Co. said 35,000 customers still did not have electricity Monday. "AN INCREDIBLE YEAR" OF DISASTERS..." "UNUSUAL WEATHER..." === Page 6 of 10 UFOs Sun Attack # Twisters kill 10 ## Texas and Louisiana towns take a beating FRIDAY S. Pierce 5/21/83 Two lethal volleys of tornadoes and hail the size of baseballs hit Houston and surrounding towns in Texas and Louisiana on Friday, killing 10 people, injuring dozens, and reducing hundreds of homes and buildings to splinters. The deaths from the pre-dawn and afternoon storms in southeast Texas raised to 24 the fatalities in flash floods and 59 twisters that have wracked Dixie since Wednesday. Six people have died in Tennessee, three in Missouri, two in Georgia, and one each in Louisiana, Mississippi and Kentucky. "It looks like a war out there and we lost," said Graham Painter, a spokesman for Houston Lighting & Power Co. in the oil country of southeast Texas where tornadoes wrecked an estimated 350 homes and knocked out the power to 100,000 people. The National Weather Service said 10 tornadoes were reported in Texas and the Texas Department of Public Safety said aerial surveys indicated as many as 17 may have touched down with 100 miles of Houston. Twelve hours after the first wave of storms ravaged the region, killing eight, another storm system blew through a mobile home park at Crosby, 30 miles northeast of Houston, killing one person and injuring several more, a Harris County deputy said. Details were not available. A second afternoon tornado did heavy damage at a mobile home park in Baytown, south of Crosby, injuring at least nine people and destroying eight to 10 mobile homes, a Department of Public Safety official said. In Houston, police reported five people arrested for looting. At least five of the Texas tornado victims lived in mobile homes, said police Lt. Larry Houston. At a trailer park in Prairie View, about 30 miles west of Houston, the tornado wrapped one trailer around a utility pole, toppled others, flattened a two-story home nearby and lifted the roof off a service station and a small frame house. "A 15-year-old boy was pulled from the grasp of members of his family from a mobile home," he said. "He was found outside the trailer house, a matter of feet from the residence." The youth died. In Nederland, 70 miles northeast of Houston, a tornado ripped through a terminal at the Jefferson County Airport area and killed an unidentified man, said public safety spokesman David Rose. In central and northern Louisiana, as many as four tornadoes bounced across Sabine, Natchitoches, LaSalle, Winn and Caldwell parishes, knocking out the power to entire communities and destroying scattered houses and trailers. Sheriff's deputies searched house-to-house in sparsely settled piney woods areas, looking for casualties where one tornado ripped a swath 8 miles long. National Guard troops with generators were sent to restore power. LaSalle Parish Sheriff Wayne McGuffee said as many as 65 percent of the homes and businesses were damaged in Urania and Olla, two towns of about 1,000 residents. In Winnfield, La., a town of about 7,300 residents, Police Chief Cranford Jordan said most of the town and parish were without electricity and most roads were closed by felled trees or flooding from about 5 inches of rain. A windstorm hit the central Mississippi cities of Jackson and Vicksburg, blocking roads with felled trees, and about 15,000 homes in three counties lost power. In Colorado, where up to 10 inches of fresh snow fell in the mountains Thursday and Friday, crews were still working to restore power to about 200 people who have been without electricity since a blizzard Tuesday dumped almost 2 feet of snow in some areas. In Texas, tornadoes or high winds howled over a 100-mile-wide area surrounding Houston for a four-hour period beginning shortly after midnight. 5/21/83 (NOTE: LONDON, ENGLAND, HAS HAD 34 STRAIGHT DAYS OF RAIN... THE WETTEST ON RECORD, ACCORDING TO CNN TV. ON THE SAME PROGRAM THEY ANNOUNCED THAT THE TEXAS TORNADO ATTACK WAS "COMPLETELY UNNATURAL" FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR AND "SURPRISED THE TEXAS WEATHER EXPERTS.") Note: And mind the chaos and damage in California with rains, flooding and earthquakes. OWENS. UFOs Sun Attack B... MY UFOs as Sunny day nets bettors money QUITE A POTENT POWER of your LONDON (AP) - Brilliant sun poured down Wednesday on soggy London, prompting a newspaper to urge readers to "put away the umbrellas" - and winning a total of about $780 for 10 bettors. After 37 days of drizzle and downpours, not a drop of rain fell in London on Tuesday. It was clear again Wednesday, and forecasters said more sunshine was on the way. The oddsmaking firm William Hill had been taking bets on when the capital would have 48 dry hours, and a spokesman said it paid out the equivalent of $780 to 10 people who had picked 10 a.m. Sunday to 10 a.m. Tuesday for the dry spell. The odds were 5-to-1. S. Pierce 5/26/83 "Two lethal volleys of tornadoes and hail the size of baseballs..." "It looks like a war out there and we lost..." "the first wave of storms ravaged the region..." "...tornadoes or high winds howled over a 100-mile-wide area..." === Page 7 of 10 UFO Sun Attack # Thousands flee rising rivers swollen by storms in South SUNDAY Associated Press S.P. Rev 5/23/83 Bloated rivers spilled across southern Mississippi on Sunday, forcing thousands more people to flee flooding caused by storms that ravaged the Gulf Coast with rain, hail and tornadoes. The death toll in Mississippi went from one to six Sunday, with four of the victims members of one family. Meanwhile, in Houston, the grinding chatter of chainsaws pierced the air around rubble-strewn neighborhoods after three waves of tornadoes that left 10 people dead, more than 100 injured and about 1,000 families homeless. In all, 32 people have perished in Southern storms since last Wednesday. Elsewhere Sunday, a tornado ripped through an apartment complex in the southwestern Pennsylvania town of Greensburg, ripping off roofs and hurling debris a quarter of a mile. No serious injuries were reported. The worst Mississippi flooding Sunday was around Jackson, the capital. The raging Pearl River had sent 1,200 families -- about 3,000 people -- from their homes by Sunday. The bodies of a young couple and their two children were recovered Sunday. Their car missed a curve and plunged into floodwater Saturday night in Mississippi's Leflore County. The body of a young woman was recovered from a creek Friday after her car flipped off U.S. 51. In San Antonio, Texas, searchers Sunday recovered the body of a 15-year-old boy who was swept away the day before from a partially submerged bridge over rain-swollen Salado Creek. Weather experts said the Pearl would crest between 38.5 and 39.5 feet on Monday, more than 10 feet above flood stage. City spokesman David Waite said that if the river exceeds 39 feet it would send water into about 250 more homes and businesses. "We've already got more than 100 homes and businesses flooded and an estimated 3,000 people have left their homes," said Carroll Fulgham, a spokesman for the Jackson-Hinds County Emergency Operations Center. It was the third time since December that Jackson residents have had to evacuate their homes. UFO Sun Attack # Lightning kills 8 hikers EISENSTADT, Austria (AP) -- Lightning struck a group of hikers Monday, killing eight people and injuring nine in Austria's eastern Burgenland province, a police spokesman reported. The hikers were resting under two oak trees during a heavy thunderstorm. Five men died instantly and three others died in a hospital, the spokesman said. Other lightning bolts ignited the tower of a chapel and caused fires elsewhere in the province. No one was injured in the blazes, which firefighters quickly controlled. S.P. Rev 5/24/83 "... Three waves of tornadoes..." "It was the third time since December that Jackson residents have had to evacuate their homes." UFO Sun Attack # Red Cross need Funds depleted S.P. Rev 5/28/83 In more than a century of service, the American Red Cross has provided untold aid to people in moments of need. But now, the organization itself is in need of a helping hand from the people. The Red Cross is in financial trouble. In the words of organization officials, "an incredible year" of disasters has created a fiscal emergency. The number and severity of natural calamities, including an earthquake, tornadoes and floods, have depleted all of the organization's disaster relief funds, and a drive is under way to raise an additional $12 million. A figure exceeding $33 million is a lot of money, but it is hard to imagine a more worthwhile cause. In an average year, the Red Cross assists more than one million Americans. The organization's functions, however, may not be well understood by the general public. The common perception may be that the Red Cross only helps people injured or left homeless by earthquakes and other major natural disasters. The fact is: Its deeds go much further than that. The Red Cross also provides shelter for people whose homes have been lost in fires. After Spokane was socked in by the === Page 8 of 10 UFOs Sun Attack # Good Morning. Today is THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1983. In the news: A Nile River steamer carrying 627 people caught fire and sank in a crocodile-infested stretch, killing 48 with several hundred reported missing (Page 25). The National Weather Service says it's been the warmest winter in years for much of the northern hemisphere (Page 25) . . . Another condor chick hatched, becoming the third born in captivity (Page 25) . . . Ex-King Idris of Libya died in Egypt (Page 25) . . . An expanded briefing appears on Page 2. Note: As you can read here, my UFO Sun Attack, heating up the core of the Earth by the Sun's rays beamed onto Earth by my four giant UFOs... is coming along rapidly and beautifully! Owens UFOs Sun Attack Spokane, Wash., Thurs., May 26, 1983. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW 23 # Winter warmest in years WASHINGTON (AP) -- Americans basking in a mild winter this year weren't alone. Across much of the northern hemisphere it was the warmest winter in a quarter-century, the National Weather Service reported Wednesday. Preliminary figures show winter temperatures averaging about 5 degrees Fahrenheit above average, said research meteorologist James K. Angell. For the region of the globe between 30 degrees and 60 degrees north latitude, that winter average since 1958 has been 20 degrees, he said. That area includes most of the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia from central China north to the central portions of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was particularly warm this past winter, with surface temperatures there averaging 9 degrees above average, Angell said. By comparison, he noted that the warm winter of 1980-81 was 2.2 degrees above normal, and in 1957-58 it was 3.1 degrees warmer than usual. On the other side of the ledger, the winter of 1968-69 was 4.1 degrees colder than average. This year's warmth has meant a bonus for Americans, who saved about 4 percent on their heating bills, according to government estimates. The Environmental Data and Information Service estimates that the national heating bill was $44.58 billion from last summer through May 7, $1.98 billion below normal. This year's unusual warmth may be associated with the so-called El Nino phenomena, Angell said. El Nino is an unusual warming of the sea temperatures in the Pacific Ocean which occurs occasionally. The most recent instance began last fall. Because it often begins around Christmas-time, the phenomenon carries the Spanish name for child, after the Christ child. Angell explained that this sea warming seems to have altered wind direction to westerly, rather than allowing the more usual north-south fluctuations. === Page 9 of 10 UFOr Sun Attack # Tornadoes hit Chicago suburbs SpRev 5/30/83 CHICAGO (AP) -- A pair of tornadoes touched down Sunday in two suburbs 10 miles apart, injuring at least one person and damaging at least two buildings, authorities said. In Cicero, on Chicago's western border, a twister ripped into an eight-unit apartment building about 1:30 p.m., injuring one person and damaging the building's roof, according to Cicero police Investigator Earl Hull. "People said it got blacker than hell and they heard crashing noises, then it got quiet," Hull said. "It looks like we probably had a baby tornado." He said the twister apparently skipped over a nearby street and damaged a store before leaving the ground. In Oak Brook, about 17 miles west of Chicago, a twister ripped through a golf course while spectators at a polo match nearby scattered in search of cover. Witnesses said about 150 people took cover in a tent while an "enormous whirlwind" picked up branches and debris on the golf course 100 yard away. No injuries were reported there. The Oak Brook twister struck just as rugby players were finishing a game on a nearby field, part of a sports complex that also includes the polo fields and golf course. Several players hid behind trees until the funnel cloud passed. Golf course manager Matthew Morgan said the twister uprooted eight to 10 trees, overturned a trailer and damaged an awning. UFOr Sun Attack May 31, 1983. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW # Rhine, Mosel recede after months of rain COLOGNE, West Germany (AP) -- The rain-swollen Rhine and Mosel rivers began receding Monday, leaving behind the scars of floods that caused 11 deaths and millions of dollars in damage. In eastern France, runoff kept rivers overflowing but relief was expected because of a three-day break in more than two months of daily rains. "We can breathe again," said a Cologne city spokesman after the water level began falling. The Rhine had crested in Cologne at 32 feet -- its highest level since 1945. Thousands of people living beside the Rhine and Mosel had fled their homes over the weekend because of the third major flood this spring. Officials said the Mosel was dropping two or three inches an hour. Six of the 11 people reported killed in flood-related incidents in West Germany perished when an express train struck a mudslide last week outside of Cologne. Barge traffic was expected to resume on the Rhine Wednesday after being closed down by officials last Thursday at a huge cost to hundreds of bargemen and shippers. Werner Schoen of Baden's wine growers' association estimated that the "erosion and collapse of terrace structures" for grape vines would cost more than $4 million to repair. In Lyon in southeastern France, military units helped firefighters evacuate residents from their flooded property. Civil defense officials said they expected the Soane River to begin receding Wednesday. UFOr Sun Attack # Salt Lake SpRev 5/31/83 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Thousands of volunteers joined sandbag brigades for the sixth straight day Monday as the city battled a rising flood compared with the worst in arid Utah's history. A second major street through the city was diked and converted into a spillway as an unseasonably warm sun bearing down on a heavy snowpack sent muddy water cascading down mountainsides, surging into homes and closing canyons. The flooding was said to be worse in some spots than the record flood of 1952. AUTHORITIES reported the first flood-related death Monday. Two-year-old Joseph Garzarelli of West Valley City was swept into a creek near where his family was camping Saturday. He was pulled from the river and taken to a Salt Lake City hospital, where he later died. A citizen's band radio operator in San Diego heard a Utah fisherman calling for help and alerted authorities in eastern Utah's Duchesne County, where sheriff's deputies worked Monday afternoon to evacuate about 75 campers and fishermen. BELEAGUERED flood control officials hoped for relief from 80 to 90-degree temperatures that arrived suddenly last week, melting a snowpack held in check until now by cooler than normal temperatures. Officials again Monday asked for volunteers and were "overwhelmed" by the response, as many homeowners in nearby subdivisions have little to do but to stay and start over amid the mud. # Residents rip reservoir's role in flood By FAY S. JOYCE New York Times SpRev 5/31/83 JACKSON, Miss. -- When Todd Pyles finally reached his house by boat Friday, he found four pet peacocks sitting on the roof and a foot and a half of muddy river water lapping the walls of the rooms inside. Pyles, who was one of 5,000 Jacksonians returning to their homes after the water crested Wednesday, handed his gun to his friend Bubba McClary to guard against snakes and then surveyed the sad, soggy sight. "Believe it or not, I still love this place," he said of his home set deep in the woods. "But I'll have to move." While Pyles, a lawyer, can abandon the house he rented, many homeowners in nearby subdivisions have little choice but to stay and start over amid the mud. Frustration is high here because little seems to have been done to protect residential areas since 1979, when an Easter Sunday flood swept through the city and did $235 million in damage. Through this year, the city's second worst in terms of property damage to the city's little sections of resentment against the smell of sewage. No one is likely to offer to buy their homes. The surging waters of the Pearl River caused about $21 million in damage in Jackson alone last week as it flooded nearly 1,000 businesses and homes in some of the wealthiest sections of this capital city. Gov. William Winter has asked President Reagan to declare parts of the state disaster areas. Tornadoes have also struck Mississippi, adding to the devastation, put at $41 million statewide so far. Ross B. Barnett Reservoir, a 30,000-acre man-made recreational lake where several thousand Mississippians have waterfront homes, boats and private docks. The reservoir was three feet under its 300-foot capacity when thunderstorms drenched the state, gorging rivers and streams. As the reservoir filled, officials let out more and more water into the Pearl River. "We sat back waiting, hoping they wouldn't do it to us again, but they did," said Deborah Thrash. She and her husband spent a year rebuilding their three-bedroom house after the 1979 flood. Downriver residents are upset that the reservoir was so near its capacity, noting that a lower level would have let it absorb more of the rain and perhaps protect their property. === Page 10 of 10 # Utah residents fight rain, mud, snarled traffic SP Rev 6/1/83 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Utah residents spent another day Tuesday fighting to hold back the record flooding and mudslides that have forced evacuation of 1,800 people, damaged dozens of homes and severed highways. In the Salt Lake City area, traffic was snarled for hours as commuters returning to work after the long Memorial Day weekend were forced to find alternate routes because of washed-out roads and bridges. Three main thoroughfares through the city have been sandbagged and converted into spillways to channel the runoff from the melting snow in the mountains. IN NEIGHBORING Nevada, officials said three people believed missing after a 15-foot wall of mud and water cascaded down Slide Mountain near Carson City on Monday had been found. ## Three people thought missing in a Nevada slide were found The Nevada slide killed one man, injured six other people, destroyed four homes, damaged four others and buried 12 to 15 cars and trucks. In Utah, the only fatality reported was a child who drowned when he was swept into a swollen creek near a campsite over the weekend. UTAH GOV. Scott Matheson declared four more counties disaster areas -- Salt Lake, Millard, Weber and Davis. Utah, Carbon and Emery counties were declared federal disaster areas in April because of a massive mudslide in Spanish Fork Canyon that cut a major highway and railroad line. In Farmington, 15 miles north of Salt Lake City, a mudslide a mile wide and two miles long poured through several blocks of the city Monday night, destroying six homes, damaging another 25 and forcing 300 people to evacuate. City officials also evacuated 66 prisoners in the city jail. The mud burst a large aqueduct in the mountains above the community Tuesday afternoon, setting the slide in motion again. Six more homes were demolished, five were damaged and 30 were evacuated, bringing to 500 the number of people evacuated. The slide appeared to have stabilized by late afternoon. OFFICIALS SOUNDED air raid klaxons to warn residents of the movement of the slide. Another slide forced the evacuation of the 1,100 residents of Fairview, about 80 miles south of Salt Lake, late Monday, but residents were allowed to return home Tuesday. About 200 people were evacuated from a mobile home park in the Salt Lake suburb of Murray because of a flooded creek. Record snow depths in the Wasatch Mountains, kept frozen by a cold spring, began melting rapidly last week as temperatures soared into the 80s and 90s. As runoff jumped the banks of dozens of northern Utah streams, thousands of volunteers turned out to fill sandbags and shore up emergency levees. Al Sorensen, forecaster for the Salt Lake County flood control agency, said cooler temperatures moving into the area Tuesday would slow the snowmelt, but he added, "if we get a lot of rain out of it, it will just complicate the flood fighting." COUNTY INFORMATION officer Mel Miles said the Farmington slide stabilized during the night, but began moving again at seven to 10 mph at about 4:30 a.m. Tuesday, breaking through a sandbag barrier and smashing into a home. "There's still snow up there and there will be increased moisture contributing to additional movement," said state geologist Bruce Kaliser, who flew over the Farmington area. He said less than half of the mud may have fallen, so "we've got to be alert to some dire consequences for the city of Farmington." Fairview residents were taken to Mt. Pleasant, six miles away, when a mudslide blocked a creek in Fairview Canyon and threatened the city. MARY NELSON of the Fairview city marshal's office said residents were being allowed to return to their homes, with a warning to be ready to move out again on a few minutes' notice. Utah Department of Transportation officials said they cut U.S. Highway 89 in two places near Fairview to help water drain from the canyon and most of the town also had been sandbagged. In Murray, about 200 people were evacuated from a mobile home park Tuesday morning. June 1, 1983 Note: Am in a terrible financial jam. We are losing our home; Your landlord is forcing us to move or pay $125 more per month than we have been paying, plus is trying to sell our rented house. This, of course, means nothing to you scientists... on the surface. BUT.. it means a very great much to the UFOs here with me in Libby (see newsclip on front of file, plus earlier "Scarlett" correspondence I.e., when my UFOs grow angry because I am undergoing hardship, then "trees fall down." In the humorous parlance, their attitude will be regardless of the chaos they are currently causing, "All right... no more Mr. Nice Guy." This is, of course, me talking, as I said, in the humorous parlance of our human times. Owen Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8306 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/a2c4c58826b0da95697a0bfaae8cfaeb.pdf 7217c6885472f0f37aa3286610b2ac92 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/e3f17abad806eca3afd6dd1e8582dc10.txt 83565a64019a83940b25e347640cc756 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1984 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document - Why are there no files for 1984? - Mishlove: “Lewis tells me that there are no files at all for 1984. I'm surprised. But, in retrospect, I think there is a reason for this. I presume, offhand, that Owens himself became discouraged after a number of failures. I'm not sure.” Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 84x Description An account of the resource - Why are there no files for 1984? - Mishlove: “Lewis tells me that there are no files at all for 1984. I'm surprised. But, in retrospect, I think there is a reason for this. I presume, offhand, that Owens himself became discouraged after a number of failures. I'm not sure.” https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/00d86a8e0bfdd5d11b88503fb0c53f4a.pdf 94e1c2ea517f18d2140025f814192ac7 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/d28c56a8626e834f5faca512dc5d95c9.txt d36e7be6b188818d74d53c9475e20a46 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1985 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 29 July 5, 1985 SCIENTISTS The enclosed file...documents one of my finest psi-force demonstrations, ever. To recap: at the very beginning of this 1985 USFL pro football season my UFOs instructed me to attack the Tampa Bay Bandits pro football team and stop them from winning the USFL superbowl this year. This was a formidable undertaking, because the Bandits were the best and winningest team in the USFL. In a few games they ranked at the top of the USFL teams. So my work was cut out for me to stop them and take them apart. Game by game, as I watched them on TV, I soaked the team and the coach in attack psi-force. In the games that were not on TV here I had to depend on the psi-force put onto them from the games that I controlled. The object was not to make them lose this or that game...but to cause the entire team to fall apart as the season wore on so that at superbowl time they could not win it. Also I was after three key players. Reaves, the quarterback; Truvillion, the brilliant receiver, and Anderson, their brilliant runner. Slowly, as happened in years past when I used the same techniques, the psi-force attack took form and shape. In the course of the games psi-force was used to cause fumbles, dropped passes, missed passes, missed kicks and freak turnovers against the Bandits. The psi-force has the property of building up, game to game, among the players...cumulative effect. Nearing the end of the regular season...Truvillion had become injured and been fired from the team. Anderson was injured and playing under capacity. The owner, Bassett, had developed two brain tumors and was in hospital. The coach, Rauch, a top coach, was fired or resigned. The last four games I had on TV here, using my techniques, I had little difficulty in beating the Bandits...even using two of the worst teams in the USFL to do it...Portland and Orlando. Then came the playoff game prior to the Superbowl. My UFOs gave me several new techniques to use against the Bandits on TV...and you can read the results in the enclosed file. The Bandits were beaten...one expert claimed that the team was 'jinxed'. The game was called 'bizarre' and freakish. A key happening in the game was the Bandits kicker, trying for a point after a touchdown. He made the kick in spite of the special tool given me to use by my UFOs...but it was called back. He made the second kick...but it was called back. He missed his last, and final try...and the Bandits were sunk. My UFOs wanted to find out if I still had my psi-force 'combat' punch. They found out. I have. And it is more powerful by far than in years past. Finally, the Bandits, alone of all the USFL teams, have been wiped out as a team, completely. See the file. That...is what psi-force does...either on a small scale, such as pro football...or on a large scale. Remember, psi-force merely has to be applied to an IDEA...and 'mass' is irrelevant and immaterial. Ted Owens (PK Man) 904-622-1440 Ph: (904) 622-1440 P.S. I sent Scarfone (herein) a file early on and warned him what was coming. === Page 2 of 29 March 25, 1985 SCIENTISTS It gives me great pleasure to tell you that I have made an extraordinary discovery! A discovery that adds an entirely new dimension to the working of the human mind...heretofore completely unknown to science in particular and mankind in general. Am working with it, and experimenting further with it, daily. You have been reading for some time, in the newspapers, of "mysterious" fires and explosions occurring everywhere. These are not accidental fires and explosions, or man-caused fires and explosions...but are a direct result of my UFOs 'Sun Attack' and the issuance of destructive powers from the ancient Egyptian entity, still very much alive. In order to make my point, see the enclosed newsclip re the many fires now taking place in the Galapagos Islands...a 16-island group 680 miles off the coast of Ecuador. And not on just one island, but on the islands of Isabel, Santa Cruz and San Cristobal. Now, understand...recently there were fires all over the State of Florida. Tourists were blamed for starting them. The same thing has occurred in other parts of the U.S., always with people being blamed for starting them, either by accident or with malicious intent. Then, explain to me how tourists or humans could set fires 680 miles off the coast of Ecuador...not only on one island but on various islands. (And why.) See the newsclip, appended..."Mysterious cloud covers hemisphere." "A huge cloud covering half of the world has mysteriously appeared all of a sudden..." Not so mysterious at all. I informed you some time ago that I work daily telepathing to four huge UFOs stationed around our world...each one larger than our own Earth. One of them, for whatever reason, has been spotted. They are other-dimensional and without substance. I am brushing up on my "psi-combat" techniques...doing further research and experimentation by utilizing psi-force on live pro football games. Tampa Bay is my target this football season. The objective is to make them lose games...keep them from winning the USFL Superbowl...and eliminate key players in order to further bolster the desired result. Recently, when Tampa Bay played Houston and with my using psi-combat techniques over TV...the coach of Tampa Bay, Spurrier, became so exasperated and frustrated that he got down on his knees and actually pounded his head on the ground...all live on national TV. You will recall that in the past I dismantled the Philadelphia Eagles team and the owner went bankrupt. I dismantled the Baltimore Colts and Rosenbloom traded his team for the Los Angeles Rams, then Rosenbloom mysteriously drowned. I dismantled the pro basketball team in Norfolk, Virginia (Virginia Squires) and the owner went bankrupt. I put it to you that it is logical that I must have enormous knowledge of the application of psi-force in order to obtain result. Appended is an interesting newsclip pertinent to my UFOs Sun Attack...stating that "a major new report issued Thursday by the National Academy of Sciences says that the approaching warming of the Earth known as the greenhouse effect is "cause for concern". * As it was last year. === Page 3 of 29 PSI-M The Newsletter Journal of The Psychic Science Special Interest Group VOLUME VIII Number 1 January/February 1985 "There Is More to Your Future Than either Time or Space Can End.. ." My listing in the Mensa scientists, 1985 Annual Member Register This issue is provided only to Members and is not to be given to others to use for any purpose, such for use as a mailing list. It may only be used for research or educational purposes with the express permission of The Psychic Science Special Interest Group, Inc. === Page 4 of 29 Page 1.2.7C Handbook/Mindbook Psi-M Jan/Feb 1985 Page 90 NIEHOFF, Dr. Marilee ( 817 ) 467 - 54 96 85 Aug: 2R768 2416 Heathercrest Arlington TX 76018 A: Doctorats O: Academic & business H: sports, reading, travel, music R: Experimentation, learning PSSP- Quad 2/3 T4-*7;*17;*19;*21 OWENS, Ted # 627H Box 1171 Libby MT 59923 A: Duke Univ. O: 50 professions H: Pool, drums, sleight-of-hand R: What I can put into it PALMER, William "Bill" ( 601 ) 859 - 31 61 85 Aug: #2R755 769 Grand St. Canton MS 39046 A: 2 yrs college O: Newspaper & Accounting H: Bridge(tourn.), stamp collect. R: Contact with others PASHLEY, Mary 86 Aug: #2R814 2521 Kingston Park Apt. 1811 Knoxville TN 37919 A: BA MS ABD Now in corporate O: Finance lecturer H: Mideast dancing, autowriting R: Spiritual & psychic progress PSSP- Quad 2-3-4 T5-*10;*17;*20;*21;*22 PERKINS, Cliff 85 Aug: #3R374 2425 Bremont Ave Cincinnati OH 45237 A: BSc. Accounting. O: Inspector, machine shop H: Studying psi, etc. R: More knowledge POLLARD, Frank (313) 537 - 94 76 86 Aug: #2R887S 17175 Radford Ave Apt. 220 Detroit MI 48219 A: B.S. Chem Engrg O: Consultant H: Tennis; 4-part singing, bridge, backgammon R: Curiosity and spiritual awareness. Wish to help PSSP- Quad 1/4 T3- *1; *21 PREUSS, A. J. "Jim" ( 916 ) 541 - 60 45 87 Aug: #8R133 POB 8281 So. Lake Tahoe CA 95731 A: B.A. Ind.arts, mil.tech.schls O: Retired- Former USAF Comm/Elect. Maintenance H: Stamps, ancient coins, reading R: Personal improvement info Interested in all aspects of the paranormal, anomalies, unusual, etc. Always willing to share knowledge. PSSP- Quad 1/4 ROCKWELL, Theodore "Ted" ( 202 ) 659 - 23 20 (office) 87 Aug: #3R327A 3403 Woolsey Dr Chevy Chase MD 20815 A: BSChemE & MSChemE, ScD (Hon.) O: Engineer H: Computer, writing, skiing, travel, Psi research R: Want to bridge between the intuitive & the scientific PSSP- Quad 2/1 T3- *14; *15; *16 ROGERS, Ellen 86 Aug: #7R049 300 73rd Ave Apt. 201 St. Petersburg FL 33702 A: B.S. Psychology PSSP- Quad 3/2-4 === Page 5 of 29 Trib 7/2/85 RIP Born: May 11, 1982 Died: June 30, 1985 The Bandits So long, Banditball === Page 6 of 29 Novo Bojovic's 23-yard field goal as time expired gave Oakland a 30-27 victory over Tampa Bay in a bizarre USFL playoff game that may be the Bandits' last -- ever. T. Bay Bandits PK T.B. Trib - 6/30/85 By TOM FORD Tribune Sports Writer OAKLAND -- The Bandits had come to expect the unusual during a season none of them is likely to forget. So it may have been fitting that their final game of 1985 -- and quite possibly the last game the team will ever play -- followed the pattern of the bizarre. The Bandits were beaten 30-27 on Sunday when Novo Bojovic kicked a 23-yard field goal as time expired. The first-round USFL playoff game viewed by 18,346 fans at Oakland Alameda County Coliseum was marked by strange occurrences and, as had become customary, the Bandits seemed the jinxed team. The reason the score was tied 27-27 was that Bandits place-kicker Zenon Andrusyshyn missed an extra point following a touchdown at 9:41 of the final quarter. Not your normal PAT, mind you. Andrusyshyn was true on his first try. There would be three because two penalties were called. Andrusyshyn hit his second attempt from 25 yards. The third try, from 35 yards, failed. Bandits vs. Invaders Inside: - [ ] Zenon too upset to write diary - 10C. - [ ] Players heading into different directions - 11C. - [ ] Game statistics - 10C. "The guard and tackle were called for interlocking legs on the first one," said Coach Steve Spurrier. "Reggie Smith (one of the players involved) said he'd been doing that for 20 games and it'd never been called. "After that, Greg Boone was called for sticking his leg out. He said he'd been doing that for 20 games, too." The Bandits would not approach the Invaders' goal-line again. Instead, it was Bojovic who had the chance to win the game, and do that he did, despite the fact the Invaders almost saw the clock run out on them. Oakland let the time creep below double digits and apparently thought the referee had heeded a request to stop it near the 5-second mark. But quarterback Bobby Hebert had to rush back on the field to get time to stand still and fortunately for the Invaders, the clock froze at ":02." To the contrary, time marches on for the Bandits, who are unsure what the future holds for them. "We knew this game meant sudden death for us -- terminally," said linebacker Keith Clark. "This is such a funny feeling. No one on this team has ever experienced a situation like this." The Bandits outplayed the 14-4-1 Invaders in some categories. Tampa outgained Oakland 418 yards to 344 and had an opportunity to win in the fourth quarter despite five turnovers. "We didn't appreciate the fact they thought they were going to dominate us," said linebacker James Harrell. "We did everything we could possibly do to win the game. But we lost." The third season in Bandits' history ended with the team hardly better than .500. Tampa was 9-3 at one point, but lost six of its last seven games. "They go on," said Clark of the Invaders, who will play at Memphis Saturday. "For us, it's like the end of the whole league; it's like there is nothing more." At least, said quarterback John Reaves, who passed for three touchdowns and 315 yards, "We went out with our heads held high." It did not seem that would be the case early on. As they did a week before in the regular-season finale at 6/30/85 Tom McEwen The Morning After T. Bay Bandits PK Bandits' failings led to merciful end T.B. Trib 6/30/85 Even Yogi Berra would acknowledge it's over for the Bandits. Perhaps, it is merciful. Clearly the Bandits of these times are not capable of brinkmanship offensive play. That failing has been demonstrated steadily down this fateful stretch that ended 3,000 miles from home on Sunday. It was demonstrated once more at the Oakland Alameda County Coliseum when Oakland won 30-27 on a 23-yard field goal by Novo Bojovic, who had earlier missed one of 31 to give the Bandits a chance to win it by perhaps the manner in which the Invaders would, eventually. But, quarterback John Reaves was twice sacked, meaning Oakland would have the ball in good field position to advance for the marginal field goal. The Invaders did just that, causing Bojovic to declare Oakland won "because the Lord was on our side." Well, maybe, but it had appeared moments before that someone up there liked the Bandits quite well, too, when Novo had missed his short field goal to give Tampa Bay an opportunity at a stirring win. But what would be proven quickly thereafter was the Bandits Sunday were once again the Bandits of these final games of this bizarre season. Perhaps a series in this Sunday game earlier was more appropriate to the Bandit modus operandi of late. With the score tied 27-27, part-time sports writer Zenon Andrusyshyn kicked the extra point for a precious 28-27 lead with about six minutes left in the game. But wait, there was a yellow flag. Illegal formation was the call. Officials said the guard and tackle "locked legs," which is illegal. What happened was their legs overlapped when they took positions. Doubtless, it was simply a misjudgment. A five-yard penalty was assessed and Andrusyshyn kicked again. Good. But, wait, another yellow flag was thrown. Blocking back Greg Boone was charged with tripping, another very rare call. But, this one was for 15 yards. It meant the go-ahead point kick now would be for 35 yards. Already Zenon had missed a 28-yard field goal that would have made it 17-10 in the second quarter, right after Steve Carter dropped a touchdown pass that would have made it 21-10. Zenon kicked a knuckleball for the 35-yard extra point. It was low and right and the Bandits did not have a 28-27 lead, but a 27-27 tie, before losing 30-27. === Page 7 of 29 Tom McEwen The Morning After Tribune art by VAUGHN HUGHES # Banditball will live in memory 6/30/85 When what surely appears to have been the last flight of the Tampa Bay Bandits was finally over -- 6½ hours of it -- coaches assembled at the Bandit Hideaway an hour after black Sunday and commiserated over their fate well into Monday morning. "We thought of a hundred ways we could have beaten Oakland," said Charlie Lyle, secondary coach now headed for an administrative assistant's job with Head Coach Joe Morrison of the University of South Carolina. "We played hard, but we blew some big plays." "So here we sat," said Lyle Monday noonish, he and defensive coordinator Barry Wilson sharing thoughts with each other, with other coaches stopping by, with telephone callers, with their boss, Steve Spurrier. "Now here we are again, still unable to change the outcome," that was 30-27 Oakland and The End. On the blackboard unerased was the Saturday message Wilson had written: "Nobody else believes we can beat Oakland, but I do." "Should have, too," he added. Spurrier was still puzzled over successive calls of interlocking legs and tripping that wiped away good extra-point tries that would have given the Bandits a 28-27 lead instead of a 27-27 tie with some four minutes left. "Never, ever heard of interlocking legs being called. I wonder if, in a playoff game with the score tied, it would have been called in the big leagues?" he asked. Then he was back in his office wondering about the future, too. Wife Jeri came in and said how "strange this all is. I mean you can take a team to a bowl game in college, play and know you are losing your seniors. But how about losing your whole team? Strange." Bandit management is seeking to sell or merge the club with another, and there has been one slight indication of interest by one limited partner in trying to keep the Bandits intact, in Tampa and in the United States Football League even if the USFL does indeed go to the fall in 1986. Nothing definite there, not by a long shot. "It has been a tremendous learning experience for me personally," said Spurrier. "I have had three years as head coach, thanks to Mr. (John) Bassett and the Bandits, and believe me I have learned. I guess I am even learning now, with this experience still going on." He said he'll wait a bit before looking for another job. He is still under contract. Told a strong Georgia booster called the Tribune and said if Vince Dooley does indeed resign as Bulldog head coach, he's for Spurrier. "Well, I don't know if I'd be too popular a candidate for that job," said Spurrier, the Heisman Trophy winner for Florida and former Georgia Tech assistant. "We'll wait. Things are still up in the air." It was clear the coaches and other staffers about were working hard at keeping the stiff upper lip. "It's a facade," said one. "We're dying inside." "Nice of Gary Anderson, eh?" said Spurrier, holding a handmade flyer inviting players, coaches, staffers and their families to the home of the premier Bandit running back Monday afternoon for food and games. "Gary's got this place out on Erlich Road, with a full basketball court in the back. He's good at that, too. Might have been able to play in the NBA." The flyer said there would be hotdogs, chicken and hamburgers, "horseshoes, badminton and bingo." It was all on Gary. Over at the Bandit offices on Himes Avenue, across from Tampa Stadium, a skeleton staff was at work. The force has been reduced drastically, though all have been invited to use the facilities to seek employment. See MORNING AFTER, Page 7C "We become normal humanoids again.... We go home, get jobs, cut grass, just like normal people." -- Defensive end James Ramey # Players prepare for return to real world By TOM FORD Tribune Sports Writer 6/30/85 Some have a future in football, some do not. Twenty-four hours earlier, they were a select group: Pro football players, a prime cut above the weekend warrior, men who earned a living by commanding their bodies to do what most people only dream of accomplishing. Monday morning, the Bandits began re-entering the real world. "We become normal humanoids again," said James Ramey, who played defensive end for three years and often philosophized as if from another world. "We go home, get jobs, cut grass, just like normal people." Sunday's 30-27 playoff loss at Oakland was almost certainly the Bandits' final game. The franchise created by owner John Bassett may survive in some form, but it is unlikely the majority of players who made the round trip to California will be listed on the same lineup card again. "It's been fun," said Ramey. "It may sound corny, but 'all the fun the law allows' says it all." Despite recent problems, which included late delivery of paychecks, Ramey and his teammates remained patient with the crumbling Bandits organization. Privately, some players grumbled about not receiving their salary. Publicly, they refused to criticize. "They always shot straight from the See BANDITS, Page 7C === Page 8 of 29 7/2/85 Tribune photo by DAN McDUFFIE Center Chris Foote knows he will never see many of his Bandit teammates again. === Page 9 of 29 T. Bay Bandits PK 6/30/85 T. Bay Trib. # Colon Surgery Set Friday For Reagan 0.SB 7/10/85 WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Reagan will have a benign growth removed from his colon on Friday, and doctors will perform a thorough examination of the president's large intestine to search for and remove any other polyps that may exist, a White House spokesman announced today. Presidential spokesman Larry Speakes said Reagan would undergo the procedures at Bethesda Naval Hospital just outside Washington and plans to remain there overnight. The polyp, a fleshy growth that generally causes no discomfort but sometimes may become cancerous if not removed, was discovered during a physical examination in March. A similar polyp was found a year earlier, and part of it was removed for microscopic examination, which showed the growth was benign, Speakes said at the time. Speakes said the polypectomy, or removal of the polyp, and a colonoscopy, which involves the use of a special instrument to examine the full length of the colon, are to be performed in the hospital's outpatient unit, although the 74-year-old Reagan will remain at the hospital overnight. He will travel to Camp David the following day to spend a restful weekend at the presidential retreat. The spokesman said if more polyps are discovered during the examination, they probably will be removed at that time. The colonoscope, a long, flexible instrument that enables physicians to visually examine the inside of the intestinal wall, is equipped with a tiny wire snare that can excise polyps as they are discovered. AP photo Bandits' Coach Steve Spurrier, right, and backup quarterback Jimmy Jordan don't like the looks of what happened on the field during Sunday's playoff game against Oakland. === Page 10 of 29 6/30/85 Tribune photo Steve Spurrier was amazed at some of the calls that contributed to his team's playoff loss. === Page 11 of 29 T.B. Bandits PK # Suit against Bandits on docket today 7/11/85 Limited partners are seeking an injunction on the calling in of promissory notes. * State USFL coaches won't pick winner -- 11C By NICK PUGLIESE Tribune Sports Writer Two more plaintiffs may enjoin the civil suit filed by 15 of the Bandits' limited partners against the troubled United States Football League team when the case comes before Circuit Court Judge Morton Hanlon this afternoon. The suit, which will be heard today at 4 p.m., seeks a temporary injunction against the $200,000 promissory notes called in by NCNB National Bank of Florida three weeks ago. The upset limited partners also have requested a full accounting of the team's finances, and they are seeking damages in excess of $5,000 each for "fraudulent conspiracy" on the part of the Bandits. Tampa architect Lee Scarfone, one of the limited partners involved in the suit who also happens to be trying to put together a group to keep the Bandits in town, said the outcome of today's case depends on the See BANDITS, Page 11C Lee Scarfone # Bandits 7/11 * From Page 1C judge and the presentation of attorney George Phillips. "I know we sound like a bunch of poor losers," Scarfone said. "It's not a loss of money, but the manner in which it was called and the way it was handled. It's a little embarrassing being involved with an organization where people haven't been getting paid. We had a winner here and we became a loser." More and more unpaid Bandit bills are surfacing daily. "Ralph Campbell (the team's director of business operations) may be a nice guy, but he must have done something wrong to get this kind of response (from the limited partners)," Scarfone noted. "Something must be amiss." "A bunch of vendors haven't been paid and the players haven't been paid. The manner in which management has handled this situation has been less than desirable." Regarding the USFL Players Association's grievance against the Bandits for failing to pay the players the final week of the regular season, Scarfone sympathized with the players. "The problem is that management says 'We had some costs we didn't anticipate and some revenues we didn't collect,' " he said. "Any intelligent businessman knows you're supposed to anticipate all these things. You just don't throw up your hands and say you don't know what happened." Besides Scarfone, other limited partners involved in the suit are Donald Dizney (who also owns the Orlando Renegades), Dr. John Petrakis, Jack Bertoglio, Joseph Capitano, Joseph DiGerlando, Andrea Castellano, Dr. Felix LoCicero, Dr. Lawrence Kahana, James English, Concessions Inc. (two partners), John Provenzano, Cheryl Levenstein and Randolph McKean. Only seven of them -- Scarfone, Dizney, Petrakis, Capitano, DiGerlando, English and Concessions Inc. -- own full limited shares. The rest own part shares. The Bandits, whose weekly player payroll was approximately $300,000, aren't the only team in the league that has the USFLPA up in arms. The players union also has filed grievances against the Portland Breakers and the Houston Gamblers. The Breakers failed to meet their payroll the final week of the season while the Gamblers are two games in arrears. Also, an arbitrator should rule today on a previous grievance against the San Antonio Gunslingers, who have missed four payments. When Coach Steve Spurrier talked about a "cash-flow problem" at his final press conference, he apparently was speaking for a lot of teams in the league. === Page 12 of 29 # Bandits' investors sue team, bank over $200,000 note By NICK PUGLIESE and TOM McEWEN Tribune Sports Writers 7/4/85 T.B. Bandits PR Fifteen of the Bandits' limited partners have filed suit against the Tampa Bay franchise and NCNB National Bank of Florida seeking a temporary injunction against the $200,000 promissory notes the bank called in two weeks ago. The plaintiffs also are seeking damages in excess of $5,000 each for "fraudulent conspiracy" on the part of the Bandits, and have requested a full accounting of the team's finances. The suit, filed Wednesday in Hillsborough County Circuit Court, will be heard by Circuit Court Judge Morton Hanlon on July 11 at 4 p.m. It names Football Partners Limited, Tampa Sports Incorporated and Sunshine State Football Incorporated (three companies that own the Bandits), NCNB, general partner Steve Arky, director of business operations Ralph Campbell and managing general partner John Bassett as the defendants. The plaintiffs are Donald Dizney, Lee Scarfone, Dr. John Petrakis, Jack Bertoglio, Joseph Capitano, Joseph DiGerlando, Andrea Castellano, Dr. Felix LoCicero, Dr. Lawrence Kahana, James English, Concessions Inc. (two partners), John Provenzano, Cheryl Levenstein and Randolph McKean. Ironically, one of the items mentioned in the suit concerns the lack of territorial rights payments from the Jacksonville Bulls and Orlando Renegades, the latter which is owned by Dizney. In fact, at the United States Football League owners' meeting in New York Tuesday, Commissioner Harry Usher said he favored a Bandits-Renegades merger. Also, another plaintiff, Scarfone, is involved with a group of limited partners who would like to keep the Bandits in Tampa for the fall 1986 season. Scarfone, a Tampa architect, accompanied Campbell to New York on Tuesday. "We're simply making an inquiry as to how some of the funds were used," said Scarfone. "We want an accounting. Everybody loves John Bassett, but you can't get access to him for any information. Ralph Campbell is just an employee of the company. He doesn't have any power to act in his own behalf and, besides, he has enough problems." Campbell, who has been running the team while Bassett undergoes radiation treatment in Toronto for two brain tumors, had no comment on the suit. "At this point, I haven't seen anything," Campbell said. "We're trying our best to hold this thing together. I'm not sure what this does to us. We're trying to do what we can to come out with as much value in this franchise as possible." Bassett, who is totally divorced from John Bassett Enterprises, will undergo another CATscan on July 11 to determine the progress of the radiation treatments. He told the Tribune he was feeling fine. However, he did not watch the team's playoff loss to the Oakland Invaders on doctor's orders. Bassett probably feels as bad as anyone about what happened to the limited partners. Each investor has lost $300,000, their original $100,000 investment and the $200,000 promissory notes that were called in by NCNB two weeks ago. Many are upset, which led to Wednesday's suit. The first count of the suit seeks "action for injunction, accounting, damages and other relief accrued in Hillsborough County." The second count asks for the $5,000 in damages. Among the items listed under the first count was the charge that the defendants mismanaged and wasted the assets of the partnership by: * Issuing no financial statements since Sept. 30, 1984 despite frequent and constant requests. * Borrowing $4.75 million from the bank since May 24, 1983 on the strength of the credit standing of the plaintiffs -- without any accounting of the funds. * Not obtaining franchise fees from the other Florida teams (Jacksonville and Orlando). * Making "improper loans" to players and potential players, including wide receiver Cris Collinsworth, who received a loan in excess of $500,000 that was payable in the year 2010 with no interest. * Entering into "unrealistic contracts" with players inconsistent with the proposed budget of the Bandits. * Making public statements that the USFL "would not survive as a league entity with the effect that the morale of the Bandits was ruined, affecting the performance of the team on the field and affecting the revenues received by the partnership." * Failing to pay rental fees for Tampa Stadium to the Tampa Sports Authority, as well as player compensation when due per contract. Scarfone made it clear the suit had nothing to do with his efforts to keep the Bandits in Tampa. "I have an interest in keeping the Bandits alive and in the Tampa community," he said. "If there is any way possible, I'd love to do it. "After attending the meeting in New York, I'm very impressed with the strength of the league, although I realize there are some serious decisions to be made. The demise of the Bandits has been disheartening not only to the investors but to a lot of other people, such as the fans." Scarfone said the franchise faces four options: remaining in Tampa with a new group of owners, relocating to another city, merging with Jacksonville or Orlando, or folding. He said he preferred the first option. "I'm personally convinced the league is going to survive and I want to try to keep the Bandits as an entity," he said. The Florida Times-Union reported Wednesday that the Bandits, Renegades and Bulls all would merge and play in the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville in 1986. Campbell wouldn't confirm the report, but said the Bandits were pursuing all options. "Folks all have an opinion as to how they think this thing should be done," he said. "Obviously that would take a lot of thought and negotiating. But it would make for a pretty strong team, I guess." By NICK PUGLIESE Tribune Sports Writer It all began on May 11, 1982, and, for all intents and purposes, came to an end Sunday afternoon when the Oakland Invaders defeated the Tampa Bay Bandits 30-27 to eliminate them from the United States Football League playoffs. In between those dates, there have been plenty of highs and, unfortunately for the franchise, quite a few lows. The highs included turning into the model team of the USFL, both on the field and off it. Of course, the lowest points have come this season as owner John Bassett was stricken with two inoperable brain tumors, the Bandits fell out of favor with the rest of the league, the team ended up on the market, the fans started staying away and there were losses in six of the last seven games. Spring football may have been a joke in many parts of the country, but there's no doubt it worked in Tampa -- for a while. === Page 13 of 29 # Rauch tosses barbs at Bandits, Bassett T.B. Bandits PK 7/4/85 Tribune Wires The United States Football League faces certain extinction if it proceeds with a planned shift to the fall, the former director of football operations for the Bandits told UPI Wednesday. John Rauch, a former NFL head coach with the Buffalo Bills and Raiders, resigned from his Bandits' post May 9 after a dispute with principal owner John Bassett concerning who owns the club's player contracts. Bassett claimed the contracts belonged to the Bandits while Rauch indicated the USFL had control. "I don't see how the league can survive under the fall format," said Rauch Wednesday. "Knowing how much in debt certain clubs are, I don't see anyone pouring money into them to help the franchises continue. It doesn't appear to me anyone wants the league to play in the fall. ... I can't see anybody in his right mind pouring money down the drain to carry an insecure franchise." Rauch is waiting at home for a call from an NFL team inviting him to return to his first love -- coaching. He needs one more season in the NFL to reach the 15-year plateau, a level that will increase his pension significantly. "My first two years with the Bandits I was extremely happy to the point of being ecstatic," said Rauch, who served as an assistant coach and director of scouting in his first two seasons with Tampa Bay. "My mistake was letting myself get into this position of director of football operations, which is just doing what other people tell you to do. It just wasn't my bag. I'm a football man. I should have been smart enough to avoid being a secretary for Mr. Bassett and Steve (General Partner Steve Arky)." Bassett, confined to Toronto the past two months for treatment of two brain tumors, has turned over control of the Bandits to director of business operations Ralph Campbell and his plans for a multi-sport league beginning in the spring of 1986 have been shelved. Rauch said those plans were bogus, anyway. "That thing of his about a world sports league comes from Mars," Rauch said. "You don't have to be too smart to realize it's a con job." # USFL Players Association files claim against Bandits T.B. Bandits PK 7/10/85 Most of the team's players have not been payed for the final week of the season. By NICK PUGLIESE Tribune Sports Writer The United States Football League Players Association has filed a grievance against the Bandits, who haven't paid their players for the final week of the regular season. Approximately 45 of the team's 50 players, who received their 17th paycheck a few days late, have been waiting for their 18th and final regular-season paycheck since June 25. On Tuesday, The Orlando Sentinel reported the Orlando Renegades have sent a written request to the league office about a possible merger with the Bandits. However, Ralph Campbell, Bandits director of business operations, said he has not seen any such proposal and he knew nothing about it. === Page 14 of 29 7/2/85 By TOM FORD Tribune Sports Writer OAKLAND -- The end had never been accompanied by such an air of finality. For the 43 Bandits who made the long and fruitless trip here, Sunday's 30-27 playoff loss to the Oakland Invaders was not just the final episode of a soap opera season; it signalled the end of an era. The Tampa Bay franchise, once the standard-bearer of the United States Football League, will not exist in its current form much longer. Owner John Bassett, who lost more than $1 million in personal funds, could not devote time to saving his team. Afflicted with two brain tumors, Bassett's biggest concern is to fight for his life. The Bandits may move to a city with a USFL vacancy or merge with a team in need of an infusion, a team like the Orlando Renegades. It is a longshot that the Bandits will remain in Tampa under new ownership. "Like I told the guys," Bandits Coach Steve Spurrier said after the last-second defeat, "I enjoyed coaching them. I don't know if I'll ever coach them again, but I enjoyed the time we had together." The fate of the men who played the game is unknown. All that is certain is this: If a buyer is not found by Aug. 1, the team must release at least 15 players. The USFL plans to play in the fall of 1986 and the collective bargaining agreement between the players' union and league management calls for a reduction in roster size from 50 to 35 during the waiting period. The 35 players who are retained by each team will be paid 30 percent of their salaries until training camps open a year from now. Teams may keep fewer than 35, however, and one Bandits player said last week a management official told him only 10 may be frozen. The minimum 15 players released by each team will become free agents and, with most National Football League camps opening in mid-July, will have ample opportunity to find jobs in the NFL. Whatever happens, it is obvious the team football fans in Tampa supported in record numbers for three years -- the Bandits were overall attendance leaders in the league's brief springtime history -- will have an almost entirely different look in whatever form it survives. For that reason, the manner of Sunday's loss was something the Bandits were proud of. "You have to respect every guy on this team," said defensive end Mike Clark. "Nobody knows where we're going or what the future holds. "Nobody in their right mind would say they weren't concerned." Apparently, all but six Bandits are currently under contract to the USFL for at least one more year. Offensive tackle Dan Fike, linebacker James Harrell, offensive guard Chuck Pitcock, safety Doug Beaudoin, defensive end James Ramey and wide receiver Spencer Jackson are free agents. Fike has signed a three-year contract with the Cleveland Browns of the NFL and will report for preseason drills on July 15. Harrell may return to Detroit and play for the Lions, while Pitcock said three NFL teams have indicated they could use him. "Detroit holds my rights and has expressed a strong interest," said Harrell, who spent five seasons with the Lions. Pitcock played three seasons in the USFL after unsuccessful attempts to earn a spot with two NFL teams, and is ready to try again in the established league. Beaudoin will retire, unless something unexpected develops. Ramey and Jackson probably will wind up somewhere in the USFL. "I still think I can play," said Beaudoin, 31, and a veteran of nine pro seasons. "I'll probably go into brokerage. If somebody called from either league, though, I'd listen." There may soon be one more free agent to add to the list. Quarterback John Reaves, 35, has a year remaining on his contract. But there is a stipulation that the Bandits must pay Reaves a $25,000 roster bonus within 14 days if they want to retain him. Reaves says he has been told they will not exercise that option. Reaves, who indicated "five or six" NFL teams are interested in him, put the tentativeness of the situation in perspective when he remarked, "Like Coach Spurrier said, we'll all be free agents, the way it's looking now." The player with the most star potential, running back Gary Anderson, has one season remaining on his original four-year deal. There were reports recently that Anderson might escape his contract because he was obligated to play only "spring" football. However, Doug Allen, executive director of the USFL Players Association, has said the union had voted approval of an owners' request that contracts encompass the fall season. Allen added that he anticipated some legal action in which players would nonetheless attempt to prove their contracts invalid. Defensive end Mike Butler, who is committed to the USFL through 1987, may try to return to the Green Bay Packers. Possibly, Butler could buy out his contract, a transaction free safety Marcus Quinn has hinted may also free him. Quinn said after Sunday's game that the Bandits have owed him a $50,000 bonus since May 15. "I'm going to have to look and see what's available to me," said Quinn. It does not appear the majority of the Bandits will be in as enviable a situation. Twenty-eight of Sunday's 50 rostered Bandits (seven were deactivated for the game) came to the USFL from the NFL or Canadian Football League. Only Harrell and Butler had a choice in the matter. They played out their options and signed with the Bandits for more money. The other 26 had been branded inferior, either physically or intellectually, and for most of them, the USFL was the last opportunity to make a living playing football. In many instances, the detractors have been proven wrong. Tight end Marvin Harvey, a former member of the Kansas City Chiefs, showed he could play in any league. Larry Brodsky, a wide receiver considered too slow, blossomed into one of the most dependable pass catchers in the game. He, too, had been overlooked by the NFL. Brodsky's play pleased the Bandits so much that they gave him a contract extension earlier this season through 1989. Shortly thereafter, the Bucs, unaware of Brodsky's commitment, inquired about his availability. "When I signed, the whole idea was to play for Mr. Bassett, here in the state, near my family (in the Miami area). Money was secondary," said Brodsky. But for most of the players who shared the camaraderie of a locker room for the final time as a group Sunday, home always will be in Tampa. And Tampa will always mean the Bandits. === Page 15 of 29 # College ranks lie ahead for most of the team's coaching staff THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Tuesday, July 2, 1985 By NICK PUGLIESE Tribune Sports Writer Trib. 7/2/85 Bandits PK On the day after a football game, Bandits Coach Steve Spurrier usually dissects films with the rest of his coaches. However, Spurrier played golf with his son Monday morning before facing the media at his weekly press conference. Such is the life of the football coach in limbo -- or until the Bandits' future becomes clearer than it is right now. "I'll guess I'll get out the fishing poles and golf clubs or whatever guys do in the off-season," Spurrier said when asked what his immediate plans were following Tampa Bay's quick exit from the playoffs via the Oakland Invaders' 30-27 victory. "I'll wait around and see what happens," he said. "Realistically, all our coaches are looking for a job down the road. There are no jobs right now. December and January, that's when the coaching jobs open up." One member of Spurrier's staff, secondary coach Charlie Lyle, already has found employment elsewhere. Lyle, one of the first coaches Spurrier hired, will become an administrative assistant for South Carolina head football coach Joe Morrison. Lyle said when Morrison first offered him the job, he told Lyle to take his time getting to Gamecock Country. But Morrison was on the telephone Monday looking for his new coach. Lyle spent the better part of the day saying farewell to his former players. "What makes it all worthwhile is when all your players come in to say goodbye," Lyle said. Most of the other Tampa Bay coaches probably will end up in the college ranks also, although offensive line coach Rich McGeorge may return to the Birmingham Stallions, or even follow Coach Rollie Dotsch to the National Football League. Spurrier said all the assistant coaches have been paid through the season, although the last two paychecks have been late and should be coming in soon. "As everyone knows, the cash flow's been a little short," Spurrier said. "We're all sort of in a holding pattern." That's not the case with most of the front-office employees, who have received their severance pay. Many of them already have found other jobs, too. One who is still with the franchise is Marketing Director Jim McVay, who has taken a wait-and-see attitude. **Marketing Director Jim McVay will wait before making any decisions.** "I'm waiting to see what takes place with the franchise," said McVay, alluding to a possible merger or relocation of the Bandits. "Many options are being explored. There are too many unanswered questions to come up with concrete plans." Thanks to Tampa Bay's successful promotions and marketing, McVay has been very much in demand. "We are very visible around the country," he said. "There are a million opportunities out there for all our marketing people. We are proud of what we've done here." Dave Jovanovic, the Bandits' director of media and public relations the last two seasons, said he would look for a job in the same field. In the meantime, he said he'll help his wife, Shirley, with her "Sunshine Classroom," a state-wide teachers exchange newspaper. "I'm just going to fade into the sunset like an old Western hero," Jovanovic said. "We've produced a good product here. Everybody worked well together. It's kind of like a family breaking up." Trainer Jim Russ probably could beat out a lot of his peers, but he said he may just chunk being the trainer of a pro football team for something new. Two other members of the Bandits' family, who happen to be husband-wife, also think they'll land on their feet. For three years, Tim Sain has been the team's equipment manager while his wife, Nancy, has been the secretary/receptionist for the coaching staff. "We're going to concentrate on Tim's career," said Nancy. "Every day, you knew it was getting closer and closer to the end," she said. "We've been delighted to be a part of it. It's the first time I ever did something like this. It was a real good experience even if it had to end this way." === Page 16 of 29 Trib # Morning After * From Page 1C 7/2/85 In the ticket office, clerks were preparing to send back to season ticket-holders deposits sent for the playoffs that would not be held in Tampa Stadium. Ralph Campbell, general manager, was at his desk sorting out bills, messages, suggestions, plans. It simply is a down time for the Tampa Bay Bandits as we have known them. The great pity is that the Bandits in their three-year life contributed so much to so many people in so many ways. The single, great, regrettable downside is that the partners lost their investments, and for the limited partners who put up $300,000, surely it is hard to see much good in it all. That is the single, great, regrettable downside presuming all other Bandit debts will be paid. "We will do all in our power to see that happen," said Campbell. It has been the John Bassett reputation throughout his sports adventures to pay all debts, even at great personal loss. Bassett is, however, not now attending his businesses. His trustees are, as he fights the brain tumors that slowed him so. I mean the Bandits produced $3.6 million in gross profit to the Tampa Sports Authority over three seasons, generated more than $30,000 for the United Way. They produced jobs, new business, provided an entertaining spring and summer recreation, a new sports tie for the unattached (and some attached). They brought Burt Reynolds and entourage to town repeatedly, developed Smokey and The Bandit, a Jerry Reed song, "Banditball." They provided new souvenirs, gave away some cars and paid some mortgages, got tackle Dan Fike a job with the Cleveland Browns (by his performance), gave Spurrier a chance as a head coach, presented quarterback John Reaves a new beginning, turned up E.T. Truvillion and Greg Boone, or "Eeeeee....Ttttttttt," and "Boooooooone." They developed the biggest Christian Chapel in the USFL, gave Jimmy Jordan another chance, and Larry Brodsky, and Fred Nordgren and Martin Harvey and so many more. They gave us the only mascot to strike, and thereafter be replaced, a hurry-up offense, many more wins than losses, the impressive Bandit logo and cheerleaders, fireworks, a locker room in which there has been little to no profanity. They gave us Bassett himself and his vast financial investments in the area, none of which has been withdrawn, contrary to some reports, though in time there may be position and purpose chances depending on his health. The club was Spurrier's Banditball, not as productive in winning as all involved would have hoped, but always daredevilish and fan-appealing, and its overall attitude was fan-oriented. The cold hard fact is that the Bandits needed more defense from the start, but the concentration was on offense from that start and hardly varied. Now, not even that would have mattered had the USFL not decided to go to the fall. They gave us untold national (and international) publicity, focusing attention on Tampa Bay once more, and in a good light because of their attitude and style, because of managing general partner Bassett (and tennis playing daughter Carling), because of the USFL title game being played here, because the media look with great favor on the Bandits and Tampa Bay. They gave us a tremendously rending story, this one that continues to develop, the one that began when Red Lowry brought Bassett and Campbell to the Tribune sports department on Feb. 9, 1982, to advise that the plans were in the works for what would become the Tampa Bay-based Bandits, the United States Football League. They were born on May 11, 1982, with an announcement in the 21 Club in New York City. And unless there is to be breath breathed into them from a resurrecting source not now known, the Bandits died with that woeful loss in faraway Oakland Sunday afternoon. "I think we gave the people a show," said Spurrier. "I hope so. I hope they'll remember us as a good time." "I don't think," said Lyle, a coach for the defense, "anyone will ever forget Banditball." # Campbell * From Page 1C was one existing the league allowed to be moved to Miami, then to Orlando. "That is one source of income we consider when we talk of receivables," said Campbell. Another is television money from ABC, which ABC is contesting and about which the USFL has filed a lawsuit in a Tampa circuit court. No hearing date has been set. ABC is contesting the amount because of major franchises that failed or moved from Chicago, Detroit, Washington and other big cities. "About the only thing that has happened different is that the season is over for us," said Campbell. "Our kids played hard but lost. Now we can devote full time to settling the team's future." Campbell reaffirmed that Bassett Enterprises is out of the football business. Called in previously were payments of $200,000 from limited partners. That money goes to the bank in repayment of a loan. The loan money has been spent. The Bandits have reduced their office staff considerably and "we have sought to place all of our people," said Campbell. "It is all very amicable. They understand, I think." The Bandits and Bandit coaches are behind one payday only. The league was responsible for payment for the playoff game lost in Oakland 30-27 Sunday. All Bandit coaches' contracts, including that of Head Coach Steve Spurrier, end with the end of this current season. "These are sad times for us," said Campbell. "No one wanted it to end like this." In Toronto, Bassett reportedly continues in his fight against brain tumors. === Page 17 of 29 # Point-after calls irritate Spurrier Bandits Coach Steve Spurrier termed the back-to-back penalties that cost his team a crucial point after touchdown "minor league." By NICK PUGLIESE Tribune Sports Writer Trib 6/30/85 Ever since the Bandits took on the United States Football League earlier this season, Coach Steve Spurrier has worried about a crucial call going against his team. Sunday, Spurrier's worst fears may have been realized in Tampa Bay's 30-27 playoff loss to the Oakland Invaders, which ended the season and perhaps the existence of the Bandits. One flag in particular bothered Spurrier so much that he called the USFL a minor league Monday at his final press conference of the season. The disputed call came on the extra-point attempt following John Reaves' 15-yard touchdown pass to Willie Gillespie that tied the score at 27-27 with 9:41 left. The Bandits were penalized for having two offensive linemen lock legs as the first kick sailed through the uprights. On the second try for one point, Greg Boone was nailed for tripping. Facing what amounted to a 35-yard field goal instead of a simple PAT, Zenon Andrusyshyn hit a knuckleball that missed the mark and left the contest tied. Monday afternoon, it was Spurrier who was fit to be tied. "The only thing about yesterday's game that irritated me was the call on the extra-point," Spurrier said. "I really wonder if it was an NFL playoff game with the score tied at 27-all and two teams going after each other, if they could flip a little flag in there for two guys locking legs. That's a call that's sometimes made in an exhibition game when a team is two or three touchdowns ahead. "In a crucial playoff game like that, I can't understand how the guy could pitch it in there. I'm not saying it cost us the game, but it was a big factor at the time." When asked about a possible conspiracy by the league against the Bandits, who threatened to pull out of the USFL but are now looking at a possible merger or relocation within the league, Spurrier shrugged it off. "We had a lot of chances," he said. "I just wonder if that would have happened in the big leagues. To me, calls like that hurt the league on a whole. That was a minor-league call. "When things are going bad for you, you get a tough time getting the judgment calls," he added. "But we had some good calls yesterday. It wasn't like they all went against us." However, enough things went against the Bandits so that instead of preparing for the next round of the playoffs, coaches and players spent Monday saying goodbyes and packing. For instance, there was the blocked punt on the team's first series. While the Invaders turned the ball right back on James Harrell's interception, the turnover set the tone for the Bandits. "Somebody came up the middle," Spurrier said. "I haven't seen the film yet. I don't know where our fullback went." There also was Gary Anderson's apparent 54-yard TD run in the second quarter, which was shortened to 40 yards when the officials ruled he stepped out of bounds at the Oakland 14-yard line. Spurrier challenged the call, but there was no instant replay available as ABC had broken away to cover the hostages' release. "I don't think he stepped out of bounds and Gary said he didn't step out," he said. "There was just no replay available." Spurrier said the flight home from the West Coast was subdued at first. Then, the loss set in and the players and coaches came to life. "It was kind of quiet for a while," he said. "But when it's over, it's over. You can't get it back. The guys get along well with each other. A few guys were shaking hands and saying they enjoyed playing with each other and playing for their coach." # Reaves 6/28/85 * From Page 1C The Bandits are for sale. They could merge with the Orlando Renegades, be moved to another city, remain in Tampa under new ownership, or the players might be placed in a dispersal draft. The only certainty is that John Bassett Enterprises will not own the team after this season. If the Bandits are not sold by Aug. 1, the team must release at least 15 of the players on the current roster, which stands at 50. The collective bargaining agreement between management and the USFL players' association maintains that 35 players may be protected and that those players will receive 30 percent of their salary until camp opens for the 1986 fall season. It seems doubtful Reaves will be one of the players protected, despite the fact he has helped lead the team to consecutive playoff berths. The uncertainty surrounding the franchise and the worth of Reaves' contract (reported at $450,000 with incentives and bonuses over this season and next) make it seem likely he will be moving on. Reaves, 35, missed the first three days of training camp this season over a contract dispute. His agent at the time, Don Daibosco, insisted the second year of the agreement be guaranteed. It was not, but Reaves decided to sign anyway. If Reaves does not stay with the Bandits, the only veteran will be Jimmy Jordan, who came to the team with Reaves in 1983. === Page 18 of 29 # 'Z' checks out before writing final chapter T. Bey Bandits PK By TOM FORD Tribune Sports Writer 6/30/85 OAKLAND -- "I'm sorry ... I can't do it." Zenon Andrusyshyn's journalistic career came to a sudden end on Sunday. Andrusyshyn, who for six days wrote a playoff diary for the Tribune, spoke those words as he walked to the locker room at Oakland Alameda County Coliseum. The Bandits were beaten 30-27 by the Oakland Invaders on a 23-yard Novo Bojovic field goal as time expired. It had been the opposite kind of day for Andrusyshyn, who had a punt blocked, missed a 28-yard field goal attempt in the first half and failed on an extra-point try late in the fourth period that would have given the Bandits a 28-27 lead. That point-after kick, however, was anything but automatic. Two consecutive penalties resulted in a 35-yard attempt by Andrusyshyn. "In all the years I have been playing football," said Andrusyshyn, who concluded his 15th professional season, "I have never seen so many calls on PATs." Earlier, a penalty forced Bojovic to convert a point-after from 25 yards. He made it. "I had to try what amounted to a 35-yard extra point," said Andrusyshyn. "I hit the ball with the side of my foot. I just didn't get a good hit on it." And that was all. There would be none of the descriptive elaboration that had marked Andrusyshyn's short-lived journalistic career. "He's really down," said Bandits quarterback John Reaves. "He has no reason to be. 'Z' is a great man. He has done a great job for us for three years. "I know how he felt. I've felt that way before. He has nothing to be ashamed of." ## Morning After * **From Page 1C** 6/30/85 minutes left in the game. Victory was a field goal away, victory and an advance in the United States Football League playoffs, and, another payday for the players. Greg Boone got three yards to the left. Reaves was sacked back to the 14. Reaves was sacked back to the 4. He had been sacked one other time all day. Andrusyshyn punted to the 40. Oakland carefully worked the ball to field goal range and victory belonged to the Invaders, 30-27. "We had the ball with the game tied," said Spurrier, "and we went backwards." It was a course on which the Bandits have been for some time. In New Jersey, perhaps Yogi turned the channel and said to his wife, "It's over." Somewhere else the fat lady sang. The Bandits are no more this year. Probably forever. Sigh. Coach Steve Spurrier. An Andrusyshyn punt was blocked in the first series of downs, after a first down effort was nixed by a Spencer Jackson illegal motion. Running back Gary Anderson, who had a brilliant day, fumbled on the second possession and Oakland turned that into a 3-0 lead. Reaves was intercepted at the Oakland two on the next possession. But, the Bandits rallied for a 14-10 lead, then one of 17-14, also led 21-20, then shared the lead at 27-27 before losing. "We had a lot of chances to score a lot of points," said Spurrier. The Bandits should have led 21-10 at one point, but didn't. "It was too many bad plays that stopped us," Spurrier emphasized. And then came the final opportunity, the game tied at 27-27, Tampa in possession at its own 20 after Oakland's missed chipshot field goal, a little more than four **See MORNING AFTER, Page 10C** 6/30/85 And there were other Bandit failings. That, coupled with the good passing of Invader quarterback Bobby Hebert and the great receiving of his pass-catchers, was simply too much for a team on the downside. It probably can be said that the Bandits played about as well as they could, with what they now have to play, with their future so uncertain, and the haunting inability to come from behind with the marginal points. That circumstance detracts from the several good individual efforts for Tampa Sunday and causes this sad season to end particularly sadly. Appropriate, sure, but sad, perhaps even cruel. Moreover, there seems to be something wrong with a system in which the team that won the game won before only 19,000 fans and that was pridefully announced as "the fourth largest of the season." Bandits quarterback John Reaves said of his team, "Our guys are very disappointed but they played as hard as they could." But, hard was not good enough, and has seldom been lately. "We came out stumbling and turning it over," said **Temporarily out of service.** When Anderson took off on a 40-yard run in the second quarter, Coach Steve Spurrier asked for a replay because he felt Anderson did not step out of bounds at the Invaders' 14-yard line. There was one problem. Because ABC had broken away for coverage of the hostages' release, no replay capabilities were available. "Twice this year I've called for a replay and they said they accidentally didn't have one," said Spurrier. Anderson got credit for the 40-yard gallop, second-longest in USFL playoff history to a 54-yard run by Kelvin Bryant of the then-Philadelphia Stars. The Bandits failed to score on the possession. Wide receiver Steve Carter, free in the right corner of the end zone, dropped Reaves' pass attempt from the 14. Then Zenon Andrusyshyn missed wide right on a 28-yard field goal try with 57 seconds remaining. It was a tough day for the Z-man. When his first-quarter punt was blocked, it marked only the second time in 1,551 attempts that had happened. It had never happened during his three years with the Bandits. === Page 19 of 29 Bandits 6/30/85 * From Page 1C Baltimore, the Bandits turned the ball over three times in the first quarter. But the previous opponent took advantage of their graciousness and scored 14 points. The Invaders got only three. "This time there couldn't be a letdown by the defense," said end Mike Clark. "We knew we had to put out the effort because there wouldn't be a next time." The Bandits had to punt the first time they had the ball because a motion penalty on wide receiver Spencer Jackson nullified a two-yard gain by Anderson on fourth-and-one from the Tampa 44. Andrusyshyn's punt was blocked by John Sullivan. The Bandits' Alonzo Johnson recovered at the 24, where he was downed. The Bandits got the ball right back when Harrell, running at an angle to the goal posts, intercepted Hebert's pass at the 2. Although Harrell's momentum carried him into the end zone, the ball was inexplicably marked at the 2 instead of the 20, as it would have been had officials ruled a touchback. "The referee told me when you intercept the ball inside the 5-yard line and go into the end zone like I did, the ball comes out to the 5," said Harrell. But the ball was marked at the 2, which prompted safety Marcus Quinn to say of the officials, "They just blew it, man, plain and simple." The poor field position was to the Invaders' advantage, because on third-and-one at the 11, a low handoff exchange resulted in a fumble by Gary Anderson and recovery at the 14 by cornerback Vito McKeever. The Invaders were set back to the 29 due to a roughness call on safety David Greenwood. Seven plays and a mere nine yards later, Bojovic put Oakland ahead 3-0 with a 37-yard field goal. Seemingly ready to take the lead after moving from their 32 to the Oakland 21 following the kickoff, the Bandits, suffered turnover No. 3 of the quarter when Reaves' pass intended for Willie Gillespie was intercepted by cornerback Oliver Davis at the 6. Gillespie slipped making a move for the ball, Davis picked it off and returned 12 yards to the Oakland 18. "We gave them some opportunities to get way ahead," said Spurrier, who would watch his defense hold the Invaders again, "but they didn't take advantage of them." The Bandits went the distance on their next possession, travelling 69 yards in seven plays. Anderson's 28-yard run and a 23-yard reception by Gillespie keyed a drive that ended when Reaves passed five yards to Jackson. The Bandits led 7-3 with 10:58 left in the half. Jackson would have one of his best games of the season, catching five passes for 87 yards, and said the knowledge that this might be the last game ever for the Bandits brought out the best in most players. "It was either do or die," he said, "so we had no choice but to keep coming back." A third-down blitz and sack of Hebert for a 12-yard loss by tackle Ken Times forced a punt and gave the Bandits the ball at their 27 with 8:31 left in the half. Times was playing more than usually because Mike Butler left the game for good in the first quarter due to a broken middle finger on his left hand. "We figured if we got a good pass rush, Hebert might throw the ball just about anywhere, because he tends to do that," said Mike Clark. "With Butler out of there it was clear we'd have to pull together and have great effort." The sack put the ball back in the Bandits' hands and gave Anderson a chance to show off. On the first play, he outran linebacker Ray Bentley down the left sideline, caught Reaves' perfectly thrown pass near the Oakland 40 and ran away from his pursuers to complete a 73-yard scoring play, longest in league playoff history. Hebert's 25-yard touchdown pass to Derek Holloway ended an eight-play, 80-yard drive that cut the Invaders' deficit to 14-10 with 3:30 remaining in the half. A 40-yard run by Anderson moved the Bandits into position for another score before the half, but Steve Carter dropped Reaves' pass in the end zone and Andrusyshyn's 28-yard field goal attempt was wide right. Still, the Bandits led by four at the half and, "that had us all fired up in the locker room," said Mike Clark. Oakland went ahead 17-14 at 12:30 of the third quarter when Hebert hit back-to-back completions for 39 yards to Gordon Banks and 40 to Anthony Carter, the latter for the touchdown. Interceptions on three consecutive series followed: McKeever stole one from Reaves, cornerback Mike Thurman made an over-the-head catch of an Hebert throw into the endzone, and Oliver Davis made his second off Reaves at the Oakland 39. Bojovic's 52-yard field goal put Oakland ahead 20-14 with 5:22 left in the third quarter, but the Bandits regained the lead 21-20 on Reaves' 6-yard run -- his first running TD in 10 years. A 35-yard reception by Larry Brodsky aided the drive that ended at the 2:28 mark. The Invaders came back, bolstered by a 41-yard catch by Holloway that put the ball on the 1-yard line. Fullback Tom Newton scored on the next play, making it 26-21, and Oakland went for two. Hebert hit Mike Shumann, but the conversion was nullified by a hold. Bojovic kicked a 30-yard extra point for the 27-21 lead. Carter's team-record 54-yard kickoff return got the Bandits headed toward the tying touchdown, which occurred when Reaves passed 15 yards to Gillespie with 9:41 left. The episode involving the extra-point followed and it ended with the game still tied. Bojovic would miss a 30-yard field goal attempt with 5:14 left, but consecutive sacks of Reaves forced a punt and the Invaders used the final 2:54 to move from the Bandits 40 to the 5, which is where the ball rested when Bojovic came in to win the game. His kick was a perfect ending for the Invaders. It may have been the end, period, for the Bandits. === Page 20 of 29 General manager trying to strike deal for team By TOM McEWEN Tribune Sports Editor 7/2/85 Ralph Campbell is in New York, where he will try to salvage something for the franchise. The season ended for his team, General Manager Ralph Campbell headed for New York City Monday night in search of a buyer, a merger, anything but the nothing that could mean death of the Tampa Bay Bandits as a team. United States Football League owners meet in New York the next couple of days. Campbell has an appointment with USFL President Harry Usher, who recognizes the Bandits still as a member of the league and therefore saleable or merger bait. Campbell left with one Bandit payday missed -- that prior to the last regular-season game -- and his office staff being disassembled. He left with money still to be collected, he said, and money still to be paid to debtors. He left with a glimmer of hope that a Tampa coalition might seek to keep the team as Bandits, in Tampa. "I can't comment on that," he said. "But, it is a slight alternative." More likely, he feels, is a sale and move of the Bandits intact to Chicago, where Eddie Einhorn hopes to put a team for the 1986 fall season the USFL hopes to play. And a possibility still is a merger of the Bandits with an existing team. Orlando has been mentioned as a possibility, but owner Don Dizney cancelled appointments with Campbell to discuss the idea and has had no further formal contact. Jacksonville was mentioned as a merger possibility but owner Fred Bullard is not rolling in money accumulated from his ownership of the Bull team. Both Bullard and Dizney owe the Bandits money for franchise rights, in the minds of Campbell. Managing General Partner John Bassett, ill in Toronto and no longer involved in negotiations, had the USFL rights to Florida. Ostensibly, Jacksonville and Orlando had to pay him to play in the USFL. Bullard has not contested the fee but has not paid all the Bandits say they have coming. Dizney is contesting the fee, saying his team See CAMPBELL, Page 7 T. Bay Bandits PK 0.5B 6/29/85 Reaves May Be A Free Agent TAMPA (AP) -- Tampa Bay Bandits quarterback John Reaves says he expects to become a free agent after the United States Football League playoffs. Reaves said Thursday his contract stipulates that if the Bandits want to keep him they have to pay him a $25,000 roster bonus within 14 days of the team's final game. The Bandits play at Oakland Sunday in a first-round USFL playoff game. The league championship game is scheduled for July 14. Reaves said he's been told that Bandits' owner John Bassett will not exercise an option to keep him. "My agent talked with Mr. Bassett the other day and he said they weren't going to exercise their option," Reaves said. "That would make me a free agent." T. Bay Bandits PK Teammates and coaches with the Bandits often kid place-kicker Zenon Andrusyshyn about being the "official team spokesman." All joking aside, few people know as much about what makes the Bandits tick as the man called "Z." He is a charter member of the team and in the days leading to this weekend's playoff game -- and in the wake of Sunday's 38-10 loss to the Baltimore Stars -- Andrusyshyn will share his impressions with Tribune readers. T. Trib. 6/25/85 Leaving Baltimore Sunday, personally my feelings -- and I'm sure a lot of players would echo them -- was one of extreme disappointment. But that was the atmosphere on the plane ride back for only a while. Pretty soon, people began communicating. I was sitting next to John Reaves and I said, "John, if you had a statement to describe this year, what would you say?" He said, "Very, very sad." I asked him why and he talked about our owner John Bassett and his illness, the demise of the team, the demise of the league, and the way the team has played as far as being so inconsistent. I said, "Why don't we look at some positive things?" I meant the last three years, how well the Bandits have done, being in the playoffs, and the fact that a guy like myself and a guy like John didn't have much chance of playing football three years ago. T. Bay Bandits PK Dizney 'Very Interested' In Merging Bandits, 'Gades 0.5B 6/19/85 TAMPA (AP) -- Orlando Renegades managing partner Don Dizney says while he's not made an offer to buy the Tampa Bay Bandits, he's "very interested" in merging the two USFL clubs and moving the Bandits to Orlando. Dizney confirmed Monday that he has had financial discussions with Ralph Campbell, the Bandits' business operations director who is running the team in the absence of ailing managing partner John Bassett. Campbell has said that the Bandits will be sold or merged with another United States Football League team because Bassett's health has forced his plans for a new spring league to be placed on hold. Bassett wanted to form a new league because he opposes the USFL's move to the fall. He's in Toronto being treated for brain tumors. Tampa is 10-7 and headed for the playoffs as a wild card team. Orlando is 4-13. The Renegades play their final game of the season Friday, hosting the Los Angeles Express. Game time is 8 p.m. Campbell has said that three groups, including Dizney's, have reached the point of specific negotiations with the Bandits. === Page 21 of 29 John Reaves expects to become a free agent following the Bandits' season. # Bandits won't exercise option to keep Reaves T. Bay Bandits PK T. Bay Trib 6/25/85 The quarterback says several NFL teams have expressed an interest in his services. By TOM FORD Tribune Sports Writer Quarterback John Reaves expects to become a free agent two weeks after the Bandits' season ends because he said he has been told the team will not exercise its option to keep him. Reaves said Thursday his contract stipulates that if the Bandits want to retain his services they must pay him a $25,000 roster bonus within 14 days of the team's final game. The Bandits have a first-round USFL playoff game at Oakland on Sunday. The league championship will be decided on July 14. "My agent talked with (Bandits' owner) Mr. (John) Bassett the other day and he (Bassett) said they weren't going to exercise their option," said Reaves, who is represented by Jim Neader. "That would make me a free agent and several NFL teams have expressed an interest in me." (Coach) Steve Spurrier and the Tampa Bay Bandits, but when Mr. Bassett informed us they were not going to exercise their option on me we had no choice but to talk to other teams." Bassett is being treated for two brain tumors in Toronto. Bandits General Manager Ralph Campbell, who is heading operations in his absence, said he had not talked to Bassett or Reaves about the roster bonus clause. "Obviously, it is important and needs to be taken care of," said Campbell, "but I have not gotten to it yet." See REAVES, Page 7C T. Bay Bandits PK T. Bay Trib. 6/17/85 The Bandits' "mission" is on again. Of course, it was never canceled, according to free safety Marcus Quinn. Despite Tampa Bay's four straight losses and growing off-the-field problems, many of the players never lost faith that the team would turn things around and make the playoffs. Not only did those things happen Saturday night at muggy Tampa Stadium, but they came at the expense of a team that has owned the Bandits in the recent past. Final score: Tampa Bay 17, Birmingham Stallions 14. "No one in here is a loser," said Quinn, who picked off a pair of passes to help the Bandits qualify for post-season play for the second-straight season. "During the four-game drought, we were playing hard, but a play here or there was beating us. Tonight, we didn't beat ourselves. "We still have a mission. It's never been off." Quinn would have to admit the mission was put on hold while Tampa Bay turned "Banditball" into "Blunderball" the last four weeks. Saturday night, it was the Eastern Conference-leading Stallions who turned the ball over time after time as they fell to 12-5. "Turnovers were the big thing," Coach # Nick Pugliese Steve Spurrier said of the Bandits' five interceptions. The head coach, smiling in the post-game locker room for the first time in a month, added that his team played with a lot of emotion. The Bandits also went out and kicked the Stallions' butts. Written on a blackboard in the winning locker room was the following pre-game message: "Break and Kick A--." "We beat a team-that really intimidated us the last time we played them," said inside linebacker Kelly Kirchbaum, referring to Birmingham's 30-3 victory two months ago at Legion Field. Kirchbaum hadn't played in recent weeks due to a nagging calf injury, but he said nothing was going to keep him out of the rematch with the Stallions. See BANDITS, Page 6C T. Bay Bandits PK T. Trib 6/24/85 COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- Inadvertently, offensive guard Nathaniel Newton has made the Bandits a candidate to appear on the TV version of Ripley's Believe It Or Not. Climbing the grass terrace leading to the Bandits' locker room at Byrd Stadium Sunday, Newton said to no one in particular, "We've got a playoff game ... believe it or not." It is hard to believe, considering how the Bandits played Sunday, considering how they have played for most of the last six weeks, a period during which they have lost five of six games. There may be no team in the United States Football League that wants to claim a championship more than the Bandits. There also may be no playoff team with more problems to overcome. John Bassett Jr., son of the Bandits owner who is undergoing treatment in Canada for two brain tumors, said after Sunday's loss that, "I have a feeling he (his father) will be at the championship game if they're there," referring to the Bandits. "But that's up to them," he said, pointing toward the visitors' locker room. The Bandits had just been humiliated by a team they had handled easily on April 28. === Page 22 of 29 Tampa Bay Bandits PK # Breakers hand Bandits fourth consecutive loss Orl. Sent. 6/10/85 ASSOCIATED PRESS PORTLAND, Ore. -- Matt Robinson threw for two touchdowns, and running back Buford Jordan rushed for two more to lead the Portland Breakers (5-11) to a 27-24 victory over the Tampa Bay Bandits late Saturday night. Robinson threw touchdown passes of 24 and 39 yards to wide receiver Nolan Franz in the first quarter. Jordan added two touchdown runs, each of 5 yards, in the third quarter. Tampa could have earned a playoff berth with a victory but instead fell to 9-7, losing for the fourth game in a row. Bandits quarterback John Reaves, forced to pass frequently, connected for three touchdowns passes -- a 21-yard pass to wide receiver Larry Brodsky in the third quarter, a 26-yarder to wide receiver Willie Gillespie and a 32-yarder to Brodsky in the fourth quarter. Tampa Bay kicker Zenon Andrusyshyn missed a 37-yard field goal attempt in the second quarter but connected on a 25-yarder 18 seconds before halftime. Tampa Bay Coach Steve Spurrier was upset by the turnovers. "We just didn't play very sharp. We had a lot of chances, but we even gave them one touchdown," Spurrier said. "I don't know what happened, we just got beat." "Toward the end of the game when we began to score, we really didn't change anything, we just got lucky. They have been running against us for three years but we acted like we'd never seen them before. We'll come back and play hard." - [ ] Late statistics ... page C-6 T. Bay Bandits PK # Bandits Deactivate Receiver TAMPA (AP) -- The Tampa Bay Bandits deactivated wide receiver Eric Truvillion because he had become a disruptive force on the United States Football League team, Coach Steve Spurrier said. "I felt like he had lost his respect for me and the other coaches," Spurrier said Thursday after benching Truvillion for Saturday night's game against Birmingham, and possibly the regular season finale at Baltimore. "Obviously, he was not happy here," the coach added, "He had run-ins with teammates and coaches and we felt like it would be better for him to go to another team." O. SB 6/14/85 Tampa Bay Bandits PK # Bandits Told To Go Job Hunting TAMPA (AP) -- Administrative personnel with the United States Football League's Tampa Bay Bandits have been advised to explore the job market because of uncertainty surrounding the franchise's future, the Tampa Tribune reported Friday. The newspaper said Ralph Campbell, director of business operations, met with employees on Wednesday and informed them he "could not absolutely guarantee where they will be next year." Bandits owner John Bassett announced on April 22 that Tampa Bay would withdraw from the USFL later this year because of the league's plans to switch to a fall playing schedule in 1986. O. SB 6/8/85 T. Bay Bandits PK # Tampa Bay Holds Off Birmingham For 17-14 Victory TAMPA (AP) -- The scoreboard read 7-7, but Tampa Bay Coach Steve Spurrier had positive feelings about the Bandits' chances of upsetting the Birmingham Stallions midway through their United States Football League game. What defensive coordinator Barry Wilson told him at halftime didn't hurt. "Coach, you don't have to score every time on offense because we're gonna stop 'em," Wilson assured Spurrier Saturday night. "I've got a feeling about it. The guys are really ready to play." Birmingham had dominated statistically to that point, and continued to do so after intermission. The Tampa Bay defense, however, intercepted five passes and stopped a pair of threats that resulted in missed field goals as the Bandits held on for a 17-14 victory. "I think this is the first time in three years we beat a good team and we didn't play well on offense," Spurrier said. "I think this will give us some momentum." The triumph clinched a playoff berth for the 11-7 Bandits, who would have qualified anyway as a result of Jacksonville's 31-0 loss to the Memphis Showboats. Birmingham saw a five-game winning streak end, dropped to 12-5, and missed out on an opportunity to clinch the Eastern Conference championship. A victory over Tampa Bay, combined with New Jersey's 34-29 loss to Oakland, would have given Coach Rollie Dotsch the title. "It was very simple. Their offense played better than our offense. Their defense played better than our defense. Their kicker kicked better than our kicker," Dotsch said. "As a result, we lost." Stallions quarterback Cliff Stoudt tossed a first-quarter touchdown pass to Jim Smith, but went on to throw four interceptions before being benched late in the third quarter. Backup Bob Lane was intercepted once, and also threw a scoring strike to Smith -- a 7-yarder with just 13 seconds left in the game. Smith caught 11 passes for 139 yards and has 20 TDs this season. Place-kicker Danny Miller, however, missed field goal attempts of 38 and 40 yards, and Birmingham failed to take advantage of outgaining the Bandits 416 yards to 253. O. SB 6/17/85 === Page 23 of 29 JUNE 11, 1985 PRO FOOTBALL # Bandits Still Have Shot At Playoff Berth TAMPA (AP) -- The Tampa Bay Bandits have lost four games in a row but still have an excellent shot at making the United States Football League playoffs. "We ain't dead yet," Coach Steve Spurrier said Monday. "We still have two games left." Actually, the Bandits -- who owned the league's best record just four weeks ago -- can still squeeze into post-season action, and possibly host a playoff contest, even if they lose their last two regular season games. But Spurrier is counting on turning things around against Eastern Conference-leading Birmingham, which will lug a 12-4 record into Tampa Stadium Saturday night. "They've clinched about everything," Spurrier said during his weekly news conference. "I'm sure they're going to play hard ... but maybe this is a good time to catch them." While a loss to the first-place Stallions would strike a blow to the 9-7 Bandits' playoff hopes, it would not eliminate them from contention. A triumph at Baltimore on June 23 would assure Tampa Bay a berth, as would two Jacksonville losses in the Bulls' last three games. "Like I was saying ... we're not dead yet," Spurrier repeated. The Bandits' four-game slide has included losses to Orlando and Portland, a pair of teams that have a combined record of 9-23. Spurrier called last Saturday night's 27-24 loss to the Breakers "disappointing," and said "two or three" of Tampa Bay's players were guilty of giving less than 100 percent during the upset. "I don't blame them," the coach said, though. "I blame myself because they're the same guys who have been doing it around here for a long time and we've put up with it." Spurrier declined to name names, and tried to downplay the importance of their not playing "full-speed enough for us." "They're not why we lost," he said, while nevertheless suggesting that their playing time would be affected Saturday. "It's been going on a long time," he added. "But when you're winning, you tend to overlook things like that." The Bandits' problems the past month have centered around an inability to get maximum point production out of drives that reach the opposition's 20-yard line, Spurrier said. "We're still going up and down the field on offense, but we're not coming away with touchdowns," he said. "Defensively, we were stopping them after long drives," Spurrier added. "Now they (opponents) are getting down there and scoring." Tampa Bay outgained 419 yards to 286, but fell behind 13-0 in the first quarter and were able to recover. A 14-point fourth-quarter made things close. "We're going to have to play better than we've been playing," Spurrier said. "We just can't overcome bad plays and beat people." # Collier Passes For Three TD's By BUD CRUSSELL Sports Editor ORLANDO -- A funny thing happened on the way to the game Saturday night -- somebody forgot to tell the Orlando Renegades they were supposed to lose to the Tampa Bay Bandits in what was supposed to be a mismatch of a United States Football League game. Or, someone failed to tell the Bandits they were supposed to win and by at least 20 points. It turned out to be a mismatch all right, but not in the way the prognosticators said it would be. The Renegades did the impossible and that was to upset the highly-favored Bandits by a 37-7 score in Orlando Stadium. The victory was only Orlando's fourth against 11 losses and it dropped Tampa Bay to a 10-5 mark on the season. No one in the crowd of 26,147 would have given the Renegades much of a chance of even staying close to the Bandits much less see the team completely dominate the contest from start to finish. In the end, the Renegades showed mercy by running out the clock with 2:52 remaining after gaining possession of the ball after intercepting a Bandit pass at the visitor's 33-yard line. The question remains: Were the Renegades that good on this particular night, or were the Bandits just that lousy? A lot of takers would probably say the latter although you have to give the Renegades credit for an explosive offense and a heads-up defense. "We got beat, beat soundly. They outcoached, outplayed, and whipped us in about every phase of the game. We played stupid again. We can't hold on to the football," said Tampa Bay coach Steve Spurrier. "We're going to keep playing, practice hard, try to get better and go out and play Portland next week," he added. In the other lockerroom, Renegade defensive back Lupe Sanchez was a happy man. Sanchez intercepted a pass late in the game and ran it back 88 yards for the final Orlando score. "We've had so many games when we let up in the third quarter -- we told ourselves, 'no way.' The defensive line did a great job. I've got to give credit to the whole team, especially, the offense. They kept marching the ball downfield. Our best defense is our offense," Sanchez said. Orlando jumped out to a 20-0 lead before Tampa Bay could get anything going. The game was only a little over seven minutes old when the Renegades drew first blood. It came on a 16-yard pass play from Collier to Jerry Parrish, who raced behind the defender in the end zone. Jeff Brockhaus kicked the extra point to put the Renegades up 7-0 with 8:42 left in the first period. The touchdown came at the end of an eight-play, 51-yard drive. Collier passed six times for 47 yards in the march. Orlando went up 14-0 with 12:47 left in the second quarter when Collier raced into the end zone from five yards out. The drive covered 73 yards on 12 plays, with Orlando mainly keeping the ball on the ground. With Orlando on top 14-0, Bandits' coach Steve Spurrier sent in former Florida State quarterback Jimmy Jordan to replace John Reaves. But Jordan's tenure came to an abrupt end when Victor Jackson intercepted the former Seminoles' pass at the Orlando 30-yard line and returned it 27 yards. Three plays later, Orlando scored again when Collier hit Joey Walters with a 21-yard TD pass. Walters made a leaping catch over the defender for the score. Brockhaus missed the extra point attempt to leave the score at 20-0. Following the kickoff, Tampa Bay, behind the brilliant passing of Reaves, marched 75 yards on five plays for the touchdown. === Page 24 of 29 Turnovers help inspired Stars smack Bandits Coach Steve Spurrier said his playoff-bound team acted like it wanted to get the season over with in the 38-10 defeat. By TOM FORD Tribune Sports Writer COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- Two-minute-warning labels may have to be applied to the Bandits' helmets in view of their self-destructive performance Sunday against the Baltimore Stars. Warning: This team is prone to turnovers every two minutes. Warning: Three lost fumbles and three interceptions can be hazardous to a team's health. Turnovers were the difference Sunday at Byrd Stadium, as the Bandits made a half-hearted effort of preparing for the United States Football League playoffs by being humiliated 38-10 by the Stars, who will enter post-season play with their heads held higher. "You guys up here are probably wondering how we got in the playoffs," Coach Steve Spurrier said to East Coast writers following the Bandits' fifth loss in six games. "We acted like we wanted to get the season over with." Actually, they had no choice in the matter. Sunday's game before a crowd of 12,647 was the Bandits' last of 18 during the regular season. They will open the playoffs next weekend either at Oakland or Birmingham. The pairings revolve around tonight's Houston-Oakland game. If Houston wins, the Bandits, 10-8, will play Eastern Conference champion Birmingham, 13-5, on Saturday afternoon. An Oakland victory would set up a Sunday afternoon meeting between the Bandits and Invaders, 12-4-1 entering their season finale. Defending champion Baltimore, 10-7-1, will play at New Jersey or Oakland, depending on the outcome of tonight's game. If the Stars get as much help in the playoffs as they did from the Bandits, they could go a long way. Playoff picture If Oakland beats Houston tonight: Tampa Bay at Oakland, Sunday, 2:45 p.m. Houston at Birmingham, Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Denver at Memphis, Sunday, 2:30 p.m. Baltimore at New Jersey, Monday, 9 p.m. If Houston beats Oakland tonight: Tampa Bay at Birmingham, Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Baltimore at Oakland, Sunday, 2:45 p.m. Houston at Memphis, Sunday, 2:30 p.m. Denver at New Jersey, Monday, 9 p.m. "I've never seen a team that can get behind so fast," said Spurrier. "I've never seen a team that can make three turnovers in three straight plays." That happened to the Bandits in the first half. Actually, they committed four turnovers in a span of 8:06 -- nearly one every two minutes -- and those miscues caused them to fall behind 17-0. "It's something we can't seem to totally get rid of," said tailback Gary Anderson, referring to the Bandits' turnovers problems that often come in bunches. "This week it hit us again. Hopefully, next week we'll get rid of it, whatever it is." The strange series of events in the first half buckled the Bandits, like a punch to the stomach: * On third-and-one at the Stars' See BANDITS, Page 6C Nick Pugliese T.B. Bandits PK Bandits simply ran out of time T.B. Trib 6/10/85 PORTLAND, Ore. -- For three quarters Saturday night, the Bandits played like a team that couldn't wait for this long season to end. It was as if the Tampa Bay players put up a "Gone Fishing" sign over their lockers and merely were playing out the string before the club is disbanded, moved to Chicago, or ends up in a spring league with the Mexico City Matadors and the Juneau Junkmen. Then, the fourth quarter started at Civic Stadium, and the Bandits woke up from a two-game slumber. Let the record show they still lost to the Portland Breakers 27-24 for a team-record fourth straight defeat. But also let the record show the team did not quit. "In the first half, we moved the ball effectively and we got down there near the goal line a couple of times, but only got three points out of that," quarterback John Reaves said. "The guys played hard. We didn't give up. We just ran out of time." Reaves, who was 29 of 47 for 330 yards and three touchdowns, was right. The Bandits moved the ball all night, but didn't find the end zone until it was too late. They outgained the Breakers, 419 to 286 yards, even with a bunch of starters missing due to injuries and suspension. There's no doubt if the game had gone a few more minutes, the Bandits just about would have clinched a playoff berth. Instead, they have to be wondering if they are going to let the gold ring flush down the toilet. But, just like the horse player who says his entry would have won the race had it been 100 yards longer, Tampa Bay will never get the Portland game back. For a while Saturday night, it looked like the Bandits were going to give it away to another team that came in more emotionally prepared. See BANDITS, Page 6C T. Bay Bandits P.R O.S.B 6/4/85 Dark Day For Tampa Bay Bandits For the Bandits, this must surely rank as their darkest hour. The Bandits played as though they had other things on their mind -- and may well have. The dark cloud of tackle Dan Fike's defection to the NFL's Cleveland Browns, the move of the USFL to a fall schedule, leaving the Bandits without a home, and owner John Bassett's threat to form a new league, could well have been contributing factors to Saturday night's blowout. Tampa Bay must regroup quickly for this week's meeting with the Portland Breakers. "We're going to keep playing," said Spurrier. "We'll practice hard and try to get better and go out and play Portland next week." === Page 25 of 29 Bandits 6/10/85 * From Page 1C Portland scored on two of its first three possessions to break to a 13-0 lead. The Breakers could have had a third score after linebacker Ben Needham recovered an errant center snap on the Bandits' first play from scrimmage at the Tampa 30-yard line. But they returned the favor when tailback Buford Jordan fumbled on first down and nose guard Mike Morgan recovered. Still, the Breakers drove 65 and 70 yards to score on its next two possessions and made the Bandits do something they have never done well -- come from behind to win. Apparently, when "Banditball" was formed, someone forgot to put a rally program in the system. Both of Portland's early touchdowns -- a 24-yard pass from Matt Robinson to Nolan Franz and a 39-yard hookup between the same duo off a flea-flicker -- came as the result of breakdowns in the Tampa Bay secondary. Marcus Quinn, playing strong safety at the time instead of his normal free safety, took the blame for both mistakes. "On the first one, we were in man-to-man coverage and I was beaten on a post-corner route," said Quinn, who suffered a thigh bruise late in the third quarter and did not return. "On No. 2, it was a trick play that we had seen all week. I came up to help out on the run and left my zone and got beat again." After Zenon Andrusyshyn kicked a 25-yard field goal right before the half to cut the score to 13-3, the Breakers eventually upped their lead to 27-10 with 13:51 left in the game. Jordan amended for his early fumble and scored on a pair of 5-yard runs sandwiched around Reaves' 21-yard TD pass to Larry Brodsky. With Tampa Bay down by 17 early in the final quarter, ex-Bandit center Bob Van Duyne, who lives in Seattle and watched the game from the sidelines, said he noticed a sudden fire in his old teammates' eyes. It also was about the same time Coury might have gotten a little conservative. Whatever the reason, Tampa Bay stormed back to score twice in an eight-minute span as Reaves hooked up with Willie Gillespie (25 yards) and Brodsky (32). In between those two scores, Portland even blew a chance to ice the game. The Breakers' opportunity came when Reaves' pass from the Portland 7 was batted in the air and caught by defensive end Frankie Wilson, who had been signed only hours before the game. Wilson chugged down the sideline until Brodsky overhauled him at the Tampa Bay 23. The Bandits' defense tightened, and Tim Mazzetti was called upon for a 34-yard field goal. Nose guard Ron Simmons, who had blocked Mazzetti's second extra-point attempt, came up with another stuff, which Dwayne Anderson picked up and advanced to midfield. However, just as the Breakers blew a sure score, the Bandits blew another game to fall to 9-7 when Portland was able to run out the clock, thanks to some fine running by backup tailback Louis Jackson. Depending on what happens tonight when the Jacksonville Bulls meet the New Jersey Generals, the Bandits probably will have to win at least one of their final two games to make the postseason shindig. Only four weeks ago, they had the best record in the United States Football League. That final win won't come easy. The Bandits' next opponent, the Birmingham Stallions Saturday night at Tampa Stadium, owns the best record in the league (12-4) and destroyed Tampa Bay earlier this year. The season finale is against the Baltimore Stars in College Park, Md. The Stars traditionally have given the Bandits trouble. Players in the losing locker room insisted the Bandits aren't choking their playoff chances away. "I'd like to think since we fought back so well in this game only to come up short that we are ready to put it all together," said tailback Gary Anderson, who played about three-fourths of the first half and sat out the second with assorted injuries. "We might have lost on the scoreboard, but I think we really won." "We have lost four in a row, but it's not a panic situation," Reaves said. "This is a good team and we'll all rally together." Funny, that's what they have been saying for four weeks. === Page 26 of 29 # Flutie works magic on Bandits by NICK PUGLIESE Tribune Sports Writer T. Bay Trib. 5/27/85 Although place-kick holder Rick Partridge scored the winning TD, it was Generals quarterback Doug Flutie that keyed a 30-24 overtime win over the Bandits. If anyone still doubts the magic of Doug Flutie, they don't have to look any farther than the Bandits' locker room late Sunday afternoon. Inside that unusually quiet chamber under the sunbaked Tampa Stadium stands, the Tampa Bay players were reflecting on the New Jersey Generals' 30-24 overtime victory. They kept talking about Flutie, despite the fact that holder Rick Partridge was the one who bobbled the snap on a field-goal attempt, then picked up the ball and scored the winning touchdown on a 9-yard run 3:53 into the fifth quarter. They kept praising Flutie, despite a great tailback duel between New Jersey's Herschel Walker (3 TDs, 166 rushing yards) and Tampa Bay's Gary Anderson (2 TDs, 189 total yards). They kept marveling at Flutie, despite his 11-for-16, 161-yard, 0-TDs statistics. Nonetheless, the 5-foot-9 rookie quarterback from Boston College was instrumental in leading the Generals over the Bandits for the second time this season. The Bandits' second-straight loss dropped them to 9-5, a half-game behind the Birmingham Stallions, who play host to the Orlando Renegades tonight, and into a second-place tie with the Generals in the Eastern Conference. In the first meeting this season between New Jersey and Tampa Bay, Flutie rallied his team to a pair of fourth-quarter touchdowns and a 28-24 win. Sunday, he took the Generals 51 yards in 1:32 with no timeouts left to Roger Ruzek's game-tying 40-yard field goal with four seconds remaining in the fourth quarter. Flutie then hit Clarence Collins with a 49-yard bomb in the extra period to set up the winning score, which came as Ruzek lined up for a 27-yard field goal and Partridge, the team's punter, ended up racing the Bandits to the end-zone flag as a stunned audience of 35,000 (estimated) looked on. "I'd rather just punt the ball," Partridge said. "I don't like getting touched by anybody. I saw the ball, picked it up, ran and just fell in the end zone." "It was a tough one. We had a lot of guys play their hearts out," Spurrier said. "The ball didn't bounce well enough for us. "The big play was the long pass they threw over our defensive backs and our turnovers (three interceptions, one fumble). Flutie must have done something right. He completed them in the fourth quarter again." Flutie's magic wand didn't only boost his teammates and blitz the Bandits Sunday, it apparently even blinded the officials. On the big play to Collins, which came after Tampa Bay had been forced to punt on its first possession of OT, the two officials on the scene -- field judge James An- See BANDITS, Page 8C ## Game Notes T. Bay Trib. 5/27/85 Rick Partridge's 9-yard touchdown run Sunday was the final thrill in a taut game between the Bandits and Generals, but there is only one problem: The game probably should have been over by then, with the Bandits winning. With 12:16 left in the regulation and the score tied 21-all, John Reaves tried a pass that was off the mark. New Jersey safety John Preston picked it up on one bounce and, in a performance that fooled only New Jersey Coach Walt Michaels, started running like he had an interception. The field officials promptly whistled back the attempt at chicanery, but Michaels utilized his option and called for a replay. He had successfully challenged a call in the first quarter, and probably figured he was on a roll. Referee Wesley Ward dutifully trotted to the sidelines to confer with review official Cal Lepore, the USFL head of officials. After a few moments, Ward returned to the field and announced that no replay was available, so Michaels couldn't be charged with a timeout. The extra timeout enabled New Jersey to stop the clock with 1:44 to go and the Bandits trying to run it out on third down before their field goal attempt that gave them a 24-21 lead. The call probably saved the Generals 45 seconds at least, which was critical in a close game -- as anyone witnessing the last Doug Flutie-led drive in regulation would attest. With 13 seconds left, a Flutie pass finally got the Generals in field-goal position, which Roger Ruzek capitalized on with a 40-yarder to send the game into overtime. ABC makes the replays available to the league at games it televises, and network officials were at a loss to explain why the league would make the call it did. Lepore told the Bandits that the replay hadn't run by the time a decision had to be made, and thus the non-call. But it had run before Ward could get back to mid-field and make his announcement. Against all odds. Brett Ladd of Dunwoody, Ga., was the contestant in the halftime promotion where a fan tries a 42-yard field goal for $97,000. The Crowder Insurance Company, which underwrites the gimmick, estimates the odds are 16-million-to-1 against a successful kick from that distance, so it isn't real worried about a payoff. Except that Ladd's kick had plenty of leg and only at the last moment drifted slightly to the left and outside the uprights. Ladd got a T-shirt. ET stay out. Bandits receiver Eric Truvillion was listed as probable before Sunday's game, but did not play. The official reason given was that Truvillion's right knee wasn't up to the test. === Page 27 of 29 * TV announcer, Sat. 5/25/85 during Bandit game: "This team (Bandits) has got to think it's jinxed..." both Anderson out * Lynn Swann By ED HARDIN Tribune Sports Writer T. Bay Trib. 5/27/85 The New Jersey Generals are accused of being a one-dimensional team. Herschel left, Herschel right, Flutie dump pass to Herschel. Right? Wrong. Ask Rick Partridge, the Generals' punter, place-kick holder and newest offensive threat. "Herschel who?" Partridge asked Sunday. "Herschel Partridge now." Partridge, a 6-foot-2, 175-pound NFL castoff who once threw a touchdown pass against the Atlanta Falcons, scored on a 9-yard run with 11:07 left in overtime to give the Generals a come-from-behind 30-24 win over Tampa Bay. "And a star is born," said Partridge, a 3-year starter at New Jersey. "I guess you could say I'm an offensive threat now." The Bandits didn't think so. With 11:07 left in overtime and New Jersey place-kicker Roger Ruzek lining up the potential winning field goal, Tampa Bay defenders were not thinking of Partridge. Then Partridge fumbled the snap. "I ran for a step and I noticed that their end was looking up in the air," Partridge said. "I guess he thought we were kicking. I couldn't have jumped on the ball right there, and we would've just kicked again. But then I saw the end zone." Partridge picked up the ball, and with the grace of a Southern Cal tailback, ran a perfect sweep around left end, nine yards past an unsuspecting defense and some New Jersey Generals as well. Partridge, who played college ball at the University of Utah, loped around a fallen player or two and dove toward the corner of the end zone with the winning touchdown. Ruzek was on the field, aghast. He didn't see Partridge's score. In fact, Ruzek was hoping his 27-yard field-goal attempt would make him the hero. Walker, who gained more than 100 yards for the eighth straight game, was simply praying. "I saw that ball on the ground and said 'Oh my God,'" said Walker. "I wasn't worried when I saw the ball on the ground. All of a sudden, he (Partridge) got up and started running. Then I got worried." Partridge's play came on a second down, so if he had simply fallen on the ball, New Jersey would have had another shot at the field goal. In fact, just before the play, the Generals' coaching staff reminded Partridge to do just that. "I guess I should've fallen on it," he said, "but I looked up and saw an opening, so I tried to get the extra yards so the attempt would be shorter. Then it happened. I saw the end zone, decided I could make it and went for it." New Jersey Coach Walt Michaels just smiled and shook his head afterward. "If you hang together as a team some strange things will happen," he said. "If you had told me that the place-kick holder would score a touchdown to win the game, I would have said you were crazy." Added Walker: "Sometimes those plays happen. A lot of people say we're a conservative team, but we can be explosive, too." And maybe just a little lucky. # Defense's solid effort spoiled in the end By JIM SELMAN Assistant Sports Editor T. Bay Trib. 5/27/85 Bandit Coach Steve Spurrier's eyes moistened, then reddened and he very nearly became emotional. What he had just seen and felt Sunday at Tampa Stadium had affected his team identically, particularly the defense which held together very well except on the final two offensive series of the game by the New Jersey Generals. Through most of four quarters, the Bandits had permitted Generals' quarterback Doug Flutie to complete just five passes for 68 yards. They had jammed up the middle well enough with a four-man line to make it quite sticky for both Flutie and running back Herschel Walker. But then, with 1:31 to play and a 24-21 lead to protect, the Bandits went to a three-man rush with more people in coverage. Flutie, despite having no timeouts, hit five passes for 44 yards to set up Roger Ruzek's tying 40-yard field goal with four seconds left in regulation. Then came a galling 49-yard Flutie completion to Clarence Collins -- he caught only two balls in the game and had not been playing well lately -- in overtime. That led to a crazy, winning 9-yard touchdown run by kick-holder Rick Partridge on a busted play from field goal formation. In the final analysis, some Bandits defensive players said, "We didn't execute and they did." But, there also was the key time factor. On the Bandits' final series in regulation, Spurrier decided to pass on third down at the New Jersey 12-yard line rather than take more time off the clock with a running play. The pass was nearly intercepted and fell incomplete, stopping the clock. On the next play, Zenon Andrusyshyn booted a 29-yard field goal that could have won the game 24-21. Had Spurrier gone with a time-consuming run, the Generals might not have had enough time to kick a field goal. That's conjecture, of course. In essence, Collins' 49-yard catch won the game, but it was a puzzling play because Bandits free safety Marcus Quinn said neither of the two nearest officials knew whether the ball had been caught. Quinn didn't think it was and they asked him. "I saw the ball on the ground," he said later. At first, offensive pass interference was ruled, but the decision was changed to defense and the Generals declined the penalty. Cornerback Warren Hanna, the other Bandit involved, would not comment. Collins said it couldn't have been interference because "I was ahead of them." Flutie said, "I thought it was a legal catch. I couldn't believe it when the flag went down." The Bandits, who lost nose tackle Fred Nordgren two weeks ago, went to a four-man line to move Mike Butler inside to tackle from end. They've also had some success with that alignment in previous games against the Generals. Butler and other Bandits had difficulty explaining how the Generals drove 51 and 80 yards in their final === Page 28 of 29 Bandits T. Bay Trib. 5/27/85 * From Page 1C derson and back judge Bill Lange -- couldn't agree on what happened. One referee ruled offensive pass interference, then changed his mind to defensive pass interference against cornerback Warren Hanna. The second referee said it was a catch, but he didn't see any interference. In the meantime, Bandits free safety Marcus Quinn said Collins never caught the ball and pulled a Houdini to make the referees think he had. "I take my hat off to Doug Flutie, but at the same time, I thought the big play (to Collins) was an incomplete pass," Quinn said. "Neither referee saw the ball caught. I saw the ball hit the ground and the receiver roll over with the ball in his lap and his back to the referees like he caught it. "The first referee didn't know if it was offensive or defensive interference. He asked the other official, 'What was it?' The other guy said, 'You threw the flag.' It was a real mess." Flutie, who fell to his knees when it appeared Collins was going to be flagged for offensive pass interference, said he thought it was a legitimate catch. "I couldn't believe it when the flag went up," he said. "I've always looked for the tight end. This was the first time that I've been able to look up field. Normally, I would throw it short, but I looked deep and saw Collins and let it go." Head referee Wesley Ward, who refused to name the two officials in question, backed their final judgment, which put the ball at the Tampa Bay 18-yard line. "The play was ruled pass interference, there was a catch by the offense, the penalty was declined," Ward said. However, Bandits outside linebacker James Harrell said the home team got the shaft. "That was a controversial call," Harrell said. "I thought it was offensive pass interference." Harrell also shared part of the blame for the loss, which makes the Bandits 1-1 in overtime games. "When we needed to make the big play, we didn't come up with them," he said. "I didn't think the guy (Flutie) would have the poise to move them late in the game. But he has great composure and he pulled it out. I thought we could stop them." Actually, the Bandits had pretty much controlled Flutie in the physical game. It was Walker, the United States Football League's leading rusher, who did all the earlier damage to keep the Generals in the contest. The score was 14-all at halftime as Walker (12 and 4 yards) matched Anderson (8-yard pass from John Reaves, 1-yard leap) for scores. The Bandits went ahead 21-14 when Reaves, who passed for 323 yards, tossed a 21-yard TD to tight end Marvin Harvey midway through the third quarter. But Walker scored on a 2-yard run early in the fourth quarter to knot the score again. Tampa Bay staged an 11-play, 63-yard drive that ended when Zenon Andrusyshyn booted a 29-yard field goal for a 24-21 lead with 1:36 to play. Though New Jersey was out of timeouts, there was still plenty of magic left in Flutie. "They came through at the end. It's too bad we didn't stop them," said Reaves. "They hit a Hail Mary pass at the end to set up a Hail Mary field goal when the guy picked up the ball and carried it in. "We tried to eat up as much time as we could on our last drive, but we had to settle for the field goal. They just kept making those first downs to stop the clock and the guy made the kick to send it into overtime. We gave a great effort, but it just wasn't good enough. Too bad we didn't win it." # Merger possible for Bulls, Bandits T. Bay Bandits PK 7/7/85 Tribune Wires JACKSONVILLE -- A merger among the United States Football League franchises in Jacksonville, Orlando and Tampa Bay appears unlikely, but a Jacksonville-Tampa Bay hook-up is still a possibility, Bulls Owner Fred Bullard said Saturday. Bullard confirmed that the three-way merger was discussed at the USFL owners' meeting Tuesday in Teaneck, N.J., but he indicated Orlando Renegades Owner Donald Dizney believed taking his team out of the Orlando would hurt his credibility with the city. "He liked the idea, but felt he had a commitment to his community," Bullard said. But Bullard said he had received "a favorable reaction from the Tampa group" concerning a possible merger of the two teams that showed the best attendance in the USFL during the past two years. The Bandits are looking to merge with another USFL team because of conflicts in Tampa with the Buccaneers of the National Football League, Bandit officials said earlier this year. "The obvious advantage for me would be that it would bring an additional group of investors," Bullard said. "Plus, we would be involved with a celebrity like Burt Reynolds." Reynolds is part owner of the Bandits, along with John Bassett and Stephen Arky. === Page 29 of 29 May 15, 1985 SCIENTISTS Have made yet another important discovery through my work and research. The reason why humans dream. And the answer has absolutely nothing to do with the explanations given in modern psychology and/or psychiatry. There is a slight analogy...wherein males "fall in love" with certain females after viewing their form (and vice versa, of course. Female to male). On Wednesday evening, April 10, 1985, my UFOs telepathd and instructed me to cooperate with them in using psi-force to attack the space shuttle Discovery. I phoned Wayne Grover, former NASA weather scientist for years who lives in Lantana, Florida, and warned him that my UFOs planned a "disaster or wipeout" for Discovery. You may read the results of the psi-force attack in the enclosed newsclips. (Note "Discovery's hard luck journey".) And of course, the Discovery's loss of the $85 million Syncom communications satellite was the disaster...among other things. Note in one clip that "the switch (on the satellite) had indeed deployed properly and that SOMETHING ELSE HAD CAUSED THE POWER FAILURE." Note the "mysteriously non-functioning satellite." Next my UFOs telepathd and instructed me to similarly use psi-force on the space shuttle Challenger. See enclosed newsclips re. the results. Animal feces as well as human urine spewed throughout the shuttle and many other things went wrong with the flight. I was greatly relieved when both shuttles landed safely. I do not wish to cause loss of life. My UFOs are much rougher in that regard, but they do respect my wishes. Now we get to my psi-force work in attacking the Tampa Bay Bandits pro football team along with its major owner, Bassett, and Burt Reynolds, part owner. Reynolds has had a health-collapse...has been in and out of the hospital...and has been rendered unable to work for several years. Bassett has suddenly discovered that he has "two apparent brain tumors". Bassett had a Catscan done, as I did in Spokane. Then, Rauch, Bassett's ace director of operations who took the NFL's Oakland Raiders to Superbowl II, quit Bassett. Next, Bassett announced that the Tampa Bay Bandits would no longer exist after this season. Thus, a total wipe-out for the psi-force. There is just one final step for my work...to stop the Bandits from winning the USFL Superbowl by neutralizing Reaves, the quarterback, and Gary Anderson, the ace runner. That should do it. We shall see. FROM Next, read about fish rotting on a gigantic scale in the southeast. Also the "mystery of Salmonella now ongoing on a tremendous scale. Now, I do not know whether I notified you some time ago that my UFOs were going to attack the milk that humans drink, because my wife got my records all scrambled up and I have trouble checking back...but I did notify my son Beau of their intention. You can check your files on it, if you so wish. Scientists are baffled as to how it has contaminated milk...even pasteurized milk. And of course...the Sun Attack is causing fires, storms, tornadoes and other weather aberrations at a high level of intensity. See enclosed clips. Also the Sun Attack is wiping out water supplies virtually everywhere, even here in Florida. See clip on the printing press of the Ocala Star-Banner breaking down and crippling their operations temporarily. (Remember my recent demonstration of psi-force on that building wherein I knocked out their telephones and computers time and again for days?) See clip on severe drought which has struck India. Now both Africa and India are Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 7 Ted Owens 1713 NE 29th St. Ocala, Fla. 32670 GAINESVILLE, FL 326 PM 4 SEP 1985 Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove 190 25th Ave. San Francisco, California 94121 Ocala is indeed a fortunate Florida city, because icane-proof." By that I mean should this city be by more canes, I can guide them away. All that is s that I be respectfully asked to do so. y, Sunday, at 1:15 PM, saved Ocala. rked just off Cedar Key, not far from t in Elena's path after Cedar Key. had noted from the material which Mary rticle some time ago re my work that and could I utilize this ability in rom striking Ocala, naturally.) then gave me the names of a number of ol: primarily Asst. Supervisor Marcos. d research with hurricanes it has taken ication with the intelligence of a cane et. (A cane is a living thing with ort-lived...it has a child-like mind powerful telepathy. As you perhaps perts as being one of the greatest parapsychological techniques, including or psychokinesis. Well, as soon as I alized that I did not have the usual it off in another direction...so instantly ully established communication, and er direction. rd High School to see the key men that ere. We were led into a large office ng Marcos. They wanted to know who I I was stunned. The Ocala Star-Banner nese men had not seen my documented proof about a dozen different books in the I them that I could control a hurricane 11 you. One man called the Star-Banner Then Marcos adopted an insulting manner although I can understand...and I turned of there. elp, and did so. It could not be called d away. Shortly before your call two ram and one said that perhaps the cane her corrected him. "It can't," he said, Owens PK Man === Page 2 of 7 P.S. Ocala is indeed a fortunate Florida city, because it is "hurricane-proof." By that I mean should this city be threatened by more canes, I can guide them away. All that is necessary is that I be respectfully asked to do so. September 2, 1985 Mr. Jim Michaels Ocala Star-Banner Your telephone call to me, yesterday, Sunday, at 1:15 PM, saved Ocala. At that time Hurricane Elena was parked just off Cedar Key, not far from Ocala...and of course Ocala was next in Elena's path after Cedar Key. You stated, on the phone, that you had noted from the material which Mary Ann Murdock used to structure her article some time ago re my work that I had engaged in "weather control", and could I utilize this ability in connection with Elena (keep Elena from striking Ocala, naturally.) I told you yes, I would do so. You then gave me the names of a number of key men to see at Vanguard High School; primarily Asst. Supervisor Marcos. Now, in long years of doing work and research with hurricanes it has taken a day or longer to establish communication with the intelligence of a cane and then guide it to a desired target. (A cane is a living thing with intelligence, even if relatively short-lived...it has a child-like mind which can be reached by issuance of powerful telepathy. As you perhaps are aware I am rated by many top experts as being one of the greatest psychics in the world...a master of parapsychological techniques, including telepathy, and specializing in "PK" or psychokinesis. Well, as soon as I hung up the phone on your call I realized that I did not have the usual time to telepath to Elena and take it off in another direction...so instantly I began telepathing to it, successfully established communication, and instructed it to loop away in another direction. Then I took my three sons to Vanguard High School to see the key men that you listed at their huge shelter there. We were led into a large office containing a number of men, including Marcos. They wanted to know who I was. A photographer? An artist? I was stunned. The Ocala Star-Banner had not prepared the way for me. These men had not seen my documented proof over the years or read about me in about a dozen different books in the library. And I was supposed to tell them that I could control a hurricane with my mind? So I told them to call you. One man called the Star-Banner but the man there didn't know you. Then Marcos adopted an insulting manner with me that I will never forget...although I can understand...and I turned on my heel and led the children out of there. But at any rate...I was asked to help, and did so. It could not be called a "coincidence" that the cane looped away. Shortly before your call two hurricane experts were on a TV program and one said that perhaps the cane could change direction...but the other corrected him. "It can't," he said, "because it is now landlocked." Ted Owens ("PK Man") === Page 3 of 7 Ted Owens 1713 N.E. 29th St. Ocala, Fla. 32670 GAINESVILLE, FL 326 PM 24 JUL 1985 Abigail Adams USA 22 Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove 190 25th Ave. San Francisco, California 94121 Jeffrey my UFOs communicated with me ver, ex-NASA weather expert, ion to him. It is this: es at NASA... Challenger, Atlantis, of July 22 my UFOs were directing Shuttles and the NASA program. ed to be compassionate... simply a board spacecraft. But now time UFO Base in order to hold back war ce... and help the face of the Earth to pierce the armor of bureaucracy ntend to ATTACK one or more of They warn that any astronauts o so at their own peril, having been s of the matter... on July 18, 1985, er... the UFOs destroyed NASA's sed). Next day, my UFOs damaged July 19, 1985, tiles on the Shuttle Columbia inimical way. (See enclosed.) ed Owens (PK Man) ![Symbol of a circle with a horizontal line through it and a vertical line above it, next to a lightning bolt symbol] === Page 4 of 7 July 22, 1985 SCIENTISTS July 16, 1985, just passed, my UFOs communicated with me and I then phoned Wayne Grover, ex-NASA weather expert, passing on the UFO information to him. It is this: there are four space shuttles at NASA...Challenger, Atlantis, Discovery and Columbia. As of July 22 my UFOs were directing destructive powers at these Shuttles and the NASA program. Heretofore my UFOs have tried to be compassionate...simply destroying major experiments aboard spacecraft. But now time is short...they need their UFO Base in order to hold back war on Earth...help the human race...and help the face of the Earth itself. So, in order to try to pierce the armor of bureaucracy blocking the UFO Base they intend to ATTACK one or more of the above-mentioned Shuttles. They warn that any astronauts going up in these Shuttles do so at their own peril, having been fairly warned in advance. To underscore the seriousness of the matter...on July 18, 1985, two days after I phoned Grover...the UFOs destroyed NASA's Flying Laboratory (see enclosed). Next day, JULY 19, 1985, my UFOs damaged several thousand heat-shield tiles on the Shuttle Columbia in their own inimitable and inimical way. (See enclosed.) Ted Owens (PK Man) === Page 5 of 7 July 16, '85 Called Wayne Grover - (Lantana, Fla.) (Former NASA weather scientist.) UFOs will attack all 4 shuttle flights coming up. # NASA's Flying Laboratory Destroyed ## All Aboard Escape Injury UFOs vs. NASA Project O.S.B 7/18/85 MARCH AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) - A four-engine plane, a NASA flying laboratory that served as a model for the space shuttle, caught fire while taking off as part of a worldwide effort to observe a man-made comet and was destroyed. None of the 15 scientists and four National Aeronautics and Space Administration crew members aboard Galileo II was hurt Wednesday. The fire was allowed to burn itself out. The scientists had planned to use their skyborne laboratory to watch the effects of hot solar winds on barium released from a West German satellite 70,000 miles above earth. But the four-engine Convair 990 apparently blew a tire as it was rolled down the main runway at the base, 65 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. "The fire started near the right wheel and spread throughout the aircraft," Air Force Capt. Kevin Cregier said. "There's nothing left to it. It's just rubbish, you could say." NASA plane burns at March Air Force Base in California after brakes locked The scientists were from the Ames Research Center in Mountain View, 40 miles south of San Francisco. "My understanding was they they were going to view and photograph and study the release of barium from the satellite," said Larry King, a NASA spokesman at Ames. The experiment was designed to study solar winds by watching the track of the barium, which when released lights up and resembles a comet. When barium was released from the satellite Dec. 27, bad weather largely obscured its effects. UFOs vs. NASA Trib. 7/19/85 ### 1,000 shuttle tiles damaged by rain CAPE CANAVERAL - More than 1,000 fragile heat-shield tiles on the flagship space shuttle Columbia were damaged by a rainstorm during a ferry flight from California to the Kennedy Space Center, NASA said Thursday. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said between 200 and 300 of the tiles probably will have to be replaced but engineers did not know if repairing the damage would delay Columbia's Dec. 20 flight. UFOs vs. NASA O.S.B 7/19/85 CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) - Rain damage to heat-resistant tiles on the space shuttle Columbia is proof that a previous decision was correct to scuttle a launch because it was raining, NASA officials said Thursday. The damage was caused when the Columbia was caught in a 30-second shower as it rode atop a Boeing 747 returning it to the Kennedy Space Center, said Hugh Harris, a spokesman for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. He said the tiles, which protect the shuttle during re-entry, were made to withstand heat, not rain. Just how much damage was caused will not be known until early next week, after officials at the space center have put the Columbia in a hangar and conducted a detailed study, Harris said. The craft is covered with 33,000 of the heat-resistant tiles. Officials at the Johnson Space Center in Houston estimated that 2,500 tiles had been at least slightly damaged. NASA officials were housing the Columbia in the Vehicle Assembly Building to protect it from further rain storms, pending its move to the hangar. The shuttle was damaged Sunday as it was being flown here after an 18-month overhaul at the Rockwell International plant in Palmdale, Calif.. The Columbia's new sister shuttle, the Atlantis, will have to be moved to make room for the damaged craft, since all four shuttles are now at the center. The Columbia is next scheduled for launch Dec. 20. === Page 6 of 7 # storm races away from Bay area Elena's winds increased to 125 mph after it changed course and turned toward the northwest. By BILL GRUESKIN Tribune Staff Writer A faster and fiercer Hurricane Elena suddenly backtracked to the northwest Sunday, pounding fishing villages in Florida's Panhandle and forcing thousands of residents to flee their homes for the second time in four days. The storm, which had stalled near Florida's west coast most of Saturday, began gaining new strength Sunday morning, chugging at 10 to 15 mph. By Sunday evening, winds from Elena's bands were reported around 95 mph in Apalachicola, near the southernmost tip of the Panhandle. Elena's winds increased from 100 mph to 125 mph, and the 350-mile-wide storm was reclassified as Category 3 hurricane, up one step on a 1-to-5 scale of ferocity. Forecaster Mark Zimmer of the National Hurricane Center said that if Elena kept on its northwest course, it would make landfall before daybreak today somewhere between Pensacola and Mobile, Ala. Residents and vacationers who had returned Saturday to Gulf coastlines in Florida, Alabama and Mississippi were suddenly faced with urgent new orders to escape Elena's pounding winds and torrential rains. The National Weather Service broadcast a hurricane warning from the Citrus-Levy county line in Florida to Grand Isle, La. Florida Gov. Bob Graham ordered about 250,000 people evacuated from coastal and low-lying areas in Bay, Walton, Okaloosa, Gulf, Franklin, Taylor, Dixie, Levy, Santa Rosa, Escambia, Jefferson and Wakulla counties. Graham said Elena "will mean destruction to anything and anyone in its path." Alabama Gov. George Wallace and Mississippi Gov. Bill Allain also ordered thousands of residents evacuated. Disaster officials in the Panhandle scurried Sunday afternoon to empty the coastal towns. === Page 7 of 7 # Elena Stays Off Coast -- For Now 0.58 8/31/85 By Ocala Star-Banner Staff And the Associated Press The Big Sun area continues under a hurricane watch as Elena hovers threateningly off the Gulf Coast early this morning. Dangerous winds and fierce rain are forecast throughout the area today, as the hurricane heads toward land, possibly making landfall in Levy County. Winds, rain squalls and thunderstorms are forecast to continue throughout today in Levy County. Elena is expected to bring local flooding to Levy with tides of up to 6 feet above normal. The National Weather Service said winds may reach hurricane force by late afternoon. In Marion County, to the south of Elena's expected landfall, rain squalls and thunderstorms are forecast for today. Winds are expected to be from the southeast at 15 to 20 mph, with gales and high gusts in some areas. The high temperature in both counties is expected to reach about 80 degrees. Winds near hurricane force are expected to thrash Citrus County by the afternoon. High temperatures are expected to reach about 80 degrees with winds and rain showers in the morning. Winds are forecast to decrease gradually by the evening. Squalls and thundershowers are forecast for Sumter County, the southernmost region in the threatened Big Sun area. Marion County got its first taste of the big storm with a violent storm that blew across the county Friday afternoon. The gusty winds and rain brought flooding to low areas of several streets and scattered power outages were reported throughout the county. Sgt. Ken Ergle, of the Marion County Sheriff's office, said the department was urging all residents to pay close attention the news about Hurricane Elena. As of 6 p.m. Friday, the storm had See Elena on page 12A Elena's position at 10:30 p.m. Friday. 9/2/85 SUNDAY: Elena -- by now upgraded to a major hurricane -- starts moving west-northwest at 5 to 10 mph. SATURDAY: Elena stalls and wobbles from 50 to 80 miles west-southwest of the tiny fishing village of Cedar Key. FRIDAY: After slowing its forward motion, Elena alters its northwest course and heads east. THURSDAY: With winds topping 74 mph, Elena becomes season's fourth hurricane. WEDNESDAY: A fast-moving tropical depression gets tangled up over Cuba and later becomes Elena, the fifth tropical storm of the 1985 Atlantic hurricane season. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 31 October 3, 1985 SCIENTISTS Perhaps you have been reading in the papers about the tremendous numbers of plane crashes recently. In the world...it is due to the Sun Attack of the UFOs. In the U.S. add the effect of the displacement of the Bermuda Triangle Effect overlaid upon the U.S., causing disorientation of humans in cars, trains and planes. In the UFO Sun Attack mechanism are incorporated a number of effects...a "shotgun effect", if you will. Rays of the Sun and powers of the Sun, unknown to humans, are beamed down upon Earth by four giant UFOs positioned around Earth. The Pacific, Atlantic and Gulf waters are attacking the U.S. from three directions, with their intelligence...which they have. The UFOs are working to create a giant earthquake in California. A mechanism is set up in southern Florida to make, and call in, hurricanes toward Florida and U.S. coasts. In the enclosed newsclips you will read about the results of this constantly ongoing UFO activity, the sole motivation for which is to bring forth from the U.S. government or some other country the UFO Base which they so urgently desire. In a recent communication I pointed out how I had caused Hurricane Elena to reverse its path and turn away from Ocala, where I live with my family, because of a request that came over the phone from a "Jim Michaels with the Ocala Star-Banner newspaper in Ocala". After sending it to you, and turning away the hurricane, I persisted in trying to reach this Jim Michaels with the Ocala newspaper. Enclosed you will find a letter from the editor saying that there is no such man with them. So...I was tricked. However, I learned something from it. Remember when the principal of the Oakcrest school requested on the phone, unexpectedly, that I stop the horrendous rainstorm on that one day that would ruin their school carnival...and I did so...and it was documented. Then the local newspaper writer, Mary Ann Murdoch, requested unexpectedly, that I give a demonstration of my powers...and I did so, and it is documented. Following these two incidents was a mysterious phone call from an intelligent sounding man who gave me three names of men to see at the local Vancouver School just before Elena was to strike...said he was from the local newspaper. More than that, my number was unlisted. But he had it. More than that, he had the exact names of the men who were there when I got there: Marcos, Viannello and Smiley. I took my boys there with me and we met them. So...I put it to you...these three unusual requests for demonstrations of my powers, coming unexpectedly over my phone...had to be from government intelligence agencies. This Florida area is a highly sensitive area from a government intelligence standpoint (NASA, Air Force bases, etc.) and they are well aware of my work and capabilities. And...they are testing me. Herein are newsclips showing just how well my UFOs are doing in their attack upon space work activity. Remember, my UFOs will not allow humans to spread their military and political disease into outer space as the humans do upon Earth. Note the clips about the world water shortage...and Italy suffering from lack of rain. My UFOs Sun Attack is having a devastating effect. Note that when Elena and Gloria chewed up parts of the U.S. there were few, if any, fatalities and injuries. I am mystified how my UFOs did it...but they know that I want only powerful demonstrations in order to obtain the UFO Base...not fatalities. They somehow erred in the Mexico City quake...but they were perfect in the Japan quake. Also they did beautifully in demonstrating to the U.S. government how well they can affect space shuttles and satellites... without causing fatalities. Now for a real shocker. Some years ago, in the book "What The Seers Predict For 1972" there appeared a chapter on my work. Am including the chapter en toto herein for you. Note on page 140: "...The SIs and I intend to drive out all whites in Africa and to stop the needless killing of wildlife there. We shall return the country to its native blacks so that the country can once again become healthy and grow. The animals will then multiply and Africa can once again become the wonderful 'cradle of the Earth' that it once was." No doubt you have been reading about all the present trouble between whites and blacks in South Africa at present. It has taken longer for my psi-force attack to develop and begin producing results than I had anticipated, but with regard to the 'mass' of the matter, I understand. I.e., am not bending spoons or working with small 'mass'. See the interesting clips on the Africa project herein. Interestingly, I had dinner in a Washington, D.C., restaurant long years ago when he was === Page 2 of 31 2 visiting there (Prime Minister Ian Smith). We had a delightful chat during dinner. I met him in the restaurant by accident...read him as a most interesting person; went over to his table and made inquiry; he invited me to sit down and eat with him and he told me about Africa. Herein is a clip about Joe McGinnis, who has written another best seller. Years ago Joe did a big article about me and my work in a Philadelphia newspaper, where he was just a reporter. I told him then that in appreciation of his article about me my UFOs would see that he became famous. Not long afterward he was on a train to New York, engaged in idle conversation with some fellow who gave Joe the idea for his first book, which was a best seller. Note the clips herein showing "freak" storms around the world, such as the freak hailstorm in Brazil; the freak hailstorm in Mexico City, etc. These things, of course, are being caused by my UFOs Sun Attack. The clip re the UFO seen over Italy...is one of my UFOs. On 9/4/85 I went to the Sun Bank and they told me that their computers had gone crazy all over town. Not only that, the other banks were having the same troubles. Hence they could not give me my bank balance. It would seem that the powerful psi-force effect that I projected onto the Ocala Star-Banner newspaper is spreading over town... growing, as it were. Note also the clip that mentions the Ocala Star-Banner presses breaking down. Again. Evidently the fact that I discontinued the project after obtaining the desired results (and sending the documentation to you) has not disconnected the psi-force in activity. Have you wondered about the unbelievable number of plane crashes lately, as well as train and car accidents? It is because of one portion of the Sun Attack...the displaced Bermuda Triangle effect...which is working over the U.S. and actually spreading to other parts of the world. Joe McGinnis was amply rewarded for helping me, at one time. The same sort of thing will amply reward Dr. Mishlove and Scott Rogo if they get the book published that they wrote about me, my UFOs, and my work. There are two things now left...that my UFOs want, and so do I. The book published and the UFO Base. When those things are forthcoming, you will stop receiving files like these. I will be too bush working in the Base laboratory, creating wonderfully positive human and weather changes, for the better, all around the world. Ted Owens (PK Man) === Page 3 of 31 UFOs vs. Space Work # 3rd Stage Engine Fired Too Late 0.83 9/14/85 KOUROU, French Guiana (AP) -- The third stage engine of Europe's Ariane-3 rocket ignited a fraction of a second late, caused the engine to stop and forced ground control to blow up Ariane and its $150 million payload of satellites, officials said in a statement Friday. The rocket was destroyed Thursday when it veered off course less than 10 minutes after liftoff and began to fall. The statement released by Arianespace, commercial arm of the European Space Agency, said the reason for the engine failure had not been determined. It said the combustion chamber of Ariane's third stage failed to ignite "eight minutes and four seconds after the extinction of the second stage." An "abnormal, late" ignition took place in the combustion chamber 0.4 seconds late, causing the engine to stop, the statement said. It was the 15th launch in the European Space Agency's Ariane series, the main commercial challenger of the U.S. Space Shuttle. The rocket carried two telecommunications satellites, one U.S. and one European. It blasted off on schedule at 8:26 p.m. (7:26 p.m. local time) Thursday from the agency's base in Kourou on the northeast shoulder of South America. But, as visiting President Francois Mitterrand of France followed the launcher's progress on a video display terminal in the control room at Kourou, the trajectory began to sag. Nine minutes and 52 seconds after liftoff, and about 10 minutes before it would have put the satellites into orbit, technicians had to send a self-destruct signal when it became clear Ariane would fall to Earth in an inhabited area of Brazil. The American Spacenet-3 satellite, built by RCA for GTE-Spacenet, was insured for $85 million and the European Communications Satellite, ECS-3, for $65 million. The rocket's third stage was to put the satellites into fixed orbits over Earth. Besides being a direct rival of America's Space Shuttle, the Ariane program is big business and a matter of European pride. France is Ariane's main backer and sees itself as the leader in Europe's technology of the future. Thursday's failure, the third in 15 Ariane shots, followed nine straight successes. It will not immediately affect business because Arianespace, the commercial arm of the European Space Agency, is booked solid for the next four years. But in the longer term, negative consequences could result. The Europeans always claimed Ariane is more reliable than the Space Shuttle because it puts satellites directly into orbit. The shuttle takes satellites out over the Earth, and then boosts them into orbit -- two operations and double the risk, the Europeans contended. # Weather Satellite Falters 0.5B 8/29/85 UFOs vs. NASA (Space) WASHINGTON (AP) -- America spent about four hours without a good look at its weather last weekend, when the main meteorological satellite decided to turn its back and stare at the sky instead of the Earth. Experts at the National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service say they don't know why the orbiter, called GOES-6, reversed itself Sunday evening -- but they finally got it turned around again. The incident could have had a major impact if severe weather had been developing, officials indicated, although as it turned out no serious problems occurred. The popular weather map photos widely used by television stations and newspapers, and other readings supplied by the satellite, were not available during the period GOES-6 was out of service. The loss totaled more than 200 images of Earth, said Doug McCallum of the satellite service, the division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration which operates satellites. Some readings were available from other satellites which orbit over the poles, rather than remaining in a fixed position, but those pass over particular areas only twice daily, McCallum explained. Thus, they offer less protection in the event of rapidly developing storms. If a failure such as occurred Sunday extended over a longer time, it could have a serious impact on the ability to monitor severe storms, McCallum explained. An unexplained timing upset caused the GOES-6 satellite to turn its eye toward space from about 4:35 p.m. until about 9 p.m. EDT Sunday. Located at a fixed point about 22,000 miles above the Earth, since August 1984, GOES-6 has been the lone fixed-point satellite doing this work. A companion, GOES-5, lost its ability to transmit photos when a light in the satellite failed at that time. A replacement for GOES-5 is scheduled to be launched next spring, so that the United States will again have two such satellites in service. Normally two fixed weather satellites are located over the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, looking at the nation from the East and West. However, since last summer, GOES-6 has been repositioned south of Texas to cover the whole country from a central location. Fri. 9/1/85 # Indonesia satellite malfunctions UFOs vs NASA (Space) JAKARTA, Indonesia -- An equipment malfunction caused Indonesia's Palapa B-1 satellite to tilt out of its operating position, a government official said Saturday. The Palapa B-1, designed to last nine years, was put into orbit by the American space shuttle Challenger in June 1983. One of two units that monitor the temperature of satellite and rotate it to prevent overheating in the sunlight, malfunctioned Friday for unknown reasons, said Achmad Tahir, the minister of tourism, postal and telecommunications. # Satellite launch delayed UFOs vs NASA 9/27/85 CAPE CANAVERAL -- The launch of an Atlas Centaur rocket carrying a $30 million communications satellite was postponed Thursday until at least Saturday because of a malfunctioning data processing unit, NASA officials said. The unit, which processes information from several spacecraft systems, will be replaced and studied to determine why it failed. The two-ton Intelsat 5-A will be part of a communications system owned and operated by the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization, made up of 109 countries. === Page 4 of 31 # Shuttle Astronauts To Try And Salvage Satellite (1) CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) -- Five astronauts who will try to salvage a disabled satellite later this month boarded space shuttle Discovery on Friday and completed a successful countdown rehearsal. "We had a very good test," commander Joe Engle said after the simulated liftoff. "We're definitely ready to go." The launch is set for Aug. 24 but that is contingent on the investigation into why one of sister ship Challenger's engines quit early during liftoff July 29. Challenger achieved orbit on the power of its two remaining engines and flew an eight-day mission on a lower-than-planned path. NASA engineers believe faulty heat sensors falsely sensed a fuel pump overheating and sent a message to a computer to shut down the powerplant. Preliminary inspection of the engine at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., where Challenger landed, tends to support that theory. Using a fiber-optics boroscope, technicians probed inside the engine and found no damage or indication of overheating, the National Aeronautics and Space and Administration said. The sensors were removed and shipped to their manufacturer, Rosemount Inc. in Minneapolis, for examination. Results are expected next week. New sensors will be installed in Discovery's engines. Joining Engle for the flight will be pilot Dick Covey, Mike Lounge, Bill Fisher and Jim van Hoften. They are to deploy three commercial communications satellites and then track down and try to repair the $85 million Syncom satellite that failed to activate when deployed by another shuttle crew in April. During a spacewalk, Fisher and van Hoften will attempt to "jump start" Syncom by rewiring its timing mechanism, believed to be the cause of the failure. Before making the repair, they will have to disarm two payload fuel systems, re-arming them later. (2) Satellite written off An $85 million Hughes Communications Inc. communications satellite launched from the shuttle Discovery last month was written off as a failure Monday, pushing satellite insurance losses to some $234 million in a single week. The satellite, launched Aug. 29 by the space shuttle, worked well for two days but abruptly lost its UHF transmission capabilities. The failure pushes satellite insurance claims to some $600 million for the past year and a half. 8-A THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Wednesday, August 28, 1985 # Shuttle's problems send costs soaring Los Angeles Times Despite its much-heralded successes, the space shuttle program remains far more costly and its flight schedule far less reliable than Congress and the nation had been led to expect when the project was approved in the early 1970s. About $25 billion has been spent developing, building and launching the fleet of four reusable space planes. But something has gone wrong on almost every flight, including a dramatic engine shutdown during last month's launch. (The space shuttle Discovery finally lifted off Tuesday after back-to-back weekend "scrubs" -- one because of the weather and the other because of a computer failure.) === Page 5 of 31 UFOs vs. NASA (Space) # Satellite Salvage Planned O.S.S 8/27/85 CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) -- Shuttle Discovery found a hole in the clouds today and finally rocketed away from Earth on a daring salvage mission in which space-walking astronauts will try to "hot-wire" a derelict satellite. The twice-delayed shuttle mission began spectacularly as the 100-ton space plane thundered off its launch pad at 6:58 a.m. EDT and dashed high over the Atlantic Ocean, spewing a 700-foot-long tail of flame and lighting up the dawn sky. Discovery got off just in time. Minutes after liftoff, the hole in the clouds closed and heavy rain deluged the launch pad. Weather had once again threatened to block the launching as clouds from a tropical disturbance dumped rain on the space center throughout the early morning. The five astronauts wore rain slickers as they left their crew quarters for the 8-mile ride to the launch pad. But forecasters spotted a large hole in the center of the system and predicted it would pass over the Cape shortly after 7 a.m. With that information, launch director Bob Sieck pushed the liftoff back from 6:55 a.m. to 7:05, then ahead when the hole moved over. The clock was counted down to nine minutes and was held there while meteorologists watched the weather. The hole materialized early, the count resumed, and Discovery blasted into space, a pillar of fire against the dark sky. Nine minutes later, Mission Control Center in Houston reported Discovery was in a secure orbit more than 200 miles high, racing at more than 17,000 mph. A thunderstorm wiped out the first launch attempt Saturday and a failed spacecraft computer forced a second postponement on Sunday. The launch team had only a 34-minute period in which to put Discovery on a proper course to deploy three communications satellites and to track down a fourth for repair. If Discovery had not been launched by Thursday, the rescue would have been abandoned because the derelict satellite no longer would be in a proper position for a rendezvous. In that case, the astronauts would have flown a shortened mission to deploy three communications satellites. Although the rescue of the $85 million Syncom communications satellite is the glamour part of the flight, the release of the trio of satellites for paying See Shuttle on page 8A # Unexplained timing problem puts weather satellite out of service Trib. 8/29/85 WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's main weather satellite began staring out into space Sunday, but government officials got it to turn back towards Earth within a few hours, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports. An unexplained timing upset caused the GOES-6 satellite to turn its eye toward space for about 4½ hours Sunday, officials said. It was out of service from 4:35 p.m. until about 9 p.m. EDT. Located at a fixed point about 22,000 miles above the Earth, GOES-6 transmits the weather photos widely used by television stations and newspapers across the nation. Since August 1984, it has been the lone fixed-point satellite doing this work. A companion, GOES-5, lost its ability to transmit photos when a light in the satellite failed. A replacement for GOES-5 is scheduled to be launched next spring. Normally, two fixed weather satellites are located over the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, looking at the nation from the east and west. However, since it became the lone fixed satellite last summer, GOES-6 has been repositioned south of Texas to cover the whole country. The popular weather-map photos and other readings supplied by the satellite were not available during the period GOES-6 was out of service. The loss totaled more than 200 images of Earth, said Doug McCallum of NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service. Some readings were available from other satellites that orbit over the poles rather than remain in a fixed position, but those pass over particular areas only twice daily. === Page 6 of 31 Shuttle To Lift Off After Errant Satellite Ocalan Survives Lightning Strike By STACY PARKER Staff Writer 8/13/85 Robert Olesky Jr. of Ocala hopes that lightning never strikes twice - he might not live the second time around. Last Saturday Olesky was struck in the head by a bolt of lightning that traveled through his body, singeing his hair and welding shut the zipper on his pants. Doctors are calling it a miracle that the 20-year-old man is alive. Olesky, of 2514 Northeast 12th Ct., and a friend, Rudy Newman, said they had just left Olesky's father at a convenience store in Zuber Saturday afternoon and were walking across a nearby field, on their way to visit friends, when the lightning struck. The last thing Olesky remembers about the accident is his friend telling him to watch out for the lightning. "I remember it was pouring outside, and I saw a streak of lightning," Olesky said. "But it looked far away so we kept walking. Then I remember Rudy telling me to watch out." See Ocalan on page 6A UFOS vs NASA Shuttle glitch identified 8/13/85 CAPE CANAVERAL - The engine shutdown that almost aborted space shuttle Challenger's launch last month was caused, as suspected, by sensors that broke and falsely reported a fuel pump was overheating, officials reported Monday. All three thermal sensors removed after the shuttle landed were defective. Meanwhile, NASA reported the launch pad where Discovery is being groomed for its Aug. 24 launch was struck by lightning Saturday night. The bolt hit a large lightning rod and there was no damage to the shuttle or to the pad, officials said. Note: Ocala a "rare happening" tied in with Cape Canaveral shuttle lightning hit. Owens 4 Ocalan Ranks As Rare Survivor Of Lightning Strike Continued from page 1A 8/13/85 "The first thing I remember was waking up in the ambulance on the way to the hospital," he said. "But I passed out again and then woke up in the emergency room. I couldn't remember my name or my birthday. It was scary." Newman, who was only a few feet away from Olesky when the lightning hit, said he felt only a tingling sensation and was unhurt. He said he looked at the unconscious Olesky and then ran for help. Witnesses in a nearby house said Olesky fell to a push-up position on the ground when the lightning struck him, and that he appeared to be trying to get up when his arms gave way and he fell on his face. Olesky's father, Robert Sr., was the first person to reach his son. "My main concern was that he was breathing," he said. "I have had all types of first aid training, and I could've helped someone else; but looking at my own son I just trembled. I froze. It was a hair-raising experience." Olesky Sr. said a paramedic team from Munroe Regional Medical Center arrived within minutes and quickly treated his son. Olesky said one of the medics came to visit him in the hospital twice to check on him. The victim was released from the hospital Monday but says he is still in pain and has trouble hearing. Doctors said they are unsure what, if any, permanent effects Olesky will face and are concerned that he may not fully regain his hearing. "The doctors said the lightning struck me in the head then came out my neck," Olesky said. "Then it went down to my zipper, traveled through my leg and blew a hole in my shoe. It welded my zipper shut. If it would have hit me full force, it would have fried me." A sheriff's deputy investigating the accident was shocked to find Olesky alive. "He told me has has been on the force 15 years and all lightning victims he has seen were either dead on the scene or died at the hospital," Olesky said. === Page 7 of 31 # Shuttle To Lift Off After Errant Satellite UFOC v2. NASA (Space) 0.5B 8/24/85 CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) -- Fitted with improved engine gauges to avoid another cliffhanger launch, Discovery was primed Friday to begin one of the most daring space shuttle missions, the capture and rewiring of an $85 million wandering satellite. Launch was set for 8:38 a.m. today and an Air Force weatherman said "the worst we expect are scattered clouds." If all goes well, the shuttle will edge alongside the 7½-ton slowly spinning derelict on Thursday, and one of the five astronauts will grab the satellite with his gloved hands and stop its rotation. Each of Discovery's three main engines is fitted with two new sensors to measure the temperature on fuel pumps. On Challenger's last launch, July 29, two thermometers indicated one engine pump was overheating and it was shut down by a computer. It was the first time in the manned space program that an engine was shut down in flight, causing concern for the safety of the astronauts. Engineers determined later that the instruments, not the pump, were at fault and an improved version was installed. "We've got a lot of confidence in the new sensors, that they are going to solve our problems," said Jesse Moore, director of the shuttle program. "We think the activities are safe," he said. "I don't think we're taking any additional risk in terms of the rescue." Discovery will start its sixth flight in less than a year with a cargo of three satellites which will be deployed at a one-a-day rate before the rescue attempt. One of the satellites is a Syncom scheduled to join two others already in proper orbit. It has been modified to prevent the same problems that befell No. 3. Hughes Communications and the other two customers, American Satellite Co. and the Australian government, are paying NASA nearly $40 million for the delivery service. In addition, Hughes is paying about $8.5 million for the rescue, which Moore said represents NASA's costs. The rescue attempt will be the second for the Syncom satellite, which failed to activate after it was released from another shuttle last April. After the satellite proved to be a dud in April, the shuttle crew fashioned a "flyswatter" from plastic book covers to snag a master switch thought to be at fault. The snare attempt was successful but it failed to bring the satellite to life. Marvin Mixon, vice president of Hughes Communications, was not overly optimistic Friday night. "It's 50-50, the entire success of the mission," he said. "That is, that we get it into orbit, that it is a viable satellite and that we can turn it over to the Navy." The satellite, the third of four, is to be leased by Hughes for the Navy's communications network. Hughes Communications worked out the plan with NASA in which astronauts James "Ox" Van Hoften and William Fisher will "hot-wire" the Syncom to bypass the electrical circuits of the entire timing mechanism. # Thunderstorm Delayed Planned Launch Continued from page 1A O SB 8/25/85 Officials worried not only about the shuttle climbing through rain and lightning, but also the visibility from the air of the Kennedy Space Center runway in case the shuttle had to make an emergency landing in the early minutes of flight. Rain could damage the shuttle's fragile tiles and lightning could zap its computers and guidance systems. In early afternoon, lightning struck a main transformer that feeds the northern half of the space center, including the launch control room and its many computers and the launch pad 3½ miles away. Lights were out in many areas of the Cape for up to 20 minutes, but NASA spokesman Dick Young said there was only a momentary outage in the launch control room and on the pad. Both have emergency power, but it was not needed. Young said the shuttle, which was being drained of fuel at the time, lost internal power but that was picked up immediately by fuel cells that provide electricity while the ship is in orbit. For a brief period, it appeared the liftoff might be delayed slightly because a freighter had to be chased from the restricted area near the launch pad. The problem was mooted by the storm clouds. Meteorologists had predicted good weather for Saturday. For Sunday, they forecast thunderclouds and rainshowers in the vicinity and offshore. === Page 8 of 31 Note: Got it! Duane THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Saturday, August 24, 1985 3-A # Space walkers cleared for launch of shuttle By WILLIAM HARWOOD UPI Science Writer CAPE CANAVERAL -- Discovery's space-age hardhats Friday were cleared for launch this morning on a weeklong shuttle flight to hot-wire a satellite loaded with fuel but marooned in the wrong orbit. "We've given a green light to go for launch in the morning," said Jesse Moore, associate NASA administrator in charge of the shuttle program. "It's going to be an extremely challenging mission." In a display of "right stuff" bravura, space walkers James "Ox" van Hoften and William Fisher plan to perform electronic bypass surgery on the Syncom communications satellite to salvage its mission and to demonstrate a space repair capability no other nation can match. Discovery was scheduled to take off at 8:38 a.m. EDT from the Kennedy Space Center and Air Force weather officers predicted acceptable weather for the 20th shuttle launching in four years. "The crew is ready to fly and we're ready to have a good launch in the morning," Moore said at a launch eve news conference. The final segment of the countdown got under way on schedule at 7:18 p.m. EDT Friday after an eight-hour, 18-minute rest period. The technicians' first job was to move a service tower away from Discovery for fueling operations. New fuel pump heat sensors have been installed in Discovery's three main engines to prevent a repeat of last month's premature engine shutdown during shuttle Challenger's climb to space. Discovery will land at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., on Aug. 31 or Sept. 1, depending on the progress of the mission. Commander Joe Engle, co-pilot Richard Covey and crewmates van Hoften, Fisher and John "Mike" Lounge plan to launch a communications satellite owned by the American Satellite Co. about 6:12 p.m. today. After launching a relay station owned by Australia and deploying a modified Syncom, the crew will turn its attention to the satellite repair job. In recent interviews, neither Fisher nor van Hoften expressed any fear of working around a satellite with obvious electrical problems and a "live" solid rocket motor packed with 7,382 pounds of propellant. "We don't want to do anything that's unsafe," Fisher said. "We can't afford to lose a vehicle, we can't afford to lose a crewman. None of us are interested in an unsafe or risky task just to be heroes." In what promises to be one of the most dramatic moments yet in the shuttle program, van Hoften, anchored to the end of Discovery's spindly robot arm, plans to install a handlebar on the side of the slowly spinning 15,200-pound Syncom to wrestle it to a standstill so Fisher can attempt repairs. The $85 million Syncom, owned by Hughes Communications Inc. and leased by the Navy, was launched from Discovery in April, but an automatic timer never engaged to fire its ICBM-type rocket motor. The satellite was left dead in space in an orbit thousands of miles too low, despite a valiant effort by the shuttle crew to flip the relay station's start switch using homemade "flyswatter" tools on the end of the ship's robot arm. Once van Hoften has stopped the satellite's 1 rpm spin, the craft will be held by the arm while Fisher installs gear to make sure the satellite's rocket motor cannot fire. === Page 9 of 31 12-A THE TAMPA TRIBUNE-TIMES, Sunday, August 25, 1985 # Thunderstorm causes scrubbing of launch By HARRY F. ROSENTHAL AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL -- The launch of space shuttle Discovery was scrubbed Saturday by a thunderstorm that lingered just long enough to cause a one-day postponement. A new attempt to launch the ship and its crew of five on a satellite delivery-and-rescue mission was set for today at 7:57 a.m. EDT. Storm clouds began building as Saturday's countdown reached the final scheduled "hold" at the 9-minutes-to-liftoff mark. "We are taking a close look at thunderstorms in the vicinity of the landing facility," said Launch Control's Hugh Harris. Moments later, clouds closed in, thunder rolled over Cape Canaveral, and the clock ticked toward the end of the 34-minute "window" in which the shuttle could leave. Launch director Bob Sieck allowed the count to continue to the 5-minute mark, hoping for a last-minute change, then ordered the scrub. Within minutes, the sky again was a brilliant blue. "The weather was simply unpredictable this morning and nobody wanted to take a chance," Harris said. "There were little rainshowers springing up out of nothing." Officials worried not only about the shuttle climbing through rain and lightning, but also the visibility from the air of the Kennedy Space Center runway in case the shuttle had to make an emergency landing in the early minutes of flight. Rain could damage the shuttle's fragile tiles and lightning could zap its computers and guidance systems. In early afternoon, lightning struck a main transformer that feeds the northern half of the space center, including the launch control room and its many computers and the launch pad 3½ miles away. Lights were out in many areas of the Cape for up to 20 minutes, but NASA spokesman Dick Young said there was only a momentary outage in the launch control room and on the pad. Both have emergency power, but it was not needed. Young said the shuttle, which was being drained of fuel at the time, lost internal power but that was picked up immediately by fuel cells that provide electricity while the ship is in orbit. For a brief period, it appeared the liftoff might be delayed slightly because a freighter had to be chased from the restricted area near the launch pad. The problem was mooted by the storm clouds. Meteorologists had predicted good weather for Saturday. For today they forecast thunderclouds and rainshowers in the vicinity and offshore. Only six of the 19 previous shuttle missions have been launched when they were supposed to; weather caused four of the delays. Officials waited out rain in April and launched with 55 seconds to spare. The launch window is determined by several factors, including the time that three communications satellites are to be deployed by the astronauts and by the position of the disabled satellite they will try to rescue. The five astronauts had been in the shuttle cabin for more than two hours when the countdown was halted. They were given a free afternoon and time was set aside in the evening so that commander Joe Engle and pilot Richard Covey could practice emergency landings. The other crew members are mission specialists James van Hoften, William Fisher and John M. Lounge. On the first day of eight-day flight, the astronauts will launch a satellite for American Satellite Co. # Death Toll Hovering At 230 More About The Earthquake, 1D MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Fires flared across this devastated city today and desperate rescue teams clambered over the ruins as the hemisphere's greatest metropolis dug out of one of its greatest tragedies, a giant earthquake that tore at the midsection of the Americas. Officials and witnesses confirmed at least 230 dead in the Thursday morning quake, but the toll was expected to go much higher. Mexico's Channel 2 television, in a report that was not attributed, said 770 people were killed. "I would not dare give a number," said a grim-faced Mayor Ramon Aguirre. He said an estimated 1,000 people were entombed in collapsed buildings in this huge, teeming city. Five thousand people had been treated for injuries, he said. Mexico City and four coastal states, Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco and Michoacan, were hardest hit by the 7:18 a.m. (9:18 a.m. EDT) quake, which leveled cathedrals, schools, hospitals, hotels and scores of other buildings -- at least 250 buildings in Mexico City alone, according to Aguirre. The tremor measured 7.8 on the Richter scale of ground motion, making it the strongest to rock Mexico since 1973. "It's like a big monster," said a disbelieving volunteer rescue worker, Juan-Carlos Christy, outside a destroyed hotel. "It's like being bombed or in a war." "We know there are people in there, we know," a soldier said sadly as he stood outside a badly damaged apartment building. "But it's just too weak ... and smoky and we just can't go in there." Associated Press reporter Mike See Earthquake on page 8A === Page 10 of 31 UPI photo Unable to fly the space shuttle, a grinning shuttle commander Joe Engle settles for a joy ride in a T-38 jet. # Malfunction in computer scrubs launch of shuttle The flight was further postponed so NASA could check for possible damage from fueling and refueling. By AL ROSSITER Jr. UPI Science Editor Trib. 8/26/85 CAPE CANAVERAL -- Computer failure Sunday forced the second launch postponement in two days for the shuttle Discovery and the ship was grounded until Tuesday so technicians could check for possible engine plumbing damage. The faulty $1.2 million flight control computer was replaced by a spare 11 hours after the "scrub" and engineers expected to complete the engine inspections by this morning. An increasing chance of bad weather appeared to be the only obstacle for a blastoff Tuesday. There was a 40 percent chance of thunderstorms and forecasters were watching an area of cloudiness extending northward in the Atlantic from Hispaniola. The back-to-back weekend delays imposed extra pressure on the Kennedy Space Center ground crew to get Discovery airborne because Thursday is the deadline for sending the shuttle up to capture and rewire the disabled Syncom 3 communications satellite. The main mission for the ship's five astronauts, however, is to deploy three communications satellites and earn NASA $35 million in orbital delivery fees. The satellite launchings could be accomplished with a later blastoff, but the disabled Syncom 3 will be out of rendezvous range after Thursday. "The team is pretty disappointed having been denied two days in a row in getting this very ambitious mission going," said launch director Robert Sieck. "We'd been hit by weather the day before and today we had a hardware problem. The team was pretty discouraged." Discovery commander Joe Engle, seemingly undaunted by the setbacks, echoed his statement of Saturday, when the launch was delayed by bad weather, and said Sunday: "We'll get it tomorrow." Officials later, how- See SHUTTLE, Page 6A # Shuttle * From Page 1A Trib. 8/26/85 ever, decided to delay for 48 hours. Engle, Richard Covey, William Fisher, James van Hoften and John Lounge spent a little more than two hours in Discovery's cabin Sunday before returning to their crew quarters. They had the afternoon off and Engle went for a joy ride in a T-38 jet. Sieck said the two-day delay was necessary to allow technicians to inspect large liquid hydrogen pipes between the two fuel pumps on each of the three main engines. They wanted to see if two cycles of alternate cold temperatures from the minus-423 degree F. hydrogen and subsequent warming after the fuel was drained damaged the pipe's insulation. The concern was that nitrogen might penetrate the insulation and expand as it was frozen and dent the fuel pipes. A significant dent could slow the flow of fuel to the engine and lead to a possible explosive engine shutdown. The ship was fueled twice with more than 500,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen and oxygen. Even though the propellants were drained from Discovery after each delay, a considerable amount of hydrogen evaporates and NASA ordered 10 tank trucks of hydrogen rushed in from a plant in New Orleans. Sieck said every day Discovery's takeoff is set back would have a corresponding delay on the maiden launch of the fourth shuttle, Atlantis, on a secret military flight. Its launch had been targeted for Sept. 30. Discovery's countdown Sunday rolled along smoothly until 45 minutes before the planned 7:55 a.m. EDT launch time. A computer that serves as a backup to four identical computers aboard Discovery indicated it had an error in its 106,000-word memory. A quick evaluation revealed that the trouble was not in the computer's programming, but in the computer itself. Engineers ordered the unit removed from Discovery and sent to Houston for testing. "It's disappointing to get all the flight systems up to where they are and then you have a hardware problem," shuttle chief Jesse Moore said in an interview. "But anybody who works in this business who deals with hardware knows that sometimes you're going to have hardware problems. "My philosophy is that I'd much rather find them on the ground than find them in flight," he said. It was the second time in the four-year shuttle program that a shuttle blastoff had been delayed twice in successive days. Discovery's first flight attempt June 25, 1984 was halted by a failure in the backup computer and a launch try the next day was aborted when its main engines shut down on the launch pad because of a valve problem. === Page 11 of 31 UFOs vs NASA (Space) # Astronauts Check Gear For Salvage CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) -- After a frantic first day in space that included an unplanned double-header satellite launch, Discovery's astronauts took it easy today, checking out electronic gear they will use in a spacecraft salvage effort Saturday. That rescue-and-repair effort might be complicated, however, because the "elbow" on the shuttle robot arm does not respond to computer directions and must be operated by tedious manual switches. Officials said the ailment should not block the salvage but could turn it into a longer task. The 50-foot arm will grasp and hold the Syncom 3 satellite steady after space-walkers James van Hoften and Bill Fisher have secured it by hand and have attached a grapple to it. "Tomorrow will be a very light day for the crew, which is a fairly well deserved light day," said flight director Bill Reeves Tuesday night. "We rewrote the mission today, at least the first day of it, with real-time planning." The astronauts ran into trouble Tuesday, two hours after Discovery was launched spectacularly through a break in a large storm system that dumped heavy rain on the spaceport before and after liftoff. # Discovery goes up despite weather UFOs vs NASA (Space) By HARRY F. ROSENTHAL Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL -- Discovery's astronauts were launched Tuesday through the worst weather of the space shuttle program, then had to rush the release of an Australian satellite to keep it from broiling in the sun. The astronauts also deployed a second satellite, the first such doubleheader in the shuttle program, and Mission Control praised them for setting "a new world's record." "Fantastic. We all breathed a sigh of relief down here," Mission Control said after the Aussat satellite was deployed over the equator a day ahead of schedule. The job had to be done quickly because a sunshield would not close properly. Later, a rocket motor fired to send the $60 million satellite toward a duty station 22,300 miles high. From there it will handle television and telephone service for the Australian continent and ease what an Aussat official called "the tyranny of distance." Tracking data showed the rocket firing went perfectly. "Aussat is halfway to geosynch (its proper orbit) and so far the system is in excellent health," Mission Control announced. "That's outstanding. That's good news," said astronaut John "Mike" Lounge. Whether the satellite's antenna was damaged by the sunshield won't be known for about 10 days when the first electronic tests begin. Less than five hours after the Aussat deployment, and one orbit later than originally scheduled, the astronauts released a satellite owned by American Satellite Co. The firm, which provides communications for 450 of the nation's largest business and government agencies, said it has nearly $100 million invested in the satellite project. The ASC satellite also had a successful "burn" en route to its outpost. In the sunshield operation, Lounge had trouble with the shuttle arm, which will become vital Sunday when astronauts James van Hoften and Bill Fisher try to retrieve a dead satellite from orbit to rewire it. The 50-foot device, which has joint motions similar to those of the human shoulder, arm and hand, would not respond to computer commands in its "elbow." As a result, Lounge had to control each of its six motions separately by throwing switches. Flight director Bill Reeves said that will make Lounge's task on Sunday much more time consuming and might force a second day's spacewalk to complete the satellite rescue. The Australian payload, one of three satellites carried aloft in Discovery's cargo bay, had been scheduled for launch Wednesday but the damaged sunshield changed the flight plan. The frame-and-fabric device was supposed to close like a clamshell over the satellite in the cargo bay until deployment time, but it hung up in the halfway position as it was opened for a satellite health check. Lounge then guided the ship's 50-foot robot arm to push it out of the way, leaving the satellite exposed. "Mike's got it open," commander Joe Engle informed Mission Control. "The Aussat satellite would have considerable difficulty in the cargo bay unprotected by a sunshield from the cold of deep space or from direct solar radiation," said Mission Control's Brian Welch. "The satellite has a very limited lifetime in the bay, perhaps only a few more orbits and at that point it would have serious problems." Once in orbit, satellites rotate constantly like meat on a barbecue spit, preventing any portion from overheating or getting too cold. After back-to-back scrubs Saturday and Sunday, tense launch officials gambled on a break in the clouds and sent Discovery on its eight-day mission with a spectacular liftoff that colored the clouds red, white and orange. Soon after the liftoff, the pad was obscured by a torrential downpour. The sunshield frame may have been bent out of shape by being hit with a television camera on the shuttle arm elbow. Flight director Gary Coen said the cause had not been determined and he did not know if a crew member had been at fault. The Aussat satellite is the first of three intended to provide communications to Australia, its offshore islands and Papua New Guinea. Heavy rain pelted the launch pad before and just after liftoff of a flight in which space-walking astronauts will try Sunday to "hot-wire" a derelict $85 million Syncom satellite stuck in a uselessly low orbit. === Page 12 of 31 # Mexico leader reassures kin of missing U.S. Sun Attack Frid. 9/20/85 MEXICO CITY (UPI) -- The official death toll in Mexico's two killer earthquakes climbed past 5,200 Sunday. President Miguel de la Madrid promised relatives of missing victims that searches will continue until "there are no signs of life." Meanwhile, U.S. Embassy officials said they believe that 24 missing Americans died in hotels that collapsed in the quakes Sept. 19-20. "Frankly, we may never find their bodies," an embassy spokesman told UPI. De la Madrid said earlier he soon would announce a reconstruction program expected to include a plan for moving factories and offices out of the heavily congested Mexico City area, where more than 17 million people live. He met Saturday night with his Cabinet to discuss the program, but no details were available. Julio A. Millan, a leader of the Industrial Chamber of Commerce, said that earthquake damages had been estimated at $5 billion and that foreign financing would be needed to supplement domestic spending to rebuild the city. He told the Excelsior newspaper that Mexico would have to work out new terms on its $98 billion foreign debt, the second-highest in the developing world. Many relatives and volunteer workers expressed anger and concern Friday when the army began using heavy equipment to remove large blocks of rubble from the ruins of the 12-story Juarez Hospital, where 1,200 patients and employees were trapped by the first quake. When de la Madrid, dressed in casual clothes, appeared at the site Sunday, thousands of people crowded around him. "Give us effective help. We have been victims of deceit. We want the truth about our families," one person shouted to the president, who has been visiting disaster spots. "I promise you we are not going to dynamite until we are sure there are no signs of life," de la Madrid told the crowd. "We cannot advance further just using our hands. We must use heavy equipment, but prudently." # Officials won't even try to guess Gloria's harm U.S. Sun Attack Frid 9/30/85 Associated Press The East Coast continued to clean up Sunday from Hurricane Gloria's fury and most government and utility officials said they still had no estimate of the storm's damage, although some early loss figures exceeded $47 million. Seven more deaths were attributed to Gloria, bringing to 16 the number of people believed killed as a result of Friday's storm. About 1 million utility customers remained without power Sunday in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Maine and North Carolina. In Connecticut, Gov. William O'Neill notified the White House he would seek federal emergency money, but declined to give an estimate of the damage before state and federal officials tour the state today. About 318,000 customers in Connecticut were without electricity Sunday afternoon, and officials said they were concerned about water shortages and food spoilages. "Nobody is counting the cost at this stage," said Emmanuel Forde, spokesman for Connecticut's Northeast Utilities, which had 60 percent of its 21,000 miles of lines downed or damaged. The company earlier said its damage could exceed $20 million. In New York, where thousands of utility linemen worked to turn power back on for 400,000 customers on Long Island, a damage estimate was not expected until mid-week. In Maryland, the Army Corps of Engineers estimated about $6 million damage to Ocean City, a vulnerable barrier island and the state's resort capital. In New Jersey, officials in three coastal counties estimated hurricane damage would amount to at least $8.5 million. Civil defense officials in Massachusetts and New Hampshire said they would have no damage figures until today at the earliest. Massachusetts agriculture officials estimated that $5 million to $7 million of the state's $25 million annual apple crop was damaged, as well as half the state's $800,000 corn crop and 30 percent of its $3 million silage corn crop. There was no official damage figure in Rhode Island, where early estimates predicted a toll between $2.6 million and $4 million. === Page 13 of 31 UFOs Sun Attack Trib 9/4/85 # Mexico hailstorm leaves foot of ice MEXICO CITY -- A heavy hailstorm battered the center of the Mexican capital Monday evening and police said the weight of the ice knocked down 25 old buildings, killing one person and injuring some 185. A National Weather Service report, describing the storm as one of the worst in half a century, said it pelted the downtown area and adjacent districts for more than an hour. The freak storm left the streets covered with more than a foot of ice, damaged parked automobiles, knocked out power and causing citywide traffic snarls. # World water shortage looms WASHINGTON -- The loss of irrigation water before it reaches crops and water waste by manufacturers and households threatens shortages that could limit food production and economic growth, the Worldwatch Institute said Saturday. "Collectively, these factors -- pervasive depletion and overuse of water supplies, the high capital cost of new large water projects, rising pumping costs and worsening ecological damage -- call for a shift in the way water is valued, used and managed," said the study by the environmental research group. UFO signal to me - of Quake Shakes Owens Valley In California Calif. disaster quake? 8/16/85 # Quake Shakes Owens Valley In California OLANCHA, Calif. (AP) -- A moderate earthquake shook the Owens Valley on Thursday night, but there were no reports of injuries or damage. The quake's epicenter was about 15 miles east of Olancha, a community of about 100 people about 150 miles north of Los Angeles, said Russ Needham, a spokesman for the National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo. UFO Sun Attack Trib 9/30/85 # Italy suffering from lack of rain ROME -- Cities that haven't had rain in months are turning off fountains, Florence could run dry in days and the grape harvest could suffer from a drought that has driven some places to water rationing. However, the drought has gripped Italy unevenly, with some cities such as Rome largely escaping its effects because of adequate reservoir levels. Three months without much more than a drop has forced government officials to draw up an emergency plan to bring water from other areas to Florence, which they say has enough water in its reservoir for only a few more days. UFOs Sun Attack # Where Hurricane Elena did the most damage APALACHICOLA: Elena chewed up roads and docks and buried oyster beds, alarming local fishermen. Along with Cedar Key, this area was the most damaged in the state. CEDAR KEY: The town had some of the state's worst damage. Homes, restaurants and hotels were severely hurt and three-fourths of the town's pier was destroyed. ESCAMBIA: Road damage is estimated at $1.6 million. Losses to private property not yet known. PASCO: Tornadoes caused destruction to inland areas while wind and water damaged homes along the coast. The Withlacoochee is expected to flood Saturday from runoff. PINELLAS: Elena destroyed at least eight homes and caused major damage to 130 others along the beaches. Some 740 homes suffered minor damage. A 2-mile swath south of Clearwater on Indian Rocks Beach was hit hardest. HILLSBOROUGH: Parts of Davis Islands, Bayshore Boulevard and other low-lying areas took the brunt of the storm. Damage to city-owned facilities is estimated at up to $5 million. Source: Tribune staff and wires 9/4/85 Tribune graphic by WARREN HUSKEY === Page 14 of 31 UFDe Sun Attack Trib. 10/8/85 # Water Woes Ahead "Water could supplant oil as the problem commodity of the late 1980s and 1990s. ..." So wrote Rhonda L. Rundle in a recent Wall Street Journal "Heard on the Street" column. The point is well taken. New York City was in the grip of a severe water shortage all summer. Numerous restrictions have been ordered to conserve what precious supplies are available, but the problem extends beyond depleted reservoirs. New York, together with other Northeastern cities, has an antiquated distribution system that is badly in need of overhaul. Many cities in both the Northeast and Midwest face serious water-pollution problems. Parts of Florida, including the Tampa Bay area, spent most of the summer under restricted water use, until Hurricane Elena ended what remained of a long drought. Florida's water woes, alleviated for the moment, have not been eliminated by any means. There will be other dry winters, followed by dry springs and summer shortages. It will be necessary to deal with these by tapping water now lost to the Gulf of Mexico in Northern Florida, processing brackish or salt water to produce fresh water, or recycling effluent from sewage-treatment plants. Whatever the solutions to water shortages, they will be expensive in New York City and Central Florida. Financial analysts are forecasting that billions of dollars will be spent by municipalities and state governments to assure adequate supplies of irrigation and drinking water. This is causing a minor boom in stocks of companies that deal in the technology of curtailing water demand, improving its quality or distributing it more efficiently. Unlike oil, there is no substitute for water. Those investors betting that governments and consumers are going to be paying more for water in the future may be right on target. Yes indeed. Water could very well supplant oil as the problem commodity of the future. === Page 15 of 31 Mississippi declared disaster by president UFO= Sun Attack FFil a/5/85 found for the occupants. GULFPORT, Miss. (UPI) President Reagan declared the Mis- sissippi coast ravaged by Hurricane Elena a disaster area Wednesday, making the thousands of people who lost homes and businesses in the 125- mph storm eligible for federal aid. The relief effort will be coordi- nated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which re- ported the Labor Day storm dam- aged or destroyed 3,790 dwellings and 1,400 businesses in the three counties along Mississippi's 80-mile Gulf Coast. FEMA said 3,000 homes were damaged so severely they are unliv- able and temporary housing must be Paul E. Hall of FEMA's Atlanta office, who will head the relief ef- fort, said homeowners may borrow up to $100,000 for structural repairs and up to $20,000 for personal prop- erty. The Small Business Administra- tion will authorize loans up to $500,000 for businesses damaged or destroyed in the storm. The interest rates on loans will be 4 percent or 8 percent, depending on the borrow- er's credit rating. FEMA said "millions of dollars" in federal assistance would be avail- able to the hurricane-ravaged coast, but said official estimates of Elena's damage were not yet available. Richard Glazier, public informa- tion officer for the Harrison County Civil Defense, indicated the overall damage in Mississippi, Florida, Ala- bama and Louisiana could exceed the $2 billion total of Hurricane Frederic in 1979. "The damage itself (from Elena) is less than in Frederic, but the dol- lar amount is greater because of inflation," Glazier said. Federal officials said an overall damage total should be known soon, but Glazier said preliminary esti- mates place Mississippi's damage at more than a half-billion dollars. Jerry Melvin, executive vice president of the Greater Fort Walton Beach (Fla.) Chamber of Com- merce, said the hurricane cost $16.4 million in lost tourist dollars for the Panhandle counties of Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, Walton and Bay. 1/FOR Sim Attack Alabama Delared Disaster Area By Preisident 0.53 9/5/85 WASHINGTON (AP) L President Reagan declared -- Alabama a major disaster area Saturday, permitting the use of federal funds for relief and recovery efforts stemming from the damage caused by Hurricane Elena. The president's action, announced by the White House, means that federal assistance from the president's disaster relief fund will be available for inidividual or family grants, as well as temporary housing for disaster victims. Disaster loans from the Small Business Administration and emergency loans from the Farmers Home Administration will also be available, the White House statement said. Local governments will receive assistance for damaged public facilities under the president's action, the announcement said. Dragomán June1, 1979 Muzorewa takes helm of Zimbabwe Rhodesia By SERGE SCHMEMANN SALISBURY, Zimbabwe Rhodesia (AP) - Prime Minister Abel Muzorewa ushered in the new state of Zimbabwe Rhodesia at the stroke of midnight Thursday, declaring it "the victorious minute we have struggled for and wait- ed for over 88 years of colonial domina- tion and subjugation." The brief radio and television ad- dress by the country's first black prime minister, along with a government ga- zette proclamation, were the only offi- cial acts marking the inception of the new state - which was saddled from birth with international isolation, es- calating civil war and factional rival- ries. "This is Friday, June 1, 1979, this is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be grateful and be extremely glad, began Muzorewa, a 54-year-old bishop of the United Methodist Church. He promised "sober and decent lead- ership" and fervently appealed for na- tional unity: "I ask you to devote all your physi- cal, mental and spiritual energies to achieve . . . in this wonderful land of ours a oneness which will be the envy of the whole world." The gazette proclamation ended the 15-year white-minority administration of Prime Minister Ian Smith and offi- cially transferred government powers to Muzorewa and his Cabinet of 11 blacks and five whites. The new minis- ters will be sworn in Friday, with Smith becoming a minister without portfolio. But in the last hours before the transfer, informed sources said nation- alist guerrillas had been warning blacks in rural villages and towns to stay in- doors. 'In Salisbury, the rift between Mu- zorewa and his former partner in the 14-month transitional government, the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, widened with police detentions of at least 11 officials of Sithole's Zimbabwe African National Union. Sithole has charged that April's par- liamentary elections were rigged and he is boycotting the new government. He made the allegations after his party was overwhelmed by Muzorewa's United African National Council. === Page 16 of 31 Kenneth Englade # Biggest Rhodesian Battle Shaping Up ① Send to Jeffrey - ② (Dear in next life, confronts mountain lion...) Feb. 26, 1978 SALISBURY, Rhodesia -- The biggest battle of the 12-year-old Rhodesian war is shaping up, and it promises to be as vicious and uncompromising as any that has been fought in this southern African country. In the bush, it's Prime Minister Ian Smith's white-led forces against black guerrillas sweeping in from neighboring Zambia and Mozambique. But the forthcoming battle will be between the country's 90,000 or so white voters. And it's going to be deadly. Consider the mood in this outwardly peaceful, flower-decked capital. * The war. The usual rainy season increase notwithstanding, the fighting is steadily intensifying and January was one of the bloodiest months on record. Guerrillas attacked in the Salisbury suburbs, ambushing one white family in the driveway of their home. In one week-long span the guerrillas killed eight whites within an hour's drive of downtown Salisbury. * The government. Possibly as a result of the increased fighting, or fearful of its effects on white morale, the government passed two new censorship laws tightening restrictions on the press to such an extent that almost everything now has to be cleared through military censors. * The tension. After the attacks on the Salisbury outskirts, weapons sales climbed dramatically. People living on the city's edges talked about moving closer into town. Farmers in a previously "safe" area began erecting eight-foot-high chainlink fences around their homes. Bomb scares have forced scattered evacuations of large sections of the downtown area. * The politicians. Prime Minister Ian Smith, undoubtedly under tremendous pressure, lost his temper with newsmen at a televised news conference. A newspaper called it "his worst radio and television broadcast." Bishop Abel Muzorewa, one of the black nationalists negotiating with Smith, walked out of a meeting after claiming Smith's deputy called him a liar. * The pressure. The British, after saying for many months they would not recognize a settlement worked out without the leaders of the guerrilla armies -- Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe -- reluctantly admitted they might take a look at a new majority rule constitution drawn up by Smith and nationalists living within Rhodesia. But one has to be drawn up first. And it has to be approved by the country's white voters in what is building up as the conclusive battle of Rhodesia. The closer Smith gets to a settlement, the more restive the rightwing whites become. Represented almost exclusively by the Rhodesian Action Party (RAP) -- a breakaway force from Smith's ruling Rhodesian Front (RF) Party -- the conservatives have found some able spokesmen, and perhaps some willing listeners. In the last few days more than 900 persons have turned out for RAP gatherings in opposite ends of the California-sized country. That's a pretty good showing considering the small number of whites in Rhodesia. It is especially good when one considers the RAP was not able to win a single seat in last August's parliamentary elections. The concern now -- as opposed to last summer -- is an impending internal settlement designed to end the five-year-old guerrilla war. The country's conservative whites, however, apparently fear a settlement worked out by Smith is going to sell them down the river. Since Smith has already promised whites he would submit any proposed constitution to a popular vote before it becomes effective, a strong enough drive by RAP could wreck months of work by the negotiators. Experts figure Smith will need to get 80 percent approval by the voters before he can count it a victory. And RAP is already making tentative jabs to see that Smith's effort fails. Ted Sutton-Pryce, one of the most accomplished RAP spokesmen, told an eager audience: "There is still the will to survive in Rhodesia... no one has us on the ground and is going to kick us around... the survival of the white community is at stake... it is a question of survival against Marxist pressure to kick us out." PK Power Sutton-Pryce also debunked Smith's much vaunted attempt to ensure "safeguards" for whites after a black takeover. "There are no recognized safeguards for minority groups. This is... a fact of life. The RF has committed us to majority rule. This is a disaster looking for a place to happen." True!! *The writer is a former United Press International bureau chief in Albuquerque and is now a free lance writer in Rhodesia.* === Page 17 of 31 March 9, 1978 # South Africa Has Largest White Exodus Since '60 JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (UPI) -- South Africa last year suffered its biggest white exodus since 1960 and only its second since World War II and the figures would have been greater had not thousands of whites entered the country from neighboring Rhodesia. Figures released by the Department of Statistics showed that 26,000 whites left South Africa last year and 24,822 came to settle. The net loss of 1,178 white emigrants during 1977 was kept relatively low by 8,077 whites fleeing political and economic uncertainty and the guerrilla war in neighboring white-ruled Rhodesia. The 1977 statistics show a dramatic reversal over the previous two years and according to political analysts is symptomatic of South Africa's political situation. The analysts noted the continuing unrest in the black townships, increasing pressure from western nations for meaningful changes for the black majority and the government's failure to respond. They said another factor contributing to the exodus were the persistent warnings from opposition politicians and black leaders of future disaster if the government did not change its policies towards the blacks. Statistics show that in 1975 South Africa had a net gain of 40,209 white immigrants and in 1976 there was a net gain of 30,598. Last year's net loss was the second negative migration figure since 1945: in 1960, 9,805 whites came to settle but 12,705 left the country -- a net loss of 2,906. It was the greatest white exodus since 1960 -- the year when bloody antigovernment demonstrations in black townships such as Sharpville and political developments at the time sent thousands of whites out of the country. Alf Widman, opposition progressive Federal Party parliamentary spokesman on immigration, described the 1977 figures as "staggering." "South Africa cannot afford a population loss of this magnitude," he said. # Cold Canadian air causes record temperatures in 33 U.S. cities Tribune Staff and Wires 10 / 2 / 85 Cold Canadian air chilled the Plains and Rockies Tuesday with temperatures in the 20s and 30s, setting records in 33 cities from North Dakota to Texas while 8 inches of snow blanketed Poplar Lake, Minn. High pressure systems over southwest Montana and southeast Kansas brought the unseasonably cold, early morning temperatures to the Plains, breaking records in 11 states. Readings were in the 40s as far south as southeast Texas. "It's cold Canadian air pouring down into the central part of the nation," said Paul Fike, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Kansas City, Mo. "It will start to make a little push to the east" tonight. Frost or freeze warnings were posted for Tuesday night in parts of Wisconsin and eastern Missouri and frost warnings were posted for all of Illinois and Indiana, Fike said. The temperatures dropped to 19 degrees in Bismark, N.D., breaking the 1936 record of 20. It was 42 in Abilene, Texas, 1 degree below the 1906 record. Readings of 23 in Cheyenne, Wyo., and 22 in North Platte, Neb., tied record lows that had stood for more than a century. In the Tampa Bay area, residents can expect partly cloudy skies today and Thursday with high temperatures near 80 and lows in the lower 70s, according to the National Weather Service in Ruskin. There is a 30 percent chance of afternoon and evening thundershowers both days, forecasters say. Heavy snow fell overnight in extreme northeast Minnesota. Up to 8 inches of snow covered Poplar Lake, Minn., making roads slippery. An inch of snow was reported at International Falls. Showers and thunderstorms were scattered Tuesday over the Southeast where very little precipitation fell in September. A half-inch of rain fell Tuesday in Beckley, W.V., which recorded its driest September in this century. Rain was moving toward Raleigh, N.C., and Lynchburg, Va., which had their second driest Septembers ever. Greensboro, N.C., reported only a trace of precipitation last month, making it the driest month on record, the weather service said. # Hailstorm kills 20 in Brazil 10 / 3 / 85 ITABIRINHA, Brazil -- Rescuers hacked through ice slabs Wednesday searching for victims of a freak hailstorm that killed at least 20 people and left the streets covered in foot-deep sheets of ice. The storm Monday afternoon lasted only 15 minutes but damaged over 2,000 houses. Almost 4,000 people in the town of 10,000 were left homeless. Communication with the town of Itabirinha, 300 miles north of Rio de Janeiro, were severed, and news of the deaths emerged slowly. "So far we have 20 confirmed dead -- two from direct hail blows on the head," Dr. Nilson de Oliveira said. Other victims were frozen, drowned or crushed under ice, falling masonry or collapsing earth banks. === Page 18 of 31 THE ONLY STRESS showing in this statement is Burt's anger, says voice expert Charles McQuiston. Truth Detector Reveals: Nat'l Enquirer 9/10/85 # Burt Reynolds Telling the Truth When He Denies Having AIDS Burt Reynolds told the truth when he declared "I'm not suffering from AIDS" in a TV interview. That's the conclusion of Charles R. McQuiston, who used the truth-detecting Psychological Stress Evaluator (PSE) to analyze Burt's answers to probing questions from Rona Barrett on "Entertainment Tonight" August 16. The PSE is so remarkably accurate that it's been used by more than 300 law enforcement agencies and has been accepted by courts in many states. Rumors that Burt is suffering from AIDS or possibly cancer have been spreading like wildfire ever since the actor's much-publicized health problems forced him to drop out of a big movie project recently. Here are Burt's answers, followed by the professional analysis of McQuiston, a former U.S. intelligence officer and coinventor of the PSE, which detects deception by charting stress patterns in a person's voice. Burt: "No, I'm not suffering from AIDS ... No, I'm not suffering from cancer." McQuiston: "He is telling the truth. And the patterns on the charts distinctly show that he's also feeling anger." Barrett asked Burt what his real physical problem was. Burt: "It's what's called ... temporomandibular joint problem ... I got hit (by) a chair doin' a fight scene, and ... it just moved my bite around ... I couldn't eat." McQuiston: "He is making a statement that is irrefutable." During the interview, Burt explained why he thinks the AIDS rumor has persisted. Burt: "Somebody, someone, someplace is bound and determined to nail me." McQuiston: "He says this with much emphasis. It's clear on the analysis charts that he really believes this to be true." -- MARIAN MILLER BURT REYNOLDS "Someone, someone, someplace is determined to nail me." Trib 8/18/85 Italian residents report UFO Florence, Italy -- Residents in central and northern Italy reported seeing a bright-colored unidentified flying object early Saturday. In the area of Pavia, 18 miles south of Milan, residents in scattered districts reported seeing a circular object emanating an intense green and orange light shortly after midnight. Trib, 10/8/85 Killer asks for new trial RICHMOND, Va. -- Lawyers for Jeffrey MacDonald pressed a federal appeals court Monday to order a new trial for the former Green Beret doctor serving life for the 1970 murders of his pregnant wife and two young daughters. A ruling is not expected for several months. Defense lawyer Bryan O'Neill told the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that new evidence -- including statements by 35 witnesses -- supported MacDonald's claim of innocence. The fatal stabbings of Colette MacDonald, 26, and her two daughters inspired Joe McGinniss' best-selling book, "Fatal Vision." === Page 19 of 31 12-A THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Wednesday, August 14, 1985 Newsmakers T. Bay Bandits PK Reynolds' agent challenges rumors LOS ANGELES -- Burt Reynolds' agent, angry over rumors that the star has been hospitalized in San Francisco with AIDS, says he will pay $100,000 to anyone who can prove Reynolds has been in the city by the bay within the past two years. "The man is here working day after day," David Gershenson said Monday. "He's in public all the time. This is ridiculous. He's here looking and feeling fine." He said Reynolds is preparing to direct an episode of Steven Spielberg's television series, "Amazing Stories." San Francisco General Hospital has received a number of calls asking about Reynolds, "but he's not here," said a hospital spokeswoman. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome is an affliction in which the body's immune system becomes unable to resist disease. It is most likely to strike homosexuals, abusers of injectable drugs and hemophiliacs. Movie and TV star Rock Hudson has AIDS and is hospitalized in Los Angeles. Reynolds does not have AIDS, his agent says. Tampa Bay Bandits 3 owners: Arky, Reynolds, Bassett. Arky blew his brains out. Bassett suddenly developed inoperable brain tumors. Reynolds is very ill with a "mysterious" ailment. Owens === Page 20 of 31 9/4/85 Sun Bank cashier said computers had gone they were today all other Ocala (other banks, etc.) Could have been caused by my anger over life hacks of Star Banner re Elena / Have never removed the fee - force attack on the solar - could be expanding. Star Banner PK Broken Presses Change Star-Banner's Format O.SB 8/19/85 The configuration of sections in the Ocala Star-Banner have not been normal for the past two days because of a broken gear in the press folder. The paper has been printed in two sections rather than the usual four or more sections because of the mishap. The Star-Banner has been assured the gear will be repaired Monday. Readers are urged to be patient until normal operations can resume. Storms Flip Planes In Detroit; Winds Thrash Kansas By The Associated Press UFO Sun Attack 08/19/85 Heavy thunderstorms whipped up 70 mph winds in Kansas after others smashed trailer parks, killing one man and tossing another 100 feet, flipped planes and turned out lights for 50,000 homes in Michigan as the remains of Danny drenched the mid-Atlantic Coast. The last remnants of Danny, which did minor damage as a hurricane in Louisiana before spawning tornadoes in Alabama and South Carolina and flooding parts of Virginia and North Carolina, was expected to move offshore today. As Danny moved toward the coast Sunday, it continued to soak parts of North Carolina, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. More than 5 1/2 inches of rain fell on Richmond, Va., on Sunday, the National Weather Service said. Earlier Sunday, thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 to 70 mph buffeted Lakin, Kan., knocking down power lines and road signs and blowing the roof off a trailer. The towns of Ford, Greensburg, Kinsey and Pratt also were hit. Thunderstorms whirling 51 mph gusts "flipped over a couple of airplanes that weren't tied down right" on Sunday at Detroit City Airport, a spokesman said. An estimated 50,000 homes were without electricity in southeastern lower Michigan. Utility officials said the last 6,000 would be in service today. Meanwhile, emergency officials in Alabama walked along the multimillion-dollar trail of destruction left by 24 tornadoes spawned by Danny, and tornado victims returned to their shattered homes in Spartanburg, S.C. On Saturday, a 55-year-old man was killed when winds that destroyed 13 mobile homes and damaged 30 others smashed his trailer near Emporia, Kan., said Lyon County sheriff's Deputy Ron Petersen. Estimates Rise To $210 Million; Some Homes Still Without Power By The Associated Press O.SB 10/3/85 Damage estimates climbed to more than $210 million in states struck last week by Hurricane Gloria as a quarter of a million homes and businesses remained without power today for a sixth day. State officials in New York were preparing Wednesday to ship 500,000 pounds of dry ice to between 150,000 and 165,000 customers estimated to be without power on Long Island, Gov. Mario Cuomo said. Emergency agencies already had provided 5,000 batteries to Suffolk County for flashlights and radios, Cuomo said. The governor estimated that damage on Long Island, where Gloria made landfall Friday, would exceed $100,000. New York City dispatched about 50 city workers to aid in the cleanup effort in Suffolk County. The state planned to send 15 six-person crews. Elected officials criticized Long Island Lighting Co. board chairman William J. Catacosinos, who was vacationing in Europe during the hurricane and was not expected back at work until today. Catacosinos was scheduled to tour LILCO facilities during the afternoon to thank some of the more than 4,000 workers who have been struggling to repair utility lines and to thank customers for cooperation during the emergency. About 45,000 Long Island customers had no phone service Wednesday, said New York Telephone Co. spokesman John Quinn. In Massachusetts, utility officials were coming under fire from local officials. Brockton City Councilor Louis F. Angelo and two other city councilors planned to lead a march today at the local office of Eastern Edison Co., the utility with the most Massachusetts customers still without lights. Work crews cut the total still in the dark to 13,500 late Wednesday, down from the 450,000 without power after Gloria struck. "We are hoping to have by tomorrow evening practically all our customers back," utility president Alan K. Hamer said Wednesday night. He said the utility had imported from other states 80 of the 109 crews working. === Page 21 of 31 THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Wednesday, October 2, 1985 3-A # Most Northeast utilities uninsured for damage inflicted by hurricane UFOs Sun Attack By FRED BAYLES Associated Press NEW YORK -- When Hurricane Gloria came roaring up on the Northeast last week, knocking down power and phone lines, most of the region's utilities were not insured for damage that may run as high as $70 million. The decision by many insurance companies to stop selling storm insurance, or to charge hefty rate increases, left utilities and their customers holding the bills for damage from once-in-a-decade hurricanes to seasonal ice storms. Long Island Lighting Co. and Northeast Utilities, New England's largest electric company, recently lost their "transmission and distribution facility disaster insurance," which covers labor, materials, transporation and other expenses necessary to restore power systems lost to storm damage. Both utilities were hit hard by Gloria, which cut off service to hundreds of thousands of customers. Emmanuel Forde, a spokesman for Northeast Utilities, said a consortium of insurers, headed by Lloyd's of London, canceled the coverage on July 1. The utility subsequently tried to buy coverage from 17 other insurance companies. All the firms turned down Northeast's bid. The Hartford, Conn.-based company, which had been insured up to $10 million for storm repairs, is stuck for a repair bill that may exceed $20 million. Customers may share that cost, through higher rates. "The state regulators will look into it to determine who will pay," said Forde. Carol Clawson, a spokeswoman for Long Island Lighting, said the utility's entire system would have to be rebuilt in the wake of Gloria. "We have suffered more damage than any storm in our history," she said. State officials and analysts have put the cost at $25 million to $30 million. Clawson said the utility recently lost its storm damage insurance after years of relying on insurance to cover the cost of winter ice storms and occasional hurricanes. "When all power is restored we will assess the cost and make a determination on how the bills will be paid," she said. Other utilities in Massachusetts and Rhode Island also reported they had no insurance. Mary Wallan, a spokeswoman for Boston Edison Co., said the company's 600,000 customers in the Boston area will eventually pick up the $6 million plus tab for Hurricane Gloria. Wallan said the utility dropped its insurance coverage because of its high cost. Southern New England Telephone, still trying to restore service to 7,900 customers in Connecticut on Tuesday, had insurance coverage on its transmission equipment. Spokesman Mike McCann said it was unlikely the utility would collect on the policy that carries a $5 million deductible. McCann said customers would not be billed for the damages. The decision by insurance companies to drop storm coverage or raise premiums and deductable limits follows a trend that has seen the industry become more selective, and expensive, about who it is willing to insure. Over the past year, insurance companies have raised rates or dropped coverage to customers ranging from nursing homes to municipalities to chemical companies, all in an attempt to cut losses. Warren Levy, a spokesman with the Insurance Information Institute, a trade association based in New York, said the industry suffered a $3.8 billion loss last year in casualty insurance, partially due to large claims. "Some utilities, if not all utilities, will have millions of dollars of losses in a given year," he said. "For the insurance companies it's not a question of whether you will pay out on a claim, but how much you will pay. "This turns out to be not much of a bargain for the insurance industry," Levy said. Susan Roth, a spokeswoman with the Edison Electric Institute, said many utilities have dropped the increasingly expensive storm coverage. "It's just a matter of analyzing how much it's going to cost you and what the risk is going to be," she said. Some companies have responded to the high costs and high deductables by providing their own insurance. Commonwealth Electricity, which serves southeastern Massachusetts, now puts aside money for storm repairs -- in effect, insuring itself. === Page 22 of 31 Delta pilots not warned of weather Delta Flight 191 crashed while trying to land in Dallas, killing 136 people. By H. JOSEF HEBERT Associated Press WASHINGTON -- In the minutes before Delta Flight 191 crashed while trying to land at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, a thunderstorm was clearly apparent and a pilot who had just landed noticed what he thought was a tornado along the approach. But National Transportation Safety Board documents indicated Monday the pilot of Flight 191 never was warned of the storm's severity. Less than 10 minutes before the crash he was told by air traffic controllers that there was "only a little rain" north of the airport. Investigators have speculated that the Aug. 2 crash, which killed 136 people, was caused by wind shear, a severe change of wind direction that literally forced the Lockheed L-1011 jumbo jet into the ground as it was about to land. A transcript of exchanges in the cockpit just before the crash supported the wind-shear theory because the crew could be heard struggling to increase power amid the backdrop of engines revving to maximum power. This was followed by a sound similar to a landing and someone saying, "Oh ..." and what the NTSB called a non-printable word. Almost immediately there was the sound of a second impact and silence. The flight, from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., was bound for Los Angeles with an interim stop at Dallas when it encountered heavy rain, lightning and treacherous winds short of the runway. The plane first touched down in a field, bounced across a highway where it struck a car and crashed into water tanks before bursting into flames. According to the transcript from the cockpit voice recorder, the crew was concerned during the approach Crash From Page 1A about severe weather in the area. Several times they criticized air traffic controllers for directing them too close to a severe weather cell. "We're going to get our airplane washed," Price, a 15-year veteran with Delta, remarked. A short time later, about 90 seconds before the crash, he observed lightning, "right ahead of us" as the plane continued its descent. "You get good legs, don't ya," quipped the flight engineer, referring to the co-pilot and pilot switching off flying duties on different legs of the trip. The co-pilot was at the controls. As they spoke, another Delta crew, its plane taxiing away from the runway after having landed, already had noticed the severe weather along the approach path. "Is that a waterspout out there on the end (of the runway)?" the pilot of the Boeing 737 remarked. "I don't know. Sure looks like it. doesn't it? Looks like a tornado or something," the co-pilot replied. "Like it," the co-pilot replied. About 2 1/2 minutes later, the two Delta crew members, neither of whom was identified, saw the fireball beyond the runway where Flight 191 had crashed. According to sources close to the investigation, there is no indication that the sighting of a possible tornado on the approach was ever relayed to the control tower or on Flight 191. While lightning was seen from the airport tower and at least 20 pilots saw the severe weather developing to the north end of the airport runway before Flight 191's arrival, "this observation was not disseminated to any flights on tower frequency," the NTSB documents said. A recorded weather advisory for "incoming aircraft did not refer to thunderstorm and heavy rain showers" until 25 minutes after the plane crashed, according to an NTSB summary. See CRASH, Page 4A === Page 23 of 31 OCALA STAR-BANNER P.O. Box 490, Ocala, Florida 32670 Affiliated with Gainesville (Fla.) Sun Lakeland (Fla.) Ledger Leesburg (Fla.) Daily Commercial Palatka (Fla.) Daily News Lake City (Fla.) Reporter Sebring (Fla.) News Fernandina Beach (Fla.) News-Leader Avon Park (Fla.) Sun Marco Island (Fla.) Eagle Lexington (N.C.) Dispatch Hendersonville (N.C.) Times-News Wilmington (N.C.) Star-News Sept. 5, 1985 Dear Mr. Owens: This is to advise you that we do not have a Jim Michaels working on our staff. No one with that name has ever worked for us, nor do I know anyone with that name. Sincerely, Bernard Watts Bernard Watts Editor Asst Sup Marcos Ken Viannello Frederick Smiley 1:15 PM call 9/11/85 Jim Michaels O.S.B. NYT A New York Times Company === Page 24 of 31 THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Saturday, October 5, 1985 # Quake shakes Tokyo buildings UFOs Sun Attack TOKYO (UPI) -- The strongest earthquake to strike Tokyo in more than half a century Friday swayed skyscrapers and stranded thousands of commuters in subways and trains. At least 16 people were injured, authorities said. Japan's Meteorological Agency said the quake, measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale, shook central and northern Japan at 9:26 p.m. for between 20 and 30 seconds. There were no reports of damage. The agency said there was no danger of a tidal wave from the temblor, the strongest earthquake to hit Tokyo since July 27, 1929. The Tokyo Fire Department said at least 14 people suffered minor injuries in the capital, including a 79-year-old woman who fell out of her bed and broke her wrist and a 7-year-old girl who was slightly hurt when a camera fell on her. In Tokyo's neighboring Chiba prefecture, police said two people were slightly injured. A police spokesman said one woman was trapped in an elevator for more than an hour before fire department officials rescued her. She was unharmed. The epicenter of the quake was located about 50 miles underground, on the border of Chiba and Ibaragi prefectures surrounding Tokyo, the meteorological agency said. The earthquake caused buildings and electricity poles to sway, household articles to fall and dishes and glassware to rattle. It disrupted road traffic and ground to a halt train and subway services around Tokyo. Tokyo residents, accustomed to frequent tremors, were alarmed by the quake because of the extensive media coverage of Mexico City's devastating earthquake last month that left at least 7,000 people dead. The Tokyo Fire Department said it received about 240 phone calls in two hours from panicked city residents. One businessman described the swaying of his high-rise office building as like "riding on a merry-go-round." Japan's high-speed bullet trains were briefly stopped, disrupting travel for 660,000 people. Other railway and subway lines were ordered temporarily halted. Traffic on several major highways came to a standstill. "The bullet train stopped and the lights went out. I looked out the window and saw the guard rail shaking and I knew it was an earthquake," said one passenger at Tokyo station. **Tokyo earthquake** At 6.2 on the Richter scale, it's Tokyo's strongest quake in 56 years. CHINA / U.S.S.R Sea of Japan S. KOREA JAPAN Tokyo Epicenter Pacific Ocean Tribune graphic UPI photo # Deadly pileup UFOs Sun Attack Trib. 10/8/85 Vehicles on Interstate 5 near Sacramento, Calif., are piled on top of each other Sunday following a massive chain-reaction accident, which claimed the lives of eight persons and left at least 40 injured. The accident was caused when thick smoke from a nearby grass fire blinded northbound motorists on the busy freeway. UFOs Sun Attack Trib. 10/8/85 # 91 cars, 4 trucks in highway pileup VIENNA, Austria -- At least 91 cars and four trucks piled up in a chain-reaction crash caused by fog on a north Austrian autobahn Monday, police said. Twelve people were reported injured. The expressway north of Linz was closed for four hours by the accident. The Austria Press Agency said two cars had been involved in a minor accident in the fog, and that the other vehicles, unable to stop, started piling up behind them. === Page 25 of 31 Reagan Proposed Another $411 Million in Aid Last Week Little to Look Forward to in Ethiopia Seeks Funding For Trip To Ethiopia To The Editor: Your excellent reporter, Mary Ann Murdoch, did an article re my work in parapsychology and psi not long ago. Fine writing on her part. She can vouch that I have many credentials. It is my wish to be able to travel to Ethiopia to bring the long-overdue rains down in that country. It would save thousands, perhaps millions, of lives. In the hard-cover book, "Mysteries," by Colin Wilson, you can read how he and his wife were present in London, England, in 1976, at the time I was giving a lecture on parapsychology and psi-phenomena before top scientists of the world. And I ended the killer-drought then prevalent in England. Mr. Wilson describes the episode in his book. There are a dozen books in the library, written by experts, which describe my work. Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove, Ph.D., states in an article that he did about my work in Fate Magazine, that I seem to have the powers of the ancient shamans of old, who could control weather. At any rate, some wealthy local person would have to bankroll the trip, since I haven't the funds for it. Someone who might feel compassion for those pitifully sick Ethiopian children and adults who are dying from drought and starvation. Ted Owens Ocala Star-Banner 1/11/85 === Page 26 of 31 Reagan Proposed Another $411 Million in Aid Last Week # Little to Look Forward to in Ethiopia Famine refugees in Makale, Ethiopia. Contact/David Burnett By CLIFFORD D. MAY ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- On the dusty slope by St. Michael's Church in Makale, in the cold, early morning wind, the dead and the living lie side by side waiting for the stretcher bearers to sort them out. About 13,000 people have descended on this patch of hard ground called, without apparent irony, "the reception area" for Makale's refugee camps. "A month ago, things were getting better here," said Brother Bullo, a relief worker and member of the Salesian order. "Now, I'm afraid they're worse again." In Bati, a couple of hundred miles farther south, a woman stands inside a plastic tent washing the body of her mother for burial. She performs the Moslem ritual with silent intensity, tears coursing down her cheeks. When she is finished, she wraps the body in a shroud made of bags that days before had contained donated grain. The body is then carried to a hill nearby where some of Bati's 32 full-time grave diggers have prepared a place. "The first graves we dug at the bottom of the hill," said Ahmed Behoney, pointing to a spot several hundred yards down a slope. "And soon, I think, we will reach the top. But we do not work so much now as before." Several months after the world learned of the severity of Ethiopia's famine, the crisis appears to be moving from the first stage of sudden and frantic response to a second, longer stage of chronic suffering and relentless coping. Setting up camps and feeding centers and finding donors willing to supply them has become less of a problem than managing and administering the more than 200 installations that now exist. (In Washington last week, President Reagan said 14 million Africans were threatened by hunger and proposed an additional allocation of $411 million for famine relief, bringing the total aid in this fiscal year to $1 billion. How much of the increase was new money was in dispute. The Administration also announced a Food for Progress program to encourage countries to abandon socialist farm policies in favor of capitalist ones.) Conditions in the camps ease or worsen depending on a variety of changing factors. At Makale, for example, which until recently was known as a model camp, the situation has clearly deteriorated. More than 65,000 people have crowded into tents and shelters and the 13,000 still awaiting admission are no longer being quickly processed and cared for. "Too many new ones arrive every day," Brother Bullo said. "They just keep coming and coming from farther and farther away." In this highland region the weather has also turned hostile. The temperature at night is just above freezing and unseasonable rains occasionally drench the refugees, many of whom are clothed only in rags or goatskins. Poor sanitary practices have been spreading disease as well. Few of the peasants now crowded together in the camps have used latrines before or washed regularly and many are reluctant to do so now. For these and other reasons, Makale's death rate, which not long ago had been reduced to about five a day, has now risen again more than tenfold. ## A Cloudy Future In contrast, the death rate at Bati, which currently holds about 22,000 refugees, has fallen by two-thirds from the high of 150 a day just a few weeks ago. "We are really seeing an improvement here now," said Sigridur Gudmundsdottir, an Icelandic nurse working for the Red Cross. "The basic reason is simply that no one is without shelter and there's more food coming in. As long as that continues we can probably manage." Trappings of normal life have even begun to emerge. Families sit in front of their tents tending fires of twigs, boiling water for tea and toasting a bit of grain shipped in from Saskatchewan or Nebraska. Some of the refugees have begun to complain of monotony in their diet, "a sure sign they're getting healthier," a relief worker noted. All this represents an accomplishment, but there are disturbing questions about what will happen next. How long these people will remain in the camps? How many of them will ever again be able to grow their own food or earn their own living? The refugees themselves say they want to go back to the land when the rains return. But many Western experts fear that reduced rainfall in this part of the world is a longterm trend. The experts also note that much of Ethiopia has supported too many people and too much livestock for far too long on soil severely eroded in many areas and depleted of minerals in others. Only 3 percent of the soil is still protected by trees. For all these reasons, it is likely that what the future holds for many of the refugees already exists in Jijiga, in the Harerghe region, where a feeding center run by Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity serves both famine victims and returnees from the Ethiopian-Somalia war of 1977. "These people were severely malnourished when they arrived," said Sister Bertilla. "But they are healthy now. After four years they no longer look like famine victims." But after that time, they are also still dependent upon handouts. And as the drought and famine continue to spread, the sisters are feeding a growing number of people, who arrive dejected and helpless. Exclm 53 1/7/85 === Page 27 of 31 I could give Africa all the rain it needs. Gwene # U.S., Canada Nurses Help Starving ## 4 Treating Sick In Ethiopia Camp JEHOWA, Ethiopia (AP) -- Three American nurses and a Canadian colleague who are here to care for Ethiopian famine victims sleep in tents, subsist on a diet of baked beans and vegetable soup and make their home is a rustic camp near the majestic highlands of northern Shoa Region. The four, working about 150 miles from Addis Ababa, face serious health hazards themselves in working to save thousands suffering from starvation. Team leader Edith Wald, 51, of New York City, was evacuated home after contracting an illness which was not immediately diagnosed. The nurses say they often get discouraged and depressed. But little victories keep them going. "We had a woman in last week," recalled Geraldine Scott, 42, of New York City. "Her daughter and son were close to death, but we managed to save the boy. We lost one, but the mother didn't lose both her children. "It's little things like that -- like the first smile from a child too weak to eat when it arrived -- that make it worthwhile, that make us love our work," Miss Scott said. Eileen Mullaney, 29, of Cohasset, Mass., walked through the camp supervising workmen and carrying Ali Omar, a boy orphaned by famine and blinded in one eye by trachoma, a disease brought on by vitamin deficiency which afflicts many children here. "If we only had some vitamin A we would help prevent some of this," she said. "But we just don't have it, so we have to watch these kids go blind." The four are volunteers. They traded their white uniforms for blue jeans and T-shirts, and sterile hospital wards for dusty earthen floors. "We're not hurting," said Miss Mullaney. "I don't mind sleeping on the floor and I'm warm at night in my sleeping bag. I don't even mind the mosquitoes and flies. It's only the sand fleas that really bug me." Aside from Miss Scott and Miss Mullaney, the other nurses roughing it at the Jehowa emergency feeding station are Betty Normandin, 35, of Watertown, Mass.; and Canadian Gwen Sali, 29, of Estevan, Saskatchewan. One recent day Geraldine Scott was found washing an emaciated 7-year-old boy named Omar, a member of Ethiopia's Oromo tribe, under the corrugated-roofed intensive feeding center. "Omar's mother has died and his father is sick -- both because of a lack of food. So his old grandmother, who's also weak, brought him in today. She has to carry him on her back because he's still to weak to walk," Miss Scott said. The aged grandmother embarrassed the American nurse by taking her hand and gently kissing it to express her gratitude. She then asked for some food to carry back home with her, but Miss Scott said she had to refuse the request. "We've already given her a week's supply of supplementary food for Omar," the nurse explained. "The problem is we never ever have enough food. "Last week there was no skim milk. We have some this week, but we haven't seen sugar for two weeks," Miss Scott added, her voice trembling. A general shortage of cereals is undermining the nurses' work, which is aimed primarily at children and infants. The government estimates that 9 million of Ethiopia's 42 million people are affected by the prolonged drought and famine. "We distribute food here to families from 14 districts -- anything from 5,000 to 15,000 people in all. The problem is when we don't have grain, we can only hand out the supplementary foods for children in the families." Miss Scott went on: "We know, of course, that when we give them no grain, the family has no other food, so the children's food will be shared among them all." The nurses say they would like to keep the seriously ill in their camp around the clock, instead of feeding them during the day and sending them away at night. But they don't have the facilities. The camp is in need of an electric generator, a water tank and a tractor to transport the water. "At the moment, we've hired a woman whose only job is to walk miles every day to the river and back carrying gourds of water that we boil up at the camp," said Miss Mullaney. === Page 28 of 31 # FAMINE IN AFRICA: WHAT HOPE FOR THE STARVING? Battered by the worst drought in a century, millions of Africans are suffering from starvation and severe malnutrition. How did it happen? What can be done? by Kathy Wilmore How many times have you seen them -- the haunting faces of the hungry? You know them well: the huge, dark eyes gazing out at the world from heads that seem too large, too heavy for the bony necks that support them. You can see that they are suffering, but why? Look beyond the faces, at the land. Years of drought (lack of rain) have drained all life from the soil. Africa, the world's second-largest continent, is on the edge of disaster: It cannot feed its people. **A Killing Drought** The Sahara Desert stretches across much of the northern third of the African continent. Its area: 3.5 million square miles, almost as large as the 50 United States combined. The Sahara, the largest desert in the world, is growing at an alarming rate. In the last decade its dusty dryness has moved steadily southward by six to 12 miles each year (see map on p. 18). Lack of rain in much of sub-Saharan Africa (lands south of the desert) has helped the desert spread. People living in parts of Ethiopia, the Sudan, Chad, Kenya, and many other nations have seen no rain at all in two, three, or more years. Many of the farmers in these lands have always been poor. In the best of times, they had to struggle to grow enough to feed their families. The lucky ones managed to grow a little more, enough to sell. But now the dry soil yields nothing -- and the people go hungry. Those who are strong enough to travel leave their homes and start walking. Mothers and fathers carry small children; other children carry baby brothers and sisters. They become refugees -- desperate people fleeing for their lives. Half of the world's refugees are in Africa -- between two and five million people. Their numbers grow daily as the famine (severe food shortage) grows worse. But where are they to go? So much of the continent is suffering (see News Map, p. 7). "You can't buy food that isn't there," said one relief worker, based in southeastern Africa. "So you see people scrabbling through litter for food, and you see people literally dropping dead in the street." **More Mouths, Less Food** Much of the blame for Africa's  This child, weak from hunger, must be helped to eat. 4 JUNIOR SCHOLASTIC Feb. 15, '85 === Page 29 of 31 Pascal Maitre/Gamma-Liaison OXFAM ENERGY BISCUITS This shipment of high-protein biscuits will save many lives. But it may be too late to help the baby in the relief worker's arms. from people who wanted to know how they could help. The U.S. and other nations immediately sent food and medical supplies to Ethiopia and other stricken nations. But some people said we should have acted sooner. "We have been asking for help since early 1983," charged a representative of UNICEF (the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. "It seems you have to have thousands of corpses before people will sit up and take notice." Despite this complaint, relief workers say the flood of aid is doing some good. **What About Tomorrow?** Shipments of food grains and medical supplies are helping to save thousands of lives a day. But these are only short-term, emergency measures. Some people fear that this kind of aid may do more harm than good in the long run. If the people and their governments come to rely on imported food aid, will they make the long-term plans necessary for a better future? Most African leaders are trying to overcome the enormous problems their people face. They know that Africa will never be able to feed its own people unless domestic (at-home) food production is increased. Governments are working with farmers and scientists to develop new farming techniques, improve irrigation, and recover land lost to the spreading desert. Leaders also hope to convince people of the dangers of overpopulation, so that the climbing birthrate can be slowed to a manageable rate. The U.S. is urging African nations to give farmers more incentives to increase food production. Many nations have kept food prices artificially low to keep city dwellers happy. But that has discouraged farmers from growing more food. For now, food aid from Europe, Asia, and the Americas is more than welcome. It is the only thing keeping millions of Africans alive. **YOUR TURN** **Word Match** 1. drought a. food shortage 2. refugee b. lack of rain 3. famine c. output 4. relief d. one who flees 5. production e. aid # HOW CAN YOU HELP? News of Africa's disastrous famine may make you feel powerless to help. But there is much that you can do. The best thing to do is send money. There are many ways you can raise funds. Start a collection in your school or neighborhood, or run a bake sale. Even a little money will go a long way: $15 can feed four African children for a month. Sending packages of food is less helpful. Many African refugees have gone hungry for so long that they are unable to digest most kinds of food. Relief agencies will use the money you send to buy the types of food and medical supplies most suitable for each area. If you contribute money, send it to a reputable organization. The following are providing famine relief to Africa. American Red Cross 17th and D Streets, NW Washington, DC 20006 (or contact your local chapter) CARE: Campaign for Africa 660 First Avenue New York, NY 10016 Catholic Relief Services African Relief Fund P.O. Box 2045 Church Street Station New York, NY 10008 Oxfam America: Africa Fund 115 Broadway Boston, MA 02119 Save the Children Africa Emergency Fund P.O. Box 925 Westport, CT 06881 U.S. Committee for UNICEF P.O. Box 3040 Grand Central Station New York, NY 10163 6 JUNIOR SCHOLASTIC === Page 30 of 31 WORLD SIPA/Special Features The drought kills animals as well as crops -- depriving people of milk and meat as well as of grains and vegetables. food shortage has been placed on the drought. But the famine has other causes, too. Africa has the highest birthrate of all the world's continents, and is the only one whose birthrate is still on the rise. In Kenya, for example, the population is doubling every 17 years. With so many more mouths to feed, food production must be steadily increased. Just the opposite has happened. Twenty years ago, African nations were able to produce 98 percent of the food they needed. Since then, food production has dropped steadily, by 1-to-2 percent a year. Says U.S. Congressman Bill Gray (D, PA): "Drought, animal diseases, insect infestation, destruction of crops by fire and war make Africa the only continent in the world where per capita [per person] food production has declined over the past decade." **Politics and Plows** Most of the countries south of the Sahara Desert (often referred to as Black Africa), have been independent only 25 years or less. After winning independence, many of these nations raced to catch up with the "modern world" of the West. Cities sprang up, and people flocked to them in search of jobs. But who would feed these people? Farmers were often left to fend for themselves. While modern factories were going up in the cities, most farmers worked the land with the same hand tools their ancestors had used. In many of these young nations, food production has also been hampered by political strife: civil wars and other struggles have destroyed crops. **A World of Want** Much of the news about Africa's famine focuses on Ethiopia, a country on the northeastern horn of Africa. The starvation there is so widespread that it shocks even the most experience-hardened relief workers. "Never have I experienced anything like the scale of the need here," said Claire Bertschinger, a Red Cross nurse. "How do you choose who comes into the shelter?... There are so many -- so many." "Last Friday I drove from Bati to Addis [Ababa]," said Getachew Araya, the Red Cross general secretary in Ethiopia. "Starving children were lying on the road to stop food trucks. It took me five hours to travel 28 miles." Relief workers estimate that six million of Ethiopia's 32 million people are starving. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has placed Ethiopia at the top of its list of African nations worst-hit by the famine. Eleven other nations -- including Somalia, Mozambique, Zambia, and Kenya -- are also listed. Last fall, film of the terrible conditions in the relief camps of Ethiopia was aired on TV news programs in the U.S. Relief agencies were deluged with calls SIPA/Special Features Thousands of refugees flock to relief centers like this one, hoping to get even a small bit of food or medicine for their children. FEBRUARY 15, 1985 5 === Page 31 of 31 abc NEWS MAP FRANCE ITALY BLACK SEA CASPIAN SEA SPAIN TURKEY SYRIA IRAQ IRAN Mediterranean Sea Tunisia Morocco Algeria Libya Egypt Western Sahara Persian Gulf SAUDI ARABIA Mauritania Mali Niger Chad Sudan RED SEA Senegambia Bourkina Fasso Nigeria Ethiopia Djibouti Gulf of Aden Somalia Guinea-Bissau Guinea Sierra Leone Liberia Ivory Coast Ghana Benin Togo Cameroon Central African Republic Equatorial Guinea Gabon Congo Zaire Uganda Kenya Rwanda Burundi Tanzania INDIAN OCEAN Seychelles Comoros São Tomé and Principe Angola Zambia Malawi Zimbabwe Mozambique Madagascar Namibia (Southwest Africa) Botswana ATLANTIC OCEAN South Africa Swaziland Lesotho INDIAN OCEAN Scale: 0 200 400 600 800 1,000 Miles 0 400 800 1,200 Kilometers LEGEND: DANGER OF FAMINE Famine Severe food shortage Serious food shortage # Famine in Africa Stories about Ethiopia may grab most of the news headlines, but Ethiopia is not the only place in Africa where people are suffering from starvation and severe malnutrition. This map shows the nations hardest hit by food shortages. Study the map, then answer the following questions. 1. How many African nations are now suffering famine (severe food shortage)? __________ 2. What three famine countries lie at 20°N latitude? __________ 3. What is the only famine country that lies south of the Equator? __________ 4. Which famine countries have no seacoast, making it more difficult to import food aid? __________ 5. The only large country on Africa's east coast not experiencing famine or a serious food shortage is __________ 6. What country is completely surrounded by South Africa and is experiencing a serious food shortage? __________ 7. What nation (which shelters many Mozambican refugees) can be found at 20°S latitude, 30°E longitude? __________ 8. What nation on Africa's west coast is suffering from famine? __________ 9. What country on the north coast of Africa has a serious food problem? __________ 10. How many of Ethiopia's neighbors have problems feeding their people? __________ FEBRUARY 15, 1985 7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8511 Newspaper Files https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/90beed46d81f22767e6be66d80ffeabd.pdf 1d1988b3045a93678e87930cceabdb06 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/d719ab3e549cb4b15034842d48e9d50d.txt a98c2e1bbdf1ff130eb5cc5618ec3e99 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1986 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 31 38-1 Owens Jeffrey 4-11-86 postmark April 4, 1986 SCIENTISTS My geopsi (new word that I have coined, meaning psi-control over geographical areas) job is now finished for my UFOs. I had just returned home from pawning some things to pay some bills when M. called from Vancouver and said that she was sending me to Hong Kong in order to complete the last part of the UFO jigsaw puzzle. You will recall that it was necessary for me to get to Peru so that my UFOs could control that Continent. All that was left in my work with the UFOs then, after I went to Peru, was to get to Hong Kong so that my UFOs could control Russia and China. A biggie. It nearly ruined me, but I got there and back. So that was done. The only thing left now...bigger than anything...is the ten-million dollar UFO base, from which I can, working with other-dimensional powers and my UFOs, telepath psi-force through the "psi-pipelines" that I have set up on other continents...to bring about constructive, helpful results everywhere for the human race and Earth itself. Now let us proceed to my current report to you. First, let me refer you to my file to you of February 12, 1986, in which I pointed out to you that I informed Dr. Mishlove before the space shuttle exploded that the UFOs were going to cause such. Also I told him that my UFOs were going to cause an earthquake on the West Coast, 8-10 on the Richter. (See enclosed.) Now the earthquakes on the west coast are slowly building up to major intensity. Not only must the tektonic plates slip beneath the west coast, but elsewhere...like the mechanics of a swiss watch. Note the Georgia quakes on p. 4.) My UFOs explained to me, in simple (At this point my back up typewriter broke down, so am here now with two typewriters rendered hors de combat by some odd force; it seems. Owens.) Anyway, my UFOs explained to me, in simple terms, how an earthquake is triggered. When I was a child my grandparents gave me a Chinese Box, which was composed of many small wooden panels. To open the box, one had to slide one certain panel forward...then a second certain panel elsewhere...then a third panel, at which time a small wooden "trigger" was exposed behind the panel. One pushed downward on this trigger and the Chinese Box sprang open...i.e., the drawer inside sprang out. In like manner, the plates slip underneath Georgia...then plates slip underneath California...finally the plates slip one more time and the "trigger" is exposed and sprung...big earthquake. This is my own theory...some of you might think it comical. Or my UFOs gave me the info. Whichever. Now, to the work at hand. In my file to you of Feb. 12, '86, paragraph (3) I informed you that I had warned Dr. Mishlove that a shuttle would be exploded by my UFOs. They did, in fact, explode it. See p. 10 re "unusual wind" then more important p. 9 re "wind shear". Put simply, the shuttle was struck by terrific force as it took off, then as it cleared the force into slow speed the disparity destroyed the shuttle. === Page 2 of 31 2 In the same paragraph I warned Dr. Mishlove that my UFOs would cause an 8-10 on the Richter earthquake in California. (This was before any earthquakes happened.) On Pages 2, 3 and 4 you can read what has happened since then. My UFOs have tried to give people and the govt. time to give them their Base...used these relatively small quakes as warnings...but the Base has not been forthcoming. Therefore...I can only assume they will strike with the Big Quake. Just up ahead, in time. On p. 5, translate "El Nino" into my UFOs Sun Attack, which it is, indeed, factually. They (scientists) guess that whatever El Nino is, it will not be as tough in 1986. My UFOs have stated that their effect increases exponentially, with time. That means that 1986 will be far worse than 1985. What a pity that my UFOs cannot have their base, on their terms, and turn all this chaos around. That, put simply, is the name of the game. On p. 6 is more on the Sun Attack...plus an article on another earthquake near Lima, Peru, where I was not long ago. Ps. 7 & 8 bear on the terrible damage my UFOs did to NASA. Ps. 9, 10 and 10½ point out that "wind shear" (force) sprung or broke the joint that wrecked the space shuttle. Ps. 11-17 point out further the great damage done to NASA by my UFOs. P. 18 has an article describing the great pickpocket activity (remember they got my moneybelt off me, somehow, when I flew to Lima, Peru. Ps. 18-28 point out the results of the UFOs Sun Attack. P. 26 has a clip re the penetration of killer rebels into Lima, Peru, that robbed a bank and shot down a bunch of people just blocks from the hotel I stayed in while there. In closing...why not have a voice-stress-analyzer and operator seated just past the metal-detector and have each passenger read a card out loud: "I am not carrying any weapons onto the plane...guns, knives or explosives...and do not plan to cause any trouble on the plane while I am on it." Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 3 of 31 ① February 12, 1986 SCIENTISTS (1) Years ago, while living in Philadelphia with Martha, my wife, and Beau, our baby...one night a roaring fire sprang up on the floor below and the firemen came and extinguished it. The Fire Chief came to me and told me that the fire had been deliberately set...in the room directly underneath our room...and if it had not been discovered when it was then we'd have been burned up. (This happened at the time when Saga magazine was doing articles about me and Dr. Zakow, of the U.S. Government, came to our apartment and investigated my work and warned me that the U.S. Govt. would have me killed considering my work with UFOs and attacking NASA with psi-force). Several days later Astronauts Grissom, White and Chaffee were burned up on the pad at NASA. My UFOs telepathd and explained that they had caused it because of my great value to them, the UFOs, and because of the U.S. Govt's effort to assassinate us. (There were two other blatant attempts to murder me at that time on the streets...but I am pointing out the fire connection.) I passed along this information to the scientists that I was dealing with at that time. (2) In 1969 I was in a court-reporting office in Norfolk, Virginia, and Apollo 12 was just getting ready to lift off at NASA. The court reporters were all listening to the proceedings on the radio. I called out to them: "How would you like to see me hit that spacecraft with lightning?" They all stopped talking and stared at me incredulously. Minutes later the spacecraft lifted from the ground then all was pandemonium at NASA. One of the astronauts aboard the spacecraft, still ascending, said to ground control "We don't know what happened but it seems that we were struck by lightning!" (3) This last November, 1985, my UFOs telepathd to me unexpectedly one night and told me that (1) they intended to cause an earthquake on the West Coast 8-10 on the Richter Scale, and (2) they were going to explode a space shuttle of NASA while it was in action. They were going to do it because their request for a ten million dollar UFO Base from the U.S. had not been taken seriously...also that for a long while they had deliberately harassed shuttle flights, ruining experiments etc., but not harming the astronauts. They had finally decided that they would have to destroy astronauts to get the U.S. Govt's serious attention. I explained all this to my son, Beau...then picked up the phone and called Dr. Mishlove in San Francisco and gave him the message. The result, of course, is in this file. You probably saw it yourself on TV. Re (2) above...I have an affidavit signed by all the court reporters who were present attesting to the validity of the matter. Re (3) above...I would not be presumptuous enough to ask Dr. Mishlove for an affidavit to that effect, for my files...but if anyone is interested in checking it out they can contact Dr. Mishlove. I do not believe that he would double-cross me and lie about the matter as Dr. Hynek did some years ago. I think that Dr. Mishlove is a finer scientist, in every sense of the word, than is Hynek. And I could know - have worked with scientists. After the shuttle exploded my UFOs telepathd to me (I was as saddened and shocked as anyone who witnessed the event) and explained why they had deliberately chosen this particular flight and shuttle. Follow this now. p. 4 -- "It's a setback. The tragedy is that so many kids were watching === Page 4 of 31 27 # Extra crews enter battles against raging wildfires in a dozen states United Press International Job Corps volunteers, convicts, Air National Guard water bombers and "Hot Shot" crews from Arizona and New Mexico were thrown into the fight Monday against wildfires flaring in dry woodlands across a quarter of the nation. Firefighters battled the blazes in a dozen states from Ohio to Georgia, many of them working with little rest since last week. Three firefighters died in the fight, all apparently collapsing from overexertion. Authorities said arsonists, active over the Easter weekend, were playing a big part in the fires. One blaze set by an arsonist burned across the Big Sandy River from Prestonsburg, Ky., sending clouds of smoke over the town. Federal investigators began a search for arsonists, particularly in east Tennessee, where convicts helped fight 27 arson fires in mountain areas. "We're going to start dogging these arsonists," said Tennessee district forester Ted Dailey. "We hope to get some convictions." With little or no recent rainfall and none in the immediate forecast, authorities expected conditions to get worse. "We feel we can handle the situation at this point, but if it continues to worsen we may not be able to. There are only so many people you can shift around," said Cynthia Page of the Alabama Forestry Commission. She said more than 900 fires have destroyed more than 15,000 acres in Alabama since last Tuesday with timber damage alone estimated at more than $2.8 million. Joe Ferguson of the Kentucky Forestry Commission said 166 fires damaged 6,000 acres over the weekend, destroying two homes and a barn and inflicting more than a $12 million loss to timber. Ferguson issued a call for volunteers, saying his men had been working 16 days with little break. Three firefighters died fighting the blazes over the weekend. Ray Scott, 57, and Vincent Eckrote, 48, died of apparent heart attacks near Londonderry, Ohio, and Wilkes-Barre, Pa., respectively, and Robert K. Bell died at the wheel of his tractor plow fighting a fire in Tennessee Friday. Officials said Bell's death "was possibly related to exhaustion." Firefighters from two Job Corp Centers and specially trained "Hot Shot" teams, including an all-Apache crew, flown in from Arizona and New Mexico helped fight four fires in Kentucky on Sunday. North Carolina, which, along with Tennessee, has issued a ban on outdoor burning, reported 81 fires over 406 acres over the weekend. # Fires Hit 13 Southeastern States By The Associated Press Thousands of fires, many of them crackled through bone-dry forest and brush in 13 states totaling 600,000 acres, and officials in Virginia considered closing state land. Teams of firefighters looked to the skies for help but ceding a drenching rain is not expected before the weekend in most areas. In Tennessee, officials said wind pre-ceding a slow-moving cold front could whip smoldering ashes into new blazes. In Virginia, where emergency teams are fighting the worst forest fire in the western part of the state in 15 years, officials said they would ask the governor to close state forests if the number of fires increased when the trout fishing season brings an expected 100,000 people into the woods Saturday. Since Jan. 1, there have been more than 42,000 fires in the U.S. Forest Service region encompassing 13 Southeastern states, burning about 600,000 acres, said Sunny David, spokeswoman for the service in Atlanta. The total is about twice as much as burned in the same period last year, she said. Officials in Ohio have died fighting fires. Southeast region - an area that includes Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas and Oklahoma - have already imposed bans on open burning. "The forest is so dry right now that even careless smoking could set off a forest fire," said Lou Southard, a spokesman for the Virginia Forestry Division in Charlottesville. Chris Bridge, a spokesman for Virginia Gov. Gerald L. Baliles, said the governor would consider imposing the Forest Closure Act if asked to do so by the Forestry Division. Southard said the measure has not been used since 1971 and not for any significant length of time since 1963. === Page 5 of 31 26 # Crews Battle Forest Fires In Southeast # Crews Battle Forest Fires In Southeast By The Associated Press 4/1/86 Crews battled hundreds of wildfires today in the drought-parched hills of Dixie, and forecasters held out little hope that rain would end the siege that has charred more than 90,000 acres in the past week. Forest fires, which contributed to two deaths since last week, were raging today in Alabama, Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio and Missouri. Many of the blazes were set, officials say. Large fires were extinguished Monday night in New Jersey and Massachusetts. More than a half million acres across the Southeast have been consumed this year in nearly 38,000 fires, said Bruce Jewell, regional information officer for See Crews Battle on page 8A 4/1/86 Continued from page 1A the U.S. Forest Service in Atlanta. At least 300 fires blazed across 2,000 acres in North Carolina during the weekend, while Alabama officials reported 158 blazes Sunday alone. "Fire danger remains at critical levels across North Carolina and no letup from the dry weather is expected through this coming week," the National Weather Service said Monday. Dry weather also was expected for the next few days in other states where crews were battling major forest fires. "It's so dry, we're losing our control lines," said Ralph Glover, deputy state forester in West Virginia, where 56 new fires were reported Monday and 12 continued to burn. "Without rain there isn't a whole lot we can do." Officials expanded a fire alert Monday to 40 of Alabama's 67 counties. Since last Tuesday, 905 fires have burned 15,000 acres, said Cynthia Page, a spokeswoman for the Alabama Forestry Commission. The cost in "timber, jobs, products and taxes" exceeds $26 million, she said. This year, 7,394 fires have burned nearly 80,000 acres in North Carolina, compared with 4,952 fires on 114,800 acres in the first three months of 1985. Four trained "hot-shot" firefighting teams from New Mexico and Arizona battled a 344-acre blaze Monday in the Daniel Boone National Forest in Kentucky. Of the state's four largest blazes, one at Hinkle in Knox County was contained Monday after scorching more than 1,000 acres, but crews were battling an Owsley County fire nearly the same size, said Townley Bergmann, the state Forestry Division's special projects director. # Guerrillas Bomb U.S. Targets 4/5/86 LIMA, Peru (AP) -- Leftist guerrillas bombed the Colombian Embassy, branch offices of several American companies and a U.S.-funded cultural institute, press reports and diplomatic officials said Friday. Two rebels were captured and another shot to death Thursday night while trying to escape after the embassy bombing, the reports said. A night watchman was reported wounded at the cultural institute. Police officials have provided details of such attacks in the past, but announced a new policy Friday under which only the joint military command can give information on guerrilla actions in areas under military jurisdiction. Lt. Col. Oscar Checa Castillo, press spokesman for the command, said he did not consider it "necessary to issue a communique confirming or denying" the reports. President Alan Garcia claimed earlier this week that foreign journalists had exaggerated the guerrilla violence in Lima. Guerrillas also struck outside the capital, police said, shooting a policeman dead Friday as he left his home in Huangcayo. === Page 6 of 31 25 # Tornadoes Rip Marion, Snap Pines Like 'Sticks' ## Downs Power, Phone Lines UFO & Sun Attack 3-5-86 By Ocala Star-Banner Staff 3/12/86 Severe thunderstorms and tornadoes whipped through rural sections of Marion County early today, snapping giant pines "like matchsticks" and leaving trash and debris strewn in its destructive path. There were four reported sightings of tornadoes in the county: south of Orange Lake off U.S. 441; off County Road 484 about one mile east of Interstate 75; at Breezewood Estates, south of Belleview; and in the Lake Weir area. While there was scattered minor property damage, no injuries or major tornado-related damage were reported. Marion County Sheriff's Department officials received reports of a funnel cloud touching down on U.S. 441, near Ocala's northern boundary, knocking down power lines and closing both southbound lanes of traffic about 6:30 a.m. The twister ripped through giant pines in the area, tossing limbs and debris across all four lanes of traffic. Increasing the danger to early morning motorists were torrents of rain, accompanied by heavy lightning displays and thunder. Residents in the north part of the county said the tornado sounded like freight trains that used to travel the railroad tracks in the area. But those trains don't travel in that area anymore. Crews from Florida Power Corp., the Marion County Road Department and telephone repairmen worked rapidly to restore service and clear the highway as rush-hour traffic neared. Power was restored locally within an hour, although scattered outages were still reported in isolated sections later in the morning. See Tornadoes on page 12A # Air Force Warns Of Satellite Backlog UFOs & Space Weapons 3/7/86 WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Air Force wants additional rockets to launch satellites and a replacement for space shuttle Challenger to meet a backlog that in one to two years could total 10 to 21 satellites the service says are essential to national security. "The near-term impact on the Department of Defense is severe if the orbiter fleet is down for a year," Edward C. Aldridge, the Air Force's top space official, said Wednesday. "There is no recovery option that will mitigate this impact within the next two years." Aldridge, testifying before two Senate subcommittees, said decisions must be made immediately "to minimize the negative long-term impacts of the orbiter loss." The Air Force has had 10 expendable launch vehicles (ELVs) on order since last year when it convinced Congress that the nation could not afford to rely on only one launch system -- the shuttle. "Even with additional ELVs, it is not clear that the current three-orbiter fleet can meet the demands of both NASA and DOD," said Aldridge, the undersecretary of the Air Force. "Our view of this is that it's a national emergency," he said. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which once fought to prevent the Air Force from getting throwaway rockets that might divert military payloads from the shuttle, endorsed them Wednesday. "The right thing for us to do is to have a balance between shuttle capabilities and ELV capabilities," said Richard Truly, a Navy rear admiral and former shuttle astronaut who was appointed as NASA's shuttle chief after the Jan. 28 Challenger explosion. Truly said, as he has before, that NASA expects at least a year's down time before any shuttle flies again. When the flights resume, Aldridge said, the Pentagon will exercise its "bumping rights" to reduce a backlog of 10 military payloads that will have accumulated by then. If the down time is two years, there will be 21 backed up military payloads, Aldridge said. === Page 7 of 31 24 # U.S. influence in Pakistan raises ire See Back Opposition leaders predicted Zia's fall and said U.S. influence must go if they are to have democracy. By BARRY RENFREW Associated Press 3/24/86 RAWALPINDI, Pakistan -- People by the tens of thousands shouted anti-government and anti-U.S. slogans Sunday and opposition leaders said that President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq's pro-American government was in its last days. The Movement for the Restoration of Democracy, an alliance of 11 opposition parties, held one of its biggest rallies since martial law was lifted Dec. 30. About 60,000 people marched through this city of about 1 million people and listened to anti-government speeches. The opposition staged dozens of smaller demonstrations across the nation to commemorate Pakistan Day, celebrated as independence day here. "Did we create Pakistan so the army could rule? Did we create Pakistan so the people could be whipped? Did we create Pakistan so the people could be oppressed?" one speaker asked the huge crowd that waved the red, black and green opposition flags. Speaker after speaker asserted that Zia's military government would fall soon for lack of support, and said this entire nation of 88 million people hungers for the return of democracy. The United States was repeatedly criticized for supporting Zia, the army chief of staff who seized power in a bloodless coup in 1977. "If we want democracy in the country we must rid Pakistan of American influence, we must struggle against the Americans," said Afzal Zahda, a leader of the Peasants and Workers Party. "American imperialism should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Pakistan," he said. The crowd chanted "Zia is a dog!" and "Down with the Americans!" as speakers called for abolishing the government, the end of military influence in politics, and immediate free elections. Hundreds of riot police armed with rifles, bamboo clubs and shields were stationed around the city. Zahda charged that Zia's government wanted Pakistanis to fight the Communist regime in neighboring Afghanistan to serve U.S. interests. He held up political and social changes in Afghanistan as an example to be emulated. "In Afghanistan they have destroyed capitalism and oppression, so the generals want us to fight against Afghanistan. But we do not accept this," he said. The Pakistani and American governments support and aid Islamic anti-Marxist guerrillas fighting the Af- See PAKISTAN, Page 4A # Florida temperature records fall but warming trend follows chill Tribune Staff and Wires 3/24/86 Sunday morning's temperature in Tampa of 37 degrees broke the record for this date of 41, set in 1915. But the weather should get warmer by 2 or 3 degrees each day for the rest of this week, according to the National Weather Service. Meteorologist David Rittenberry said it should be breezy and mild, near normal for late March. Today's forecast calls for a high in the mid-70s, sunny then partly cloudy, with northeast winds at 10 to 15 mph. Tonight, the weather should be partly cloudy and not as cool, with a low near 50 degrees. Tuesday, expect partly cloudy skies with a high in the upper 70s. The blast of cold Canadian air responsible for the record also brought record low temperatures to every corner of the state Sunday. Key west had a record low 53 degrees, the island city's lowest temperature in 109 years. The old record of 54 degrees was set in 1877. Miami Beach had 48 degrees, breaking the record of 50 set in 1960. Orlando had a low of 42, one degree lower than the record set in 1983. Tallahassee was the coldest of all, breaking two records with a 25 degree reading. That was five degrees below the record low set back in 1915. It was also the coldest spring temperature ever recorded. Elsewhere, dry and mild weather prevailed over most of the country Sunday, and temperatures rose in the Southeast after a third straight morning of record low temperatures. Colder air pushed southward out of Canada across the upper Mississippi Valley and freezing temperatures extended from eastern North Dakota to upper Michigan. Rain extended from northwestern California through western sections of Oregon and Washington. # Thunderstorms soak Texas; Colorado digs out from snow United Press International 4/5/86 Violent thunderstorms blitzed Texas Friday, sinking a flotilla of boats, flooding streets and killing an elderly invalid in waist-high water while a spring storm that dumped 4 feet of snow on the Rockies roared into the high Plains. The massive storm spread snow blown by 30-mph wind gusts from northern Colorado to South Dakota. Lead, S.D., had 12 inches and Deadwood had 9 inches. Up to a foot of snow in Nebraska closed Route 71 near Kimball, the National Weather Service said. The storm's southern arm unleashed strong winds, hail and thunderstorms across Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana overnight, closing roads, downing power lines and damaging buildings, officials said. (In the Tampa Bay area, forecasters are calling for a "rather pleasant" weekend with fair skies, a slight breeze, temperatures in the 80s and a few afternoon clouds.) Near Sherman in North Texas, high winds slammed into the Paw-Paw Creek resort area on Lake Texoma, sinking or casting adrift many of the 40 boats moored at a dock. Nearby, an elderly invalid slipped from the porch of his home into floodwaters. Authorities said it was unclear whether White, an invalid, drowned or suffered a heart attack. In Wyoming and Colorado residents Friday cleared away up to 4 feet of snow that stranded thousands of travelers, snapped power lines and closed roads, schools and businesses. Many Coloradans were still without heat and electricity. More than a thousand weary travelers, who spent the night Thursday at Stapleton International Airport because of snow-covered runways, were forced to wait in line behind Friday's ticketed passengers. === Page 8 of 31 23 # Polk mare, foal die after attack by bee swarm By BILL HEERY Tribune Staff Writer 3/22/82 BARTOW -- A swarm of bees attacked a quarter-horse mare and her week-old foal Thursday afternoon in Alturas, leading to the death of both animals. Jim Fiveash, owner of the horses, said Friday the foal, a stud colt, died from suffocation several hours after being stung numerous times. He said the foal's nostrils were swollen from the stings and it could not breathe. Fiveash said he then shot the 1,200-pound mare, which was lying on the ground, struggling to breathe. An inspector said there was no indication the insects were African "killer" bees. "My wife and kids had watched that foal strangle to death, and when she (mare) got to that point, I just went ahead and put her out of her misery," he said. Fiveash said the scene in his pasture, off of Estes Road, was like a science fiction movie about killer bees. "I've never seen bees act like that before," Fiveash said. "I'm just thankful it was not one of my kids or one of my neighbor's kids." Richard Dunaway, a honey bee inspector with the state Department of Agriculture, said Friday that his agency is sampling the bee hives in the area. He said some dead bees found on Fiveash's property also were turned over to him by the Polk County Sheriff's Office. "We won't know anything until about the end of next week," Dunaway said. He said there was no indication that the bees were Africanized bees, commonly referred to as "killer" bees. Fiveash, who works as a ranch hand at a Dundee ranch, said that when he arrived at his home Thursday afternoon, Lake Wales veterinarian A.S. Ryland already was there. He said a neighbor, Chuck McReynolds, had used a water hose to get the bees off of the horses. McReynolds said that he came to the horses' aid after he saw two teen-age boys running from the bees. McReynolds said there were hundreds of See BEES, Page 4A # Bees * **From Page 1A** 3/22/86 bees on the animals. "They were dazed and crazed," he said. "They were really tormented. It was a real unpleasant thing to see." Ryland and Fiveash, who was stung six times while treating the mare, saturated their heads with flea spray to keep the bees off. Fiveash said, "You couldn't put a finger on those horses' bodies without touching a place where they had been stung." Fiveash and Ryland, who gave the horses medication and painkillers, said they had never heard of a horse dying from bee stings. Fiveash contended the bees came from commercial hives located on a neighbor's property. He said the owner of the hives, Stoney Sadler of Lakeland, removed them Thursday night. Sadler said Friday there is no proof that the bees that stung the horses were his. "There are so many commercial beekeepers in that area now that you can't even count them," he said. "There are several yards of bees in that general vicinity." Grove owners often let bee hives on their property to help pollinate citrus blooms. There are several hundred bee hives in the Alturas area. Fiveash, who raises registered quarterhorses, said bees often hang around his barn to get water from the horses' trough. "This morning there are bees all out at the barn but they're not messing with anything," he said. Dr. Frank Robinson, a retired University of Florida agriculture professor and secretary of the American Beekeeping Federation, said Friday the only report of Africanized bees in this country was an incident in California about a year ago. Robinson, who taught beekeeping and conducted bee research for the University of Florida, said he had never heard of a horse dying from honey bee stings, "but it wouldn't surprise me under certain conditions." "If a cow was stung, it would leave the area and run off," he said. "A horse, on the other hand, tends to stay right around there, running around and around, and ends up attracting more bees and getting more bee stings." Fiveash said the mare's eyes were swollen and she apparently couldn't see. He said she ran through a fence and ran into the side of the barn. Fiveash said he buried the 6-year-old mare, which was registered as both a quarter horse and a palomino, and the colt Friday morning. === Page 9 of 31 Destructive tornado injures 15 in Georgia Associated Press A tornado packing winds up to 160 mph tossed cars on a Georgia highway and trapped a family in the rubble of their house, while 2 feet of snow and blizzard conditions forced schools to close in parts of Michigan on Wednesday, the last full day of winter. Thunderstorms, spawned when cold air from Canada collided with warm Gulf of Mexico air, extended from the Mississippi delta to the southern Appalachians. Fifteen people were injured and 100 homes damaged when the twister hit the suburbs northwest of Atlanta, and the National Weather Service estimated damage at $10 million to $20 million. The twister tore the roofs off buildings in an industrial area Wednesday morning before skipping to a subdivision. In Michigan's upper peninsula, a late winter storm covered Marquette with 26 inches of snow in just over a day. The snow on the ground reached 47 inches deep. Blizzard conditions were reported, and gale warnings were posted for all the Great Lakes. Power lines and trees were toppled. Winds to 60 mph reduced visibility to near zero in some places, the weather service said. The most snow fell in Herman, where 24.2 inches was recorded in the 24 hours since 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, the weather service said. In Georgia, Tamara and Brett Jordan, both 27, and their 4-year-old daughter, Jessica, were on their way to the basement of their house when the twister lifted it off its foundation, said Cobb County Fire Chief David Hilton. Mother and daughter were in stable condition at Kennestone Hospital in Marietta after being rescued from the rubble, said hospital spokeswoman Leslie Kelly. Jordan was in the intensive care unit, but his condition was not immediately available. Also treated at the hospital were 12 people who were injured in cars on Interstate 75, said Kelly. Nine were released. Martha Lamanac of Canton said her car was lifted off the ground and rolled five or six times before being hit by a truck. "The sky was black as night," she said. "Next thing I knew, my windshield broke and the truck fell on top of my car. Somebody started screaming a tornado had hit. Everyone was screaming and crying... it looked like a flock of birds flying over us, but it was pieces of metal." The twister's path was 4 to 5 miles in length, and its maximum winds were estimated at 140 to 160 mph, the weather service said. Japanese snowstorm kills six The spring storm swept into the Tokyo area leaving crews missing from three ships and at least 294 people injured. TOKYO (AP) -- A spring snowstorm in the Tokyo area left six people dead, seven crew members from three ships missing at sea and at least 294 people injured, most in a train collision, police said Monday. The bodies of four crewmen were found Monday by Japan Maritime Safety Agency rescue boats after the crew of eight from the Japanese freighter Shoei-maru abandoned their sinking vessel Sunday night south of Tokyo. The agency said one crew member was rescued but the three others were missing. All three crewmen from another Japanese freighter were missing in the same coastal waters after the boat sent distress signals late Sunday, the agency said. It also reported that one Chinese seaman was missing but 19 were saved from a capsized Chinese freighter, the Shi Zui Shan, by rescue boats Sunday night off Irozaki, south of Tokyo. Winds of up to 49 mph whipped the capital area from early Sunday till late in the night as the storm dumped up to 20 inches of wet snow in the area, according to forecasters. A 36-year-old man was killed Sunday when he was struck by an awning that collapsed under the weight of snow in Saitama Prefecture (state), north of Tokyo, police reported. They said a 21-year-old firefighter clearing snow from fire hydrants was electrocuted Sunday when he accidentally touched a fallen 6,600-volt electric wire. At Tanashi, in Tokyo's northwestern suburbs, 204 people were injured when a commuter train, apparently slipping on snowy tracks, ran down a slope and crashed at 15 mph into the rear of train that had stopped for repairs to an electrical line damaged by snow, police said. They said 18 of the injured were hospitalized and there were some 1,400 people aboard the two trains. A total of 81 people were injured in falls on slippery streets, and nine were hurt in car accidents in the Tokyo area Sunday and early Monday, police and fire department officials said. They reported 29 were hospitalized. In Hachioji, two people were trapped briefly and one was hurt when the zinc roof of a movie house caved in under the weight of snow, police said. Tokyo Electric Power Co. spokesman Chiyuki Okazawa said six of its electric power pylons in Kanazawa Prefecture, west of Tokyo, collapsed, leaving 318,000 homes without electricity Sunday night. Numerous surface rail lines in the metropolitan area, home to about 12 million people, suspended or curtailed service at midday Sunday, but most resumed limited service Sunday evening. Officials at the new Tokyo International Airport at Narita, 45 miles northeast of the capital, said the airport resumed operations Monday after 18 international flights were diverted Sunday due to the snow. === Page 10 of 31 21 # Twister Destroys Gainesville Store GAINESVILLE (AP) -- At least one tornado ripped through northern Gainesville early today, destroying a drug store and downing power lines and trees, police said. There were no immediate reports of injuries. Damage was also reported from other tornadoes and possible tornadoes across central and northern Florida late Thursday and early today. "The Gresham drug building is believed to be totally destroyed. Trees and power lines are down," said Officer Andrew Chamblin of the Gainesville Police Department. "There has definitely been one and maybe as many as three (tornadoes) that hit in the Gainesville area," Chamblin said. The drugstore was in the Northgate Shopping Plaza. Nearby stores also received some damage, as did a state Health and Rehabilitative Services office. Eyewitnesses said a truck was overturned in the parking lot of the shopping center and a service station pump was pulled from its base. "It looks like a war zone out here," said one witness. Severe thunderstorms had earlier forced the National Weather Service to issue tornado watches and warnings for much of the region. Unspecified damage was reported this morning in the Lake County communities of Yalaha, Bassville Park, Astor Park, Fruitland Park and between See Gainesville on page 12A  **Blowin' in the wind** Londoner Keith Plummer and his daughters, Clare and Olivia, struggle against a fierce wind Monday as they cross the River Thames. Hurricane force winds were expected at Britain's capital, accompanied by a severe temperature drop. # Tornado Touches Down In Duval JACKSONVILLE (AP) -- Officials are still assessing the damage to cars and businesses left by a tornado that touched down several times in southern Jacksonville, injuring at least one person. John Langdon, 29, was listed in good condition Thursday night at Baptist Medical Center, undergoing treatment for back and internal injuries, said a hospital spokeswoman. Langdon had been operating a forklift at Great Dane Trailers Inc. about noon Thursday when a tornado "tore him from his seat and threw him about 15 feet away," said Sgt. Charlie Hill, a police spokesman. A co-worker, Jimmie Lee Williams, escaped injury. "All I saw was a big ball of wind and dust and everything started flying, including me, because I started running," he said. Officer Steve Schwader was southbound on the Phillips Highway about 11:45 a.m. when he spotted the funnel cloud. Police reported that it jumped the highway and then swept northeastward, touching down several times on a mobile home sales lot, a shopping mall, a car dealer and a busy street intersection. Clyde Montgomery, a spokesman for Jacksonville Electric Authority, said 13,000 customers were without power for portions of the afternoon because of the tornado. At St. Johns Bluff Road and Beach Boulevard two utility poles snapped at midpoint, dangling high-voltage lines across the busy intersection. But motorists crossed the intersection despite live wires that swayed 10 to 15 feet overhead until police arrived, Hill said. "That's one of the most dangerous things this life that people can do," he said. National Weather Service forecaster Jim Keegan said most of the damage was caused by heavy winds. Forecasters had predicted heavy thunderstorms in the area Thursday, but tornados were unexpected and weather officials couldn't find damage patterns to confirm that a tornado had breezed through the area, Keegan said. But he said a small, short-lived "mini-tornado," the kind common to Northeast Florida, may have touched down. Officer David Gray, who saw the twister hit in a shopping center parking lot, described it as a "small tornado." He said it was about 50 feet tall. Beth Jones said she was cleaning a motel room at Plaza Motor Lodge on Phillips Highway when she looked up and saw her 4-year-old niece standing outside. The child was frozen with fear of an immense black cloud. "I saw the twister coming and it looked like it was headed for us so I went running for her," said Ms. Jones. Ms. Jones fell and cut her leg, but was able to scoop up the child and run to a nearby office. The twister then hit a nearby sales lot. "The roof and signs and stuff were just swirling around in the air," she said. At Prestige Pontiac, the twister "pushed open our doors and everything started flying around. The wind just whipped through here. All four doors to the showroom just swung open and the fence outside was going crazy," said Joan Sims, who works in the parts department. === Page 11 of 31 UFD Sun Attack 3/22/86 # Unseasonable cold embraces eastern U.S.; record lows set Associated Press A large high pressure system centered over Missouri brought unseasonable cold to most of the eastern half of the nation Friday, with record lows in more than a dozen cities and freezing temperatures as far south as the Gulf states. Afternoon readings were only in the 20s and 30s from southern New England and the mid-Atlantic states to the Ohio and Tennessee valleys. At 1 p.m. CST, Great Falls, Mont., reported 65 degrees while Atlanta was only at 40 degrees. Freeze warnings were issued for northeastern Texas, Arkansas, southern portions of Mississippi and Alabama, most of northern Florida, central and southern Georgia and much of South Carolina. Georgia agricultural official Steve Rich said experts were concerned that an extended cold snap could damage vegetable crops. But he said the cold may have helped growers of peaches, which are in full bloom -- "There are very heavy blooms this year and the growers would have had to thin the blooms anyway." Record lows for the date included 5 at Binghamton, N.Y.; 8 at Canton and Akron, Ohio; 8 below zero at Caribou, Maine; 21 at Evansville, Ind.; 10 at Hartford, Conn.; and 15 at Lexington, Ky. The former record at Lexington had stood since 1876. The weather service's official low for the day was 9 below zero at Saranac Lake, N.Y., but normally frigid Mount Washington in New Hampshire had a record 23 below zero. For today, scattered rainshowers were predicted over the northern Pacific Coast, with strong, gusty winds prevailing across the northern Plains and Minnesota. UFD Sun Attack 3/24/86 # Severe Tokyo Spring Snowstorm Kills 13, Causes Train Collision TOKYO (AP) -- The worst spring snowstorm in Tokyo history killed at least 13 people, caused a train collision in which more than 200 passengers were hurt, and brought the city of 12 million people to a soggy halt. Maritime Safety Agency officials said they had recovered the bodies of 10 sailors who had been aboard two ships that sank Sunday after being buffeted by winds of more than 54 mph. Air and sea rescue missions were being conducted in the Pacific Ocean south of Tokyo today for one other sailor who still was missing. The Meteorological Agency said 3.5 inches of snow fell on central Tokyo on Sunday, the most ever recorded for the city after the spring equinox. More than double that amount fell in outlying districts. Bright sunshine returned to the Tokyo area today. Tokyo Electric Power Co. spokesman Yoshimitsu Tsurubushi said 1.32 million households in the Tokyo area lost electric power because of overturned transmission towers. Areas of northern and western Japan customarily are buried under feet of snow every winter. But snow is rare along the heavily populated eastern seaboard and even small amounts can hopelessly snarl traffic in Tokyo. 20 UFD Sun Attack 3/13/86 # Tornadoes Thrash Deep South By The Associated Press A wave of violent thunderstorms swept through the Deep South today, and cleanup continued after three days of deadly storms that spawned more than 55 tornadoes from the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes. Tornadoes and gale-force winds raked the South on Wednesday, killing two people in Alabama, injuring dozens and flipping mobile homes, trucks and cars. Five twisters were sighted in Alabama and eight in Mississippi, Bill Barlow of the National Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City, Mo., said today. Other storm-related injuries and damage Wednesday were reported in Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee. At least eight people have died in tornadoes and high winds since the first wave of storms rolled across the Plains on Monday, injuring more than 100 people in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana, and doing nearly $30 million damage. Barlow estimated there had been 57 tornadoes through Wednesday night. "It looks like the area today will be parts of the Southeast," he said in a telephone interview. Heavy and severe storms spun out today across parts of the Southeast from a storm system centered over Missouri, the National Weather Service said. # Pro-Cuban group claims bombings LIMA, Peru -- A pro-Cuban rebel group issued a statement in Lima Saturday claiming responsibility for a series of explosions primarily against U.S.-owned or linked buildings late Thursday and early Friday. Rescuers, meanwhile, scoured a mountainous area in a rebel stronghold of central Peru for an army helicopter that lost contact with air controllers after the pilot radioed he had to make an emergency landing, authorities said. The Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement said the bombings were in support of Central American countries and Libya, "brother nations that today are attacked by imperialism." In Ayacucho, 230 miles southeast of Lima, soldiers left Saturday to hunt for a helicopter believed to have crashed in a rugged area of ravines and gorges. The pilot of the six-passenger helicopter, Carlos Sotil Mayta, radioed to an air base in Ayacucho Friday that he had to make an emergency landing, police said. Trib 4/6/86 === Page 12 of 31 19 2 die in Ala. as twisters hit South By Jean Becker USA TODAY 3/14/86 At least 17 tornadoes pounded the South Wednesday, killing two people in Alabama and ripping Kentucky again. The storms cut a 200-mile swath through Kentucky, which is still recovering from Monday's storms. The toll Wednesday: 19 hurt, and 260 homes, 245 barns and 20 businesses destroyed or damaged. Mississippi and Louisiana also were hit. Elsewhere: - [x] Near Carrollton, Ala., a twister toppled the chimney of a farmhouse, crushing to death Guy Rollin, 82, and his daughter, Annie Laura Hale, 59. At least 30 homes were damaged. "You could hear a roar from it," said resident Travis Walker. "I never saw one so close." - [x] Chicken barns were destroyed near Farmerville, La. Cars and storefronts in Franklinton were damaged. - [x] A steeple was ripped from a church in Lauderdale County, Ala. - [x] High winds lifted a pickup truck off a highway in Lauderdale County, Miss. The driver suffered a separated shoulder. Planes in near-collision in Ohio COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Federal investigators are reviewing radar printouts and tower tapes to determine what caused a near-collision between a TWA Boeing 727 and four military jets. TWA Flight 489, carrying 141 passengers en route to St. Louis, had taken off Saturday from Port Columbus International Airport, was climbing and had reached 23,000 feet when four A-7 jets passed 200 feet overhead and about 500 feet off the wing, said Mort A. Edelstein, public affairs officer for the Federal Aviation Administration in Chicago. # Twisters usher in new season ## Ind., Ky. hardest hit states By Mike Pulfer and Jean Becker USA TODAY 3/12/86 COVINGTON, Ky. -- A dozen small towns and cities Tuesday began cleaning up the rubble left by a pack of storms -- the first of the 1986 tornado season. Hardest hit: Indiana and Kentucky, where hundreds of homes and businesses were destroyed, one school was destroyed and damaged by the roaring winds. At least 15 tornadoes touched down Monday in Indiana, including one that wiped out a trailer park in Indianapolis. Among the two fatalities: a Hancock County man who died when his barn -- where he sought refuge -- collapsed. The National Guard was patrolling downtown Covington and nearby Newport to keep sightseers out. Temporary shelters were opened for the homeless. The twisters hit during late afternoon. "It sounded like hell," said Tom Gors of Lynn, Ind., where 85 percent of the buildings were damaged, including the elementary school. Said Jerry Cragen of Martinsville, Ind., who watched his barn collapse around him, "The wind started blowing and I felt the barn start to breathe. It was pumping like a lung and I just got underneath the tractor and stayed there." In Covington, Debra Meece, 26, and her brother, Lonnie, 29, were trapped inside their car when a portion of First United Methodist Church fell on it. "I never thought about a church falling on us. ... I guess I have a guardian angel." Alaskan volcano erupts ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The 4,000-foot Augustine Volcano erupted Thursday with flames, smoke, ash and a bright orange glow that interrupted airline traffic and spewed an ash cloud over Anchorage. No injuries or damage resulted from the eruption on the barren island at the mouth of Cook Inlet in the North Pacific. The nearest town is Homer. The first eruption occurred at 2 a.m. (6 a.m. EST) on an island 180 miles southwest of Anchorage, volcanologist Tom Miller of the U.S. Geological Survey said. Scientists were most worried about the volcano generating a giant wave like the 30-foot wall of water triggered by an 1883 eruption. Augustine also erupted in 1935, 1964 and 1976. === Page 13 of 31 18 Trib. 4/1/86 # Airport Bandits Security officials at some of the nation's largest airports are warning travelers to keep a tight hold on their luggage and a lookout for pickpockets. Bands of well-trained Colombians have been working the major air terminals on a regular basis. They can snatch valuable bags in a split second and create diversions to distract victims while their pockets are picked. Police at airports in New York, Miami, San Francisco and other large cities are pooling information in an attempt to intercept these specialized thieves before they set up operations. They haven't become a problem at Tampa International yet. This can be attributed to the lack of direct flights to Latin American destinations and tight security measures that include the presence of plainclothes officers in critical areas of the passenger terminal. Police have found that the criminals tend to pick on foreign travelers and those waiting for connecting flights to distant states. If an arrest is made in one of these cases the victims are less likely to be returned to testify. The crooks are experts at their trade. Apparently, there are several crime schools in South America run by modern Fagins who teach the fine art of picking a pocket by having their students practice lifting items from a coat covered with bells -- without ringing a bell. They are also trained to snatch carry-on luggage while passengers are distracted at a ticket counter or otherwise occupied. Travelers are advised to watch their luggage at all times or to keep a leg or foot against it if they have to put it down for a moment. Prevention is the best defense because these wandering thieves have little fear of prosecution. If one is jailed, a confederate will appear almost at once to post bond. They continue to work the area until the trial date arrives, then they move on to another city. Law enforcement officials have considered exhibiting a seven-minute inflight film made by the San Mateo Sheriff's Department showing the airport bandits at work. The idea was vetoed by airlines on grounds it would generate fear and discourage travelers. It may, however, be wise to instill sufficient fear to encourage vigilance rather than pretend the problem doesn't exist. Forewarned is still forearmed. # Wind puts controllers on runway By Jean Becker USA TODAY Cincinnati air traffic controllers Monday moved onto the runway -- in radio-equipped cars -- to direct planes after high winds blew out control tower windows. The windstorm ripped through the south side of Cincinnati Greater International Airport about 4:30 p.m. EST, (21:30 GMT) destroying three hangars and as many as 50 planes. Six controllers were hurt. "They're just calling it high winds but I don't know," said airport spokesman Ted Bushelman. "I'm looking at three hangar buildings that now look like pretzels." The wind was part of a storm that spawned at least 21 tornadoes in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Illinois, killing five and injuring 70. ComAir commuter owned many of the destroyed planes; damage was estimated in the millions of dollars. The airport -- in Boone County, Ky. -- was closed for 90 minutes and planes were rerouted. When it reopened, controllers used two-way radios to communicate with pilots. The radar room -- separate from the control tower -- was not damaged. # Two killed in US storms NEW YORK: Thunderstorms and tornadoes swept across the southern part of the United States on Wednesday, killing two people, tossing trucks about and derailing a railroad train. Two people died when a tornado struck near Carrollton, Alabama, Pickens County officials said. "It hit several homes. We have houses blown down on people. We have a row of houses that was blown down," said Virginia Kennedy of the sheriff's office. She did not know how many people were injured. A tornado that struck the small East Texas community of Pineland destroyed three small businesses, unroofed two mobile homes and knocked out electricity. No injuries were reported. -- AP # Floods cause havoc in New Zealand CHRISTCHURCH: One person was missing, presumed dead, and hundreds were left homeless following one of the worst floods in New Zealand this century, Civil Defence and police officials said yesterday. Civil Defence officials declared a state of emergency for the east coast area of the Canterbury Plains as cleanup operations got under way. The region was just recovering from a massive drought last year. The deluge began on Wednesday, dumping 150 mm of rain in 18 hours. A 73-year-old farmer was the only reported casualty. -- AP # Three die in whirlwinds Washington: Tornadoes whirled across Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio on Monday leaving at least three people dead and 20 injured and cutting off power supplies to thousands of homes. The winds of up to 140 kph blew down trees and pylons, sent cars and caravans bowling and ripped the roof off scores of houses. In Indiana, a man sheltering in a barn was killed when the building collapsed and another man was fatally injured by a falling tree. In Ohio one occupant of a caravan blown over by the wind was killed and three others badly injured. At Cincinnati international airport, 30 to 50 aircraft were damaged. -- AFP # Flooding leaves two dead Jakarta: Floods in West Java have killed two people, left nearly 39,000 homeless and inundated more than 18,000 homes, the West Java Representative Office said yesterday. Rivers have burst their banks after incessant rains in the past few days resulting in flood waters of up to 2.5 m high. Thirty-three villages in seven districts were flooded, two people drowned in torrents and 38,577 people left their homes for safe areas. The districts are south of the West Java capital of Bandung. The local government has sent food and medical supplies to the stricken areas, an official said. === Page 14 of 31 17 prime contractor for satellite processing, laid off 90 of its 1,000 employees. Planning Research Corp., which performs engineering tasks, furloughed 150 of its 500 workers. Lockheed Space Operations, which services the shuttle before and after flights, let go 660 of its 6,200 workers. Ironically, there was almost a sense of relief when the layoffs were announced, said Lockheed's Williams. "There were rampant rumors of layoffs within six days of the crash," he said. "The layoffs served to clear the air a little bit." He said the Lockheed layoffs include workers from Lockheed's subcontractors, including Pan Am, Grumann and Morton Thiokol. Lockheed is trying to find work for the furloughed workers, but it won't be easy, Williams acknowledged. Other high-tech companies in the area are "not in an expansion mode," he said. Many of the idled employees may well have to leave the Brevard area to find similar work. Others who want to stick around may have to settle for lesser paying jobs. The slowdown will take its toll outside the aerospace industry as well. Thousands of small businesses - hotels, restaurants and the like - depend upon the space program for their livelihood. At Mr. Ni's Chinese restaurant on Merritt Island, "our business is probably 95 percent from the Cape," said owner William Ni. "Since the shuttle exploded, our business has dropped 15 percent." Perhaps the biggest worry around here is over the estimated $75 million a year in tourism spending brought here by the space program. Business has actually picked up at the Spaceport USA visitor center, due in no small part to curiosity inspired by the accident. Florida's fourth most popular tourist attraction, the Spaceport received 200,000 visitors during February, the busiest February in history. But Catrambone of the Titusville chamber said increased tourism at the visitor center will be more than offset by the fact that there won't be any launches for a year or longer. "A launch brings in 30,000 people," he said. Titusville's 1,300 hotel rooms "are booked solid during a launch," he said. Although Brevard has a winter beach crowd, "we don't have a tourist attraction per se, other than the space program," Catrambone said. Many companies haven't cut back yet, but they are taking their time filling vacancies, said Roger Manley, an industrial psychologist at the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne. Even companies that aren't tied to the shuttle program "are being cautious as all get-out," Manley said. "Things seem to have turned soft just in the last three or four weeks." "Economics is as much psychology as it is dollars and cents," Manley added. "It's the dismal science." A few aerospace companies have reversed their plans to move into Brevard, Catrambone said. He wouldn't identify the firms. "People are saying, 'Wait until the next one goes up,'" Catrambone said. Yet, existing companies, both residential and commercial, are ward, and some are expanding. A dozen buildings are under way at Saturday, including the Tyler Independent School District office, which had 2 inches of water in the basement. Severe thunderstorms have battered Texas, Arkansas and Missouri with heavy rain, hail and tornadoes. # Texas lashed by vicious storms; one person killed, roads flooded Tribune Staff and Wires Vicious thunderstorms Saturday unleashed relentless downpours, hail and tornadoes across Texas and Arkansas, derailing a freight train and covering roads with up to 6 feet of water that killed at least one motorist. Stalled cars littered flooded Texas roads after up to 6 inches of rain blown by 60-mph wind gusts fell for the second day. "It's bad," said Caroline Beverly, Smith County Sheriff's dispatcher. "I'm getting reports of bridges under water in all areas of the county." Flood waters invaded at least a dozen buildings in Tyler, Texas, including the Tyler Independent School District office, which had 2 inches of water in the basement. Severe thunderstorms have battered Texas, Arkansas and Missouri with heavy rain, hail and tornadoes for two straight days. Malikoff, Texas, had 6 inches of rain and Murfreesboro, Ark., had 5½. # Fatal home fires Home fires in six states Thursday killed 10 people, four of them children, authorities said. Twelve people were injured in the blazes. BERLIN, N.H.: Joseph Saseen, in his 60s, his wife Margaret, in her 50s, and her elderly mother, Beatrice McKay, in her 80s, died when a fire of undetermined origin sent flames "gushing" from the windows of their two-story house, officials said. A police officer and a firefighter were slightly injured. NANTICOKE, Pa.: Melissa Getz, 6, her brother, Wayne Jr., 12, and their grandmother, Alice Getz, 69, were killed and three other family members injured when a fire apparently caused by a short-circuit in an electric heater engulfed the top floor of a two-story wood-frame house. CLEVELAND, Ohio: Two-year-old Tamara Dill died in a blaze of unknown origin in a two-story brick house. Three firefighters were treated for injuries. HERRIN, Ill.: Dusty Feezor, 8, was killed the day after his birthday and four other family members were injured in a fire of unknown origin that heavily damaged a one-story home without a smoke detector. YONKERS, N.Y.: Edward Hogan, 37, died of smoke inhalation in a fire that consumed a three-story apartment building under renovation. PARKVILLE, Mo.: A 37-year-old man whose identity hasn't been released was apparently overcome by smoke when he tried to flee a ranch house ravaged by fire of undetermined cause. === Page 15 of 31 Space - From Page 1E 3/30/86 (pop. 330,000), and the spinoff effect means hundreds of millions more. In the Titusville area closest to Cape Canaveral, it is estimated that 75 percent of the economy depends on NASA business. The layoffs at the space center have already hurt some local restaurants and put some development projects on hold. And the drought in space shots will undoubtedly damage the tourist trade. "Yet the coast that NASA built will survive. "This used to be a little bit rinky-dink town," said Davis, parking his horse in front of an empty lot that will soon be a high-tech industrial park called Spaceport Center. "Now there's so much development around here, I don't have any room to ride my horse." That's unlikely to change. Economic experts said the county's boom may subside for a while, but most development plans should continue on schedule. Brevard has a fairly diversified economy -- at least when compared with 15 years ago, when the space program was everything. Besides, NASA says the worst of the layoffs is over. "The other shoe, so to speak, is not going to drop," said Joseph Malaga, the space center's comptroller. NASA can't afford to cut back too far. It would cost that much more to rehire people and get the program flying again once the shuttle launches resume. On the other hand, even if the shuttle program starts up again on schedule, it's likely the shuttle program will proceed cautiously at first. There were to have been 14 more flights this year; under NASA's new projections there might be only half as many flights next year. "Fewer launches mean less work," said John Williams, a spokesman for Lockheed Space Operations Co. Lockheed, which laid off more than 600 people, handles maintenance and other ground-servicing needs between shuttle flights. The people who work on the shuttle fret about the future. "No one knows the full impact," said a laid-off shuttle worker sipping beer at the Challenger Lounge, a Merritt Island tavern decorated with space photos and an inflatable replica of the shuttle dangling over the bar. "If the birds stay down ... then your high-tech people are going to have to go," said the man, a quality control inspector for Lockheed Space Operations Co. "The layoffs could mushroom." It wouldn't be the first time. Many around here can well remember when the Brevard economy collapsed in the mid-1970s. When the glamour of moon landings wore thin, Congress pulled the plug on the Apollo program. A few short years after moon walker Neil Armstrong took his historic "one giant leap for mankind," the Space Coast took one giant step backward. Space center employment fell from more than 20,000 to less than 10,000; and the county's unemployment rate skyrocketed from 2 percent to 13 percent. Engineers and scientists fled the area in droves, leaving behind America's first high-technology ghost town. "All you had to do was just look at the gas stations that were shut down," Malaga said. "It was really traumatic." "You could pick up a house for zero downpayment and just what was left on the mortgage," recalled Harold Zweigbaum, a former NASA engineer. The exodus of scientists changed the fabric of the community. "When I came here in '62, they said the average age in Cocoa Beach was 26 or 27," said Zweigbaum, now an executive with Astrotech Space Operations, a supplier idled by the shuttle hiatus. "Now, I think it's 60. A lot of retirees moved in here." So did a lot of companies not directly related to the space program. Today, two-thirds of Brevard's 138,000 workers draw paychecks from companies not tied to the space center. In the late 1960s, only half of Brevard's wage earners could make such a claim. "We have a lot of resiliency to fall back on this time that we didn't have when half our population was employed" by the space program, said John McCauley, executive director of the Brevard Economic Development Council. "We have this real enviable manufacturing base." Even if the space program fell into a prolonged, severe slump, McCauley argued, Brevard will be in far better shape than it was 10 years ago. McCauley listed a coterie of manufacturers that have come to Brevard in the last few years, companies for which NASA "is not their bread and butter." They include Dictaphone, Collins Avionics, ITT and Melbourne's own computer giant, Harris Corp. "They do not depend on the space program," he said. Yet, for all its economic diversification, Brevard will always be the Space Coast. "That's where our future is," said Joe Catrambone of the Titusville Chamber of Commerce. In Brevard, merchants and restaurateurs take a proprietary interest in the space center. "Around here, everyone's 100 percent behind the space shuttle program," said Bill Woods, manager of Space Shuttle Liquors, which is adjacent to the Challenger Lounge. "They want the problem worked out, but they want to see it fly," Woods said. The identifications with NASA are everywhere. Walk into the chambers of commerce and county government offices, and you'll see models of the shuttle on executives' desks and photos of launches on the walls. Drive down U.S. 1, the main drag here, and you'll see tourist traps hawking space shuttle T-shirts. A few restaurants still sport signs out front saluting the seven astronauts killed aboard the Challenger. Jim Niehoff, owner of the Golden Corral restaurant in Titusville, started a campaign called "Reach for a Star" to raise money to build a new shuttle orbiter. "We needed to do something to be helpful," said his wife, Dottie. So far, $2,000 has been collected. At Gateway Center, a 10,000-acre industrial park just outside the space center, the streets are named after Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee, the astronauts killed in the Apollo 1 launchpad fire in 1967. Many of the park's more than 30 occupants have ties to the shuttle program. Astrotech, located on Chaffee Drive, services and warehouses commercial satellites scheduled to be launched into space on shuttle flights. Because of the explosion, "we have to go into hibernation, a caretaker status," said vice president Zweigbaum. Astrotech, which set up shop here in January 1985, is laying off four of its 10 employees, with the others getting reduced work weeks, Zweigbaum said. It has been reported that military payloads will get top priority once the program resumes; that would put a commercial operation like Astrotech even further behind. Zweigbaum said he doesn't expect any business before 1988. Compounding his difficulties is an acceleration in the European space program, which is sending up commercial satellites on unmanned rockets. Nonetheless, Zweigbaum said Astrotech isn't pulling up stakes. The large shuttle contractors suffered the brunt of the layoffs. Boeing Aerospace, which manufactures fuel rockets, laid off 200 of its 500 workers here. (16) === Page 16 of 31 15 # SPACE COAST GROUNDED UFDC vs Space Works Trib 3/30/86 JOHN F. KENNEDY SPACE CENTER TITUSVILLE ORANGE Cocoa Merritt Island Cocoa Beach OSCEOLA Melbourne BREVARD ### The economic reverberations from the shuttle explosion are being felt along the Space Coast. By DALE KASLER Tribune Business Writer TITUSVILLE -- It was a pastoral scene reminiscent of the days before rockets and astronauts ruled the so-called Space Coast: Just off U.S. 1, not far from the launchpads at Cape Canaveral, a man named Jeff Davis was riding his horse. "All up and down here, it used to be woods," he said, a little sadly. "Not any more." It isn't easy being a cowboy on the twin frontiers of high technology and big business. But these days, it's the scientists and developers who are circling the wagons. While Davis mourns the passing of a bygone era, others here worry that they're headed back to hard times. Since the space shuttle Challenger exploded after liftoff Jan. 28, Brevard County's space-age economy has been under siege. As salvage crews scour the ocean floor for clues to the disaster, the business community is bucking a wave of layoffs and other cutbacks, the likes of which haven't been seen around these parts since the Apollo moon program was mothballed. Barely a month after the shuttle accident, NASA announced the layoff of 1,100 of the 16,000 workers at Kennedy Space Center. About 450 of the layoffs were attributed directly to the 12- to 18-month hiatus in shuttle launches prompted by the tragedy. The space center employs more than 10 percent of the county's work force. Altogether, about one third of the county's working population is employed directly or indirectly by NASA. The space center pumps $450 million in payroll alone into Brevard See SPACE, Page 3E ### INSIDE - [x] Hundreds of workers laid off -- 2E - [x] Contractors can survive until liftoff -- 2E - [x] Honeywell preparing for future flights -- 2E === Page 17 of 31 14 SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST 3/5/86 # Shuttle analyst 'ordered to lie' Washington: A former US space agency budget analyst says his superiors pressured him to lie about the follow-up to safety issues he raised about the space shuttle, according to a published report. "I felt I was under official orders to deny publicly the validity of my earlier July 23 memorandum, a denial which of course I could not and did not make," Mr Richard Cook wrote in an opinion-page article in Sunday's editions of the Washington Post. Six months before the January 28 explosion that killed the seven-member crew of shuttle Challenger, Mr Cook wrote a memo "summarising my concerns about the safety of the solid rocket booster used in the space shuttle." As the post-accident probe was getting under way and news media inquiries mounted, "I was told to say that after I filed my report, the problem was discussed in the comptroller's office, inquiries were made to the programme office, and work was under way that satisfied us that the safety issue was being dealt with," he wrote in the newspaper. Mr Jim McCulla, a spokesman at National Aeronautics and Space Administration headquarters in Washington, said on Saturday he found Mr Cook's comments about being told what to say incredible. "I've never heard any of that. I can't imagine that," Mr McCulla said. "NASA has always had since its inception a rule that says that any member of the press can go to anybody (in NASA) and talk to them." Mr Cook, who now works for the Treasury Department, wrote his memo after investigating the possible budgetary impact of the o-ring seal problem. The investigation of the Challenger explosion has highlighted possible failure of the o-rings, which are designed to prevent leaks in the shuttle's rocket boosters. In his article, Mr Cook wrote that NASA "understood completely the implications of a possible o-ring failure. It's just that it was viewed as no problem." After the accident, "There were many hushed conversations as more information came in to support the solid rocket booster failure hypothesis. There was concern about who might be blamed," Mr Cook wrote. He said if NASA had listened to "a small number of individuals . . . who feared that the booster seals were unreliable in cold weather . . . the Challenger and its astronauts might still be with us today." --AP. # NASA's wasted millions Miami: The US space agency has wasted millions of dollars on space shuttle contracts because of excessive mark-ups on parts, freeloading contractors and loafing work crews, a newspaper reported on Sunday. Audit records show the space agency routinely paid US$30 (about HK$234) for pins that should cost three cents, paid US$159,000 (about HK$1.2 million) for a US$5,000 (about HK$39,000) cooling fan and paid US$256 (about HK$1,996) to fly a contractor's dogs coast-to-coast, the Miami Herald reported. Up to one-third of NASA's budget, which was more than US$8.3 billion (about HK$64 billion) last year, is wasted, estimated Mr George Spanton, a former Defence Contract Audit Agency supervisor of contractor filings at Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral. The charges, backed by dozens of NASA and DCAA audit reports obtained by the Herald from the Government, follow recent disclosures by NASA that it had cut back on its safety staff, slashed shuttle reliability programmes and abandoned back-up safety features because of lack of funds. Officials for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, stung by recent criticism from the presidential commission investigating the January 28 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, denied NASA was wasting taxpayers' dollars. "Over the years, we've proved that we've done a very efficient job," said Mr Richard Bankowski, NASA's director of procurement policy. Mr Bankowski told the Herald he "wouldn't even attempt" to estimate the extent of waste at NASA, saying, "I don't have any feel for what the problem is." NASA spokesman Mr Dave Garrett in Washington declined to comment on the Herald article without first seeing the audit reports obtained by the newspaper. --AP. Twin-Engine Jet Crashes In Texas; All 7 Passengers Are Dead REDWATER, Texas (AP) -- A twin-engine turboprop jet crashed in a severe thunderstorm, killing all seven people aboard, most of them aerospace engineers with the Singer Co., authorities said. The Westwind 24 Aero Commander crashed and exploded in a fireball about 7:20 p.m. Friday in a field near a trailer park, gouging a 12-foot-deep hole in the red clay and scattering debris for more than 100 yards, said Bowie County Sheriff Thomas Hodge. The plane took off from Redbird Airport in Dallas at 6:55 p.m. for Teterboro, N.J. === Page 18 of 31 United States The Astronauts Bail Out A stern memo depicts NASA's long-standing safety problems As concern mounted over NASA's handling of the doomed space shuttle Challenger, the space agency's astronaut corps had stayed stoically tight-lipped. When beleaguered NASA officials trotted out four shuttle veterans for a press conference last week, the astronauts expressed concern about the agency's conduct, but not condemnation. In particular, they reserved judgment on reports that NASA had failed to heed warnings that the weather on Jan. 28 was too cold to launch, leading to Challenger's destruction and the deaths of its seven crew members. "I'm not sitting here angry," said Astronaut Vance Brand. "If there was a mistake, that doesn't bring down the whole system." But by week's end that solid front was cracking, and the astronauts were firing off criticism as damning to NASA's reputation as any yet heard. Astronaut Sally Ride, a member of the presidential commission investigating the Challenger disaster, was the first to speak out publicly. Until the agency solves its safety problems, "I'm not ready to fly again," said Ride. "I think that there are very few astronauts who are ready." A more pointed reproach was made public Saturday, when the Houston Post printed a memo sent to space-program officials by Chief Astronaut John Young on March 4, citing safety compromises on shuttle flights dating back to October 1984. The list, said Young, "proves to me that there are some very lucky people around here." Safety had to become a top priority, Young wrote, or NASA "will not survive and neither will our three space shuttles or their flight crews." In a separate safety problem--on a launch last Jan. 12 of the shuttle Columbia with Florida Congressman Bill Nelson aboard--sources on the presidential commission told TIME that NASA tried to persuade technicians of Rockwell Corp.'s Rocketdyne Division to bypass faulty valves on lines feeding the liquid-oxygen fuel tank. Rocketdyne refused, and NASA learned later that a foul-up was causing the huge external fuel tank to drain rather than fill. "If that orbiter had lifted off with the tank almost empty, it would have imploded, collapsed, and that would have finished the shuttle," said the commission source. NASA, meanwhile, continued to defend itself in the commission's public hearings at Cape Canaveral. NASA technicians speculated on a variety of reasons--other than the cold weather--why a joint in Challenger's right solid-fuel booster began leaking, spewing superhot gases and probably triggering the catastrophe. The commission seemed unimpressed. Chairman William Rogers urged NASA to include independent experts in making its evaluations. Otherwise, he protested, "The people running the tests, if successful, can prove that they were right all along." To rebuild the battered agency, the Administration brought back a former NASA administrator: James Fletcher, 66, leader of NASA from 1971 to 1977 and a physicist who headed a commission that urged Ronald Reagan to develop a Star Wars defense against missiles. The mild-mannered Fletcher comes to the post with one handicap: he has accused the Rogers commission of being engaged in a "witch-hunt." --By Ed Magnuson. Reported by Jay Branegan/Washington and Jerry Hannifin/Cape Canaveral tice has been that investigators first "understand technically why a failure occurred and then subsequently follow up with the rationale and management actions and other factors leading up to it." He added that his "biggest problem ... is not the findings and comments of the commission itself, but the partial reporting of those throughout the media." Engineers and astronauts express irritation and concern about poor communication between NASA centers. Marshall engineers have been under scrutiny since the commission zeroed in on a solid rocket engine failure as a key factor in the Challenger explosion. The rocket engines were managed by the Marshall center. Some Johnson officials, who asked not to be named, said it has become very difficult to work with the Marshall Center. At one point, Johnson engineers had to do thermal calculations on the solid rocket boosters because, as one engineer said, "We couldn't get the data from Marshall." NASA's leaders say they are trying to heal the rifts. Physicist James Fletcher: a reluctant savior for a beleaguered space agency Returning with an unblemished record--and a gripe against the investigators. TIME, MARCH 17, 1986 === Page 19 of 31 12 ORBITAL EXPLOITS AT A STANDSTILL Indefinite delay of shuttle launches has halted a variety of major projects and is forcing space customers to seek alternatives. Science missions--including probes of Jupiter and the sun's atmosphere--are in doubt for two years. Military intelligence satellites and Star Wars research are being diverted to expendable rockets. Also stymied: A host of commercial ventures, including orbital communications links and space factories. Grounded: Rescue-and-repair missions Postponed: Satellite launches individuals willing to apply enormous pressures on subordinates. "Where was common sense during all these deliberations?" asked commission member Joseph Sutter, a Boeing executive. "Why didn't someone react to these obvious warnings that the launch was in jeopardy?" The intense scrutiny of NASA's management came at a time when the agency was at its most vulnerable point in years. Administrator James Beggs, who resigned February 26, was under criminal indictment for actions unrelated to his work at NASA. Beggs had been a strong proponent of the shuttle program and had long experience in aerospace ventures. Acting Administrator William Graham, who has been on the job less than two months, probably will be replaced soon by a new permanent agency chief. Problems at the top already are filtering down through NASA's demoralized employee roster. Says a contract engineer at Johnson Space Center: "A lot of old-timers say Challenger was the inevitable result of taking too many shortcuts and getting too many mixed signals about priorities. A lot of us aren't going to wait around for the next disaster." A study of NASA management by the National Academy of Public Administration released last October also predicts a "mass exodus of senior executives in the next several years and a gap in high-potential midlevel replacements." Pressures on NASA are expected to build as Congress monitors the probe ROUGH SKETCHES UFOs vs Space Work Trib 3/21/86 NASA HELL NO, I WON'T GO! UFOs vs Space Work Steelworker Killed In Canaveral Fall CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) -- A steelworker who plunged 90 feet to his death while working here was identified as Joseph L. Tyre of Apopka, NASA announced. Tyre died Monday when he fell while helping install an overhead crane near the roof of a building under construction in the industrial area of the Kennedy Space Center, officials said Tuesday. O.S.B 3/26/86 === Page 20 of 31 -A THE TAMPA TRIBUNE-TIMES, Sunday, March 23, 1986 11 # NASA family ## Investigation leaves wounds that must be healed By PAUL RECER AP Aerospace Writer SPACE CENTER, Houston -- The investigation into the explosion of Challenger has caused splintering and mistrust within NASA, and top officials say these wounds must be healed before the space agency can return to the close teamwork that was key to its past success. Rifts have developed within what some call "the NASA family" as investigators publicly track the cause of the Jan. 28 explosion that destroyed space shuttle Challenger and killed its seven crew members. The estrangement centered on recent memos in which chief astronaut John Young accused NASA management of letting launch schedule pressures compromise crew safety. The documents were taken from departmental files and published in newspapers nationwide. Engineering managers at the Johnson Space Center in Houston said they are hurt and puzzled by the memos and feel estranged from astronauts who have been colleagues for decades. Some astronauts are dismayed because they believe the memos are being misinterpreted, leaving the impression that "the astronauts have the wagons circled" against NASA "bad guys," one said. Some in NASA management feel a presidential commission investigating the Challenger accident has needlessly damaged reputations while on what NASA administrator designate James Fletcher has called "a witch hunt." Communications between the NASA elements has broken down, some officials say. Managers at Johnson report problems in getting data for the investigation from the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. Astronauts at Johnson claim they never were informed of problems in rocket engines developed at Marshall. And, invariably, the NASA managers at Johnson, Marshall and Kennedy Space Center in Florida blame the media for many communication problems. Some have flatly refused to talk to reporters since the Challenger accident. In his statement to reporters at KSC, Smith said he did not intend to "make a frontal attack on the integrity or capability" of the panel but that he did not agree with "its initial approach and the first series of hearings" on the accident. Smith said the commission should have first learned "technically why a failure occurred" before making statements about NASA officials. Young has declined interviews, but his deputy, astronaut Paul Weitz, said Young is distressed that his memos have been published and is worried they will damage astronaut office communications with NASA management. "The underlying theme of many of the articles in the press about John's memos is that the astronauts have the wagons circled and they're fighting off the rest of the bad guys in NASA," said Weitz. "The last thing we need or want is a polarization." Weitz said Young wrote the memos to emphasize astronaut concerns over engineering problems that had been thoroughly discussed in committees, only to have management rule against the astronaut position. "I'm sure in any organization there are policy decisions made with which you don't agree and some of them you are willing to accept and some of them you think you can live with but I still think you are wrong and I'm going to continue to make my case," said Weitz. "I know that is the spirit in which John wrote those things." He cited concerns that NASA management could be alienated by opening the newspaper "at breakfast and here's an article that infers that the astronauts don't trust a damn thing that NASA does. "The normal human reaction is 'Who do they think these guys are talking to? Who do they think got them to where they are?'" Kennedy Space Center Director Richard Smith found himself recently trying to explain what he meant when he aired some frustrated opinions in an interview published in the Washington Post. He had accused the presidential commission investigating the Challenger disaster of running "a great risk of needlessly damaging the reputation of people, companies and the agency." Eugene F. Kranz, director of mission operations, said managers are puzzled about the Young memos. He said all of the issues Young raised had been discussed in open forums and that "an effective use of the system" could have resulted in changes without such strong views being expressed in public. "I can't speculate on the purpose of the memos," said Kranz. Jesse Moore, the new director of Johnson Space Center, said in an interview he was unaware of the Young memos until they were published in the paper. "I thought that they (astronauts) had a role in the decision-making process ... but apparently there is some feeling that they have not," Moore said. Rep. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., announced recently that he intends to hold congressional hearings on the issues raised by Young. In the Washington Post interview, Smith had blamed the press for pressure NASA felt to maintain a launch schedule. "Every time there was a delay," Smith said, "the press would say, 'Look there's another delay ... here's a bunch of idiots who can't even handle a launch schedule.' "You think that doesn't have an impact? If you think it doesn't, you're stupid," he added. Citing "long-term damage that cannot be repaired," he said many NASA officials are considering resigning because they are "fed up" with the battering the agency is taking. Later, said the Post, Smith asked that comments not be published, noting, "I may get fired for this interview." In his recent statement, Smith did not deny making the remarks. But he toned down his criticism of the commission. He said past prac- === Page 21 of 31 10 1/2 UFOs vs Space work # Investigator: Rocket joint caused shuttle explosion tie 4/9/86 CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) -- A top NASA investigator said Tuesday that a faulty rocket joint definitely caused the explosion of Challenger, and that engineers failed to take notice when design flaws "winked at us" on earlier flights. "We missed it in this joint," said J.R. Thompson, vice chairman of a National Aeronautics and Space Administration investigation task force. "We missed it in the design, and I think some of the prior flight anomalies were not taken seriously." Thompson told a news conference that he was positive the explosion was caused by a failure in the joint between two segments of the right solid fuel booster rocket. "Clearly the failure was in that joint," Thompson said. "Clearly that joint has to be redesigned. "NASA has taken a lot of bows for its flights in the past, but this time it fumbled it," he said. The presidential commission investigating the disaster has said for weeks that the joint was the leading suspect, and other possible causes have been systematically eliminated. However, Thompson's statements appeared to be the most emphatic yet on the subject. Thompson is deputy director for technical operations at the Plasma Physics Laboratory at Princeton University. Before that he worked 21 years with NASA at the Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala., where he managed development of the space shuttle's main engines. Thompson said the task force investigation is focusing on possibly defective O-rings designed to stop hot gases from escaping through the joint; on the effect of the rotation of the joint when subjected to ignition pressures; on characteristics of the putty intended to put pressure on the rings; a possible joint alignment problem; and the effect the freezing temperatures on launch day might have had on the rings or the putty. "It may be a combination of some of these factors," he said. Launch day photographs show a puff of black smoke spurting from the joint just after ignition and a plume of flame shooting from the area 58 seconds later. Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff on Jan. 28, killing the crew of five men and two women. Thompson said the smoke indicated the joint had degraded on ignition and "opened up when it got a bumpy ride 50 to 60 seconds later." The bumpy ride referred to the period when the shuttle passed through an area where it was buffeted by maximum outside pressures such as a combination of speed and wind. === Page 22 of 31 10 # Film of doomed shuttle THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Saturday, March 22, 1986 # pinpoints leak as cause Tribune Wires WASHINGTON -- NASA experts ran a riveting movie Friday for the Challenger investigating commission showing, in dramatic frames a few thousandths of a second apart, the flame from a booster rocket leak triggering the explosion that cost seven lives. One NASA official said "busy winds" buffeting the shuttle high over Florida may have helped cause the flame leak, by reopening a booster rocket seal that apparently was damaged on launch but had since closed. The experts said the flame forged a 45-square-inch hole in the booster rocket. "We've looked at the heating that would result from that type of flame coming out," said Wayne Littles, after the 14.5-minute, computer-enhanced film showed flame from the booster shooting for about seven seconds toward a tank containing volatile liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen fuel. "There's more than sufficient heat during that time to burn a hole through the tank," said Littles, associate director for engineering at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. "You could burn a hole in that tank in a couple of seconds." Challenger exploded during the 73rd second of its flight after launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Jan. 28. The films and still pictures shown to the presidential commission came from 14 cameras routinely trained at the shuttle from liftoff until it nears orbit. Littles and other experts from Huntsville provided the commission a new, more detailed timeline of events from ignition to explosion. Like all of the witnesses Friday, Littles testified that tests and analysis during the last two weeks had ruled out all potential causes other than a failed seam in the aft portion of the right solid booster rocket. "I believe we have eliminated all the other possibilities," he said, adding that the remaining theories "all deal with the joint." A commission source said the panel intends to recommend the joint be redesigned, even if the exact way in which it failed cannot be pinpointed. NASA officials have said the shuttle will not fly again until joint problems are remedied. After a review of the three-year history of problems with the joint, commission chairman William P. Rogers noted, "Some of the people who made the decision to launch (Challenger) said they were not familiar with the problem." Littles responded: "I do know those problems have been reviewed in flight-readiness reviews" attended by launch decision-makers. "I can't imagine it was not known." Dan Germany, head of NASA's accident photo analysis team, said in answer to a question by commission member Albert Wheelon that cold weather on launch morning caused the failure of 11 other cameras. Among the failed cameras were two that Germany conceded "would have provided an excellent view of the area in question." The temperature overnight on launch day was 24 degrees, and cold is suspected of having somehow caused the booster rocket seam to fail. Marshall engineer Harold Scofield testified the shuttle encountered "a busy wind" that shook it unusually hard. "We don't think this would open a gap in a healthy solid rocket motor seal," Scofield said. With the cause narrowed to the right booster rocket's lower seam, Littles said the remaining theories for that failure include: * Damage to the joint when the rocket was assembled; * A manufacturing defect in a secondary O-ring used to seal the joint; * Ice in the joint that may have forced the O-ring seals open; * Cold weather that might have robbed the O-rings of the resiliency needed to seal; === Page 23 of 31 UFOs vs Space Work 9 # Wind shear cited in shuttle disaster Trib 3/28/86 MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The space shuttle Challenger rocketed through a 70-mph drop in wind speed shortly after liftoff, which may have contributed to its explosion, a wind radar expert said Thursday. William P. Birkemeier, who teaches engineering at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said he deduced the wind speeds by studying atmospheric data for Jan. 28, the day of the ill-fated flight. The craft's entry and exit from a wind-shear zone 60 seconds into the flight resulted in a 70 mph change in wind velocity, which may have put too much pressure on the shuttle booster and caused the explosion, he said. Wind shear is a sudden change in wind speed or direction. Birkemeier said the leak in Challenger's right solid-fuel rocket booster corresponded with its entry into the wind shear, in which 84-mph winds put 400,000 pounds of pressure on the shuttle. Four-tenths of a second later, the shuttle broke through the shear into calm air and 14-mph winds. "It would appear that the booster leak was caused by the sudden deceleration of the rocket as it flew through the shear zone," Birkemeier said. In a letter to Richard Feynman, a member of a presidential commission investigating the explosion that killed seven astronauts, Birkemeier noted: "Sixty seconds, of course, is close to the point of maximum aerodynamic stress and coincides closely with the instant the right booster failed." Birkemeier said he began forwarding his suspicions about the accident to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration soon after the accident. On Friday, a NASA official told the presidential commission that "busy winds" buffeting the shuttle high over Florida may have helped cause the flame leak by opening a booster-rocket seal. Birkemeier said he was told by an official at Rockwell International, which helped design the shuttle, that Challenger had veered 8 degrees north of its programmed flight path at the precise time it would have entered the shear zone. "This was to compensate for the 84 mph wind," he said. He also said he learned that the shuttle shifted back 3 degrees to regain its path as it broke out of the shear. This steering action would have placed an additional 200,000 pounds of outward force on the bottom section of the booster where it attaches to the main fuel tank. "This would have tended to buckle the booster at the attach point," Birkemeier said. In his letter to Feynman, Birkemeier said he wondered "whether it would have come loose when it did if this 200,000 pounds of steering force hadn't been applied at that point. In which case, the shear is responsible for the accident," not the booster design. Birkemeir mailed the letter to Feynman this week and hadn't received a response as of Thursday. Strange that "wind shear" had never before struck a space shuttle before my Nov. warning to Jeffrey!! === Page 24 of 31 8 U.S.NEWS An agency that brought America the wonder of a moon landing and the thrill of exploring the heavens now faces intense scrutiny from critics. No one expects an end to U.S. ventures in outer space, but serious delays lie ahead On hold: $1.3 billion space telescope In question: Star Wars defense shield # NASA falls from grace UFOs vs. Space Work America's space program, stunned by revelations that its chain of command was fatally flawed, now faces a rebuilding effort that will postpone military, commercial and scientific projects, perhaps for years. Seldom has a U.S. agency fallen so quickly from shining star to scapegoat. Despite its admirable safety record and a quarter-century of towering achievement, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is suddenly defending itself against allegations from Congress, from a presidential investigating commission and even from its own contractors. Above all, critics are asking if NASA's vaunted "can do" spirit may have unwittingly triggered the January 28 Challenger catastrophe that killed seven astronauts and brought manned U.S. space ventures to a halt. "NASA was the outfit that could do no wrong," said a source close to the shuttle-investigation commission. "Now, it looks as if somebody got overconfident and twisted arms to get that launch off even though the red warning flags were flying." Although official findings won't be announced by the White House commission until May, this much appears certain: * Shuttle flights, which NASA had hoped to resume by mid-1986, will be grounded for as long as two years. The reason: Extensive overhauls and retooling of rockets and fuel systems. * Congress will insist on improvements in NASA management and internal communications. But lawmakers are still expected to approve the nearly $3 billion it will take to build a replacement orbiter for Challenger. * Sending mission specialists into space will remain a priority, although plans will be scaled back to exclude cargo that can be placed in orbit by unoccupied, expendable rockets. If for no other reason, astronaut-piloted U.S. flights will continue because the Soviet Union is intent on pursuing its goal of a human presence in space. * Business interest in space development remains high, though fledgling entrepreneurial start-ups in space are on hold. Revenues from commercial space ventures were projected as high as $50 billion by the year 2000. Moreover, few projects will shift immediately to the European space effort, in part because Europe's Ariane rocket is booked nearly solid for the next two years. * Military payloads scheduled to go aloft on the shuttle will be transferred to Titan rockets without crews when possible. But once the shuttle missions resume, crucial military cargo may bump commercial items lower on the flight manifest. Until the shuttle is again ready to fly, Air Force Under Secretary Edward Aldridge says, inability to carry military equipment to orbit constitutes "a national emergency." Launch went ahead despite ice on the launching pad Although a February 20-25 Los Angeles Times poll shows that 3 out of 4 people support the shuttle program, the agency has come under increasing fire that will surely spur a major revamping of its management procedures. In public hearings, the presidential commission on the shuttle disaster grilled officials involved in launch preparations with questions that seemed prosecutorial in tone. William Rogers, the former Secretary of State who chairs the commission, warned in his opening statement that the accident "may involve human error, as distinguished from equipment failure." After days of testimony, in which shuttle engineers told how they had argued that Challenger should not be launched in extremely cold weather, Rogers remained unsatisfied. "You will remember that I did say at one point that we thought the decision-making process may be flawed," he told four senior NASA officials. "I think I'm speaking for the whole commission when I say we think it is flawed." Despite strong denials, there is continuing suspicion that high-level NASA officials were informed of the potential danger before the launch. "The issue was so controversial I thought people were aware" of it, said Allan McDonald, engineering chief at Kennedy Space Center for Morton Thiokol, manufacturer of the solid-rocket-booster motors. "I have a hard time believing they didn't." Another vigorously denied report: That the White House pressured NASA to get the Challenger up on time so the President could place a call to the crew during his state-of-the-union message. Presidential press spokesman Larry Speakes called the story "the most vicious and distorted rumor I have ever heard." Whatever the conclusions eventually reached by the commission, the hearings reveal a decision-making process at NASA's highest levels that showed 20 U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT, March 10, 1986 === Page 25 of 31 7 # NASA astronauts threaten to quit Hong Kong Post 3/16/86 ## Confidence lost over Challenger UFOs vs space work Houston: Several NASA astronauts are considering resigning because of the halt in the shuttle programme while the January 28 Challenger explosion where seven crew died is investigated, sources close to the US space agency said. Some astronauts are disappointed, have lost confidence, and are angered by the death of the seven crew. Some even blame National Aeronautics and Space Administration engineers for the disaster which they feel should have been avoided, said Paul Weitz, a senior astronaut official. "A lot of people say: 'I don't trust those bastards any more'," he said. Veteran astronaut Don Lind resigned this week to work at Utah State University, but NASA said that his decision was made before Challenger exploded. Some are thought to be considering leaving because they think the suspension could last two years, reducing their chances of flying. One of the biggest losses among the 95 astronauts could be military pilots who have the greatest experience of flying. Many have been with NASA longer than their five-year contracts, but the Defence Department is considering changing its policy so that military pilots keep strictly to their contracts. "I think it potentially is a problem," said Mr Weitz, who is a pilot himself. "There will be a loss of continuity in the corporate knowledge among our pilots." A top US space agency official said on Friday NASA plans to resume shuttle flights after a 12-month pause. Other NASA officials have said it may take as long as 18 months to two years before the shuttle flies again. Dr Raymond Colladay, chairman of a shuttle replanning task force, said his group was working with other US Government agencies on a recommendation to President Ronald Reagan on what needs to be done "to restore launch capability." However, a member of the Presidential Commission investigating the January 28 explosion that destroyed the Challenger said NASA will have to redesign a space shuttle booster joint, suspected as the cause of the accident, before it launches another shuttle. "There's no doubt whatsoever the design of that joint is hopeless," commission member Richard Feynman told the Huntsville Times on Thursday. Mr Feynman, a Nobel physicist from the California Institute of Technology, visited the Marshall Space Flight Centre with three other commission members. Stormy seas on Friday interrupted the search for vital Challenger wreckage, including more human remains, but sources reported the recovery of the space shuttle's flight recorders and some of its computers. The instruments may tell investigators about the moments before and after the explosion that destroyed the spaceship and killed its seven crew members. Dr Colladay, associate administrator of space technology at NASA's Washington headquarters, said the replanning task force was working with the Department of Transportation, the Department of Defence and other agencies. Once the shuttle starts to fly again, Dr Colladay said: "We adopted a build-up rate of nine flights in the first year, 14 in the second, to a level of 18 flights per year with a three-orbiter fleet." He emphasised the 12-month moratorium was for "purposes of budget planning" with a view towards setting shuttle manifest priorities for military, planetary, science and commercial payloads. In a televised talk to NASA employees, Dr Colladay said agency officials intend to conduct a series of similar communications so that employees would not have to rely on the media for news about the agency. "Yes, the accident did stun us, that's to be expected, but it wasn't a mortal wound," Dr Colladay said. At the Kennedy Space Centre, sources requesting anonymity said some of the crew compartment wreckage recovered over the past few days included pieces of the astronauts' seats, a treadmill used by the crew for exercising in space and two space suits carried along for possible use in space walks. The items were brought in late Wednesday along with some human remains by the Navy salvage ship Preserver, the sources said. Weather conditions in the Atlantic Ocean recovery area were so poor on Friday that they "pretty much obliterated any chance" for diving or photography of underwater debris of the crew cabin and rocket boosters, said NASA spokeswoman Andrea Shea. In Washington, presidential investigators received consideration from new film studies shown privately on Friday that safety seals on the Challenger's right booster rocket caused the shuttle to explode in flight, a source said. The source, who is close to the probe but asked not to be identified by name, said the enhanced film the commission saw first time this week "for the first time provided a considerable confirmation of our view on the dent and timeline of the fire" that caused the explosion. The source added the panel is still trying to determine what caused the failure of the seam designed to contain hot gases inside the solid fuel booster rocket. Leading theories are that cold weather reduced the effectiveness of rubber-like O-ring seals, or that the seals were harmed by the normal motion of the rocket, or were defective on manufacture, the source said. The commission met as the chairman of the Senate sub-committee that oversees NASA said that Congress probably will approve a replacement for the lost shuttle Challenger unless the space agency is forced to accept across-the-board budget cuts in accordance with a new US law. In that case, "there certainly wouldn't be a replacement orbiter," and NASA will have to make do with the three shuttles left in the fleet, said Senator Slade Gorton, who chairs the Senate Space Sub-committee. The panel also announced it would hold its next public hearing on Friday after two weeks of information-gathering around the country. -AFP and AP. === Page 26 of 31 6 (Could there be a connection between my UFOs sending me to Peru recently + oncoming "El Nino" phenomena? Owens) # El Nino * **From Page 1AA** During El Nino, the plankton-rich cold water is displaced by relatively sterile warm water in the fishing grounds off the South American coast. Anchovy, which feed on plankton and are a mainstay of the Peruvian economy, then migrate to other feeding grounds, leaving the sea birds that produce guano deposits (used for fertilizer) to starve. The name El Nino, Spanish for the Christ Child, was coined by Peruvian fishermen because the phenomenon usually occurs around Christmas. The key new idea, according to Cane, is that "at the peak of an El Nino, water moves not only from west to east, but also poleward, emptying the reservoir of warm water at the equator." When there is no longer enough warm water to sustain the above-normal surface temperatures, the El Nino begins to break down. By the time the El Nino is over, the eastern Pacific is colder than normal. A new El Nino cannot begin until warm water flows back from the higher latitudes. A similar hypothesis about the poleward flow has been developed independently by Klaus Wyrtki, a researcher at the University of Hawaii, Cane and Zebiak said. They said they tested the theory with a computer model that simulated the physical processes that occur in the interaction between the ocean and atmosphere in the Pacific Ocean near the equator. The model makes predictions by solving a complex series of mathematical equations that describe the motion of the ocean and the atmosphere over a given period. The scientists made retrospective, one-year forecasts for 12 of the past 15 years. Nine forecasts were correct, they said, and the others were inconclusive. They said that forecasts prepared in six successive months from August through January all predicted an El Nino effect this year. The forecast model predicted that surface temperatures in the forecast region, an area of the Pacific along the equator that reaches from the South American coast to a north-south line that passes just east of Hawaii, would peak at about 1.9 degrees C. above normal. "This is the most typical-looking thing we've ever forecast," Cane said. "It would be unprecedented for it to turn around and abort." The forecasts were made using surface-level wind reports from ships, he said. Cane and Zebiak said their model is the first computer model designed to forecast El Nino that relies on physical interactions. Other prediction methods rely on statistical models that correlate current observations with previous El Nino events. Barry Raleigh, director of the Peru already have been notified of the prediction. Eugene Rasmusson, chief of the diagnostic branch of the Climate Analysis Center in Camp Springs, Md., a branch of the National Weather Service, called the computer model "extremely interesting," but said it would have to withstand scrutiny from other scientists attempting to develop techniques to predict El Nino events. Rasmusson also said that rising Pacific Ocean temperatures about 100 miles off the South American coast and changes in air pressure over the Pacific may, indeed, be signaling development of an El Nino. "It's still pretty early to see how this thing shapes up," he said. "We haven't seen the classical El Nino warming on the coast yet." He said meteorologists would watch the area for another "two to four months." Michael Hall, director of the U.S. office of the Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere project (TOGA), which provided a grant for the forecast project, called the computer model "remarkable for what it's done so far," but he noted that it cannot predict the worldwide effects of an El Nino. Hall said that more information about the possible El Nino is expected to be gathered in coming months by scientists from about a dozen nations involved in TOGA, a 10-year project begun in 1985 to ![Photograph of people sifting through debris] Reuters photo ### After the quake **W. Da Sun Attack** **Trib 4/7/86** Residents of Cuzco, Peru, sift through debris for belongings Sunday, following an earthquake that killed at least seven people, left 600 families homeless and damaged Inca ruins and five churches in the Andean region. === Page 27 of 31 5 # Computer predicts El Nino The cause of El Nino, a reverse trade-winds phenomenon, is unknown, but it soon be pinned down. By PHIL MINTZ Newsday In June 1982, weather observers watching the western Pacific Ocean noticed an ominous sign. The easterly blowing trade winds had reversed and were blowing from the west. There were drought conditions in Australia, and an area of heavy rainfall usually located near Indonesia had drifted to the east. It was the first sure indication that the reverse trade-winds phenomenon called El Nino that wreaks havoc on worldwide weather had begun. By November, its characteristic warming of the eastern Pacific Ocean off South America would begin. Over the next several months, areas of Peru and Ecuador would be lashed by heavy rains, a gargantuan forest fire would rage through a drought-stricken rain forest in Borneo, and massive storms would slam into the coast of California. By the time it was all over, El Nino would be blamed for as many as 2,000 deaths and about $8 billion in damages. Although El Ninos have been observed for centuries, and occur at intervals of two to 10 years, scientists are still trying to understand what causes them. Now, two Columbia University scientists say they have found a reliable way of predicting El Nino up to a year in advance, and they are forecasting its return later this year. The scientists, Mark A. Cane and Stephen E. Zebiak, made their prediction recently, using a new computer model developed at the university's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory in Palisades, N.Y. The computer model incorporates a new hypothesis of how one El Nino ends and another one begins, the scientists said. "We're confident that El Nino is coming," said Cane, a senior research scientist at the observatory, who predicted the event would peak late this year, in October and November, and disappear in early 1987. The severity and duration of the predicted El Nino is less certain, but Cane said it would be "moderate." He said it would be less severe than the 1982-83 El Nino, which was considered the worst in a century. According to Cane and Zebiak, El Nino develops when the normal interaction between the ocean and atmosphere near the equator is disrupted. Normally, the Pacific Ocean is warmest in the west and coldest in the east, with a large area receiving tropical rainfall in the far western Pacific. This temperature differential is maintained by strong easterly trade winds that drive warm surface waters to the west, at the same time drawing up colder subsurface waters at the east. In the complex web of events that marks El Nino, however, the eastern Pacific Ocean begins to warm and the surface winds begin to slacken, part of an atmospheric event known as the Southern Oscillation. Warm water from the west begins to migrate east, and less cold water is drawn up. The tropical rainfall spreads eastward, along with the warm water. See EL NINO, Page 8AA AROUND THE # Nation ## Southern California Shakes Again, Rocked By 3rd Quake In 17 Hours BOMBAY BEACH, Calif. (AP) -- A mild earthquake shook Southern California on Saturday, the region's third temblor in 17 hours, but a geologist said the timing was coincidental and no damage was reported. The third quake, at 9:21 a.m., was the strongest, measuring 3.9 on the Richter scale, said Robert Finn, spokesman for the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Its epicenter was Bombay Beach on Salton Sea, a brackish lake 150 miles southeast of Los Angeles. "It sure shook this building," said Bobbie Todhunter, assistant manager of the Bombay Marina. "It was a boom, and then everything shook." The Salton Sea quake followed a 3.8 shaker in Orange County, south of Los Angeles, late Friday, which was preceded by 3.1 temblor in Riverside County, east of Los Angeles on Friday afternoon. === Page 28 of 31 School System Praised To The Editor: This is a true story. My family arrived here and took a home about two years ago. School Supt. Archibald and his assistants went to great pains to help my two children get into the Ocala schools. One son, Jerome, who is now seven, had a severe speech handicap and had only a vocabulary of perhaps a dozen words. My son, Teddy, now 14, was hopelessly behind his class level because of my former travels. First, Jerome attended Oakcrest School where he was tremendously helped by three dedicated women who extended his vocabulary. This year, through the kindness of Supt. Archibald, he was transferred to Wyomina School and assigned to Mrs. Stewart who could give him more time and personal attention and who has done wonders with him. Now he can actually put sentences together and I would estimate his vocabulary at roughly 100 words. My other son, Teddy, in Fort King Middle School, was taken over by Mrs. Sorrells who, through some magic of spirit, has managed for him to "hang in there" and improve himself tremendously. She utilized a strange mixture of affection for Teddy, belief in Teddy and other techniques. The nice lady principal, Elaine Laine, and her regular teachers have cooperated in a team effort. The reason for my writing to the Ocala Star-Banner is, I wonder if the local citizens know what a gem of an educational system you have here for the children and how extraordinarily it is carried out and "ramrodded" by people like Skip Archibald and Mrs. Sorrells. Ted Owens OCALA STAR BANNER 3/14/86(?) AROUND THE # Nation UFOs Sun Attack 0.5B 3/13/86 ## String Of Minor Earthquakes Rattle Windows In Georgia ATLANTA (AP) -- A string of earthquakes that rattled windows and toppled dishes from shelves in central Georgia may be the main event of a month-long string of minor tremors or a preliminary to something bigger, seismologists say. "This could be a buildup. We've had 50 events in the last two weeks. With the kind of event we had today, we can expect hundreds of earthquakes or maybe one or two more big ones," Karl Zelt, research assistant in the geophysics department at the Georgia Institute of Technology, said Wednesday. "As far as we're concerned, those people down there are going to have a lot of shaking going on." The biggest of Wednesday night's string of quakes measured 2.5 on the Richter scale, big enough to rattle windows and topple dishes, but not enough to cause structural damage. UFOs Sun Attack 0.5B (signed Dr. Michlowe) 3/31/86 ## Earthquake Shakes San Francisco Bay SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- An earthquake shook the San Francisco Bay area Saturday, but there were no reports of any damage or injury. In Sacramento, the state Office of Emergency Services reported the quake struck at 8:25 a.m. PST with an intensity of 4.0 on the Richter scale of ground motion. The temblor was centered in Oakland, the office said. The quake was felt in a wide area around the epicenter, according to phone calls to The Associated Press. "It felt like an incredible crash, like a 500-pound bomb had landed," said William Brand. In a high-rise near downtown San Francisco, the quake felt like a brief rumble through the floor, lasting about a half-second. 4 "geopei projects" UFOs Sun Attack (signed Jeffrey) 0.5B 3/30/86 ## Quake shakes San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO -- A moderate earthquake rocked the San Francisco Bay area at 8:24 a.m. Saturday with a jolt that felt like "an incredible crash," but there were no reports of significant damage or injury. The quake, centered four miles east of Berkeley, measured at 4.0 on the Richter scale of ground motion. Earthquakes with the magnitude of 3.5 on the Richter scale can cause slight damage, and quakes measuring 4 can result in moderate damage. Each increase in one number means a tenfold increase in magnitude. (This one just a warning Owens) UFOs Sun Attack OCALA * STAR-BANNE 8A # Quake Hits Bay Area For 3rd Day FREMONT, Calif. (AP) -- A strong earthquake struck the San Francisco Bay area early today, rocking skyscrapers in the region's third temblor in as many days. There were no immediate reports of injuries or major damage. The earthquake had a magnitude of 5.3 on the Richter scale and was centered 10 miles east of Fremont, which is 35 miles southeast of San Francisco, said Willis Jacobs of the U.S. Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo. It struck at 3:56 a.m., he said. It was followed by moderate aftershocks measuring 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8 on the Richter scale, according to the state Office of Emergency Services. 0.5B 3/31/86 === Page 29 of 31 3 Mt. Des Sun Attack # California Shaken By Big Quake 0.5x5 4/1/86 FREMONT, Calif. (AP) -- A strong earthquake that shook skyscrapers, rattled shelves and roused thousands of people could have been deadly and is a reminder that the earth's crust in northern California is unsettled, an expert said. "It may be several decades before we have a quake like the one in 1906, but quakes like (Monday's) can do a lot of damage if they hit populated areas," said Robert E. Wallace, chief scientist of the U.S. Geological Survey's Office of Earthquake Studies. Five people suffered minor injuries and no major damage was reported from Monday's quake, which had an epicenter about 15 miles southeast of Fremont and 65 miles southeast of San Francisco. The great San Francisco earthquake on April 18, 1906, killed at least 2,000 people and destroyed 28,000 buildings, leaving more than 225,000 people homeless. Monday's quake, which hit at 3:56 a.m., was estimated to measure 5.3 on the Richter scale, according to the University of California Seismographic Station at Berkeley. The state Office of Emergency Services estimated the reading at 5.6, a magnitude that is capable of causing extensive damage. The 1906 quake was before the Richter scale was developed, but has been calculated to have had a force of 8.3. The Richter scale measures the energy released by quakes as measured by ground motion. Each increase by one number indicates a tenfold increase in ground motion. Thus, a quake of 5.0 has 10 times the ground motion of a temblor with a magnitude of 4.0. Drug store manager Craig Troxclair looks over bottles shaken from shelves of Fremont, Calif., store. AP The latest earthquake followed a moderate one Saturday morning that measured 4.0 on the Richter scale and a slight temblor of 2.2 on Sunday night, University of California officials said. San Francisco police dispatcher Irene Voorhees described Monday's quake as "a long, rolling motion" and said the switchboard was jammed with callers. It was felt as far north as Santa Rosa and as far south as San Luis Obispo. === Page 30 of 31 3rd earthquake jolts California Only a few minor injuries were reported from the quake 50 miles southeast of San Francisco. By STEVE WILSTEIN Associated Press FREMONT, Calif. -- Skyscrapers swayed, bottles crashed from store shelves and people and parakeets were shaken from their slumber Monday as a strong earthquake, the third temblor in as many days, hit northern California. Damage was not serious and only a few minor injuries were reported from the quake, which hit at 3:56 a.m. and was estimated to measure 5.3 or 5 on the Richter scale. Scientists put the epicenter about 15 miles southeast of Fremont, some 50 miles southeast of San Francisco. "My birds started screaming just before it happened," said Valerie Wirth, 21, of Hayward. "My little parakeet started it and the parrots joined in. They can sense it happening, just before earthquakes and storms. But my husband slept through it." CALIFORNIA Earthquake epicenter Santa Rosa San Francisco Berkeley Fremont San Jose San Luis Obispo Pacific Ocean NEVADA CALIFORNIA Tribune map by VAUGHN HUGHES John Skeets, manager of the Lucky Food Center in south Fremont, said more than 300 jars and bottles were smashed, 14 ceiling tiles fell and a crack appeared in a concrete wall of the 3-month-old store. "Two guys on the night crew were stocking in the pickle section when all the pickle jars started falling," he said. "They cleared out of there real fast." "This quake is a reminder that the earth's crust around here is very active," said Robert E. Wallace, chief scientist of the U.S. Geological Survey's Office of Earthquake Studies. "It may be several decades before we have a quake like the one in 1906, but quakes like today's can do a lot of damage if they hit populated areas," said Wallace. The University of California Seismographic Station at Berkeley estimated Monday's quake at 5.3 on the open-ended Richter scale. The state Office of Emergency Services estimated the Richter reading at 5. By noon, 230 aftershocks had been recorded, the strongest a 3.4 at 5:05 a.m., said Edna King at the United States Geological Survey in Menlo Park. "We don't find any particular significance to it, no," said Rick McKenzie, staff research associate at Berkeley, when asked if the series of three quakes and swarms of aftershocks were important in forecasting future temblors. After Monday's initial shock, thousands of people were without power for short periods as electric lines snapped. "My wife felt it first," said Greg Madrid, 34, who lives in an apartment in Fremont near where the wires broke. "We have a waterbed and it started rolling. She screamed and I woke up. Then we saw two bright blue flashes and everything went dark." Pacific Gas & Electric Co. said the outages affected about 7,500 people in San Jose and about 1,800 in Fremont. See QUAKE, Page 4A Quake From Page 1A The temblor reportedly was felt as far north as Santa Rosa, as far south as San Luis Obispo, a range of about 350 miles, and as far east as Stockton. It was the strongest quake to hit northern California since Jan. 26, when a temblor of 5.5 on the Richter scale jolted the Hollister area about 120 miles south of San Francisco. Alexian Brothers Hospital in San Jose reported three minor injuries. The victims, who suffered cuts or were hit by objects falling in their homes, were treated and released. Two other people were treated at Washington Hospital in Fremont, including a woman who broke her toe leaping out of bed. The quake smashed hundreds of bottles at newly opened Abe's Liquors in Fremont, and owner Abe Sousa has no earthquake insurance. "I came down at 4:15 a.m. and saw all the bottles broken," Sousa said. "But we didn't have any power, so I went back home." At Syquest Technology, half a dozen wooden structural beams suffered cracks, some as long as 15 feet. But inspectors said the factory, which makes computer disk drives, is in no danger of collapse and could open for business. The building also suffered cracked walls and a minor gas leak. The quake was felt at least as far east as Stockton, about 75 miles east of San Francisco. "It woke me up and sloshed the water in my swimming pool," said Jim Hushaw, managing editor of the Stockton Record. Monday's earthquake followed a moderate one Saturday morning that measured 4.0 on the Richter scale, according to the University of California, and a slight temblor of 2.2 on Sunday night. === Page 31 of 31 New fires burning in Southeast forests Associated Press New fires flared Tuesday across the Southeast, where thousands of acres have been charred in the past week under rainless skies and unseasonable warmth. "Every day it gets a little drier, with the fires burning with a little more intensity. It hasn't taken any spectacular leap, just a slow gradual buildup in a situation that's already pretty bad," said Bruce Jewell, spokesman for the regional office of the U.S. Forest Service in Atlanta. Hundreds of fires have broken out in the past week in parts of Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia and Ohio. Outbreaks of grass and brush fires were reported over the weekend and Monday in parts of Michigan, western Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Mississippi. Jewell said, "Everything in the South except Florida has very high fire danger." Since Jan. 1 in the 13 Southern states covered by his office, Jewell said 42,204 fires have burned 563,056 acres of private, state and federal land. The region covers Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia. Outside the region, West Virginia and Ohio also have been hard-hit. In West Virginia, where more than 25,000 acres have burned this year, the worst since 1976, crews battled 12 new forest fires Tuesday. But while they were under control, two large fires burning for several days in rugged terrain in the south remained out of control, said Jerry Atkins, assistant state forester. Last year, just 7,450 acres had burned by this time, he said. "I don't know how we're going to carry through," District V Forester Gerald Wimer said. "We're reaching the point where we can't take care of the fires that we do get. My people are getting so tired." West Virginia officials estimate at least one-third of the fires are caused by careless trash burning, arson set by another third are caused by Gov. Kentucky Martha Layne Collins visited fire crews in the area Tuesday. Ohio Gov. Richard Celeste ordered state officials to beef up enforcement of open-burning laws. At least three fires raged out of control Tuesday in Tennessee. The state had 283 fires Sunday which blackened 2,745 acres, said Roy Ashley, director of the state Forestry Division. So far this year, 3,730 fires have claimed 42,658 acres, he said, while the state usually loses 40,000 to 42,000 acres of land to fires in an entire year. "I would say this is the worst year for arson in Tennessee," Ashley said. Nine Kentucky fires totaling about 2,200 acres burned out of control Tuesday, after state crews extinguished 97 fires Monday which charred about 5,100 acres. U.S. Forest Service crews battled a 200- to 300-acre fire in the Daniel Boone National Forest, where 65 fires raged Monday. Ohio has had an estimated 10,000 acres of state forest land burned in the past week by 600 fires. UPI photo In Malden, W.Va., the once peaceful woods have turned into raging infernos with brush fires sweeping across dry forests. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 49 5-21-86 postmark Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove February 12, 1986 SCIENTISTS (1) Years ago, while living in Philadelphia with Martha, my wife, and Beau, our baby...one night a roaring fire sprang up on the floor below and the firemen came and extinguished it. The Fire Chief came to me and told me that the fire had been deliberately set...in the room directly underneath our room...and if it had not been discovered when it was then we'd have been burned up. (This happened at the time when Saga magazine was doing articles about me and Dr. Zakow, of the U.S. Government, came to our apartment and investigated my work and warned me that the U.S. Govt. would have me killed considering my work with UFOs and attacking NASA with psi-force). Several days later Astronauts Grissom, White and Chaffee were burned up on the pad at NASA. My UFOs telepathed and explained that they had caused it because of my great value to them, the UFOs, and because of the U.S. Govt.'s effort to assassinate us. (There were two other blatant attempts to murder me at that time on the streets...but I am pointing out the fire connection.) I passed along this information to the scientists that I was dealing with at that time. (2) In 1969 I was in a court-reporting office in Norfolk, Virginia, and Apollo 12 was just getting ready to lift off at NASA. The court reporters were all listening to the proceedings on the radio. I called out to them: "How would you like to see me hit that spacecraft with lightning?" They all stopped talking and stared at me incredulously. Minutes later the spacecraft lifted from the ground then all was pandemonium at NASA. One of the astronauts aboard the spacecraft, still ascending, said to ground control "We don't know what happened but it seems that we were struck by lightning!" (3) This last November, 1985, my UFOs telepathd to me unexpectedly one night and told me that (1) they intended to cause an earthquake on the West Coast 8-10 on the Richter Scale, and (2) they were going to explode a space shuttle of NASA while it was in action. They were going to do it because their request for a ten million dollar UFO Base from the U.S. had not been taken seriously...also that for a long while they had deliberately harassed shuttle flights, ruining experiments etc., but not harming the astronauts. They had finally decided that they would have to destroy astronauts to get the U.S. Govt.'s serious attention. I explained all this to my son, Beau...then picked up the phone and called Dr. Mishlove in San Francisco and gave him the message. The result, of course, is in this file. You probably saw it yourself on TV. Re (2) above...I have an affidavit signed by all the court reporters who were present attesting to the validity of the matter. Re (3) above...I would not be presumptuous enough to ask Dr. Mishlove for an affidavit to that effect, for my files...but if anyone is interested in checking it out they can contact Dr. Mishlove. I do not believe that he would double-cross me and lie about the matter as Dr. Hynek did some years ago. I think that Dr. Mishlove is a finer scientist in every sense of the word, than is Hynek. And I could know - have worked with scientists. After the shuttle exploded my UFOs telepathd to me (I was as saddened and shocked as anyone who witnessed the event) and explained why they had deliberately chosen this particular flight and shuttle. Follow this now. p. 4 -- "It's a setback. The tragedy is that so many kids were watching === Page 2 of 49 O.SB 4/30/86 Re Hynek the Hyena # J. Allen Hynek Dies, Leading UFO Expert PHOENIX, Ariz. (AP) -- J. Allen Hynek, a leading authority on unidentified flying objects and former director of the Air Force's Project Blue Book that investigated UFOs, has died at age 75. Hynek, a professor of astronomy who died Sunday at Scottsdale Memorial Hospital, directed Project Blue Book from 1948 to 1969. He eventually became disenchanted with the Air Force's approach to the study, contending the service was not conducting a scientific experiment. The Air Force concluded there was no evidence of extraterrestrial craft. Hynek coined the phrase, "close encounters of the third kind," in his 1972 book, "The UFO Experience." THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Thursday, May 1, 1986 11-B # Astronomer Hynek, UFO expert, dies Although he criticized Blue Book's approach to UFOs, Hynek felt they warranted serious study. SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (UPI) -- J. Allen Hynek, an astronomer who headed an Air Force study into unidentified flying objects but rejected its findings, has died at age 75. Hynek died Sunday at Scottsdale Memorial Hospital. He directed the Air Force's Project Blue Book from 1948 to 1969, but he criticized the project for not taking a scientific approach. He said he stayed with the program so he would have access to the Air Force data and would not be considered a "UFO nut." The Air Force concluded there was no evidence to support the existence of UFOs. But Hynek said in 1985 he was more convinced than ever that UFOs deserved serious study. Hynek founded the Center for UFO Studies in Evanston, Ill., in 1973 and moved it to Scottsdale a year ago. In a 1972 book, "The UFO Experience," Hynek coined the phrase "close encounters of the third kind," saying those would be humans encountering alien beings. The phrase became the title of a 1977 Steven Spielberg movie in which Hynek made a cameo appearance. Tina Choate, administrative director of the Center for UFO Research, said, "UFO research has centered around him (Hynek) as long as they have been looking at UFOs in this day and age. He's left a legacy for everyone who's interested in the subject and we're very grateful." George Rieke, deputy director of Steward Observatory at the University of Arizona, said Hynek "was distinguished by having a very open mind and a sense of fairness." HA Hynek, a native of Chicago, re- HR! ceived a doctorate degree from the University of Chicago. He was head of the department of astronomy at Northwestern University for 18 years until his retirement in 1978. Since then, he had been a professor emeritus at Northwestern. === Page 3 of 49 May 9, 1986 SCIENTISTS -> "NASA IS SNAKEBIT!" (CNN TV NEWS) -> "A SPACE JINX?" (MARCIA SMITH, PRES., A.A.S.) p. 2 -> "IS SOMEBODY TRYING TO TELL US SOMETHING?" (DONALD REGAN) A scientist who double-crossed me, and my UFOs...and did his best to damage my reputation and work for my UFOs...now no longer is in a position to do so. I am, of course, alluding to Hynek the Hyena (my own name for him). On p. 1 you will note "a sense of fairness" and my inserted "ha ha." Why? Years ago, in Cape Charles, I departed from my usual modus operandi of notifying scientists in advance that I was going to teamwork with my UFOs to keep lava flowing down the sides of Mt. Etna in Sicily from striking any of the three towns on the side of the mountain. (At the time lava was streaming right toward them). I had the bright idea of calling Dr. Hynek, one of my regular contacts, long distance, and telling him in detail of what I was going to do. It never occurred to me that he, being a scientist, would deny it and lie about it later on. My UFOs and I stopped or diverted the lava and saved the three villages. It was called a miracle in the newspapers (you have it all in your files). Later I was on a TV show or radio show...I disremember which...and when I described the miracle they contacted Dr. Hynek to confirm it and he said that he "had no memory of my call to him." Several years ago I told my contacts in writing that I would make hurricanes and run them into Florida, as a demonstration. A weekly news mag from West Palm Beach, Florida, dug up a weather expert who laughed at what I said I would do. They also interviewed Hynek about it. "Owens can't make hurricanes," he said. "He's just a dealer in coincidences." Well, I made, and ran, two hurricanes and ran one up the west coast of Florida and ran one up the East Coast of Florida. Then I made another one, a regular horror of a hurricane, and guided it right to the tip of Florida, aimed right up the throat of Miami. While it was stalled, building up power prior to charging directly north into Miami...a good friend of mine called me in Vancouver from Lantana, Florida, and said that he had a house full of people scared to death. "Do you realize, Ted," he said, "that if that hurricane charges ahead it will kill 15,000 to 25,000 people in Miami?" After the call I thought about that. My UFOs and I give demonstrations. We have no wish to kill or hurt humans. I contacted my UFO "control" (telepathically) and the hurricane then mysteriously vanished, to the amazement of weather experts and scientists. Well, so Hynek had been wrong in his statement in that magazine...so had the weather expert. But then, some years later, I made another shocking discovery about Hynek. A prominent scientist, within the scientific community, tipped me off about Hynek. "Ted," he told me, "for years Hynek has been acting friendly toward you...but whenever anyone else checks with him about you...he talks about you like you were a dog." First I found out that he was a liar. Then found out he was a two-faced hypocrite. Naturally, I discontinued sending Hynek further information re my work with my UFOs. So now you have seen what my UFOs can do (p. 2, etc.) (also p. 4 1/2) They have knocked down the space shuttle plus three space rockets...in a row. All...different kinds...so that it cannot be blamed on malfunction of one kind of space equipment. One TV newsman on Ch. 12 (CNN) said: "There is only one thing to say...NASA is snakebit!" (This after the Delta loss. Wonder what he would say now, after the further loss of the Titan and Nike-Orion shots?) p. 2: "People within NASA and without are puzzled by the recent problems with space launches. The odds of having three different launch vehicles (four, really) made by three see p. 4 1/2" === Page 4 of 49 2 different prime contractors and three different launch crews fail, and all of this happening at the same time -- it's incredible that could happen," said Rep. Don Fuqua, D-Fla., chairman of the House Science and Technology Committee. "There's clearly something in the air that's causing these failures," says Marcia Smith, president of the American Astronautical Society. "It's not just NASA; the Air Force is not so lucky either." Then the article states: "A space jinx?" She continues: "This whole sequence of events... (and she mentions Chernobyl, which was UFO-caused and which I will explain shortly) gives new meaning to the word unbelievable." (p. 2) Ch. 12 TV (CNN): "The main engine shut down almost as if it were a command shutdown." Then a few minutes later: "It's just as if it were commanded." p. 3 mentions two "mysterious" electrical surges. Then: "...in light of the discovery of the short, "outside interference... and other subtle possibilities..." p. 4: "This has been a very uncanny, strange series of events." So did Donald T. Regan, the White House chief of staff, attempt to summarize the three consecutive failures that have befallen the U.S. space program. To put that another way, is somebody trying to tell us something? Well, "they" certainly are... PK Man has been trying to tell the U.S. govt. and scientists for years that my (and UFOs) demonstrations are quite real. But I, and my UFOs, have wearied of it... thus this dramatic multi-demonstration. p. 4 sums up what my UFOs are bringing about: (1) "If we can't count on perfect Delta and Titan launches every time, the technological premise behind Star Wars is plainly preposterous." (2) "As offensive weapons become more powerful, more accurate and more numerous, the respective heads of state come under increasing pressure to shoot first in a crisis. The Star Wars scheme increases that danger." (3) "The smoke clouds over Vandenberg Air Force Base and Cape Canaveral suggest the folly of relying on technology at the expense of arms control. By delaying the further testing of much of the Star Wars technology, they also give the Congress and the American people some more time to think... about the brink where Mr. Reagan's unbounded faith in technology could be leading them." (p. 4) There it is. Not only have my UFOs demonstrated what they can do, whenever they wish... but more importantly, they have relaxed the pressure on Russia's trigger finger by paralyzing NASA and holding off the Star Wars progress for quite a long while. Maybe until Reagan resigns or drops out from illness and a new President comes in who will abandon putting such pressure on the Russians... thus possibly averting a nuclear war, all out. p. 4. Very interesting. After the first three incredible failures... there is a fourth. But NASA and the govt. covers up, so that the American people will not know. To make matters worse for NASA's space work... the Centaur rocket, key shuttle satellite rocket, is now on freeze. p. 5: illustrates how completely NASA has been wrecked and paralyzed by my UFOs! p. 6: "Two "abnormal" surges of power occurred in the electrical system of a Delta rocket's main engine just before the spacecraft lost power..." Then: "We feel this is quite a significant find, said William Russell, NASA's Delta project manager." Then: "The Delta, which was considered one of the more dependable rockets === Page 5 of 49 3 in NASA's inventory, now has been sidelined indefinitely. A similar suspension of Atlas-Centaur flights, if it is ordered, would bring a total halt to the launching of military and civilian satellites. (Then came the Centaur failure, covered up...and this has now come about...) Remember...the only difference between my knocking out the power in five States (while I was in Philadelphia...it's in your files) and paralyzing NASA...is in mass. Little effect or big effect...it makes no difference to me and my UFOs. The same amount of power is employed, and techniques. p. 9: It is brought out that the U.S. wishes to place nuclear rockets in space. This is one reason...my UFOs have determined to stop humans from space work. p. 10: to add to NASA's woes, it has now been discovered that NASA has wasted billions and billions of dollars. This is a good time to bring up Chernobyl. You probably have not connected that nuclear accident with the woes of NASA. On p. 10: "The accident developed in an unusual way, not as scientific knowledge would have predicted." Then, further: "Circumstances are changing because of Chernobyl." Yes, absolutely. By paralyzing NASA, the UFOs probably have moved the "nuclear clock" back from 2-minutes-until-12 to 11:30, PERHAPS EVEN 11. Simply because Russia now does not feel as threatened or pressured and thus is much much less likely to pull the nuclear trigger against us. And if that accident at Chernobyl did not develop as scientific knowledge would have predicted; in an unusual way...that is the same thing that has just stricken NASA, is it not? Of course, and I will tell you why. As I have previously pointed out, it was necessary for me to go to Hong Kong...to enable my UFOs to operate in Russia and China to try to prevent a nuclear way. That is just what they have done, with the Chernobyl action. The nuclear accident brought the Russians, and many many other countries, back to their senses...because it scared the dickens out of them. Before Chernobyl, these countries had no PERSPECTIVE AGAINST which to measure a nuclear war. After Chernobyl, now, they have that perspective. Thus an all-out nuclear war now is much, much less probable than before Chernobyl. My UFOs have done well. Chernobyl gave the entire world, on a relatively tiny scale, an idea of what a real nuclear war would be like...and now the entire world, HAS BEEN SHOCKED BY what they have seen on TV; and IT HAS learned. I say, thank God for Chernobyl. Even more than all of that...Chernobyl brought Russia out of its shell. See p. 13. Russia appealed to European nations for food. Actually asked for help from its neighbors. That...is a new Russia. Add to all of that...the Chernobyl accident has cost Russia billions and billions of dollars...which will bring Russia to a screeching halt in its military buildup and help for foreign terrorist forces. p. 15 points out that astronauts...with priceless training for space work...are leaving NASA. You can be sure that there will be more. And it takes a lot of time to train new astronauts. My UFOs are buying time, against war in space and war on Earth. p. 18: Recently there have been two 7 on the Richter earthquakes. One in Mexico City and one around Alaska. My UFOs have warned that they will cause an 8 to 10 on the Richter in California unless their Base is forthcoming soon. So, you can expect it, since nothing is happening at this end, from the govt. ALSO, MY UFOs ARE GREATLY "ANGERED" (IN THEIR OWN WAY) BECAUSE THE BOOK ABOUT THEIR WORK AND MINE (BY DR. MISHLOWE AND D. SCOTT ROGO) HAS NOT BEEN PUBLISHED. THIS WILL ADD TO THEIR EARTHQUAKE MOTIVATION. === Page 6 of 49 4 Now we are getting into the area of the Sun Attack from the UFOs. p. 20. The "bad squirrel" report emphasizes the effect upon animals that the Sun Attack is having. Therefore we can also assume that it is having a like effect upon humans. As we proceed through these pages you can see the record of tornado attacks; freak storms; record cold; record heat...and so on. (PLUS VOLCANIC UPHEAVALS). In closing...I would personally strongly recommend that the UFO base be provided...soon. Ted Owens (PK Man) (Drawing of a circle with a horizontal line through it) 4 PS... haven't the funds now to xerox this for all contacts then mail out ($100) so will have to wait a week until I can get some money to do it -- then THE $100 WILL have to come out of the family's sparse food money. PPS See p. 3 re "mysterious electrical surges" re Delta socket. Then today, later, Gorbachev said from Russia that the nuclear plant at Chernobyl blew up because of "an abnormal surge of power." Any Questions? The shuttle Challenger also was struck by wind shear or some kind of power that caused its destruction. The unknown force speeded it up tremendously then it slowed down tremendously -- and the damage was done. === Page 7 of 49 6C OCALA ★ STAR-BANNER, WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1986 # Fletcher Confirmed To Take Over Ailing Space Agency UFOs vs Space Works 5/7/86 WASHINGTON (AP) -- James C. Fletcher is taking over NASA at a time when the space agency is grounded, in low esteem, and uncertain about how to soar again. He returns to the job he held from 1971 to 1977 with an 89-9 vote of confidence from the Senate, but also with carping from one senator that "he is a NASA retread who ... is not the man for this job." Fletcher, who was confirmed Tuesday but has no swearing-in date yet, takes over from William Graham, acting administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, while the United States finds itself with little capability to launch anything other than weapons of war. Space shuttles Columbia, Discovery and Atlantis are locked in hangars awaiting fixes made necessary by Challenger's Jan. 28 destruction. Their next flight, by all estimates, is more than a year off. A Delta rocket, the workhorse of America's expendable rocket stable, exploded last Saturday shortly after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, Fla., while attempting to carry a vital $57.5 million weather satellite into orbit. Three remaining Deltas in the inventory won't be used until the cause of Saturday's failure is found. The Delta was the third straight space launch failure. The Air Force lost a Titan 34D, carrying a $500 million Big Bird spy satellite, on April 18 after it exploded on liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Future Titan rocket launches also are on hold for an investigation. The only other NASA vehicle capable of lifting payloads into orbit, the Atlas-Centaur, was scheduled for launch from Florida on May 22, carrying a Navy communications satellite. But because its engines are manufactured by the same company as Delta's, the Atlas-Centaur may be put on hold. NASA's remaining launch vehicle, the Scout, is a slender rocket used for very light payloads. In the debate that preceded Fletcher's confirmation, Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wis., said the 66-year-old space executive had shown an unwillingness in his previous stint as administrator to face up to the shuttle's serious difficulties. "Dr. Fletcher, for all his sterling qualities, is, quite simply, a NASA retread," Proxmire said. "He is not the man for this job." Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., praised Fletcher as just what the doctor ordered, prompting Sen. Thomas Eagleton, D-Mo., to say: "If we want to continue the malpractices of the past, then Dr. Fletcher is our man. His nostrums and his pills will mean more of the same -- and more trouble in the future for NASA." Sen. Paul Simon, D-Ill., who also opposed Fletcher, said "NASA needs a chief with a critical eye, not a chief who was part of any of the decisions of the past." People within NASA and without are puzzled by the recent problems with space launches. "The odds of having three different launch vehicles made by three different prime contractors and three different launch crews fail, and all of this happening at the same time -- it's incredible that could happen," said Rep. Don Fuqua, D-Fla., chairman of the House Science and Technology Committee. "There's clearly something in the air that's causing these failures," says Marcia Smith, president of the American Astronautical Society. "It's not just NASA, the Air Force is not so lucky either." A space jinx? "This whole sequence of events -- the launch failures, Chernobyl, Willie Shoemaker winning the Kentucky Derby -- gives new meaning to the word unbelievable," she said. === Page 8 of 49 # Electrical surges are blamed for Delta rocket loss ## NASA: All launchers off line By PHIL LONG Herald Staff Writer CAPE CANAVERAL -- Two flickering electrical shorts may have shut down critical fuel valves, killing the main engines and triggering the fiery destruction of a Delta rocket that exploded miles above Cape Canaveral last weekend, NASA investigators said Monday. The announcement of what is beginning to look more and more like an equipment failure forced NASA to ground all its Delta and Atlas Centaur rockets pending an investigation, effectively crippling the nation's ability to lift commercial, military and scientific satellites into orbit at least for the near future. The Titan, the only other launcher, was grounded after one blew up on liftoff in California last month. And, in a further blow to NASA's prestige and morale, Monday's press conference to discuss a spectacular failure came on the very day the space agency had set aside to celebrate the 25th anniversary of America's first manned space flight. The day began with 250 past and present NASA engineers, some wiping tears from their eyes, gathering for a quiet but emotional ceremony at the base of a model of the 83-foot-tall black-and-white Redstone missile that Alan Shepard rode into orbit at 9:34 a.m., May 5, 1961, in his windowless Freedom 7 capsule. "We like to think that we are infallible. But we are not. We proved that Jan. 28 and underscored it last Saturday," shuttle astronaut Robert Crippen said as the gusty wind off the nearby Atlantic sent his dark red tie flapping across the right shoulder of his Navy blue blazer. The destruction of the Delta rocket, workhorse of NASA's dwindling fleet, left the agency hustling to explain three disasters in a row. It began with the latest one. Two mysterious electrical surges, each lasting less than a quarter of a second, were followed by two significant voltage drops that occurred between 70 and 71 seconds after liftoff, Delta project manager William Russell explained at a press conference. "If you don't have voltage ... there is nothing to hold the two main fuel valves open. When they close, there is no more fuel," said Russell. Now the probe is focusing on what could have caused the electrical failure. Faulty wiring, improper grounding and damage during liftoff are possibilities, investigators say. Sabotage has still not been ruled out, but in light of the discovery of the short, "outside interference" and other subtle possibilities are being downplayed, NASA officials said. But as a result of Monday's revelation, this month's Atlas Centaur launch of an Air Force satellite has been postponed, as have all future Delta rocket launches. Both the Atlas and the other Deltas have nearly identical Rocketdyne engines. The next Delta launch was scheduled for this fall and was to have carried a weather satellite nearly identical to the $57.5-million GOES-G satellite that was destroyed during Saturday's aborted launch. The GOES satellite would have given South Florida weather forecasters a much better look at the eastern Atlantic where hurricanes are born. When the Delta's main engines shut down, the missile spiraled out of control, Russell said. It catapulted through the air, tumbling wildly nine miles above the Atlantic for about 20 seconds before it was destroyed by a built-in self-destruct system. "Of course what we want to know is what caused the shorts," said Lawrence J. Ross, chairman of an eight-member investigation board probing the cause of the Saturday night failure of Delta 178. Monday's announcement put a damper on festivities planned to celebrate Shepard's first ride into space. The spectators, including John and Emily Snipes of Sebastian, were all involved in Shepard's historic 15-minute suborbital sojourn. Snipes, now retired, once helped install the igniter that sets off the rocket, the explosive bolts that separated the three stages of the rocket and the explosive charges that would have propelled Shepard to safety in the event of an accident on the launch pad. "People have become complacent about the space program," Snipes said. Twenty-five years ago, the mood was one of concern because of the unknown," said Marion Edwards, a telemetry expert on the Shepard flight and now a space station planner for NASA. As failures diminished and success became the norm, Edwards said, the mood became "confidence." "Now what has happened makes you realize that it will always be dangerous," Edwards said. === Page 9 of 49 UFO on Space Work 5/6/86 St. Pete Times # No perfection in space "This has been a very uncanny, strange series of events." So did Donald T. Regan, the White House chief of staff, attempt to summarize the three consecutive failures that have befallen the U.S. space program. To put that another way, is somebody trying to tell us something? The space shuttle disaster could be attributed to negligence and overconfidence in the use of new technology. But not the loss of a Titan or a Delta, which were among the oldest and most reliable of U.S. launch vehicles. Barring sabotage, NASA seems finally to have been caught by the law of averages. Everything fails sooner or later, whether it's a $30-million rocket or the family car. The tangible loss this time is limited to the rocket and its payload, a $57.5-million weather satellite, which is affordable. But what if the loss consisted of New York, Washington or St. Petersburg? Such is the inherent risk in President Reagan's Star Wars defense scheme, and it is not affordable. Star Wars presupposes an exotic array of defensive weapons and computer technology that could never be tested under combat conditions and which would have to work perfectly the first time. If we can't count on perfect Delta and Titan launches every time, the technological premise behind Star Wars is plainly preposterous. The political justification is equally flawed. For four decades, global nuclear war has been deterred by the knowledge that the United States and the Soviet Union have the power to destroy each other in retaliation. This works so long as neither side fears the other has acquired enough strength to strike first and survive the consequences. As offensive weapons become more powerful, more accurate and more numerous, the respective heads of state come under increasing pressure to shoot first in a crisis. The Star Wars scheme increases that danger. In Soviet eyes, the existence of a U.S. space defense system would tempt some future American president to run the risk of starting -- or at least threatening -- a nuclear war. Mr. Reagan says that's not the purpose at all, but even he concedes that the Soviets would have to do something in response. He assumes that they would simply build their own space defense system. Few if any U.S. defense officials share his optimism. The Soviets have no incentive to invest in new technology that is costly, exorbitantly expensive, untested and in many major respects uninvented. They could defeat Star Wars simply by building more offensive missiles, which is something they already know how to do very well, and by surrounding this country with submarines carrying cruise missiles, which Star Wars is not designed to intercept. Which is easier and cheaper? A globe-girdling network of space satellites bearing reflecting mirrors, directed-energy weapons and nuclear reactors? Or a few hundred more ICBMs with multiple warheads? The smoke clouds over Vandenberg Air Force Base and Cape Canaveral suggest the folly of relying on technology at the expense of arms control. By delaying the further testing of much of the Star Wars technology, they also give the Congress and the American people some more time to think about the brink where Mr. Reagan's unbounded faith in technology could be leading them. NASA BUDGET WASTE SHUTTLE TITAN "HEY, LOOK--WE GOT SOMETHING INTO ORBIT!" === Page 10 of 49 UFOs vs Space Work # U.S. Rocket Failed In April, Reports Say WASHINGTON (AP) - A NASA research rocket that had flown successfully 120 consecutive times misfired over the New Mexico desert two weeks ago - the fourth U.S. space launch vehicle to fail this year. The government, whose space program is under pressure because of the explosions of recent explosions of the much larger Titan and Delta rockets and the space shuttle, did not announce the April 25 failure of a Nike Orion rocket carrying a pollution-sampling device. In response to questions from The Associated Press on Friday, the malfunction was described by Debbie Bingham, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Army Missile Range in White Sands, N.M., and by Dr. Edward C. Zipf, a geophysicist of the University of Pittsburgh, who was conducting the experiment for NASA. "This was very rare. I think this particular series of rockets, the so-called Orion family, had flown 120 times and this was the first failure," Zipf said in a telephone interview. "This system of rockets has been flying for about six or seven years." The Nike rocket dates back to the early 1950s when it was developed as a ground-based missile against aircraft. It was used in different military versions until the last one was retired last year from Nike Hercules batteries in Europe. NASA has been using the surplus, solid-fuel Nike booster in combination with another solid-fuel, military surplus rocket, the Orion. In the configuration that failed last month, the rocket and payload combination was 30 feet long. # Fourth NASA rocket fails in launch try last month This time it was a Nike Orion that exploded. UFOs vs Space Work 5/10/86 Tribune Wires WASHINGTON - A NASA research rocket that had flown successfully 120 consecutive times misfired over the New Mexico desert two weeks ago - the fourth U.S. space launch vehicle to fail this year. The government, whose space program is under pressure because of the recent explosions of the much larger Titan and Delta rockets and the space shuttle, did not announce the April 25 failure of a Nike Orion rocket carrying a pollution-sampling device. At Cape Canaveral, meanwhile, engineers are investigating whether a design decision approved by NASA 12 years ago may have doomed the Delta rocket that became the nation's third 1985 space accident last Saturday, agency officials said Friday. The Nike-Orion malfunction was described by Debbie Bingham, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Army Missile Range in White Sands, N.M., and by Dr. Edward C. Zipf, a geophysicist. 1986!! See ROCKET, Page 6A UFOs vs Space Work # Safety, cost problems threaten Centaur rocket CAPE CANAVERAL (UPI) - Serious safety concerns and ballooning cost overruns threaten the future of a key shuttle satellite rocket, which could further hamper America's ability to launch heavy payloads, an aerospace magazine reported Friday. Citing internal NASA documents, Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine reported portions of the Centaur rocket program have been put on hold by NASA pending extensive reviews and a decision on "whether to proceed with or cancel the $1 billion effort." The rocket, built by General Dynamics Convair division, is crucial to NASA's plans to launch three interplanetary probes, one of them built by the European Space Agency, and at least six military spacecraft through the end of the decade. Unlike previous shuttle satellite rockets, Centaur is the first such booster designed to be carried in the shuttle's payload bay that burns explosive liquid hydrogen fuel. That greatly complicates engineering for flight safety and NASA estimates that $160 million to $180 million would be required to correct Centaur safety issues. Before the Challenger disaster Jan. 28, the first Centaur had been scheduled for launch May 20 to carry the Galileo probe to Jupiter. The flight now is on hold indefinitely. 4 1/2 === Page 11 of 49 # America's crippled space fleet The U.S. uses four types of missiles to put payloads in orbit. Three have failed this year and have been grounded. Here is a breakdown of the missile types and the missions that had been planned for them this year. 170 ft. 160 140 120 125.8 ft. 100 113 ft. 115 ft. 80 60 40 20 0 | Titan 34-D | Shuttle | Atlas-Centaur | Delta | |---|---|---|---| | Flight status: Grounded | Flight status: Grounded | Flight status: Uncertain | Flight status: Grounded | | Vehicles left: 7 | Vehicles left: 3* | Vehicles left: 3 | Vehicles left: 3 | | Launches planned for rest of '86: Secret | Launches planned for rest of '86: 13 | Launches planned for rest of '86: 2 | Launches planned for rest of '86: 2 | | Payloads delayed: Secret | Payloads delayed: 3 communication satellites, 7 science experiments, 4 military missions | Payloads delayed: 2 communications satellites | Payloads delayed: 1 weather satellite, 1 military mission | | | * reuseable | | | St. Petersburg Times -- FRANK PETERS ### Launch switched from NASA LOS ANGELES -- A Japanese communications satellite due to be launched next year by a U.S. space shuttle will instead be carried into space aboard a European Ariane rocket in 1988, said the Japanese Communications Satellite Company. The switch was made because of the grounding of the shuttle fleet following the Challenger disaster, the owners said Thursday. Trib 5/9/86 === Page 12 of 49 # NASA postpones rocket launch CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) -- NASA on Wednesday postponed the May 22 liftoff of an Atlas-Centaur rocket for about four weeks, leaving the United States with no heavy satellite launch capability for that period. The nation's other three vehicles capable of carrying large satellites have suffered failures in the last three months and are grounded for periods up to a year or more. They are the space shuttle, halted by the Jan. 28 Challenger explosion; the Air Force Titan 34D, which exploded April 18 seconds after lifting off from a California base with a military spy satellite, and NASA's Delta, which was destroyed Saturday night while hoisting a weather satellite from Cape Canaveral. The Atlas-Centaur is to lift a military communications satellite into orbit. The Atlas first stage has an engine similar to the Delta main engine that failed Saturday, and the space agency said it wants to learn more about what happened to the Delta before it commits the Atlas-Centaur to flight. "The delay will provide time to review the manufacture, handling, transportation and assembly history of the Atlas-Centaur vehicle and its spacecraft to ensure that all items critical to a successful launch have been thoroughly analyzed," a NASA statement said. The Atlas-Centaur, like the Delta, is a workhorse of the NASA fleet, and has logged 59 successes in 65 launches. The Delta has recorded 167 successes in 178 flights, and had run off a string of 43 straight successes before Saturday's failure. Lawrence J. Ross, head of an eight-member panel investigating the Delta accident, reported Monday that the failure appeared to have been an electrical short circuit that shut off the engine. All Deltas have been grounded for at least six months while the failure is analyzed. The shuttle disaster that killed seven astronauts was triggered by a faulty joint that spewed flame from the right solid-fuel booster rocket. The exact cause of the failure has not been pinpointed, but a presidential commission investigating the accident is expected to recommend a complete redesign of the joint when it submits its report early next month. The Titan 34D explosion also was caused by a problem with a solid fuel booster rocket, possibly a burn-through of the rocket casing. The shuttle is not expected to fly again for at least a year, and the Air Force does not expect to launch another Titan 34D for at least six months. The groundings could be especially crippling if critical military surveillance satellites now in orbit should fail. They are large and can be lifted by only the shuttle or the Titan 34D. The only non-grounded American rockets now capable of lifting satellites are the Scout and Atlas-H, and they hoist only small payloads. # Short circuit possible cause of Delta failure By JON NORDHEIMER © New York Times CAPE CANAVERAL -- Two abnormal surges of power occurred in the electrical system of a Delta rocket's main engine just before the spacecraft lost power after launching Saturday, officials said Monday. The evidence of a short circuit in the system could explain the premature shutdown of the rocket's main engine, which sent the vehicle spinning out of control until it was destroyed by a command signal from the ground, the officials said. The electrical system used in the rocket has not been modified since 1960, but the officials said there had been no previous reported cases of power surges. "We feel this is quite a significant find," said William Russell, NASA's Delta project manager. He said an official board of investigation named Sunday to find the cause of the loss of the rocket and its $57.5-million weather satellite payload still had not analyzed all the data and had not ruled out any possible cause for the accident, including sabotage. Lawrence J. Ross, head of the investigation board, said the Delta loss created "a high probability" that NASA would postpone the scheduled May 22 launching of an Atlas-Centaur rocket that was to place a military satellite in orbit. The American space program has sustained three consecutive failed launchings this year, and four since August. On Jan. 28 the space shuttle Challenger exploded, killing the crew and forcing a suspension of flights until at least 1987. Last month an Air Force Titan rocket carrying a classified payload, believed to be a spy satellite, exploded after liftoff in California. Another Titan rocket also believed to be carrying a spy satellite exploded in August. Technicians reported all systems in the Delta rocket were operating normally until 71 seconds after liftoff, Russell said. "Everything was markedly normal -- just like clockwork," he said. Within the next second, however, a sequence was recorded that showed two abnormal surges of amplitude on the rocket's battery currents, he said. Russell compared the malfunction to "an electrical wire, with the insulation off, drawing a spark." This was followed by the immediate shutdown of the craft's main engine. He said the two electrical "spikes" could have reduced voltage from batteries aboard the rocket to a point where an automatic system would shut down the rocket's first-stage engine. Russell said that the problem could have been caused by a number of defects, such as faulty wiring or a loose piece of material coming in contact with the electrical system during the ascent of the rocket. In a related matter, the Senate debated the nomination of James Fletcher to a second stint as head of NASA on Monday, but delayed a vote until today. -- Information from AP was used in this report. === Page 13 of 49 NASA Panel Probing UFOs vs Space Work 5/5/86 Rocket Failure CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) -- A NASA panel is looking into the failure 71 seconds after blastoff of a Delta rocket's main engine, while officials assess how the unmanned launcher's destruction will affect the space program. Acting NASA Administrator William Graham spent Sunday at Kennedy Space Center conferring with center Director Richard G. Smith and managers of the Delta project to "discuss the options for the immediate future," according to a space agency source who spoke on condition of anonymity. Neither Graham nor Smith would discuss what steps may result from the third major launch failure this year. Distinctly different spacecraft were involved in the three disasters, which included the space shuttle Challenger, in which seven astronauts died on Jan. 28, and an unmanned Air Force Titan 34D on April 18 in California. Richard G. Truly, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's associate administrator for space flight, announced the appointment of an eight-member investigative panel, headed by Lawrence J. Ross of the Lewis Research Center in Cleveland. The panel's mission is to find the cause of the failure of Saturday's Delta-178 mission and recommend corrective action by July 2. The NASA group helping the presidential commission with its study of the Challenger accident will assist the new panel, Truly said. A NASA statement said the Delta flight, carrying the $57.5 million Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-7), ended just over a minute after a normal liftoff at 6:18 p.m. "At about 71 seconds into the flight, the mission was See NASA Looks on page 8A UFOs vs Space Work Short circuit probed in Delta rocket failure Trib 5/6/86 The incident clouds the future of U.S. satellite launches. Tribune Wires CAPE CANAVERAL -- Two flickering electrical shorts may have shut down critical fuel valves, killing the main engines and triggering the fiery destruction of a Delta rocket that exploded miles above Cape Canaveral last weekend, NASA investigators said Monday. The announcement of what is beginning to look like an equipment failure forced the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to ground all of its Delta and Atlas Centaur rockets pending an investigation. The move effectively cripples the nation's ability to lift commercial, military and scientific satellites into orbit at least for the near future. The Titan, the only other launcher, was grounded after one blew up on liftoff in California last month. The destruction of the Delta rocket, workhorse of NASA's dwindling fleet, left the agency hustling to explain three consecutive disasters. It began with the latest one. Two mysterious electrical surges, each lasting less than a quarter of a second, were followed by two significant voltage drops that occurred between 70 and 71 seconds after liftoff, Delta project manager William Russell said at a press conference. "If you don't have voltage ... there is nothing to hold the two main fuel valves open. When they close, there is no more fuel," said Russell. Now the probe is focusing on what could have caused the electrical failure. Faulty wiring, improper grounding and damage during liftoff are possibilities, investigators say. See ROCKET, Page 4A Rocket From Page 1A 5/6/86 Sabotage has not been ruled out, but in light of the discovery of the short, "outside interference" ... and other subtle possibilities" are being downplayed, NASA officials said. As a result of Monday's revelation, this month's Atlas Centaur launch of an Air Force satellite has been postponed, as have all future Delta rocket launches. Both the Atlas and the other Deltas have nearly identical Rocketdyne engines. The next Delta launch had been scheduled for this fall and was to have carried a weather satellite nearly identical to the $57.5-million GOES-7 satellite that was destroyed during Saturday's aborted launch. The GOES satellite would have given weather forecasters a much better look at the eastern Atlantic where hurricanes are born. When the Delta's main engines shut down, the missile spiraled out of control, Russell said. It catapulted through the air, tumbling wildly nine miles above the Atlantic for about 20 seconds before it was destroyed by a built-in self-destruct system. "Of course, what we want to know is what caused the shorts," said Lawrence J. Ross, chairman of an investigation board probing the cause of the Saturday night failure of Delta 178. The loss of the Delta and its weather satellite was the third setback for the nation's space program this year. The first was the Jan. 28 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, which killed its crew of seven. In February, the Air Force successfully launched an Atlas missile with a secret payload from Vandenburg Air Force Base in California. But three weeks ago, the Air Force lost a secret spy satellite when a Titan rocket blew up just after blastoff. === Page 14 of 49 # NASA panel to probe failure of Delta rocket Safety officers blew up the rocket when the main engine shut down shortly after launch. The rocket was carrying a weather satellite. CAPE CANAVERAL (UPI) -- An eight-member panel was named Sunday to investigate the flaming destruction of a Delta rocket as engineers groped for clues to what caused America's third crushing space failure this year. Rear Adm. Richard Truly, NASA's associate administrator for space flight, said the board was instructed to present its findings on the cause of the disaster "not later than July 2." Delta No. 178 was blown up by Air Force safety officers 91 seconds after blastoff Saturday, 20 seconds after its first-stage main engine suddenly shut down prematurely for unknown reasons, throwing the rocket into a destructive high-speed tumble. Space agency officials said no clear failure point has emerged from early analysis of the telemetry beamed down from the rocket before it careened out of control and even sabotage has not been ruled out. "At this point, nothing has jumped out of the data to say ah ha, here is exactly what happened and here is the cause," said NASA spokesman Hugh Harris. As for the possibility of sabotage, Harris said, "You cannot rule out anything. However, nobody has indicated any reason to think that was likely." The failure, coupled with the Challenger disaster Jan. 28 and the explosion of an Air Force Titan 34D on April 18, has crippled America's ability to launch military and civilian payloads into space. A military Atlas rocket launched Feb. 9 marks the nation's only space success since Challenger exploded. Acting NASA Administrator William Graham flew to the Kennedy Space Center at 3 a.m. EDT Sunday for briefings on the progress of the investigation and Truly set up the investigation board. Lawrence Ross, director of space flight systems at NASA's Lewis Research Center, flew to Florida Sunday to chair the panel. Seven of its members are space agency engineers and one is director of the Air Force Rocket Propulsion Laboratory. None of the board members had any connection with the Delta launch. "The board will investigate and recommend corrective action for the Delta 178 flight failure and will report its findings and recommendations not later than July 2, 1986," a NASA statement said. A swift investigation is important to NASA because the next Delta is scheduled for blastoff Aug. 14 to carry a classified Star Wars payload into orbit. The shuttle, Delta and Titan programs are all grounded for investigations. Only the unmanned Atlas Centaur remains in NASA's inventory and just three of those venerable rockets are left, the result of decisions years ago to make the shuttle America's primary satellite launcher. The next Atlas Centaur is scheduled for launch May 22 and countdown clocks at the Kennedy Space Center were dutifully ticking toward zero Sunday but the blastoff could be delayed as a result of the Delta failure. Delta No. 178 took off at 6:18 p.m. EDT Saturday in what appeared to be a routine launching. The previous 43 Deltas in a row were successful and the program overall had suffered only 11 failures in 177 flights for a 94 percent success record. But the rocket's first stage engine, built by Rocketdyne, suddenly shut down 71 seconds after launch. The engine's nozzle is used to steer the spacecraft and with the shutdown, the speeding rocket was unable to stay on course. Tracking cameras showed the 116-foot-tall rocket's nose drift off course and aerodynamic pressure shattered the protective fairing around the GOES-7 weather satellite at the tip of the spacecraft as it began swapping ends, tumbling violently out of control. Twenty seconds after the shutdown, Air Force safety officers sent radio self-destruct commands to destroy the rocket, a standard procedure to ensure out-of-control rockets do not make it back to populated areas. Lost along with the $42 million rocket was the $57.5 million GOES-7 weather satellite that was to provide television monitoring of hurricanes and storms in the Atlantic Ocean. Launch director Charles Gay said he had no idea what caused the failure and all data beamed down from the rocket before it broke apart indicated the first stage engine and its solid-fuel boosters were operating properly. The failure has heightened the quandary faced by the nation's military and civilian space programs. Only three Delta rockets remain on the books. Two more are scheduled for launch in 1986 to carry another GOES weather satellite into orbit and to ferry a Star Wars payload into space. The final NASA Delta launch is set for August 1987 to launch another Strategic Defense Initiative payload. The McDonnell Douglas production line is closed and there are currently no orders for additional rockets. Even if new orders come in, the company estimates it would take 17 months to build the first one. Likewise, the agency's Atlas Centaur program is scheduled to come to an end in early 1987 after three more flights, each to launch Navy... # Pioneer Expects NASA Rebound By HOWARD BENEDICT AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL -- The U.S. space program is in disarray, grounded for at least a year because of the Challenger disaster, with NASA struggling to put the pieces back together. But 25 years ago today, the nation's spirits soared as the first American rocketed across the threshold of space. On May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr., a 37-year-old native of New Hampshire, rode a Redstone rocket and his Freedom 7 Mercury capsule on a 15-minute, 302-mile lob down the Atlantic Missile Range. By current standards, it wasn't much of a show. Back then, it was spectacular. That brief suborbital mission thrust the United States into a space race, a competition until then dominated by the Soviet Union. It opened the gateway to out there and the many remarkable Shepard poses in his office with model of Mercury capsule. === Page 15 of 49 UFOs in Space Work Official: U.S. exploded reactor Trib 5/8/86 LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A small U.S. nuclear reactor was allowed to explode in 1965 as part of a test of what would happen during a runaway chain reaction, according to a scientist involved in the experiment. Fallout was measured at non-dangerous levels in three Southern California communities 200 to 250 miles from the blast, but very little was found nearby, radiation biologist Stewart Black told The Los Angeles Times in an interview published today. Black, chief of the dose assessment branch of the Environmental Protection Agency's Environmental Monitoring Systems Laboratory in Las Vegas, Nev., was with the U.S. Public Health Service at the time. The experiment showed that in an accident like the one in the Soviet Union, radioactive fallout can be carried far from the site while nearby areas are spared, Stewart said. Discovery of small amounts of radiation in milk from cows fed hay left near the test explosion showed such an accident can release radiation that travels up the food chain, he said. The test in January 1965 at Jackass Flats, northwest of Las Vegas, was part of a program by the old Atomic Energy Commission to develop nuclear rockets for use in space, an idea abandoned in the 1970s. (Sure it was!) # Shepard Predicts NASA Will Rebound 5/5/86 Continued from page 1A things that have happened since: Moon landings, space walks, orbiting stations and reuseable spaceships. Last Jan. 28, another 37-year-old native of New Hampshire, schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe, had her eyes fixed on the stars as the first ordinary citizen selected for space flight. Her dream was shattered when the space shuttle Challenger blew apart 73 seconds after launching, killing her and her six crewmates. And on Saturday, an unmanned Delta rocket, carrying a weather satellite, went out of control and was destroyed from the ground shortly after launch. The rocket was destroyed after its main engine shut down, leaving it without guidance and careening out of control. The cause was under investigation. Shepard, who has maintained close contacts with old friends in NASA and the astronaut corps, called the shuttle explosion a severe setback to the U.S. effort. "It was a terrible thing," he said. "It's going to be a long, tough process for NASA to recover. Even if the engineers find an obvious fault rather quickly, everyone will have to go through all the systems all over again to make certain everything is right before flying again." The former astronaut, now a millionaire Houston businessman, reflected in an interview with The Associated Press on his pathfinding flight, his battle back from medical oblivion to earn a trip to the moon and his hopes for the shuttle and the future of space flight. He might have been the first human in space if a chimpanzee named Ham had not overshot his Atlantic Ocean target by 112 miles because of a faulty electrical relay. Ham's journey, in January 1961, was a dress rehearsal for Shepard's flight, which had been set for March. NASA decided to launch another Mercury capsule, unmanned, to check its systems and put Shepard's flight off until May. Russia's Yuri Gagarin beat him into space on April 12. UFOs in Space Work Rocket ordered recovered Trib 5/7/86 CAPE CANAVERAL -- NASA on Tuesday ordered shuttle salvage crews at work off shore to attempt recovery of the first stage engine of a Delta rocket that exploded Saturday to help investigators pin down what went wrong. Lawrence Ross, chairman of the Delta accident investigation, said Monday engineers believe a short circuit in the electronic system that controlled the first stage engine may have caused the premature cut off. 5/5/86 # NASA Looks Into Failure Of Rocket Continued from page 1A proceeding normally when ... the first-stage engine shut down abruptly. With loss of thrust and attitude control, the vehicle entered a tumble and approximately 20 seconds later, the range safety office sent a destruct signal to destroy the system," the statement said. NASA officials refused to answer all queries as to whether preliminary studies of launch control data indicated what might have caused the main engine to quit suddenly. The shutdown sent the $30 million rocket shuddering out of control so violently that the nose containing the GOES satellite broke off before the destruct signal "finished the job," in the words of Delta project manager Bill Russell. A team from the Los Angeles-based Rocketdyne, a division of North American Rockwell, is also in Florida investigating the incident. The company builds engines for the Delta. Russell and Air Force Col. Albert Thomas, deputy commander of the Eastern Space and Missile Command, said shortly after the accident that they could not speculate about questions of possible sabotage raised by reporters. Asked about the possibility of a spurious shutdown command, possibly from a ship, Russell would say only that "it did not appear to have come from the command procedure" at launch control. But he added that investigators would "look at our internal electrical systems" to see if a shutdown command could have gone up to the rocket accidentally. "We don't think so," he said. NASA sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the Delta investigation would postpone a May 22 Atlas-Centaur mission to put a Navy communications satellite into orbit. Also jeopardized, depending on the findings, was an Aug. 14 Delta flight for the Defense Department and a Delta flight Oct. 9 to take up another weather satellite. Gerald Longanecker, manager of NASA's meteorological satellite program, said the GOES satellites are vital to the nation's ability to monitor the weather. Only one is in orbit, and it is approaching the end of its five-year life cycle. (9) === Page 16 of 49 Another Newspaper's View # Foolishly Bringing Back NASA's Spendthrift for an Encore An editorial from The Los Angeles Times: 5/3/86 Nothing succeeds like success, it has been said, which is an accurate description of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration before the Challenger accident three months ago. While it was running up an unparalleled string of breathtaking space spectaculars, few noticed that it was also running up a bill that was padded with waste, fraud and abuse. As detailed in two articles last week in the New York Times, federal auditors throughout the 1970s and '80s told the agency repeatedly that millions of dollars were being wasted, that management controls were inadequate and that NASA contractors made defense contractors look like pikers. Millions of dollars of equipment disappeared. Work was done by contractors before a price was agreed on, and the government then paid what the contractors asked for. Spare parts were bought from subcontractors who bought them from other vendors and then jacked up the price. The Rocketdyne Division of Rockwell International, which makes the shuttle engines, was paid $120 each for bolt assemblies worth $3.28, $315 each for metal loops that cost 3 cents, $80 for $1 washers, $1,621 for a $78 bolt, and on and on. The auditors documented waste of at least $3.5 billion, which the attorney for the space agency's inspector general calls "the tip of the iceberg," adding, "There is probably much more out there." But the agency sloughed it all off. After all, every time it lit up one of the shuttles, the thing took off, didn't it? So what's a little vigorish here and there to assure good contractor relations? One effect of the waste of money was that the space agency tried to economize by cutting back its testing program. It saved $68 million, the auditors found, by not testing the shuttle's solid-fuel booster rockets, the failure of which caused the Challenger disaster. The absence of financial controls at NASA greatly increased the cost of the shuttle program. Congress originally approved it on the strength of the argument that a reusable vehicle would be cheap and that these remarkable spaceplanes would pay for themselves and make money for the government to boot. But the shuttle wound up costing more and flying less than the rosy predictions made to Congress promised. Everyone, including NASA, has known for years that the shuttle will never make a profit. The man who ran NASA from 1971 to 1977, while the shuttle was being developed and the taxpayers were being robbed, was James C. Fletcher. He is the James C. Fletcher who is now being brought back with great fanfare to pick up the space agency's tattered reins. There must be somebody better for the rudderless agency to turn to. Fletcher's nomination is now before the Senate. His previous stewardship should fill all of the senators with misgivings about his ability to straighten things out. International nuclear safety experts said Thursday they expect a renewed drive for worldwide cooperation, including mandatory notification of nuclear emergencies, in light of the Chernobyl disaster and its far-reaching radioactive cloud. "Circumstances are changing because of Chernobyl," said Allan Mendelowitz, author of a General Accounting Office study on international nuclear safety. "It's a propitious time to raise the issue of a convention again." There is no international agreement governing the reporting of nuclear accidents now. Lyashko's statements seemed to contradict those of Deputy Soviet Premier Boris Y. Shcherbina, who said Tuesday that the government inquiry he heads arrived at the scene within hours of the initial explosion. Shcherbina said workers at the plant initially underestimated the scope of the accident. Asked about delays in evacuation, Lyashko said: "The accident developed in an unusual way, not as scientific knowledge would have predicted. First, there was a small explosion and a small radioactive emission." "The measurements at first showed there was nothing to fear," he added, saying the later decision to clear an 18-mile zone was "insurance." === Page 17 of 49 UFOs vs Space Work THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Wednesday, May 7, 1986 5-, # Study faults NASA maintenance Trib 5/7/86 WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Air Force concluded last fall that the U.S. space agency's ground-support operations for the shuttle fleet were flawed by poor record-keeping, disorganized maintenance work and other shortcomings. The internal study, first disclosed Tuesday by The Washington Post and later released by the Air Force, concluded that the problems would hinder the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's ability to prepare space shuttles for launch. The report also concluded, however, that a "highly ambitious, but sound and workable" plan to correct the problems had been formulated and could be implemented over the next 12 to 18 months. The study was completed last October by the Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Team. The Air Force agreed late Tuesday to release a copy of the study but declined additional comment on its conclusions. The study was performed at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral and circulated primarily to Air Force officials involved in preparing a new military spaceport at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The NASA team that prepares the shuttles for launch from Cape Canaveral will perform similar work at Vandenberg before military space missions. The Air Force study focused on the way NASA was maintaining and repairing the ground equipment that moves, loads, fuels and services the shuttle, not repair work on the shuttles themselves. The study concluded that data systems used to monitor maintenance and repair work on ground-support equipment were "so ineffective and inconsistent" that their use for long-range planning for "equipment update, manpower, spares and funding is not possible." The report also found that workers were taking more time to fix certain problems than they had during the previous year. Release of the Air Force study comes at a time the United States has suffered three catastrophic rocket failures, including the Jan. 28 explosion of the shuttle Challenger and the loss of its seven-member crew. Investigations following that accident have focused in part on time pressures placed on Kennedy Space Center personnel as NASA began to increase the pace of shuttle launches. The Air Force study reinforces those concerns, concluding the ground-support operations initially functioned as well as they did because flights were at least 50 days apart. STAYSKAL 86 TAMPA TRIBUNE UNITED STATES LET'S TRY IT AGAIN! 10... 9... 8... 7... 6... CRITICS BLAME A BREAKDOWN IN QUALITY CONTROL. "NONSENSE!," SAYS NASA. Trib 5/7/86 === Page 18 of 49 Delta Rocket Destroyed After Takeoff UFOs or Space junk 0.SB 5/4/86 CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) -- An unmanned rocket carrying a weather satellite went out of control and was blown up by command from the ground shortly after launch Saturday, the second failure of a U.S. spacecraft since the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. Just over a minute after liftoff, the Delta rocket's main engine shut down, leaving it without guidance and careening out of control at 1,400 mph, said Bill Russell, NASA's Delta manager. Safety officers then sent a destruct command "and finished the job," Russell said at a news conference about an hour after the launch. A fuel leak in the rocket's main engine, which had caused a two-day delay in the liftoff, apparently was not the cause of the trouble, he said. Saturday's launching of the space agency's most used and most dependable rocket took on added significance because of the Jan. 28 space shuttle explosion that killed its seven crew members and the explosion of an Air Force Titan 34D rocket in California on April 18. "We have had a loss of the vehicle. There is a breakup of the vehicle," launch commenter Lisa Malone said as the 116-foot rocket broke apart. The flight appeared normal through the first minute, with the first set of solid rockets being jettisoned at 64 and 65 seconds, Russell said. "We were flying along, and at about 71 seconds the main engine . . . shut down," he said. "It's a very sharp shutdown, almost as though it were a commanded shutdown. Once you lose that, of course, the rocket has no stability control." After the shutdown, the rocket began drifting, creating an angle of attack great enough that the faring, or shield, that covers its nose tore off. See Delta on page 12A AP A Delta 178 rocket is exploded shortly after launch from Complex 17 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. === Page 19 of 49 Soviets appeal to European nations for food Reuters News Service LONDON -- The Soviet Union wants to buy substantial amounts of grain and other foods from the European Community, or EC, to make up for food contaminated by the nuclear reactor accident in the Ukraine, a member of the European Parliament said Thursday. In Brussels, the EC banned imports of East European meat and animals, effectively barring the bulk of products likely to carry radioactive contamination from the Chernobyl nuclear accident. The ban was imposed by the EC Executive Commission while awaiting a decision by the 12 EC governments on a proposed halt to all fresh-food imports from the seven nations believed affected by the Soviet accident -- the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Bulgaria and Romania. A commission spokesman said the meat and animal ban would last through the end of the month. As for the Soviet purchases of EC products and meats, "Information reaching me suggests that the Soviet Union, using diplomatic channels, has approached Brussels with a view to purchasing substantial quantities of surplus community food, including grain, butter, beef and skimmed milk powder," said Richard Cotterill, a British member of the European Parliament. "All these commodities would be purchased far in excess of the relatively modest amounts we have sold to the Soviet Union in recent years," he told the British Broadcasting Corp. The Ukraine is the breadbasket of the Soviet Union. "There's no doubt at all that crops and the cattle have been extensively contaminated by radioactive fallout. This now poses the Russians with a problem which will arise with considerable severity this winter," Cotterill said. He said sales of EC food to Moscow are traditionally handled through food brokers, mainly based in Paris. "I think one of the reasons the Russians have made this unusual approach to the (EC) Commission is to talk about not only payment but also a question of scale, because if substantial quantities of food are going to be shipped eastward across the Iron Curtain there is a transport problem," he added. In Brussels, the commission said it had not been approached directly about urgent supplies from Moscow or from traders who normally handle such approaches. Delta Rocket Destroyed Continued from page 1A There was no indication that a command had been sent to shut down the engines, he said. Preliminary data, such as turbine speed and temperatures in and around the engines, "all appeared to be very normal," Russell said. "The three solid (boosters) were burning very well" after the main engine shut down, he said. The three-stage Delta is assisted into space by nine solid-propellant boosters strapped to its bottom stage. The boosters are similar to those that help power the space shuttle and Titan 34D, but are much smaller and made in one section, rather than segmented like the others. Investigators believe that the Challenger and Titan rocket explosions were caused by failures of joints between segments. Morton Thiokol makes both the solid-fuel boosters used for the shuttle and the Delta. The debris from the rocket landed in the Atlantic about 30 miles off Cape Canaveral, said Air Force Col. Elbert M. Thomas. There were no immediate plans to try to recover the debris, he said. NASA could not immediately say how high the rocket was when it blew up. The last 43 Delta launches, dating to September 1977, had been successful. Earlier Saturday, engineers reported no sign of any further fuel leakage in the rocket's main engine, a condition that resulted in the scrub of the mission three hours before Thursday's scheduled liftoff. The space agency said Thursday's launch would have been postponed even without the Challenger and Titan failures, but extra precautions at the Delta's launch pad and the two-day delay over the main-engine leak indicated the concern that everything go well. Top-level NASA officials had participated in extensive flight-readiness review sessions here and in Washington. === Page 20 of 49 A cloud from exploded missile is seen over Lompoc Valley, Calif. UFO? or Space Trash 0.5B 4/19/86 # Titan Space Rocket Explodes; May Have Carried Spy Satellite VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) -- A Titan rocket believed carrying a top-secret spy satellite exploded in a huge orange cloud seconds after launch Friday, the second such incident in eight months. No injuries were reported and the National Weather Service said there was no danger to civilians because the cloud was floating to sea. Air Force officials would not say exactly what the cloud was. But schoolchildren were told to stay inside, and about 120 oil workers were evacuated from two drilling platforms in the Santa Barbara Channel. The National Park Service ordered the evacuation of rangers, campers and tourists from the offshore Channel Islands National Park. The feared loss of the spy satellite would hamper America's ability to monitor Soviet activities, with only one other such satellite in orbit, experts said. "This will create major problems in the photographic reconnaissance program, in our confidence in monitoring Soviet military activities at a critical time," said Paul Stares, a military space expert at the Brookings Institution in Washington. The rocket, a Titan 34D, exploded after launch from the Western Space and Missile Center, said Maj. Ken St. John. "Damage was confined to the immediate launch area," he said. "A great red-orange puff of smoke came up," said Victor A. Sanchez, who was working nearby. "It shook the whole ground." St. John would not speculate about the booster's payload. An Air Force statement released in Washington said the payload was classified. But it was almost certain the rocket was carrying a refurbished model of the KH-11 photographic reconnaissance satellite or a previously unknown satellite, said Stares and Jeffrey Richelson, a military reconnaissance expert at American University in Washington. The KH-11 believed aboard was intended to be a test model but was refurbished after another Titan blew up after launch at Vandenberg on Aug. 28, destroying a KH-11 and leaving only one of the satellites in orbit, said Richelson and Stares. The loss Friday of another KH-11 would put America's ability to monitor Soviet troop movements, other military activities and compliance with nuclear treaties "in a very precarious position," Richelson said. A newer, more sophisticated spy satellite, the KH-12, is too big to be launched on expendable rockets and can be put into orbit only by a space shuttle, Richelson said. The shuttle program was halted in January after the Challenger exploded, killing seven astronauts. "It would appear that we have at present no means of putting any more photographic reconnaissance satellites into orbit until the shuttle is operating again," Richelson said, adding that the KH-11 in orbit has 1½ years left in its useful lifespan. === Page 21 of 49 # NASA Critical Of Reports UFOs vs Space Work O.SB 4/26/86 The New York Times WASHINGTON -- The space agency asserted Friday that two New York Times articles depicting waste and mismanagement in the space program were "inaccurate" in some respects and gave "a misleading impression" of the agency's performance. The agency did not address the great majority of the specific allegations reported in the articles, which were based on more than 500 government audits and other government documents. But it said the audits were management tools being effectively used to uncover and correct deficiencies. It said the audits had enabled NASA to save almost $750 million over an eight-year period. However, Harry R. Finley, a top official of the General Accounting Office, an investigative arm of Congress that conducted many of the critical audits, said Friday that his agency's findings were portrayed accurately in the articles. He also asserted that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration had not been responsive to auditors' suggestions for managerial improvements. The space agency's first detailed response to the articles came as sentiment rose in Congress to watch the agency more closely to prevent the kind of management defects depicted in the official government audits. The audits identified instances of waste and gave dollar figures that totaled at least $3.5 billion. The audits attributed the waste to bad management. At the same time, the agency cut or delayed $500 million in safety tests and programs, according to the audits. Rep. Manuel J. Luhan of New Mexico, the senior Republican on the House Science and Technology Committee, said Friday that the articles "brought up problems that need investigating by the committee." Aides to Luhan, who is recovering from heart surgery, said he was "very concerned" by allegations of waste and mismanagement raised by the audits. He See NASA on page 8A ## Emergency shuttle launch may be tried Experts say the U.S. is concerned about having only one spy satellite in orbit. UFOs vs Space Work New York Times Trib 4/22/86 VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- The crisis in the nation's ability to launch key reconnaissance satellites has spurred speculation among aerospace experts that the government might attempt an emergency mission of the space shuttle from a new launching facility here. Air Force officials say the $2.8 billion complex is ready to launch a shuttle, even though minor construction remains to be finished. The spaceport's huge concrete and steel structures dominate a brushy, windswept mountainside high above the Pacific Ocean. Quietly under construction since 1979, this Western shuttle site might be called into service because of the explosion here last Friday of a Titan rocket carrying a secret military payload, which was widely believed to be a KH-11 photo reconnaissance satellite. Experts say the spy satellite was to join an aging KH-11 currently in orbit, the nation's last in space. "As long as that's operating, there's no compelling UFOs vs Space Work Trib 4/26/86 ### Report: Titan carried spy satellite WASHINGTON -- The Titan rocket that exploded seconds after launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., on April 18 was carrying an Air Force "Big Bird" reconnaissance satellite, which returns its information by dropping off film pods that are then retrieved by airplanes, Aviation Week and Space Technology said in its April 28 issue. The report also said investigators are trying to determine why one of the rocket boosters exploded. UFOs vs Space Work Trib 4/24/86 ### 24 hurt in chemical explosion WOBURN, Mass. -- Two chemical tanks at CVD Inc., a high-tech space research laboratory, exploded Wednesday, blowing a hole in the roof and releasing noxious but non-toxic hydrogen chloride fumes that sickened at least 24 people. No one was seriously hurt. The blast in the block-long factory building apparently was sparked when a high-pressure hydrogen line ruptured during experiments on mirrors for NASA satellites, setting off the chemical tanks, fire officials said. UFOs vs Space Work ### Astronaut Overmyer Is 2nd To Retire Since Explosion O.SB 4/22/86 Robert F. Overmyer, who flew on two space shuttle missions, including a Spacelab flight, has become the second astronaut to announce retirement plans since the Challenger explosion, NASA officials said. The 49-year-old Marine Corps colonel will retire June 1, John Lawrence, spokesman for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's astronaut office, said Monday. Don L. Lind announced in mid-March that he was retiring as of June. UFOs vs Space Work 4/22/86 Trib ### Veteran astronaut retires SPACE CENTER, Houston -- Col. Robert Overmyer, a veteran astronaut who piloted two space shuttle missions, will retire June 1 from NASA and the Marine Corps, the space agency said Monday. Overmyer, 49, did not give a reason for his decision to retire and did not specify his post-retirement plans, said John Lawrence of Johnson Space Center. Sources have said the astronaut plans to work as a network television consultant. === Page 22 of 49 Charges shock ex-NASA chief UFOs or Space Junk Trib 4/21/86 WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Former NASA chief James Fletcher, nominated to return to the agency's head at the time of its greatest crisis, said Wednesday he was shocked by charges that NASA had wasted billions of dollars over the years. Fletcher also said if his nomination is confirmed by the Senate he will try to put NASA back on course following the Challenger disaster and promised to find the agency's weak spots and make changes to fix them. "We have to get on with the job," he told the Senate Commerce Committee. "We have to get flying again safely. There's no excuse for another accident." Sen. Slade Gorton, R-Wash., opened the late afternoon hearing, saying he was disturbed by a report in Wednesday's New York Times, based on NASA audits, that the space agency had wasted at least $3.5 billion despite repeated warnings by government inspectors. "This article described in frightening detail a litany of practices over a period of many years that gives the appearance of waste, fraud and mismanagement within NASA," Gorton said. "Needless to say, I was a little bit shocked," Fletcher said. "I wasn't sure that (the report) was talking about the same agency that I used to be the administrator of." Fletcher said there "is something" to the auditors' reports, and that the statements were not inaccurate. "I think, however, that a summary of my quick review of it, and checking with the inspector general that wrote some of those reports, I'm under the impression that NASA is still one of the best managed agencies of the federal government." Sen. Albert Gore, D-Tenn., later asked Fletcher if he challenged the figures cited by the newspaper. Fletcher replied he had not had a chance to see "if those numbers are even in the right ball park." "The cumulative impression is not a good one and I'm quite concerned about it," Gore told Fletcher. Fletcher, who served as NASA administrator for six years ending in 1977, was nominated by President Reagan on March 6 to replace James Beggs, who resigned to fight federal fraud charges not related to NASA. As a result of the Challenger explosion, Fletcher said, "We have all suffered a loss of confidence, a disordering of the sense of certainty and purpose and progress which we have all associated with this country's efforts in space." In addition to outlining charges of waste in NASA, The Times said auditors charged Fletcher misled Congress and the public about the shuttle program's costs. Fletcher told the panel he did his best to estimate the program's costs and said the one area where estimates were off significantly concerned the number of flights shuttles. "We may have overestimated the number of flights for the five orbiter fleet which was required at that time," he said. "That had a lot to do with increasing the cost of the flights." UFOs or Space Junk General: NASA Has Lost Control Of Program Trib 4/21/86 HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) -- NASA has lost control of its space shuttle program because of poor internal communication and shortcomings in quality control, says the former commander of the Army's Ballistic Missile Agency. "The way they have structured their work, nobody is really able to have the clean lines of communication that we had and thereby pick up immediately anything that may be wrong," said retired Maj. Gen. John B. Medaris. He said National Aeronautics and Space Administration managers at the Marshall Space Flight Center and other installations failed to share critical information with employees and the resulting communication problems contributed to the Jan. 28 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. Medaris also told The Birmingham News in a weekend interview during the Army Ballistic Missile Agency's 30th reunion that NASA has no real inspection system of its own to monitor the quality control of materials it purchases from contractors. "What they call quality assurance is shuffling a bunch of papers, reports from contractors, but that isn't quality control, that's nonsense," he said. === Page 23 of 49 # Titan probe to include O-rings, fuel, sabotage Trib 4/21/86 VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) -- O-rings in the solid fuel boosters of a Titan rocket that exploded just after liftoff last week will be scrutinized by military officials investigating the blast. "We will be looking at everything ... (the solid fuel) boosters, rings, propellants and electronics," said Maj. Gen. Jack L. Watkins, commander of the 1st Strategic Aerospace Division at Vandenberg. Sabotage is also "one of those things we must always take into consideration," he said, adding, "Things like terrorist activities and sabotage would probably not be discussed in public." Watkins would not speculate about the cause of the explosion, but said one concern was the "ring connectors on the solid rocket booster." It was the second failed Titan 34D launch in a row. A rocket carrying a KH-11 spy satellite exploded just after liftoff Aug. 28. Titan launches from the missile test center will be halted until the cause of the explosion is known, said Air Force Capt. Rick Sanford, a base spokesman. The accident will lower confidence in the government's ability to monitor Soviet military activities, said Paul Stares, a military expert at the Brookings Institution. Public awareness of the critical role of O-rings, which seal the segments of the solid rockets, has been heightened since the destruction of the space shuttle Challenger in January. Rings in one of Challenger's solid boosters are believed to have failed, allowing searing rocket gases to burn through the side. The $65 million Titan 34D blew up five seconds into launch Friday morning with its classified payload, believed to be a spy satellite. The failure, coupled with the shuttle disaster, interrupts the launch programs of the United States's two principal satellite launch vehicles. "Coming hard on the heels of the Challenger loss, there was more apprehension. ... It's a setback," Watkins said Saturday. The solid rockets used for Titan launches are manufactured by United Technologies, Chemical Systems Division of Sunnyvale, Calif. Those used by the space shuttle are made by Morton Thiokol Inc. of Brigham City, Utah. Calls to United Technologies' offices were not answered Sunday. On Friday, spokesman Jim Mackin said there would be no comment and referred inquiries to the Air Force. Solid rockets provide tremendous thrust to assist the liquid-fueled main engines in putting heavy payloads into space. The Titan's two solid booster nite first, providing about 2.5 million pounds of thrust. The main fuel engine of the first stage ignites about 97 seconds after liftoff and seconds later the boosters are jettisoned. The Titan 34D also has a second-stage liquid fuel engine. Col. Nathaniel Lindsey will head the missile mishap board investigating the Titan blast. Lindsey is commander of the Eastern Space and Missile Center at Patrick Air Force Base in Coco Beach, Fla. The Titan explosion created a huge cloud of toxic smoke and fuel, and 74 people at or near the launch site were taken to the base hospital for examination and treatment of skin and eye irritations. AP photo A Titan missile explodes seconds after launch Friday. # Launch * From Page 1A 4/21/86 reason for a Vandenberg shuttle launch," said Jeffrey Richelson, a military expert at American University in Washington, D.C. "If it went out, however, that would certainly be an emergency situation." Richelson said the payload destroyed last Friday was apparently the nation's last KH-11, another KH-11 having been lost in a fiery launching accident in August. The only other advanced spy satellite ready to be launched, he added, is the KH-12, which is believed to be too big for a rocket and must be boosted by the space shuttle. The launching pads along the California coastline here are meant to boost shuttles and satellites into polar orbits, from which they can view the majority of the Earth's surface. In contrast, the Kennedy Space Center in Florida puts objects into more limited equatorial orbits. American spy satellites in polar orbits are crucial for keeping an eye on global "hot spots," for monitoring the Soviet military, for counting missiles, and in general for verifying compliance with arms control treaties. The KH-11s are movable in orbit and have powerful cameras that can zoom in on almost any area of the Earth. The KH-11 now in orbit was launched in late 1984, and is believed to be halfway through its life expectancy. It is also believed to be the only American spy satellite in orbit. Dr. William R. Graham, the acting administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, has said the shuttle might be launched on an emergency basis if it was deemed necessary for purposes of national security. Since the Challenger exploded and its crew of seven astronauts was killed last Jan. 28, the nation's shuttle fleet has been grounded, pending the outcome of an inquiry into the cause of the disaster. Aerospace experts outside the government caution, however, that the untried Vandenberg site poses so many uncertainties that an emergency launching would truly be a last-ditch effort. Air Force officials here refuse to discuss the nature of the Titan payload or whether they are anticipating an emergency launching of the shuttle. They will say, however, that work on the shuttle launching site is forging ahead despite the Titan explosion and the Challenger disaster. "There's been no impact on shuttle preparations, none at all," Maj. Gen. Jack L. Watkins, commander of Vandenberg, said. === Page 24 of 49 # U.S. must launch plan to restore space image Experts say a manned Mars flight would recapture American imaginations. By GIL KLEIN Tribune-Media General Bureau WASHINGTON -- America's space program is a shambles. After four accidents -- including January's shuttle disaster -- the United States would have a hard time launching a Sputnik. But space experts say after all the investigations and retooling are completed, to get America back into the launch business, Americans are going to have to decide what kind of space program they want. The Europeans, Japanese, Chinese and Indians either already have or soon will have their own launch capability, they say, and if the United States wants to remain the leader in space, it must get back onto the edge of exploration. That would require serious work toward a manned Mars flight, they say, and a budget about twice as large for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. "What these accidents have done for us is make us rethink what we are doing in space," said Dr. John Logsdon, director of George Washington University's graduate program of science, technology and public policy. "If other countries are going to be operating with humans in space, then it is inconceivable that the U.S. will not be the leader." All the talk in the past two years that the United States is in space because of the commercial benefits of initiating a space industry miss the point of what space is all about, he said. See SPACE, Page 4A # Space * **From Page 1A** "I don't find the economic rationale plausible," he said. "Space will remain a government activity for science and politics. The image of space exploration and world leadership is not a perishable commodity. What Europe, Japan and China are doing has little to do with economics and more to do with national image. We are in competition at that level." The first order of business is to clean up the mess left by the shuttle accident and the loss of the last two Titan missiles by the Air Force and a Delta rocket by NASA. The succession of accidents has left space officials stunned. Not only are each of those rockets grounded for a year and a half or more while investigations go on, but few of the remaining types of rockets are suitable for launching key military and communications satellites, and the supply of such rockets is low. The United States had decided to depend on the space shuttle for most of its launches, so the supply of rockets has dwindled. Now it will take more than three years to produce new ones. "The worst fears of the space community have been realized," said Charles W. Cook, deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force for space plans and policy. "We're down and we can't get up." For the Defense Department alone, he said, one year without the shuttle means 10 payloads will not be launched. Two years will put it 21 payloads behind. NASA is facing three problems, said Philip Culbertson, NASA's general manager. It first must determine the causes of the failures and figure out why they had been allowed. Then it must find $2.5 billion to pay for an orbiter to replace the Challenger. That money cannot come from NASA's budget alone without crippling the space agency's research and development and scientific exploration plans, space experts say. The cost will have to be shared with other government agencies, especially the Defense Department. But the third problem may be the most important, Culbertson said. In assessing what should be done following the accidents, "We found it was the young people (in NASA) who were extremely conservative," he said. "They are saying that even if the shuttle is down for years, they want it that way. They see their careers on the line." Such a conservative philosophy, he said, will not get a man to Mars. The National Space Commission, appointed by President Reagan to look into space priorities, is expected to recommend a return to the moon and trips to Mars and the asteroids with the establishment of permanent bases on Mars in the 2020s. That would cost about $700 billion during the next 35 years, which amounts to $20 billion a year, compared to $7.5 billion NASA is now spending. Committing the nation to a manned journey to Mars would get NASA out of the doldrums into which it has declined, said Dr. Fred Singer, a professor at George Mason University who has become an authority on a Martian expedition. Simply launching satellites and building a space station for commercial use will not fire the imagination. === Page 25 of 49 Trib - 5/14/86 UFOs vs Space Junk THIS MODEL SHOWS THE BEAUTY OF OUR STAR WARS PLAN WE SIMPLY LAUNCH A SAFE NUCLEAR ... REACTOR ... ... ON ONE OF OUR ... RELIABLE ROCKETS WASSERMAN THE BOSTON GLOBE © 86 LOS ANGELES TIMES SYNDICATE (17 1/2) === Page 26 of 49 EXCUSE ME... COULD YOU TELL ME HOW I CAN GET UP TO THE SPACE STATION? SURE... TAKE A RIGHT TO LAUNCH PAD 3... NO, WAIT... GO THIS WAY TO... NO... AH, TAKE A LEFT AT PAD 5 AND... NO... COME TO THINK OF IT, YOU CAN'T GET THERE FROM HERE! SPACE STATION PLANS NASA STAYSKAL 86 TAMPA TRIBUNE 5/19/86 # Plane crashes across nation kill at least 17, including man in car The accidents killed people in California, New Jersey, Georgia, Oregon and Indiana. Associated Press At least 17 people died in plane crashes nationwide over the weekend, including an off-duty policeman killed by a plane that plowed across a six-lane New Jersey highway and into his car. Two other people were killed in a balloon crash in Southern California. Seven people were injured in the accidents, in California, New Jersey, Georgia, Oregon and Indiana. The highest single death toll came in Van Nuys, Calif., where six people died in a twin-engine Cessna that plowed into a field near the airport. In Atlantic City, N.J., the pilot of another twin-engine Cessna told police he tried unsuccessfully to take off Saturday on a charter flight to Farmingdale, N.Y., and crashed through a fence at the end of the runway, said police Detective Sgt. Steven Mangam. The plane skidded across a field and a wide boulevard, becoming entangled with three or four cars before hitting a car waiting at a stop sign and setting it afire, he said. The plane came to rest against a building. The dead were identified as Thomas Burns, 25, a rookie police officer who was in the burned car, and plane passenger Michael Saal, 42, of Dix Hills, N.Y. Saal's wife, Linda, was critically injured, and the pilot and co-pilot suffered minor injuries. Mangam said Burns had dropped his fiance at her house and had driven only a few blocks when he was killed. Several other cars and buildings caught fire but the flames were quickly extinguished. In Angola, Ind., a twin-engine Seneca piloted by a Michigan doctor clipped a house Saturday and crashed into a ditch. Dr. Winston B. Cenac, 61, of Battle Creek, Mich., had radioed tower personnel in Fort Wayne that he was having mechanical problems with the aircraft and would try to land at an airport three miles west of Angola. John Disbro, a Steuben County sheriff's dispatcher, said Cenac pulled himself from the wreckage. He later died at a hospital, officials said. In Van Nuys, the Cessna carrying five men and a woman began wavering about 150 feet above the ground, said witness Bill Schneiders. "The wings were going back and forth and it went down," he said. Two hours earlier, one person was killed when a single-engine, French-built Trinidad TB20 went down while making a final approach at the airport, officials said. Two people were killed and two seriously injured when a small private plane crashed Saturday in a field near Chino Airport, 35 miles east of Los Angeles. A Cessna 172 crashed Saturday into the carport of a home in Douglasville, Ga., killing one person aboard the plane and seriously injuring its other occupant, according to the Douglas County Sheriff's Department. In Oregon, a small plane crashed in a mining area in the rugged Cascade Mountains east of Eugene, killing four people, authorities said. The hot air balloon struck a powerline in Temecula, 80 miles southeast of Los Angeles, severing the gondola, which fell about 60 feet to the ground. Two occupants were killed and the third was critically injured, authorities said. === Page 27 of 49 Trib 5/15/86 # Expert says survey state for radon GAINESVILLE (AP) -- All of Florida, not just the areas with phosphate that can be mined, needs to be surveyed for potentially dangerous deposits of radium deposits, says an environmental engineer. "We need a complete map of where underground radium deposits are in Florida, because when developers recontour the land, they could inadvertently bring radium to the surface," said Charles Roessler of the University of Florida. Roessler said he knows of at least one instance, in Sarasota County, in which a developer planned to move earth on a site which was judged free from phosphate deposits. But later studies revealed there were high enough levels of radium in the soil to require careful regrading of the land. "We need more information on areas that could have higher levels of radium and hence produce radon gas," Roessler said in a Wednesday news release. Radium produces radon as it decays. It is found around the nation in various types of rocks and soils, including Florida's rich phosphate deposits. Radon is a radioactive gas, and high levels of its decay products can cause lung cancer. Recent media reports have quoted Environmental Protection Agency officials and medical researchers who say that radon is one of the most serious environmental problems in the nation. Radon, sometimes in excess of acceptable levels, can seep into a house through seams in the foundation and through spaces around pipes. Radon is measured in units called working levels, and the average indoor level in Florida is 0.004, Roessler said. When indoor levels of radon gas reach 0.02 working levels or above, this is considered a health risk, according to Harlan Keaton, manager of the environmental radiation program for the Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services in Orlando. The EPA estimates that radon decay products cause between 5,000 to 20,000 deaths due to lung cancer in the nation each year. State officials plan to survey 100 homes in each of Florida's 67 counties for indoor radon levels but Roessler feels, in addition to that, the state needs a survey of land to develop a more accurate map of potential radon trouble spots. "We need studies that will give us a better tool to estimate what radon levels will be in a future home, based on radon measurements from the site where the home is to be built. "If we find there are areas with no radon measurements, that will give people peace of mind. But if there are areas with problems, people will need to know so they can decide what steps to take," he said. When building houses with foundations flat on the ground, contractors can prevent radon from seeping into homes by pouring seamless foundations and by putting gaskets around pipes that pass through foundations. To reduce the risk from radon decay products in existing homes, Keaton said people can install electrostatic precipitators, which draw these particles from the air much the same way magnets attract iron. UFOr Sun Attack # Earthquake triggers 2nd tsunami watch GSB Trib 5/18/86 ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A strong earthquake in the Aleutian Island chain triggered a tsunami watch Saturday for the second time in 10 days along coastal Alaska and the Pacific Coast south to California, but no large waves developed. The quake, which registered 6.5 on the Richter scale, struck about 12:20 p.m. EDT about 85 miles northeast of the Aleutian island of Adak, according to the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colo. The Alaska Tsunami Warning Center issued a UFOr Sun Attack # Storms Bang Southwest; Girl Killed By The Associated Press GSB 5/18/86 Waves of violent thunderstorms hammered western Arkansas and central Texas Saturday, spinning off tornadoes and killing a 14-year-old girl who died when a tree toppled by high winds slammed into her home while she slept. In southeast Missouri, meanwhile, the National Guard patrolled streets in Sikeston and Vanduser on Saturday as crews cleaned up after tornadoes and flash floods earlier in the week that left four people dead, one woman critically injured and caused millions of dollars in damage. Tornadoes were spotted Saturday across central Texas and near Sparta, Ohio. In Killeen, Texas, high winds hit the central business district, lifting the roof off a cement mixing company and damaging fire department vehicles across the street, officials said. No injuries were reported. A funnel cloud dropped down in front of the fire station shortly before 10:45 a.m., uprooting several trees and pulling down power lines, said fire Capt. Bill Cave. Workers at the cement mixing company said they were using one of their mixers when they saw the twister and ran. Four tornadoes were sighted elsewhere in central Texas, but no damage was reported. In Fort Smith, Ark., rescuers spent more than three hours trying to lift the tree from the house where the girl was trapped inside, said police Sgt. Danny Honeycutt. The winds knocked out power in Fort Smith, a city of 71,000 on the Oklahoma border, but Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co. crews had restored lights by mid-morning, Honeycutt said. In Hempstead County, in southwest Arkansas, an 87-year-old man was cut by flying glass when a possible tornado lifted his house from its foundation Friday night. === Page 28 of 49 STAYSKAL 86 TAMPA TRIBUNE NASA "WE'VE GOT TO REASSURE THE PUBLIC ON SPACE TRAVEL, HANSON ... GET OUT THERE AND DIG UP SOME GOOD UFO SIGHTINGS!" SHUTTLE TITAN NASA LAUNCH SYSTEMS, INC. DELTA "...THREE...TWO...ONE...ZERO." 5/18/86 === Page 29 of 49 China-Rus-UFCA # U.S. Experts Advance Accident Theories 0.5B 5/4/86 - WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. experts believe interruption of a vital flow of cooling water to the Chernobyl nuclear reactor triggered last week's meltdown, and they have several theories on how the flow could have been cut off. A leading theory is loss of electrical power to run pumps, instruments and other equipment, but scientists also say water flow could have been cut off if a portion of the 1,661 three-inch pipes running through the reactor became clogged or by a chemical explosion. The Soviets have implied the accident was triggered by human error. In an interview Friday night with West Germany's ARD national television network, Moscow Communist Party chief Boris Yeltsin, said the cause of the disaster "lies apparently in the subjective realm, in human error." Thomas Cochran, scientist on the staff of the Natural Resources Defense Council, said the electrical theory is the most likely. "To get a whole-core accident, it seems the most probable way is to lose coolant flow before the manifold, which means pump failure, which means loss of power to the pumps," he said. Ed Zebroski, chief nuclear scientist for the Electric Power Research Institute, agreed, saying that with about 1,000 workers at the four-reactor Chernobyl site, "the chance that someone knocked down part of the (electrical) switchyard ... is at least one of the plausible scenarios." John Auxier, nuclear engineer and director of the Oak Ridge, Tenn., Radiological Sciences Laboratory of IT Corp., said "A piece of something that got loose," perhaps part of a pump blade, could clog cooling tubes. "Unlikely -- but it's possible." James N. Landis, senior vice president of Stone & Webster, the Boston-based construction company that has built several nuclear plants, theorized "maybe they didn't have instrumentation to detect" small blockages. "The radiochemical and nuclear people I talk to are looking toward a chemical explosion that disabled the cooling system and perhaps the control system, too," Auxier said. Such an explosion could come from improperly vented hydrogen from batteries, or from a solvent spilled in the wrong place. The post-accident photo of the reactor building released by the Soviets shows the high bay section with about 30 feet of the top missing, Zebroski said. "A steam rupture could do it" and simultaneously cut the water flow, he said. If a simple power loss caused the accident, "the shocking thing is ... you still have an hour or two before things go to hell, and you ought to be able to run a line in" to run pumps, valves and instruments, Zebroski said. 0.5B 5/4/86 "The Soviet accident has provided the United States and the rest of the world a stark reminder that nuclear power is a dangerous technology and that the consequences of an accident are enormous," said Joshua Gordon, author of the Critical Mass report. He said the United States should re-evaluate its nuclear policy and begin planning for the orderly phase-out of nuclear power. of a nuclear bomb, and insisted that radiation levels were not dangerous in Kiev, the Soviet Union's third-largest city with 2.4 million residents. Trib 5/18/86 Feoktistov said the accident and its aftermath surprised top Soviet scientists. Asked by commentator Alexander Bovin what he would have thought before the accident if someone had described such a series of events, Feoktistov replied, "I would have thought it was completely incredible." He said it may take a long time to determine the exact cause. === Page 30 of 49 # Gorbachev: 9 died at Chernobyl He chided the West for a "mountain" of lies about the nuclear disaster. * Nuclear officials say accident may benefit industry -- 5A * Soviets expel U.S. envoy -- 8A Tribune Wires 5/15/86 MOSCOW -- Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev said Wednesday night that casualties from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster had risen to nine dead and 299 hospitalized, but declared, "The worst is behind us." He accused the West of telling "a veritable mountain" of lies about the accident. Reaction to the speech included White House denials that the West tried to exploit the tragedy and blamed any incorrect reports on Soviet secrecy. But, White House spokesman Larry Speakes said, the United States is "comforted by Mr. Gorbachev's assurances that the 'worst is behind us.'" Gorbachev's 25-minute speech on state television was his first public comment on the explosion and fire April 26 that spewed radioactivity over Europe and forced the evacuation of 92,000 people from the vicinity of the Ukrainian power plant. He said radiation still was dangerous around the plant, 80 miles north of Kiev. Gorbachev said the probable cause of the accident, which he repeatedly referred to as "our misfortune," was a power surge and hydrogen explosion. **Gorbachev invited Reagan to meet on a nuclear test ban.** He also announced the Soviet Union would extend its moratorium on nuclear testing to Aug. 6 and invited President Reagan to meet him in Europe or Hiroshima, Japan, to discuss halting all nuclear tests. "The accident at Chernobyl showed again what an abyss will open if nuclear war befalls mankind, for inherent in the nuclear arsenals stockpiled are thousands upon thousands of disasters far more horrible than the Chernobyl one," he said. But the White House only reiterated U.S. opposition to the proposed nuclear test ban and contended Gorbachev's speech misstated the Western position toward arms control. Previous official statements said about 200 people were hospitalized. Gorbachev's total of nine See GORBACHEV, Page 5A === Page 31 of 49 # Major earthquake jolts Mexico City; no injuries or damage reported Sun Attack Feb 5, 1986 MEXICO CITY (UPI) -- A major earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale jolted Mexico City and nearby areas early Wednesday, panicking thousands of residents who survived last September's killer quakes. Two smaller shocks followed, but no injuries or major damages were reported. Buildings swayed and groaned as the first tremor struck at 1:07 a.m., but none suffered major damage. Electricity and telephone lines serving thousands of people were cut but utility officials said service would be quickly restored. The first quake, which registered 7.0 on the open-ended Richter scale, lasted for more than one minute, the National University Geophysical Institute said. A smaller jolt, measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale, followed at 2:10 a.m., and a third came four minutes later, measuring 4.8, the institute reported. As the ground shook, thousands of Mexicans, many clad only in nightgowns or underwear, fled into the streets. Police Wednesday reported no injuries or serious damage in Mexico City, and there were no immediate reports of deaths or major damage in outlying areas. Later Wednesday, an earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale jolted a mountainous region in southern Peru, and earth tremors were reported in the northern Chilean town of Arica. No injuries or major damage was reported. Mexico City was devastated in September by two killer quakes that killed at least 8,000 people, damaged or destroyed 3,000 buildings and leaving 300,000 people homeless. The city of 18 million people was brought to a standstill for several weeks in the wake of the quake. The city is still in the midst of a demolition program to tear down buildings damaged in September. In the capital Wednesday, radio stations urged residents throughout the night to "go back to bed -- everything is calm." But many people remained in the streets for hours, afraid to return to their homes. Jimmy Osmond of Los Angeles, the youngest of the Osmond family entertainers, was staying at the downtown Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza when the quake struck. "I ran 18 flights of stairs all the way down to the lobby. Everything was moving and shaking," the still-trembling Osmond said as he stood outside. Donald Law, of Melbourne, Fla., was on the seventh floor of the Crowne Plaza when the ground shook. "We left very frightened. We ran through the lobby into the street, thinking all the time of the September earthquakes," Law said. # Disaster to cost Soviets billions Experts said it will shake their nuclear power confidence. Feb 5, 1986 By GIL KLEIN and STEVE GOLDBERG Tribune-Media General Bureau WASHINGTON -- The nuclear power accident near Kiev probably will destroy Premier Mikhail S. Gorbachev's five-year economic plan and cripple the Soviet Union's economy for years to come, experts said Wednesday. Even without knowing the extent of damage, these experts agreed that it will cost the Soviets billions of dollars. It also will shake Soviet confidence in similar nuclear reactors near other cities, they say, and it will drain the nation's supply of "hard currency" used to buy foreign goods while hobbling efforts to modernize industry. "This takes care of Gorbachev's five-year plan; that's for sure," said Dr. Joseph Pelzman, a Soviet economics expert at George Washington University and a native of the Ukraine where the accident occurred. "The Ukraine is crucial to agricultural reform, and if you kill off that part of the country, there goes your agricultural reform." The Soviets plan their economy in five-year increments, and each five-year plan focuses on a certain segment of the economy to be improved. The current plan took effect in February. "This five-year plan called for a large investment in machinery, but instead all of the investment money will be going to cleaning up after this accident," said Caron Cooper, a research associate at the Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies. "And that means that five or 10 years later, the accident will have a secondary impact because the investment in machinery had not been made." Cleaning up will cost "at least 100 times" what it cost to clean up See BILLIONS, Page 13A === Page 32 of 49 UFOs in Space Work # Satellite Spy Set-Up In Danger? VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) -- The U.S. military spy satellite program has been jeopardized by an explosion that destroyed a $65 million unmanned Titan rocket and its classified payload, experts said as an investigation began Saturday into the cause of the blast. The big rocket was about 1,000 feet up when it exploded in a fireball that showered the seaside launch pad with flaming debris and spread a huge toxic cloud of rocket propellants over the Santa Barbara County coast. It was the second failed Titan 34D launch in a row. A rocket carrying a KH-11 spy satellite exploded just after liftoff Aug. 28. "This will create major problems in the photographic reconnaissance program, in our confidence in monitoring Soviet military activities at a critical time," said Paul Stares, a military expert at the Brookings Institution. The Titan booster cost $65 million. # Twisters Thrash Texas City SWEETWATER, Texas (AP) -- Two tornadoes spawned by fast-moving thunderstorms hit this west Texas city without warning Saturday, killing at least one person, injuring 80 people and causing millions of dollars in damage, authorities said. Two twisters dipped from the clouds in succession at about 7:30 a.m., came together and cut a swath of destruction a half-mile wide and two miles long, cutting power and some phone lines, said Mayor Rick Rhodes. It caused extensive damage to businesses and homes and "some of the apartment complexes that were built on the east side of town have been completely destroyed," said Nolan County Sheriff Jim Blackley. Authorities started "a house-to-house search for possible trapped victims," said Wendell Rehm of the state Department of Public Safety, adding he did not know how many houses were hit. Public Safety spokesman David Wells said an 87-year-old man was killed in a retirement community, and 80 people had been injured. Rehm said the injured were taken to Rolling Plains Hospital here and to a hospital in Abilene, 47 miles to the east. "There's debris everywhere. The windows are out, buildings are torn down, houses have some of the roofs off them," said Blackley. Emergency efforts were hampered by power outages, said sheriff's Deputy Marvin Cole. "We are working but we are in the dark. All our phone lines are tied up." The sheriff added that people were warned not to drink the water because the town filtration plant was without power. The tornado was "a total surprise," Blackley told Associated Press Radio. "I believe as it was going down we received a call from the national weather bureau in Abilene, telling us that there was a tornado over Sweetwater. "But it was already in progress and tearing things up at that time." An undetermined number of homes were without power in a 12-block area of the city and water service was cut, officials said. David Shumaker looks at what's left of his home. === Page 33 of 49 # Texas governor promises aid for 1,500 twister victims By MEDE NIX United Press International SWEETWATER, Texas -- Standing amid debris that once was a housing project for the elderly, Gov. Mark White on Sunday promised state loans and a plea for federal disaster aid for the estimated 1,500 residents of this West Texas town left homeless by a killer tornado. "I don't see how anybody could have lived through this," White said. "It's as bad as I've seen." Two twisters converged just before touching down at about 7 a.m. Saturday, cutting a path two miles long and a half-mile wide through the southeastern section of the west Texas town of 12,000. No warning was issued of the twister, which the National Weather Service said did not show up on radar. An 87-year-old man was killed and 92 people were injured, three critically. The five people who were reported missing Saturday had all been accounted for Sunday. Twisters that struck Hill, McLennan and Limestone counties Saturday night, about 100 miles east of Sweetwater, injured at least nine people. Two remained hospitalized in fair condition Sunday in Waco. White sent 115 Texas National Guard troops to keep order in Sweetwater, about 215 miles west of Dallas, Saturday night and flew in Sunday morning to assess the damage. The governor toured the wreckage for an hour and a half, talking to survivors who were picking through the rubble. The governor promised to seek federal disaster aid for the area and said the county already had been approved for state housing loans, the processing of which would be accelerated. He made a stop at Sun Village, the housing project for the elderly, where Henry Earl Tatom was killed and 124 residents, ranging in age from 65 to 96, had lived. "We easily could have seen 100 to 150 lives lost," White said. Kathleen Lewis, director of the housing project, said few of the elderly had returned to their apartments Sunday. "Most are with their families today," she said. "They aren't out here because the shock has been pretty hard on them." About 600 homes were damaged by the twister, more than half of those demolished, said Mayor Rick Rhodes. None of the units in the housing project was livable. While most of the streets had been cleared by Sunday and scattered debris picked up, there were still cars protruding from homes and a trash dumpster in the middle of one house that had lost its roof. On one roofless home someone had painted in large red letters, "House for Sale Cheap!" Rhodes gave a rough damage estimate of $15 million to $20 million and said the tornado had damaged about one-sixth of the city, hitting hardest lower to lower-middle class residential areas. "Today, reality has finally hit, and we see what a devastating blow it really was," Rhodes said. "This is an economically depressed area anyway, with oil and farming. We had a lot of people unemployed anyway. This is the worst disaster ever in our town." At Broadway Baptist Church, one of two churches used as shelters Saturday, few people attended services, opting instead to help with a barbecue for the homeless, National Guardsmen, DPS troopers and other workers. ## 'One bad squirrel' terrorizes community LA PUENTE, Calif. (UPI) -- A possibly rabid squirrel terrorized a quiet neighborhood for three days, biting four women, charging a firefighter and holding a pit bull at bay before it was captured and died. The rodent was subdued Friday after a wild 10-minute chase by several firefighters, a sheriff's deputy and an animal control officer, Deputy Roxanna Schuchman said. "He was one bad squirrel." The attacks began Wednesday, when the rodent jumped on a 65-year-old woman and bit her on both arms as she hung out washing in her back yard, Schuchman said. Thursday, the squirrel reappeared, biting an 18-year-old woman on the finger and then biting the woman's mother. Friday morning, the chase ended after the squirrel bit a 54-year-old woman. Officials captured the beast, which later died. A necropsy was slated for evidence of rabies. === Page 34 of 49 UFO Sun Attack p. 5B 4/21/86 # National Guard Patrols Streets Of Texas Town Hit By Twister SWEETWATER, Texas (AP) -- National Guard troops patrolled today against looters after tornadoes carved a two-mile-long, half-mile-wide swath through this west Texas town, killing one person, injuring about 100 others and leaving 1,500 people homeless. Despite the destruction, estimated at up to $20 million, officials said the human toll could have been much worse. "After I saw the extent of the damage, I thought we'd have many more injuries and certainly more deaths," City Manager David Maddox said. "It was luck. It was a miracle." As National Guardmen patrolled the streets early today to watch for looting, volunteers and Salvation Army workers served more than 2,000 meals to people left homeless by the disaster, said Dewey Alderson, public relations director for the Salvation Army's Texas division. "Sweetwater is still in a mess. People are cleaning up but it will be a long time," he said. "People are sifting through the debris by hand. That's all that is left from some of these trailer homes." The National Weather Service said two tornadoes smashed into the southern part of the city of 12,000 early Saturday after merging in the air. Mayor Rick Rhodes estimated property damage at between $15 million and $20 million and said about 100 people were injured. Trib 4/20/86 Power and telephone lines were knocked out, but most of the power had been restored by noon. All available emergency personnel from surrounding counties and cities were sent to Sweetwater and hospitals in Abilene were put on alert. A spokeswoman for Hendrick Hospital said 13 people were transferred there, including a 10-month-old girl in serious condition, a 6-year-old boy in critical condition, and two young women who suffered critical head injuries. Three others were in the critical care unit for head or internal injuries. A second tornado touched down just before 1 p.m. EST in Roscoe, about eight miles west of Sweetwater, destroying three barns and four farmhouses, a Roscoe fire department dispatcher said. The homes were occupied but no one was injured, he said. A short time later, a third twister struck in Palo Pinto County, more than 100 miles northeast of Sweetwater. Authorities confirmed the tornado touched down but no damage or injuries were reported. # Storms in Mississippi Valley swell South Dakota, Iowa rivers Tribune Staff and Wires UFO Sun Attack 4/21/86 Thunderstorms that spawned killer tornadoes in the Plains rumbled into the Mississippi Valley Sunday with relentless downpours that swelled South Dakota and Iowa rivers and prompted flash flood warnings. Flood warnings were posted for the James River, north of Huron, S.D. The river rose to nearly 14 feet in Columbia, 3 feet above flood stage, and Columbia, Stratford and Ashton braced for possible flooding. A cluster of thunderstorms producing heavy rain in northwest Missouri pushed over southwest Iowa Sunday, prompting officials in five counties to go on alert for possible flooding. The Great Lakes region basked in sunshine and balmy temperatures. In Marquette, Mich., which set a record low of 11 degrees last Tuesday, the temperature soared to 77, breaking the previous record of 74 set in 1970. Great weather also continues in the Tampa Bay area. Today the National Weather Service is predicting mostly sunny and warm, with a high in the mid to upper 80s and an overnight low in the low 60s. Expect west winds at 10 mph. "It looks like it's going to continue mostly sunny and dry" the rest of the week, said meteorologist Chuck Eggleton. He said the upper 80s are a bit higher than normal and the low 60s are slightly lower than usual temperatures for this time. Meanwhile, severe thunderstorm watches were posted for parts of Texas and Oklahoma, and forecasters warned of the possibility of tornadoes like those that struck Iowa, South Dakota and Minnesota Saturday. The tornadoes flattened homes and barns, downed power lines and killed a 4-year-old girl. # Spring snowstorm is creating 'three-ring circus' in Wyoming Tribune Staff and Wires A dangerous spring snowstorm plunged temperatures into the teens, drifted snow up to 6 feet and created blizzard conditions in Wyoming and Montana Sunday as the Dakotas braced for the oncoming storm. The snowstorm dumped a foot of new snow at the Alta and Snowbird ski resorts in Utah, and winds gusting to 75 mph knocked down trees and some power lines. The gusting winds and cold temperatures made for dangerous conditions in Montana and Wyoming, said meteorologist Bill Barlow. "It is unusual to be this cold and have this large a snow in mid-April," Barlow said, adding that travelers' advisories were posted throughout both states and in the Dakotas. The storm closed the northbound lane of Interstate 25 between Buffalo and Kaycee, Wyo., officials said, creating a "three-ring circus" of confusion because of stranded motorists and truckers at the Parkway Plaza Truck Stop in Buffalo, said Jan Carlsen. No serious accidents were reported, State Highway Patrol officials said. Drifts up to 6 feet were reported in Wyoming and Montana, Barlow said. In Tampa, today's weather should be mostly sunny and warm with high temperatures in the low to mid-80s, according to the National Weather Service. East winds are expected at up to 10 mph. Tonight, the forecast calls for continued fair weather with lows in the low to mid-60s. Expect Tuesday's high temperature to reach the mid-80s. There is a chance of showers Wednesday. The extended forecast calls for partly cloudy and slightly cooler weather Thursday and fair weather Friday, meteorologist Jim Lebda said. === Page 35 of 49 Experts predict stormy return of El Nino in '86 4/24/86 Record shivers 4/14/86 If history repeats itself, the Southeast will have spells of cool and soggy weather. Gulf states will get rainstorms in the winter. By ALAN SVERDLIK Tribune Staff Writer MIAMI -- El Nino is coming. The Pacific Ocean phenomenon that disrupts the world's weather for a year or longer is almost certain to strike in 1986, cooling off the southeastern United States and keeping hurricanes to a minimum, meteorologists predict. "Everybody remembers the El Nino of 1982-83 because it was so powerful and dominant," notes Eugene Rasmusson, the National Weather Service's resident expert on the phenomenon. "Most of them tend to be more benign than that, but the timing, intensity and global impact are very hard to predict." About every four years or so, ocean temperatures off the South American coast climb to abnormal levels. Believed to be the curtain raiser for the mischievous El Nino, these warm currents appear to be forming today in the waters off Peru, scientists report. And for reasons unknown to forecasters, the hot spots in the South Pacific can affect the weather continents away. El Nino's last appearance touched off a series of climactic events that left 1,000 dead. Parts of Africa and Asia suffered devastating droughts while heavy storms struck California. The tropical storm season produced few big blows in the Atlantic in either 1982 or 1983, but a band of typhoons assaulted Tahiti both years. "It was probably the most severe El Nino we've seen in the last 100 years," says Rasmusson, an official with the weather service's Climate Analysis Center. Meteorologists anticipate milder and less sustained effects from the upcoming episode. * If historic patterns persist, the Southeast will experience spells of cool and soggy weather. Rainstorms will plague the Gulf states in the winter months. The West Coast will get hit hard either by storms or drought. * The hurricane season -- June 1 to Nov. 30 -- spawns much fewer storms in the Atlantic during the periodic warming of the seas off Peru and Ecuador. The number of hurricanes drops 40 percent below the seasonal average. "There have been 16 strong and moderate El Ninos in this century," says William Gray, a professor of atmospheric sciences at Colorado State University. "In a statistical sense, they all have reduced hurricane activity." Some experts believe the lull in tropical storms induced by El Nino usually precedes an active -- if not devastating -- hurricane season. They point to Hurricanes Donna and Audrey, which caused staggering losses after the climate in the tropical Pacific returned to normal. The potent El Nino of 1982 is believed to have suppressed storm formation for two seasons, after which hurricanes came in bunches. The forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Coral Gables credit El Nino with inhibiting storm development but won't say what may happen when the phenomenon subsides. "That relationship between El Nino and hurricanes has not been tied down yet," insists forecaster Miles Lawrence. Such debates over the scope of El Nino have persisted since scientists first linked unusual weather around the world to shifts in Pacific See EL NINO, Page 6B Record shivers Bay area residents felt a record nip in the air, but up North, cold wreaked havoc. Tribune Staff and Wires Late-season coolness brought a chilly overnight low of 51 Wednesday at Tampa International Airport, breaking the previous record of 53. It was 1950 the last time Tampa Bay area temperatures fell low enough to set a record on April 23, the National Weather Service said. Forecasters had thought temperatures -- cooled off further by winds -- might dip below historic lows. The rest of the eastern United States also shivered Wednesday as arctic air shattered century-old temperature records from the Great Lakes to the southern tip of the Sunshine State, forecasters said. Don McGlynn, a weather service specialist who works out of the agency's Ruskin office, said the Bay area's sunny but nippy weather would continue today, marked by mid-70s temperatures in the afternoon and a cool but not unusually chilly evening. A warming trend should be evident by Friday, with highs near 80 and lows about 60. Saturday and Sunday should be about the same, with no prediction of rain for the entire weekend. Up North, the cold wreaked havoc, causing up to $25 million damage to tender young fruit crops in Ohio and dumping up to 2 feet of snow in places. Schools were closed in parts of New York state, and snow and slush sent many vehicles skidding off highways there and in parts of northeastern Pennsylvania where snowplows had been put away for the season. "Drive as if it was midwinter," the National Weather Service in Albany, N.Y., warned as the snowfall in parts of the state mounted well past the forecast of just a few inches to as much as 2 feet. Orchard owners hired helicopters, fired up blowers and smudge pots and sprayed water to protect their crops. But Richard Funt of Ohio's Coop- === Page 36 of 49 13 states chilled by record lows; ice, slush blamed for 2 deaths Associated Press Trib 4/23/86 * Cool in Bay area -- 1B Temperatures dropped to record lows in 13 states Tuesday from the Great Lakes to the Gulf Coast, leaving Montana warmer than Alabama, and two traffic deaths were blamed on ice- or slush-covered roads. Snow fell over parts of Michigan, the upper Ohio Valley and the central Appalachians. An inch of snow fell overnight at Flint, Mich., Alpena, Mich., Pittsburgh, and parts of north-central Ohio, the National Weather Service said. Two people were killed in separate traffic accidents on icy or slush-covered roads in Michigan. By afternoon, unseasonably cold air covered most of the eastern half of the nation, except for the southern Atlantic Coast states and the coast of New England. Morning lows were only in the teens over parts of Wisconsin, northeastern Minnesota and Upper Michigan and in the 30s and 40s across the Tennessee Valley and the central Gulf Coast. Behind the high pressure system pulling the cold air down from Canada, mild southerly wind gave parts of central and eastern Montana lows in the 50s. Billings, Mont., had a low of 55 while Mobile, Ala., dipped to a record 43 degrees. A record that had stood since 1873 fell at Chicago with a low of 24, five degrees below the former mark. Duluth, Minn., hit a record low of 18, Eau Claire, Wis., had a record low 19, and Marquette, Mich., bottomed out at a record 14. In the Gulf states, records for Tuesday's date were set at Birmingham, Ala., at 36 degrees; Lake Charles, La., at 49; Meridian, Miss., at 37 and Montgomery, Ala., at 40. Other states with record lows set or tied were Iowa, Ohio, Missouri, Indiana, Nebraska and Kansas. Trib 4/16/86 (I told Beau two days ago.) Breeding More Vengeance An editorial from The Los Angeles Times Was the attack on Libya a victory over terrorism? Or did American bombs spilling from F-111 fighter-bombers over Tripoli blow open a Pandora's box of terrorism that will make Europe, and perhaps America, yearn for quieter times? The answers may come slowly, but they will come. The West would shed no tears over the fall of Moammar Khadafy, nor would Arab governments that live even closer to the psychotic tyrant. But will the shadowy hit-men of Middle Eastern terrorism, not always given to following the rules even of their own governments, shed blood over an attack on him? That is the chance that President Reagan took Monday. He said that he had no illusions that the attack would put an end to terrorism, only a hope that it would be a step toward a safer world. He and Secretary of State George P. Shultz made their case as simply as it could be made. Doing nothing was no deterrent to Khadafy, and doing nothing seemed worse than doing something. If the president was right, Europe can go back to the "painstaking police work" that the U.S. Department's anti-terrorist chief, Robert B. Oakley, said recently had proved could "pay off, even if it provides no instant answers." Recent history provides no assurance that it will be that easy. It says instead that vengeance breeds vengeance. Terrorism stems from the kinds of dark roots that lead to random shootings on European streets to force governments to release other terrorists from jail. Meantime, the decision has been made, the act is done. There is nothing for us, or any Americans, to do but hope that the cycle of terror can be broken with a single, complicated sortie of high-tech aircraft. History, unfortunately, provides no assurance that those hopes will be fulfilled. Wintry storm chills East, dumps surprise snow on Appalachians United Press International 4/4/86 Trib A wintry storm, chilled spring fever in the East on Thursday, blanketing the Appalachians with up to a foot of record-breaking snow and pushing temperatures into the 30s as far south as Florida. Snow and cold temperatures stretched from the Great Lakes across the central Appalachians into northern New England, the National Weather Service said. The snowstorm dumped 12 inches of snow on Terra Alta in the northern mountains of West Virginia. Beth Colville, sales director at Alpine Lake Resort, said the snow shocked residents, who were enjoying an unseasonably warm spring. "It really changed all of our moods. Everyone here had a serious case of spring fever," she said. Elkins, W.Va., which received nearly 8 inches, shattered its seasonal snowfall with a total of 114.1 inches, breaking the previous record of 107.7 set during the 1970-71 season. Dailey measured 11 inches of snow, and up to 8 inches fell at Snowshoe. Two to 3 inches of snow fell during the night in western Pennsylvania. Travelers' advisories were posted for most of the area. Temperatures were unseasonably cold overnight across the eastern third of the nation. It was warmer in parts of the northern Plains than it was in the Southeast. The low temperature of 41 degrees at Boise, Idaho, topped a low of 35 at Tallahassee, Fla. Temperatures dropped to freezing or below throughout the Great Lakes. It was 25 degrees in Hibbing, Minn., and 27 at Escanaba, Mich. "Most of the nation will have calm, cooler weather," said Harry Gordon, weather service meteorologist. "It's just a general cooling trend from the unseasonably warm weather we saw last week. "It's just nature's way of trying to return to normal." 4/23/86 Brazilian Mudslides, Floods Leave 11 Killed, Two Missing RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -- At least 11 people have been killed and two children are missing in mudslides and flooding caused by 36 hours of torrential rains in northeast Brazil, police say. Sgt. Joao Evangelista Gomes said Tuesday that floods and mudslides hit the towns of Mombaca, Procoto and Cavalos in a remote section of Pernambuco state. Forecasters said more rain was expected. "Eleven bodies have been buried so far, and rescue workers are looking for two children who are missing," Gomes said in a telephone interview from Civil Defense headquarters in Recife, 1500 miles northeast of Rio de Janeiro. === Page 37 of 49 Texas Storms Kill 2, Snow Threatens West UFO & Sun Attack + Texas PK By The Associated Press Fast-moving thunderstorms that killed two people whipped parts of Texas and Louisiana with high wind, hail as big as softballs, tornadoes and heavy rain during the night, and a snow storm developed Saturday over Montana. Thunderstorms also blew across parts of Mississippi and Arkansas. Travelers' advisories were issued for the mountains of the Northwest, and snow also fell over parts of North Dakota and Maine. High wind from the thunderstorms downed trees and power lines in Dallas and in northeastern Texas late Friday and early Saturday, and rain flooded freeway underpasses, causing numerous accidents, authorities said. A 14-year-old girl was killed when a tree fell on her mobile home east of Kilgore, Texas, said Rusk County sheriff's dispatcher Elaine Mitchell. Another person was killed when his single-engine plane went out of control during a hailstorm and crashed on a residential driveway early Saturday in the Dallas suburb of Addison, said police Lt. John Sullivan. Air traffic controllers in Fort Worth reported that the last radio message from the pilot was that hail had broken out his windshield, said Justice of the Peace Kenneth Bangs. Residents didn't know a plane had crashed because "there was so much thunder and lightning," Bangs said. Hail as big as softballs bombed Oak Cliff, near Dallas, and baseball-sized hailstones fell at Denton. Wind tore the roof off a store in downtown Kilgore, overturned mobile homes and caused a fire in one mobile home. Parts of Dallas County got 1.94 inches of rain in 45 minutes during the morning, the National Weather Service said. The thunderstorms spawned a few tornadoes early Saturday in northern Louisiana, including one that destroyed a couple mobile homes and injured three people in Franklin Parish. And wind gusting to 60 mph blew out windows at St. Joseph. "We had some turbulent weather come through our parish," said J.W. Dean, Franklin Parish assistant coordinator for Emergency Preparedness. "At one time the ground around the courthouse here (Winnsboro) was completely covered by the hail," he said. Dean said downed trees knocked out power for a time in parts of the parish, but most service was restored before dawn. UFO & Sun Attack O.SB 4/23/86 Storm Hits Southwestern Idaho, Levels Some 1,500 Acres Of Trees BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- A storm ripped through two southwestern Idaho counties Tuesday evening, with wind gusts to 58 mph and possible tornadoes that leveled up to 1,500 acres of trees, threw a mobile home 60 feet and left 10,000 people without electricity, authorities said. Two minor injuries were reported in connection with the storm that hit Boise and Ada counties before blowing itself out in the Boise National Forest, authorities said. An apparent tornado was spotted on radar at Mountain Home Air Force Base southeast of Boise, said National Weather Service spokesman Gerry Burdwell, and Boise County Sheriff's Deputy Chuck Richards said another may have hit the Lowman area northeast of Boise in the national forest. U.S. Forest Service Ranger Charlie Vaughn estimated Tuesday night that up to 1,500 acres of trees were snapped in the forest, but that an aerial survey would be made Wednesday, Richards said. 1986 UFO & Sun Attack Cold Snap Damage Is Surveyed O.SB 4/25/86 By The Associated Press From the potato fields of Alabama to the apple orchards of Michigan, farmers and agriculture officials who went out to see the results of the week's record cold snap say prospective harvests have been cut by up to 90 percent. "The heart's killed. It's dead," said Bob MacQueen as he toured his 200-acre apple orchard in Holland, Ohio, on Thursday. "This was a real record. In '56 was the last time it was that severe." He estimated the freeze, which broke records in 14 states early Wednesday from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes and continued to chill much of the region Thursday, killed half the buds on his trees. He put his losses at $250,000 to $300,000. Richard Funt of the Ohio Extension Service said Wednesday that the damage statewide could reach $20 million to $25 million, while officials in Michigan estimated that a quarter of the state's apple crop was damaged. Officials in Indiana, Kentucky and other states were still counting their losses. In northern Alabama, farm experts said the cold would result in smaller potatoes, making each pound that farmers grow worth only a fraction of the value of full-sized spuds. Red Delicious apples in five southwestern Michigan counties, which make up about 25 percent of the state's crop, were "pretty well cleaned out," said Mike Thomas, of the Michigan State University Cooperative Extension Service. Later-blooming varieties of apples "still have good potential," he said. Thomas also estimated that only about 60 percent of the region's tart cherry crop would come in. 24 === Page 38 of 49 Cold Trib 4/24/86 * From Page 1A erative Extension Service estimated the monetary loss to the state's apple and grape crops at $20 million to $25 million. He said Ohio's apple crop usually ranks seventh or eighth largest in the nation. In Ohio's Licking County, Mitch Lynd said he hired four helicopters at $350 an hour each to push warm air down on his 50,000 apple trees on 530 acres, but said it would be worth it if he could raise the temperature just three or four degrees. In Athens County in southeastern Ohio, Extension Agent Bill Twarogowski said fruit growers may have lost as much as 90 percent of their crops. In Indiana, "We would expect extensive damage," said Richard Hayden, a fruit expert at Purdue University. Some farmers may have used smudge pots to save their crop but the rising cost of oil has all but eliminated that as a viable option to most growers, Hayden said. Grower George Adrian of Indianapolis had relatives, employees and friends work through the night filling about 500 five-gallon burners with oil. But, he noted, the oil was left over from 1976 and said if they hadn't had it, "We would have sat back and just taken the loss." The two days of record cold may have killed any chance of bumper crops this summer in the heart of Michigan's fruit belt, said Mike Thomas, a state district horticultural agent. "I anticipate upwards of 90 percent grape damage," said grower Dwight Brown of Lawton, Mich. "We had some tart cherries in blossom and I assume it destroyed them. Sweet cherries also were in bloom and it appears they are gone, too." For the second day in a row, low temperature records for the date were tied or broken at more than 50 cities in 14 states from Michigan to Florida, the Weather Service said. Many cities had their coldest readings on record for so late in the season, including the latest freezing temperature on record at Birmingham, Ala., which hit 30 degrees. Tallahassee dropped to a record 35 degrees, and Miami chilled to a record 57. Chicago's low of 25 tied a record on the books since 1873. The lows of 23 at Cincinnati and Detroit broke records which had stood since 1875. The low of 34 at Macon, Ga., cut a full 7 degrees off the former record, set in 1903. To the west of the cold air mass, mild temperatures were common across the Plains, and the low at Minot, N.D., was 56 degrees. Heavy snow fell overnight in the mountains of southern New York state and northeastern Pennsylvania. Eldred, N.Y., in the Catskills near the Pennsylvania border, got two feet and 18 inches fell at Promised Land State Park near Greentown, Pa., in the Poconos, with 19 inches at Slide Mountain. The New York State Thruway east of Utica was closed for an hour by jackknifed tractor-trailer rigs. Light snow and snow mixed with rain fell as far south as the Virginias and Washington, D.C. New York City had persistent heavy flurries into the afternoon, but the flakes melted as they fell in the city. # 30s In Midwest Spawn Twisters By The Associated Press UFDe Sun Attack 4/28/86 A cold front across the nation's midsection dropped temperatures into the 30s and 40s early today after sending sometimes-violent storms through an area from Texas to Wisconsin. Damage was reported in Texas, Minnesota and Nebraska, but no injuries were reported from the Sunday storms, which came a day after a 4-year-old girl was killed and seven people were injured, one critically, from tornadoes in Iowa and Minnesota. Authorities in Cass County, Texas, near the Arkansas border, reported high winds blew the roof off one house and damaged two or three others Sunday evening. In Nebraska, thunderstorms spread through the eastern part of the state Sunday night, downing power lines, breaking windows and damaging trees in Omaha. Heavy rain and wind gusts up to 45 mph were reported from Omaha to Nebraska City, while gusts of up to 61 mph were reported at Topeka, Kan. The National Weather Service said tornadoes was seen Sunday near Cleveland, Texas, and Clear Lake, Minn., but no damage was reported in Texas and only minor damage in Minnesota. In Madison County, in south central Texas, flooding was reported late Sunday on a state highway. In Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn., more than an inch of rain fell in a half hour Sunday, flooding a part of Interstate 94 and bringing traffic to a standstill. During the heaviest rain, planes were diverted into holding patterns away from Minneapolis-St. Paul ## New rain clouds menace Bangkok UFDe Sun Attack Trib 5/1/86 BANGKOK, Thailand -- New rain clouds menaced Bangkok Saturday after the worst 24-hour downpour in 1,000 years flooded the city, killing nine people, leaving dozens of fishermen missing and causing widespread property damage. A steady rain caused by a freak tropical depression began Thursday and continued until Saturday afternoon. A total of 15.2 inches of rain fell between Thursday and Friday. Meteorologists warned that more rain could fall today and Monday throughout Thailand. 25 === Page 39 of 49 # Bassett firm is focus of bankruptcy hearing By JEFF SMITH 4/29/86 Tribune Business Writer A hearing is scheduled in U.S. Bankruptcy Court today to determine whether John Bassett Enterprises Inc. will be forced into involuntary bankruptcy. The corporation is owned by former Tampa Bay Bandits owner John Bassett, who is undergoing treatment for two brain tumors and has been unable to run his day-to-day business ventures. Bankruptcy Judge Alexander Paskay said late Monday that he froze payment of an $800,000 check until creditors of Bassett Enterprises and the corporation itself can present their evidence on the matter. Paskay said the check from Bassett's former real estate partners was made payable to Bassett Enterprises, but was endorsed over to a Canadian bank. Three Florida banks -- First Florida Banks Inc., Florida National Banks of Florida Inc. and Regency Bank of Florida -- sought to force the involuntary Chapter 7 bankruptcy, Paskay said. In an involuntary bankruptcy, creditors attempt to force the company into liquidation in order to receive money from the sale of its assets. A partner in Moore-Taggart Properties Inc. said the check represented a payment to Bassett to buy out his interest in Hidden River Properties Inc., whose major asset is a high-technology park planned in north Hillsborough County. The check was sent to Bassett late last week, said Moore-Taggart partner Joseph Taggart on Monday. Paskay said he disallowed payment of the check during an emergency hearing Monday, but also said he would not permit the involuntary bankruptcy until a formal hearing could be held. "They (Bassett Enterprises) have the right to fight it," he said. Saying the issue is unresolved, Paskay said the company had not been properly served on the involuntary bankruptcy. "We bought him out," said Taggart when asked about the check that was sent to Bassett. Taggart said Bassett had been ill and wanted to sell his ownership in the park. The check represented payment for that interest, Taggart said. In addition to his former ownership in the Bandits, Bassett has been involved in a number of real estate transactions, including a major project in the Bradenton-Sarasota area. He has been selling off several of his interests in recent months. Company official Ralph Campbell, who handles much of Bassett's holdings, declined to comment late Monday. Bassett has suffered from two brain tumors and has been involved in treatment for them. He has divorced himself from the daily business operations, with Campbell handling most of them. Bassett sold his interest in the Bandits to a group, including architect Lee Scarfone. # Bassett dies John Bassett, the man behind the Bandits in their most admired days, died of cancer in a Toronto hospital. 5/15/86 By TOM McEWEN Tribune Sports Editor Visionary John Bassett, vibrant John Bassett, a founder of the United States Football League and master-planner of the Tampa Bay Bandits as they were in their most admired days, died Wednesday. The end of his life of 47 years and four months came shortly after noon in a Toronto hospital. It came a year-and-a-half after two brain tumors were detected and the fight for life began -- again. Previously he had overcome, for a time anyway, melanoma, the black mole cancer which appeared on his back. Traditional, then radical treatment, including heated chemotherapy, followed. One tumor disappeared, he said months ago, then the other, the deeper one, was reduced to a speck. Bassett, an optimist and a competitor all of his years, felt he was recovering and came to his Sarasota Players' condo in March to escape the Canadian cold and convalesce. A kidney infection surfaced. It worsened, so he was flown in an emergency condition back to Toronto. He was in a serious condition that grew critical. Pneumonia last Monday joined the other infections in a body weakened by the medications used to fight the tumors. When David Gershensen, the agent of Bassett's friend and former Bandits partner Burt Reynolds, called the hospital Tuesday on behalf of the actor-partner, Bassett was leaving intensive care. === Page 40 of 49 # Wave Of Twisters Tear Up Midwest ## Thousands Left Powerless By The Associated Press Paramedics, police and firefighters scoured through wrecked communities in Missouri today, one of five states hit by tornadoes and high winds that killed one man, destroyed an apartment building and hammered barns and homes, leaving dozens homeless, authorities said. The twisters Thursday night downed power and phone lines in towns in Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan and Ohio. In Missouri, the twisters brought widespread damage to six counties. Scott County Sheriff Bill Ferrell said the most extensive damage appeared to be in a mobile home park and business area in the southern and eastern sections of Sikeston, and in Vanduser, a town of 320 people about 10 miles to the northwest. The east side of Vanduser was "just about wiped out," Ferrell said, and an elderly man there was killed. The victim's name was being withheld pending notification of relatives. Ferrell said more than 100 homes and many businesses appeared to have been damaged and about 30 people in Vanduser suffered cuts and bruises. At least two required hospitalization, he said. The tornado caused extensive damage and numerous injuries in Sikeston, a city of 17,000, authorities said. Hospital officials in Sikeston were asking hospitals in Cape Girardeau to send blood, said Martha Vandivort, an emergency preparedness official. Authorities in Cape Girardeau reported that many roads in the town were under water because of flooding caused by the storms. Twisters also caused damage in Miner, a small town just east of Sikeston, and in Coldwater, about 35 miles to the northwest in Wayne County. In Evansville, Ind., 26 residents of the Shamrock Apartments were taken to an emergency shelter after a twister smashed into their building. "I was trying to look for the funnel cloud coming, and then it just hit the building and that was the end," said resident Dora Simpson. Michael Roe, 22, who saw the tornado as it struck, said, "It started moving in a circle, with all the dust and debris in the center, just like in 'The Wizard of Oz.'" As violent thunderstorms hammered southwest In- See Twisters on page 10A **Continued from page 1A** diana, amateur radio operators and state police reported several tornadoes in and around Evansville, and a couple of twisters in Washington in Daviess County nearly 40 miles to the north, said Craig Carpenter of the National Weather Service. Three adults and a 22-month child suffered minor injuries when a tornado ripped through Point Township in Posey County, destroying several mobile homes, said county jailor Gene Pate. The injured were taken to an Evansville hospital. Another tornado touched down in the Posey County community of St. Phillips, causing an estimated $3.5 million in property damage, Pate said. The storm also tore the roof off one home and blew down several trees in Blairsville, Pate said. In Illinois, tornadoes hit in several counties, causing damage but no serious injuries, authorities said. Maurice Johnson, chief of police in Charleston, said perhaps a dozen homes were damaged by a tornado that touched down Thursday night. In northern Illinois, a tornado touched down twice near Dixon, slightly injuring a farmer and destroying two barns and roof, officials said. "It came right down out of nowhere," said Lee County Civil Defense Director Chuck Randall. "We didn't even have any severe thunderstorm warnings at the time, let alone a tornado watch. It was raining, but that was all." Farmer James Carrington, 57, suffered facial cuts from flying debris, said a nursing supervisor at Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital. He was treated and released. Twisters also destroyed a mobile home and houses in Edgar and Coles counties. Two homes were leveled and a car dealership and several homes were heavily damaged when a tornado touched down in Coldwater, Mich., said Sheriff Norman Heinemann. "No one was injured as far as we know," Heinemann said shortly after touring the area. "People are starting to clean up their yards and get over the shock." Authorities cordoned off the damaged area and called in reserve officers to prevent looting. === Page 41 of 49 UFOs Sun Attack # Hurricanes' costs fueled by growth ORLANDO (UPI) -- There is no way to forecast how severe the coming hurricane season will be, but unwise coastal development made the 1985 season the costliest in U.S. history, the director of the National Hurricane Center said Saturday. "1985 is going to go down in history as the year that hurricanes returned to the United States," Neil Frank said. "It was an awesome year: eight named storms crossed our coastline, and of these four were significant as far as dollar damage is concerned." "The four significant storms caused $4 billion worth of damage," Frank said. "The last time we had eight named storms cross the coastline was 1916. Then there was $33 million worth of damage," Frank said. He discounted inflation as a major factor in the damage figure, saying, "I don't think this represents inflation. I think this represents exposure. The difference between having $33 million worth of damage and having $4 billion is the whole question of exposure." Speaking at a joint convention of UPI Broadcasters and the Radio-Television News Directors Association one month from the start of the 1986 hurricane season, Frank imagined what nature might have said at the beginning of last summer. "Human beings and citizens of the United States, I have allowed you to develop my coastline. But enough is enough. You've abused the privilege. How much? I'm going to show you. "I'm going to bring a few hurricanes by your coast this year. Now none of them are particularly threatening for life, but each one in its own right is capable of causing some damage. "And it's going to illustrate for you just how inadequate you are to post the kind of lead times you need in your warnings if indeed you are going to get everyone back to the safety of the inland areas." Frank said he is excited about the hurricane evacuation programs that have been developed in recent years, but he said there remain many uncertainties in predicting a storm's movement. "When we have that meteorological surprise, we are not going to have that lead time we need," he said. UFOs Sun Attack # South parched ## Many farmers, already struggling, may be ruined by the devastating drought. By DAVID SIMPSON Associated Press ATLANTA -- Farmers who have weathered low prices and tight credit may not be able to sweat out this planting season, the driest ever recorded in parts of the South. "Everybody is hurting. But for some of our farmers, the hope of hanging on for another year is about gone," said John Dorrill, executive director of the Alabama Farm Bureau Federation. Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Tommy Irvin said even federal aid could not stave off disaster for some drought-ridden farmers. "More disaster loans are not really going to solve our problems because low-interest loans do not help a man when he's already deeply in debt," Irvin said. "What we really need is four or five days of rain." The National Weather Service is offering little hope of that, with long-range outlooks for the area predicting no better than average rainfall. "Late this winter and during the spring, we have not had the (weather) systems develop in the Southeast that circulate the Gulf moisture and the Atlantic moisture that we usually get," forecaster Claude Hall said Wednesday. Instead, the South has been getting dry air from the Plains or has been under high-pressure systems that have kept out all other weather, he said. The first four months of the year See DROUGHT, Page 11A # 2nd Quake In 5 Days Rattles Mexico Area GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) -- An earthquake capable of causing considerable damage shook an area about 250 miles southwest of Mexico City late Sunday, the second temblor to hit the area in five days, U.S. officials said. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The quake, which measured 5.4 on the Richter scale of ground movement, struck the south coast of Mexico at 1:47 a.m. Ocala time, said John Minsch, a geophysicist with the National Earthquake Information Center, part of the U.S. Geological Survey. The Red Cross in Mexico City said it immediately mobilized its security network but found no damage or injury. Some people in the Condesa district of the capital ran into the streets after the quake struck, but many people apparently didn't feel it elsewhere. A quake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale struck the area on April 30, causing minor damage in the Mexico City area. In September 1985 a quake measuring 8.5 on the Richter scale killed 8,000 people and caused extensive damage in the Mexico City area. The Richter scale is a measure of ground motion as recorded on seismographs. Every increase of one number means a tenfold increase in magnitude. Thus a reading of 7.5 reflects an earthquake 10 times stronger than one of 6.5. An earthquake of 3.5 on the Richter scale can cause slight damage in the local area, 4 moderate damage, 5 considerable damage, 6 severe damage. A 7 reading is a "major" earthquake, capable of widespread heavy damage; 8 is a "great" quake, capable of tremendous damage. The San Francisco earthquake of 1906, which occurred before the Richter scale was devised, has been estimated at 8.3 on the Richter scale. === Page 42 of 49 Wildfires spread across 6 states UFOs Sun Attack United Press International Trib 5/8/86 Wildfires fed by tinder-dry forests and spread by 60 mph winds destroyed more than 30,000 acres in six states, authorities said Wednesday. Hundreds of firefighters battled blazes that destroyed 10 homes in Michigan. Fires ravaged forests and grasslands in Michigan, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and New Jersey, and the biggest blaze struck North Carolina. Fire raged over 16,000 acres in eastern North Carolina swamps and woods. "Every time we try to get this thing contained the wind shifts," Holly Ridge Police Chief Bob Rielly said of the North Carolina fire. "I believe if we don't get rain it probably will not be contained. Organic peat is burning and will continue to burn for weeks unless it rains." "We had crews out here all night and they were able to contain some areas," state Forestry Division spokesman Joe Hogue said. One firefighter died of a heart attack while trying to free a mired tractor in North Carolina. In the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, fires destroyed 8,000 acres of timberland and several resort homes before firefighters got the blazes under control. Authorities said the fires may have been ignited by wind-snapped power lines. Nearly 200 homes had to be evacuated in the areas around Sawyer Air Force Base and the town of Ishpeming. Michigan state police said the fires gutted 10 homes, mostly summer cottages. In Virginia, firefighters who have been battling the state's worst wildfire of the season were reported to be bringing it under gradual control. The blaze has destroyed nearly 5,000 acres of Shenandoah National Park and closed a 38-mile stretch of the scenic Skyline Drive highway. It started with a campfire accident Friday and it took more than 300 firefighters, three planes and three helicopters to control it. "The situation is still stable, still contained, but still burning despite the rain we had last night," said park spokesman Chuch Anibal. Wisconsin authorities banned outdoor burning after an estimated 30 fires broke out in grass, brush and timber. Six hundred firefighters and volunteers managed to bring them under control. In Pennsylvania, Environmental Resources spokesman John Bitzer said the fires that razed nearly 2,000 acres of woodland this week were under control, but unseasonable heat and lack of rain still posed a grave threat. "Under control and out are worlds apart," Assistant Forester Sydney Kurtz said. "The men are still working on it. There have been little breakouts and flare-ups but nothing major." UFOs Sun Attack Major quake hits Aleutians Trib 5/8/86 PALMER, Alaska -- A major earthquake rocked the Aleutian Islands in Alaska Wednesday, causing minor damage at the Naval Air Station at Adak, triggering a tidal wave alert over a large part of the North Pacific, including as far south as California, and prompting the evacuation of 5,000 people to high ground. The earthquake measured 7.7 on the Richter scale and struck at 6:47 p.m. EDT, the Tsunami Warning Center and the U.S. Geological Survey reported. UFOs Sun Attack Washington volcano rumbles Trib 5/8/86 VANCOUVER, Wash. -- Higher levels of earthquake activity beneath Mount St. Helens could signal an eruption, but it is too early to make predictions, geologists say. U.S. Geological Survey geologist Steve Brantley said the earthquakes beneath the volcano increased from slightly elevated levels Friday night to moderate levels by Sunday. "This type of increase in earthquake activity usually precedes a dome-building type eruption," Brantley said. "But it is too early to make a prediction based on the information we have so far." UFOs Sun Attack Colombia volcano spews ash Trib 5/8/86 BOGOTA, Colombia -- Colombia's killer Nevado del Ruiz volcano spewed ash Monday after sharply increased seismic activity and authorities declared a precautionary state of emergency. Scientists monitoring the volcano around the clock since the November eruption and mudslides that killed an estimated 23,000 people reported "a high level of excitation" over the past 12 hours in the bowels of the 17,800 foot volcano. "This could lead to an eruption and it could not," Eduardo Parra, a member of the monitoring committee, told Reuters by telephone from the central city of Manizales. ERUPTION EXPECTED: Mount St. Helens, located near Vancouver, Washington, sharply increased its rumbling noises Thursday and scientists said an explosive eruption can be expected within the next few days, ... EDWARDS TRIAL: Final arguments are almost complete in New Orleans in the second racketeering and fraud trial of Gov. Edwin Edwards and four others, and the jury began deliberations... KILAUEA ERUPTS: Kilauea volcano, the world's most active, shot glowing fountains of molten rock 800 feet high Thursday and oozed two harmless lava flows in the 45th major phase of its three-year-long eruption. Trib 5/9/86 Expect sun, wind around Bay but showers may return Sunday Tribune Staff and Wires 5/10/86 Today will be sunny and quite breezy in the Tampa Bay area, with temperatures in the low to mid-80s and little chance of rain, forecasters say. But that may change Sunday, as forecasters with the National Weather Service are predicting the possibility of afternoon and evening thundershowers. The highs will climb to the upper 80s on Sunday, said weather service specialist Larry Horde. Elsewhere, a slow-moving spring storm rolled thunderstorms and snowshowers across the Plains on Friday as residents in six states cleared away debris from nearly a dozen tornadoes and drought continued to plague parts of the South. Heavy rain from the weakening storm, centered over South Dakota, pushed streams and rivers over their banks, flooding fields, streets and basements. At least 11 tornadoes struck Thursday night in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota, battering houses and barns and knocking down power lines. No serious injuries were reported. The Southeast endured another day of bone-dry weather that has sparked forest fires, forced water rationing and threatened to ruin farmers whose fields are too parched for planting. Alabama Gov. George Wallace asked the federal government to declare the state a disaster area. Several towns in Georgia, Alabama and Virginia have restricted water use because of the drought. The rainfall in Southern states has ranged from 10 to 20 inches below normal since Jan. 1. Heavy rain overnight pushed streams in Kansas, Nebraska, Texas and Utah out of their banks. Up to 10 inches of rain fell in Bassett, Neb. UFOs Sun Attack 0.523 5/5/86 Southeastern Turkey Shaken By Earthquake; 4 People Killed ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- An earthquake shook the southeastern provinces of Turkey today, killing at least four people and destroying some houses, the semi-official Anatolia news agency said. The news agency said the four people were killed when their houses collapsed on them in the provinces of Malatya and Adiyaman. The quake, which measured 5.8 on the Richter scale, also hit five other provinces, Anatolia said. OCALA * STAR-BANNER, MONDAY, MAY 5, 1986 5A 129 === Page 43 of 49 U.F.D.C. Sun Attack # Rockies lashed with wind, rain; wildfire rages in North Carolina Tribune Wires 5/7/86 A Western storm lashed the Rockies with rain, snow and gusty winds Tuesday and heavy thunderstorms rolled through the Great Lakes region, churning up funnel clouds. Meanwhile, a wind-whipped wildfire raged out of control across more than 10,000 acres in North Carolina's Onslow and Pender counties Tuesday, causing one death and forcing at least 12 families to evacuate. The Division of Forestry Resources is fighting the blaze that started Monday in a swampy part of Pender County and spread northeast into Onslow County. On Tuesday, a line of severe thunderstorms moved rapidly through the Detroit area causing scattered power outages. A tornado was spotted in Plymouth, Mich., and several funnel clouds were sighted around Detroit, the National Weather Service said. No injuries or serious damage were reported. Thunderstorms and showers were scattered from New England across the lower Great Lakes into the lower Mississippi Valley. A storm off the northern Pacific Coast spread snow and rain across the higher elevations of northern California and western Nevada. A light spring snow of 1 to 2 inches fell in the mountains west of Reno, Nev., and 2 to 5 inches of snow in the mountains around Lake Tahoe, the weather service said. The unseasonably cold, wet and windy weather could endanger young livestock in Wyoming and Colorado, the weather service said. High winds raked much of the West and northern Plains. Winds were clocked at 51 mph in Las Vegas and 35 mph at Kingman, Ariz. Winterlike weather engulfed the northern Plains with temperatures in the 30s. In Tampa, the temperature reached 91 degrees Tuesday -- 3 degrees short of the record -- and a series of muggy days are ahead, meteorologists said. Widely scattered afternoon or evening showers are on the Bay area forecast at least through the weekend, with high temperatures in the upper 80s. # Chilly Canadian blast shatters temperature records across East U.F.D.C. Sun Attack Tribune Staff and Wires 5/5/86 A blast of Canadian cold air swept along the East Coast Sunday, shattering low temperature records from Maine to the Carolinas. The winter-like air mass, which hit the upper Great Lakes last Wednesday and then moved slowly eastward, dropped temperatures below freezing and created even lower wind chills with strong gusts. Four boy scouts camping in a suburban Rochester, N.Y., park overnight were treated for mild cases of hypothermia as the mercury there dipped to 31 degrees. Record low temperatures overnight were set in 18 cities across 10 states from Maine to South Carolina. However, a warming trend was only a day away, as the cold air mass was expected to move out to sea, leaving in its wake normal temperatures by today. The Bay area's weather is likely to remain "hot and dusty" for the next few days, said Bill Seller of the National Weather Service. The hot weather, normal for this time of year, is caused by a high pressure system overhead, the meteorologist said. Layers of air are heated as they move down, Seller explained. Today and Tuesday, expect fair weather with high temperatures near 80 degrees and lows from near 60 to the mid-60s. Today's forecast calls for east and southeast winds at 10 to 15 mph. Elsewhere, a storm system in the Plateau dumped 8 inches of snow at Austin in central Nevada. Forecasters called for up to 5 more inches, and a travelers advisory was posted across east central and northeast sections of the state for elevations above 6,000 feet. A winter storm watch also was issued across the mountains and foothills of northwest and central Montana. # Dry Weather Taking Toll On Parched Big Sun Area U.F.D.C. Sun Attack By Ocala Star-Banner Staff 5/7/86 And the Associated Press Despite spotted showers Tuesday, dry conditions in Marion County are considered critical with a burn index measured at 110, reported the Florida Forest Service. The burn index is nearing the record of 113 a year ago this month when more than 10,000 acres in the Ocala National Forest were ravaged by fire. "The burn index is a measure of fire danger in which vegetation would ignite from dry conditions," reported Dean Snyder of the Florida Forest Service. He said the average burn index is about 50. "The grass is dead and underbrush is a tinderbox," Snyder said. He described the vegetation as in "the cured stage." Burning restrictions are in effect, with permits issued under conditions that require firefighting equipment to stand by, Snyder said. With rainfall below average for April, water regulators may ask 16 southwest Florida counties today to impose a voluntary ban, according to a spokesman with the Southwest Florida Water Management District, which governs water usage in Marion County west of Interstate 75. Rainfall in the district last month ranged from .5 to 1.8 inches, compared with the norm of 2.2 to 3 inches for April. A trace of rainfall was recorded in Ocala and portions of Marion County on Tuesday, with one Star-Banner weather watcher in Rainbow Lakes Estates reporting two-tenths of an inch of precipitation. Thunderstorms reportedly drenched large areas of Citrus, Levy and Alachua counties. One area east of Ocala measured just over one inch. From March to April, lake levels, stream flows and ground water levels all declined. Pumpage, which is See Drought Plagues on page 8A === Page 44 of 49 # Drought Plagues Big Sun; Voluntary Water Ban Eyed Continued from page 1A 5/7/86 ground water withdrawal from major wellfields, increased almost 25 percent in April over March. Last year's severe drought left deficits of up to 14 inches in certain areas such as the Alafia River and the northern Peace River Basin, said Jim Hunter, a spokesman for the water district, referred to as Swiftmud. The conservation proposal, prepared by Swiftmud staff, was to be presented to the agency board today. "The situation is not yet critical, but a matter of concern," said Gary Kuhl, the board's executive director. A drought laying siege to the whole Southeast is withering hard-pressed farmers' crops, drying up reservoirs, turning forests tinder-dry, cutting hydroelectric power and forcing mandatory curbs on lawn watering, officials say. "It's a bad situation that's getting worse fast," Carl Harker of the Southeast Agricultural Weather Service Center at Auburn University in Alabama, said Tuesday. The dry spell is the worst in Tennessee since records were first kept in the 1890s and the worst in South Carolina since the 1900s, officials said. It is affecting Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas and Tennessee in varying severity. # Pre-summer drought parches Southeast U Fla Sun Attack New York Times Trib 5/5/86 ATLANTA - The level of Lake Sidney Lanier, the 39,000-acre reservoir that supplies most of Atlanta's drinking water, is six feet below what it should be and still falling. "If we don't get some rain soon, things are going to get a lot worse this summer," said Ron Blue, the manager of the Holiday Marina, where boaters are already being warned to look sharply for low spots in the lake. "The problem in the spring ought to be too much water, not too little." In wide areas of the Southeast, including parts of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and the western Carolinas, rainfall levels since the first of the year are the lowest since forecasters began keeping records a century ago. And there is little relief in sight. Forecasters predict no substantial rainfall through the middle of this week, and the 30- and 90-day extended forecasts from the National Weather Service call for near or below normal precipitation around much of the Southeast. In most areas, where flooding, not drought, is more commonly the problem in spring, less than a quarter-inch of rain has fallen in the last 40 days. In Atlanta, for example, less than eight inches of rain has fallen since Jan. 1. That is nearly 12 inches less than the average for the same period. Since officials ordinarily count on heavy spring rains to top off water reservoirs for the drier summer months, some counties and cities in northern Georgia and Alabama have already imposed mandatory restrictions on the watering of lawns. And in suburban Roswell, residents were asked last week to use water only for drinking and flushing toilets. Outside the city, livestock pastures are already brown and some streams have turned to mud. Farm fields are dry and crumbly, forcing many farmers to delay their planting of soybeans, cotton and peanuts. "Farmers are really falling behind," said Rodger Getz, a meteorologist with the Southeast Agricultural Weather Service Center in Auburn, Ala. "Unlike the West, the South doesn't have many irrigated crops." The lack of moisture also poses the danger of grass and forest fires. Fires this year have claimed 867,092 acres of public and private timberland in the South, according to Bruce Jewell, a spokesman for the National Forest Service. Gary Beeley, a forecaster with the National Weather Service, says that upper atmosphere air patterns have been carrying storm tracks well to the north of Georgia. That has allowed high pressure to dominate the weather picture in the Southeast, keeping skies clear and the air dry. The drought has already had some dramatic effects. In Etowah County in northeast Alabama, where only 3.5 inches of rain has fallen since Jan. 1, the wells that service the rural community of Burton Loop have gone bone dry. As a result, state officials have had to dispatch a 400 gallon water tanker to provide drinking water to the 18 families who live there. In Birmingham, water volume in Lake Purdy, the reservoir that provides a major part of the city's water supply, is 25 percent less than it should be. And at Lake Alatoona, 30 miles northwest of Atlanta, the water surface has dropped 12 feet below normal. === Page 45 of 49 THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Thursday, May 8, 1986 • 11-A # Drought • From Page 1A brought 6.47 inches of rain to Birmingham, Ala., 15.7 inches less than normal and the driest such period ever recorded by the National Weather Service. Other record low amounts for January through April were set in Jackson, Miss., with 7.37 inches, and Atlanta, with 7.96 inches. Southeastern Louisiana has had 3.38 inches of rain since March 1, giving that region a chance of breaking its March-through-May record low of 3.91 inches. Nashville has measured 6.66 inches of rain so far this year, 12.81 inches below normal. Rainfall is just 34 percent of its normal pace in Greensboro, N.C. In southern Georgia and Florida, early year rainfall has 1986 levels near or above average, but April still parched the soil that farmers had hoped to seed. About 41 percent of the U.S. peanut crop comes from Georgia, mostly from the southern part of the state. The Georgia Crop Reporting Service says just 27 percent of the crop has been planted, compared with 60 percent at the same time last year and a five-year average of 35 percent. Some farmers have had to use their irrigation systems to get the ground wet enough to accept seed, said John Beasley, a peanut specialist in the Tifton office of the Georgia Cooperative Extension Service. "That's an expense they just don't normally count on," Beasley said. He said the irrigation cost will at least partially offset the advantages of higher production quotas and rates paid by the government in the peanut program. "Peanuts was the only crop in the South that we could really make a profit on," Beasley said. Some Florida cattle farmers are irrigating pastures just to provide grass for their stock, and it is "costing them out the ears," said Alachua County Agent Bill Brown. Planting of Mississippi's cotton crop, one of the nation's largest, is being slowed by lack of rain, and plants in the ground are suffering from cool nights, said state Agriculture Commissioner Jim Buck Ross. "Cotton needs to be up and growing with hot nights -- something that has not happened," Ross said. "The situation is rapidly becoming very, very serious for farmers in Mississippi." Tobacco planting is behind schedule in Tennessee and North Carolina. "The wind does about as much damage as the dry weather," said Bladen County, N.C., Extension Chairman Keith Dennis. "When you put tender plants out and the wind blows, it's just like sandblasting them." The drought also may cut the harvest of South Carolina's 300,000-acre wheat crop in half, said Clemson University Extension Service Director B.K. Webb. The drought also has reduced levels in rivers and lakes. Alabama Power Co., which normally gets 7 percent of its electricity from its 14 dams, has shut down all hydroelectric generation because of lack of water. Trib 5/9/86 STAYSKAL 86 TAMPA TRIBUNE NASA MUST HAVE JUST TOLD HIM HE'S STILL A FINALIST FOR THE FIRST JOURNALIST IN SPACE! NO... THEY JUST TOLD HIM HE'S NOT! === Page 46 of 49 33 # 12 Hurt, 35 Homes Leveled As Twister Hits Oklahoma UFo2 Sun Attack 0.58 5/9/86 ## 'Looked Like Big Ball Of Fire' EDMOND, Okla. (AP) -- A suppertime tornado bounced through a neighborhood, injuring 12 people, destroying dozens of homes, and leaving residents amazed that no one was seriously hurt. "I don't know how we kept from being killed, but we did," said 74-year-old Frances Forehand, who suffered cuts and bruises when the tornado tore through the home of her granddaughter Vicki Taylor on Thursday night. "It looked like a big ball of fire went through the house." Police spokesman Lt. Mike Wooldridge, whose home was one of those damaged in southwestern Edmond, said 12 people were treated at a hospital for minor injuries. Fire Marshal Ron Williamson said at least 35 homes were destroyed and at least 30 others damaged. Although there were no reports of fatalities, Williamson said he could not be certain that everyone was accounted for. "Of course that's always a concern," he said. Authorities would make house-to-house checks to see that everyone got out of their homes, Williamson said. Lt. Gov. Spencer Bernard arrived at the community of 35,000, just north of Oklahoma City, late Thursday and said he had asked Gov. George Nigh to put the National Guard on alert. But Bernard said the guardsmen would not be needed, if at all, until today. He said all state agencies, including the Civil Defense and state Department of Human Services, will be available to help. Mrs. Forehand, sitting in a hospital robe at a Red Cross shelter at Edmond High School, said she was watching television with her granddaughter and two great-grandsons when the tornado shattered a pair of sliding glass windows. "I started to say we better turn the TV off and it just blew in on us," she said. "There were sticks, pieces of metal, glass flying around ... but it didn't even break my glasses." Mrs. Taylor said as the twister tore through her home, she grabbed her 8-month-old son and placed him in a bedroom closet. "I tried to get back to get my grandmother and 4-year-old son, but the bedroom was already completely demolished," she said. "The storm had already gone through." Mrs. Forehand said she and her grandson, who received stitches on his forehead, were buried by debris. "We had to dig ourselves out," she said. Rescue workers later helped the four from the home. "They didn't let us take anything with us, not our purses or anything," said Mrs. Taylor. "I don't even know if I could find them anyway." The tornado touched down about 7:30 p.m. and hopscotched through the 7-year-old subdivision. The twister flattened four or five of the medium-sized brick homes in a row before lifting off the ground. It then touched down again, damaging or destroying the others homes. The storm, accompanied by heavy rain and hail, left streets cluttered with wood and shingles from homes. Telephone poles were bent in half and power lines were strewn across lawns and streets. The National Weather Service said the tornado in Edmond was part of a strong line of thunderstorms that moved through the metropolitan area. # 2 tornadoes touch down in Polk County The first twister swept through a small subdivision in a rural area between Dundee and Winter Haven while the second struck a business east of Mulberry. UFo2 Sun Attack 5/10/86 By MIKE WOLNY Tribune Staff Writer MULBERRY -- Tornadoes touched down in two places in Polk County Friday evening, causing minor damage to buildings but injuring no one, Polk sheriff's Communications Sgt. Gail Speer said. The weather also kept firefighters around the county busy responding to reports of lightning strikes that caused minor fires but no injuries, county civil defense officials said. The first twister swept through a small subdivision in a rural area between Dundee and Winter Haven off County Road 542 in the eastern part of the county about 3:45 p.m., Speer said. "It did no structural damage," Speer said. "It messed up the roof on a storage shed on High Street. There were some downed telephone poles and power outages reported." A second tornado struck shortly after 7 p.m., causing minor structural damage to Compressed Air Products, a business east of Mulberry on State Road 60, Speer said. Mitch Carmack, assistant chief of the Mulberry Fire Department, said the tornado occurred just minutes after a power line fell across U.S. 60, forcing a semi to jackknife. A three-car accident resulted. And shortly after 5:30 p.m. firefighters were called to a fire at the garage of Resource Recovery on U.S. 60 near the city's eastern boundary. Carmack said the blaze was contained to a tanker truck used by the firm in its waste recovery business. He said lightning was suspected as the cause of both the fire and the collapse of the power line. The series of calls had Mulberry's seven firefighters on duty busy throughout the afternoon and evening. === Page 47 of 49 # North Carolina inferno AP photo UFOs Sun Attack 5/14/86 Trib. ## Firefighters gain upper hand A 10,000-acre backfire broke the back of a raging blaze in North Carolina, but gusting winds and dry conditions continued Tuesday to plague the region that has lost more than 73,000 acres to flames. The wildfire has covered 110 square miles and has resulted in evacuations of residents, one death and 50 injuries. Unless rains occur, experts said, some of the ground fires could last for months. 117 PENDER COUNTY Burgaw Rocky Point Wilmington 17 Maple Hill **BURNED AREA** Hampstead Jacksonville Holly Ridge ATLANTIC OCEAN 0 15 Miles NORTH CAROLINA Area of Detail Tribune map by WARREN HUSKEY === Page 48 of 49 # Firefighters struggle to contain 75,000-acre N.C. blaze Tribune Wires - 5/13/86 HAMPSTEAD, N.C. -- Firefighters using aircraft, tractors and shovels inched closer Monday toward containing a 14-mile-long blaze that has consumed 75,000 acres in its weeklong, erratic path through swampy southeastern North Carolina. As 75 fresh firefighters were rotated in, officials hoped steady winds would keep the flames away from populated areas to the north. More than 5,000 people have been evacuated but only two buildings have been destroyed. "The fire didn't spread today," said Bob Grady of the state Forest Service. "There is not total containment on the perimeter, but we did hold the existing perimeter, which we feel is very much in our favor. It's the first day that we've been able to do that." "I would expect they should be able to contain it tomorrow," Grady said. "Tomorrow, I expect them to be putting in plow lines and getting all the roads completely burned out of any existing fuel so we'll have a fairly cool perimeter." By afternoon, the fire had closed ranks with a smaller blaze. Feldman Corn of the state Division of Forest Resources at one point said the blaze had been contained inside lines, but officials later said it continued to burn out of control on two fronts. Tom Hegele, spokesman for the state Department of Natural Resources and Community Development, said it was unlikely the fire could be extinguished until rain hit the scorched eastern North Carolina soil. National Weather Service hydrologist Alan Gustafson said the chances were "very, very remote" that rain predicted for western parts of the state would reach the area of the fire. Hail-bearing thunderstorms dampened the weekend across some of the South, but forecasters said Monday the rain was too scattered and too short to provide any general relief to drought-stricken Dixie. The storms were heaviest in Louisiana, where they caused minor flooding and power outages, and in Mississippi, where they brought high winds, hail and up to 4 inches of rain. But the storm system weakened as it moved eastward, and forecasters held little hope that North Carolina would get significant rainfall. "The top soil is so dry it's difficult for plants to grow in many places," said National Weather Service hydrologist Alan Gustafson, who classified eastern sections of North Carolina as being in a "moderate drought." "It's affecting farmers quite heavily," he said. "There's nothing but dust there." Much of the Southeast is still more than a foot below normal rainfall for the year, and a drought alert was issued Friday for parts of Georgia, Florida and Alabama. In Atlanta, the first four months of 1986 were the driest on record. A thick layer of gray smoke clung to smoldering remains of pine forests in Pender County, N.C., obscuring the flames from spotter airplanes and prompting health warnings in surrounding areas of southeastern North Carolina. At a forest service command post, a map showed the fire covered a rough, diamond-shaped area pointing north at Maple Hill and measuring about 14 miles from north to south. Officials said the area burned comprised about 110 square miles, or 10 percent of the county. On Sunday, anticipating the direction of afternoon sea breezes, firefighters burned 5,000 to 10,000 acres to rob the fire of fuel. "If we had not, we'd probably have a 100,000-acre fire out of control," said Tommy Thompson, incident commander for the state Division of Forest Resources. # 26 missing in storms' aftermath At least one drowned when the storm hit Texas during fishing tournaments. 5/19/86 HOUSTON (AP) -- Rescue teams using a helicopter and boats searched a lake Sunday for more than 26 people reported missing after a storm and high winds struck during fishing tournaments, and at least one person drowned, authorities said. Meanwhile, off Galveston, Coast Guard crews searched for at least three boats reported overdue since Saturday's storms. The winds that whipped Lake Livingston forced people to abandon their boats and swim to shore. Hundreds of people were at the lake, about 80 miles north of Houston, participating in two fishing tournaments and a sailing race. "We have 26 unaccounted for -- that doesn't mean they're all drowned though," said Polk County Sheriff's Sgt. J.C. Robbins. The search ended about 2 p.m. Some people may have left their boats during the storm, Robbins said, so police were calling homes. About 12 boats were recovered Sunday, and three people were rescued from an island. The storms were part of a wave of violent thunderstorms and tornadoes that struck western Arkansas and central Texas. In another incident, a 50-year-old man disappeared after his boat cap- === Page 49 of 49 # Twisters turn sky pink, cause power outage in Alabama town Tribune Staff and Wires 5/19/86 Two tornados buzzed Jackson, Ala., Sunday, turning the sky pink and then disappearing without touching down. The twisters were part of slow-moving storm system that pushed high winds into southeast Texas Saturday. The tornados rumbled through the southwest Alabama town shortly before and after noon, said police officer Bill Johnson. "They never did touch down, but we did have a report of power outage on the east side of town," Johnson said. The storm that struck Texas Saturday lost little of its intensity as it moved toward Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky and Louisiana on Sunday, prompting a severe thunderstorm watch and a tornado watch in those states, said meteorologist Harry Gordon in Kansas City. "They're getting some rain, and it's making them (state meteorologists) nervous," Gordon said. "They're looking for heavy thundershowers and most indicate by radar that the storm is intense." Chilly temperatures across Colorado, Kansas and western Texas tied or broke cold records in at least four cities. A reading of 35 shattered the record of 39 set in 1888 in Dodge City, Kansas. El Paso, Texas, dipped to 41, breaking the 1983 record of 45. Midland, Texas, tied the record of 45 set in 1967. In Pueblo, Colo., the temperature dipped to 30, breaking the 1915 record of 34. No injuries or serious damage was reported near Allegan and Hillsdale, Mich., from tornadoes that touched down Saturday. Strong thunderstorm winds uprooted trees and destroyed a mobile home and several barns at Algansee. In the Tampa Bay area, the National Weather Service is predicting mostly cloudy skies with a 50 percent chance of afternoon thunderstorms today. Highs in the mid-80s and south winds at 10 to 15 mph are expected. Tonight and Tuesday, expect showers and thunderstorms, lows in the mid to upper 60s and highs in the mid-80s. Rain chances are pegged at 60 percent tonight and Tuesday. The rest of this week, temperatures won't change much, said meteorologist Bill Seiler. But there will be a fairly good chance of thunderstorms, especially in the afternoons. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 18 Postmark 6-10-86 Monday, June 9, 1986 Jeffrey Scientists: My UFOs have severely crippled NASA and taught Russia (and the world) a valuable lesson at Chernobyl -- now they will turn their full attention to obtaining their UFO Base, which means that they intend to intensify and amplify pressure on the U.S. government to provide same... by sweeping "waves" of other-dimensional psi-force across the U.S. Now anything can happen! Ted Owens (PK Man) === Page 2 of 18 May 23, 1986 Dear Rosy Rhine: I enjoyed very much hearing from you. I can still see vividly your cute little face, smiling impishly at me...a face sitting atop a chubby little girl's bod. My age then was 26 (now 66) and I had brought you a little gift on my way down to Duke from Bedford, Indiana. It was a wooden doll that danced when you pressed the bottom block of wood. I believe that you wore pigtails then. What ever happened to Robby? Read an article about the Rhine family in Fate mag...all members of the family were described, but no mention whatever of Robby. ??? No, was not aware that Louie had passed away. She was something else. Seems like yesterday that Louie and I were walking through the woods and she told me, "Ted, you have to learn to channel your psychic powers...control them." She and JB (the Bull of the Woods) were my "displaced parents" at Duke. They would have me go over to your house in the evening to eat supper with you, around that big table. A man gave me a set of drums...and Louie told me to come over to her house and set them up in front of the fireplace in the living room to test them out. When a millionaire's daughter invited me to a Duke dance...I had no tux so JB took out his tux which he used to wear to lectures and put it on me so that I could go to the dance. The pants were too short, too tight...old and frayed...but at least it was a tux. My date wore a dress covered, believe it or not, with diamonds, pearls, rubies and emeralds. Ha ha. (She was in law school; was from Miami). Your dad dictated "The Reach of the Mind" to me and I typed it out for him to send to the publisher...believe it was William Sloane and Associates. The publisher wanted JB to let Phillip Wylie write the foreword for the book but JB had a fit. He wanted a dignified scientist to do it...not some "young upstart" like Wylie. Ha ha ha. JB and Louie would have me over some nights to the house for seances. I was the medium. Betty Mac and Betty Humphreys would be there, too. One funny thing that happened...JB, Betty Mac, Betty Humphreys, myself and a few others were playing touch football one afternoon...I was on one side and JB was on the other side. After a play was over (JB had the ball) JB and his team gathered in a huddle to plan the next play. They didn't know I had sneaked across the line of play and gotten into the huddle with them. "Now here is what we're going to do..." said JB, and he outlined a play. "No, Dr. Rhine, that won't work" I said, cackling with laughter...and JB and the others chased me all over the field in mock rage. One day JB took me down into the basement and told me there was a secret door and a hidden room there. I could not figure out where the door was...until he showed me how that entire concrete wall could be pushed away from the bottom so that one could slide into the hidden room (which also had an exit into the kitchen through the floor, covered by a rug.) I used to show you card and coin tricks...but doubt if you can remember that. Once JB and Louie took you kids and me out to a swimming hole (had a bathhouse where JB and I got undressed and put on our suits) and we all swam...later we had a picnic supper and JB played that concertina and sang Burl Ives songs...with you-all singing along with him. He was especially fond of "Jimmy Cracked Corn." === Page 3 of 18 2 Later your dad got awfully mad at me. My fault, of course. Before coming to Duke I had spent two years on an island in the Pacific... as a sailor...and hadn't known any intimacies with females. At Duke I was allowed to have breakfast in the girl's dining hall on East Campus because that was where the Parapsych Lab office was. And those mischievous Duke girls had a lot of fun making me sweat copiously by going to breakfast in their bathrobes, or much less, and parading their goodies in front of me. It was sort of like a starving man being turned loose in a huge room full of delicious culinary delights. Ha ha. I had so many dates my dates had dates. JB finally got me aside and sort of suggested that I find some pretty, lonely widow in town to consort with...since I was much older than the little Duke kiddies. Then, to top it off, I found out that my best friend in the world, Granpa, was dying from cancer back in Bedford and had only a couple of months to live. Instantly I dropped my books and studies and left Duke without a word to anyone there...and hitchhiked to Bedford, where I took care of Granpa, along with granma, until he passed away. Now, JB had gone to one heck of a lot of trouble to get me to Duke, originally, to work for him as a secretary...then to get me admitted as a student. (The Dean there told me personally that he hated ex-GIs because they were on the GI Bill (had no money) and were usually goofing up (which was true...a fellow ex-GI, friend of mine at Duke, accidentally broke his Duke girlfriend's arm showing her a judo hold he'd used in fighting Japs in the Pacific.) Anyway, my leaving Duke the way I did...really sent your Dad up the wall. Not Louie... she's always been real cool about everything; understanding, you know? It was completely in character...Louie's bod folding up but her iron will and determination holding Nature off until she finished her book. I salute her...a great woman...and I also salute your Dad... both of them absolutely smashing human beings and ones-of-a-kind, most certainly. My own bod is in the process of folding up, too. Happens to everyone. * Rosy...I made a tremendous discovery myself in parapsych. You know that time and space are irrelevant and immaterial in psi phenomena. Well, doing my own research I discovered that MASS also fits into that formula. I.e., using the same psychic ability to influence the numbers on dice to come up past chance (PK) it is just as easy to make a storm occur over a geographical area...or lightning strike a target. Humans are brainwashed from birth into believing that the larger an effect the more power must be used. T'ain't so. In 1976 I was invited to go to London and appear and lecture before famous parapsychologists and physicists, etc., on my work in parapsych. It was quite an experience. There are bunches of books in your library, written by experts on psi-force and parapsych, re my work. Will enclose some newsclip xeroxes and book xeroxes. I wish the best, always, for you and yours, Rosy. Affectionately, Ted Owens (PK Man) 1713 NE 20th St. Ocala, Florida 32670 * My kids have orders to put on my tombstone: "What? No more TV pro-football games? Dam!" === Page 4 of 18 limits" so that she could finish that book - so important for her to finish - for Dad's sake. I'm sending you a copy, because I know you admire her as we all do, and will enjoy her book. I'm out in Portland, Oregon, and have been meaning to write earlier to let you know about Mom. Although I've had time to get over the initial grief, I still miss her very much. Somehow, she's still here. I'm sure you understand. In case you don't remember me, I'm the youngest daughter. I was happy that you are still in contact with "the Rhines." Your family sounds delightful. Love, Rosie Rhine June 4, 1985 Dear Ted, I was in Durham in April when your kind letter arrived at Mom's house. My sister Betsy usually answers the mail, but I remembered you and told her I'd answer. Mom died three years ago (actually less than that - March 17, 1983). The year before, she had a coronary, but recovered in her indomitable style, so that she could finish her book about Dad's journey, Something Hidden. Six weeks after she finished the book, she suffered from a massive coronary. My sister and I think she "pushed her === Page 5 of 18 R. Rhine 1937 NW Johnson #5 Portland, OR 97209 PORTLAND OR 972 PM 5 JUN 1985 Mallard Decoy Folk Art USA 22 Ted Owens 1713 NE 29th ST Ocala, Florida 32670 BANNER UFOs Described As Size Ping-Pong Balls === Page 6 of 18 # OCALA STAR 25 CENTS DAILY 50 CENTS SUNDAY VOLUME 42, NO. 264, 121ST YEAR Ocala, Florida, Thursday, May 22, 1986 # BANNER Home # Jets Pursue Tiny UFOs ## Described As Size Of Ping-Pong Balls RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -- Multicolored UFOs the size of ping-pong balls were seen in the skies over Brazil on Monday and the government sent fighter jets to chase them, the air force minister said on television. "Because they saturated our radar system in Sao Paulo and because they were interfering with air traffic, it was decided to send up planes to pursue them," Brigadier Gen. Otavio Moreira Lima said Wednesday. The air force immediately dispatched four fighter jets -- two Mirages and two F-5s -- to find the unidentified flying objects, which the Air Space Defense Center had located over the cities of Sao Paulo, Sao Jose dos Campos and Rio de Janeiro. One of the F-5 pilots reported seeing objects that he said were multicolored, Moreira Lima said, adding, "He reported that 13 of these objects accompanied his aircraft, seven on one side of his jet and six on the other side." Another pilot described the objects as "the shape and size of a ping-pong ball flying at a speed of (840 miles)," TV Globo, the country's leading news network, reported. The air force jets, which also picked up the UFOs on their radar screens, tracked them for almost three hours, but had to turn back when the planes started to run out of fuel, reported TV Manchete, another leading news network. "I can't give an explanation for this because we don't have any," said Moreira Lima. May 23, 1986 SCIENTISTS The above was on TV today (CNN). They also announced ANOTHER tremendous UFO sighting in California...dozens of people and police saw it. You will recall my experience in northern California years ago... when three Bigfoot creatures appeared near my two sons and myself... also ping-pong-size red lights appeared overhead and all around the area, in the sky...and when I signaled to them with my flashlight the flash exposed otherwise-invisible giant UFOs. The tiny red lights were attached to the various craft. It's in your files. Ted Owens (PK Man) * My UFOs have put their "signature" to Chernobyl and the NASA disasters. === Page 7 of 18 The U.S. Govt. is lying. Same UFO seen over California last week. See clip. Owens 038 6/2/86 # Russian Rocket Lights Up Night MIAMI (AP) -- Floridians who witnessed a long-tailed fireball that whizzed down the length of the state thought they'd seen a meteor shower or a UFO, but a U.S. air command official said it was a Soviet rocket falling to earth. "It looked like a big ball of fire with a tail... less than two miles into the air. It was bright orange-red," said Theresa Rines, a disc jockey at radio station WAMR-WRAV in Venice, on Florida's southwest coast. Ms. Rines said the object was visible for about 30 seconds as it flew overhead. Residents from Jacksonville to Key West, a distance of over 500 miles, reported seeing the spent rocket. "I thought it was a meteor or comet," Ms. Rines said of the Sunday night sky show. But a spokesman for the North American Aerospace Defense Command, located near Colorado Springs, Colo., said people who called to report citing such natural phenomena were wrong. "It was the rocket body used in the launch of a Soviet satellite designated Cosmos 1746," said Del Kindschi, a NORAD spokesman. ## "It looked like a big ball of fire with a tail" He said that experts at the underground surveillance center in Cheyenne Mountain had expected the spent rocket to begin falling to earth north of Cuba at around 10 p.m. He confirmed that the satellite traveled down the coast of Florida. He said the rocket body hit the atmosphere near Jacksonville and was last seen near Cuba. However, he said he didn't know where it touched down. The U.S.S.R. has disclosed no information about when the satellite was launched or what its mission was, the spokesman said. Although the rocket entered the atmosphere along the Atlantic Coast, it was visible on both coasts at the southern end of the state. "It was real close. It went north to south, from north of Venice south to Port Charlotte," Ms. Rines said. About 20 listeners called the radio station to report the object that looked like a falling satellite or meteor shower, Ms. Rines said. "It was very pretty, it was flying real low. It was going in a straight line," she said. "It was going at a slow rate of speed. I saw it for 30 seconds," she said. === Page 8 of 18 Rocket failure forces halt of Ariane space program UFO vs Space Work Trib 6/1/86 KOUROU, French Guiana (UPI) -- Europe's commercial Ariane rocket program was halted Saturday pending an investigation into the failure of an unmanned rocket that tumbled out of control and was destroyed along with a $55 million satellite. The action left Western nations without satellite launch capability. The action left the Western world with no immediate capability for launching satellites following the Jan. 28 Challenger space shuttle tragedy and failure of American's Atlas-Centaur and Delta unmanned rockets. It also threw into disarray European plans to take over some of the business left open by the shuttle disaster and forced delays into sending needed communications and weather satellites to replace aging orbiters. Frederic d'Allest, chairman of Arianespace, the French-led international consortium that builds, markets and launches the rockets for the European Space agency, said it was uncertain how long the Ariane would be grounded -- although he said flights may resume by the end of the year. Arianespace had planned four more launches this year, the next Aug. 12. The four launches were to send more satellites into orbit. The agency had orders for more than 30 satellites for launch by the end of 1988, including eight that had been scheduled for the shuttle. The Ariane 2 rocket lifted off perfectly Friday night from the Guiana Space Center on the northeastern coast of South America, and its first two stages separated correctly and fell toward the Atlantic. But the third and final stage ignited briefly and went out after a few seconds, and the rocket tumbled wildly out of control. Moments later, flight safety officers at mission control detonated the rocket, which was destroyed along with the satellite. D'Allest said a preliminary investigation traced the problem to the ignition of the third stage. Onboard computers received the orders to fire the engine, but for unknown reasons, the fuel did not ignite properly. "After the separation," he said, "we see that the third stage engine had started to run but then stopped. The preliminary data shows that all the electrical systems and the onboard computer had worked properly. "It appears clearly, unless further investigation shows something else, that we are faced with a problem related to the building up of the thrust during the starting sequence," he said. A problem in the same stage of Ariane's 15th flight last fall forced the detonation of the rocket with the loss of two satellites worth $100 million. Four of the 18 Ariane flights have ended in failure. The accident will also force a slip in flight testing for the next generation of launchers, the Ariane 4, because it used the same engine in the third stage. D'Allest said an independent investigating board will begin work this week on identifying the problem based on computer data showing fuel pressure and temperature. Allan McCaskill, manager of Intelsat launch vehicle office -- owners of the demolished satellite, said the loss of the satellite would delay the organization's plans to improve transmission of television and telephone traffic for the 110 member countries of the Washington-based international telecommunications satellite organizations. UFO vs Space Work Ariane rocket blows up Trib 5/31/86 By STEVE HOLLAND United Press International KOUROU, French Guiana -- Europe's Ariane rocket blasted off with a $55 million satellite aboard Friday, but its third stage failed to fire and mission control blew up the rocket, sending it tumbling into the ocean. After a perfect launch from the Guiana Space Center, the first stage of the unmanned rocket separated correctly, but the third stage failed to ignite on schedule. "The whole mission has been lost," said Frederic d'Allest, chairman of Arianespace, the French-led international consortium that markets, builds and launches the Ariane, which has been the top competitor to the U.S. space shuttle. D'Allest said the first two stages of the 148-foot rocket separated correctly and on time, but the engine in the third stage failed to ignite. The third stage and the 4,400-pound satellite fell together into the Atlantic. Two Ariane rockets have been launched successfully this year, sending four satellites into orbit. Last fall, however, an Ariane rocket had to be detonated when it flew out of control. An eerie silence fell over mission control when news of the rocket failure was revealed. A space agency spokesman said the decision to detonate the rocket was made not because it threatened populated areas, but because it was disappearing over the horizon, meaning officials would have had the risk shifting to another tracking station. UFO vs Space Work Trib 6/1/86 Europe's Ariane 2 rocket carrying a telecommunications satellite lifts off from its pad Friday shortly before it was blown up. Reuters photo === Page 9 of 18 TOM Wicker 0.5B 5/25/86 # Soviet Disaster Forces Openness Aside from the death and misery suffered by so many Soviet citizens and perhaps other Europeans, President Reagan and the Western allies have plenty of reason to take quiet satisfaction in the plight of the Soviet government following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. For one thing, world public reaction has clearly forced Moscow to an unprecedented degree of openness with other nations and even its own people -- notably including Mikhail Gorbachev's remarkable (for a Soviet leader) televised report on the accident. For another, in his call for "an international regime" to supervise reactor safety and provide the world community with early warning of such accidents as that at Chernobyl, Gorbachev departed sharply from the Soviet Union's usual insistence on excluding the world from its internal affairs. Finally, in an effort to recover from what has been a body blow to Soviet prestige and credibility, Gorbachev has been pushed to take a new risk for arms control -- renewing his previously canceled moratorium on nuclear testing, despite the fact that Moscow has conducted no tests at all since last Aug. 6, while Reagan has ordered 11 U.S. tests in the same period. All three of these developments, in effect, are substantial "victories" for the West and ought to be regarded as such, though without gloating or polemics. Unfortunately, Washington's reaction has mostly been to ignore them. Now Chernobyl and its aftermath have demonstrated further severe deficiencies on the part of the Soviet government. It was unable to protect its people from a nuclear accident and as a consequence has seen fit to call for international assistance in preventing such accidents in the future. The high tribute that Gorbachev paid to American physicians -- though one of them, Dr. Robert Gale, has suggested that no nation is sufficiently prepared to meet such a disaster -- was a concession that Moscow also needed outside help in caring for victims of the accident. To only one of these striking Soviet developments has Reagan so far responded favorably. A White House statement welcomed Gorbachev's proposal for "an international regime," based on a strengthened International Atomic Energy Agency, to promote nuclear reactor safety and to provide "prompt warning and supply of information" in the event of a nuclear accident. A judiciously worded and non-polemical statement by Reagan taking note of and implicitly encouraging further Soviet openness with the world and its own citizens also seems in order. If adversity forced Gorbachev more toward Western ways of responding to crisis, why not credit him for it? Predictably, however, the president's discouraging reaction to the renewal of the Soviet test moratorium was as negative and illogical as ever. # LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 0.5B 5/23/86 ## Nuclear Accident A Blessing In Disguise? To The Editor: The nuclear accident in Russia may turn out to be a blessing in disguise, in that Russia may belatedly pay more attention to the needs of her people instead of exporting her military might around the entire world! They are military bullies who attack every country whom they think are weak enough to plow under, and use their tool of starvation to subdue! # Aid Rushed To Typhoon Victims PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) -- Emergency supplies were rushed today to the Solomon Islands after Typhoon Namu devastated the 900-mile-long Pacific chain with gales and a torrential rain that reportedly killed at least five people and pushed entire villages into the sea. An Australian pilot who flew over the area but was unable to land because of three-foot-deep water at Honiara airport on Guadalcanal said he saw only "a sea of mud with roofs sticking out." But in Canberra, the Australian Foreign Ministry said two Royal Australian Air Force C-130 transports managed to land in Honiara today and delivered two small helicopters, medicine, tents and food. Details from the remote island chain located 1,000 miles northeast of Australia were sparse. But the Australian Associated Press quoted relief workers as saying an estimated 90,000 of the islands' total population of about 240,000 were left homeless, and that at least 50 people were missing. It said five children were swept out to sea when the storm struck Monday with its 115 mph winds, and are presumed to have drowned. John Given, an administrative officer at the Australian Consulate in Port Moresby, said the toll was expected to rise following the typhoon, which apparently struck the island chain without warning. Perry Head, third secretary at the Australian embassy in Port Moresby, said aerial photographs of Guadalcanal showed widespread devastation. "Whole villages have been bowled over by floodwaters and mud, then pushed into the sea," he said. Given told The Associated Press by telephone that Namu also caused wholesale destruction to outlying islands and provincial authorities were sending teams out in canoes to search for survivors and assess the damage. "There's no doubt a major disaster has occurred," Given said. "There is a terrific amount of devastation over a very wide area. This is a long-term disaster." "There is wholesale destruction of villages, extensive damage to many major buildings, including schools, hospitals and wharves," he said. "The coconut palms are gone. So has the coffee and cocoa crops. The rice is flattened. Food is going to be a major problem for the next 6 to 12 months," Given said. Officials said the storm downed power lines, uprooted trees, tore roofs off homes and caused rivers to burst their banks. "But we're still not sure of the extent of damage," said Dykes Angiki, news editor of the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corp., contacted by The Associated Press by telephone. "Some places are very remote," he said. "It will take a couple of days before we know the toll." In addition to the relief supplies from Australia, New Zealand announced it would contribute $37,000 worth of emergency assistance and begin an airlift to the area. The invasion and capture of Guadalcanal was the first U.S. victory against Japanese land forces in World War II. Angiki said the storm battered Honiara for 17 hours Monday before subsiding Tuesday as it moved south. === Page 10 of 18 No warning, a few years ago, to scientists - uR de in milk! - $\phi$ - P. 53 5/25/86 # Jokes, Rumors, Fears Follow Accident VIENNA, Austria (AP) - The Chernobyl nuclear disaster has generated fears, rumors and some bitter jokes in Eastern Europe, like the renamed U.S.S.R., for "Union of Soviet Radioactive Republics." Authorities throughout the Soviet bloc assured residents they faced no health hazards from the April 26 nuclear plant accident in the Soviet Ukraine, even though precautions were taken against possible radioactive contamination. Some people, accustomed to distrusting the official version of matters, did not believe the assurances. Romanian hospitals had an increase in poisoning cases as parents gave children iodine solutions before the chemical was distributed through dispensaries, said knowledgeable contacts who asked not to be identified. The privately administered doses of the solution, which can prevent some harmful effects of radiation, were apparently too high. The Polish weekly Przeglad Tygodniowy on May 11 reported that immediately after the Chernobyl accident a lot of "science fiction" rumors circulated. In the town of Suwalki, said the paper, someone reported seeing "luminous milk" in his refrigerator. And in Bialystok a man claimed radioactivity was causing his hair to fall out. A doctor in Bucharest, Romania, said she had been flooded with calls from worried people asking for advice. One woman asked if increased radiation levels could have caused her to lose a tooth. Residents of Iasi and other cities in Romania's Moldova province, which borders the Soviet Union, protected their hair from Chernobyl's pass-over by wearing hats, contacts said. Along with reports of radiation scares, sarcastic jokes also emerged from the Soviet bloc. According to one gag, a Czech newspaper advertises for sale: "Villa in Chernobyl... solitude ensured." In Romania, according to another joke, an elderly lady sees her doctor to get an iodine pill, but she doesn't know what it's called. In the end, she says, "Well, how should I put it, just give me a tablet which is good against the Russians." Another joke runs: "What is small, yellow and shines?" The answer: "Kiev." Another joke from Kiev: Kiev is a Soviet city 80 miles from the accident site. A joke from Warsaw says the new slogan of the Polish Communist Party is "Be radiant." No illnesses from the disaster were reported outside the Chernobyl area, but precautions were taken in Eastern Europe, and fears persisted. Some countries, such as Poland and Romania, warned against drinking milk, set up health consultation centers and monitored radiation closely. In Yugoslavia, which is not a member of the Soviet bloc, authorities instituted a special telephone number so people could get official word on radiation levels. Vegetables have been approved for sale again in Yugoslavia after an earlier prohibition, but few people seem to be buying them, and Hungarian housewives also stopped buying fresh vegetables. === Page 11 of 18 Soviet Newspapers Assures OCALA * STAR-BANNER, SUNDAY, MAY 25, 1986 # Food, Vacations Are Safe 0.5B 5/25/86 MOSCOW (AP) -- The U.S. Embassy recommended Saturday that pregnant American women and infants in the Soviet capital not drink Moscow milk after a sample showed increased radiation levels. A Soviet newspaper meanwhile assured worried readers their food was not contaminated by the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster. The government newspaper Izvestia said it received many letters expressing concern about whether food and popular vacation resorts were safe from radiation spewed in the accident, which occurred 80 miles north of Kiev. Izvestia quoted medical experts as saying "there is no risk to the health of holidaymakers" on the Black Sea and Baltic coasts, as well as other popular resorts. The newspaper quoted a sanitation official as saying checks on food were conducted in the Ukraine, Byelorussia, Modavia and European parts of the Russian Republic. It also assured readers that produce and dairy products were tested before going on sale in much of the western Soviet Union, and quoted one official as saying that processing of milk into butter and cheese "makes these products absolutely free from radioactivity." But U.S. Embassy spokesman Phil Duchateau said tests on a milk sample taken earlier this month showed double the maximum level of radiation recommended by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for infants and pregnant women. Dr. John Baker, the embassy doctor, said the levels found were "by no means dangerous." Still, the embassy called pregnant American women and families with infants after receiving the samples: The maximum level of radiation recommended by the FDA is 1,500 picocuries per liter of milk. A single picocurie is about two radioactive disintegrations per minute. A liter is slightly more than one quart. Samples of lettuce, milk and yogurt were to be shipped to the United States for testing, according to a Western diplomat who spoke on condition of anonymity. In the Izvestia report, an official who distributes the 24-day passes Soviets obtain from their work places to vacation in hostels said some people had the passes taken away, causing concern. Yuri Stupin, head of the central council for trade union visits to resorts, explained that the holiday areas were safe. He said some passes were taken away so they could be used by workers from the Chernobyl power station and children who are among the 92,000 people evacuated from an 18-mile zone around the plant after the April 26 explosion and fire. He said 3,500 places were available at Black Sea resorts for evacuated children, while two vacation spots, one near Odessa and another in the northern Caucasus, were open for Chernobyl plant workers. One Moscow woman who wrote Izvestia said she was told cattle from evacuated areas of the Ukraine and Byelorussia were slaughtered. But Alexander Tretyakov, chief veterinarian with the State Agri-Industrial Committee, assured readers that "the livestock population from the accident zone was completely preserved." Farmers now caring for evacuated livestock received money for feed and animals owned privately were purchased by the state, he said. Tretyakov appeared to contradict Moscow's Communist Party chief, Boris N. Yeltsin, who told The Associated Press earlier this month that livestock from the evacuated zone was slaughtered. Soviet news media reports also said volunteers were running a relief coordinating agency in Moscow to handle offers of help for victims of the Chernobyl accident and to track down family members separated by the disaster. === Page 12 of 18 STAYSKAL 86 TAMPA TRIBUNE REACTOR #2 REACTOR #1 DANGER I THINK IT MEANS IF WE HAVE AN ACCIDENT DON'T SAY ANYTHING FOR THREE DAYS! REMEMBER CHERNOBYL FLORIDA'S TURKEY POINT NUCLEAR PLANT AMONG 11 WORST IN U.S. - SAFETY SYSTEM FAILURES, ERRORS IN OPERATION CITED. 2 Powerful Quakes Hit Fijis === Page 13 of 18 UF Da Sun Attack 0.5B 5/25/86 # Australia, U.S. Sends Relief To Islands HONIARA, Solomon Islands (AP) -- It will take years for the Solomon Islands to recover from devastation wreaked by Typhoon Namu, a government official was quoted as saying Saturday. The storm left a third of the population homeless and wiped out most of the archipelago's crops. Namu killed at least 97 people, with 39 others missing and presumed dead. Officials expect casualty figures to rise once reports come in from outlying areas cut off by the storm. "It (the death toll) may be in the hundreds," said Dykes Angiki, chairman of the National Disaster Council. Namu, packing 115 mph winds, hit the 200-mile-long island chain Monday morning and lashed it for 17 hours, snapping off trees, demolishing homes and virtually wiping out coconut, rice and copra plantations in the Guadalcanal plains, the country's rice bowl. "It will take us well over five years to recover," Finance Minister George Kejoa told the Australian Associated Press. The country previously produced enough rice to feed its 240,000 people. Council member John Selwyn said it would be at least half a year before rice production could resume. Selwyn said international relief efforts were adequate for now, but "there are still a lot of people to be visited and found." He said airlifts from the United States and Australia were expected to arrive Sunday. He said Australia was sending 350 tons of rice and the United States had promised four C-130 transport planes filled with tents, medicine and food. Angiki said medical experts were concerned lest diarrhea break out because of contaminated drinking water. "Teams are going out to remote villages with purification tables in an effort to counter the water pollution problem," Angiki, reached by telephone from Sydney, Australia, told The Associated Press. A missionary involved in the international relief effort said the storm had virtually stripped the archipelago of its woods. "What used to be thick jungles, extending over vast areas, have virtually become deserts overnight," Errol Wright, of the Seventh Day Adventist Western Pacific Mission headquarters in Honiara, said. "Mountain tops have been stripped and what I saw was a huge desert for miles," Wright said. The missionary, who had returned from the island of Malaita, 90 miles east of Honiara, was quoted as saying the Guadalcanal plains outside Honiara were "a great sea of mud." Angiki said flooding and mudslides devastated two dozen villages in the plains where 22 bodies were unearthed Friday. Four deaths were confirmed on Malaita, bringing the toll to 97. Angiki said 17 coastal trading vessels, four helicopters and six aircraft were engaged in the relief operation and that teams in canoes were canvassing outlying islands to assess the destruction. The Solomons, a former British protectorate, lie about 1,000 miles northeast of Australia. Guadalcanal, the main island, is the site of a famous World War II battle in which U.S. Marines scored a major victory against Japanese land-based forces. UF Da Sun Attack 0.5B 5/27/81 # 2 Powerful Quakes Hit Fijis SUVA, Fiji (AP) -- Two powerful earthquakes rocked some isolated islands of Fiji in the South Pacific on Tuesday morning, but they were not felt on the most populous main islands, the Fiji Meteorological Office said. Only isolated islands were in the area of the quakes and the official spokesman did not know if they are inhabited. There were no immediate reports of damage or injury. The spokesman, quoting seismologists in Hawaii, said the quakes were centered in the underwater Lau Ridge of the Fiji Basin at a depth of about 310 miles. The first quake, at 7:41 a.m. (2:41 p.m. Monday EDT) registered 6.7 on the Richter scale, the spokesman said. The second measured 6.2 and had an epicenter about 500 miles south of the capital of Suva, the spokesman said. === Page 14 of 18 THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Friday, May 23, 1986 Deadly hailstorm strikes China PEKING (UPI) -- A violent hailstorm -- the worst strike central China in a century -- killed more than 0 people and injured at least 9,000 others this week in Sichuan province, officials said Thursday. Huge hailstones began pelting southeastern Sichuan near China's World War II capital of Chongqing early Tuesday, striking 13 districts and counties in the province, reported the official China Central Television. More than 100 people were killed and at least 9,000 others were injured by the shower of ice, which pounded the cities of Yongchuan, Tongchang and Dazu, Chinese officials in Chongqing said in a telephone interview. They said more than 1,000 rescue workers, including high-ranking Communist Party and government officials, medical teams and Peoples Liberation Army troops, were engaged in a large-scale disaster relief effort in the storm-ravaged region. The nationwide television broadcast, monitored in Peking, showed the body of a victim on a stretcher near a village of collapsed earthen houses, a woman whose head was bandaged with blood-stained gauze and a gutted schoolhouse. Rescue workers were carrying those seriously injured to local hospitals and erecting clay and straw shelters for thousands of survivors left homeless by the storm, which demolished more than 35,000 houses and destroyed 7,700 acres of crops, the officials said. The region's electricity, transport and communications links were partially restored after having been severed by the storm, which blew down 2,000 telephone poles, the officials said. All schools and shops were closed and all farm work came to a halt after the tempest struck China's most heavily populated province. Typhoon Toll Feared Higher In Solomons HONIARA, Solomon Islands (AP) -- With 97 people confirmed dead Friday and at least 35 missing, officials expressed fear that the typhoon death toll could rise sharply when reports reach the capital from outlying islands. "So far we only know about the situation in Guadalcanal," said Dykes Angiki, chairman of the National Disaster Council. "Reports from remote areas haven't come in. We don't know what happened there yet." Relief efforts centered on airlifting tons of food, medicine and tents to outer areas, where the fate of thousands of people is unknown. Angiki said 17 coastal trading vessels, four helicopters and six aircraft were engaged in the operation. He said relief teams in canoes were canvassing outlying islands to assess the destruction from Monday's typhoon, but it would take days before had a complete picture of the extent of the disaster. He said flooding and mudslides had devastated two dozen villages in the Guadalcanal plain immediately outside Honiara. Rescue workers unearthed 22 more bodies in the area Friday, he said, and four people died on the island of Malaita. A woman was killed when her house collapsed and three children died in a mudslide, he said. Thousands of the estimated 90,000 homeless -- more than one third the population of the Solomon Islands nation -- were seeking shelter and emergency supplies at ports, missions and airfields. Namu roared over this Pacific Island chain with 115 mph winds Monday, snapping trees and demolishing traditional thatched homes. Accounts of the devastation indicated much of the country's agricultural output, including the coconut, rice and copra crops, was destroyed. Namu cut a wide swath of destruction before heading southeast toward New Caledonia. Meteorologists in Australia said it no longer poses a threat. During the 17-hour onslaught, entire villages were destroyed by high seas, inland villages were washed down hills by mudslides, and people were believed to have been swept away by fast-flowing rivers that burst their banks. Rescue workers said offers of help were pouring in from overseas. Australia and New Zealand airlifted more than $1.1 million in supplies, including food, medicine, tents, tarpaulins and plastic sheets. The United States pledged $25,000. Prime Minister Sir Peter Kenilorea on Wednesday declared the island chain a national disaster area. An Australian pilot who flew over Guadalcanal, described the area as a 'sea of mud with roofs sticking out of it.' The Solomons, a chain of 200 islands 1,000 miles northeast of Australia, have a population of 240,000. The Guadalcanal plains were the site of the first major U.S. victory against Japanese land-based forces in World War II. Chinese storm toll put at 104 PEKING -- Wind, rain and hailstorms that pounded the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan in mid-May left 104 dead and 4,000 injured, a disaster relief officer in the Sichuan capital of Chongqing said Monday. The official, who identified himself only as Xu, said in a telephone interview that 3,780 homes were destroyed and more than 80,000 damaged in the storms and floods that hit the Chongqing area on May 12, 17 and 20. Xu said 254 were badly hurt. === Page 15 of 18 PK Sun Attack 0.5B 5/26/86 # Storms Rip Texas Killing 5 People FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- The body of a baby swept from his mother's arms by floodwaters was found Sunday, while Fort Worth residents tallied up damage from a storm that killed at least four others and collapsed a bowling alley roof. At least 17 people were injured Saturday when tornadoes and thunderstorms pounded parts of western and north-central Texas, overturning four mobile homes in Midland, ripping the roof off an airplane hangar west of Greenwood, and bringing hail and high winds which caused power failures and road closings. On Sunday, searchers near Big Spring, about 250 miles west of Fort Worth, found the body of Joshua Phillips, who was swept away from his mother Saturday night after the family's pickup became stranded in a low-water crossing about 10 miles northeast of the city, authorities said. The body of the boy, whose first birthday was Saturday, was found about 8:40 a.m., said Howard County sheriff's deputy John Wolf. Interstate 20 east of Big Spring was closed for a time late Saturday as more than a foot of water washed away barricades police had erected along portions of the roadway, a dispatcher said. Howard County authorities said several tornadoes were sighted north of Big Spring, but there were no reports of substantial damage. In Fort Worth, Celia Adams, 30, and her 8-year-old son Michael drowned Saturday when they were swept from their car in a flooded underpass, John Peter Smith Hospital spokeswoman Drenda Witt said. Two other people, whose identities were not released, died at their homes from cardiac arrest that Fire Chief Larry McMillan attributed to "stress and trauma from the storm." Authorities suspect two other people died from heart attacks related to the storm, Police Cpl. C.M. Wallace said Sunday. Their bodies were sent to the Tarrant County medical examiners' office for autopsies, she said, but results weren't expected until after the holiday weekend. Seven people were hospitalized and seven others treated at the scene when the roof at Don Carter's All-Star Bowling Lanes collapsed on a crowd of more than 300 watching a state bowling tournament about 3:15 p.m. Saturday, city spokesman Pat Svacina said. "It all happened so fast. I just hit the deck," said bowling alley employee Wes Allen. "I just heard metal twisting around. I just laid on the ground for about five minutes and finally the water started coming in and I heard people screaming." At the Ramada Inn Central across the street, high winds blew out several windows and tore out sections of the roof, causing three minor injuries, said Kit Carson, director of Fort Worth emergency management division. Hail up to two feet deep pelted the city during the storm that temporarily cut power to more than 9,000 homes, officials said. UFO Sun Attack 0.5B 5/22/86 # Workers Find 43 Bodies Buried In Debris, Mud From Typhoon HONIARA, Solomon Islands (AP) -- Rescue workers today found the bodies of 43 people buried in mud and debris on the Guadalcanal plains, a news agency reported. The discovery boosted the death toll from Typhoon Namu to at least 49. Officials say many more people are missing and feared dead, particularly on the outlying islands where casualties and damage have been impossible to ascertain because of downed communications. "The final toll could well be in the hundreds," said Dykes Angiki, national disaster committee chairman. Namu, the most severe late season typhoon in years, roared into the Solomon Islands on Monday packing 115 mph winds and cutting a swath of destruction through the archipelago located 1,000 miles northeast of Australia. UFO Sun Attack 0.5B 5/20/86 # 2 Earthquakes Shake Taiwan, Breaking Windows; No Casualties TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- Two earthquakes jolted eastern Taiwan within 12 minutes of each other today, shattering windows in some buildings, officials said. Theren were no immediate reports of casualties. The first quake, measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale, was recored at 1:25 p.m. (1:25 a.m. EDT). Its epicenter was located six miles north of Hualien, an eastern seaport 72 miles south of Taipei, the weather bureau reported. The epicenter of the second quake, which registered 5.69 on the Richter scale, was 5.4 miles north of Hualien, the weather bureau said. Both quakes were felt in Taipei. Police in Hualien, contacted by telephone, said the only known damage was shattered windows. Many of Hualien's 100,000 residents fled into the streets and hesitated to return to their buildings, police said. # Mt. Hood memorial UFO Sun Attack Tue 5/23/86 Richard Haeder, father of Richard Jr. who died last week after he and 10 other climbers were caught in a freak storm on Mt. Hood, stops Thursday to talk with Master Sgt. Richard Harder. Harder, a member of the U.S. Air === Page 16 of 18 hina begins relief efforts for survivors hailstorms Tribune Wires 5/24/86 China mounted relief efforts for hundreds of thousands of survivors Friday after hailstorms and typhoon-force winds killed at least 143 people, injured 9,500 others and destroyed 110,000 homes in central and south China. Meanwhile in the Solomon Islands, with 97 people confirmed dead Friday and at least 35 missing, officials expressed fear that the typhoon death toll could rise sharply when reports reach the capital from outlying islands. The hailstorms in China hit hardest in the country's heavily populated Sichuan province, officials in Chongqing told United Press International in telephone interviews. "It was one of the worst storms in our history," said one disaster relief official, speaking by telephone from his headquarters in Chongqing, 950 miles southwest of Peking. "I couldn't believe it until I saw it. There isn't a house, a tree or a telephone pole left standing in the area." Military and civilian rescue teams began erecting tents for hundreds of thousands left homeless in Sichuan, where hailstorms, heavy rain and up to 85-mph winds demolished 80,700 dwellings this month, officials said. Huge stones of ice weighing up to 33 pounds Tuesday battered 13 Sichuan counties, including Yongchuan, Rongchang and Dazu, in a hailstorm lasting 15 to 20 minutes, the officials said. The storm dumped more than 5.7 inches of rain on Rongchang County in four hours, flooding parts of the town and forcing rescuers to use boats to reach stranded residents, the official China Daily newspaper said. The powerful winds, rain and hailstorms destroyed 91,840 acres of crops and 90,000 fruit trees in Sichuan, officials said. Transportation, communications and electricity links severed by the storm have been partially restored, while many schools, factories and shops remained closed, they said. In the Solomon Islands, relief efforts centered on airlifting tons of food, medicine and tents to outer areas, where the fate of thousands of people is unknown. "So far we only know about the situation in Guadalcanal," said Dykes Angiki, chairman of the National Disaster Council. UFOs Bermuda Effect OCALA STAR-BANNER, SUNDAY, MAY 25, 1986 # Pilot Said To 'Forget' About Near-Collision DES PLAINES, Ill. (AP) -- An air traffic controller on duty when two jets nearly collided at O'Hare International Airport did not report the incident for an hour, a published report said Saturday. The controller first mentioned the May 17 incident to his supervisor when the two men were on a coffee break an hour after the USAir and American Airlines planes narrowly missed colliding as they raced down intersecting runways for takeoff, Carl Dinwiddie, head of the National Transportation Safety Board's office here told the Chicago Sun-Times. An accident was averted when the USAir pilot lifted his plane over the American jet. On Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration released a transcript of a conversation between the unidentified USAir pilot and the controller. USAir pilot: "Did you see what happened there on (runway) 373?" Controller: "No, sir." USAir pilot: "American was awfully close on the takeoff." Controller: "You're right sir, would you like to file something?" USAir pilot (after a pause): "Ah, we'll forget it." Despite the pilot's comment, however, the crew reported the near accident to USAir officials almost immediately, said company spokeswoman Nancy Vaughan, and the pilot also filed a report. The tape indicates the controller was unaware the jets would meet at the runways' intersection 5,000 feet away, said the statement by the FAA's regional office in this Chicago suburb near O'Hare. Dinwiddie said the controller told him he forgot he had sent the USAir plan on its takeoff run when he cleared the American Airlines plane for takeoff. The two planes were carrying more than 200 people. FAA spokesman Mort Edelstein said it is not uncommon for pilots to decide not to report an incident if they decide the planes "weren't as close as it first seemed." Ms. Vaughan said earlier in the week that the planes came within 10 or 20 feet of each other, adding that the airline had "never had a life-threatening, near-collision like that -- nothing anywhere near that close." Edelstein has said investigators have not determined how close the planes came to each other. Edelstein also said the controller, who carried the agency's highest rating, had been reassigned. The two planes were USAir Flight 373, en route to Pittsburgh with 110 passengers and five crew members, and American Flight 695, en route to Oklahoma City with 102 passengers and a crew of seven. Dinwiddie was quoted in the Sun-Times as saying the USAir pilot told him, "If I hadn't lifted up early, I would have struck the American plane." UFOs vs Space Work Report: Deadline worries Thiokol Trib 5/26/86 LOS ANGELES -- Engineers with rocket-maker Morton Thiokol Inc. say a NASA deadline to redesign the shuttle's boosters in time for a proposed July 1987 launch has created the same pressure that some observers believe led to the Challenger disaster, it was reported Sunday. Thiokol engineers in Brigham City, Utah, who spoke with the Los Angeles Times on the condition they not be identified, said the projected NASA deadline means "concern for safety is again being tempered by schedule demands." "The schedule seems to be driving us into early commitments to make decisions," said one engineer. "They are trying to turn around quickly just so they'll be able to show everyone that they could turn around quickly." Similar concerns were raised earlier this month by the presidential commission investigating the Jan. 28 Challenger disaster. === Page 17 of 18 phoon batters Solomon Islands e worst storm to ever hit ne islands left about 90,000 people homeless. Trib. 5/23/86 HONIARA, Solomon Islands (AP) -- Typhoon Namu, the worst storm in history to hit the Solomon Islands, killed at least 71 people and left about 90,000 homeless, and rescue workers said Thursday the toll was expected to go much higher. "We think hundreds died," said John Selwyn, a National Disaster Committee spokesman, reached by telephone from Sydney, Australia. "The death toll will rise. Reports of more deaths are coming in. It will hit 100 soon." Sir Peter Kenilorea, prime minister of the Solomon Islands, declared the island chain a disaster area Thursday. The Solomon Islands, formerly a British protectorate, gained independence in 1978. Typhoon Namu, packing winds of up to 115 mph, battered the 900-mile-long island chain for 17 hours Monday. Entire villages were under mudslides, said Australian Consulate officials in Honiara, the capital. On Guadalcanal, the main island, fast-flowing rivers burst through their banks, sweeping people away. An Australian pilot who flew over Guadalcanal said he saw "a sea of mud with roofs sticking out." On Thursday, rescue workers found the bodies of 65 people buried in mud and debris in the Guadalcanal plains, bringing the confirmed death toll to 71. Most victims appeared to have been from the same village, Velebaikiki, which officials said vanished in a wall of mud. The outlying islands of Malaita, Makira, Rennell and Iona were also battered, but relief workers were unable to reach those areas by canoe because the sea has been impossible to navigate. No damages and casualties were known because of poor communications. Australian Consulate officials said crops on Guadalcanal, the country's rice bowl, were virtually destroyed during the storm. "There won't be a harvest for at least six months," said John Selwyn, senior administrative officer for the Australian High Commission. "Food is going to be a major problem." "It's dreadful. Trees have been smashed down and there's mud everywhere," said Frank Preacher, one of 45 Australian tourists who were evacuated from Guadalcanal by a Royal Australian Air Force transport plane. "They'll need massive international aid to help in the task of rebuilding homes and restoring their fields," he told the Australian Associated Press after arriving in Brisbane, Australia. "Their main crops, palm oil, sweet potatoes and rice, have just been wiped out." Another tourist, Max Grainger, said he and his family were outside Honiara when Namu struck. "There were three deaths near where we were and the worst for us was when we had to cross a flooded river to get back to Honiara," said Grainger. The navigator of the transport plane, Dean Tetley, said Honiara seemed to have withstood the storm well, but homes were flattened and trees uprooted in outlying areas. Rescue workers said they are being inundated with offers of help from overseas. Australia and New Zealand airlifted more than $1.1 million in supplies, including food, medicine, tents, tarpaulins and plastic sheets. The United States pledged $25,000. THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Friday, May 23, 1986 # NASA chief: Don't delay on new shuttle WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's new space chief said Thursday he expects President Reagan will find enough money to replace the space shuttle Challenger. He said if Reagan fails to do so, America's science and its economy will suffer dire consequences. "We need a fourth orbiter right away, as soon as we can build it," said James C. Fletcher in his first interview as the new administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. "A three-shuttle fleet is just a very marginal kind of fleet. If anything should happen to that third orbiter, we would really be in deep yogurt." A decision on whether to spend billions of dollars of needed to build a replacement shuttle has been stalled in the White House since the Jan. 28 launch explosion killed the shuttle's seven crew members. The remaining three shuttles have been grounded since the tragedy. Fletcher replied simply "Yes," when asked if Reagan had tipped his hand in support of the fourth orbiter. And, he said, flights will resume in July 1987, "provided we get adequate funding, which we fully expect." The problem, he said, is not presidential support but how to figure out a way to do this and still not violate the Gramm-Rudman principles," referring to the stringent deficit-reduction law that has forced cuts throughout the government. With NASA facing its meanest budget fight ever, Fletcher said he will stand tough against efforts to make the agency pay for the replacement shuttle or lose some of the ambitious programs NASA has scheduled. "One possibility that has been discussed is to take it out of NASA's hide," Fletcher said. "We are strongly resisting that possibility. I haven't heard anybody in the White House raise the question of whether or not there's going to be a fourth orbiter." In a direct challenge to an interagency group of senior administration officials who recommended to the president that money for the shuttle come from existing programs, Fletcher said he must have at least enough new money from Congress to correct the problems that grounded the fleet. The cost of those corrections has been placed at $626 million. A new shuttle would cost at least $1.9 billion, and the associated equipment would put the total near $3 billion. NASA's current yearly budget is $7.3 billion. === Page 18 of 18 Note: We are in the radon bullseye here! Stanley Watras's house near Boyertown, Pa., turned into a nightmare--so permeated with cancer-causing radon gas that his family had to flee. A freak of nature? Hardly. Five million American homes may face the same problem # Warning! This House Contains Radon Condensed from RODALE'S NEW SHELTER MICHAEL LAFAVORE LIKE EVERYONE ELSE working at the Limerick nuclear-power plant in eastern Pennsylvania, Stanley Watras had to pass through radiation monitors before leaving the building. Most of his co-workers breezed through without a problem, but Watras, an engineer, continually set off alarms. Some days he was found to be carrying six times more radiation than normal. Neither Watras nor his employers could understand where he was picking it up. Then one day Watras went through the door at Limerick and, on impulse, turned and walked back through the monitors without ever entering the power block. Yet the machines still said he was contaminated. "An alarm went off in my head," he recalls. "If I wasn't picking up radiation at work, there was only one place it could be coming from: my house." When scientists came to test the Watrases' modest split-level home in the rolling countryside near Boyertown, Pa., they found a deathtrap. The house was so contaminated with radon--a naturally occurring radioactive gas--that liv- 110 RODALE'S NEW SHELTER (JANUARY '86), © 1985 BY RODALE PRESS, INC., 33 E. MINOR ST., EMMAUS, PA. 18049. PHOTO: MITCH MANDEL/RODALE PRESS, INC. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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I told you "anything can happen" with psi-force "ripples" across the U.S. This entire file reveals what has occurred as a result of these psi ripples. B-2: my going to Hong Kong and releasing my UFOs to do whatever they wish with Russia, China, etc., they caused the Chernobyl accident...which on the surface would seem cruel...yet put into proper perspective Chernobyl taught the entire world a lesson, factually, that it had not experienced...with the result of moving the "nuclear clock hands" back considerably. This newsclip explains why. B-3: An interesting observation by the Science Writer for UPI that NASA has been "snake-bit"...i.e., affected by perhaps some supernatural power or curse...which, of course, is quite true, with my UFOs attacking NASA with other-dimensional powers in order to block space-work. 1: Writer Andy Rooney is most receptive. He senses that something unusual ("some force") is affecting Earth. And of course, it is. The UFO Sun Attack. 80: "Tutu declares God will free S. Africa." I trust that you will remember what I said in "Seers Predict..." some years ago...that I would CAUSE the whites to be run out of Africa...so that it could go back to the blacks and to stop the slaughter of wildlife in that country. Also bear in mind...I work for and with my UFOs and they have told me that they work for what we humans call "God". 4: Notice the turnaround on Russia's part toward the U.S. and key issues...since my Hong Kong trip...which was just for that purpose...to enable my UFO's to have access to Russia and China, to take whatever action they deem necessary to stop a world-Nuclear-wipeout. Z: The same. B-2: Same. 5-C: Another indication that my UFOs are trying to bring about world peace, using their powers, with my human permission, which is required for them. The rest of this file is self-explanatory. You might note my written comments, around the newsclips. The chaos revealed in these newsclips could have been avoided by someone granting my UFOs their Base. Things will, of course, get increasingly worse. Ted Owens (PK Man) P.S. Family is leaving Florida next week. === Page 2 of 99 Monday, June 9, 1986 Scientists: My UFOs have severely crippled NASA and taught Russia (and the world) a valuable lesson at Chernobyl -- now they will turn their full attention to obtaining their UFO Base, which means that they intend to intensify and amplify pressure on the U.S. government to provide same... by sweeping "waves" of other-dimensional psi-force across the U.S. Now anything can happen! Ted Owens (PK Man) B-1 === Page 3 of 99 # Is Freakish Weather Trying To Drive Us Off This Planet? UFOs Sun Attack 0.5B 6/7/86 ANDY # Rooney Sometimes I get the feeling the Earth doesn't really want us. It sure makes it difficult to live here. Last night when I got home just before dinner, I stopped and looked at the thermometer outside the kitchen door. The sun hits it in late afternoon so it isn't really an accurate indicator but it read 94 degrees. On the radio they were calling it 90. I went upstairs to change into my old, sitting-around clothes but I didn't stay up there long because it must have been 100 in the bedroom. We have an air conditioner but it hadn't been turned on because no one was going to be in the room. I hate to spend money cooling an empty room. This morning I left the house at 6:10 and the same thermometer that had read 94 degrees last evening was at an even 40 degrees. Do you think some force is trying to drive us crazy or make us move somewhere else, off Earth? Driving to work, I got to thinking about how near the earth is to being uninhabitable. I've never read what temperatures the human body can take for high and low extremes but it seems likely that parts of this planet are close to being outside the range of human tolerance at times. The temperature gets into the high 120s in Death Valley, Calif., and it has been as high as 134 degrees. That's in the shade and there isn't any shade out there. Earth's temperature has peaked at 136 in Libya. Moammar Gadhafi aside, this is reason enough for me not to book a two-week vacation there. In Vostok, Antarctica, temperatures have been recorded as low as 126 degrees below zero. Can the same body that would stay alive in 136-degree heat also keep going 262 degrees below that? I remember reading about a place in Montana where the temperature fell from 44 degrees above zero around noon to 56 degrees below zero late that night. That's putting heating systems and the human body to the test. Somehow we seem to live through extreme temperature changes. Air conditioning and central heating make it easier but the human race survived before it had either. I don't see how. Nature is always making things tough for us. If it isn't temperature, it's another kind of terrible weather or natural phenomenon that makes life difficult. Sunday there was a picture in my newspaper of a row of expensive beach houses that are in imminent danger of being washed away because the ocean has eroded the sand out from under them, leaving the houses precariously perched on top of their telephone-pole-like stilt pilings. At another time of year, that same page of the same paper might have a picture of snow drifts burying a row of cars on a highway near Buffalo or of a house being washed downstream by the overflowing Mississippi in the delta. Just when you think you're lucky to be in the one safe part of the country, something strikes you. I look with some sense of sad superiority at the stories of raging fires coming down the canyons in California or of twisters sweeping the Kansas plains. While I was worrying about all the bad luck the rest of the country was having last fall, a hurricane struck the East Coast while we were in Maine. We drove home to Connecticut the following day, following detours where the road had been blocked off by fallen telephone poles, and found the lawn in front of our house with enough major branches down so that I had to call a tree surgeon to clear them away. I am always worried that the Earth will become too warm, too cold, too wet or too dry for humans. We are, after all, fragile creatures. It wouldn't take much of a change to make life on Earth impossible. Fortunately for me, I have something more important to worry about today. I think my checking account is overdrawn. === Page 4 of 99 # Tutu declares God will free S. Africa Trib 9/1/86 SOWETO, South Africa (AP) -- Bishop Desmond Tutu, his voice so choked with emotion he could only whisper, on Sunday mourned 21 blacks slain in Soweto last week, then triumphantly told a congregation: "The God of love is going to make us free!" "The souls of those killed cry out, 'How long, Lord, is this going to continue?' The answer is -- the time is not right until some more of you, sisters and brothers, are killed," Tutu told 500 worshipers in St. Paul's Anglican Church in Soweto, the huge black township outside Johannesburg. "The price we have paid already is a heavy price," Tutu said. "We are being called on to pay yet more in lives. But despite all that the powers of the world may do, we are going to be free." About 50 whites, some wearing black bands across their chests and carrying daffodils as a symbol of sympathy, attended the service. Among them were Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., who advocates economic sanctions as a means to bring down apartheid; the Rev. Donald Shriver Jr., president of Union Theological Seminary in New York; and his wife Peggy, an assistant general secretary of the U.S. National Council of Churches. "There is more triumph here than I would have believed possible," said Shriver. The victims died Tuesday and Wednesday in South Africa's worst township clash in 26 years. Security forces killed 20 people, and a gang of youths hacked to death a township councilor, seen as siding with white authorities. About 100 people, including five policemen, were injured. The Rev. David Nkwe, rector at St. Paul's, said Sowetans would hold a mass funeral Thursday and would not seek permission from the government. "We can't go cap in hand," Nkwe said after the service. "If they're going to stop us, let the world know they're going to stop us." The government has banned mass funerals, saying they serve as forums for radical anti-apartheid protests. City Press, a weekly newspaper serving black readers in Johannesburg area, said Sunday that 27 of Soweto's 32 councilors have fled the township in fear of further attacks. The newspaper said the councilors took refuge in apartments in a Johannesburg neighborhood officially off limits to black residents. The paper said armed police were left to guard the vacated homes. During the clashes, two councilors' homes were set afire. The violence has been attributed to Sowetan anger at council approval of a campaign to evict families taking part in a widespread rent boycott. In his sermon, Tutu told the congregation: "It would not be surprising that black people asked, 'God, just tell us, what have we done? What is it that makes us attract so much suffering to ourselves?'" "We suffer in a land that claims to be Christian, and we suffer at the hands of those who call themselves Christians," he said. More than 2,100 people, most of them blacks, have been killed in political violence since the anti-apartheid struggle intensified in the black townships two years ago. UFL M. Space Front 0.SB 8/30/86 # Astronaut's Family To Sue Rocket Firm SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) -- The family of Challenger astronaut Ron McNair will file suit against the maker of the solid rocket boosters blamed for the explosion that killed its seven crew members, an attorney said Friday. Ronald D. Krist said he will file the suit next week in U.S. District Court in Houston contending Morton Thiokol Inc. "is probably the sole culprit" in the space shuttle accident and will request unspecified damages. McNair, 35, was killed in the Jan. 28 accident. The suit will be the first filed against Morton Thiokol, although the family of the Challenger pilot has filed a claim against the government. The Houston Chronicle quoted McNair's widow, Cheryl, as saying she felt compelled to file the suit. "To do nothing would be a tacit acquiescence or stamp of approval of the type of conduct that took my husband's life, and this I am unwilling to do and not required to do in America," Mrs. McNair told the newspaper. Krist said the family decided to file the suit after months of fruitless negotiation with Morton Thiokol. "Our only recourse is to seek relief in the courts," he said. Thomas Russell, a Morton Thiokol vice president at the company's corporate headquarters in Chicago, said there would be no comment until the company has seen the lawsuit petition. Asked if the company expected lawsuits in the wake of the disaster, Russell said: "It doesn't surprise me. It's been a terrible tragedy." The plaintiffs in the suit will be Mrs. McNair, her two children, and the parents of the dead astronaut. Krist said his filing will not make a specific damage request but said the family is seeking compensation for the loss of McNair's income. Krist said the family also is asking for compensation for mental anguish, loss of companionship, the loss to the two children of a father, and for the pain and suffering endured by McNair before his death. A recent NASA study showed that the Challenger crew survived for several seconds after the spacecraft came apart, Krist said. (80) === Page 5 of 99 # Reagan: Soviet offer 'serious' * House backs SALT II - 5A By ELEANOR CLIFT Los Angeles Times GLASSBORO, N.J. - President Reagan, addressing a high school graduating class here, said Thursday that the Soviets had "begun to make a serious effort" at arms control, and that their recent proposals to reduce nuclear weapons "could represent a turning point" in the tense superpower relationship. In a speech notable for its conciliatory tone toward the Soviet Union, the president appealed to Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to allow a preparatory meeting for the next summit to take place. "The location is unimportant," Reagan said. "What matters is that such a meeting take place in mutual earnestness so that we can make progress at the next summit." Reagan's speech was delivered in a town that talks on a variety of issues "a moment of opportunity" to improve relations between the two superpowers. "We believe that possibly an atmosphere does exist that will allow for serious discussion," he said. Of the latest Soviet proposal on strategic nuclear weapons, he said, "We cannot accept these particular proposals without some change, but it appears that the Soviets have begun to make a serious effort." The tone of the president's remarks was a striking departure from the harsh criticism leveled at the Soviets in recent weeks by senior administration officials for their alleged violations of the SALT II treaty. Administration officials have said that the latest Soviet arms offer has merit, but this was the first time that Reagan has been publicly optimistic since the offer was presented in Geneva earlier and outlined Monday in a speech by Gorbachev. However, high on the list of the parts of the new Gorbachev offer that some U.S. officials find unacceptable is the increased ceiling on warheads, particularly on warheads atop land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles that pose the greatest threat of surprise attack to U.S. forces. The Soviet proposal offers a new ceiling of 8,000 warheads of all kinds, compared with 6,000 in the previous Soviet and the standing U.S. proposal. Of the 8,000, no more than 60 percent, or 4,800 warheads, could be on land-based ICBMs. Under that proposal, the Soviets could target each U.S. ICBM with three warheads, more than enough to insure destruction of all the U.S. weapons in a first strike. # Reagan * From Page 1A The United States would not possess a comparable edge, leaving it more vulnerable than the Soviets. Reagan's remark about a preparatory meeting for a U.S.-Soviet summit, which he and Gorbachev agreed to at their summit in Geneva last November, appeared to indicate that he is prepared to send U.S. representatives to Europe or even to Moscow if that is what it takes to get the summit under way this year. A preparatory meeting between Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze had been scheduled until the Soviets canceled it in reprisal for the U.S. bombing of Libya on April 15. A White House official traveling with the president confirmed that Reagan would like Shultz and Shevardnadze to meet as soon as possible, even if it means that Shultz has to travel to Moscow. "We're not picky about where they meet," the official said, speaking on the condition that he not be identified. The site chosen for Reagan's conciliatory speech Thursday, which he termed "an essay on peace," is laden with historic meaning in the tortuous road of U.S.-Soviet relations. Nineteen years ago, in June 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson met with Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin at Glassboro State College, located just across the street from Glassboro High School where Reagan spoke. Reagan acknowledged that the Glassboro summit was not significant since there were no major breakthroughs made or agreements reached there. In fact, the location was chosen then because it was exactly halfway between New York, where Kosygin was attending the United Nations, and Washington, and neither leader wanted to go an extra mile. "Nevertheless, the two men met. They were frank," Reagan recalled Thursday. "They worked to understand each other and to make themselves understood. In this alone, I would submit, they taught us a great deal." Standing in the crowded high school gymnasium in Glassboro Reagan issued a call for action. "I have come here today to say the Glassboro summit was not enough, that indeed the Geneva summit was not enough - that talk alone, in short, is not enough," he said. "I have come here to invite Mr. Gorbachev to join me in taking action." That was markedly different from Reagan's usual tone; he once derided the idea of a summit that did not hold out the prospect of concrete agreements. In addition, it came just three weeks after he roused international alarm with an announcement May 27 that the United States no longer intends to observe the terms of the SALT II agreement and will be in violation of those terms later this year when the 131st refurbished B-52 bomber equipped with cruise missile is deployed. Glassboro High's graduating class of 130 appeared oblivious to the messages to Moscow that the president was delivering. For the graduates, sweltering in their gold and maroon robes, it was enough that Reagan was there. === Page 6 of 99 8A OCALA * STAR-BA # Betty Hill Recalls Incident Continued from page 1A through hypnosis, their account of being kidnapped by beings from another solar system made the Hills immediate celebrities. The book "The Interrupted Journey" tells their story. "Right here is where they were standing," Hill, 67, said on a recent return to the spot where she says she was captured. "And this is where they took us," she said, heading into the woods. Until their 1964 hypnosis, the Hills remembered only being followed by a bright object in the night sky as they drove south through New Hampshire from Montreal to Portsmouth, turning off the main road onto a dirt road and stalling out after being confronted by strange men in the road. They tried to forget about it, but Betty had nightmares about being captured and Barney's health began to fail. When he didn't respond to medication a doctor suspected emotional problems and suggested hypnosis. During one session Barney mentioned being captured by strange beings. His wife, under separate hypnosis, recounted the same events and the story began to unfold. The beings, they recalled, approached as Barney tried to restart the car, took them from the car and through the woods to a glowing object in the forest. "I was fighting," Hill said. "I'm probably the first person in the world who took a sock at them." As evidence, she still has the torn and stained dress she wore that night. Standing in a clearing that she said was the landing spot, she described a thorough, medical-type examination that, when recalled under hypnosis, evoked terror in her and in Barney, who died in 1969. She said she and Barney tried repeatedly to retrace their 1961 route but did not find it until about a year after their hypnosis, when they rode through the mountains with relatives searching for a place to camp. "All of a sudden we got up here and said, 'Oh my God!' We recognized the place immediately. We came down here, stopped the car, jumped out and ran up here, up the path," she said. She said that for a while after the hypnosis, she tried to pass off the incident as a bad dream. "For a while I tried to tell myself it never happened, because there was a lot of pressure," she said. "So I'd go to bed and say, 'I'll forget it. It never happened.' But then, after a while, I couldn't do that anymore." Hill is not fazed by people who don't believe her story. "I say, 'You're entitled to your opinion, but if it happens to you, you know who to contact.'" Hill gives lectures on UFOs and her experience and says people who have never seen a UFO probably don't know what to look for. "I say anytime you see a light in the sky, check it out," she said. A rainbow appeared over her head as she stood at the capture spot. "Hi boys," she shouted, laughing. Asked how she will mark the anniversary, Hill said she hopes to "very quietly go out to my area and say, 'Happy anniversary, boys. You are the so-and-sos that did this to me.'" # East, West to reduce accidental war risk Hong Kong PK Post 9/22/86 The deal involves monitoring troop movements and exchanging military information. By ROLF SODERLIND United Press International STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Delegates from 35 NATO and Warsaw Pact nations approved a document Sunday night outlining ways to reduce the risk of accidental war in Europe in the first East-West agreement since 1979. "The measures just adopted establish a good, solid confidence-building regime which should make the European security situation more stable and secure," said chief U.S. negotiator Robert Barry. The agreement among NATO, the Warsaw Pact and Europe's neutral nations approved at a late-night session sets guidelines for monitoring troop movements and exchanging military information. It is the first agreement on conventional arms in Western Europe since World War II and the first East-West agreement since the 1979 Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty was struck between the United States and the Soviet Union. SALT II was signed by the negotiators but never formally ratified by Congress, although the United States abided by it until this year. "This is a very good agreement, perhaps unique in East-west relations," said chief Soviet negotiator Oleg Grinevsky. "For the first time we have inspections, a very deep exchange of information. It forms the basis for a real security system in Europe." "It goes without saying that the agreement can help boost Soviet-U.S. relations, which are badly in need of solid improvement," Grinevsky said. === Page 7 of 99 # The Chernobyl Legacy Trib 9/3/86 Hong Kong PK International nuclear energy officials are divided on the number of cancer deaths that ultimately will result from the Soviet Union's Chernobyl reactor accident. But they agree on one thing: It will be high. Based on Soviet radiation measurements, 24,000 fatal cancers may develop over the next 70 years among the 75 million people living in the European districts of the Soviet Union, say spokesmen for the International Atomic Energy Agency. Earlier, a U.S. physicist offered a much higher figure. Thomas Cochran, of the Natural Resources Defense Council in New York, forecast that Chernobyl-related deaths would eventually reach 45,000. Included in his estimate was a calculation of human exposure to cesium-137 in contaminated food. The Soviet representatives have questioned the reliability of these figures while offering no estimates of their own. They agree, however, that about 9.5 million Soviet Europeans would be expected to die from all types of cancer over the next 70 years. The increased mortality rate from cesium-137 might be 0.4 percent, according to their calculations. That would mean about 38,000 additional deaths. Shortly after the Chernobyl accident, 31 people who were in the immediate vicinity of the damaged reactor died from burns, massive exposure to radiation and related causes. This was the direct casualty toll. It is the indirect numbers that are so troublesome. It is almost impossible to guess the degree of cesium-137 that has entered the food chain and will be the cause of malignant neoplasms for years to come among people who consume food that was grown or grazed in the path of the radioactive plume that emerged from the Chernobyl reactor. Estimates offered to date may be too high -- or, far too low. The Chernobyl disaster was an insignificant event compared to the explosion of a nuclear bomb. Yet, if a radioactive leak from a relatively small nuclear reactor can claim in excess of 25,000 victims, the results of a nuclear attack stagger the imagination. Chernobyl has taught the world many things about the construction and operation of nuclear reactors. These lessons are already being drafted into guidelines designed to prevent similar accidents in the future. But there also is a larger lesson: Earth cannot survive a nuclear war with life continuing as it is known today. It is indeed time to turn the world's stockpile of nuclear swords into plowshares and unify the nations of this planet in occupations more productive than war -- such as the continuing exploration of outer space. Is that but a childish dream? No, it's the most grown-up reality. And the mountains of Mars are calling. === Page 8 of 99 In one of the most super-secret projects in history, a joint Soviet-American scientific team is studying a mysterious radio signal from outer space -- a distress call sent from a planet or starship 50,000 years ago. "This is a stunning breakthrough. Our computers have actually translated a major portion of the radio signal," said one U.S. astronomer, who discussed the research with a French freelance news service on the condition he not be identified. Portions of the amazing message were put together in a reasonably accurate form by the team in April, but have not been published. "GUIDE US TO FOURTH UNIVERSE. EXPLOSION. WE ARE IN PERIL. WE ARE IN TIME 117.098 IN 12th GALAXY," was the frantic message. "Very simply, from a mathematical translation, we can assume this was an ancient spacecraft, or even a planet. "It was looking for some kind of beacon, a signal, to guide them out of danger. This whole thing is mind-boggling," said the astronomer. "My Soviet counterparts have done the majority of computer translation and we have been working night and day to pinpoint the source of the signal. "Our initial calculations have shown, and we may be proven very wrong later, that the signal was sent at least 50,000 years ago, maybe longer. "My colleagues feel we must have more conclusive analysis of the message before we publish a report. "I disagree. "Both our governments are briefed on our progress constantly. I feel the whole story should be made public now. "It is conclusive proof, to me, that mankind is not alone. I only wish that I could go into further detail. "There is much more to this story and more of the signal to be translated. "But I will say this, when this goes public, it will have one of the greatest effects on the human race in history. "It could even bring about world peace." Both U.S. and Soviet government spokesmen refused to confirm or deny that scientific research into an alien message was taking place. The Soviet spokesman, however, said that "Our government is constantly seeking new information from space, and that includes scanning for radio signals of any kind." It is not inconceivable that our advanced equipment could pick up a message of this sort. I am just not at liberty to discuss it any further at this point. -- ALEX JACKSON # Soviets and Americans join forces to decode desperate call for help === Page 9 of 99 Weekly World News 6/24/86 # Bahamian researchers are investigating reports that a UFO saved a family from drowning after their pleasure boat sank in the Devil's Triangle. Dr. Leopold Stinson told a symposium in Caracas, Venezuela, that the May 5 incident appeared to have all the indications of a verifiable alien encounter. Stinson quoted the family as having said the UFO rose out of the sea just seconds before their 32-foot boat went under. Incredibly, they claim the starship rescued them by air-dropping a life raft that bore the insignia of the U.S. Air Force. And it is that raft, said Stinson, that might prove once and for all that an alien intelligence is operating in the Devil's Triangle. "The raft is a type that was commonly used in the 1950s," he said. "If we can match the numbers on its side to any plane known to have disappeared in the Triangle in that era, it would suggest that it had been hijacked and stored, perhaps by beings that are not of this world." Stinson said that the quest to match the numbers could take weeks, months or years owing to the large number of planes that have vanished in the Triangle. Meanwhile, the investigation will focus on accounts from the rescued family, he said. "These are very articulate people and they have been quite cooperative," he continued. "The husband and wife are medical doctors from Brazil. They have two children, both in college." According to Stinson, the family had been island-hopping in the Caribbean for several months. They were reportedly on their way to the Bahamas when their boat started taking on water. "Their own life raft was in an interior compartment and the boat was sinking so fast they couldn't get to it," said Stinson. "They told me they sent out an SOS over the radio but were certain they were going to die." The UFO -- golden-colored and shaped like a star -- rose out of the water about 75 yards away, the family said. "By this time, they were almost out of their minds with fear," said Stinson. "But they did recall that the UFO crackled and hummed as it cleared the surface and moved toward them. They said the craft came to within 20 or 30 feet of where their boat was sinking and dropped the Air Force raft from its belly. "They told me the craft hovered overhead for a few seconds, then it vanished in the sky. "The stunned but grateful family swam to the raft and climbed aboard. Shaken by their terrifying ordeal, they huddled together in the darkness of the vast nighttime sea," added Stinson. "Their capsized boat slipped noiselessly beneath the ocean's swells and a bizarre silence settled in around the frightened family. They joined hands and prayed. And waited." About 20 minutes later, the crew of a Bahamian-based sport-fishing boat found the family afloat in the raft and took them ashore, said Stinson. They reported the incident to authorities, who alerted Stinson's UFO/Devil's Triangle research group. Carlos Garcia, a science reporter in Caracas, said the reaction of Stinson's colleagues at the symposium was mixed. "They are anxious to see his report in the journals so they can weigh all the evidence for themselves," he said. -- RIKI MOSS === Page 10 of 99 UFO lowered a life raft to drowning family in bizarre Devil's Triangle incident. # Alien spacecraft rises from sea to save a drowning family === Page 11 of 99 A real-life encounter with a . . . # SEA MONSTER! Weekly World News 7/15/86 In a chilling real-life drama rivaling a Hollywood creature feature, dentist Jack Bishop and his friend Ken Bordrie came face to face with a living legend of the deep -- the Chesapeake Bay monster! The sea creature, affectionately known as Chessie in a parody of Scotland's Nessie of Loch Ness, surfaced in the Tred Avon River off Easton, Md., only 100 yards from a dock where the two men were standing. "I was showing Jack my new boat when something caught my eye," Bordrie told The NEWS. "At first, I thought it was a big school of fish churning the water. I said something like, 'Hey Jack. Take a look at that.' That's when he saw it." "It was the most incredible thing I've ever seen," Dr. Bishop said. "It was moving down the river, undulating up and down, not side to side like a snake. I could always see two or three of its sections out of the water and it was moving rather quickly. "I'd estimate the thing to be at least 20 feet long." Bishop, who apparently had a better view of Chessie than did Bordrie, said the creature is brownish in color and has a pointed, serpentine head. "I could see it very clearly," Bishop added. "But I couldn't tell if it was shiny or had any scales. But there isn't any doubt at all what I saw -- it was Chessie. "It was exciting to see it, not at all terrifying. If I had been alone in a small boat and it came to the surface alongside me, I think then I'd probably get a bit concerned." In recent years, there have been dozens of sightings of the mysterious sea creature cruising Chesapeake Bay. There were three reported last year alone. A building contractor and his wife said they spotted "a great big eel" longer than their 24-foot boat. Two watermen said a 35-foot snake or eel circled their boat for about an hour. And a family of six reported seeing a serpentine creature raise one hump after another above the water while swimming near shore. Those 1984 reports followed a claim in 1982 that a 30-foot sea beast had actually been videotaped. The tape has been examined by experts and the blurry image is in dispute. "I'm not certain that what I saw isn't a large snake," Bordrie said. "But, whatever it is, I've never seen anything like it before . . . and I don't think I'll ever see anything like it again." SEA serpent described by the two men was very similar to this artist's rendition. # Doctor and friend have a face-to-face meeting with the legendary 'Chessie' Recall that some years ago I wrote Dr. Max Fogel of Mensa and told him that I would produce a Loch Ness monster in Chesapeake Bay! (I produced a UFO for Dr. Fogel in a [unintelligible] of [unintelligible]. Have his affidavit. === Page 12 of 99 'They Dragged Me, Kicking And Screaming' # Hill Recalls UFO Incident 2.50 9/14/86 THORNTON, N.H. (AP) -- Betty Hill shows no fear as she walks from a back road onto a wide path that leads into the woods, but the first time she remembers being here was different. "They dragged me, kicking and screaming," she said of kidnappers who she contends blocked the road, took her and her husband, Barney, out of their car and yanked them into the woods to be examined -- in a flying saucer. The Hills arrived home in Portsmouth 25 years ago today after a drive through the White Mountains, puzzled by stains and tears on Betty's dress, scuffs on Barney's shoes, shiny spots on their car, watches that had stopped and no memory of two hours of the trip. After the void was filled for them See Betty Hill on page 8A Betty Hill stands near the spot where she says she was abducted by aliens. UFOs Sun Attack 0.5B 9/17/86 # Arctic Ozone Thins, Researchers Baffled WASHINGTON (AP) -- The unexplained drop-off in ozone concentrations over Antarctica appears to be occurring over the Arctic too, according to a government scientist working on the problem. The results of work conducted by Don Heath, an atmospheric physicist with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, have not yet been published, and he discussed them in an interview Tuesday with reluctance. He cautioned that there is no conclusive proof linking man-made chlorofluorocarbons to the ozone decline, as several computer models predict, and another scientist working for an environmental group warned that the polar ozone deficits still could turn out to be natural fluctuations. Heath's findings, if they hold up, would be the first observations in the Northern Hemisphere to match the discovery of British scientists last year that in the deep night of the polar winter, starting in the 1970s, ozone concentrations over the South Pole have been falling further each year before recovering a month or two later. However, the phenomenon is much smaller in the Arctic. Last October, the Antarctica deficit was about 40 percent. A special team of scientists has gone to Antarctica for first-hand observations this year. Ozone, a form of oxygen, is a pollutant at low levels. But between 15 miles and 25 miles above the surface of the earth, it filters out ultraviolet radiation from the sun and makes life on earth possible. Each 1 percent drop in average ozone concentration over the United States will mean 20,000 skin cancers, some scientists have estimated. It also acts as a "greenhouse" gas, tending to warm the surface of the earth. Heath said that in the Arctic, ozone concentrations are declining at 1.5 percent to 2 percent per year -- but in February and October the decline accelerates to a rate that would make a year's reduction 2.5 percent if it could be kept up. These results come from an examination of observations made from 1978 through 1984 by the Nimbus 7 satellite. Similar observations from the same satellite confirmed the British Antarctica discovery. He said his data was consistent with the latest models "with respect to latitude and seasonal variation, except larger." # Record sell-off sends Dow into 86.61-point nosedive It was the biggest one-day point drop in history and it came on record volume. UFOs in Economy Trib 9/12/86 By BILL SHELTON Tribune Business Writer Tidal waves of selling lashed Wall Street Thursday, sinking stock prices a record 86.61 points on the busiest day in trading history. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks plunged to 1,792.89, shattering the previous biggest one-day loss of 61.87 points set July 7. The drop was the fifth daily decline in as many trading days, all of which have been pinned on the expectation of rising interest rates. Just two weeks ago, investors had been forecasting continued downward pressure on interest rates because of sluggishness in the economy. But in the last week, some upbeat statistics -- namely, a drop in unemployment in August -- have precipitated renewed concern about rising inflation and interest rates. The concern seemed to snowball among investors, culminating in the wild sell-off Thursday. The decline was accelerated by computerized trading programs that are increasingly being used by large institutional investors to buy and sell huge portfolios of securities quickly. See MARKET, Page 5A === Page 13 of 99 # Worries Over Air Controllers Rise WASHINGTON (AP) -- Commercial airline pilots, whose assurances about safe skies five years ago helped the government blunt an illegal strike by air traffic controllers, now say they're increasingly worried about controller performance. "The air traffic control system is safe," John O'Brien of the Air Line Pilots Association told a congressional hearing Thursday. "But we're concerned about what appears to be a general reduction in the inherent margin of safety." His remarks on behalf of the union which represents 39,900 pilots at 46 airlines came after representatives of the Federal Aviation Administration insisted that controllers are keeping order in the skies. "It's the best system in the world. It's safe today," said Walter Luffsey, who as the FAA's associate administrator for air traffic oversees the agency's 14,168 controllers, controller assistants and trainees. While pilots still stop short of declaring the airways unsafe, they also are not eager to embrace the FAA's rosy assessment. The air traffic system "is not as healthy as the FAA would like us to believe," O'Brien told the House human resources subcommittee. He said pilots frequently complain to ALPA headquarters that too often they sense the inexperience and pressure on controllers, particularly at busy airports and en route control centers. Edward Landers, a 26-year veteran pilot, complained of "a lack of professionalism, a lack of experience" among some controllers. Landers said he was the co-pilot on a Boeing 747 jumbo jet that came within 500 feet of colliding with a Boeing 727 flown by Continental Airlines over the Boston area last May 8. The Northwest Airlines jumbo jet, on a flight from London with 182 people aboard, had been told by a controller at the Boston traffic control center to hold at 12,000 feet, but the Continental aircraft was cleared to descend from 15,000 to 11,000, according to FAA and industry officials. There have been other incidents that have caught pilots' attention and concern: - [ ] A USAir pilot averted a collision with an American Airlines Boeing 727 on the runway at O'Hare International Airport last month only by lifting the nose of his aircraft early during takeoff. The controller had given both planes virtually simultaneous takeoff clearance, although they were on intersecting runways. - [ ] A Northwest Airlines DC-10 last year missed another Northwest DC-10 on the runway at Minneapolis last year by 50 feet because of controller confusion. A controller also was blamed for a near collision of a helicopter. # Teams to study ozone 'hole' over South Pole By WARREN E. LEARY AP Science Writer WASHINGTON -- Teams of scientists will soon make an unusual trip into the perpetual darkness of Antarctic winter to study a mysterious and alarming "hole" in part of the atmosphere that protects the Earth from harmful solar radiation. Four groups of researchers will use high-altitude balloons and sophisticated instruments in an effort to find out what causes the annual appearance of a hole the size of the continental United States in a layer of the stratosphere above the South Pole. Six ski-equipped transport planes will make the 2,100-mile trip from New Zealand in August, a hazardous flight journey normally restricted to personnel essential for the seasonal opening of the main U.S. base on McMurdo Sound and a few scientists conducting crucial experiments. Because of the importance of the atmospheric studies, the 13 scientists will be on one of the first flights to the winter-locked McMurdo base, the National Science Foundation announced Sunday. The foundation, which supervises all U.S. activities in Antarctica, said the researchers will examine the recently discovered phenomenon of a drastic drop in the total amount of ozone each spring over the frozen continent. A form of oxygen that exists in small amounts throughout the atmosphere, ozone also is concentrated 15 miles above the Earth in the stratosphere. Ozone is critical because it screens out almost all of the sun's harmful ultraviolet radiation. Scientists say a drop in ozone would increase the incidence of skin cancer, possibly harm plant life and cause a number of other adverse effects. Concern about the ozone layer surfaced a decade ago when scientists suggested it was being depleted by use of certain fertilizers and chlorofluorocarbon chemicals used as refrigerants in cooling systems and propellants in aerosol sprays. The concerns led to restrictions on use of some of these chemicals. Scientists say the Antarctic episodes do not appear to be an immediate threat to worldwide ozone levels because no completely empty hole has appeared, only a relatively small proportion of the ozone layer is affected, and each incident lasts only a month. However, there is concern because the phenomenon may be a prelude to more widespread events and because scientists have no atmospheric model to explain or predict what is happening. Scientists with the British Antarctic Survey, reviewing past data, last year announced discovery of the ozone low occurring each October, with the drop starting at the end of September and ending at the beginning of November, when levels returned to normal. The British researchers said October ozone values remained steady for the most part from 1957 until about 1975, when they started to drop drastically. The new research is primarily sponsored by a coalition of government agencies. University of Wyoming researchers will launch 33 large balloons carrying instruments to measure ozone and aerosols, while a team from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will look at the scattering of solar visible light by atmospheric constituents. A group from the State University of New York at Stony Brook will use microwave measuring equipment to determine molecular gases in the air, and a team from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., is to examine how atmospheric gases absorb solar infrared radiation. === Page 14 of 99 # There's A Hole In The Ozone BY JAMES GLEICK The New York Times UFO Sun Attack 0.5B 9/14/86 NEW YORK Atmospheric scientists are struggling to explain one of the strangest mysteries ever to confront them: a widening and potentially dangerous hole in the ozone layer over the South Pole. Putting forward a series of theories, and unsatisfied by all of them, the scientists are now making final preparations for a rare research expedition that will fly into the dead of the Antarctic winter in three weeks. At the same time, biologists are reporting heightened concern over the possible dangers to humans and ocean life from even small increases in ultraviolet radiation, which ozone blocks. Concern has intensified steadily since last fall, when scientists were stunned by satellite data showing the magnitude of the hole, which appears each September and October. The depletion is many times worse than has been predicted over the last 15 years amid concern over the global effects on ozone of manmade gases, such as fluorocarbons. By flying four teams with advanced instrumentation into the American base on McMurdo Sound -- ordinarily closed to traffic in winter except for maintenance flights -- the scientists hope to distinguish between two extreme possibilities. The hole could be a transient climate phenomenon that will go away by itself. Or it could be caused by manmade pollution, in which case it could continue to widen, reaching populated areas of South America, Australia and southern Africa, and appear at the North Pole as well. "It's like rolling dice," said Michael B. McElroy of Harvard University's Center for Earth and Planetary Physics. "The big money question is if what's happening in Antartica is likely to be a foretaste of what might happen in the northern region." The mystery has renewed worldwide interest in the overall ozone problem, which began in 1971 with fears over gases released by supersonic jets and spray cans. The United States banned fluorocarbons in spray cans in 1978, and a few European countries followed suit, but global production for uses ranging from air-conditioners to foam has continued to grow. All the predictions assumed that such gases in the stratosphere would result in a steady, gradual, global depletion of ozone. Now scientists find themselves forced to confront a sudden, highly localized hemorrhaging of ozone that none of their calculations or computer models predicted. Instead of declining a few percent over decades, the Antarctic ozone has plunged 40 percent since 1979. "On the one hand, it's very exhilarating and challenging, and on the other, it's frustrating and scary -- scary because it's hard to place your bets with any confidence," said Ralph J. Cicerone of the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Ozone is an unstable form of oxygen with molecules of three atoms instead of the usual two. In the upper atmosphere, it forms and breaks down continuously in chemical processes that have proved sensitive to the presence of other rare gases. These gases often serve as catalysts to hasten the breakdown. The Antarctic hole appears 8 to 16 miles up, at the end of winter as the spring sun rises briefly over the horizon. By the end of November, the ozone levels recover. Each year, though, the hole has expanded, in 1985 reaching a size equivalent to the area of the United States. When the ozone is thin, the ultraviolet radiation reaching the ground in Antartica would produce a tan even in the low, pale October sun, a level that over populated areas would sharply increase the incidence of skin cancer. And some scientists believe that it would wipe out some vulnerable plankton and fish larvae floating near the ocean surface. The latest studies confirm that light in the short ultraviolet wavelengths acts as a "stress," killing aquatic life, diminishing crop yields and producing cancers. === Page 15 of 99 The initial report of the hole by British scientists in March 1985 caused little excitement, partly because the British team in Antarctica was not well known among atmospheric scientists. Also, since their data came from ground instruments measuring the ozone in a direct line upward, they did not show the extent of the hole. But later last year, scientists at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration produced satellite data confirming the British findings and showing how big the hole was. NASA scientists found that the depletion of ozone was so severe that the computer analyzing the data had been suppressing it, having been programmed to assume that deviations so extreme must be errors. The scientists had to go back and reprocess the data going back to 1979. "Just as an earthquake precedes volcanic eruptions, this could be a signal of something worse," said Mark Schoeberl, a NASA scientist at the Goddard Space Flight Center. "It could be the leading edge of something more detrimental. It could expand outward to more populated areas. We just don't know right now." As the Antarctic expedition prepares for departure, new theories are emerging, all speculative and none completely convincing. Some use chains of chemical reactions to link the hole to the gradual depletion already observed. Others explain the hole in terms of cyclical atmospheric processes that have no relation to manmade gases. The atmosphere high over the Antarctic is the coldest place on earth, 15 or 20 degrees colder than over the North Pole. The difference comes from asymmetries in the flow of the atmosphere's weather systems. Some climate experts believe a change in the ordinary dynamical motions of waves and cyclones in the upper atmosphere might cause the hole. For example, an upwelling of air over the pole could push aside the layer of the stratosphere with the most ozone, replacing it with low-ozone air from lower altitudes. Current climate models do not produce this effect, but they do not rule it out, either. A dynamical explanation implies that the hole may have come and gone in the past, before it could be measured. Even so, to be convincing, such an explanation needs to answer the question: Why now? One theory ties the hole to volcanic particles that have built up in the polar atmosphere. The particles could be heated by the sun, causing the upwelling. Another theory suggests that the dynamics could be affected by a change in solar activity. Jerry Mahlman, director of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, N.J., is one of those who favor a dynamical explanation, although he believes all the existing theories suffer from a level of evidence "somewhere between minuscule and nonexistent." The hole points to shortcomings in the existing computer models used to make predictions about the earth's climate, he said, but it does not necessarily confirm the worst ozone warnings of the last decade. "You could say, 'Aha, we've found the great smoking gun,'" Mahlman said. "But the chemistry does not really match up. So far there's a lot of wishful handwaving." He has bet a Chinese lunch that ozone levels will rise again this year. On the other hand, McElroy of Harvard favors a chemical explanation, and he put one forward last month in the journal Nature. The manmade gases that break down ozone include, most prominently, chlorine, formerly released by spray cans and now by a host of industrial processes. McElroy's theory relies on another element as well: bromine, a much rarer gas used in specialized fire extinguishing equipment. In the sequence of chemical reactions he proposes, very small amounts of bromine produce very large ozone depletion. If this theory is correct, policy-makers might find that strictly controlling bromine would be more effective than controlling chlorine. Because the UFO Sun Attack is escalating exponentially with passage of time - causing record heat, cold, and other freak weather effects, including the ozone holes over the Arctic and South pole. === Page 16 of 99 All the theories make specific predictions about the polar atmosphere that should be testable -- hence the Antarctic expedition, announced by the National Science Foundation. "You know how much excitement this is causing in scientific circles and industry and government," said Cicerone of the National Center for Atmospheric Research. "But so far the only people who are sure of themselves are not convincing their colleagues. Most of these theories will bite the dust." Thirteen researchers will join the 130 people already wintering at the McMurdo base. They will launch a series of 33 balloons with high-atmosphere measuring instruments. And they will use an assortment of advanced ground instruments including various spectrometers, capable of detecting the minute quantities of various chemical byproducts whose existence is predicted by the various theories. The spectrometers measure the scattered wavelengths of sunlight and moonlight, in effect, letting the sun and moon interrogate the atmosphere. The scientists come from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, the University of Wyoming, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Aeronomy Laboratory in Boulder, Colo. "This is one of the most challenging things that we've ever come across in atmospheric chemistry," said Susan Solomon of the Aeronomy Laboratory, who is the team leader of the expedition. "Whatever the source is, we need to understand it because this is a change in the ozone that's of absolutely unprecedented proportions." "We've just never seen anything like what we're experiencing in the Antarctic." Her own theory, also put forward in Nature, is chemical, relying on some complicated interactions of chlorine and sunlight. Meanwhile, biologists have been stepping up research since the 1970s on how ultraviolet light affects living organisms. The most recent results, reported at a conference last month in Washington, carry implications for plankton, crops and people. That ultraviolet light causes skin cancer in humans is well known. The wavelengths screened by ozone happen to be precisely the wavelengths absorbed by DNA. When the radiation is absorbed, it turns to heat, which can damage or destroy cells. Less well understood, but long suspected, is that organisms living near the ocean surface may be killed in minutes by increased ultraviolet light, and farm crops, too, can be harmed. Scientists have been testing these effects in experiments with lamps intensified in the short wavelengths, like the sunlamps used in tanning salons, and also with lasers. **DISAPPEARING OZONE** Over South Pole, a hole in stratospheric ozone has expanded to cover an area as large as the United States. It is ozone that protects the earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation. Africa Australia Antarctica South America Right. And the destruction of phytoplankton with resultant loss of oxygen for humans will affect the entire human race. My advice? Give the UFOs their base, which is what this is all about. === Page 17 of 99 Heat still searing the Southeast; Plains cities reach record highs United Press International Temperatures climbed toward the 100-degree mark across the South and southern Plains Wednesday, forcing record power use and water rationing in many cities and stalling cars on roads buckled by the scorching heat. The heat rose to 110 in some places in the South and southern Plains, where record highs were set in 16 cities Tuesday. At midday Wednesday, the heat toppled records in at least five cities, including Wichita, Kan., where it was 108 degrees, and Springfield, Mo., and Little Rock, Ark., where the temperature soared to 107. At least 66 deaths in the South and Midwest have been blamed on the heat since July 7. Record temperatures above 100 returned to the Southeast where the heat has aggravated the worst drought in a century. Farm losses have been put at more than $1 billion in the South. The weather service's 90-day outlook released Tuesday called for above-normal temperatures in the Southeast through the end of October. So many people were using air-conditioning that electric consumption broke records in Kansas and Texas, officials said. In Little Rock and Memphis, Tenn., officials opened air-conditioned "cooling shelters" for the elderly. San Antonio, Texas, officials issued a "heat emergency" advisory, extending operating hours of recreation centers and nutrition centers for the elderly. The city also asked employers to "be sensitive to the needs of employees working outdoors." In Oklahoma City, officials banned outdoor water use. In Ward, Ark., city officials threatened to cut water service to people who continue to use water in non-essential ways like watering lawns and washing cars. In Springfield, Mo., police said they received an increase in domestic calls and blamed them on the heat. "Tempers tend to escalate as the temperatures rise, especially since it's been hot so many days in a row," said Judy Boesch, communication clerk for the department. Soviets postpone shuttle launch WASHINGTON -- The Soviet Union has postponed its first manned space-shuttle flight a year -- until early 1988 -- setting up a close race with the United States for the next such mission, according to a Swedish media organization. The report by the Space Media Network accompanied new satellite photographs released by the group showing construction of the Soviet shuttle site. Rain Comes Too Late To Help Dixie Continued from page 1A In addition to the drought, the heat is killing poultry. About 610,000 broilers have died in Georgia in the last 13 days, said Abit Massey, executive director of the Georgia Poultry Federation. Georgia's $6 billion-a-year poultry industry is losing about $5 million a week, he said. "It's horrible," Val Johnson, an Ohio woman traveling in South Carolina, said about the heat. "You see these skinny cattle standing in pastures that are all brown instead of green. The creeks are all dry and even weeds are brown." The effects of the drought and heat already are being felt outside the region, according to Massachusetts Agriculture Department spokesman Christopher Phillips. New England produce prices have jumped 15 percent to 25 percent since mid-June, he said, while beef and pork prices have fallen 5 percent since last year, partly because farmers are selling starving animals as hay supplies drop. A 100-car train was to be loaded today in Indianapolis with 1,800 tons of hay donated by more than 120 Indiana farms. CSX Transportation Inc. donated use of the train, and it should be ready for the trip to South Carolina on Monday. Indiana Bell and American Telephone & Telegraph Co. are donating services to coordinators of the program, said AT&T spokesman Greg Allen. Lee Webster of Webster Trucking Co. in Donovan, Ill., said he would offer the services of some of his drivers to deliver donated hay. "We never go as far as Georgia except once in a blue moon," said Webster. "We've been farmers most of our lives and the situation down there is really desperate. Somebody has to do something." A 43-truck Ohio National Guard convoy loaded with donated hay will set out Aug. 2 for Fort Bragg, N.C., Gov. Richard Celeste said. Ohio farmers have donated more than 4,000 tons; Wisconsin farmers about 45,000 bales, or about 1,125 tons; New York farmers have donated some 13,000 bales, and Kentucky organized a shipment of 50,000 bales, officials said. In Georgia, about 40 cattlemen waiting at the Atlanta Farmers Market got 50 bales each from Illinois on Wednesday. Twenty-five others were turned away when the hay, flown in by Air Force cargo planes, ran out after four hours. First in line was Dale Banford of Winder, who waited 18 hours because he has had to feed his 60 beef cattle apples and stale bread. "There ain't no words to describe what this hay means to me," he said. Georgia farmers will need 2 million tons of hay to feed their cattle through spring, state Agriculture Commissioner Tommy Irvin said. Damage in Georgia is estimated at $182.5 million; in North Carolina $400 million; South Carolina $100 million; Virginia $61.5 million; Maryland $89 million; and West Virginia $15 million. UFO watcher: We are not alone FORT WALTON BEACH (UPI) -- Donald Ware, a 50-year-old retired Air Force lieutenant colonel with a master's degree in nuclear engineering, believes we are not alone. "I believe our planet is being watched right now and has been for thousands of years," said the state president of Mutual Unidentified Flying Objects Network, a 17-year-old nationwide organization keeping tabs on UFOs and alien encounters. Ware said he first became interested in extraterrestrials when, at the age of 17, he spotted a UFO in the skies above Washington, D.C. He went on to fly 100 combat missions in the Vietnam War and retired after 26 years with the Air Force in 1983. Since then, Ware spends much of his time on UFOs, lecturing to civic and community organizations and giving a broad view of the phenomenon. "Some of these things are absolutely weird," Ware said. "There's no explanation, and you can't hit somebody with too many thoughts. It involves too many thoughts that generally aren't accepted." Ware said his personal appearances and a United Press International article about him last year have brought forward people who have seen UFOs but did not know how or where to report them. "MUFON looks at the phenomenon as a study of advanced science," Ware said, adding the organization's consultants have doctorate degrees in 40 different fields. Members have their own specialties, and Ware is investigating the strange writings associated with suspected aliens. He is gathering samples for analysis in what he expects to be a 10-year project. === Page 18 of 99 NASA Source Says No Shuttle Flights Until '88 UFOs vs Space Trek 0.5B 6/28/86 SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) -- The space shuttles probably will not be ready to fly again until early 1988 because of the testing required to qualify a new solid fuel booster rocket design, an authoritative NASA source said Friday. The source, who spoke on condition he not be identified, said a requalification of the booster system may require three full-scale tests "that will extend the program out some number of months." The Rogers presidential commission which investigated the January explosion of the shuttle Challenger blamed it on a failed joint between segments of one of the two boosters and ordered that the whole booster system be analyzed and redesigned. The source said engineers from the Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville, Ala., and from Morton Thiokol, the Utah manufacturer of the rocket engines, have settled on two prime candidates for the redesign. John Taylor, a spokesman at Marshall, said he could not confirm that engineers had selected prime candidate designs for correcting problems with the booster. He said John Thomas, head of the NASA redesign team, would hold a news conference Wednesday to give a status report on the redesign work. James Fletcher, administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, announced earlier this year that the agency was aiming at a July 1987 target date for the first launch of a shuttle since the shuttle Challenger exploded in January. But the NASA source said a redesign engineering team has determined that the work will take longer than first anticipated. "The July 1987 launch date is just not doable," he said. "We could have delivery of the new boosters in the fall of 1987, which would probably put the launch into early 1988." Both the Marshall and Thiokol redesign proposals call for incorporation into the rocket joint of a feature that would use the rocket's internal pressure to force the joint closed. The Rogers commission concluded that the booster could have failed because internal pressure from the burning solid fuel forced the joint open, causing failure of two O-ring gaskets intended to seal the joint. Superheated exhaust gases jetting through the joint then sprayed against the shuttle's huge external fuel tank. # Uranus activity stuns scientists By LEE SIEGEL AP Science Writer Trib 6/27/86 PASADENA, Calif. -- The Voyager 2 spacecraft's study of Uranus suggests that the planet's magnetic field might be reversing, an astonishing flip-flop in magnetic north and south poles never before witnessed, NASA says. "What we may be seeing is a magnetic field in the process of flipping," said Ellis Miner, deputy Voyager project scientist at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. While sea-floor rocks show that Earth's magnetic field has reversed at least nine times during the past 3½ million years, most recently 730,000 years ago, humans have never witnessed a field reversal on any planet, said Mario Acuna, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Miner and Acuna emphasized that a flip-flop in Uranus' magnetic field is only one possible explanation for bizarre observations made by Voyager when the spacecraft flew past the seventh planet from the sun in January. ## Evidence suggests a reversal of the planet's magnetic field. Is it a giant UFO that "flip-flops"? Owens Another, previously debated theory is that the planet's strange magnetic field was created as an indirect result of an Earth-sized object smashing into it and tipping it on its side early in the solar system's history. The possibility that the Uranian magnetic field is reversing is outlined in the July 4 issue of the journal Science, to be released today. The issue contains the first published studies from Voyager's Uranus flyby. Understanding Uranus' magnetic field is important because it helps scientists learn about Earth's magnetic field, which allows compass navigation, keeps out harmful radiation and possibly affects climate, said David Stevenson, a planetary scientist at California Institute of Technology. A planet spins around its rotational poles. Uranus' rotational poles point toward and away from the sun, parallel to the plane of its orbit around the sun. The rotational poles of all the other planets are like Earth's, perpendicular to the orbital plane. The magnetic poles are different from the rotational poles on all planets except Saturn. On Earth, the magnetic north pole is tilted about 11 degrees away from the rotational north pole, so compasses point to magnetic north, not true north. On Uranus, the magnetic poles are tilted 60 degrees away from the rotational poles. That tilt, along with signs that Uranus' magnetic field isn't centered in the middle of the planet, provides evidence that the planet's magnetic field is reversing, Acuna and others wrote in Science. Because Voyager studied Uranus only once, another mission to the planet would be required to determine if the strange tilt and offset of its magnetic field means it truly is reversing, Miner said. Do you sense a connection between this anomaly and the North and South poles ozone holes? 5 === Page 19 of 99 # Layoffs expected at space center UFOs - Space work ## Shuttle launch delays may cost 1,000 Kennedy Space Center workers their jobs this week. Trib 9/3/86 CAPE CANAVERAL (UPI) -- The space agency this week is expected to announce 800 to 1,000 workers at the Kennedy Space Center will be laid off because of the Challenger disaster and the delay in shuttle launches, sources said Wednesday. In addition, another 700 to 800 workers at a Louisiana plant where shuttle fuel tanks are built will receive pink slips by Oct. 3, according to Martin Marietta, the firm in charge of fuel tank construction. A company statement said the layoffs were necessary because of "reduced demand for space shuttle external fuel tanks and resulting decreased production. The reduced production was directed by NASA after reviewing ... program needs related to the temporary suspension of shuttle flights." The space agency tentatively planned to hold a news conference today to discuss employment at the Kennedy Space Center. Widespread layoffs among contractor personnel at the Florida shuttleport have been expected for months and Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine reported two weeks ago some 1,100 workers at the Florida shuttleport would lose their jobs in October. Some 1,150 workers were laid off in February because of the Challenger accident and previously announced completion of several spaceport projects, including modifications to launch pad 39A, where Challenger began its last voyage. But those cuts were based on a 12-month delay for resumption of shuttle flights. In July, Rear Adm. Richard Truly, chief of the shuttle program, told Congress he did not expect shuttle flights to resume before the first quarter of 1988 and more layoffs were inevitable. # 'Snake-bit' NASA to try launch Recall the pro football teams I used to harass with psi-force effects and sports writers used to write that the teams seemed to be "snakebit." The secret cargo atop the Delta rocket is believed to be components of Star Wars. * NASA lays off 1,000 -- 1E By WILLIAM HARWOOD UPI Science Writer UFOs in Space Work Trib 9/5/86 CAPE CANAVERAL -- A Delta rocket was secretly readied for blastoff today to carry a Star Wars satellite payload into orbit in the first major American launch attempt since an identical Delta failed in May, sources said Thursday. The 116-foot rocket was scheduled to take off at an unannounced hour today, according to space industry sources who spoke on condition they not be identified. NASA will not discuss any aspects of the classified mission. The launch comes in a climate of crisis for the American space program, which has suffered three major failures this year beginning with the destruction of the shuttle Challenger on Jan. 28. An unmanned Air Force Titan 34D rocket blew up seconds after blastoff April 18 and a Delta was destroyed May 3. In addition, two research rockets have been destroyed and a Minuteman missile was blown up after a launch malfunction for a total of six rocket failures in the nation's most disastrous year in space in two decades. Rep. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., who flew aboard the shuttle Columbia in January, told a group of lawyers in Miami that NASA desperately needs a success. "We need a successful Delta launch," he said. "It is carrying a high-security payload for the Defense Department. NASA has been snake bit, but I'm hoping within the next 24 hours we will have a triumphant success." The $42 million Delta's hush-hush payload is thought to be a dual satellite experiment to test new space tracking systems, a key element in the Strategic Defense Initiative or Star Wars missile defense program. Tracking systems are a crucial element in the Star Wars missile defense proposal because any battle stations ultimately deployed in orbit would have to detect, track and fire on thousands of targets in the event of a full-scale nuclear attack. Delta No. 178 was blown up by Air Force safety officers 91 seconds after blastoff May 3 after its first-stage main engine shut down prematurely and sent the rocket into a destructive supersonic tumble. Lost in the disaster was a $57.5 million GOES weather satellite. The failure later was blamed on an apparent short circuit in the electrical system that controlled the first-stage engine's fuel valves, but no solid evidence on why the short circuit occurred has been found. (13-3) === Page 20 of 99 Fuel leak delays satellite launch UFO vs Space Work 8/26/86 VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - A liquid oxygen leak that could make a booster rocket explode in flight has forced the 14th delay in the launch of a $37.3 million weather satellite, officials said Monday. The launch of the NOAA-G satellite aboard an Atlas E rocket, which had been planned for Saturday, was rescheduled to Sept. 7, although the date could slip further if a test today finds the leak hasn't been repaired, said National Aeronautics and Space Administration spokesman Jim Elliott. He said the launch originally was scheduled for August or September 1985 from Vandenberg. UFO vs Space Work 8/28/86 NASA rocket blown up WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M. - A small rocket carrying a scientific payload for NASA was destroyed 50 seconds after launch because its guidance system failed, officials said Wednesday. The destruction of the 40-foot Aries rocket was the latest in a series of American space rocket failures that began with the loss of the space shuttle Challenger and its seven-member crew on Jan. 28. The rocket carried an X-ray telescope intended to study distant stellar objects. UFO vs Space Work 8/29/86 Faulty ICBM blown up in test flight VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) - The Air Force blew up an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile Thursday when problems developed during a test flight over the Pacific Ocean, officials said. It was the second failure of an American rocket in six days and the sixth since the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger Jan. 28. The Minuteman 3 missile, designed to carry warheads to three targets, lifted off from an underground silo at 7:04 a.m. for its 4,200-mile flight to the Kwajalein Atoll, said Fred Bolinger, a spokesman for the Strategic Aerospace Division at Vandenberg. "An anomaly occurred during the flight which caused the early termination," Bolinger said. "The destruct signal was sent well into the missile's 30-minute test flight." It was not disclosed how close the missile got to its target, its altitude when it was destroyed or if the debris would be retrieved from the ocean. The 60-foot-tall, 78,000-pound missile flies at up to 15,000 mph. Technicians triggered a charge on its side "to rapidly burn a hole through the missile's exterior, allowing propellants to explode," he said. A team of Air Force and Department of Defense contractor engineers was investigating, and a cause had not been determined. UFO vs Space Work 8/29/86 Unarmed Minuteman Missile Has Problems, Is Blown Up In Flight VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) - The Air Force said it destroyed an unarmed Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile when undisclosed problems occurred on a test flight to the western Pacific. "An anomaly occurred during the flight which caused the early termination," Tech Sgt. Fred Bolinger, a spokesman for the 1st Strategic Aerospace Division at Vandenberg, said Thursday. "The destruct signal was sent well into the missile's 30-minute test flight." It was not disclosed how close the 60-foot-tall, 78,000-pound missile got to its target, its altitude when it was destroyed or if the debris would be retrieved from the ocean. Shuttle Cuts May Cost Sacrifices In Science UFO vs Space Work 9/1/86 WASHINGTON (AP) - A top NASA official said Friday that the nation's space program is a mess in the wake of the Challenger accident and that 63 or fewer shuttle flights will be made through 1992 instead of the 145 that had been planned. Burt Edelson, who has charge of space science for the agency, said 50 of the flights in the seven years beginning with 1986 were to have carried scientific experiments "but it looks like we'll get at most 19." "Those are big numbers," he told an American Astronautical Society luncheon. "We are going to get about 40 percent of what we thought we were going to get." All shuttle flights were suspended after the Jan. 28 explosion that killed all seven of Challenger's astronauts and destroyed the ship. The most optimistic estimate of flight resumption is February 1988. Some of the payloads that had been scheduled for 1991 and 1992 will be delayed, Edelson said, and others will be carried on expendable launch vehicles instead of the shuttle. "But many we will have to terminate - cancel," he said. "Those are tough words to use." Edelson said decisions are still being made and that the space agency is not sure how much money it will get from Congress in the next two years. "We are going to have to bite into our program significantly," he said. "Eleven major Spacelab missions we will either cancel or provide no funding." Most spacelab missions consist of a pallet of scientific experiments mounted in the shuttle's cargo bay and sharing space with satellites that are launched. A few Spacelab missions take up the entire cargo bay with a pressurized module in which astronauts work, and most of those are not thought to be among the ones to be canceled. Experiments called "free flyers" because they are cast loose from the shuttle and, in most cases, retrieved, will be delayed 30 months, Edelson said. Attached payloads in life sciences and astrophysics will be delayed 40 months. D-4 === Page 21 of 99 Trwin Derhans is remembered Challenger fallout When the shuttle exploded, plans for America's space station started unraveling. It's back to the drawing board. UFOz un Stance Wate Til 9/9/86 By PAUL RECER Associated Press SPACE CENTER, Houston - America's space station exists only in volumes of draw- ings, miles of computer tape and the minds of engineers who still disagree over it. But by 1994, NASA plans to have a struc- ture as long as one-and-two-thirds football fields orbiting 280 miles above the Earth, and housing eight crew members for up to 90 days. The goal is to have astronauts in a space out- post for science every day of the year. The cost: about $10 billion, 80 percent from the United States, the rest from Canada, Japan and the European Space Agency. As with nearly every plan in the American space program, the space station has been sent back to the drawing board by the Chal- lenger explosion. The loss of one of the na- tion's four shuttles has crippled plans to launch, supply and maintain the space station. And the accident gave new clout to inter- nal critics of the safety of the station's design just when the space agency was ready to draft final plans. In 1984, President Reagan set a national goal of opening a permanent space station by 1994. Since then, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration defined uses for the sta- tion and spent a year refining its design. Final design and construction remain to be done. The current design calls for two 361-foot vertical booms connected by two 146-foot booms to form a rectangle. A transverse boom through the middle of the rectangle and ex- tending out on either side would measure 503 feet. Attached to the center of the transverse boom would be two 44-foot-long modules, each 13 feet in diameter. These modules, connected by tunnels, would house crew quarters and a laboratory. A 24-foot supply craft would be docked to the station and exchanged every 90 days. Japan is to build a laboratory module; the European Space Agency, a laboratory and two orbiting platforms. The shuttle could dock at either of two ports. Other spacecraft and platforms would link up at five locations on the booms. Robot arms would manuever payloads. NASA's plans call for space-walking astro- nauts working as orbiting steeplejacks to build the latticework of booms from components de- livered by the shuttle, It was thought 15 shuttle flights would be needed to lift the parts into orbit. When Challenger exploded on Jan. 28. these plans started unraveling. In June, astro- naut Gordon Fullerton completed a report out- lining serious safety flaws. He pointed out the station had no "life boat" - a crew would be stranded there if the shuttles were grounded again. Fullerton said it would take 672 hours of space-walking to assemble the station, and 391 space-walking hours each year to maintain it. No other project has required so much of this very risky activity. And Fullerton noted that design changes resulting from the Challenger accident will re- duce the weight the shuttle can lift. This will force NASA to use five more flights to assem- ble the station. It was time to return to the drawing board, so there are 55 NASA experts huddled at the Langley center reviewing the project. Andrew J. Stofan, recently appointed space station chief, said the review is concen- trating on reducing the space-walking and on launching the parts with the reduced shuttle payload. Cold Canadian air blast sends mercury plummeting in Plains Associated Press! UFO Sun AMlack 9/9/56 Temperatures sank to record lows Monday from the central Plains into the Northeast as a strong high pressure system pulled Octo- ber-like chilly air out of Canada. At least 30 cities broke or tied their records with temperatures in the low 40s and 30s in South Dakota, New York, Illinois, Missouri, Michi- gan, Iowa, Indiana, Wisconsin, Ohio, Nebraska, Pennsylvania and Kan- sas. And in the South, Huntsville, Ala., posted a record low of 58. Records that had been on the books since 1883 fell at Chicago, 43; Madison, Wis., 37; and Moline, Ill., 38; and Dubuque, Iowa, tied its record set that year at 37. The low of 43 at Kansas City (Mo.) Interna- tional Airport took a full 10 degrees off the former record. Pittsburgh's low of 37 degrees was the coldest for any Sept. 8 since 1870, when record-keeping started, The weather service said. 7 "The significant thing is that it's never been this cold this early in the fall before," said forecaster Lou Giordano. It was also the coolest for so early in the season at Indianapolis, which chilled to 38. In Pennsylvania's northern mountains, the town of Kane had an overnight low of 28 degrees, one of the coldest spots in the nation, ex- cluding Alaska, according to the Na- tional Weather Service. "With that high pressure system we also have dry air and because there are few clouds at night there's a cooling factor," Giordano said. "The dew point, which is a measure of the humidity at ground level, also is exceptionally low for this time of year. The dew point was 36 this morning and it's usually around 50." 13-5 === Page 22 of 99 Irwin perhaps is remembered # Shuttle disaster: Dreams died, too By PAUL RECER AP Aerospace Writer SPACE CENTER, Houston -- The elite crew that flies America's space machines has not been spared the shock and the self-examination that jolted NASA after the Challenger disaster. The accident grounded the shuttle fleet and sent the National Aeronautics and Space Administration into an agony of scrutiny, both from within and without. In one moment, 5 percent of the nation's trained space explorers were gone. For the astronauts left behind, there was grief and anger, followed by a growing realization that many of their own dreams also died when Challenger exploded 74 seconds into its Jan. 28 flight. Six astronauts have since left the corps, and at least two others are preparing to go. One died in an airplane accident, and another has been removed from flight status. From an exclusive club that once numbered 102, the astronaut ranks have been reduced to 88, and the number is slipping. Some, like Owen Garriott, 56, who resigned June 12 after 20 years, are leaving because they no longer want to wait for another space flight. "There's no question that the long delay in the flight schedule is the primary reason that I've decided I'd rather be in space activities on the outside than wait for the possibility of another flight," Garriott said. Garriott made two flights. He had been scheduled to make a science flight this year, but that was scrubbed after the disaster. "It will be at least a year and a half before the first flight," Garriott said, "and another year or two beyond that before we're flying a science mission." James van Hoften, 42, a two-flight veteran who is leaving next month, said the waiting also shaped his thinking. "If I were to wait two or three more years, I would have one more flight," he said, "but people (in industry) aren't interested in how many times you have flown. "At my age, I feel I'm at a perfect time to transition into a whole new line of work," said van Hoften, who is going to work for Bechtel Inc. in San Francisco. Robert Overmyer, 49, resigned June 1, saying, "Opportunities on the outside were more appealing to me than they were in the government." Overmyer, who retired as an Air Force colonel, was caught in an economic reality that affects all senior military astronauts. Astronauts are not promoted beyond the rank of colonel in the Air Force, Army or Marine Corps, or beyond captain in the Navy. The military astronaut must return to regular military service to advance in rank, or face mandatory retirement. Some have chosen to leave the military and take civilian astronaut jobs, which carry a big pay cut. A Navy captain in the astronaut corps receives about $58,700 annually, counting flight pay and housing allowances. A civilian astronaut without a medical degree starts at $42,653. A medical degree adds about $8,000 to the civilian rate. To private industry, particularly aerospace industries, astronauts are prized employees. One recently retired astronaut said he was routinely receiving $4,000 for five days of consulting work. Private industry, of course, cannot offer the thrill of a space flight. But with the current uncertainties, said van Hoften, "that carrot has been taken away." Some astronauts left because they felt there was little hope for promotion to management jobs in NASA. The presidential commission that investigated the Challenger accident said NASA should overcome its reluctance to advance astronauts into management. It also recommended that the Flight Crew Operations directorate, which includes the astronaut office, be elevated in the NASA structure. Astronaut Robert Crippen has been put in charge of reorganizing key management structures in NASA, and Johnson Space Center Director Jesse Moore is backing the cause of the astronauts. "I'm going to do everything I can to make sure that the astronauts' voices are heard, not only in technical decisions, but also in management decisions," Moore said. # Shuttle, rocket setbacks imperil Star Wars program, analysts say New York Times NEW YORK -- The Challenger disaster and a series of other major setbacks in the American space program have damaged President Reagan's Star Wars plan in ways that are far more serious and extensive than has generally been realized, according to scientists and aerospace analysts. Officials of the anti-missile program, formally called the Strategic Defense Initiative, deny there is serious damage. But many aerospace experts inside and outside the government say the grounding of the nation's space shuttles and expendable rockets has thrown a schedule of complex space-based experiments into confusion and disarray, sending shock waves through space research programs across the country and demoralizing some scientists in the anti-missile program. Another repercussion of the aerospace crisis, they say, is its effect on a controversy over whether the government should start now to develop a giant new unmanned rocket -- far larger than the shuttle -- that would be needed in the 1990s to lift thousands of anti-missile weapons, sensors and various aiming and tracking devices into space. The crippling of the nation's rocket power, the analysts add, underscores the need for the enormous battery of space vehicles that will lift the proposed defensive system into place. Even before the shuttle disaster, Star Wars officials estimated that the deployment undertaking was big enough to require up to 5,000 launchings of shuttles or shuttle-sized rockets. In general, some analysts say, setbacks in research, transport and morale could result in crucial losses for the anti-missile plan. Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wis., a critic of Star Wars, suggested that the aerospace crisis has already contributed to "a loss of political momentum" in the program. Proxmire said the perception of crisis in the Star Wars program was one reason that 48 senators recently signed a letter calling for sharp cuts in the administration's proposed $5.4 billion anti-missile budget for next year. Other experts outside the Star Wars program say delays in the schedule resulting from the launching failures will almost certainly be great. "It could be as much as two years," said John E. Pike, director of space policy at the Federation of American Scientists, a private, non-profit group in Washington that is skeptical about the anti-missile plan. Although conceding that minor damage has been done to the program, Star Wars officials say most of the problems associated with space setbacks will vanish with the renewal of shuttle and rocket flights, allowing space-based experiments to resume. "The advance of technology is inexorable," said Dr. Gerold Yonas, chief scientist of the anti-missile program. Yonas stressed that any delays in space-based experiments had to be seen in relation to the overall research program, which he said is forging ahead. "We're making steady progress in many important areas," he said. However, some scientists who are part of the program said they have been demoralized by the delays. "Part of the strategy was to do significant experiments before Reagan left office," said Dr. George Chapline, a key researcher in the anti-missile program at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. But he said that hope was "fading." 2 === Page 23 of 99 Trib 5/31/86 # Ex-astronaut: Return God to space program Americans must put God back into the space program, Apollo 15 astronaut Col. James B. Irwin told about 350 people attending the Salvation Army's annual citizens dinner at a downtown Tampa hotel Wednesday night. "We thought we were doing it on our own ... and not giving God the credit," he said. "I think we have taken certain things for granted." Then he told the story of how Apollo 8's Frank Borman read the creation story from Genesis while in space on Christmas Eve in 1968. "We have not heard much about our dependence on God since that Apollo program," Irwin said. "Perhaps the Lord is judging us." He said that he hoped that the doors to space will open but that he felt that "there must be a change of the heart, a change of the spirit," a turning back to God. Irwin, who referred to himself as "a private in the Lord's army," said he has been a devout Christian since he returned from space in 1971 and has traveled around the world ever since sharing the message that Jesus Christ "is alive ... and that he uses people in his service." He said that he felt God's presence on the moon and he felt that God gave him immediate answers to problems that arose. For instance, he said, he felt that God led him and his fellow astronauts to a white rock that they had been asked by scientists to look for. The rock, later dubbed "the Genesis Rock," has helped researchers learn more about the origins of the universe and the moon. Irwin perhaps is remembered best for driving the lunar buggy and for being the only man to recite Scripture on the moon. He quoted Psalm 121:1 -- "I will lift up my eyes to the hills -- from whence comes my help? My help comes from the Lord, who made the heaven and Earth." He said he "felt small" looking at Earth from the moon, describing Earth as "a beautiful blue jewel in the blackness of space." "Then, I felt special," he said, "because all of us are special because of God's love. Then, I was reminded of John 3:16 ... For God loved the blue planet that he gave his only begotten son, that who believes in him should not perish have everlasting life." 7:00a viz Space Truth 0.53 6/20/86 Is that the UFO Base we'll bring about. # Another Missile Failure Workmen dismantle the remainder of an Atlas missile that collapsed while on display at the Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. The pressurized missile sprung a leak and collapsed when the compressor supplying air could not maintain sufficient pressure. The missile had been on display since the early 1970s. 3 === Page 24 of 99 UFOs or Space Work # NASA To Replace Satellite # $250 Million Link Lost With Shuttle 0.SB 5/30/86 WASHINGTON (AP) -- NASA has ordered a replacement for the $250 million government communications satellite that was in the space shuttle Challenger cargo bay when the ship exploded last January. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite and parts for a backup spacecraft being bought from TRW in Redondo Beach, Calif., are scheduled for delivery in five years. The value of the contract is yet to be negotiated with TRW. The TDRS is the largest and most advanced communications satellite in the world, weighing 5,000 pounds and measuring 57 feet across its solar panels. The satellite functions as a switchboard in orbit, able to track the space shuttle and relay television and telemetry signals. Its electronic relay system can handle as many as 300 million bits of information each second from up to 25 orbiting spacecraft simultaneously. The space agency had planned to have three of the satellites on station, 22,300 miles above the Earth, three years ago, but bad luck intervened. ha ha ha The first satellite was ejected properly from the shuttle's cargo bay on April 5, 1983, and was propelled higher by an attached rocket stage. But the steering mechanism locked up during the second of two firings and the satellite began tumbling in a useless orbit. Using a few thruster jets no bigger than thimbles, engineers slowly nudged the satellite into place over a two-month period. Since then it has provided coverage of half the Earth. The second TDRS had been scheduled for launch in August 1983, but that was postponed because of the first failure. The satellite was put aboard the Challenger for a March 7, 1985, flight, but the flight was canceled when the TDRS in orbit experienced problems in its timing circuits. THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Friday, June 20, 1986 Coastal Development UFOs Sun Attack # Hurricane Disaster Threat Growing 0.SB 5/30/86 WASHINGTON (AP) -- No one knows how many hurricanes will strike the United States this year, but federal officials warn that the potential for disaster is growing as more people move to coastal areas. Last year's hurricane death toll of 30 was well below the long-term average, despite the largest number of storms to come ashore since 1916. That success was due to improved warnings and evacuation efforts, Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Julius W. Becton said Thursday. But development means there are some areas where there may not be time to evacuate before a storm, so residents need to keep alert and be ready to head inland or to shelters, adds Neil Frank, director of the National Hurricane Center. "I think last year's performance was, from the life-saving standpoint, outstanding," Becton told a news conference. "We cut the (long-term) average of 84 deaths to 30. But 30 is still too many, and our goal is to reduce that further." The six-month hurricane season officially begins Sunday. Public cooperation was important in reducing the 1985 toll, ex-See Hurricane on page 8A # National Briefs UFOs or Space Work ## Centaur rocket canceled CAPE CANAVERAL -- In a stunning setback for American space science, NASA Administrator James Fletcher canceled Thursday the $1 billion shuttle Centaur program, ending development of crucial hydrogen-powered satellite boosters because of unresolved safety issues. The decision apparently was prompted in part by pressure from congressional leaders about the Centaur project in the wake of the Challenger disaster Jan. 28. The decision will mean unavoidably long -- and costly -- launch delays for showcase probes to explore Jupiter and the sun. Tribune Wires NASA chief James Fletcher canceled the use of the shuttle in Centaur rocket launchings. 7 === Page 25 of 99 # Space Program Problems Hit In West Too; Launches Halted PARIS (AP) -- The West's space programs are in deep trouble. Just over four months ago, spirits and spaceships were flying high. The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's space shuttle was in a head-to-head battle with the European Ariane program in the lucrative satellite-launching business. Then, the space shuttle Challenger exploded Jan. 28, killing seven American astronauts. On April 18, a U.S. Titan rocket blew up in flight. An American Delta launcher failed May 4. And then, on Friday, the Ariane rocket suffered its fourth failure in 18 launches, putting that program on hold for the immediate future. The string of disasters may cause long delays in getting satellites into space. Both the American and European programs have been suspended, leaving the less-powerful Chinese rockets as the main alternate launcher. In addition, insurance rates are reaching prohibitive levels. The U.S. space agency has said no shuttles will be launched before July 1987, and the European program is suspended at least until the end of the year. Four minutes and 36 seconds into its flight on Friday, ground technicians destroyed the Ariane rocket, and with it a $50 million communications satellite. That aborted flight could spell the end of the European program's brief reign as the West's only remaining major launcher. The Ariane setback was caused by the failure to ignite of the last stage of the three-stage rocket. Third-stage problems have caused three of the four Ariane failures -- the last two because of ignition problems in the third stage. Frederic d'Allest, president of Arianespace, the commercial arm of the European Space Agency, said the independent commission scheduled to begin investigating the failure on Monday would probably submit its initial report by the end of June. But no strict time limit was set, he said. Officials stressed it was too early to say when a final report would be ready or how long the European program would be held up. Launches will be resumed, d'Allest said, only after the problem has been identified and resolved. The shuttle's failure in January represented a windfall for the European program as Western satellite companies looking for a launcher turned to Ariane. As of May, Arianespace had contracts for 32 launches worth about $1.4 billion. Nine more satellites were set for launching in 1986, 10 for 1987 and nine for 1988. The company opened a second launching pad at its space center in Kourou, French Guiana, and increased the number of planned launches to make up for the lack of shuttle missions. Not only have launch schedules been thrown into disarray, but insurance may become too expensive to buy. Following recent accidents, premiums have skyrocketed, some reaching as high as 25 to 30 percent of the cost of a launch. "Obviously, the special insurance market has already been perturbed and this failure is not going to help," said Jacques Gangaloff, president of Reunion Spatiale, a consortium that insures satellites. # Scattered rain cleans up after storm; area Tribune Wires and Staff Utility crews Tuesday worked to restore electricity to thousands of homes in central New York State left without power by storms that swept across the Northeast. High winds and tornadoes Monday damaged homes in New Hampshire and broke scores of windows at the medium-security Woodbourne Correctional Facility in New York's Catskill Mountains. Schools and businesses in Cortland County, N.Y., about 40 miles south of Syracuse, were closed Tuesday. Officials lifted a state of emergency at noon. No serious injuries were reported. Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. officials said 85 percent of the city of Cortland, or about 10,000 people, remained without power at midday. Efforts to restore service were hampered by downed tree limbs. Crews were hampered by downed trees. The storm struck Monday night with 85 mph winds and heavy rain that caused $3 million in damage, said Roberta Gamel of the county's emergency services office. "It's a disaster. That's the best way to put it in print anyway," said Officer J.L. Tinker of the county sheriff's department. The brunt of the storm fell on the Cortland County Airport, 4 miles north of the town, causing nearly $1 million in damage. High winds ripped off the roof of the main hangar and tossed about 25 private airplanes about the runways and an inch of rain fell in 20 minutes at the airport. In the Tampa Bay area, meanwhile, scattered thunderstorms and showers should continue today and Thursday, with gusty winds accompanying the rain, especially in the afternoon, according to weather forecasters. Highs will remain near 90, with lows in the low 70s. The chance of rain both days is 60 percent. Elsewhere, thunderstorms rumbled over Texas Tuesday, dousing some areas with heavy rain. Hondo, Texas, received 1.7 inches of rain in one hour. College Station, Texas, received 2 inches. Showers and thunderstorms were strung along the Gulf Coast and a few thunderstorms were over eastern South Dakota. Light drizzle fell on the north Pacific Coast. === Page 26 of 99 # Two Sad Sagas of a Tide That Led on to Misfortune Hunt & Texas PK Trib 9/9/86 The idea that government regulation and high taxation gravely inhibit free enterprise is being severely tested by the ordeals of two of the nation's largest entrepreneurs. The plights of H.L. Hunt's heirs and of Beneficial Corp. involve two of the businesses conservative politicians and economists most often charge are over-regulated -- banking and insurance. After earlier blowing billions of dollars in a futile effort to corner the world silver market (owning 59 million ounces wasn't quite enough to permit them to control the price), the Hunts are locked in what may be a death struggle with no fewer than 23 banks for control of their oil empire. The banks are seeking to foreclose on the family's keystone Placid Oil Co. and other property put up as collateral for $773 million in loans. The Hunts, who are in default of those loans, have sought the shelter of Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings to avoid foreclosure. Earlier they sued the banks for $15 billion for refusing to renegotiate loans placed in jeopardy by falling oil prices. In the latest chapter in this epic struggle, each side is demanding that the other be held in contempt of court: the Hunts for seeking Chapter 11 protection in Louisiana rather than in Texas, which is the venue for the other actions, the banks for daring to lobby against the Louisiana jurisdiction. It is enough to incite wonder how banks that are said to be smothered by regulation could have made such bad loans, and how a nation that the Hunts and others say engages in confiscatory taxation could have left oil tycoon H.L. Hunt's three sons $9 billion to squander in wild speculation. Beneficial's troubles are not of that magnitude. Still, what the Wall Street Journal calls its "brief and bungled venture into the reinsurance business" has led directors of the firm, which built its fortune on consumer loans, to announce the company is up for sale. Beneficial, which owns Tampa's Harbour Island, is pumping $460 million into its reserves to cover its reinsurance losses. It expects a $50 million net loss for 1986. Back in 1977, high interest rates lured many companies with surplus capital into the insurance business. Beneficial, whose officials now concede had no expertise in that field, took the plunge and hired 10 managing general agents (all now fired) to run the operation. When interest rates plummeted, Beneficial found itself holding the bag, partly, it charges in an $80 million suit, because of fraud, and partly because of gross under-estimation of losses. The final cost is indeterminable; in reinsurance, as one expert says, "the body can be dead for 10 years before it begins to smell." All this in a business that is regulated at least as much, and in some aspects more, than banking. It's unlikely that either the Hunts or Beneficial's boss, Finn Caspersen, would use their ordeals to argue for more regulation of banking and insurance. The Hunts stretched their speculative capital too thin, and Beneficial got into a highly volatile business it knew almost nothing about. The obverse side of this story is, of course, that the free enterprise system is not only alive but healthy. That the Hunts and Beneficial were able to lose such huge sums means also that that kind of money can still be made. === Page 27 of 99 # Drought won't relent across South ATLANTA (UPI) -- The summer already has been a long hot one for the South where the worst drought in more than a century is drying up water supplies and pushing farmers to the brink. The situation is critical from Alabama to Virginia. In many locations, the rainfall deficit this year is greater than the actual rainfall. In Atlanta, the first six months of 1986 were the driest since the National Weather Service began keeping records in 1878. The same goes for many other communities. Creekbeds are turning to mud, falling lake levels are revealing shoreline never seen before and spigots are dripping dry. In many parts of the South, the drought got started as long ago as 1984 when rainfall started falling behind. But the trouble was intensified over the winter and spring when unusual high pressure systems dominated the weather picture in the South and traditional heavy spring showers never fell. Seasonal thundershowers began falling in May and June, giving the region a brief reprieve, but the spotty storms did little more than settle the dust. "In the past month, we've seen fairly typical rainfall for this time of year," said Max Blood, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Atlanta. "But we're so far behind, normal rainfall will not catch us up." The long-range forecast through September -- traditionally the South's dry season -- is for average rainfall. No widespread soaking rains are in sight at least until October. Hardest hit are the farmers. The wheat crop is virtually gone. The corn and soybean crops are severely damaged and the peanut and cotton crops are smaller than normal and late. Many cattle farmers are selling their herds early at reduced prices because pastureland is barren and they cannot afford expensive feed. The losses are staggering. In South Carolina, Clemson University Extension officials figure the drought will end up costing farmers about $100 million. "If prices don't recover and we don't receive normal rainfall for the remainder of 1986, this could be the last nail in the farmer's coffin," said John Trotman, director of Alabama's Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. Forest fires in the South already have scorched more than a million acres of timberland this year, higher than the total for most years. Water is becoming a precious commodity everywhere. Wells have gone dry in a few rural areas and deeper systems have been drilled. In big-city water systems, the pressure has been very low at times and some residents have been left high and dry. Lake Lanier, a 39,000-acre reservoir north of Atlanta that supplies most of the metropolitan area's drinking water, is more than 8 feet below normal for this time of year. Cobb County, Ga., instituted mandatory water use restrictions and threatened residents with fines of $100 if caught sprinkling their lawns. === Page 28 of 99 1-B # Southern California Quake Rattles Wide Area Of State ## No Injuries Are Reported Psi-Fact Reporter 7/3/56 SB PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) -- The strongest earthquake to hit Southern California in 15 years, shook a wide region early today, triggering rockslides, shattering windows and knocking out power to 100,000 customers, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or heavy damage. The 2:21 a.m. PDT earthquake measured 6.0 on the Richter scale and was centered 12 miles northwest of Palm Springs, said Dennis Meredith of the California Institute of Technology. Palm Springs is 110 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. "It's a big one," Meredith said. In Washington, D.C., U.S. Geological Survey spokesman Don Finley said the epicenter of the quake was about 40 miles east of San Bernardino in mountains near the edge of the Mojave Desert. "Early reports said there was some damage in the epicentral area," he said. The quake was the strongest to hit Southern California since Feb. 9, 1971, when a quake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale collapsed a Sylmar hospital, killing three people. The quake caused $550 million damage in the Los Angeles area. A quake measuring 6 on the open-ended scale is capable of causing severe damage. Today's quake was felt from San Diego, 100 miles south of downtown Los Angeles, to the San Fernando Valley, 120 miles north. Radio stations in Lake Havasu, Ariz., and Las Vegas, Nev., reported the quake felt there as well. "A lot of people were just pouring out of my apartment complex into the parking lot and the street to get away from the building," said Jack Kowalec, assistant city editor of The Desert Sun newspaper in Palm Springs. "There was a little bit of panic, a little bit of hysteria." Gene Aker, night copy editor at the newspaper, said the quake shattered a window in the building. The quake initially knocked out power to 10,000 to 15,000 households. Prelude to Disaster (8-10 on Richter, San Francisco, later.) === Page 29 of 99 B-3 # Soviets extend nuclear test ban Hong Kong PR - Trib Gorbachev called on 8/19/86 Reagan to sign a freeze treaty at a coming summit By WILLIAM J. EATON Los Angeles Times MOSCOW -- Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev said Monday that he will extend the Soviet Union's moratorium on nuclear testing until Jan. 1, and he called on President Reagan to agree at a coming summit conference to a total test ban. Gorbachev said in an address carried by Soviet radio and television that the Politburo had approved an extension of the unilateral moratorium on testing that the Soviet Union declared Aug. 6, 1985. He said his government was confident that Moscow and Washington could agree to a permanent ban "this year at the Soviet-American summit meeting." But in Santa Barbara, Calif., where President Reagan is vacationing, White House spokesman Larry Speakes rejected Gorbachev's proposal. "Testing is needed to insure the continued reliability, survivability and efficiency of our nuclear deterrent," Speakes told reporters. Gorbachev, by referring to "this year at the Soviet-American summit meeting," seemed to be acknowledging that there will be such a meeting, although details have yet to be worked out. He said the decision to continue the Soviet moratorium was "guided by responsibility for the destiny of the world." The United States has consistently refused to join the Soviets in a moratorium, which had been extended on two previous occasions. The Reagan administration argues that the Soviets have an advantage in missiles and that the United States must continue to test in order to catch up. "The Soviets in essence are not giving away much," Speakes said Monday. Another administration official, asking not to be identified by name, dismissed Gorbachev's remarks as propaganda aimed at influencing world opinion in advance of a Reagan-Gorbachev meeting. Speakes said nuclear weapons would continue to be the basis of deterrence "for the foreseeable future," and therefore, a moderate level of nuclear testing is essential. The administration is suspicious of any agreement with the Soviets that does not include concrete assurances on verification. Speakes said verification is "our major sticking point," and agreement with the Soviets on verification procedures "is the key to all arms control." "The bottom line," Speakes said, "would be that both sides knew what was going on and there would be no cheating." Despite the adamant position Washington has taken, Gorbachev said in his address Monday, "The Soviet Union is confident that agreements on ending nuclear tests can be reached speedily and signed this year at the Soviet-American summit meeting." See SOVIETS, Page 9A # U.S.: Soviet space weapons effort set back Reuters New Service WASHINGTON -- The Soviet Union's space weapons program apparently suffered a major setback three months ago when fire destroyed its only airborne laser weapons laboratory, administration officials said Thursday. The officials confirmed reports from Geneva in the private International Defense Review magazine that the Ilyushin aircraft that housed the laboratory was destroyed by an unexplained fire on the ground in late May or early June. The officials, who spoke with Reuters on grounds that they not be identified, refused to confirm or deny a CBS-TV report Wednesday night that a U.S. spy satellite took pictures of the plane's charred wreckage at Shchelkovo air base near Moscow. Satellite reconnaissance ability is one of the most closely guarded secrets at the Pentagon, and the Defense Department Thursday declined to comment on the matter. The specially-modified Soviet aircraft apparently served as a platform for a prototype laser weapon intended for use against satellites or attacking cruise missiles, according to the IDR magazine. "I think it was catastrophic for them (the Soviet Union)," one administration official told Reuters. "They have a lot of years and work sunk into their laser program and it could take several years more to modify another test plane." Lasers are concentrated beams of light, utilizing energy which one day might be refined to destroy attacking nuclear rockets or warheads at great distances in space. The United States also has a single aircraft modified to test lasers as part of its Star Wars anti-missile defense initiative. The NKC-135 jet is based at Courtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, N.M. === Page 30 of 99 Weekly World News 7/15/86 # Starship's # SOS # stuns # scientists **It's coming from across our galaxy -- and it can't be ignored** 5-B === Page 31 of 99 ### Soviets: Ready To Accept World Standards BONN, West Germany (AP) -- The Soviet Union is willing to accept international safety standards for nuclear reactors, the chief of a Soviet government news agency said Friday. Valentin Falin, the director of Novosti, said at a news conference in the Soviet Embassy that nuclear power safety standards should be "the same for all countries." His comments came more than a month after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Ukraine. He said he hoped an international conference on nuclear safety urged by West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl would take place. Falin said he would expect such a meeting to pass strict regulations for reactor security and the reporting of nuclear accidents. Kohl wrote 31 nations and two international organizations suggesting an international conference on nuclear safety. Such a meeting would be organized through the International Atomic Energy Agency. The agency's board of governors, in a meeting May 21, agreed to start drafting proposals for mandatory notification of nuclear accidents and provisions for international assistance to countries where accidents occur. Falin told reporters the Soviet Union needs "all medical means available to help" victims of the April 26 disaster. "The firemen who fought the fire at the scene were unfortunately condemned from the start to die," Falin said. A U.S. doctor treating victims says 23 people have died in the disaster, including two killed in the power plant fire and explosion. Soviet officials have said about 300 people were hospitalized. Falin acknowledged that the Soviets made mistakes in the handling of the disaster and indicated human error was probably the main reason for the accident. "Above all, a wrong estimate (of the extent of the accident) led to the fact that the (Soviet) government was only fully informed two days after the fire," he said. Falin was in West Germany to attend a meeting of the International Physicians against Nuclear War. ### Quickly said ... MIAS: U.S. and Vietnamese officials met in Hanoi, Vietnam, Tuesday to discuss the 1,782 Americans still listed as missing in action. ... BREWERY EXPLOSION: A brewery in the west African country of Benin exploded, killing at least nine people and leveling the plant, a Benin diplomat said Tuesday. ... ANIMAL INVASION: Wild boars, elk and other forest creatures have invaded Moscow and its suburbs, eating park shrubs, scattering commuters at subway stations and injuring six people, two of them seriously, the Izvestia newspaper said Tuesday. BOSTON (AP) -- While America focuses on the $265 million effort to lift the face of the Statue of Liberty and rehabilitate Ellis Island in New York, officials here say they are struggling to find $8 million to save two other historical gems. "An embarrassment," John Birchell, local superintendent for the National Park Service, says about 244-year-old Faneuil Hall, where John Hancock and Samuel # Hurricane Dangers Persist Continued from page 1A plained Becton, who said better warnings and more extensive evacuations were key reasons for the low number of fatalities. Hurricane Elena last year caused the largest peacetime evacuation in U.S. history, affecting 1.7 million people in four states, Becton said. And another 1.4 million evacuated low-lying areas in the face of Hurricane Gloria, he said. But Frank warned that sometimes there just isn't enough time for people to get away. He cited Florida and Texas as particular problems where coastal development has been great in recent years. He urged residents to stay aware of storm warnings, know the location of nearby shelters and evacuation routes, and to evacuate or go to the shelter when a storm approaches. This will mark the second hurricane season that forecasters have operated with only a single weather satellite to search for storms. The normal two-satellite system was lost in 1984 when one of the eyes in the sky failed unexpectedly, and an attempt to replace it ended when a Delta rocket carrying a new satellite went out of control on takeoff May 3 and had to be destroyed. The National Weather Service hopes to launch a second weather satellite later this year, but the schedule is in question. Meanwhile, the lone working satellite is shifted slightly to the east to watch for hurricanes developing in the Atlantic, an adjustment that seemed to work last year, although meteorologists worry about some loss of coverage in the Pacific. While the 1985 toll of 30 deaths was light, property damage hit a record $4 billion, Frank said in a statement. "If we have been successful in life-saving measures, our property damage problems have not matched that effort. Property damage is increasing dramatically because of the great increases in development along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts," Becton said. === Page 32 of 99 # Reagan: Star Wars compromise possible By JACK NELSON and ELEANOR CLIFT Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON -- President Reagan indicated a new willingness Monday to compromise on deployment of his space-based Strategic Defense Initiative. He also held out the possibility that he and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev could reach an agreement in principle on arms reductions at their next summit. In an Oval Office interview with the Los Angeles Times, the president talked optimistically about eventually reaching an arms-reduction agreement. "Whatever way is necessary to get an agreement, we'll do," he declared. Asked if he could agree in principle with the recent Soviet proposal calling for deep reductions in offensive weapons coupled with restraint on deploying his controversial SDI, or Star Wars, proposal, Reagan said: "Yes, but don't pin me down on this because .. we're still studying this." Later, pointing out that Star Wars research does not violate any treaties, he emphasized he would proceed with research and development of the system as a way to protect the world from a "madman" who decided to use nuclear weapons. But, asked specifically whether deployment, as opposed to research and development, was a negotiating item, he said: "That's right. Yes." The Soviets' latest proposal at the Geneva arms talks would combine reductions of about one-third in each side's long-range offensive weapons with a 15-year extension of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which would forbid the deployment of the Star Wars system. In the past, the president has refused to call Star Wars a bargaining chip. On other subjects during the 35-minute interview, Reagan: * Reiterated his opposition to stiffer sanctions against the South African regime and said he still believes in South African President Pieter W. Botha's "sincerity that he wants to find an answer to his problem." * Said he did not ask Judge Antonin Scalia his stand on abortion before deciding to appoint him to the Supreme Court. * Insisted his administration is doing "all that we can" to contain the AIDS epidemic. * Repeated his pledge to remain neutral in the fight for the 1988 Republican presidential nomination even if his longtime friend, Sen. Paul Laxalt, R-Nev., should join the field of candidates, which will almost surely include Vice President George Bush. Reagan, who has recently spoken warmly of Gorbachev and the Soviet's latest arms proposals, said U.S.-Soviet relations "are on a more solid footing than they've been for a long time." And although the Soviets have yet to propose a date for a second Reagan-Gorbachev summit that the two leaders agreed would be held this year in the United States, the president expressed confidence the summit would be held, probably after the Nov. 4 congressional elections. Whether the Soviets will suggest a date or "whether they're waiting for us," he said, "we'll work that out. We'll have a summit." At the "forthcoming summit," the president suggested, he and Gorbachev might arrive at a framework for arms control "and then hand it over to one of the negotiators to put it down on paper and work out the details of what we agreed to say in principle." ## Doctors plea: End nuclear arms tests WASHINGTON (AP) -- About 200 banner-waving doctors from more than a dozen states held a "Code Blue" rally Saturday on the Capitol steps, urging Congress to save lives by cutting off money for nuclear weapons testing. "Code Blue means human life is at risk and immediate intervention is necessary," said Dr. Jack Geiger, president of the 50,000-member Physicians for Social Responsibility. Geiger said he and several colleagues recently returned from Moscow where they visited "young men with dreadful radiation burns peering out from life bubbles" -- among the 200 people hospitalized after the April 26 nuclear accident at the Chernobyl reactor. "To look at these frightened, suffering patients was to learn once again what the nuclear arms race really is about," he said. A nuclear war would be "Chernobyl magnified not a million times but a hundred million times," he said. "We have a responsibility ... to see to it that that doesn't happen." The Soviet Union last tested nuclear warheads in August 1985 and has said it will continue its unilateral moratorium past an Aug. 6 deadline if the United States agrees to stop its weapons tests. The Reagan administration has dismissed the offer as grandstanding. # National Briefs ## Greenhouse effect real WASHINGTON -- A dramatic loss of ozone over Antarctica proves the greenhouse effect is real and presages a gradual warming of the Earth that threatens floods, drought, human misery in a few years and -- if not checked -- eventual extinction of the human species, scientists warned the Senate Environment subcommittee on environmental pollution Tuesday. James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said global temperatures should be nearly 2 degrees higher in 20 years, "which is about the warmest the earth has been in the last 100,000 years." The warnings came as the subcommittee opened two days of hearings on the greenhouse effect -- a long-forecast consequence of man's pumping into the atmosphere such chemicals as chlorofluorocarbons, carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide. Scientists say that the substances trap heat in the atmosphere, and could produce drought and possibly swell the oceans, inundating coastal regions. ## Labor Day fire danger feared BOISE, Idaho -- Victory was declared over one of the worst eruptions of wildfires to ever hit the West, but U.S. forestry officials Thursday expressed a new worry -- the hordes of Labor Day weekend campers headed to the tinder-dry back country. Forest managers in Idaho, Oregon and Washington -- three of the states hardest hit by the destructive blazes -- imposed stiff fire restrictions on their public lands. The last major blaze among the thousands that rampaged over nine Western states was finally declared contained Wednesday night. === Page 33 of 99 # Program To Launch Rockets From Space Shuttle Scrapped UFO vs Space Work 6/20/86 SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) -- NASA, responding to congressional pressure, scrapped a $674 million program to launch liquid-fueled Centaur rockets from the space shuttle, temporarily grounding two scientific probes and some military payloads. Citing safety concerns, NASA administrator James Fletcher removed the Centaur from the shuttle in a decision he called "very difficult to make." "It is the proper thing to do and this is the time to do it," he said Thursday in an announcement from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration headquarters. A congressional aide said the decision could affect plans to build a replacement orbiter for the destroyed Challenger. Centaurs were to have been used on the shuttle for the first time to send the Galileo and Ulysses spacecraft toward Jupiter. Galileo was to orbit Jupiter and Ulysses was to use the gravity boost of that giant planet to go into a polar orbit of the sun. The Shuttle-Centaur system also was to be used to send military payloads into high orbit. The presidential commission that investigated the Challenger accident criticized plans to launch the Centaur from the shuttle because the panel said several safety waivers had been granted for the rocket system. STEIN ROCKY MTN. NEWS NEA U.S. SPACE PROGRAM UFO vs Space Work USA 6/7/86 UFO vs Space Work 6/15/86 0.53 NASA CREADIBILITY 10 === Page 34 of 99 786 # Nation Archives Slated To Get Shuttle Records UFOs vs Space Work 6/6/86 WASHINGTON (AP) -- The thousands of pages of records produced by the Challenger investigation commission, including testimony delivered in closed-door sessions, will soon be available to the public. All 15,000 pages of public and secret testimony, along with more than 100,000 documents, will be bestowed on the National Archives days after the commission report is released Monday, a commission staff member who asked not to be identified said Thursday. The aide said the investigation by the 13-member commission, headed by former Secretary of State William P. Rogers, cost "in the $2 million to $4 million range, half of it for computerization." The staff member added, "The only commission that exceeds ours in magnitude was the Warren commission." That commission, headed by the late Chief Justice Earl Warren, investigated the assassination of President Kennedy. President Reagan, who ordered the Challenger study shortly after the Jan. 28 disaster, will receive the report Monday. The report will be 250 pages along with four appendices, and it will be followed in a few weeks by four other volumes. They will include the transcripts of all closed sessions held by the commission. Since the Challenger exploded, claiming the lives of its crew of seven, more than 6,000 people have taken part in the investigation of what went wrong. More than 1,500 of those work for NASA, 3,000 are contractor employees. Reagan gave the commission 120 days to complete its job, and the time pressure, said the staff member, was the most difficult thing. He said he had only one day off since the investigation began and that was Easter Sunday. An ill-kept secret by the commission was the fact that one member, Brig. Gen. Charles Yeager, attended only one closed session and did not contribute to writing the report. Yeager's name, however, is attached to the report. Meanwhile, members of Congress expressed fresh determination to tighten their control over NASA -- once an agency that could do little wrong in the eyes of many lawmakers. Several bills are being introduced. UFOs Sun Attack 6/19/86 Trib ### 35,000 homeless in Chilean floods SANTIAGO, Chile -- Ten people have died and almost 35,000 left homeless because of widespread flooding in central Chile that has played havoc with transportation, the government's National Emergency Office (ONEMI) said Wednesday. The flood waters began to recede Wednesday, but water supplies to half of Santiago's four million residents, cut off since Monday evening, returned only slowly and tankers were sent out to take fresh water to poor neighborhoods. UFOs Sun Attack O.SB 5/30/86 ### Heavy Storms Lash Nicaragua, Cause $5 Million In Damage MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) -- Heavy storms have been lashing Nicaragua's western coast for the past three days, causing an estimated $5 million in damage, authorities said Thursday. One freighter ran aground and nine smaller vessels sank, but there were no immediate reports of casualties. The Transportation Ministry said in a press bulletin a 13,000-ton freighter loaded with laminated steel products ran aground because of heavy seas near the port of San Juan del Sur, 94 miles southwest of Managua. A fishing vessel and eight barges also there and in other southern ports; and a navy coast-guard and three other trawlers were damaged, the ministry said. Some 100 families were also evacuated from the small town of Somotillo, 91 miles northwest of the capital, because of floods which also blocked the main north-south highway in several places, the Red Cross said. UFOs vs Space Work # Mrs. Smith Raps NASA Judgment O.SB 6/17/86 WASHINGTON (AP) -- The widow of the shuttle Challenger's pilot says the presidential commission report on the accident indicates "incredibly terrible judgments" and "shockingly sparse concern for human life," by NASA officials, according to published reports. Jane Jarrell Smith is the widow of Michael J. Smith, who was killed along with six another astronauts when the Challenger exploded on Jan. 28. Her comments were the first extensive public response to the commission's report by a close relative of a shuttle crew member. "The report reflects incredibly terrible judgments, shockingly sparse concern for human life, instances of officials lacking the courage to exercise the responsibilities of their high office and some very bewildering thought processes," Mrs. Smith said in a telephone interview published in Tuesday's editions of The Washington Post. In Tuesday's editions of The New York Times, Mrs. Smith was quoted as saying she had avoided reaching any conclusions until the commission completed its investigation. (14) === Page 35 of 99 UFOs vs Space Work 0.SB 6/20/86 BROOKINS Times Dispatch 1986 NASA OUT OF ORDER CLICK CONGRESS Dist. News America Syndicate, 1986 "LOOKS LIKE WE'LL HAVE TO RUN THINGS SINCE YOU GUYS DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING.... SO--WHAT'S THIS SWITCH FOR?" # High winds, tornadoes cause damage in Northeast, Texas Tribune Staff and Wires UFOs Sun 6/15/86 At least two tornadoes touched down Monday in New Hampshire and strong winds battered a prison in New York state. Gusts briefly blacked out Lubbock, Texas, and heavy rains prompted flash-flood watches from Oklahoma to Ohio. High winds struck the Woodbourne Correctional Facility in Woodbourne, N.Y., around midday. The National Weather Service said the winds were a possible tornado but officials said they had no readings of the winds' strength. Dorothy Reed, acting superintendent of the medium-security prison, said two guards were slightly injured. Officer Chester Stungis, who was outside the main building, was blown against the wall. Officer Matthew Kunze was hit in the eye by glass, Reed said. The same storm system brought 50-mph winds to parts of New Hampshire and Maine. Trib 6/17/86 In New Hampshire, tornadoes damaged several homes in Marlborough and Harrisville. Hail and 59-mph winds caused minor damage to the airport at Concord, N.H. Firefighters battled a blaze at a factory in Somersworth, N.H., that was struck by lightning. Authorities said the Lotus Products building was destroyed by flames, and firefighters were hosing down a silo filled with potentially hazardous materials to keep it from igniting. Strong thunderstorms rolled across Oklahoma and southwest Kansas, dumping 1.10 inches of rain near Offerle, Kan., southeast of Dodge City. Winds of 78 mph briefly knocked out electricity in Lubbock, Texas, prompting the city's water pumping station to limit water use for half an hour. Strong thunderstorms rumbled across southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois, producing heavy rains, gusty winds and small hail. In the Tampa Bay area, the National Weather Service forecasts scattered late afternoon and early evening showers. Wet, summerlike conditions will prevail. The chance of rain today is 50 percent, said weather service meteorologist Fred Crosby. Sci Remember some years ago when I demo'd Fla? In those files to you - would cause plagues & epidemics. Now canker, rabies, AIDS, Vnet gonorrhea, epidemics, etc. UFOs vs Space Work Trib 6/20/86 ## Ariane may fly by year's end BONN, West Germany - The European Ariane satellite program should be back on course by the end of this year after two aborted launches, the most recent on May 30 agency president Frederic d'Allest said Thursday. D'Allest told a news conference in Bonn that a commission of inquiry into the failed missions would report at the end of this month. "It will depend on the findings of the inquiry but we should start sending up rockets again by the end of this year," he said. UFOs vs Space Work trib 6/20/86 ## Scientists gripe about Star Wars WASHINGTON - President Reagan's effort to nearly double Star Wars spending is wasteful and risks a significant escalation of the arms race, more 15 === Page 36 of 99 3 die as storms lash Carolinas; flooding lingers in Nebraska, Iowa United Press International Trib PK Ripple 7/4/86 A wave of severe storms that battered the Carolinas with high winds, killing three people in a mobile home park, swept out to sea Thursday as residents cleaned up the debris left in the storms' path. In Nebraska and Iowa, rivers swollen by heavy rain early in the week flooded a few homes, and officials said they were ready to evacuate more families if the rivers continued to rise. In Jacksonville, N.C., a 20-year-old woman and her month-old and 4-year-old girls were killed and several others injured Wednesday night when high winds ripped through a trailer park, authorities said. Funnel clouds and waterspouts were sighted at the Outer Banks near Nags Head, N.C., but no damage was reported. Trees also were toppled near Athens, Ga., and in South Carolina. Most of the thunderstorms had moved out into the Atlantic Thursday. In Nebraska, the Big Blue River flooded a few homes and threatened to damage four bridges in Crete, officials said. Four families had left their homes because of flooding. The river is at 30 feet, 12 feet over flood stage and more than a foot above the previous record of 28.74 feet set in 1950. "There could be another 6 inches on top of that, it's hoped that's all there is," said John Gleason, Saline County civil defense spokesman. Twenty miles downstream, high waters receded from DeWitt, where Tuesday they ran several feet deep from flooding on Turkey and Swan creeks. Officials were prepared to evacuate people again if necessary. In Des Moines and West Des Moines, Iowa, flood waters from the Raccoon River slowly receded, but one major street still was under water, officials said. Showers and thunderstorms stretched from Louisiana across the northern Gulf of Mexico. More than 6 inches of rain fell near Guthrie, Texas, Thursday morning, closing a highway and prompting forecasters to issue a flash-flood warning. At Marquette, Mich., the temperature dropped to 36 degrees, two degrees below the 1968 record. 6/14/86 Sat. Beau & I had the exact same dream last nite! (He + a raccoon.) This has happened before on numerous occasions. 6/14/86 A thought-form powered by Psi-force... is as real as the concrete sidewalk we walk on... and very powerful. A thought-form powered by other-dimensional Psi-force... is infinitely powerful! Trib 6/20/86 © 1986 UNIVERSAL PRESS SYND. OLIPHANT NO MORE MISTER NICE GUY! 'YOU'RE ALL UNDER ARREST!' (16) === Page 37 of 99 MISS. ALA. GA. LA. New Orleans FLA. Tampa TEXAS Hurricane Bonnie BELIZE Tribune map # Hurricane Bonnie aims fury at Texas The storm that forced workers from offshore rigs may roar ashore today. Trib 6/26/86 GALVESTON, Texas (UPI) -- Hurricane Bonnie continued to strengthen Wednesday in the Gulf of Mexico as it rumbled toward the Texas coast, where forecasters said it could come ashore today with winds up to 85 mph. Oil companies pulled 1,500 workers from offshore rigs in the path of the season's first hurricane, and officials in flood-prone areas of the Texas and Louisiana coasts urged residents to evacuate. U.S. Space Work If President Reagan, who yesterday received the commission's report from its chairman, former Secretary of State William P. Rogers, does the expected and orders the recommendations put into effect, it will materially alter the immediate future of the space program. The next flight is surely delayed beyond July 1987, and there surely will be fewer flights than the two per month NASA once hoped to attain. When flights resume, the backlog of military and intelligence tasks will mean few if any strictly civilian scientific operations will be conducted in the near future. And it will be a long, long time before any civilian -- teacher, member of Congress, journalist or whatever -- takes a shuttle ride for essentially NASA public relations purposes. That will be the price of NASA's past gambles with safety. It is high, but much less high than continuing to play Russian roulette with lives of astronauts. Trib 6/10/86 # Soviets urge 'Star Peace' Space group Reuters News Service Moscow 6/13/86 MOSCOW -- The Soviet Union proposed Thursday the creation of an international space organization to promote projects that would eventually include manned flights to other planets. The proposal, made in a letter from Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov to U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar, laid out a three-stage program beginning with a world conference on space no later than 1990. In the first stage, a world space organization would be established concentrating on such matters as communications, navigation, weather forecasting and studying the Earth for agricultural purposes. In the second phase, in the first half of the 1990s, the organization would design and build space systems that could study how to preserve the Earth's biosphere, the part of the world where life can exist. During the third stage, the organization would build orbiting space stations and spaceships for manned flights to other planets. Ryzhkov said these flights could be used as a base for the moon and as expeditions could take place "in the first decades of the 21st century." The letter, published by the official Soviet news agency Tass, contrasted the Soviet initiative, called "Star Peace," with President Reagan's Star Wars proposals for a space-based anti-missile shield. 17 === Page 38 of 99 THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Thursday, July 3, 1986 5-A # 2 launching systems may soar this year CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) -- Problems with the Western world's four grounded space-launching systems are being corrected and two could be back in the air this year and the others in 1987, officials reported Wednesday. By coincidence, the troubles with the space shuttle, the U.S. Titan 34D and Delta rockets and the European Ariane rocket were discussed on the same day at four locations. The grounding of the four vehicles and America's Atlas-Centaur rocket has crippled the West's ability to launch heavy payloads into space. The Atlas-Centaur is not flying because its electrical system is similar to that of the Delta's. An official of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., said five elements of the shuttle's booster rockets, not just the bad joint that caused the destruction of Challenger, will be redesigned. Asked when he thought shuttles could fly again, the NASA official replied, "We're still trying to adhere to the administrator's stated goal of July 1987." At the Pentagon, the Air Force reported that the April 18 explosion of a Titan 34D carrying a spy satellite most likely was caused by the peeling of insulation inside a solid-fuel booster. Air Force Brig. Gen. Nathan J. Lindsay, who headed the Titan investigation board, said the loss of rubberized insulation touched off an explosion nine seconds after the Titan lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. He predicted Titans would be in the air again by early next year. A NASA official reported in Washington that mechanical damage to wiring was the probable cause of the failure of a Delta rocket launched with a weather satellite from Cape Canaveral on May 3. Lawrence J. Ross, who headed the Delta investigation board, told reporters in Houston the probe had affirmed that the basic design of the Delta is reliable. Ross said he saw no reason the next Atlas-Centaur launch should be delayed beyond its current Aug. 28 date. In Paris, Arianespace, the commercial arm of the European Space Agency, said a board of inquiry had found no manufacturing fault in the third stage engine or the propulsion system of the Ariane rocket which failed May 30 while carrying a communications satellite toward orbit. # Report blisters NASA The commission reportedly will urge major changes in shuttle launch and safety procedures. WASHINGTON (AP) -- The presidential commission on the Challenger disaster will recommend that astronauts and contractors take part in space shuttle launch decisions so NASA's bureaucracy never again smothers safety objections like those voiced in January, sources said Monday. After nine days of hearings over four months and weeks of on-scene investigation around the nation, the commission on Monday sent to the printers a 225-page report that blisters the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for its management practices and instructs the agency to put safety requirements into every phase of flight operations. # More Changes Seen For NASA Officials CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) -- The retirement of William R. Lucas as director of the NASA facility that supervises shuttle rockets continues the shakeup of top NASA officials, and agency leaders predict more changes after the Challenger commission reports on Monday. Lucas, 64, announced Wednesday he will retire July 3 as director of the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. He has headed Marshall since 1974 and had served three years as deputy director. Since the Challenger explosion Jan. 28 that killed seven astronauts, NASA has gained a new administrator, director of the shuttle program, director at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, and has summoned the former manager of the Apollo moon program to conduct an internal review of its management structure. See NASA on page 8A # Terror Rains In Texas SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) -- Firefighters within inches of reaching a man trapped at a flooded intersection watched helplessly as floodwaters engulfed his car, flipped it and left him crushed to death underneath. The man's death Monday night came after rains continued to drench much of Texas, flooding streets and rivers across the state and causing several auto accidents on San Antonio authorities said. Rescue workers, hampered by rising waters, later found the man's body about 100 yards downstream in Olmos Creek. "There was nothing he could do and we were maybe 30 seconds too late," said Capt. Donny O'Neill, one of the See Texas Rains on page 8A With the release of the report, the nation's space agency Monday entered a new period of scrutiny and doubts as government officials weighed the future of the now-tarnished program. 18 === Page 39 of 99 6A OCALA * STAR-BANNER, FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1986 # Storm Rips North Carolina Mobile Home Park; 3 Killed JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (AP) -- A storm flattened four homes in a mobile home park housing Marine families, killing two children and an adult and injuring eight other people as it tossed furniture in the wind, authorities said. National Weather Service officials were at the Triangle Trailer Park Thursday trying to confirm whether Wednesday's storm was a tornado. "It was a twister I can tell you. I saw it," said Tim Benson, a park resident. "I grabbed my little one, I yelled to the next-door neighbor, 'Tornado.' And I see everything going up over here, and I heard it. I got in the car as fast as I can and got on the road." The storm also brought winds up to 70 mph in other parts of the Carolinas and in Georgia. A man in Nebraska died after walking through a flooded area, and the search continued today for a 9-year-old boy feared drowned in a rain-swollen creek in West Virginia. The storm hit the trailer park near Camp Lejeune about 9:30 p.m., authorities said. Rescuers lifted one demolished trailer so a woman and infant could be removed. "There was a big gush of wind that picked up my trailer and crushed it like it was a matchbox," said Fred Senay, who suffered three broken ribs, a broken leg and back injuries. "All I could see was furniture flying through the air," said George Vetterly. Several hundred rescue workers and volunteers rushed to the park after the storm went through, Halbert said, and found that a woman and a baby were trapped under one demolished trailer. "The trailer must have weighed a ton, and all those people lifted it up," he said. "I was afraid they wouldn't hold on. I guess they had one chance and they did it right." It could not be determined whether the woman and baby he mentioned were the ones who died. Elsewhere in the Carolinas and in northern Georgia, winds up to 70 mph tore down trees and power lines, causing scattered power outages. A storm tore the roof of a house near Comfort, and tornadoes touched down at Nags Head and near Center Hill, but no damage was reported, the weather service said. In Nebraska, Saline County Civil Defense spokesman John Gleason said the man who died had gone into DeWitt in the afternoon to examine flood damage. He identified the man as 68-year-old Paul Zimmerman of Martell. "He was sitting in his pickup talking to some people and he collapsed," Gleason said. "Efforts to revive him were not successful." DeWitt residents who were chased from the town by flooding were allowed to return Wednesday, but flood warnings remained in effect along a 70-mile stretch of the Big Blue River. Highways 136 and 77 through Beatrice, Neb., were closed morning due to flooding. "A lawn chair flew in front of me and then that bathtub over there. I carried my wife out of the trailer with one arm, that's how scared I was." Jacksonville Police Capt. Delma Collins identified the victims as Lisa Pierce, 20; her daughter, one-month-old Amanda Pierce; and 4-year-old Debbie Addison, a girl Ms. Pierce was babysitting. Ms. Pierce's brother, 14-year-old John Cummings, was listed in critical condition with spinal injuries at Craven County Memorial Hospital in New Bern. Seven other people were treated at hospitals, including Ms. Pierce's mother and another brother, who were in the trailer, Collins said. ## Twenty Injured After Wind Collapses Festival Tent WHEELING, Ill. (AP) -- A sudden blast of wind collapsed an entertainment tent filled with about 2,000 people Sunday night, injuring about 20 people, police said. "It was very sudden, not expected at all," said Sgt. Jack Kimsey of the Wheeling Police Department. "The wind went underneath it and grabbed the tent and tore it up like it was toothpicks." Eight people were treated at hospitals, but none was expected to be admitted, hospital officials said. About a dozen other people were treated on the grounds of the Wheeling Family Festival in this suburb northwest of Chicago, Kimsey said. # Texas drenched by new storms; 2,000 people are forced to flee SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) -- A new barrage of thunderstorms dumped more than 7 inches of rain on parts of waterlogged south Texas early Wednesday, forcing the evacuation of about 2,000 people, stranding motorists in flooded streets and closing businesses and schools. But by afternoon, the sun was shining in most areas. "In my 60 years in the city, I've never seen water this high," said San Antonio Fire Chief I.O. Martinez. The drowning death of a soldier and the discovery of the body of a 5-year-old boy raised the number of storm-related fatalities in Texas to least 10 since the current cycle of heavy rain began across the state on May 24. Wednesday's rain subsided in most areas by noon, after more than 7 inches had fallen since midnight, but more rain was likely later, National Weather Service meteorologist Stan Hall said. San Antonio, which gets about 29 inches of rain each year, has received more than 11 inches since May 25. Dozens of motorists were stranded in low water crossings and many freeways were flooded and had to be closed. Bexar County Fire Marshal Carl Mixon said four volunteer firefighters had to be rescued from a tree by helicopter. The city manager's office ordered the precautionary evacuation of about 200 houses and surrounding businesses, affecting an estimated 2,000 people, in a flood plain below Olmos Dam. Flood gates had to be opened in the 30-foot-high dam to release excess water into Olmos Creek, said police spokesman Paul Buske. Those evacuated were sent to Civil Defense centers, but most had been allowed to return home by midafternoon. === Page 40 of 99 # Florida, Texas, Wyoming Homes Are Damaged By Tornadoes By The Associated Press Tornadoes damaged homes in Texas, Florida and Wyoming, tearing off roofs and blowing out windows, while storms in Maryland knocked out the radar at Baltimore-Washington International Airport. A wide-ranging spate of bad weather Wednesday and Thursday also brought floods to Wyoming and much of the Midwest and Northeast, and wind damage in Utah. A Wisconsin boy, 10-year-old Paul Davis, died Thursday at St. Agnes Hospital in Fond du Lac, hours after he was swept into a culvert after a storm brought 3 inches of rain to the area Wednesday. His mother, Marcia L. Davis, 30, who had tried to rescue him, remained in very critical condition early today, said Virginia Blattner, nursing supervisor at the hospital. She said Mrs. Davis was in a coma and on life support equipment, as she has been since being brought to the hospital. A twister near St. Petersburg, Fla., ripped off roof tiles, blew out windows and snatched up patio furniture Thursday, while a tornado in the southern Texas town of Skidmore damaged a house, a lumber yard and trees. Twisters also damaged a trailer near Casper, Wyo., and a home in Bar Nunn, Wyo., the National Weather Service said. No injuries were reported. In Utah, winds of more than 50 mph Thursday night damaged roofs and blew down power lines in northern Davis County, the weather service said. No injuries were reported, but the highway patrol said the roof was torn off one house and the roofs of a dozen others were damaged. In Medicine, Wyo., authorities advised residents of an eight-block area Thursday to evacuate because of rising waters from the Medicine Bow River. The river, swollen from unusually high runoff and the collapse of a dam upstream, was several feet above flood stage. In Ashtabula County in eastern Ohio, where Gov. Richard Celeste declared a state of emergency Wednesday night, residents began cleaning up after a tornado and about 6 inches of rain struck the region. A flood warning was issued for Ohio's Mahoning River, which was expected to reach flood stage today at Youngstown. Flood warnings were also posted in Michigan, where Wednesday's thunderstorms dumped up to 3 inches of rain on the Detroit area. In Lansing, storms dumped nearly 6 inches of rain, flooding hundreds of basements and knocking out power to an estimated 19,000 people. At Linthicum, Md., engineers from the Federal Aviation Administration worked today to repair lightning damage to the Baltimore-Washington International Airport's radar system, said Pete Nelson, an FAA spokesman in New York. Some flights were delayed while others were diverted, said airport spokeswoman Linda Greene. Air traffic controllers turned to alternative, non-radar procedures, and used limited radar service provided by Washington's National Airport, Nelson said. A quota was imposed on the volume of flights handled by the Baltimore-Washington airport, airport operations manager Paul Foley said today, adding officials anticipated delays until the radar system could be restored. Ohio disaster officials surveyed flood and tornado damage in the northern part of the state, where up to 6 1/2 inches of rain fell in twin storms that hit Wednesday morning and evening. The weather service said a tornado damaged six houses and injured one man in Ashtabula, and said another twister touched down in Ottawa County near Port Clinton. The Ohio Highway Patrol said part of Interstate 90 was closed for a time in Ashtabula County. As much as 3 inches of rain fell Wednesday on western Pennsylvania's Mercer County, where many roads were blocked by standing water, and officials in the town of Greenville reported undermined streets and flooded basements. # Plane Nearly Collides With Landing Jet PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- An AirCal jet landing at Portland International Airport nearly collided with a small private plane, authorities said today. The close call occurred about 5:20 p.m. Thursday, said Dan Boyle, assistant air traffic manager for the Federal Aviation Administration at the airport. "The two aircraft in question came within 100 feet, and I don't believe until just prior to the occurrence they had seen each other," he said. "AirCal took evasive action." He did not know how many people were aboard, but said no injuries were reported. Boyle said the AirCal Boeing 737 was positioned for landing when an air traffic controller alerted its pilot to the presence of the private plane. The pilot then "reported sighting an aircraft and he believed it to be the one the controller was referring to, but it may not have been. It may have been another aircraft," Boyle said. He declined to elaborate, saying the incident was under investigation by the FAA. "He turned his aircraft or whatever he felt was appropriate," Boyle said of the AirCal pilot. The pilot of the single-engine plane had been in contact with a different air traffic controller, who had advised him of the approaching AirCal flight, Boyle said. The near collision was the second reported this week. An American Airlines jetliner approaching O'Hare International Airport in Chicago was forced to climb suddenly to avoid hitting a twin-engine plane. Eighty-eight people were aboard the Boeing 727. (21) === Page 41 of 99 Trib 6/11/86 Ex-astronaut Irwin stable COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Apollo 15 astronaut James Irwin, 56, whose heart stopped while jogging last week, was upgraded Tuesday to fair and stable condition, though he remains in coronary intensive care. Irwin walked on the moon in 1971 and has climbed Mount Ararat in Turkey in search of Noah's ark several times since 1982. # Challenger Report Raps Rocket, Chiefs ## Study Assesses Disaster Blame WASHINGTON (AP) -- Presidential investigators, rendering a verdict on the Challenger explosion, are delivering a report to President Reagan that will lay blame for the nation's worst space disaster on a combination of faulty space age hardware and poor management at the nation's space agency. More On The Shuttle Report, 5A The commission, which labored 120 days, will say that Challenger's seven astronauts died because hot gases escaped from the seam of the shuttle's right booster rocket, triggering a chain reaction that ended in a gigantic fireball 73 seconds into the flight. Beyond that, sources close to the commission, speaking on condition they not be named, have disclosed that the panel's report will severely criticize the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and demand that the space agency not only redesign the rocket, but give greater consideration to safety issues before allowing the three remaining shuttles to fly again. "They're going to recommend that contractors and astronauts be a party to the decision to launch," one commission source said. The commission, headed by former Secretary of State William P. Rogers, arranged to present its report to Reagan at an early afternoon session at the White House, shortly before public release. Reagan appointed the group a few days after the Jan. 28 accident which killed all seven astronauts aboard. The victims were Dick Scobee, spacecraft commander; Michael J. Smith, pilot; Judith Resnik, mission specialist; Ronald McNair, mission specialist; Ellison Onizuka, mission specialist; Gregory Jarvis, a Hughes Aircraft engineer; and Christa McAuliffe, the first teacher to fly aboard the shuttle. NASA, an agency bruised by the accident and battered by the subsequent revelations of management practices, has begun to redesign the booster rocket and is planning to resume manned spaceflight with them in July 1987. Trib 6/24/86 # Channel 44 remains off the air Television station WTOG, Channel 44, off the air since lightning struck late Saturday, will not resume operations until this afternoon, a day after its target date. "The lightning strike is more significant than we anticipated," said Richard Dailey, advertising and promotions editor of the station. "We're still finding problems and the signal can't reach the antenna." A Georgia TV station is sending a stand-in antenna for temporary use, he said. An 11-person crew is checking the 1,500-foot-high transmission line on the station's antenna tower apparently hit by lightning. # Channel 44 knocked off air by lightning By JANE SEEGAL Tribune Staff Writer Television station WTOG, Channel 44, knocked off the air late Saturday by lightning, will be back on the air in time for the 1 p.m. movie today, if all goes as planned, spokesman Richard Dailey said Sunday. A transmission line on the station's antenna tower apparently was struck by lightning sometime between 10 and 11 p.m. Saturday night, Dailey said. The bolt hit at a spot about 1,200 feet high, 300 feet below the top of the antenna, he said. Crews worked Saturday night and all day Sunday but found the damage extended further up and down the line than originally believed, Dailey said. Sunday evening the repair workers were stuck waiting for additional 20-foot sections of line to be flown in from Atlanta and elsewhere. The 8-inch-thick line that transmits 110,000 watts has a hollow center, Dailey said. "The lightning broke a vacuum in the center," he added, and "apparently some debris has fallen down in the line." The main problems seemed to be in the connectors between the sections, according to the advertising and promotions manager. Referring to the splicing work, Dailey said, "It's a complicated job, not like repairing a plug in your home." The outage was the longest experienced "in the 18 years we've been on the air," the advertising and promotions manager said. This weekend's continuing programming will be played next weekend, Dailey said, adding that movies will be rescheduled later in the summer. Asked to estimate the loss in advertising revenues, Dailey said, "It's hard to say (yet). I'm sure it's in the thousands." === Page 42 of 99 # Mid-America Hit By Severe Storms ## Lightning Kills Michigan Golfer By The Associated Press 6/23/86 Lightning struck three golfers in Michigan, killing one, and high winds knocked down trees and power lines as violent thunderstorms raked parts of the Midwest. Chance For Rain Declines Across The Big Sun. 2B Winds gusting up to 85 mph also damaged buildings in the storms that pushed across a wide area from South Dakota to Ohio on Saturday and Sunday. Up to 4 inches of rain soaked the region, the National Weather Service said, and scattered tornadoes also were reported. The storms were spawned ahead of a slow-moving cold front. Three men were injured Sunday as they golfed during a heavy thunderstorm at Silver Lake Golf Club in Michigan's Oakland County, authorities said. Paul Durocher, 24, whose hometown was not available, died at 7:15 p.m. Sunday at Pontiac Osteopathic Hospital, said nursing supervisor K.C. Johnson. His twin brother, John, was in serious condition this morning, Johnson said, while a third man was listed in critical condition at Pontiac General Hospital. In Ohio, strong winds ripped part of a building materials plant in Newark and blew down power lines and trees, officials said early today. There were no reports of injuries. Winds blew off part of the front and a section of the roof at the Tectum Inc. plant in Newark shortly after 11 p.m. Sunday, said night watchman Oscar Laisure. He did not have a damage estimate. A Licking County sheriff's department spokesman said there were several reports of tornadoes but none of them was confirmed. The storm also did minor damage as it crossed Indiana early Sunday evening. "We've got trees and hot wires down everyplace," said Kathy Stockman, an police dispatcher in Indianapolis. In Minnesota on Sunday, crews worked in the area around Lake Superior to restore electricity following the severe thunderstorms and tornadoes the day before. The winds capsized at least two boats on Lake Superior, four iron ore boats were torn from their moorings, trailer homes were rolled, and roofs were blown from garages in Duluth. # NASA official Lucas retiring CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) -- William R. Lucas, director of the NASA center that supervises shuttle rockets, announced his retirement Wednesday, expanding the shake-up of key space officials. Agency leaders predict more changes after the Challenger commission reports on Monday. Lucas, 64, will retire July 3 as director of the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. He has headed Marshall since 1974, having served three years as deputy director. Under Lucas' leadership, Marshall engineers supervised Morton Thiokol's development of the solid-fuel booster rockets, which the presidential commission will blame in its report Monday for the explosion Jan. 28. Early in its inquiry, the commission turned a spotlight on several Marshall engineers, who testified they disagreed with Morton Thiokol engineers who opposed the Challenger launch because cold weather might impair O-rings designed to keep hot gas from escaping through booster rocket joints. Several of those Marshall engineers have been reassigned and one has retired. There also have been personnel changes at Morton Thiokol among officials who overruled their own engineers. The changes at Marshall were endorsed Wednesday by Sen. Don Riegle of Michigan, ranking Democrat on a space oversight subcommittee. "I think the shake-up at Marshall is needed, and I'm glad to see it occurring," he said. "The people who were involved in overriding the engineers and the other warnings should not be involved in the decision-making." Since the disaster, NASA has gained a new administrator, a new director of the shuttle program, a new director at the Johnson Space Center in Houston and has summoned the former manager of the Apollo moon program to conduct an internal review of the agency's management structure. More changes will follow release of the commission's report, said NASA general manager Philip Culbertson. "There will be people who will change jobs as a result of what has happened; we've got to get our management strengthened right at the top," Culbertson told a recent conference on the future of the === Page 43 of 99 How El Nino affects the weather Trade winds, which normally blow toward the west, reverse directions, but meteorologists don't know what brings on the wind shift. The warm water from the western Pacific supplants the normally cool water in the eastern Pacific. NORMAL DIRECTION DURING EL NINO TRADEWINDS 4A OCALA * STAR-BANNER, SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1986 # Fires Burn Across Canada Province; Indians Threatened ONTARIO (AP) -- Several forest fires roared out of control Friday on hundreds of thousands of acres in remote sections of Ontario, and a small group of Indians was told to prepare to evacuate its isolated community. The fires, which began last week, were burning in areas that stretch nearly across the province's entire width. A record hot spell with temperatures as high as 95 degrees and shifting winds have thwarted firefighters' efforts. Some parts of the region had been without rainfall for nearly two weeks. More than 1,500 firemen either were fighting the blazes or were on alert, said Ron Running, a spokesman with the Ontario Natural Resoures Ministry. One fire had burned more than 60,000 acres of forest and was threatening the North Spirit Indian village of 284 people about 105 miles northeast of Red Lake, a mining and tourist base which is about 40 miles from the Manitoba border. Officials were meeting to discuss contingency plans for evacuating the reserve while ministry pilots monitored the fire from the air, Running said. Crews were constructing a fire wall to protect the village, he said. Running said a fire near Red Lake had burned more than 43,000 acres, much of it prime timber on federal land, and rapidly spread to the east on Thursday. The ministry has issued an emergency area order in the Red Lake vicinity, which means people must evacuate if the ministry decides it is necessary. A fire near Sandy Lake, in the far northern part of the province, has blackened about 80,000 acres. Running said three fires were burning out of control farther east toward the Quebec border. UFOs Sun Attack O.SB 5/31/86 UFOs Sun Attack ## Heat fuels more than 200 fires throughout forests in Canada Tribune Staff and Wires 5/31/86 More than 200 fires raged through Canada's forests Friday, and three conservation workers reportedly drowned while trying to escape a blaze in a northern Quebec province. The fires, ranging in size from a few acres to tens of thousands and fueled by a heat wave and lack of rain, were destroying vast stretches of timber from British Columbia through northern Quebec and forced the evacuation of at least two Indian communities. The bodies of three forest conservation workers who had been fighting fires in northern Quebec were found Friday after they were reported missing the day before, said the Canadian Press news agency. Police said the three drowned after throwing themselves into Lake Frotet, about 400 miles north of Quebec City, when fire encircled a camp of about 20 firefighters. The others also jumped into the water but grabbed the floats of an airplane and a helicopter and were carried to safety, police said. Meanwhile in the United States, a summerlike swelter, with temperatures in the 80s and 90s, spread from the upper Mississippi Valley to the mid-Atlantic states Friday, breaking records from Atlantic City, N.J., to International Falls, Minn. Atlantic City's 93-degree reading broke the 1951 record by two degrees, while International Falls, "the nation's icebox" famed for its cold weather, reached 90 degrees, surpassing a 42-year-old record by two degrees. The national forecast for today called for showers and thunderstorms extending from Arizona to the southern Plains and the lower Mississippi Valley, and scattered from the Ohio Valley to the eastern Gulf Coast. Tampa area residents can expect partly cloudy skies today and Sunday with high temperatures in the low to mid 90s and lows around 70, according to the National Weather Servcie in Ruskin. There is a 20 percent likelihood of rain throughout the weekend, with isolated afternoon thunderstorms offering the only chance of precipitation, forecasters said. === Page 44 of 99 # Flash flooding kills 7 in Pennsylvania UFOs Sun Attack By BRUCE COOK United Press International Trib 6/1/86 PITTSBURGH -- The death toll rose to seven Saturday, and a massive cleanup began in Pittsburgh suburbs where nearly a month's worth of rain fell in an hour, triggering flash floods and mudslides that damaged more than 750 homes. More than two dozen people were injured in Friday night's thunderstorms. Allegheny County commissioners declared disasters in eight Pittsburgh suburbs -- Hampton, Harmar, Shaler, O'Hara and Indiana townships and the boroughs of Etna, Pleasant Hills and Millvale. The commissioners ordered county employees with heavy equipment to help in the cleanup, and workers trucked drinking water into Pittsburgh area residents spent Saturday cleaning up. Etna and Harmar Township. Deputy Allegheny County Coroner Jerry Wienand said a sixth body was discovered Saturday morning in Shaler Township. Rescue crews searching Pine Creek later Saturday found the seventh victim, the secretary of a priest who also drowned when their car was swept into the raging water. Wienand said all the dead drowned when creeks and streams stormed from their banks. Four victims were identified as Tim Kamenzind, 28, of Millvale; his brother, Keith, 24, of Butler; Father John Price, 50, of St. Joseph's Rectory in O'Hara Township; and his secretary, Marilyn Taylor, 47, of Pittsburgh. A Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency official called the damage "staggering," but said it was too early to put a dollar amount on it. Red Cross spokeswoman Nancy Brem said a preliminary estimate indicated more than 750 homes were damaged by the high waters or slides. Authorities at the National Weather Service said more than 3 inches of rain, almost equaling the average rainfall for the entire month of May, fell in one hour Friday over Pittsburgh's northern suburbs, causing landslides, gas and See FLOODS, Page 2A # Flash floods inundate Texans; storm puts out Northeast lights Tribune Staff and Wires 6/2/86 UFOs Sun Attack Heavy rains caused flash flooding in Texas early Sunday and power was out in some areas of the Northeast because of overnight thunderstorms. In Texas, the third consecutive weekend of heavy rains caused flash flooding in Dallas, which police said may have contributed to four traffic deaths Saturday night. The flooding snarled traffic for hours near Texas Stadium, and cars were backed up for 3 miles from a flooded underpass. Some motorists waited on car roofs and hoods for rescue crews, police said. A moist air mass over the south-central part of the country resulted in heavy rain from New Mexico across Texas to the lower Mississippi Valley. Pandale, Texas was drenched with 3 1/2 inches of rain overnight. Thunderstorms rumbled across New York state Saturday night, disrupting power and dropping hail on the lower Hudson Valley and triggering flash flood warnings in the Finger Lakes Region. The storm cut power to several thousand households as trees toppled over on top of wires in several communities, police said. In Poughkeepsie, the roof blew off an International Business Machines Corp. building on Route 55, police said. The storm brought three-fourths-inch hail to Fort Lee, N.J., and high winds and downed power lines in northern sections of the state. Elsewhere, patchy dense fog formed early Sunday along coastal areas of southern North Carolina and over northern and central sections of Alabama. Skies were mostly clear around the rest of the nation. Locally, today's forecast calls for mostly sunny skies becoming partly cloudy with scattered afternoon and evening thunderstorms, highs in the lower 90s and southeast winds at 10 mph with an afternoon sea breeze. The chance of rain is 50 percent. Lows tonight should be near 70. The National Weather Service said Tuesday's weather should be the same, but with a 30 percent rain chance. Through Thursday, expect partly cloudy skies, hot afternoons and mild nights. than 1,600 scientists at top government and industrial laboratories said in a petition to Congress on Thursday. Most of the laboratories conduct weapons research, and some of the 1,600 scientists are engaged in Star Wars research. One of the petition organizers, J. Carson Mark, who directed nuclear weapons design at the Los Alamos lab in New Mexico until his retirement in 1973, said Reagan's original plan for a defense to stop enemy missiles in space is beyond technological capability for the foreseeable future. 25 === Page 45 of 99 a. officials ear more lood deaths PITTSBURGH (UPI) -- National Guard troops used bulldozers to scrape away debris Sunday while rescue workers searched muddy river banks for more possible victims from flooding that has killed at least eight people in eight communities. Jerry Wienand, an Allegheny County deputy coroner, said his office had identified the eight known victims, all of whom died of drowning in the Friday night deluge north of Pittsburgh, but he said he feared more bodies would be found. "We have reports of vehicles being discovered that are registered to people who can't be located," he said. He declined to say how many were still missing. But Jeff Trzygocki, assistant manager of Shaler Township, said four people were unaccounted for. He said the number was determined by comparing and reconciling missing person reports. State emergency management officials said at least 800 homes and businesses were damaged and water and electric service were knocked out in some regions, prompting Gov. Dick Thornburgh to declare the communities disaster areas. "The apparent extent of the damage is severe and widespread," said state Emergency Management Agency spokesman John Comey, who sent teams from various state agencies to inspect the affected areas. Comey said it would take at least two days for officials to fully determine the extent of the damage. The 3 inches of rain that fell in one hour Friday triggered mudslides and transformed small streams into raging torrents. Authorities touring the site of the worst flooding site described the area as "a mess." "One of our deputies came back from the scene and he was just shell-shocked. He said it was unreal," Wienand said. Many of the drowning victims became trapped in their cars when a wall of water estimated at 7 feet high came crashing along the banks of the Big Pine River. "It was like a giant wave," said Bill Skertich, borough manager of Etna, one of the communities hardest hit by flooding. "One of our residents was able to save himself by climbing up a tree and strapping himself down with his belt," Skertich said. "The guy that was driving in the car behind him didn't make it." The eight communities declared disaster areas are Etna, Pleasant Hills, Millvale, Hampton, Harmar, Shaler, O'Hara and Indiana, all located in Allegheny County. Pennsylvania town remembers tornado ALBION, Pa. (AP) -- This storm-battered community remembered 12 dead Saturday and thanked those who helped clean up after a vicious tornado struck one year ago, when more than two dozen tornadoes killed 89 people in three states and Canada. "We're looking to the future rather than dwelling on the past," said the Rev. R.J. Reilly, pastor of St. Lawrence Roman Catholic Church, where a memorial Mass was scheduled for Saturday afternoon. Dedication of a monument to honor the dead from Albion and nearby Craneville also was planned. The tornado that ravaged a three-block wide section of Albion at 5:15 p.m. last May 31 was one of 28 that roared through parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York and Canada. In all, 89 people died, 1,000 more were injured and damage exceeded $450 million. Albion's monument was erected on a lot adjacent to the church, where the roof was ripped off in places and all of its 100-year-old stained glass windows were shattered. The building has since been repaired. Pennsylvania was hardest hit with 65 dead, nearly matching in one day the total of 69 people killed by tornadoes in the state since 1916. # Shuttle won't fly until '88 NASA's boss said corrective action to make the flights "really safe" will take longer than planned. By AL ROSSITER Jr. UPI Science Editor WASHINGTON -- NASA head James Fletcher told President Reagan on Monday the first shuttle flight with redesigned booster rockets will be delayed until early 1988 because corrective action is taking longer than expected. "When we start flying again, we want to make sure it really is safe," Fletcher said at a news conference four hours after his brief Oval Office meeting with the president. "It is that high priority of safety that has caused that date to slip." A launch in early 1988 would represent a six-month setback from the most recent schedule and mean American astronauts will be grounded two years by the Challenger accident -- at least three months longer than the setback resulting from the fatal Apollo 1 launch pad fire in 1967. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration had been shooting for a July 1987 launch for the first post-Challenger shuttle flight. Space agency sources said internal planning documents list the tentative launch date target for February 1988. The sources said, however, that Marshall Space Flight Center booster-rocket officials in Huntsville, Ala., have asked for an additional two-month schedule cushion, which could set the flight back to April 1988. A definite schedule will not be established until the booster-rocket design process is further along. A flaw in the booster was pinpointed as the cause of January's Challenger See SHUTTLE, Page 4A === Page 46 of 99 12,000 flee Bonnie's fleeting fury By PAUL RECER Associated Press UFOs Sun Attack Trib 6/27/86 PORT ARTHUR, Texas -- Hurricane Bonnie struck the Gulf Coast before dawn Thursday with fleeting fury, killing two people with its 85-mph winds and heavy rain that spun off tornadoes, destroyed homes and knocked out power to thousands. The first hurricane of the season weakened and died not long after it came ashore near the Texas-Louisiana border. Port Arthur, which bore the brunt of the storm, was bustling again by midafternoon. Bonnie, which formed in the Gulf of Mexico on Monday, was not a major hurricane, but it still managed to terrify residents when it hit land at 4:45 a.m. (5:45 EDT). "I sure enough thought we weren't going to live through it," said Nancy Morrell, who huddled in her Port Arthur home with her 83-year-old sister because they couldn't walk to a shelter. "It held us in fear. We were two scared old ladies." Nearly 12,000 people in the two states boarded up their homes and fled inland Wednesday, and another 1,000 oil rig workers had been ferried ashore. One man was killed when his pickup truck was caught in a squall and went out of control on a roadway in Vidor, northwest of Port Arthur, and a partially paralyzed woman died after being trapped inside her burning Port Arthur home by flames fueled by gusts from the hurricane, officials said. At least a dozen people were injured. The city of Port Arthur was without power until about noon Thursday, said Police Sgt. Robert Williamson. Although the city showed evidence of the storm -- broken store windows, scattered tree limbs and debris-strewn streets -- no major structural damage was reported, he said. See BONNIE, Page 2A Hurricane UFOs Sun Attack Trib 6/1/86 * From Page 1A potential danger, forecasters say they still are thwarted by constantly changing airflow patterns in the upper atmosphere that determine where tropical storms and hurricanes will travel. "You've got to be able to find some way to evaluate all the depths of the vertical atmosphere," says National Hurricane Center Director Neil Frank, who contends that hurricane prediction has not improved significantly since the 1960s. An accurate measure of those lofty currents would be considered a major advance in hurricane forecasting because meteorology is relying increasingly on computers. "When you start talking about forecasting with a computer model, you have to realize that those models are no better than the data you put in them," says Frank. With no recognizable pattern of hurricane formation during the 100 years in which records have been kept, forecasters cannot back up a seasonal prognosis with examples from history. Vivid reminders of Florida's subtropical milieu, major hurricanes came in bunches during the first half of the 20th century and then slacked off mysteriously about 1950. In any decade, they seemed to single out a particular region of the country. During World War II and its aftermath, most of the severe hurricanes -- rated three or above on a scale of one to five -- either skirted the Florida coast or touched ground here. In the 1950s, they struck the Atlantic Seaboard, coming close enough to Washington, D.C., to prompt Congress to pass laws aimed at bailing out hurricane-ravaged states. From 1960 through the 1980s, Gulf states such as Louisiana and Texas bore the brunt of the big storms. "Hurricanes are rare events for any given location," explains Robert Sheets, the deputy director of the hurricane center in Coral Gables. "One particular year or even one decade may sound unusual, but if you had thousands of years of records it might not." Without the perspective that millennia of record-keeping might provide, the 1985 season seemed unusual because forecasters had to go back to 1916 to find a year in which six hurricanes pounded the U.S. coast. From the scope of the evacuations to the toll of property damage, last year's hurricanes left an indelible mark on Floridians and their Gulf-state neighbors. Hurricane Kate, the first November storm to score a direct hit in 50 years, cut a destructive swath through the Florida Panhandle. A month earlier, Juan hovered near the state's west coast, spawning tornadoes in Tampa before turning away toward Louisiana. The unforgettable Elena moved into the northeastern Gulf of Mexico and stood ground, turning Labor Day weekend into a tense vigil for Tampa Bay area residents. Overall, the hurricane center tracked 11 tropical storms, seven of which intensified into hurricanes. A tropical storm becomes a hurricane when winds reach 74 mph. The '85 season stood out because hurricanes affected so many people, Sheets contends. But "we didn't have any of the killer hurricanes," he said. "We didn't have a Carla, a Camille or the 1935 one that devastated the Florida Keys." Hurricane Elena, however, prompted the largest evacuation ever as 1 million northeastern Gulf residents were ordered out of its way from Aug. 28 to Sept. 2. A study of Elena's impact on Florida counties concluded it took its greatest toll on Pinellas County, where miles of sea walls were damaged. Elena "was a preparedness awakening for a lot of people," says David Rittenberry, a forecaster with the National Weather Service in Ruskin. "I think the overall feeling in the Bay area was, 'Yea, we were lucky this time.'" Will a major hurricane test the mettle of the local populace again this year? The answer may lie a continent away, where the El Nino phenomenon is causing the temperature of the South Pacific to rise and the trade winds to shift course. When the waters off Peru and Ecuador warm up -- as is reportedly happening this year -- meteorological mayhem ensues around the world, and the number of Atlantic-based hurricanes traditionally drops off. Hurricanes have been few and far between during previous El Nino years, but the ones that form tend to be rather potent. "There is a serious statistical correlation between the number of storms and the existence of an El Nino," says Sheets, the hurricane center's second-in-command. "You can make a physical argument as to why it puts a damper on hurricanes." Still, it will be the end of autumn before Floridians can breathe easier. 27 === Page 47 of 99 # Storms Flood Texas 6/5/86 SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) -- Water-logged south Texas braced for more rainfall today as residents cleaned up from floodwaters that forced more than 2,000 people to evacuate and closed roads, businesses and schools. The heavy rains were blamed for the drowning deaths of a 5-year-old boy and a soldier at Fort Hood in central Texas, bringing to 10 the fatalities blamed on the latest cycle of bad weather since it hit May 24. National Weather Service spokesman Gary Grice said there was a better than average chance of more rain today in San Antonio, where 11 inches has fallen since May 25. The city normally gets 29 inches a year. Because of the forecast, emergency workers remained on standby late Wednesday, hours after the heavy rains stopped. Nearly 7 inches of rain fell on the city in the 12 hours ending at noon Wednesday, flooding highways, and forcing at least 2,000 residents from their homes. Street flooding was reported in Houston and extended as far north as Sherman, near the Oklahoma border. Four funnels were spotted in nearby Bonham but no damage was reported. Most of the evacuees in San Antonio were in the Olmos Basin area, a flood plain of the Olmos Dam. Police spokesman Paul Buske said the dam, built to hold 30-foot waters, was overflowing at 36 feet. The flood gates had to be opened, posing the threat of flooding to the approximately 2,000 residents. But officials allowed most residents to return to their homes Wednesday afternoon as skies cleared. But weather service meteorologist Stan Hall warned that residents would "be back in a crisis" if more heavy rains fell quickly. Wednesday's rains caused nearly 120 accidents and the police department to order 150 vehicles towed. Most of those vehicles, Buske said, were submerged in water. "In my 60 years in the city, I've never seen water this high," said San Antonio Fire Chief I.O. Martinez. Dozens of motorists were stranded in low water crossings and many freeways, deluged with rainwaters, had to be closed temporarily during Wednesday's morning rush hour. Trinity University, the University of Texas at San Antonio, other local colleges, offices and businesses shut down for the day. Four volunteer firemen had to be rescued by helicopter from a tree after they tried to help a stranded motorist. Water gushes through street in downtown San Antonio. # Killer typhoon heads for China 7/11/86 MANILA, Philippines (UPI) -- Typhoon Peggy spun out to sea toward China Thursday after a devastating sweep across the northern Philippines that killed at least 53 people and forced more than 240,000 people from their homes. Another 19 people were reported missing in the first major typhoon -- the Pacific version of a hurricane -- to hit the Philippines this year after it flooded the capital and left thousands homeless. Peggy slammed ashore from the Pacific on Wednesday, raking rice and corn farmlands on the main Luzon island with peak winds of 109 mph and carrying a bank of rain clouds 373 miles in diameter. By late Thursday, the Weather Bureau said Peggy was 225 miles away from the archipelago in the South China Sea, heading toward China at 9 mph with peak winds of 94 mph. President Corazon Aquino arrived at work in Manila Thursday aboard a four-wheel-drive jeep as knee-deep floodwater lapped at the steps of the presidential palace guest house. (28) === Page 48 of 99 Southeast continues to swelter under a blob of hot, humid air Tribune Staff and Wires The southeast sweated for a fourth day Wednesday under a blob of hot, humid air that has killed chickens, heightened demand for air conditioning and fans and worsened a water shortage in the drought-stricken region. Temperatures again rose above 100 degrees in parts of Georgia and the Carolinas. The National Weather Service said the combination of heat and humidity pushed its heat index, a measure of how warm the air feels, to between 105 and 115 degrees across much of the Southeast and as far west as southern Missouri. The high pressure system pinning the muggy air over the Southeast "will remain the dominant weather feature through the week," said the weather service office in Atlanta. Cooler air pressed down from the North, but its collision with the persistent hot air was marked by thunderstorms paralleling the Mason-Dixon line. South Carolina, Virginia and Georgia utilities reported record demand for electricity Tuesday, a day after similar reports in Maryland, Delaware, Ohio, Indiana, New Jersey and New York. The dry summer has prompted many Georgia cities and counties, particularly around Atlanta, to restrict or prohibit outdoor water use, with fines up to $50. The drought has also reduced hydroelectric production at Tennessee Valley Authority dams. In North Carolina, the Orange Water and Sewer Authority asked the cities of Carrboro and Chapel Hill to impose water use restrictions. The heat is affecting Georgia's $1.25 billion poultry industry, with thousands of chickens dying this week. Jesse Atkins of Mar-Jac Farms in Hall County said he had 10,000 deaths Monday alone. In the Tampa Bay area, scattered showers and thunderstorms occurring throughout the day are forecast for today and Friday, the National Weather Service said. "It's one of those situations where they can be around any time of the day," said meteorologist David Rittenberry of the weather service's Ruskin office. In the Tampa Bay area, it will be a mostly sunny weekend with a few rainy interruptions, the National Weather Service said. The next four days have "below-normal shower prospects," said meteorologist David Rittenberry of the weather service's Ruskin office. "They won't be widespread. Not every one in the Bay area will get hit every day." Highs in the Bay area will be in the low 90s; lows in the mid-70s. Elsewhere, showers and thunderstorms extended from the upper Mississippi Valley across the lower Ohio Valley and the southern Appalachians. A flash flood watch was posted over much of Iowa, where a batch of thunderstorms dumped up to 2 inches of rain in some areas and pushed several rivers up to 5 feet above flood stage. The storm system also spun tornadoes in Illinois and Missouri late Wednesday. Temperatures in the 100s sizzled parts of Georgia and South Carolina for the fifth straight day Thursday, forcing farmers to sell off cattle because of dry watering ponds and bare pastures. City officials in Camden, S.C., about 30 miles northeast of Columbia, prepared rationing plans when the city's water supply reached a "crisis" level of 30 days. At Fort Jackson, S.C., recruits had their training schedules eased and were hosed down at times. Spraying down hens has not helped Carolina producers, who are losing 500 to 1,000 chickens per day, said Harley South, Randolph County, N.C., agriculture agent. Georgia officials estimate more than 400,000 chickens have perished in their state since last week due to the heat. Temperatures above 90 are hot enough to fry eggs and bacon, said retired Purdue University professor William Goetz. "When temperatures are higher than 90 degrees, that's enough to heat a blacktop surface to 175 degrees," Goetz said. National Briefs Space center head retires CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Richard G. Smith, director of the Kennedy Space Center and one of the officials who approved the ill-fated Challenger launch, announced his retirement Thursday, expanding the shakeup of NASA leaders in the wake of the tragedy. Smith, 57, who has headed the center since 1979, said he will step down July 31 to become president and chief executive officer of General Space Corp., a Pittsburgh firm that is seeking government approval to provide private funding for a replacement for Challenger. Smith's retirement follows by a month that of William R. Lucas, director of the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Marshall supervises the booster rockets that help power shuttles into space. The presidential commission was critical of management procedures and officials at both Kennedy and Marshall for allowing the launch to proceed after warnings from two major contractors. Southeast continues to sizzle; Bay area rain prospects dwindle Tribune Staff and Wires Storms brewed over the Midwest Thursday but there was no relief from withering Southeastern heat that sapped water supplies, killed chickens by the truckloads and made asphalt hot enough to fry an egg. 29 === Page 49 of 99 # Stealth Fighter Crashes In Desert ## Pilot Dies; Air Force Still Mum The New York Times 7/12/86 WASHINGTON -- A fatal Air Force crash in California early Friday involved one of the military's most secret weapons, a Stealth fighter aircraft that eludes radar and other sensors, according to experts in military technology familiar with the program. The Air Force said a plane crashed in nighttime operations in Sequoia National Forest about 12 miles from Bakersfield, Calif., killing the pilot. The Air Force sealed off the crash site and the airspace near it as firefighters worked to contain an ensuing brush fire, and the Air Force refused to make public any further information about the crash. The Air Force usually provides prompt details about crashes involving its aircraft. The weapon experts, who asked not to be identified, said the crash involved a plane that has been variously called the F-19, the Covert Survivable In-Weather Reconnaissance Strike aircraft, or simply the Stealth fighter. Its development by the Lockheed Corp., reported many times in newspapers and technical publications, has never been confirmed by the military. But Joseph Campbell, a securities analyst for Paine Webber Inc. in New York, said, "I believe that it is in production." He said Lockheed's financial reports, combined with an analysis of its known military projects, leads to the conclusion that the company is building enough planes to generate several hundred million dollars in annual revenue, perhaps even $1 billion. The crash does not necessarily indicate serious technical problems with the fighter. Many high-performance military planes crash every year on maneuver. But a weapon expert said the plane that crashed Friday might have been equipped with newly developed equipment meant to make it more maneuverable. This also could have the effect of making it less stable and harder to fly. The Lockheed airplane is not the only highly classified one to incorporate Stealth technology. Other companies are thought to have produced prototypes, and the Air Force is well on its way to deploying a Stealth bomber, formally known as the Advanced Technology Bomber, in the early 1990s. The Air Force said Friday that the crash in California did not involve a bomber. News reports and other sources have said the Air Force has based dozens of the planes at a secret, remote air base in the Nevada desert. It is not known why the Stealth fighter would be flown in California, near Edwards Air Force Base, where many experimental aircraft are tested. Most tests of the Stealth fighter are thought to take place at the Groom Lake and Tonopah test ranges, near Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. In 1984, the Air Force closed off thousands of acres of land in the Groom See Air Force on page 8A ## Air Force Silent On Stealth Crash Continued from page 1A Mountains of Nevada, citing national security reasons. The plane was probably being tested, not merely moved from one location to another, when it crashed, sources said. The tests are done at night so that the plane is not seen. In daytime it is parked under protective bunkers. When it is moved from one location to another it is carried in a C-5 military transport plane. The first prototypes of the Stealth fighter were reportedly built in the mid-1970s, and the plane first flew in 1977, according to a book about Stealth aircraft by Bill Sweetman, a San Francisco writer, published earlier this year. The plane's shape is believed to resemble the space shuttle, with the fuselage gradually blending into wings. Avoiding sharp angles is one way to reduce the radar image of a plane. It also is reportedly built largely of carbon and epoxy composite materials that absorb radar, rather than metals that reflect radar signals. The plane produces no more than a hum at a distance of 100 feet. Estimates of the plane's length vary from 35 feet to 60 feet, and some industry experts have said several versions of the Stealth fighter may exist. Sweetman's book suggests that an early version of the Stealth fighter broke apart in 1979, injuring the pilot. 30 === Page 50 of 99 Ohio officials warn residents new evacuation orders possible Pyrote Attack 7/12/86 Trib MIAMISBURG, Ohio (UPI) - Authorities on Friday warned residents, already evacuated twice from the scene of a toxic chemical fire, to keep alert for another possible order to flee because of shifting winds. The fire at a ruptured railroad tanker car was still burning, nearly 72 hours after seven cars of a Baltimore & Ohio freight train derailed. One of the cars carried 12,000 gallons of phosphorous, which exploded into flames upon contact with the air Tuesday afternoon and spewed out a white cloud of acid vapor. The longer the fire burns, the more difficult it will be to determine the cause of the disaster, William Loftus, executive director of the Federal Railway Administration, said Friday. "There's always the possibility you won't be able to put your finger on it (the cause)," he said. "The burnoff is a problem in determining the source. We had hoped to be out there today. There's certainly going to be heat distortion." The cloud of phosphoric acid vapor forced authorities to evacuate 17,500 people from Miamisburg and nearby towns Tuesday. Wednesday afternoon, after all but a few hundred had returned, the fire flared up again and more than 30,000 people spent Wednesday night and Thursday morning away from their homes. Because of the number of evacuees, the Federal Railway Administration has called the derailment the worst in the nation's history. The fire's intense heat and the fact that the phosphorous burns even under water has forced authorities to wait for the blaze to burn itself out. The white vapor continues to rise from the scene. But the wind was shifting Friday afternoon and Ohio Environmental Protection Agency spokesman Allan Franks said authorities were warning residents to stay alert. # Typhoon Peggy winds down over China UFO Sun Attack 7/12/86 HONG KONG (AP) - Typhoon Peggy, which killed at least 73 people in the Philippines, passed about 80 miles east of Hong Kong on Friday and began losing strength over southern China. Winds of up to 80 mph uprooted several trees in the British crown colony. Heavy rains caused flooding, a landslide and the partial collapse of a road. Schools and offices were closed, and bus and ferry services were suspended. Twelve flights were canceled at Kai Tak International Airport, nine were delayed and one was diverted. The Hong Kong Observatory said the storm weakened after it crossed the Chinese coast and began to move inland. President Corazon Aquino of the Philippines proclaimed a state of emergency in the northern part of Luzon, the main island, where Peggy caused several deadly landslides Wednesday and Thursday. Aquino ordered the equivalent of $500,000 allocated for relief in about 25 northern provinces on Luzon and another $50,000 for Manila. Reports from the Red Cross, the Office of Civil Defense and the government's Philippine News Agency said the hardest-hit areas were Baguio City and adjoining Benguet province 125 miles north of Manila, where 29 people were buried by landslides. Floods killed 25 people in Manila and most of the other victims perished in floods north of the capital. # Southeast Broils; Heat Kills 2 People UFO Sun Attack By The Associated Press OSB 7/14/86 The Southeast continued to swelter, with temperatures soaring above 100 in parts of the Carolinas and Georgia, and thunderstorms spawned in the heat killed at least two people. A drought emergency was expected to be declared today in South Carolina. It was 104 degrees in Columbia, S.C., Sunday, breaking a 1980 record of 103. It marked the seventh consecutive day above 100 degrees in the city, breaking the old record of six days of triple-digit temperatures. It was much the same story Sunday in Charleston, S.C., where the 101 was a record high and extended the streak of 100-plus days to six. The previous record had been three consecutive days in the 100s, set in 1934 and 1942. Records were also set in three North Carolina cities: Charlotte, where the temperature reached 100; Wilmington, where it was 99; and Cape Hatteras, where the temperature was 92. The forecast for the region was for similar temperatures today, and the only rain predicted in most of the area was widely scattered thunderstorms. In Maryland, where temperatures over the See Heat Kills on page 8A UFO Sun Attack Fires scorch vast tracts in Alaska Trib 7/14/86 ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Hundreds of firefighters on Sunday battled 85 wildfires raging over more than 330,000 acres of brush and forest in Alaska, and officials said blazes have scorched more than 440,000 acres so far this year. Most of the fires were started by lightning, and many are allowed to burn themselves out because it would be too costly to fight them, according to officials of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and the state Division of Forestry. More than 770 firefighters were fighting the blazes on Sunday. UFO Sun Attack Trib 7/16/86 Chinese typhoon kills 172 PEKING - Typhoon Peggy killed 172 people and destroyed 264,000 homes when it struck south China last Friday, the official New China News Agency reported today. The agency said 1,250 people were injured by Peggy. 31 === Page 51 of 99 Mild temblor felt across 5 states The quake, which measured 4.2 on the Richter scale, caused minor power outages but no injuries and little structural damage. Tribune Wires Psi "Riffle" 7/13/88 ST. MARYS, Ohio -- A mild earthquake Saturday shook residents of Ohio and parts of Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan and West Virginia. No injuries and little damage were reported. The preliminary magnitude of the 4:20 a.m. quake, the second in Ohio this year, measured 4.2 on the Richter scale, said Bruce Presgrave of the U.S. Geological Survey's Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo. "We would classify (that) as a light earthquake," he said. Early readings placed the epicenter near St. Marys, Ohio, about 80 miles northwest of Columbus, where tall buildings swayed. But the temblor was felt throughout Ohio and into Kentucky, Indiana and Michigan, said Don Finley of the U.S. Geological Survey. A Parkersburg, W.Va., disc jockey received a phone call from a woman who said her pet bird "went crazy." State police also said they received some calls from concerned residents who felt the quake. "We've had a couple of reports of small power outages and one house that flooded (because of pipe damage)," said dispatcher Rose Meyer of the St. Marys Police Department. "A lot of people had broken dishes that fell out of cupboards, but nothing big at all." Officials at a Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. plant in St. Marys said a few bricks fell from the top of a chimney. Auglaize County Sheriff's Deputy Mark Dunnigan said damage seemed to be limited to St. Marys. Soon after the 10-second quake occurred, residents of Anna -- the site of one of the area's worst quakes nearly 50 years ago -- gathered on the street to discuss the tremor. "Everybody you talked to thought they had a car run into their house," said Police Chief Tom Bergman. He said there were no reports of damage aside from a bank alarm being set off and pictures being jolted from walls. The National Weather Service in Cleveland received several calls from northeast Ohio residents who wanted to know what happened, and a Columbus police dispatcher "was flooded" with inquiries. A quake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale hit near Cleveland on Jan. 31 and was felt in parts of 12 states and in Ontario, Canada. Seventeen people were treated for minor injuries. Meanwhile, last week's earthquake near Palm Springs, Calif., has revived widespread predictions that a monster quake will strike the state within 50 years. "California is not going to fall into the ocean," said Thomas Heaton, the scientist in charge of the U.S. Geological Survey department at Caltech. But, "There certainly will be a strong quake in metropolitan Los Angeles," an area inhabited by 12 million people. THE TAMPA TRIBUNE-TIMES Earthquake shakes the Midwest [Map showing the epicenter near St. Marys, Ohio, and surrounding states: MICHIGAN (Detroit), INDIANA (Fort Wayne), OHIO (Cleveland, Lima, St. Marys, Akron, Cincinnati), KENTUCKY (Covington)] Tribune map USGS scientists believe chances are as high as 75 percent that an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 on the Richter scale will occur along the San Andreas fault's Parkfield zone between Los Angeles and San Francisco within 20 years. Caltech geologist Kerry Sieh said the chances of a 6.5 to 8.3 quake within 20 years are probably 90 percent. Sieh said the chances are 2 percent to 5 percent of a "great quake of San Francisco magnitude occurring this year." That earthquake, in 1906, is estimated to have had a magnitude of 8.2. Japanese seismologist Kiyoo Mogi suggested in a study that there is a 50 percent chance that Southern California will be ravaged by an 8.3 jolt -- considered the ultimate quake -- within 30 years. An earthquake of such a magnitude on a weekday afternoon would kill as many as 14,000 people in Southern California, according to a 1981 Federal Emergency Management Agency study. (32) === Page 52 of 99 Tremor Shakes Parts Of Midwest States By The Associated Press 7/13/86 A mild earthquake centered in northern Ohio also rattled parts of Michigan, Indiana, West Virginia and Kentucky today, briefly knocking out power to about 30 Ohio families but causing no significant damage, authorities said. A preliminary reading put the quake's magnitude at 4.2 on the Richter scale, said Don Finley, spokesman for the U.S. Geological Survey in Washington, D.C. The earthquake occurred at 4:20 a.m. EDT. The quake was centered near St. Marys, a city of 8,400 people about 20 miles southwest of Lima in northwestern Ohio, where it knocked out power to 30 families for about a half-hour, authorities said. "We had a few outages from the vibrations. They shook the pole tops. And we had transformers in each area go down for a while," said Bill Metzger, superintendent of the city power plant. The tremor cracked plaster, popped floor tiles and ran long cracks in a wall at Joint Township District Memorial Hospital in St. Marys, said hospital spokesman Dave LaPoint. He said about 140 people, including 75 patients, were in the hospital when the earthquake struck but no one was hurt. In Palm Springs, Calif., meanwhile, authorities said few people Friday night reported feeling a 10:45 p.m. a quake aftershock centered about 12 miles north of the city and registering 4.0 on the Richter scale. An earthquake Tuesday in the same area registered 5.9 on the Richter scale, said. Authorities in several Ohio cities, including Cincinnati, Akron and Cleveland, received reports of the quake, as did authorities in Detroit; Covington, Ky.; and Fort Wayne, Ind. A Parkersburg, W.Va., radio station said it received a half-dozen calls from listeners who felt the earth tremble. A Lima police department dispatcher said some minor damage was reported. "I think we had one window crack and some bricks fell off an old building," said dispatcher Ramona Modica. "It just scared a lot of people." The Allen County, Ohio, sheriff's department said the department was deluged with about 100 telephone calls, but received no reports of damage. Dispatcher Ron Foster at Michigan state police headquarters in East Lansing said the tremor was felt in metropolitan Detroit and Jackson County. "It was mild. We've had no reports of damage," Foster said. But the quake did waken some Michigan residents. "I thought I was having a bad dream, but I woke up and it didn't stop," said Fran Maisano, 22, of the Detroit suburb of Southfield. "It really surprised me. I woke up and here I am bouncing around." The Richter scale is a measure of ground motion as recorded on seismographs. Every increase of one number means a tenfold increase in the strength of the shaking. The San Francisco earthquake of 1906, which occurred before the Richter scale was devised, has been estimated at 8.3 on the scale. On Friday morning, an earthquake registering 3.7 on the Richter scale was felt in parts of Tennessee and Georgia, causing minor damage but no injuries; and California has had several aftershocks since an earthquake with a Richter reading of 5.9 struck Tuesday. This was the second earthquake centered in Ohio this year. The first quake was a magnitude 5.0 on Jan. 31 near Cleveland that was felt in parts of 12 states and Ontario. people in (33) === Page 53 of 99 # 2nd earthquake rattles West Some windows broke but there was no major damage in the second big quake in a week. By ALAN ADLER Associated Press Psi Ripple Fri 7/11/86 OCEANSIDE, Calif. -- The second moderate earthquake in six days shook Southern California from the Pacific Ocean to the Arizona border Sunday, breaking windows, triggering rock slides and scaring not only humans but also animals at the San Diego Zoo. One person died of a heart attack, but no other injuries were reported. "I was really scared. Our bed started shaking violently, drawers started swinging open," said Miriam Shuster, a guest who ran out of the Hotel Laguna as the temblor and aftershocks shook Laguna Beach. "I heard this big boom, like a sonic boom," said Gloria Butler, who was getting ready for work. "This was a definite rolling." The temblor struck at 6:46 a.m., shaking people awake along a 150-mile stretch of coastline from San Diego to Oxnard, northwest of Los Angeles. Impalas, giraffes, gazelles, antelopes and other hoof stock at the San Diego Zoo were brought to their feet by the shaking, said Mike Ahlering, zoo operations manager. "The elephants were marching around with their ears out trying to figure out what's going on," he said. "The zebras were running back and forth in front of their exhibit." The quake measured 5.3 on the Richter scale at the California Institute of Technology and was centered offshore 28 miles southwest of Oceanside, a northern San Diego County community 75 miles southeast of Los Angeles, said Caltech spokesman Dennis Meredith. Six large aftershocks were recorded within two hours, Meredith said, the highest registering 4.5 on the Richter scale preceded by one at 4.0. The others ranged from 3.4 to 3.8, Meredith said. The Scripps Institute of Oceanography in La Jolla called it the largest recorded quake in modern history in the immediate area offshore of the San Diego metropolitan area, said spokeswoman Jackie Parker. The previous record was 4.3, recorded July 7, 1984. "It was frightening. The bed was shaking. ... Books flew off the shelves," said Perrin Lim of Del Mar. At least one power line fell in Oceanside, caused a small power failure, said police Sgt. Dave Jones. "We've had a lot of phone calls from around the city. A lot of burglar alarms going off." The San Onofre nuclear power plant, midway between San Diego and Los Angeles, was put on "unusual event" status -- the lowest of four levels of emergency response -- for about an hour while it was checked for ![Map showing the epicenters of the earthquakes in Southern California. The map indicates the San Andreas Fault and labels locations such as Los Angeles, Oceanside, San Diego, and Mexico. It shows the epicenter of last Tuesday's quake (6.0 on the Richter scale) near Desert Hot Springs and Palm Springs, and the epicenter of Sunday's quake (5.3 on the Richter scale) offshore from Oceanside.] Tribune map 34 === Page 54 of 99 Southeast sizzle Florida spared record heat that has killed 6 people By ALAN SVERDLIK Tribune Staff Writer As record heat parched the Southeast for the ninth day in a row Monday while skipping over Florida, weather forecasters chalked up the Sunshine State's good fortunes to two factors: the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. "If you consider that we have more direct sunlight than South Carolina, you can appreciate the power of the moderating influence of the water," said Bill Seiler, a National Weather Service meteorologist who has been forecasting Tampa Bay area weather for 18 years. Indeed, the high-pressure system that sent temperatures skyrocketing in drought-plagued Georgia and South Carolina at the beginning of this month is having little or no impact on Florida. But for those two states and others, the heat wave has been calamitous. There have been six deaths, scores of forest fires, restrictions on the use of water and potential danger to thousands of acres of crops and cattle. Highs are expected to approach 100 degrees at least through today, with humidity in the 50 percent range. In Tampa, however, temperatures stayed on course. "Our high temperatures are not anywhere close to records," said Seiler, reeling off July highs between 87 and 92. "Our record highs are 97 and 98." In contrast, the mercury touched 104 in Augusta, Ga., on July 9 and again Monday. That mark tied a record that had stood since 1878. In Columbia, S.C., where temperatures have reached 104 three times since July 8, average highs for those days are about 81. Also, rainfall is 15 to 20 inches lower than normal this year in Georgia, the Carolinas and Tennessee. In Florida, the figure is much closer to historical levels, with Tampa being only four inches below its normal rainfall tally. Meteorologists are blaming the sizzling weather on a stagnant high-pressure system that is sitting over the region. High-pressure systems, which are areas of the atmosphere that weigh more than surrounding air masses, inhibit cloud formation and stave off cool fronts coming in from the Midwest or Canada. "The norm is to have weather systems on the move," said Terry Murphy of the Weather Service's Atlanta office. "But sometimes it will sit up there and persist." Murphy said Atlanta recorded 105 degrees in 1980 -- the last time high pressure stayed put for so long over the Southeast. "This generally happens every summer, but only for two days or so," said meteorologist Tay Robinson of the U.S. Weather Service post in Columbia. In that city, where temperatures have reached 100 degrees or more in the past seven days, the South Carolina Water Resources Commission met and declared northwestern and north-central parts of the state to be in severe drought emergency. That means that officials can restrict non-essential water use. "In drier areas, (the drought) is probably the worst in 100 years, at least for this time of year." See HEAT, Page 2A (35) === Page 55 of 99 # Dixieland Burning In Long Heat Wave ## Record Highs Sweep Southeast By The Associated Press Residents of three North Carolina communities face jail for five-minute showers, and limits on water use are spreading as the Southeast battles a farm-threatening drought and a 2-week-old heat wave blamed for nine deaths. Despite scattered thunderstorms Monday night in Tennessee and South Carolina, forecasters held out no hope of relief today from what in some areas is the worst drought in a century and from record high temperatures. "It's not widespread enough, it's just too spotty to make a difference," said Mike Looney, of the National Weather Service in Memphis, Tenn. The National Weather Service predicted 100-degree temperatures today in parts of South Carolina, where it was 101 degrees in Columbia on Monday for the eighth straight day of triple-digit readings, a state record. Officials in De Kalb County near Atlanta planned to open a shelter today for senior citizens to cool off. Augusta, Ga., hit 104 degrees Monday, tying a 98-year-old record. "After you're on the street an hour or so you're soaked all the way through and you stay wet all day," said mailman Ken McDowell in Charleston, S.C., where the temperature hit 101 on Monday, when humidity made it feel like 111. It was a record seventh straight day of 100-plus temperatures. "That's about the most miserable thing," McDowell said, "that you're soaked all the time." The weekend deaths of two elderly men of heat stroke raised the number of heat-related fatalities in Georgia to four. Two heat-related deaths have been reported in North Carolina and one each in South Carolina, Virginia and Louisiana. Georgia poultry producers and processors said the heat had killed more than 400,000 chickens within three days last week. In addition to the heat, rainfall this year is 15 to 20 inches below normal in the Carolinas, Georgia and Tennessee. Parts of Kentucky, Maryland, Virginia and Delaware also are below normal. "Unless abnormally high precipitation occurs within the next few months, streamflows and groundwater levels in much of the (Southeast) could be at their most critical levels in recent times," said Harold Golden, a U.S. Geological Survey hydrologist in Atlanta. Faced with declining reservoirs, at least seven Tennessee utility districts have asked customers to limit water consumption. Residents of Chapel Hill, Carrboro and southern Orange County, N.C., faced $50 fines or 30 days in jail if they showered longer than four minutes. They also are not allowed to fill swimming pools or wash cars, must limit lawn watering, and restaurants may only serve water upon request. The South Carolina Water Resources Commission declared a severe drought alert for 13 counties, allowing regional committees to restrict non-essential water use. (36) === Page 56 of 99 # WE'RE BACK U Fox Sun Attack Trib 6/27/86 # 44 **WTOG-TV** Edward G. Aiken, General Manager To our viewers: It's never happened before, and we hope it never happens again. WTOG-TV's tower was hit by lightning last Saturday night and we've been off the air. But we're back today, serving Tampa Bay like no other television station. All your favorite programs are back on today . . . great movies, Dynasty, Dallas, all your kids' favorites like Thundercats, People's Court, plus Eyewitness News--the 10 p.m. report, and more. We sincerely appreciate your patience and concern. Once again, we're Together--Tampa Bay, Channel 44 and you! Sincerely, Ed Aiken General Manager A SUBSIDIARY OF HUBBARD HB (37) === Page 57 of 99 # Thousands Flee Charley's Wrath ## 4 Deaths Blamed On Hurricane UFO Sun Attack 0-SB 8/18/86 OCEAN CITY, Md. (AP) -- Hurricane Charley buffeted the mid-Atlantic states today, churning the ocean with 75 mph winds and forcing the evacuation of thousands of coastal residents after dumping torrential rains on North Carolina's Outer Banks. The storm was blamed for at least four deaths, authorities said. By mid-morning, as Charley headed northward over cooler waters, its punch was diminishing, said hurricane forecaster Bob Case. "We expect it to gradually decrease in the next 12 to 24 hours," he said. The death toll included three people aboard a small plane that crashed into the Chesapeake Bay near Baltimore during a hurricane-spawned storm Sunday. Authorities said two bodies were recovered from the bay and the third victim was believed dead. And a Manteo, N.C., woman died when her car apparently slipped into a canal on an Outer Banks causeway Sunday, state police said. The causeway was flooded and reported impassable Sunday evening. Elsewhere on the Outer Banks, a foot of water surged into the Dare County house in Manteo, flooding was reported in the Stumpy Point community and water was 2 to 3 feet deep on the north end of the Oregon Inlet bridge, authorities said. Charley caused power outages and flooding of up to 3 feet but little damage on North Carolina's Outer Banks on Sunday. As many as 10,000 tourists and residents fleeing the fragile islands jammed roads to the mainland for a short-lived evacuation. The hurricane knocked down trees and signs on Virginia's mainland Sunday evening and left about 110,000 people without power, but caused no major damage, authorities said. The storm also washed out a 250-foot section of Harrison's Pier, a Norfolk landmark. Hurricane warnings were in effect today from Cape Charles, Va., to Sandy Hook, N.J. Less-severe hurricane watches and gale warnings were in effect from Sandy Hook to Chatham, Mass. At 8 a.m., Charley's center was near latitude 38.2 north and longitude 74.5 west, about 50 miles south-southwest of Cape May. The storm was moving north-northeast at 10 mph, and was expected to continue moving parallel to the coast. Charley is relatively small, with gale-force winds extending about 125 miles from the eye on the storm's edge. Trib 7/24/86 UFO Sun Attack # SOUTHEAST DROUGHT Tribune photo by FRED FOX South Carolina farmer Terry Blakely holds a wilted piece of corn, dried out by the lack of rain in the Southeast. Blakely, a third generation farmer, worries the drought may put him out of business. (38) === Page 58 of 99 Cuts In Space Shuttle Spending Expected WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress is moving toward slashing the money that finances the military's use of the space shuttle, congressional sources say. The House Armed Services Committee is expected to vote next week on a staff recommendation to slice $550 million from Air Force funds used for the program, the sources said Tuesday. The bill containing that cut and other Pentagon spending targets should move to the House floor early next month, the sources said. The Senate Armed Services Committee, meeting in closed session, approved a similar cut before the July 4 recess, said the sources, who spoke only on condition of anonymity. The Senate is expected to take up the measure within the next several weeks. The $550 million reduction would slash the space shuttle program's operating budget by about 25 percent. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced this week that the next shuttle launch has been delayed an additional six months to the first quarter of 1988. NASA said engineers are working on a totally new design for the booster rocket that caused the Challenger space shuttle to explode shortly after liftoff on Jan. 28, killing its seven-member crew. The reasoning behind the cutting of Air Force funds for the shuttle is that since it is unlikely to fly until 1988, the money is not needed, the sources said. ranged for huge Air Force C-141 transport planes to be loaded with hay in Moline, Ill. and flown to Greenville, S.C. Officials at South Carolina's Cooperative Extension Service at Clemson University worked around the clock to organize the haylift and to apportion the arriving supplies to the neediest farmers. By 1:30 p.m. Monday, farmers from as far as 60 miles had arrived with their trucks at Donaldson Airfield outside Greenville. Temperatures rose to well over 100 degrees on the airport's tarmac, and the Red Cross set up a tent as shelter from the sun and provided water. An ambulance and medical crew stood ready to take care of heatstroke victims. As the farmers waited, their trucks lined up orderly across the tarmac, they talked about their plight. "It's pitiful; everything's drying up," said Jack Norwood, a retired teacher from Oconee County. "The cows are living in a swamp area. They're eating the bullrushes and swampgrass. I've already sold off my poorer quality cattle. Now I'm getting close to where I'm going to have to sell off the good stuff. I feel sorry for the older farmers. If they have to sell off their breeding stock, they won't come back." "I'm hurting," said 75-year-old J.S. Maddox. "I've got 80-some cattle and eight bales of hay in the barn. The pasture looks like someone set fire to it. The spring crops didn't produce, and the summer ones don't look much better. Many of us don't realize how serious this is." The sight of the plane heartened the farmers. "We're all neighbors whether we're 850 miles away or right here," said Larry Ross, who had moved from Illinois to Donalds, S.C., six years ago. "I can picture my old neighbors in Elgin, Ill., who are saying, 'Larry, do you need some help?'" As the low-slung, camouflaged-painted aircraft taxied to a halt, its hydraulic rear doors opened to reveal not the usual array of battle-ready troops and tanks, but 30,200 pounds of hay -- a flying silo. But the optimism turned sour when the farmers found out this was the only plane arriving that day, and it was not carrying as much hay as expected. They were told not enough trucks were available in Illinois to carry all the donated hay to the Moline airfield, and their rations were cut in half. "I don't know about all the money President Reagan is spending to fly this hay down here," said Jerry Glenn, an Anderson County farmer. "It might be more help to us if he used that money to send more hay down here on some tractor trailers." More C-141 flights were scheduled into South Carolina and Georgia. Reagan will join Campbell to greet one of the planes when it arrives in Columbia today. A trainload of hay is expected to arrive soon in South Carolina -- the cost of the trip paid by CSX Transportation. In Georgia, cattlemen drove 100 miles to Atlanta and waited in line Wednesday for their share of 40 tons of hay donated by Illinois farmers -- but the farmers know the donations are a temporary remedy. Farmers seek disaster aid While hay helps cattle and horses, it does nothing for farmers growing row crops or raising poultry. Around Gainesville, Ga., chickens are king, and chickens don't last long if the temperature gets too high. "It's high-intensity production here," said Bob Lowe, Hall County agricultural agent. "Each bird has about six-tenths of a square foot of space, and 20,000 to 70,000 birds are in a single poultry house. Those birds can't stand a lot of heat. One producer lost a total house when he lost power and the fans and hydro-coolers stopped. About 70,000 birds died in 20 to 30 minutes." Between 180,000 and 220,000 chickens have died in Hall County alone, he said, out of the 8 million being produced there. And producers are worried that their wells will run dry as the ground water level drops. Throughout central Georgia, where no groundwater is available for irrigating, corn, pasture crops, soybean and hay farms are all suffering, with 71 percent of the hay crops killed and 54 percent of the corn. In North Carolina, tobacco is resistant to dry weather, but some growers have lost more than half of their Christmas tree seedlings put out this year. Cattle, corn and hay producers are suffering as badly as their South Carolina counterparts. Governors of eight states -- Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, Delaware, Georgia, Virginia and Florida -- have either applied for disaster relief or are planning to apply for all or parts of their states. The heat wave has touched northwest Florida, where dry conditions have plagued farmers and turned lawns and cemetery plots a crispy brown. Florida Agriculture Commissioner Doyle Conner estimated 50 percent of the peanut, corn, soybeans and tobacco crop that are the farming staples of several Panhandle counties would be lost if the drought and accompanying heat wave persists. === Page 59 of 99 # U.S. Declares 19 Florida Counties Farm Disaster Areas WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture declared 19 Florida counties disaster areas Friday to help farmers and ranchers recover from weeks of drought and heat. "This disaster declaration means that farmers in North Florida will have the same assistance as farmers in the rest of the Southeast as they struggle to recover from the drought," said U.S. Sen. Paula Hawkins, R-Fla., who announced the declarations before state officials had been notified. Twelve counties were identified earlier this week as eligible for aid because they border on counties in Alabama and Georgia that had been declared agricultural disaster areas. Each of those 12 is included in the 19 newly declared counties. The 19 counties are: Baker, Calhoun, Columbia, Gadsden, Hamilton, Holmes, Jackson, Jefferson, Lafayette, Leon, Liberty, Madison, Nassau, Okaloosa, Suwannee, Taylor, Wakulla, Walton and Washington. Farmers in counties adjacent to all of those are now eligible to apply for aid, bringing to 30 the number of counties eligible for help. Gov. Bob Graham had requested declarations in 21 counties two weeks ago. Escambia and Santa Rosa counties were included in his request but were not declared disaster areas. But because Okaloosa was one of the 19 counties and Santa Rosa is just west of Okaloosa, Santa Rosa farmers will be covered. Graham's office initially was disturbed that Mrs. Hawkins was notified first of the declarations because it was Graham who requested the declarations. Also state officials had compiled statistics backing up the requests. But after Graham confirmed the declarations with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, he said he was just pleased that help was on its way to farmers. "He is pleased ... and how anyone was notified is really unimportant," said Anne Nelson, deputy press secretary for the governor. "The important thing is that the farmers are getting the assistance that they desperately need." Weeks of drought and heat across the Panhandle have damaged crops and stunted their growth, leaving cattle without feed and farmers without much hope for productive yields this year. The disaster declarations mean farmers, ranchers and foresters can apply for low-interest federal loans, discount cattle feed programs, reseeding programs and other forms of help. # Challenger Crew Kin Files Damage Claim WASHINGTON (AP) -- The first damage claim filed by a family of one of the seven Challenger astronauts alleges NASA ignored advice of engineers "that the space shuttle would likely blow up with the loss of all persons aboard." And at least one other astronaut family is negotiating through a lawyer with Morton Thiokol, the manufacturer of the shuttle's booster rockets, for compensation as a result of the Jan. 28 explosion. ![Jane Smith] Jane Smith The damage claim, filed by the widow of pilot Michael J. Smith, asks $15 million for wrongful death and $100,000 for personal injury. It also raises an issue the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has never publicly addressed, alleging that Smith "was thrown about in the spacecraft and in the few seconds preceding his death, knew of his impending death." "It alleges, as it must under the federal tort claims act, that we were negligent and as a result an accident occurred during which Smith died," Edward Frankle, deputy general counsel for the space agency, said Tuesday. NASA has six months to act on the claim. After that -- or if the claim is rejected -- Smith's widow can sue in federal court, Frankle said. Federal law bars government employees or their estates from bringing immediate suit against the United States. That would apply to five of the Challenger crew but not schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe or industry engineer Gregory Jarvis. Jane Smith claims her husband was killed through the negligence of NASA through its employees, including former shuttle boss Jesse Moore, and Lawrence Mulloy, who has since been transferred from his post as manager of the booster rocket program. She claims they "directed, allowed and participated in the launch of Challenger when they knew or should have known that the segments of the righthand solid rocket booster would not properly seal and that a catastrophic accident would likely occur as a result thereof." She says also they should have known cold weather made it impossible or unlikely for the rocket joint seals to work properly, that the seals were inadequate and totally failed to meet acceptable standards. She also claims NASA "disregarded and ignored the advice of competent and knowledgeable engineers to the effect that the space shuttle would likely blow up with the loss of all persons on board should the shuttle be launched under all the conditions which obtained at the time." Mrs. Smith is represented by William F. Maready, an attorney in Winston-Salem, N.C. === Page 60 of 99 AP photo Firefighters pour foam on a burning American Trans Air DC-10 parked at O'Hare International Airport Sunday in Chicago. No passengers were aboard when the mysterious fire broke out. UFO Sim Attack - Procke Trib 8/11/86 # Storm-spawned flooding stuns the drought-parched Carolinas UFO Sim Attack Trib 8/11/86 United Press International More rain ahead - 1B Heavy rain in the Carolinas forced pajama-clad residents to flee their homes in boats Wednesday, and temperatures climbed into the 100s for the fourth day in the Southwest and along the West Coast. A cold front pushing across the upper Plains after a day of record highs in Wyoming and South Dakota dropped temperatures to 20 to 30 degrees Wednesday. Record highs were set or tied in 16 cities in seven states from Texas to South Dakota on Tuesday, but Chester, Mont., reported a low of 33 degrees Wednesday morning. Floodwaters rushed through South Carolina homes and streets for the second time in three days. About 75 people fled their Lockhart homes in boats early Wednesday after 6 inches of rain fell in two hours, officials said. "Some of the people had to be moved in boats while they were still in their nightclothes," said Lucille Meadows, Union County disaster preparedness spokeswoman. "There was water everywhere, in homes and in cars. One car was almost swept away, and a man almost didn't make it out, but he did." High water closed several streets in Columbia and Lexington, slowing rush-hour traffic and causing numerous accidents, authorities said. "It's getting worse," said Henry Hight, a police dispatcher in Durham, N.C., where between 10 and 15 people were forced from their homes by midday. "We've got serious flooding through the city and county at this time and some homes are being partially evacuated. It's going to get a whole lot worse." Fourteen inches of rain have fallen on Swanquarter, N.C., over two days, the weather service said. The rainfall has eased but not ended the region's worst drought in more than a century, officials said. Two people drowned Monday when Scott Creek rose out of its banks during a 10-inch rain in Newberry, S.C. In Gila Bend, Ariz., an overnight thunderstorm left about 2,000 people without power for their air conditioners. Temperatures were expected to come close to Tuesday's high of 111 degrees and power had not been restored by Wednesday afternoon, officials said. === Page 61 of 99 # Storms flood western New York; softball-size hail hits Nebraska Associated Press Heavy thunderstorms unleashed floods as deep as 10 feet and inundated roads and bridges in western New York on Friday, forcing more than 200 families to flee their homes. "We've got side streets that looked like rapids," said Police Chief Richard A. Stitzel in Gowanda, N.Y. "We saw cars actually float down the street." Violent weather also struck the Plains for a second day, with a tornado whirling through the Nebraska Panhandle around daybreak. A severe thunderstorm watch was posted for parts of Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Arkansas. No injuries were reported in Gowanda, Fredonia and Silver Creek, the New York towns about 30 miles southwest of Buffalo that were hit by the flooding as deep as 3 feet. Canadaway Creek, which winds through Fredonia, flooded streets with 6 to 10 feet of water, said police Sgt. Stephen Babcock. More than 100 families were evacuated, he said. All roads leading into Fredonia were closed and all bridges had overflowed, according to police and the Chautauqua County sheriff's department. In Gowanda, Stitzel said so much water poured into town that it led to a false report that an earthen dam had broken. "It just didn't seem possible that any amount of rain could cause this amount of water," he said. "I've lived in this community nearly 50 years, and I never saw the (Cattaraugus) creek get to this level." In Nebraska, strong thunderstorms struck 25 miles northwest of Chadron around 5:20 a.m. MDT, and radar indicated a tornado not long after that. The Dawes County Sheriff's Office reported no reports of damage or injuries. Northern and central Nebraska was hit by a severe thunderstorm Thursday, with hail damaging an estimated 25,000 acres of cropland in Dawson County. Winds were estimated at up to 80 mph and hailstones as large as softballs were reported. Highways were covered with up to 8 inches of hail at # South continues to sizzle under unrelenting, deadly heat wave Tribune Staff and Wires There was no respite Sunday from the lethal 2-week-old heat wave in the Southeast as temperatures rebounded toward 100, and sporadic thunderstorms have done little to ease the region's drought that has caused crop damage estimated at up to $700 million. Temperatures sizzled above 100 across much of Georgia, including a record 104 at Augusta and 103 at Macon, Waycross and Alma, and some adjoining sections Sunday, with humidity in Georgia easing from well above 50 percent to between 30 percent and 40 percent. The National Weather Service said parts of the Southeast could expect some relief this week but that temperatures would return to 100 by Thursday. Temperatures in the Bay are expected to continue today and Tuesday in the low 90s, with thunderstorms occurring anytime, weather service forecasters say. The chance of rain is 20 percent. Lows in the mid to upper 70s are predicted. Heat has been blamed for the deaths this month of at least seven people in Georgia, four in North Carolina, four in Indiana, two in Missouri and one each in South Carolina, Virginia, Louisiana, Illinois and Michigan. One brief respite from the heat came in Montgomery, Ala., which got 1.51 inches of rain during a storm that left 31 fires, more than 50 traffic accidents and more than 2,000 households without electricity, city officials said. The weather service said that while sporadic storms had replenished water supplies in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia, that did little to help farmers ravaged by the worst spring drought on record. Crop losses in Virginia are estimated at nearly $61.5 million, and the Georgia Department of Agriculture estimated damage at $140 million. Crop losses in South Carolina are estimated at $100 million, and the governor said he would seek a federal disaster declaration for at least two-thirds of the state. Some North Carolina experts say $400 million of the state's $4 billion annual farm income may already be lost. # Torrential Rains Sweep S. Carolina LOCKHART, S.C. (AP) -- Torrential rains swept across drought-plagued South Carolina for the second day Wednesday, causing flooding and forcing about 100 people in two small communities to evacuate. "First we dry up and now we're going to drown," said Jean Davis, 43, who was rescued by boat early Wednesday after her home here flooded. Seventy other residents in the community of about 100 near the North Carolina border also evacuated, authorities said. The thunderstorms spawned by a tropical air mass come on the heels of the state's worst recorded drought, and were expected to continue Thursday. Despite the rain, Charlotte Camp of the weather service said the state was still in "the drought stages." A flash flood watch continued through Wednesday night for all but the coastal areas of the state. No injuries or deaths were reported. Betty Smith, 60, said she carried her handicapped grandson through raging floodwater to high ground after her Lockhart house was inundated by waist-high water. "It looked like a river flowing by. I was afraid we was going to drown and lose my house completely," she said as neighbors and friends carried waterlogged furniture out of her living room. Annette Sutherland, 43, said she carried two of her bulldogs to safety but lost 10 puppies in the flooding. "I was up to my waist in water when I decided to get out. I swam out holding on to one bulldog and a chain link fence." She said a johnboat rescued them. "We've gone straight from the most severe drought we've ever had to a pretty much common springtime flood situation," said Sam Baker, a weather service hydrologist. A gully-washer fed by 6 inches of rain in slightly more than three hours flooded a hollow in Lockhart. Sixteen homes suffered major damage and 14 others had minor damage, according to Stanley Williamson of the American Red Cross. The high school, the post office, churches, several businesses and trailers also were damaged. (42) === Page 62 of 99 Unusual July rain knocks out electricity in Los Angeles area UFO Sun Attack 7/24/86 Rain pelts Tampa - 5A Tribune Wires 7/24/86 Thunderstorms swept across the Los Angeles basin overnight, sprinkling the area with a rare July rain and knocking out power to at least 50,000 homes, officials said. In the Pacific, Hurricane Estelle smashed homes with 20-foot waves, forcing evacuation of about 200 residents of Hawaii, then moved back to sea, leaving a drenching rain storm in its wake. And in the West, fire crews contained a day-old 6,000-acre range fire in eastern Idaho as California fire teams moved to enclose a brush fire 30 miles northeast of Los Angeles that scorched 3,900 acres of national forest. The western thunderstorms, which moved into Orange and Los Angeles counties from the south, dropped 0.13 inch of rain in downtown Los Angeles, a record for the day. The previous record was just a trace of rain. South of Reno, Nev., a few homes in New Washoe City were flooded Tuesday night when a section of the Derby Grade dam gave way during a rain storm. No one was injured. The Nevada storms also briefly cut power to several thousand homes were without electricity in the Reno area last night. High winds and raging surf on the southeast corner of the island of Hawaii severely battered 10 buildings, knocking five of them off their foundations as the hurricane's outer edge battered the area. By late morning, westward-moving Estelle had been downgraded to a tropical storm by the National Weather Service. Civil Defense officials said they anticipated losses would mount as residents returned to the area and began assessing the full impact of the storm's wrath. Police Lt. Newton Lyman said an initial survey indicated "considerable damage." Bruce Butts of the Hawaii County Civil Defense office said there was no early damage figure in the wake of the storm. Light rain in the San Gabriel Wilderness Area of California's Angeles National Forest helped fire crews contain 90 percent of the brush fire by midday, a U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman said. SOUTHEAST DROUGHT Maryland Delaware Virginia N. Carolina S. Carolina Columbia Atlanta Alabama Georgia Florida Tampa The present dry spell has been caused by a high pressure system that is hanging over the South, forcing moisture to the north and keeping coastal storms from moving inland. As the land dries out, the temperatures go higher, and readings higher than 100 degrees have been reported throughout the region - 15 days in a row in Columbia. Source: AP Tribune graphic by WARREN HUSKEY Seared Southeast gets little relief as drought leaves deadly legacy Tribune Staff and Wires 9/1/86 Lower temperatures brought slight relief to the sun-baked Southeast and Plains on Thursday, but the drought is leaving a legacy of blighted produce and ruined farms. The lethal heat and dry weather stretched from Pennsylvania to Florida and from the East Coast as far west as Texas and Wisconsin. Farmers have suffered more than an estimated $2.3 billion in crop and livestock damage, and more than 66 people have died in the monthlong, hot spell. "It could rain every day from now until it starts snowing and it won't mean a hill of beans," said Bill Anderson, an agricultural agent in Florence County, Wis. "It's like open heart surgery on a dead man." Anderson said the 40 farmers in Florence County might need 120,000 to 240,000 bales of hay to make up for their loss. Hay "bailouts" continued Thursday, with shipments heading from as far as Maine to Southern states. Temperatures will stay above normal in most of the drought area, though the mercury may decline somewhat from the record-breaking levels of the last week, said Pete Reynolds of the National Weather Service Severe Storms Center in Kansas City, Mo. In parts of Tennessee, today's highs were forecast to be "only" in the 90s, some of the coolest high temperatures there in a month. On Thursday, Macon, Ga., posted 100 degrees, beating a 99-degree mark set in 1961. But Asheville, N.C., had a record low temperature: 53 degrees, three degrees cooler than the record set in 1966. Storms sweeping over the South and Plains won't alleviate the dry conditions, forecasters said, adding that most showers will be widely scattered, "nothing real substantial to break the drought situation down there." In the Tampa Bay area, the breakthrough from cloudy weather appears to be lasting. Forecasters say today and Saturday would be mostly sunny except for widely scattered thunderstorms. The record temperatures listed in this story are based on the period from midnight to midnight (day of the week). They may not match the list (on Page 2A or at right), which reports recent overnight lows and daytime highs without regard to the 24-hour calendar day. Both lists are prepared by the National Weather Service. 43 === Page 63 of 99 # Sprinklings fail to ease drought Associated Press President Reagan posed for pictures with farmers in drought-ravaged South Carolina on Thursday, praising their mettle and promising federal aid, while parts of Dixie got sprinklings of rain but no real relief from the weeks-old deadly dry spell. There were more Air Force "bale-outs" -- hay donated from the Midwest and North -- for famished Southern livestock. Georgia's governor planned a prayer service, an Alabama radio station had a "How Hot Is It?" contest and a shipment of ice was flown from South Bend, Ind., to Piedmont, S.C. State officials estimated the drought's price tag at more than $1.6 billion. Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia and Delaware have asked for federal disaster aid, and Tennessee was preparing a request. The triple-digit heat of early July has abated in the South this week, said Bill Barlow of the National Weather Service Severe Storms Forecast Center. And scattered rain hit Georgia and the Carolinas, with 3 inches falling on Augusta, Ga., on Thursday. More storms were developing from Virginia through the Southeast to Mississippi and eastern Tennessee. Authorities in the South say 43 people have died of the heat this month. The heat has also killed more than a half-million chickens and the drought has left fruits and vegetables drying on the vine, spawning higher wholesale prices for poultry in California and produce in New England, officials say. Oklahoma farmer Bern Alberda had 1,000 bales of prairie hay he wanted to send to Dixie. "You know, this shows how crazy farmers are, how we aren't good businessmen," Alberda said. "A businessman might see someone in need and he's got something and he might jack up the price. ... We take care of each other and I guess that's the way we're supposed to be." Other donations have come from Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, New York and Wisconsin, with deliveries planned from as far as Oregon. The heat wave in the South and Midwest has pushed electric output to all-time highs for the last fortnight, the Edison Electric Institute announced Thursday in Boston. Last week, electricity output increased in the Southeast by 14 percent over last year's figures for the period. Damage in Alabama is estimated at $750 million; North Carolina $400 million; Georgia $182.5 million; South Carolina $100 million; Maryland $89 million; Virginia $61.5 million; Delaware $40 million, and West Virginia $15 million. UPI photo A pair of hungry beef cows go down on their front legs to reach what little grass they can find under the fence of a Conyers, Ga., farm. === Page 64 of 99 Three Killed By Storms In Ireland UFO Sun Attack 8:58 8/26/88 DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) -- High winds and torrential rains lashed Britain and Ireland, killing three people and forcing the evacuation of up to 1,000 others as the tail end of Hurricane Charley swept over northern Europe. According to the London weather bureau, the only part of Britain to escape Monday's stormy weather was the north of Scotland. Rescue workers in Ireland recovered the bodies of a woman and a 7-year-old girl from Dublin's River Liffey and police said they believed the two were blown into the water by 60-mph winds. In Northern Ireland, a workman installing sewage pipes at Newry in the southeast of the British-ruled province was killed when a rain-soaked trench caved in, police said. Up to 1,000 people were evacuated from their homes in the Irish seaside town of Bray 12 miles south of Dublin Monday night when the rain-swollen River Dargle burst its banks, creating floods up to 5 feet deep. "The water is flowing right through houses and shops. ... It is already up to the roofs of cars, and the town is now cut off, said a police spokesman who spoke on condition he not be further identified. Flooding also occurred near Dublin, with areas around the River Dodder, which runs into the Liffey, particularly hard hit. The storm also badly disrupted car and passenger ferry links across the Irish Sea between Ireland and Britain. High winds knocked over six passenger cars on the Fairbourne Light Railway at Dolgellau in Gwynedd, North Wales, according to Press Association, the domestic news agency. It said the 12 passengers escaped unhurt. Downpours in Britain washed out the August bank holiday, the last long weekend of the summer, causing hazardous driving conditions and many accidents among returning vacationers. A British Royal Navy patrol vessel, the 998-ton HMS Jersey, meanwhile, rescued five people including three children from a French yacht Monday in the storm-lashed English Channel. Falmouth Coast Guards in the county of Cornwall, the southwest tip of England, said the rescue took place north of the Scilly Isles. In another rescue, Falmouth Coast Guards said a lifeboat from Penlee in Cornwall on Monday night took two people off a Swedish yacht that was in trouble in the English Channel. # 100-Degree Heat Wave Widens Grip The Associated Press UFO Sun Attack 8:58 7/8/88 Southeastern farmers are flooding slaughterhouses with cattle they can't feed because of a drought that's shriveled more than $300 million in crops, and Dixie's heat has spread to the Midwest, felling football players and soldiers. The temperature in Ocala soared to a sizzling 96 Thursday with a early morning low of 73. The temperature this morning at the water plant was 71. No rainfall was reported at the Ocala plant Thursday, although there were reports of scattered showers in the surrounding area. No relief is in sight through the weekend from the heat that has contributed to 15 deaths and prompted farmers and officials to seek help from the federal government and from states in cooler parts of the country. Today's highs were expected to be around 100 degrees in Georgia and the Carolinas and in the 90s from the Southern Plains through the Great Lakes, the mid-Atlantic states and the Southeast. Highs Thursdays were in the mid to upper 90s from Kentucky, Michigan and Ohio to North Carolina and northern Florida. The 96 degrees in Traverse City, Mich., broke a 22-year-old record. It was 94 in Chicago. The temperature in downtown Columbia, S.C., hit 100 for the 12th straight day, and the same reading in Charlotte, N.C., tied a 99-year-old record. Only scattered thunderstorms were expected today after hitting parts of Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina on Thursday, with Charleston getting a drenching 1.72 inches. "That's quite a bit," said Scott Tansey of the National Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City, Mo. "The only problem about the rainfall in the Southeast is that it's spotty and it's not enough." Corn, hay and soybeans in the Southeast have been most affected by the drought. Offers of hay and free transportation to get it to the state are coming from as far away as Minnesota, he said. There's a firm commitment of 30 tons of hay from Indiana and promises from Illinois and Iowa, but the state's cattle consume 200 to 300 tons daily, he said. The heat has been blamed on the deaths of a 16-year-old girl in Indiana, a 19-year-old man in Illinois, and for seven people in Georgia, three in North Carolina and one each in South Carolina, Virginia and Louisiana. Sixty-five National Guardsmen training at Camp Atterbury, 20 miles south of Indianapolis, have been treated for heat-related ailments since Wednesday as temperatures in the 90s combined with high humidity made it seem like 100 degrees, said First Lt. Cathi Kiger. None of the cases was considered serious. Heat exhaustion also sidelined National Football League players at the St. Louis Cardinals' training camp at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, prompting coach Gene Stallings to cut short afternoon practices. Three Atlanta Falcons players were treated for heat cramps after practice practice in the 90-plus degree heat at Suwanee, Ga. (45) === Page 65 of 99 Officials in parched Southeast seek help during record drought UFO Sun Attack 7/18/86 Tribune Staff and Wires Officials of parched Southeastern states turned to the federal government, Midwestern farmers and neighbors Thursday for help in feeding livestock during a record drought that has turned pastureland to dust. Atlanta residents faced the prospect of water restrictions for the first time in their history, and no relief was forecast for the heat wave blamed for 14 deaths as it spread to the Midwest. Highs in the mid to upper 90s were reported Thursday from Kentucky, Michigan and Ohio to North Carolina and North Florida. The temperature in downtown Columbia, S.C., reached 100 for the 12th straight day. The drought has withered crops across much of Dixie, and the dryness combined with heat has been a fatal double blow to livestock. Nearly a million chickens have been reported killed in Georgia, Delaware, Maryland and North Carolina. The office of Georgia Gov. Joe Frank Harris asked the U.S. Agriculture Department on Wednesday to make livestock feed available to farmers. In North Carolina, officials said 50 counties had applied for federal disaster aid. Offers of hay and free transportation to get it to South Carolina are coming in from as far away as Minnesota. There's a firm commitment of 30 tons of hay from Indiana. Sen. Mack Mattingly, R-Ga., announced Thursday that the USDA was putting together a task force to tour Georgia, Alabama and the Carolinas next week and develop recommendations for government assistance. Mattingly said he hopes a decision on aid can be made by the end of next week. In the meantime, the City Council of Hickory, N.C., agreed to donate water from Lake Hickory to needy farmers designated by the state. In the Tampa Bay area, today and Saturday will start out sunny, with a chance of afternoon thunderstorms, the National Weather Service says. The rain chances are 30 percent today and 30 percent Saturday, ac- Surge of thunderstorms slams Ohio, leaving cool air in wake UFO Sun Attack 8/27/86 United Press International A line of thunderstorms that downed trees and power lines across the upper Midwest on Tuesday moved into Ohio with gale-force winds, shattering windows and ripping the roof off a school. The storms stretched from northern Ohio across Iowa and Minnesota into western Kansas and eastern Colorado, the National Weather Service said. The storms were followed by cool air in the 60s and 70s and gusty winds across the upper Great Lakes, Iowa and Nebraska. At midday, it was 69 in Waterloo, Iowa, and 66 Grand Rapids, Mich. Winds of 70 mph shattered windows and ripped the roof off Homewood Elementary School in Lorain in northern Ohio. There were no injuries. The storms also produced up to 1 inch of rain in less than 30 minutes in many locations, including the Cleveland suburb of Westlake, the weather service said. Ahead of the stormy weather sunshine pushed temperatures well into the 80s over most of Ohio. Earlier in the day, the storms downed trees and power lines in Austin, Minn., and more than an inch of rain fell in a few hours at Westby, Wis. In Illinois, a 16-year-old grounds worker was struck and killed by lightning at the Ellwood Golf Course in Genoa. Thunderstorms turned skies over Chicago's Loop a murky green as commuters braved the sudden downpour to get to work. The storms knocked out power to nearly 12,000 residents on the west side of Chicago and in western and northern suburbs, officials said. UFO Sun Attack 0.90 8/26/86 Typhoon Knocks Out Power On Okinawa; One Man Killed TOKYO (AP) -- Typhoon Vera struck the island of Okinawa with 95-mph winds early Tuesday, leaving one person dead and more than 28,000 homes without electricity, police reported. The Central Meteorological Agency described the typhoon as "very large and powerful" when it hit the southern Japanese island, and said it was heading west toward China. A police spokesman said a 30-year-old man was killed when he was struck by a heavy mooring rope while preparing his boat for the storm. He said he had no reports of other injuries, but five houses were flooded and two block-long retaining walls beside a road collapsed. Tsuneo Gima, a government official, said that at 9 a.m., three hours after the typhoon first hit Okinawa, the capital city of Naha was "in the typhoon's eye and rather quiet." He said power outages affected 28,400 houses, and many department stores and other shops in Naha did not open Tuesday morning. Western fire nearly contained UFO Sun Attack Tue 8/26/86 CROUCH, Idaho -- Firefighters, subdued by the deaths of four fellow crew members, attempted to dig the last mile of fire line by hand Monday in their struggle to encircle the last major Western forest blaze still out of control. The Anderson fire was one of 6,895 infernos -- mostly lightning-caused -- that charred an estimated 742,600 acres in the West this month and led to a war-like deployment of 18,000 firefighters. World Briefs 5 dead in French fires UFO Sun Attack Tue 8/26/86 NICE, France -- Thousands of firefighters Monday battled wind-whipped fires that have killed five people, injured 190 and ravaged 25,000 acres of forest and scrubland in a three-day sweep across southern France. Officials said one of the fiercest fire fronts, near the town of Chateauneuf-Le-Rouge, was brought under control Monday. Scores of cars and homes have been destroyed by the fires. (47) === Page 66 of 99 # Coast Guard seizes oft-distressed boat MIAMI (UPI) -- A sailing vessel rescued nine times since last November and three times this month alone, at a cost of thousands of dollars to the government, was seized and its pilot was arrested and physically restrained, the Coast Guard said Monday. James M. Carolyon of Jacksonville, skipper of the 54-foot sailing vessel C-Lyon, was arrested Sunday night 30 miles northeast of Cape Canaveral when he "raised a big ruckus" because a Coast Guard boarding crew told him his boat was being impounded, Petty Officer Brand Ian said. Ian said officers had to physically restrain and handcuff Carolyon Sunday night. Carolyon was taken to Port Canaveral Monday aboard a 41-foot Coast Guard vessel. He was then turned over to U.S. marshals and was taken to Orlando to face charges of impeding boarding officers. His vessel was towed into Port Canaveral Monday afternoon, the Coast Guard said. Ian said Carolyon issued a distress call at 7:45 p.m. Sunday, saying the C-Lyon was disoriented, had drifted for two days and was taking on water. He said four people were aboard the craft. The Coast Guard sent a cutter, a smaller boat and an airplane to the scene. But while they were en route, officers checked Coast Guard records and determined it was the ninth distress call issued by Carolyon third this month. "The captain of the C-Lyon was informed that his vessel was being terminated" when the Coast Guard arrived at the scene, Ian said. "That means he is unable to move it once it is docked until everything is investigated -- the vessel, the captain's license, everything." Petty Officer Luis R. Diaz said Carolyon had reported on July 5 that he was adrift, his engine was out of commission and he was taking on water 20 miles southeast of Mayaguana Island in the extreme southeast Bahamas. He was towed by the Coast Guard to Great Inagua Island in the Bahamas. "On July 18, he said he was aground just outside Nassau Harbor," Diaz said. "He said he had a 35- to 40-degree list and was afraid he would break up any minute, which obviously didn't happen." On that occasion, Diaz said, Carolyon was refloated and towed into Nassau Harbor. "We can't really put a dollar figure on these rescue operations," Diaz said, "but in terms of equipment and manpower alone it's enormous." Diaz said Sunday night's rescue alone involved a Coast Guard cutter, a 41-foot utility boat and a Falcon jet from Air Station Miami. He said two cutters and a plane were used in the July 5 rescue operation. None of the C-Lyon's passengers were hurt. # Streams retreat as South sizzles ATLANTA (AP) -- The drought of 1986 has gone beyond an agricultural crisis and is seriously threatening rivers, streams and groundwater sources across the South, a U.S. Geological Survey scientist said Friday. "The rainfall deficits don't tell the whole story," said Harold Golden, a USGS hydrologist in Atlanta. "During the growing seasons, the agriculture people will tell you if you go two weeks without rain, that's a drought," Golden said. "But it's obviously more serious than that this year. We're now also in a hydrologic drought." Water sources such as rivers, large streams and groundwater have fallen to critically low levels, not only because of lack of rainfall, but because that lack has forced farmers and others to deplete water sources that remain. "The hydrologic impacts are the last ones to be seen," Golden said. "Some of the deeper aquifers that are sources of groundwater have lost huge quantities for irrigation," he said. The months-old drought in the Southeast has been blamed for $2.3 billion in agriculture and forestry losses. A concurrent heat wave has been blamed for at least 117 deaths in the Southeast and Midwest. Across the Southeast, water flow in streams and rivers is at record low levels. In July, the healthiest stream monitored by the USGS was Contentnea Creek on the North Carolina coast, flowing at 49 percent of normal. At the other end of the scale was south Georgia's Alapaha River, which was flowing at just 11 percent of normal volume. Rainfall for much of the South remains more than a foot below normal this year. Parts of north Georgia received a hard rain at midday Friday, but the entire South needs months of wet weather for lakes and streams to be at normal levels by this time next year, Golden said. "We're entirely dependent on rainfall occurring over the winter and spring months," he said. "And we can't even predict that three days ahead." # Fields Bone-Dry In Seared South By The Associated Press Farmers coast to coast are donating tons of hay to the seared South, where a drought has caused more than $1.5 billion in damage, and cattlemen in Georgia waited more than 16 hours for feed for their starving livestock. Scattered thunderstorms that dropped more than 4½ inches of rain on Cornelia, Ga., within 70 minutes Thursday afternoon and kept temperatures below 100 degrees for the third straight day provided some relief from the drought and heat wave, which has been blamed for 43 deaths. South Carolina's governor has asked that 39 of the state's 46 counties be declared disaster areas, making them eligible for low-interest federal loans. Georgia's governor has proclaimed Sunday a day of prayer for rain, and the mayor of Chattanooga, Tenn., proclaimed "Cool It Week" and urged residents to dress casually to keep cool. President Reagan provided moral support during a barnstorming visit to Columbia, S.C., praising farmers for their mettle and promising "everything that our farm program can do." See Nation's on page 10A === Page 67 of 99 # Officials See Long-Term Drought Impact In Panhandle UFO Sun Attack c.SB 7/30/86 TALLAHASSEE (AP) -- Agriculture officials estimated Tuesday that 1,600 tons of hay have been donated to farmers in the parched Panhandle, almost all of it from fellow Florida farmers who benefited from steady rains farther south. Agriculture Commissioner Doyle Conner said another 20,000 tons or so of hay are available at cost or discount prices. "For the short term, the farmers are beginning to see the light," said Jeff Miller, state Department of Agriculture senior programs specialist and coordinator of the relief effort. He said three truckloads of hay for livestock arrived Tuesday at Chipley in Washington County. Another three truckloads of hay will go to Jackson County on Thursday, officials confirmed. Last week, a convoy of eight trucks hauled more than 100 tons of hay to the Florida State Farmers' Market in Bonifay. Officials say Bonifay has been distribution point for most hay because it is the center of the drought stricken area. Conner said 50 percent of North Florida pasture land was critically damaged by this summer's intense heat and drought. "We will feel for a long time the impact of this drought," Conner said. Some of the impact may be felt this winter. "We're looking at a long-term problem with the winter months ahead of us," Miller said. "The barns usually are stocked with hay and now they're standing empty in the fields. "We're looking ahead to see what can be done," Miller added. Officials still are reviewing damage reports to determine whether to seek additional federal aid for the Panhandle counties. ## Parched Southeast restricts water use UFO Sun Attack Trib 8/3/86 Associated Press Relentless heat and 26 months of below normal rainfall have led to restrictions on outside water use in parts of the Southeast, and officials are urging customers to help conserve supplies inside their homes. "It's going to get worse. It's certainly not going to get better," said Jim Haynes, director of the Tennessee Division of Water Supply. # Heat Wave Victims UFO Sun Attack 8/3/86 The New York Times COLUMBUS, Ga. -- The sun burns so fiercely in central Georgia that the area is known as the heat belt. In a normal year the heat is insufferable. In this year of drought it has become deadly. Thirty-one people have died in Georgia this year of heat-related illnesses, more than in any other state, and 28 of them died in the heat belt, a broad swath of sun-scorched earth stretching eastward from Columbus to Augusta. But according to statistics kept by the Georgia Department of Human Resources, those who died had more in common than geography: Most were elderly, most were poor and most were black. They were people like James Epps, a 57-year-old black paraplegic from Hamilton, just north of Columbus. Two weeks ago, as a heat wave simmered across the South, Epps began to complain to his wife, Beretha, that he was hot. "He was just boiling up with fever," said Mrs. Epps. "He said to me, 'It's hot, too hot.' And he was just sweating and sweating and sweating." On July 24 Epps died of heat stroke, another casualty in a heat wave that has killed more than 75 people across the South. In July the pace of death accelerated as temperatures climbed above 100 degrees Fahrenheit and stayed there for days, setting new heat records in scores of Southern cities. Most of the 31 people who have died of heat in Georgia this year died in the last three weeks of July. State and private officials in Georgia have responded to the crisis by distributing fans, repairing air conditioners and broadcasting warnings about heat. But the heat continues to kill, especially in poor and rural areas where some people live on less than $200 a month and, after paying for medicine, utilities and rent, cannot afford an $18 fan. Just as Middle Western farmers See Heat on page 12A In Pensacola, Fla., where Escambia County officials already had limited lawn watering, seams buckled on a tank Saturday and dumped about 1 million gallons of water. Water consumption had been hitting 33 million gallons a day, and customers had been using about half of the lost tank's supply in a three-hour period each morning, said Steve Burgess, assistant to the executive director of the Escambia County Utilities Authority. "This just aggravates things," he said. Clayton County, Ga., officials have barred residents from watering lawns and cars, and asked restaurants not to serve water with meals. In North Carolina, mandatory water conservation in Orange County, Durham and Charlotte includes no lawn sprinkling, car washing or filling swimming pools. Violators may be fined $100 or spend 30 days in jail. Beach-goers in Atlantic Beach, N.C., can't use outside showers to wash off sand, and boat owners cannot hose down their crafts. The Georgia Department of Natural Resources' environmental protection division has restricted outdoor water use in 103 municipalities, all but one of them in northern Georgia where lakes are down to very low levels. (49) === Page 68 of 99 40 pilot whales head for beaches of Marco Island At least eight whales died after they beached on an island about 20 miles south of Naples. By KIM KLEMAN Tribune Staff Writer MARCO ISLAND -- Rescue efforts Thursday may have saved many of the 40 black pilot whales that swam into shallow waters here, officials say, but at least eight that beached ashore are dead. Rescue crews late Wednesday and early Thursday dragged many of the slick black creatures back into deeper water and patrolled the area so those and others wouldn't slip back to shore. But at least eight whales died, their fins bobbing in the shallows off Sea Oat Island, less than 20 miles south of Naples, as experts prepared to perform necropsies. It will take weeks before results are known fully, said officials from Sea World in Orlando, who drove to the scene for the rescue. "There could be a hundred reasons," the animals were found inland, said Mike Walsh of Sea World. Happenstance isn't one of them, he said. "Most of the marine mammals that come up and beach have some reason," Walsh said. "Something is usually wrong." Preliminary results showed parasites in the stomachs and intestines of some of the whales, which probably contributed to their death, officials said. The whales were first spotted Wednesday evening between Capri Pass and Hurricane Pass, north of Marco Island, said Collier County sheriff's Sgt. Grady Johnson. Then they swam into Marco Bay, he said. "They just seemed confused, totally confused," said Johnson, a sheriff's marine patrol official who monitored the whales all night and Thursday morning. "I've been with the department See WHALES, Page 6B SUNDAY, JULY 27, 1986 Town Shuts Off Water For Hours To Conserve Continued from page 1A In Georgia, the city of Flovilla planned to turn off its water system from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and today to conserve the precious resource, said City Clerk Virginia Williams. Barnesville reopened two wells closed for 40 years. Eight U.S. senators, meanwhile, urged Agriculture Secretary Richard Lyng to act quickly on applications for federal disaster aid from the region. Their request came as Martin asked Washington to declare North Carolina a disaster area to make the state eligible for emergency loans and grants. Parts of South Carolina, Virginia and Florida have been declared disaster areas, and a dozen Tennessee counties have asked for federal aid. South Carolina Gov. Dick Riley urged churches and synagogues to pray for rain this weekend. "Our farmers are watching their farms, and in many instances their way of life, wither away with the lack of rain and searing heat," Riley said. "Many of us have learned just how precious our state's water supply really is." Some rain fell Friday on parched North Carolina, and the National Weather Service predicted more today across the Tennessee Valley and the Carolinas to the central Gulf Coast and Florida. "Anything we get is certainly not going to hurt anything. It's going to be helpful. This is the kind of typical summer weather that we needed to see all summer long -- afternoon and evening showers," said forecaster Mike Sabones in Raleigh, N.C. "But still, we're chipping away at the problem." The heat has been blamed for at least 44 deaths this month -- 19 in Georgia; four each in North Carolina, Missouri, Indiana and Illinois; two each in Alabama, Kentucky and South Carolina and one each in Virginia, Louisiana and Michigan. Columbia stifles under siege By LARRY HAUETER COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Masada. Leningrad. The Alamo. To those great sieges of history, add another: Columbia. Mother Nature is taking no prisoners. We've barricaded ourselves inside our air-conditioned fortresses, peeking fearfully through dust-caked windows to watch as the allied forces of heat and drought cut down what could not be brought inside: lawns, dogwoods, azaleas. It's not a sight for the faint of heart. In other besieged cities, they already are rationing water. It's only a matter of time before it happens in Columbia. The city has been under siege before. William Tecumseh Sherman lined up his cannons across the Congaree River and lobbed shot at the statehouse during the Civil War. The damage never was repaired; every scar is commemorated with a marker, enduring as a sign that the Capitol survived the assault. Of course, Sherman burned down the rest of Columbia. The analogy is uncomfortably appropriate. For 15 straight days, temperatures climbed above 100 degrees. Last week, a "cold" front brought some relief, and the highs were only in the mid-90s. And this week things got somewhat better. But understand one thing about Columbia: Occa- === Page 69 of 99 40 pilot whales head for beaches of Marco Island SUNDAY, JULY 27, 1986 Town Shuts Off Water For Hours To Conserve At least eight whales died after they beached on an island about 20 miles south of Naples. By KIM KLEMAN Tribune Staff Writer MARCO ISLAND -- Rescue efforts Thursday may have saved many of the 40 black pilot whales that swam into shallow waters here, officials say, but at least eight that beached ashore are dead. Rescue crews late Wednesday and early Thursday dragged many of the slick black creatures back into deeper water and patrolled the area so those and others wouldn't slip back to shore. But at least eight whales died, their fins bobbing in the shallows off Sea Oat Island, less than 20 miles south of Naples, as experts prepared to drag them ashore Thursday afternoon to perform necropsies. It will take weeks before results are known fully, said officials from Sea World in Orlando, who drove to the scene for the rescue. "There could be a hundred reasons," the animals were found inland, said Mike Walsh of Sea World. Happenstance isn't one of them, he said. "Most of the marine mammals that come up and beach have some reason," Walsh said. "Something is usually wrong." Preliminary results showed parasites in the stomachs and intestines of some of the whales, which probably contributed to their death, officials said. The whales were first spotted Wednesday evening between Capri Pass and Hurricane Pass, north of Marco Island, said Collier County sheriff's Sgt. Grady Johnson. Then they swam into Marco Bay, he said. "They just seemed confused, totally confused," said Johnson, a sheriff's marine patrol official who monitored the whales all night and Thursday morning. "I've been with the department See WHALES, Page 6B Continued from page 1A In Georgia, the city of Flovilla planned to turn off its water system from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and today to conserve the precious resource, said City Clerk Virginia Williams. Barnesville reopened two wells closed for 40 years. Eight U.S. senators, meanwhile, urged Agriculture Secretary Richard Lyng to act quickly on applications for federal disaster aid from the region. Their request came as Martin asked Washington to declare North Carolina a disaster area to make the state eligible for emergency loans and grants. Parts of South Carolina, Virginia and Florida have been declared disaster areas, and a dozen Tennessee counties have asked for federal aid. South Carolina Gov. Dick Riley urged churches and synagogues to pray for rain this weekend. "Our farmers are watching their farms, and in many instances their way of life, wither away with the lack of rain and searing heat," Riley said. "Many of us have learned just how precious our state's water supply really is." Some rain fell Friday on parched North Carolina, and the National Weather Service predicted more today across the Tennessee Valley and the Carolinas to the central Gulf Coast and Florida. "Anything we get is certainly not going to hurt anything. It's going to be helpful. This is the kind of typical summer weather that we needed to see all summer long -- afternoon and evening showers," said forecaster Mike Sabones in Raleigh, N.C. "But still, we're chipping away at the problem." The heat has been blamed for at least 44 deaths this month -- 19 in Georgia; four each in North Carolina, Missouri, Indiana and Illinois; two each in Alabama, Kentucky and South Carolina and one each in Virginia, Louisiana and Michigan. Columbia stifles under siege By LARRY HAUETER COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Masada. Leningrad. The Alamo. To those great sieges of history, add another: Columbia. Mother Nature is taking no prisoners. We've barricaded ourselves inside our air-conditioned fortresses, peeking fearfully through dust-caked windows to watch as the allied forces of heat and drought cut down what could not be brought inside: lawns, dogwoods, azaleas. It's not a sight for the faint of heart. In other besieged cities, they already are rationing water. It's only a matter of time before it happens in Columbia. The city has been under siege before. William Tecumseh Sherman lined up his cannons across the Congaree River and lobbed shot at the statehouse during the Civil War. The damage never was repaired; every scar is commemorated with a marker, enduring as a sign that the Capitol survived the assault. Of course, Sherman burned down the rest of Columbia. The analogy is uncomfortably appropriate. For 15 straight days, temperatures climbed above 100 degrees. Last week, a "cold" front brought some relief, and the highs were only in the mid-90s. And this week things got somewhat better. But understand one thing about Columbia: Occa === Page 70 of 99 THINK POSITIVELY, YOU GUYS - THIS ISN'T REALLY A DROUGHT, ONLY A TEMPORARY SLOW-DOWN. C'MON - THINK HOW TALL YOU'LL ALL BE BY DECEMBER! THE ECONOMY A HYBRID STRAIN THINK OF THE DEFICIT - HE GOT THAT TO GROW, DIDN'T HE? ARRGH! PLANTS, SOME SAY, RESPOND TO BEING TALKED TO... THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Tuesday, August 12, 1986 11-B Winds bring short-term relief from heat The weekend winds that spawned violent tornadoes in the southern portions of Florida did little more locally than provide a welcome relief from oppressive heat - relief that should come to an end today. "It's windy because there's a little tropical wave coming across the south end of the state," said meteorologist Jim Noffsinger of the National Weather Service at Ruskin. "It appears there is going to be one more day of this. It may be a little windy (today), but that's about it." Meanwhile, relief agencies in North Fort Myers continued collecting donations after a Saturday twister that destroyed seven homes and damaged 200 more. The savage wind tore down power lines, overturned cars and uprooted 30-foot palm trees. In south St. Petersburg, winds brought on by a thunderstorm swept through Gulfport Sunday night and uprooted trees, knocked out electrical power and yanked the roof off of at least one mobile home. No injuries were reported. A tornado that ripped through a Miami trailer park early Monday morning also contributed to the millions of dollars in property damage that plagued South Florida over the weekend. Ron White, a forecaster with the National Weather Service in Miami, said the tornado was the result of a severe thunderstorm over western Dade County. The same type of activity is expected to continue through the week. Convoy of trucks bringing hay to aid Florida's hungry livestock Tribune Wires TALLAHASSEE - A convoy of trucks lumbered more than 200 miles across the Panhandle Friday, carrying tons of hay to hungry livestock in areas scorched by heat and drought. It took an emergency declaration from Gov. Bob Graham to waive width restrictions on the eight trucks and permit them on the interstate from near Lake City to Bonifay. Graham still was considering whether to seek disaster aid for the areas hit hardest by the drought. He was not expected to make a decision until next week. The hay was to be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis at the State Farmers' Market in Bonifay, seat of Holmes County. "The phone was ringing when I got here this morning at 7:30," said Wendell Moore, market manager. "Some farmers say they'll be here to line up after lunch." Across the Southeast, a federal Agriculture Department hot line for drought-plagued farmers was flooded with calls on its first day of operation Friday. And while Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Thomas Irvin praised the hay "baleouts," he said existing U.S. Department of Agriculture programs will not reverse effects of the drought. "What (the federal government) has done now, really, is probably a little bit less than a band aid," Irvin said. Agriculture Secretary Richard Lyng promised that his department will consider making cash grants and surplus feed available to Southern farmers. But, he warned, "For me to suggest that the government could solve the problem of all farmers would be misleading you." Parts of South Carolina, Virginia and Florida have been declared disaster areas because of the weeks-long drought, and a dozen Tennessee counties have asked for federal aid. More than a million chickens have died in the Southern heat. Some market officials linked the drought to a rise in poultry prices. Damage estimates from the sizzling weather exceed $1.6 billion, and heat has been blamed for 44 deaths since July 1. === Page 71 of 99 "Hong Kong PR" # Gorbachev supports 2nd summit He also announced that 6,000 Soviet troops will be withdrawn from Afghanistan by year's end. Tribune Wires 7/29/86 MOSCOW -- Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev said Monday he favored a second summit with President Reagan. He also pledged the Soviet Union would withdraw about 6,000 of its estimated 115,000 troops from Afghanistan before the end of the year. And he extended an olive branch to China, saying Moscow is studying the possibility of withdrawing a "substantial part" of its forces from Mongolia. Their presence has been an aggravating factor in Soviet-Chinese relations. The Soviet leader proposed Soviet training of Chinese cosmonauts as a possible cooperative program. Western military experts said the promised withdrawal of fewer than 10,000 of the estimated 115,000 Soviet troops in Afghanistan would not have any military importance. But the move represents the first time since the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan that Moscow has announced any reduction of its armed forces there. In Washington, State Department spokesman Bernard Kalb noted that similar withdrawals announced in the past "were part of regular rotations of troops without any decrease in the total number." While no figures have been made public on Soviet losses in Afghanistan, accounts in the official press have indicated heavier involvement in combat in recent years. Western sources estimate at least 10,000 Soviet soldiers have died in combat against Afghan rebels -- called mujahedeen, or "holy warriors." See GORBACHEV, Page 4A # Drought * From Page 1A Need for rain desperate 7/24/86 Much of the South has been dry since January of 1985. "The only significant rain we've had in 18 months was two hurricanes last fall, and an unusually wet July and August last year," said Dale Linvill, South Carolina agricultural meteorologist. With a normal annual rainfall of about 45 inches, Columbia, S.C. is already 22 inches below normal, he said, and the state as a whole has received only 40 to 45 percent of the usual rainfall. The present dry spell has been caused by a high pressure system that has been hanging over the South, forcing moisture to the north and keeping coastal storms from moving inland. As the land dries out, temperatures go higher, and readings higher than 100 degrees have been reported throughout the region -- 15 days in a row in Columbia. The intense heat also has been blamed for 42 deaths in the South. The drought is bad now for Southern farmers, but unless substantial rainfall arrives in the next few weeks, their plight could become much worse. July and August are normally wet months. September and October are normally dry. If the pastures are dead now, farmers have no reason to replant them until next spring. Pasture grasses take six months to grow enough for grazing, so farmers could be without pastures for their cattle until well into next year. Levels of groundwater and streams, from which farmers draw most of their water, are at record lows. Heavy rains are required to bring them up again, and if they fall lower, wells will run dry. Charity offers relief Farmers already are selling off their cattle, and auction houses are bustling with more than twice normal business. Finding locally grown hay is nearly impossible. But the spirit of charity and the spirit of politics have combined to provide at least a little relief. Farmers in the Midwest saw a South Carolina farmer bemoaning his fate on ABC's Nightline. The Midwest has plenty of hay, and within hours farmers in Illinois and Indiana were organizing a relief shipment. Rep. Carroll Campbell, R-S.C., who is running for governor, said he called the White House and ar- Quake insurance writers shaky 3/1/86 LOS ANGELES -- Some insurance companies have imposed moratoriums on the sale of earthquake insurance because of the recent rash of tremors, officials say. The moratoriums are legal because a state law that went into effect last year only requires insurance companies to offer earthquake insurance with property owner's insurance within 60 days of the sale date. This provision makes it possible for insurance companies to place moratoriums of up to 60 days on the sale of earthquake insurance, said Richard H. Roth Jr., assistant # Pray For Rain, South Carolina Residents Told By The Associated Press South Carolinians were urged to pray for rain and one Georgia town plans to shut off its water system part-time this weekend as officials seek relief from the deadly drought blamed for more than $1.6 billion in farm losses. North Carolina Gov. Jim Martin on Friday asked that his whole state be declared a drought disaster area, joining parts of three others already on the list, and eight Southeastern senators urged the government to speed up aid. Showers and thunderstorms fell in sections of drought-plagued Georgia, Alabama, and the Carolinas Saturday. In six hours overnight, more than an inch of rain fell on Athens, Ga., and Montgomery, Ala., and Wilmington, N.C., got 2.25 inches of rain Saturday, causing local flooding. Rain also fell in several Southern states Friday and more was predicted for today, but forecasters said it was too little and too late to be of any benefit to farmers, who continue receiving tons of donated hay. And hundreds of calls seeking and offering help for farmers flooded a U.S. Department of Agriculture hotline on its first day of operation. See Town on page 10A (52) === Page 72 of 99 Heat's Still On 100° And Rising Around South By The Associated Press Temperatures topped 100 again Saturday after two weeks of a triple-digit heat wave blamed for at least 22 deaths, and farmers in South Carolina lined up for free hay from the Midwest in the midst of a drought that has cost growers in the Southeast millions of dollars. Columbia, S.C., hit a record 106 degrees by late afternoon Saturday, the 14th consecutive day the city has hit 100 or higher. The heat index, a measure of how hot it felt with high humidity and little wind, was expected to reach 120 in South Carolina, the National Weather Service said. Augusta, Ga., also hit a record 103 degrees, the 31st straight day of 90-plus temperatures in that east Georgia city. Other records included 102 at Charlotte, N.C.; 100 at Jacksonville; 100 at Columbus, Ga.; 101 at Atlanta; 96 at Mobile, Ala. Charlotte's high tied a record of 99 set in 1970. Whew! 98 In Ocala By The Associated Press The heat wave which has socked much of the South and Midwest hit Ocala and North Florida with a glancing blow Saturday in the form of three high temperature records. The temperature hit 100 degrees at Jacksonville International Airport Saturday afternoon, breaking the record for the date of 99 set in 1970. Tallahassee recorded a 98 to top the record of 97 set in 1965 and Daytona Beach surpassed a 38-year-old record with a 97 degree reading. In Apalachicola, the high of 94 tied the record. St. Augustine and Crestview had the second highest readings in the state with 99s, while Ocala had a 98. According to the National Weather Service, the hot temperatures in North Florida were caused by a weak low pressure trough over the area. No change is expected Sunday. The southern part of the state had slightly lower temperatures because a weak high pressure ridge is controlling its weather. The high in Miami was 92, and Key West was a relatively cool 88. Commissioner with the state Department of Insurance. Another powerful earthquake - 6.1 on the Richter scale - rocked the Sierra Nevada early Thursday, breaking windows but causing no major damage or injuries. Mulloy To Leave NASA Post HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) - Lawrence B. Mulloy, who directed the space shuttle's solid rocket booster program at the time of the Challenger disaster, announced Wednesday that he will retire from NASA at the end of the week. Mulloy drew criticism in recent months for his actions prior to the liftoff of Challenger, which exploded in flight Jan. 28, killing its crew of seven, when flame licked out of a flawed solid rocket booster. He has said "system failure" and not individuals were to blame for the Challenger tragedy. Mulloy, who is 52, gave no reason for his retirement and said it would be effective Friday. On the night before the Challenger launch, Mulloy argued with engineers from the booster rocket's manufacturer, Morton Thiokol, who contended that cold weather might cause the booster joints to fail. Their concern did not reach those with power to halt the liftoff. "Given the information I had at the time... I can't say that anything different would have been done. I do regret that it wasn't," Mulloy said in June. A statement issued by the Marshall Space Flight Center said Mulloy, transferred to the post of assistant to the director of science and engineering at Marshall after the shuttle explosion, had recently been assigned to become deputy director of the propulsion, power and energy division office of Aeronautics and Space Technology at National Aeronautics and Space Administration headquarters in Washington. "In lieu of accepting this position, considered an important post with responsibilities for the development of aeronautics and space technology, Mr. Mulloy decided to exercise his option to retire," the statement said. The statement said Mulloy had been in government service for more than 30 years. A lawsuit filed by the widow of Challenger pilot Michael Smith named Mulloy and others in the wrongful death of the astronaut. Mulloy planned to make no comment on his retirement, said Marshall spokesman Ed Medal. The report issued by the presidential commission investigating the shuttle disaster included comments critical of Mulloy and Marshall, who oversaw the shuttle's propulsion systems. Lightning Fires Keep Crews Busy By The Associated Press Hundreds of fires burned early today over more than 375,000 acres of tinder-dry forest and range land after a thunderstorm scattered lightning strikes from eastern Oregon to Montana. The storm packing winds of up to 50 mph swept across a 500-mile corridor Sunday from eastern Oregon through the northcentral Idaho forests and into western Montana. About 6,800 lightning strikes were recorded. The blazes' combined acreage was estimated at up to 375,000 acres by Monday night and was still growing, said Arnold Hartigen, spokesman for the Boise Interagency Fire Center, which coordinates fire suppression nationwide. "It's a major fire action the likes of which we haven't seen in Oregon for some time," said Jim Fisher, spokesman for the Oregon Department of Forestry. About 50 new lightning-sparked fires have started on state-protected lands in eastern Oregon while tired crews who battled blazes in the region last week were sent to face more than 165 new fires on federal lands. Fires ranging in size from 50 to 50,000 acres have burned 89,000 acres in the Vale, Ore., federal Bureau of Land Management district, said Barry Rose, fire information officer. The largest single range blaze was the Bogus Creek fire, at more than 50,000 acres in southeastern Oregon, said Rose. In Idaho, more than 700 firefighters were already on the lines around just a handful of the more than 400 blazes spawned by the Sunday storm, and up to another 1,000 reinforcements joined them Monday. About 95,000 acres of southwestern Idaho range was already blackened by fire, and flames were running wild on a 50,000-acre four-fire complex northwest of Emmett, where the Squaw Butte Lookout was evacuated, and on remote terrain just southeast of Boise. That fire grew from 5,000 to 30,000 acres in a matter of hours. On the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana, 100 firefighters were battling a 400-acre blaze while fire teams assessed the potential from more than two dozen other blazes sparked by the storm. === Page 73 of 99 UFO Sun Attack # Baptists Pray, Then It Rains 8/11/86 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Scattered afternoon showers shattered drought-parched pastures in parts of Tennessee on Sunday, the day Baptists were asked to pray for rain. The Rev. James McCluskey, president of the Tennessee Baptist Convention and a Knoxville pastor, had asked members of the state's 2,800 Southern Baptist churches to begin a season of prayer for rainfall Sunday. Rainfall has been well below normal for 18 months. "We really need more than a shower. We need a rainy season to come. We're praying for that," he said. McCluskey said he had no way of knowing how many Tennessee churches joined in the prayers. The scattered showers dropped less than an inch of rain in wide areas of the state, including in eastern Tennessee, the area hardest hit by the drought. McCluskey said he mentions the need for rain daily in prayer and has asked his congregation to do the same. "Those of us in the city have only noticed the drought mainly by the brown grass in our yard. But the farmers really have been hard hit economically. They need our prayers," he said. UFO Sun Attack 0.5B 7/24/86 # Rainfall Too Late For Crops By The Associated Press Storms poured more precious rain on the parched South, but too late to quench dusty cornfields or help farmers ease more than $1.5 billion in losses from a drought that has sparked emergency donations of hay and even ice. Shipments of hay for starving livestock continued pouring in today from across the North and Midwest, where farmers already have donated tons. Services have been offered free by train, trucking, telephone and ice companies. "My cows are eating Illinois hay for breakfast, Iowa hay for lunch, and they'll be having Indiana hay for Sunday dinner," Tom Trantham, a South Carolina dairy farmer, told officials in Indianapolis on Wednesday. The drought has been compounded by a 2½-week heat wave, which eased this week after killing 42 people. Storms dumped 3 inches of rain on Richmond, Va., within two hours Wednesday, about 2½ inches on Mobile, Ala., and Berea, S.C., and 1.3 inches on Atlanta in less than an hour. The rain generally dissipated by early this morning, the National Weather Service said. Scattered thunderstorms stretched from Maryland to Florida on Tuesday, keeping temperatures below 100 degrees. "The few bands of thunderstorms, of course -- where they hit certainly didn't hurt. But basically it's still a bad situation," said Homer Rowley, assistant statistician in Virginia's Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. "A lot of fields are beyond help." See Rain Comes on page 8A # South Prays For End To Drought UFO Sun Attack 8/11/86 By The Associated Press Southern Baptist churches in Tennessee were urged to make Sunday a day of prayer for relief from the Southeast's drought, which has forced some workers to go on reduced hours and is drawing donations of tons of hay. "I call on Tennessee Baptists to join in prayer for rain to soak the parched earth and to replenish supplies of water," said Dr. James McCluskey, a Knoxville pastor and president of the Tennessee Baptist Convention. "Farmers are already severely affected economically, and all of us will soon feel the effect," he said. Agricultural losses from the drought are estimated at more than $2.3 billion and agriculture commissioners from seven parched states went to Washington Friday to lobby for more aid. The commissioners proposed a redistribution of federal funds to assist the Southeast in reviving and reseeding parched pastures and forests, as well as advance commodity payments and government-guaranteed loan program. "I'm terribly disappointed," South Carolina commissioner Les Tindal said after his meeting with Agriculture Secretary Richard Lyng. Lyng "bluntly told us" that he is not going to help soybean farmers and feels the current crop insurance program is adequate, Tindal said. Scattered rain showers last week did little to curb the months-long drought, said Macon Jackson, hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Raleigh, N.C. UFO Sun Attack 0.5B 7/25/86 # Consumers Feel Pinch Of Drought By The Associated Press Economic shock waves from Dixie's devastating drought already are being felt outside the South, as grocers and farm officials around the nation report that consumers will be paying more for produce and poultry. "All (produce) prices have been abnormally high this season, and I attribute that to the drought," said sales manager Scott Donner of the Pioneer Valley Growers Association, which represents about 50 Massachusetts farmers. "It's the worst undersupply since 1978." The South's hot, dry weather has cost farmers more than $1.5 billion, forcing them to slaughter starving livestock early and killing more than a million chickens in the Southeast and mid-Atlantic states. Poultry supplies have tightened up, said Celia Nix of Market News Service in Los Angeles. The average nationwide price for fryers was 69.5 cents a pound Monday, up 21 to 22 cents from July 1985, Ms. Nix said Thursday. "The drought losses have affected not only California poultry but prices California consumers pay at the wholesale level and prices paid by fast-food restaurants," she added. The Southeast produced 39 percent of the nation's poultry in 1985. See Drought on page 10A (54) === Page 74 of 99 Twisters smash R.I. as storms sweep area Psi Ripples Trib 8/9/86 PROVIDENCE, R.I. (UPI) - Rhode Island was belted by a second twister Friday and high winds smashed a hospital's windows in Massachusetts. Most of New England was under a tornado watch. Another round of severe thunderstorms roared through the region, blowing out two ground-floor laboratory windows at New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston, a spokeswoman said. No one was injured. Still reeling from a tornado that inflicted heavy damage in its capital city Thursday night, Rhode Island was hit with a new twister in North Smithfield, just south of the Massachusetts border. National Guardsmen rushed to the Slatersville section of the town to help clear away dozens of uprooted trees and downed power lines that sparked several electrical fires. One person was treated for minor injuries and at least 250 residents were left without power, officials said. "We've got telephone poles down all over the place and trees blocking roads. It's a real mess out here," said police dispatcher Jerri Erickson. The National Weather Service posted a tornado and severe thunderstorm watch for most of the region through 9 p.m. In Boston, departures from Logan International Airport were halted from 12:12 a.m. to 12:55 p.m. One-hour delays were still reported after flights resumed, said Charles S. Shuler, assistant air traffic manager at the airport. "We had a level 6 thunderstorm. That's by far the worst you could have. It went right over the top of the airport," he said. The first of a series of severe storms gave Boston a drenching at noon, racing into the city from the southwest. Connecticut and Rhode Island were hit first. Hail the size of golf balls pummeled the town of Medway, southwest of Boston, and the ground was briefly covered with a thin layer of ice. Branches were blown down and torrential rains nearly blinded drivers and caused numerous fender-benders but no serious accidents were reported. In New Hampshire, the National Weather Service posted a tornado watch after residents reported funnel-shaped clouds Thursday evening that flattened corn fields and knocked down tree limbs. Tornadoes danced through Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine, causing at least one death. Construction worker Paul Albani, 22, was struck by a bolt of lightning while working on a house in Foxboro Thursday. Cleanup crews went to work removing debris. "Our damage will be in the millions," said Providence Mayor Joseph Paolino after surveying stricken areas of his city. Several cars were destroyed, a roof was torn off a house and a car was blown through a storefront. Most of the top floor of a jewelry factory was ripped off, raining bricks onto at least 30 cars parked below. Twenty people suffered minor injuries. City and utility workers in Bedford, Mass., toiled through the night cleaning up debris left by another tornado that packed 150 mph winds. The twister ripped through town, uprooting trees and knocking out power to an estimated 900 customers. A Cessna and two Pipers were overturned at nearby Hanscom Field and pieces of the aircraft were sent flying when the twister tore its way eastward into suburban areas, airport officials said. Damage to the planes was estimated at $50,000. FDLE says crack fueling crime wave 0.58 7/18/86 TALLAHASSEE (UPI) - Crack cocaine is "the most serious drug problem we have seen in years" and is causing a sharp upswing in Florida's crime rate, Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Robert Dempsey said Thursday. Preliminary results of an ongoing FDLE survey, Dempsey said, suggest that crack is causing a "dramatic" increase in crime. He noted that last year's unexpected 14 percent jump in the crime rate paralleled the introduction of crack to the state. "The addict who is caught in this terrible mire is out there constantly trying to replenish his funds, because he lives for only one thing - to get that crack," Dempsey said. "I feel there is a direct correlation between the availability and the increased use of crack and the crime situation in the state of Florida." The survey will be completed in about a week, and will probably show even more increases in the state crime rate, Dempsey said. He plans to pass the study results on to Gov. Bob Graham, who has been asked by Sen. Lawton Chiles to call a special legislative session to act on crack. Dempsey said he thought such a session would be "premature" until after the survey and a meeting of drug experts that Graham has organized. The survey is part of a three-part initiative to combat the highly addictive drug, Dempsey announced at a morning press conference. FDLE also has produced a crack guidebook - describing the drug, how it's used and what the laws are - that has been sent to all Florida sheriffs and police chiefs. The agency also plans to prepare films and public announcements to educate the public about the drug. Crack, also known as rock, is a highly concentrated form of cocaine that can be as much as five times more pure than the standard powder form. Crack has spread at a wildfire rate, Dempsey said, because it is relatively cheap, easy to produce and readily available. "It is not just the old cocaine user who has gone to crack," Dempsey said. "This has dramatically increased the number of users all across society, because of its simplicity, its easy accessibility and its low cost. We've got kids using it. We have dramatically expanded the drug user market." Dempsey hopes to counter that by informing the public about how addictive and dangerous crack is. Unlike powder cocaine, a crack user can become addicted after only one or two uses, Dempsey said. Because the drug is so pure, and because when smoked the reaction time is only about eight seconds, crack can cause heart attacks, brain hemorrhage and death. Dempsey said the publicity campaign was not a "scare tactic" by law enforcement and other public officials. He cited 268 fatal drug overdoses in Florida last year, many of them from cocaine. (55) === Page 75 of 99 4A OCALA STAR-BANNER, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1986 # Air Traffic Backs Up Around 5-State Blaze By The Associated Press Helicopters, air tankers and planes ferrying crews converged on the Northwest as 90 percent of the nation's federal firefighters headed for the battle against lightning-sparked blazes on 345,000 acres in five states. In Idaho, Gov. John Evans declared a state of extreme emergency Wednesday as crews worked to save 70 homes threatened by a fire 40 miles north of Boise. Firefighters in Utah turned to newer blazes after declaring the 7,000-acre Hose Lay Fire in west-central Utah under control Wednesday night. The blaze got its name because rugged terrain made it impossible to bring water tankers close, so hoses were dragged to the fire lines. "It's looking very good. We've pulled everyone off there except the engines," said Bert Hart, a spokesman for the federal Bureau of Land Management. "During the day the humidity was up and the winds were down and that helped immensely. They have no fear of it getting away now." About 13,500 firefighters, all but 10 percent of the nation's federal force, have been joined by thousands of support personnel in fighting hundreds of blazes ignited by lightning in the past week in Idaho, Oregon, Montana, Utah and Nevada, according to the Boise Interagency Fire Center, the nation's fire command post. The Federal Aviation Administration set up temporary air control towers in Grangeville and McCall, Idaho, and in La Grande and Pendleton, Ore., to handle all the traffic. The Grangeville airport was overwhelmed by the increase, said FAA spokesman Dick Meyer in Seattle. "Its normal operations include about 50 takeoffs and landings in a day. Today they're landing and taking off once every three minutes." In Idaho, where 100 lightning-sparked blazes scorched 165,000 acres since Sunday, the governor sent National Guard troops and trucks to help 2,600 firefighters. # Hot Gets Even Hotter In Dixie Continued from page 1A be answered. The National Weather Service predicted scattered thundershowers in North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama today or Tuesday, but no rain for South Carolina. Sporadic storms have replenished water supplies in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia, but that did little to help farmers ravaged by the worst spring drought on record, the service said. "Most of it just runs off," said forecaster Joe Cefaratti. Temperatures from the low 90s to the low 100s were expected for the next two days in a sweep from the Gulf coast to the Central Atlantic coast. On Sunday, temperature records were tied or broken in at least 17 cities, the National Weather Service said. In 15 of those cities the mercury climbed to 100 or above. The temperature crawled past 100 across much of Georgia on Sunday, hitting a record 104 at Augusta, 106 at Macon, and 102 in Columbus, which saw its 45th consecutive day of highs at 90 or above and 15th consecutive day where the mercury hit at least 100. In Savannah, Ga., it was 105 degrees Sunday, the coastal city's hottest day this century, tying its all-time heat record set July 12, 1879. Other records included 100 at Greenville-Spartanburg, S.C.; 100 at Tallahassee; 98 at Daytona Beach; and 104 at Memphis, Tenn. # Soviets From Page 1A "That event, undoubtedly, would come the main real outcome of meeting," he said, "a considerable step on the way toward ending arms race." Departing from previous statements on the prospects for a summit meeting, Gorbachev did not lay down any conditions for progress or agreement on arms control before such a meeting could be arranged. He said the United States conducted 18 nuclear explosions, three of them unannounced, in the year after the Soviet moratorium was announced, and added: "The Soviet Union has sufficient reasons for resuming its nuclear testing, yet we are convinced even now that the ending of nuclear testing, not only by the Soviet Union but also by the United States, would be a real breakthrough to arresting the nuclear arms race. "The logic in this is simple: If there are no tests, the nuclear weapons, which both sides have stockpiled in abundance, will not be upgraded." Still, Gorbachev said, the Soviet Union will answer any military challenge from the United States, including Reagan's proposed Strategic Defense Initiative, the Star Wars program. Without going into detail, he said: "It would be wrong to hope to intimidate us or prompt us to needless expenditures. If need be, we shall promptly come up with the answer, and it will not be what the United States expects. But it will be the answer that will devalue the Star Wars program." He said the "main harm" of the Strategic Defense Initiative is that it undermines the prospect of arms control talks and decreases trust between the negotiators. Unless steps are taken to head them off, he said, such sophisticated weapons systems will emerge on both sides that it will be impossible to reach agreement on how to control them. "The situation is becoming ever more intolerable," he said. Gorbachev cited the accidents that destroyed the U.S. space shuttle Challenger, last January, and severely damaged the nuclear plant at Chernobyl, in April, as "brutal reminders" of what could happen if nuclear weapons were used. === Page 76 of 99 # Farm Loss May Top $2 Billion From Drought, Officials Warn The New York Times WASHINGTON -- Livestock and crop losses from the drought that has parched eight Middle-Atlantic and Southern states could total more than $2 billion, twice as much as was estimated earlier this week, state agricultural officials said Friday. The loss would represent nearly 15 percent of the $15 billion of gross earnings last year by farmers in the arc of drought, which stretches from Alabama to southern Pennsylvania. No agricultural region has sustained such high losses since drought spread across the Middle West and Rocky Mountain states in the 1930s, according to the Department of Agriculture. Meteorologists said Friday that parts of Alabama, North and South Carolina, Georgia and Virginia received some rain Thursday night, but predicted that the arid conditions would persist through August and possibly longer. In Washington, employees of the Department of Agriculture manned a special telephone line, handling hundreds of calls from farmers seeking information on the department's program of emergency assistance. Agriculture Secretary Richard E. Lyng has appointed special teams to study the affected areas, urged his deputies to accelerate the processing of applications for emergency assistance, and assured farmers in the stricken states that he is doing everything possible to lessen the economic effects of the drought. Friday, Lyng toured poultry houses and peanut fields in Georgia, where the loss in the state's $520 million peanut industry is estimated at $100 million. The South produces nearly 40 percent of the nation's poultry, and food market managers in the Northeast, Middle West, and the Rocky Mountain states said Friday that prices of chicken had increased in recent days, in some areas by as much as 10 cents a pound. The prices of other commodities, though, have remained largely unaffected. The drought also has given rise to a political dispute in South Carolina, where Sen. Ernest F. Hollings, a Democrat, accused the Reagan administration Thursday of delaying shipments of hay donated by farmers from Massachusetts, New York and Oklahoma as part of an effort by better-off See Losses on page 6A # Tornado's damage toll $1.6 million Tribune Wires FORT MYERS -- At least 12 people were injured -- none seriously -- by a weekend tornado that touched down and caused more than $1.6 million worth of damage in a residential section of North Fort Myers, officials said Sunday. Workers still were assessing damage in the area Sunday afternoon. The tornado damaged almost 120 houses in an eight-block area, Lee County sheriff's Capt. Bill Kiphart said. Sixteen cars and trucks and four boats also were damaged by the twister, Kiphart said. "The power company says there are seven dwellings they aren't even going to put power back in because they figure they're devastated beyond repair," he said. "What we picked up here locally is approximately 12 injuries and no deaths." The tornado touched down about 5:40 p.m. Saturday in an eight- to 10-square-block area of North Fort Myers and Cape Coral. Preliminary damage was estimated at $1,626,580, said Larry Pfeiffer of the National Weather Service in Ruskin. # Californians Clean Up, Brace For More Quakes BISHOP, Calif. (AP) -- Californians were warned to brace for more earthquakes as residents recovered from the state's fourth big temblor in two weeks, which damaged every home in one mountain town and shook buildings as far away as Utah. Despite the warnings, some of the 300 residents of Chalfant Valley, a High Sierra town where all 145 houses were damaged, said they wouldn't leave. "I like it here," said Nona Roripaugh, 29, a police dispatcher in Bishop, five miles away. "It could happen anywhere, and if it happened in the city, it would be that much worse. Buildings fall on you in the city. Here you go outside and you're OK." Monday's quake at 7:42 a.m. left 50 people homeless, swayed buildings hundreds of miles away in Las Vegas, Nev., and Salt Lake City, buckled a road, caused rock slides and briefly stranded hundreds of campers. Two minor injuries were reported. The quake, estimated at 6.1 on the Richter scale, was centered in the High Sierra, 240 miles north of Los Angeles and five miles from Chalfant Valley, which sustained the heaviest damage. It came one day after a 5.5 magni- See Californians on page 8A "We won't put a force factor on it until all the damage is assessed," he said. "It was obviously a strong tornado, not your everyday garden type of tornado or mini-tornado that we get in the state of Florida." The tornado damaged 117 houses, and of those, 25 suffered major structural major damage, Pfeiffer said. "It was pretty bad. It's been a few years since we had something that bad," said Sgt. Dale Williams of the Lee County Sheriff's Office. "We had boats that were parked in yards and that were found several blocks down the street." "It sounded like a train coming and then it took the roof off," said Dea Baker, whose duplex was destroyed by the funnel cloud. A neighbor's pickup truck landed against the front wall of her home. Ron Fortier was returning to his home when the tornado hit. It ripped part of the roof off the back of his apartment and pulled the nails out of the sheetrock in the walls. "It took one of the cars out in the parking lot and threw it into another one. The dumpster's in the swimming pool," Fortier said. === Page 77 of 99 # Quake Trib 7/22/86 ## From Page 1A under tables or broke for the doors when the 6.1 quake hit, assistant manager Dave Campbell said. "They were grabbing hold of each other and just trying to hang on," he said. "Anything that was laying down flat was just going across the counter." Part of the ceiling caved in at a Burger King restaurant in Bishop, U.S. Forest Service spokesman Brian Miller said. At Pleasant Valley campground near Bishop, 50 campers were stranded when a crevasse obliterated a road and swallowed a parked pickup truck, Inyo County sheriff's Sgt. Dick Wood said. All those in the camp's 200 campsites were safely evacuated later Monday. Wood said the opening was 150 yards wide and 200 yards long but didn't know how deep, although it was "enough to put a pickup truck down into." The pickup truck sank about 30 feet deep and caught fire, said Parrish. At least one occupant was removed and the truck was later pulled out as well. A group of about 20 Sierra Club trail builders near Pine Lake also were stranded by rock slides but were unharmed, she said. Wood said bulldozers worked to open another access road covered by boulders to evacuate the campground. The Hot Creek bathing area 40 miles north of Bishop was closed. "An inspection was made and there was found to be more fissures and more hot water coming through. We don't know the temperature of the water but we felt it was safer to close it," said Miller. He didn't know if anyone was in the popular swimming hole at the time of the quake. "We have no indication of any injuries; however, power is out in the Bishop area and we have a building off its foundation and there's a broken sewer line," said Nancy Hardaker at the state Office of Emergency Services in Sacramento. "We have some glass breakage on storefronts," added Bishop police officer Ted Gardner. "At this time, we're experiencing power difficulties with signal lights and so forth." Dogs howled and horses ran wild after the 5.5 temblor Sunday, police dispatcher Nora Roripaugh said. That quake shook the Sierra and a 200-mile stretch of the San Joaquin Valley at 7:30 a.m., leaving 75 percent of Bishop's 5,000 residents without electricity for less than an hour. Seismologist Lucy Jones of the U.S. Geological Survey said Sunday's temblor was a foreshock to Monday's quake. She said about a dozen "feelable" earthquakes followed in the two hours after the initial quake plus many smaller ones "coming so close together we haven't been able to count them." She said Monday's full moon had no effect on the quake, although scientists have speculated on lunar influences. Meredith said Caltech's Richter reading Monday had been 6.2, but he said Berkeley's 6.1 reading would be more accurate. The U.S. Geological Survey meanwhile estimated the quake at 6.0. Such variances are not unusual. Both quakes were on the Sierra Nevada fault system, said Hardaker of the state emergency office. Monday's quake and aftershock came exactly 34 years after a 7.7 quake rocked Tehachapi on July 21, 1952. On July 13, a quake centered in the ocean off Oceanside measured 5.3 on the Richter scale. On July 8, a 5.9 quake struck in the desert north of Palm Springs, causing $6 million damage to homes, roads and utilities, but Caltech seismologist Kate Hutton said those were unrelated to Sunday's and Monday's. Tribune map # Lightning-Sparked Fires Rip Forests By The Associated Press Psi-Ripple 0.5B 8/11/86 Idaho firefighters Friday fortified lines against a 1,000-acre blaze that had threatened 70 homes north of Boise, while fires continued to rage out of control in two Oregon national forests. Crews in several other Northwestern states were able to take a breather after bringing fires under control. Scores of lightning-sparked blazes have scorched more than 560,000 acres in the Northwest since Aug. 1, said Dave Damron of the Boise Interagency Fire Center, the national fire command post. In Idaho, the 1,000-acre Garden Valley fire was contained late Thursday, but officials said the weather would determine how long it would take to bring it under control. At least 800 firefighters were battling a complex of 20 fires, including the Garden Valley blaze, that have burned more than 7,200 acres. Helicopters were dropping water on the Garden Valley fire, which was spewing dense smoke all the way to the desert, 40 miles away. The heavy smoke had grounded planes carrying tanks of flame retardant. "We have not been able to drop retardant because it's in a big basin, a big bowl, so all the smoke is settling in there, so we're having to concentrate in some of the more outlying areas where we've got visibility, which allows us to drop," said Mike Campbell of the Boise National Forest. The weekend weather forecast for the state did not look promising. "We're supposed to get some gusty winds, and there's a chance for more lightning activity this weekend." (58) === Page 78 of 99 Cloudiness brings brief respite to drought-parched Southeast Tribune Staff and Wires Cloudy skies and scattered rain brought temporary relief Tuesday from the Southeast's heat wave but did little for its drought. "We've been severely hit. It's the worst I've ever seen," 75-year-old Harold Arant told a federal task force on his son's farm near Bowman, S.C. "This is a terrible situation. It's almost unbelievable to see the crops in this destroyed position," said Assistant U.S. Agriculture Secretary George Dunlop, head of the task force which earlier visited Georgia and Alabama. Increased cloud cover kept temperatures in the upper 80s and mid-90s instead of 100 Tuesday across much of the Carolinas and Georgia, although Macon, Ga., reached 99. However, the cooler weather won't last, said Jerry Harrison, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Columbia, S.C. "It's a temporary thing. We just got a little relief. The cloudiness will be gone by tomorrow or the day after." Months of below-normal rain have withered crops and nearly dried up water supplies in parts of the Southeast despite scattered storms, like those that hit parts of the region Monday and Tuesday. "It's been so dry for so long, the rain is barely keeping pace with daily needs," meteorologist Bob Dietlein said in Alabama. Crop losses have been estimated at up to $700 million for farmers ready hard-hit by rising costs and failing prices in Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia. Dunlop said in North Carolina that he would ask Agriculture Secretary Richard Lyng to see that federal assistance programs go into effect quickly but said, "I can't make any promises. I have nothing to announce." Florida Agriculture Commissioner Doyle Conner said he would ask Gov. Bob Graham to declare a disaster in eight to 10 counties of northern Florida, where some areas haven't had rain in 50 days. In the Bay area, today and Thursday are expected to be cloudy with a chance of showers. The chance of rain is 50 percent for both days, and highs should be around 90, forecasters said. Jim Berry © 1986 by NEA, Inc. 7-E "FORGET finding a cactus plant for water. We're in the SouthEAST." Southwest Blazes Burn Out Of Control By The Associated Press Weary firefighters reported progress Friday in their week-long battle against lightning-kindled fires that have charred more than 90,000 acres in Oregon, while 100 firefighters fought two blazes that blackened 17,000 acres in southwestern Idaho. "The big thing that's helping us today is the wind has died," said Phil Stanbro, a spokesman for the Bureau of Land Management in Oregon. "We're hoping that continues and we can get a line around the hot spots." Most of the Oregon fires that began earlier this week were either contained or under control by Friday. The largest blaze that remained out of control was the Tub Mountain fire between Vale and Ontario, just west of the Idaho-Oregon border. It had consumed 25,000 acres of sage and brush, but no structures were threatened, Stanbro said. A firefighter injured Wednesday, Gary Paxson of Whiteriver, Ariz., was in fair condition at a Portland hospital after amputation of his right arm, which was crushed by a falling tree as he fought to contain a 1,000-acre fire in Oregon's Umatilla National Forest. Idaho fire bosses reported crews gaining the upper hand on major forest fires in north-central Idaho and range fires west of Boise, but had no estimate on when two new blazes that scorched 17,000 acres in the southwest would be contained. Flames raged along 80 percent of the line of the 10,000-acre Danskin Fire which earlier forced the evacuation of a ranger station and three aerial retardant drops to save the structure. Seven miles to the south, the so-called Long Tom fire covered 7,000 acres. The fires throughout southwestern Idaho were started by a summer storm that blasted the area Thursday with about 600 lightning strikes. To the north, fire bosses in the Nezperce National Forest released four 20-member crews from the 1,000-acre Gus Creek Fire. === Page 79 of 99 UFO Sun Attack Trib 7/29/86 STAYSKAL 86 TAMPA TRIBUNE FIRST BANK OF GEORGIA DROUGHT NI DEP NEWS ITEM: FBI SAYS CRIME UP; HIGHEST IN THE SOUTH. Radon threat in shower 8/5/86 WASHINGTON -- Millions of Americans are exposed to carcinogenic radon gas when showering or using washing machines, it was reported Monday. One-fourth of American homes use water containing radon, a radioactive gas given off by decaying uranium particles found in much of North American rock, U.S. News & World Report magazine reported in this week's issue. When the water is heated, up to 80 percent of the carcinogenic gas is released and can be inhaled. THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Business Brief Bank sues Hunts DALLAS -- Bank of America filed a counterclaim in federal court in Dallas Monday demanding more than $76 million of outstanding debt from the Hunt family and their trusts owning Penrod Drilling Co. The demand was in response to a multi-billion dollar lawsuit brought against the bank and 22 other financial institutions on June 24 by the Hunt family whose fabulous fortunes have suffered huge losses in recent years. A Bank of America announcement said it and other banks were seeking to recover more than $1.2 billion in loans "on which the Hunt-controlled companies and trusts have defaulted." Hunt's 7/29/86 Deadly storm dumps 6 inches of rain UFO Sun Attack T 7/31/86 SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) -- Scores of farmhouses remained isolated Wednesday by washed-out roads after thunderstorms that knocked out power to thousands and dumped more than 6 inches of rain. One man drowned in a flash flood in western Massachusetts and another was electrocuted by a fallen power line in Rhode Island. (60) === Page 80 of 99 Drought Adding To Farming Woes Hardships Just Keep Mounting BONIFAY (AP) -- Drought and hot weather are just the latest hardships faced by Florida farmers and ranchers who need more than rain to stop their slide toward financial failure. The 1986 drought, drier-than-normal weather last year and three years of harsh winters are compounding the problems of low prices, foreign competition, and uncertainty over federal farm programs. Plus, farms are reeling still from the effects of high interest rates in the early 1980s. "A lot of farmers here are bitter about what's happened to them," said Wilson Brogdon, director of federal farm programs in Jackson County near Bonifay, which is considered the center of Florida's drought belt. Brogdon estimated that at least one-third of the 1,400 to 1,500 farm families in Jackson live below the federal poverty line of $11,000 a year for a family of four. About 500 Jackson farms have failed over the past decade, but at least that many more could fail in the next two years, he said. "Farmers have a way of hanging in there, somehow finding a way," he said. "They stay at it because there's not that much else to do here, and farming is basically what they want to do. Their parents did it before them. . . . They just hate to be a failure." Jackson County is one of 21 counties Gov. Bob Graham has asked the federal government to declare a disaster area to make way for federal assistance. Commissioner of Agriculture Doyle Conner said he talked to officials at the U.S. Department of Agriculture Monday. They told him there would be an answer soon to Graham's request, but they did not give him an estimate of when a decision would be made. The drought has cut a 300-mile swath of hardship across the Panhandle. About 120 miles east of Jackson, for example, farmers in Suwannee County have been harvesting a meager corn crop and tobacco that ripened too early. At least half of three normal hay cuttings have been lost, and soybeans and peanut vines are only half the size they should be. Strong rains might salvage some crops, but corn, tobacco and small grains are past recovery, said Jim Rich, a farmer and agriculture specialist with the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences in Live Oak. Suwannee farmer Verneil Johnson said the dry spring and summer come on the heels of drier-than-normal weather last year and three winters of record cold. Half the county's 126,800 acres of cultivated farmland, the fourth largest acreage in the state, is fallow, or growing weeds. "Between the drought and the freezes, it has been a disaster for cattle," said Johnson who is harvesting crops on area farms with his $80,000 combine to help make ends meet. "We don't always get cash for it," he said. "There's a lot of horse-trading, anything to survive." Earl Boswell, Brogdon's counterpart in Suwannee County, said the economic crunch could drive farmers out of the business. "I see one way to make money out of farmland; selling it off in 5-acre lots," he said. For now, the immediate needs must be met. Ranchers must have hay for their herds and farmers must have water for their row crops. In Bonifay, ranchers were pleading for hay. Tons of the feed have been trucked in over recent weeks from greener Florida acres and other states, but the hay goes quickly. AROUND THE World Chinese Say Typhoon Peggy Killed 172 In Guangdong PEKING (AP) -- Typhoon Peggy killed 172 people when it struck Guangdong province last week, officials said Wednesday, calling it the worst disaster to hit the southern coastal province in nearly four decades. Officials at the provincial Disaster Prevention Office, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said in telephone interviews that Typhoon Peggy also left 1,250 people injured, destroyed 214,000 homes and damaged or washed away 2,200 bridges and 2,542 miles of electric power lines. They estimated damages at $470 million, and said about 1.35 million acres of farmland were flooded when the typhoon hit last Friday. The officials said 3.67 million people were affected by the storm, which also killed at least 93 in the northern Philippines before hitting China. Heat Claims 17 Victims In South By The Associated Press Southern states that have baked for weeks had no hope of cooling temperatures any time soon, but some farmers facing empty pens and shriveled crops got good news Friday -- help is on the way from the Farm Belt. Meanwhile, the human toll continued to rise, with 17 deaths in the South and the Midwest blamed on the relentless heat. Afternoon temperatures ranged from the low 90s in Michigan to 100 in Augusta, Ga., and 103 in Fayetteville, N.C. It hit 99 in Atlanta, breaking a record set in 1944, and 98 at North Carolina's Raleigh-Durham Airport, breaking a 1948 record. It was 105 in Columbia, S.C., marking the 13th day in a row that city had seen the mercury in triple digits. While some parts of the upper Midwest were expected to cool by early next week, temperatures of over 100 were forecast for the weekend in South Carolina and Georgia. "It looks like more of the same," Wes Tyler, assistant climatologist for South Carolina, said Friday. "Barring any tropical influence, it's getting more serious by the day. We ain't asking to be hit by a hurricane, but See Live'stock' Aid on page 8A === Page 81 of 99 8/5/86 Bandits PK 7/18/86 Many whites leave South Africa JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- White South Africans are increasingly moving abroad to escape political violence and economic depression, latest official statistics show. In the first four months of this year, 4,760 people emigrated and 2,603 immigrated, a net outflow of 2,067, compared with a gain of 5,011 in the same period last year, the Central Statistical Services said. Most of the people involved are white, government officials said. THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Monday, August 18, 1986 Lightning starts more fires across charred Northwest Associated Press 8/18/86 Lightning ignited more range and forest fires Sunday in the tinder-dry Northwest, where nearly 400,000 acres have been charred in the past week, despite the efforts of an estimated 17,000 firefighters. "It's probably the worst fire season we've had since 1910," said Ray Naddy, spokesman for the federal-state firefighting command center in Salem, Ore., which recorded 1,522 lightning strikes across Oregon late Saturday. Officials issued a "red flag" alert, a top-level fire warning that likely will result in a ban on open burning in high-risk areas of Idaho, Montana, eastern Washington and eastern Oregon, said Anne Jeffery, spokeswoman for the Boise Interagency Fire Center in Idaho, the national forest fire command center. She said that as of late Saturday, lightning-sparked fires in those four states and Utah had charred 382,762 acres since last weekend's storms, nearly 180,000 acres in Idaho alone. Weather officials said lightning storms, without rain, are expected through Tuesday. Tribune photo by AUGUST STAEBLER Thrown for a loss Sheriff's deputies seized Bandits equipment and retail sportswear Monday. A former Bandit, claiming the team owes him $150,000, was granted a court order to place a lien on the gear. Taking inventory at the team's HCC facility is Dave Barile of All Points Distributing Bonded Warehouse. Story, 1C (62) === Page 82 of 99 Columbia * From Page 1A 7/26/86 sional summer temperatures of 100 degrees or more aren't unusual. Folks here take the heat in stride. That's why it was especially frustrating for me, a relative newcomer from subtropical Tampa, Fla., when the heat wave first struck. "What's wrong with these people?" I asked my wife one night after riding my bicycle home from my job at the morning newspaper. It was past 11 p.m. and still in the 90s outside. "Don't these people know its hot?" If they didn't know at first, it didn't take them long to figure it out. The farmers knew right away, of course. Before July arrived, their corn was withering in the fields, unfit to be chopped up and fed to livestock. The produce stands gradually starting selling more fruits and vegetables from Texas and Mexico. Then the mercury soared into triple digits and stayed there. There's no relief in sight, and the farmers are helpless to save their crops. The helplessness is the worst of it. When we watch the evening news, we're accustomed to seeing grain airlifted to Ethiopia, not hay being flown into Greenville. This is America, where no problem is too big for the likes of United Technologies and Phil Donohue. We're supposed to control our environment. We put men on the moon, right? Yeah, but we also blew up the Challenger. We're 20 inches shy of our normal rainfall for the year, and nobody can do anything about it. Some Lutherans in the next county prayed for rain on the courthouse steps. One of the student DJs for the university radio station has been playing nothing but songs with the word "rain" in the title or lyrics. Everybody does what he or she can. In our long, narrow apartment, window units at each end struggle to air-condition our refuge from the heat. When the high dipped to 97 the other day, I turned off our ceiling fan for the first time in three weeks. Houses never cool off when the overnight low is 78 degrees. How hot is 105 day-in and day-out? In Tampa, routine summer highs hover around 90. That's 15 degrees less than 105. If the 15 degrees between 75 and 90 is the difference between comfort and discomfort, then the 15 degrees between 90 and 105 is the difference between endurable and unendurable. Yet we endure. The heat creates different problems for different people. For one of my co-workers, it's the daily challenge of coming up with a new headline for the front-page weather story--How many ways are there to say "it's hot"? For me, it's bicycling six miles to work in mid-afternoon. For the first time, I started carrying a water bottle, and it's nearly empty when I get to the office. I could drive, but that would be giving in. We're not ready to give in yet. My 8-year-old son attended soccer camp at the University of South Carolina's downtown campus last week. It was a least 104 every day. He didn't give in, but by the end of the week, he gave out and slept for most of the day. Thankfully, none of the kids became sick from the heat. Actually, South Carolina has been lucky. There have been only two official heat-related deaths this summer. But you have to be careful. A little girl near Greenville was walking down the road barefooted and wound up with a coating of melted asphalt on the soles of her feet. They soaked her feet in mayonnaise to remove the asphalt. It isn't just the humans who are suffering. Our family's three cats spend their days sprawled pathetically on the wooden floors, trying to get as close to the ground as possible. My son and his friend have been finding lots of turtles wandering aimlessly in a nearby woods. Seeking moisture, they're always grateful for a handout of cantaloupe. But we've put the woods off-limits now. The last time the kids went there, they brought home ticks, which are the only living things that seem to be thriving around here this summer. Even the traditional summer retreats offer no refuge. We delivered our daughter to camp near Asheville, N.C., one afternoon, and it was 96 degrees. When we picked her up a week later at 10 a.m., it was 89, and we felt lucky to be where it was cool. I read a story that quoted an expert who had studied tree rings, and he said this is the worst drought in the Carolinas since 1711. One of my neighbors, an old Southern gentleman who always wears a white shirt and bow tie when he works in the yard, has lived here all his life. He has seen a lot of hot, dry weather, but he says he's worried. He's worried that when he isn't allowed to water the yard anymore, the oak trees may die. Forget the grass. He's watering his trees. Like some other folks around here, I'm hoping for a big hurricane. I've been through a hurricane in Florida, and I know hurricanes aren't any fun either, but that's what it's going to take to break this drought. Until that big storm blows up, I'll be spending a lot of time inside, watching the news and hoping I don't see the Air Force airlifting jugs of water to South Carolina. Already, it's getting hard to find Popsicles at the store. All we can do is hole up and wait for the seige to end, one way or another. In Leningrad, there were survivors. Everybody knows what happened at Masada and the Alamo. Larry Haueter is a former copy chief in the Tribune's Features Department. He now is a wire editor at The State newspaper in Columbia, S.C. UFO Sun Attack # Even Fish Dying As South Bakes By DUDLEY CLENDINEN The New York Times 7/17/86 ATLANTA -- For a week and a half, it has been so hot across the South that chickens in their sheds, fish in their ponds, cattle in their fields, ancient oaks in their woods and people in their homes have died of heat. The drought, now the worst in the region's history, has left the earth so dry and hard that cemetery crews have had to soak the ground with increasingly precious water to dig a grave. It has been a complex phenomenon: 10 days of record heat on top of four months of drought, on top of a farm crisis that is now almost a decade old in the South, dating from the drought of 1977. In terms of major crops, it has most hurt cotton, peanuts, soybeans, corn and pecans. If steady rains do not come, the consumer may notice smaller peaches and nuts in the markets and smaller chickens in the grocery cooler. But with the harvest season for most crops still months away, rainfall in the See Major on page 8A (63) === Page 83 of 99 # Moderate, Light Quakes Hit California By The Associated Press Seven light to moderate earthquakes struck a wide area of California on Tuesday, and a scientist said they could be part of an increase in seismic activity leading to a superquake on the San Andreas Fault. The quakes ranged from 3.0 to 4.4 on the Richter scale, causing no reported damage or injuries, and five were aftershocks of three larger temblors this month in the Sierra Nevada, near Palm Springs in Riverside County and off Oceanside in San Diego County. One was 20 miles southeast of San Jose and another rumbled through southwestern Los Angeles County in the evening. "Most likely it's just chance... particularly in the case of earthquakes that are well separated geographically," said David Hill, geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park. But Hill also said: "The activity we're seeing is symptomatic of a regional increase in moderate earthquake activity that seems to build up in the decades prior to a large earthquake on the San Andreas." He said such large quakes, which he defined as magnitude 8 or greater on the Richter scale, occur on the San Andreas only every 100 to 200 years, and the last one occurred in San Francisco in 1906. Another occurred on the San Andreas near Fort Tejon in Southern California in 1857, he said. "As we enter the few decades before those earthquakes, these activities tend to pick up, so certainly we're in that interval in Southern California," Hill said. "Certainly we can see the evidence for that in '06," although he said data was hazier in the 1857 quake because of poor reporting quality. Thomas Mullins of the state Office of Emergency Services said no problems were reported in any of Tuesday's quakes, and few people bothered to call the police. The temblors included: - [ ] A 3.9 quake at 12:12 a.m. 15 miles east of Crowley Lake in the Sierra, an aftershock of the July 21 quake that registered 6.1, shook 53 mobile homes off their foundations and caused an estimated $2.7 million in damage, mostly in Chalfant Valley. - [ ] The 3.6 quake 20 miles southeast of San Jose at 1:04 a.m. - [ ] The 4.4 quake, which occurred in the ocean 28 miles southwest of Oceanside at 1:18 a.m., an aftershock of the 5.3 temblor that caused an estimated $500,000 damage in San Diego County on July 13. - [ ] A 4.2 quake at 2:58 a.m. 20 mile northeast of Crowley Lake, another Sierra aftershock. # Aftershocks still shaking Californians CHALFANT VALLEY, Calif. (UPI) -- Hundreds of aftershocks shuddered through the central Sierra on Tuesday, keeping residents jittery while emergency agencies prepared for the possibility of more damaging quakes. Ray Schaaf, spokesman at the inter-agency command center in nearby Bishop, Calif., said he was told by the U.S. Geological Survey that 1,003 tremors of magnitude 3 or stronger were recorded in the 24 hours following the 6.2 Monday morning temblor that destroyed 20 mobile homes and damaged more than 100 others. The aftershocks continued through Tuesday, with at least two greater than 4 magnitude. The state Office of Emergency Services dispatched two large National Guard helicopters, a medical evacuation copter, a communications van and a fuel tanker to Bishop to stand by in case of need. "The U.S. Geological Survey has advised that it would not be unusual to have more quakes of 6 magnitude in the next few days," said Tom Mullins of the state agency in Sacramento. "We have advised local governments to check all their resources, communications equipment and hospitals to make sure they have what would be needed and have it secured," he said. Don Finley of the Geological Survey said Tuesday the scientists were not predicting an imminent great quake. But he said that this region of the White Mountain fault system has not had an earth movement of 7 magnitude in the past 100 years, while there have been great quakes on the same range to the north and south. # Soviets To Allow U.S. Anglers To Fish For Giant Siberian Trout The New York Times MOSCOW -- The chance to fish for the giant Siberian taimen, long just a gleam in the eye of American anglers, should soon be possible under an agreement signed recently by Soviet and American fishing groups. The taimen, the largest member of the trout family, commonly weighs 40 pounds or more when fully grown and has been known to reach more than 130 pounds. It is unknown outside the cold, remote rivers of Siberia. The fishing agreement, one of the more unusual to emerge from the improvement in relations between Moscow and Washington, was negotiated and signed in Moscow in July. American diplomats said it was an example of how an American group, operating without the help of the government, could develop ties with the Soviet Union. The signatories were representatives of Trout Unlimited, an American fishing and conservation group based in Vienna, Va., and the Union for Hunting and Fishing in the Russian republic, the largest of the Soviet Union's 15 constituent republics. Under the agreement, American anglers should be able to fish for taimen in Siberian rivers next summer, with an exploratory expedition possible early this fall before it turns too cold. Stephen Lundy, the Rocky Mountain regional vice president of Trout Unlimited and one of the Americans who negotiated the accord, said in a telephone interview from Denver Saturday, "To be able to fly fish in the Soviet Union, in strange waters for an unfamiliar fish, would be an unbelievable experience." Lundy ranked the taimen with the Atlantic salmon and brown trout, two of the fish most prized by fly fishermen for their elusiveness and fighting instincts. Eventually, Americans may also have a chance to fish for Atlantic salmon and char, a small trout, in Soviet rivers near the coast of the White and Barents Seas, Lundy said. In addition to fishing trips, the agreement called for exchanges of information on wildlife management and conservation. It also encouraged exchanges of fishing equipment and techniques that may introduce to the Soviet Union fly fishing, fiberglass rods and some unfamiliar practices, including the release of caught fish. The practice, known as catch-and-release, has gained popularity in the United States in recent years to help manage fish stocks, Lundy said. "That was the one thing that fascinated the Russians the most," he said. Freshwater fishing is one of the most popular sports in the Soviet Union, but fly fishing is almost unknown, according to Russians. === Page 84 of 99 Soviet Policy Changing Hong Kong PK The New York Times 8.1.86 MOSCOW -- The Soviet Union's foreign-policy apparatus has been undergoing a major overhaul, including the most thorough reorganization of the Foreign Ministry in memory, according to Soviet officials and Western diplomats. The structural and personnel changes have resulted in a shift of authority away from the Foreign Ministry to the party's Central Committee. The key person in policy making is now Anatoly F. Dobrynin, the former ambassador to the United States, who, as a national party secretary, became a member of the top Soviet leadership. The changes have contributed to the development under Mikhail S. Gorbachev of a more flexible, less dogmatic foreign policy that presents new challenges, problems and opportunities for the West, the diplomats said. Western diplomats cited Soviet overtures to China and Israel as well as improved relations with the United States as evidence of a less ideological approach among Russians. "There is a degree of suppleness they have not shown before," a Western diplomat said this week. The recent movement in arms-control talks stems in part from Soviet proposals in June that bore Dobrynin's pragmatic stamp, diplomats said. Moscow proposed a compromise on medium-range missiles and offered cuts in strategic forces in exchange for an extension of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty that would have the effect of delaying American development of a space-based missile defense. Train spills chemicals in Iowa river UFO Sun Attack Trib 7/30/86 BOONE, Iowa (UPI) -- More than 200 teen-agers were evacuated Tuesday from a summer camp because of toxic chemicals spilled into the Des Moines River when a train was blown off a 190-foot-high trestle by 60 mph winds, officials said. "All indications are the train was hit by extremely high winds or a tornado," Chicago and North Western Vice President Jim Foote said. None of the train's four crew members was injured. Star Wars spending criticized The Pentagon misused research money, the audit said. with space work Trib 7/29/86 WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon's Strategic Defense Initiative Organization used money earmarked for Star Wars research for unauthorized projects such as air-conditioning office buildings and repairing roofs, according to a congressional audit released Monday. "We conclude that SDIO improperly charged its (research) accounts for expenditures that should have been charged against military construction funds," the General Accounting Office said in a 45-page audit. "We also found that SDI research funds were used for operational support such as to repair a roof and to maintain facilities. We found no evidence that the Congress was aware that SDIO funds were used for such items," it said. The Star Wars program, known formally as the Strategic Defense Initiative, is a research program to develop lasers and other exotic weaponry that could be used to auto- See AUDIT, Page 5A California quake felt in 3 states The High Sierra temblor was the fifth sizable quake to hit California in two weeks. By JACK SCHREIBMAN Associated Press Pac Ripple Trib 7/22/86 BISHOP, Calif. -- A severe earthquake and a powerful aftershock rumbled across California and parts of Nevada and Utah on Monday, wrecking up to 20 homes, cutting off a town's water and triggering rockslides in the High Sierra. One giant fissure -- 200 yards long and 150 yards wide -- swallowed a parked pickup truck and stranded 50 campers near Bishop, but no injuries were reported. Later Monday, violent thunderstorms prompted a flash flood warning. The temblors measured 6.1 and 5.2 on the Richter scale, according to the University of California at Berkeley, the second strong earthquake in as many days. It was the fifth sizable quake to hit California in two weeks. The quake struck at 7:42 a.m. in the White Mountains 240 miles north of Los Angeles and was felt from San Francisco to Las Vegas, Nev., and in Salt Lake City, more than 500 miles away. The aftershock came nine minutes later. Both were centered 15 miles north of Bishop in the same area where a 5.5-magnitude quake hit Sunday, said Dennis Meredith, spokesman for California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. "A number of mobile homes were rocked off their foundations" in Chalfant Valley, 17 miles north of Bishop, Mono County sheriff's Sgt. Terry Padilla said. "Currently there are about 145 homes in the immediate Chalfant area with about 300 residents," Forest Service spokeswoman Lorraine Parrish said. "Of those, about 50 to 60 are mobile homes. ... Probably about 50 mobile homes were shaken off their foundations." Chalfant firefighter Rick Mitchell said 20 homes, mostly mobile homes, were damaged beyond repair. But, he said, several non-mobile homes also were damaged, and one frame house nearly collapsed. Customers of the Denny's restaurant in Bishop dove 65 === Page 85 of 99 Atlantic * From Page 1A the National Marine Fisheries Service in Gloucester said about 120 tons of tuna have been landed so far this summer, less than one-third of last year's catch at this time. And spiny dogfish are eluding the few Gloucester fishermen who make their livelihood off the sharks, said Steven Murawski, an NMFS biologist in Woods Hole. Meanwhile, giant fish called basking sharks recently were spotted as close as 50 yards from Massachusetts' southern shores. Police closed beaches in several towns over the weekend despite the assurances of scientists that the sharks were harmless. What's causing odd creatures to show up off the coast and familiar ones to disappear are as-yet unexplained changes in the northeast Atlantic, biologists say. One such inexplicable change is a sudden uniformity of water surface temperatures that before this summer had fluctuated radically, said Paul Sieswerda, curator of fisheries and mammals at the New England Aquarium. But the most obvious change has been a sudden scarcity of pencil-thin animals called sand eels, the staple diet of many of the whales and fish that have vanished from familiar places. "I've been in the sand eel business 55 years and I've always seen plenty off Stellwagen," said Malcolm Hudson, owner of Hudson's Outboarding Inc. of Newburyport. "They're very scarce this year." Sand eels became the meal of choice for humpbacks and spiny dogfish a decade ago when the predators ran out of herring, made scarce from being overfished and overeaten. Humpbacks eat more than a ton of the sand eels daily. To find the sand eels, however, the predators had to move from George's Bank far off the coast to the much closer Stellwagen. Fishermen and whale watchers followed soon after. "Many people built their lives around the kind of system we've had for the last decade," said Charles Mayo, director of whale research at the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown. Now the predators have moved back out toward George's Bank and off New York and New Jersey, out of the reach of most Massachusetts whale-watch boats and small fishing vessels, in their search for a new food supply. A resurgence in mackerel catches off the Gulf of Maine is leading scientists to suspect that herring -- a mackerel favorite -- may be on the rise there too, said Douglas Beach, a whale expert with the NMFS. # Sea shifts The northeast Atlantic changes baffle scientists and worry some industries. UFO Sun Attack By CAROLYN LUMSDEN Associated Press Fri 8/14/86 BOSTON -- Unforeseen shifts in the sea are making profitable creatures scarce off the Massachusetts coast and sending sharks close to shore, and those who make their living on the water say they fear the phenomenon may be their ruination. "It's damaged me many thousands of dollars," said Al Avelar, who runs a $500,000-a-year whale-watch business out of Provincetown. For weeks, whale-watch boats laden with camera-toting tourists have searched in vain for the 1,000 huge humpback whales that used to lounge on Stellwagen Bank just 20 miles off the coast. What the boats have found instead is an abundance of right whales, a nearly extinct breed that usually summers off New Jersey. The humpback scarcity has hurt the business despite the good fortune in finding the rare whales, Avelar said. Tuna also are missing from their usual spots. Biologist Bill Jerome of # Water restrictions tightened; more hay heads to dry South UFO Sun Attack Associated Press Fri 8/7/86 Some communities in the drought-scarred Southeast have tightened the screws on water use, and more donated hay was crammed into boxcars Wednesday to help keep the region's cattle farmers in business. And in Washington, the House, pressing for more aid to the Southeast's farmers than the Reagan administration has so far offered, voted 418-0 on a bill to require the Agriculture Department to provide free government grain to areas suffering a critical shortage of livestock feed. "The additional assistance in our bill clearly cannot solve the entire drought problem. But it can help," said Rep. Kika de la Garza, D-Texas, chairman of the Agriculture Committee. Donations of hay have mounted into the thousands of tons, but officials in the heart of the drought say they may need millions by spring. The months-old drought, the worst in the Southeast in a century, has caused an estimated $2.3 billion in farm losses from southern Pennsylvania to northern Florida. A concurrent heat wave has killed 117 people from the Southeast to the Plains since July 1. The government of Villa Rica, Ga., voted to restrict some commercial water uses, extending its previous ban on outside watering to car washes, car lots and service stations. "We had hoped to avoid hitting anyone in the pocketbook," City Manager Robert Barr said. "But I'm afraid that's what we're going to have to do." One hundred Georgia cities have imposed water restrictions of various degrees. At least 47 North Carolina cities, counties and towns have voluntary conservation measures and the state's latest Drought Advisory Bulletin says water supplies will likely fall more over the next two months. A train named "Haymaker" rolled through Maine on Wednesday picking up boxcars loaded with donated hay. It was expected to total 57 cars hauling 38,170 bales and 304 huge rolls of hay destined for North Carolina and Delaware. (70) === Page 86 of 99 Soviet satellite falls into the Indian Ocean NORAD had predicted the huge satellite would fall into the Pacific off Alaska. By WILLIAM HARWOOD UPI Science Writer 8/17/86 CAPE CANAVERAL - A massive Soviet satellite fell from its decaying orbit Saturday and plunged back into the atmosphere, presumably breaking up in fiery chunks as it streaked toward Earth over the south Indian Ocean. Del Kindshi, a spokesman for the North American Aerospace Defense Command, NORAD, near Colorado Springs, Colo., said Cosmos 1767 fell to Earth sometime between 5:26 p.m. and 5:40 p.m. EDT, according to tracking radars that have been following the errant satellite for the past two weeks. "It came in over the south Indian Ocean," he said. "From the trajectory, it appeared to be heading northwest to southeast." Precise information on where any debris may have fallen must await analysis of radar data, Kindshi said. The initial "terminal impact prediction," which called for re-entry earlier in the afternoon over the North Pacific Ocean off Alaska, turned out to be incorrect. There were no immediate reports of any sightings and while some chunks of debris may have made it to the surface, there was little chance of personal injury. "We missed our prediction," another NORAD spokesman said in a telephone interview. "Sometimes they strike the atmosphere and skip out," Kindshi said. "We've had some go around the Earth again before coming in." Experts believe the satellite was launched July 30 atop a Soviet SL-X-16 medium-class booster but it apparently failed to achieve the proper orbit, either because of a booster failure or a malfunction with on-board maneuvering jets. Because of the SL-X-16 booster's payload capability, the satellite may have weighed up to 15 tons. If so, it See SATELLITE, Page 12A Air Control Tower Hit By Lightning 8/8/86 ATLANTA (AP) - Air traffic across the Southeast was disrupted when lightning struck a major control center, knocking out computer, radar and radio signals for about an hour. After the lightning strike Thursday afternoon, the Federal Aviation Administration grounded all outbound flights in the Southeast while it concentrated on directing planes already airborne. FAA spokesman Jack Barker said several bolts of lightning hit the Air Route Traffic Control Center in Hampton, south of Atlanta, at 3:25 p.m. The center controls air traffic for the northern three-quarters of Georgia once the planes leave the areas controlled by airports. After the outage, all planes in the air were ordered to fly holding patterns, and no other aircraft were allowed into the Southeast region for an hour. "It was a monster," said Jerry Crosley, a senior vice president with Miami-based Eastern Airlines. "The impact of this has got to be felt clear across the whole country." "We concentrated on getting the aircraft that were already in the air either down safely or on through our area," Barker said. He said he did not know how many planes were in the center's control area when the lightning struck. He said a backup computer began functioning immediately, and that various affected systems started working again almost from the time they stopped. He said all equipment was working properly within about an hour. He said the controllers never completely lost contact with the planes under their control. "They were able to maintain contact using tower radars along the way, using adjacent (FAA) centers, and all the radar in Hampton didn't go down," Barker said. "The controllers did a very good job of keeping things orderly. "There were no operational errors reported at all," he said. 5/31/86 Barfield said: "It's depressing. The drought has changed the morale here. People feel helpless." Last month was the hottest July on record in Columbus, so hot that grass crackled underfoot and air conditioners were stolen from homes and offices. The daily high temperatures in this city of 170,000 people averaged 97.6 degrees and exceeded 100 on eight days. The last day in July was the hottest, 104 degrees. Californians Brace For More Quakes 7/21/86 Continued from page 1A tude quake and was followed by two strong aftershocks measuring 5.2 and 5.1 on the Richter scale and dozens of smaller aftershocks. Quakes earlier this month shook the Southern California coastline near Oceanside and the desert around Palm Springs. Dr. Dallas Peck, director of the U.S. Geological Survey, wrote Monday to William Medigovich, director of the state Office of Emergency Services, warning that the Sierra area faces more quakes. "It is our assessment that the region of Chalfant Valley from Bishop north to the Nevada border may experience additional earthquakes similar to the July 21 event during the next several days," Peck said. A series of smaller quakes that began July 3 and led up to Monday's temblor are part of a marked increase in seismic activity over the last decade that could generate an earthquake of 7 on the Richter scale, he said. The Richter scale is a measure of ground motion as recorded on seismographs. Every increase of one number means a tenfold increase in the strength of the shaking. Thus a reading of 7.5 reflects ground movement 10 times stronger than one of 6.5. A 7 reading is a "major" earthquake, capable of widespread heavy damage; 8 is a "great" quake, capable of tremendous damage. The San Francisco earthquake of 1906, which occurred before the Richter scale was devised, has been estimated at 8.3. Officials said all 145 homes in Chalfant Valley, 10 miles north of Bishop, sustained some damage. Fifty-three mobile homes were knocked from their stands and some were badly damaged. Uninhabitable mobile homes forced about 50 people to seek other lodging, said U.S. Forest Service spokesman Dick Serino. === Page 87 of 99 Ground gained on forest fires in Northwest Psi-Ripples 8/19/86 Associated Press An estimated 18,000 firefighters gained ground against lightning-sparked blazes that have burned nearly 400,000 acres of forest and grazing land in a week. Most of the fires remaining in northeastern Oregon were contained or nearly contained and only two blazes of more than 10,000 acres remained out of control in that state, fire officials said. "If the wind dies down, by golly, we're going to put a hammerlock on this thing in a few days, we think," said Ron DeHart, a spokesman for the U.S. Forest Service in Enterprise, Ore. The 2,191-acre Garden Valley complex of fires in Idaho, where temperatures soared to near 100 degrees, also was nearly contained. So far this month, 387,000 acres have been burned in Idaho, Montana, Utah, Oregon and Washington, with fires on 92,150 acres still out of control, said Lee Poague, spokesman for the Boise Interagency Fire Center, the forest fire command post for the West. The center said an estimated 18,000 firefighters were committed. Poague said the center called in 32 more crews Sunday night, and some 20-member teams from Missouri and Michigan arrived in Boise during the night. The center dropped a "red flag" alert issued over the weekend when more lightning storms were predicted. Lightning detectors registered 1,522 strikes Saturday night in central Oregon. But on Sunday, a smaller storm left only 18 strikes in the region. UFO 202 SpaceWork 0.SB 8/16/86 # Veteran Space Pilot Requests New Post SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) -- Gordon Fullerton, a veteran space pilot who recently criticized NASA's space station plans, has asked to be transferred from the astronaut corps to an aeronautical research group, according to a source. Fullerton has asked to join a group of NASA test pilots who conduct research flights in advanced aircraft at the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California, according to a space agency official who spoke only on condition he not be identified. No final action has been taken on the request, the source said. National Aeronautics and Space Administration spokesman Steve Nesbitt said Fullerton, a 49-year-old Air Force Colonel who has twice flown on the shuttle, declines to be interviewed and would neither confirm or deny the report. If Fullerton is transferred, it will reduce the astronaut corps to 87. In the last 13 months, eight astronauts have resigned or been reassigned. One was killed in a plane crash, and five were among the seven people killed in the Jan. 28 explosion of Challenger. In a report, he urged that the station include a life boat system that would enable astronaut crews to quickly return to Earth if a rescue space shuttle was not available. Fullerton also urged that most of the critical parts in the station be housed inside the module, thus reducing the number of space walks required for routine maintenance. Fullerton is one of seven military astronauts who transferred to NASA in 1969 after an Air Force manned space program was canceled. He earlier served as a test pilot on Air Force bombers. Tampa Bay Bandits FK By JOEY JOHNSTON and NICK PUGLIESE 8/9/86 Tribune Sports Writers Bandits owner Lee Scarfone said Coach Steve Spurrier, the entire coaching staff and most of the front-office personnel will be released from the organization by next Friday. The Bandits are awaiting a Sept. 3 hearing on the damages portion of the United States Football League's antitrust suit against the National Football League. The USFL plans to play again in the fall of 1987. Scarfone said Spurrier will be paid the guaranteed portion of his contract ($100,000). Spurrier could not be reached for comment. Although he is free to pursue other coaching jobs, Spurrier has said there are really none available until November or December. Director of business operations Abbey Sierra and some secretarial help will be retained throughout the off-season, Scarfone said. Meantime, the 61 players under contract to the Bandits were released from their obligations at 5 p.m. on Friday. Most will explore opportunities in the NFL or Canadian Football League, but some are giving up football. After sifting through all the player moves, the Bandits will submit a protected roster of at least 10 players to the USFL on Sept. 15. The Bandits will be responsible for those players' off-season compensation, the details of which have not been finalized. UFO 102 SpaceWork # Thieves Get Moon Dust When Stealing Van MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Thieves who stole a NASA van carried off moon dust samples, a small computer and a laser-activated video recorder and destroyed a space suit when they torched the van, police said. There was no way to put a cash value on the moon dust, said police spokesman Ness Smith. "They're not replaceable," he said. The 1982 Ford van was stolen near the residence of Louis Marshall, who conducts educational programs for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. It was found burned on the outskirts of town, police said Friday. O.SB 8/10/86 (72) === Page 88 of 99 UFO Sun Attack Trib 8/16/86 Drought hits animals' food GATLINBURG, Tenn. -- Many bear cubs may die over the winter because drought shrank the acorn crop in the Smoky Mountains, wildlife expert Mike Pelton of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville said. State officials are just beginning the annual acorn survey, but there have been some signs that the prolonged drought has caused oak trees to drop the nuts prematurely. "We are experiencing a fantastic cub crop this year because we had a good acorn crop last year," he said. "The worry is that we'll lose a lot of the cubs as they begin to leave their mothers and have to compete with other bears." # 12 North Florida counties declared disaster areas UFO Sun Attack Trib 8/14/86 TALLAHASSEE (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Richard Lyng named 12 drought-stricken counties in North Florida disaster areas Wednesday. The designation will make farmers eligible for low-interest loans and other aid in Holmes, Jackson, Okaloosa, Walton, Baker, Columbia, Gadsden, Hamilton, Jefferson, Leon, Madison and Nassau counties. Gov. Bob Graham had asked for government relief for 21 counties, although Nassau wasn't one of them. Weeks of hot, dry weather have scorched North Florida crops and left cattle herds without feed. Graham said the designation for the 12 counties was based on the fact they are contiguous to counties in Georgia and Alabama that have previously been designated disaster areas. "We appreciate the prompt response of the Department of Agriculture, enabling eligible farmers in these counties to obtain Farmers Home Administration low interest loans, emergency feed assistance and other aid as they face production losses and other hardships caused by the drought," Graham said. Graham said he would continue to push for disaster assistance for the other counties -- Union, Escambia, Santa Rosa, Washington, Calhoun, Liberty, Wakulla, Taylor, Suwannee and Lafayette. Hong Kong PK Trib 8/7/86 Arms experts slate consultations MOSCOW -- U.S. and Soviet arms experts will meet in Moscow next week for talks on space and nuclear weapons, the official news agency Tass said Wednesday. The consultations on August 11 and 12 form part of preparations for a meeting between Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze and Secretary of State George Shultz in Washington on September 19 and 20, the agency said. Shevardnadze and Shultz will devote their talks to preparing a second summit between Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and President Reagan. , 1986 # 11,000 Firefighters Still On The Attack By The Associated Press UFO Sun Attack 8/17/86 Thick smoke obscured parts of the Northwest again Saturday as an estimated 11,000 firefighters battled range and forest fires that have threatened homes and charred at least 300,000 acres in a week. About 90,000 acres still burned out of control Saturday in Idaho and eastern Oregon, and fire crews likely will spend another week stopping them, said Arnold Hartigan, spokesman for the Boise Interagency Fire Center, the national forest fire control center. About 170 new fires were reported to the center Friday, and "our weather forecast isn't particularly conducive to making much headway," said Boise National Forest spokesman Gary Cornell. Another onslaught of lightning, similar to the storm that sparked hundreds of blazes across the state a week ago, was predicted for this weekend along with high temperatures and low humidity. Firefighters in Idaho concentrated Saturday on a fast-moving 1,000-acre range fire south of Salmon that had threatened 40 homes, and on blazes near Garden Valley that had charred nearly 10,000 acres. Heavy smoke, which grounded earlier fire retardant air drops, built up again Saturday in west-central Idaho valleys, said Barb Forderhase of the Boise National Forest. On Friday, the smoke lifted long enough to let firefighters drop flame retardant from airplanes on the three Anderson Creek fires in the Garden Valley area, but that was abandoned because it had no effect on the intense, wind-fanned fires. Those fires had burned some 7,700 acres. Also in the Garden Valley complex, three smaller fires burned into one larger one of about 1,700 acres centered about 20 miles north of Crouch. === Page 89 of 99 5, 1986 # Tornado Rips Through Lee, Few Injuries CAPE CORAL (AP) -- A tornado touched down on the edge of this Southwestern Florida town Saturday afternoon, peeling roofs off houses and turning boats into planes, but causing no serious injuries, officials said. At least 10 houses suffered heavy damage, and more than 100 others were slightly damaged, sheriff's deputies and emergency officials estimated. The Lee County Emergency Medical Service transported only five people to Cape Coral Hospital, all suffering from minor injuries, said EMS coordinator John Wilson. "We're going house-by-house now to see if there are any left in houses with injuries we don't know about," Wilson said. Capt. Tom Halvorsen of the Lee County Sheriff's Department, who lives in the area hit by the twister, said damage was limited to an area of about 8 to 10 square blocks. The area covers several blocks in Cape Coral and the rest in an area known as Lochmoor Pines in unincorporated Lee County. "It looked like a war zone," Halvorsen said. "In the 14 years I've been an officer, I've never seen that kind of damage in such a small area. That's what was so amazing about it, it was such a small area." Halvorsen said he had not seen the twister, but several residents reported viewing the funnel cloud at about 5:30 p.m. He said 10 to 15 houses had extensive damage and another 50 to 60 had less severe damage, such as shingles and screens missing. The Cape Coral Police dispatcher said she didn't have any damage estimates from officers on the scene, but Wilson said Cape Coral officials had told him about 70 houses suffered minor damage and one duplex was destroyed in the city. Halvorsen said he didn't see any houses which were leveled. "None were completely destroyed because most of the houses around here are that concrete block construction and their pretty tough," he said. "The roofs just blow off." The sheriff's officer said he first got word of the twister from his wife, who called him at the office to report their 16-foot boat had blown away. # President optimistic on arms control ## Reagan denied he offered to delay deployment of Star Wars, and said he looks forward to a summit. * Reagan offers new farm aid -- 5A * Botha: South Africa will survive -- 8A CHICAGO (UPI) -- President Reagan said Tuesday he is optimistic that he will hold a summit with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev this year and that "we're going to make more progress than we've made in a number of years." Reagan refused to detail the reason for his optimism beyond indicating it was the results of recent exchanges with Gorbachev and the possibility of a summit with him later this year. Reagan, holding his first formal news conference since June, denied he offered to delay deployment of his Star Wars missile-defense system as a point of leverage in arms negotiations in a letter to Gorbachev. "I'm not going to discuss what was in my letter," Reagan said. "No one guessing has guessed right yet." "I'm optimistic that we're going to make more progress than we've made in a number of years," was all Reagan would say when asked about prospects for a summit. He said his optimism was linked to "problems" Gorbachev was having currently, but he did not elaborate on what they were. **Reagan** **Quake shakes California** OCEANSIDE, Calif. -- An earthquake measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale shook parts of San Diego and Orange counties early Tuesday, but authorities received few calls and no reports of damage. The temblor struck at 1:18 a.m. and was centered 28 miles southwest of Oceanside in the Pacific Ocean, said Dennis Meredith, a spokesman for the Caltech Seismology Laboratory in Pasadena. === Page 90 of 99 SOUTHEAST DROUGHT THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Thursday, July 24, 1986 # Temperatures in Bay area normal, rains break pattern By ALAN SVERDLIK Tribune Staff Writer While a hot spell of historic magnitude continues to blister the Southeast, the Tampa Bay area registers temperatures in keeping with summers past. The highs generally have climbed into the low 90s, deviating very little from past averages. But if the heat is conforming to longstanding trends, the rains are defying them. "We just don't have an identifiable pattern this year," explained Lois Ball, director of Tropical Weather International, a private forecasting firm based in Tampa. "We're picking up more sporadic showers at different times of the day." An example of the atypical weather occurred Wednesday when a major thundershower drenched downtown Tampa shortly after noon. Usually, downpours like that one form much later in the day. Overall this summer, the rainfall patterns have been topsy-turvy because the winds that usually carry showers across the peninsula from the East Coast have been dormant. Instead, winds off the Gulf of Mexico have prevailed, bringing morning and early afternoon showers to the Bay area as they sweep eastward across the state. Meteorologists blame this on a large high pressure area that determines the prevailing winds by its location in the atmosphere. For most of the summer, the "Bermuda high," as it is known, has been out of kilter. "Sometimes it breaks southward for a week or two," said Jim Noffsinger, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Ruskin. "But I can't remember when it's lasted this long. It's somewhat unprecedented." High pressure systems trap moisture near the Earth's surface, creating sticky conditions in the Bay area. They inhibit cloud formation, one reason temperatures remain so high in Georgia and other states. Bay area rainfall slacked off this spring and thus far this summer because high pressure systems militate against the formation of thunderstorms. But officials say West-Central Florida is not as dry as last year, when they imposed water-use restrictions. Some weather specialists see a connection in the life-threatening drought in the region and the ways in which local weather is taking unexpected turns. "I wouldn't be a bit surprised if someone came along and associated these high pressure systems with the El Nino-Southern Oscillation," said Jay Martsolf, a University of Florida meteorologist. El Nino refers to a Pacific Ocean phenomenon that affects the world's weather. Meteorologist Noffsinger said whatever cools off the Southeast probably would cause the trade winds to change directions, and bring back the more conventional rain patterns to Tampa. # Georgia considers water curbs ATLANTA (AP) -- If Georgia's water supplies continue to dry up under a broiling heat wave and lengthy drought, state officials may cut off the tap to businesses and some cities may be forced to take farmers to court to ensure adequate drinking water supplies. The state may require "curtailment or closing" of certain commercial operations later this year, state Natural Resources Commissioner Leonard Ledbetter said Wednesday. Under water conservation guidelines already on the books, the first to go would be such businesses as car washes and coin-operated laundries. Georgia's water priority laws have been invoked in recent weeks to order 103 municipalities to issue outdoor water use restrictions or bans. If an emergency develops, Ledbetter said hospitals and nursing homes would be given top priority for water. Residential water supplies for drinking, cooking and basic sanitation are second on the list, followed by farmers who grow perishable goods such as poultry, fruits and vegetables. "Everything else can be cut off," Ledbetter said. That system may be too rigid, said Paul DeLoach, a spokesman for the Miller Brewing Co.'s brewery in Albany. "I certainly think business has to be included," he said. "No one would say hospitals shouldn't have priority, but when you start talking about agriculture and other businesses, you have to be... flexible." Cutting back production or closing the brewery, which employs 950 people and an additional 200 at a can-making facility 20 miles away, would have severe economic repercussions, DeLoach said. Tribune photo by FRED FOX Hay donated by Midwestern farmers is unloaded from a military cargo plane in Greenville, S.C. 75 === Page 91 of 99 USFL 8/5/86 Bandits PK Trib From Page 1A Bandits owner Lee Scarfone, who attended the meeting with Abbey Sierra, the team's director of business operations, said he was intent on playing the 1986 season. But, "We could not effectively put enough people together to go forward and lose $3 million to $5 million apiece," he said. "Tony Cunningham (co-owner) and I have spent over $3 million in cash (since purchasing the Bandits in August 1985), and now we're not going to see a football team. It's very disappointing." "We just don't think we could have gotten the amount of fans one would need. I think the best thing to do is suspend play until we get some kind of judicial relief." Scarfone said Bandits' season ticket holders, of which there are "less than 5,000," will receive a full refund plus 10 percent interest "very shortly." Of immediate concern is the status of USFL coaches and players. Bandits coach Steve Spurrier, whose contract expires Jan. 31, 1987, will remain, Scarfone said. But the players, who have already been inactive for one year and may be asked to sit out another, have a cloudy future. Scarfone also has to deal with how he is going to retrieve thousands of dollars of equipment, sportswear and souvenirs confiscated by sheriff's deputies on a lien filed by former free safety Bret Clark, who said the team owes him $150,000. Usher has appointed a three-man committee, chaired by Jacksonville Bulls owner Fred Bullard, to study the status of USFL players and their offseason compensation. The committee will meet with the USFL Players Association later this week, probably Thursday, at an unknown location. USFLPA Executive Director Doug Allen said he wants a solution "as soon as possible, if not sooner." There is no time to delay, he added, considering that NFL training camps and the job opportunities they bring are under way. If the committee and USFLPA agree to release players from their contracts, stars such as Herschel Walker, Jim Kelly, Doug Flutie and Kelvin Bryant could jump to the NFL as early as Friday. The Buccaneers hold the NFL rights to Arizona quarterback Doug Williams and New Jersey linebacker Andy Hawkins. Some owners said they expect to lose some players, but they will be replaced. "A new league came in and got three Heisman Trophy winners (Walker, Mike Rozier and Flutie) in three years," said Argovitz. "And a new league can do the same thing again, but with a solid business plan." "There's a new pool of players every year," added the Stars' Ross. The USFL's plan will mean continuing to pay salaries without any income. The USFL, which lost approximately $150 million in three spring seasons, was to have begun its first fall season Sept. 13. But that season was contingent on a heavy damage award in its suit against the NFL. The suit claimed that the older league had used pressure tactics to prevent the USFL from obtaining a network television contract. Last Tuesday in U.S. District Court, a six-member jury found the NFL guilty of monopoly power, willfully acquiring or maintaining monopoly power, and causing injury to the USFL. However, the jury awarded just $1 in damages (tripled to $3 under antitrust regulations). The USFL plans to ask for a retrial on the damage issue during a Sept. 3 hearing with Judge Peter Leisure. USFL attorney Harvey Myerson said the league's legal options are: pursuit of a retrial on damages, an appeal to the 2nd Circuit Court of New York, an application for injunctive relief, or enlistment of help from the Department of Justice. "We are sitting here with a verdict that you have one of the most powerful monopolies in the history of American sports," Myerson said. "It had the intent to injure my clients with actual injury to my clients. And not only my clients, it hurts the American public and competition in this country." "We are not dead. Those of you who came to bury the United States Football League will be sadly disappointed." Chilling preview of fall shocks Midwesterners with record lows * Holiday forecast -- 2B United Press International Crisp, autumn-like temperatures, under sparkling blue skies chilled the Midwest on Thursday, shattering record lows in at least 30 cities across nine states, including a century-old reading in Louisville, Ky. Along the edge of the cold Canadian air, rain stretched from the middle Atlantic Coast across the southern Appalachians into the Tennessee Valley, the National Weather Service said. Unseasonably cool temperatures in the 50s and 60s chilled the Midwest. Early morning record lows were set in 30 cities in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio and Wisconsin. In Louisville, a 101-year-old record of 52 degrees was broken by a reading of 51 degrees, the weather service said. Deep in the Appalachian mountains along the Kentucky-Virginia border, morning fog combined with dropping temperatures kept down the number of hikers at Kentucky's Kingdom Come State Park, but trout fishermen were delighted and showed up in greater numbers. In Milwaukee, Martin Williams, an assistant manager at a concession stand at Bradford Beach on Lake Michigan, said the cold weather had driven away beach-goers. "It's ruining our business," Williams said. "The beach is empty." Readings of 42 in Columbia, Mo., and 41 in Des Moines, Iowa, toppled records set in 1891. It was a record 39 in Kokomo, Ind., and 36 in Lansing, Mich. The lowest reading nationwide was 29 degrees at Hibbing, Mont., the weather service said. "It's still August, but (the temperatures) are probably more typical of late September or early October," said weather service forecaster Paul Fike. Showers and thunderstorms were scattered over Texas. Three to 4 inches of rain fell from the Water Valley area to Grape Creek. In Fairfax County, Va., at least 18 people were injured, three seriously, when a van traveling on a rain-slick road hit a car head-on and careened into a tree early Thursday, police said. The record temperatures listed in this story are based on the period from midnight to midnight. They may not match the list at right, which reports lows and highs without regard to the 24-hour calendar day. Both lists are prepared by the National Weather Service. === Page 92 of 99 At least $25 million spent to fight fires United Press International UFO Sun Attack Trib 8/21/86 The cost of fighting this summer's rash of forest and brush fires around the nation has been at least $25 million, most of it in the West where stubborn hot spots raged Wednesday over 88,850 acres in nine states, officials said. Bureau of Land Management Director Bob Burford was in Idaho to present an award to the Boise Interagency Fire Center, firefighter headquarters, for its performance for the 1985 season. But he noted the huge effort being expended in the battle against 6,161 fires, most of them started by barrages of dry lightning storms, spread over 710,685 acres of dry wilderness across the West since Aug. 2. "You've already surpassed last year's records in the number of people dispatched and the number of calls responded to during this season, which isn't over yet," Burford said. This week, 17,800 firefighters and support personnel from nearly every state were dispatched to the fire lines. In 1985, the Interagency Fire Center called up more than 14,000 firefighters during a four-day period. This fire season has been one of the West's worst. Still uncontained were blazes on 64,000 acres in Oregon, 18,500 in Idaho, 2,500 in Utah, 2,200 in Colorado, 400 each in Montana and Wyoming, 200 each in Washington and California and 150 in Nevada. Burford said conservatively it has cost at least $25 million nationally to fight forest and brush fires this summer. More than 90 percent of the activity has been in the Northwest, he said. He said more than 1 million pounds of grass seed has been ordered to rehabilitate the ranges. He noted the BLM spent $9 million on seed in 1984, but this year the cost will be higher. Among the newest blazes, seven brushfires broke out in the Los Angeles foothills Tuesday but were contained. Firefighters suffered through 100-degree temperatures Wednesday to keep hot spots from flaring up. A 250-acre suspected arson blaze in the hills between Glendale and Pasadena damaged four homes before being contained. There was hope that the infernos in eastern Oregon and southwestern Idaho were nearing an end. Roland Emetaz of the Unified Fire Command in Salem, Ore., said the fires in northeast Oregon were 80 percent contained. "No major lightning storms are projected, and it looks like it'll be a little bit cooler and more humid later in the week," he said. In southern Oregon, 100 firefighters were back on the lines fighting the 4,000-acre fire near the Deschutes National Forest. It was 50 percent contained by midday Wednesday. On the other hand, a fire in east-central Oregon thought to be contained, jumped from 8,000 to 19,000 acres during a three-hour span Wednesday morning. In Colorado, rain helped firefighters contain a 2,268-acre timber and brush fire in the northwest corner of the state. At least two forest fires were burning out of control in the Bitterroot National Forest of southwestern Montana but they totaled only 410 acres. More miserable weather expected in Tampa; tornadoes hit Detroit UFO Sun Attack Ripple Tribune Staff and Wires 8/3/86 More hot, muggy weather is in store for the Tampa Bay area today with an expected heat index of 105 based on the temperature and the humidity, according to the National Weather Service in Ruskin. The index that reached 116 on Friday decreased to 107 Saturday when a high of 93 degrees was reported. The 93 degrees failed to break a 96-degree record set in 1908, according to Weather Service meteorologist Chuck Eggleton. He attributed the lower heat index to clouds blocking the sun and a sea breeze. Widely scattered thunderstorms were expected in the afternoon and evening today and Monday with a 50 percent chance of rain each day, 20 percent tonight. Highs during the day are expected to reach the low to mid-90s, with lows in the middle to upper 70s. "We won't be quite as miserable (as on Friday), just miserable," Eggleton said. Meanwhile in the Detroit area, three tornadoes touched down Saturday, overturning cars on a freeway and injuring three passengers. And gusty thunderstorms brought cool air and widespread damage to the heat-weary South. In Detroit, three people were injured by a tornado that lifted four cars off the eight-lane Interstate 96, police said. The victims were admitted in good condition with cuts and bruises to Mount Carmel Mercy Hospital in Detroit. The twisters tore down several light poles and street signs, but caused no severe damage, police said. Two other tornadoes touched down in Macomb County, northwest of Detroit, causing minor damage while thunderstorms in southeast lower Michigan knocked out power to 7,000 home, police said. In the South, storms knocked down power lines and thousands of trees, but brought some relief from the record 100-degree-plus temperatures that have plagued the region for the last week. Several minor injuries were reported. "The most recent record-breaking heat wave is over," said meteorologist Bill Alexander in Atlanta. Cold records tumble in 55 cities as Canadian air mass chills East UFO Sun Attack Trib 8/30/86 United Press International Cold Canadian air chilled the eastern half of the nation Friday, shattering record lows in 55 cities from Louisiana to New Hampshire and toppling a 112-year-old record in the nation's capital. Light drizzle fell over western Texas and the Southwest where heavy thunderstorms overnight knocked out power to two Phoenix hospitals, forcing surgeons to operate by flashlight and the evacuation of patients. Easterners pulled on sweaters and long underwear to weather the unseasonable cold. Record lows were set or tied in 55 cities in 23 states and record lows for August set in a dozen cities, the National Weather Service said. The temperature dipped to 25 degrees in Bradford, Pa., overnight. In the nation's capital, the mercury dropped to 49, breaking 112-year-old record of 50 degrees. It was the second consecutive day of record low temperatures. Morning lows were in the 30s and 40s in upper Midwest and Northeast. The chilliest readings were near the Appalachian Mountains and frost was reported as far south as Newland, N.C. A staff member at the Mount Washington Weather Observatory said nearly an inch of snow fell on the highest peak in the Northeast, prompting him to put on his long underwear. Readings of 54 in Monroe, La., 51 in Kansas City, Mo., and 32 in Concord, N.H., also set records, the weather service said. Showers and thunderstorms also dampened northern Florida, southeast Georgia and southern South Carolina. 77 === Page 93 of 99 Cold air chills upper Midwest; snow falls in parts of Michigan& UFO Sm Attack United Press International Trib. 9/28/86 Cold air over the upper Midwest Wednesday chased away the dog days of August with record low tem- peratures in the 30s and 40s and light snow that whitened the skies of | In a special statement. northern Michigan for the first time in August. The cold front, which churned up severe thunderstorms and torna- does Tuesday as it raced across the Midwest, pushed storms into the East and dropped temperatures in the 30s and 40s overnight from the Dakotas to the Great Lakes. In Atlantic City, N.J., a private plane crashed in high winds, killing two of three people aboard, officials said. The cool temperatures and brisk north winds gusting across the Great Lakes and northern Ohio Valley made the closing days of August seem like opening days of winter. Early morning readings of 32 in Duluth, Minn., 44 in Minneapolis and 38 in St. Cloud, Minn., set or tied new records for the date. Midday tem- peratures were in the 60s and 70s across most of the region, the Na- tional Weather Service said. A shower of light snow pellets fell at midday Wednesday around the Marquette County Airport and nearby K.I. Sawyer Air Force Base in the Upper Peninsula. By 2 p.m. Marquette was the coldest spot in the nation at 51 degrees. "The National Weather Service has no records of previous snowfall during August in Michigan," it said/ Frost is possible in low-lying areas of the Upper Michigan Penin- sula this morning. The cold front triggered thunder- storms over the Appalachians and rain was widespread across New England. The record temperatures listed in this story are based on the period from midnight to midnight (day of the week). They may not match the list at right, which is recorded with- out regard to the 24-hour calendar day. Both lists are prepared by the National Weather Service. Steamy And Sticky MEUSmAttack Continued from page 1A 53 13 e will be from the southwest at five to Some weather watchers reported a short, but heavy downpour while others got only a drizzle in early morning showers. Sam and Helen Noyce at Cotton Plant reported "four or five drops of rain and thunder," this morning. The high there Sunday reached 99 with a 100-degree read- ing on Saturday and humidities in the 80s and 90s. In Anthony, Frances and Marga- ret Sturgis reported a drizzling rain after a high of 91 on Sunday. Donald Garton at Lake Joe in the Ocala Na- tional Forest had no rain this morn- ing and a high of 94 on Sunday. The Ocala Water Treatment Plant recorded a high of 98 on Sun- day after a low of 75 and no rain. Rain fell at a drizzling pace this morning and the low was 71 - though early morning tempera- tures as high as 84 were registered throughout the Big Sun. Very hot days and warm nights are forecast in Marion and Levy counties with the heat index to reach 105 to 110 during the day and drop only to about 80 at night through Tuesday. As skies clear in the morning skies will be sunny, hazy and very hot with temperatures expected to be near 100 degrees. A 40 percent chance of scattered afternoon thun- derstorms is forecast and winds ~10 mph. In Citrus and Sumter counties, the chance of rain is 30 percent as temperatures are expected to reach the low 90s. Skies will be sunny today and Tuesday and fair tonight as winds at 10 mph are expected from the southwest. The heat index is fore- cast near 105. Florida Record-breaking temperatures continued statewide through the weekend as a heat wave sent tem- peratures soaring Sunday. The mercury climbed to a statewide high of 102 degrees in Jacksonville, tying a record for the date set in 1942. A 100-degree after- noon in Tallahassee broke a record of 99 degrees set in the same year, while 95 degrees recorded at Miami International Airport tied a 1981 record. In Apalachicola, the high was 95 degrees and the heat index, a mea- surement that combines tempera- ture with humidity to indicate how hot it feels, was 112. Other high readings throughout the state included 99 degrees in Mil- ton and 98 degrees in Crestview and Pensacola. It was 97 degrees in Gainesville and Daytona Beach and 96 in Mel- bourne, Orlando and Vero Beach. 78 === Page 94 of 99 # Billionaire Hunt Clan Files For Chapter 11 Protection Texas/Hunt PK 8/30/86 DALLAS (AP) -- The embattled billionaire Hunt brothers, struggling to hang onto their empire in the worldwide depression of oil prices, filed for protection in federal bankruptcy court Friday to shield their oil company from bankers. The Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition for Dallas-based Placid Oil Co. and its real estate subsidiary was the latest move in years of wheeling and dealing designed to save one of the nation's legendary fortunes, beginning with the 1980 silver debacle. Without the court protection, Hunt assets, including the brothers' downtown Dallas office tower, would have been auctioned off. Nelson Bunker Hunt, William Herbert Hunt and Lamar Hunt are behind on $1.5 billion in loans, but have charged that 23 banks conspired to wreck Placid and its sister firm, Penrod Drilling Co. The banks deny any wrongdoing, and say they only want repayment of the loans. Hunt spokesman Keith Burton said the family had not decided what action to take regarding Penrod but that a bankruptcy petition still was being considered. Placid President Dan Brown said the filing "was necessary to ensure the viability and profitability of Placid until such times as the litigation can be concluded." In its court filing, Placid listed assets of $2 billion, and liabilities of $979 million. Brown said the company would proceed with "business as usual." The two companies employ 20,000 people and are among the largest energy firms in the world. Placid's papers were filed in federal bankruptcy court in New Orleans because most of the privately held company's domestic assets are in Louisiana or offshore in the Gulf of Mexico, Brown said. The brothers, heirs to flamboyant wildcatter H.L. Hunt, allege the 23 banks are trying to corner the offshore drilling market by putting the two companies out of business, and have filed suits seeking $14 billion from the banks. H.L. was a Texas gambler who parlayed a $5,000 inheritance into one of the world's great oil fortunes, and his sons have carried on his sometimes eccentric, sometimes wild ways. But the brothers have fallen on hard times since the worldwide plunge in oil prices. Assets such as drilling rigs and leases once valued at $2 billion or more now are said to be basically worthless. The Hunts acknowledge that if forced to liquidate to repay the $1.5 billion in loans, Placid and Penrod would be destroyed. The Hunts' financial woes began surfacing years ago when Bunker and Herbert lost some $1.3 billion in what some called an attempt to corner the silver market. Analysts said the Hunts' suit against the banks was most likely a stalling tactic, and on Wednesday a federal judge denied a Hunt request to postpone the foreclosures. Still, Burton said, the family will fight to save its embattled companies. Bunker, Herbert and Lamar Hunt rarely have offered public glimpses of their vast empire, which once was valued at some $6 billion and included farms, ranches and agriculture equipment throughout the Midwest, real estate in several states, sugar refiners and numerous other commodities in addition to the oil and gas operations. ![Lamar Hunt] Lamar Hunt ![Nelson Hunt] Nelson Hunt ![William Hunt] William Hunt 79 === Page 95 of 99 2 chemical fires leave 14 injured Hundreds of people in Indiana and North Carolina had to evacuate their homes. Associated Press Explosions at chemical plants in Indiana and North Carolina shot balls of flames into the early morning sky Thursday, injuring 14 people and forcing 1,600 people to flee their homes as thick fumes drifted over populated areas. Three tractor-trailer rigs filled with industrial chemicals exploded early Thursday at the Southchem plant in Durham, N.C., releasing a cloud that drifted over downtown. Seven firefighters and a police officer were treated for breathing difficulties and released. About 600 residents forced to leave in the middle of the night were allowed to return home about 6 a.m. EDT Thursday. "It was very frightening because a chemical fire, that could be anything," said one of the evacuees, Rudolph Moore. "It could blow up, it could turn into anything. So we left." A fire reported about 10 p.m. Wednesday at the Superior Chemical Co. in Elkhart, Ind., was extinguished Thursday after exploding 55-gallon chemical drums in a spectacular display that forced evacuation of about 1,000 people. "When I got there just a little bit of smoke was coming out of the eaves. In 10 to 15 minutes the whole building was involved," said Patrolman Milt Montandon. "We didn't know what we had at first. We had to wait for someone from the company to get here." Those residents were allowed back into their homes about 8 a.m. EDT. Six firefighters suffered chest pains and shortness of breath battling the blaze, said Baugo Township Fire Chief James Ferro. Scientists from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency who tested the air concluded there was no danger. The warehouse contained resin, acetone, dichloromethane and organic peroxide for use in the recreational vehicle industry. Firefighters allowed the blaze to burn through the night on the advice of hazardous chemical specialists, who said dousing the flames with water might contaminate groundwater supplies. The fire later was extinguished with chemical foam. Joseph Collie, president of the North Carolina chemical company, said the materials involved there were phosphates, chlorides and sulfides -- "basic industrial products" that are not poisonous. AP photo An explosion and resulting fire rip through a chemical warehouse in Indiana late Wednesday in a blaze that forced the evacuation of 1,000 people. === Page 96 of 99 # China To Soviets: Get Out Of Cambodia Hongkong PK O.SB 9/7/86 PEKING (AP) -- Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping said he was ready to "go any place in the Soviet Union to meet with (Soviet leader Mikhail) Gorbachev" if Moscow withdraws its support for Vietnam's intervention in Cambodia. The 82-year-old Deng also said that U.S. backing for Taiwan remains a serious obstacle to Chinese-U.S. relations. Deng spoke in an interview last Tuesday With Mike Wallace, a reporter for CBS. The interview will be broadcast Sunday on CBS' "60 Minutes." Excerpts from the interview were carried by the official Xinhua News Agency. Deng said China and the Soviet Union "are actually in a state of confrontation" in Cambodia, where Soviet-backed Vietnamese troops have been fighting the past seven years against Cambodian resistance forces armed and financed by China. "If the Soviet Union can contribute to the withdrawal of Vietnamese troopsfrom Kampuchea (Cambodia), this will remove the main obstacle in Chinese-Soviet relations." China and the Soviet Union have been at odds since Mao Tse-tung and Nikita Khrushchev split over ideological differences in 1960. The last visit by a senior power holder was by Khrushchev to China in 1959. Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin met Chinese Premier Chou En-lai in Peking in 1969. Economic and cultural relations have gradually improved in recent years, and Gorbachev in a major address in Vladivostok on July 28 called for an end to decades of hostility. China says the Soviet Union must first remove the "three obstacles" -- Cambodia, Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, and Soviet troop deployment along the Soviet-Chinese border. Deng emphasized that Cambodia is the most important of the three. "Once this problem is resolved, I will be ready to meet Gorbachev. Now I am over 82, already advanced in years. I have long accomplished my historical task of making overseas visits. If this obstacle in Chinese-Soviet relations is removed, I will be ready to break the rule and go to any place in the Soviet Union to meet with Gorbachev." # Snow, Heavy Rains Thrash West By The Associated Press UFO Sun Attack Eleven inches of new snow fell on Colorado's San Juan Mountains, while thunderstorms and winds up to 50 mph swept into Wisconsin on Friday, knocking down power lines and destroying a home. A tornado touched down Friday afternoon in Elkhart, Ind., near Elkhart Central High School and overturned at least one school bus, but injured none of the four children inside, officials said. Travelers' advisories for snow and slippery roads O.SD 9/27/86 were posted for the Cascades of Oregon, parts of the northern Sierra Nevada and in the Colorado mountains. Heavy thunderstorms led to flash-flood watches in lower Michigan and a flood warning was in effect for the Milk River and its tributaries in northern Montana. A state of emergency was declared in Van Buren County, Mich., where more than $200,000 damage was sustained by 50 to 70 homes and more than 7 inches of rain fell in two days. The new round of storms that began early Thursday have killed one person and injured five in South Haven Township, police said. Eight people have died in floods that began Sept. 10, and one missing person is presumed drowned. In South Haven, Mich., two miles of Interstate 196 was closed for two hours Friday because of water 4 feet deep under an overpass, said state police Sgt. Charles Keebler. # Floods Sock Montana; National Guard Called UFO Sun Attack O.SB 9/27/86 MALTA, Mont. (AP) -- National Guardsmen and residents sandbagged the rising Milk River and more than 120 people fled their homes Friday after torrential rains in north-central Montana left one person drowned, many animals dead and major highways closed. For the second day, hundreds of Amtrak passengers had to be bused 90 miles around washed out sections of railroad track. Gov. Ted Schwinden mobilized the Guard to help reinforce dikes at Malta when heavy rains Thursday caused what the National Weather Service called the worst flooding in 30 years along the Canadian border. As much as 8 inches of rain fell in 18 hours. About 45 miles to the west, in Harlem, one woman died Thursday when she and her husband were trapped by water and tried to swim to safety, authorities said. Officials said there were reports of large numbers of livestock drowned. The major highway across northern Montana, U.S. 2, was was closed Thursday but reopened Friday morning. The high water moved east Friday See National on page 6A === Page 97 of 99 # Southeast Drought Eases; $1 Billion in Losses Expected COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Increased rainfall since early August has boosted crop yields and lessened agricultural damage in the Southeast, but losses from the region's worst drought on record are still expected to exceed $1 billion, officials say. "The reality of the loss hits home when you actually harvest," said Charlie Curtis, an agriculture economist at Clemson University in South Carolina. At the peak of the dry spell, crops wilted from southern Pennsylvania all the way into northern Florida. Now, even after the rain, many farmers in the Carolinas, Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia are on the brink of ruin. The Federal Land Bank will foreclose on Elbert Coleman's 500-acre farm in central South Carolina if he doesn't make a $5,500 payment by Oct. 1 and a $6,000 payment in January. But his corn, wheat and tobacco gave him virtually nothing back, and his soybeans may represent his last chance. "I'm so afraid they're going to start shedding if they don't get some more rain soon," Coleman, 56, said. "I've been farming all my life," said Coleman, who has leukemia. "With the help of the good Lord and the good people, maybe I'll survive." Donations of hay continue to flow into the Southeast, but are expected to slow to a trickle when cold weather ends the growing season. "Things look pretty good now, but a lot of people aren't going to have enough feed for the winter," said Dan Ezell, assistant director of the Clemson University Extension Service. Rain came too late and at the wrong time for many crops, and was inadequate for others, said officials throughout the region. In many areas of the Southeast, rainfall is still more than 20 inches below normal and has not restored subsoil moisture, meteorologists said. "The rain has not eliminated the disaster by any means," said Bryan Patrick, director of the Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service in South Carolina. The total damage won't be known until after harvest, but officials with the U.S. Department of Agriculture have projected that losses may surpass $1 billion. Some state projections have been lowered dramatically by the increased rain. South Carolina and Georgia were hit hardest, said Norton Strommen, chief meteorologist for the USDA. Damages to crops, livestock and forestry in South Carolina are predicted at $260 million, Hal Harris, a Clemson agriculture economist, said Friday. That's more than $100 million less than earlier estimates. "It's quite a significant blow, but not as big as anticipated," Harris said. In Georgia, the estimate of crop losses tabulated Friday is $247.4 million, said Steve Rich, a spokesman for the state Department of Agriculture. The department has not finished adding losses in tobacco and grain sorghum, he said. About $1 million may be lost in tree seedlings and growth, said Lynn Hooven of the Georgia Forestry Commission. In July, the Georgia Farm Bureau Federation estimated that losses could run as high as $533 million. The rain in late August and early September has led to slight improvements for some crops in North Carolina, but state officials have not revised their August estimate of $330 million in losses. # Storms sweep Missouri, cutting power, flooding roads, homes United Press International Heavy thunderstorms followed Interstate 70 across the breadth of Missouri Thursday, drenching the state with up to 7 inches of rain that flooded roads and apartments, cut electricity to thousands of homes and stranded motorists. Storms stretched from southern Illinois to southwest Indiana and into western Kentucky, the National Weather Service said. Meanwhile, President Reagan declared 22 Michigan counties a major disaster Thursday because of severe storms that produced torrential rains and flooding last week that was blamed for six deaths and $323 million in damage. In the Kansas City area, almost 7 inches of rain that fell during four hours flooded streets and creeks. About 12,000 customers lost electrical power, utilities reported. Residents along the Blue River in Kansas City were advised to evacuate because flooding was expected. Police and firefighters rescued stranded motorists in the Plaza and Westport areas of Kansas City, Mo., and in Mission, Kan. Westwood had 6.6 inches of rain, the weather service said. The heavy rains flooded parts of Interstate 70, which stretches across Missouri from Kansas City to St. Louis. Floodwaters 3 feet deep made Highway 50 between Sedalia and Jefferson City, Mo., impassable, the weather service said. The Little Blue River at Lake City, Mo., was 6 feet above flood stage at midday, officials said. More than 7 inches of rain fell in eastern Missouri and southwest Illinois, prompting officials to issue a flash-flood warning. Ste. Genevieve, Mo., had 7 inches of rain and Evansville, Ind., had 4 inches. In Jackson County, Ill., many roads were under water. # Weather satellite launch set LOS ANGELES -- A government weather satellite scheduled for launch next week atop an Atlas rocket will close some gaps in America's weather forecasting capabilities, project officials said Friday. The launch of the NOAA-G weather satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base on Wednesday has been delayed for a year by a series of administrative changes and technical troubles. The NOAA-G weather satellite will replace a malfunctioning meteorological satellite that no longer beams clear information back to Earth, a problem that has hampered weather forecasting capabilities, said project director Larry Heacock of the U.S. Weather Service. # Red tide sweeps Texas Coast CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas -- Wildlife officials monitored winds and currents on the Gulf of Mexico on Monday to track a two-week-old red tide outbreak that has killed thousands of fish. The outbreak has been moving down the coast, remaining from Matagorda Bay at Port O'Connor to Cedar Bayou. === Page 98 of 99 # Floodwaters Swamp Michigan Killing 4, Forcing Evacuations PENTWATER, Mich. (AP) -- Floodwaters surged through lower Michigan today after days of torrential rains that killed four people, injured at least 20 and destroyed three dams, forcing hundreds of residents to flee. The three days of thunderstorms dumped up to 13 inches of rain, causing millions of dollars in damage, authorities said. The concrete Childsdale Dam south of Rockford in Kent County collapsed at 2:15 a.m. today, sending floodwaters down the Rogue River toward the village of Belmont, said Kent County Sgt. Clifford Atwood. "The whole thing's gone," he said of the hydroelectric dam at a defunct paper mill. An unknown number of Belmont residents fled, he said. An earthen dam at Rainbow Lake in Gratiot County crumbled shortly before 2 a.m. today, flooding Maple River and forcing at least 20 residents at Maple Valley from their homes, the Clinton County Sheriff's Department said. The floods also forced evacuations downstream in Matherton, Lyons and Muir in Ionia County, said sheriff's dispatcher Judy Batchelder. Temporary shelters were set up in Muir and Hubbardston. The earthen Hart Dam, seven miles upstream from Pentwater, gave way Thursday night and washed out the southbound bridge carrying U.S. Route 31 over the Pentwater River. But the flooding in Pentwater, where at least 250 residents evacuated, wasn't as bad as expected. "There were a lot of people here waiting for the tidal wave to come," Village Superintendent Dan Tarnowski said. "But the damage doesn't look too bad now." The showers ended early today, but flooding was likely to worsen in the Saginaw, Muskegon and White river basins, the National Weather Service said. In White Cloud, authorities intentionally breached an earthen embankment on the White River to relieve pressure on a concrete dam downstream, said Newago County sheriff's officer Brian Kolk. # Floods hit Michigan, Wisconsin; thousands flee as dams break United Press International Torrential rains across Michigan and Wisconsin Friday triggered a third day of flooding that broke dams, forced thousands to flee their soggy homes, cut power to 65,000 customers and killed at least five people. Storms that drenched lower Michigan with 13 inches of rain moved into the Northeast, but the runoff broke several dams, closed highways and schools and sent water cascading into basements in Michigan and southeast Wisconsin, the National Weather Service said. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources warned that flood water in several areas of the central lower Penninsula may be contaminated with untreated sewage and toxic materials from an inundated Dow Chemical Co. plant. Michigan Gov. James J. Blanchard declared disasters in 18 western state counties and called out the National Guard to help with the cleanup. At least five people have died in flood-related accidents in Michigan, and 65,000 homes were left without electricity, authorities said. Belding Dam northeast of Grand Rapids was on the verge of breaking Friday night, and about 100 families were evacuated from low-lying areas beneath the concrete barrier, authorities said. # Dow takes record fall The 86.61 point single-day slide for the Dow Jones industrial average sets an all-time record, surpassing the previous drop of 61 points set on July 7. | | | | | | | | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1950 | | | | | | | | 1900 | | | | | | | | 1850 | | | | | | | | 1800 | | | | | Down 86.61 | | | 1750 | | | | | | | | 1700 | | | | | | | | | 4 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | | | September | | | | | | === Page 99 of 99 Flooded Illinois county declared disaster; Atlantic Coast sizzles United Press International Illinois Gov. James Thompson declared rain-soaked Lake County north of Chicago a disaster area Sunday because of flooding that caused at least $20 million in damage, and a heat wave over the southern Atlantic Coast broke records set at the turn of the century. Thompson issued the declaration before leaving to tour the area Sunday afternoon in a boat. He said field reports from emergency officials indicated flood waters damaged at least 500 homes and 50 businesses and left more than 100 residents homeless. In Malta, Mont., the Milk River began to recede after water had spilled over sandbag-reinforced dikes because of jams caused by hay bales and logs. Showers and thunderstorms were scattered over the southern Plains and from the Tennessee and lower Ohio valleys across the upper and middle Mississippi Valley to the northern Plains. Residents of the southern Atlantic Coast states baked in 90-degree weather. Records were broken or tied in several states. Savannah, Ga., reached 98 degrees Sunday, toppling a record set in 1900 and making it the fifth day in a row a high for the date has been recorded. Both Columbia, S.C., and Augusta, Ga., hit 96, breaking records set in 1900 and 1904, respectively. To the west, record lows were set in Klamath Falls, Ore., with a reading of 26, while in California, Sacramento had a record 46 and in Stockton, Calif., the mercury dipped to 45. (The record temperatures listed in this story are based on the period from midnight to midnight. They may not match the list at right, which reports recent overnight lows and daytime highs without regard to the 24-hour calendar day. Both lists are prepared by the National Weather Service.) Wed 7/16/86 Wakened by mechanical sound - loud speaker - out of nearby woods. Had to be UFO. Explain Beau heard it too. (must be important.) David thought ahead of Martha + let her walk into it. She did + turned + said "Oh, I haven't given you an alcohol rub yet!" (this tech could be developed) many, many plane crashes from disorientation 8/5/86 cleaner tried to steal my Chinese shirt. Hassle. Shop burned down. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8609b https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/8d478eee66065054aa28bff6f8a6a681.pdf ddbf32cec6e9525ca808a18474d64705 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/bb00f02ba89a36cbcc0e519a800afe08.txt 2fa959da02f112c0ee9fcd7c48dd4bbe Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1986 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 9 November 5, 1986 Dear George: Well, partner, we've finally found the place the SIs wanted us to have, and are settling in. Will take weeks. For the record, am confirming receipt of your $700 help in my work and research, obtained from WMO several days ago. Thank you very much, George. For weeks and weeks have been jumping around like a flea in a skillet, undergoing hardship you would not believe (not connected with financial hardship, thanks to you). At any rate, have been waiting for an appropriate time to fill you in on everything... and this report to you personally is it. Before leaving Ocala I spread out a map of the U.S. and asked my UFOs where they wanted me. They telepathd upper New York State. I told my son, Beau, that we would seek out a place in the country, isolated, because my UFOs want to rendezvous with the boys and myself...not one time, but steadily. (My boys call these meetings with UFOs "haunts"...and we have had them on many occasions. But not in Florida...no time windows there for it.) Now, I had had an accident and broken two of my ribs...so was no help to the boys in packing up household effects to leave. However, it was required that I drive the van you secured for us behind the U-Haul that Beau would drive (Teddy is 15 and cannot drive...my wife has never driven, cannot drive, and I would not let her for her sake.) Get the picture, George...my right chest and upper side hurt so bad that I could not sleep...could not reach out with my right arm. Could not pick up anything with my right arm. And...when I took a breath it felt like someone sticking a knife into me. So we took our caravan out of Ocala. You well know how we got messed up in Savannah, Georgia...and after spending days looking for Beau and Teddy, not only in Savannah but clear up into the Carolinas (we didn't know if they were ahead of us or behind us) I telepathd to my UFOs to somehow bring us together...and about a half an hour later their U-Haul passed us on an adjoining cloverleaf highway going in the opposite direction from us...and we maneuvered into a linkup. Since I carried the travelling funds, Beau and Teddy had spent days without money. Some "mysterious stranger" had befriended them and taken them to restaurants to eat and given them a hotel room...with two policemen guarding their door outside. Methinks that you-know-who gave us a helping hand. They had me and Beau both under surveillance at all times...but how to bring us together without blowing their cover? At any rate, we had reassembled and moved smoothly up into Pennsylvania. We pulled into a town and checked into a motel. You sent the WMO and it was accepted by the woman who ran the Western Union out of her card and gift shop. She wrote me a check. I asked her what good that was...that W.U. was supposed to give me cash. Then she got fighting mad...not at me but at Western Union. Yes, she said, that is true. Not only that but there is no place in town...not even the bank...that will cash a Western Union check! Well, I said, phone it back into the hopper and I will pick it up at another town someplace up the line. No, she said, I can't do that because I've already accepted it. Well, then, I said, send === Page 2 of 9 2 it back to Mr. Delavan. She said that will cost you $40 to do that. Dam, she said, this has happened a half-dozen times and I'm sick of it. She grabbed the phone, called the headquarters of Western Union, reminded management that she had complained about this situation before, cussed them out and said that from that moment on Western Union would not function from her shop...someone else in town could have the problem. And she told me that she knew a trick where she could return the loan to you, George, without paying an arm and a leg to do it. Beau, Teddy and I then drove to a nearby Mall where there was a giant Supermarket to buy some food supplies. Beau was driving and made a quick turn to the right...smack into a steel post. The impact smashed my body into the steel van frame then I ricocheted headfirst across the drivers seat. The pain was agonizing. (Turned out that the impact broke a third rib in my right side.) We waited there about ten minutes until I could recover from the terrible pain enough to make it into the Supermarket. We went in, bought our groceries, then walked out past the front of the Supermarket. We had just cleared the front when there was a crash like a bomb going off. We rushed back. A car which had been parked in front of the Supermarket had taken off at 60 mph straight for the huge glass windows we had just passed. It smashed through into the grocery, hit a concrete ridge, bounced way up into the air, smashed a huge hole in th ceiling, then fell down onto a poor man, crushing him like a fly swatter crushes a fly. It also had sideswiped an attractive woman who lay prone, bleeding profusely, and unconscious. I jumped through the smashed windows and ran over to the car beside the cashier line which we had just passed through. I picked up a man's glasses and a man's shoe, then found him underneath the front of the car, hand protruding and bleeding. I pressed his hand and told him to hold on, that an ambulance was on the way. Then I went to the woman. By now store personnel were gathering around. I told them to cover her with jackets, anything, to alleviate shock. So they peeled off jackets and spread them over her. Blood was everywhere. My side was ruining me. The boys and I stood around until two ambulances arrived, then we left. Later we heard that the man had died and the woman was in intensive care. I told Beau, good God, it was just seconds or that runaway car would have hit us directly! We went back to the motel and the manager called our room. Sorry, she said, we would have to leave immediately, because Bobo, our German Shepherd was chained to our U-Haul and they did not allow animals. So we had to move all of our things back into the van. By this time it was dark...and as we went into town out toward the highway our U-Haul dropped dead. It was a failed alternator. Took us several hours and about $150 to get another alternator and get it placed in. We proceeded north up into New York and breathed a sigh of relief to get out of Pennsylvania. We had swung high up into the State. Originally we'd planned to go to Watertown and scout around...but my UFOs said no, cut to the East. We went to a town called Old Forge, and got a motel for the night. Next morning we left a "Do Not Disturb" sign on our room...and I went out and found the maid and told her not to go into our room...that we had everything we needed...and we left Bobo (who is bigger than you or me) in the room to guard our things while we were gone. We spent some time investigating, but there were no houses to rent in the area. Sell, yes, but not to rent. So we went back to the motel, where we found the police confronting Bobo, who by now stood outside our motel door, guarding it. The motel manager and police told us that the dratted maid had ignored my instructions, and the sign on the door, and gone in...and Bobo had "chewed her up" as they put it. I gave the police my ID, === Page 3 of 9 3 explained that I had left precise instructions before we left. While the police and motel manager were thinking about it we rushed to our room and set a record for packing our van...and fled the scene. We then tried a string of small towns but with the same results. My UFOs told me that we were too high up in the State, to drop south. We wound up in a Best Western in Lake George, NY. Downtown we found a Delevan's Restaurant and a George's Restaurant. We found that we were in Washington County. For days I went with real estate agents to look at the handful of houses for rental in the area (My UFO had told me that this was it...where they wanted me). But the houses were not what my UFOs wanted and all $500 a month or over. Then, like magic, Beau got a lead on a house and the woman called me and we went there. Oddly, 1/2 miles from it is a road called "T. Owens Road." I swear. Am sending you photos of these things, George. Now, let me state this. In the rental houses that I sounded out and looked at it was "no animals or pets" and/or "no children"...also they wanted a thousand dollars security deposit (nobody ever gets that back). Well, I went out to this house, after I finally found it, and it was exactly, precisely, what my UFOs had brought me up here for. It is far in the country...a half-miles from the dirt road. It has the quarters that we need. No security deposit was required, just the first and last month's rent...and animals or pets? "You can have a horse if you want it" the wife of the landlord told me. It was a dairy farm, with huge barns, and we live in the main house that the owners built some years ago. They went broke and moved to town. The boys and I have 283 acres around us to meet with the UFOs in the spring (way too cold now). The owner is a lieutenant in the NY State prison nearby. So this place is a regular, perfect minibase that my UFOs have led us to. There is only one hitch. About a half-mile away, across the dirt road, is a green house, housing a Syrian family. Their son, Rick, is a psycho. Our landlord had him arrested not long ago for smashing car windows here at this house. He also stole 25 bicycles at school before he got caught. He has sworn revenge. (Do you know anything about the Syrian character? Yuk.) He has an older brother in a nearby town recently released from prison for a series of offenses. We haven't even a phone yet. Have spent ten days trying to get a phone in here...but one has to go through all sorts of channels...you wouldn't believe it unless you experienced it. You see, we are midway between Hudson Falls, Ft. Ann, Lake George and Glen Falls, out in the country. In a town or city it is easy. But not way out here. Tomorrow am going to give it my fifth shot and try to get a phone in. When I do will immediately get the number off to you. The owner has tried desperately to sell me this place for $125,000...that's the large house and five acres (he's going to parcel off the rest). When I got through laughing (with $58 in my pocket after paying the $1300 rent) I told him well, not right now, but thanks. Before closing, want to point out that my UFOs through synchronicity made it quite plain that this is the area, and this is the spot to begin our new work..."T. Owens Road" "Delevan's Restaurant" "George's Restaurant" "Washington County." More later, my friend. Ted Owens (PK Man) Rt. 149, R.R. 2 Box 2196 Ft. Ann, New York 12827 === Page 4 of 9 Leisure Inn October 27, 1986 Ted Owens has paid Mr. and Mrs. Fish $1,300.00 for the first and last month's rent for the house at Rt. 149, Box 2169, Ft. Ann, New York; this is the beginning of a one year's lease at the house for the Owens family. The rent is to be paid Mr. and Mrs. Fish each month, $650.00, starting with the date of this lease, October 27, 1986. Next rental payment will be November 27, 1986. Mr. and Mrs. Fish make no restrictions on the Owens family and Mr. and Mrs. Fish allow the Owens family to have pets, (dog, cat, etc.) Although Mr. & Mrs. Fish have the house up for sale, they have agreed to hold off for a year in order to honor this lease. At the end of that time, if both parties, Owens & Fish, are agreeable, this lease can be renewed for the rental price of $650.00 a month. Should a party be waiting to purchase the Fish house at the end of the year, then the Owens family will vacate the house to honor the purchase, as soon as possible. (Two weeks maximum time.) Mr. Fish __________ Thomas Fish Mrs. Fish __________ Dorothy Fish Ted Owens __________ Harry T. Owens === Page 5 of 9 M 114--Lease: plain English form: 6-78 Note: added sections should be appropriately divided and captioned. © 1978 BY JULIUS BLUMBERG, INC., PUBLISHER, NYC 10013 # LEASE AGREEMENT The parties agree as follows: **Date of this Lease:** Nov 19 86 **Parties to this Lease and addresses:** Landlord: Dennis and Dorothy Fish 747-2130 Address for notices: 13 Spruce St Hudson Falls, NY You, the Tenant: Harry T. Owens. Address: RD #2 Fort Ann, NY 12827 If there are more than one Landlord or Tenant the words "Landlord" and "Tenant" used in this Lease includes them. **Term:** 1. / years: months: beginning: Oct. 27 1986 ending: Oct. 27, 1987 **Premises rented:** 2. House located on Farm on Route 149 in The Township of Hartford **Rent:** 3. The monthly rent is $ 650.00. You, the Tenant, will pay this Rent to the Landlord, as follows: per month 1st and Last month Due at beginning of Lease and Then the first week of each month There-After. **Agreement to lease and pay rent:** 4. Landlord leases the Premises to you, the Tenant, for the Term. You, the Tenant, agree to pay the Rent and other charges as required in the Lease. You, the Tenant, agree to do everything required of you in the Lease. **Default:** 5. If you, the Tenant, 5.1 fail to pay Rent, or any part of the Rent, 5.2 fail to comply with any other term of this Lease, 5.3 vacate the premises at any time during the Term, then Landlord may re-enter and take possession of the Premises by any lawful means, and remove you, the Tenant and any other person on the Premises and their property, by dispossess proceedings, or by other lawful means, without being liable in any way. Landlord may re-rent the Premises and any rent received by Landlord shall be used first to pay Landlord's expenses in getting possession and re-renting the Premises, including, without being limited to, reasonable legal fees and costs, fees of brokers, advertising costs and the cost of cleaning, repairing and decorating the Premises, and second to pay any amounts Tenant owes under this Lease. Landlord has no duty to re-rent the Premises. You, the Tenant shall pay to Landlord any amount you owe under this Lease, less, if Landlord re-rents the Premises, any amounts received from the new tenant and not used by Landlord to pay the expenses referred to above. **End of the Term:** 6. You, the Tenant, agree that at the end of the Term you will surrender the Premises in as good condition as now, except for ordinary wear and damage by the elements. X ---------- === Page 6 of 9 Successors: 7. Unless otherwise stated, the Lease is binding on all parties who lawfully succeed to the rights or take the place of the Landlord or you, the Tenant. Changes: 8. This Lease can be changed only by an agreement in writing signed by the parties to the Lease. 9. All utilities (electric, phone, gas) paid by Tenant. Garbage and snow removal will be the responsibility of the Tenant. === Page 7 of 9 Quiet Enjoyment: Landlord agrees that if you, the Tenant pay the rent and are not in default under this Lease, you, the Tenant may peaceably and quietly have, hold and enjoy the Premises for the Term of this Lease. Signatures: The parties have signed this lease as of the date at the top of the first page. LANDLORD: Thomas Fish Dorothy Fish WITNESS: You, the TENANT: Harry T Owens === Page 8 of 9 George, We do our grocery shopping + WMO in Hudson Falls, 7 miles from us. Ted # Moose bullish on HF ## includes village as part of its territory By Joan Martinelli Staff Writer Post-Star 1/16/86 A yearling bull moose did some window-shopping for a mate in the village of Hudson Falls early Wednesday morning before being captured by state conservation officers. A Hudson Falls police patrol first saw the moose at 7:12 a.m. around the Margaret M. Murphy school yard on Clark Street. The police notified Lt. Robert Henke of the Environmental Conservation Department and the gears were set in motion to safely capture and relocate the animal. "When (animals) are indigenous to an area they tend to stay there," Henke said. "He undoubtedly came from Maine or Vermont. It isn't that (the moose) are being squeezed out of an area, they're just expanding their grounds. As their population grows the old males are chasing the young ones out during mating season." The lifespan of the average moose is 15 years, though they have been known to live as long as 35 years. Conservation officers kept close watch on the moose as it wandered down Pearl Street, through the village and stood its ground for approximately four hours in a yard at 236 Main St. "Only two people in New York state are licensed to use a tranquilizer gun," Henke said, one from Syracuse and another from Delmar. The officials hoped to wait for the researcher from Syracuse to administer a "brand new" tranquilizer tested to be "100 percent safe" to the largest member of the deer family. Hudson Falls police contained traffic and repeatedly cautioned the more than 100 onlookers to keep their distance. The fidgety yearling made a brief run for it when a driver tooted the horn of his tractor-trailer in the slow-moving traffic. After the moose made a few attempts to charge and free itself of the roped-off area, conservation officials decided to let the Delmar team from the Endangered Species Division administer the tranquilizer. "The young bulls are a little more dangerous," a state conservation officer noted. "They're a little faster, a little more aggressive. When they have a 7-foot rack I guess they don't need to be so aggressive." "It doesn't act as quickly as the new serum," said Jack Harvey. See MOOSE: Back Page ![A stray moose roams near a home in the Main Street area of Hudson Falls Wednesday morning. The animal eventually was caught by state Department of Conservation officers. (Photo by D.J. Hewitt)] === Page 9 of 9 Ted Owen Rt. 149, R.R. 2 Box 2169 Ft. Ann, New York 12827 Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove 48 Saint Frances Lane San Rafael, California 94901 GLENS FALLS, NY NOV 12 PM 1985 USA 22 GREETINGS USA 22 GREETINGS Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8611b https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/889647a8eeb78cf706f91f7f1eed28ed.pdf 1f507406229d0bcb0ccb7b2342234fc8 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/2b3f47d5ff4396949416bc31f1973869.txt 6ce9671e32afc6ff71d6363d6d8258c1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1987 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 29 January 29, 1987 Jeffrey SCIENTISTS Some of the enclosed newsclips are from Ocala...had to leave there before could do file. But...makes no difference... the Sun Attack and psi-ripples have caused all, right up to the present time...along with other mechanisms that have been activated (displaced Bermuda Triangle Effect; attack from the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf waters, etc.) Just in case you might snicker at bodies of water attacking...remember that American Indians believed that rivers, lakes and oceans had a "spirit" in them. P. 1: Weinberger's plane struck by lightning. Coincidence? Weinberger is pushing "star wars" technology and military-in-space work. Exactly what my UFOs will not allow. Weinberger has had his "lightning warning." P. 2: I made a long distance call to Chicago...at which time all the power in Chicago went out. Coincidence? At Duke I phoned my girl friend at her sorority house and all the power there went out. In Durham there are tall lampposts lining both sides of the street. At night, when I would walk down the sidewalk all the lights on my side of the street would go out. And of course I knocked out the power in 5 States while living in Philadelphia...first notifying scientists and lawyers in writing that I would do so, before it actually occurred. There are clips on p. 2 and p. 13 which apply the term "whammy" to recent unusual weather. And the writers are, of course, quite correct. The weather has been caused by my UFOs "sun attack", which could be termed a "whammy" in slang parlance. P. 3: Scientists are still trying to call my UFOs Sun Attack "El Nino". Ha ha. P. 4: Note that in one clip it states that scientists do not believe that solar activity has anything to do with the holes in the ozone layers at the North and South poles. Then, five days later, in the N.Y. Times article the scientists state that the holes might be caused by bursts of solar energy. P. 5: For personal reasons I have been attacking the State of Texas for years, in various ways, with psi-force techniques. It is interesting that Texas is going broke. Good. Couldn't happen to a nicer State. Other clip. My UFOs destroyed Challenger for various reasons... one of which was to teach the young people of our country to stay out of space and space work. (I phoned a scientist long distance before Challenger blew up and told him that my UFOs were going to explode a space shuttle. Thus, it is on record.) Then, the reason I went to Hong Kong was to teamwork with my UFOs in certain ways so that my UFOs could control Russia and/or China. Following my trip my UFOs destroyed Chernobyl... in order to teach stupid mankind that nuclear war could not be survived by the human race. Before Chernobyl, humans did not really have a "measuring stick" with which to evaluate properly the effect of a nuclear war or disaster. Now they know. My UFOs are great teachers...albeit a bit rough with their teachings. === Page 2 of 29 2 P. 6: As I have told you, the U.S. is under attack by the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf. Here you have the poisonous Red Tide attacking Texas and Gulf waters...then on p. 7 a deadly Brown Tide is attacking from the Atlantic side. Am certain that you will find this article, particularly, fascinating. Then on p. 8 bodies of water and The Sun Attack wiping out the oyster crop on a massive scale. P. 9: The crooked Jackie Presser gets a tumor on his lung...and various bigtime mob bosses get put away. This is what my UFOs are currently working at...to eliminate the bad members of the human race in key positions of power and replace them with good humans. It is interesting, in a synchronistic way, that Judge Owen gave top Mafia bosses 100 years each. Remember some years ago when I produced a UFO over the heads of two policemen in a certain area of Virginia.. (a demonstration for a scientist.) One of the policemen was named Owen. And if you have the green book that I wrote you can read about another of my experiments whereby Big Foot stopped a car, reached in and grabbed the woman driver by the hair. Her name? Owen. P. 10: This clip is interesting because I gave a secret, unpublicized demonstration of my UFO powers in Ocala...attacking the Ocala newspaper building with various psi-force techniques to obtain various results. To my astonishment this clip appeared, relating to a UFO kidnapping an Ocala resident. P. 11: Fort Ann is where we live, outside of town in a semi-isolated area just like this man. Burglars are attacking homes in this area. There only a handful of police here. Last week a man broke into a house near here and raped and robbed a young woman. After he walked out of her house she grabbed a pistol that she had handy and blasted him with it from a window. The police are tying the man into a number of rapes in this area. The rest of the enclosed file deals with results from The Sun Attack. Ted Owens (PK Man) New address: Rt. 149, RR 2, Box 2169, Fort Ann, New York, 12827. Phone: (512) 632-5192 Owens PS. Nature now is thinning out the over-populated human race with cancer, AIDS, etc. When Nature has over-population under control, then it will supply the human race with answers to cancer, AIDS, etc., and these deadly illnesses will be stopped and controlled by humans. (If you have a ranch with enough grass to feed 1,000 cows - you do not allow the herd to grow to 3,000 cows.) === Page 3 of 29 Weinberger Warns of Gains In Soviet Space Technology By DAVID E. SANGER Special to The New York Times NY Times 1/23/87 COLORADO SPRINGS, Jan. 22 -- Making his most specific and spirited arguments yet for an early deployment of a space-based defense against nuclear missiles, Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger said today that "we must seize this opportunity" because the chance to stay ahead of Soviet technology "will not remain with us forever." Mr. Weinberger, speaking at a symposium of space officials and military contractors, also said he now expected the Soviet Union to test a ground-based laser defense against missiles "in the next three years." Officials in the Reagan Administration have said in recent weeks that even if the United States decided to deploy the first phase of its missile defense plan in the early 1990's, research on similar laser systems would not be sufficiently advanced to allow their incorporation into the "Star Wars" system being developed by the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization. Mr. Weinberger's comments came as the Administration appeared to be sharply divided over the question of whether to move quickly to deploy an initial, if primitive, missile defense system. At arms negotiations in Geneva, the United States has told Soviet negotiators that it was willing to adhere to the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, which bans the deployment of space-based defense systems, for up to 10 more years as part of a larger compromise. 'Deploy as Soon as We Can' But the Secretary said at a news conference after his speech at the United States Space Foundation meeting here, "We would like to deploy as soon as we can," and he suggested that a decision to proceed with early deployment could be made in the near future. At the same time, Mr. Weinberger cautioned against believing any contention, made repeatedly at some symposium sessions here, that an early version of the antimissile system could be assembled with technologies already available. "I am sorry to say there are no technologies on the shelf that can do the job we want and need," he said. Nonetheless, he added, "Phase 1 would have great benefit," a statement that was warmly received here by executives whose companies already hold several billion dollars in missile defense research projects. "This phase could include both ground- and space-based components operating to detect, track and destroy ballistic missiles in the boost and late midcourse phases of flight," the Secretary said. The boost phase occurs just after a missile has been launched, and the late midcourse phase refers to the time period just before the missile re-enters the atmosphere. Gain in Deterrence Seen But Mr. Weinberger acknowledged that a first phase of deployment would not be able to stop all Soviet missiles. Instead, he said its chief value was that it would enhance deterrence by increasing Soviet doubts that a surprise attack could succeed. Critics of the early deployment plan say it would cost more than $100 billion and would be easily and cheaply overwhelmed. And experts here have said repeatedly in private that the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger a year ago has left the United States without the capability of putting a missile defense in orbit for at least 10 years. Mr. Weinberger, annoyed at such arguments, said, "I don't think anyone is in a position to give estimates of percentages of effectiveness, or specific dates or deployment or costs." Those who make cost estimates, he added, "have the advantage of not knowing anything about it." Radically Different Approaches The most interesting new questions raised by Mr. Weinberger's speech center on the radically differing approaches the United States and the Soviet Union appear to be taking in developing strategic defense systems. Mr. Weinberger described the Soviet program as one that focused heavily on lasers and particle beam weapons. He said the Soviet Union "could begin testing components for large scale deployment of a laser ABM system in the early 1990's." But no such claim has been made for the United States, even by the most ardent enthusiasts of the nation's antimissile research. The chief components of an early deployment system would probably be weapons such as ground-based rockets that would fire heat-seeking interceptors to collide with warheads. Lightning Strikes Jet Carrying Weinberger WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 (AP) -- A small jet with Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger and his wife, Jane, aboard was struck by lightning last Sunday, the Air Force reported Wednesday. The Air Force said the incident occurred as the Weinbergers were heading for Andrews Air Force Base, Md., after spending the weekend at their home in Bar Harbor, Me. The Weinbergers and three aides were flying in an executive twin-engine jet that can carry up to 15 passengers. "Weinberger is joking about it now, saying he wasn't hit by lightning but by a Soviet missile," said the aide, "but there was a brilliant flash and a big jolt, and for a moment nobody knew what had happened. Everybody on the plane saw it and felt it. The pilot recovered promptly, though, and managed a normal landing." Another official said, "I understand it turned out to be a hairy ride." The Air Force said the pilot, Lieut. Col. Charlie Arms, was making his final approach to the base when the lightning bolt sheared off the the housing on the plane's nose that covers the radar and other electronic instruments, damaged the right wing, and burned the craft's right side. Associated Press Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger speaking yesterday in Colorado Springs. === Page 4 of 29 # Power City turned wimp UFC Sun Attack Post-Star 1/25/87 WASHINGTON -- The bank where I stash my money in this town advertises itself as "The Most Important Bank for the Most Important People in the Most Important City in the World." That slogan tells you all you need to know about Washington. It's not a city loaded down with an excess of humility. That's why the Great Snows of '87 -- what TV weathermen are calling the Double Whammy -- were more than just a meteorological twist of fate. (all "whammy") That paralyzing blanket of white stuff -- two feet in five days -- left the Imperial City with a badly frozen ego. Yeah, I know, it snowed like crazy in Philadelphia and New York and Boston, too. But those are places where people own snow tires and boots and snow plows. Places where a blizzard is part of life, not a calamity that shrivels the soul. But Washington -- hey, remember, this is a city with a finger on the button of 7,000 nukes, a city that can bomb Libya on a whim, a city that snaps its fingers at trillion-dollar budgets, a city jammed with lawyers, lobbyists, shrinks, think tanks and stretch limos. We're talking about an epicenter of smugness. Then along comes a foot or two of snow and Power City USA goes into a severe funk. The shiny, almost-new Metro subway system freezes and won't run. Snow-crazed bureaucrats skid their BMWs into each other and abandon them, turning the Beltway into a parking lot. Snow plows are as rare and invisible as Stealth aircraft. Couple of days of that carnage and Power City USA looked like Admiral Byrd's base camp at the South Pole. Or Bangor, Maine, with monuments. Sandy Grady "I think all the Russians have to do to wipe out Star Wars," said one diplomat from Jamaica Monday, "is drop 10 inches of snow on Washington." The chaos in Power City began last Thursday. In the middle of a morning snowstorm, the Reagan administration brought 300,000 bureaucrats to work, then two hours later sent all 300,000 home again. It made Napoleon's retreat from Moscow look orderly. The fancy $9 billion Metro rail system wouldn't work because -- unlike Philadelphia, Chicago and Boston subways -- it had no heating equipment for outdoor rails. Buses stalled in snow banks. Traffic jams lasted six hours. Oh, I did see two D.C. snow plows. Both had flat tires, abandoned like a couple of Rommel's shot-up tanks. The mess made you understand John F. Kennedy's famous line: "Washington is a city of Northern charm and Southern efficiency." For a humbling picture, there was President Reagan -- a leader with fleets in Boeing 747s and Marine helicopters at his command -- being driven from Camp David in a four-wheel-drive van. National and Dulles airports, of course, were glaciers. So the big hotels like Marriott and Sheraton-Washington sold out their $100-a-day rooms. Bars were jammed. One snowbound couple got hitched, possibly out of boredom. So everybody hunkered down to watch the Super Bowl. Then came the Second Whammy, Sunday night's snowstorm that turned Power City USA into a minor-league village. Reagan's chief bureaucrat, Constance Horner, announced, "Only essential workers are to report for work." Confusion -- who was essential? Well, we found out quickly. It wasn't the $70,000 congressmen, the $300,000 lawyers, the $500,000 lobbyists. No, the essential people were, in order: anybody with a four-wheel drive, bartenders, supermarket checkout clerks, tow truck drivers, and any kid who'd shovel a walk for $2. Congress? A few hardy souls straggled into the Capitol, met for five minutes and adjourned. Supreme Court? Closed. Pentagon? Its parking lot was deserted. The inside White House joke: "Where is Don Regan's shovel brigade when we need it?" Only Sen. Dale Bumpers, D-Ark., grumped that all 300,000 bureaucrats stayed home. "I hate to see a little snow cost the government $8 million," said Bumpers. Meanwhile, the mayor of the frozen Imperial City, Marion Barry, was in Pasadena Calif., where he presumably had a good view of frozen Washington on his poolside TV set. Asked when he would return, an aide to Mr. Mayor chuckled, "When it stops snowing." Oh, well, the old arrogance will come back. But there was a week when the limos were frozen, the Capitol was an empty igloo, and Power City USA was as humble as Great Falls, Minn. Rare Set of Events Led To Chicago Blackout Special to The New York Times CHICAGO, Dec. 24 -- A rare combination of foggy weather, dirt and the residue of air pollution caused the power failure that left 200,000 residents without electricity for up to 12 hours Tuesday, officials explained today. The power failure, which began about 4:30 A.M., darkened about nine square miles of the city's North Side, including major downtown hotels. The loss of electricity was caused by a shutdown at a power substation on the North Side, according to a spokesman for the Commonwealth Edison Company, Carter Brydon. The cool, damp weather caused condensation to build up on 40 outdoor insulators, which were dirty from air pollutants, said John Maxson, superintendent of the Edison division. The dirty water on the insulators then acted as an electrical conductor, causing a series of short circuits. When crews cleaned the insulators and the built-up moisture, the power was turned back on, causing a "power arc" between two transformers. The blackout occurred when the transformers automatically shut down because of internal safety systems. 2 === Page 5 of 29 El Niño Returns, but Disaster Is Not Foreseen UFO Sun Attack By ERIK ECKHOLM El Niño, the momentous shift in the winds and waters of the tropical Pacific, has returned, but it appears unlikely to bring the widespread climatic disaster it did four years ago, the National Weather Service said yesterday. Data for December indicate that a "moderate" Niño has developed, the Federal scientists said. So far at least, the changes in ocean temperature are small compared with those of the last Niño in 1982-83, which played havoc with the weather on several continents, causing floods and droughts that took more than a thousand lives and caused billions of dollars in damage. Link to Southeast Rains "It's highly unlikely that we will see a series of disastrous consequences like last time," said Vernon Kousky of the Weather Service's Climate Analysis Center. "But it's difficult to say how it will evolve in the next few months." The major effect observed this year has been a decline in the normally heavy rainfall in the Philippines, Indonesia and northern Australia as rains are pushed out into the central Pacific. Wet weather in the Southeastern United States and mild conditions in the Northwest, western Canada and Alaska are also probably linked to the shifts in the tropical Pacific climate, Dr. Kousky said, as are abnormally heavy rains in southern Brazil and eastern Africa and dry conditions in southern Africa. El Niño occurs at irregular intervals of two to seven years and normally lasts one to two years. For reasons that scientists are only beginning to figure out, warm Pacific surface waters, which usually build up near Asia, begin flowing toward South America. Surface winds that normally blow toward Asia weaken or reverse themselves. When the changes are especially strong, as they were four years ago, South American countries along the Pacific are lashed by heavy rains while a sudden warming of coastal waters destroys valuable fisheries. In 1983, atmospheric disturbances brought on by El Niño also caused searing droughts in Australia, Indonesia and southern Africa. This time the warming of surface water in the central Pacific is less marked than in 1983, and most scientists expect the unusual conditions to dissipate rather than to intensify. Although current evidence suggests it will not be a strong one, this year's Niño may be remembered by experts as the first to be successfully predicted by scientific models. Last year at least three scientific teams, using different methods, predicted that a moderate Niño would occur in the fall or winter. Through the summer and fall these scientists watched with interest, and sometimes chagrin, as data gathered by ships, airplanes, buoys and island stations failed to indicate an emerging Niño. In particular, the warming of cold, rich fishing waters off the coast of Peru that often heralds the phenomenon did not occur. But major changes in ocean temperature were occurring farther out in the Pacific, said Stephen E. Zebiak of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, who last winter, with Mark A. Cane, predicted the phenomenon for late 1986. Now, Dr. Zebiak said, scientists can only wait to see whether the changes persist long enough to alter waters near the South American coast, something he does not expect. According to the predictive model developed by Dr. Cane and Dr. Zebiak, this winter's Niño should have begun somewhat earlier than it did and shown certain other traits that have not appeared. But over all, Dr. Zebiak said yesterday, "we feel encouraged about our theory, and with new data from this year we can improve the model." Accurate predictions of Niño-related changes in weather and fishing conditions would be invaluable to farmers, fishermen and governments in many countries, including the United States, said Dr. Kousky of the Federal weather service. On the basis of this year's experience, "we can't say with confidence that we know how to predict" El Niño, he said, "but we're getting closer." El Niño, Spanish for "the child," was named by Peruvian fishermen who often noticed the shifts in ocean temperature around Christmas. Post-Star 11/29/86 Forecasters see wet, stormy winter UFO Sun Attack WASHINGTON (AP) -- Coastal areas from Maine to Texas can expect stormy, wet weather this winter while the south central regions of the country are likely to have lower-than-normal temperatures, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted Friday. In a long-range forecast, NOAA said that warm Pacific Ocean waters, which could be the harbinger of another El Niño weather phenomenon, would likely make this winter a wet one with increased amounts of either snow or rain in much of the country. The forecast for stormy weather over the next 90 days covered states along the Great Lakes and the coastal states from Maine down to Florida and across the southern part of Texas and into Arizona. NOAA's 90-day forecast said that the chances for below-normal temperatures were centered in Arkansas and portions of the surrounding states of Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Oklahoma. NOAA said there was a 60 percent chance that the weather in this area would be colder-than-normal this winter. The forecast for stormy weather was based on a widespread warming in the Pacific Ocean from the Solomon Islands west of Hawaii to near the South American coast. Surface waters in this area have been running between 1 and 3 degrees above normal this fall, according to NOAA long-range forecaster Donald L. Gillman. While such a warming has in the past been a forerunner to an El Niño, Gillman said it was too early to say whether such a weather pattern would develop this time. The last El Niño, in 1982 through 1983, disrupted weather worldwide. 3 === Page 6 of 29 Experts believe chemical process may cause ozone hole WASHINGTON (AP) - The annual disappearance of much of the protective ozone layer over the South Pole appears to be a chemical process that isn't caused by changing weather or solar activity, scientists reported from Antarctica on yesterday. However, they said they could not confirm the leading theory of the cause of the October ozone disappearance - that man-made chlorofluorocarbon chemicals used as refrigeration fluids are responsible. Some of their findings, however, are consistent with that theory. The leader of the expedition, Susan Solomon, a chemist from the Boulder, Colo., lab of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told a news conference at the National Science Foundation she was "more concerned" than she had been before the expedition, because science has been "unable to come up with an explanation." Solomon and 17 other scientists from government and university laboratories were hurriedly dispatched to Antarctica in August after examination of old satellite data confirmed the unexpected finding of a British team that starting in the 1970s, ozone concentrations had fallen sharply each October. Ozone makes life on earth possible by filtering the ultraviolet rays of the sun. The discovery of the Antarctic hole has accelerated efforts to confirm or refute theories that chlorofluorocarbon emissions will destroy ozone, let more ultraviolet through and thus increase skin cancer, damage crops and livestock and degrade plastics. In December, major producing nations are meeting in Geneva to consider control measures. Other nations refused to go along with a U.S. regulation that banned the chemicals as aerosol propellants in 1978. Solomon, speaking by telephone from the U.S. base at McMurdo Sound, said it was the consensus of her group that its findings are inconsistent with two theories of why much of the ozone disappears: The theory that the depletion is caused by the 11-year cycle of solar activity and that it is caused by a slight change in wind patterns. If the regular variation in solar output were causing the ozone drop, large amounts of nitrogen dioxide should be found at altitudes where the ozone is disappearing - but "the nitrogen dioxide abundances inside the ozone hole are the lowest we have observed anywhere in the world," Solomon said. If changed wind patterns were the cause, nitrous oxide should be found in abundance but that also is "extremely low inside the ozone hole." In addition, tracking of fine particles in the atmosphere by a University of Wyoming team on the expedition shows no evidence of the upward movement of air that would support the wind theory. Though winds may play a role, "we believe that a chemical mechanism is fundamentally responsible for the formation of the hole." The team is also testing hypotheses that the Antarctic phenomenon is caused by wind pressures or sudden bursts of solar energy. But in a message relayed by satellite, the scientists said they had "strong evidence" against those theories, adding: "We suspect a chemical process." The main agent in that process, however, remains uncertain. The scientists did not find active chlorine in the amounts believed necessary to destroy ozone molecules, and the team's leader, Dr. Susan Solomon, said it appeared that chlorofluorocarbons by themselves were not the culprit. The more likely cause, the team found, involves complex interactions of atmospheric gases. Ozone, which is considered a pollutant when breathed, is formed by the action of ultraviolet light on oxygen. The thinning of the ozone layer has been measured in other parts of the globe and increases with distance from the equator. The McMurdo team measured a 40 percent decrease in the ozone there over 20 to 30 days. Milt Freudenheim James Glanz and Laura Mansner Mike Peters Dayton Daily News United Media Group 10/26/86 Chemicals Linked To an Ozone 'Hole' N.Y. Times 10/26/86 Scientists investigating a "hole" in the earth's ozone layer above Antarctica said last week that they were still puzzled about its cause but suspected a "chemical process." The team of American researchers went to McMurdo station to monitor the thin spot in the ozone, which appears each September. Scientists have strongly suspected for a decade that chlorine, and particularly the chlorofluorocarbons used in refrigeration, aerosols and other commercial applications, destroys ozone molecules and thus depletes the stratospheric blanket that filters out most ultraviolet radiation from the sun. Get this Ralph . . . now they think there's a hole in the ozone layer. === Page 7 of 29 Foreclosures Soaring in Texas Geo. Morn. News 10/13/86 The Associated Press Texas PK HIGHLAND PARK, Texas - Mansions valued at six figures are joining thousands of modest tract houses on the auction block as economic hard times stir up a blizzard of foreclosure notices in virtually every neighborhood in Texas. In the Dallas suburbs of Highland Park and University Park, speculators who once struck gold by redeveloping lots are left holding half-million-dollar palaces that nobody wants to buy. Seventy-seven foreclosures have been posted in the "Park Cities" this year, compared to 14 for all of 1985, according to Foreclosure Listing Service Inc. In River Oaks and Hedwick Village, Houston neighborhoods where Mercedes are more common than crab grass, mansions are being marketed at fire sale rates by hard-pressed owners who seek to get out with credit and reputation intact. Residential foreclosures in Houston increased from 9,075 in 1984 to 17,393 in 1985, said Nicki Brandt of Baca Publications, a Houston firm that reports on real estate activity. She said through eight months of 1986, there were 16,703 foreclosures in the area. More than 40,000 properties have gone on the foreclosure auction block in the last two years in Texas as the energy, agriculture and real estate industries slump, and several times that number have been "posted," or notified of intent to foreclose. "They are all over the place," says Ken Edelman of Bacca. "They're in just about every neighborhood you can think of." In the Park Cities, for example, many of those in trouble are energy company executives, said William Brueggeman, professor of real estate at Southern Methodist University's Edwin L. Cox School of Business. "But the more significant problem is that it was an extremely hot market for six solid years and an incredible price appreciation was going on in the Park Cities," he said. "Twenty percent a year for six years is not out of line." Brueggeman said skyrocketing valuations left many small, older homes sitting on lots worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Developers scrambled to buy the sites and raze the old houses to build modern, spacious homes, usually on borrowed money. The houses then sold for $500,000 to $700,000. "For a two- to three-year period, there was a brisk market but they basically overdid it," he said. The market softened, and banks started foreclosing. Texas PK Texas has gone broke. Rich are losing + selling homes. Oil bus. stopped + industries sailing + losing up shop. Hou K. PK OSB 9/30/86 Chernobyl Area Lifeless, American Doctor Reports LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) - Dr. Robert Gale, who treated victims of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, said Monday he was most affected by an aerial view of the eerily silent plant encircled by miles of lifelessness. Gale, a bone marrow transplant specialist from Los Angeles, told a news conference that the April 26 disaster undermines theories about the survivability of nuclear war. "The radiation from Chernobyl was one-tenth that of the smallest nuclear weapon," Gale said. "And we were working under optimum conditions, with plenty of doctors available, hospitals intact. "So if it discourages that feeling (of being able to survive nuclear war), Chernobyl would mean something." Gale said he was not "for or against nuclear energy," but said of nuclear testing and nuclear power plants, "neither one is good for your health." He said a helicopter tour of the Chernobyl plant revealed a typical-looking, though heavily damaged building. "But in an 18- to 20-mile circumference around the plant, there was no sign of life," Gale recalled. He said he was struck by "the disparity of destruction and the accident's huge impact on mankind." 5 === Page 8 of 29 The Daily Press, Tuesday, Oct. 21, 1986 # Toxic 'red tide' plagues Texas Gulf Coast CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) -- A toxic "red tide" that has killed millions of fish along Texas' Gulf Coast has moved into Mexican waters and could linger until the end of the year if temperatures do not drop, officials said yesterday. Since the explosion of microscopic organisms appeared in late August near Galveston, officials in this city of 250,000 have closed beaches to swimmers, and the oyster harvest, which was scheduled to open Nov. 1, has been suspended from south of Galveston to the Mexican border. Merchants complain that publicity about the red tide has hurt business and scared off tourists. For now, authorities and businessmen are hoping for a cold front that will drop water temperatures to 60 degrees or lower, a level that hinders red tide. The water temperature has been in the upper 70s to the 80s, and a dip to 60 may not occur until mid-December or later, said Pat Patterson, a forecaster at the National Weather Service in Corpus Christi. Hal Osburn, harvest program leader for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's marine laboratory in Rockport, said yesterday the red tide was about 1 to 4 miles wide from Port O'Connor to the Mexican border, a distance of about 170 miles. "It could be up to 3,000 square miles of the Gulf of Mexico that has some red tide in it," Osburn said. It has killed pinheads, hardheads, catfish, mullets and some large redfish, said Frank Judd, director of the Pan American University Coastal Studies Laboratory at South Padre Island. The red tide has stabilized off the coast, he said, but officials are concerned that it will enter the Laguna Madre, a nursery for shrimp, oysters and other fish located between Port Isabel and South Padre Island. "There's really nothing to prevent it from moving in there," Judd said. "It can change overnight." Judd said the worst day for the red tide was last Thursday, when people were coughing and experiencing irritated eyes and noses because of the toxins. ## Red Tide Forces Closing Of Texas Coast Beaches CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex., Oct. 15 -- A red tide of toxic organisms that has killed hundreds of thousands of fish on the Texas coast forced the closing of Corpus Christi beaches yesterday and spread south almost to the Mexican border. Corpus Christi marine specialist Charlie Fulton said the 1.5 miles of public beach in the city limits were closed at 3:15 p.m. as the red tide crept toward the shore. "The red tide is just barely off shore," Fulton said. He said signs reading, "Beaches Closed by Order of the Health Department" will be posted, and "there won't be any fishing, swimming, wind surfing or crabbing allowed on the beaches, probably for the next several days." A state biologist said yesterday that a cold front was expected to stall the red tide that has plagued the Texas coast for seven weeks, instead spread it nearly all the way to the Mexican border. # Migration to Sun Belt at turning point WASHINGTON (AP) -- The flow of Americans to the Sun Belt has reached a turning point, with population experts puzzling over what the future will bring as patterns of movement to Florida, Texas and California undergo major changes. The three big Sun Belt states continue to grow as they attract movers from the chilly Northeast and Midwest, but the longstanding patterns of movement among states in the South and West have disintegrated, report population experts Alvin J. Sanders and Larry Long. "We are at a turning point in U.S. migration. But the migration patterns of the past have not yet been replaced by any clear new pattern," they report in the January issue of American Demographics magazine. "We cannot tell whether a long period of equilibrium between the states in the South and West has just begun, or whether historic migration patterns are about to reverse," say Long and Sanders. Long is a population researcher at the Census Bureau, while Sanders is an economist at the Tennessee Valley Authority. American Demographics, published by Dow Jones & Co., specializes in population issues. The researchers note that Texas, which gained heavily in population as the oil-based economy boomed in recent years, has begun losing people to other states. Often when a state experiences a sharp gain there is a subsequent flow to nearby states, they note, a phenomenon now occurring in Texas. The Northeast, Midwest and Southeast all contributed to Texas' growth. The widely publicized Michigan-to-Texas migration flow of recent years had diminished as economic problems befall the Lone Star State, they say, and "it's likely the number of people leaving Texas for Michigan now surpasses the number going the other way." 6 === Page 9 of 29 # Off L.I., a Lethal 'Brown Tide' Puzzles Aquatic Scientists ## Algae Bloom Devastates Lush Marine Ecosystem By THOMAS J. KNUDSON Special to The New York Times 11/7/86 RIVERHEAD, L.I., Nov. 6 -- Eighteen months after it began, an algae bloom known here as the "brown tide" continues to baffle the experts. They still have not learned what is causing it. They have not learned why it is lethal to marine life. They are still uncertain what it eats, how it breeds or how it survives the winter. And they do not know how to control it. It has become one of the most puzzling biological phenomena to sweep through Long Island's waters in decades -- an algae bloom so destructive that it has transformed the region's lush marine ecosystem into an underwater desert. It has destroyed vast beds of bay scallops and mussels, wiped out large stands of aquatic plants and stolen a special beauty from the region's waters. "This is something that had not been documented before," said a marine scientist with the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Dr. Scott Siddall. "So no one recognized it." ### Reappearance Is Expected Many scientists now believe the brown tide will be back again next spring. "The fact that it has occurred two years in succession is ominous," said Elizabeth M. Cosper, an assistant research professor with the State University of New York at Stony Brook. "If we had to put our money down, we say you better bet it's coming back." "This is something we'll have to live with in the long term and learn to deal with," Dr. Siddall said. "My opinion is that it we will be powerless to prevent it and nearly powerless to control it." The scientists investigating the brown tide work much like detectives, searching every possible avenue for clues to the cause of the bloom. They have combed through old weather data, examined tidal charts, checked pollution sources, consulted algae experts overseas and even interviewed old-time scallop fishermen. "From a basic biological viewpoint, the bloom presents a fascinating problem," Dr. Cosper said. "Why is it that this particular species seems to be blooming over this broad area at this time?" Although no one has yet answered that question, the scientists at Stony Brook, where much of the research on the brown tide is being conducted, are looking into various possibilities, including a shortage of rainfall in the New York region, environmental contamination and global climatic changes. If the bloom does return next year, it would be disastrous to Long Island's already endangered scallop industry, which in a normal year is worth $800,000 to $1.3 million to fishermen. It could also destroy the millions of hatchery-grown scallops that have been reseeded into the bays this fall at a cost of over $160,000 to local, county and state agencies. The brown tide has so far been detected on Long Island in Peconic Bay, Gardiners Bay, Shinnecock Bay, Moriches Bay and Great South Bay. It has also been found New Jersey's Barnegat Bay and Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay. In October, more than 80 officials from New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island and the Federal Government met in Hauppauge for a conference on the brown tide sponsored by the New York Secretary of State, Gail S. Shaffer. The meeting was barred to the press, but scientists who attended said they discussed everything from possible causes for the bloom to its impact on the coastal economy and the marine environment. ### 'We Know So Little' "We are still trying to figure out what's going on with the brown tide," said William Dennison, an assistant research professor with the State University's Marine Sciences Research Center at Stony Brook. "We know so little about the ocean." Until last winter, researchers did not even know what kind of organism was causing the bloom. It turned out to be a type of phytoplankton previously unknown to science. The organism, which was named Aureococcus anorexefferens by a Rhode Island scientist, is about 10 to 20 times smaller in diameter than normal phytoplankton, the microscopic plants that form the foundation of the ocean's food chain. Scientists are looking into the effects of the climate on the algae. On Long Island, 1985 was the second-driest year on record, and this year was also unusually dry, Dr. Siddall said. "These sorts of drought conditions may not directly initiate the bloom, but they may set the stage for other factors, both physical and biological, that do," he said. For example, Dr. Siddall said, the dry weather contributes to a temporary lowering of the sea level in the region. "That would alter the tidal flushing patterns and affect the quality of sea water," Dr. Siddall said. ### Possible Factors "Biologically, there are certain types of zooplankton -- microscopic animals -- that graze on algae blooms. And they may be affected by the changes in sunlight, temperature, salinity and so forth. They may not be present to prevent these blooms from over-running the system," Dr. Siddall said. Scientists are not ruling out pollution. "The fact that some members of the class of phytoplankton causing the bloom have unique phosphorus requirements is interesting," said a professor of biological sciences at Stony Brook, Dr. Edward J. Carpenter. "It's only been a few years since Suffolk County passed a law allowing phosphorus-based detergents. "This is very controversial, but it could be that phosphorus from detergents is entering our ground water and surface runoff and then our bays. This could possibly be a factor in stimulating these blooms," Dr. Carpenter said. Another possibility is that the bloom is influenced by broad global factors. "Algae blooms are becoming more common globally," Dr. Siddall said. "But is this because there has been a change in man's activity, is it climatological or is it just because our methods of detection are better? The answers are unclear." ### Scallops Devastated There is one thing clear about the bloom: It has devastated Long Island's scallop industry. "A bayman should be able to go out and spend an hour and a half and get his limit of 10 bushels," said Dr. Siddall. "The other day, some baymen went out and they got 15 scallops." Scientists have had difficulty finding money for brown tide research. "As far as I'm concerned, things have almost ground to a halt," Dr. Carpenter said. "We're maintaining the organism in the lab and doing a limited amount of electron microscopy, but we can't tackle all the questions we need to." So far, the Marine Sciences Research Center has received $121,000 -- primarily from Suffolk County -- to work on the brown tide, far short of what is actually needed, Dr. Siddall said. "Environmental research is extremely expensive," he said. One immediate goal is to develop better methods of predicting when and where the bloom will occur and detecting its presence at very low levels. "If we can figure out that certain conditions are conducive to the bloom, then we can warn the scallop industry," Dr. Cosper said. "You have to think of it in terms of the weather. You can't do much about the weather, but you sure want to know if it's going to rain today." === Page 10 of 29 # Decline of Oyster Crop Stirs Concern By FRANCES FRANK MARCUS Special to The New York Times 11/28/86 EMPIRE, La. -- It has been said here that south Louisiana's wetlands are so rich you can find oysters growing in the marsh grass, stuck to an old tin can or a chunk of wood. There is talk of oysters as big as dinner plates. But this fall the talk is not about abundance or size but scarcity. Louisiana's oyster crop, almost one-third of the oysters sold in the nation, is in deep decline, by as much as 75 percent according to some estimates. And there are fears for the future, not only for oysters but for the Louisiana marshes, which feed the oysters and the state economy. The national crop is in decline as well. According to biologists, fishermen and dealers, production is down significantly in all the major oyster-producing states, from the Chesapeake Bay area to Florida to West Texas, although there are no national statistics showing exactly how much. People in the oyster industry say the causes are varied: drought, disease, three hurricanes in 1985, pollution, overharvesting and, in the area west of Galveston, Tex., red tide, a mass of microscopic organisms that kill fish by releasing a toxin. But the common thread is drought, which has spurred the growth of tiny protozoan parasites and other sea creatures that kill oysters but are not harmful to humans. **A Worrisome National Trend** Oysters have declined in the past and then become bountiful, biologists say, but the current decline has many experts worried. "It's a national problem," said Fred Kern, a biologist with the National Marine Fishery Service in Maryland. "I guess the impact of disease is greatest at present because we don't have massive stocks like we had at the turn of the century. "With stocks being reduced for almost 25 years, every time you have a major reduction because of disease, the resource never really gets back to the productivity you had before you lost it." The oyster crop in Long Island's Peconic Bay was devastated in 1985 by brown tide, a mysterious algae bloom that has destroyed much marine life around Long Island. It has not recovered. There is a commercial oyster hatchery in Oyster Bay, according to William Wise, director of the Living Marine Resources Institute at the State University at Stony Brook, but the wild oyster harvest is defunct. In the Chesapeake Bay area since the late 1950's, the protozoan parasites to blame are the Haplosporidium nelsoni, or MSX, and the Perkinsus marinus, or Dermo, a problem along the South Atlantic and the Gulf coasts. They attack oysters when waterways become saltier, as happened in the drought this summer. Culprits in Louisiana include the Dermo and the oyster drill, a saltwater snail. Biologists say the Dermo can wipe out an oyster bed in one season. "Yes, the oyster situation is somewhat critical," said Roy Martin, executive director of the Shellfish Institute of North America. The Chesapeake Bay area, which once supplied 80 percent of the oysters in the nation, has been "in bad shape for a long time," he said. "Gulf oysters were trucked up to plants in Virginia and Maryland," he said. "Now, with problems in the Gulf, that puts a strain on the whole system." Oystermen in Louisiana, now the nation's top producer, with a 1985 crop worth almost $24 million at dockside, describe the season as "a catastrophe," the worst in at least 40 years. "It's an emergency situation," said Michael Voisin, president of the Louisiana Oyster Dealers and Growers Association. He said the Gulf and South Atlantic Fisheries Foundation was concerned about the situation and was looking into ways to restore the industry through aquaculture, reseeding oyster beds and rebuilding depleted reefs, which oysters use as an anchor and to obtain nourishment. The poor season has led to higher prices, a particularly unwelcome development for oyster lovers in Louisiana, which is trying to cope with the collapse of oil prices and with the highest unemployment rate in the nation, 12.9 percent at latest count. A bushel-and-a-half sack of oysters, which sold last year for $12, now sells for $14 to $16, and Mr. Voisin said the price might rise to $24 a sack. **A Worry for the Future** In Maryland, fishermen have reported oyster mortalities "in many areas of 40 to 50 percent," said Randall Schneider, a state biologist. "The primary problem is MSX," he said. The more worrisome questions here concern the future. Though the immediate cause of higher salinity is drought, which deprives the coastal estuaries of fresh water, the state's waters in general are becoming saltier because of coastal erosion. Studies show that Louisiana, which has 41 percent of the nation's wetlands, is losing coastal land at an unusually fast rate. The loss of this land, which is being accelerated by thousands of miles of canals dug by the oil and gas industry, is allowing the salty Gulf to surge in with winds and tides. Here in Plaquemines Parish, a prime oyster nursery, scientists say wetlands are being lost to open water at a rate of 6,500 acres a year. **Oyster Zone Moves Inland** Mark Chatry, a state biologist, said the increasing salinity had moved the oyster zone farther inland, "away from the best" habitat and toward pollution from development to the north. John Tesvich, a third-generation oysterman, said his harvest was down 30 to 40 percent. Aboard his 58-foot oyster boat, The Gusto, was grim proof of the extra salt in Bay Adams, historically one of Louisiana's most productive oyster habitats. Among the oysters caught one recent morning were snails, full from an oyster feast. Mr. Tesvich, who works out of the Empire Marina, also pointed out that activity was unusually quiet for this time of year. In past Novembers, he said, 40 to 50 oyster boats were based at the marina. But recently, he said, "there are one or two." D. D. Sercovich, another oysterman, said the biggest problem in the oyster industry was the fishermen themselves. "There are too many fishermen and the equipment itself is so efficient, we're killing ourselves," he said. He accused the state bureaucracy of contributing to the problem by being lax in enforcing fishery regulations, including restrictions on harvesting oysters less than three inches long. Despite the gloom in the marshes this fall, there is room for optimism. Biologists here and elsewhere emphasize that the oyster crop is cyclical, with valleys and peaks. They also say that plentiful rainfall this winter and spring would drive out disease and predators, allowing oysters to thrive. For the long haul, Plaquemines officials plan to adopt a $20 million plan to stabilize the marshes, partly with the use of siphons bearing fresh water from the Mississippi. But the parish needs money from the Federal Government and the state to carry out the plan. And because oil prices are low, state money is scarcer than oysters. The New York Times/David P. Fornell Sorting oysters after dredging them out of the Gulf of Mexico, top; the oyster boat Gusto near Empire, La., above. === Page 11 of 29 3 mob bosses get 100 years Post-Star 1/14/87 NEW YORK (AP) -- Three of the Mafia's top bosses were sentenced Tuesday to 100 years each in jail by a federal judge who said he wanted to give their would-be successors something to think about. The bosses of the Colombo, Genovese and Lucchese organized crime families were given the century-long terms for membership on a commission that had settled disputes, divided loot and occasionally ordered rubouts for the Mafia since Prohibition. U.S. District Judge Richard Owen said he had to send a message "to those out there who are undoubtedly thinking about taking over the reins of power." And authorities cautioned that the convictions and sentences did not mean the end of the mob in America. "The worst mistake we can make is to declare a final victory" Thomas L. Sheer, head of the FBI's New York office said following the sentencing of the bosses and five mob underlings at federal court in Manhattan. "I can't say it's the end of the commission," U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani said at a news conference in his office after the sentencings. "But it makes it much more difficult to operate that kind of an operation." Giuliani said the commission sentencings and other mob prosecutions were sending the message to potential organized crime leaders that "this is not a profitable way to lead your life. It's really a dumb way." Owen sentenced the defendants, who were all in the courtroom, one at a time and said his comments to the first, Genovese boss Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno, 76, of Rhinebeck, applied to all. "You sir, in my opinion, essentially spent all your lifetime terrorizing this community to your financial gain," he told Salerno. The other top bosses sentenced to a century were Carmine "Junior" Persico, 53, of Brooklyn, head of the Colombos, and Anthony "Tony Ducks" Corallo, 73, of Oyster Bay Cove, the boss of the Lucchese mob. Owen characterized Salerno and Persico as "feeding on this community through murders and violence and threats of murders and violence." Most of the defendants declined to speak in court but Persico, who took the unusual step of serving as his own attorney during the trial, told Owen: "This case was prejudiced from the very first day." "The attitude of the prosecutors and the court itself was in keeping" with the "Mafia mania" that pervaded the case," he said. Owen sentenced four of the five mob underlings convicted with the others last November to 100 years apiece. Bonanno crime family soldier Anthony "Bruno" Indelicato, 38, of Manhattan, was only charged with two racketeering counts and received the maximum 40 years for those crimes. Teamsters head has surgery Post-Star 1/14/87 CLEVELAND (AP) -- Teamsters President Jackie Presser underwent what was described as successful surgery Tuesday to remove a tumor on his lung, a spokesman for Presser said. Presser, 60, underwent the surgery at the Cleveland Clinic to remove the isolated tumor, which was discovered in a routine checkup, said John Climaco, Presser's attorney and spokesman. "There were no complications and complete recovery is expected," he said in a statement. Climaco could not be reached for further comment on whether the tumor was malignant. "We have no report on that at all," said hospital spokeswoman Rosemary Haiun. Judge Sentences Mafia's Leaders To Prison Terms 8 Draw 40 to 100 Years in 'Commission' Case NY Times 1/14/87 By ARNOLD H. LUBASCH Prison sentences of 40 to 100 years were imposed yesterday on eight men convicted as top leaders and key associates of the "commission" that ruled the Mafia in the United States. In imposing the stringent sentences in a crowded courtroom of Federal District Court in Manhattan, Judge Richard Owen castigated the defendants as ruthless racketeers who operated the Mafia's "board of directors." Judge Owen gave 100-year sentences to seven defendants convicted of numerous charges and a 40-year sentence to the other defendant, who was convicted of two charges that carried a maximum of 20 years each. 9 === Page 12 of 29 AFTER 7 MONTHS, STILL NO TRACE Ocala SB 1/6/85 # Holiday Gift Remains For Missing Dad By TOM SAUL Staff Writer The Christmas present left for Frank Roszkowski under the tree remains unopened as his daughter, Joanne Nasworth, her two children and her mother marked the seventh month since he walked out of their lives. "We put it there hoping he would be here to open it but he never did," said Mrs. Nasworth of her father, who simply walked away from his Ocala home May 27 and hasn't been seen or heard from since. Roszkowski, 67, a former meter man with the City of Ocala, had been treated for depression and anxiety following his retirement a year earlier because "he just couldn't seem to find anything to do with himself," Mrs. Nasworth said. "Before he retired he thought when he finally did it everything would be wonderful, but when he did do it everything wasn't so wonderful anymore," Mrs. Nasworth said. The woman said her father had never really had any hobbies and that his mind just snapped," Mrs. Nasworth said. "He must have left here in the middle of the night with nothing but the clothes on his back. Since then, we have heard nothing, nothing. It's like he went outside and a UFO picked him up and he just vanished off the face of the earth." Mrs. Nasworth said she called Ocala police and filed a missing person report, but has received no news. "I called my ex-father-in-law who is a CBer (citizens band radio operator) and he's gotten on a national network with a description, I made up flyers and sent them out to police departments, bus and train stations in major cities across the country and I even went down to skidrow in Orlando one weekend to look," Mrs. Nasworth said. But her efforts have been unsuccessful and she has not been able to find one shred of information on where her father might be. It's been frustrating, she said, because there is really no where to turn for help in locating missing adults. "It's not like with missing children. After Adam Walsh (a Florida boy whose disappearance and subsequent slaying prompted a flood of child protection laws) disappeared, all kinds of agencies were set up where you could get help," Mrs. Nasworth said. She still holds out hope that her father is alive, Mrs. Nasworth said, "because if he were dead he probably would have turned up somewhere and I would have heard about it. "If he were dead, at least we could mourn him, but it's the fact that we don't know that's really tearing us up," Mrs. Nasworth said. She is hoping that one of her flyers will catch the eye of someone who has seen her father and will call her with information on where he can be found. "He was always saying he wanted to go back to Pennsylvania (where he was originally from)." Mrs. Nasworth described Roszkowski as having medium height and weight with grey crewcut and green eyes. He was last seen wearing brown slacks and a white sports shirt. ![Frank Roszkowski] Frank Roszkowski when the novelty of not going into work every day had worn off he found he had nothing to do. "He was the type that had always worked but never really developed any hobbies. I'm sure that he was just sitting up that night thinking about it and === Page 13 of 29 # Fort Ann man greets intruders with gun blast By Sarah Hamilton Staff Writer 1/6/81 Post Star FORT ANN - After being burglarized two years ago, Arthur Stiles said Monday, he decided he would be prepared next time. The 69-year-old apparently received his chance early Monday morning - when he confronted two alleged intruders in his home with a shotgun blast. Robert Gorton, 21, of Glens Falls was listed in stable condition at Glens Falls Hospital Monday night after the incident. Stiles found Gorton in his kitchen and shot him in the shoulder with a small-gauge shotgun, Washington County District Attorney Gordon Hemmett said. "As I understand it, the man in the hospital has not been charged," Hemmett said. The state police did charge Louis Anthony Beames Jr., 20, of Glens Falls, on a count of second-degree burglary in connection with the incident, according to a Washington County Sheriff's Department dispatcher. Beames was being held in the Washington County Jail on a $20,000 cash bond, Hemmett said Monday. "I would have killed them if they hadn't left," Stiles said of the shooting in an interview Monday. "I had a gun that could kill them," he said. The gun Stiles used was full of bird shot, he said. Stiles said he fired once. "I didn't shoot anymore but I was all ready to if they didn't leave," he said. Stiles lives alone on a farm in Fort Ann. "I wasn't scared; I've been expecting it," Stiles said. In 1984 "two men caught me asleep, beat me up, robbed me and almost killed me," he said. "I've been ready for it (a burglary) ever since. I wasn't scared the other time but I thought my time had come." Stiles said he woke up and answered the phone when it rang about 4 a.m. Monday. The person on the other end of the line asked if John was there, he said. After he told them no, Stiles said the person hung up. "Quite awhile afterwards the phone rang again," he continued. This time he said he let it ring many times without answering it. Then, at about 5:40 a.m., Stiles said he heard someone smash a kitchen window. He said he left his bedroom and went downstairs, grabbing a shotgun. "I saw a man standing in the kitchen," Stiles said. "I pulled the shotgun up and shot. It was pitch dark. A lot of fire came out of the barrel." Stiles said all he could see was the silhouette of a man and that he aimed at that shape. "The shot spread out both sides of them and made dents in the refrigerator but they weren't too bad," Stiles said. "A man let out a yell and fell down flat on the floor," Stiles said. Although he said he did not know whether the man who yelled was helped from the floor or if he got up on his own, Stiles said the pair left through the smashed window. "They left real fast. I guess the man wasn't wounded awful bad. It was bird shot," Stiles said. Stiles said that after the two men left, he called the state police. The police found the two men at the hospital, Stiles said. "One man turned himself into the hospital," Hemmett said. "I understand he was shot in the shoulder." Hemmett said Beames spoke with the state police and was charged. Hemmett said he did not know if Beames surrendered to the police or if they approached him first. Stiles has not been charged with any crime. "They (the state police) didn't talk as if I could" be charged, Stiles said. "They told me I did just as I should have done." Hemmett said it is the job of the grand jury to review the case and determine if Stiles should be charged. "The law does not encourage people to shoot at other people. But there are circumstances that permit it," he said. State police said they were continuing their investigation into the case. === Page 14 of 29 Burglars was just a case of Beames falling in with bad company," Hemmett out-explained. "That's not going to fly this time." The attack on Stiles' home last week was not completely without warning. Naturally more wary because of the earlier break-in and assault, Stiles said two phone calls during the night had alerted him that something could possibly happen. He was neither scared nor totally surprised when it did occur. Stiles said a phone call from someone who asked for "John" first woke him at 4 a.m. Monday. When it rang again later on, he did not answer and it rang "for a long time." At approximately 5:40 a.m. he heard glass shattering in the kitchen and went to the front hallway with his .410 shotgun, the smallest gauge made, loaded with bird-shot. When he saw one of the men standing in front of the kitchen door, he fired the gun across the dining room into the kitchen, wounding the invader. "He let out a terrible yell and laid out flat on the floor," Stiles recalled. "I heard another man yell 'sorry, man, I'll pull him out.'" Both fled the scene, leaving the kitchen covered with broken glass and apparently leaving an open jack-knife on Stiles' front porch. The birdshot left several dents in his refrigerator. State Police from the South Glens Falls station, investigating the crime, interviewed Gorton after he appeared at Glens Falls hospital for treatment of gunshot wounds. Beames was also interviewed and both men were charged. Hemmett, who took over the investigation from the police, said Beames was arraigned Monday evening and to the best of his knowledge, Gorton was arraigned also, later in the week. Stiles said his shotgun was taken away as evidence and is scheduled to give his account of the incident to the Grand Jury in February. But until then, he said he'll protect his home if necessary. "If they come back I'll be ready for them," he said. "Next time it will be a higher-powered gun because they took away my little one." He added that the neighborhood is much more cautious now than in the past. "People around here never Continued on page 5 Burglars used to lock their doors, but they do now." Hemmett said that whether or not Mr. Stiles acted prudently in the incident could not be determined based on other, similar cases. "You have to take each case based on its own facts." Hemmett also criticized certain television and newspaper reports which he said distorted the focus of his investigation, leading people to think he was prosecuting Mr. Stiles. "People don't understand -- I'm not looking to prosecute Mr. Stiles," Hemmett said. "But it's my job to present all the facts to the Grand Jury." 1/12/87 Free Press 'If they come back I'll be ready!' Fort Ann man defends home and property; DA says he is not likely to be charged By James F. Brophy Fort Ann resident Arthur Stiles, after foiling an attempted burglary on his home last Monday by wounding one of the intruders with his shotgun, is not likely to be charged with any crime when the case is brought before the Grand Jury in February. Washington County District Attorney Gordon M. Hemmett, Jr. said that although it is certainly within the power of the Grand Jury to bring charges against Mr. Stiles, it is not likely to happen in his opinion. "Mr. Stiles will only be at the hearing to tell the facts of the shooting," Hemmett said in an interview Thursday. "The main thing the Grand Jury will be concerned with is the charges (against the suspects)." The burglary was the second time in 2-1/2 years that Stiles' South Bay Rd. home has suffered a break-in. One of the suspects in Monday's attempt, 20-year-old Louis A. Beames of Glens Falls, was involved in a robbery of the home in 1984 along with felon Kenneth Leary. Stiles was badly beaten by one or both of the men on that occasion, Hemmett said. This time Beames has been charged with burglary, second degree along with the other suspect, Robert Gorton, 21, also of Glens Falls. Because Beames had become a state's witness in the previous case against Leary, he received only a year in prison after pleading a felony, Hemmett said. Leary received a "long sentence," according to the DA, the maximum sentence for robbery. "At that time we thought it Continued on page 2 === Page 15 of 29 NY Times Emergency Food Aid Grants Backed for Drought Victims UFO Sun Attack 1/28/87 ROME, Jan. 27 (Reuters) - The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization said today that it had approved more than $6.7 million worth of emergency food aid grants for drought victims in Guatemala and refugees in Pakistan, Honduras and Zaire. A grant of just under $2.9 million has been approved to provide corn, rice, dried milk and other foods to Guatemala in support of the Government's relief efforts for 100,000 victims. # More rain keeping Midwesterners away from their flooded homes Associated Press Sun/Post Ripple 10/3/86 Another onslaught of winds and rain kept more than 13,000 people away from their homes in the Midwest on Thursday and ripped off roofs in Oklahoma City, while Illinois called out the National Guard to help patrol flooded areas. Floodwaters up to 6 feet deep flowed through some Illinois neighborhoods, the legacy of weather systems that stalled about 10 days ago. Ten deaths in the Midwest have been blamed on weather-related incidents, from heart attacks to traffic accidents, since Sept. 20. Meanwhile, forecasters fretted over Paine, a Pacific hurricane that moved ashore in Mexico with a fresh load of moisture. While the storm's progress was uncertain, meteorologists said it could combine with the stubborn Midwestern front to produce a whammy. In Michigan, rain had fallen for 23 straight days by Thursday and was expected to continue through Saturday. Gov. James Blanchard announced the release of $1 million to aid flood-stricken farmers. In Illinois, where damage was estimated at more than $30 million, nearly 16 inches of rain had fallen since Sept. 1 in the northeast, most of that since Sept. 22. "What we need is four or five sunny days to get out of the woods," Gregg Durham, a spokesman for the Illinois Emergency Services and Disaster Agency, said Thursday. Winds surrounding a tornado damaged at least 88 homes in The Village, an Oklahoma City suburb, but there were no reports of injuries, authorities said. Rains continued for the fourth day, with 2½ inches dumped on Oklahoma City in half an hour as the tornado moved through. see "double whammy" p. 2 # Winter storms wreak havoc across nation UFO Sun Attack 1/20/87 The Associated Press Post-Star A snowstorm blamed for at least 12 deaths plowed across the Midwest on Monday with more snow and ice, shutting down several Indiana counties and stranding hundreds of travelers and closing schools across the Plains states. Winter storm warnings were up for parts of Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York state and southern New England. Heavy rain along the storm's southern edge caused flooding that forced evacuations of nearly 300 people and washed out tracks that derailed 35 cars of a freight train in Alabama. In the storm's wake, Oklahoma dug out from one of its worst snowstorms in decades, and New Mexico's National Guard continued hauling supplies to rural residents snowbound by up to 50 inches of snow and 7-foot drifts. Slippery and blowing and drifting snow in Indiana led officials in six counties to close roads to all but emergency vehicles Monday. Chalmers had 10 inches of snow by midday. Many north-central Indiana counties declared snow emergencies, and parts of Interstate 65 north of Lafayette were closed in the afternoon by blowing, drifting snow. Up to 11½ inches of snow fell in southern Michigan, accumulating at 2 inches per hour in places, and minor traffic accidents were reported as wind-blown snow reduced visibility to near zero. State police briefly closed Interstate 96 near Howell. Travelers had to wait out the storm at truck stops, churches and restaurants in Oklahoma and northwestern Texas. "But these Yankees aren't too pleased with Oklahoma's snow removal," said Linda Kelly, owner of a restaurant and motel at El Reno. "I keep telling them this is the worst we've had since the 1970s and it doesn't justify the expense of buying those snowplows when we don't get snow like this." The Highway Patrol said Interstate 40 west of Oklahoma City remained very hazardous Monday, and Ms. Kelly said only one lane was open in each direction. Sumner County, Kan., along the Oklahoma border, got 14 inches of snow, its average for an entire winter. About 200 schools and colleges were closed in Oklahoma. Some schools also were closed in parts of Texas, Missouri and Indiana. Indiana State University at Terre Haute shut down. In New Mexico, where four counties were declared disaster areas after up to 50 inches of snow. A session of Missouri's state Senate was canceled, and in Oklahoma a parade and Capitol ceremony in honor of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. were postponed. Cars and trucks were forced to stop along Interstate 70 in Missouri during the night because of reduced visibility in blowing snow, the National Weather Service said. Columbia got 10 inches of snow. 13 === Page 16 of 29 Sun-Times 10/15/86 # Flooding leaves towns cut off ANCHORAGE, Alaska (UPI) -- A freak North Pacific typhoon that produced disastrous flooding left several towns cut off yesterday, as the National Guard stepped up its relief to hundreds of people forced to leave their homes. Military helicopters flew food to stranded people and eight planeloads of food were flown in for stranded sled dogs. Lt. Mike Haller said 135 men and nine helicopters ferried thousands of pounds of food and supplies to people trapped by floodwaters that sliced through roads and railroads. # Floods, winds and tornadoes wreak damage across Midwest * Bay area to stay warm -- 1B Sun Attack 9/30/86 Associated Press Storms in the Midwest caused millions of dollars of flood damage in Illinois and prompted evacuations in Oklahoma, while in the West, a small Montana town protected by 50-year-old dikes was surrounded by rising water. Storms wreaked wind and tornado damage from Kansas to Michigan, where lightning ignited a house fire Monday that killed one person. Lt. Gov. George Ryan, who toured the streets of Gurnee, Ill., in a boat, pronounced the scene "probably the worst flooding I've seen in Illinois." "The entire village of Gurnee is gone," said Lake County sheriff's Sgt. Steve Townsend. "The police are patrolling in boats. The situation is very, very bad." Main Street in Gurnee, just west of Waukegan and north of Chicago, was under 2 feet of water Monday, and officials at the Gurnee Elementary School reported 5 feet of water in some classrooms. Illinois Gov. James R. Thompson declared Lake County a state disaster area. The state Emergency Services and Disaster Agency estimated damage in Lake County at more than $10 million, following about 10 inches of rain in a week. But Frank Winans, coordinator of emergency services for the county sheriff, said county officials estimated the damage at as high as $20 million. Much of the Lake County flooding came from the Des Plaines River. Police in Kingfisher, in north central Oklahoma, evacuated approximately 300 homes as creeks rose toward flood stage Monday after more than 7 inches of rain fell in the afternoon. The National Weather Service predicted overflows of 2 to 3 feet. Saco, Mont., was surrounded by water from a swollen tributary of the Milk River, which itself has flooded other areas of northern Montana. Mayor Gregg Menge said he would call for additional volunteers to reinforce the town's aging levees and sandbag dikes. Michigan's Lower Peninsula braced Monday for up to 2 more inches of rain that threatened to renew the flooding which caused millions in damage earlier in the month. # Flooding keeps 2,650 families away from their homes in Illinois Sun-Times 10/1/86 Tribune Wires Floods kept approximately 2,650 families away from their homes Tuesday in Illinois after a spate of heavy storms that caused millions of dollars in damage from the Plains to the Great Lakes and burst a dam in Wisconsin. A tornado struck northwestern Pennsylvania community of Cambridge Springs on Tuesday, destroying a mobile home and injuring one person. The East sweltered in summer-like heat as temperatures on the last day of September soared into the 80s and 90s from Maine to Virginia, breaking records right and left. In Montana, the waters of the Milk River continued to recede, although the river remained out of its banks for the fifth day along a stretch of nearly 100 miles, and water from a creek engorged to a mile wide surrounded the small town of Saco. Water from the burst dam on Lawrence Lake in Marquette County, Wis., was flowing into low-lying areas where up to 1,500 people live, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage, said Dave Cihlar of the sheriff's department. Residents of low-lying areas were being evacuated Tuesday evening. High water, wind, tornadoes and lightning also contributed to damage in areas from Kansas to Michigan, and forecasters said more rain was on the way. "We've got a lot of flood water. We've got a little looting, and we've got some traffic problems But otherwise, we're doing pretty good," said Howard Watson, director of the Kingfisher City-County Civil Defense in Oklahoma, which oversaw the evacuation of 300 residents. The flooding in Illinois left about 2,650 families homeless, said Gregg Durham, a spokesman for the state Emergency Services and Disaster Agency. The Mississippi River was above flood stage along the Wisconsin border. A series of storms that started Sept. 10 have deluged Michigan almost daily for three weeks, causing more than $323 million damage in 22 central Lower Peninsula counties, and the rain continued Tuesday. # Huron and Michigan Rise To Peak for the Century NY Times 10/31/86 GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Oct. 30 (AP) -- Lakes Michigan and Huron continued their unseasonal climb this month, reaching their highest level on record and increasing fears that autumn winds could cause grave damage. The two lakes, considered a single body of water by hydrologists, were up to a foot higher this month than the previous October, when a record for the month was set, according to the Army Corps of Engineers. Michigan-Huron is running a mean level of 581.64 feet for October and is past the previous high for this century, 581.34 feet, set in August, Dave Schweiger of the Corps of Engineers said. 14 === Page 17 of 29 Midwest rain washes away farmers' hope Flooding has turned fields into pools, rotted crops and idled farmers at one of their busiest times of the year. Tribune Wires Some Midwestern farmers are back in the fields, but the storms that swept across the nation's heartland have left many facing only a bitter harvest - ruined crops and losses in the hundreds of millions of dollars. From the wheat fields of Kansas to the dairy pastures of Wisconsin, heavy rain and floods in recent weeks that forced evacuations in many communities also submerged hundreds of thousands of acres of corn, wheat and soybeans. Officials across the Midwest and Great Plains say it's too early to assess total losses in the region. But in Michigan alone, storm and flood-related agricultural damage has been estimated at $240 million after more than three weeks of rain, affecting at least 1.5 million of the state's 18 million acres of farmland. President Reagan declared parts of northern Illinois federal disaster areas Tuesday. The governors of Michigan, Kansas and Missouri are also seeking federal aid for their water-ravaged states. Meanwhile, thousands of Midwestern flood victims remained homeless Tuesday as rivers drained toward the swollen Mississippi River, which forced 1,200 people to evacuated in East St. Louis, Ill. For thousands of others, the cleanup was under way. "There are about a jillion dead worms in my basement," Diane Holst, 52, of Gurnee, Ill., said as she scrubbed down her house. The floods forced up to 55,000 people from their homes at one time or another: 30,000 in Oklahoma, 16,000 in Illinois, 7,000 in Missouri and 1,500 to 2,000 in Kansas. Five feet of water swamped the streets of East St. Louis, Ill., where a broken floodgate allowed the rising Mississippi to flow into the city. American Red Cross officials said up to 1,200 people were forced from their homes. Storms * From Page 1A 10/8/86 Damage there was estimated at $18 million. The Mississippi River was expected to crest today at St. Louis at 40 or 41 feet, about 10 feet above flood stage. Cities elsewhere along the Missouri and Mississippi worked to pile sandbags and reinforce levees. Dry weather across much of the Midwest and Plains states early this week allowed some farmers to resume harvesting, and agricultural experts say several days without rain should help salvage many crops. There also is no danger of shortages because of bountiful harvests. But the rain was been devastating in some areas, turning fields into giant pools of water, rotting crops and idling farmers at one of their busiest times of the year. Missouri officials say farmers in 54 counties, nearly half the state, suffered substantial crop damage. "I'm sure some farmers are going to be 100 percent out," said Mike Kraemer, Missouri Department of Agriculture spokesman. In southeast Kansas, 340,000 acres of farmland flooded, causing $50 million to $60 million damage, said Gary Kilgore, extension service crops specialist in the region. And in Oklahoma, where floods forced thousands from their homes, agricultural experts say 48 counties sustained "unusual damage." "The largest, most prevalent damage is soil loss," said Bart Brorsen, executive director of the state's Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service office. "That's irreparable and irreplaceable." Warm, moist conditions also have caused crops to deteriorate in the field - corn germinating on the cob and soybeans spouting in the pods. And because of harvesting delays, stalks weakened by age and insects fall easily and grain is lost. For some struggling farmers, already beset by low crop prices and debts, this could be the final blow. "Some haven't had a good crop in the last few years," said Ed LeValley, extension agricultural agent in Sumner County, Kan. This, he said, "is just another nail in the coffin." Floods Keep Thousands From Returning Home By The Associated Press More than 3,500 people in four states were kept from their homes today by flooding that washed away part of a dam in Wisconsin and surrounded a tiny town in Montana. Tornadoes touched down in Ohio and Pennsylvania on Tuesday, destroying a mobile home and injuring one person. Flooding continued in northeastern Illinois and across Oklahoma. The earthen portion of the dam on Lawrence Lake near Westfield, Wis., was washed away by rushing water Tuesday, along with part of a highway built on it. Two hundred people were evacuated from the town out of fear the cement retaining wall supporting the rest of the dam would not hold. "There's a horizontal crack in it and there's water coming every which way through the dam," said Phil Malsack, Marquette County chief deputy sheriff. "It's a question of when," he said. "It could hold for days; it could hold for minutes." Illinois Gov. James R. Thompson declared parts of two more counties near Chicago disaster areas because of flooding that contributed to at least two deaths and left 2,650 families homeless. Damage was likely to top $20 million and could reach $30 million, said Gregg Durham, a spokesman for Illinois Emergency and Disaster Services. At a shelter in Mount Prospect, Ill., volunteer Kittye Hermes said at least 20 people would be spending the night, including 10 who stayed in an interim shelter at a motel in Des Plaines until the motel, too, was flooded out. 15 === Page 18 of 29 # Storms Hammer U.S. Heartland By The Associated Press Sun Attack 9/30/86 Severe thunderstorms pummeled the nation's midsection, causing millions of dollars in damage and spawning floods that forced the evacuation of hundreds of people and left one man feared drowned. "The entire village of Gurnee is gone," said Lake County sheriff's Sgt. Steve Townsend said of the Illinois community. "The police are patrolling in boats. The situation is very, very bad." Up to 8 inches of rain fell on Oklahoma on Monday as thunderstorms and at least one tornado caused extensive damages, officials said. Hundreds of residents north of Oklahoma City were evacuated because of flooding. "We've got a lot of flood water. We've got a little looting, and we've got some traffic problems. But otherwise, we're doing pretty good," said Howard Watson, director of the Kingfisher City-County Civil Defense, which oversaw the evacuation of 300 residents. Thunderstorms dumped rain on Michigan's waterlogged Lower Peninsula on Monday, as a tornado in Genesee County destroyed three homes and damaged five others, knocked down power lines, and blew trees on cars and houses, authorities said. Residents of flood-drenched northeastern Illinois hoped for sun today after Monday's storms ripped roofs from buildings west of Chicago, resulted in flight delays and cancellations at O'Hare International Airport, and continued flooding that has caused an estimated $30 million in damage. A tiny Montana town was surrounded by water ear- See Heavy Storms on page 10A # 20,000 May Face Evacuation By The Associated Press Sun/Pri Ripple 10/5/86 Surging floodwaters that have driven up to 30,000 people from their homes across the Midwest isolated towns Saturday in Oklahoma, where rivers swelled toward record highs and threatened to force an additional 20,000 evacuations. Water was receding in hard-hit northeastern Illinois, where damage was estimated at up to $40 million, and in parts of Kansas. But runoff from more than a week of heavy rain pushed the Mississippi River out of its banks along parts of Missouri and Illinois, and Lake Michigan was record 3.5 feet above normal. Flooding has caused damage estimated at millions of dollars in Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and Oklahoma. At least eight deaths were linked to the flooding and three people were missing. The flooding has cut off towns in Oklahoma and Kansas and prompted a disaster declaration by the governor of Missouri, where Amtrak suspended passenger rail service because of a washed-out bridge. See Flooding on page 8A # Chicago Suburbs Flood As Rain Swells Rivers The Associated Press Sun/Pri Ripple 10/4/86 Chicago suburbanites stacked sandbags around their homes Friday, and floodwaters isolated towns in Oklahoma and Kansas as yet more rain prolonged the weeks-long deluge of the Midwest, keeping more than 15,000 people from their homes. Torrential overnight rains sent streams over their banks from Oklahoma and eastern Kansas to northern Illinois and Michigan, closing roads and highways and forcing further evacuations, authorities said. Western Pennsylvania was under a flash-flood warning after streams began overflowing, flooding residential streets in Curwensville. In northeastern Illinois, where floods already have forced 3,200 families -- or about 13,000 people -- to evacuate, 1 to 3 inches of rain fell overnight, said National Weather Service flood specialist Tom Dietrich. "It's looking more and more like we've seen the worst of this," he said, but flash-flood watches were in effect for the Chicago area, Rockford, Moline, Galesburg, Peoria and Bloomington. On Thursday, Gov. James R. Thompson called out 226 Illinois National Guard members for patrol and supply delivery in the suburbs north and west of the city where more than 16 inches of rain has fallen since Sept. 1. The state estimates damage from the floods at between $30 million and $40 million and Thompson has declared Lake and McHenry counties and portions of Cook County a state disaster area. "The demand for (sand)bags is incredible, but the people who really need them are getting them," said Gregg Durham, spokesman for the state Emergency Services and Disaster Agency. "We're imploring people to use just what they need and not stockpile bags," Durham said. "We have 750,000 in the pipeline and are making arrangements for more." The deluge is blamed on an unusual weather pattern that stalled a pair of saturated tropical storms over the nation's midsection. Since Sept. 20, at least 10 deaths in five states have been blamed on the weather. Durham said more evacuations were likely Friday. See Rain on page 8A 16 === Page 19 of 29 # in the mood for some fall weather? Move up North The calendar may say it's autumn, but it will take some time for it to reach the Tampa Bay area. By ALAN SVERDLIK Tribune Staff Writer Despite the official leap into autumn, it still seems like summer. At daybreak, the air hangs heavy and the sea breeze subsides. At noon, the sun burns with the fervor of July. At twilight, when joggers normally choke Bayshore Boulevard, nary a soul braves the heat. When will summer relinquish its grip on Tampa Bay? "When we get the transition from summer to fall, it will be obvious to everyone," assures Fred Crosby, the dean of the National Weather Service's Ruskin office. "At sundown, instead of being 84, it will be 70." And when will that happen? "It's not on the horizon yet," says meteorologist Crosby. The average high for September is 88.9 degrees, but this month saw temperatures climbing regularly into the 90s. Weather forecasters blame this on a high-pressure system blanketing the eastern United States, including Florida. High pressure, which sent the Southeast into its worst drought in history last July, thwarts cloud formation and keeps winds light and variable. It also fends off the cold fronts responsible for bringing fall to the Tampa Bay area. That Canadian air usually gets to Florida's West Coast as it moves eastward from the Great Plains. For the moment, high pressure is stalling the de facto arrival of autumn. "It looks like it's going to stay with us, at least through the week," says Crosby. Rain chances remain slim for most of the week, although a few showers could develop. Forecasters expect highs in the low 90s and mostly sunny skies. Although an overheated public regards the coming of autumn as an event, Florida forecasters see the season as a footnote amidst the great chapters of summer and winter. "We usually go from summer to winter without much in the way of fall," says Crosby. # Rain Swells Rivers In Midwest Continued from page 1A with "some real serious problems" in the suburbs of North Riverside, River Forest and Schiller Park. The rain has raised the level of Lake Michigan to an all-time high, more than 3.5 feet above normal and higher than at any point since water levels were first recorded in 1861, said Frank Quinn, chief hydrologist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In western Illinois, the National Weather Service said the Mississippi River topped its previous fall flood record and would likely continue to rise. Flood walls were built in St. Louis against weekend flooding on the Mississippi, and city street director James Suelmann said the walls would remain up until late next week. Michigan, battered by rainfall and floods for 24 consecutive days, braced for an inch of rain Friday and today. Damage has been estimated at more than $300 million and federal disaster declarations have been issued for two dozen counties. A new round of thunderstorms deluged Oklahoma on Friday, dumping up to 9 inches in some places. In Ponca City, where 5 inches of rain fell in 6 hours Friday morning, more than 20 families were evacuated, said police dispatcher Julie Johnson. Evacuations were also forced in Guthrie, after the town was split by the Cottonwood Creek, expected to crest 4 feet abover its 23.5-foot flood stage, police said. "West Guthrie is cut off from East Guthrie -- it's totally isolated," said Jim Dixon, civil defense director. "We just closed the last street connecting the two." Overnight downpours swamped both Hulah and Copan lakes, forcing engineers to open flood gates to release the water Friday, said Col. Frank Patete, district engineer of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Tulsa. That forced residents of Bartlesville, downstream, to brace for flooding potentially worse than the record flood of 1974, which swamped 400 houses. Kansas Gov. John Carlin declared a state of emergency for 13 southeastern counties. The rising Marmaton River, which rose 18 inches in 45 minutes Friday, neared its 1915 record crest and isolated the community of Fort Scott, near the Missouri line. Some townspeople evacuated, authorities said. === Page 20 of 29 Rains Soak Fields in South, But Drought Effects Persist UFO & Sun Attack By WILLIAM E. SCHMIDT Special to The New York Times 12/25/86 ATLANTA, Dec. 24 -- Heavy rains in the late fall have helped ease the effects of the South's worst drought in a century. But from Alabama to South Carolina, moisture levels in farm fields and pastures remain well below normal, with the start of spring planting only three months off. That means farmers in the region are now hoping for a rainier than usual winter to restore the deep soil moisture that agricultural experts say is needed to nourish next season's corn, wheat and other crops and to restore pastures burned out by last summer's hot, dry weather. All across the South, heavy rains throughout October and November, and again this week, helped soak fields, although the moisture came too late to save most crops, already damaged beyond salvation by drought. Large Deficits of Rainfall Despite the rain, total rainfall since Jan. 1 in Alabama is still 10 to 15 inches below normal and in Georgia 9 to 17 inches, according to Doug Ihle, a forecaster with the Southeast Agricultural Weather Service Center in Auburn, Ala. While Mr. Ihle conceded that the situation was markedly better now than last summer, he said, "We are still heading toward spring planting with large deficits." In an ordinary year, about 50 inches of rain will fall in the Southeast. In South Carolina, rainfall deficits to date range from 6 inches in Beaufort, along the coast, to more than 17 inches in Wallahalla, in the northwest corner. "The top layers of the soil are wet, but we need normal or above normal rainfall for the next four months," said John C. Purvis, the state climatologist. "If we receive it, the deep-seated drought will not affect spring agricultural plantings." Henry W. Smith, a spokesman for the South Carolina Agriculture Department, expressed optimism that the cycle of drought, which some believe began in the fall of 1985, has been broken. "The rain we got this fall went a long way to replenish what we lost last summer, so I'm going to be optimistic," he said. "It's just too bad the rain didn't come earlier, when the crops were still in the field. Those would have been multimillion-dollar rains." Muddy Harvesting of Soybeans The heavy rains came at exactly the wrong time for many soybean farmers, who after suffering through a summer of drought had difficulty harvesting their crops because fields were too muddy. Estimates of crop losses from the drought have ranged from $1 billion to $2 billion. According to Bob Milton, an analyst with the Federal Agriculture Department, the drought reduced soybean production in the Southeast by 15 percent; corn, 33 percent; peanuts, 33 percent; hay, 40 percent, and tobacco, 10 percent. The Southeast produces less than 3 percent of the nation's corn and 5 percent of its soybeans but accounts for 80 percent of the nation's peanuts and 84 percent of the tobacco, he said. Because the drought cut yields, the average price paid to the farmer for a pound of peanuts is about a nickel higher, or about 35 cents, than it was a year ago, but that increase is expected to have little effect on the market price, according to Emery Murphy of the Georgia Peanut Commission, the state marketing board. On the other hand, because of factors unrelated to the drought, tobacco prices are slightly lower than last year, said Mr. Milton of the Federal Agriculture Department. Farming experts said the drought also cut into the production of broiler chickens and eggs, as a result of searing mid-summer heat that killed thousands of birds. But no precise figures for losses are available, Mr. Milton said. A Benefit: Marijuana Dries Up Law-enforcement officials in South Carolina said this week that the drought had at least one benefit there: they said it dried up at least half the marijuana growing in the state. Officials said they seized only 4,951 marijuana plants in the first six months of 1986, as against nearly 21,000 over the same period the year before. Like farmers, the managers of water systems and others who monitor surface and underground water levels to meet municipal and industrial demands in the region are still keeping a wary eye on water supplies. At Lake Lanier, the 61-square-mile reservoir north of Atlanta that supplies most of the area's water needs, the lake level is within three feet of its all-time low, according to the Army Corps of Engineers, which controls releases of water from the lake through Buford Dam. Although fall rains brought the lake level up in November, it dropped again this month and is now 14 feet below what it should be at this time of year. Releases of water from Lake Lanier and some other reservoirs connected to rivers in Alabama, Georgia and northern Florida are to be held to a minimum through the spring. New Wells and Reservoirs If there is sustained rain through the winter, officials believe there is a 70 to 80 percent chance that levels in Lake Lanier will return to normal by next spring. "Lake Lanier is responding slowly to recent rainfall, because the ground around the lake is so dry it's acting like a sponge and the rain is not running off into the lake," said Gene Brown, a spokesman for the Corps of Engineers here. In some parts of northern Georgia, where a few scattered communities are still reporting rainfall deficits of more than 20 inches since Jan. 1, state and local officials have been working since summer to augment water supplies by either drilling new wells or building more reservoir space. In the north Georgia community of Clayton, where the city water system went dry in the fall, forcing officials to close down schools and public buildings, the state has provided funds to build a new reservoir. David Word, a water management specialist with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, said underground water supplies throughout much of the state appear to be stabilizing. The Big Question: Is It Over? "The positive effect of the drought is that it has brought into focus the critical water problems, and caused many local communities to expand their reservoirs," said Mr. Word. For some water experts, the key issue is whether the drought of 1986 will be a single event or part of a longer drought cycle. "The big question is whether these recent rains are just an anomaly, and we could yet go into another drought pattern this spring," said Mr. Brown of the Corps of Engineers. "Historically, these droughts often run in two-to-three-year patterns." UFO Sun Attack Cold was fierce across Europe Post Star 1/13/87 LONDON (AP) -- Fierce cold sweeping across Europe from the Soviet Union has caused the deaths of at least 17 people in three days and brought record low temperatures to much of Europe. Traffic accidents took most of the lives, but several deaths by freezing were reported. One victim in France was a fisherman who fell into the frigid Atlantic west of Bordeaux. A 14-year-old Danish boy was crushed to death on a makeshift ski-lift in Jutland. In Hungary, two engineers were killed when their trains collided head-on in Budapest. The crash was blamed on harsh winter weather. Avalanches swept away houses in Soviet Georgia, killing 29 people, Tass reported. It said the heaviest snowfalls in 50 years cut off many villages and some children were being taken to school in aircraft. Temperature reached -31 degrees in the northern city of Leningrad, the lowest since officials began keeping records in 1743, the official news agency said. 18 === Page 21 of 29 100 DIE IN EUROPE, HIT BY ICY BLASTS Cold Weather Stops Planes, Ships, Trains and Cars -- Snow Falls in Nice By STEVE LOHR Special to The New York Times LONDON, Jan. 13 -- Europe is experiencing one of its worst cold spells on record, with icy blasts sweeping across the region in recent days causing more than 100 deaths, avalanches, transport chaos, food hoarding and power-failure warnings. In Britain, at least 12 deaths from exposure to the cold have been reported in the last three days. The Age Concern, a charity for the elderly, warned today that as many as 100 people a day could die of exposure or sickness. Most of the deaths -- 77 -- have been reported in the Soviet Union, where temperatures have been more than 30 degrees below zero in major cities. The Soviet press agency Tass reported Monday that avalanches had destroyed houses in Soviet Georgia, killing 29 people. Also killed by avalanches were 13 people in two villages in the Tunceli province of Turkey. In Paris, where the temperature dropped to 11 degrees overnight, two Metro stations were kept open to shelter some of the city's estimated 10,000 to 15,000 homeless people. Normally, the Metro stations close at 1:30 A.M. The cold wave even extended to the usually balmy French Riviera, where a dusting of snow fell on palm trees. In Bavaria, temperatures dipped to 20 degrees below zero, with intercity trains from Munich delayed by up to four hours. Shipping at north German Baltic sea ports was interrupted by floating icebergs. In Italy, high winds and inclement weather closed airports at Naples, Venice, Bologna and on Sardinia. Trains linking Switzerland with Yugoslavia and Austria were delayed. Meteorologists are predicting that the severe cold spell, begun four days ago, will probably last through the weekend. They attribute the cold to a large area of high pressure holding steady over Scandinavia that is channeling a steady stream of freezing air westward. Monday night, about 600 passengers were trapped in unheated trains for up to 10 hours in southern England, where temperatures were 10 degrees Fahrenheit, the lowest for 25 years. In parts of Scotland, the temperature dipped below zero. Drifts of 20 feet were reported on the Isle of Sheppey, at the mouth of the Thames. On Monday even Big Ben succumbed to the cold, when its hammers and bells produced only a stifled version of its distinctive chiming, after one of its rubber fittings froze. # Storm blamed for 17 deaths The Associated Press Snow drifting up to 3 feet deep closed churches and airports and stalled travel Sunday in Oklahoma as a storm blamed for 17 deaths rolled across the Plains, and National Guardsmen hauled supplies to people snowbound in New Mexico. As the storm moved northeast, freezing rain closed highways in Pennsylvania and New York. Illinois got up to 6 inches of snow, with an airliner sliding off a runway during the night at Chicago. Parts of western Texas also had snow and ice, and dozens of stranded travelers spent the night in churches. Behind the storm, cold air clung to the Southwest, with record lows in Arizona of 29 at Yuma, a desert city near the Mexican border, and 20 at Tucson. It was the first time in nine years that Yuma had freezing temperatures and Tucson's second consecutive day of record cold. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol warned people to stay home if possible, but streets in Oklahoma City, which had 9 inches of snow and drifts of 1 to 2 feet by midday, were dotted by abandoned cars. "Even some of our squad cars are getting stuck and we're having to call wreckers to pull them out," said police dispatcher Jan Hall. A majority of churches in the Oklahoma City area canceled Sunday services. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported some secondary roads closed by drifts "up to 3 feet deep and 50 feet wide." Oklahoma City's Will Rogers Airport was closed, said air traffic controller Roy Womack. In the Texas Panhandle, 8 inches of snow also closed Amarillo's airport Sunday, said manager Bill Wilson. Abilene, Texas, had disabled and stranded cars littering icy streets, police said. Vehicles were lined up for miles on Interstate 20 as hills forced truckers to slow to a crawl. Some tractor-trailer rigs overturned while others sat jackknifed on the shoulder. # Record cold eases its grip on Europe LONDON (AP) -- Europe's record-breaking cold wave loosened its grip in several regions Sunday, but the punishing temperatures took more lives and many communities remained cut off. Known deaths reached 284, 14 of them reported Sunday. In Soviet Georgia, an avalanche killed three people and forced evacuation of about 2,000 people, a Soviet newspaper said. Sovietski Sport said the avalanche occurred Tuesday in Khakmati village in the Dushati region. It also reported a 12-hour helicopter airlift evacuated 500 vacationers from Gudauri after the Georgian ski resort was cut off by an earlier avalanche. Eastern Europe has suffered some of the worst of the arctic conditions, but Moscow was warming up toward the freezing point and last week's snow was turning to slush. France, particularly hard-hit among Western European nations, reported nine more deaths Sunday. Many villages in the southern Herault region around Montpellier remained isolated, as were areas on the left bank of the Rhone River in the Rhone-Alps region where high winds were icing over roads. On many roads where snow was cleared off, the surfaces re-iced and became treacherous. Soldiers and city workers continued clean-up operations in Paris, where parts of the city have experienced sporadic electric outages. In Britain, the county of Kent in southeast England, which took the brunt of the weather sweeping in from the northeast, was still crippled by snow. Police reported 23 villages there virtually cut off by snowdrifts. Army helicopters flew in emergency food supplies. Some villages hadn't had milk or bread deliveries for a week. At Lenham, near Maidstone, a police constable struggled six hours through snow drifts to deliver insulin to a diabetic woman. Increasingly milder weather was reported in Belgium, where temperatures rose toward freezing, in the Netherlands, Denmark and Spain. 19 === Page 22 of 29 # At least 216 die in Europe's cold 1/12/87 Europe's worst winter in decades claimed at least 216 lives by Thursday, with hundreds of thousands of people isolated by snow-clogged roads and troops in France and Germany blasting through ice to head off flooding and keep two nuclear plants operating. Freezing temperatures continue to envelop the continent, prompting the Common Market to grant $2.75 million to charities providing fuel, food and shelter to the elderly and homeless. Western European temperatures Thursday ranged from the low 30s in London to zero degrees Fahrenheit in Helsinki. The forecast was for continued cold at least through Friday. Travel by land, air and sea was affected. Southbound roads near Lyon, France, were among the many highways closed, forcing 1,500 trucks to park and wait for better conditions. In Britain, a snow-clearing team rescued a motorist who had been trapped in his car under a snowdrift for 39 hours near the Scottish border. Once his car was freed he resumed his journey, apparently none the worse for the ordeal. Airports were closed in France and Spain, and boats in Denmark were warned not to leave port without aid from an icebreaker. By evening, Associated Press bureaus around Europe reported at least 216 weather-related deaths since Jan. 1, including 77 in the Soviet Union, 36 in Poland and 30 in Great Britain. The elderly were prominent among the victims. A 79-year-old woman was found frozen to death near the Berlin Wall after leaving a home for the elderly on Wednesday to visit a daughter living nearby. Police said she had been lost before on trips outside the home. An 88-year-old woman in Nancy, France, froze to death on her way to a bakery. Churches and subway stations in France and Spain stayed open to shelter the homeless. Britain's Princess Diana visited a center in north London where the elderly go for warmth and a hot meal, and she learned about conditions some Britons suffer in drafty houses dating back to Queen Victoria's reign. "She asked what heating I had in my flat," said 78-year-old Alfred Freeman. "I told her I've only got one radiator in one room, and my pipes are frozen. She was surprised." French troops blasted channels through ice on the Loire River to let cooling water reach nuclear power stations at Chinon and St. Laurent des Eaux, 170 miles southwest of Paris. Hamburg city spokesman Werner Hackmann said West German army units detonated dynamite to loosen packed-up ice floes blocking the Elbe east of the port city. Officials said the floes threatened floods in nearby towns. Along Britain's east coast, many parts of Kent, Norfolk and Lancashire were cut off by deep snow. Whipped by strong winds, the snow piled up in drifts as much as 20 feet deep that defeated snowplows trying to break through to villages that hadn't had food deliveries since last weekend. Four-wheel drive army vehicles and motorized sleds were trying to reach a village on the Isle of Grain off the Kent coast to deliver emergency supplies. In northern Spain, heavy snow and frozen roads made travel impossible in a large section, isolating hundreds of thousands of people, officials said. The Dutch weather bureau took the unprecedented step of advising people not to leave their homes unnecessarily. Amsterdam had an average temperature Wednesday of 5 degrees below zero, among the five coldest days this century. In France, heavy ice floated down the Seine River in Paris for only the second time in 20 years. A search was in progress for six cross-country skiers missing since Monday in the central Vercors mountains. Here is a country by country breakdown of deaths reported since Jan. 1: Soviet Union 77; Poland, 36; Britain, 30; France, 20; Hungary 14; Ireland, 2; West Germany, 6; Spain, 11; Czechoslovakia 4; Netherlands, 3; Greece, 3; Denmark, 2; Switzerland, 2; Austria, 1; Belgium, 1; Italy, 2; Portugal, 1; Yugoslavia 1. ## Warm North/ Frigid South A cold weather snap hits Europe as spring-like weather warms the Arctic Circle. **Arctic Circle** temperatures soar from -44° to 32° **Iceland** 50° weather **U.K.** 30 inches of snow in Maidstone, Chatham, and Isle of Sheppy **Southern Sweden** temperatures plunge to 5° **French Riviera** light snow fall AP/Nancy Carpenter 20 === Page 23 of 29 # Europe remains in deep freeze UFO Sun Attack Post-Star STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) -- Temperatures warmed slightly in some areas Sunday --from 29 below zero in Helsinki to 26 below, for instance -- but Europe's big freeze kept people indoors and power plants running full blast. In Munich, West Germany, police said a 34-year old homeless man "probably froze to death" while sleeping under a bridge on the coldest night so far this winter, as the weekend toll of cold-caused deaths rose to at least six. Night temperatures dipped to 8 below zero in Magdeburg, East Germany, where 45,000 people had no electricity after snowstorms knocked down power lines. The Meteorological Institute of Finland, where Saturday's reading in Helsinki was the capital's lowest since record-keeping began in 1881, reported the three-degree improvement to 26 below on Sunday. Power companies asked Finns to skip their traditional Epiphany holiday sauna over the weekend. Electric saunas have phased out many of the old wood-burners. Soviet newspapers kept urging people to cut back on using electricity as temperatures hovered around 22 below zero in Moscow. In Siberia temperatures in the minus 70s were recorded. There was a reading of 49 below in northern Sweden. Swedish State Power Co. spokesman Teddy Palm said it was not clear if the power grid could handle the extra load today when industries open after the weekend. "If worst comes to worst we will have to close off electricity in some places for a few hours, but the best thing is, of course, if people voluntarily can save power," Palm said. A second Swede died from a Saturday train collision blamed on the cold. The engineer was also killed, and 10 people were hurt. Cold-related deaths were also reported in Poland, Spain and Norway. Not included in the cold weather deaths were those of a West German skier killed in an avalanche in Austria and a mountain climber who fell to her death in Britain. Eastern England and Scotland were hit by snow, and an overnight low of 14 degrees was reported at Holme Moss, in northwest England. Dozens of older persons were reported suffering from hypothermia. Outdoor sports were canceled or postponed across most of Europe. In England alone, 23 soccer matches and two horse race meets were called off. THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1986 ********** # Around the World UFO Sun Attack caped harm. The two parties are preparing for general elections, due by next May. ## Flooding in Leningrad Is Worst in 16 Years MOSCOW, Dec. 7 (AP) -- Storms in the northern Atlantic and the Gulf of Finland swept a tidal surge into the Neva River delta, causing the worst flooding in Leningrad in 16 years, the press agency Tass reported today. Water remained at flood level late Saturday, and unstable weather threatened "new attacks of the sea on Leningrad," the official agency said. Weather forecasters gave the five million residents of the Soviet Union's second largest city ample warning about the approaching surge, Tass said, adding that there were no casualties. "This inundation is the largest in the last 16 years and especially rare for December," it said. A 16-mile barrier under construction across the mouth of the Neva helped NY Times 11/29/86 UFO Sun Attack ## Israelis and Arabs Meet Without publicity, representatives of Israel met recently in Washington with representatives of Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and Turkey. The subject was the scarcity of water in the Middle East, a problem confronting all the countries, said Dr. Joyce Starr, a scholar who brought them together. Dr. Starr, who termed the conference "historic," would not identify the participants. "I am keeping their names off the record," she said, "but I can say that they were very senior representatives." If the Arab participants were identified, she said, they might be criticized in other Middle Eastern countries opposed to relations with Israel. Dr. Starr did identify some Americans who are engaged in the project, among them M. Peter McPherson, Administrator of the Agency for International Development; Senator Paul Simon, Democrat of Illinois, and Senator James A. McClure, Republican of Idaho. The response of the Middle Eastern countries, Dr. Starr said, gave her great hope that something could be done about the region's water problems and that talks could some day advance the peace process. The meeting, which lasted two days, was held at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, where Dr. Starr is director of the Near East Studies Program. Asked if there was evident hostility between the Israeli and Arab sides, Dr. Starr said: "It was just the opposite. It was very civilized and friendly. There was a serious discussion of the issues." An Israeli Embassy spokesman, Yossi Gal, referred to the meeting as "a seminar" and, while underscoring the importance of water as an issue in the Middle East, remained cautious, saying, "What will come out of it we don't know." 21 === Page 24 of 29 Victims go to work on debris left by flooding By Mary Shanklin USA TODAY Residents in the USA's heartland will spend the weekend shoveling away debris from the worst fall flooding since Huck Finn's days. "A lot of the topsoil has washed off into peoples' living rooms and that's really going to be a mess," said Bob Martin of the Oklahoma Civil Defense. The Mississippi River and its tributaries will crest above flood stage from St. Louis to Cairo, Ill. today through Sunday. It will be above flood stage for two more weeks. Crests are receding slowly - as little as two or three inches a day. While only light rains are predicted for Midwestern states this weekend, water from swollen reservoirs is seeping back into the river. Also, water that broke through levees in Missouri is flowing back into the mainstream. "It's like draining a swamp," said Dean Braatz of the North Central River Forecast Center in Minneapolis, Minn. Midwest floods, called the worst this century, are blamed for 12 deaths, the evacuation of 43,000 people and hundreds of millions of dollars in damage. Flood spots: * In Tulsa County, Okla., families are returning to 1,136 damaged or destroyed homes; 3,171 residences were flooded statewide. * In Fort Smith, Ark., crews sandbagged the Arkansas River and few homes were flooded. The river lashed out into Arkansas' farm land. * About 500 people fled their homes Thursday in Grafton, Ill., at the junction of the Illinois and Mississippi rivers. Snowstorms cause trouble across country Associated Press A new storm spread fresh snow Tuesday in New Mexico, where National Guardsmen continued aiding ranchers isolated by up to 50 inches of snow from a storm blamed for 42 deaths. Snow plows were at work and traffic was slowed Tuesday from the Midwest into New England after the storm passed through and out to sea during the night. Schools were closed in many Massachusetts cities, including Boston. Driving conditions were still treacherous in Oklahoma, where heavy snow Sunday stranded travelers and collapsed roofs and several thousand remained without electricity Tuesday. Authorities searched the banks of Lake Texoma for two fishermen whose capsized boat was discovered Monday. The new storm in the Southwest produced less snow than the one that boiled out of that region and onto the Plains late last week, but a winter storm watch was in effect into Wednesday for the hill country of south-central Texas. Travelers' advisories warning of slick roads were posted over much of New Mexico, parts of Arizona, southeastern Colorado, western Texas and the Panhandle and the Oklahoma Panhandle. Ten inches fell Monday at Rye, Colo., which got 52 inches Thursday. Los Alamos, N.M., which got 50 inches last week, had just a few inches of new snow during the night. North of the new storm, cold air pushed the temperature at Laramie, Wyo., to 27 degrees below zero, and the National Weather Service said that combined with wind for a wind chill effect of 38 below. New Mexico state police discouraged travel in the northern half of the state, and U.S. 64 was closed between Tres Piedras and Tierra Amarilla. East of Albuquerque, N.M., the Moriarty area, which got 40 inches of snow last week, got 3 more inches during the night and police said wind created drifts 2 and 3 feet high. National Guard efforts to take food, water, fuel and medicine to snowbound rural residents around Moriarty were not hindered by the new snow, police said. Guard trucks were used Tuesday to clear roads and driveways and deliver supplies to Torrance, Mora, San Miguel and Hidalgo counties. Two helicopters also carried supplies. "We're trying to clear paths so they can help themselves," Lt. Col. Alex Garcia said of people snowbound in the Moriarty and Mountainair areas. "So far we've been able to get to the people we had to get to. We haven't had to turn anyone down." West of the area of snow, Southern California had damaging wind Tuesday. Gusts to 60 mph toppled trucks on Interstate 15 north of Fontana, about 50 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, said California Highway Patrol Officer Kevin Haney. "We've got about four of them out there on their sides," he said. Wind gusting to 40 mph triggered widespread power outages throughout Southern California. Most of the blackouts, in such locations as Anaheim, El Toro, Sylmar and Granada Hills, were of short duration. In Indiana, which got up to 10 inches of snow Monday, only five counties remained under snow emergencies Tuesday while crews worked to clear secondary roads. Scores of schools were closed again Tuesday in Oklahoma, where residents were digging out from some of their worst weather in decades and 3,700 customers were still without power. For some rural areas of Okmulgee County, it was the fourth straight day without electricity while temperatures remained at freezing or below, said Okmulgee assistant police chief Paul Witt. "These old folks were around before there was electricity and they're making it all right," Witt said. "It's the young folks that have problems when the lights go out and there's no 'boob tube' to look at." He said most people had either propane or natural gas heating or fireplaces with which to keep warm. For part of the area, the culprit was not snow but freezing rain that encrusted everything with ice. "Some of it was three inches in diameter on the (power) line," Witt said. "We had some poles that just wouldn't take the weight." 22 === Page 25 of 29 Severe Disruptions Amid a Frosty Beauty By ROBERT D. McFADDEN The first major snowstorm of the winter roared up the Eastern Seaboard and across the New York metropolitan area yesterday, virtually halting transportation, commerce, education and government services and disrupting the lives of millions of people. Born in the Gulf of Mexico and fortified by Atlantic moisture as it drove north, the storm - a vastness of blowing snow, howling winds and thunderous lightning - left more than a foot of snow in many areas and transformed the landscape into a frolic of snow-sculpture. In the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut region, where 6 to 12 inches fell, the storm snarled traffic, complicated life for commuters of the strikebound Long Island Rail Road and brought other activities to a standstill as airports, schools, courts, businesses and government offices closed early. Lincoln Tunnel Paralyzed The worst local tie-ups were at the Lincoln Tunnel, where westbound traffic was paralyzed for nearly four hours in the afternoon because of choked New Jersey highways. Delays at the Holland Tunnel ran up to 45 minutes and many Long Island commuters, already suffering from a rail strike, took hours to get home. From a satellite eye's view at mid-afternoon, the storm looked like a gigantic gray-white comma that cloaked the East Coast from Maine to Florida and had a vast bulge at the top extending to the Great Lakes. Warm moist air from the Atlantic collided with cold Canadian air and produced a dazzling accompaniment of thunder and lightning. It was impressive on the ground, too. The storm crippled traffic in much of the East and South, socked in airports, forced schools and businesses to close, threatened citrus crops in Florida, shut down the government in Washington and some state capitals and sent tens of thousands of public and private employees home early. It also forced Southerners to cope with unfamiliar snow and ice. "It's just like a war zone out there," said Art Strong of the National Weather Service in Charleston, W. Va. The Long Island Rail Road settled with another union, but hopes for an overall settlement faded. Page B3. While the snow gave almost everyone a hard time, it also recast familiar images into exotic things. It put whimsical epaulettes and caps on heroic statues in the parks. It gave soft Art Deco lines to ordinary awnings and hedges. It obliterated city skyscrapers and country church steeples. And it drained the world of sound and color, muffling the scrape of shovels and plows and casting woodlands into a stark relief of black and white. The Weather Service reported accumulations of up to 15 inches in North Carolina, 13 inches in West Virginia, 8 inches in Delaware, 6 inches in South Carolina, Maryland and Alabama and 5 Continued on Page B2, Column 3 Much of the West suffers record cold The Associated Press Bitingly cold air spilled southward Monday from Canada, with Butte, Mont., hitting 31 degrees below zero and other cities posting record lows, on the heels of a snow storm that killed seven and left a 13-year-old boy missing. "We are heading into the time of year we all hate - cold weather," said National Weather Service forecaster Chuck McCain in Colorado. Only scattered light snow fell Monday from the central Rockies across the Plains to the upper Great Lakes, light compared to the storm that last week dumped more than 2 feet of snow before moving into Canada. But the snow accompanied an Arctic air mass that dropped temperatures below zero over much of Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota and western South Dakota. Record lows for the date included Billings, Mont., 12 below zero; Casper, Wyo., 14 below; Chicago, 18; Flint, Mich., 20; Helena, Mont., 24 below; Kalispell, Mont., 8 below; Lewiston, Idaho, 14; Miles City, Mont., 13 below; Missoula, Mont., 2 below; Rapid City, S.D., 7 below; Sheridan, Wyo., 20 below; Spokane, Wash., 11; Valentine, Neb., 1; Wheatridge, Colo., 9; and Yakima, Wash., 13. Several of the records erased marks that had been on the books since 1911. For Billings, Casper, Kalispell and Missoula, it was the earliest date on record for such cold. Gusty wind along the eastern slopes of the Rockies in Montana dropped the wind chill effect to around 45 below at Billings and Casper during the night. The temperature at Goodland, Kan., dropped from 29 to 14 in one hour as the edge of the cold air moved through, and freeze warnings were issued as far south as parts of northern Texas. Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., went from 60 degrees Saturday to 29 on Sunday. "We're going from early fall weather to mid-winter weather in almost nothing flat," said meteorologist Bill Deadler. By contrast, cooler weather that moved into the Southeast merely ended what was the warmest November weekend on record for parts of Georgia. Savannah, Augusta and Columbus had three days of record highs in the 80s, peaking at 86 in Savannah. Up to 2 inches of snow fell Monday across parts of Wisconsin and Minnesota, icing roads and causing numerous minor traffic accidents. Light snow also reached central New York state Monday, and the weather service said western Pennsylvania would get its first storm of the season during the night. === Page 26 of 29 # Planetary alignment, storms wallop coasts Post-Star 11/21/86 UFOs Sun Attrack GARDEN CITY, S.C. (AP) -- A storm of "mini-hurricane" force washed away decks and sidewalks at resort hotels on the South Carolina coast and flooded North Carolina beaches Thursday, while the highest West Coast tides in nearly 20 years forced the partial closing of a highway. The tides on both coasts have been unusually high because of a rare alignment of the sun, moon and the Earth known as syzygy. It was the fourth consecutive day that officials closed one lane of the Pacific Coast Highway at Sunset Beach, Calif. No damage was reported. A 50-year-old barn on the Washington state coast, at a spot called Washaway Beach, slipped into the ocean Wednesday after high tides eroded its foundation. South Carolina beaches were littered with planking from boardwalks and uprooted trees, but damage to buildings appeared to be less than that caused by a storm last month that left $3 million in damages, according to Patrick Dowling, public information officer for the city of Myrtle Beach. "There has been substantial flooding, but no damage to condominiums or motels or hotels," Dowling said. Civil Defense workers in South Carolina's coastal counties said it could take days to compile damage estimates. South Carolina Highway Patrol troopers stopped all but emergency travel on Pawley's Island after 40 mph winds and tides 3 feet higher than normal pounded the beachfront. Power lines feel in the storm, and police ordered electrical service cut off to the community of 700 to prevent fires and electrocutions. North Carolina officials reported extensive damage to waterfront homes at Long Beach, an island community near the state's southernmost tip, while tides washed through the man-made dunes to flood Topsail Beach. No dollar estimates of the damages were available. "We've got considerable beach erosion and considerable damage to the majority of the oceanfront houses," said Long Beach police dispatcher Earl Gilbert. "Houses have some sort of damage like porches and decks gone and dunes have been eroded completely away in many locations." Gilbert said the situation was "considerably worse than the December storm because of the exceptionally high tide ... and winds gusting to 50 mph and heavy rain." # Destructive winds, rain stun Southside, Tidewater Richmond Times-Disp. Sun/Par-Force Ripple 10/15/86 From staff, wire dispatches A major storm sped destructive winds and heavy rain across parts of Southside Virginia and Tidewater early yesterday, toppling trees, snapping utility lines and damaging homes and barns, officials said. An estimated $1 million worth of damage was reported in Brunswick Other photos, page B-1 County alone, said Sheriff T.G. Brockwell Jr. "I've never seen anything like it before," Brockwell said. "No one was hurt, thank goodness." The storm, traveling about 40 mph, struck Brunswick about 6:50 a.m. and moved eastward across Prince George, Dinwiddie and Sussex. It started pelting rain and hail on Surry about 8 a.m. and then swept eastward down the James River into Charles City, James City and Gloucester counties. Damage was reported in the counties of Gloucester, James City, Charles City, Prince George, Surry, Brunswick, Dinwiddie, Sussex and in the city of Hopewell. At least four people suffered minor injuries in Gloucester and Sussex in houses or mobile homes that were destroyed, authorities said. The National Weather Service at Volens verified last night that there were at least two tornadoes in the storm system. One tornado was sighted at 7:15 a.m. as it moved northeast along the Sussex-Prince George County line before turning east into Prince George County. The second touched down at 8:30 a.m.; the funnel cloud was seen over the Hopewell News building and Continued on page 2, col. 1 === Page 27 of 29 NY Times 11/30/85 # Winter Prelude: Snowstorm Sweeps Across Region BY RICHARD L. MADDEN Special to The New York Times HARTFORD, Nov. 19 - A storm swept across New York and New England today, dropping a blanket of heavy, wet snow and much of Connecticut was without power as trees and power lines, pushed down by the wet, sticky mess, snapped, knocking out electricity to more than 200,000 homes and businesses. By this evening, about 92,000 customers were still without power, and officials of Northeast Utilities, the state's largest supplier of electricity, said power would not be restored to some areas until Thursday or Friday. The snow skirted New York City, mixing with nearly an inch of rain over the 12 hours ending at 5 A.M., but the National Weather Service reported 3 to 10 inches of snow fell in upper Westchester County and upstate. In Westchester, 4,400 Con Edison customers lost power, but nearly all service was restored by this afternoon. More than a foot of snow was reported in parts of Pennsylvania, Vermont and Massachusetts. At Boston's Logan International Airport and at Bradley International Airport just north of Hartford, were forced to close. ### Shelters to Open The hardest hit areas of Connecticut were in a band extending from Norwalk, through Long Island Sound, north through Danbury and New Milford, and east through Waterbury to the suburbs north of Hartford. Northeast Utilities and Massachusetts sent crews to help. "Clearly there are going to be outages overnight," said a spokesman for Northeast Utilities. Emmanuel S. Forde. "The overwhelming majority of customers will be back tomorrow." With the temperature expected to fall into the low 20's tonight, many towns in the state, including Avon, Waterbury, Windsor, Simsbury, Bloomfield and Danbury, announced that schools would be closed tomorrow and that some public buildings would be opened as shelters. The overnight storm, which ended by about 8 A.M., dropped 2 to 3 inches along the coast and 8 to 10 inches in much of Litchfield County and the Massachusetts border. ### 'A Phenomenal Sight' At its peak before dawn in western Connecticut, the heavy snow was accompanied by winds as high as 40 miles an hour and lightning and thunder. "Trees and limbs fell across power lines, sending them snapping to the ground in showers of sparks." "It was a phenomenal sight," said Dr. Melvin Goldstein of the Western Connecticut State University's Weather Center in Danbury. He said the snowfall was not unusual for this time of year, but that a foot of snow in parts of Connecticut got a lot of attention. Although the sun began shining brightly by 9 A.M., many schools and businesses closed for the day. A series of traffic accidents closed sections of Interstate 84, a major east-west artery between Danbury and Waterbury. ### 'Ugly and Wet' The power failures were the largest since Hurricane Gloria in September 1985, when about 475,000 Northeast Utilities' 1 million Connecticut customers were without electricity. The United Illuminating Company, which served Bridgeport and New Haven areas near Long Island Sound, reported only scattered outages. The Southern New England Telephone Company said there were no major problems with telephone service. On Long Island, about 16,000 customers lost power as high winds, rain and sleet swept the island. Light and power crews worked through the night to restore service to residents of Suffolk County who were awakened by a series of loud bangs caused by a malfunctioning transformer at a LILCO power plant. "It was a nuclear reaction," William Sherrard, a 50-year-old resident, said. Sherrard said he received about 50 calls from worried neighbors before the system - one of 89 in Shoreham's emergency siren - was turned off about 3 A.M. === Page 28 of 29 # Storm Hits Northeast # 'Classic nor'easter' forces evacuations 1/3/87 The Associated Press Authorities in four states urged people to move inland Friday, as a classic northeaster swept up the East Coast with heavy snow, high wind and beach-grinding tides after causing six deaths and millions of dollars damage in the Southeast. "I just tied up my boats and put the cat in the attic. There's not much more you can do," said Dick LaCross who lives near the beach in Scituate, Mass., where many seaside residents voluntarily evacuated their homes Friday morning. In New Hampshire and Maine, the National Weather Service urged coastal residents to "complete all safety precautions and evacuate to higher ground inland as soon as possible." Authorities said they had no immediate estimates of how many people evacuated in those states, Massachusetts and New Jersey. "This is a classic nor'easter, a real East Coast bomb," said Mel Goldstein, director of the Weather Center at Western Connecticut State University. The weather service called the northeaster "the most vicious storm" since a February 1978 blizzard paralyzed Boston with 27 inches of snow, caused 29 deaths, destroyed 339 houses and inflicted $300 million property damage. The storm was blamed for four traffic deaths Thursday in North Carolina and two in Virginia, which was also hit by coastal flooding, rain and up to 5 inches of snow in some western areas. Friday's high tide was expected to be 2 to 3 feet above normal because of a syzygy, a rare alignment of the sun, moon and Earth that has occurred only three times since 1912, the weather service said. In southern Maine, where as much as 9 inches of snow piled up Friday, officials closed the Maine Turnpike to commercial traffic, and Augusta was whipped by winds gusting to almost 50 mph. Minor flooding was reported on dockside streets of Portland, but officials said sightseers' cars were becoming the biggest problem for snowplows and ambulances. In New York City, high tides delayed commuters on the Staten Island Ferry for about an hour, until the boat was ballasted down so a ramp that ordinarily is lowered to the deck of the ferry could reach it. "The tide was so high, Lady Liberty had to raise her skirts," said Transportation Commissioner Ross Sandler. His reference was to the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor. **NEW ENGLAND COASTAL AREAS** -Gale winds -Tides 2-3 feet above normal. -Evacuations along coast. -Emergency shelters opened. **Tides 6-8 feet above normal along N.J.'s coast.** **Storm blamed for traffic deaths in N.C. & VA.** **MAP LABELS:** CANADA VT. N.H. ME. N.Y. MASS. R.I. CONN. PA. OHIO MD. DEL. N.J. New York Atlantic City W. VA. VA. KY. N.C. === Page 29 of 29 White House aide Buchanan resigns Post-Star 24/4/87 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Patrick J. Buchanan, President Reagan's combative chief of communications, added his name Tuesday to a growing list of administration resignations, saying he could work for conservative causes more effectively outside the White House. Buchanan, who announced last month that he would not run for president, has seemed frustrated in his two-year campaign to get the administration to follow a hardline conservative script. Announcing the resignation, presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said Buchanan "feels he can better influence the issues and politics of 1988 and the direction of the conservative movement and Republican Party by speaking and writing from a vantage point outside the White House." He will leave the $77,400-a-year job March 1, joining an exodus of top administration officials departing with two years left in the administration. Fitzwater said the turnover was healthy. "You get a lot of new blood in. ... It's good to get new energies in for the last drive." Some people delayed their departure, Fitzwater said, "because of the Iranian situation and didn't want to leave while there was difficulty." He was referring to the controversy over the secret sale of arms to Iran and the diversion of profits to Nicaraguan rebels. Pat Buchanan That affair produced a shakeup in Reagan's National Security Council staff and cost the president his national security adviser, John Poindexter -- replaced by Frank Carlucci -- and a top aide on the NSC, Oliver North. In addition, Reagan has lost his longtime spokesman, Larry Speakes and his deputy, Peter Roussel; CIA Director William Casey; political adviser Mitchell Daniels; Cabinet secretary Alfred Kingon; drug-abuse adviser Carlton Turner; and even the president's doctor, T. Burton Smith. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8702b https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/cde56fcd9c2c782380c735c4f9fb3823.pdf 4f8f406dfc4de9d4b2a7a2f6d688d104 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/ad7d69d9e997ab506c831ef729eb6b21.txt c70bb015e735964fa274ef07228555ea Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1987 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 18 * I have misplaced my "Challenger" file, thus can't check it... but didn't the Challenger also (as well as the two below) blow up within about a minute? Owens March 31, 1987 SCIENTISTS Perhaps you recall that, some years ago, while sitting inside an office with a group of court-reporters watching the launching of a space shuttle, I asked them: "How would you like to see me hit that shuttle with a bolt of lightning?" The shuttle began to lift off the ground then one of the astronauts shouted to ground control: "I think that we've been hit by lightning!" The court reporters gave me a signed affidavit to this happening. It happened in 1969 (see p. 1 this file.) My UFOs and I are working on research and projects that noone knows about... not even my own family. and blows up in 51 seconds. P. 1: Lightning hits NASA rocket and pad. Their weather experts had assured NASA that there was no lightning within five miles. So NASA lost $161 million or more. But my UFOs mean business re humans keeping their experiments and themselves out of space. P. 4: In India their space program has been set back, badly, when the "first generation of big rockets failed within a minute after takeoff (note that it is the same time it took for lightning to strike and destroy the NASA rocket on Thursday. India's was destroyed on Tuesday) and crashed into the Bay of Bengal with its payload" (note that NASA's rocket crashed into the Atlantic Ocean.) P. 5: Note that "there is a fresh wind blowing in Moscow" and "Gorbachev has shown a clear willingness to negotiate." Let me point out that these conditions did not exist before I got to Hong Kong to set up my UFOs to work Russia over. Note that Fort Ann, where we live...plus other towns in this area...had the power knocked out for hours. Certainly. At this house in this almost-isolated location we have been inundated with UFO phenomena. At the end of this Report some of them will be described. This occurred on March 23, 1987. Note on this page that on 2/27/87 a UFO was seen, an orange light with a green tail, that flashed over eastern New York and was witnessed by many people. This UFO has come down to me on a hill in England outside Warminster...even got the sound of it on my tape recorder. I had gone up onto the dark hill after midnight for nights to call it down. It came right to where I was. What it did with me I do not know...but my favorite ring vanished...next day I placed a local ad in the paper in Warminster stating a reward if anyone found it...but several days later something told me to go up to my "spot" in the daytime. I did, and the ring mysteriously reappeared in my pants pocket. (I had searched the "spot" and my clothing thoroughly, previously...no sign of it. Also Beau, Teddy and I had this same UFO appear close to our truck for a full two minutes...floating just above a line of trees... orange flames in its body and a red tail. Sparks from it dripped or fell downward onto the trees below. Note the giant UFO that was witnessed by the pilot of a 747 jumbo jet over Alaska (they had movies someone on the plane had taken, on television. "The size of two aircraft carriers." You can purchase the movies, or photos, plus tapes of interviews with the crew of the plane that saw it, plus other information pertinent to it, from FAA, for $194.30. First time anything like this has ever been done. You will recall that, while in Scotland on Loch Ness, the Loch Ness creature's neck and head raised above the water of the Loch and stared at me. Had a head shaped like a football. I later saw it from the ramparts of old Urquehardt Castle there as it appeared in the Loch below. Well, there is such a creature very near here in Lake Champlain. Now I see that one has been witnessed in Lake Memphremagog in Quebec === Page 2 of 18 2 and Vermont. It is described herein on p. 6. P. 7: Two more Russian space failures have occurred. My UFOs are indeed busy. P. 9: Note that my UFOs are weeding out many "bad" people in key positions in order to get better people in. Also note all of the troubles the Navy and Marine Corps are having with military aircraft. P. 10: In "The New Collective" note the changes for the better that have taken place at the top of our government...by weeding out undesirable, corrupt, crooked humans...and replacing them with better humans. This is not by accident or coincidence. The next few sheets deal with the UFOs "sun attack." Finally...(1) This Spring, Summer and Fall I will be telepathing my UFOs to produce UFOs and alien living forms in this geographical area of upper New York State for police, scientists, and other "responsible" people to see...as well as my own family (who are presumably "not responsible" people...bit of sarcasm there.) (2) A thought on my part. I believe that the reason that there are "gay" men and women is...because as the fetus is growing in pre-birth the hormone level in their body is too low for their developing brain to be able to differentiate the proper sex for that body...although the hormone level is adequate for the brain to assign proper genitalia to that body... and in post-birth this "uncertainty" as to the sex of that body is carried forward in that human's life and develops ultimately into a "gay" format. (3) About 7 AM on 2/24/87 Teddy and I witnessed a "mother ship" and four smaller UFOs in the air over the huge field in back of our house...from the sliding glass doors of our dining room, which overlooks our back-field area and woods and further along, the mountains. Then, at 9 AM, same day, on the Donohue Show, TV, the show was about a giant UFO seen by many in upper New York state (our approx. area). The man on the show had been captured by the giant UFO and he described the experience. He stated that it had occurred two days earlier than the Donohue Show. (4) My son Beau and I witnessed a stationary UFO near our house. It kept changing colors. (This was 3/14/87 at approx. 8:30 PM). At 8:45 PM Beau and Teddy found enormous 3-toed "Bigfoot" tracks in the snow in the field in back of our house...using flashlights. (5) 3/22/87. Last night, for hours, our power was out. Earlier in the morning Beau had told me that during the night he had heard a UFO over our house...like a giant swarm of buzzing bees, sound. When it woke him he found that he was levitating up in the air of his bedroom and could not speak or move. He said that the bedroom walls glowed, like white light, in a diamond-shaped pattern. (6) 3/22/87. In the afternoon Beau, Teddy, Jerome and I were driving to town. We had just left our house (out in the country in a semi-isolated location, ten miles from town.) From our van we all witnessed a cigar-shaped UFO in the air ahead of us. It had small, stubby fins. It floated along, making no sound, then stopped dead for a brief period, then just vanished completely...like a magician's trick. First it was there, then it was not there. (7) 3/23/87 About 12:30 noon Beau and I drove to Price Choppers supermarket in Glens Falls to get supplies for the family. Suddenly all the lights overhead in my area went out, while all the other lights in the store stayed on. A girl employee smiled at me and said that she guessed the supermarket hadn't paid its electric bill. Beau and I drove back home and the light in the hall outside my bedroom flickered off and on as Beau and I watched. === Page 3 of 18 3 (8) 3/30/87. 9:05 PM. Beau and Teddy came running to the house from the huge cow barn, about 200 metres away. (Our landlord has...I think it is about 50...cows for milking. Noone guards the barn at night, although there are wolves and coyotes near the barn, quite often, at night...something that bothers my sons and I for our meetings with my UFOs when it gets warm at night...in pitch black darkness (we never show a light) in the woods surrounding our house.) They had gone to the barn to see if any more baby cows had been born (Teddy and Beau recently saved a cow and its baby...it was calving but couldn't get the baby out. This was late in the evening, about 10 PM, and the landlord was at work in the nearby giant prison where he is a Lt. over the guards. So Beau and Teddy discovered the cow's situation so they tied a rope to each leg of the baby and pulled it slowly out of its mother's tummy. Both would have died overnight, otherwise.) Anyway, as is usual, the lights were on inside the barn. No humans there other then Beau and Teddy. Suddenly the lights in the barn went off. Beau and Teddy switched on their flashlight and found that the light switches had been turned to the off position! Then, as they watched, a door opened and closed...with noone there! They raced back to the house, scared witless, to tell me about it. (9) My UFOs are utilizing what humans label "sympathetic magic." As my "state of being" goes...so goes the condition of the United States. I.e., my UFOs hold the U.S accountable for my "state of being" (which at this point in time is in a rough state)...because I am valuable and precious to them, as their sole human representative. Ted Owens (PK Man) PS: With the UFO powers that I have to work with... I can accomplish more than the Congress, the Senate and those over them all put together. Yet the money that I have to work with is a fraction of what just one of the above has to work with. The help that I have gotten, and am getting, is wonderful (from a single source) But... my help needs help. For those of you who have had my personal training - bear in mind that in Ft. Worth, Texas, I was arrested, went to court before a judge and jury and was found "guilty" of "practicing medicine without a license." I was teaching exactly what I taught you. (Same thing happened to Cayce.) No deviation. === Page 4 of 18 A2--Post-Star, Glens Falls, N.Y. Friday, March 27, 1987 National Scene Rocket destroyed; Lightning blamed CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- An unmanned rocket that appeared to have been hit by lightning careened out of control Thursday and was destroyed by radio signal 51 seconds after it lifted off with an $83 million military communications satellite. A NASA videotape clearly showed a lightning bolt descending from the vicinity of the Atlas-Centaur rocket, hidden in clouds, and striking the launch pad about the time the vehicle exploded. Launch officials, however, said they did not want to speculate on what went wrong until they analyzed data. Flaming debris from the shattered rocket and payload plunged into the Atlantic Ocean about three miles offshore. Coast Guard boats hurried to the scene to pick up any floating debris. The 137-foot rocket lifted off in a rain storm at 4:22 p.m. EST and quickly darted into a cloud bank. As it disappeared, observers saw what they thought was a lightning flash near the vehicle. NASA launch commentator George Diller said the rocket appeared to be flying normally, but then he suddenly announced, "We have lost all telemetry data. ... We appeared to have lost the vehicle." Later, he reported that the rocket had shot out of control and was blown apart, at an altitude of 14,250 feet, by a radio signal that denoted explosive charges in the vehicle. That was necessary to prevent the rocket from veering toward populated areas. The explosion of the vehicle was not visible from the ground because of the cloud cover. But observers did hear a muffled blast. Although launch officials were reluctant to blame the failure on a lightning strike or any other factor until they had a chance to study all data received, launch director James L. Womack conceded: "Certainly, there was a possibility there was a lightning strike in the area. We've asked the range to check all their intensity meters to determine if there was one." John W. Gibb, manager of NASA's Atlas-Centaur project office, said range weather officials had assured the launch team there was no lightning within five miles of the launch pad or the rocket's flight path just before the go-ahead was given to launch. Launch rules prohibit a liftoff if there is electrical activity within five miles. Lightning was reported, Gibb said, on the edge of the five-mile zone about 15 minutes before launch and that the countdown was held up for 14 minutes until that storm activity moved on. "At the time of the launch, we were in a solid go as far as the weather was concerned," Gibb told a news conference. Rain wouldn't have prevented a launch, he said. Only one rocket in the more than 2,000 that have been launched here in 36 years is known to have been hit by lightning after liftoff. That was the Saturn 5 rocket that was hoisting the three-man Apollo 12 crew toward the moon in 1969. The strike briefly knocked out electrical power in the spacecraft, but the astronauts were able to overcome the problem by punching circuit breakers and they made it safely to the moon. The failure ended a streak of seven U.S. space launch successes. That string followed three failures early last year, including the explosion of space shuttle Challenger that killed the crew of seven. In Washington, Colin Powell, a National Security Council official who accompanied President Reagan on a speaking trip to Columbia, Mo., said the president was told about the accident during his return flight aboard Air Force One and, "He was disturbed about it." === Page 5 of 18 # $161 Million Space Mission Ruined as Rocket Goes Out of Control NY Times 3/27/87 UFOs vs Space Work BY JOHN NOBLE WILFORD An Atlas-Centaur rocket carrying a military communications satellite went out of control and was destroyed shortly after liftoff yesterday at Cape Canaveral, Fla. The failure ended a streak of seven launching successes for the United States space program that followed a string a staggering accidents early last year, including the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger in January 1986. Officials at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida said they had no immediate clues as to what caused the loss of the unmanned rocket. A review board of space agency engineers will be named to investigate the accident. ### 'Massive Electrical Failure' A NASA videotape showed a lightning bolt descending from the vicinity of the rocket and striking the launching pad about the time the craft exploded. But launching officials said they did not want to speculate on what went wrong until they had analyzed the data. At a news conference, John Gibbs, the Atlas-Centaur project manager, said launching engineers suspected that a "massive electrical failure" developed about 51 seconds after the liftoff at 4:22 P.M. Eastern standard time. Although news reporters said they saw lightning flashes in the area immediately after the liftoff, the engineers said they had no initial evidence that the rocket was struck by lightning. "At this point, we don't know what the cause was," Mr. Gibbs said. The 137-foot booster blasted away from its launching pad into a light rain. But Mr. Gibbs said launching officials had been assured that there was no lightning potential within a five-mile radius. According to mission rules, no launching is supposed to occur if the craft would follow a course taking it within five miles of storm clouds. "There were no waivers of mission rules," Mr. Gibbs said, adding that all data from the rocket had indicated that it was performing normally until 51 seconds after the liftoff. ### 'Lost All Telemetry Data' At that moment, George Diller, the mission commentator, announced, "We have lost all telemetry data," meaning the communications of engineering information from the rocket. "We appeared to have lost the vehicle," he added. Mr. Diller reported that the moment appeared to pitch over at the moment of the communications loss. The rocket had reached an altitude of 14,250 feet and was half a mile off the Atlantic coast. Range safety officers immediately sent a radio signal to detonate explosive charges on the rocket, causing it to blow up. This action was taken to prevent the out-of-control rocket from veering toward populated areas. The wreckage fell into the Atlantic several miles off shore. ### Five Others in Orbit The failure ruined a $161 million mission, with the Atlas-Centaur costing $78 million and the satellite $83 million. The satellite, called a Fleet Communications Satellite, was to be operated by the Navy for the Defense Department, providing a link in a global communications network form the United States armed forces. The satellite was to have joined five other similar craft in an orbit 22,300 miles above the Earth's equator. The first four of these craft have operated beyond their five-year designed life span. The fifth, launched last December by another Atlas-Centaur, was the first of a group intended to replace the older satellites. After the Challenger disaster, which killed seven astronauts, the nation's space program suffered two successive failures of unmanned rockets: an Air Force Titan 34D and a National Aeronautics and Space Administration Delta rocket. Although there was no reason to suspect their reliability, NASA last year ordered a halt of all launchings of the Atlas-Centaurs until they could be thoroughly inspected. But the Atlas-Centaur launching last December was flawless, and NASA proceeded with plans for yesterday's launching. # Weather Service to Drop NASA for Satellites NY Times 3/27/87 UFOs vs Space Work SUITLAND, Md., March 26 (AP) -- The National Weather Service is going to use private companies to launch its satellites, ending more than 25 years of dependence on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. "We have made the decision to change the way we do business," Thomas N. Pyke Jr., head of the National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service, said Wednesday. His agency operates the satellites that provide the weather pictures for television and other media. He said he would seek bids soon. The policy change followed the formal handing over of the latest satellite by NASA officials. That maneuverable satellite, GOES-7, for Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, provides two weather-observing positions in space, restoring a capacity lost in 1984 when an earlier weather satellite failed. The satellite has been moved back and forth over the nation in different seasons, but its overall weather reporting has been limited. Getting a second weather satellite up was delayed by NASA problems including the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger Jan. 28, 1986, with the loss of its seven crew members, and a later failure of an attempt to launch a weather satellite by rocket. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the parent of the National Weather Service and Mr. Pyke's satellite service, has negotiated a contract for construction of three more weather satellites for use as the current satellites wear out. Mr. Pyke said concerns that might have the potential to provide rockets for satellite launchings included Martin Marietta and General Dynamics and that launching facilities would be leased from the Air Force. The Commerce Department has sanctioned the program, he said. After shuttle flights were halted following the Challenger disaster, commercial customers scrambled for other vehicles to get cargoes into the sky. That provided an opportunity for such satellite launching programs as the European Ariane rockets. Mr. Pyke said his agency hoped to be ready to launch a satellite by 1989. (2) === Page 6 of 18 National Scene # Critics question launch of rocket in rainstorm CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Engineers on Friday examined wreckage from a $161 million rocket that was destroyed after a possible lightning strike as critics asked: Why was it launched in a rainstorm? Security patrols found several pieces of the Atlas-Centaur rocket that had washed ashore near a space shuttle launch pad. Handling the debris was tricky because some of it contained explosive charges and other ordnance devices. The chunks were being studied for clues to what caused the unmanned booster to tumble out of control 51 seconds after launch Thursday. Former officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration questioned the decision to launch at a time when the agency says it is taking a conservative approach to safety as a result of the space shuttle Challenger explosion that killed seven crew members on Jan. 28, 1986. "We didn't consider we were taking a risk," said John W. Gibb, chief of NASA's Atlas-Centaur office. "At the time of launch we were in a solid go as far as the weather was concerned." Fiery chunks of wreckage plummeted into the Atlantic Ocean when the vehicle and the military communications satellite it carried were blown apart by a radio signal to prevent it from careening into populated areas. Launch officials did not immediately place blame for the failure, and NASA on Friday named a nine-man review board to investigate the accident, which ended a streak of seven space launch successes. Jon R. Busse, director of the office of flight assurance at the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, heads the board. A videotape released by NASA shows a lightning bolt streaking from the area where the 137-foot Atlas-Centaur rocket vanished in the clouds. The bolt hit the launch pad one second before the explosion. Launch director James L. Womack and other officials defended the decision to blast off, saying all weather constraints were met, including a report that there was no lightning within five miles of the launch pad or the rocket's projected path. However, lightning on the edge of that zone shortly before launch delayed the liftoff 14 minutes until the electrical activity passed. "What are they doing?" asked Milton Silveira, who retired recently as NASA's chief engineer. "If you get in a situation like that, you get charged particles in the air. You're making yourself a great big target for a lightning strike ... Why take chances?" "It was poor judgment to launch under such conditions," said Walter Kapryn, who was launch director during the Apollo man-to-the-moon program. "There are rules for launching, but sometimes you have to use common sense in following those rules." Gibb said if it turns out that lightning caused the accident, the weather rules might have to be rewritten. The Atlas-Centaur rocket was valued at $78 million and the satellite at $83 million. The satellite was to have joined a network of five existing communications payloads to link U.S. military forces worldwide. Air Force Col. John W. Allsbrook of the Air Force Space Division said the loss of the satellite will have "minimum impact" on communications capabilities because the five earlier satellites are working well. However, four of them have outlived their projected five-year lifespan, and the lost satellite was to have served essentially as a spare until one gave out. Another satellite is scheduled for launch by an Atlas-Centaur in June, but the schedule now will depend on the findings of the investigation. NY Times 3/29/87 # Static and Discord In the World Of TV Evangelism In the book of Matthew, Jesus tells his disciples of the prophecies that must be fulfilled before he returns to save the planet. Among the events that are to precede a Second Coming are earthquakes, famines, nation rising against nation, and the preaching of the gospel to each of the world's inhabitants. In recent times, television has been embraced as a means toward this universal salvation, and some Protestant ministers see such technologies as satellite-dish antennas as instruments of the Lord. But they have discovered that the electronic pulpit can also magnify the failings of its inhabitants. The Rev. Jim Bakker stunned his followers earlier this month by announcing that he had been blackmailed after being "wickedly manipulated by treacherous former friends" into a sexual encounter with a young admirer in 1980. Mr. Bakker's church, the Assemblies of God, said last week that it had no evidence of blackmail but concluded that money had changed hands. The young woman, Jessica Hahn, responding to Mr. Bakker's charges that she seduced him, said through an adviser that she succumbed only after drinking drugged wine. Mr. Bakker had resigned as head of the PTL ministry of Fort Mill, S.C., whose assets include a cable TV network and a religious theme park. He turned control of PTL (which stands for Praise the Lord and People That Love) to the Rev. Jerry Falwell, host of the "Old Time Gospel Hour" and founder of the conservative group Moral Majority. Last week, Mr. Bakker declared that he had been forced to avert a "diabolical plot" to take over PTL. His lawyer identified the raider as the Rev. Jimmy Swaggart, host of the weekly "Jimmy Swaggart Hour," whose audience (1,046,000 households) exceeds that of Mr. Bakker and Mr. Falwell combined. Mr. Swaggart, who was not accused of participating in blackmail but of taking advantage of Mr. Bakker's troubles, opened a crusade last week with a plea to "deliver us from these pompadour boys" and declared that "the most hellish sin is covered with 'Praise the Lord.'" Meanwhile, the Rev. Oral Roberts, the host of a popular Sunday morning show, accused Mr. Swaggart of "sowing discord." (Mr. Roberts reached his own $8 million fund-raising goal last week, having accepted on television -- a check for $1.3 million. He had been fasting, saying God would "call him home" if he fell short.) Mr. Falwell and the Rev. Robert Schuller -- whose "Hour of Power" reaches 1,277,000 households -- also backed Mr. Bakker but said nothing against Mr. Swaggart. The Rev. Pat Robertson, head of the Christian Broadcasting Network and host of the popular "700 Club," was campaigning for the Republican Presidential nomination. He diplomatically declined to take sides, though earlier he had said that God seemed to be "housecleaning." === Page 7 of 18 28 THE NEW YORK TIMES, S # Lighting Bolt May Have Caused Rocket's Failure By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD A lightning bolt that struck shortly after the launching is considered a "possible cause" of the mishap that led to the destruction of the Atlas-Centaur rocket Thursday, space agency engineers said yesterday. But officials of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida cautioned that this was only one of the theories that would be examined by a nine-member board of inquiry named yesterday to investigate the failure of the unmanned $161-million mission, the fourth failure in the United States space program in little more than a year. "That's only one aspect that people will be looking at," a space agency spokesman, Hugh W. Harris, said of the lightning that was seen descending from the area of the rocket to the launching pad at the moment of the failure. "We're keeping an open mind." **First Formal Meeting** Jon R. Busse, director of flight assurance at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., was appointed to head the investigation. The board of inquiry is scheduled to hold its first formal meeting Tuesday. Mr. Harris said that the next launching, scheduled to be another Atlas-Centaur in June, was "on hold until the board clears it or recommends what changes need to be made." There have been 67 launchings of Atlas-Centaur rockets since 1962; seven have failed. On Thursday the Atlas-Centaur carrying a military communications satellite tumbled out of control 51 seconds after liftoff. Range safety officers immediately sent a radio signal to destroy the entire craft to prevent it from veering off and endangering populated areas along the Florida coast. The fiery wreckage fell into the Atlantic Ocean about three miles off Cape Canaveral. Beach patrols found two large pieces of the rocket, and salvage ships are searching the waters for debris that - one in Norfolk - 4 strike in outer space ATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1987 might contain clues to the cause of the failure. Beachcombers were cautioned to stay away from wreckage that washed ashore because some of it could contain toxic fuel. **Bolt Struck the Pad** A videotape released by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration clearly shows a large lightning bolt flashing out of the rain clouds into which the 137-foot rocket had vanished. The bolt struck the launching pad about the time the vehicle exploded. John W. Gibb, the Atlas-Centaur project manager, said lightning was a possible cause but defended NASA's decision to launch the craft into the cloudy skies. He said launching officials had been assured there were no dangerous storm clouds within five miles of the rocket's projected course. "We didn't consider we were taking a risk," Mr. Gibb said. "At the time of launch we were in a solid 'go' as far as the weather was concerned." The rocket had reached an altitude of 14,250 feet, and was out of sight in a rain cloud, when it went out of control and all communications with it were disrupted. Peak electrical activity in thunderclouds is usually from 12,000 to 25,000 feet. **Apollo 12 Was Struck** On another rainy day, in November 1969, the Apollo 12 was struck by lightning less than a minute after liftoff. The craft was kept operating on battery power until the astronauts could reset their circuit-breakers. Then the mission proceeded to a landing on the Moon. Robert D. Hill, an expert on lightning and a physicist at the University of California at Santa Barbara, said that a rocket penetrating a storm cloud tended to attract electrical charges much the same way as does a tree or the Empire State Building. Dr. Hill said the Kennedy Space Center had "an excellent system for predicting these potential lightning flashes." If NASA said that the weather was acceptable, he said, "I'm very surprised that something like this developed, if it indeed was lightning that caused the failure." # Rocket Failure Sets Back India's Space Program UFOs vs Space work Special to The New York Times 3/26 NEW DELHI, March 25 -- India's ambitious space program suffered a setback Tuesday when the first of a new generation of big rockets failed within a minute after takeoff and crashed into the Bay of Bengal with its payload. "The launch has failed," U. R. Rao, director of the Government's space project, told reporters at Sriharikota, the space launching center on the southeastern coast. Mr. Rao said that scientists were analyzing data and that it could take several days to determine a precise reason for the failure. The launching after a 30-hour countdown appeared normal at the start, officials said. But they said the 80-foot rocket failed within seconds. They said a fire on a motor could have been the cause of the failure. Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi watched the launching of India's largest locally designed and constructed solid-fuel rocket, which was to have hurled a 330-pound satellite into orbit. The satellite was about four times the size of earlier ones successfully placed in orbit in 1980 and 1983 from the same launching center. It was not immediately clear how far the Indian space program had been set back. Mr. Gandhi left the satellite center soon after blastoff and he described the failure to reporters as "only a small stumble." He added that the Government would continue to strongly support the space program. **India Used Other Facilities** India's first effort to put a satellite into space in 1979 failed in a fashion similar to that of Tuesday, with the rocket and space vehicle landing in the Bay of Bengal. However, the space program appeared to have overcome many of the early difficulties after the successful launching of the two satellites. (4) === Page 8 of 18 Can Reagan rebound? UFO a - Hong Kong / Post-Star 3/16/87 There are two sides to the "lame duck" coin. True, President Reagan is not in a position to exert the kind of discipline he wielded over Congress in his first term - certainly not with Democrats now in control of both houses. On the other hand, precisely because he cannot succeed himself, Mr. Reagan is freed from the narrow stringencies of partisan confrontation. He can embrace consensus where he wishes - and perhaps do the statesman like thing in his final bow to history. In the same vein, the Democratic leadership in both houses clearly understands the political price it will pay if it tries to bulldoze a weakened presidency during these last two years. History accelerates. Trends that used to take decades to develop - if not centuries - happen routinely, in this world of instant communication, in a matter of weeks. The United States simply can't afford two years of partisan wrangling while the clock ticks away against the danger countdown - and everybody knows it. Into this hopeful domestic political scene, note the advent of Chairman Gorbachev and his "glasnot," by any reckoning a very different leader of the Soviet Union. It almost looks as though history has conspired to present an unprecedented opportunity to deal with the enormous problems that confront us. And will judge most severely any failure to accept the challenge. Obviously, I thoroughly disagree with much of what the Reagan administration has stood for thus far. But I've been encouraged to hope that Washington has deliberately pulled back from some extreme positions taken. What looked earlier like a policy decision to wipe out the United Nations by draconian American budget cuts has been somewhat modified. Reykjavik looked - for two hopeful days, before Star Wars intervened - like a step back from the brink. The Untied States seems, for whatever reason, to be moving in the direction of a nuclear-free Europe. Even in Central America, the apparent collapse of Contra leadership, the imminent revelations of the North conspiracy, the overwhelming Latin American support for a Contadoran solution and the clear message of the polls in this country should provide an attractive opportunity for pragmatic reassessment. So I'm just going to assume that, even if there is not too much nobility of purpose from my point of view, there is ground for hope that a pragmatic Reagan willingness to accommodate to political realities will prevail over sectarian extremes. Within that framework, therefore - one that seeks to bequeath a legacy of accomplishment rather than an excuse for failure - here's my memo to President Reagan for a fitting valedictory: Survival of the planet - for whatever reason, Chairman Gorbachev has shown a clear willingness to negotiate. The ill-fated unilateral moratorium on nuclear testing, monitored in Russia by American scientists from the Natural Resources Defense Council, the explicit acceptance of on-site inspections therein indicated, the Soviet performance in Reykjavik and now the Gorbachev initiative for a nuclear-free Europe prove there is a fresh wind blowing in Moscow. You have an obligation not only to America and to the world but to your own place in history to test it out in real good faith. Streak of light puzzles area skywatchers Knick. News 2/27/87 The Associated Press A red and green streak flashed across the night sky, raising eyebrows in parts of eastern New York and making phones light up at police and television stations. "It looked like a shooting star. I guess it turned red and green," said officer Tom DiMezza at the Amsterdam Police Department, about 25 miles west of Albany. "We don't really know what it was, or what the person (who saw it) was taking." Meteorologist Ken LaPenta of the National Weather Service at the Albany County Airport in Colonie said his office was contacted by forecasters at local television stations who had received more than 150 calls. LaPenta said the reports described an orange light with a green tail that zipped southward in the eastern sky around 8:45 p.m. Thursday, lasting three or four seconds. LaPenta said he had no definite explanation of what people had seen. The Post-Star 3/23/87 Briefly 5,500 residents lost electricity About 5,500 local residents were left without power for almost six hours Saturday night, said a spokesman for the Niagara Mohawk Power Company. Customers in Hudson Falls, and parts of Argyle, Glens Falls and Fort Ann were without power for a total of about six hours Saturday between 7 p.m. and 4:45 a.m., said Frank Kelly, Niagara Mohawk regional customer services manager. Kelly said the power outage was caused by a malfunctioning transformer at the Burgoyne Avenue power station in Hudson Falls. Power first went out at about 7:16 p.m., and was first restored at 10:16 p.m., Kelly said. But, the transformer malfunctioned a second time, knocking out power at 1:19 a.m., Kelly said. Power was restored to about 2000 customers at 4:17 a.m., and, by 4:45 a.m., power was restored to the balance of customers, Kelly said. Kelly said the transformer was functioning properly Sunday evening. He said there were various problems that could cause the transformer to malfunction. Kelly said he had not yet learned the cause of Saturday night's troubles. 5 === Page 9 of 18 Monster a myth or fact? Post-Star 3/25/87 MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- Champ, move over. It's time for Memphre, the purported monster of Lake Memphremagog, to shine in the legislative spotlight. The House recently passed a resolution on Memphre that says the animal should be protected from harm and encourages scientific inquiry into the existence of unusual animals in Lake Memphremagog. Last year, the Senate passed a similar resolution protecting Champ, a serpent-like creature that might exist in Lake Champlain. While Memphre supporters cheered the House action, many legislators loudly said no to the resolution. One of them was Rep. Frank DaPrato, D-Swanton. DaPrato said later he was tired of the lake monster resolutions. "If we keep this up, we'll have monsters in every pond in Vermont," DaPrato said. "I think it's ridiculous that we get involved in something like this. I think we should be doing something more constructive with our time." But Barbara Malloy of the International Dracontology Society of Lake Memphremagog and several Newport-area legislators strongly supported the resolution. Dracontology is the study of serpent-like animals. Malloy, sporting a Memphre button, is a firm believer the lake has a long-necked, snakelike animal. She said since she started the society three years ago, she has documented more than 60 sightings. "I've seen Memphre, so I know he's there," she said. "This resolution gives us more credibility." She said a similar resolution will be submitted to the Quebec Parliament. Lake Memphremagog is in Quebec and Vermont. FAA offers package on UFO claim Post-Star 2/25/87 ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- If you want an inside look at a Japan Air Lines pilot's recent claim that he saw a UFO, the Federal Aviation Administration will send you everything you ever wanted to know about the incident for $194.30. The complete package includes tapes of interviews with crew members, spaceship drawings by the JAL pilot and air controller statements, even four glossy color photos of regenerated radar data. The unusual FAA mail-order offer is an effort to cope with enormous public interest in the November sighting, said spokesman Paul Steucke. Since the pilot's claim was publicly disclosed, the FAA's Anchorage office has received information requests from more than 200 members of the news media, as well as 46 requests from individuals. For those on tight budgets, the FAA's UFO package can be broken down. The agency is offering 20 individual items, ranging from a $50 cassette tape of communications between the controllers and the flight crew, to a 30-cent copy of an FAA form summarizing the sighting. Orders of less than $5 are free. JAL Capt. Kenjyu Terauchi reported on Nov. 17 that his Boeing 747 cargo jet was shadowed by two belts of light as it crossed into Alaska airspace on a flight from Iceland to Anchorage. In an encounter that lasted about 50 minutes, Terauchi also reported seeing a third aircraft, a huge spaceship which he said was the size of two aircraft carriers. He radioed the sighting to Anchorage FAA flight controllers, who saw what they thought was an object on their radar screens. Light puzzles watchers ALBANY (AP) -- A colorful streak of light that zipped across the sky from eastern New York to Massachusetts leaving skywatchers puzzled and telephone lines busy was probably a meteor, a large meteor, an astronomer said Friday. Forecasters at local TV stations reported receiving more than 150 telephone calls from curious people, said LaPenta, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Albany, said Thursday. He said the reports described an orange light with a green tail that flashed southward about 8:45 p.m. Thursday, lasting three or four seconds. "It looked like a shooting star. I guess it turned red and green," police Officer Tom DiMezza in Amsterdam, about 25 miles west of Albany. "We don't really know what it was." Witnesses in Connecticut described it as a bright orange flash that zoomed eastward about 8:35 p.m., turning to green and blue and lasting about 20 seconds. 6 === Page 10 of 18 NY Times 2/7/87 # 2 SOVIET FAILURES IN SPACE REPORTED ## U.S. Experts Cite Setbacks to a Proton Booster Rocket and Military Satellite By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD The successful launching of astronauts to the Soviet Union's Mir space station yesterday was preceded by two serious rocket and satellite failures in the previous week that went unacknowledged by Soviet officials, American space experts reported yesterday. One setback was particularly embarrassing to Soviet space officials. The reliable Proton booster rocket failed in launching Jan. 30, just as the Soviet Union was initiating an aggressive campaign to sell the services of these large rockets to international customers for delivering commercial payloads into orbit. James E. Oberg, a Houston engineer who is an authority on the Soviet space program, said tracking data showed that the Proton's fourth and uppermost stage had failed to ignite, stranding its communications-satellite payload in a low and useless orbit. The debris from the fourth stage and the satellite fell out of orbit a day later. Mr. Oberg noted that Soviet officials, in trying to attract commercial customers, recently boasted that the Protons, 770-ton liquid-fueled rockets, had had no failures in the last 35 launchings. **Military Satellite Destroyed** The Protons, introduced in 1965, are comparable in size and lifting capacity to the Titan 34-D rockets used by the United States Air Force. The SL-12 model Proton can place a two-ton satellite into a 22,300-mile-high orbit, the preferred operational altitude for communications satellites. In the other failure, on Jan. 29, Soviet flight controllers were forced to destroy one of their military reconnaissance satellites to prevent the malfunctioning vehicle from descending uncontrolled to the surface and possibly falling into American hands. Reporting the mishaps in its Feb. 9 issue, Aviation Week & Space Technology, an authoritative trade publication, quoted American intelligence sources as saying that the reconnaissance satellite, designated Cosmos 1,813, was launched Jan. 15 on a planned 14-day photographic mission. But when its large re-entry ball, containing both the camera and reconnaissance film, failed to begin its descent for recovery by Soviet ground forces, Soviet flight controllers activated the vehicle's self-destruction system and blew the satellite into more than 100 pieces. **Fast Pace for Russians** Soviet officials were concerned that the malfunctioning vehicle might strike a populated area or be recovered for analysis by Western intelligence, the magazine said. Despite the two failures, Aviation Week said that this year the Russians have maintained a launching pace that by the end of February will total 10 to 15 missions, as many as the United States will launch through all of 1987. # POLITICS MAY PUSH SPACE LAUNCHING BEYOND ELECTIONS ## Fear of Shuttle Failure in '88 Could Bring More Delays, Some Experts Assert By WILLIAM J. BROAD Political pressures could delay the next space shuttle flight until after the 1988 Presidential election, a former astronaut, aerospace experts and some space agency officials warn. They say the remote risk of technical failure might prompt the White House to postpone the flight, perhaps until 1989. At the same time, some experts warn that such a delay could be a devastating blow to a program bedeviled by controversy and criticism since the explosion of the shuttle Challenger on Jan. 28, 1986, which killed its crew of seven. **The Pressure to 'Go'** Harrison H. Schmitt, the former Apollo astronaut and a former Republican Senator who was a member of President Reagan's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, said pressure for a delay was unavoidable. "It's going to be very, very difficult to convince the political animals that they should 'go' in this political season," he said, adding that "there's no question that political considerations are a factor" in space launchings. Other experts said, however, that the allure of bold success in the midst of a lackluster Presidential campaign might create unusual pressure for a launching, even if technical impediments arose. **NASA Denies Political Tie** In Washington, a public affairs official at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Barbara E. Selby, dismissed the idea that politics might intrude. "Obviously, around here, the only reason we would delay or speed up a mission is for technical reasons," she said. "We're going to fly when we're ready to fly. As far as we're concerned, politics is not a factor." Fueling the debate over politics are new delays in completing the extensive repairs undertaken after a leaky booster rocket touched off the Challenger explosion. Although the official goal of NASA is to loft the next shuttle on Feb. 18, 1988, experts say hitches in fixing the spaceships and their booster rockets have caused the schedule to slip toward July, around the time of the Presidential conventions. Rather than permitting the launch- Continued on Page 30, Column 1 NY Times 3/15/87 WASHINGTON, March 14 (AP) -- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has postponed an unmanned spacecraft's mission to Mars by at least two years. Scientists who had lobbied intensively for the Mars Observer mission in 1990 expressed their disappointment and dismay. "I think it's a great mistake and an example of the consistent lack of vision that NASA has had since the middle 1970's," said the astronomer Carl Sagan of Cornell University. He and other members of the Planetary Society were here on Feb. 19 trying to persuade Congress of the mission's importance. The announcement by the space agency said it was confirming reports that it would not ask for money for the mission in its 1988 budget. The agency said the mission was planned for 1992. The Mars Observer is to be a new kind of spacecraft to be launched from the space shuttle. It is to go into an orbit around Mars that will permit it to map the chemistry of the entire planet. The spacecraft is also to act as a weather satellite and orbital photographer, concentrating its search on water, which is the key for future human use of the planet. The cost of the project was to be $250 million, including launching and tracking, said Mary Beth Murrill, a spokeswoman for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "This makes it much more difficult for the United States to get going on a serious program for the exploration of Mars at a time when the Soviets have pushed up their time scale," Mr. Sagan said in a telephone interview. The Soviet Union plans an ambitious exploration of Mars, including sending balloon-carried probes to the surface. That mission, originally scheduled for 1994, has been moved up to 1992. In a report Thursday, the space agency's advisory committee said science and exploration programs deserved special attention in the agency's planning. "They are at the heart of NASA's mission," the panel said. "They are spelled out in NASA's charter. Space science and exploration provides a large measure of popular support for the space program as a whole." # NASA Postpones a Mars Mission for 2 Years 7 === Page 11 of 18 # Coping With the Next Calamity Companies did D.K. in January's snow and strike. But was too much left to chance? By THOMAS J. LUECK ### Coping With a Decade of Crises | Date | Event | |---|---| | Feb.-March 1975 | Fire at a New York Telephone building leaves a 300-block area of lower Manhattan without phones for up to a month | | July 1977 | Blackout caused by lightning striking power lines cripples Manhattan for 25 hours | | Jan. 1978 | Major snow storm -- 13 inches accumulate in New York City, 18 inches in the suburbs -- disrupts services and cripples Connecticut | | Dec. 1979 | Strike by seven Long Island Railroad unions halts service for a week | | April 1980 | Strike by New York City transit workers lasts 11 days; L.I.R.R. is struck for two days | | March-April 1983 | Strike stops Metro-North for six weeks; New Jersey Transit on strike for a month | | Sept. 1985 | Hurricane Gloria brings heavy rain and winds causing some power disruptions on Long Island | === Page 12 of 18 Our View # White House aides deserting the ship 2/25/87 Back in Washington the ship of state is losing its officers and some of its crew. This always happens toward the end of an administration, but the desertions began earlier than usual this term. Richard Perle says he will quit soon. These are among the better-known names. When President Reagan began his second four-year stint, several of his best advisors left for less-pressured or higher-paying jobs. That was to be expected. Recently, however, press secretary Larry Speakes and presidential aide Mitchell Daniels left. The latter had been feuding with chief of staff Donald Regan. White House image promoter Pat Buchanan also left, and arms control negotiator This means that Reagan will have to rely more on inexperienced aides during the last two years in offices. It comes at a time when he needs experienced personnel to deal with serious domestic and foreign problems. It is natural for White House staff members to look for good jobs at the end of a term. But their service with a president ensures that their services will be in demand. In return for this they owe their president loyalty to the end. Deserting the administration at this time amounts to disservice to the nation and the presidency. Post-Star 2/17/87 # Navy halts use of drone aircraft WASHINGTON - The Navy, after losing four of five "eye-in-the-sky" drone aircraft worth from $250,000 to $400,000 apiece, has suspended a program to equip warships with the pilotless planes, military sources say. The embarrassing losses, involving drones dispatched recently with the battleship Iowa, occurred over the past month and most recently on Feb. 6, said the sources who asked not to be named. Four of the five drones dispatched were lost, they said. One source said the four drones "are in little bitty pieces." The cost of the drones depends upon what surveillance and camera equipment they carry. The Navy already had opened an investigation into the string of accidents, the sources said. The service suspects a number of causes, but believes one problem might involve the remote control system for the pilotless planes. # Military Cargo Helicopters Grounded for Gear Problems NY Times 2/16/87 EL TORO, Calif., Feb. 14 (AP) - All Navy and Marine Corps CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters were grounded Saturday for inspection of a gear box problem that was found after a forced landing Oct. 21, a marine spokesman said. Lieut. Col. Jerry Shelton, a spokesman for the marine air stations at El Toro and Tustin, was unable to say how long the inspections would take. The CH-53E, built by Sikorsky Aircraft of Stratford, Conn., has been in five fatal crashes since June 1984. The latest crash, in the Southern California desert Jan. 8, killed all five men aboard and brought the death toll in the crashes to 20. Colonel Shelton said the gear problem was not a factor in the crashes. UFO Sun Attack # Authorities tally quake damage Post-Star 3/4/87 AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) - Authorities estimated damage at more than $8.4 million Tuesday after an earthquake rocked the farming and forest areas of the North Island, leaving 25 people injured and two missing. Peter Tapsell, minister for civil defense, said the estimate should cover the cost of rebuilding roads, bridges and buildings damaged Monday by New Zealand's worst quake in 20 years. But reports of deep fissures that swallowed swimming pools, driveways and power lines suggested the figure could go much higher. (9) === Page 13 of 18 WASHINGTON | James Reston The New Collective NY Times 3/18/87 WASHINGTON With the best of intentions, the President's friends are urging him to demonstrate that he's back in charge of the Administration, directing events, pushing his agenda with Congress, ready for televised news conferences and preparing for another summit meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev. One wonders whether this is a good idea. In the first place it's not true, and merely encourages the illusions that got him into trouble in the first place. Considering what he has been through in the last few months -- the scandals, the investigations, the indictments of his stewardship, another operation and the loss of Congress after a punishing campaign -- it's remarkable that a man of his age has held up as well as he has. He has demonstrated good judgment in rebuilding his White House staff and choosing experienced men to run the National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency. He has met with the leaders of Congress in private, and delivered his television speech with his accustomed grace. Accordingly, there is reason to hope that he can preside over the new regency headed by his chief of staff, Howard Baker, and make the decisions worked out by his Cabinet. But he doesn't need the added stress of pretending that he is now what he never was, a "take-charge" executive. The Presidential press conference is a good example under the circumstances of unnecessary stress. He has been goaded into it by reporters and it has been accepted reluctantly by the President and his staff. But it takes a couple of days at least to prepare for these televised events, and while he learns something in the process, they prove nothing except that he's a good performer on stage, which everybody knew in the first place. But an attempt is being made to indicate that the personal and political crisis is over and that things will now go on as before, which is a troubling thought. Howard Baker is partly to blame for this. On his first day in the White House, he asked reporters: "Is the President fully in control of his Presidency? Is he alert? Is he fully engaged? Is he in contact with the problems? ... You know, it has been a year now since I dealt regularly with Ronald Reagan, but I've never seen him better than he has been today." Nobody does Ronald Reagan a favor by encouraging him and Congress and the people to believe that he's on top of all these intricate problems. May be there isn't a man alive who could do it, but he can read and listen, watch and judge the issues brought before him for decision. What is being put in place here for the last two years of the Reagan Administration is a form of collective executive leadership, and it is much better than what we had before. It is not trying to balance the budget with constitutional amendments or tame the Russians with nuclear shields in the sky. It is going one common-sense step at a time, trying to build nonpartisan compromises that will ease the tensions at home and abroad concentrating on the possible instead of dreaming of the impossible. In short, this less dramatic procedure is more in keeping with the problems of the last two years and it is within the President's physical and mental capacity. It is more moderate, more accountable, more reliable, more in touch with Congress, less stressful and less ideological. It is odd that some of the noisiest ideological Reaganites like Pat Buchanan and Richard Perle decided to leave the President just when he was in deepest trouble, but the Republic will probably survive their departures. Nothing has caused more confusion here in the last six years than the notion that there is an ideological answer to all our problems. Don't push Reagan into posturing. If there is to be another summit meeting on nuclear weapons between President Reagan and Mr. Gorbachev, for example, it will not be approached this time in the careless and mindless way that preceded the last one at Reykjavik, when Congress and the allies were left in the dark, the Cabinet was divided and the Secretary of Defense was left at home. Summit meetings are not for negotiation but for ceremonial ratification of verifiable agreements reached in advance with the knowledge that they will be confirmed by the Senate. What we need now is not a hands-on President, but more helping hands: in the White House, in the Cabinet, in Congress and in the press. We have gone through a difficult period, living a life of pretense, but we have got through it in fairly good order, and if the President gets the help he needs in the next two years, he may even get that happy ending he has always wanted. SECOND BIG STORM IN 5 DAYS STRIKES EASTERN SEABOARD UP TO 16 INCHES OF SNOW U.S. Closes Capital Offices -- Winds at 50 Miles an Hour 1/27/87 Buffet South Jersey UFO Sun Attack NY Times By ROBERT D. McFADDEN The second major storm in five days struck the East Coast and the New York metropolitan region yesterday. High winds and heavy snows reglazed the city, buried some suburbs in mountainous drifts and brought a reprise of winter doldrums to the region. The storm hit hardest in southern New Jersey, where 10 to 16 inches of new snow fell. Eastern Long Island had 8 to 9 inches, New York City got 3 to 5 inches and Connecticut and suburbs north and west of the city had 3 to 4 inches. Much of the East had barely dug out of last Thursday's whiteout -- the Northeast's worst snowstorm in four years -- when yesterday's storm charged up the Eastern Seaboard as if in a rut, sparing the South but dumping heavy snows from the Carolinas to New England. 'Drowning in Snow' Over the Middle Atlantic and New England states, the heavy snows shut down airports, stranded motorists, delayed intercity and local trains and buses, closed schools and forced the Federal Government to give most of its 300,000 Washington-based employees the day off. The nation's capital had 10 inches of snow atop last week's 10 inches. [Page B2.] "We're drowning in snow. I just hope people stay home," John Friedrich, deputy emergency management coordinator for Cape May County in southern New Jersey, said as winds that howled up to 50 miles an hour sculpted drifts over automobiles and up the sides of houses. While it did not compare with last week's, yesterday's blast, which began in the metropolitan region Sunday night and ended in the early afternoon, disrupted ground and air travel, kept many commuters home, closed suburban schools and prompted early closings for many courts, businesses and government offices. Though it created hardships, the storm also brought a peaceful solitude to town and country settings. Seagulls 10 === Page 14 of 18 # Snowstorm hits Plains, shuts down highways Post-Star 3/25/87 UFO & Sun Attack The Associated Press An unusually strong spring snowstorm shut down part of the Plains on Tuesday with blinding wind-driven snow and drifts up to 8 feet high closing highways and schools, stranding travelers and pulling down power lines serving thousands of people. Kansas Gov. Mike Hayden declared a disaster for the western third of his state, where National Guardsmen already had been rescuing people and hauling supplies and had opened armories for stranded travelers. Nearly all roads in western Kansas were closed, with drifts 5 to 7 feet high, and little attempt was made to clear them because of the unrelenting wind and blizzard conditions, the state Highway Patrol said. As many as 10,000 homes in northwest Kansas were without electrical power, with the road conditions hampering efforts of utility crews to restore service, utility officials said. Early spring snowstorms are not rare in western Kansas, said Jim Johnson of the National Weather Service in Dodge City, Kan. The last storm of such intensity was 30 years ago, he said. The Oklahoma Panhandle was virtually closed off, highways in central Nebraska were closed and others were nearly impassable. In Colorado, 10 miles of Interstate 70 from the Kansas border to Burlington were closed. About 165 miles of I-70 was closed in Kansas. The National Weather Service posted blizzard warnings for part of western Kansas. Snow also fell in a belt across Kansas and Nebraska into South Dakota and Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle had blowing snow. Kansas' blizzard followed a series of thunderstorms, one of which produced a tornado Sunday that destroyed several buildings in Rooks County. On Monday, the storm collapsed roofs and stranded 500 cars on one 17-mile stretch of highway in Texas. It also was blamed for two traffic deaths Monday in Oklahoma. Motorists stranded in the Texas Panhandle slept under donated blankets at schools, courthouses and churches. On the eastern side of the snow belt, heavy rain bloated streams in parts of Iowa, South Dakota and Nebraska. In eastern Nebraska, where at least 5 inches of rain had fallen since Sunday, a threat of flooding forced school closings from Memphis to Deshler to Cedar Rapids. U.S. Highway 136 west of Beatrice was closed because of high water. The Big Blue River was expected to crest 10 feet above flood stage Wednesday in Beatrice. Thousands of people in western Kansas were without electricity Tuesday because of downed power lines and poles. At least 300 poles were knocked down by wind gusts to nearly 80 mph Monday in the Dodge City area, said Bill Ohlemeier, spokesman for an association of three dozen rural electric cooperatives. Wind and heavy, wet snow were blamed for downed power lines in Oklahoma. "At least two-thirds of the county is without electricity," said Beaver County Sheriff Bill Cassingham. In Texas, Dallas Power & Co. reported numerous, short service interruptions and Utilities Electric reported temporary outages affecting 30,000 Tarrant County customers. # Residents begin cleaning up following devastating tornado UFO & Sun Attack LAUREL, Miss. (AP) -- Residents and cleanup crews worked under a sunny sky Sunday to recover belongings and clear up wreckage from a tornado that left seven people dead, nearly 500 families homeless and millions of dollars in damage. "Everybody is tired, but things are looking up," said Carl Carlos, Jones County Civil Defense director. "It's just a matter of cleanup and get back on our feet now." The tornado left at least 145 people injured as it cut a 20-mile-long, 2-mile-wide path of destruction across mostly rural Jones County in southeastern Mississippi on Saturday morning. Some residents camped out overnight at bonfires beside the piles of splintered lumber and brick that had been their homes, and the National Guard blocked off 15 roads and highways. "It probably caused more damage in one county than I've ever seen," said Gov. Bill Allain. "It looked more like a hurricane than it did a tornado because everything was so flattened out." Carlos said it was fortunate that the tornado, part of a series of thunderstorms across the South, hit on a weekend and that residents had 15 minutes warning. "Three schools were hard hit -- one in Glade destroyed," said Carlos. "Even if the kids had had a warning and gotten into sheltered areas there would have been a heavy loss of life because the school is just rubble." Carlos said damage to the schools could run to $7.5 million. A damage assessment team sent in by the state should have a full estimate ready by today, he said. ## Snow Storm Batters the Northern Plains A herd of cattle moving across a snow-covered field near Beaver, in the Oklahoma Panhandle, which was covered by as much as six inches of snow. A severe storm that swept across the Northern Plains left sections of Kansas and Nebraska snowbound and piled snow into drifts up to 12 feet high, closing some roads and cutting power lines to thousands of residents. A 400-mile stretch of Interstate 70 was closed in Kansas and Colorado, and 200 miles of Interstate 90 were closed overnight in western South Dakota. Three deaths were attributed to the weather, and 46 Kansas counties remained under an emergency declaration. NY TIMES 3/26/87 UFO & Sun Attack (11) === Page 15 of 18 Parched Summer Is Feared in West NY Times, 3/21/87 By THOMAS J. KNUDSON Special to The New York Times JACKSON, Wyo., March 20 -- As it tumbles out of the red mountains in Yellowstone National Park, the Snake River becomes a watery lifeline for thousands of farmers and scores of cities in Wyoming and Idaho. But this year so little snow has fallen here and in other parts of the West that serious water shortages could develop in some areas, causing financial problems for farmers, hurting fishing and boating conditions and possibly causing water rationing in some cities, government officials said. "Snow pack and precipitation are well below normal throughout much of the West," said Wilson Scaling, chief of the Department of Agriculture's Soil Conservation Service. In 8 of 12 states, the agency reported that snow levels and precipitation were 75 percent or less below normal this winter. In particularly dry areas, towns, farmers and industries should begin conserving water now to avoid shortages this summer, Mr. Scaling said. The agency's predictions could be thrown off the mark by late snow or heavy spring rains, but if weather patterns remain normal, and forecasters believe they will, some farmers could face serious water shortages by June, especially those who rely on stream water for irrigation. It's 'Almost Alarming' "It is serious," said Tony Willardson, associate director of the Western States Water Council in Salt Lake City. "The figures I've seen seem almost alarming and I imagine there could be some serious effects on agriculture." The dry weather, though, has been spotty. California, Oregon and Washington and the Central Rockies have been most affected while the Southwest has experienced normal or better-than-normal precipitation, officials said. Most of the West's large reservoirs are still full, thanks to several previous years of unusually wet weather. "However, surface water supplies will not be enough to fill some impoundments in Montana, Oregon, Utah and Washington," a recent report by the Agriculture Department and the Commerce Department said. "The people who are going to get hurt would be those in the smaller drainages which don't have much in the way of reservoir capacity," said John Folk-Williams, president of Western Network, a research group specializing in natural resource issues. Here in the Snake River Valley, Government meteorologists are predicting the river will carry 70 percent or less of its normal flow this year, a reduction that could cause serious problems for the region. In Idaho, where water from the Snake River is critical to agriculture, a dry year could force some farmers out of business. "Many farmers are already in financial trouble and haven't been able to set aside cash reserves for a poor year," said Richard Rush, director of Idaho's Department of Agriculture. "This will probably mean more farmers aren't going to be able to pay their debts." Concerned about a possible shortage of irrigation water in Idaho, the Bureau of Reclamation has begun to impound additional water in Jackson Lake north of here for use this summer. "But when you do that, you reduce the amount of habitat and food for the trout downstream," said John Kremer, who records snowfall data for the Federal Soil Conservation Service in Jackson. "It could have a real impact on the fish." It could also mean fewer tourist dollars for the town of Jackson, a popular point of departure for Snake River float trips. "It could make it difficult for the float trip operators," said Mr. Kremer, who explained that rafts could have trouble getting through if the water dropped low enough. In California, the nation's top producing farm state, some irrigation districts are telling farmers not to expect normal water supplies this summer. "These crops are going to be growing in 100-degree weather and in need of irrigation," said Bob Krauter, a spokesman for the California Farm Bureau Federation. "At this point, I expect we'll be able to get by if we use our water as smartly as we can," said Mr. Krauter. "But the real crunch could come next year if we're sitting in the same situation. Some people fear we may be in for another drought like we had in 1976 and 1977." Another hard-hit region is Montana, where snowfall levels in several areas set record lows this winter. "Farmers who depend on irrigation are facing a bleak situation," said Glen Loomis, the state conservationist for the Federal Soil Conservation Service in Montana. "If conditions continue, they could run out of water by late June." The lack of snow has caused another problem on Montana's high plains: wind erosion. "We're having one of the worst erosion years we've had for some time," said Mr. Loomis. "There's not enough snow cover to protect the soil. So far, 1.3 million acres of cropland have been damaged." Across much of the West, people are starting to turn their heads to the sky, hoping for late winter snows or heavy spring rains. "But we would have to have a tremendously wet spring to make up for the lack of snow," said Mr. Willardson. "And I think forecasters are just predicting normal precipitation over the next few months." Mr. Loomis said: "I think it's in the Good Lord's hands. If it doesn't rain, it's going to become pretty critical." [Map of Snake River area showing Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, and Utah] The New York Times/March 21, 1987 For Jackson, Wyo., the Snake River is a watery lifeline. [Photograph of the Snake River] The New York Times/William E. Sauro A view of the Snake River in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. The snowfall in the West this winter was well below normal. As a result, serious drought conditions could develop in many areas. (12) === Page 16 of 18 VANUATU SEEKS AID AFTER HURRICANE 'Millions Have Come In, but We Need More,' Aide Says - 49 Dead or Missing NY Times 3-1-87 SYDNEY, Australia, Feb. 28 (AP) - Vanuatu appealed for more overseas aid Friday to rebuild its economy and to help feed and house 10,000 people left homeless after a hurricane hit the small South Pacific nation on Feb. 7. "We're slowly getting back on our feet, but there's a lot more work to be done," said Godwin Ligo, chairman of the National Disaster Committee. "Millions of dollars have come in, but we need more." Mr. Ligo said the toll from the hurricane and its 100-mile-an-hour winds stood at 28 known dead and 21 others missing and presumed dead after three ferries sank. He said search efforts had been abandoned. Mr. Ligo and other officials interviewed by telephone said the storm was the worst on record there, causing destruction across the chain of 70 islands in excess of $150 million. The storm lasted for eight hours. Vanuatu, formerly known as the New Hebrides, is an offshore banking center 1,100 miles northeast of Australia. Jointly ruled by France and Britain until independence in 1980, it has a mainly Melanesian population of 160,000. Damage In Capital Is Severe The hurricane damaged 95 percent of all buildings in Port-Vila, the capital, and virtually wiped out the country's main cash crop, copra, worth $20 million a year in exports, officials there said. Mr. Ligo said emergency fruit and vegetable shipments were still being ferried to outlying areas and that the homeless were put up under tents and tarpaulins donated by Australia, France and New Zealand. The United States, Japan and Britain and the rest of the European Community also gave aid, along with the Red Cross and agencies financed by the United Nations, he reported. A breakdown of donor aid was not available. Port-Vila, with a population of 16,000, and the southern islands of Erromanga, Tanna and Aniwa - inhabited by 3,000 people - were hardest hit. Acting Prime Minister Sethy J. Re-envanu said it could take five years for Vanuatu's economy to recover. Concern Over Tourism "Things are returning to normal, but a major worry now is the effect this cyclone will have on tourism, which along with finance and copra is one of the three pillars of our economy," Mr. Ligo said. In 1978, the last year for which complete figures were available, Vanuatu welcomed 27,579 air travelers and 29,105 people arriving on cruise ships. The Australian Deputy High Commissioner, or ambassador, in Vanuatu, James Batley, said the two main resort hotels suffered major damage. "Half their huts were blown away," he said. He said a team of 26 British engineers was flown in to repair damaged buildings, roads and bridges. "It's such a big job and there isn't enough manpower in the country to do it all at once," Mr. Batley said. "But most essential services have been restored as well as communications." Despite initial fears of an epidemic, he said there had been no outbreaks of disease. Winds, cold blast across Great Lakes 2/9/87 The Associated Press A storm packing wind gusts up to 86 mph spread snow and icy temperatures across the Great Lakes region Sunday, knocking down power lines, closing roads and destroying a seawall on Chicago's Lake Michigan waterfront. "It's real bad. We've got so many (accidents) we can't keep up with it," said sheriff's Deputy Brian Billingsley at South Bend, Ind. Many roads in the South Bend area were closed because of zero visibility in blowing snow. On Michigan's Upper Peninsula, state police said a highway between Marquette and Munising was closed for several hours by drifting snow and three miles of U.S. 41 between Ishpeming and Negaunee was closed by drifts. Alpena had 7 inches of new snow and blizzard conditions were reported across parts of the state. The storm was expected to move rapidly eastward, and blizzard warnings for today were posted for the mountains of northern West Virginia, western Maryland and much of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. Winter storm warnings were issued for northeastern Ohio, northwestern Pennsylvania, all of Vermont, New Hampshire except in the extreme north, southwest Maine and much of western and northern New York. The storm dumped 2 to 6 inches in Ohio on Sunday. Just before 6 p.m. Cleveland police advised motorists to stay off highways as slippery conditions and low visibility caused multiple accidents. At Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, airlines began halting flights at about 4 p.m., said operations agent Eric Williams. Around sunrise, a wind gust to 86 mph knocked down trees at Janesville, Wis., and gusts to 69 mph downed billboards at Grand Rapids, Mich. Gusts of more than 50 mph raked parts of Illinois, Minnesota and Iowa. Downed power lines in Michigan interrupted electric service to about 39,000 Consumers Power Co. customers across the state, said utility spokesman Dan Bishop. About 1,100 Detroit Edison Co. customers were without power, said utility spokesman Marty Bufalini. A fallen Detroit Edison power line was blamed for a natural gas leak that forced evacuation of a nursing home in the suburb of Southfield, said fire department Cmdr. Marcel Charette said. "The arcing wires sent a jolt down and triggered a hole in the gas line," Charette said. A small fire was put out by sprinklers, he said. (13) === Page 17 of 18 Associated Press **Blustery Storm Moves Into the Plains** *W.D. Sun Attack* *NY Times 1/30/87* Justin Doten, 8 years old, brushing snow from a car in Minneapolis. A storm that rattled the Eastern Rockies with high winds brought snow and freezing rain to the Plains and Upper Mississippi Valley. It left up to a foot of snow in Utah, and the gusting wind caused sporadic power failures in Utah and Colorado. # Second storm blankets South *Post-Star 2/8/87* The Associated Press *W.D. Sun Attack* A new storm slung sleet and snow south of the Mason-Dixon Line on Tuesday, closing schools in 10 states, while an earlier storm blamed for at least 16 deaths whipped up gale-force winds as it headed out to sea over Virginia. Wintry weather pushed temperatures to 18 degrees below zero in the Adirondack communities of Newcomb and Elizabethtown, and minus 13 in Watertown and Glens Falls. Snow still fell Tuesday on southern Virginia even as the first storm reached the Atlantic Ocean after dumping up to 13 inches on Farmville, 11 inches on Lynchburg, 9 on Roanoke, 6 on Newport News and 5 inches on Richmond. Downed power lines and trees caused widespread outages in the Southeast. In Kentucky, National Guardsmen brought generators to more than 17 dairy farms without electricity in Hart and Grayson counties so farmers could milk their cows, said Don Armstrong, a spokesman for the state Disaster and Emergency Services. An autopsy was scheduled in Philadelphia for an unidentified man whose frozen, snow-covered body was found in a residential neighborhood Monday. As much as 8 inches of sleet and snow fell Monday in North Carolina's Granville and Person counties, while in West Virginia, Beckley and Bluefield got 6 inches of snow. Northeast Tennessee had 3 inches. Even as Monday's storm eased out to sea, the new storm followed in its wake, pumping a mix of freezing drizzle, rain and snow from eastern Kansas and Oklahoma, where temperatures were in the 70s last week, across Kentucky and Tennessee, where a scattered snowfall was expected to taper off Wednesday. A travelers advisory for 1 to 2 inches of snow was posted for extreme northwest Alabama. The weather closed schools in parts of the Virginias, the Carolinas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Oklahoma and Arkansas. (14) === Page 18 of 18 Postmarked April 9, 1987 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8704b https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/489f9d953596f468fd302ae27b30ae16.pdf 133f12a23c1168db38d243b647f17e35 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/207babfb0fb58de7dfcf32f15275758e.txt 11f587d1d1dc0936af056bfe66e82904 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1987 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 90 Ted Owens RT 149, RR2 Box 2169 Fort Ann, New York 12827 Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove 48 Saint Frances Lane San Rafael, California 94901 JUL 3 1987 12827 USA 39 Jeffrey y reports... my UFOs brought Ann and, through tremendous. They told me that they that meshed with me. reason for bringing me and contacts and communication. lous reasons of theirs). ast that there are three UFOs of what they have told me. his at all, from anyone. appeared over our barn barn containing 50 cows). .not only Beau. As you hey were seen by a scientist many other people. Owens (PK Man) === Page 2 of 90 Jeffrey Thursday, July 30, 1987 SCIENTISTS As I have told you before in my reports...my UFOs brought me and my family here to Fort Ann and, through tremendous synchronicity, stopped us here. They told me that they had certain time windows here that meshed with me. They told me that their sole reason for bringing me and mine here was to make powerful contacts and communication. I have also told you in the past that there are three UFOs over me at all times (for various reasons of theirs). Herein is the documented proof of what they have told me. There can be no rebuttal on this at all, from anyone. Tuesday night two giant UFOs appeared over our barn (which is the Tom Fish dairy barn containing 50 cows). Beau saw them at 3 AM. But...not only Beau. As you will see from the newsclip, they were seen by a scientist and his friends.. Ted Owens (PK Man) === Page 3 of 90 Briefly Post-Star THURSDAY 7/30/87 # Lights filled sky above Fort Ann (here) On a lonely Washington County road Tuesday night, a van full of people pulled over to stare at bright columns of light in the sky. "There were five or six columns or clusters of light," said Larry Smotroff, Dean of Community Service and Continuing Education at Mattatuck Community College in Waterbury, Conn. "They were a bluish-aquamarine and they varied in intensity." Smotroff said he and six of his friends were returning from a movie at Aviation Mall in Queensbury when they spotted the lights sometime between 11:30 p.m. and midnight. He said the movie, "Superman IV," stunk - but the lights were more impressive. "We were taken back by what we considered quite some phenomenon," he said. Smotroff, who holds degrees in Psychology and Communications, does not have a background in the hard sciences, such as physics. But he said he has a background in scientific research. Members of the group watched the lights from the intersection of Route 149 and Buttermilk Falls Road in Fort Ann. "We watched them for a good 12 or 15 minutes before we continued on our way," Smotroff said. Smotroff, who said no one in the group had been drinking, said he had never seen any type of UFOs before. But he said he had recently seen a documentary film on the subject. An operator at the Plattsburgh Air Force Base and a dispatcher for the Washington County Sheriff's Department said they had not received any reports of the lights. === Page 4 of 90 7/29/87 This morning my son, Beau (24) reported to me, greatly excited, that last night about 3 AM, something woke him up. He went to his bedroom window and looked out. Over the barn was a giant tube; vertical. There were two lights inside it. Then suddenly a second giant vertical tube appeared beside it. This second tube then changed form, into a square. (Ted) and together they formed a "10", and inside the square it was very dark black. Now the vertical tube was about a mile long and 50 yds. wide and the square was about 2 miles wide and 2 miles long this all lasted for 1 min. Then they both disappeared simultaneously. Then the dogs started barking up a storm for a few minutes. (Beau) ---------- Added note: This morning, around 7 AM, when I walked from our house the long road out past the barn with 50 cows in it (to get my morning newspaper) the cows were wild inside the barn -- squalling and raising hell. Normally they are quiet. I wondered if a coyote was inside the barn. Lots of coyotes around us. (This happened before Beau woke up, came out of his bedroom and notified me re UFOs over the barn. Ted === Page 5 of 90 STaGe 1 BRIGHT LIGHTS Luminisante Tube Barn WED. 7/29/87 (BOTTOM) === Page 6 of 90 STAGE 2 It changed into a small square and then it grew bigger First small WHITE OUTLINE Dark INSIDE then turning very large WED. 7/29/87 (BOTTOM) === Page 7 of 90 STage 3 This Tube appeared on the left and after 1 minute it all disappeared. WED 7/29/87 (Bottom) === Page 8 of 90 September 28, 1987 Scientists Jeffrey ① My son, Beau, and I agree, at this point, that in the past year we have been "taken" at night by my UFOs, then "put back" again, at various times. Jerome (9), Teddy (16), Beau (24) and I have had the same dream (at different times). Dream: UFO lands in back of our home in this isolated location. Each one of us tried to fight off the aliens (about ten of them.) Each of us had an alien seize our arms from behind to hold us. Now, we have seen UFOs over our house and over our barn. (See file) And we were not the only ones to see them - our neighbors across the road saw them and so did town's people. Remember the Barney Miller case? He + his wife had like-dreams, were hypnotized, and the case was validated. ② My UFOs have given me a new code word and symbol - so that if anyone comes to me with the code then they are either aliens or humans sent by my UFOs. ③ Get a movie-tape called "Life Force," and play it on your VCR. It is from a book written by Colin Wilson - who wrote about my work in his non-fiction book, "Mysteries." ④ Years ago Dr. Rhine + Loue invited me to visit them in North Carolina. Rhine took me into a big barn. Suddenly, what sounded like 30-50 dogs went crazy. He had them in a separate part of the barn. Here, mysteriously, the owner of this dairy farm who'd gone broke - got new funds - and there are 50 cows nearby which have gone noisily crazy on various occasions, at night. Owens === Page 9 of 90 August 14, 1987 SCIENTISTS I could have gotten this to you months ago...but no money for xeroxing and mailing. Even this will have to go out to you 2 or 3 at a time. Will take weeks and weeks to complete sending. Frankly, I need help. I am not Jim and Tammy Bakker. I am real. Working with the UFOs to help the human race and the earth itself. While they make and spend crooked millions, my family and I undergo hardship. There has to be something wrong with that formula. We need a thousand a month more than what we have, to make it, and for me to do my job. My sponsor covers the heavy bills like rent, electric, etc., but food, gasoline, etc., takes more. (God bless my sponsor for keeping me and mine in the ballgame to do what I have to do.) Last winter we almost froze, trying to keep the electric bill down...so if you can't send money, think about blankets, stuff like that. I asked for help once before (the first time I ever have...and there was no response.) Now, look at page 1 of 3/31/87 file. UFO activity around our house and area lately has greatly increased. See enclosed separate file re us, plus other witnesses. P. 2: See page 2 of 1/29/87 file...and notice how many rotten persons in top key positions of government have been eliminated since. P. 3: The Soviets report a "green" mystery. In the late 60's when Chuck Jay was interviewing me for my book, he told me how his home, and everything in it, had inexplicably turned green one day. Also on 6/19 my sons and I observed 3 UFOs maneuvering over our house...one for 1/2 hour. On 7/23 I was working in my office/bedroom when a white-colored humanoid floated past the door while I watched in amazement. No head...just trunk and legs. That same morning Beau (24) came upstairs and showed me a strange triangle of three red dots on his lower abdomen, concentrically perfect, which had appeared overnight...and said that his head hurt. Also note the "Missile Missing?" newsclip...which says that if the national aviation agency did not "acknowledge the existence of UFOs" then there could be no UFO. Ha ha. Pretty much sums up the attitude of scientists and U.S. Government. P. 42: (This page out of sequence, for a reason.) Note the "boa constrictor" clip. The night before, I dreamed that I was in a bathroom, looked up and there, curled around a waterpipe, was a 15-foot boa constrictor. I ran into the other room and brought my wife Martha to see the huge snake. There was more to the dream...but next morn this clip appeared in the newspaper. So I had a marvelous precognitive dream, in my opinion. "7 charged"...after we moved way out into this almost-isolated location we discovered that three different men, connected with town thugs, were a threat to our family through house-burglary; Dan Fish, totally rotten son of our landlord...Dan Dio, thrown out of high school last year for doing dastardly things...and Seward Habshi, son of the Syrians in the house across the road (since have moved away). For the past several months Seward, a close buddy of Dan Fish, hung around our barn nearby, talking to Dan and gesturing toward our house. Next, I came home from town and found Seward (an ex-con) in our kitchen using our phone, with Dan Fish standing outside. I told Tom Fish, our landlord and a lieutenant in the Great Meadow State Prison in Fort Ann, about it...he warned us never to let Seward into our house. As you can see...at least he will be out of circulation for awhile. Now === Page 10 of 90 2 Let me add that some time ago I threw Dan Fish out of our house for doing some very rotten things. He had conned his way into "friendship" with Beau and Teddy, so that he could slip around after we had gone to bed, in the small hours of the morning (he asked to be allowed to sleep in the recreation room), and do rotten things. But I caught him at it. (For instance, stealing most of the food in our refrigerator and hiding it outside in his car.) My family desperately needs to get out of New York State...we are in great jeopardy here...for reasons that I cannot divulge. But it would cost four or five thousand to relocate...which we do not have...so we are pinned down here. P. 4: On June 1 I phoned Wayne Grover in Lantana, Florida, and warned that something "big" was about to happen...and that the U.S. had "better go on the alert." On June 12 16 States were affected by a powerful earthquake. Note in the newsclip that my actual word "alert" is used...also applying to various nuclear plants. Then note the clipping re the "meteor" creating seismic waves setting off vibrations in the Earth. Go back a number of years in your files and you will see that I told you that my huge UFOs could dive toward Earth then zoom upward again, creating the same effect. P. 6: I was wakened during the night by "cat" sounds underneath my bedroom window. I got up and went to the window. Clearly and unmistakably the sound of a feline said, in perfect English: "Open...open...open...open door...open...open...open...open...oooh!" And that was it. No more. We have been inundated here at this location and this house with UFO activity and phenomena for months. We have observed UFOs overhead time and time again, both day and night. P. 7 -- Beau, Teddy and I have all had basically the same dream...we were captured by UFO aliens out in back of the house, in the dark of night. Based upon the Barney Hill experience...wherein he and his wife had no memory of having been captured by UFO aliens...yet the memory broke into their dreams...I sincerely believe that we were indeed captured whilst doing some of my research, out in the dark night in back of our house. We have been out there doing a lot of UFO research these past months. We have also been in the dark woods nearby, in the dark of night. (Am moving right along, because much of this file is self-explanatory, if you will observe my markings and notes, combined with the newsclips.) P. 20: While watching "23 Paces To Baker Street" on TV...in between some experiments that I was conducting...an English Bobby (policeman) raised his whistle to blow it. I told my son Beau "Oh no! I hate hearing those shrill English whistles!" Before the Bobby could blow the whistle...which he'd raised to his mouth...all the sound went off on the TV set. As soon as the whistle had been blown the sound came on the TV again, and continued. I told you some time ago that my UFOs and I are working daily to improve the human race by eliminating...in one way or another...bad, evil top key people...so that hopefully good, better people could be inserted in their place. See the cartoon on this page. Deaver, Meese, North, Nofziger, Poindexter, Casey...and some others yet to be weeded out. [Signature/Symbol] === Page 11 of 90 Briefly Puzzling pillars were the lights Post-Star 7/31/89 The spectacle of the Northern Lights accounted for several people's siting of "columns" of lights at night this week in the Glens Falls area, according to an authority at the Schenectady Planetarium. "It was quite a nice display and it lasted about an hour," Jane Mann, the planetarium's lecturer, said Thursday. Ms. Mann also said Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights have offered opportunities to view the lights in the northern sector of the sky, just under the Big Dipper. Seven people reported seeing five or six columns or clusters of light in Fort Ann Tuesday night. Larry Smotroff of Waterbury, Conn., one of the sky gazers, said the lights appeared bluish-aquamarine and they varied in intensity. Smotroff's group watched the dazzling display for about 15 minutes from the intersection of Route 149 and Buttermilk Falls Road. Usually the lights appear white with a tinge of green and sometimes beautiful red, Ms. Mann said. However, people have difficulty distinguishing colors at night, so the lights might have looked blue to those people, she said. Predicting when the Northern Lights can be seen is very difficult, Ms. Mann said. The lights appear when sun spots -- relatively cooler regions of the sun -- throw off gaseous flares. The lights can be seen if the earth is in the path of those flares and the sun's gases mix with those of the earth's atmosphere, Ms. Mann said. "You're talking about a lot of chances. It's always a big if, a big maybe." Siting of the Northern Lights is not limited to the summer season, she said. === Page 12 of 90 Scientists 1/29/87 2 P. 6: As I have told you, the U.S. is under attack by the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf. Here you have the poisonous Red Tide attacking Texas and Gulf waters...then on p. 7 a deadly Brown Tide is attacking from the Atlantic side. Am certain that you will find this article, particularly, fascinating. Then on p. 8 bodies of water and The Sun Attack wiping out the oyster crop on a massive scale. P. 9: The crooked Jackie Presser gets a tumor on his lung...and various bigtime mob bosses get put away. This is what my UFOs are currently working at...to eliminate the bad members of the human race in key positions of power and replace them with good humans. It is interesting, in a synchronistic way, that Judge Owen gave top Mafia bosses 100 years each. Remember some years ago when I produced a UFO over the heads of two policemen in a certain area of Virginia..(a demonstration for a scientist.) One of the policemen was named Owen. And if you have the green book that I wrote you can read about another of my experiments whereby Big Foot stopped a car, reached in and grabbed the woman driver by the hair. Her name? Owen. P. 10: This clip is interesting because I gave a secret, unpublicized demonstration of my UFO powers in Ocala...attacking the Ocala newspaper building with various psi-force techniques to obtain various results. To my astonishment this clip appeared, relating to a UFO kidnapping an Ocala resident. P. 11: Fort Ann is where we live, outside of town in a semi-isolated area just like this man. Burglars are attacking homes in this area. There only a handful of police here. Last week a man broke into a house near here and raped and robbed a young woman. After he walked out of her house she grabbed a pistol that she had handy and blasted him with it from a window. The police are tying the man into a number of rapes in this area. The rest of the enclosed file deals with results from The Sun Attack. Ted Owens (PK Man) New address: Rt. 149, RR 2, Box 2169, Fort Ann, New York, 12827. Phone: (512) 632-5192 Owens PS: Nature now is thinning out the over-populated human race with cancer, AIDS, etc. When Nature has over-population under control, then it will supply the human race with answers to cancer, AIDS, etc., and these deadly illnesses will be stopped and controlled by humans. (If you have a ranch with enough grass to feed 1,000 cows - you do not allow the herd to grow to 3,000 cows.) 2 === Page 13 of 90 Scientists 3/31/87 2 and Vermont. It is described herein on p. 6. P. 7: Two more Russian space failures have occurred. My UFOs are indeed busy. P. 9: Note that my UFOs are weeding out many "bad" people in key positions in order to get better people in. Also note all of the troubles the Navy and Marine Corps are having with military aircraft. P. 10: In "The New Collective" note the changes for the better that have taken place at the top of our government...by weeding out undesirable, corrupt, crooked humans...and replacing them with better humans. This is not by accident or coincidence. The next few sheets deal with the UFOs "sun attack." Finally...(1) This Spring, Summer and Fall I will be telepathing my UFOs to produce UFOs and alien living forms in this geographical area of upper New York State for police, scientists, and other "responsible" people to see...as well as my own family (who are presumably "not responsible" people...bit of sarcasm there.) (2) A thought on my part. I believe that the reason that there are "gay" men and women is...because as the fetus is growing in pre-birth the hormone level in their body is too low for their developing brain to be able to differentiate the proper sex for that body...although the hormone level is adequate for the brain to assign proper genitalia to that body...and in post-birth this "uncertainty" as to the sex of that body is carried forward in that human's life and develops ultimately into a "gay" format. (3) About 7 AM on 2/24/87 Teddy and I witnessed a "mother ship" and four smaller UFOs in the air over the huge field in back of our house...from the sliding glass doors of our dining room, which overlooks our back-field area and woods and further along, the mountains. Then, at 9 AM, same day, on the Donohue Show, TV, the show was about a giant UFO seen by many in upper New York state (our approx. area). The man on the show had been captured by the giant UFO and he described the experience. He stated that it had occurred two days earlier than the Donohue Show. (4) My son Beau and I witnessed a stationary UFO near our house. It kept changing colors. (This was 3/14/87 at approx. 8:30 PM). At 8:45 PM Beau and Teddy found enormous 3-toed "Bigfoot" tracks in the snow in the field in back of our house...using flashlights. (5) 3/22/87. Last night, for hours, our power was out. Earlier in the morning Beau had told me that during the night he had heard a UFO over our house...like a giant swarm of buzzing bees, sound. When it woke him he found that he was levitating up in the air of his bedroom and could not speak or move. He said that the bedroom walls glowed, like white light, in a diamond-shaped pattern. (6) 3/22/87. In the afternoon Beau, Teddy, Jerome and I were driving to town. We had just left our house (out in the country in a semi-isolated location, ten miles from town.) From our van we all witnessed a cigar-shaped UFO in the air ahead of us. It had small, stubby fins. It floated along, making no sound, then stopped dead for a brief period, then just vanished completely...like a magician's trick. First it was there, then it was not there. (7) 3/23/87 About 12:30 noon Beau and I drove to Price Choppers supermarket in Glens Falls to get supplies for the family. Suddenly all the lights overhead in my area went out, while all the other lights in the store stayed on. A girl employee smiled at me and said that she guessed the supermarket hadn't paid its electric bill. Beau and I drove back home and the light in the hall outside my bedroom flickered off and on as Beau and I watched. === Page 14 of 90 Alien in area **Alien stranger had a message for all of us** Editor: Post-Star 10/7/87 "Expose the Charlatan" goes up the familiar cry. Long and steady was the gaze of the stranger as he stood by my bed. His gnarled body with large protruding eyes told of a wisdom and age far beyond that of normal human beings. There had just been reports of a UFO sighted over Alaska by a Japanese pilot, and also on radar. Here he stood by my bedside and, though not saying a word, seemed to telepathically convey a message. Somber indeed came the words that the world had better do a turn around soon or thermonuclear warfare and destruction beyond repair was the future. ET had struck again. The starbird took to the skies and who would believe. The Charlatan? Of over 1/2 million close encounters when asked about the Saviour, the little green men say he is one. The battle of science-super science Atheism vs. Religion goes on. James L. Williams Warrensburg Why the UFO Base? selective catalytic converter My UFOs will target it with OD powers from key pyramids, Stonehenge, etc., to block nuclear war, etc. BASE Tues approx. 7 AM Loud noise like a thousand trains. Roaring noise. Our house shook and the walls made popping noises and cracking noises. (Not thunder or lightning cause weather was clear). Approximately 15 min. later this same thing repeated. Owens SCIENTISTS As you can see from the above newsclip...a UFO alien appeared by the bedside of this man in nearby Warrensburg. The happening was exactly the same thing that happened to me in Philadelphia, years ago. And the alien told him what I have been telling you. Time is short...and the Base must be forthcoming very soon, if a nuclear war is to be avoided. For years I have been telling you that I must have a UFO Base...but I did not know why my UFOs needed a Base. I just did what they told me. This morning, 10/7/87, they finally fill (typewriter broke down) filled me in on it. My UFOs will target their Base with other-dimensional Powers, drawn from key pyramids, Stonehenge, etc. These powers will flow through the Base and I will be used as a selective catalytic converter to reconstruct the powers, which will then flow from the Base around the world to create special effects and conditions (block nuke war between Russia and America; improve the human race; heal Earth, which humans have so badly damaged - and so on. Owens 8 +2 === Page 15 of 90 # DIARY OF A MAD PLANET: ## The 1985-86 visit of Halley's Comet. "When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes," wrote a man calling himself Shakespeare (in Julius Caesar). Not quite right: this latest visit of Halley's Comet (HC) saw the death or fall of a few "princes" and a great many ordinary people, and includes the death of the 'officially' oldest man (see Paul Sieveking's INTO THREE FIGURES on p54). But visually, HC could hardly be said to have blazed forth. Even from the best viewing locations HC was an unexcitingly faint smudge: one woman travelled 4000 miles to Peru only to complain bitterly about the "crummy fuzzball". [10,14 April 1986] Fort's comment on the much-feared and equally disappointing 1910 visit seems most apt. He wrote: "It was about as terrifying as the scratch of a match on the seat of some britches half a mile away." [Books, p141] Nevertheless, in view of the widespread belief, which we ourselves accept until a more refined expression comes along, that astronomical and terrestrial events can be related in some ill-understood way, we thought we'd better monitor events during HC's visit. ### TIMETABLE The crucial astronomical dates were: **27 Nov 1985** - incoming HC closest to Earth. **10 Feb 1986** - HC parhelion, closest to sun. **11 Apr 1986** - departing HC closest to Earth. The strain of forces in the HC-Earth relationship obviously does not suddenly switch on or off at these dates, but builds up gradually as proximity increases followed by the equally gradual release of tensions. Because this Earth is a dynamic system and we were looking for effects which themselves might be the result of long, slow or complicated cause-and-effect chains we expected to find more notable events in the withdrawal period (after HC had passed its 9-11th Feb parhelion). For this reason we widened our study period from September 1985 to May 1986. Before we get to the listing proper, we have a few interesting notes... ### KEYNOTES ▶ 'Disaster', is an ancient word, derived from Latin roots (dis + astrum) meaning "an unfavourable aspect of a star or planet" according to the OED, and all that that implies is certainly applicable to HC's visit. ▶ During the proximity of HC we noted the deaths of Krishnamurti and L.Ron Hubbard; the assassinations of Sweden's premier Olof Palme and Zafer al Masri, a Palestinian mayor in Israel; the flight of 'Baby' Doc Duvalier from Haiti and Ferdinand Marcos from the Philipines; the erosion of Maggie Thatcher's invincible image, and ditto for the West's space technology. ▶ Of any event in this miserable catalogue, undoubtedly the greatest anxiety to the greatest number was caused by the explosion and meltdown of reactor No.4 at Chernobyl, in the Ukraine, on 26th April 1986, releasing a radioactive cloud which drifted south and west over Scandinavia, continental Europe, and changed direction to reach Britain at the begining of May. 23-freaks might like to know the blast happened at 1.23pm (or 23.23 Paris time), and the first bulletin issues by Soviet authorities the next day had just 23 words. The Chernobyl accident had been preceded in Britain by a serious leak at Sizewell in January 1986 which forced its closure until May. After Chernobyl other stories of leaks at at least one other British reactor in the preceding weeks came to light. At the close of April there was a fire at a heavy water plant in eastern India, and a non-nuclear accident at a reactor in Taiwan. In May a fire disabled the Heysham reactor in Cleveland; a leak was found at a new West German reactor; 5 men were accidentally irradiated at the French reactor at La Hague; a fire destroyed a cooling tower at the Browns Ferry reactor in Alabama; and another fire caused a leak at the Dounreay reactor. See HOT GOSSIP (below) for a few ephemeral comments on Chernobyl... ▶ In all the debates about Chernobyl, the long-term effects on the ecology of the region is hardly given a thought. The Ukraine straddles the main migratory routes of birds and insects who can travel as far south as Africa and all the way up to the Arctic circle. According to a Dutch environmental organization the nuclear cloud coincided with the annual northerly migration of many songbirds, especially nightingales, to their breeding grounds in Finland, where a great many of them have since died, their bodies containing high rates of radioactivity. [19,30 May 1986] The same source reports that 150 of 270 racing pigeons released in Marseilles failed to return to their hometown of Piacenza, in northern Italy. The Italian conservationist magazine Airone attributes this loss to aerial radioactivity (though we have to wonder why 120 of the birds could make the trek safely?). ▶ Concurrent with the nuclear circus was a series of disasters involving space programmes 26 / STRANGE DAYS === Page 16 of 90 # DIARY OF A MAD PLANET: ## The 1985-86 visit of Halley's Comet. UFOs Sun Attack UFOs Sun Attack/Fortean Times #47 Autumn 1986 "When beggars die, there are no comets seen: the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes," wrote a man calling himself Shakespeare (in Julius Caesar). Not quite right: this latest visit of Halley's Comet (HC) saw the death or fall of a few "princes" and a great many ordinary people, and includes the death of the 'officially' oldest man (see Paul Sieveking's INTO THREE FIGURES on p54). But visually, HC could hardly be said to have blazed forth. Even from the best viewing locations HC was an unexcitingly faint smudge: one woman travelled 4000 miles to Peru only to complain bitterly about the "crummy fuzzball". [10,14 April 1986] Fort's comment on the much-feared and equally disappointing 1910 visit seems most apt. He wrote: "It was about as terrifying as the scratch of a match on the seat of some britches half a mile away." [Books, p141] Nevertheless, in view of the widespread belief, which we ourselves accept until a more refined expression comes along, that astronomical and terrestrial events can be related in some ill-understood way, we thought we'd better monitor events during HC's visit. ### TIMETABLE The crucial astronomical dates were: **27 Nov 1985** - incoming HC closest to Earth. **10 Feb 1986** - HC parhelion, closest to sun. **11 Apr 1986** - departing HC closest to Earth. The strain of forces in the HC-Earth relationship obviously does not suddenly switch on or off at these dates, but builds up gradually as proximity increases followed by the equally gradual release of tensions. Because this Earth is a dynamic system and we were looking for effects which themselves might be the result of long, slow or complicated cause-and-effect chains we expected to find more notable events in the withdrawal period (after HC had passed its 9-11th Feb parhelion). For this reason we widened our study period from September 1985 to May 1986. Before we get to the listing proper, we have a few interesting notes... ### KEYNOTES * 'Disaster', is an ancient word, derived from Latin roots (dis + astrum) meaning "an unfavourable aspect of a star or planet" according to the OED, and all that that implies is certainly applicable to HC's visit. * During the proximity of HC we noted the deaths of Krishnamurti and L.Ron Hubbard; the assassinations of Sweden's premier Olof Palme and Zafer al Masri, a Palestinian mayor in Israel; the flight of 'Baby' Doc Duvalier from Haiti and Ferdinand Marcos from the Philipines; the erosion of Maggie Thatcher's invincible image, and ditto for the West's space technology. * Of any event in this miserable catalogue, undoubtedly the greatest anxiety to the greatest number was caused by the explosion and meltdown of reactor No.4 at Chernobyl, in the Ukraine, on 26th April 1986, releasing a radioactive cloud which drifted south and west over Scandinavia, continental Europe, and changed direction to reach Britain at the begining of May. 23-freaks might like to know the blast happened at 1.23pm (or 23.23 Paris time), and the first bulletin issues by Soviet authorities the next day had just 23 words. The Chernobyl accident had been preceded in Britain by a serious leak at Sizewell in January 1986 which forced its closure until May. After Chernobyl other stories of leaks at at least one other British reactor in the preceding weeks came to light. At the close of April there was a fire at a heavy water plant in eastern India, and a non-nuclear accident at a reactor in Taiwan. In May a fire disabled the Heysham reactor in Cleveland; a leak was found at a new West German reactor; 5 men were accidentally irradiated at the French reactor at La Hague; a fire destroyed a cooling tower at the Browns Ferry reactor in Alabama; and another fire caused a leak at the Dounreay reactor. See HOT GOSSIP (below) for a few ephemeral comments on Chernobyl... * In all the debates about Chernobyl, the long-term effects on the ecology of the region is hardly given a thought. The Ukraine straddles the main migratory routes of birds and insects who can travel as far south as Africa and all the way up to the Arctic circle. According to a Dutch environmental organization the nuclear cloud coincided with the annual northerly migration of many songbirds, especially nightingales, to their breeding grounds in Finland, where a great many of them have since died, their bodies containing high rates of radioactivity. [19,30 May 1986] The same source reports that 150 of 270 racing pigeons released in Marseilles failed to return to their hometown of Piacenza, in northern Italy. The Italian conservationist magazine Airone attributes this loss to aerial radioactivity (though we have to wonder why 120 of the birds could make the trek safely?). * Concurrent with the nuclear circus was a series of disasters involving space programmes 26 / STRANGE DAYS === Page 17 of 90 of a number of countries, the most serious of which was the death of the seven American 'Challenger' shuttle astronauts early in October 1985. This was followed by the 'in-flight' destruction of a Delta satellite launcher, and revelations about careless manufacture and assembly of space vehicles and components, forcing a moratorium on all US space activities. NASA officials were said to be shocked and bewildered by "this...very uncanny, strange series of events." Then a French satellite launcher blasted off and blew up. Only the Russians had any success, performing the first link-up between two space stations (Soyuz T-15 and Salyut-7). ▶ In 1910 a second comet eclipsed HC in brightness. This visit of HC also coincided with a second comet, spotted by Chinese astronomers as passing quite close to HC, which they say happens "once in every 1000 years." [38,29 Sept 1985] ▶ In the week HC was closest to Earth (10th April 1986) a woman died in Yugoslavia after spending 24 years in a coma. It might be mere coincidence (whatever that is) that 'coma' is a the name of a comet's tail, and that the tail-end of this woman's life was spent in "the longest recorded coma in medical history". [2,16 April 1986] ▶ HC itself went through a strange transformation during 1986, depending upon which 'expert' observer you believed. On 10th January West Germany's Maxpap Institute of Astronomy said that Halley's tail had developed a dark spot which they believed to be a hole created by "solar, whirlwind-like forces". [33,1 Feb 1986] On 18th February HC became brighter because it had developed seven tails following an "outburst" at the nucleus 3-4 days previously, said the European Southern Observatory at La Silla, Chile. [35,22 Feb; 2,24 Feb 1986] By mid-April there is no mention of multiple tails. Worse, we are told by Sky and Telescope magazine that HC "lost most of its tail about March 21". [12,18 Apr 1986] Some astronomers implied this was expected: as the side of HC facing the sun warmed up HC spouted jets of gas and dust. This was just before the appearance of the seven tails. Far from being the bright star in a party dress, HC turned out to be "one of the darkest objects ever detected in the solar system", due, it is said, to the amounts of dust. [10,15 Mar 1986] ▶ The last solar flares in a long time - and in a period of sunspot 'peace' too (ie. not in the usual 11-point-something year cycle) - on 4th February. The flares caused severe electromagnetic interference, disrupting satellite communications, most forms of broadcasting, phone lines and even power distribution. They even interfered with data from the Pioneer 12 Venus orbiter, delaying by two weeks pictures of HC at its closest approach to the sun. Dramatic auroras followed in the Earth's magnetosphere on the 8th February and were seen throughout the northern hemisphere from points unusually far south. ▶ A record prolonged and extreme winter in China through to April/May, culminating in what must be the largest hailstones yet. In his new book, *The violent earth* (reviewed this issue), Frank Lane attributes the largest recorded hailstone to China, weighing "about 9 pounds" and falling in 1909. This is exceeded many times over by the 33lb stones that fell in Sichuan around the 19/20th May, and 11lb stones fell there on the 8th of May. But the most astonishing hailstone must be that which fell in Guangdong on 19/20 April; it weighed a record 60 kilogrammes (132 pounds). Heavy! April and May also saw many storms of giant hailstones in Bangladesh. Quite appropriate for an icey comet. ▶ Human behaviour did not escape this visit. For example: Michael Hoffman collected a depressing cluster of deaths via accidents and murders on Hallowe'en (30th October) 1985. Although the subject is too vast and varied for inclusion here, we do note several suicide waves (see 9 Sept; 1 + 4 Oct; 10 Feb; 26 Mar; 8 Apr.). For connections between HC and suicides see Loren Coleman's article on p68. ▶ We were surprised, ourselves, at the extent of what we call 'superlatives' (hottest, wettest, coldest, worst, etc) between our cut-off dates. April 86 piles catastrophe upon disaster as many thousands were made homeless almost daily. There were also some drastic reversals - regions suffering a bad drought which are then drowned in torrential rain. See NOT THEIR DAY on p16 for such an over-reaction to the rain dance of Dee-O-Det, medicine man to the Smoke Red tribe in Arizona. ### HOT GOSSIP There was bound to be wild rumour-mongering in the wake of the Ukranian nuclear reactor disaster at Chernobyl. What little we got in the way of clippings showed that most of continental Europe got pretty excited as the radioactive clouds drifted back and forth overhead. For example an Italian hen laid a large egg - weighing 208g, with a 7cm diameter - and then stopped laying altogether, which was blamed on the radioactivity. *Le Courrier de l'Ouest* 9 May 1986. The same paper for 26 May 1986 refers vaguely to "a great number" of rumours flying around Poland. A man claimed the milk in his fridge went "lumious"; another said the radiation made him suddenly lose his hair. Doctors in Rumania were swamped by anxious requests about methods of protection from radiation, while some hospitals there had to cope with numbers of children inadvertently poisoned by their parents, who had heard a rumour that a drink of iodine would do the trick. Among the inevitable Chernobyl post-mortems is an obscure note of a divine piece of lexilinking. Writing in the *D. Telegraph* (28 July 1986, and citing the *New York Times*) Ian Ball STRANGE DAYS / 27 === Page 18 of 90 refers to a discovery that "with the uncanny speed common to rumour in the Soviet Union...had spread across the Soviet land, contributing to the swelling body of lore..." about the disaster. Ball reveals that the name 'Chernobyl' is the Ukranian word for the bitter herb wormwood which once grew in such abundance on the banks of the Dnieper that the region was named after it. What has fascinated, even shocked, "atheists and believers" alike is the discovery that 'wormwood' is specifically associated in the Bible with a catastrophically poisonous conflagration. Indeed, Revelations chapter 8, verses 10 and 11 reads: "And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters. / And the name of the star is called Wormwood; and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many died of the waters, because they were made bitter." Perhaps one day a folklorist will collect that "swelling body of lore". Meanwhile, says Ball, Bibles and Ukranian dictionaries are being pored over "thoughout Russia" by citizens wanting to verify this curious coincidence. In West Sussex, P.J.Edmonds, was likewise compelled and wrote to the Telegraph (1 Aug 1986) a confirmatory letter. He adds that "Chernobyl may also be translated as 'a black event'." This last observation was made doubly interesting when Val Stevenson pointed out to us two entries in Barbara Walker's truly impressive Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets (Harper & Row, 1984 - reviewed in FT44). 'Wormwood' notes the herb was sacred to the Great Mother, and in Russia to pagan nymphs (Vilas). Continuing the female associations, wormwood was the chief ingredient of absinthe, first made by French witches. Via the German for wormwood, Wermut, we get the French word vermouth. 'Chernobog' sheds more light on Edmonds' "black event". Chernobog was a chthonian Lord of Death, a "black sun beneath the earth" in opposition to the heavenly White Sun. All of which seems very apt when we consider the narrowly averted prospect of the Chernobyl reactor burning its way into the earth below and thereby contaminating the water table and the nearby Dnieper River. The Ukranians, says Walker, still curse their enemies with "May the Black God exterminate you!" And he almost did... # THE LISTING The following listing is far from complete - for example we have not correlated it with Albert Thomas' regular listing of 'Worldwide Weather Disasters' in the Journal of Meteorology. It simply represents a random selection of the superlative phenomena and disasterous events that made their way onto our 'Halley heap'. "Hide the cows and cover ponds and wells," advises this illustration in a 1983 Soviet civil defense manual. The melt-down at Chernobyl, on 26 April 1986, gave little chance to put it to its practical use. ### SEPTEMBER 1985 9 - Philippines, 68 Ata tribespeople are killed by shamaness who gave them poisoned food, see FT46 p18. 10 - London, a curious object falls from sky to smash on (but not through!) the glass conservatory roof of a house in Twickenham, not a meteorite as reported but "about 4ozs, duck-egg size, grey matter" which an 'expert' thought more like congealed soot. [31,13+20 Sept] 19 - Mexico City, hit by first of two quakes, 8000 dead. 21 - England, several lumps of ice fell from the sky into a factory yard at Isleworth, Surrey. [31,27 Sept] 30 - USA, "largest Sept. snowfall ever" in northeastern Minnesota, record low temps. elsewhere in state, also "wettest Sept. since 1926". [12,1 Oct] ### OCTOBER 1985 ? - Britain, "warmest" & "driest" October since 1978. [10,1 Nov; 8,20 Nov] ? - China, "earlier than usual" blizzards begin to white-out Qinghai province lasting through to March 86, during which time 34,500 herdsmen had to be rescued, million livestock animals die + unknown number of wild animals, 15,000 people treated for frostbite, snow-blindness etc. [21,6 Mar 1986] 1 - USA, Arapahoe Indians at Wind River, Wyoming, perform a sacred pipe ceremony after nine young men kill themselves in the two months since 3rd August. [12,11 Oct + 3 Nov] On 18 March 1986 there was another suicide. [12,20 Mar] 4 - Brazil, freak hailstorm devastates Itabirinha town, sheets of ice in streets 1ft 28 / STRANGE DAYS === Page 19 of 90 deep, 20 killed, 4000 homeless. [18,5 Oct] 4 - England, in the next two weeks 5 teenage girls, all pupils at a Slough, Berks, school, attempt suicide. [36,18 Oct] 5 - Puerto Rico, hundreds die in mudslide after rainstorm. 8 - USA, heavy snow on Wyoming, Minnesota, Utah, Oregon, Colorado, Idaho, N&S.Dakota, Nevada & Montana, record low temps in Montana. [12,9 Oct] 8 - Puerto Rico, hurricane Isabel causes floods & mudslides, 60+ dead. [12,9 Oct] 13 - Soviet Tadzhikistan, quake, 10 dead. [10,16 Oct] 16 - Argentina, 13 dead & 22,000 evacuated in two days of flood around Buenos Aires. [10,18 Nov] 18 - Philippines, typhoon Dot batters Luzon at 127mph. [10,19 Oct] 19 - USA, 4.0 R quake at White Plains, NY. [27,22 Apr 86] 20-21 - USA, White Plains, NY, 3.3 R quake. [27,22 Apr 86] 28 - USA, hurricane Juan sends 12 tornadoes into Florida, one sounded "like a train" filled with "spinning fire". [1,29 Oct] NOVEMBER 1985 ? - Britain, "coldest November since 1965", "driest autumn since 1978 (7th driest on record)" [10,2 Dec]. NASA says satellite measurements show more of northern hemisphere covered in ice and snow than at any time since monitoring began 20 yrs ago. [27,10 Dec; 8,13 Dec] ? - South Africa, drought in eastern Cape, Border & East London relieved by torrential rain & replaced by widespread flooding. [37,8 Nov] 12 - Venice floods, tide 4ft higher than usual. [10,13 Nov] 13 - Colombia, 23,000 die as Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts burying town of Armero, "world's biggest mass grave". [Most papers through to end of Nov]. Last survivor rescued on 9th Dec (24 days later). [34,10 Dec] 15 - Russia, the Klyuchevskaya volcano in Kamchatka erupts. [10,14 Nov] 16 - Spain, Alicante, flash floods claim lives. [24,17 Nov] 17 - Italy, heavy cloudburst floods Naples. [15,18 Nov] 18 - West New Britain, a volcano on this Papua-New Guinea island erupts, lava heading for village. [20,19 Nov] 19 - Southern England, "lowest Nov. day temperature since 1968". [10,20 Nov] 27 - England, "large, luminous steel-blue object" seen and heard "roaring" through sky over Weston-super-Mare in night. [4,28 Nov] 30 - Siberia, report that eastern provinces are enjoying a heatwave. [38,1 Dec] DECEMBER 1985 ? - Britain, "mildest December since 1974". [10,31 Dec] ? - Brazil, commodity traders say the current crop of coffee has been hit by a "severe drought" in the country. [23,13 Dec] 2 - England, London's "warmest Dec. day for 25 years" [10,4 Dec], Bristol's warmest Dec. day "for 50 years" [4,3 Dec], mildest start to Dec for "30 years" [8,4 Dec] 3 - Venezuela, floods throughout country. [23,4 Dec] 4 - Colombia, 40,000 evacuated after eruption of Nevado del Ruiz volcano. [24,5 Jan] 8 - Devon, "freak" snowstorm at Plympton. [10,9 Dec] 12 - Israel, water level in Sea of Galilee "lowest in 37 years". [23,13 Dec] 17 - Leeds, drought, blamed on 2.4 R quake "three weeks" earlier. [7,18 Dec] 17 - Brazil, southern states in severe drought. [41,18 Dec] 19 - Nicaragua, volcano erupts, 100+ houses damaged. [23,20 Dec] 26 - England, many regions of West Country flood, then freeze in "colder than expected" for Dec. weather. [4,28 Dec] 30 - USA, Buffalo, NY, has heaviest monthly snowfall, so far 5ft 8ins, just 1/2 ins short of all-time monthly record in 1977. [8,31 Dec] JANUARY 86 ? - USA, Minnesota has 4-5 weeks of uncharacteristic warm weather following Christmas. [8,27 Jan] 4 - USA, 2.0 R quake at White Plains, NY. [27,22 Apr 1986] 5 - Colombia, the Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts again, "acrid smell of sulphur" in air, "daily electrical storms", Guali River rises apx 1ft as glacial headwaters melt, "similar phenomena to 13 Nov 1985 eruption", precautionary evacuation of 7000. [15,10,6 Jan] 6 - Bangladesh & northern India, two weeks of cold weather, icy winds and severe night frosts claim 200 lives. India's Dal Lake freezes over, "first time in 20+ years". [23,7+8 Jan] 10 - Quebec, "small" quake of 3.0 R. [43,12 Jan] 11 - Quebec, "moderate" quake of 4.2 R. [43,12 Jan] 11 - Britain, "freak" storms cause floods and lightning damage. [24,12 Jan] 11 - Bermuda, three tornadoes that "came out of nowhere" STRANGE DAYS / 29 === Page 20 of 90 The temporary island off Iwo Jima. See 20 January 1986. [© Arab News 22 Jan 1986.] cause considerable damage. [3,12 Jan] 19 - Newfoundland, during evening, a green fireball which "lit up the sky like broad daylight", thought to fall "somewhere" in the state, light seen in Labrador and Nova Scotia. Some told police they heard an explosion about 7:30pm. [2,21 Jan] 20 - Japan, near Iwo Jima a new crescent-shaped island rises 15m above waves during next three days of activity from Fukutokuokanoba undersea volcano. [46,20 Jan; 2,21+22+26 Jan; 10,11,21 Jan] 25 - Peru, Lake Titicaca overflows, six towns affected, crops & cattle lost. [33,27 Jan] 26 - Southern England, "sunniest [Jan.] weekend this century". [10,27 Jan] 26 - Niigata, Japan, "worst avalanche in 30+ years". [2,28 Jan] 30 - Venice floods, "third highest this century", 100+ homeless. [2,2 Feb] 30 - USA, 5.0 R quake felt from Illinois & Ontario to Washington DC. [33,1 Feb; 2,27,2 Feb] 30 - Canada, foul-smelling slime fell from the sky onto the Elementary School at South Burnaby, BC, "three days in a row". [44,3 Feb] 31 - Southern France & northern Italy "paralysed" by huge snowfalls & high winds, 5 dead in France, powercuts. State of emergency declared in Turin, "worst blizzard since 1956". [2,33,1 Feb] FEBRUARY 1986 ? - Britain, "coldest Feb. since 1947", "second coldest Feb this century". Prolonged cold in France & Switzerland. Canals freeze over in Belgium. [10,1 Mar; 17,4+6 Mar] 2 - Australia, north Queensland swamped by hurricane Winifred, "the worst storm in more than a decade", 200+kph winds, floods. [33,10,3 Feb; 2,4 Feb] One-third of Australia's banana crop wrecked. [10,7 Feb] 4 - "Major" solar flares detected, "first in more than a year". [35,5 Feb] 4 - Berkshire, "huge fireball" lights sky over Windsor, no trace of a meteor or crashed plane. [7,5 Feb] 7 - India, western state of Maharashtra begins a week of hailstorms, "most severe in recent years", 11 killed, $3 million damage. [33,13 Feb] 8 - "Strongest geomagnetic storm since 1976" disrupts radio, TV and other communication media in northern hemisphere; follows a "series of powerful solar flares" earlier in the week. [12,9 Feb; 12,10 Feb] 9 - Northern hemisphere, Northern Lights visible from most countries; England, "best seen for 20 years". [7,10 Feb; 13,13 Feb] 10 - East Anglia, record low daytime temperatures for next few days. [5,10 Feb] 10 - USA, a high school teenager at Spencer, Massachusetts, shoots himself, the next day there are two foiled suicides and rumours of five other attempts among fellow pupils. [30,13 Feb] 11 - Italy, "heaviest snowfall for 21 years"; Austria, "heaviest snowfall since 1929"; pretty bad in Hungary & Yugoslavia too. At same time temperatures from Canada to Texas plunge to -25°C. [33,13 Feb] 12 - Alaska, quake. [33,14 Feb] 13 - USA, nine days of storms lash Pacific coast, "heaviest rain in 30 years", 35,000 flood refugees. [33,19+21 Feb] "A little over a week ago we were in the throes of a drought." [40,3 Mar] 15 - Fort Langley, Canada's "fifth rail accident in a week". [2,17 Feb] 15 - USA, "unexplained" blue flash lights up pre-dawn sky over southeastern Pennsylvania and south Jersey. Thought to be meteor. [28,16 Feb] An AP report of same date says flash was "multi-coloured". 16 - Switzerland, 3.5 R quake in Valais area of Alps in morning. [2,17 Feb] 18 - California, after "heaviest rain in 31 years", floods, avalanches, mudslides, etc, 12000 flee homes, 17 killed. [2,19 Feb; 25,19+21 Feb] 18 - USA, fireball in night sky (9pm) explodes leaving a red train with "all kinds of sparkles", blue, orange and green, seen all over Pacific 30 / STRANGE DAYS === Page 21 of 90 northwest coast. Astronomers say it was a "bolide". [25, 20 Feb] 18 - Japan, Tokyo & Yokohama brought to standstill by two days of heavy snow. [2,20 Feb] 21 - Bulgaria, 12pt Mercali quake near northeastern town of Strajitsa. [33,23 Feb] 22 - Pakistan, northern regions jolted by two quakes. [2,23 Feb] 23 - Sudan, death toll of measles outbreak in Kordofan province reaches 82, 400 still ill. [2,25 Feb] 23 - Britain, coloured "flares" in sky, seen as far apart as Mull and Southampton. "Meteorites," says Met. Office. [34,24 Feb] 27 - Belgium, sea freezing at Ostend. "Coldest Feb in local records". [2,28 Feb] 28 - London, "worst winter for more than 20 years" (in Feb. !), parts of Thames froze for five miles above Oxford sending dangerous icebergs downstream; British crops freeze in ground; deaths from hypothermia. [36,1 Mar] MARCH 1986 ? - Yugoslavia, "scores" of birds killed themselves by crashing onto houses in Zabljak, the country's highest town, 22 died together as they fell through an open window into a bathtub. [?,8 Mar] 1 - South Africa, locusts swarming over "a quarter of the land area", "one of the worst plagues in 20 years". [21,2 Mar] 1 - Britain, "coldest night for 50 years"; while USA has a heatwave. [39,2 Mar] 2 - Japan, "strong" quake shakes central and northern areas at 4:09pm local time. [33,17,3 Mar] 2 - England, block of ice crashes onto Potters Green Infants School in Coventry. [6,3 Mar 1986] 4 - China, Qinghai region, "worst blizzard in region's history". [21,17,6 Mar 1986] ![The surf freezes at Weston-super-Mare. See early February 1986. [© Nigel Tailby / Bristol Eve. Post.]] The surf freezes at Weston-super-Mare. See early February 1986. [© Nigel Tailby / Bristol Eve. Post.] 5 - Brazil, a week of continuous rainstorms begin leaving 32,000 homeless in the northeastern state of Ceara. [17,13 Mar] 6 - South Africa, great many bolts of lightning raze grass-hut village at Waterburg during "freak" thunderstorm 5 killed, 6 injured. [17,7 Mar] 6 - Caspian Sea, a 6.7 R quake at 0006 GMT. [17,7 Mar] 8 - Peru, after 6 months of rain ("double the average") a water-logged mountainside slides over four villages, 6000 evacuated. [14,12 Mar] Lake Titicaca rises to the "highest level this century", 90,000 people in environs flee their homes. Presidential commission investigating rumours "that peasants sacrificed a human to end the rains." [21,21,9 Mar] 8 - Japan, a tiny island off Iwo Jima, created in late January by undersea volcano, has nearly vanished beneath waves. [21,9 Mar] 10 - Malaysia, thousands evacuated in Johore state after heavy rains cause floods and landslips. [21,11 Mar] 10 - USA, Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana hit by total of 29 twisters in one day, thousands without power, at least 6 killed. [14,12 Mar] 11 - Brazil, northern region of Fortaleza, 40,000 homeless from floods following days of "torrential" rain. [14,12 Mar] 12 - Southwest Indonesia, a week of heavy rain causes Citarum River to burst, 50,000 homeless, countless farms, fishponds etc ruined. [21,13+14 Mar] 12 - Indonesia, "critical" outbreak of rabies, pogrom against stray dogs, 24,000 pets vaccinated. [21,13 Mar] 13 - New Zealand, "one of the worst floods this century" leaves hundreds homeless following torrential rain. "The region was just recovering from a massive drought last year." [17,15 Mar] 13 - India, epidemic of meningitis, mounting deaths and 600 hospital admissions over two months in New Delhi. [21,14 Mar] 14 - Madagascar, a two-day cyclone wrecks the country's "rice-bowl" [21,16 Mar] 19 - Saint-Denis de la Réunion, French Indian Ocean, the Piton de la Fournaise volcano begins a prolonged period of activity, 300 evacuated from southeastern tip of island. [21,22+26 Mar; 17,25 Mar; 2,28 Mar] 20 - Nigeria, outbreak of meningitis in northern state of Bauchi, 70 dead. [21,21 Mar] 21 - Central British Columbia STRANGE DAYS / 31 === Page 22 of 90 rocked by 5.7 R quake. [17,23 Mar] 21 - New York, temperature plunges to 8°. [*15,22 Mar] 22 - Southern Taiwan, two quakes 6.0 R at 12:45pm (0445 GMT, and 5.0 R at 1:25pm (0525 GMT). [17,14,23 Mar] 23 - Indonesia, Mt Lokon volcano in north Sulawesi spews ash and debris, river serving five villages diverted. [21,25 Mar] 23 - Japan, Tokyo region "lashed" by "worst spring snowstorm ever recorded" + strong winds, roofs collapse under 8ins of mushy snow. 13 killed, 215 injured in train collision. [14,27,24 Mar; 17,25 Mar] 24 - British Isles, "record-breaking gusts" of "freak" hurricane-force wind up to 145kph cause hundreds of accidents and 9 deaths. [4,24 Mar; 21,8,25 Mar] 25 - Irian Jaya, Indonesia, 6.6 R quake at 3:38am (1938 GMT). [17,26 Mar] 25 - Greece, area north of Athens, 5.7 R quake at 0141 GMT. [14,26 Mar] 25 - Tanzania, outbreak of cholera in northern province of Mara, 11 dead in 2 weeks. [14,26 Mar] 25 - Egypt, first of two sightings of Virgin Mary at Coptic church in Cairo. [32,14 Apr] See next issue of FT. 26 - USA, 3.1 R quake hits southwest Virginia at 11:36am. [12,27 Mar] 26 - USA, the 6th teenager to commit suicide in 2 years in Leominster, Massachusetts, suicide prevention worker says at least 50 youths attempted suicide in the city in 6 months. [1,30,3,28 Mar] 28 - Alaska, following weeks of monitored tremors and rising heat the Augustine volcano erupts for "first time in 10 years", clouds of corrosive ash. Swarms of small 1.5 R quakes rattle the area. Fears for quakes along San Andreas Fault. Rumbles and eruptions continue throughout following month. [12,27+28 Mar; 2,33,3,29 Mar; 27,30,31 Mar; 1,28 Mar+21 April] 28 - Constantine, Algiers, rocked by "mild" quake, 0257 GMT. [33,29 Mar] 29 - Aegean Islands, 6.1 R quake, felt on mainland. [2,31 Mar] 29 - San Francisco, 4.0 R quake. [12,30 Mar; 33,31 Mar] 29 - Alaska, more rumbles and ash clouds from Augustine Volcano. [3,30 Mar] 30 - San Francisco, "third quake in three days", 5.3+ R, at 3:56am (1156 GMT). "There was a rumbling and a roll, then an abrupt bump and a couple more rolls." [1,31 Mar; 33,7,12,27,3,1 Apr] 30 - Britain freezes over with gales, snow and hail for Easter. [8,31 Mar] 31 - Bangladesh, storm kills 16, injures 200. [33,6 Apr] 31 - Tanzania, Ifakara district, floods during the week, "heaviest since 1979", seven villages affected, 3000 homeless. [33,4,31 Mar] 31 - Alaska, the Augustine volcano has "biggest eruption in 10 years". [12,1+2 Apr; 2,27,30,2 Apr] # APRIL 1986 1 - Peru, following "unusually heavy" rains Lake Titicaca rises more than 6ft, "more than at any time in the past century", floods destroy crops and villages, 240,000 homeless in Peru and Bolivia. [12,2 Apr] 2 - Oshima Island, Japan, 623 "minor" tremors in 26hrs, near Mt Mihara volcano. [33,3 Apr] 3 - Bangladesh, northeast coast, severe hailstorm kills 11, injures 42, much damage. [33,46,4 Apr; 10,5 Apr] 3 - India, Tripura state, on border with Bangladesh, cyclone razes five villages, 5 killed, 200+ injured. [33,4+6 Apr] 4 - Ethiopia, Wollo region, the appropriately named Awash River floods following torrential rains, 400 homeless. [2,6 Apr] 4 - Huntington Beach, California shaken by 3.8 R quake, 10:50pm. [33,6 Apr] 4 - Northeastern Aegean Islands, hit by 2 quakes, 5.3 and 4.7 R. [16,5 Apr] 5 - Bangladesh northeast coast, severe hailstorm kills 12, injures 100, and 50 missing as hundreds of fishing boats capsize. Giant hail "up to 1kg". [16,5 Apr; 33,6+7 Apr; 46,7 Apr] 5 - Cuzco, Peru, "Most devastating earthquake in 36 years", 5.5 R at 3:30pm followed by four more quakes in next three hours, 3000 homeless, many dead. [33,36,7 Apr; 2,8 Apr] 8 - Japan, teenage singing star Yukiko Okada jumps to her death from a 7-storey Tokyo building after a failed love affair, in next 3 weeks 33 teenagers, most of them girls, suicide mostly in the same way. [Numerous clippings on file.] 14/15 - Northern Bangladesh, giant hail "up to 2.2lbs" flattens houses and crops in Gopalganj & other districts, storm-winds reach 125kph, 100+ feared killed, 3000+ injured. [46,15 Apr; 9,22,33,42,16 Apr; 15,17,17 Apr] 16 - Alaska, a second volcano - the Pavlov Volcano - spews ash and steam three miles into the air. [12,18 Apr] 17 - Mount St Helens, Washington, belches clouds for first time in 10 months, with seismic activity. [12,18 Apr; 1,21 Apr] 18 - Alaska, volcano Pavlov explodes with "one of the most violent eruptions in its history", debris hurled 16km into air, Cathedral River blocked by debris and floods. [33,20 Apr] 19 - USA, twin tornadoes hit Sweetwater, TX, 1 dead, 90+ injured, 800 homes damaged. [12,20 Apr; 30,21 Apr] 19/20 - Wales, a huge block of ice falls in a field at Wiston, near Haverfordwest. 5lbs' 32 / STRANGE DAYS === Page 23 of 90 worth of ice was preserved by lady who heard the "whistling sound" of its descent (see photo), but most of the ice was left in the field. Brief reference to "coincident" icefall in Sussex. [45,24 Apr] Sometime in the following week another slab of ice fell at Mumbles, near Swansea, 12lbs of fragments recovered. [45,26 Apr] 19/20 - Southern China, the same weekend saw a spectacular hailstorm in Guangdong province, 6 killed, 510 injured, the hail was generally "giant" but the largest weighed 60kg (132lbs). [2,25 Apr] 20 - Bangladesh, a camp for 20,000 refugees of recent disasters destroyed by fire, 23 killed, 300 injured, remainder homeless again. [23,20 Apr] 20 - Eastern Sri Lanka, dam bursts, 100 dead, 30,000 homeless. [23,20 Apr] 22 - USA, 2.7 R quake hits White Plains, NY, at 2:28am, "fourth in six months". [1,27,22 Apr] 25 - Alaska, even as seismologists publish warnings of imminent eruption of Augustine Volcano, it blows its top for the second time, hurling car-sized rocks, ash and steam into the air, eruption lasts several days. [26,25 Apr; 25,26 Apr; 33,27 Apr; 12,28 Apr; 30,29 Apr] 25 - Greece, eastern region jolted by 5.2 R quake at 8:01am (0501 GMT), epicenter in Aegean Sea. [33,26 Apr] 26 - Northern India, state of Himachal Pradesh hit by two 6.0 R quakes at 9:05am (0335 GMT), 3 killed in Dharamshala. Same region was swept by a coincident storm, uprooted trees, flash floods, many homes destroyed. [33,28 Apr] 26 - Spain, a 4.3 R quake hits Granada. [33,27 Apr] 30 - Mexico City, just one month before the World Cup, hit by 7.0 R quake at 1:07am (0707 GMT) in areas still recovering from last September's 8.1 R quake. [1,26,4,30 Apr; 33,36, 19,1 May] ![Mrs Beryl Voyle of Wiston, south Wales, with some of the fallen ice she saved. See 19/20 April 1986. (© Western Mail.)] Mrs Beryl Voyle of Wiston, south Wales, with some of the fallen ice she saved. See 19/20 April 1986. [© Western Mail.] MAY 86 ? - Elands Bay, South Africa, thousands of live lobsters driven ashore in early May. 70,000 were salvaged for processing. [37,9 May] 3 - Iran, severe floods in central Lorestan prov. [33,6 May] 5 - Turkey, village in souteast destroyed by quake, 15 dead. [36,19,6 May] 7 - Southwestern China, giant hail "up to 11lbs" storm kills 16, injures 125. [36,8 May] 7 - Aleutian Islands, "strongest tremor in area since 1957". Fearing tidal waves families evacuated along San Francisco coast, but wave is only 2ft high when arrives. Japan and Hawaii also get tidal wave alerts. [22,8 May; 15,9 May] 10 - Bangkok, 12ins of rain in 24hrs, "the heaviest in more than 500 years", paralyzes 90% of city. Thousands abandon cars in waist-deep water, 9 people electrocuted. [33,11 May; 1,26,12 May] 10 - Taiwan, 6.5 R quake. [46,12 May] 19 - Taiwan, two "strong" quakes hit north in quick succession. [46,20 May] 15 - Soviet Georgia, quake destroys 1500 houses, 2 dead. [46,16 May] 19/20 - Sichuan province, China, a "series of 143 violent hailstorms and hurricanes" throughout following week severely damage this agricultural region, 143 dead, nearly 10,000 injured, 80,000+ homeless. One hailstorm lasted 50 mins with hail up to 1.5kgs (3lbs). [29,23 May; 19,24 May] On this day a massive storm hits 13 districts of Sichuan, killing 102, three cities damaged, with record-sized hail up to "33lbs" [27,23 May] 20 - Solomon Islands, wrecked by cyclone Namu, "worst in several years", 90,000 homeless, unknown nos. dead. [17,21+23 May; 27,21 May] 25 - USA, south-east states hit by "worst dry spell in a century". [19,26 May] 26 - Bangladesh, cyclonic storm overturns riverboat between Dacca and Bhola, 1000 feared dead. [12,27 May] And now... back to normal (whatever that is)! RJMR CREDITS & SOURCES STRANGE DAYS / 33 === Page 24 of 90 DIARY OF A MAD PLANET / continued. SPECIAL THANKS to Ion Will who prodigiously provided most of the the clippings herein listed, and whose letters from 'somewhere east of Suez' kept us entertained with their perceptive commentaries on this world's chaos. **KEY TO SOURCES** ■ 1 - Attleboro (MA) Sun-Chronicle. ■ 2 - Arab News. ■ 3 - Boston (MA) Herald. ■ 4 - Bristol Eve. Post. ■ 5 - Cambridge Eve. News. ■ 6 - Coventry Eve. Telegraph. ■ 7 - D. Express. ■ 8 - D. Mail. ■ 9 - D. Star. ■ 10 - D. Telegraph. ■ 11 - Detroit (MI) News. ■ 12 - Duluth (MN) News-Tribune + Herald. ■ 13 - East Hampshire Post. ■ 14 - Emirates News (Abu Dhabi). ■ 15 - Guardian. ■ 16 - Gulf Daily News (Bahrain). ■ 17 - Gulf News (Dubai). ■ 18 - Huston (TX) Chronicle. ■ 19 - Int. Herald Tribune. ■ 20 - Jersey Eve. Post. ■ 21 - Khaleej Times (Dubai). ■ 22 - London Standard. ■ 23 - Middlesbrough Eve. Gazette. ■ 24 - Observer. ■ 25 - The Oregonian. ■ 26 - Pawtuxet Valley (RI) D. Times. ■ 27 - Pawtuxet Valley (RI) Eve. Times. ■ 28 - Philadelphia (PA) Inquirer. ■ 29 - Plattsburg (NY) Press-Republican. ■ 30 - Providence (RI) Journal. ■ 31 - Richmond & Twickenham Times. ■ 32 - San Francisco Chronicle. ■ 33 - Saudi Gazette. ■ 34 - The Scotsman. ■ 35 - St Louis (MO) Post-Dispatch. ■ 36 - The Sun. ■ 37 - South African Digest ■ 38 S. Express. ■ 39 - S. Telegraph. ■ 40 - Time. ■ 41 - The Times. ■ 42 - Today. ■ 43 - Toronto Star. ■ 44 - Vancouver (BC) Province. ■ 45 - Western Mail (Bristol.) ■ 46 - Wolverhampton Express & Star. # CORN CIRCLES AGAIN More mystery circles of flattened corn have appeared, this time in a wheatfield at the Devil's Punchbowl, near Winchester in Hampshire. While the devil-associated-placename fanclub file this away, we note the arrival fits in with the end of June/early July appearance of similar circles during the last four years - see FTs 40p27 & 43p31. According to local researcher Pat Delgado, of Alresford: "similar rings have been recorded in this area, even in this same field, since the Second World War." The largest of the recent circles at the Devil's Punchbowl, measuring 68ft across, appeared during the night of 5th July - the smaller, 48ft, circle appeared between 7-8pm the next day. As you can see from the photo on the facing page, both circles have a distinctive outer ring, a feature never recorded for previous occurrences. "What you have is a disc of wheat all swirling in a clockwise direction, except for the [outer] four feet which swirls in an anti-clockwise direction. Then around that is a band of untouched standing wheat, for about five feet, followed by [the outer] flat ring four feet wide." described Pat Delgado. He added that the rings were too uniform and "perfect" to be part of a hoax. *D. Telegraph, Southern Eve. Echo 7 July; D. Telegraph 9 July 1986.* The currently favoured theory - that travelling whirlwinds can touch down in fields near geological features (like Cheesefoot Head, in this case) creating the characteristic flattened swirl - owes a lot to the work of Dr Terence Meaden, editor of the *Journal of Meteorology*, and BUFORA investigator Paul Fuller, who has written a review of the phenomenon - see booklet reviews, this issue. Supportive evidence for this came in a letter to the *Telegraph* (11 July 1986) from John Lewis, of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire: "I live on a ridge, quite steep on one side, and a couple of years ago we witnessed a small whirlwind starting at a nearby motorway, travelling along the line of the ridge, across a farmyard, causing havoc with some baling and then lifted on to a wheat field where it sort of bounced two or three times before dispersing in some trees. Where it touched the wheat field it produced the flattened circles." Less than two weeks after the Hampshire pair, this ringed circle appeared at Bratton, Wiltshire. [Photo © FPL / Bob Skinner.] POSTSCRIPT -- We later heard that another ringed circle appeared mid-July in a field below Bratton Fort, in Wiltshire - see photo above - and a fourth, again in Wiltshire. All of them sport an outer ring, and it makes us wonder if the appearances of these circles is subject to annual changes infashions. In 1984, for example, we saw at least two instances of a design of four smaller circles around a larger central one (see FT43 p31), a design which has not reappeared since. 34 / STRANGE DAYS === Page 25 of 90 Grim warning from beyond the star # 'Halt all space probes or we'll destroy your planet!' Weekly World News 9/22/87 A leading scientist says space aliens have warned the governments of the world to end all exploration beyond our own solar system -- or they will cause the Earth to stop spinning on its axis! "If they make good on the threat, if they stop the Earth spinning, in a split second we would simply blow up," Dr. Andre Jubert, the famed astrophysicist, told reporters in Paris. "I know the Soviet Union has taken the warning seriously. I hope and pray other countries, especially the United States, will too." The expert -- who has close ties to space officials in the Soviet Union and America -- said the radio warning was received at various listening posts around the world in early July. The aliens who beamed the signal obviously possess a super technology, he added, because the message was transmitted in a complex mathematical code. "The message itself was short and to the point," said Dr. Jubert. "The extraterrestrials have claimed territorial rights to all space beyond our solar system and forbidden us from exploring it with space vehicles such as America's Voyager probes. "It's too late to call those ships back, of course. But the aliens made it clear that additional probes will be considered warships. "And they will retaliate by destroying us." Just how space aliens could stop our planet's rotation isn't clear, said the astrophysicist. "But it would be negligent to think that they are bluffing," he continued. "We must go on the assumption that they have the awesome power to make good on the mind-boggling threat." Soviet and American space officials confirmed that Dr. Jubert has worked closely with the space programs in both countries since the 1960s but they refused to comment on the authenticity of his report. === Page 26 of 90 like to help but I simply don't have the authorization to discuss it," said one U.S. source. "I will say that Dr. Jubert is a respected scientist. When he says something, his colleagues usually listen." The famous astrophysicist himself plans to petition the governments of the world to work on a global space strategy "before it's too late." "There simply isn't any time to waste," he stated. "Concerned people everywhere will have to put pressure on their governments. We have to work together to make the powers that be ban these probes. If not, we are just asking to be killed." -- LESLIE KNOLL # They'll cause the Earth to stop spinning ![Artist's conception of the Earth's fate if the aliens make good on their doomsday threat.] ARTIST'S CONCEPTION of the Earth's fate if the aliens make good on their doomsday threat. Sept. 19, 1987 Scientists In this article is confirmation of what my UFOs and I, as their representative, have been telling you all along. Perhaps you can believe the noted astrophysicist Dr. Jubert. My UFOs will not allow our human space work. I told before space shuttle Challenger blew up that such would happen, remember? It is documented. And I have told you that there is no time. I should be working from the UFO Base now, instead of struggling grimly where I am. What we have -- is a government of fools. Owens === Page 27 of 90 # Researchers to use sonar in Loch Ness Post-Star 6/18/87 LONDON (AP) -- A fleet of sonar-equipped boats will probe Scotland's murky Loch Ness next month in the most thorough -- and skeptical -- search for the elusive Loch Ness Monster. "It will be the largest scientific expedition ever undertaken on the mysterious lake," said Operation Deepscan leader Adrian Shine, a 38-year-old salesman from London. More than 20 motorboats equipped with state-of-the-art sonar equipment made by Lowrance Electronics Inc., of Tulsa, Okla., will sweep the 24-mile-long lake in an attempt to resolve the 1,500-year-old debate on whether the fabled "Nessie" exists. The boats, lined up "rather like a chorus line" across the lake's one-mile width, will sail from one end to the other trailing "an unbroken sonar line through which very little should escape," said publicist Guy Pearse. Shine, who has been researching fish and unidentified objects in Loch Ness in his spare time for 14 years, said he's not convinced there is a Loch Ness monster. "We're a fairly skeptical outfit as far as monsters are concerned," he said. "It (the expedition) is not just another hunt for 'Nessie'." The 10-day expedition will also have more mundane goals, like counting how many species of fish live in the 750-foot-deep lake and what causes its underwater waves, before the systematic inch-by-inch sweeps Oct. 9-11. Each boat will have its own echo-sounder, emitting sonar pulses that will bounce off the lake bed or anything else in the water. Pearse said, "The Lowrance equipment, which is used by anglers worldwide, is capable of separating fish as little as four inches apart, so whatever is below the surface of Loch Ness at whatever depth will not be able to avoid such a close-knit sonar sweep." Two other power boats will follow the fleet with underwater TV cameras and still cameras to try to film any interesting sonar contacts and track any moving targets, Shine said. Each one-way trip along the lake, the largest body of fresh water in Britain, will take about six hours, he said. He would not estimate the cost of the operation, but he said the use of the boats had been donated. The 100 people who will crew them are volunteers. The Loch Ness monster legend dates back to 565 A.D. when St. Columba, who brought Christianity to Britain, is supposed to have rescued a farmer from a monster's grip. There have been more than 4,000 reported sightings in modern times and Nessie has been explained away as everything from an otter to ducks, tricks of light on the dark loch waters or a prehistoric dinosaur. Shine's theory is that it's a large fish: "That is by far the most likely explanation." A new theory, offered by Jon-Erik Beckjord, director of the Cryptozoology Museum in Malibu, Calif., is that Nessie is not a thing of substance at all. "It's an energy form, a form of energy that interacts with human beings," he said after leading a week-long expedition this summer, which photographed from shore what he believes is the Loch Ness monster. Beckjord said the creature has a cat-like face and a 15-foot body that "looks like a cross between Haley's Comet and the Concorde jet." cat speaks English? 6/17/87 See last part of newsclip. ① As you know, from my past files to you, I told you that my UFO aliens had no substance - were pure energy. ② I have told you in previous files that the Loch Ness creature is produced by my UFO aliens. ③ The "cat-like" remark is interesting. In this file, written earlier, I discuss a cat-like voice outside my window, instructing me to "open the door," in the early hours. Owens 9/18/87 last night woke - then heard two cat sounds as if from amplifier. Then - felt two hands holding the sides of my head. 2 1/2 === Page 28 of 90 A2-Post-Star, Glens Falls, N.Y. Saturday, June 27, 1987 # National Scene ## Briefly ### Jet encounters a swift object CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- The National Weather Service doubts it was theirs and the Defense Department insists it wasn't theirs. About the only thing the Federal Aviation Administration can say about the object that encountered a Delta Air Lines jet at 29,500 feet is that no one is likely to find it. The pilot of Delta Flight 1083, en route from Pittsburgh to Atlanta, told investigators an object that appeared to be a missile seemed headed straight for his Boeing 737 on Thursday morning before passing to the side and slightly below. "The pilot described it as a rocket or a missile about 4 feet long, with fins that were each about a foot or a foot and a half in height," said Delta spokesman Bill Berry. "It went so fast that's all he saw. He didn't see it long enough to recognize any markings. "He saw it. It was there. It was gone." # Missile Missing? Call Delta NY Times 6/27/87 CHARLESTON, W.Va., June 26 (AP) -- The National Weather Service doubts it was theirs and the Defense Department insists it wasn't theirs. About the only thing the Federal Aviation Administration can say about the object that encountered a Delta Air Lines jet at 29,500 feet Thursday is that no one is likely to find it. The pilot of Delta Flight 1083, flying 60 people from Pittsburgh to Atlanta, told investigators that an object, which appeared to be a missile, seemed headed straight for his Boeing 737 before passing to the side and slightly below. "The pilot described it as a rocket or a missile about 4 feet long, with fins," a Delta spokesman, Bill Berry, said. "It went so fast that's all he saw." The aviation agency said it would probably never know what had the encounter with the jet 31 miles northeast of Charleston. Kathleen Bergen, an agency spokesman, said it was left with two explanations: The official one is that it was a promotional balloon that escaped. "Balloons can travel pretty far," she said. "We don't acknowledge the existence of U.F.O.'s." # British jetliner diverts course to avoid UFO 6/28/87 Post-Star LONDON (AP) -- A British Airways jetliner made a diversion over the Soviet Union to avoid what the crew reported as an unidentified flying object, an airline spokesman said Saturday. The incident occurred in April, but first came to light in a front-page article Saturday in The Times of London. Spokesman Alan Solloway confirmed that the crew of the Boeing 747 jumbo jet reported seeing a UFO over the Soviet Union on April 22 while flying from London to Bangkok, Thailand. He said it was the first such case in the airline's history. "We have had crews report seeing space debris burning, but we can't recall a UFO being sighted and being logged as a UFO," Solloway said. "Usually, there is a scientific explanation for whatever was seen, but there doesn't seem to be a scientific explanation for this." The Times said all five crew members reported seeing an object with twinkling lights fly directly toward them and then vanish quickly over the Kazakhstan horizon. "It was definitely not an aircraft," the paper quoted First Officer Anthony Colin, 42, as saying. "Of that I am positive. None of us had ever seen anything like it before." :05 PM 7/23/87 White humanoid figure passed in front of my office door, silently. I called Beau + we searched but could find nothing. Beau woke up with a strange triangle of red dots on lower abdomen + his hand hurt. I have odd multi-colored bruise on inside of top left arm. Entire house + I had "haunt" last night. 6/19/87 Around 11 PM last night my sons + I observed 3 UFOs maneuvering overhead. One, especially, for 1/2 hr. Post-Star # Soviets unravel green mystery 5/18/87 MOSCOW (AP) -- Spring came to the Moscow area with such force this year that it turned the sky and the rain green. Radio Moscow reported Sunday that Soviet scientists had unraveled the mystery of a green sky and green rain noticed in the Moscow region on May 5. It said an analysis indicated 80 percent of the sediment from the rain was pollen. "This is explained by the unusually late spring this year," the radio said. "A great number of trees and bushes have bloomed ... within a very short period." "The gusty wind raised masses of green pollen in the air which caused the extraordinary phenomenon," it said. === Page 29 of 90 6/1/87 Something BIG is about to happen! U.S. had better go on alert. (Phone message long distance to Wayne Grover in Florida.) # Meteor created seismic waves Post-Star 8/14/87 NEW YORK (AP) -- A meteor streaking across the Canadian sky created an atmospheric shock wave that set off vibrations in the Earth, a new study says. Seismic signals were detected from a meteor spotted above Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories on Sept. 19, scientists report in Thursday's issue of the British journal Nature. "The signals cannot be explained by any earthquake, explosion or impact-generating mechanism," wrote F.M. Anglin and R.A.W. Haddon of the Geological Survey of Canada. But they are consistent with seismic waves triggered by atmospheric shock wave, the researchers wrote. # Alerts follow earthquake Post-Star 6/12/87 (Call to Wayne preceding) CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) -- An earthquake that rocked 16 states caused low-level alerts at several nuclear plants without interrupting service, but seismologists warned Thursday that a much more severe jolt is inevitable. "It will be ugly," said E. Erie Jones, executive director of the Central United States Earthquake Consortium. "There's going to be an earthquake before the turn of the century. But we're not prepared." Only scattered property damage was reported Wednesday and no serious injuries, although it was scary for a time. "I thought I was on my way to heaven," said Essie Anderson, a custodian at the 35-story Indiana National Bank tower in downtown Indianapolis. "When you are on the ninth floor and the building gets to rocking and reeling, you get to thinking." Three nuclear plants in Illinois, two in Michigan and one in Minnesota declared "unusual events" -- the lowest form of alert -- because of the earthquake, said spokesman Jan Strasma of the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission in Glen Ellyn. There were no reports of damage or disruption of service to any plant, and the declarations have been lifted, Strasma said. "Unusual events largely are notification to governmental authorities that there has been some sort of incident or event with the potential to effect the nuclear plant, but which has not created a public hazard," Strasma said. Four nuclear plans in Illinois did not report "unusual events," he said. According to the National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo., Wednesday's quake, at 6:49 p.m. CDT, was centered near Lawrenceville, Ill., 55 miles north of Evansville, Ind. It measured 5.0 on the Richter scale. It was the Midwest's strongest earthquake since Nov. 9, 1968, when one measuring 5.5 struck just north of Harrisburg. Wednesday's tremor broke windows and rattled walls from Kansas to South Carolina and parts of Canada. # Mystery swirls around sightings Post-Star 8/22/87 CHICAGO (AP) -- It's a mystery at 6,000 feet over the Windy City: In separate reports, one commercial airline pilot said he nearly clipped a flock of parachutists and another reported helium balloons near his plane. But no one else saw the objects, on radar or on the ground. "We don't have any substantiation of skydivers or helium balloons over Chicago, but we're still working on it because two pilots said they saw them," spokeswoman Marjorie Kriz of the Federal Aviation Administration said Friday. The pilot of a Northwest Airlines Boeing 747 en route from Chicago to Tokyo told the tower at O'Hare International Airport shortly after noon Thursday that he passed "four or five parachutists and that he almost hit one," Ms. Kriz said. The jet was flying at about 6,000 feet at the time, officials said. About five minutes later, Ms. Kriz said, the pilot of a United Airlines jet reported "that he thought he saw helium balloons." 4 === Page 30 of 90 Damage Minor but Widespread After Quake Is Felt in 16 States NY Times 6/12/87 By The Associated Press A strong earthquake centered in Illinois shook sections of 16 states and parts of Canada on Wednesday, breaking windows, tumbling chimneys and causing buildings to sway up to 700 miles from its center, officials said yesterday. The quake also brought alerts at three Illinois nuclear plants and set off an alarm at a Minnesota nuclear plant, but it caused only minor damage and one minor injury. The tremor registered 5.0 on the Richter scale measuring the severity of earthquakes. "It felt like somebody with big shoes was walking overhead, but nobody lives overhead," said Richard Horwitz of Chicago. "Our parakeet was chattering away and it just stopped." The quake was centered near Lawrenceville, Ill., 55 miles north of Evansville, Ind., according to the National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo. Trembling was reported felt from 10 seconds to nearly a minute. Apartment Is Evacuated Hundreds of students ran screaming from a building at a vocational college in Indianapolis and about 70 people were evacuated from a swaying 12-story apartment house in Columbia, S.C., 700 miles from the earthquake's center. "I thought I was going to die and I thought, well, I'm in church and I can't think of a better place to die," said Betty Meyer, a Bible school instructor at First Christian Church in Bridgeport, Ill., where the quake cracked the bell tower. The only injury reported was to an 18-month-old girl who was struck on the head by a bunk bed that was toppled by the quake. He injury required stitches. A police dispatcher, David Hoffee in Olney, Ill., said there were reports of broken windows, fallen chimneys and a collapsed roof. Nuclear Plant Alerts After the earthquake, three nuclear power plants in Illinois declared "usual events," the lowest form of alert for a nuclear plant, a spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Glen Ellyn said yesterday. They were the Dresden plant, near Morris; Quad Cities, at Cordova, and Clinton. There were no reports of damage or disruption of service from the plants the spokesman said. At the Prairie Island nuclear plant near Red Wing, Minn., the quake triggered a seismic alarm, but no damage was detected, said a spokesman for the Northern States Power Company. The earthquake was felt in Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, Virginia, Pennsylvania, the Carolinas and several cities in Ontario. It was the strongest in the area since one near Norris City, Ill., on Nov. 9, 1968, that registered 5.3 on the open-ended Richter scale, according to the United States Geological Survey in Washington. "A 5 in the East is substantial," said Charles J. Ritter, a geology professor at the University of Dayton, Ohio. A4-Post-Star, Glens Falls, N.Y. Thursday, June 11, 1987 National Scene Briefly (Call to Wayne Grover preceding) Quake rattles Midwest Weekly World News 6/16/87 A strong earthquake rattled parts of 11 Midwestern states from Missouri to West Virginia on Wednesday evening, shaking buildings in downtown Milwaukee, Chicago and Detroit. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. "We've had a pretty strong earthquake," reported Bruce Presgrave of the National Earthquake Information Center of the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colo. "We're still working it. We don't have a magnitude yet but apparently it was felt over a pretty wide area in the Midwest." The quake was felt in Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. "We haven't gotten any official information, but we felt it here," said Dennis Dixon, a National Weather Service forecaster in Ann Arbor, about 40 miles west of Detroit. Top celebs know UFOs exist! You don't have to be a star to spot a UFO, but a growing number of celebs have had close encounters of all kinds. A president and a senator have seen 'em. A heavyweight champ's eye-balled aliens over 20 times. A Beatle tried to photograph a spaceship from his apartment window. Star Trek doc DeForest Kelley says a long time ago he saw "a long cigar-shaped object with green and blue flames coming out of its side." "As it rapidly went by, I saw a red light flashing on its tail. "It laid down a kind of jet stream -- then it was gone." When Jimmy Carter was governor of Georgia he had a vision that so moved him he filed a report on the experience. Senator and pilot Barry Goldwater's had a number of sightings. For years he has been trying to get into legendary Hangar 18 at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, where the ruins of an alien spacecraft and the preserved bodies of its tiny crew are supposedly under ultra-tight security. Goldwater's never been allowed inside. Muhammad Ali's seen them so many times he's stopped counting. The Greatest spotted one once while jogging in New York's Central Park. John Lennon also saw something in the park, but the pix he shot from his posh pad never came out, sez The New York Post. Miami Vice star Philip Michael Thomas says he saw one when he was a kid. A saucer hovered over his head for a few startling minutes, then disappeared. One TV actor, Dennis Weaver, was so impressed with extraterrestrial visits he set up a hot line that gives daily reports on UFO sightings around the world. "I know UFOs exist and I believe they are manned," says Weaver. "We are being observed in much the same way that we might observe bees or ants." The stars are coming out of the space closet with UFOs under their skin. And for a two buck toll call you can hear a three-minute tape of up-to-date UFO bulletins. === Page 31 of 90 5/29/87 (5:30 AM) Alien Comun. in sound. Clear words. "O-pen O-pen O-pen-O-pen Do-or-o-pen O-pen-O-pen Oooch!" 4/2/87 Last night, Bean & I heard a noise like a train up close. The walls shook. We looked out windows - but nothing visible Ted Koppel's "Nightline" special re UFOs. Said people in the U.S. and elsewhere in the world are getting more & more interested in UFOs at this time. Fri 5/29/87 5:30 AM sounded like cat under my window. Loud & clear. "O-pen, O-pen, O-pen do-or. O-pen do-or. Oh!" then it stopped. I was wide awake. Thurs 6/11/87 11 PM - 2 AM (2) change from brilliant moonlight to inky blackness. Eerie quiet. 7:30 PM - 11 PM (1) All power out in this area. Candles. (3) About 4 AM pulsating, whirring noise of UFO over house. Lasted about half hour. (4) strange tapping noises on my glass sliding doors. 6/22/87 (1) 4 nights last week colorful UFOs over house (9) (2) Last night had exact same dream, step by step, as 6 mos. ago. (3) Bean & I have "twin dreams." 6/18/87 Bean & Tolly have seen UFOs appear night after night over our house. Last night the STs told me, they were going to teach me a long list of things. (6 === Page 32 of 90 Ted # Ship's crew menaced WEEKLY WORLD NEWS May 19, 1987 # by giant flying saucer # UFO from the depths of the sea! Beau + Teddy's matching UFO landing dream, 8/11/87. Me and Jerome picked up by a UFO + 4 aliens, 8/12/87; dream. A saucer-shaped UFO blasted out of the ocean and circled a Japanese freighter for 15 terrifying minutes last month before it returned to the water and vanished without a trace, Japanese newspapers report. No one was injured in the April 17 incident, which reportedly took place in broad daylight 175 miles east of Kanazawa in the Sea of Japan. The 165-foot-long freighter Taki Kyoto did suffer some structural damage, however, while riding out the towering swells that the UFO kicked up when it rose out of and later returned to the water, the press said. "It was at least five times the length of our vessel and glowed like blue neon," Taki Usuda, the 54-year-old captain of the Taki Kyoto, told reporters at a belated press conference in Kanazawa. "When it first came out of the water we couldn't believe what was happening to us. The swells in its wake almost sank us. "And the needles on our instruments almost spun out of their casings. It was everything I could do to keep the crew from leaving their posts. "Some of my best men were huddled below deck crying just like women and babies." The enormous starship hovered about 50 yards off the freighter's starboard side for several minutes after it emerged from the ocean, said Usuda. "It was terrifying," he continued. "The thing just sat there, motionless, in midair. "We tried to radio for help but something was jamming our signals. "Suddenly the UFO took off. It flew right over us and circled for at least 15 minutes. "It really was like a nightmare. It was moving so fast all we could see was a blur." When the UFO finally dived back into the water, Usuda radioed authorities, who scanned the area with ships and aircraft without finding so much as a trace of the alleged starship, the press reports said. "Based on interviews with the Taki Kyoto's captain and crew, as well as the unusual structural damage the ship sustained, we do suspect that they encountered something very unusual out there," said coastal authority spokesman Hoshi Ishido. "Officially we're calling it an unidentified object, a simple UFO." # Bizarre spacecraft leaps from ocean touching off tidal wave === Page 33 of 90 People May 11, 1987 # Making Communion With Another World America's fascination with UFOs booms again as three new books suggest that humanoids are here Whitley Strieber's is a story that not every man would be bold enough to tell: On the evening of Dec. 26, 1985, says the novelist, he awakened in his Upstate New York cabin to find a strange being standing in the bedroom doorway. Sometime after blacking out, he found himself in a small, gray room full of quick little humanoids. When one of them brandished a hair-thin needle and informed him that it would be inserted into his brain, "I became quite simply crazed with terror," he reports. With a "bang and a flash," the instrument was then fired into his brain. "I felt like weeping," Whitley remembers. "I recall sinking down into a cradle of tiny arms..." Taken into an operating theater of sorts, the distraught subject was probed and poked, and--finally--transported back into his bedroom where his wife, Anne, was sleeping peacefully. Paralyzed with horror, he buried the memory, which he later reconstructed under hypnosis. When "the confused swirl resolved into a specific series of recollections, I just about exploded with terror and utter disbelief," he says. The introspective author of pop- CONTINUED **Coming to terms** with the "visitor experience," says Strieber, has given him a heightened sense of his own spirituality. **Sketches of humanoids** (left) and alien craft (top) were collected by UFO investigator Budd Hopkins from alleged victims of the aliens. 35 === Page 34 of 90 An Indiana woman who drew her captors and their craft for Hopkins is still tormented by "visitors." "I feel like a freak," she says. Author Gary Kinder (near his home in Sun Valley, Idaho) says he saw a spectacular UFO in 1972. ular horror novels like The Wolfen and The Hunger, Strieber is hardly the sort to risk his reputation in the service of mere sensationalism; there are easier ways for him to make money than chronicling his bizarre encounters with what he suggests are intelligent non-human beings. But COMMUNION (Beech Tree Books/Morrow, $17.95) is a book that he says he had to write. "I want to dispel the stigma and the fear," he says. "I thought I was going crazy in an extremely embarrassing way. I became rather suicidal. I suffered with this, and it was a great relief to find that others had had the same experience. It's a very scary thing, but I want to let people know that they can cope if it happens." Published early in February and currently second on the New York Times best-seller list, Communion seems to signal a dramatic new era in UFOlogy. This time around an increasing number of everyday folk are claiming not merely to have spotted saucer-shaped spacecraft, but to have had disagreeable encounters with creepy travelers Hopkins' subjects typically depict their humanoid kidnappers as bald creatures with domed heads and insect-like eyes. These sketches are based on "encounters" in New Jersey (left) and Kentucky. 36 === Page 35 of 90 On the pop-culture front, the theme has emerged in one noteworthy context of late: The cliffhanger episode of *The Colbys* saw Fallon (portrayed by Emma Samms) disappearing into the sunset--not in a regulation plane crash, but in the bowels of a spacecraft that ambushes her car on a lonely desert road. "Richard Shapiro [the show's co-creator] has been aware of the recent interest in UFOs, and it was an effort to end the season on as provocative a note as possible," says supervising producer Bob Pollock. There is no more controversial UFO tale than the one Gary Kinder, a 40-year-old writer based in Idaho, spent three years investigating. In the 1970s Eduard Meier--a Swiss caretaker offered films, tape recordings and shards of metal to support his claims of contact with emissaries from a distant star. Within the UFO community Meier is rejected as a fraud. Kinder still counts himself among the skeptics: In *Light Years* (Atlantic Monthly Press, $18.95) he presents Meier's story without making hard-and-fast conclusions about the evidence. "There were times when I'd be sitting there watching Meier, and I'd think, 'This guy is just a very clever con man,'" says Kinder. "... If the contacts are true, of course it's the biggest story ever. If [not], it's a fascinating story about how this one-armed, sixth-grade-educated caretaker in Switzerland has been able to fabricate highly sophisticated evidence." The scientific establishment has yet to embrace the notion that aliens are walking among us. "I think those books reach the height of malarkey," says Paul Kurtz, chairman and founder of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. "It's possible there is life in outer space, but I know of no really hard evidence that we have been visited by extraterrestrial beings." Still a growing number of reputable scientists are refusing to dismiss people like Strieber. Research psychologist Dr. John Gliedman is a "sympathetic skeptic" and a friend who witnessed Whitley's struggle: "We should keep an open mind about what's happening to him and to others," Gliedman says. "I see no evidence that you're dealing with mental illness here. But it's not a pleasant experience; people who believe they've been abducted talk about it the way others might talk about a rape. They need to be given help." **An artist** whose work has appeared in the Guggenheim Museum, Hopkins has had little time for painting or sculpture since writing *Intruders*. from another Time, Space, or Universe. Often signalled by the appearance of a dazzling white light, these so-called "alien abductions" allegedly leave the victims with periods of lost time for which they cannot account and hazy memories of frightening medical procedures at the hands of their captors. Descriptions of the offending aliens are fairly standard: The childlike figures are said to have grayish-white skin and round, black eyes set in grotesquely oversize, bulbous skulls. Aside from *Communion*, two other nonfiction books recently issued by major publishing firms claim to chronicle meetings with extraterrestrials. The more plausible, *Intruders: The Incredible Visitations at Copley Woods*, (Random House, $17.95) written by UFO investigator Budd Hopkins, offers up accounts of intimate, disturbing experiences that begin in childhood and engender psychic disturbances like the ones that Strieber suffered. Strieber's account of "kidnappings" which may have begun when he was 12 has drawn serious reviews. And Middle America has risen up to declare that it, too, has witnessed weird things. On talk shows, callers check in not to poke fun, Strieber says, but to report their own close encounters. By this month readers had sent him more than 1,000 letters detailing everything from sightings of alien craft to crossbreeding experiments conducted by humanoids. The Illinois-based Center for UFO Studies reports that requests for information have "increased greatly" in the last few months; membership in the 1,500-strong Mutual UFO Network, a Texas-based investigatory group, has increased by roughly 10 percent in the same period. And the public response to the November UFO sighting by a Japan Air Lines pilot has been such that the federal government now offers information kits on the incident; for $194.30, one receives a packet that includes Kenju Terauchi's drawings of the craft that he encountered. CONTINUED 37 ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE BOOK INTRUDERS BY BUDD HOPKINS ©1987 BUDD HOPKINS, USED BY PERMISSION OF RANDOM HOUSE, INC. === Page 36 of 90 Orson Welles's *The War of the Worlds* sparked an alien scare in 1938. In *Steven Spielberg's* 1977 *Close Encounters of the Third Kind*, abducted In *Invasion of the Body Snatchers* (above) aliens arrived via pod. Robin (Mork) Williams (below) was egged on by Mindy to have a child. Elliot (Henry Thomas) formed a warm bond with his visitor--here, in the 38 === Page 37 of 90 Budd Hopkins was the man whom Whitley consulted when the memories of his abduction began to haunt him. A successful painter and sculptor, Hopkins began to examine the UFO phenomenon after spotting an elliptical-shaped object hovering over Cape Cod in 1964. In 12 years he has recorded thousands of hours of interviews with more than 135 subjects. In *Intruders*, more than a dozen subjects describe kidnappings in which aliens perform skin grafts, probe orifices with needlelike instruments, appropriate sperm and ova and even present small hybrid beings that female abductees somehow know to be their own. An abductee support group meets occasionally in the Manhattan townhouse Hopkins shares with wife April Kingsley, an art critic, and their daughter Grace, 13. When he saw Whitley last February, Hopkins says, "He was one distraught and disoriented man." Indeed--Strieber was undergoing a personality change so pronounced that his 17-year marriage was showing the strain. Hypersensitive, snappish, easily confused, he slept fitfully and felt as though he were being watched. Working was impossible--unable to concentrate for more than 10 minutes, he was wracked with chills and bouts of fatigue. Whitley wanted to ignore the disjointed bits of evidence--his odd pains and inexplicable scabs, the UFO sightings near his country house, the confounding visions of "visitors"--but he presented them to Hopkins, instead. "As I sat there in that man's living room, listening to him tell me I wasn't alone, tears rolled down my cheeks," he wrote later, "and I went from wanting to hide it all to wanting to understand...." Toward that end, Strieber subjected himself to a battery of physical and psychological tests. A neurologist found no evidence of organic abnormalities, and a polygraph operator found that Strieber fully believed his own stories. Dr. Donald F. Klein, Director of Research for the New York State Psychiatric Institute, took Whitley through a series of shattering hypnotic sessions in which he recalled his "abductions" in lavish detail. In an appendix to *Communion*, Dr. Klein pronounces the patient of sane mind, saying, "He appears... to have adapted very well to life at a high level of uncertainty." Whitley, his wife Anne, 40 (who is also a writer) and their son Andrew, 8, have come to terms with the fact that something surpassingly strange has touched their lives. (Andrew, he says, had dreams about being kidnapped by "little doctors" before he heard his father's story; Anne has witnessed unearthly lights and the like, but has no clear memories of being abducted.) Whitley continues to receive the occasional "visit" from the now-familiar humanoids, but the fear has abated: "I am beginning to have an awful lot of fun with this from an intellectual standpoint," he says. He is not at all sure that his captors are corporeal, or that they come from other corners of this universe: "I'm 80 percent sure that it is visitors, not necessarily from another planet, but from another aspect of reality, whatever that may mean," he says. Even those in the business, as it were, occasionally find the quest overwhelming. Hopkins is unnerved by his discoveries: "These are not welcome inroads," he says. "The one thing I share with the people that this has happened to and with the skeptics is that none of us like this material, none of us want it, and all of us find it almost impossible to believe." Hopkins is resolute in defending the credibility of his witnesses: "They're not people who have regular psychotic episodes," he says. "In court, testimony from any one of these people might put somebody in an electric chair." Strieber is determined to go boldly where no man has gone before. A *Communion* sequel is in the works, and he plans to publish many of the letters sent to him by fellow travelers who are willing to go public. He knows that there are those who cannot accept his story, but he stands by it. "Behind these perceptions," he says, "is some kind of great wonder. Anything that prevents us from having the joyous experience of discovering what that is is simply a waste of time." --Written by Michelle Green, reported by Meg Grant and Kristina Johnson humans landed in a luminous craft. clutches of dastardly adults--in 1982's *E.T.* After a Mexican abduction case, the "victim" drew this sketch of a hooded humanoid. 39 === Page 38 of 90 WEEKLY WORLD # NEWS 55¢ October 6, 1987 30587 VOL. 8, Issue 52 'They WERE in a spaceship,' says child psychiatrist # CHILDREN TAKEN FOR RIDE IN UFO Gentle aliens studied kids for three days! Top-secret photos inside === Page 39 of 90 # Children abducted by UFO Four lucky children were taken aboard a UFO and shown the wonders of the universe on a three-day journey into outer space, civilian and military authorities report. "Adults lie. Teenagers lie. But children this age are incapable of lying, at least like this," said Roderigo Ortiz, special investigator with the police department in Concordia, Argentina. "From all appearances they did spend time on a genuine starship. They actually traveled into space and saw the sights like ordinary tourists. "At one point they thought God was taking them to heaven as He -- whatever 'He' was -- stood behind the controls of the craft." Newspaper reports of the amazing drama identified the children as 8-year-old Maria Molero, her sister Emma, 6, and brothers Jorge, 5, and Carlos, 3. According to the children and a half dozen eyewitnesses, a 75-foot, saucer-shaped craft swooped over the field they were playing in on August 9 and sucked them into the craft after hitting them with a burst of bright blue light. "A great golden ship took us up in the sky and it was driven by God -- I know it was God. "He wore golden robes and had long silver hair and was shiny all over," said Maria Molero, the oldest of the kidnapped kids. "He was a nice man and told us to call him Lalar. He showed us the moon and other places in the sky and said they were the stars." The other children confirmed her account and said they were scared "for just a little while. He scraped our faces with a little stick and stuck us with a needle but he didn't hurt us at all," said Jorge Molero. "I liked the bedrooms because the beds were soft and way up high," added Emma Molero. Little Carlos Molero, the youngest, said: "There were a million buttons and lights. The man looked funny because he had a real big head and two big yellow eyes. "He is our friend." Because of the difficulties of interviewing children, authorities have yet to determine everything that happened during their three days aboard the spaceship. It does appear that they underwent some sort of medical testing, however, because needle marks and scrapes were still visible on their cheeks after they got home, officials said. A military spokesman would neither confirm nor deny reports that a UFO was picked up on radar the day the children were abducted and the night they were brought home. "We are investigating and the facts will be made public when they are known," he said. "The children are being interviewed now. "We hope to have some solid information soon," the spokesman said. The children's parents, Emilio and Carmen Molero, declined to comment on the incident, newspapers said. UFO researcher Armando Azparen has not spoken to the children personally because the military has refused to answer his requests for an interview. "But from what I have read in the newspapers," he said, "I believe that these children are telling the truth." -- JULIO ENRIQUEZ === Page 40 of 90 Astonishing proof: Their faces are marked by alien probes CIRCLES indicate needle marks left by aliens. Maria Molero, left, and her sister Emma flank brothers Carlos, left, and Jorge. Authorities say the children underwent physical examinations. Authorities confirm: Starship whisks four youngsters on 3-day tour of our galaxy GOVERNMENT INVESTIGATOR Roderigo Ortiz interviews the children about their encounter with alien beings. === Page 41 of 90 B2 THE COLUMBIAN Tues., April 14, 1987 Vancouver, Wash. # IN BRIEF COMPILED FROM LOCAL, WIRE NEWS SOURCES ## THE NATION ### Four airliner near-collisions in one day worry controllers WASHINGTON -- Four incidents during a 10-hour period in which commercial jetliners came within 500 feet of small, private planes are under investigation, Federal Aviation Administration officials say. There were no injuries in any of the near-collisions, all of which occurred last Friday, but in two cases the pilots of the jetliners reported they had to take evasive action. The four incidents involved a United Airlines Boeing 737 near Burbank, Calif., a Trans World Airlines Lockheed L-1011 near Newark, N.J., a Northwest Airlines DC-9 near Saginaw, Mich., and an American Airlines Boeing 727 over Chicago, the FAA confirmed Monday. ### Big drop in lead leads pollution improvement WASHINGTON -- Emissions of the nation's principal air pollutants and their concentrations in the air declined modestly in most categories in 1985 except for lead, which showed a historic improvement in emission levels, the government says. The Environmental Protection Agency's annual air pollution report shows a 48 percent reduction in lead emissions and a 32 percent drop in airborne concentrations. The drop-off followed the agency's 91 percent cut in the allowable lead concentration of leaded gasoline from 1.1 gram per gallon to 0.1 gram per gallon during 1985. ### Cargo jet crashes and burns in Kansas City KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A cargo jet crashed and exploded in a huge ball of flame, killing all four people aboard, while trying to land at Kansas City International Airport in mist and fog, officials said. The four-engine Boeing 707, en route from Oklahoma City to Fort Wayne, Ind., smashed into a pasture about 1½ miles southwest of the airport Monday night. The Buffalo Airways Inc. plane appeared to have been improperly approaching the runway, spokesmen said. ### Tornadoes, wind rip Arkansas mobile home park GREEN FOREST, Ark. -- Tornadoes and high winds ripped apart a mobile home park, injuring four people, and peeled the roof off an elementary school filled with children in rural northwest Arkansas. The storm Monday afternoon appeared to have cut a 300- to 400-yard wide swath through the mobile home park, destroying five trailer homes and damaging eight. ### Strange light streaks across Southwest skies LOS ANGELES -- A bright light streaked across skies in the Southwest, prompting scores of calls to government agencies, but officials were at a loss to explain the phenomenon. The object, which authorities said could be a meteor, was seen from Arizona to California and south of the Mexican border. # Shark, cusk replacing scrod By Lawrence Neumeister The Associated Press ORIENT -- People who grew up with scrod and flounder and took to shark and mussels are beginning to sample cusk, wolffish and even ocean pout, to the delight of fishermen who need the new sales to survive. "People in this country have tended to like to eat a white, bland, boneless piece of fish. That's changing," said Ken Coons, executive director of the New England Fisheries Development Foundation in Boston. "I see shark on menus these days and I never used to see it," said Jim Watenmaker, marketing director for North Atlantic Seafood Association in Cleveland, a trade association that conducts marketing studies and promotes fish. The change in diet could come just in time for fishermen on Long Island, where a mysterious brown tide has virtually wiped out the once-famed scallop crop for three years and pollution has prompted a law that makes it illegal to catch more than one striped bass per day. Hundreds of fishermen have had to find other jobs. "It's something these guys need to survive," said Chris Smith, cooperative extension agent for Cornell University assigned to Riverhead, of an effort to grow mussels. Smith is developing ways for fishermen to plant baby mussels in waters around small islands off Long Island to create a share of a growing market that has already === Page 42 of 90 # Alien baby hatches from giant space egg September 22, 1987 -- SUN -- 17 A BIZARRE BABY from outer space has hatched from a strange egg deposited on earth by UFO aliens, according to the stunned shepherd who claims to have watched the creature crack out of its shell and draw its first breath of life. "The being was not of this world," states 52-year-old sheep tender Juan Silvo. "It nearly scared me to death when it hatched from its egg." Juan says he was relaxing with a bottle of wine shortly after dusk one evening in a region of Brazil's Guiana Highlands when the night sky was suddenly illuminated by scores of bright flashing lights. ### Craft lands "Many of our native legends tell of the flying disks with their multicolored lights," Juan explains. "They have been coming to this area for centuries, though I do not know why. "On this particular night, I watched the craft descend from the heavens and land in a nearby clearing. "Two odd creatures emerged from the spaceship and began hauling what appeared to be large rocks on board. "The beings were no more than three feet tall with skinny limbs and antennae protruding from their foreheads. Despite their tiny size, they were able to lift and carry the rocks with ease. "They must have loaded 10 or 12 rocks when they closed the door of their spacecraft, which then took off silently into the air and disappeared. "I thought maybe the wine was making me hallucinate, but then I ventured to the clearing and found the space people had left two of the 'rocks' behind. "Only they weren't rocks at all. They were large eggs with extremely solid shells. "Then, suddenly, one of them burst open and a miniature version of the space people I had seen crawled out. "I was so terrified I just turned and ran away as fast as I could." The next morning, however, Juan returned to the scene and discovered the other egg still intact. ### Unknown origin "The creature from the other egg was nowhere to be seen," he notes. "I wanted to tell someone of my experience, but I was afraid no one would believe me without evidence." ## Scientist tries to crack mystery of creature's origin So Juan hauled the unhatched egg back to civilization and gave it to Dr. Julio de Jesus, a professor of genetics at a leading Brazilian university, for examination. ### 24-hour watch "The egg is of unknown origin," Dr. de Jesus says, "but we are fairly certain it will eventually hatch because our tests indicate the presence of a living embryo inside. "We are keeping a 24-hour watch on the object so we can be assured of witnessing the event when it occurs." * DR. JULIO de JESUS is studying the strange space egg given to him by a shepherd from a remote outpost === Page 43 of 90 Space aliens helping savages build giant pyramid Primitive savages are building a towering pyramid in the deepest reaches of the Amazon jungle -- with the help of superintelligent beings from another planet! Incredibly, the towering monument is identical in every respect to the Great Pyramid of Cheops built in Egypt's Nile Valley more than 4,600 years ago! The tribesmen, who live in crudely made thatched huts, have already completed three massive temples that are exact replicas of those found in the Mayan ruins at Chichen Itza and Uxmal in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. Work on the pyramid was actually witnessed firsthand by South American bush pilot Alonzo Rohas, who said he lived among the savages for nearly a month after his plane crashed in the jungle north of Tarauaca, Brazil. "I know there are people who think I've gone mad," the 39-year-old pilot said. "I couldn't believe it when I was seeing it with my own eyes for days on end. "The pyramid is made of huge square blocks of sandstone and the temples are of stone. You just don't find sandstone or any other kind of stone in the heart of the Amazon jungle. "The blocks must weigh four or five tons each and there are thousands of them stacked in the clearing where the pyramid is being built. "The Indians told me the block supply is replenished from time to time by what they called 'the people from the Sun.' They even carved pictures of their spaceship into the blocks of the pyramid. "The Indians move the blocks to the base of the pyramid on logs. The blocks are then raised into place by the alien spaceship." Rohas said he stumbled across the bizarre building site after his single-engine seaplane developed a fuel problem and crashed. One archaeologist said Rohas' story proves beyond a doubt that space travelers have been visiting Earth for thousands of years. Rohas said he wanted to stay with the Indians long enough to see the space travelers when they returned to the village, but they made it clear they wanted him to leave. "They escorted me to a river, put me in a canoe, pointed the way I should go. I was on my way home ... and I knew I had better keep going." Rohas is trying to draw a map archaeologists can follow back to the jungle building site. -- ROSE GRADY ARCHAEOLOGISTS say this Mayan carving of a space alien is proof that flying saucers have been visiting the Earth for many centuries. (this old pyramid at Uxmal is where my UFO bonded me with Xtolee and the Mayan powers and told me, what was with me, was severely burned and put into intensive care by the actors) Witness confirms: primitive indians stacking five-ton blocks to the sky! === Page 44 of 90 NASA POSTPONES FLIGHT OF SHUTTLE Delay to Mean Reduction in Launchings and Further Blow to Space Effort NY TIMES MAY 21, 1987 By PHILIP M. BOFFEY Special to The New York Times WASHINGTON, May 20 -- The target date for launching the next space shuttle has been delayed until June 1988, four months later than previously planned, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced today. The delay was attributed to the need to perform two major tests on the liquid-fuel main engines, as previously announced, and to obtain new tooling to improve the insulation seals for the solid-fuel booster rockets. The postponement will contribute to a sharp decrease in the number of flights planned for 1988 and 1989. The space agency said that only three shuttles were now scheduled to be flown in 1988, down from the five flights announced last October. Seven flights are now scheduled for 1989, down from the ten planned last October. Setback for Space Effort The schedule reductions will further slow the nation's efforts to regain primacy in the international competition to explore and utilize space. The announcement of a new target date had been expected ever since space officials acknowledged last month that the original target date of Feb. 18, 1988, could not be met. But some space analysts said today that even the new target date might be overly optimistic because it assumed that all scheduled tests of a newly designed solid-fuel rocket would be successful. A solid-fuel rocket was blamed for causing the loss of the shuttle Challenger in January 1986. Investigators concluded that a poorly-designed joint in the rocket failed and allowed hot gases to escape, igniting the conflagration that destroyed the Challenger, killing its crew of seven. "Safely returning the space shuttle to flight is NASA's highest priority," said Dr. James C. Fletcher, the NASA administrator. "Our revised plan for space shuttle recovery is ambitious and assumes that we will successfully complete our test and processing objectives." 'Prudent Thing to Do' Rick Hauck, the astronaut who will command the first shuttle flight in 1988, concurred with the decision to delay the launching. "We would like to get back into space sooner," he said, "but I believe that this is the prudent thing to do." The two new tests planned for the liquid-fuel main engines, first announced by NASA last month, will include filling the shuttle's fuel tank with liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen for a simulated launching countdown and a firing in which the three main engines for about 20 seconds. Both tests will be conducted about six weeks before the first launching. In another announcement, the space agency said that Morton Thiokol Inc., the manufacturer of the solid-fuel rockets, would conduct a test Friday of some of the components of the faulty booster rocket joint, supplemented by new sealing materials. Subsequent tests in the series will evaluate a wholly new design for the joint. Four workers hurt in rocket mishap CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Four workers were slightly injured and a jinxed space rocket suffered severe damage when a work platform struck the booster on the launch pad and ruptured a fuel tank. The accident occurred as technicians were preparing to remove the Centaur upper stage of the Atlas Centaur rocket to fix a fuel leak, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said. The leak is one of many problems that have plagued the rocket in the last four months. "A workstand contacted the surface of the stage and caused a rupture of the hydrogen tank of the Centaur," a NASA statement said. "There were minor injuries to four General Dynamics Space Division technicians as they made a quick departure of the area." Shuttle launch delayed COCOA BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- The space agency said Tuesday it is delaying for several weeks the first post-Challenger space shuttle launch because it is adding two major confidence-building tests to the schedule. Officials had set Feb. 18, 1988, as a target for resuming flights, but NASA said it is reassessing the date as a result of the extra tests. The agency said it would set a new date in a few weeks. The added tests are a "wet" countdown test, in which shuttle Discovery's huge fuel tank will be filled with liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, and a flight readiness firing, in which the three main engines will be ignited for 20 seconds while Discovery is locked on the launch pad. The shuttle fleet has been grounded since the January 1986 Challenger explosion that killed the seven crew members. "The tests will definitely affect our launch date by a number of weeks," Arnold Aldrich, director of the shuttle program, told the opening session of the 24th Space Congress here. Aldrich told a news conference later that the two tests would delay the launch until at least April 1. But he acknowledged the flight could be much later. Soviets test rocket booster 5/17/87 Post-Star MOSCOW (AP) -- The Soviet Union announced Saturday it successfully tested a powerful new rocket booster that could be used to put a space shuttle into orbit, but a mock-up satellite carried by the launcher failed to reach orbit. Vremya, the evening news program, said the vehicle's engines are the most powerful in the world, with a capacity of 170 million horsepower. The official Soviet news agency Tass said the launch vehicle Energia blasted off from the Baikonur Space Center on Friday evening and that its two stages landed at predetermined points after their engines shut down. A Western diplomat, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Energia probably is the booster for the Soviet space shuttle program, which Western experts believe will be launched next year. Space Effort Mired in Frustration 13 === Page 45 of 90 Space Experts Detail Launching Failure UFOs vs Space Work BY DAVID E. SANGER Special to The New York Times WASHINGTON, May 14 -- Space agency officials today provided new details about a string of malfunctions, bad data and misjudgments -- some remarkably similar to those preceding the loss of the space shuttle Challenger -- that led to the destruction of an Atlas-Centaur rocket and its satellite payload two months ago. Over the last three days, copies of a NASA investigative report on the March 26 accident have filtered through the halls of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Pentagon, prompting what one official called a "subterranean debate" over whether permanent lessons were really learned from the Challenger disaster. Last week, apparently anticipating the results of the investigation, NASA formed a six-member study group to "insure consistent approaches and risk evaluations for all NASA launches" before another liftoff is scheduled. The broad conclusions of the investigation, that NASA and the Air Force "missed the call" in deciding to launch the rocket, were described at a news conference here Monday. But participants in the decision gave their first detailed accounts in interviews over the past two days. The actual report has yet to be made public, pending a review by NASA headquarters officials. $161 Million Loss The rocket -- worth $161 million together with the Air Force communications satellite it carried -- was destroyed by safety officers after it was struck by four lightning bolts that crippled its guidance-control computer. At first it appeared to be a freak, unpredictable accident. But in an interview today, the head of the NASA board that conducted the investigation, Jon Busse, outlined several "clear warning flags" that should have stopped the launching. Among them were these: Officials did not have accurate reports about cloud conditions and the potential for lightning to strike because the Air Force plane usually employed for weather reconnaissance was grounded by bad weather in Tampa. Several of the weather balloons sent up in the plane's absence did not reach their destination, and investigators now believe that some exploded because of unusually cold conditions in the clouds. Investigators concluded that, contrary to meteorological estimates from the surviving balloons, the depth and temperature of the clouds exceeded NASA's launching guidelines. Despite extensive discussions through the day about nearby thunderstorms, according to the report, NASA's mission director at Cape Canaveral did not look at measurements taken from 21 sites around the launching pad indicating the electrical potential of the atmosphere. Air Force weather personnel did monitor the data, but apparently did not notice that it exceeded, by four to eight times, the maximum allowable electrical potential for launching a space shuttle. No similar regulation currently governs unmanned rocket launches. Staff 'Believed We Were Safe' In a telephone interview today from Florida, James Womack, the launching director for the flight and the senior NASA official in the blockhouse on March 26, said that "absolutely it was a mistake" to proceed with the liftoff. But Mr. Womack, a 30-year NASA veteran, quickly added that he and his staff "believed we were within the criteria, that it was safe to launch." "When you have so many green lights," Mr. Womack said, "it is hard to get to another conclusion." Critics of the agency's action -- including many senior officers in the Air Force, which lost a key communications satellite -- have contended in recent days that there are parallels to the faulty decisions that led to the Challenger's launching on Jan. 28, 1986. Just as foot-long icicles on the Challenger's launching pad or evidence of safety-seal failure in cold weather should have warned against launching the shuttle, they contend, destroyed weather balloons and high readings from the devices that measure the potential for lightning should have been warnings against the 67th launching of an Atlas-Centaur. However, while engineers specifically warned against the launching of the Challenger, there was apparently no such warning in the hours before the Atlas-Centaur left the pad. "The questions that this leaves you with," said John Logsdon, a space expert at George Washington University here, "is whether the NASA organization has yet communicated its priorities about safety and caution back down into the bureaucracy. My guess is that so much attention has been concentrated on the shuttle in the past year, that they haven't looked at much else." Report Still Being Studied At NASA headquarters today, officials said they were still studying the investigation report. Adm. Richard Truly, who heads all space flight for the agency, could not be reached for comment, according to a spokeswoman. Other NASA officials suggested, however, that the formation of the task force to assess launching procedures was the first response to the Atlas-Centaur investigation, which found disparities between rules for launching different rockets. The space shuttle, for example, cannot be launched when the atmosphere's electrical potential, an indication of the likelihood of lightning, exceeds 1,000 volts per meter. Just prior to the Atlas-Centaur launching, three sensors closest to the pad measured levels of minus 4,640 volts per meter; another sensor, farther away, was closer to 8,000. But none of the NASA officials were examining that data, apparently because there is no such launching limitation for the Atlas-Centaur. "I'm not even sure we had access to that data," said Mr. Womack, the launching manager. However, Mr. Busse, who headed the investigation, said the data was fed to launching officials at another site. "We would not have launched the shuttle under these conditions," said Joseph B. Mahon, NASA's deputy associate administrator of flight systems. "But I don't know why we don't have a similar requirement for unmanned launches. We're looking into that now." Some wonder if NASA has learned any shuttle lessons. NY Times 7/24/87 Russian on Space Trip UFOs vs Space Work Has a Heart Problem MOSCOW, July 25 (AP) -- A Soviet astronaut who has spent nearly six months in space has developed a potentially serious heart problem and will be brought home next week, Soviet officials said Friday. The announcement came shortly after the docking of a three-man Soyuz TM-3 orbiter with the Mir space station, where Aleksandr Laveikin and Yuri Romanenko have been living since early February. Viktor D. Blagov, the deputy flight director, said at a news conference here that Mr. Laveikin, who is 35 years old, had developed an abnormal electrocardiogram at some point in the flight. "It may be serious -- it may not be serious," Mr. Blagov said. Tass, the Soviet Government press agency, reported earlier Friday that Mr. Laveikin, who is on his first space mission, would be replaced at the end of the six-day docking mission with one of the other, Aleksandr Aleksandrov, 44. The capsule carried two Soviet astronauts and Syria's first man in space, Mohammed Faris, 36. The orbiter was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Wednesday. At the end of its six-day mission, it will bring back Mr. Laveikin, Mr. Faris and the Soviet astronaut Aleksandr Viktorov, 40. === Page 46 of 90 # 9 lighting strikes might have hit doomed rocket Post-Star 4/7/87 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- An unmanned satellite rocket launched last month may have sustained as many as nine lightning strikes before it broke apart over the Atlantic Ocean, a NASA spokesman said Thursday. Officials reported earlier there was evidence of at least one lightning hit on the rocket's nose cone and that lightning was the leading suspect as the cause of the accident. "Since then as many as eight additional locations on the nose fairing have been found which are consistent with damage normally caused by lightning," spokesman Hugh Harris said Thursday as he showed reporters recovered chunks of the shattered Atlas-Centaur rocket spread out on the floor of a hangar. The $78 million rocket, carrying an $83 million military communications satellite, was launched in a heavy rainstorm on March 26 and began breaking apart 52 seconds after liftoff. Harris also said weather gauges near the launch pad showed conditions were right for dangerous lightning at the time of liftoff. But he said data from these devices is used only for manned space shuttle launches. He said in the future these readings might be used for unmanned rockets. He said a shuttle would not be launched if electrical charges measured by the devices registered as low as minus 1,000 volts per meter. Readings at the time of the Atlas-Centaur launch were as low as minus 7,360 volts per meter. # SOVIET LAUNCHES MIGHTIEST ROCKET ON A TEST MISSION ## 'Energia' Will be Capable of Putting a Shuttle in Orbit, Russian Report Says By FELICITY BARRINGER Special to The New York Times 5/17/87 MOSCOW, May 16 -- The Soviet Union today announced the successful test launch of the world's most powerful rocket, capable of putting a 100-ton space shuttle into orbit. The "Energia," launched from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan at 7:30 P.M. Moscow time (11:30 A.M. New York time) Friday, was propelled by "the most powerful engines in the world," a Soviet television reporter said on the evening news program tonight. The Energia can lift five times more weight than the next-largest Soviet launch vehicle, according to United States experts on the Soviet space program. ### 'Strap-on' Engines Eight liquid hydrogen engines, four of which hugged the rocket body in a configuration called "strap-on" by United States space experts, sent the 197-foot, two-stage rocket hurtling into the night sky atop a huge red column of flame. The total weight of the rocket and its stubby dummy payload was more than 2,000 tons, the Soviet press agency Tass reported. "This is a major breakthrough for them," said James Oberg, an author and expert on the Soviet space program. Mr. Oberg said that three previous Soviet attempts to send up a heavyweight launch vehicle ended in failure in the late 1960's and early 1970's. ### A Gorbachev Visit Soviet Leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev, who made a three-day visit to Baikonur early last week, was reported to have told the Soviet technicians there not to "hurry" the launch of the "Energia." "Check and weigh everything," Mr. Gorbachev said, according to Soviet television. Tass said that the engines of the rocket's first stage shut off according to plan, and that the first stage vehicle landed "in a pre-set area in the Soviet Union's territory." The second stage landed as planned in the Pacific Ocean, Tass said, but the dummy satellite, which was to have gone into orbit, splashed into the Pacific as well because of "faulty operation of the onboard systems." Despite that shortcoming, Tass said, Continued on Page 29, Column 1. # NASA funding in question Post-Star 4/21/87 ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) -- NASA may lack the money to make the first post-Challenger space shuttle flight in early 1988 because of the high cost of permanent improvements required, the head of the agency said Tuesday. James C. Fletcher said the space agency has money problems in trying to recover from last year's explosion that killed seven crew members and brought the shuttle program to an abrupt halt. "We just don't want to start the first flight and then have a big gap in the program," because of insufficient funds, Fletcher said. "We want to have a first flight and then continuation of several flights after that." NASA had set Feb. 18, 1988 as a target date for the first flight, but said last week that a number of factors -- including a decision to fire the engines while locking the ship on the pad -- will cause a delay. === Page 47 of 90 Ariane rocket on the launch pad at the Guiana Space Center before operations were suspended. Camera Press/Jean-Louis # European Failures Leave Space Effort Mired in Frustration NY Times BY EDWIN MCDOWELL 5/5/87 UFOS vs Space Work KOUROU, French Guiana LESS rain than usual has fallen during the current rainy season, but clouds far more ominous have settled over this tropical backwater on the shoulder of South America. At the nearby Guiana Space Center, a narrow strip carved out of the edge of the jungle that is the home of the West European space program, engineers and technicians have been marking time for almost a year. That is how long the program has been on hold, ever since a third-stage ignition failure last May 30 forced ground controllers to destroy an Ariane 2 rocket and its Intelsat communications satellite less than five minutes into the flight. The failure was the fourth in 18 launchings of the Arianespace program and the third involving a third-stage failure. So the whole program has been delayed until the problem can be found and corrected. "There are still some problems with the third stage," said Gilbert Rotrou, director of operations for Arianespace, the commercial arm of the European Space Agency that manages and markets Ariane's commercial launchings. "The best current estimates are that the next launching will not come before July and might be even later than that." As a result, Arianespace is losing money, failing to take full advantage of the damage done to America's space effort by last year's shuttle disaster and in danger of losing ground to other competitors. And the lost momentum has made the space center, which once hummed with activity and excitement, a symbol of frustration and lost opportunity. The launching timetable has been formally postponed once and informally postponed several times, and the waiting has started to tell on residents of this coastal company town, a former prison camp whose population of 8,500 has increased tenfold in 15 years. "When Ariane has problems, the whole town is affected," said a fashionable young woman in the air-conditioned arcade of Kourou, the home for most of the 1,000 space center employees. The arcade's boutiques, restaurants and sidewalk cafes, like those in the capital city of Cayenne 40 miles south of here, are well stocked with food and clothing imported from France. A penal colony for almost 100 years until the end of World War II, this French overseas department -- about the size of Maine and populated largely by Creoles, Europeans, Indians and descendants of escaped slaves -- is now the last remaining European possession on the South American mainland. The general lassitude seems to have affected even the French Foreign Legion, whose volunteers help guard the space center. The lethargy that has set in here is probably understandable, considering that the Ariane launchings were suspended at the worst possible time. After almost a decade of delays, failures and frustration, the European Space Agency -- founded by 11 nations in 1975 to free Western Europe from dependence on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- had finally managed to wrest half of the $1 billion-a-year commercial satellite launching business away from its American rival. Launching only European satellites at first, in 1984 Ariane sent into orbit a communications satellite for the GTE Spacenet Corporation, then added the Arab telecommunications satellite network, and launched weather and navigation satellites for other nations -- including neighboring Brazil, which will launch four satellites on its own beginning in 1989. The explosion of the American space shuttle Challenger, in January 1986, followed by President Reagan's announcement that NASA would no longer launch commercial payloads, left Ariane in a position to profit handsomely. That it has not was not from lack of trying. Arianespace increased the price of each satellite launching by 40 percent, to about $50 million -- a rise it attributed largely to the exchange rate between the dollar and the European currencies -- but even then it could not accommodate all the private and government requests for space on Ariane. It scheduled more than a dozen launchings through 1986, and had completed four of them when disaster struck last May. After that, the hobbled space agency could only watch from the sidelines as the Soviet Union and China began to gear up for commercial launchings. Meanwhile, such private American companies as General Dynamics and Martin Marietta have come that much closer to the day they will put payloads into orbit. After last May's failure, several of the European Propulsion Society, the company that manufactures the rocket motors for Ariane, are reported to have been fired. But lately, at a plant outside Paris, the motors, owned by the French Government, has had more than ignition problems to worry about. French authorities arrested five people in March on charges of spying on Ariane rocket technology, and Frédéric d'Allest, the Arianespace chairman, promptly implicated the Soviet Union in the espionage ring. Although Moscow just as promptly denied it, the incident recalled the news conference last year at which Mr. d'Allest refused to rule out sabotage as the cause of the failure last May involving Ariane 2 and the Intelsat satellite. Postponements since that failure have cost Arianespace more than $80 million, officials say, and the program to overhaul the engine is expected to cost $163.6 million, according to Mr. d'Allest. The postponements have also delayed the launching of the Ariane 4, a much more powerful rocket whose first flight had been scheduled for mid-1986, and have taken a large toll in morale. "You can't imagine the frustration and disappointment," said a dispirited veteran space center employee. "We took pride in operating on a shoestring, compared with NASA, but when that shoestring broke..." He finished the sentence with a shrug. # Telescope dome kills astronomer UFOS vs Space Work TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- An award-winning astronomer known for his research on the age and size of the universe was crushed to death between a door and a 150-ton revolving telescope dome, authorities said Friday. Marc Arnold Aaronson, 37, was crushed Thursday night in an accident at the Kitt Peak Observatory, said Lt. Edward Baumler, a Pima County Sheriff's Department spokesman. Aaronson was leaving the 18-story building that houses the 4-meter Mayall telescope to check the weather when he was killed, Baumler said. When the door leading outside is opened, the telescope's dome automatically stops turning, but the dome coasts five to 10 feet before coming to a full stop, authorities said. # Briefly Post-Star 5/2/87 UFOS vs Space Work Post-Star 7/13/87 ## Air Force aborts Minuteman test VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) -- An unarmed Minuteman 3 missile was destroyed Sunday over the Pacific Ocean because a problem occurred during the test, the Air Force said. The intercontinental ballistic missile was well downrange from its launching point at Vandenberg when the problem was detected and range safety officers sent a destruct command to the rocket, said Lt. Col. Richard Hill, a base public affairs officer. The missile was en route to a target at the Kwajalein Atoll, 4,200 miles southwest of Vandenberg. It was the 129th operational test of the Minuteman weapons system, Hill said. (16 === Page 48 of 90 Weinberger Letter on Allies' Role in Space Station Stirs Furor By DAVID E. SANGER Special to The New York Times WASHINGTON, April 8 -- A letter written by Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger earlier this week about the Pentagon's plans for possible military uses of the proposed space station prompted a string of protests today, along with warnings that American allies might be forced to drop their participation in the project. In the letter, sent to Secretary of State George P. Shultz, Mr. Weinberger said that the United States "must be prepared to go forward alone" if its allies are not willing to give the Defense Department broad latitude to "conduct national security activities on U.S. elements of the space station." Mr. Weinberger warned that the United States should not sign any agreement that allows its allies "approval or review" of military activity on the space station, or gives them an equal voice in the station's "management, utilization or operation." The letter, which apparently took the Pentagon by surprise, began circulating just as the Reagan Administration was trying to quell fears from Canada, Japan and the European Space Agency that the space station was evolving from a civilian project into a military one. Space agency officials have said in recent days that the National Security Council was also drawing up a directive, to be presented to President Reagan, that would define the Department's role in the program progressed. As a result, he said Mr. Shultz should beware of "paying too high a price for international cooperation" if he allows the allies to review or reject an American military presence on the station. Such a presence has met strong objections abroad, especially in Europe and Japan, among groups opposed to militarizing outer space. Foreign participants in the space station program said it was too early to tell if Mr. Weinberger's position would threaten their participation. "The whole issue is under negotiation," said Ian Pryke, head of the European Space Agency's Washington office. But Senator William Proxmire, a Wisconsin Democrat who has been highly critical of Pentagon efforts to put weapons in space, said today that it was crucial that the space station "remain an international effort." "It seems to me that if they are going to contribute heavily to a multibillion-dollar effort," Mr. Proxmire said of the allies, "they have every reason to review it." Today members of committees that oversee the National Aeronautics and Space Administration warned that if Mr. Weinberger's views were adopted, the nation's allies would probably pull out of the international project. "Secretary Weinberger's letter sets conditions which will make it difficult, if not impossible, to achieve meaningful cooperation" among the space station's partners, said Norman Y. Mineta, a California Democrat who sits on the Space Science and Applications Subcommittee of the House Committee on Science and Technology. Another member of the committee, Representative David R. Nagle, Democrat of Iowa, said he thought that if Mr. Weinberger's conditions survived "there would be a race to get the hell out" of the project. Under the current plan, the European Space Agency is planning to contribute $2 billion in add-on modules to the station to conduct experiments in the fields of life sciences, materials processing and fluid physics. Japan is contributing $1 billion, and Canada is building a $1 billion "space garage" and servicing facility. Until late last year the space station appeared to be an entirely civilian project. But then Mr. Weinberger said the Defense Department wanted to retain an option to use the facility, and outside experts say they expect it could become a key element in deploying a space-based system to shoot down attacking missiles. Pentagon Goals Cited In his letter, Mr. Weinberger said again that the Defense Department was exploring "potential roles for military man-in-space" on the space station. But he also went further, adding that the Pentagon's goals included "the development of space-based systems" and "the conduct of operational missions." The letter became public as NASA was facing increasing questions over the cost of the space station. After estimates of its cost rose sharply in recent months, President Reagan approved last week a plan for a scaled-back station costing $14.5 billion in 1984 dollars. But in testimony, NASA officials disclosed that the figure did not include the cost of more than 30 space shuttle flights needed to get the station into orbit. When those costs are included, NASA officials said, the figure was closer to $20 billion. The disclosure of the higher figure has prompted some charges that NASA was masking the true cost of the space station in an effort to save the project, which is already behind the schedule first set by Mr. Reagan. But Dale D. Myers, NASA's Deputy Administrator, said today, "We have always estimated all programs not including launch costs." He insisted that "there is nothing deceptive" in assessing the station's cost without estimating the price of placing the hardware in space. Problems With Soviet Spacecraft MOSCOW, April 9 (Reuters) -- The Soviet Union's new Kvant space module failed today to link up completely in the second docking attempt with the manned space station Mir, and Soviet scientists were deciding whether the mission could be saved. Tass, the official Soviet press agency, said the Kvant, described as a new type of space module, had functioned normally through every stage of rendezvous and docking before it tried to hook up with the Mir. But analysis of information from the craft showed that the linkup was incomplete, and scientists were studying the data received to decide whether it would be possible to continue operations with the module, Tass said. A first attempt to dock the module with the space station, which has been manned since Feb. 7 by Comdr. Yuri V. Romanenko of the Soviet Air Force, a 42-year-old veteran of three previous flights, and Aleksandr Laveikin, 35, a civilian, was aborted Sunday when the module's directional systems failed. Docking Maneuvers Monitored Tass said the two astronauts had cooperated with ground control in monitoring docking maneuvers controlled by automatic systems on the space module. The module was launched March 31, carrying 1.5 tons of scientific instruments and equipment for use in experiments to be carried out in space. A Soviet space expert said Wednesday that the new module, which weighs more than 20 tons, had enough fuel to try two more dockings after the first failed attempt. The Kvant would be the first experimental module to link with the Mir, which Soviet space officials hope will become the world's first permanently manned space station. Magazine says Khomeini sick PARIS (AP) -- Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, 87, is suffering from a brain tumor and will undergo surgery in Austria in November, the French weekly news magazine L'Express reported. The magazine, which appeared on French newsstands Friday, said authorities in Tehran, Iran, had contacted 80-year-old Austrian physician Karl Fellinger to help find a doctor to perform the surgery. It quoted what it called informed Iranian sources, but did not identify them. === Page 49 of 90 New chief of NASA under fire Post-Star 6/29/87 Orlando Sentinel WASHINGTON - Administrator James C. Fletcher, appointed last year to rebuild NASA after the Challenger disaster, instead has hampered the agency's recovery through awkward political maneuvers and unpopular decisions, according to a wide range of space authorities. Fletcher's relationships with several key members of Congress have deteriorated to the point that he has sought meetings as recently as last week to mend fences, conceding errors and weaknesses, and promising improvement. The NASA chief admitted in an unusually candid interview with The Orlando Sentinel that the agency has suffered because of his inability to get along with a Congress that has scrutinized NASA more aggressively since the Challenger accident. "I am not the great communicator one might expect," Fletcher, 68, said last week. He acknowledged that stubbornness and a lack of political acumen have affected his ability to run NASA since his first term as administrator in 1970-77. He also said that, while heading an agency that has built its reputation on vision and bold conquests, he does not consider himself an inspirational leader. "I am not going to be the charismatic leader people are looking for," he said. Rather, his intent is to build a team of strong managers beneath him who can strengthen NASA's core, Fletcher said. The consensus among more than 35 legislators, scientists, space policy officials interviewed for this report is that Fletcher's weaknesses have been a private concern for months, and that confidence and support for him have eroded significantly. As a result, they believe, NASA could face delays in financing and decisions about the space station and other projects critical to its progress out of the most devastating period in the agency's 28-year history. NASA may be stalled, they say, until after the 1988 election when Fletcher plans to leave. Key aerospace authorities say Fletcher's problems have been compounded by failure of the Reagan administration to establish clear and strong policies to guide NASA's future and to set aside enough money to see them through. NASA "has simply been lost during the Reagan years," said Rep. Robert Torricelli, D-N.J., a member of NASA's budget authorization subcommittee, making a point with which Fletcher strongly disagrees. Fletcher's stewardship has become such a congressional issue that Torricelli suggested in May that his colleagues formally complain to President Reagan. Summer gives us a preview By David Wasson Staff Writer Post-Star 4/21/87 LAKE GEORGE - The weather was so nice here Monday afternoon, sunbather Frankie Waite said she was tempted to go for a swim. But after wading no more than a few feet from the Shepard Park beach, Ms. Waite said she decided the water still was a little too cold for her. Only two weeks ago, there still was ice on the lake. "At least I got a couple hours of sun today," she said, "and it was worth it." Ms. Waite wasn't alone. Dozens of people, many of them in swimsuits, gathered in Shepard Park to enjoy Monday's unseasonably high temperatures. The National Weather Service in Albany reported temperatures climbing into the 80s in Northeastern New York on Monday, with similar temperatures expected again today across the Glens Falls area. The official high in Glens Falls was 78 degrees Monday at Warren County Airport. "It's just here," said meteorologist Kurt Hemmerich of the unseasonably warm weather. "I can't really explain it. The sun is getting pretty strong and the cool Canadian air is staying up there." Tonight, however, forecasters predict clouds might begin accumulating with the chance of rain reaching 50 percent. High temperatures Wednesday are expected to be back at a more seasonable 60 degrees, Hemmerich said. The recent 80-degree days are more common to weather usually experienced in mid-June, the forecaster said. The average mid-April high temperature for the Glens Falls area is 62 degrees, he said. The warm weather and sunshine convinced bicycling enthusiast Henry Kohl to put away his corduroys and don his riding shorts. "I got a little warm yesterday when I went riding," he explained while taking a break at the park. The mid-April heat wave, he said, is a little surprising. But Kohl, a retired merchant marine officer, said it didn't bother him. Monday's weather, he said, reminded him of sailing into the South Pacific. Sullivan's Rexall owners Bruce and Sharon Kilburn said Monday they noticed more people beginning to roam Canada Street. It seems to get a little busier each week, Mrs. Kilburn said. But most of the people seem to be from the Glens Falls area, she said, and very few are tourists. === Page 50 of 90 Northeast Region Post-Star 6/29/87 # Vermont facing ozone trouble BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) -- Next to a country golf course here and alongside a tiny airport in Bennington, Vermont researchers are finding trouble in the air. It's ozone, a noxious substance formed in sunlight from man-made pollutants such as automobile exhausts, industrial emissions and unburned gasoline vapors. The pollutant, like acid rain, is believed to be mostly created from outside the state and swept by wind into Vermont. In heavy concentrations, ozone impairs vision and breathing and has harmful effects on vegetation and wildlife. The state has checked ozone levels at five sites since 1981. It now is testing at two sites, the Burlington golf course and Bennington airport. Vermont does not have a severe ozone problem. It is the only state in New England that has never recorded a federal violation of ozone. But this summer, some officials predict the state will reach and pass a sad milestone: the Bennington site may record Vermont's first federal violation for ozone levels. No violations are expected at the Burlington site, although relatively high levels have been recorded. "The good news is we are not now above the federal standards," said Harold Garabedian, acting director of the state Division of Air Pollution Control. "The bad news is we are being affected by upwind states. If we just had our own emissions to deal with, we'd have even better air quality." The ozone readings at the Bennington site, which the state first set up last summer, are believed by environmental officials to be affected by vehicle and industrial emissions in the Albany, N.Y., area, and possibly as far away as New York City. Ozone readings at the Bennington site for June are the highest for that month ever recorded in Vermont. The federal standard for ozone violation is anything above 120 parts per billion; the Bennington site this month recorded readings in the 90s and low 100s, Garabedian said. Burlington has recorded readings in the 60s and 70s. During the past six years, a normal reading has been in the 60s and 70s. Asked if an ozone reading in the 60s was a threat to human health, Garabedian hesitated. "We don't know. That question is still an area that people are researching," he said. "We are not immune from the problems of ozone, particularly as it is a regional transport problem," Garabedian said. "The proximity to ... urban areas gives us a chance at going over the (federal) standard." Other environmental officials think there's a strong chance for a violation. "So far we haven't recorded one," said Rich Perrault, a state air quality planner. "But we're taking bets around here whether we'll have a violation or not. I think there's a good chance." If the state records a violation this summer, it must notify health and local officials; it also may broadcast a warning to people with respiratory problems to stay indoors. Garabedian said industrial areas in the Northeast such as New York, Connecticut and New Jersey clearly have an ozone problem. He said if the new federal Clean Air Act does not clamp down on emission levels, ozone problems only will worsen in urban and rural areas. Surface ozone is much different than ozone in the upper atmosphere, 12 to 30 miles above the ground. In the stratosphere, ozone protects the earth from damaging ultraviolet rays from the sun. The protective layer of ozone has become thinner during the past decade, while the amount of surface ozone has become more concentrated. There is very little exchange between the two kinds of ozone. Vermont and other states are monitoring the ozone close to the earth, under a requirement of the federal Clean Air Act. NY Times 3/26/87 # Wedtech Scandal Brings Civil Suit The widening net of the Wedtech scandal has so far brought criminal indictments to 19 people associated with Government favors for the South Bronx military contractor. Last week, it encompassed another kind of action, a civil suit for $3.3 million, against E. Robert Wallach, a San Francisco lawyer and friend of Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d. The suit, brought by the new management of the Wedtech Corporation, charges that Mr. Wallach tried to defraud the company by conspiring with five former executives to be paid for services he did not perform and then trying to cover up the scheme. Martin R. Pollner, Wedtech's court-appointed lawyer, said Mr. Wallach received at least $1.25 million in stock and fees, 25 percent more than previously believed. Mr. Wallach issued a statement calling the charges unfounded. Former executives of Wedtech have said they sought out Mr. Wallach because of his close ties to Mr. Meese. In 1982, Mr. Meese, then counselor to President Reagan, intervened with Army contractors on behalf of the then-obscure company after Mr. Wallach lobbied him to. James C. McKay, the special prosecutor in the Wedtech case, is also looking into whether Mr. Meese illegally profited from his links to the company. Wedtech declared bankruptcy late last year. Mr. Pollner said last week "tens of millions of dollars" were to the Government for unfulfilled contracts, which it cannot pay. NY Times 6/1/86 # Struck by Lightning In Brooklyn, just 15 minutes later, lightning created a different sort of havoc in Prospect Park, striking Evella Owen, 35, and her husband, Keith, 40. Both were taken to Methodist Hospital, where Mrs. Owen was reported in critical but stable condition. Mr. Owen was listed in good condition. At 4 P.M., a parks enforcement patrol officer, Robert Turner, was riding a horse on the East Drive, near the Prospect Park Zoo when a sudden thunderstorm sent hundreds of people on the huge Long Meadow scurrying for cover. Officer Turner said he heard the crack of thunder and watched a lightning bolt hammer the crescent-shaped field as his horse, Benbow, started bucking. While Officer Turner calmed the jittery horse, he was approached by two frantic boys shouting that the lightning bolt had struck their mother. The officer followed them to the edge of the meadow, where a crowd of 50 people had gathered around a couple lying on the ground. The man was dazed but conscious, his pants burned. The woman was unconscious, and Officer Turner began administering cardiopulmonary resuscitation, while someone in the crowd held Benbow's reins. (SUN ATTACK) NY Sun Attack # Hot Turk Bites Howling Dog ANKARA, Turkey, July 25 (Reuter) -- A heat wave gripping Turkey disturbed Kemal Pala, a gunsmith, so much that he bit his neighbor's howling dog, named Lassie, three times. The semi-official Anatolian News Agency said the dog's owner, Mehmet Ahoglu, reported the matter to the police in the western town of Biga. NY Times 7/26/87 Point out how the "bad guys" are being eliminated from top govt. (linked + spokes) === Page 51 of 90 Post-Star 8/2/87 RIGBY COPLEY NEWS SERVICE NY DAILY NEWS DEAVER MEESE NORTH ALAS POOR WHATSISNAME! NOFZIGER POINDEXTER TOP OF THE HEAP NASA struggling to recover from disaster Quake rocks Adirondacks Note: This area. The Associated Press Post-Star 9/27/87 An earthquake Saturday shook upstate New York's Adirondack region, but there were no reports of injury or damage. "It's definitely an earthquake," said Waverly Person, a geophysicist at the National Geological Survey in Golden, Colo. "It's not large enough to cause any damage." The earthquake measured 3.5 on the Richter scale, making it a minor earthquake, he said. The 1:44 p.m. earthquake's center was about 15 miles west of Saranac Lake, Person said. The quake was probably felt for a 50-mile radius, said Frank Baldwin, a physical science technician for the National Geological Survey. By Howard Benedict The Associated Press Post-Star 8/2/87 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Eighteen months after the Challenger explosion, a troubled NASA is at a crossroads. Struggling still toward recovery from that disaster, the agency is also striving to reassert its leadership of the American space program. Once the proud embodiment of the nation's civilian space effort, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration today lacks a bold vision of what it wants to achieve and is without a comprehensive national policy to guide it. Critics and historians say the agency has been weakened by a reduced political commitment, indifference in the White House, underfunding, debates over manned vs. unmanned flight, the priority of military space projects and Pentagon assertion of space leadership, the intrusion of other government agencies into space policy decisions, and lack of vigorous leadership. The result, says the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, is that the United States could become a second-class power in space, with the Soviet Union assuming unchallenged leadership and the Europeans, Japanese and Chinese moving up fast. That could have economic, political and strategic implications well into the 21st century, according to a recent policy statement by the AIAA, a respected organization of space scientists, engineers and business people. Others, too, are concerned. "The fact is, that currently NASA has lost the will to fly men in space," wrote Reginald Turnill, editor of the British publication Jane's Spaceflight Directory, in the 1987 edition. The explosion of the space shuttle Challenger Jan. 28, 1986, which killed its seven crew members, ripped away NASA's aura of invincibility. The subsequent investigation spotlighted mismanagement, sloppiness and other flaws within the agency. "23 Paces To Baker Street" Bobby's whistle. Sound off till put whistle down. 8/7/87 about 10:45 AM (20 === Page 52 of 90 # Commerce secretary dies ## Baldrige was in Luzerne rodeo July 17 Wire and staff reports Post Star 7/26/87 WALNUT CREEK, Calif. - Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige, a onetime ranch hand who attended Yale and became a successful businessman before joining the Reagan Cabinet, died Saturday hours after the horse he was riding while cattle roping fell on him. Baldrige, 64, died during surgery at John Muir Hospital here at about 3:50 p.m., said Dr. Naran Patel, a trauma surgeon at the hospital. He participated in a rodeo held at the Painted Pony Ranch in Lake Luzerne July 17, finishing second in the team roping event. Donald Baxter, a long-time area rodeo rider and judge at the Painted Pony, described Baldrige, who ropes the hind legs, or heels, of the steer in the team roping event, as an experienced rider. Baxter said he had known the secretary for 20 years. And, although there usually aren't many accidents in the team roping event, "one is as liable to get it as another," Baxter said before Baldrige's death. "There's not much you can do," he said. "It don't matter what you are if a horse falls on you." The commerce secretary, a member of President Reagan's Cabinet since 1981, arrived at the hospital via helicopter after the accident at the Jack Roddy Ranch in rural Brentwood, 45 miles east of San Francisco. Baldrige, who had a lifelong passion for rodeo competition and was elected to the Rodeo Hall of Fame in 1984, suffered massive internal injuries including tears to the pancreas and heart when the horse fell on him about 1:15 p.m., doctors said. His heart stopped for several minutes after the accident. During exploratory surgery, doctors discovered severe internal bleeding that they were unable to stem, Patel said, adding that the aorta and the large vein leading to the heart were both torn. About 1 1/2 hours into the operation, Baldrige's heart stopped and efforts to restart it through heart massage failed. "He bled to death from the massive injuries and from the lack of coagulation (of his blood)," said chief surgeon Dr. Ronald LaPorta, one of four surgeons who operated on the secretary. "He was always in shock; he never got out of shock." "The nation has suffered a great loss with the tragic and untimely death of Secretary Malcolm Baldrige," President Reagan said in a statement read by Leslye Arsht, White House deputy press secretary. "Under his stewardship, the Department of Commerce played a key role in the rebirth of our country's prosperity and all of us owe a great debt to 'Mac' Baldrige," the president said. Baldrige was attempting to rope a calf when his horse reared and both fell backward, with the horse falling on the commerce secretary "full force," said sheriff's Sgt. Larry Aulich. Dr. Bert D. Johnson, a Stanford # Dog days of summer continue The Associated Press Post Star 7/23/87 U.S. Sun Attack Sales of ice cream, ice and air conditioners sizzled and utilities reported record demand for electricity as a heat wave blamed for at least one death had people sweating again Wednesday from the Plains to the East Coast. "This is one of the worst summers I can remember," said Harry Ochs IV, a butcher in Philadelphia's unairconditioned Reading Market Terminal. He said the only thing that keeps him going is "knowing that we'll be getting air conditioning in August." "It's been a long, hot summer, and we still have August to go," said meteorologist Tony Sands in Cincinnati. Highs in the 90s and above 100 and humidity well over 50 percent began late last week. And that is expected to continue into the weekend as a high pressure area over the Southeast pumps hot, wet air up from the Gulf of Mexico, National Weather Service meteorologists said. "The humidity's awfully high," said Iowa state climatologist Paul Waite in Des Moines. "It drives the effective temperature up above 100 degrees, due to the combination of heat and humidity." Some places have had temperatures above 100 even without taking the humidity into account. Baltimore hit 103 Tuesday, 1 degree short of the record, and Chadron, Neb., hit 104. Baltimore was up to 97 at 4 p.m. Wednesday but the humidity was down. Chicago hit 90 at 3 p.m. Wednesday, making it the 13th day at or over 90 degrees there this month, and the 21st so far this year, leaving hundreds of overheated cars along expressway shoulders. The weather service said the average is only 16 days of 90-plus weather in a whole year. New York City had a high of 92 Wednesday, giving it seven days of 90-plus weather this month, and the city was rushing to install a shipment of 473 new fans in shelters for the homeless, many of which had no fans. (2) === Page 53 of 90 Meese Post-Star 5/12/87 From Page A1 conclusion on this case." The special prosecutor's investigation will focus on Meese's intercession, when he was White House counselor, in the Army's awarding of a $32 million, no-bid contract to the Wedtech Corp. Meese said last month that he interceded only to ensure that the firm got "a fair hearing" in its effort to win the contract. Another Reagan confidant, former White House political director Lyn Nofziger, also is under investigation by McKay. The special prosecutor is probing whether Nofziger violated federal conflict-of-interest rules by lobbying on Wedtech's behalf shortly after leaving the administration. In 1985, Meese invested $60,000 in a "limited blind partnership" with W. Franklyn Chinn, a San Francisco businessman who later became a director of Wedtech. Meese has said he doesn't know if Chinn invested any of the $60,000 in Wedtech. Eastland disclosed that Meese notified Chinn on May 5 that he wants to end his participation in the partnership. Eastland said the partnership will be terminated on June 30. "Whatever his money is, he will be reimbursed," Eastland said, adding that Meese has received quarterly statements from Chinn describing "what the bottom line is" but has never been informed whether any of the money was invested in Wedtech. Four of Wedtech's former officials have pleaded guilty to conspiring to bribe federal, state and local New York officials in building the company's business and obtaining millions of dollars worth of military contracts. The company, a minority contractor, is reorganizing under federal bankruptcy laws. The investigation marks the second time Meese's conduct has been examined by a special prosecutor at his request. Meese was cleared of wrongdoing after a 1984 investigation of his personal finances, including allegations that he may have arranged federal jobs for two savings and loan officials who allowed him to fall 15 months behind in mortgage payments on his Alameda County, Calif. home. Another long-time Reagan adviser, former White House deputy chief of staff Michael K. Deaver, also requested the appointment of a special prosecutor to review his lobbying activities after he left the administration. That investigation led to Deaver's indictment this year on perjury charges. The new investigation of Meese is the latest in a series of probes of current or former Reagan administration officials. Those cases are being handled by seven separate special prosecutors, also known as independent counsels. Fitzwater denied that the investigations show a pattern of impropriety. "We see a pattern of very law enforcement that pursues investigations wherever they occur," Fitzwater said. He said he did not know whether Meese have discussed the attorney general's involvement in the Wedtech case. # Most rivers pulling back in Northeast UFO Sun Attack Associated Press Post-Star 4/8/87 Most rivers receded Tuesday in the flood-ravaged Northeast, where 3,000 people had been forced from their homes at one time or another, but rising water elsewhere threatened more evacuations. Officials in Augusta, Maine, the state's capital, and nearby Gardiner and Hallowell estimated damage in that area alone at more than $30 million. Estimates for other parts of the hard-hit state were incomplete. "The damage in Androscoggin County is in the millions, I just can't say how many millions," said Peter Gagnon, civil defense director in that county southwest of Augusta. Maine Gov. John R. McKernan Jr. said damage estimates would still be ing prepared but were eventually total "tens of millions" of dollars. New Hampshire officials said they couldn't make estimates until the water subsided and Massachusetts officials said they were too busy to be able to assess the damage. David Dilley, meteorologist with the National Weather Service at Logan International Airport, said some sections along the border between Massachusetts and New Hampshire and Vermont had received up to 13 inches of rain in the past week. Average rainfall for the region for all of April is 3.8 inches. New York Gov. Mario Cuomo on Tuesday declared a disaster in emergencies because of flooding in Schoharie, Montgomery and Ulster counties in the eastern part of the state. In addition to the victims of a bridge collapse over the Schoharie River near Amsterdam Sunday, at least nine deaths have been blamed on the weather in the past week: four in Kentucky, two in Ohio and one each in West Virginia and Alabama, and one man drowned in Vermont and two men were missing in Massachusetts and feared drowned. In Massachusetts, the Merrimack River apparently crested Tuesday, but was expected to stay well above flood stage at least until this morning, the New England River Forecast Center said. About 1,750 were evacuated from their homes along the river's banks in the state. Eight Massachusetts towns declared states of emergency on Tuesday, bringing the total for the state to 34. New Hampshire Civil Defense officials said 1,000 to 1,500 people had been flooded out since Saturday, and about 200 remained in public shelters Tuesday. An additional 30 people were evacuated Tuesday near the rising Merrimack River in Nashua, and some fled the rising Exeter River at Exeter. An emergency release of water Monday from a dam at Keene, N.H., forced the evacuation of some communities along the Ashuelot River, and Cheshire County spokesman John Gifford estimated that more than 100 people spent the night in shelters. At the peak of the Maine flooding late last week, 541 people stayed at Red Cross shelters, with an unknown number of others going to friends or relatives. And state officials said about 4,700 workers had their jobs interrupted because of those floods. 22 === Page 54 of 90 7/29/87 # Contra abuses detailed By Rita Beamish Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - Contra rebel forces have executed prisoners, forcibly recruited soldiers and killed civilians, according to the first report of a human rights association that Congress mandated as a condition of U.S. aid. The report goes into a dozen incidents, including the deaths of eight Sandinista prisoners and eight civilians, the forced recruitment of four Mennonites, and the recruitment of 53 people by a since-arrested commander who the association said conscripted Nicaraguan Indians through "psychological pressure." The report, obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press, also mentions ongoing investigations into other cases involving allegations of kidnappings and attacks on civilians including the deaths of children and unarmed individuals. In all, investigators have concluded or are looking at 22 "major cases of alleged human rights abuse," the report said. Among the cases investigated was the April death of U.S. citizen Benjamin Linder, who ![President and Mrs. Reagan, along with Vice President and Mrs. George Bush, attend a memorial service Wednesday for Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige. (AP Laserphoto)] President and Mrs. Reagan, along with Vice President and Mrs. George Bush, attend a memorial service Wednesday for Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige. (AP Laserphoto) The 64-year-old Commerce secretary would not have received those last winnings of $204.91 before he died in a freak horse accident last Saturday in California while practicing for a rodeo roping contest that evening. Speaking at the memorial Wednesday morning, Reagan told members of Congress, past and current Cabinet members, presidential contenders and diplomats who attended, "The day I called Mac Baldrige to ask him to join the Cabinet, I was told by (his wife) Midge I would have to call back later. He was out on his horse roping and couldn't come to the phone. Right then I knew he was the kind of man I wanted." In fact, he was roping at Paul Crotta's ranch in Connecticut when the president called. Asked if Baldrige was a good cowboy, Crotta, a man of very few words, said, "He was pretty good," considering his age and the fact that he didn't get all that much practice. California cowboys Ron Poindexter and Bob "Rags" Ragsdale got to know Baldrige when the three of them rode the winter rodeo circuit back in 1969. They met up at Odessa, Texas, and toured together on a rush schedule where one would take turns cooking in the back of the camper while the others rode up front. "I just idolized the guy as far as what he is ... a super person," said Poindexter, a cowboy in a gray suit who looked less like a cowboy than like the hundreds of Washington bureaucrats, lobbyists, journalists and high-ranking officials who filled the limestone National Cathedral to hear Reagan say of Baldrige, "The thing he liked about cowboys was that they didn't talk unless they had something to say and when they said something, they meant it." "I'm told that Mac's staff had orders to interrupt him at whatever time of the day with calls from only two people. I was one, and any cowboy who rang up was the other," Reagan told the assembly that included one bureaucrat-mourner who read The Wall Street Journal while waiting for the ceremony to begin. 23 === Page 55 of 90 Darkness struck NYC 10 years ago MY POWER BLACKOUT Post-Star 7/13/87 NEW YORK (AP) -- Half an hour after the lights went out, David Blake's phone rang. "Mr. Blake, you better get over here right away," the excited caller told him. "They're breaking into your drugstore." That was 10 years ago, on July 13, 1977, the night New York City and its northern suburbs lost all electrical power for the second time in 12 years. When the lights went out across the Northeast in 1965, New Yorkers' poised response -- volunteers directing traffic, people throwing blackout parties and crime actually dropping -- became part of their folklore. But the 1977 blackout would show the nation's largest city to be just a flash of lightning away from anarchy. This quickly became apparent to Blake, who had left his home in Queens and was driving up Third Avenue in East Harlem toward his pharmacy. "All you could hear was breaking glass and screaming and yelling," he recalls. "It was all darkness and confusion." When he pulled up in front of his store at 103rd Street, he found that someone had chained the store's iron gate to a car bumper and yanked it up. The store's windows were smashed, its floor was covered with debris and most of the merchandise was gone. The cash register was sitting in the gutter. Two police officers walked by. "You better get out of here," one told him. "This is a war zone." The war began after lightning knocked out Consolidated Edison power lines in Westchester County. Alternate power sources were not tapped soon enough to stop the vast shutdown, and by 9:36 p.m. about 8 million people were without electricity. Within an hour, civil disturbances were raging simultaneously in all five boroughs for the first time in the city's history. Serious looting erupted in 31 neighborhoods. Hardest hit was the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, where a third of the 143 stores on a 30-block stretch suffered fire damage. In one four-block area, every major store was stripped clean. Fire damaged a Woolworth's so badly it had to be leveled the next week. The crowds "were like bluefish in a feeding frenzy," Capt. Timothy Driscoll of the 77th Precinct would recall. "I've seen looting before, but this was total devastation. Smashing, burning ... as if they'd gone crazy." In the Bronx, a crowd crashed through the plate-glass window of an auto dealership and drove off with 50 new cars, each of which had $2 worth of gas in the tank and keys in the ignition. In Brooklyn's Crown Heights section, "it was like an ant colony," says Rabbi Yisrolel Rosenfeld. "When the lights went out, everyone just came down out of their buildings and into the streets." Although most of the looters were black or Hispanic, and most of the property was owned by whites, race did not seem a motivation. Maurice Phillips, the black president of a Bushwick merchants' group, says he had two choices: he could spend the night with his shotgun and dog in his dry cleaning business or in his clothing store. He chose the former, and lost the latter to arson and looting. The looting, a study by Robert Curvin and Bruce Porter of Brooklyn College subsequently found, had three stages: hardened criminals moved in first, followed by groups of wayward youths and, finally, by some normally more law-abiding members of the community. Police could make few arrests in the first three hours. The Bronx, with a population of 1.3 million, was patrolled by only 86 cruisers and six beat officers. By the time power was restored the following night, more than 1,700 stores had been looted or damaged and more than 3,000 people arrested, about six times more than usual. On the first night alone, 1,500 fire alarms were sounded, two-thirds of them false -- twice as many as usual. Property damage estimates ranged as high as $150 million. The city, said Mayor Abraham Beame, had endured "a night of terror." (24) Explain post-psi-effect to Scientists. de America Recognized Pres. Chun. Met at Cairo Hilton. Sat down w/ me. Told him N. Koreans were tough & disciplined S. Kor's soft & corrupt. Suggestion To research on the possibilities of discover & trans. safely the handling of cherry and icing? === Page 56 of 90 # Time urged to assess damage to climate WASHINGTON (AP) -- Humans are altering the climate faster than they can predict the consequences, and ways must be found to buy time to assess the damage, climate experts warned Wednesday. "We appear to be entering a period of progressively rapid warming of the earth as a whole with no end in sight. The implications are profound. They will bring rapid and drastic changes in civilization," George M. Woodwell of the Woods Hole Research Center told a congressional panel. "It seems to me that the minimum level of responsibility for our generation is to at least put some effort into understanding what we are doing," to the climate, added Stephen H. Schneider of the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Part of this is a need "to find ways to slow down the rate of our changes to buy time to assess the consequences and adapt," Schneider told the House Science subcommittee on natural resources, agricultural research and environment. The danger of raising the Earth's temperature through the so-called Greenhouse Effect was a particular topic of the session, which was called to consider funding the the National Climate Program, a research effort on the future of the planet's climate. The hearing took place as Washington sweltered through a heat wave with temperatures in the upper 90s. The Greenhouse Effect, widely discussed in recent years, is a result of the increasing amount of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere. Though less than 1 percent of the air, carbon dioxide has increased rapidly in recent years. Scientists link this with an increase in the air temperature, pointing out that carbon dioxide allows incoming radiation from the sun to continue warming the Earth, but blocks outgoing radiation from dissipating into space. The result, like a greenhouse protected by glass, is a rising temperature at the surface. J.D. Mahlman of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration told the subcommittee that doubling the current carbon dioxide would raise the planet's average temperature by 1.5 degrees to 4.5 degrees Celsius -- 2.4 degrees to 7.2 degrees Fahrenheit. # Break in heat wave may be on the way Wire and staff reports Take heart. Relief from the heat may be in sight. The National Weather Service said Saturday the temperature would climb only -- only -- into the 80s in the Glens Falls area today, and that by early in the week, temperatures as low -- low -- as 70 are possible. But on Saturday, the weeklong heat wave continued, steaming the starch out of local people and anybody living in the East. Hundreds of people took refuge at beaches, in pools, in air-conditioned shopping malls and bars and on couches in front of fans. At the Warren County Airport, a high of 86 degrees was recorded. The low was 68. And was it ever humid. Even by noon Saturday, some cities had passed their record highs. The water of big Lake Erie hit 79 degrees at midmorning. That's the highest it has been in 61 years of record keeping. In New York City's Central Park, the temperature hit 95 degrees. But the humidity was running at 49 percent -- lower than it has been in the past few days. Chicago hit 90 for the ninth straight day. Washington had 96 degrees, Newark, 97. Greenville-Spartanburg, S.C., passed a record of 95 at 12:30 p.m. and rose to 99. Providence, R.I., tied its record of 92, then rose a degree. Philadelphia tied its record of 95 and Charlotte, N.C., tied its record of 100. America's official hot spot was 108 at the desert city of Needles, Calif. Across the nation, seven deaths in five states have been blamed on the heat since July 17. But the toll in Greece is much higher. Athens authorities said 260 people have died from the heat. A medical spokesman said no foreign tourists were among the dead. "Almost all of those who have died were elderly people who suffered from heart and respiratory problems," the spokesman said. For the Greeks, no relief was in sight. Temperatures outside Athens soared to 104 degrees on Saturday. A record high of 109 degrees was established last week. In the United States, the National Weather Service said parts of the Southeast would suffer a heat index -- a combination of heat and humidity -- of 105. A heat index of 79 is considered uncomfortable for everyone. But cool air was moving into the East and Midwest from Canada. The clash between warm and cool air brought a severe thunderstorm watch for parts of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts. If you looked hard enough Saturday, you could find cooler spots. The peak of Mount Washington in New Hampshire, the Northeast's highest at 6,288 feet and known for some of the world's worst weather, reached only 61 on Friday, and the low Saturday was 54. "It is on the warm side of average," weather observer Chris Norcross said. # Heat sizzles past 16th day The Associated Press The 16-day-old heat wave across the central part of the nation that has been blamed for at least 72 deaths continued Sunday, and Alabama health officials warned people to take it easy. The temperature at the Kansas City, Mo., downtown airport hit a record 105 degrees at 2:35 p.m., while the city's international airport touched a record 102. St. Louis hit 100 by early afternoon and Little Rock, Ark., sizzled to 102. Concordia, Kan., tied its record of 105 at 2:15 p.m. and Toledo, Ohio, tied its record of 98 at 3:40 p.m. Even the cool of the night didn't help as overnight lows stayed near 80 as far north as Chicago, southeastern Iowa and parts of Kansas. === Page 57 of 90 THE SUN ATTACK # Pollution might make hurricanes stronger UFO Sun Attack Post-Star 4/3/87 NEW YORK (AP) -- Some future hurricanes may pack up to 60 percent more punch if humankind keeps pouring carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, a new study says. If the atmosphere's carbon dioxide content doubles, as forecast for the next century, the maximum possible intensity for hurricanes could rise 40 percent to 50 percent generally and 60 percent in the Gulf of Mexico, according to the study in Thursday's issue of the British journal Nature. While only a few percent of hurricanes reach maximum possible intensity, "we would tend to think if the maximum intensity increases, the average would increase as well," said Kerry Emanuel, associate meteorology professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Projections for when the atmosphere's carbon dioxide content will double range from about the year 2035 to 2080, with the equivalent of doubling by 2050 if the effects of other trace gases are taken into account, according to the National Center for Atmospheric Research. The carbon dioxide buildup, caused largely by burning of fossil fuels, has long concerned scientists because it could cause a significant warming of worldwide climate. The warming could mean higher chances for extended heat waves and coastal flooding from higher seas, as well as impacts on crop yields, scientists say. Emanuel said his analysis assumes that the doubling of carbon dioxide will raise the temperature of ocean surfaces in tropical regions generally by about 2 degrees to 3 degrees centigrade, or about 4 degrees to 5 degrees Fahrenheit. In an interview, Emanuel called that assumption "a big if." Estimates vary widely on how much ocean temperatures would really rise, he said. **A warming in ocean surfaces increases the amount of heat energy that can be fed into a hurricane through evaporation, he said.** Evaporation can occur only until the air becomes saturated, and warmer ocean surfaces allow more heat to be transferred before saturation takes place, he said. The projections came from a computer simulation of average August conditions. The 40 percent to 50 percent increase in maximum intensity of hurricanes applies to most current hurricane areas, such as the Caribbean Ocean, western Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean and parts of the Pacific Ocean, Emanuel said. The 60 percent increase is forecast for the Gulf of Mexico because of higher projected increases in sea surface temperatures, a result of its being partly sheltered and less susceptible to changes in ocean circulation, he said. Richard Anthes, director of the atmospheric research center, said the projections generally are "a very likely result if the tropical oceans and the tropical atmosphere warms" as much as the calculations assume. Those assumptions are plausible, Anthes said in an interview. He also said **the link between sea surface temperature and greater intensity of hurricanes "is well known and supported by many previous studies." Hurricanes also could become more frequent in response to ocean and atmospheric warming**, he said. While increases in hurricane intensity and frequency would occur gradually, "long-range planning should take into account these things," he said. "I think it's probably a real effect." But Stephen Schneider, head of the natural systems group at the research center, said Emanuel's calculations should not be taken as forecasts. "Whether it would apply to Florida or whether it applies to Japan, these kinds of issues are what we can't know at this stage," Schneider said. "It's an indication of quite a plausible outcome that is almost certain to happen at some places in some times." Ask for money blankets etc. For help to survive. # Edmonton recovery continues UFO Sun Attack Post-Star 8/2/87 **Mobile-home parks take hardest hit** EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) -- Rescuers searched for survivors in shattered homes and factories Saturday after the deadliest tornado to hit Canada in 75 years devastated parts of Edmonton and killed at least 25 people. About 200 others were injured in Friday afternoon's twister. "It seemed like the end of the world," said Ted Gartner, who was working in a mechanic's shop when the vortex struck. Alberta provincial medical examiner Dr. John Butt said 25 people were killed. There had been some confusion over casualties because of double-counting in the wake of the devastation. Earlier, the city's emergency planning officer, Bruce Wilson, said 27 people were confirmed dead and 200 hurt, and police spokeswoman Joy-Lynn Dorash put the fatality count at 35. Hardest hit was the Evergreen trailer park on the city's northeastern edge, where 200 mobile homes were demolished, 150 were damaged and at least 13 people were killed, Wilson said. Witnesses said the pillar of whirling black air was two blocks wide as it smashed its way northeast across the city and parts of adjacent Strathcona County. A state of emergency was declared as rescuers searched collapsed houses, warehouses and overturned cars for survivors. Police used dog teams to comb the wreckage for signs of life. Police Chief Leroy Chahley said extra patrols were sent to devastated areas after looting was reported. Alberta Premier Donald Getty told reporters at a command post in a devastated industrial area: "There's no doubt about it, we've been badly hurt. One thing is the rescue operations are functioning extremely well." Reporters said the twisters slammed cattle to their deaths on farms outside the city. Broken gas mains caused several fires, power lines were cut and some streets flooded by torrential rain and grapefruit-size hail. Weather officials had forecast thunderstorms in this normally dry (26 === Page 58 of 90 THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL NEWS SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1987 NY Times 4/25/86 # Cattle Rustling Making Comeback as Tough By ROBERT REINHOLD Special to The New York Times KINGSVILLE, Tex., April 17 -- The ancient trade of cattle rustling, once relegated mostly to Hollywood westerns, is staging a comeback across Texas. And just as they have been for a century, the rustlers are being tracked down by a tough breed of private cattle rangers in white cowboy hats, men like Hap Roberts, Chick Saenz, Butch Davis, Slim Hulen and 28 others employed by the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association. They are colorful vestiges of a bygone era, although they rely today more on a computer in Fort Worth than on their six-shooters to hunt down the outlaws. Tough times in Texas are causing a new wave of thefts of cattle and horses, according to Steve Munday, spokesman for the association. There are no overall figures on livestock thefts, but Mr. Munday cites a sharp rise in stolen stock that has been recovered as evidence for the comeback of rustling. In 1986 the range detectives, who are deputized by the Texas Rangers, recovered 4,310 stolen or stray head of cattle, 62 horses, 25 trailers and 121 saddles worth a total of $2.8 million. This was double the value recovered in 1985. # Times Hit Texas # Thatcher: Support Gorbachev moves By Edith M. Lederer Associated Press Writer LONDON -- Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said Thursday her Soviet visit could help mark a turning point in history and urged Western nations to encourage Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's new policy of openness. Mrs. Thatcher told the House of Commons she didn't underestimate the differences between the Soviets and the West, especially on arms control, but declared the world was a "safer place" after her five-day trip and 12 hours of talks with Gorbachev. "I believe it was a very significant visit at what could be a turning point in history," the prime minister said, shouting to be heard above the jeers from opposition socialist lawmakers. "My visit took place at a most interesting and crucial moment in the development of the Soviet Union," she said, citing Gorbachev's points the way to the new openness and confidence which will be needed if we are to reach agreement on arms control and in other areas," she reiterated that short-range 4/14/87 Bean + I had identical dreams (again) last night. We both were in van. He had Tracy, girl. Orientals stopped him + attacked him. He threw a knife clear thru the leader + they ran. -> Same night, in my dream, a car w/two men blocked my van on a country road. I got out. One man aimed a pistol at me. I got him with my Walther. Then a girl's voice rang out (I had no girl w/me). "Watch out behind you!" I turned. A man had a shotgun pointed at me. I got him, too. The dream woke me up and I saw an apparition hovering over my bed. Was a glowing cloud, sort of spider-webby. Slowly it faded away and I went back to sleep. Tell of Enquirer tricks. Post-Star 5/30/87 # Texas tops again in bank failures HOUSTON (AP) -- Texas has set the national record for bank failures for the third year in a row with the collapse of the 27th bank in 1987, but officials say the state appears to be nearing the bottom of its economic pit. Federal regulators closed Westheimer National Bank on Thursday, citing poor management and bad loans. With more than six months still to go, the closure smashed Texas' 1986 tally of 26 bank failures in one year, a national record for one state. Texas also set the national pace in 1985 with 12 failures, compared to just three in 1984. === Page 59 of 90 # Long Spell of Warm, Dry Weather Worries Corn Belt Interests UFO Sun Attack By WILLIAM ROBBINS Special to The New York Times 5/15/87 KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 14 -- A long spell of warm, dry weather is spreading anxiety across the most productive parts of the Corn Belt, as well as in markets where their crops are traded. Though experts say it is too early for serious alarm, with some even citing reasons for optimism, a new forecast has further aggravated widespread concerns. The prediction Wednesday by a long-range forecasting team of the National Weather Service in Washington indicates that the long period of unusual dryness and warmth could last as long as another month. The prediction includes most of the Corn Belt as well as several agricultural states farther west, where an unusually light snowpack has led to warnings of water shortages and a troublesome season of forest fires. The temperature forecast was issued with probability factors ranging from 55 to 65 percent, "and that is an unusually high degree of confidence for us for this time of year," said Donald Gilman, the meteorologist who heads the long-range team. Across most of Illinois and Iowa, the biggest corn producers, and to a lesser extent in neighboring states, the worries have been spawned by the same conditions that had permitted farmers to plant their crops early and proceed at a record pace, raising hopes for another bountiful harvest. The continued warmth being forecast could speed evaporation of ground moisture and hamper seed germination in fields where young corn plants have not yet emerged. Germination is about one-third complete in the key states, statisticians say, adding that the coming week should determine how serious a problem farmers may face in the remaining areas. The corn crop is watched closely by economists because it is the principal feed for animals raised for meat, and its price can affect not only producers' costs but also supplies and prices of meat for consumers. "This has been one of our most prolonged periods of warm and dry weather, dating from last winter," said Michael Palmerino, a meteorologist with the Weather Services Corporation in Bedford, Mass. This winter and spring, he and others said, have not seen their match in the Corn Belt since 1931. Mr. Palmerino cited precipitation data for this year that were far below normal in scattered test sites across several states, and average temperature readings that were several degrees above normal. At Mason City, in north-central Iowa, for example, precipitation since Jan. 1 has totaled 3.8 inches, about 47 percent of the normal rate. Temperature readings have ranged from 14 degrees above normal in February to 4 degrees above in April. 'Dryness Spreading Eastward' At other test sites precipitation ranged from 35 percent of normal in Minneapolis to 31 percent in Decatur, Ill., to 58 percent in Indianapolis. The temperature ranges moderated at the easternmost test sites. "We've got widespread concern among farmers over germination," said Paul Waite, the Iowa state climatologist. "Dryness in the west is spreading eastward," Mr. Waite said. "There is a lot of concern that this is going to be a hot, dry year -- more concern, perhaps, than statistics would support." With only a hint of a laugh, Mr. Waite cited a totally unscientific sign that he said had caused concern in some circles. "By February," he said, "the natives observed the beavers were building dams at an unusual rate in eastern Iowa." He added, "I don't know how they are programmed, but the Indians and early settlers believed they were pretty good indicators." The weather concerns come at a time when the Soviet Union has begun buying American wheat and speculation is rife over the size of Russian grain crops. That speculation has been generated by one of the coldest Soviet winters on record, which caused widespread crop damage, and a cold wet spring that has delayed planting. The long-range forecast said abnormal heat was most probable for a strip of Western states where crops are smaller but where several are already facing warnings of water shortages, water-use restrictions and forest fires. Those warnings have been issued for an area that includes Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming and Nevada, and farmers in one, Idaho, have already been given restricted allotments of irrigation water. "If you could paint the worst scenario we could envision, that is what is happening to us," Gov. Cecil D. Andrus remarked recently. ## Lawmakers urge Meese to resign Reagan's buddy Post Star 8/15/87 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Six Democratic House members on Friday called for Attorney General Edwin Meese III to resign, contending he tried to cover up the Iran-Contra affair. The effort was organized by Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., who told a news conference that Meese intentionally misled Iran-Contra investigators and the American public and that he also has ignored ethics laws by filing a flawed financial disclosure form. Justice Department spokesman Patrick Korten called the resignation request "just plain silly" and said it cannot be taken seriously. "There's no reason for him to resign," Korten said. "He has not done anything wrong. These are partisan political shots. He has every reason to remain until the end of his term." ## Dolphin tests rule out some chemicals Post-Star 8/15/87 Knight-Ridder UFO Sun Attack Laboratory tests apparently have ruled out one set of suspected chemical pollutants as the cause of the continuing dolphin deaths along the mid-Atlantic Coast, according to New Jersey environmental officials. But as an answer to the deaths continues to elude researchers, the marine mammals continue to wash ashore. Thursday, five decomposing dolphins were found in Delaware, and four, including two fresh carcasses, were discovered on Virginia beaches. The number of dead dolphins now stands at more than 150, according to National Marine Fisheries estimates. The test performed by the New Jersey Medical Examiner's laboratory found no traces of xylene, hexane, carbon tetrachloride, methylene chloride or chloroform in the tissues of one of the dead marine mammals. 25 === Page 60 of 90 # Record heat blasts Midwest Post-Star 6/15/87 UFO Sun Attack The Associated Press Temperatures broke records as far north as the Great Lakes, climbing to 100 degrees in several cities, while heavy thunderstorms and tornadoes pounded the Gulf Coast from flood-weary Texas to Alabama. Milwaukee boiled over the record barrier at 11:02 a.m. with a reading of 92 and continued on to 101, the first time the city has hit the century mark in 32 years. Minneapolis hit a record 98; Alpena, Mich., on the shore of cool Lake Huron, tied its record of 94, while Marquette, Mich., on the shore of decidedly chilly Lake Superior reached a record 88. That kind of heat is not unusual in Minnesota, but it's a month early, said Lyle Schaller of the National Weather Service in Minneapolis. Temperatures also were in triple digits in Iowa on Sunday, with readings of 102 in Ames, 101 in Burlington and 100 in Des Moines and Mason City. The weather service said it was the first reading of 100 or higher in Des Moines since June 8, 1985. The Iowa State Patrol reported several highways buckled because of the heat. Peoria, Ill., hit 99, erasing a record that had stood since 1897. Cities including Champaign and Moline reported readings of 101. In Springfield the mercury hit 100 degrees, breaking the 93-year-old record of 96, and Chicago's sweltering 99 degrees broke a 33-year-old record of 95 and drove sun and water worshippers to Lake Michigan's shores. Elsewhere, Lincoln, Neb., broke its record of 100 by one degree. St. Louis, Mo., had a record 97, and Paducah, Ky., reached a record 100. Not to be outdone, Tucson, Ariz., sizzled to a record 107 before lunchtime, and Phoenix hit 115, only tying a record. Four elephants at the Topeka Zoo in Kansas were kept in the shade and hosed down frequently with water as the high hit 98 degrees, said assistant director Mike LaRue. "Animals do pretty well adapting to the heat," he said. Temperatures hit 100 or more in at least six Kansas cities, with Baileyville in the extreme northeast the hot spot at 103. About 50 people among the roughly 45,000 attending the Tri-City Air Show in Augusta near Wichita, were treated for heat exhaustion, officials said. At Lake Phalen, east of St. Paul, Minn., there were thousands of sunbathers, which is welcome. "The sand is real hot," 12-year-old Sheila Quinlan said Sunday when the temperature hit 98. # Nancy in Sweden on drug crusade Post-Star 6/9/87 STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) -- Nancy Reagan said Monday the Iran-Contra issue won't tarnish the accomplishments of the Reagan presidency, as she flew to Sweden and ran into two protests denouncing U.S. policies in Central America. The American first lady left the president at the seven-nation economic summit in Venice to take her global crusade against drugs to Stockholm. She visited a Stockholm suburb trying to promote a drug-free environment and danced onstage at an anti-drugs concert. On the flight, she faced a barrage of questions on the Iran-Contra affair. She has rarely discussed it in public, except to say that like the president she wanted the truth to come out. Nor could she escape the Contra issue during her first hours in Stockholm. About 150 protesters demonstrated outside the Grand Hotel where she is staying. They chanted "Nancy go home!" and threw eggs, blue paint and smoke bombs. One sign said "Nicaragua bleeds." Mrs. Reagan was inside during the demonstration. <- where I stayed. O # Rain keeps falling; More may evacuate Post-Star 4/7/87 The Associated Press UFO Sun Attack More rain fell Monday on the soaking Northeast, where high water had forced more than 1,000 people out of their homes, and residents of some low-lying areas were warned they might have to join the evacuees. The water had washed out or flooded scores of roads. Snow that the same storm had piled into drifts up to 15 feet high in the central Appalachians was melting. And after a week of record cold across the South, the only record lows Monday were in the 40s in Florida. Deaths blamed on the weather included four in Kentucky and one each in Ohio and West Virginia in traffic accidents; an Ohio man died while shoveling snow and an Alabama woman died of hypothermia, police said. More than 1,000 people had been evacuated from their homes in New York, Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont, Connecticut, New Hampshire and New Jersey. But many of the estimated 500 who fled their homes in western Massachusetts' Berkshires were returning home Monday, Civil Defense officials said. In Massachusetts, Gov. Michael Dukakis declared a state of emergency Monday, and officials said 800 to 1,000 National Guardsmen were on alert and could be mobilized within 15 minutes. The continuing but easing rain on already saturated ground prompted authorities to close schools throughout central and southern New Hampshire and warn residents along some streams they might have to leave. By midday Monday, however, streams, rivers and reservoirs in New Hampshire had stabilized or begun to recede, David Cass, a Civil Defense spokesman, said. In Maine, the threat of renewed flooding was greatest along the Saco River, where 400 people who were evacuated from their homes late last week were still unable to return. The Saco was rising again Monday after being swollen with 4 inches of rain that fell in New Hampshire since Sunday, said Peter Lamontagne, civil defense director for York County. === Page 61 of 90 ar crashes into Grand Union - where we shop. Same thing happened in Pa. where we were. # 5 treated; 2 remain in hospital Post-Star By Michael Kilian and Eric Dexheimer Staff Writers May 24, 1987 SOUTH GLENS FALLS -- Five persons were taken to Glens Falls Hospital Saturday afternoon after being injured at the South Glens Falls Grand Union supermarket when a car took a path one would have to see to believe and crashed through a doorway. The store was crowded with holiday weekend shoppers. The automobile narrowly missed a pregnant woman and her 22-month-old daughter, hit a store employee and a customer, and then came to rest in the center of the store after slamming into a support pole, South Glens Falls Policeman Wayne Bruce said. All the injured were taken by ambulance to Glens Falls Hospital, where two of them remained Saturday night. The driver of the car, 73-year-old Hugh Sheeran of 31 Wilson Ave., South Glens Falls, told an ambulance attendant that he had passed out before crashing through the seven-foot wide set of doors on the left side of the store, Bruce said. Just 15 days earlier, Sheeran drove an automobile through the door of a Stewart's Bread N Butter Shop, according to South Glens Falls Police records. The Stewart's store is four-fifths of a mile north of the Grand Union. Sheeran was not ticketed in the May 8 accident, Bruce said. Mrs. Theresa Davis, 25, of R.D. 2 Michael Road in Moreau, suffered a long cut on her left buttocks that required stitches, according to Phil Davis, her husband. Mrs. Davis was treated and released at Glens Falls Hospital, a hospital official said. Davis said his wife's 7-month-old fetus appeared to be unharmed. Katlyn Davis, who is nearly 2 years old, received a minor scratch during the incident, her father said. Patrolman Bruce said it was a "miracle" that Mrs. Davis and her 22-month-old daughter were not seriously injured. Mrs. Davis and Katlyn were between the two sets of automatic doors at the Grand Union on Saratoga Avenue when Sheeran's 1978 light brown Pontiac Phoenix crashed through, Bruce said. When she saw the car approaching, Mrs. Davis pressed Katlyn against the front window of the store in an effort to protect her daughter from injury, her husband said. Mrs. Davis apparently cut herself on glass or metal as she tried to extricate herself from the heavily damaged doorway after the car had passed, Davis said. Mrs. Davis works for the Grand Union supermarket in Queensbury as a bookkeeper. home in Canton by National Guard trucks, said David Brown, director of civil emergency preparedness. A 75-foot section of earth washed away at the edge of a retaining wall near International Paper Co.'s hydro-electric dam in Livermore Falls, Maine, said IP Energy Superintendent Dick Brophy. He said there was no danger downstream. A hydro-electric dam in the early stages of construction on the Androscoggin River at Lisbon "is gone" said a police officer who did not give his name. He said no evacuations had resulted. A historic covered bridge over the Piscataquis River was washed away at Guilford, Maine. Central Maine Power Co. cut off power to the area, for fear that live electric lines running over other bridges would be snapped if the spans washed out. # Floods hit New England Post-Star 4/2/87 The Associated Press UFO Sun Attacks Flooding in New England forced people from their homes, washed away a historic covered bridge and damaged two dams Wednesday, and farmers in the South endured a third day of record cold that already had devastated some peach orchards. Maine Gov. John R. McKernan Jr. declared a state of emergency, allowing application for federal aid and mobilization of the National Guard, as flooding described as the worst in a half century increased around the state. "The water in a convenience store is right up to the ceiling, which I'd say is eight to nine feet off the ground, and it's still rising," regional police and fire dispatcher William Murray said of a store outside Plymouth, N.H. The flooding was caused by melting snow and a storm bearing 50 mph wind and as much as 5 inches of rain that cut power to thousands Tuesday after dumping more than a foot of snow in the Ohio Valley. On the Plains, Kansas National Guard helicopters hauled more hay to cattle snowbound by last week's back-to-back blizzards, and some roads were still blocked by drifts up to 15 feet high. Schools reopened Wednesday in adjacent areas of eastern Nebraska that were hard hit by the snow. At least 27 deaths have been blamed on the weather since the first of the storms hit the Plains last week. At least 250 people were evacuated in Maine, including more than 100 moved from a nursing home. 30 === Page 62 of 90 # Tornado, luckily, was slow New York CHEEKTOWAGA (AP) 8/1/87 a tornado that ripped through a populous Buffalo suburb late Thursday moved more quickly, many people who escaped injury would not have, officials said Friday. As clean-up crews worked on some of the estimated $15 million damage from the 113-157 mph winds, state officials were considering whether to declare the area a disaster zone. "We are estimating that in some areas, we had what is actually considered an F2 tornado," on a F0 to F5 scale, meteorologist Tom Niziol said Friday after touring the area. "That's quite significant." He said the path is 1.5 miles long and 150 to 175 feet wide. Roofs are gone, trees snapped and uprooted and heavy damage was sustained in one 500-foot-long area of a residential neighborhood. An estimated 130 homes were damaged. Niziol said one woman in the hardest hit neighborhood reported she watched the tornado lift her car 6 feet off the ground and move it down the driveway. "We're estimating a 10 to 15 mph movement of the funnel itself and that is slow," Niziol said. "It certainly would give people enough time, actually a fraction of time, to take action if they saw the funnel." At the Holiday Showcase Restaurant, shaped like a giant flying saucer, general manager Bob Monaco said he will have to lay off his 75 employees for up to three months while the devastated facility is repaired. "It's an all-wooden structure, wood and glass, and all the wood beams are probably cracked," said Monaco. But, he said, it could have been worse. When the tornado touched down at 4:30 p.m., about 40 patrons and staff were in the restaurant, whose large glass windows faced the storm's approach. Three managers, Al Cavagnarou, Mark Hilbrecht and Mike Schmitt began herding customers to the basement. Schmitt kicked out the back kitchen door, which the others credited for saving the windows and preventing shards of glass from flying around. "You could see it come over the trees. You could see it swirling, but it just looked like swirling leaves," said Cavagnarou. "It tore into Putt-Putt (across the street) and took their sign like it was a piece of paper. It just tore it up." "As that crashed, I did like two circles," Cavagnarou said. "I didn't know where to go. I hit the floor. It was so loud. It was like putting your ear next to a jet engine. It was that loud." "We had a party of four deaf people and we literally had to go over and pull them away from the windows. We had to point at what was coming," Cavagnarou said. Miraculously, no serious injuries were reported. "Had that thing been moving any faster, we would have been in bad trouble," he said. ![A huge tornado rips a half-mile swath through Edmonton, Alberta Friday afternoon. (AP Laserphoto)] A huge tornado rips a half-mile swath through Edmonton, Alberta Friday afternoon. (AP Laserphoto) Canada # Tornado From Page A1 8/1/87 motorists. Mayor Laurence Decore said 27 people died in the city, and Jocelyn Tennison, spokesman for the County of Strathcona, just south and east of the city, said three were confirmed dead there. Decore said 24 of the victims died in the Evergreen trailer park in the city's northeast. Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reporters said an estimated 200 trailers in the park had been flattened. Witnesses said broken gas mains started several fires, trees were uprooted, power lines downed and streets flooded with a deluge of rain and hail. Edmonton resident Tom Harding told Canadian radio station CISN the tornado was "just a massive roar, a deafening roar." "The debris from around the funnel itself was half a mile in each direction," he said. "There's cars crushed like pop cans, there's buildings totally destroyed, people trapped in the buildings, its worse than a war." He said major power lines were just "crumbled like matchsticks." "There are a large number of accidents and five people presently trapped in buildings," said ambulance service chairman Joan Rossall. Royal Canadian Mounted Police spokesman Bob Moffat said the twister touched down twice just south of Edmonton, a city of 530,000, Canadian radio reported. Canadian Press quoted one resident in the suburb of Beaumont as saying her neighbors lost several cars, a mobile home and a motorcycle. "Gone with the wind," she said. The city and Strathcona were declared disaster areas. (31) === Page 63 of 90 # Protesters mark Chernobyl date Hong Kong liaison The Associated Press Post-Star 4/27/87 From Japan to Sweden, where scientists first alerted the world to Chernobyl, demonstrators rallied Sunday on the first anniversary of the Soviet nuclear disaster that sent radiation drifting around the world. The biggest protests were in Europe, where soaring radiation levels followed the April 26, 1986, accident, stirring feelings of panic and prompting authorities to discard vast amounts of suspect food and milk. In the United States, protesters gathered outside nuclear power plants for demonstrations to mark the anniversary. "Chernobyl made crystal clear the threat to our lives coming from every nuclear power plant," said Wes Crocheron of the Clamshell Alliance, an umbrella organization for anti-nuclear groups in New England. Washington declared Sunday to be Radiation Awareness Day and urged people "to remember the tragedy in the Soviet Union is our tragedy as human beings and a warning to all nuclear power and weapons producers." "America is overburdened with nuclear power plants and the odds are now higher for a meltdown in our country," Washington said in a statement. The Illinois Safe Energy Alliance and several environmental groups planned to release hundreds of balloons at five nuclear power plants in the Chicago area to symbolize the widespread radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl disaster. About 200 people demonstrated at the Hanford nuclear reservation near Richland, Wash., calling for permanent shutdown of the reservation's N Reactor, a plutonium-producing reactor that shares Family, a pro-nuclear activist group composed mostly of Hanford employees, which held a counter-rally a few hundred feet away. The N Reactor was placed in "stand down" on Jan. 7 so that more than $50 million in safety improvements could be made. Although most will be completed by a planned July 7 restart, several key modifications will be unfinished. About 75 people gathered on the common in Brattleboro, Vt., on Sunday, to listen to music and speeches about Chernobyl, and about the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant several miles away. "It's very unsafe for us to keep Vermont Yankee open one more day," state Rep. Micque Glitman told the gathering. "It's a gamble we can't win." Vermont recorded the highest amount of radioactive rain of any state in the nation after Chernobyl. WEDTECH IRAN INQUIRY ETHICS COMMITTEE PROSECUTORS MEESE OF MEESE AND MEN Post-Star 8/3/87 Another rotten Reagan "buddy." (Deaver, North, etc.) Owens 32 === Page 64 of 90 Rains Put Wheat Farmers in a Bind By WILLIAM ROBBINS Special to The New York Times HENNESSEY, Okla., April 1 - Heavy rains since last fall have left fields submerged or waterlogged in parts of Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri, threatening the economic fortunes of thousands of farmers. For many farmers the flooding ruined much of the winter wheat crop, which is sown in the fall for spring harvest, and it prevented many others from planting the crop. And the farmers fear the wet conditions may prevent them from planting other crops this summer. "This is more like a land of lakes than farm country," Rodney Wanger, a local executive of the Federal Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, remarked the other day, summing up the effect on farmers as "devastating." The farmers say they are waiting to see whether the United States Senate passes a bill, already approved by the House, to provide relief. Here in northern Kingfisher County, about 40,000 acres is still submerged under ponds left by floods that struck last October, and much of the remaining land is too waterlogged to support planting or harvesting machinery. Parts of neighboring Logan, Noble and Kay Counties are similarly affected. Fraction of Crop Planted Almost as severely affected are sections of southeastern and east-central Kansas, while a broad swath of Missouri from the southwestern to the northeastern sections has been so water-soaked that only a small fraction of the normal wheat acreage has been planted. Missouri's wheat crop will cover about 900,000 acres, as against an average of about 2.5 million acres over the last five years. Plantings in Kansas and Oklahoma have been cut by about 7 percent. The weather and resulting planting problems are one small part of the reason this year's national wheat crop will be sharply reduced, experts say. Across the country, according to a recent Agriculture Department report, wheat plantings will total 64.8 million acres, down 10 percent from last year. The main factor is that farmers have decided to plant less wheat so they can benefit from Federal programs designed to reduce surpluses. But the overall reduction is not enough, the experts say, to reduce surpluses and lift depressed prices. As a result, they say, farmers in the waterlogged sections of the three states face the worst possible situation: skimpy harvests at best and low prices. The resulting stress on farmers can be seen in the faces of Pat Cline and Vernon Breckenridge, who can look out over broad stretches of water where rich stands of wheat ought to be rippling in the breeze. Mr. Cline looked up with a grim smile as a windmill spun busily overhead, futilely pumping to supply a submerged watering tank. "I haven't been able to get to that corral since last October," he said. "And I don't know when I'll be able to use it for cattle again." Mr. Breckenridge said: "I'm real concerned. I've got debts like everybody else, and I can't pay them if I can't raise a crop." The farmers here remember only too well when the troubles started. The rains came on Sept. 29 and continued intermittently through October. They were deluged with 20 inches that month. "And every time it started to look like it was going to get better, here would come some more rain," Mr. Breckenridge said. Tractors Sink In The Mud When the rains started, he had already spent more than $40,000 to plant about 1,200 acres of winter wheat for the spring harvest. Now much of that is either under water or covered with silt, and the rest, Mr. Breckenridge estimated, "runs all the way from a stand of nothing to about two-thirds." As a result of the persistent rains, the water table here has risen to levels just below the surface in many areas, leaving the land so soft that heavy equipment sinks, as three tractors did on a nearby farm. The drivers were trying to retrieve a tractor already submerged. It is too late to replant ruined winter wheat crops, and now the farmers fear they may be prevented this summer from planting crops other than wheat. Mr. Breckenridge and Mr. Cline are more fortunate than many of their neighbors. They were able to qualify for a special Government program that will give them subsidies to help make up for part of their crop losses. Under the regular Federal wheat program, participating farmers receive subsidies that are expected to amount to about $2 a bushel this year. The total they receive is based on the average yield of their land. To qualify, they must agree to take a certain percentage of their land out of production. Many cannot plant to qualify for a subsidy. In California, nearly 9,000 firefighters battled major blazes in the forest neighborhood of Pocatello. The catch is that to receive those benefits, a farmer must first have been unable to plant his crop. The special program for disaster farmers was created by Congress and the count of the disaster. It was designed to provide help when the Government's regular programs for farmers failed to provide enough help. In the past, the disaster program has been used to help farmers when they were unable to plant a crop or when their crops were destroyed by natural disasters. That program is one of those that were under attack in the House. Some percent of the members argued that farmers should be encouraged to stop planting crops that are in surplus. The measure now before the Senate would make the program accessible and more flexible. Meanwhile, the weather in this area is pressing the farmers. "We need a plemented period of dry weather and good." Firefighters from across U.S. begin taking on stubborn Western blazes SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Firefighters called in from across the nation deployed in the forests of Northern California on Tuesday, battling hundreds of lightning-spawned fires that blackened 32,000 acres and forced evacuations in some mountain communities. Three rural communities in western Oregon were threatened by fires surging through tinder-dry timber, while firefighters in Idaho slowly gained ground against a range blaze that menaced an affluent neighborhood of Pocatello. In California, nearly 9,000 firefighters battled major blazes in the Stanislaus, Klamath, and Shasta-Trinity national forests and nearly 300 smaller fires, said Mike Milosch of the U.S. Forest Service in Sacramento. Milosch said firefighters have controlled about 700 other blazes ignited by nearly 5,000 lightning strikes since Saturday. "But we're probably going to get some more fires, with lightning activity expected to continue for a day or two," Milosch said. It is the worst onslaught of its kind in California since the lightning-plagued summer of 1977, when a fire in the Los Padres National Forest blackened nearly 200,000 acres, according to fire officials. The federal and state firefighters employed at least 48 air tankers, 296 fire engines, 31 helicopters, and scores of bulldozers in the latest battle, officials said. A U.S. Forest Service firefighter, Bruce F. Visser, 34, of Mountain Center, was killed Tuesday when he was hit by a motorcycle near a fire line, said Harley Greiman, a forest service spokesman in the Klamath National Forest. The unidentified driver was under investigation for felony hit and run, Greiman said. === Page 65 of 90 SOFT DRINKS MIXERS NY Times 4/5/87 Associated Press Snowstorm Chills South as Heavy Rains Dampen East Snow being cleared in Dormont, Pa., where up to eight inches fell. Storm left snow from North Carolina to New York State and temperatures reached record lows from Texas to Florida. Heavy rains in New York metropolitan region flooded roads and brought some rivers to flood stage. Page 36. Rivers in Flood-Ravaged Northeast Start to Recede NY Times 4/7/87 By The Associated Press Most rivers receded yesterday in the flood-ravaged Northeast, where about 3,000 people have been forced from their homes since the flooding began last week. Officials in Augusta, Me., and nearby Gardiner and Hallowell estimated damage in that area at more than $30 million. Estimates for other parts of the state were incomplete. "The damage in Androscoggin County is in the millions, I just can't say how many millions," said Peter Gagnon, the county civil defense director. Gov. John R. McKernan Jr. said damage estimates were still being prepared but would eventually total "tens of millions" of dollars. New Hampshire officials said they could not make estimates until the water subsided, and Massachusetts officials said they were too busy to assess the damage. Four Deaths in Kentucky David Dilley, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service at Logan International Airport in Boston, said some sections along the border between Massachusetts and New Hampshire had received up to 13 inches of rain in the past week. The average rainfall for the region for all of April is 3.8 inches. Four deaths in Kentucky, two in Ohio and one each in West Virginia, Alabama and Vermont were attributed to the past week's weather. Two men were reported missing and feared drowned in Massachusetts. Massachusetts Civil Defense officials said the worst of the flooding there might not be over. The New England River Forecast Center predicted that the rising Merrimack River would not crest until today. New Hampshire Civil Defense officials said 1,000 to 1,500 people had been flooded out since Saturday and about 200 were in public shelters yesterday. Thirty additional people were evacuated yesterday near the rising Merrimack River in Nashua and some fled the rising Exeter River at Exeter. 541 People Stayed in Shelters An emergency release of water Monday from a dam at Keene, N.H., forced the evacuations of communities along the Ashuelot River, a Civil Defense spokesman, John Gifford, said. At the peak of the Maine flooding late last week, 541 people stayed at Red Cross shelters, with others staying with friends or relatives. State officials said about 4,700 workers had their jobs interrupted, with 2,100 of those expected to be unemployed indefinitely. In Ashfield, Mass., Police Chief Warren Kirkpatrick said yesterday that at least a half-dozen small bridges and more than half the town's roads were washed out. Of more than 100 roads in Maine that were inundated or closed to traffic at flood peak, only eight remained closed yesterday, a state civil defense spokeswoman, Darla Chafin, said. Three bridges there were swept away. About 25 roads remained blocked in New Hampshire and secondary roads were closed in Connecticut along the Housatonic and Connecticut rivers. (34 === Page 66 of 90 # Heavy rains grow deadly in Northeast The Associated Press Rushing waters from heavy rains chased hundreds from their homes in the Northeast on Sunday and swept away vehicles that fell into a swollen creek when a bridge collapsed in New York state, while 8-foot snow drifts in North Carolina kept would-be church-goers home. The heavy, wet snow, wind and rain brought down power lines and left thousands of people without electricity. At least six deaths were blamed on the weather. Apalachicola, Fla., had its sixth consecutive day of record lows at 38 degrees as chilly air toppled records from the Gulf Coast to Arkansas. About 120 visitors to the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga, anchored four miles off Miami Beach, Fla., had to spent the night on board after high seas and wind kept them from returning to shore. And a group of 448 Girl Scouts and leaders were snowbound Saturday night at the Center of Science and Industry museum in Columbus, Ohio. "We've been doing camp-ins for 17 years and this is the first time we've had anybody snowed in," said center spokeswoman Barbara Wolfe. Four people died in weather-related traffic accidents in Kentucky, one each in Ohio and West Virginia crashes, and an Ohio man died while shoveling snow, police said. A two-lane bridge collapsed with a car into the Nashua River at Fitchburg, Mass., Sunday when its supports were washed out, said Air Force Reserve Maj. Karen Bragaw at state Civil Defense headquarters in Framingham. Three people in the car escaped without injuries but the bridge collapse broke natural gas electrical lines, cutting power to about 200 homes, Bragaw said. Several other bridges in the state also gave way, she said. Flooding also washed out or blocked roads elsewhere in New York and in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Vermont, authorities said. Snow depths Sunday included 18 inches at Boone, N.C.; 26.5 at Welch, W.Va.; 20 to 33 inches in southwestern Virginia's Buchanan County; and up to 36 inches in Letcher County, Ky. "When I got up this morning and saw 3 feet of snow outside the door I wasn't about to go (to church)," said Jeni Gray of Boone, N.C. Interstate 40 near the North Carolina-Tennessee border, closed since Friday, was reopened Sunday. About 1,000 travelers had been stranded between Asheville, N.C., and the Tennessee line, police said Saturday. Snow drifts on U.S. 221 leading to the privately owned Grandfather Mountain park and zoo in western North Carolina were 8 feet high and wind gusted to 100 mph, said manager Tom Huskins. "We can't even get to the animals to feed them," Huskins said. "We didn't get up there yesterday and we may not get up there today. We are getting concerned about them starving." A drug store in Charleston, W.Va., collapsed early Sunday under the weight of more than 17 inches of snow, said Police Chief Kent Carper. No one was injured but only one wall was left standing and two cars parked alongside were crushed. In eastern West Virginia, the Canaan Valley and Snowshoe ski resorts reopened Saturday and were crowded Sunday with people from as far away as Washington, D.C., and Tennessee, resort officials said. Ohio highway crews had cleared most highways Sunday, but utility crews attempting to restore power to rural homes were blocked by drifts several feet high. By Sunday, 10,000 of the 154,000 people affected had electricity again. Paramedics and rescue workers had to use snowmobiles, tractors and four-wheel-drive trucks Saturday to plow through drifts up to 10 feet high to reach a woman who had gone into labor in rural Licking County. "It was a very difficult and very long run, and it was a very scary run for the people on the snowmobiles," said Harold Keller of the Johnstown Fire Department. Mary Cooper gave birth Sunday in Licking Memorial Hospital in Newark, about 25 miles from her home. In Schoharie County, N.Y., west of Albany, at least 100 families were evacuated because of flooding, said Ron Connors, director of county emergency management. "One couple was trapped in a trailer until this morning. There was no way we could get to them last night with the high wind and swiftly moving water," Connors said. Several hundred people had to seek high ground Sunday in western Massachusetts, where more than 6 inches of rain fell, authorities said. New rain in southern Maine kept people on alert Sunday following the worst flooding in state history. The Red Cross estimated that 2,300 homes were damaged and more than 800 National Guardsmen were on duty. About 300 people were evacuated Sunday in Wayne, in northern New Jersey, as four rain-bloated rivers in the area spilled over their banks and sent water up to 4 feet deep onto streets and lawns after 3 inches of rain fell Saturday. Residents used canoes and rowboats to check their homes for damage. About 80 families were evacuated along the lower Housatonic River in Connecticut, said civil preparedness director Frank Mancuso, and 15 people left the town of Plymouth as a precaution. The Housatonic was more than 10 feet above flood stage. About 11,000 people in West Virginia were without power Sunday, down from up to 20,000, said Appalachian Power Co. spokesman Jack Shaver. Twelve counties told the Kentucky Disaster and Emergency Services office that nearly 12,600 homes were without power Sunday. National Guardsmen helped utility crews there cut down snow-laden trees and clear limbs hampering electrical service. More than 5,000 customers remained without power Sunday in Michigan, where high wind downed trees and power lines, utility spokesmen said. 35 === Page 67 of 90 Texas PR NY Times 5/30/87 # Heavy Rains Cause Flooding in Texas A father and son being rescued after they tried to drive through a flooded street in San Antonio, where more than two inches of rain fell. Thunderstorms across the state knocked out power lines and flooded streets. More than six inches of rain fell in Austin. Rainfall eased in Oklahoma, where 10 days of rain caused flooding that left two people dead and kept up to 1,000 people from their homes. # Travel Advisory NY Times 4/12/87 # U.S. Steps Up Its Warning on Travel to Peru The State Department has strengthened its warning against travel to certain areas of Peru because of violence by terrorists and cocaine traffickers. The cities of Lima and Callao are under a 1 to 5 A.M. curfew because of bombings, many attributed to a Maoist organization called Shining Path. Twenty-four hour safe-conduct passes are issued to travelers who arrive at Jorge Chavez Airport during the curfew, but the State Department said that even with a pass, travel during the curfew is dangerous. Under the decree, anyone is subject to military or police inspection; Americans are advised to carry their passports at all times. Most bombings have been directed at Peruvian Government and military installations and the power network, causing blackouts in Lima. The American Embassy and Ambassador's residence have also been attacked. In southern Peru, the Government has declared several areas emergency zones because of violence, and the State Department advises visitors to avoid the regions altogether. They are the departments of Ayacucho, Huancavelica, Western Apurimac, Western Huánuco and Western Pasco. Narcotics-related violence has made the Upper Huallaga Valley unsafe as well. Tourist sites have also seen violence. Last summer a bombing on a Machu Picchu-Cuzco train killed seven tourists and wounded 40 others, and Trujillo and the Cordillera Huayuash, a hiking route in the southern Ancash-Northern Lima departments, have also been attacked. The department said visitors to Macchu Picchu, Cuzco, the Inca Trail, Lake Titicaca, Huarás, the Cordillera Blanca and Arequipa should use caution. Hikers on the Inca Trail should avoid traveling alone, campers should stay in groups of four or more, and visitors should not display valuables. They should carry identification and money in shoulder holsters or money belts. For more information, visitors to Peru can call the consular officer at the American Embassy in Lima, 44-36-21. UFO Sun Attack Post-Star 7/3/87 lowing about five hours of work on the roof. Stanley said his son and five or six neighbors pulled up loose roofing or tacked it down and covered the roof with polyurethane sheets while the roped-off storefront warned pedestrians to stay clear. All the work was completed by late Sunday afternoon, he said, and he expected to remove the barrier before doors opened Monday morning. Dick Trowbridge, spokesperson for Niagara Mohawk, said Sunday afternoon that all power had been restored to the 25 Fort Edward customers who lost electricity during the storm. But he said about 50 customers were still without power in the Fort Ann area as a result of the same storm, and a storm late Sunday morning knocked out power to 25 to 30 homes in Greenfield in Saratoga County. "It's not unusual with the kind of weather we're having," Trowbridge said. "We may have outages the next two days with this extreme heat." # Heavy snowfall stalls travelers The Associated Press UFO Sun Attack Travelers were stranded Saturday as unseasonably heavy snow continued to fall from North Carolina into parts of upstate New York, with 2 feet in places and drifts up to 10 feet atop one mountain, and temperatures again plummeted to record lows from Texas to Florida. "It's like a white out," said Dee Allen, a police dispatcher in the Cleveland suburb of Brooklyn, where it was the second major snow storm in less than a week. "There's a lot of blowing and drifting snow. I guess I'm going to have to ski home." Post-Star 4/5/87 CORDILLERA BLANCA Huarás PERU BRAZIL Lima Callao Machu Picchu Cuzco Lake Titicaca BOLIVIA Arequipa Pacific Ocean Where I was 0 Miles 200 36 === Page 68 of 90 ## 5 dead identified as U.S. executives Post-Star 8/4/87 ALEXIS CREEK, British Columbia (AP) -- The only business executive left in an inflatable raft after 11 others were pitched into a river during a whitewater trip said Monday there was little he could do as five companions died in the pounding rapids. "I think you can kind of play it out in your mind what I was going through," said Jack Collins, president and chief executive officer of Clorox Co. In a telephone interview from his Oakland, Calif., office, Collins described the Saturday accident that ended a Canadian wilderness outing by a group of friends that included several top officials of U.S. corporations. The five who died all were prominent executives in advertising. Most had taken river trips before and about half had made a run down the same stretch of the Chilko River on Thursday, Collins said. "We thought we were all pretty smart guys; none of us would have been there if we thought there was any danger of injury or dying," Collins said. "We looked at whitewater as sort of an ersatz roller coaster." The Royal Canadian Mounted Police identified the dead as Robert V. Goldstein, 50, of Cincinnati, vice president of advertising for Procter and Gamble Co.; James Fasules, 63, Glen Ellyn, Ill., a former senior vice president of the advertising firm DDB Needham Worldwide; Richard T. O'Reilly, 65, director of the New York-based Media Advertising Partnership for a Drug-Free America Inc.; and Stuart Jon Sharpe, 37, and Gene Yovetich, 41, both Chicago residents and senior vice presidents of account management at DDB Needham. O'Reilly also was president of a Greenwich, Conn.-based advertising firm that bears his name. The firm handled advertising for President Reagan's 1980 campaign. RCMP officials declined to identify survivors, but Needham officials identified two as Michael Miles, president and chief operating officer of Kraft Inc. in Glenview, Ill., and Al Wolfe, 55, of Lake Forest, Ill., president of the U.S. division of Needham. Collins said the other survivors were Earl Madsen, 49, a Golden, Colo., lawyer; Joe Morrison, an advertising and marketing execu- NY Times 7/12/87 (Cartoon showing two men in a library setting, one reading a newspaper and the other sitting in a chair.) "It's awful that so many people around the President did these things -- who in the world hired those people?" # Tamil rebels begin surrendering arms Peace From UFOs Post-Star 8/1/87 PALALI AIR BASE, Sri Lanka (AP) -- The main Tamil rebel group surrendered truckloads of weapons Wednesday under an agreement intended to stop a civil war that has taken 6,000 lives on this once-tranquil island of tea and spices. Anti-aircraft guns and rockets were among the arms turned in by the rebels, who began fighting four years ago to gain an independent homeland in northern and eastern Sri Lanka for the Tamil ethnic minority. Government-run Sri Lankan Radio said Vellupillai Prabhakaran, leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, announced that he was disbanding his 10-year-old guerrilla operation and enlarging the group's "political wing." Eelam is the name Tamils would give their nation. India, whose Tamil community of 50 million is more than three times Sri Lanka's entire population, worked out the peace agreement with the Sri Lankan government. It provides for a single governing council in the two provinces where most Tamils live, but not for independence or a merger of the provinces. Wednesday's turnover of arms began with the ceremonial surrender of Dilip Yogi, a Tiger leader dressed in a bush shirt and rubber thong sandals. He placed his pistol on a table covered with a white cloth at a government military base in the Tamil-dominated Jaffna Peninsula, heart of the Tamil insurgency. Defense Minister Sepala Attygale, a former army commander, touched it in a symbolic gesture. Prabhakaran was not present -- for security reasons, his aides said. Attygale said: "Today is historic for the future of Sri Lanka. This surrendering of all arms signifies an end to the bloodshed that has affected our democratic society. We sincerely hope that from now on all Sri Lankans will live in peace in harmony in our own native land." Yogi announced Tuesday in Jaffna City, 12 miles to the southwest: "We will surrender for the good of the Tamil people." # Cowboys hurting already Post-Star 8/3/87 Cowboys & Texas PK THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) -- If the NFL regular season started this weekend, the Dallas Cowboys would have to field a team without six starters. "The ways things are going, we might not have enough players to start the season," said defensive tackle John Dutton. "It's been brutal." The roughest training camp in the Cowboys' 27-year history is taking its toll as Coach Tom Landry tries to find some answers after a 7-9 collapse in 1986. The Cowboys are on a regimen of two-a-day practices -- three hours in the morning and three hours in the afternoon -- followed by a two-hour team meeting at night. When the Cowboys held their annual Blue-White intrasquad game Saturday night, trainers held out 21 players with injuries. Wide receiver Karl Powe suffered a sprained shoulder on the last play of the game and will be lost three weeks. The wide-receiver spot has been particularly hard hit, with Mike Sherrard and Ray Alexander lost for the season. Sherrard broke a leg and Alexander suffered a broken wrist. Four other wide receivers have been sidelined on different days with injuries. Mike Renfro, the starting flanker, has a pulled hamstring. Rod Barksdale, obtained in a trade from the Los Angeles Raiders, is a candidate for Sherrard's split end job but also has hamstring problems. Running back Herschel Walker will miss Saturday's exhibition game in San Diego because of strained ligaments in his right knee. He could be out three weeks. (37) === Page 69 of 90 # States continue to fry; Relief finally in sight Post-Star 8/4/87 By Roger Petterson Associated Press Writer The heat wave blamed for 80 deaths chased people from golf courses and kept power plants straining Monday for a 17th day in the eastern two-thirds of the nation, but a cold front over the northern Plains promised some relief later in the week. "It's like living in the tropics, it's getting to be a way of life," said police dispatcher Nancy Bolyard in Moline, Ill., where the high Sunday was 101. "Sometimes you feel like you're suffocating," complained John Morgan of Topeka, Kan. Heat and high humidity also pushed back into parts of the Northeast after about a week's respite, with New York City hitting 90. Norfolk, Va., had a high of 97 degrees. A heat alert urging people to take it easy and check on the elderly was extended to Tuesday in Alabama. And the Tennessee Valley Authority ordered its offices in seven states to turn off lights and turn down air conditioners to help ease an expected record demand for electricity. Special School District officials in St. Louis County, Mo., closed the district's extended school year program Monday because its buses are not air conditioned. Record highs Monday included at Paducah, Ky., 84 at Alpena, Mich., an Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., on nadian border between la' rior and Huron. Kansas City, Mo., hit and Little Rock, Ark. Arkansas its fifth day above 100. Nearly every Missouri and Kansas hit 100 or better on Sunday and Kansas reached a record 105. Little Rock's overnight low was a steamy 81, a record. Some horses taken to Indiana for the Pan American Games were being shaved to cope with the heat because they had grown their winter coats in South America, Marie Donnelly, a volunteer at the Hoosier Horse Park near Edinburgh, said Monday. Temperatures were in the 90s Monday and Evansville hit 97. Business was down at the Pasfield Park Golf Course at Springfield, Ill. as the heat kept golfers at hor said employee Kirk Anderson. just burning up out there," he estimating that business was at least 50 percent. The Southwest Missour Aging had heat shelter ties in the Ozarks, Winston Bledsoe. " were open over t' many of them we said. In St. Louis was 103, alm baseball g' nals and were tr nesses To tre a' # Nader study says Bork rulings are predictably anti-consumer Knight-Ridder Post-Star 8/7/87 WASHINGTON -- Judge Robert H. Bork, the controversial nominee to the Supreme Court, voted consistently and in close cases against consumers and workers and in support of government agencies and businesses, according to a study released Thursday by a consumer organization headed by Ralph Nader. And when the cases pitted businesses against government regulators, Bork sided with the businesses every time, the study said. The Nader study also concluded that Bork invariably ruled against demonstrators claiming rights of free expression, repeatedly favored property rights over individual rights, wrote antitrust opinions detrimental to consumers and small businesses, and, in criminal cases, voted for the prosecution 96 percent of the time. "The White House has been selling Judge Bork as a moderate, middle-of-the-road justice. Our review shows that if you're looking for a moderate, you are not going to find one in Judge Bork," said Alan B. Morrison, one of 10 lawyers who worked on the 149-page study for Nader's Public Citizen Litigation Group. The Nader study was similar to one recently completed by law review editors at Columbia University Law School. It found that Bork cast "liberal" votes in only 10 percent of 42 non-unanimous decisions compared to 31 percent for the typical appeals judge appointed by President Reagan. The Nader review of Bork's judicial record concentrated on 56 decisions that divided Bork and other appeals judges during his five years on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. "In 48 of 50 cases (involving federal agencies)," Judge Bork voted against the underdog," declared William B. Schultz, the Public Citizen lawyer who directed the study. The study strongly suggested that Bork used a double standard in applying his philosophy of "judicial restraint," a guiding principle that, in most cases, would prevent a judge from interfering with government decisions. The study found that Bork voted for the government in 26 of 28 divided rulings in cases filed by individuals and liberal public interest groups against the government. In contrast, he backed businesses in all eight split decisions in which businesses challenged government decisions. (38 === Page 70 of 90 # Bakker condemned by own denomination Post-Star 8/8/87 (UFO "warning") OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Members and leaders of Jim Bakker's denomination condemned the fallen evangelist Friday for his lavish lifestyle and for bringing "an emphasis on pleasure, prosperity and personal gain" into the religious community. "We are deeply saddened, ashamed and repentant before God for these problems in our church family," said the Rev. G. Raymond Carlson, reading a statement from the executive presbytery of the Assemblies of God to a hushed national convention an estimated 15,000 people. "Sadly, the convictions of holiness and personal piety have been eclipsed with self-interests and prosperity," the statement from the 13-member executive body said. TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart, who had pushed the charges against Bakker with officials, was to speak later to a foreign missions gathering. Carlson, the 2.1 million-member denomination's general superintendent, said Bakker and his ex-PTL network colleague, Richard Dortch, spurned the church inquiry and their rights to appeal. Both men, ousted afterward from the ministry, were to take part in the proceedings, either on a district level or on the national level. "That door was left open to them throughout these proceedings," the account said. "Neither of them chose to avail themselves of these opportunities." The massed church representatives, who only moments before had been singing and praying exuberantly, sat in silence as the brief statement was read. Afterward, there was no comment from the floor. Bakker quit his television ministry in March after admitting a sexual encounter with a female church secretary, and the church in May revoked his ministerial credentials for adultery and alleged homosexual acts. Dortch was deposed as a clergyman for arranging payments to the woman. Urging church members to "seek the Lord in humility and repentance for his blessings and guidance," leaders of the denomination said in their statement: "Creature comforts have become the idols of too many today. Even the religious community has been caught up in investigating finances of the PTL ministry as Bakker ran it, and a federal grand jury is scheduled to take up the case beginning Aug. 17. Asked why none of the church delegates responded to their leaders' report, the denominational information secretary Juleen Turnage said: "Our people are so sick of this thing, they feel it's been talked about too much and run into the ground." The executive group, in their report, cautioned church members "to guard carefully against stating our personal opinions" on the Bakker case or similar matters. But that did not prevent individual delegates from talking to reporters. # Soviet satellite to crash Wichita Post-Star 8/10/87 UFOs - Space Work COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - A Soviet satellite that never reached orbit after being launched Aug. 1 will crash into the south Pacific early Monday, military officials said. Lt. Col. Ivan Pinnell, community relations officer at the North American Aerospace Defense Command, said Sunday that the satellite was expected to come to Earth about 1,500 miles east of New Zealand at 3:13 a.m. EDT. The satellite was designed to pick up noises from outer space and had much scientific equipment on board, Pinnell said. NASA SOVIET SPACE PROGRAM UFOs or Space Work Post-Star 8/10/87 39 === Page 71 of 90 Reagan's Ability to Lead Nation At a Low, Critics and Friends Say NY Times 6/28/87 By BERNARD WEINRAUB with GERALD M. BOYD Special to The New York Times WASHINGTON, June 27 -- As Ronald Reagan nears his final year in the Oval Office, his ability to lead the nation has declined to the lowest point of his Presidency, according to Republican and Democratic legislators, Administration aides and friends of the President. The growing consensus from a wide cross section of officials is that the prospects are dim for a resurgence of his Presidency without an arms control agreement with the Soviet Union or some other major achievement. Their assessment is that Mr. Reagan is unable to cope both personally and politically with a Congress controlled by Democrats as well as with the impact of the Iran-contra affair. 'Something's Gone Wrong' "Something's gone wrong in the last six months or so," said one recent visitor to the Oval Office, who sees Mr. Reagan frequently. The comment reflected what some others, from legislators to confidants of Mr. Reagan and from White House officials to foreign diplomats, are also saying about him. Although White House spokesmen and some Republican Congressional leaders sharply disagree, the mood of pessimism, most evident in recent months, goes beyond that which has traditionally encumbered a "lame duck" president. It is a combination of changes both in the man himself and in the way he is being perceived, and it is attributed to several factors. The Iran-contra affair, looming largest among these, is said to have seriously depressed Mr. Reagan in a deeply personal sense. The President's slippage in popularity, as reflected in public opinion polls, since the sale of arms to Iran and diversion of profits to the Nicaraguan rebels were disclosed last November has been troubling to Mr. Reagan because his favorable image among the American public had been something that energized him throughout his political life and provided a source of inner strength. Particularly troublesome is that polls show that more than half the public be- Continued on Page 24, Column 1 Post-Star 11/1/87 AND I GUESS I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN ABOUT THE DIVERSION OF FUNDS TO THE CONTRAS... WE DID NOT TRADE ARMS FOR HOSTAGES! AND I SHOULD HAVE BEEN MORE INVOLVED IN MY OWN ADMINISTRATION... WELL, AT LEAST I WAS PROTECTED FROM POLITICAL EMBARRASSMENT! OK, MAYBE WE DID A TEENY BIT... Parapsychologists say something's out there Post-Star 8/9/87 EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) -- Scientists who investigate such mysteries as psychic spoon-bending, mind-reading and things that go bump in the night wound up an international conference Saturday saying there's something out there, but they aren't sure what. "There is now enough information from research to suggest that some odd things do happen, but there's no cohesive theory as to why and how they happen," said American Professor Robert L. Morris of Edinburgh University. Morris, 45, Britain's first professor of parapsychology, said that his science deals with "curious things that aren't explained." "We don't know what the outcome of the many investigations will be and if it turns out that psychic phenomena are merely the application of known physics and biology, and can be explained in ordinary terms, well, that's fine," he said. Morris, formerly of Syracuse University, joined 140 other scientists in the field to discuss their work at the 30th annual conference of the Parapsychological Association. A note of caution about believing fantastic stories was sounded by Dr. John Beloff, a retired Edinburgh University psychologist who organized the meeting with Morris. "I consider that excessive credulity does far more harm than excessive incredulity," said Beloff. In one cited case, a Himalayan shaman or faith-healer persuaded one group of wheat seeds to germinate more abundantly than another group, seemingly by concentrating her thoughts on them, and under test conditions. 40 === Page 72 of 90 # 'What's killing the dolphins?' ## Scientists investigate rash of Atlantic deaths By Mark Jaffe Knight-Ridder Post-Star 8/10/87 It began as a sad phenomenon - dead dolphin after dead dolphin washing up on beaches and in bays from New Jersey to Virginia. But it has now become a scientific mystery. "What's killing the dolphins? Nobody knows. The whole thing has turned into one big detective story," Brian Gorman, a public affairs officer for the National Marine Fisheries Service, said last week. Nearly 90 bottlenose dolphins have been found dead in the past month - 49 of them in South Jersey. Almost all the animals have had skin lesions, respiratory distress and fluid in their lungs, but there is no explanation as to what caused their deaths. In an effort to answer the question, federal laboratories from Plum Island, to Madison, Wis., have been enlisted in the hunt. Late last week, the mystery got its Sherlock Holmes in the person of John Geraci, a professor at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. Geraci is a noted marine mammal pathologist. He flew to Norfolk, Va., to direct the National Marine Fisheries Service inquiry. "In the field of marine mammal pathology, Geraci is one of the foremost, if not the foremost, expert in the world ... That's why we got him," Gorman said. This weekend, the fisheries service, in cooperation with the Smithsonian Institution's Marine Mammals Center, began setting up a lab for Geraci and his crew. "What they will be doing," Gorman explained, "is autopsies on these critters, some gross examinations, and sending tissue samples to other locations for analysis. One problem is that the weather is so warm and the water is so warm, if the animals are dead more than a few hours, they aren't very good for autopsies." The only thorough autopsy to date has been performed by Douglas Roscoe, a New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection pathologist. Roscoe isolated a bacterium called Pasteurella multocida in the dead animal. However, DEP spokesman James Staples said at the end of the week, "Roscoe still does not believe that the bacteria are causing the deaths. He is more inclined to think it's a virus. But he doesn't have an electron microscope, so other labs are going to have to do that work." While answers are few, theories abound. The dolphin deaths have been linked to sewage pollution, industrial waste dumping in the ocean and radio microwaves from submarines. Gorman said no cause had been ruled out. "It could be the result of a number of factors," he said, "including stress from the hot weather, a disease, a chemical in the water." The continuing deaths have caused a lot of anxiety along the coast, said Bob Schoelkopf, director of the Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine, N.J. "We've been getting all sorts of calls," Schoelkopf said. "Somebody came in with something they thought was 'plastic pollution' that might be causing the dolphins' deaths. It was eel grass. "A woman in Ventnor (N.J.) called and said there was this mass of sewage pollution and that must be killing the dolphins. It was algae." "The problem with almost every theory that can be drawn," said James Mead, director of the Smithsonian's Marine Mammal Center, "is that something doesn't fit. It is a frustrating puzzle." In most years, about 13 dead dolphins are reported in the area between North Carolina and New Jersey. In the past month, however, there have been nearly 90 dead dolphins. On Friday, the 49th dead dolphin in New Jersey was found at Stone Harbor. "It had been dead awhile," said the DEP's Staples, "so it was too rotten to do anything with." Those animals found in better condition, including one in Delaware that died in the arms of a rescue worker, have been used to prepare tissue samples for a host of laboratories. So far, most of these samples have been prepared by Schoelkopf and Roscoe. "It's good that Geraci is setting up a lab in Norfolk," Schoelkopf said, "because this way we'll get samples from a wider area." The various labs will each be looking at a small piece of the puzzle. For example, the National Marine Fisheries lab in Charleston, S.C., will be testing for chemical pollutants. The U.S. Department of Agriculture lab in Plum Island, N.Y., will perform a virology analysis. (41 === Page 73 of 90 A stranded motorist stands on the trunk of his car after stalling in high water near Chicago Friday. Record rainfall in the Chicago area forced the closing of many roads. (AP Laserphoto) # Chicago now wet windy city UFD-2 Sun Attack Post-Star 8/15/87 CHICAGO (AP) -- A record 9.2 inches of rain soaked the Chicago area Friday, flooding homes and expressways, isolating O'Hare International Airport and knocking out power and telephone service to thousands of people. At least one person died during the storm, which hit hardest in northern Cook County, which encompasses Chicago, and Du Page County to the northwest. Some 300 people fled their homes, and at least one hospital, in suburban Des Plaines, had to evacuate patients. Gov. James R. Thompson declared the two counties disaster areas, authorizing state aid for residents. The governor also activated 200 National Guard troops to provide security and aid in evacuation efforts. Flooding closed the Kennedy Expressway leading out of Chicago to O'Hare, making it "virtually impossible" to reach the airport from the nation's third-largest city, said Marilyn Katz of the city's Department of Aviation. American Airlines spokesman Steve McGregor said the airport was "an island just surrounded by water." He said as many as 75 percent of American Airlines' flights would be canceled; United Airlines also suspended most operations until 8 p.m. "A Herculean effort is being maintained by hundreds of people at O'Hare to keep it open, and it is open," said Federal Aviation Association spokesman Mort Edelstein. One runway was open for landings, and two partial runways were open for takeoffs, he said, adding, "City crews and FAA personnel are working doggedly to get those runways cleared of water and water away from navigational aids." Even the weather service couldn't escape the storm. "We're stranded," said meterologist Bob Collins, noting 3 feet of water surrounded the National Weather Service building near the airport and 6 inches of water had crept inside. More rain was forecast for the weekend. Collins blamed the storm on an unstable air mass that socked in the Chicago area, caused by cool air to the north and warm, very moist air to the south. The same system dumped heavy rains on parts of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin and Michigan, where another traffic death was reported. (42) === Page 74 of 90 Post-Star, Glens Falls, N.Y. Friday, August 14, 1987 # Canadian woman finds neighbor's boa constrictor in toilet my dream last night! HAMILTON, Ontario (AP) -- When Laurie Lamothe looked into her toilet bowl and two eyes looked back, she knew she had a problem. It turns out that a neighbor's pet boa has taken refuge in the drainpipes under the Lamothes' bathroom. The snake popped up one day in their toilet bowl. "I looked down and saw this pair of eyes looking at me and a tongue going in and out," said Mrs. Lamothe. "I shouted to my husband, 'There's a snake in the bathroom!'" Since then, the Hamilton Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has removed the toilet in the Lamothes' 12th-story apartment and tried to lure the 6-foot-6-inch snake into the open by placing dead rats on the floor. The snake ate one of the rats when no one was watching but disappeared back down the drain. "It's still in the same place but we're pretty confident we'll get it out in the next day or so," SPCA official Robert Morrison said Wednesday. The snake's owner will face a fine of about $40 for keeping an illegal pet in the 15-story building, unless he removes it from the city as soon as it is recovered, Morrison said. Meanwhile, neighbors say they are nervous about using their toilets. Mrs. Lamothe told reporters she has always had a fear of snakes. She said she was told that boa constrictors don't bite. "They just strangle." # 7 charged in connection with rash of area thefts By Scot Montrey Staff Intern Post-Star 8/14/87 GREENWICH -- Four area teens and two men in their 20s were charged Wednesday and another man was charged Thursday in connection with "numerous burglaries and larcenies in the Greenwich-Middle Falls area," Washington County Sheriff's Department officials said Thursday. The department, working with the Washington County District Attorney's office, arrested the seven, five of whom were issued tickets ordering them to appear in Greenwich Town Court this coming Tuesday, officials said. The burglaries, according to Cpl. George Bell of the Sheriff's Department, are believed to reach back to November of 1986. Michael Scott Sanders, 18, of Main Street in Middle Falls, was charged with third-degree burglary. He was arraigned before Greenwich Town Justice John Pemrick and released on his own recognizance to appear Aug. 18, Bell said. Seward D. Habschi, 20, of Farley Road in Hudson Falls, was charged Thursday night with third-degree burglary, Bell said. He was arraigned in Jackson Town Court before Judge Francis Ackley -- no Greenwich justice was available at the time, Bell said -- and remanded to the Washington County Jail in lieu of a $500 cash or $1,000 bond bail. Habschi was scheduled to appear in the Greenwich Town Court on Aug. 18, Bell also said. Peter Michael Perkins, 24, also of Main Street, Middle Falls, was charged with fourth-degree criminal mischief. He was issued a ticket to appear Aug. 18 in the Greenwich Town Court, police said. Also charged was Harry James Sanders, 19, of Main Street, Middle Falls, on a charge of fifth-degree criminal possession of stolen property. He was issued an appearance ticket, police said. Robert Lee Sanders, 21, of Main Street, Middle Falls, was charged with petit larceny. He was issued an appearance ticket, police said. Dino Gabriel Facin, 27, of 37 Gray Ave., Greenwich, was charged with fifth-degree criminal possession of stolen property. He was also issued an appearance ticket, police said. Also charged with third-degree burglary was a 14-year-old boy from Middle Falls. His case will be handled by the Washington County Family Court, officials said. # President's helicopter in near-collision The Associated Press 8/14/87 SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- An unidentified airplane was involved in a near-collision with President Reagan's helicopter as it approached his ranch north of here Thursday, presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said. Fitzwater said the pilot of the small airplane was taken into custody as he landed at John Wayne Airport in Orange County, about 50 to 60 miles south of here, after being chased by another government helicopter. He said the pilot of the presidential helicopter, Marine One, reported that the plane flew within 250 feet of the chopper and about 150 feet below it. The agency has begun an investigation, said Russ Tornquist, an FAA spokesman in Los Angeles. 8/14/87 (Washington State) # Elusive python still at large in Fruit Valley There is still no sign of Sugar, a 10-foot Burmese python that slithered out of her Fruit Valley home Saturday night. The snake belongs to Todd Lawer and Carol Stuber, 2105 W. 28th St. Stuber said the snake is not dangerous, but said people should not pick her up if they find her. Mike Jones, a Clark County Animal Control officer, cautioned that the snake could hiss and bite if scared. Lawer and Stuber have distributed fliers about the lost snake through their neighborhood, asking people to call them at 693-9970 if Sugar is seen. They are offering a reward of at least $50 to anyone who finds her. (42 === Page 75 of 90 # More storms hit north Illinois Post-Star 8/17/87 CHICAGO (AP) - New thunderstorms hit flood-soaked northeastern Illinois on Sunday, two days after a record downpour caused the Chicago area's second major flood in a year, and hundreds of people remained stranded in shelters. Water receded in some areas to the north and northwest of Chicago, enabling homeowners to start cleaning up mud and repairing damage, officials said. But the western suburbs had to keep bailing out as runoff gorged streams. "It's just backing up in the streets because it has nowhere to go," said Tom Mefford, deputy coordinator of the Du Page County Emergency Services Disaster Agency. "We're closing down some roads because of rain right now." He said some volunteers used rowboats and motorboats to travel flooded streets in some western Chicago suburbs to rescue any residents still stranded in their homes. Hundreds of people remained in temporary shelters in DuPage and Cook counties Sunday morning when thunderstorms began again, two days after a storm swamped the area with 9.3 inches of rain, the heaviest 24-hour rainfall in 100 years of record-keeping. Sunday's storms, accompanied by high wind and some hail, were expected to dump an additional half-inch to 1 inch of rain on the area, said National Weather Service spokesman Len Whitcomb. But Whitcomb said forecasters believed that Salt Creek and the Des Plaines River would continue to recede in the western suburbs. By Sunday afternoon, Salt Creek had fallen 2.1 feet below its flood stage of 7.5 feet at Rolling Meadows, northwest of downtown Chicago, officials said. The Des Plaines River also was receding, but remained 3½ feet above its flood stage of 6 feet in the western suburb of Riverside. American Red Cross assessment teams estimated that 3,025 homes were damaged by water, and 1,025 of them sustained major damage with at least 4 feet of water in the basement or 4 inches on the first floor, spokesman Fred Sabine said in Chicago. Many of those homes were damaged by flooding last October. Sabine said the agency had asked for 20 food vans to tour the flooded areas, in addition to a couple already in service, and 3,000 clean-up kits to distribute to residents. The kits contain a plastic pail, mop, sponges and a bottle of disinfectant detergent for scrubbing sludge-filled homes, he said. Gov. James R. Thompson, decked out in Des Plaines Fire Department hip waders, toured the flood-ravaged areas Saturday after declaring both Cook and DuPage counties state disaster areas a day earlier. The declaration allows property owners to seek reduced tax assessments because of flood damage. John Plunk, chief of operations for the state disaster agency, said damage assessment teams made up of state officials and members of the Federal Emergency Management Agency would tour the area Monday and inspect damage. If federal aid is granted, it probably would take the form of low-interest loans for repairing property damage, he said. In Riverside, Cheryl Callahan arrived home from vacation Sunday morning to find her home surrounded and swamped by water. "Washers and dryers can be replaced," she moaned. "It's all the photo albums and hand-made Christmas ornaments." Another Riverside resident grumbled about the spectators driving around snapping photographs. "They've been sightseeing all weekend," said the man, who refused to give his name. "Twenty-five cents a head, and you could pay for the clean-up." At the waterlogged Butler National Golf Club in Oak Brook, officials postponed Monday's round of the Chick Evans 25th Annual Memorial Pro-America tournament. Most of the club's 160 acres were under water, they said. TAKE US TO YOUR LEADER!... GET SERIOUS! WE WATCHED THE IRAN-CONTRA HEARINGS!... MIKE Luckovich COPLEY NEWS SERVICE Times-Picayune Post-Star 8/17/87 43 === Page 76 of 90 More storms hit north Illinois Rock-Star 8/17/87 CHICAGO (AP) - New thunderstorms hit flood-soaked northeastern Illinois on Sunday, two days after a record downpour caused the Chicago area's second major flood in a year, and hundreds of people remained stranded in shelters. Water receded in some areas to the north and northwest of Chicago, enabling homeowners to start cleaning up mud and repairing damage, officials said. But the western suburbs had to keep bailing out as runoff gorged streams. "It's just backing up in the streets because it has nowhere to go," said Tom Mefford, deputy coordinator of the Du Page County Emergency Services Disaster Agency. "We're closing down some roads because of rain right now." He said some volunteers used rowboats and motorboats to travel flooded streets in some western Chicago suburbs to rescue any residents still stranded in their homes. Hundreds of people remained in temporary shelters in DuPage and Cook counties Sunday morning when thunderstorms began again, two days after a storm swamped the area with 9.3 inches of rain, the heaviest 24-hour rainfall in 100 years of record-keeping. Sunday's storms, accompanied by high wind and some hail, were expected to dump an additional half-inch to 1 inch of rain on the area, said National Weather Service spokesman Len Whitcomb. But Whitcomb said forecasters believed that Salt Creek and the Des Plaines River would continue to recede in the western suburbs. By Sunday afternoon, Salt Creek had fallen 2.1 feet below its flood stage of 7.5 feet at Rolling Meadows, northwest of downtown Chicago, officials said. The Des Plaines River also was receding, but remained 3½ feet above its flood stage of 6 feet in the western suburb of Riverside. American Red Cross assessment teams estimated that 3,025 homes were damaged by water, and 1,025 of them sustained major damage with at least 4 feet of water in the basement or 4 inches on the first floor, spokesman Fred Sabine said in Chicago. Many of those homes were damaged by flooding last October. Sabine said the agency had asked for 20 food vans to tour the flooded areas, in addition to a couple already in service, and 3,000 clean-up kits to distribute to residents. The kits contain a plastic pail, mop, sponges and a bottle of disinfectant detergent for scrubbing sludge-filled homes, he said. Gov. James R. Thompson, decked out in Des Plaines Fire Department hip waders, toured the flood-ravaged areas Saturday after declaring both Cook and DuPage counties state disaster areas a day earlier. The declaration allows property owners to seek reduced tax assessments because of flood damage. John Plunk, chief of operations for the state disaster agency, said damage assessment teams made up of state officials and members of the Federal Emergency Management Agency would tour the area Monday and inspect damage. If federal aid is granted, it probably would take the form of low-interest loans for repairing property damage, he said. In Riverside, Cheryl Callahan arrived home from vacation Sunday morning to find her home surrounded and swamped by water. "Washers and dryers can be replaced," she moaned. "It's all the photo albums and hand-made Christmas ornaments." Another Riverside resident grumbled about the spectators driving around snapping photographs. "They've been sightseeing all weekend," said the man, who refused to give his name. "Twenty-five cents a head, and you could pay for the clean-up." At the waterlogged Butler National Golf Club in Oak Brook, officials postponed Monday's round of the Chick Evans 25th Annual Memorial Pro-America tournament. Half of the club's 160 acres were under water, they said. TAKE US TO YOUR LEADER!... GET SERIOUS! WE WATCHED THE IRAN-CONTRA HEARINGS!... MIKE Luckovich COPLEY NEWS SERVICE Times-Picayune Rock-Star 8/17/87 43 === Page 77 of 90 FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1987 TED Columbian # Reagan copter buzzed ## Airplane in near collision is from Vancouver SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) -- The Federal Aviation Administration today revoked the license of a former Vancouver pilot who flew a small airplane dangerously close to President Reagan's helicopter, the White House said. The license of Ralph W. Myers of Lake Oswego, Ore., was revoked for "careless and reckless operation of an aircraft" and for violating the restricted air space over Reagan's ranch in the Santa Ynez Mountains, presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said today. The airplane was rented at Vancouver's Pearson Air Park. Earlier, the Secret Service said no criminal charges would be filed against Myers, who flew his plane within several hundred feet of the president's helicopter Thursday afternoon, forcing the chopper pilot to take evasive action. White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker said he spoke with Reagan today and the president "did not seem particularly upset" about the incident. Asked to describe to what extent Reagan had been endangered, Baker said: "I suppose there's a fair amount of danger when a plane comes that close to a helicopter." Secret Service interviews "showed there was no criminal intent on the part of the pilot or the passenger and subsequently no arrests were made," said Rich Adams, an agency spokesman in Washington. He refused to disclose the pilot's explanation for how the incident occurred, but said, "The pilot was disoriented, according to him, and entered into a restricted airspace." Reagan and aides with him did not notice the Piper Archer air- Please see Plane, Page A2 (44) === Page 78 of 90 # Storm pelts Fort Edward (town by us) By Eric Dexheimer and Michael Kilian Staff Writers 7/12/87 FORT EDWARD - Violent winds and rains swept through downtown Fort Edward Saturday afternoon - cutting a narrow swath of destruction that tore the roofs off of buildings, uprooted trees and sent torrents of water streaming down roads. Branches, leaves and tar roofing tiles littered Broadway Avenue in the village in the wake of the storm, which one resident described as "15 minutes of hell." At least a dozen trees, ripped out of the ground by the high winds, lay on the ground, across streets and on top of crushed cars. "It was dark, brown, like a twister. We ran," said a woman who had been caught in the 5:30 p.m. storm with several of her children. "We couldn't see two feet in front of the car, I'll tell you that," Fort Edward Patrolman Mike Smith said Saturday evening. A caller to The Post-Star said a tornado had passed through Fort Edward. But National Weather Service forecaster Joseph Palko said this could not be confirmed. Television Channel 6 in Albany also received a call reporting a tornado in Fort Edward, Palko said. The weather station closest to Fort Edward is at the Warren County Airport. That station recorded wind gusts of up to 25 miles per hour, Palko said. The temperature dropped from 89 degrees to 75 degrees just before the thunderstorm, he said. Tornadoes are not common occurrences in the Capital District region, Palko said. Patrolman Smith said no storm-related injuries were reported. "Just a lot of trees were down," Smith said. "We had two roofs blown off." Ernest Stanley Sr., owner of E & A Imports in Fort Edward, was inside his auto parts store when the storm hit and lifted close to one-half of his roof tiles off the building and scattered them to all sides. "It was just like a big suction," Stanley said, making a whistling sound with his mouth to approximate the noise made as his roof flew off. "I'll tell you, we could hear it." "My dog was sleeping on the floor and flew straight up," he said. A spot damage estimate by local construction worker Alexander Anderson put damages to Stanley's roof at $1,000. Second and Hill Broadway curve, inside the lapsed duration of wood roof draped the street. Patrolmen were down but that a by 8 p.m. tered power trees throughout Saratoga and Washington counties. A woman on Dean Road in Kingsbury said her power had not been restored as of 9 p.m. Saturday. A Niagara Mohawk spokesman could not be reached for comment where we live Saturday evening. "It was raining so hard you couldn't see anything," Werner Fuchs, a New Jersey boater returning from Lake Champlain through Fort Edward, said. "All of a sudden the boat started bouncing back and forth and the (mooring) lines loosened." Minutes later, Fuchs said, he heard cracking as two huge trees lurched to the ground just yards from where his boat was tied at the Yacht Basin. Fuchs explained how "a waterfall of water" gushed off the embankment after running down the hill from Broadway and Main Street. "I call myself extremely lucky," Fuchs said. "It was not funny." Patrolman Smith said attempts to contact state waterways officials about removing the two trees from the canal had been unsuccessful. "It's (the canal) passable, but it's (the trees) something they're going to have to take out of there," Smith said. Further up the street, the stump of a brick chimney on the top of another building stood in the midst of a pile of rubble, another structural victim of the storm. # Full shuttle-rocket test to be postponed again 8/29/87 BRIGHAM CITY, Utah (AP) - A critical first full-scale test of the redesigned space shuttle rocket will be postponed still further while engineers sort out problems that caused the firing to be aborted three times, officials said Friday. In a joint announcement, NASA and rocket manufacturer Morton Thiokol Inc. said engineers will conduct several countdown dry runs to test systems that malfunctioned on Thursday. This work is expected to take most of today. A decision will be made tonight on a day for the test firing, the announcement said. The statement said officials are working "at a measured pace and won't reschedule the test until they are satisfied that all problems identified yesterday are fully understood and have been resolved." On Thursday, officials had said the test would be conducted today. Thiokol engineers conducted three countdowns toward ignition of the test rocket on Thursday and were forced to stop short of the firing each time. Twice the countdown was carried to within seconds before it was halted. The announcement said the final test attempt failure Thursday was traced to a miscommunication between two computers which are part of the test stand equipment. Two other countdowns were stopped by a broken water main and by an electronic malfunction. (45) === Page 79 of 90 # Asia stricken with floods, droughts Post-Star 9/3/87 BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Asia's rice paddies and wheat fields -- vital in feeding half the world's population -- are being hit by drought and floods that have taken more than 1,000 lives and caused billions of dollars in damage. The failure of Asia's monsoon, which normally waters fields during the second third of each year, has left parched a wide arc of the continent from Sri Lanka to the Philippines and northern China this year. At least nine countries have been severely affected, and Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi said India was facing "the biggest calamity of the century." In Bangladesh, the government says 20 million of the nation's 103 million people have been affected by what it calls the worst flooding in 40 years. Reports of casualties compiled by The Associated Press bureaus over the past two months include the deaths of more than 200 people in floods, mudslides and typhoons in China. Typhoon Thelma and heavy rains that struck South Korea in mid-July left at least 350 people dead, and about 80 died as two typhoons struck the Philippines. # 11,000 people fight fires Post-Star 9/3/87 National Guardsmen were called out Wednesday and firefighters flew in from around the nation to help weary crews battling fires in four Western states that blackened 137,000 acres and forced some people to flee their homes. More than 300 California National Guardsmen were summoned to help in hard-hit Tuolumne County along with aircraft and 90 trucks, said Guard spokeswoman Sgt. Carolyn Hamilton. Lightning-spawned fires since Sunday had charred 89,115 acres of brush and timber in northern California, swelling by 20,000 acres in less than 24 hours. "There are now 910 fires going," said John Carter at the joint state-federal fire information center in Sacramento, Calif. "We have 11,000 people fighting the fires." Oregon had more than 600 fires, charring at least 31,000 acres. The biggest single fire, in the central Idaho mountains, was a 32-day-old, 15,000-acre blaze being allowed to burn in extremely rugged terrain inside a wilderness area: Firefighters at Pocatello, Idaho, were close to containing a fire that destroyed one house and threatened others on the outskirts of the city. Firefighters from several states were on their way to join the battle against the Oregon fires, including crews from Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Tennessee and the Northeast. At least eight houses had been destroyed. "We would definitely have to characterize the fire situation in southwest Oregon as in a blowup state today," said Ron DeHart of the Salem-based Oregon Unified Coordination Group, which coordinates state and federal efforts. "It does not look good. We were really hoping for a mistake in the forecast that calls for some winds ... Otherwise, we may be doing an eyeball-to-flames standoff." # It gets pretty hot at the forest fire center BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- The frenzy has eased somewhat at the nation's forest fire command post during America's greatest firefighting mobilization ever, a battle against fires that have burned more than 1,100 square miles of Western range and timber. "It's settled down to a steady slog. We've contained 1,000 fires," said Arnold Hartigan, spokesman for the Boise Interagency Fire Center. But scores still burn out of control, and Hartigan added, "Some areas will have flames until the snow flies." Since moving to full alert late last month, 35 logistics specialists at the federal center have worked around the clock in 12-hour shifts at the heart of a 55-acre complex that serves as the nation's clearinghouse for fire information, supplies and firefighters. The center has the authority to tap all available resources of the U.S. Agriculture and Interior departments. "We gather intelligence from all agencies to prevent any one agency from tying up resources," Hartigan said. "We're like a giant hardware store. You call, we have it." Lightning-sparked blazes went wild across the West beginning Aug. 28, and within a week Fire Center specialists dispatched over 22,000 firefighters and hundreds of tons of equipment and supplies, including over 1,000 bulldozers and trucks and dozens of air tankers and helicopters. "It's unprecedented as far as the number of supplies, manpower and equipment dispatched," Hartigan said. "We were just bombarded." An estimated $5 million a day was being spent in the battle against the fires, mainly in northern California and southern Oregon. The frantic operations at the center have eased somewhat as firefighters slowly gain control, but there are still half-eaten pizzas and other remnants of meals eaten on the run. === Page 80 of 90 National Scene Post-Star 9/10/87 # Justice Marshall: Reagan's civil rights record deplorable Knight-Ridder WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall's stinging assessment of President Reagan's civil rights performance drew a sharp response Wednesday from the White House, where chief spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said the administration "would not back away from our civil rights record one inch." Marshall, in a rare off-the-bench criticism of the president, said in a televised interview that Reagan ranked at "the bottom" among presidents in protecting and advancing civil rights. "Honestly," Marshall said, "I think he's down with Hoover and that group -- Wilson. When we (blacks) really didn't have a chance." the country" -- and cited the 1986 tax reform law that he said removed the federal tax burden from millions of low-income persons. He also said that Reagan's proposals to help low-income families buy public housing facilities and to receive cash vouchers to pay for their children's tuition at better schools would help minorities. The first and only black person to serve on the Supreme Court, Marshall said Reagan, as the "gatekeeper" of fairness and justice in America, had neglected his job. "I don't care whether he's the president, the governor, the mayor, the sheriff," Marshall said. "Whoever calls the shots determines whether we have integration, segregation or decency ... That starts exactly with the president." Fitzwater insisted that Reagan plained for years that the president has attempted to undercut minority hiring programs, school busing to achieve integration, the voting rights act and other efforts to help minorities. They also claim Reagan has appointed too few blacks and other minorities to high-ranking posts in the government and judiciary. The Justice Department, for example, has joined several cases in federal courts to argue against affirmative-action employment standards, contending that employers should exercise total "colorblindness" in hiring and promoting employees. Justice also sided with the Norfolk, Va., school board in its legal challenging the use of busing to achieve racial integration in its schools. And it has attempted to Reagan's buddy # Nofziger implicated in insider trading Post-Star 9/10/87 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former managers of Wedtech Corp. and ex-White House political director Lyn Nofziger unloaded $10 million of stock in a possible insider trading scheme, Wedtech's recently hired outside legal counsel testified Wednesday. The scandal-plagued South Bronx defense contractor's top officers, including founder John Mariotta, also "looted" the corporate treasury and set up a slush fund to exploit a Small Business Administration program aimed at helping minority contractors, Martin Pollner told the Senate Governmental Affairs subcommittee on oversight of government management. Relying on records supplied by Pollner, the panel said Nofziger, his lobbying partner Mark Bragg, and five Wedtech executives sold 1 million shares of Wedtech stock for $10 years; most of its prior government contracts were not profitable; and it was subsisting on money improperly obtained from public offerings of Wedtech securities and progress payments received from the Department of Defense," Pollner said. The privately held company went public in 1983 in securities offerings marked "from the very beginning by material distortions of the financial conditions of the company," said Pollner. "More than one-half of the $162 million raised from the general public was raised in 1986, long after the time the company became insolvent." Pollner said the company has paid more than $10 million in cash since 1982 to politically well-connected consultants, accountants and law firms to help it obtain government contracts and to maintain its # Firefighters losing control of last Western blazes Post-Star 9/10/87 The Associated Press Thick smoke and changing weather hindered efforts Wednesday to contain the last big forest fires still burning in the West, where more than 1,000 square miles are charred and some fires were spreading again. "It's sad to see Mother Nature doing this," lamented California National Guardsman Dennis Berry. A layer of cool, humid air that had been holding dense smoke close to the ground and not fanning the flames in northern California and southern Oregon appeared to be lifting, with temperatures climbing, said California fire information officer Steve Smith. There was a chance of thunderstorms in Oregon, which would kick up wind, said Kathy Aplin of the Oregon Unified Coordinating Group. In Washington, steep terrain allowed burning logs to roll past firebreaks on the Olympic Peninsula. In California, 76 firefighters have been injured, dozens suffering from smoke inhalation, said Art Wirtz at the Sacramento fire command center. An additional 30 firefighters had been injured in Oregon. Three have died in vehicle accidents, two blamed on the dense smoke. Smoke continued to prevent the use of aircraft to drop water and fire retardant in Oregon, fire spokesman Ron DeHart said. Fog grounded water-dumping aircraft Wednesday in Washington. The smoke was so bad in some parts of northern California that doctors equated breathing to smoking more than three packs of cigarettes a day. (47) === Page 81 of 90 # Leaves begin to paint New England's palette early this year By John Donnelly Associated Press Writer MONTPELIER, Vt. -- The annual show of brilliant fall foliage has opened early in northern New England, and foresters suspect dry conditions are responsible for the splashes of color. But tourism officials said Wednesday the colors that draw an estimated 3 million "leaf peepers" to the region will last as long as usual -- mid-October in southern parts -- even with the early start. Vermont and New Hampshire have had an unusually dry summer, which foresters say puts additional stress on trees and could be a factor in bringing out the color a week or two ahead of schedule. Maine, which has had fewer reports of early foliage, has had an average amount of rain this year. "Because we've had an unusually dry summer, the roots of trees trying to draw nutrients have had a very difficult job," said Conrad Motkya, Vermont's director of forests. "To me, common sense says there is probably a relationship there with color, too, causing the leaves to turn a little early." The early oranges, yellows and reds on hardwood leaves in the north woods are startling natives. "There are colors all over, from the valley floor to the tops of the mountains," said Arlo Sterner, a county forester in Wolcott, 30 miles north of Vermont's capital. Sterner, 61, who is one of Vermont's 30 volunteer spotters who give foliage reports twice a week to the state during the season, said he has never seen foliage come so early. "This year, it happened all of a sudden," he said. "It seemed odd to us because it shouldn't happen for a couple of weeks and here it is, bingo. I think it's the dry weather and the trees are a little bit stressed. When they get stressed, they show color early." In Vermont's northeast corner, another spotter, forester George Buzzell of Orleans, said Wednesday foliage was at 40 percent in high elevations. In the valleys, he put foliage at 10 percent to 25 percent. Buzzell predicted that because Vermont's soil conditions were so varied, the foliage season would not be shorter. "I feel if the weather is kind and not much heavy wind, we should be in for an extra long treat of good color this fall," Buzzell said. Tourism officials hope the early foliage is big business for New England. # Shuttle rocket cracks after test HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) -- A NASA official said Saturday that a five-foot-long section of the redesigned shuttle booster rocket cracked after a test firing, but the trial run was still "totally successful." Gerald Smith, manager of the booster program at the Marshall Space Flight Center, said the crack was caused by a defective cooling system that is used only in ground tests. "It occurs after the test," he said. "It has nothing to do with the actual design or the performance of the motor." Marshall spokesman Ed Medal said the problem would in no way change NASA's plans to launch another shuttle flight in June 1988, although the damaged rocket segment could not be used in future tests. The crack was caused by molten propellant residue described as "aluminum slag," which the cooling system failure allowed to "just sit there and cook" after it collected in the booster during the test, Smith said. "The problem occurs only in horizontal ground firings," said Medal. A rocket in flight expels the residue through a motor nozzle, he said. "These segments, after we test, can be recycled and used again. In this case it will not be," said Smith, who called the test "totally successful." # Reagan proud of pact ## Soviet calls it success for all By Terence Hunt AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON -- President Reagan, trumpeting a long-awaited breakthrough in arms talks, announced an "agreement in principle" Friday to ban all U.S. and Soviet intermediate-range nuclear missiles, setting the stage for the first superpower summit in America in 14 years. It would be the first nuclear arms pact in Reagan's presidency and the first ever to ban an entire class of nuclear weapons. The tentative pact was thrashed out in three days of intensive talks between Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze. Shevardnadze called it "a common success for all mankind, for all civilization." Shultz said it was "an important beginning" in arms control. === Page 82 of 90 # Agencies fear another Ethiopian famine WASHINGTON (AP) -- Relief agencies are gearing up to ship emergency food supplies to Ethiopia, where officials said Thursday they fear a summer drought could create a famine similar to the one in which nearly one million people died in 1984-1985. "What we are facing is a resurgence of a very severe situation," said Charles La Muniere, director of emergency operations in Africa for the United Nations in New York. "We have to begin to fill the pipeline now." Officials knew that a drought in June and July coupled with locust infestations would probably cause problems. The concern has turned to alarm recent weeks after a U.S. Agency for International Development team toured the country, reporting massive crop losses in some areas. "If the worst scenario came to, we could experience crop losses as much as 1984," La Muniere said. The goal of the United Nations, he said, is to help the Ethiopian government ensure that people will not be forced to relocate into food camps similar to the ones that attracted worldwide attention three years ago. An AID official, speaking on condition he not be identified, predicted the impending famine will be "smaller but still of the same order of gravity." Roughly 7.5 million Ethiopians, nearly one-fourth the population, were at risk of starvation in 1984-1985 famine, he said. The death toll from that event "could be as high as a million," he said. But officials do not know the number of people who might be in trouble later this year because the Marxist government of Ethiopia has not turned over figures from its survey. "We weren't able to pin that down," the AID official said. Spokesmen from private voluntary organizations also complained about the difficulty of getting accurate information from Ethiopia. A spokesman at the Ethiopian Embassy did not return a telephone call to answer questions. Food shortages should be quantifiable once people begin to harvest crops between mid-September and mid-November, officials said. Although rains have started in Ethiopia, they have come too late to save crops in some places, particularly Eritrea and Tigre, two northern provinces where separatists have waged an insurgency against the central government for years. Eritrea's crops apparently are a "write-off," according to the AID official, who said that "Tigre is almost as bad." Other areas where food shortages are expected to become a problem are: Wollo, Hararaghe, Sidamo, Shoa and Gama Gofu, officials said. Even without a drought or locust plague, Ethiopia would experience a grain deficit of 190,000 metric tons. But George Wirt, a spokesman for CARE, a relief organization also has long-term development projects in Ethiopia, said shortages are expected to exceed that. Center, called the situation extremely critical, primarily in California and southwest Oregon. "In the national park situation, we're very fearful that they might get into the giant sequoias, which are an irreplaceable resource," he said. California, Oregon and Idaho bore the brunt of the fires. By mid-day Thursday: * 12,975 firefighters were battling 1,116 fires which had burned more than 204,000 acres in California. * 3,500 people fought fires totaling 52,000 acres in Oregon. * 600 firefighters contended with 23,000 acres of range and forest fires in Idaho. Wyoming. The fires were started by thousands of lightning strikes spawned by late-summer thunderstorms. "It continues to be a critical situation," said LaVon Perez of the U.S. Forest Service in California. "The forecasters say we're not going to get as many lightning strikes today -- but they said that yesterday, too, and we had more than 1,400 additional strikes -- and we are expecting winds of 20 to 35 mph, and they tell us it will not begin to cool until the weekend." An estimated 8,000 persons were evacuated from nearly a dozen rural communities in California, more than half of them in Tuolumne County near the north-central part of the state. Plans were being made for possible evacuation of five small Siskiyou County communities as a series of timber fires which have been burning uninhabited areas since the weekend approached homes along State Route 96 near the Oregon border. Clayton said the biggest single fire consumed 22,000 acres in Lassen National Forest in Modoc County. However, a complex of 17 fires had roared over 30,000 acres in Mendocino and Lake counties and another series burned 38,000 acres in Tuolumne and Mariposa counties. Five large fires were contained in the last 24 hours, Clayton said, including a 3,750-acre blaze in Modoc County. (497) === Page 83 of 90 To be free, you must care Post-Star 9/2/87 The opposite of love is not hate but apathy, and thus the best evidence of people's lack of patriotism is not active opposition to a particular policy but indifference to all public policy issues. Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Jeane Kirkpatrick, put it well, as she often does. "In Paradise Lost," she said, "Dante reserved the lowest rung of Hell for those who do not care -- for those who, confronted by great questions, are uninterested; who, faced with great deeds, are unmoved; who, offered great opportunities, feel no challenge; who, endowed with freedom and power, make no use of it; the kind of men who, observing a battle between tyrants and those who would be free, remain indifferent." Great questions, great deeds, battles between tyrants and those who would be free, and freedom and power are all on the plates of Americans today. If you cannot feel the excitement and challenge of these times, then you are a dead soul indeed. I don't think many Americans have dead souls but many of their leaders do, as do much of the intelligentsia. Thus, there are two Americas -- one made up of ordinary people who still have ideals and aspirations and convictions and the other made up of people who are, for all intents and purposes, nihilists. The nihilist believes in nothing, aspires to nothing. His psyche is rooted in death, not in life. He cannot distinguish any longer between the heroic and the bizarre, between inspiration and stimulation. He is unmoved by everything and seeks only to distract and amuse himself until death, which he sees as the end of all human activity, relieves him of boredom. To such people it really is a matter of indifference whether people are free or ruled by tyrants so long as they themselves are not personally inconvenienced. They have lost the capacity to laugh or to cry. "What can I do?" is their standard response to any problem, not as a real question, but as a statement of intention to do nothing. These people, when they see the Mona Lisa, speculate that her mouth is closed because her teeth were probably rotten or that the model was a whore or a peasant. Without a price tag, they have no idea what the value of anything is. They have become a slough of stagnant water off the mainstream of humanity's struggle toward a better existence. It ought to matter to every American whether a child who comes into this world is free to seek his or her highest dreams or is born into slavery. It ought to matter to every American whether a family which works hard can gain from that labor or be robbed of it. It ought to matter to every American whether people are free to follow their conscience in a search for God or whether they will be commanded at gunpoint to believe only what the holders of the guns decree. It ought to matter to every American whether people can sit down at their evening meal or chat with their neighbors without fear, or if they must hourly dread the official visit. That is what the American Constitution is all about. It is not about words or legalisms or court cases or precedents or lawyer's arguments. It is about human freedom and that is what is worth fighting to gain and to keep and to share. Freedom, not corporate interests or the soiled machinery of government, is worth dying for because freedom is the breath of life. And freedom, not competing economic systems, is the core conflict in the world today and slavery, not war, is the great menace threatening free people everywhere. Let the nihilists worship death, let the special interests fight like dogs over scraps of money, let the cowards cringe before slavemaster's weapons, but let us, the American people, celebrate and defend freedom. Let us fear its loss more than death and cherish its existence more than wealth. Charley Reese is a syndicated columnist Charley Reese This is one thing my UFOs and I are working to bring about. Soviet Tells U.S. It Plans to Ease Laws Curbing Jewish Emigration Hong Kong Pratt 9/20/87 DAVID K. SHIPLER Special to The New York Times WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- Soviet officials told the United States this week that several important regulations used to prevent Soviet Jews from emigrating were being eased, and that an amnesty was possible for some political and religious prisoners, according to Richard Schifter, Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs. In addition, he said in an interview, "I was left with the impression that the abuse of psychiatry was being ended." No Increase Is Promised He noted that the Soviet authorities announced several weeks ago that psychiatric hospitals now under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which is in charge of the police, were being transferred to the Ministry of Health, where they may be less useful for incarcerating dissidents. But Mr. Schifter added that the Russians had made no commitment to increase the rate of emigration by Jews. Since April, about 800 Jews have been permitted to leave each month, more than during recent years but considerably fewer than the 51,000 who left at the peak of emigration in 1979. The issue has enormous political weight in Soviet-American relations. It was raised this week by both President Reagan and Secretary State George P. Shultz during their talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze in Washington. Detailed discussions were held by Mr. Schifter and Yuri Reshetov, a deputy director of the Soviet Foreign Ministry's department of humanitarian and cultural affairs. Rights organizations have already begun planning large demonstrations for the expected visit here by Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, later this year for a summit meeting with Mr. Reagan. Signals and hints of improvement in the rights field, such as those provided this week, and some gestures expected in the cases of a few prominent individuals are seen by American officials as part of a Soviet effort to defuse some of this protest. Mr. Schifter and others in the State Continued on Page 23, Column 1 (5¢) === Page 84 of 90 # Young hackers spend summer in NASA computers By Girard C. Steichen Associated Press Writer 9/16/87 FRANKFURT, West Germany -- Computer hackers broke into NASA's worldwide data network throughout the summer and gathered secret information on space shuttle projects and rocket failures, West German media said Tuesday. News reports said young West Germans gained regular access to at least 20 computers of the U.S. space agency and had the ability to paralyze the entire network. The ARD television network said a flaw in the network's security system allowed the hackers to enter the network from May to September. Hackers are computer enthusiasts who often try to break into private computer systems for the challenge or for criminal gain. The NASA system connects more than 1,600 computers worldwide that share information on space research, nuclear physics and molecular biology, ARD said in a report broadcast Tuesday night. The network includes U.S. atomic research facilities in Los Alamos, N.M. In Washington, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said in a statement that the tapped network provides unclassified information to university and industry researchers. "We know of no classified information which can be accessed through the network," the statement said. The statement said NASA uses a number of computer networks with varying degrees of security to provide "appropriate individuals" with access to data. The Hamburg-based magazine Stern reported information similar to the ARD report in an advance telexed to news media Tuesday. "When I saw 'Welcome to the NASA headquarters ... installation' on my screen, I was a little shocked, to say the least," the magazine quoted one youth as saying. The Hamburg-based "Chaos Computer Club" said in a statement to news media Tuesday that the youths turned to the club for help when they realized the enormity of their discovery. The statement said the hackers penetrated the network to show the "unbelievable weaknesses" of the security system and had no interest in the secret data. The reports did not say how many hackers were involved or where they lived. Stern said the youths obtained NASA memos to employees on daily space shuttle program updates and on how to deal with the media. The magazine, quoting one youth's records of computer transactions, said the hackers were able to read users' electronic mail and had the ability to paralyze the entire network. See HACKERS: Page A6 From Page A1 In one of the most serious security breaches, the hackers obtained NASA information on space shuttle projects, computer security studies and rocket boosters, the television network said. Scientists in at least eight other countries besides the United States are linked to the computer network. Stern said the system is called the "Space Physics Analysis Network," or SPAN. Michael Butz, a spokesman for the West German Interior Ministry, said his office had no information about the incidents. The Interior Ministry supervises many police functions in West Germany. In addition to the NASA computers, the hackers gained access to computers at some of Europe's most sophisticated research institutions, including the European Space Agency in Darmstadt, West Germany; the European Nuclear Research Center in Geneva, an the European Laboratory for Molecular Biology in Heidelberg, West Germany. Lennart Philipson, director of the molecular biology laboratory, said the institute is re-evaluating its use of the computer network. "We are considering whether we should restrict our exchange of data with other institutes, even if that might hinder our research," Philipson told ARD. The hackers said they gained access to the NASA computers by asking for files stored under such keywords as "shuttle," "challenger," and "secret," ARD said. Under those categories, the hackers said they saw data reports on "Shuttle C Study Contracts," a "System Security Study" on computer security, and a study on "Booster Rocket Incidents," the television network said. # Reagan adviser resigns to write WASHINGTON (AP) -- Beryl W. Sprinkel, a conservative economist who muted his criticism of the Federal Reserve Board to serve as President Reagan's top economic adviser, on Friday became the second high-ranking administration official to resign within a week. Sprinkel, 63, cited "personal reasons" and a desire to return to the private sector. His resignation takes effect in late November. In an interview, Sprinkel said he would return to Flossmoor, Ill., a Chicago suburb. He said he had no specific plans as yet, but hopes to be a corporate consultant, do some "public speaking," writing and possibly some teaching. Economists said they did not think Sprinkel's departure as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers will signal any change in administration economy policy. He has held the post since April 1985. (51) === Page 85 of 90 Dole leaving post to join campaign Post-Star 9/15/87 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Elizabeth Dole announced Monday she is resigning as transportation secretary and plans to "do everything I can" to help her husband, Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan., win the presidency next year. After meeting with President Reagan for nearly 15 minutes, Mrs. Dole told reporters she will leave the Cabinet Oct. 1 and begin full-time campaigning for her husband with a 12-state swing through the South. "I want to be a major part in the campaign and do everything I can to be helpful," she said. Some Dole strategists have been pushing for weeks to get Mrs. Dole, an energetic and popular campaigner, more actively involved. She has been one of the most sought-after speakers in the Reagan Cabinet and in recent months has spent much of her time on the road. Dole is expected to declare his candidacy later this year. At times, Mrs. Dole has been considered possible vice-presidential timber, and during the 1984 Republican convention, there was some talk -- sometimes only half in jest -- of a "Dole-Dole" ticket. "I've been for a Dole-Dole ticket just for economy purposes," the senator sometimes joked in speeches. "We could have one house, one limousine and one airplane." In Wisconsin, Vice President George Bush said he wasn't worried about Mrs. Dole's campaigning skills. "Listen, have you met my wife? She's good, she's tough, she's able. I have a secret weapon myself," Bush told reporters. In a letter to Reagan, Mrs. Dole said the decision to leave the Cabinet came "after considerable soul-searching" but added that "the need to elect a successor who can build on your administration's remarkable record of achievement has persuaded me to leave office at this time." Reagan called Mrs. Dole "invaluable" but said he understood why she was leaving. Her departure creates a major Cabinet vacancy with only 16 months left in Reagan's term. The Transportation Department has been in the spotlight amid rising complaints from airline travelers and concerns about air safety. Her resignation comes only a few months after a change in leadership at the Federal Aviation Administration, part of her department. An early name to surface as a possible successor to her was Patricia Goldman, a moderate Republican who is vice chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board. James Burnley, the department's deputy secretary, is expected to take over as acting secretary, but sources said he is unlikely to remain on permanently and reportedly already has discussed taking a job outside government. Mrs. Dole, a Harvard-educated lawyer from North Carolina, became transportation secretary in February 1983, succeeding Drew Lewis, who quit to return to private business. She had been special assistant for public liaison at the White House. Mrs. Dole has had a long history in government, beginning in the 1960s as a staff assistant in the old Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Later she worked as legislative assistant to President Johnson's consumer affairs adviser and then executive director of the President's Commission on Consumer Interest. In 1973, she was appointed to the Federal Trade Commission. Two years later she married the senator from Kansas. In 1979, Mrs. Dole resigned from the FTC to campaign in her husband's unsuccessful bid for the 1980 Republican presidential nomination. After Dole withdrew from the race, she worked for the Reagan campaign and after the election was appointed to the White House job where her duties included dealing with issues of importance to women. As transportation secretary, Mrs. Dole headed a department with 107,000 employees and a $27 billion budget. She reminded people she is the first woman to head a military service: The U.S. Coast Guard is part of her department. 52 === Page 86 of 90 Quake rocks S. California; At least 6 die By Sue Manning Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES -- A severe earthquake and 16 strong aftershocks rumbled across Southern California on Thursday, destroying buildings, damaging hundreds of houses, closing freeways and setting off dozens of fires. At least six people were killed and more than 100 injured. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake registered 6.1 on the Richter scale, making it the strongest to hit the Los Angeles area since the 6.4 Sylmar quake of 1971 that killed 64 people. The tremor sent thousands into the streets as buildings were temporarily evacuated amid widespread power outages. Landmark buildings dating to Spanish colonial times were damaged, shattered glass and other debris rained into the street and a tall plume of smoke from a shopping center fire rose south of the downtown area. Damage was worst in Whittier, the closest suburban area to the epicenter. The quake destroyed 30 downtown buildings, mostly businesses, said J. Sonny Morkus, Whittier's emergency services coordinator. Marsha Andersen, a spokeswoman for Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital, said 50 to 60 people were treated for injuries. The quake hit at 7:42 a.m. PDT and lasted 15-to-30 seconds depending on nearness to the epicenter, which was about 10 miles south-southeast of Pasadena at the north end of the San Gabriel Valley. Related stories, more photos -- A8 See QUAKE: Page 2 Ulcer keeps Sessions from being sworn in WASHINGTON (AP) -- The hospitalization of FBI Director-designate William S. Sessions was called off Thursday after the former federal judge, suffering from a previously undiagnosed bleeding ulcer, became ill and fainted in the aisle of a Washington-bound jetliner. Sessions, whose scheduled installation at FBI headquarters was put off indefinitely, was stricken Wednesday night on a flight from Dallas to Washington National Airport. FBI officials accompanying the 57-year-old Sessions drove him from the airport to George Washington University Medical Center, where doctors found a small bleeding ulcer in his small intestine. Sessions took aspirin on an empty stomach, triggering the on-board attack, Dr. Allen Ginsberg of the hospital staff told a news conference. Ginsberg said Sessions will be hospitalized two to three days and "should be ready to go to work next week." Sessions, however, may take a rest for a week or more before taking the oath of office, federal law enforcement officials said. "From a medical standpoint he could be sworn in as early as tomorrow (today) or Saturday" and will take medication that will allow him to resume a normal workload by reducing acid secretion in the stomach and allowing the ulcer to heal, said Ginsberg. Asked whether the ailment would affect his performance as FBI director, Ginsberg replied: "Absolutely not." Confirmed by the Senate only last Friday, Sessions was told Tuesday by Attorney General Edwin Meese III that he would be sworn in Thursday, his wife Alice told syndicated columnist and television commentator John McLaughlin, who happened to be aboard the same plane as Sessions. Sessions had been trying to get things organized and had had only one meal Wednesday, McLaughlin quoted Mrs. Sessions as saying. Friday, Oct. 2, 1987 Post-Star, Glens Falls, N.Y. === Page 87 of 90 # Antarctic ozone investigation UFOs Sun Attack P-Star 9/26/87 PUNTA ARENAS, Chile (AP) - A six-week investigation of a worrisome hole in the Earth's ozone layer was a success, say U.S. scientists who probed the Antarctic stratosphere in a jetliner and a converted spyplane. Their findings were awaited anxiously by industries fearing more restrictions in the production of commonly used chemicals and by environmental groups predicting catastrophe if the protective layer continues to thin. An initial "end of mission statement" revealing partial results is scheduled for release Wednesday at news conferences in Washington and the Chilean capital of Santiago. Detailed findings won't be published until 1988. Scientists said Thursday the statement was being drafted in long meetings in Punta Arenas, a windblown city on the icy Straits of Magellan where the operation is based. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which is directing the project, has imposed a news blackout, and the scientists refused to discuss their findings. Still, they called the operation a success. "I think we have certainly accomplished every mission objective that we had," said the project manager, chemist Estelle Condon of NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif. "We have assembled a massive data base." Ozone, a form of oxygen, forms an invisible layer in the atmosphere that filters potentially harmful ultraviolet radiation from the sun. The ozone layer has been thinning worldwide for years. Since the early 1980s, an especially dramatic reduction of up to 40 percent or more has been noted over Antarctica in September and October. About 180 scientists, engineers and other support personnel were involved in the biggest investigation to date of the atmosphere, Mrs. Condon said. Operating out of a Chilean air force hangar at the city's airport, the group conducted 12 flights in NASA's ER-2, a version of the U-2 spyplane specially equipped for research. It made another 11 flights in a DC-8 loaded with additional scientific gear and capable of carrying up to 30 scientists. Scientists hoped to get at least one more flight in before Sunday, when they must pack up for the return home. The researchers carried out thousands of experiments, samplings and measurements of chemical and atmospheric conditions. Mrs. Condon said the information will require months of intense evaluation. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is under court order to come up quickly with a plan for protecting the ozone layer. Publication of detailed findings is planned for early next year, "which # 16 Bermudans hurt in Hurricane Emily UFOs Sun Attack P-Star 9/26/87 HAMILTON, Bermuda (AP) - Hurricane Emily blew boats out of the water, flipped cars and tore off roofs Friday, injuring at least 16 people with its gusts of up to 112 mph as it raced across Bermuda and into the Atlantic. Forecasters were stunned that Emily gained strength even as it picked up forward speed. No deaths or serious injuries were reported, said Bryan Darby, Bermuda government spokesman. "We've been very lucky," Darby said. "It was a swift, sharp punch." Power was cut off over about 90 percent of the island but by early afternoon workers had restored electricity to Hamilton. Darby said he expected the entire island to be back on full power today. Of Bermuda's 57,145 people, about 25,000 live in Hamilton, the capital. At midday, the center of Emily was near latitude 34.5 north, longitude 61.5 west, or 235 miles northeast of Bermuda, the National Hurricane Center in Coral Gables, Fla. reported. Emily had sustained winds of near 95 mph and was expected to keep moving northeast at 40 to 45 mph through Saturday, said the center's acting director, Bob Sheets. He predicted Emily would weaken by late Saturday as it moved over the colder waters of the North Atlantic. The center was also monitoring a tropical disturbance east of the Windward Islands and an area of disturbed weather off the West African coast. "Neither one is showing any signs of development," Sheets said. Bermuda was hit with maximum sustained winds of 90 mph and gusts of up to 112 mph, said Commander Frank Bub of the U.S. Naval Oceanography Command Facility in Bermuda. The storm moved through the island with a forward speed of 40 mph to 45 mph. "What has taken place in the last 12 hours defies our knowledge and the concept of meteorology," center forecaster Bob Case said early Friday. A storm moving forward at that speed should have weakened in force, not strengthened, he said. Emily's eye passed over Kindley Field in Bermuda at 7:45 a.m. EDT, according to the center. The roof of the airport terminal was blown off and the airport was closed until 10 a.m. Saturday, Darby said. === Page 88 of 90 # Drought and fear of famine darkens future for Ethiopia Post-Star 9/25/87 ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) -- Unexpectedly, the rains have failed Ethiopians this growing season, and barely three years after enduring one of the worst droughts and famines in history, they could be heading for another calamity. Their fields of grain are parched again, in a break with the cycle of drought that came with near unfailing certainty every 10 years. "We didn't expect this," said David Morton, director of operations for the United Nations World Food Program office in Addis Ababa, the capital. "The cycle did seem like a 10-year one. Now it's much more unpredictable. We just didn't expect this." Famine looms again. The government says that because of the drought afflicting the northern, central and southern parts of the country, it needs nearly a million metric tons of emergency food aid for 1988 and that a fifth of it must be here by January to avoid a famine that some experts estimate could affect 5 million of the country's 46 million people. The situation so far does not appear as severe as the 1984-85 drought and famine that killed hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians. The United States gave sent 900,000 tons of food worth more than $400 million in 1984-85 and is arranging for more aid to meet any new crisis, although its relations with the Marxist government are poor. The government and foreign donors now are better equipped to deal with drought because of an early warning system. And many of the dozens of non-governmental relief agencies that rushed here in 1984-85 stayed. "It's not just institutions and structures in place, it's people," said James Cheek, the U.S. charge d'affaires in Ethiopia. "We don't have to invent the wheel again." Just as important, Cheek added, is the government's frankness about the problem. "The government is not trying to cover it up," he said. "It was certainly perceived to be doing that during 1984-85." Despite the head start, it won't be easy to overcome the current drought. In the brief time since the previous famine, Ethiopia's Red Sea port of Assab, which is the beginning of the food pipeline, has slipped into disrepair. And the mean terrain of Africa's most mountainous country, which is twice the size of Texas, has sidelined most of the hundreds of vehicles brought in to haul food during the 1984-85 famine. Ethiopia in early September asked donors for 950,000 metric tons in emergency food assistance for 1988. Though the government did not say how many people were in danger, donors and workers at relief agencies estimated they could number at least 5 million. The drought in 1984 was followed the next year by a famine in which the number of fatalities range from 250,000 to 1 million. The lack of reliable data on Ethiopia's population and normal mortality rates prevent a more precise count. TO QUOTE DONNA RICE, "i MAKE NO EXCUSES, i JUST WEAR THEM." PLAGIARISM CHEATING ROBT. KENNEDY SPEECHES BIDEN ANOTHER ONE CAUGHT WITH HIS PANTS DOWN.. J.D. CROWE ©87 THE TRIBUNE-SAN DIEGO COPLEY NEWS SERVICE Post-Star 9/25/87 UFC Elimination === Page 89 of 90 # Aftershock jolts S. California with more damage, one death By Richard De Atley The Associated Press LOS ANGELES -- A sharp aftershock from last week's severe earthquake jolted Southern California before dawn Sunday, causing at least one death and dozens of injuries, damaging buildings, knocking out power and sending jittery residents into the streets. The quake, centered in suburban Rosemead about eight miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles, registered at 5.3 on the Richter scale of ground motion, said Don Kelly of the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colo. At the California Institute of Technology the quake was measured at 5.5, according to a spokesman, Robert Finn. "It was pretty wild," said Mark Rosenker, who was on the 18th floor of the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles. "Let me tell you, it does get you up." The 3:59 a.m. quake was the 22nd aftershock registering more than 3.0 since Thursday's quake, which measured 6.1 on the Richter scale and caused six deaths and more than $75 million in damage. Sunday's shock, centered about two miles west of Thursday's, was felt 40 miles west of Los Angeles in Ventura County and 100 miles south in San Diego. It was followed by three tremors measuring 3.0 or more within four hours. Power outages occurred in numerous areas, and many residents, some in bathrobes, gathered outside apartments and houses, waiting for more shocks. Others, camped out in a downtown parking lot, said they had been there since Thursday. "We are glad we stayed out here," said a man who identified himself only as Hector. "At least here we feel safe." Mildred Robbins, 66, of Arcadia, was pronounced dead at 5:14 a.m. at Arcadia Methodist Hospital after going into full cardiac arrest, said administrative supervisor Terry Pisenti. Efforts to revive her failed. Pisenti said the heart attack was attributed to the quake. More than 60 other quake-related injuries, mostly cuts from broken glass, bruises from being hit by falling objects and anxiety-related chest pains and breathing problems, were reported at area hospitals. "All the lights went out. It felt like the sky was falling. I thought the whole house was coming down," said Marta Jimenez of suburban Montebello. The Jimenezes moved a mattress and cushions onto their lawn and set up camp, listening to a portable radio. Many neighbors did the same. "You never know when there will be another one," said Dora Nunes. In suburban Whittier, where hundreds of homes were damaged and 30 buildings collapsed Thursday, residents who had been in overnight shelters were evacuated to a lighted baseball field. "Psychologically, these people are in pieces. They were already upset and this has really done them in," said Frank Sapien, Red Cross shelter director. "I think a lot of the people are in some state of shock." Among the injured was a 91-year-old Pasadena woman who suffered a possible ruptured disc in her back when the quake knocked her into the bathtub. A man was brought to Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena for a six-inch bite on his arm that occurred when he tried to comfort his distraught German shepherd, said nurse Lisa Ryken. California Medical Center, about a mile south of downtown Los Angeles, sustained some structural damage and power to the complex was lost. The center was operating on emergency power, said nursing supervisor Elizabeth Adams. The quake required that an "unusual event" be declared at the coastal San Onofre nuclear power plant, midway between Los Angeles and San Diego, but the two operating reactors were not damaged, said Southern California Edison spokesman Dave Barron. Several communities that suffered damage Thursday reported numerous new problems ranging from shattered windows to collapsed buildings. Much of the damage was in commercial areas. In industrial Vernon, the second floor of an old brick industrial plant that had been damaged Thursday collapsed when Sunday's tremor hit. In suburban San Gabriel, the bell tower at the old San Gabriel Civic Auditorium collapsed through the roof and part of the structure's facade crumbled. The building had been extensively damaged Thursday. Two bridges over the San Bernardino Freeway in Alhambra were closed, although one was reopened after a few hours when it was determined the structural damage was less severe than thought. Alhambra police reported 15 buildings suffered substantial new structural damage, including the city courthouse and a building that was knocked off its foundation. Two apartment buildings were evacuated because of leaking gas, and residents were ordered out of the Rex Hotel, an old brick building. Bill Adkisson, 48, of Whittier, said the aftershock finished off his chimney, which was already damaged, put new cracks throughout the house and pulled away a porch railing. "I knew it was coming because my cat woke me up just like he did on Thursday before that one hit," Adkisson said. "I went for my mother first because she gets excited, and then we went outside." Employees were busy sweeping up broken dishes in a Bob's Big Boy kitchen in Whittier. "This is the second time. It's just getting to be too much," said Manager David Santaviez. Chunks of concrete fell from a bridge over the southbound lanes of the Pasadena Freeway, closing two lanes. Small rockslides occurred elsewhere along the freeway which runs northeast from Los Angeles. The eastbound 91 Freeway was closed due to buckling of the roadway, the California Highway Patrol reported. Hundreds of reports of broken water lines and leaking natural gas flooded into police and fire departments in several communities. The Richter scale is an open-ended gauge of energy released by an earthquake as measured by ground motion recorded on a seismograph. Every increase of one whole number means that the ground motion is 10 times greater. A quake with a magnitude of 5 can cause considerable damage in a populated area; a magnitude-6 quake can cause severe damage. === Page 90 of 90 State of emergency is declared The Associated Press Post Star 10/5/87 A freak snowstorm shocked eastern New York with up to 20 inches of snow Sunday, knocking out power to an estimated 735,000 people and closing many roads and at least one airport. Gov. Mario Cuomo declared a state of emergency in Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Green, Montgomery and Rensselaer counties. The state of emergency also applies to contiguous counties. Peter Slocum, spokesman for the state Disaster Preparedness Committee, said the declaration will allow the state better mobilize its resources. Two people in Columbia County apparently died beneath fallen trees -- one in the town of Chatham and the other in Copake. The victims' names were not immediately available. Columbia County Deputy Jan Lear said he believed one was in a car at the time. Motorists in Columbia and neighboring Dutchess County were warned that virtually all roads were closed. Both counties declared states of emergency. Authorities in the Albany area and Columbia and Greene counties set up temporary shelters in firehouses, nursing homes and other facilities. "We've got old salts here saying they have never seen it this bad," said Ray Hull, a spokesman for Niagra Mohawk utility. The storm began early Saturday evening in the Catskill mountains and then spread through most of eastern New York. It left sticky, wet snow clinging to leaves and caused limbs and trees to fall, blocking many roads. It was the most severe snow storm this early in the season in recent history, according to National Weather Service forecasters. "In all my years here, I have never seen anything like it," said Columbia County Director of Emergency Management Martin Tuczinski, who has lived in the area 50 years. Tuczinski said impassable roads, outages at local radio stations and assisting with the disaster relief, Wescott said. Deputies, fire officials and highway crews set up roadblocks preventing vehicles from traveling on roads determined to be too dangerous, he said. Many roads were blocked by fallen, snow-laden trees and limbs, Wescott said, and officials were trying Sunday to clear the roads. The trees and limbs also tangled in and tore down utility lines, officials said, cutting off power to thousands of people across southern Washington County. The Sunday snowstorm is the earliest that Wescott said he can remember during his nearly 30 years in Washington County. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 31 Wayne Grover 3282 Parade Place Lantana, Florida, 33462 May 26, 1987 To Whom It May Concern: Ted Owens, both called and wrote to me well in advance of the Challenger disaster of January 1986. He told me that his SI's were going to destroy a shuttle and astronauts planning to go would do so at their own risk. The written message was before a previous shuttle launch, the phone message before the Challenger disaster. My wife was witness to the phone and written messages. He said he did not want to see loss of life but the SI's were determined that he, (Owens) should be paid heed to by the government of the United States, therefore, loss of life would not be ruled out. He also told me that U.S. Space Program was in for a tough time because his requests for an landing/communication base had never been taken seriously by anyone. It is a fact that the American space program went into its worst slump in history and has yet to pull out or even be competitive again. Mr. Owens has been keeping me informed of some of his activities. I have kept a substantial record of his letters and clipping since 1979. I neither confirm nor deny that he has the ability to control events through psychokinetic powers. Wayne H. Grover Journalist === Page 2 of 31 May 27, 1987 Dear Ted: Enclosed is the confirmation of your calls and letters to us concerning the Shuttle disaster. I know you tire of the constant derision and strain of trying to accomplish something you believe in. We must each take the path that calls us, yours seems more rocky than most. I know you believe in what you are trying to accomplish and to that end, I wish you success. You may be a man before your time and until time catches up, your cries may go unheeded. This planet must make some vital, permanent changes if we are to leave future generations a chance to survive into the coming centuries. Many thinking people see the problem, but cannot force change to move in a new and better direction. That you still try is a mark of how great your belief. When the pendulum swings far enough to one side, it must of natural law swing back to balance. That is our hope now for a better future. Good luck my friend.......... Ague === Page 3 of 31 Jeffrey (SEE NOTE) mountains red rays (very White Brite UFO) Blue rays two SILOS Field trees woods woods Field woods FIELD woods Note: UFOs telepathed weeks ago that they would appear on the night of the crescent moon. They did. swimming pool Our House (POWER WENT OUT) 10:40 PM 10/15/87 Teddy Owens === Page 4 of 31 At 10:40 PM on 10/15/87 I saw a very very bright, intense white light on the ground in back of our house. At the same time the lights in the house were flickering. I then yelled to my 2 brothers to come out and see it. Then this beam of white & blue light shot out into the air. While this was going on for 20 seconds the power went out. After the colored beams shot out, the U.F.O. just disappeared on the ground Beau Owens === Page 5 of 31 Ted Owens RT 149, RR 2 Box 2169 Fort Ann, N.Y. 12827 Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove 48 Saint Frances Lane San Rafael, California 94901 reports...my UFOs brought in and, through tremendous They told me that they hat meshed with me. ason for bringing me and contacts and communication. that there are three UFOs us reasons of theirs). of what they have told me. s at all, from anyone. opeared over our barn rn containing 50 cows). hot only Beau. As you ey were seen by a scientist ens (PK Man) === Page 6 of 31 Thursday, July 30, 1987 SCIENTISTS As I have told you before in my reports...my UFOs brought me and my family here to Fort Ann and, through tremendous synchronicity, stopped us here. They told me that they had certain time windows here that meshed with me. They told me that their sole reason for bringing me and mine here was to make powerful contacts and communication. I have also told you in the past that there are three UFOs over me at all times (for various reasons of theirs). Herein is the documented proof of what they have told me. There can be no rebuttal on this at all, from anyone. Tuesday night two giant UFOs appeared over our barn (which is the Tom Fish dairy barn containing 50 cows). Beau saw them at 3 AM. But...not only Beau. As you will see from the newsclip, they were seen by a scientist and his friends. Ted Owens (PK Man) === Page 7 of 31 N.Y. On numerous occasions upon returning home late in the evenings (approx. 10:00), I have spotted a strange object maybe 3/4 of a mile up in the sky. This object was in the shape of a sphere with a bright red light in the lower left section of it. I have seen this in front of my house* and behind my house on separate nights. Once when taking some relation to their home in Granville, N.Y., approximate 8 miles from my home which is on Route 149 in I spotted this object and pointed it out to this couple. They described the same thing that I had seen. When we reached their home I could still see it off in the distance. When I returned home this object was always parallel with my truck as though I were being followed. When I pulled in the driveway it was directly over my house. One occasion when I spotted it behind my house, (Round object with red appearing in the lower left section) two beams or rays of light appeared to the right of it. While watching this object I have noticed that it has the ability of disappearing and reappearing in a different spot with the snap of a finger. Bright white Red section RAYS RAYS Gordon R. Van Lint RR2 BX 2170 FORT ANN, N.Y. 12829 * which is directly across from Ted Owens and his family's house. === Page 8 of 31 morning my son, Beau (24) reported to me, greatly excited, that last night, about 3 AM, something woke him up. He went to his bedroom window and looked out. Over the barn was a giant tube; vertical. There were two lights inside it. Then suddenly a second giant vertical tube appeared beside it. This second tube then changed form, into a square. (Ted) and together they formed a "10", and inside the square it was very dark black. now the vertical tube was about a mile long and 50 yds. wide and the square was about 2 miles wide and 2 miles long. this all lasted for 1 min. Then they both disappeared simultaneously. Then the dogs started barking up a storm for a few minutes. (Beau) Added note: This morning, around 7 AM, when I walked from our house the long road out past the barn with 50 cows in it (to get my morning newspaper) the cows were wild inside the barn - squalling and raising hell. Normally they are quiet. I wondered if a coyote was inside the barn. Lots of coyotes around us. (this happened before Beau woke up, came out of his bedroom and notified me re UFOs over the barn. Ted === Page 9 of 31 STaGe 1 BRIGHT LIGTS Luminisante TuBe Barn WED. 7/29/87 (BOTTOM) === Page 10 of 31 Table 2. It changed into a small square and then it grew bigger First small white outline Dark INSIDE then turning very large WED. 7/29/87 (Bottom) === Page 11 of 31 STaGe 3 This Tube appeared on the left and after 1 minute it all disappeared. WED 7/29/87 === Page 12 of 31 Briefly THURSDAY Post-Star 7/30/87 # Lights filled sky above Fort Ann On a lonely Washington County road Tuesday night, a van full of people pulled over to stare at bright columns of light in the sky. "There were five or six columns or clusters of light," said Larry Smotroff, Dean of Community Service and Continuing Education at Mattatuck Community College in Waterbury, Conn. "They were a bluish-aquamarine and they varied in intensity." Smotroff said he and six of his friends were returning from a movie at Aviation Mall in Queensbury when they spotted the lights sometime between 11:30 p.m. and midnight. He said the movie, "Superman IV," stunk -- but the lights were more impressive. "We were taken back by what we considered quite some phenomenon," he said. Smotroff, who holds degrees in Psychology and Communications, does not have a background in the hard sciences, such as physics. But he said he has a background in scientific research. Members of the group watched the lights from the intersection of Route 149 and Buttermilk Falls Road in Fort Ann. "We watched them for a good 12 or 15 minutes before we continued on our way," Smotroff said. Smotroff, who said no one in the group had been drinking, said he had never seen any type of UFOs before. But he said he had recently seen a documentary film on the subject. An operator at the Plattsburgh Air Force Base and a dispatcher for the Washington County Sheriff's Department said they had not received any reports of the lights. === Page 13 of 31 October 21, 1987 Scientists (Do not have my typewriters patched up yet, hence this) Some years ago I told you in your written files from me that my UFOs would attack the U.S. economy until their base is provided them. ("UFOs vs Economy," remember?) They warned that they could cause a worse Stock Market crash than the one in 1929. And that collapse-crash just occurred. I sent their message to you. And not long ago I told you that regardless of the fact that the Stock Market was making gains - ahead would be catastrophe (words to that effect.) Owens (PK Man) Oct. 26, 1987 10:27 PM UFO in plain sight on our front lawn. White, circular, luminescent, about 10 feet in circumference. Was a crescent moon === Page 14 of 31 UFOs vs Space Work Economy may sink 'Star Wars' LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The need to reduce the federal deficit and the weakened condition of the stock market after last month's plunge could ground the "Star Wars" space-based defense, an aerospace industry analyst says. These factors could also delay defense spending on key aerospace projects and shift national political priorities toward domestic spending instead of military projects, says John N. Simon, a vice president of Seidler AMDEC Securities Inc. Post-Star 11/2/87 November 3, 1987 Scientists After I called long distance and warned Wayne Grover that my UFOs were going to destroy a space shuttle... I was amazed when the next shuttle went up and returned safely. What I did not know was that my UFOs were waiting for "Challenger" to destroy -- because a school teacher would be aboard -- millions of children therefore would be witnessing the event -- and the TV set in front of them would teach them to let space-work alone! Some years ago my UFOs told me to warn you that the above would occur (stock market crash). I kept wondering why it did not. Well, my UFOs were simply waiting for the correct timing. As you can read above -- the crash will cripple or wipe out Star Wars (space military work); delay or wipe out key aerospace work, and deflect huge sums of military expenditures toward where it should be going -- domestic spending where it will help the U.S. people plus the interior of the U.S. Owens === Page 15 of 31 NOVEMBER 2, 1987 $2.00 # TIME # THE CRASH After a wild week on Wall Street, the world is different === Page 16 of 31 # After The Fall Decades have a way of crashing to a close during the blink of an hour. The '60s ended at Altamont, when a knife-and-death climax to a Rolling Stones concert showed that the decade of love, peace and music had trouble, even with the music. The '70s limped along with an inner-directed malaise until Jan. 20, 1981, when the U.S. hostages lifted off from Tehran just as Ronald Reagan was taking office. The '80s, as befits their high-flying adrenaline, may have dissipated a few years early, sputtering to an end during the stock market's terrifying final hour of free fall on Monday. Although Wall Street may eventually stabilize, the tenor of the times will never be the same. What crashed was more than just the market. It was the Reagan Illusion: the idea that there could be a defense buildup and tax cuts without a price, that the country could live beyond its means indefinitely. The initial Reagan years, with their aura of tinseled optimism, had restored the nation's tattered pride and the lost sense that leadership was possible in the presidency. But he stayed a term too long. As he shouted befuddled Hooverisms over the roar of his helicopter last week or doddered precariously through his press conference, Reagan appeared embarrassingly irrelevant to a reality that he could scarcely TIME, NOVEMBER 2, 1987 === Page 17 of 31 comprehend. Stripped of his ability to create economic illusions, stripped of his chance to play host to Mikhail Gorbachev, he elicited the unnerving suspicion that he was the emperor with no clothes. Now it's the morning after, and the dream of painless prosperity has been punctured. But what a wild binge it was! Speculative fortunes built on junk bonds and stock manipulations helped paper over the cracks in an economy beset by sluggish investment and productivity. Some of the best minds of a generation marched off to make millions as market mavens, embracing the greed-and-glory smugness that suffused both Wall Street and Washington. An economy that was once based on manufacturing might and inventive genius began pursuing wealth through mergers and takeovers and the creation of new "financial instruments." Fortunes were conjured out of thin air by fresh-faced traders who created nothing more than paper--gilded castles in the sky held aloft by red suspenders. So when the fall came, so did a few smirks, along with jokes about yuppie brokers losing their BMWs. But mainly the reaction was personal: What did the crash mean for me, my pension, my mortgage, my business, my job, my tuition bills? Most of the momentous events that splash their headlines for history can be viewed dispassionately from afar. Not a Wall Street panic, however, not even for those who don't play the market. For many of Wall Street's whiz kids, Monday was their first taste of financial fear, their first hard lesson that what goes up can come tumbling down. For others, it produced a gnawing unease about not only their investments but also the health of their nation. Just as the crash of the space shuttle *Challenger* was a blow to America's sense of technological grace, so the crash of the market shattered its sense of financial security. There was an odd disjuncture: the market's implosion seemed to be a frightful rendezvous with reality and, at the same time, an unhinged flight of fantasy. On the one hand, fundamental economic problems appeared to be crashing home to roost. On the other, the panic within the looking-glass world of Wall Street produced wild price fluctuations that bore little resemblance to the fundamental value of the venerable industries involved. But the stock exchange has never pretended to measure the underlying value of American companies. Instead, it produces a collective judgment about the future profits these firms will generate. By suddenly and wildly re-evaluating its expectations about the years ahead, the market may have helped fulfill its own gloomy prophecy. --By Walter Isaacson TIME, NOVEMBER 2, 1987 21 === Page 18 of 31 The Crash TIME/NOVEMBER 2, 1987 COVER STORIES # Panic Grips The Globe ## A crisis spotlights Washington's failures First came a vague foreboding, a kind of free-floating anxiety. The U.S., said worriers, could not go on forever spending more than it would tax itself to pay for, buying more overseas than it could earn from foreign sales, and borrowing more abroad than it could easily repay. There had to be a day of reckoning, and it could unhinge the whole world economy. But when might it come? What form would it take? How bad might it be? No one could say, and so the forebodings could be pushed to the back of the mind. But then, slowly at first, the anxiety began to take on a shape that could be sensed if not exactly foreseen. On all the world's stock exchanges, prices had leaped up too far, too fast, to be sustained. The mood in the markets shifted from fantasy about instant wealth to nervousness about an inevitable "correction" (a wonderful euphemism). By Monday morning the concern was no longer vague but had taken on physical form--piles of papers littering brokers' desks, each representing a hastily scribbled order to sell stock; rows of numbers flashing on computer screens, bringing news of alarming price breaks in all the early-opening markets: Tokyo, Hong Kong, London, Paris, Zurich ... Then trading began in New York, and the unimaginable happened: a collapse on a scale never seen before--no, not even in 1929. Prices went down, down, down, swiftly wiping out an entire year's spectacular gains. "I just can't believe that this is happening," moaned one trader, as he took nonstop sell orders at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. At lunchtime, brokers across the U.S. went hungry or ate sandwiches at their desks while trying to keep phone receivers pressed to both ears. "This is going to make '29 look like a kiddie party," shouted a trader on the Los Angeles floor of the Pacific Stock Exchange. Almost an entire nation become paralyzed with curiosity and concern. Crowds gathered to watch the electronic tickers in brokers' offices or stare at television monitors through plate-glass windows. In downtown Boston, police ordered a Fidelity Investments branch to turn off its ticker because a throng of nervous investors had spilled out onto Congress Street and was blocking traffic. George Finch, 66, a retired businessman in San Francisco, summed up the bewilderment: "I don't know what the hell is going on." By the time the 4 p.m. closing bell rang at the New York Stock Exchange on what instantly became known as Black Monday, the Dow Jones industrial average had plunged 508 points, or an incredible 22.6%, to close for the day at 1738.74. Some $500 billion in paper value, a sum equal to the entire gross national product of France, vanished into thin air. Volume on the New York exchange topped 600 million shares, nearly doubling the all-time record. Brokers could find only one word to describe the rout, an old word long gone out of fashion but resurrected because no other would do: panic. The frenzy rose as it spread once again around the globe. On Tuesday stock prices fell by 12.2% in London, 15% in Tokyo, 6% in Paris and 6.7% in Toronto, on top of huge losses Monday. Then, since blind panic is no more sustainable than unthinking euphoria, came a crazy whipsawing that continued virtually all week and in markets all around the world. Up, down, up, down, with trends reversing in hours, and then reversing again. And always the questions: Would the stock crisis cause a recession? Or even a global depression like the one ushered in by the 1929 Crash? What would happen to the dollar, to interest rates, to world trade? What might Ronald Reagan do to calm the markets? Could a Black Monday on the New York Stock Exchange JOURNAL The Crash of '87 Stocks Plunge 508.32 Amid Panicky Selling LE QUOTIDIEN Les Bourses mondiales dans la tourmente LE CRASH The New York Times STOCKS PLUNGE 508 POINTS, A DROP OF 22.6%; 604 MILLION VOLUME NEARLY DOUBLES RECORD NY、最大の508ドル 東証、大半は値つかず Una ca Crol === Page 19 of 31 4:00.05 p.m., with just under 20 minutes of trading left and share prices plunging too rapidly for anyone to keep track of BILL FOLEY LA STAMPA Street e trascina le Borse The Sun CRASH Bild Schwarzer Montag an der Börse The Times Stocks crash; D President who was so weakened by the Iran-contra affair and the impending defeat on the Bork nomination, and who was distracted by war in the Persian Gulf and his wife's cancer operation, possibly quell the financial turmoil? Did he even understand that he faced a first-class crisis of confidence in his leadership? At first the President gave no sign that he did. He spoke only in comments shouted to reporters over the roar of helicopter rotors on the White House lawn and in brief formal remarks issued through his spokesman, Marlin Fitzwater. On Black Monday, he blithely attributed the crash to "some people grabbing profits" accumulated during the market's long rise. In a statement after the close of trading, he said that "the underlying economy remains sound"--unwittingly drawing another parallel to 1929, when Herbert Hoover said almost exactly the same thing. On Wednesday, Reagan remarked that the midweek rally indicated the Monday collapse had been "some kind of a correction"--a statement that would have been reassuring only if he had intended it ironically, as he obviously had not. Some critics began speaking of the President in tones of contempt. Said a Wall Street money manager during the midst of the crash: "You sell and get what you can and never again listen to Ronald Reagan." M.I.T. Professor Robert Solow, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics last week, took the occasion to criticize Reagan's long, obstinate resistance to tax increases thought necessary by many to trim the budget deficit and thus restore confidence. The President, said Solow, "is holding the Congress back from slow access of intelligence." By Thursday night, however, Reagan at last showed that he recognized the seriousness of the situation--and the need for action. "We shouldn't assume that the stock market's excess volatility is over," he asserted at a White House press conference, and he acknowledged that public fear spread by those gyrations "could possibly bring about a recession." More important, he announced that he was summoning the leaders of Congress to a bipartisan deficit-cutting conference at which, through his top aides, he was "putting everything on the table with the exception of Social Security, with no other TIME, NOVEMBER 2, 1987 23 === Page 20 of 31 ### The Crash preconditions." Including a tax increase? Though he could not quite bring himself to pronounce those words, Reagan clearly indicated that, well, yes, he would at least discuss the subject. Reminded again and again by reporters of his many previous pledges to veto anything resembling a tax increase, he refused to repeat any such pledge; he merely said both spending and taxes should be kept "as low as possible." It was, however, anything but an inspiring performance. The President repeatedly stumbled and seemed unsure of just what he wanted to say. Several times he slipped into well-worn denunciations of congressional Democrats before remembering that this time he was supposed to sound conciliatory. In his Saturday radio speech, Reagan once again called on Democrats to "remember that lower taxes mean higher growth," even while acknowledging that "all sides must contribute" to a budget-cutting package. The net impression was that in countenancing discussion of a tax increase he was doing something he felt he must, without any conviction. The impact of the President's words was hard to gauge. Exchanges in Asia and Europe suffered additional heavy losses Friday, but that might have been more a response to a bad Thursday on Wall Street. Despite a lukewarm reaction in the New York financial community to the President's statements, prices on the Big Board steadied, perhaps from exhaustion. The Dow average eked out a .33 gain to close the week at 1950.76. Two bits of news helped: the Consumer Price Index rose at an annual rate of only 2.1% in September, less than half the 5.8% pace in August; the GNP grew at an annual rate of 3.8%, after adjustment for inflation, in the third quarter, up from 2.5% in the second quarter. Those figures seemed to indicate that the American economy, if not exactly sound in its fundamentals, was at least not deteriorating as drastically as the Black Monday stock-price collapse might have led an unsophisticated observer to believe. Nonetheless, the week as a whole will go down as the worst in financial history. The Dow's Black Monday plunge of 12.8% was almost double the record 12.8% fall on Oct. 28, 1929. Despite a spirited rally on Tuesday and Wednesday, the Dow was still down an unprecedented 295.98 points, or 13.2%, for the week. That immediately eclipsed the record 235.48-point decline the market had suffered the previous week. From its peak of 2722 in August to its Friday close, the average has fallen 28.3%, burning up an estimated $870 billion in equity values. Volume for the week was inconceivably greater than ever before, totaling 2.3 billion shares on the Big Board; the four heaviest trading days in New York exchange history all occurred last week. The turnover strained the exchange's computer network to the limit, and the Big Board decided to knock off trading two hours early on Friday and this Monday and Tuesday to allow exhausted brokers time to catch up on their paperwork. At best, the President may have bought some time for the White House and Congress to come up with a program to convince investors that something worthwhile will be done to bring budget and trade deficits under control. Probably not much time, either. Wildly gyrating markets are better than those that plunge straight down, but they are hard on the nerves of stockholders who have already proved they are ready to jump at the first sign of trouble. The continued drop on the foreign exchanges Friday cannot be brushed off. If the wild week proved anything, it was that in an era when the U.S. is dependent on foreign goods and capital, no exchange is an island. Price breaks overseas can touch off panic in the U.S., which can then hammer prices down further abroad; that, in fact, is roughly what happened Monday and Tuesday. Moreover, even if prices stabilize--a gargantuan if, given the extreme jumpiness of the markets--the bust that has already occurred darkens prospects for business. Even in an economy the size of the U.S.'s, the nearly $385 billion in asset values that vanished last week alone is a sum large enough to have a strong impact. Not all those losses are theoretical; for many people who sold on Monday, the damage is painfully real. And investors who sat tight and saw the value of their stocks recover a bit at midweek have had an unforgettable demonstration that they cannot count on ---------- ### Baker: "Wait and See" *A seven-year veteran of the Reagan Administration, Treasury Secretary James Baker is no stranger to crisis. Rarely, however, has he been placed so squarely in the vortex. On Friday, Baker met over breakfast in the Treasury Secretary's ornate dining room with TIME's international economics correspondent, Christopher Redman. For 90 minutes they discussed the week's tumultuous events. Excerpts from the interview:* **Q. There have been accusations that your remarks about interest rates were ill-timed and helped trigger the Monday crash. Is that so?** **A.** What triggered it was not my remarks but a front-page story in one of our major newspapers. It quoted an unnamed Government official, not me, and drew inaccurate conclusions from my remarks in a way that could not but contribute to market nervousness. **Q. What needs to be done to prevent this crash from leading to a depression?** **A.** We need to continue to work hard to coordinate our economic policies in the manner envisaged by the Plaza and Louvre [international monetary] accords. And each country needs to do its utmost to take actions that are sometimes very difficult politically. We must recognize that more and more we are an interdependent world. **Q. Can we avoid a recession?** **A.** I think we can with the right policies. And we're pursuing the right policies in the United States by moving to negotiate a budget-deficit-reduction package with the Congress and by adopting an easier monetary policy stance. But it's important that monetary authorities around the world recognize that there's been a large loss of wealth and that consideration should be given to an easing of monetary policy. **Q. You didn't mention protectionism.** **A.** Trade is very important, and fear of protectionism was one thing that had equity markets unsettled. The Administration is totally committed to free trade, and the President has said he will veto protectionist trade bills now on the Hill. **Q. There's clearly going to be some negative impact from the crash. What's the damage, and how can it be limited?** (Photo caption: The Secretary: squarely in the vortex of events) 24 TIME, NOVEMBER 2, 1987 === Page 21 of 31 eventually being as rich in reality as they once looked on paper. To be sure, hardly anyone expects a rerun of the Great Depression that followed the 1929 Crash. Main reasons: the economy has developed many safeguards, and the Government, if it cannot yet be trusted to resolve the nation's fundamental financial problems, at least knows enough to avoid making the situation drastically worse. The banking system collapsed in the wake of the 1929 debacle, but it is much sounder today, shored up by federal deposit insurance, among other things. Says James Wilcox, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley: "In the 1930s when things looked bad, people ran from the banks out of fear. In 1987 people run to the banks to put their money in, because this time the banks are among the safest things around." The Federal Reserve Board, in hindsight, is widely considered to have played a role in converting the 1929 Crash into the 1930s Depression by allowing the U.S. supply of money and credit to shrink substantially at the worst possible time. Last week the Fed took exactly the opposite tack. Chairman Alan Greenspan on Monday was denounced by some critics for having inadvertently helped trigger the stock-market break by pushing up interest rates in early September. But on Tuesday morning he became something of an instant hero by reversing policy: just before the markets opened, he announced that the Federal Reserve, "consistent with its responsibilities as a central bank," would make as much money available as might be needed--for example, to banks that might be hurt by suddenly uncollectible loans to stockbrokers. Greenspan seemed to be as good as his word; by week's end the Fed was apparently pumping enough money into banks to bring interest rates down again slightly. Led by Citicorp, the major U.S. banks dropped the benchmark prime rate that they charge corporate customers from 9.25% to 9%. The move came only two weeks after the banks had boosted the prime from 8.75% to 9.25%. But if no depression is in the cards, the market crack could cause a recession all by itself. Economists last week were quoting odds like so many Las Vegas bookies. Some guessed the chances of a recession had gone from 1 in 4 to 1 in 2, others from 15% to 35%, but few doubted that the odds had increased. If a recession does not come, most agreed, the economy probably is in for at least a slowdown that might knock a percentage point or two off its growth rate. Frank Korth, senior vice president of Shearson Lehman, explains the mechanism by which market cracks get translated into slowdowns or recessions: "If you lose $4,000 in the stock market, you don't go out and spend $1,200 on a new color TV or $4,000 on a new motorboat. As a result, the man on the street whose job is in the boat plant is out of a job because there is no market for his company's product. Boatbuilders don't want to build inventory, so they close down their plants. Everybody loses: the plant workers, the suppliers, the corner grocer, the shoe store." This is, of course, a highly simplified scheme, and there is nothing inevitable **Reagan pointing out the market's (momentary) direction Thursday night, said an aide, "he almost blew it."** **A.** We don't know yet, and we won't know until we get a better readout on some of the credit problems that might spew out of this. Although we don't know of any, there may be problems in terms of ripple effects. So we have to wait and see. But we're doing what we can. I think the policy moves we've made are the right ones. We're in close contact with the exchanges. And we've just had some good numbers: growth in the third quarter came in at 3.8%, much stronger than we anticipated. That's good because we're going to have some adverse effects from this market decline and we'd rather have that coming off a high GNP number. **Q. Do you expect America's economic partners to make further efforts to ensure that the recovery continues?** **A.** We've all got to do what we can to bring our economies into better balance. **Q. Does that mean you still want to see faster growth in West Germany?** **A.** We want to see deficit countries--to wit, the United States--move on fiscal deficits and fight protectionism. And we'd like to see surplus countries generating as much growth as possible, consistent with maintaining the gains the world has made against inflation. **Q. As part of the U.S. contribution, the President said he will consider tax revenues in a deficit-reduction package.** **A.** Right. **Q. He also said they should not harm the economy. What form could they take?** **A.** As the President said, we're not going to negotiate in public by saying what is or is not that kind of tax. **Q. What was the President's objective at his news conference?** **A.** It was important for the President to be seen to be in charge, to be leading and taking action. He also needed not to be seen as another Herbert Hoover. He couldn't say, "Don't worry, everything's O.K." But at the same time he needed to be reassuring, and that's not an easy line to walk. **Q. Why the need for budget compromise?** **A.** The major plus to a negotiated deal is that the markets would see the two branches of Government cooperating to solve the problems. **Q. What's the time frame for reaching a deficit package?** **A.** We have to do this not in the months ahead but in the days ahead. **Q. Can any good come from this turmoil?** **A.** We probably wouldn't be doing this [negotiating with Congress] but for the events of the past week. It is clear that they were the catalyst that was needed to bring about face-to-face discussions on debt reductions. === Page 22 of 31 2247 # BED OF TRAVAILS Dow Jones industrials, daily closings **2028** **1950** **1951** **1841** **1739** MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY TIME Chart by Cynthia Davis | PRIME RATE | U.S. DOLLAR | TRADE DEFICIT | BUDGET DEFICIT | |---|---|---|---| | Yearly averages | Indexed against 10 currencies March 1973=100 | In billions | In billions | | '80 '87 | '80 '87 | '80 (proj.) '87 | '80 (proj.) '87 | about it; it could be averted by Government action that would restore confidence. But what kind of action? An answer must begin with an analysis of what triggered the market crash. Superficially, the bust might seem, to put it bluntly, insane. By no rational calculation could the asset value and earning power of American corporations be 22.6% less on Monday night than they had been the previous Friday. But that statement assumes that their values on Friday were realistic, and in hindsight there is widespread agreement that they were not. In other words, the crash to some extent really was--oh, all right--a correction, though on a scale to make that word seem ludicrously inadequate. Says Korth of Shearson Lehman: "The market should not have reached 2700 [on the Dow Jones average] in the first place. We probably should have been trading around 1900 or 2100; maybe 2000 would have been the right number based on interest rates, corporate earnings and other fundamentals. We were 700 points ahead on sheer greed." As early as August, when the American bull market celebrated its fifth birthday, some investing pros were noting apprehensively that stock prices were getting out of line with expected corporate earnings, and dividend yields had fallen well below the interest return on bonds, making the fixed-income securities potentially a better investment. But the general feeling then was that the Dow might go as high as 3000, on pure momentum if nothing else, so why not stick around for the end of the ride? A similar psychology ruled overseas, according to Nils Lundgren, chief economist of Sweden's PKbanken. Says he: "The market was really overspeculated, with people saying to themselves, 'I won't get out now, but as soon as stocks start to fall, I will sell.' When you have that mentality operating, you are ready for a big fall." When markets get into such a state, almost anything can start a smashup. In the event, last week's explosion did not lack for triggers. Interest rates were pushing higher; the yield on U.S. Treasury bonds rocketed briefly above 10%. That seemed likely to pull money out of stocks into the bond market. In fact, something of the sort seems to have happened. While the stock market suffered through its collapse Monday, the bond market began a brisk rally, presumably propelled by money fleeing the stock exchanges and looking for a safe haven. The biggest immediate blow of all was a report two weeks ago showing that the monthly U.S. trade deficit in August had declined only slightly, to $15.7 billion. Investors who had been hoping for a large reduction took that as a sign that U.S. finances were out of control and that the Reagan Administration did not know how to fix them. They began dumping stocks. Moneymen in the U.S. and Europe found a personal villain: U.S. Secretary of the Treasury James Baker. Some came close to implying that he turned a serious stock-price decline into an all-out crash single-handedly. That would be a wild exaggeration, but he surely did not help. What Baker did was get into a complicated but unnerving spat with West German financial authorities, who two weeks ago permitted the fourth rise in German interest rates in three months. What was so bad about that? Washington would like West Germany, Japan and other major countries to reduce interest rates for two reasons: 1) to avoid competing against the U.S. for international capital needed to cover the federal budget deficit; 2) to stimulate their domestic economies so they will import more U.S. products and not be so dependent on export sales that swell the American trade deficit. Baker might have been justified in criticizing the German interest-rate boost; === Page 23 of 31 # The Crash he was not the only moneyman to consider it unnecessary as well as unwise. The boost was supposed to combat inflation, but West Germany is a country with almost no inflation. Baker, however, went much further than merely criticizing the Germans. In a series of statements beginning Thursday, Oct. 15, and continuing through a TV interview on Sunday, he repeatedly asserted that the U.S. would not accept the German interest-rate boost quietly. Moneymen immediately read his comments to mean that Washington would no longer abide by the February Louvre accord under which the U.S., West Germany, Japan and four other nations try to keep the values of their currencies within a narrow trading range. Indeed, the New York Times quoted an unnamed "senior Administration official" as announcing an "abrupt shift in policy," implying the U.S. would seek to retaliate against the Germans not just by letting the dollar fall but by actively driving it down. For investors around the world, many of whom assumed the unnamed official must have been Baker, that raised horrifying specters: chaos in the currency markets and a breakdown of the slender degree of international financial cooperation achieved under the Louvre agreement (named after the Paris museum, which also houses the French Finance Ministry offices in which the accord was negotiated). U.S. Economist Pierre Rinfret accuses Baker of "initiating economic warfare against the Germans and then threatening to bomb his own currency." Treasury sources vehemently deny that Baker intended any such thing. All he wanted to say, they insist, was that Washington would not let the West Germans push the U.S. into raising its own interest rates; they point out that his statements never even mentioned the dollar specifically. And the unnamed senior official? It was not Baker, Treasury people insist; in fact, Baker would like to get his hands on whoever it was. Perhaps, but such statements cannot inspire confidence in the degree of policy coordination within the Reagan Administration. Ironically, Baker in a sense won his campaign. Flying to Europe for a scheduled visit Monday, he persuaded the West Germans to roll back the interest-rate increase he had assailed, and they together specifically reaffirmed the Louvre agreement. But it was much too late to calm the unrest Baker's previous statements had intensified. Well before he patched things up with the Germans, selling on the world's stock exchanges had accelerated into an all-out crash. One factor behind the speed of the market's descent was the almost complete computerization of the New York exchange and other markets. There is immense dispute, even days after the fact, as to what part computers that make trades semiautomatically played in touching off the gigantic volume of sell orders. Taking ## Greenspan's Big Test If any one man can decide how last week's market turmoil will affect the U.S. economy, and indeed that of the entire world, he is Alan Greenspan, 61. As chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, the soft-spoken economic forecaster is the ultimate arbiter of the nation's credit supply and thus of the interest rates at which money is lent throughout the U.S. banking system. On the job less than three months, Greenspan is suddenly being forced to make rapid and delicate decisions to prevent the market crash from turning into a mushrooming financial collapse and to stave off a steep recession. Says Charles Schultze, who was chairman of President Jimmy Carter's Council of Economic Advisers: "Greenspan is in a very difficult period in which he is truly being tested." Following Black Monday, Greenspan moved quickly to avert further disaster. The day after the market's plunge, the new Fed chairman cut short a speaking trip to Dallas and hurried back to his ornate second-floor office in Washington's Eccles Building. He had already issued a terse announcement that the nation's central bank would "serve as a source of liquidity to support the economic and financial system." That was a signal that banks would have no difficulty obtaining additional credit as needed to provide for the huge losses sustained by shell-shocked brokerages. Greenspan's announcement produced an immediate decline in interest rates, as the banking system moved in effect to replace some of the $500 billion in stock values that vanished on Black Monday. Greenspan also began moving behind the scenes to bolster the Reagan Administration's political response to the crash. Within an hour of Treasury Secretary James Baker's return from West Germany to Washington on Tuesday, Greenspan was huddling with him to plan the Administration's response to the market crash. Later that day the Fed chairman helped persuade Reagan to offer Congress a summit meeting to negotiate a federal-deficit reduction program. People like Lyle Gramley, a former Federal Reserve governor who is now chief economist for the Mortgage Bankers Association, praised the Fed chairman for his decisive actions. But critics like Paul Craig Roberts of Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies charge that Greenspan also helped cause last week's market disaster. They note that back on Sept. 4, Greenspan's first important move as Fed chief was to push successfully for a hike in the bellwether discount rate, the interest that the Fed charges on funds lent to financial institutions, from 5½% to 6%. It was the first such increase in nearly 3½ years. Greenspan justified the rate hike as a move against potential inflationary pressures, which indeed it was. But for investors, any increase in interest rates makes stocks less attractive, since higher returns become available for bonds, Treasury bills and other fixed-income securities. During the two trading days after the Fed announced its decision, the Dow Jones industrial average dropped 54 points. Admits Gramley: "A common problem is the markets do not understand Alan Greenspan's statements. He needed to express [the Fed's decision] more clearly." Greenspan's task is especially difficult because he follows Paul Volcker, who left the Fed last August after eight years as chairman. Volcker was legendary for his ability to inspire confidence, at home and abroad. Greenspan's experience is also grounds for reassurance. In 2½ years as Gerald Ford's chief economic adviser, he had some success in combatting inflation, then the nation's main economic woe. But, unfortunately, the progress was temporary, and inflation was not decisively licked until a severe credit squeeze was imposed in the early 1980s by Volcker and the Fed. ![The chairman after a huddle at Treasury] The chairman after a huddle at Treasury CYNTHIA JOHNSON === Page 24 of 31 # The Crash ![Frenzy on the floor of the Tokyo Stock Exchange as prices dropped on Tuesday] **Frenzy on the floor of the Tokyo Stock Exchange as prices dropped on Tuesday** no chances, however, the Big Board after the Monday debacle instituted restrictions on so-called program trades of large portfolios of stock carried out by computer, in order to damp down price swings. In a broader sense, computers unquestionably had an all-important role. They enable the exchanges to execute trades swiftly, in volume that would have been inconceivable a few years ago. So at times of market excitement, the volume that would once have been stretched over a week or so gets squeezed into a day. When the orders are predominantly on one side, prices run up or down violently. But never so violently as on Black Monday. Tickers and news reports flashed the story of huge price declines on heavy volume. With each sale, more investors became convinced that a collapse had begun and they had better get out while they still could. Mutual-fund managers tried to hold on but could not; they had to dump stock to get cash to pay off investors who clamored to redeem their fund shares. Margin calls to investors who had bought stock on credit aggravated the frenzy. Some could not put up additional collateral and were sold out. Why, then, did the rout give way to a rally? Traditionally, that happens after every so-called selling climax (even in 1929), because most investors who were thinking of selling have been cleaned out in one grand sweep and buyers start looking for newly cheap shares. The rally in the middle of last week was given particularly powerful support by some 200 major corporations that started buying up their own stock at bargain prices, in part to keep it out of the hands of would-be raiders. The crash put at least a temporary damper on mergers and acquisitions anyway. Several deals fell through because the bids made for the target companies suddenly looked unrealistically high after the general decline in stock prices. But it is anyone's guess whether the small degree of stability so painfully achieved on Friday--volume dwindled as the Dow average stood almost still--will hold even for days or hours. Alan Meltzer, professor of political economy at Pittsburgh's Carnegie-Mellon University, thinks the "markets will remain volatile because there are still too many unanswered questions." The most fundamental questions, economists agree with the closest approach to unanimity they ever achieve, are: How long will the U.S. try to live it up on borrowed money? And can it summon the will to start the painful readjustment necessary to kick the habit--a readjustment that grows more painful the longer it is put off? The problem is hideously complicated in detail but simple enough in outline. Ever since the giant tax cuts of 1981, the U.S. has been running deficits on a scale never seen before. True, Reagan announced at his press conference that the deficit in fiscal 1987, which ended on Sept. 30, dropped to $148 billion, from $221 billion the prior fiscal year. But the new figure is still far too high, and it is likely to rise again soon; much of the 1987 reduction was due to one-shot effects of the tax-reform law. Concurrently, the U.S. has swung from a surplus of exports over imports of $3 billion as recently as 1975 to a trade deficit of $156 billion last year. One result is that America has run up a foreign debt of about $250 billion. Economists across a broad spectrum of ideological positions warn almost with one voice that this situation is precarious in the extreme. Foreigners will not continue forever to finance American profligacy, and the stock-market crash was a relatively mild foretaste of what could happen if they pull their money out. The nation would then face a grim choice of financing the deficit by ruinous printing-press inflation or a sudden, brutal cutback in spending that might trigger a real economic bust. No wonder, then, that stock investors have been nervous. Whatever the precise mix of emotions and events that triggered last week's collapse--and to establish that mix would require probing into millions of minds around the world--its root cause was a dim but accurate perception that U.S. prosperity was not sustainable with present policy. And with Congress and the President perpetually wrangling over the most modest proposals to reduce the budget deficit, they could see no sign that policy was about to change. In truth, even with the most brilliant policy, the passage to a sounder prosperity is likely to be tricky, dangerous and painful. Lowering the trade deficit will take years, and will probably require a cut in American consumption--meaning, in ![Newsstand headlines the same day tell what happened in "the City," London's Wall Street. Pretty much the same thing in Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Zurich, Madrid...] **Newsstand headlines the same day tell what happened in "the City," London's Wall Street. Pretty much the same thing in Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Zurich, Madrid...** === Page 25 of 31 # The Crash other words, at least a temporary reduction in the standard of living. Many economists think the dollar will have to fall further too, reluctant as both U.S. and foreign moneymen are to see that happen. The reluctance is understandable. Unless a decline is carefully managed, it will raise two dangers: a renewal of inflation and a panic flight of foreign capital from the U.S. (since foreigners would not be eager to hold dollar-denominated investments that shrank in value against their own currencies). But there is an impressive consensus, in the U.S. and abroad, on how to begin to correct the imbalances in the American economy. The President and the Democratic-controlled Congress must agree, right away, on a package of measures that hold some real promise of reducing the budget deficit steadily and substantially. Certainly these must include painful spending cuts. But they must also include tax increases, much as Reagan hates the thought. Not because they are any panacea; indeed they carry a serious risk. Higher taxes might reduce consumer spending just when a recession is beginning, and deepen the slump. But no significant budget cut is possible without at least some sort of modest tax increase, and no progress toward solving the nation's fundamental economic problems is possible without a real deficit reduction. That was the theme, implicit or explicit, of comments around the world last week. Foreign government and financial leaders have an all-important stake in U.S. economic policy. The worldwide market crack is already hurting their economies; for example, it has delayed European programs to privatize industry by selling chunks of government-owned companies to individual investors. An American recession, should that be the result of a continued stock slump, could quickly travel abroad. French President François Mitterrand, speaking at a financial forum Thursday, complained about a "world that constantly moves the carpet under your feet, pulling it out and threatening to trip you up." The market bust, he said, "is the disorder of a non-system. There is no system. It has been broken." Others left no doubt about who must bear responsibility for fixing it. Says a senior Canadian government economist: "Everyone, all around the world, has been keeping an eye on the U.S. economy and wondering how long it could continue to survive without dealing with things like its trade imbalance and its huge federal deficit. When people became convinced that the U.S. lacked the will (we know it has the ability) to deal with these problems, they lost confidence in the U.S. market." Guido Carli, former head of the Bank of Italy, is specific about what needs to be done: "The only way out is to reduce the U.S. deficit. Otherwise there is a risk of recession." Does Reagan now understand the necessity? Just before Black Monday, Treasury Secretary Baker in a TV interview restated the President's opposition to any sort of tax boost. But he and other insiders were already monitoring the stock market apprehensively. The previous Friday, White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker had pulled together an informal group consisting of himself, the Treasury Secretary, Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Beryl Sprinkel, Federal Reserve Chairman Greenspan and White House Aide Kenneth Duberstein. They Watching the tape through the window of a brokerage in Washington For the week, a crazy whipsaw: up, down, up, down--in hours. *** ## Are Computers to Blame? If big investors are determined to panic, computers can sure help. A few keystrokes into a broker's desktop computer can trigger the sale of thousands of shares of, say, 500 different companies. Such "program trades" may have played a role in making Black Monday the worst day in Wall Street history. As one Chicago broker joked, the difference between 1929 and 1987 is that last week, it was the computers that jumped out the windows. But how much are the computers to blame? That issue stirs a great deal of confusion. The term program trading is misleading: it derives not from the fact that trades are executed by computer programs but that they involve the systematic sale of portfolios of stocks as if they were one stock. The first program trades, executed in the early 1970s, did not involve computers. Program trading came into its own in 1982, with the advent of stock-index futures. These enable investors to make a bet on which way the entire market is going. Index futures, used with program trades in the stocks on the index, open up a variety of opportunities. One of the most popular takes advantage of momentary differences between the price of a futures contract and of the stocks themselves. When this spread is sufficiently wide, a trader can lock in a profit at no risk by, say, buying the futures and selling the underlying stocks. This practice, called index arbitrage, has been blamed for the sharply increased volatility of the market, though the point has never been conclusively proved. Indeed, some experts believe index arbitrage actually reduces volatility by helping the market reverse course when it goes too far in one direction. But most arbitragers were on the sidelines last Monday because the computers that track prices had fallen hopelessly behind. The real culprit was a variation of program trading called portfolio insurance. This is a defensive strategy designed to protect stock portfolios against market downturns. Rather than sell stocks as their prices are falling, portfolio insurers sell stock-index futures. If the decline persists, the futures can be repurchased at a lower level, yielding a substantial profit that will offset some of the loss sustained on the stocks. But traders who buy the futures hedge their positions by making computer-aided sales of the underlying stocks, driving the market down further. If computers did help accelerate the Black Monday slide, they were not responsible for it. As an IBM executive once said, "Computers don't kill stock markets. People do." === Page 26 of 31 Wall Street crowd on Tuesday: wild gyrations are better than relentless declines, but still very hard on the nerves met with the President after the market had closed with a then record loss of 108.36 points (shortly to be vastly eclipsed). Their message: basic economic indicators were good, but the markets were very nervous. On Monday, Howard Baker was on the telephone almost all day long, keeping in touch with old colleagues on Capitol Hill, where he had once been Republican Senate leader, and phoning people on Wall Street, including New York Stock Exchange Chairman John Phelan, to get market reports. At 3:40 p.m., 20 minutes before the close of trading, the chief of staff and Duberstein called at the Oval Office to give Reagan a market status report. But prices were tumbling too rapidly for anyone to keep track of them. Reagan, as his later statements indicated, simply did not know what to make of the crash. The decisive meeting occurred Tuesday after the market close. James Baker, by then back in his Treasury office after having cut short his trip to Europe, first called in Howard Baker, Greenspan and Sprinkel to coordinate what they would tell the President. Then, joined by Duberstein, they went upstairs in the White House to the brightly colored West Sitting Room, which the Reagans use as a living room. James Baker opened by telling Reagan that the world seemed to be looking for some movement on the President's part, and the quickest way he could display leadership was by reaching a compromise with Congress on reducing the budget deficit. Everyone knew that would have to include a tax increase. Greenspan, who had been an informal economic adviser to Reagan before the President chose him to head the Federal Reserve, voiced a somewhat perverse but effective argument: in effect, the only way to keep taxes low was to agree to raise them a bit. If there was no budget compromise with Congress, he said, the financial markets might continue to weaken and the economy might take a real turn for the worse. That, he continued, might give the Democrats enough political clout to shove through a big increase severely trimming back Reagan's cherished tax cuts, either by ramming one through over the President's veto or by winning the 1988 election and enacting a stiff boost after Reagan left office. The President showed great reluctance to accept the advice that he should compromise on a modest boost now. But, says one participant, eventually the "President bought the [Greenspan] argument that if the economy goes down the tubes you lose the whole thing, the whole legacy." Even so, the two Bakers had to argue further on Thursday to cement Reagan's agreement to state in his press conference that night that he would put everything on the table in budget discussions with congressional leaders. But as the President began speaking, advisers who had coached him were concerned that he would take back that pledge almost immediately after making it. Their fear was that once Reagan got past his prepared statement and started answering reporters' questions, he would go on automatic pilot and repeat all his standard denunciations of taxes. In fact, Reagan once or twice started to do exactly that but caught himself before going too far. Said an adviser the next day: "He almost blew it. He came very close." But he did not blow it, and the budget negotiations were set to begin early this week. It should not take long to find out whether some agreement can be reached. Even if a renewed market decline does not force a quick resolution--and one very well might--the talks will be racing a deadline of sorts. If a budget compromise is not worked out and enacted by Nov. 20, some $23 billion of automatic spending cuts go into effect under a modified version of the Gramm-Rudman Act. They would slash away with idiot impartiality at defense and social spending, at good programs and bad. And that would just about end any chance that Washington would give the stock markets the signal they yearn for. What if the negotiations break down and the market gets the opposite signal: that the U.S. is unable or unwilling even to start working out some long-range solution to its gargantuan budget and trade deficits? As last week's wild price whipsawing demonstrated, no one can predict stock prices and volume for even a few hours. But if the U.S. continues to float on a sea of red ink and foreign debt--well then, many financial experts suggest, sooner or later the markets can expect the real crash. How it could be much worse than Black Monday is as difficult to imagine as was Black Monday itself just days before. But the world had better hope it never finds out what that ultimate bust would be like. --By George J. Church. Reported by Rosemary Byrnes and Barrett Seaman/Washington and Frederick Ungeheuer/New York, with other bureaus === Page 27 of 31 # A Shock Felt Round the World ## Stock markets plummet and climb between "hell and heaven" Investors all over the globe were nervous even before markets opened on the historic day that came to be Black Monday, Oct. 19, 1987. On the previous Friday, the Dow Jones industrial average had suffered a record one-day decline of 108.36 points, to 2246.73. The sense of imminent foreboding was evident as far away as Australia, where the Monday-morning sun rises over the Pacific while it is still Sunday afternoon in New York City. MONDAY, OCTOBER 19 MELBOURNE, 10 A.M. One of the first markets to open after Friday's Wall Street scare quickly signals the shocks to come. On a catwalk above the gathering gloom on the trading floor, neatly uniformed "chalkies" sketch stock prices on a green board. All are falling. TOKYO, 9 A.M. Uncertainty prevails among the 2,000 dealers in the brand-new Kabutocho exchange building as they try to make sense of Friday's record loss in New York. What will happen on Wall Street later today? The Nikkei Dow Jones index of 225 traded stocks falls from 26,366 to 25,746. HONG KONG, 10 A.M. Traders in red waistcoats on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange floor trade in a rush as the Hang Seng index of 30 stocks opens at 3783. In 40 minutes, it drops 133 points. The index ends the day down 421, the worst point loss ever. Officials close the exchange for four days. LONDON, 8 A.M. A backlog of sell orders has accumulated from Friday, when damage from one of Britain's worst windstorms kept many dealers home. That day's selling gusts from New York make things even worse. Says Christopher Dark, a manager of Salomon Brothers' London branch: "I keep thinking about the little man with the sign saying THE END OF THE WORLD IS NIGH." NEW YORK, 9 A.M. On the 34th-floor trading room of the Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ) brokerage firm on Wall Street, arriving traders are startled by the presence of uniformed security guards. Corporate officials, deluged by cabled sell orders, know a rough day is ahead: the guards are there to protect traders from any violent clients. The New York Stock Exchange is not yet open, but already some of the firm's brokers are perspiring at their telephone consoles, staring at banked arrays of 200 blinking buttons. Tension mounts as Dudley Eppel, a managing director, delivers a grim pep talk: "Well, here we go. Let's keep our cool and maybe we'll all get through this thing alive. Let's go get 'em!" NEW YORK, 9:30 A.M. The Big Board opens. At the bell, the Dow is already off 67 points. In the next 30 minutes, 50 million shares are sold. At DLJ two blocks away, glowing green figures on computer consoles trace the market's fall. "We're going underwater!" shouts Trader John Sesko as he pops Tic Tac candies into his dry mouth. "55,000 Pepsis to sell!" barks one trader. "60,000 GM to sell!" yells another. The cries do not stop. "Boston wants to sell 30,000 J.P. Morgan!" Long before lunchtime, a trader shouts, "Hamburger to go! Hamburger to go in six figures!" He wants to peddle 100,000 shares of McDonald's. NEW YORK, 10:30 A.M. Already 140 million shares have been traded--normally a calm day's average volume. The Dow has sunk another 34 points, down a total of 101, to 2145. LOS ANGELES, 7:30 A.M. Physician Richard Weiss listens to radio reports of the developing fiasco as he drives to work. Weiss pulls off the freeway and phones his broker with an order to sell his entire portfolio. The broker ticks off plummeting quotes. "There's Disney going 78, 70, 68. We're making history here." Says Weiss: "We're doing it with my money." He loses $100,000. NEW YORK, 11 A.M. The mood turns surly at DLJ. "Get off my butt!" yells a sweating trader to another. As one man breaks into a stream of curses, Managing Director Eppel jumps to his feet. "Now stop it! Just calm down!" The Dow is down 201 points in 1½ hours. FRANKFURT, 4 P.M. Treasury Secretary James Baker meets secretly with West German Finance Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg and Bundesbank President Karl Otto Pöhl. Out of the session comes a statement pledging cooperation in stabilizing currencies. Earlier in the day, Bonn's central bank takes steps to ease interest rates. NEW YORK, 11:45 A.M. There is a glimmer of hope. After dropping 201 points, the Dow has gained 95 in the past 30 minutes. It now stands at 2130. Is a turnabout in the works? NEW YORK, NOON The Dow, now falling, is at 2103. Long lines of people form to take turns in the N.Y.S.E.'s spectator gallery. Heather Walker, 27, wants to "tell my grandchildren I was there." But she wonders if the crash means she will never be a mother. "Even in good times, men are scared of getting married," says Walker. "In the coming depression, forget it." WASHINGTON, 12:30 P.M. White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker is on the phone to N.Y.S.E. Chairman John Phelan, among others. Baker also calls Treasury Secretary Baker in Europe, and he agrees to return as soon as possible to Washington. NEW YORK, 12:30 P.M. The Dow is falling again, now down 173. SAN FRANCISCO, 10 A.M. At Associated Foreign Exchange, a precious-metals and foreign-currency brokerage, a run begins on Krugerrands, Canadian Maple Leafs and American Eagle gold coins. The frenzy ends only when the company's entire stock is sold: 2,500 coin worth nearly $1 million. === Page 28 of 31 508-point drop rivals crash of '29 By Gregg Fields Post-Star 10/20/87 Knight-Ridder Panic swept the world financial markets Monday, producing a collapse of stock prices and a 508-point drop in the Dow Jones industrial average that easily eclipsed the infamous collapse of 1929. Analysts said fears were fueled by everything from the Reagan administration's fiscal policy to military activity in the Persian Gulf. As a result, the dollar fell along with stock prices, and gold prices soared around the globe. The dollar fell against all major currencies except the Canadian dollar, although some U.S. Treasury bonds actually scored slight gains as people sold stocks and sought the security of government issues. "Fear has overtaken greed (on Wall Street)," said Steven L. Eber, a Coral Gables, Fla., investment adviser. "In terms of confidence, the market is acting as if Moammar Gadhafi is going to be our next president." The Hong Kong stock market today suspended trading for the rest of the week in response to the spectacular worldwide slide. The stock exchange issued a statement saying its general committee held an emergency meeting this morning and unanimously decided to suspend trading through Friday. All outstanding transactions must be settled during that period, it said. The move was taken "to protect the investors and to allow the brokers to have time to settle the backlogs ... We need the time," Ronald Li, Panic rules market; Traders in a tizzy By Mariann Caprino Post-Star 10/20/87 AP Business Writer NEW YORK -- As traders join in the stampede to unload stocks, experts say that a profound loss of confidence in the market is generating even more selling. And while Wall Street professionals are said to have tough skins, psychologists warn that record drops in the Dow Jones industrial average are giving dealers real live "shock" symptoms. "There's just panic at this point. There's blood in the street," said one market observer who asked not to be identified. The stampede phenomenon began taking shape when the Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks plummeted a record 108 points on Friday. On Monday, the bloodbath continued, eroding billions of dollars from the value of stocks. "There's a certain attitude which feeds on itself, and selling tends to create additional selling," said Lawrence Kudlow, chief financial economist at Bear Stearns & Co. Even if fundamental factors are not as terrible as trading activity would seem, one economist said it just doesn't make any sense to go against the market. "An emotional frenzy has pushed reason to the background," he said. But on a deeper level, as dealing continues amid intense turbulence, psychologists warn that traders are likely to be suffering from serious symptoms of shock and stress, impeding their ability to make quick, strategic decisions. "Either (traders) are having anxiety problems -- like heart palpitations and headaches -- or they're preoccupied with pessimistic thoughts of overwhelming doom," said Harold Berson, a Brooklyn-based psychiatrist. Whatever their ailments, "this is not the time to be making decisions," he said. Berson noted that traders are likely to lose their objectivity. "They will overlook some companies that are strong and let their emotions override reason." Trading and making money in a bear market is always difficult, and experts admit that even the pros who know the ropes have a difficult time dealing with wave after wave of selling. Briefly Post-Star 10/20/87 Exchange has no plans to close NEW YORK (AP) -- The head of the New York Stock Exchange said Monday that there are no plans to close the exchange at the moment in response to a securities selloff he described as "the worst market I have ever seen in my lifetime or would hope to see again." John Phelan, the exchange's chairman and chief executive, said there was no reason for the markets to open late today. Speaking at a crowded news conference at the exchange, Phelan called Monday's activity that saw the Dow Jones industrial average plummet an unofficial 508 points a "significant fall, a significant decline of assets." He said the drop to 1,738 in the widely watched indicator represented a "culmination of things that have been building up for the last nine months," including a rise in interest rates, rekindled inflation fears, a decline in the dollar and "five years of a bull market without a correction." Asked if Monday's severe performance constituted a financial "meltdown," Phelan replied, "I'd call it the nearest thing to a meltdown I'd ever want to see," and one that will have ripple effects in other markets. === Page 29 of 31 Star, Glens Falls, N.Y. Wednesday, October 21, 1987 # Chaos on Wall Street # Converging events cause economic collapse By Gregg Fields Knight-Ridder On April 3, 1974, a huge cold front slammed headlong into a massive warm front in the Midwest. The result spawned a record-setting day of destructive tornadoes. Whole communities watched their pasts destroyed. Forests that took hundreds of years to grow were leveled. It was a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence -- an incredible confluence of seemingly unimportant events. This week, the same thing happened on Wall Street. In Tokyo. In London, Hong Kong, Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Singapore. Relatively small news events slammed into economic realities and, once converged, produced a whirlwind of economic collapse around the world. "What caused it is a convergence of a lot of factors coming together at one point," said Jim King, president of Ivy Financial Services, a Boston-based mutual fund organization. Among the factors: * Trade deficit: The U.S. trade deficit figure released last week was an improvement over recent months, but was disappointing to investors who had hoped that the trade crisis was easing. With a huge deficit, the U.S. economy must fight harder to attract foreign investors who see falling value for their glut of dollars. * The dollar: The U.S. government must support its currency if it has any hope of stabilizing its trade deficit. Falling currencies mean that Americans must pay more to buy imports, which can produce inflation. In addition, foreign investors become reluctant to use their strong currencies to buy dollar-denominated U.S. Treasury bonds, which the United States uses to fund its almost $2 trillion national debt. On Sunday, Treasury Secretary James Baker said one solution might be for the dollar to decline further against major currencies such as the West German mark and the Japanese yen. But that was a red flag for foreign investors, who sought to dump their holding of dollar-based investments. * Interest rates. Other than allowing the dollar to fall, the only way to support a currency is to raise interest rates, which make the U.S. currency a better investment compared to foreign investments. But high interest rates stifle economic growth, sending fears into investors who imagine a recession around the corner. Rates hurt because consumers must pay more to borrow for their purchases and new homes, and corporations pay more to borrow to expand. Stocks become less attractive because other investments have a higher yield. Abroad, rising interest rates hurt foreign economies, making them less likely to expand and buy U.S. exports. "Interest rates tend to dominate the market," said Bob Bear, chairman of the finance department at Florida International University. * Technology: Once investors saw the possibility of a decline in their stock values, the new world of computer trading became apparent. There's one stock market now. It runs virtually all-day, circling the globe, along with the sun, from Tokyo to New York. As panic gripped New York, it hit Tokyo, Hong Kong and the other world exchanges. The world's Western economies are so intricately tied that everybody knows that if one country falls -- particularly the United States -- they all will. Complicating matters more, the new world of technology means that humans don't decide when to trade stocks. Computers do. It's called programmed trading. As stocks fall, computer programs run by huge institutions place gigantic sell orders. Meanwhile, much of the trading isn't due to economic fundamentals at all. It's the result of trading in new financial instruments -- things like index options and futures contracts. These products are only a few years old, and have mushroomed in popularity. But never before has the world witnessed all these computer-driven programs kicking in at once. What occurred is much like a feeding frenzy in the cafeteria of a sinking ship. === Page 30 of 31 Black Monday II # Wall Street troubles hit home ## Investors, brokers, pension funds, companies all take hits By Rick Gladstone The Associated Press NEW YORK -- The stock market's stupefying drop has injected frightening uncertainty into the economy and could have a profound impact on millions of Americans who don't ordinarily think about the wild gyrations of Wall Street. The results of a violently depressed stock market may be felt over the next several months in the form of lower consumer spending, higher unemployment, reductions in business plans and even a recession, economists said Monday. "The stock market always has been a leading indicator of the economy," said John Markese, vice president of the American Association of Individual Investors in Chicago. "If the market is right and it's a precursor of a declining economy, then we all have to be worried." The impact of a bear market already has started to affect fortunes on Wall Street, where many young professional brokers accustomed to six-figure salaries and high-priced Manhattan condos are confronting the prospect they may take pay cuts or possibly lose their jobs. More than 1,000 people have been laid off in the past month, and several major brokerages reportedly are contemplating big restructurings on the theory that the market's 5-year-old upward direction has reversed and interest rates are starting to rise significantly. Many economists said the sudden loss of hundreds of billions of dollars worth of stock value would ripple through the economy in waves, simply by making investors much more cautious about where they put their money or convincing them to keep it in safe, interest-bearing savings accounts. "A lot of people could be affected by a prolonged and severe decline in the market," said James Lorie, a professor at the University of Chicago's graduate business school. "A major market decline represents a major decline in wealth, and people's willingness to spend money depends on wealth. The indirect effect could be significant to people who don't invest." For example, investors who had wanted to buy new cars, houses or appliances with earnings from their stock mutual funds might scrap those plans now. That in turn could hurt auto dealers, retailers and building contractors, who already are suffering from economic sluggishness and rising interest rates. Many companies could be particularly hard hit by the market debacle because their pension funds were among the most significant institutional investors. Although the pensions of an estimated 40 million Americans aren't jeopardized, companies may have to compensate for stock losses suffered by those funds. "People should be concerned about the market because many own stocks, whether they know it or not, through a pension fund," said Steven Malin, an economist at the Conference Board, a business research group in New York. "Obviously, what has happened in many companies is that the rise in the stock market had been so propitious that pensions were overfunded and the companies didn't have to contribute," he said. "We may get into a situation where a company might have to make a contribution. For companies with tight budgets, that could mean jobs." Sharply lower stock prices also can severely hurt a corporation's ability to raise money for expansion. Companies historically have gone to the stock market to raise capital by selling shares to the public, but stock could now become much harder to sell. A2--Post-Star, Glens Falls, N.Y. We # National Sce # Briefly ## Shuttle springs leak in engine CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- An engine with a tiny leak has robbed workers of most of the cushion time they had to prepare Discovery for the first post-Challenger shuttle flight June 2 and may force a delay, NASA's administrator said Tuesday. Engineers suspected that one of Discovery's three main engines had sprung a leak following a 520-second test firing of the powerplant on Oct. 10 at the National Space Technology Laboratories near Bay St. Louis, Miss. Administrator James C. Fletcher confirmed at a news conference Tuesday that there indeed was a leak. "They found a very, very tiny leak in the oxidizer heat exchanger, but nevertheless it was beyond specs," he said. "We've moved up another engine and that's what's causing the tightness of the schedule because that will be delivered to the Kennedy Space Center somewhat later than the original one." === Page 31 of 31 # Panic could trigger recession ## Experts say stock collapse might create ripple effect By Rosalind Resnick Knight-Ridder Post Star UFOs or Economy 10/20/87 MIAMI -- This month's stock market collapse could signal a recession as early as 1989, but investor panic could trigger one even sooner, economists said Monday. Consumer belt-tightening -- sparked by the stock plunge -- could send the economy into a tailspin by next year, some observers fretted. If consumers spend less, businesses that sell goods and services will suffer, creating a ripple effect that could devastate the economy. "People are not going to be spending money on Christmas this year," said Steve Eber of Eber & Co. in Coral Gables, Fla. "They're going to say, 'My stock's been so hit I'll be damned if I buy that Tandy computer for Junior.'" Economists say there's long-term trouble, too. Though national economic indicators, such as unemployment, inflation and sales, remain healthy, rising interest rates that might reach 12 percent next year could strangle corporate growth and consumer spending by the end of the decade. Observers say they do not see a direct connection between Monday's stock market free fall and a souring economy, but they point to a common cause -- soaring interest rates. "We're not predicting a recession in 1989, but there is a strong possibility of one by 1990," said Cynthia Latta, a senior financial economist with Data Resources Inc. of Lexington, Mass. Paul Getman, a senior economist with WEFA Group in Bala Cynwyd, Pa., said he hopes the market will rebound in the next six months, but he believes a recession is likely in 1989, triggered largely by rising interest rates, the budget and trade deficit and a plunging dollar. "(The decline) is signaling that there are serious problems out there -- the many deficits we have and the problems with the currency," Getman said. "For a long time, the stock market has been playing catch-up. At some point, the party will be over." Monday's record plunge surpassed historical declines, dropping 22.62 percent to 1738.41. Even after the latest drop, the value of its 30 industrial stocks has more than doubled ### What happened: * Market falls 508 points, worst single drop in history. * Volume of 604.4 million shares nearly doubles old record. * Losing stocks swamp gainers, 1,976 to 41. * Gold prices hit five-year high. * Bonds benefit, get money from stock market. * Dollar stays relatively stable. Nov 1987 Bonney Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8711b https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/ae936ccfb1e4199e8d27eea26b02be6e.pdf 698b1a6b8837bbc6ed0e1807e08dd646 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/f8a8f7322ea47c1b5f45bbaca1429270.txt 76c3cba600c791ee4bc9847da03da3ea Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letters to Owens Children Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 # TED OWENS LETTERS TO CHILDREN # GENERAL LETTERS Jeff received week of July 14, 2025 11120 Bermuda Dunes, ABQ. Sent from Lori Rodriguez in Beaverton, Oregon. Recorded by Lewis Barlow July 19, 2025 Majority written in 1965 and 1966 but were a couple of letters from 1970 and 1976. We received several different packages from Lori that contained Ted Owens letters to his children. As this was more of a general package of letters and covered several different dates, for organization purposes we will just call it general letters. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. 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Title A name given to the resource Letters to Owens Children Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 # TED OWENS LETTERS TO CHILDREN # GENERAL LETTERS Jeff received week of July 14, 2025 11120 Bermuda Dunes, ABQ. Sent from Lori Rodriguez in Beaverton, Oregon. Recorded by Lewis Barlow July 19, 2025 Majority written in 1965 and 1966 but were a couple of letters from 1970 and 1976. We received several different packages from Lori that contained Ted Owens letters to his children. As this was more of a general package of letters and covered several different dates, for organization purposes we will just call it general letters. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. 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Title A name given to the resource Ted Owens packages received from Lori Rodriguez Description An account of the resource Ted Owens packages received from Lori Rodriguez https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/43285ea089a46da4fe0e859e03039e74.pdf b38b87d4eeb5c9678f629d57c2c902a2 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/41175cbb1c41c18bcbda5415cf5dab66.txt 1478a088e14b565d99eb57d5ae310ec2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letters to Owens Children Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 # TED OWENS LETTERS TO CHILDREN # GENERAL LETTERS Jeff received week of July 14, 2025 11120 Bermuda Dunes, ABQ. Sent from Lori Rodriguez in Beaverton, Oregon. Recorded by Lewis Barlow July 19, 2025 Majority written in 1965 and 1966 but were a couple of letters from 1970 and 1976. We received several different packages from Lori that contained Ted Owens letters to his children. As this was more of a general package of letters and covered several different dates, for organization purposes we will just call it general letters. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 38 MORNING, JULY 19, 1965 Triangle Publications, Inc. Vol. 273 No. 19 Torrential Showers Soak Parts of Area Water Crisis Eased By ALFRED P. KLIMCKE and WILLIAM B. COLLINS Of The Inquirer Staff 7/19 Thundershowers that hit parts of the Upper Delaware River Basin over the weekend swept into Greater Philadelphia on Sunday afternoon, drenching some sections with brief but torrential downpours. The showers have eased the water supply crisis for the time-being at least, according to Robert E. Fish, deputy river master. In Philadelphia sporadic street flooding and minor storm damage were reported in sections struck by the quick-skipping storm. Pea-size hailstones that accompanied the rain rattled against windows of Center City office buildings and West Philadelphia homes, stinging hapless pedestrians as they raced for cover. 30 ARE EVACUATED Weather observers at International Airport reported that .11 inches of rain fell there during one brief, heavy rainstorm and periods of light rain that followed it. A spokesman said heavier rain, up to nearly an inch, fell in some suburban areas west and northwest of the city. More than 30 persons were evacuated from three three-story apartment buildings on Mount Vernon st. after the brick facing on a 10 by 12 foot section of exterior wall at the rear of the center building collapsed minutes after the storm passed through the area. 12 FLEE BUILDING Residents of 2029 Mount Vernon st. told police of hearing "a rumble," and feeling their floors sag as the brick facing collapsed. Twelve residents of that building, nine of them young children, fled. Residents were also temporarily evacuated from the two adjacent structures. Lightning knocked two-feet off the top of a double chimney at 5028-30 Rorer ave., Feltonville. The brick crashed to a concrete patio in front of the row-house. Winds felled a number of trees and large branches throughout the city, blocking some traffic lanes temporarily 08/08/2025 15:09 === Page 2 of 38 CUTBACK ORDERED Fish said on Sunday that he was issuing orders for a cutback of the amount of water released from New York City and utility company reservoirs into the Delaware. "In the next two days, we will cut back about one third each day," Fish said. "This isn't a whole lot," he added, "but it is some saving, and we'll save what we can." Fish, who is with the U. S. Geological Survey, emphasized that the drought was not over and that the cutback may be a temporary thing. EMERGENCY STILL ON The water emergency declared on July 7 by the Delaware River Basin Commission still is in effect. Invoking its emergency powers, the commission ordered the release of a total of 466 million gallons a day from reservoirs in the upper basin. The action was taken to guarantee the fresh water supply of Philadelphia and New Jersey communities. With the normal flow of the Delaware River drastically reduced by four years of drought, salt water Continued on Page 20, Column 2 === Page 3 of 38 LORNIE -- REMEMBER OUR PUPIL WHO COULDN'T RESIST WILD BLONDES? The Sunday Bulletin PHILADELPHIA, Sunday, May 29, 1966 AP Wirephoto MASTER'S WINNER -- Frank Stranahan receives master of finance cowl from wife, Ann, at University of Pennsylvania commencement. He quit PGA tour in October, 1964, to study at Wharton School. === Page 4 of 38 Tuesday, Dec. 28, 1965 Dear Rick: Thank you, son, for giving your dad a wonderful Xmas. Mebbe I can do the same for you, next year. I hope so. You have greatly inspired me, Rick, with your picture of Trea, excellently drawn, and your notation on the back of the frame you made. That's what I like about you, Rick, you make things, creatively...and beautifully. That frame is a dandy. Your picture will be the very first item to be placed in our House of Sota (Church) as soon as it is formed, some day. I transferred all things from my old, beat-up wallet to the Moroccan wallet you gave me...it is a fine wallet. But equally I treasure the wallet you made, from alligator...and am carrying that and using it to save anything I can toward Sota. I.e., operating money in the new wallet; savings in your special hand-made wallet. I shall always keep it. 2 - pulled back on the slingshot to test it, and a rubber broke...so have hung it up on the wall and will always keep it on the wall, wherever I live...to remind me of you, your skill in making things with your hands, and of the fun we had with the old slingshot, across country, until it went for gas. Am using the shaving lotion every day, and I wrote on it in gold-leaf: "Ted Owens - P K Man." It's fine stuff. Little Beau had (and is having) a mighty fine time with all that you sent him; and the same for Martha. Would have done your heart good to see the joy with which Martha opened all the packages (I let her open them all, you know) and the delight with which each item was received. After all, Rick, Beau, Martha and I are sort of like 3 children. I'm man enough, but I'm still a kid at heart. I bet no other daddy got a slingshot and a tie with a naked mermaid on it from his teenager children. Ha ha!! Love & kisses Dad 08/08/2025 15:15 === Page 5 of 38 Honorary Chairman LYNDON B. JOHNSON President of the United States Patrons BYRON R. WHITE Associate Justice of the Supreme Court ROBERT F. KENNEDY (New York) United States Senator ANTHONY J. CELEBREZZE Secretary Health, Education and Welfare LEVERETT SALTONSTALL (Mass.) United States Senator HOMER THORNBERRY Judge, United States District Court AVERY BRUNDAGE President Comite International Olympique KENNETH L. WILSON President United States Olympic Committee EDWARD P. F. EAGAN President People-to-People Sports Committee WILSON H. ELKINS President of University of Maryland LEONARD M. ELSTAD President of Gallaudet College STAN MUSIAL Chairman President's Council on Physical Fitness Comite International des Sports Silencieux PIERRE BERNHARD, France President S. ROBEY BURNS, USA Vice President C. WLOWTOWSKI, Poland Vice President ANTOINE DRESSE, Belgium Secretary General ROGER LONNOY, Belgium Interpreter D. VUKOTIC, Yougoslavia Board Member J. LUOMAJOKI, Finland Board Member P. SOUTIGUINE, Russia Board Member O. DAHLGREN, Sweden Board Member O. RYDEN, Sweden Past President CISS J. P. NIELSEN, Denmark Past President CISS American Athletic Association of the Deaf EDWARD C. CARNEY President BERT POSS Vice President JAMES A. BARRACK Secretary-Treasurer HERB SCHREIBER Publicity Director and Chairman of A.A.A.D. Hall of Fame JERALD M. JORDAN Chairman International Games of the Deaf HARRY M. JACOBS President Emeritus Tenth International Games for the Deaf Committee S. ROBEY BURNS Chairman Emeritus JERALD M. JORDAN General Chairman LEON AUERBACH Assistant Chairman THOMAS O. BERG Games Director RICHARD M. PHILLIPS Liaison Officer RONALD E. SUTCLIFFE Finance Officer FREDERICK C. SCHREIBER Publicity Director ALEXANDER FLEISCHMAN Local Chairman ARTHUR KRUGER U.S.A. Team Director RICHARD CASWELL Purchasing and Awards 08/08/2025 15:16 XTH INTERNATIONAL GAMES FOR THE DEAF Banquet Show Dance CISS AAAD 27 JUNE - 3 JULY 1965 X international games the deaf WASHINGTON, D.C. featuring An International Performance "ARABIAN NIGHTS" SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 3, 1965 REGENCY ROOM, SHOREHAM HOTEL HALL & PARK, SHERATON-PARK HOTEL WASHINGTON, D. C. We did a show at the Shoreham at 8, then went by bus to Sheraton-Park & did another === Page 6 of 38 # Menu Tomato Juice Cocktail Lemon Wedge + + + Hearts of Celery Ripe and Green Olives + + + Braised Pot Roast of Beef Mushroom Sauce + + + Au Gratin Potatoes New Peas + + + Mixed Green Salad + + + Shoreham Parfait + + + Coffee # Sayonara! With this banquet we gather for the last time under the auspices of the CISS and the American Athletic Association of the Deaf to mark the end of the festivities that began a week ago today. During this past week we have seen the finest of the deaf athletes from all over the world compete in the sports arena for the honor of themselves and their nations. We have seen friendships formed and ripened, we have gained new insights on each other and new understanding of ourselves and other people of the world. And such treasures are rare, not to be lightly cast aside, not to be soon forgotten or allowed to fall into disuse. It is the hope of this committee that what we have gained here will be of lasting nature, and the friends we have made will continue to be friends for the rest of time. Farewell, Farewell is a lonesome sound, That always brings a sigh So give to me when loved ones part That Sweet Old Word -- Good Bye SAYONARA! # Program OFFICIAL INTERPRETER Yerker Andersson MESSAGES OF GREETINGS Delegates from 29 Nations MESSAGE OF WELCOME Jerald M. Jordan, General Chairman + + + SHOW BIZ PRODUCTIONS presents "ARABIAN NIGHTS" THE SULTANS DANCERS Eight beautiful girls THE GENIE OF THE MAGIC LAMP featuring Ken Sherburne, terrific unicycle and juggling routine, with fire THE DANCING JETERS line of girls THE HAPPY JESTERS featuring 6 yrs. old Mike and 4 yrs. old Paul in comedy acrobatics THE MAGIC MAHARAJAH featuring Josef Smiley & Company--illusions THE BUCCANEER BEAUTIES line of girls LORRAINE DEBOE beautiful girl tap dancer CAPTAIN SILVER & THE GOLDEN FANTASY BOGARDE & LOVELLA a knife throwing act Music furnished by GENE DONATI === Page 7 of 38 GHTNING-THUNDER -Run Storm Rakes Southland 08/08/2025 15:18 === Page 8 of 38 08/08/2025 15:18 # Crumbling ATLANTA, Ga., Aug. 11 (UPI) -- White domination of politics in many areas of the Deep South began crumbling today with the unlimited registration of Negro voters. Federal registrars signed up hundreds of Negroes yesterday in nine counties the Justice Department said had a record of habitually denying Negroes the right to vote. The Justice Department intensified its attack on voter discrimination. It filed suits in Virginia, Alabama and Texas seeking to halt the use of a poll tax as a requirement for voting. The day ended parts of a century in for irrevocable political change. National Association States with Georgia, Tennessee and Texas the exceptions. In Americus, Ga., it took 100 years to put 1000 Negroes on the voting books. The impetus of the new federal voting law has more than matched that total in three days. The grand dragon of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan, Robert Creel of Bessemer, saw the new law as an aid to segregationists. He said the Klan will try to get "every white illiterate registered to vote." # Red Ship Tips Off Viet Raids HONOLULU, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- A Russian trawler which has been a fixture three miles off the entrance of Guam's Apra harbor since December apparently is providing Viet Cong guerrillas in South Vietnam with early warnings of B52 raids launched from Guam. # Greek King Mulls Coalition Cabinet ATHENS, Aug. 11 (UPI)--King Constantine may seek the formation of a coalition government to break the political deadlock which has kept Greece in turmoil for a month, informed sources said today. The 25-year-old monarch was expected to confer with politicians later today, but the Royal Palace refused comment on the report. Stephen Stephanopoulos, a member of the majority Center Union, appeared to be enough support in parliament. A coalition appeared to be Constantine's last chance for a solution during the current parliament. The only two legal alternatives left to the king are to call for new elections or to appoint a caretaker government. # Held for Kidnap of 2 Women Long Beach police booked a 21-year-old man early today on charges of kidnapping two women and holding them captive for several hours. He was identified as Bonito Estarpa, of 11417 E. 212th St., Lakewood. Officers said he released both his victims later. A committee of the state's tomato growers has approved a plan to keep the state's tomato harvest in the hands of domestic workers. The panel, meeting behind closed doors at the Fairmont, suggested that the 10,000 braceros be imported during the week of September 12. An additional 4000 will follow a week later, according to the recommendation. This was the largest proposed importation of foreign field hands since the bracero program expired last December. It was believed growers had asked for 13,850 foreign workers. LESS THAN '64 The 8000 Mexican nationals === Page 9 of 38 WHERE TO GO..........WHAT TO SEE..........WHERE TO STAY! COMPLIMENTS OF THE MANAGEMENT # This Week # ON THE GULF COAST No. 28, Vol. 11, July 11, 1964 # Take One FREE Published By KOVACE'S GULF COAST PROMOTION AGENCY GLendale 2-2634 or 2-9036, Pass Christian, Miss. LITA MARIE... Beautiful Songstress Appearing Now Nitely # Gus Stevens SHOW PLACE OF THE GULF COAST FOOD ★ FUN ★ FROLIC ALL AT ONE STOP WEST BEACH BLVD. ● HWY. 90 ● BILOXI NOW PLAYING THE MAVERICKS Featuring FREDA JULY 6 - JULY 15 ★ HOMER and JETHRO JULY 16 - JULY 25 ★ FOUR MINTS AUGUST Last Chance... LAST WEEK! Playing Thru July 12 Only PLENTY OF SEATING NITELY Jerry Van Dyke MOVIE & TV STAR THROUGH JULY 12 # Gus Stevens ★ See Inside For Other Attractions ★ 08/08/2025 15:21 === Page 10 of 38 SEVEN DAYS A WEEK! OPEN DAILY 10 A. M. to 9 P. M. Hiway. 90--5 miles east OCEAN SPRINGS Watch for the 8 Flags ALG. KELLY AND MILLER Bros. OVER 150 ANIMALS On exhibit including Elephants, Lions, Leopards, Emu, Anteater, Panthers, Rhinoceros, Boas, Hippopotamus, Llamas CIRCUS ZOO-FUN PARK LION ACTS...TRAINED BEARS PERFORM DAILY * * * See Animals Trained Plus...Trained Elephants, Llamas, Ponies and MISS REBECCA--on the Spanish Web. NEW ARRIVAL--DON'T MISS IT... PASHA BABY LEOPARD FUN FOR ALL THE FAMILY AT THE PARK ADULTS 50c CHILDREN 25c Bring Your Camera Free Picnic Ground-- Playground Special guided tours by BIPPO, the Clown === Page 11 of 38 MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST # OUTSTANDING ATTRACTIONS ## See All Five! ATTRACTIONS ON HIGHWAY 90 BILOXI TO GULFPORT ### SIGHTSEEING TOURS ON LAND AND WATER **SHRIMP TOUR TRAIN** LEAVES BILOXI LIGHTHOUSE 6 TIMES DAILY Including Sundays Leaves at 9 a.m. 10:30 a.m. 12 Noon 1:30 p.m. 3 p.m. 4:30 p.m. Sightsee historic old Biloxi and modern Keesler AFB aboard this 64-passenger Choo-Choo 50-minute narrated 10-mile tour. **HARBOR QUEEN** COME ABOARD, MATES! SEE THREE HARBORS IN JUST ONE HOUR! Seagoing sightseers board the Harbor Queen at Marine Life Pier in Gulfport. See huge foreign ships, yachts, shrimp and pleasure boats. Charter Moonlite cruises. Leaves at 9 a.m., 10:30, 12 Noon, 1:30 p.m., 3 p.m., 4:30 p.m. ### "WONDERS OF THE SEA!" OPEN DAILY 9-6 WORLD'S LARGEST MARINE TANK New Porpoise Stadium. See the educated porpoises and seals perform a thrilling act every hour. See sharks, long nose sawfish, eels, sting rays, giant sea turtles and other exotic sea life just inches from your eyes! Watch the porpoises frolic! Stay as long as you like. **MARINE LIFE** On the beach... GULFPORT, MISS. MIDWAY BETWEEN GULFPORT AND BILOXI HIGHWAY 90 # Deer Ranch Excitement and fun on the free sleigh ride to the Deer Ranch to and from the Friendship House. You'll be amazed and thrilled to hand feed, pet and photograph tame deer and stroll among the herds of many species of beautiful deer. No fence between you and the tame deer. BOTH INCLUDED IN ONE ADMISSION # SIX GUN JUNCTION # GHOST TOWN ACTION Shoot Outs every hour! GLAMORous Can-Can Girls in the Red Dog Saloon! EXCITEMENT at this authentic Western Town. OPEN DAILY 9 a.m. til dark. Catch the Deer Ranch Sleigh or Western Wagon at the Friendship House or drive back to the free parking lot. === Page 12 of 38 SELECT from wooded, waterfront sites or choice, exclusive lots along the beautiful, 18-holes, rolling PASS CHRISTIAN COURSE, with year-round golfing. PHONE GLENDALE 2-9036 or 2-2634 # Pass Christian Isles This beautifully planned Community is the de luxe living area of the entire Gulf Coast. Each year more beautiful homes are built ... each spring the gardens are more gorgeous ... and each year more land is made available to folks who want to live where all utilities and roads are available at the homesite. Artesian water, gas, electricity, telephone and mail delivery have been in use for years at Pass Christian Isles--there's no "pioneering" or waiting. DRIVE OVER THIS WEEK END Homesites ONLY $59.50 down and 12.58 MONTHLY === Page 13 of 38 BUSINESS MEN'S LUNCH Daily: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. FROM 90¢ TO $1.50 Regular Dinners Every Evening: 5 to 9 p.m. Specializing in Choice Seafood FRESH LA. OYSTERS AT THE BAR Beautiful New Private DINING ROOM For Club Meetings and Private Social Functions Buena Vista Motel Restaurant NITELY feature at Broadwater Beach's Trophy Room season-star is Bob Walters at the Hammond organ. KELLY-Miller Circus at permanent quarters just east of Ocean Springs has a five-ton trained hippo on daily show. FINAL Seaway water link with Bays of Biloxi and St. Louis is being contracted by Jahncke Service of New Orleans. FABULIERS dance combo returns by popular toast, to the Sugar Shack, W. Beach, Biloxi. VISIT SHIP ISLAND and Historic Civil War Fort Massachussets PAN AMERICAN CLIPPER and the ALL New PAN AMERICAN Enjoy a Glorious Half Day or All Day of FUN SURF BATHING • FISHING | LEAVE | DAILY | RETURN | |---|---|---| | 8:30 A.M. | | 12:30 P.M. | | 2:00 P.M. | | 6:30 P.M. | GULFPORT • Pan American Clipper SMALL CRAFT HARBOR BY MARINE LIFE TURN AT MARINE LIFE SIGN • HWY. 90 • GULFPORT ADULTS CHILDREN Call Now PHONE ID 2-2197 • NITE ID 6-6010 BILOXI • Pan American 2 DOORS EAST OF BUENA VISTA BEACH MOTEL CENTRAL BEACH • HIGHWAY 90 • BILOXI THE ONLY EXCURSION BOATS TO SHIP ISLAND Monkey FARM DARLING PET MONKEY $18.50 SEE . . MONKEY FARM . . EXHIBITS Hiway 90 - Mississippi City - Teagarden JUST WEST OF FAIRCHILD'S MOTEL * SEE - - Half Monkey, Half Bird * SEE - - Giant Chinese Dragon * SEE - - Baby Alligators * SEE & PLAY with Our Baby Monkeys Fun for Children and Adults! Phone 863-9178 Baby Monkeys: $18.50 Each ---------- === Page 14 of 38 PISTACHE Welcomes You .......... Thru Midnite BENNY FRENCH'S VISIT WITH US . . . # Bennie French's Tavern ---The King of Mixed Drinks Now Back at the Old Location . . . OLD HIWAY 90 HENDERSON POINT, Miss. Completely Remodeled Seafood & Chicken Specials Daily ## Welcome Suh! # CONFEDERATE INN Restaurant • Motel "Center of Southern Hospitality" where the Five Flags Fly on the Beach Midway between Gulfport and Biloxi, Mississippi ! SPECIAL SUNDAY DINNER CONFEDERATE INN CONFEDERATE INN Mail: 2300 Beach Drive, Mississippi City, Mississippi Telephone: Gulfport UN 3-6565 # The Mermaid Club P R E S E N T I N G . . . NEWEST SHOW ON THE COAST! JOHNNY KING . . . M-C Songs and Comedy! GINA KING . . . Musical Variety Act Songs, Dances, Antics TERRY NEWTON . . . Exotic Rhythms JANET LAMARR . . . Dance Artiste JOHNNY KING NOW PLAYING . . . Formerly The Gold Key Lounge . . . On the Beach - - WEST BEACH, Biloxi Strip === Page 15 of 38 You will enjoy fishing at the # FISHING ARENA OPEN 6 AM TO 10 PM THE FISHING ARENA OFFERS you good fishing in "Living Room" Comfort * AIR CONDITIONED * COMPLETE BAIT AND TACKLE SHOP * SNACK BAR Leroy Hay, Prop. LOCATED JUST OVER POPPS FERRY BRIDGE PLENTY OF FREE PARKING DAILY Biloxi-Gulfport Amusement Park 25 ATTRACTIONS Free Ground Admissions Free Parking On The Beach At Pat Harrison Avenue Between Biloxi And Gulfport In The Heart Of Activity * Open 9 a.m. to Midnight Every Day * Special Rates To Birthday Parties, Schools and Church Groups Dial ID 2-8946 DU - SAY'S FOR PETS WE Invite You to Visit One of the Country's Finest Pet Shops...Where You Will Find a Large Assortment of the Most Moderately Priced Canine and Feline Accessories to the Very Latest Luxury Accoutrements. TAKE BACK with You the Items You Cannot Find at Home--Or We We Will Gladly Mail "FAMOUS FOR PETS SINCE 1928" - DU - SAY'S Edgewater Plaza Shopping City, US90 ********** THE NEW # SA-WHEN CLUB WEST BEACH, BILOXI.. Between the Broadwater Beach & Belaire Motel PRESENTS DICK CALDWELL AND THE CELEBRITIES Continuous Entertainment DANCING... ON OUR LARGE FLOOR FLOOR SHOWS Late, Late, Latest Show on the Coast! NOW PLAYING West Beach Continuous Entertainment THE CELEBRITIES Versatile & Exciting VORHABEN TWINS Coast Favorites Open to the Wee Small Hours BILOXI ********** === Page 16 of 38 W. Beach Biloxi # SHOW CLUB W. Beach Biloxi ## Greatest Show On The Gulf 9 P.M. Continental Style THE FANTASTIC **BOGARDE'** And LOVELLA "THE WORLD'S MOST DANGEROUS AND EXCITING KNIFE THROWING ACT" . . . FEATURED LAST SUNDAY IN "ARIZONA DAYS AND WAYS! . . . FEATURED ON STEVE ALLEN AND ED SULLIVAN T.V. SHOWS!" PLUS - MIND READING AND HYPNOTIST! ### SPECIAL ADDED ATTRACTION! * Others In The Show Include Camile, The Pocket Size Edition Of Jane Russell. Bunny Holiday Dancing The Way Her Mother Never Taught Her. Carla and Honey Bare You Can't Afford To Miss . . . BUNNY HOLIDAY Daring Doer ********** CARLA KNIGHT . . DARLING Dancer CAMILLE . . . Tiny Tripper HONEY BARE . . . Petite Posture === Page 17 of 38 ★ FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE 2 FINE RESTAURANTS TO SERVE YOU ★ COFFEE SHOP 24 HOURS A DAY FAMILY STYLE RESTAURANT GUS STEVENS RESTAURANT SEAFOOD RESTAURANT & BUCCANEER SUPPER CLUB U. S. HIGHWAY 90 BETWEEN BILOXI AND GULFPORT Continuous Entertainment and Dancing GUS STEVENS • HENDERSON POINT Restaurant and Lounge One Block East of Bay St. Louis Bridge at Caution Light To and From New Orleans It's the Best Place to Eat Farm Fresh Food direct from Our Farm to You LUNCH 70¢ & 80¢ • DINNER $1.25-1.50 and up COMPLETE BREAKFAST 75¢ Telephone ID 2-2574 8 oz. FILET MIGNON $2.50 With Baked Potato & Salad Telephone 452-7563 THE MAVERICKS . . . Featuring Freda Here Thru July 15 FAMOUS GUS STEVENS SHISHKABOB DINNER: $2.95 BILOXI SUPPER CLUB SHOWS NITELY! HERE JULY 17-25 ★ HOMER AND JETHRO TV Shows: Perry Como, Jack Paar, Steve Allen, Ern. Ford, Tonight, Chevy, Breakfast Club, Jimmy Dean. HOMER AND JETHRO Kellogg Corn Flake Song Butchers; Stone Age Beatles on RCA DANCING AT BILOXI: BENNY CLEMENT & His Band Song Stylist BETTY FARMER MONIQUE DUVAL . . . Nitely at Henderson Point Piano - Lounge JOE LAGANO . . . Gus' Discovery--Makes you cry when he sings NOW PLAYING gus stevens === Page 18 of 38 YOUR DRUG HEADQUARTERS... Welcome to... Clark's Drug Store DRUGS & ACCESSORIES For Beach, Home, Car Just One Block South Of the Hwy. 90 Light PRESCRIPTIONS A SPECIALTY PHONE TR 5-4311 OCEAN SPRINGS MARINE ROOM WAYNE HEFNER TV Personality: Piano & Song Stylist, Nitely IN BILOXI'S SMARTEST The Buena Vista Hotel and Motel TIDES: (Geod. Surv.) BILOXI BAY Add 3 1/2 Hrs. for Bay St. Louis: | HIGH | LOW | Ft. Diff. | |---|---|---| | Fri. 10 10:31am | 10:17pm | 2.8 | | Sat. 11 11:27am | 11:01pm | 2.4 | | Sun. 12 12:19pm | 11:35pm | 2.1 | | Mon. 13 1:09pm | 11:42pm | 1.5 | | Tue. 14 1:56pm | 11:15pm | 1.1 | | Wed. 15 2:18pm | 10:04pm | 0.7 | | Thu. 16 5:40am | 7:46pm | 0.8 | * * * SOME people treat an affection with alcohol. * * * SAILORS spend their hitch in trying to turn over a new leave. * * * CHURCHES try to change the flower of night-hood into a Sunday Morning Glory. * * * A full-groan divorce can start with a pain in the necking. * * * THE best treatment here for deepsea fish bites is a yank -- with money. * * * THE doom of many an official starts with a tight squeeze around the waste. * * * DRINKING your way out of a tight situation looses the way -- as you get tighter. * * * A political party's greatest fear is to come up with dead vote batteries. * * * DON'T put pressure on soft soap. * * * ********** FOR RENT: Furn. Beach Cottage, Henderson Pt. Sleeps 8; $50 week; GL2-2634. ********** ''FRENCHIE'' BOURGEOIS, OWNER VISITORS WELCOME! Open 3 p.m. "Till" Good Food Fine Drink FRENCHIE'S FINE FOODS SPECIALIZING IN LOUISIANA STYLE DISHES ''PREPARED BY ORDERS'' WEST PORTER AVE. FOUR BLOCKS FROM BRIDGE DIAL 875-9255 OCEAN SPRINGS, MISS === Page 19 of 38 JOHN BELL'S CUSTOM-TAILORED CLOTHES FROM HONG KONG! # LUCILLE'S ORIENTAL GIFT SHOP LUCILLE HORNSBY Owner Phone 432-2268 SUN N' SAND MOTEL Biloxi, Miss. P.O. Box No. 837 TOYS GIFTS JEWELRY BAGS - HATS BEACHWEAR **Hugo's Italian Restaurant** PORTER AND DIVISION ID 6-9463 Biloxi, Miss. Where Eating's a Treat Instead of a Necessity SPECIALIZING IN ITALIAN FOODS AND PIZZAS ALSO CHINESE & MEXICAN FOODS **YOUNG'S OASIS** **Pure Oil Stop** US90 LONG BEACH, PH. 863-9537 OPEN 8 am to 10:30 pm 7 Days/Week SUPPLIER OF SNACKS AND SUNDRIES: Ice Cream, Beer, Package Goods, Drugs, Gifts, Souvenirs, Groc., Books & Beach Accessories U NAME IT...WE HAVE IT! **SURF BOWL-A-RAMA** MAKE A DATE TO BOWL TONIGHT FOR INFORMATION CALL 432-0366 **Shearwater Pottery** East Beach Road Ocean Springs, Miss. A Visit to Shearwater is a Delightful Experience! TURN SOUTH AT THE U.S. 90 LITE ...Follow the Suggested Route HOLIDAY on Ice of 1964 runs thru July 14 at Mobile's new municipal auditorium. * * * MONKEY Farm in Miss. City is displaying a half-monkey and half-bird creature. * * * Open 11 to 11 ONLY GENUINE MEXICAN FOODS **EL TORO** W. Beach, Biloxi **PASS RD. GOLF RANGE** 16 Driving Stalls - No Wait Open Daily: Lites to 9 p.m. PASS & JIMMONEY RDS., BILOXI **Tony's Spaghetti House and Pizzeria** OCEAN SPRINGS "The House of Taste Thrills" SERVING FROM 11 A.M. 'TIL 11 P.M. HIWAY 90 AT 2ND TRAFFIC SIGNAL Open To Midnite Fri. & Sat. FAMOUS ITALIAN RECIPES AGED KANSAS CITY STEAKS • SEAFOOD For Carry-Out Food Call TR5-9257 Diners From Far And Near Know # TRILBY'S There's no food quite like they serve it at this unique, small restaurant. That's why Gulf Coast visitors for 25 years have gone miles out of their way to enjoy a luncheon or dinner at TRILBY'S. Try it today... you'll see why! TRILBY'S is small and intimate, so it's best to reserve. Call TR 5-4426 ON HIGHWAY 90 AT OCEAN SPRINGS Serving 12 to 2 and 5 to 10 CLOSED MONDAYS === Page 20 of 38 This Week MISS. ON THE GULF COAST LA. PICAYUNE U.S. HIGHWAY 11 DARWOOD HOLLY BLUFF GARDENS ON-THE-JORDAN SLIDELL PEARL RIVER MISS. 43 JORDAN RIVER KILN ROAD Ocean Springs THEODORE MISS. Long Beach Miss. City U.S. HIGHWAY 90 NEW ORLEANS U.S. 90 BAY ST. LOUIS WAVELAND PASS CHRISTIAN GULFPORT BILOXI PASCAGOULA BELLIN GAR GULF OF MEXICO IIIIIIIIII SHIP AHOY LOUNGE SEAFOOD IN ROUGH Featuring Daily... BOILED SHRIMP All You Can Eat $1.25 Mgr. And Owner Arthur Quave 400 Central Beach-Biloxi Welcome to... Kathy's BAMBOO LOUNGE & The Blacklite Alcove! ... Just West of the Arch WEST BEACH, BILOXI GREAT Bogarde and hypnotic with a knife-throwing clin headline the Show Club vai billing, W. Beach, Biloxi. ... ... ... JOHNNY and Gina King top a all-girlie show at Mermai converted to the newest st on the Coast from Gold Ke W. Beach, Biloxi. ... ... ... CREOLE Room, Hotel Biloxi, features the Nocturns, nit ... ... ... SERVICEMEN WELCOME! Enjoy a Friendly Evening at BERNIE'S Tropics Lounge W. BEACH, BIL TRADE WINDS Hotel Court East Beach Biloxi Restaurant And Dining Room Tuesday Night $1.00 ALL YOU CAN EAT $1.00 FRIED CHICKEN French Fried Potatoes, Hot Rolls, Corn Stick or SPAGHETTI WITH MEAT SAUCE Hot Rolls, Corn Stick STEAK SPECIAL Special 12 Oz. Bone-In Strip Sirloin French Fried Potatoes, Hot Rolls, Corn Stick $1.49 Foods under supervision of Chef Burt Marsland. The Plantation Room is now available for Private Dinner Parties, large or small. Contact Miss Linda Johnson, Catering Manager, ID 5-2331. TRADE WINDS Hotel Court East Beach, Biloxi Restaurant And Dining Room FRIDAY NIGHT AS ADVERTISED $1.00 ALL YOU CAN EAT $1.00 SHRIMP ALA CREOLE Steamed Rice, Hot Rolls, Corn Stick OR FRIED SNAPPER STEAK French Fried Potatoes, Hot Rolls, Corn Stick STEAK SPECIAL $1.49 Special 12-oz. Bone In Strip Sirloin French Fried Potatoes, Hot Rolls, Corn Stick === Page 21 of 38 # PEPPERMINT LOUNGE HARRISON AVE., BILOXI NOW PLAYING. . . For Listening or Dancing: ROYAL DUKES. . . Band Nitely Except Monday # PEPPERMINT LOUNGE PAT HARRISON AVE., BILOXI Added Attraction: vocalist. . . "THE JACKIE WILSON OF THE COAST" # SUGAR SHACK WEST BEACH, BILOXI . . . Just E. of Belaire Motel Appearing Nitely THE FABULIERS Greatest Sound of Music Come Early. . .Stay Late Open Daily. . . 2 p.m. - 6 a.m. MIKE BILL ROD RALPH Your Hostesses: BETTY & JACKIE === Page 22 of 38 Enjoy Yourself at... ---------- PATIO ROOMS BY HEATED POOL # Emerald Beach Motel BEACHFRONT ROOMS RESTAURANT OPEN NITELY "TILL" LOUNGE SERVING 6AM TO 11PM ...On the Strip...W.Beach, Biloxi * Business Men's Lunch Daily * Regular Dinners Every Eve., 5 - 9pm * Private Dining Rooms Overlooking Patio For Club Meetings & Social Functions. Relax and Listen to Musical Selections From the Repertoire of... HERBY HOLEMAN And His Baldwin Orchestra of One... In the Intimacy of Our Lounge. ---------- OPEN 8am-2am "The Spaghetti and Pizza King of the Gulf Coast" **TONY'S SPAGHETTI HOUSE & PIZZERIA** Steaks, Seafood, Chicken We Box Everything To Go 101 Central Beach, Biloxi CALL ID 6-9885 ---------- SEA GULL MOTEL, W. Beach, Biloxi; AAA Recommended - Pool - Phones, TV Rooms with or without Kitchenettes. TONY'S Spaghetti House on the new US90 in Ocean Springs has been joined by a new neighbor -- the newest Winn Dixie here. * * * MARIE Murial, popular entertainer, returns to the Coast for a limited engagement at Magnolia Room of Paradise Point Restaurant in Miss. City. Marie was a protege of Xavier Cugat. * * * NICK & LELL Restaurant and Lounge HICKORY-SMOKED HAM STEAKS - CHOPS - APPLE PIE U.S. 90 - 12 MILES WEST OF BAY ST. LOUIS COMIC Danny Rogers and singer-josher Jules Savoy head up an unusually big show at the Gay Paree, W. Beach, Biloxi. * * * RONALD E. HALE TREE SERVICE Complete Tree Service - Landscaping GULFPORT, MISSISSIPPI Telephone 864-6457 T-V personality Jerry Van Dyke winds up his current stay and zany show at Gus Stevens here on Sunday--don't miss him. * * * # Plantation Restaurant 115 East Beach (Scenic Drive) Pass Christian Phone GL 2-7466 OPEN DAILY 6 A.M.-12 P.M. "JACKIE Wilson" of the Coast is an added attraction with the Royal Dukes at Peppermint's big dance palace, Harrison, Biloxi. * * * Int'l. Sterling Table Silver 25% Off BRIDAL WREATH PATTERN; Cutlery; Phone GLendale 2-2889 Evenings .......... # Pass Christian Isles On the Beautiful Mississippi Gulf Coast EASY TERMS - NEW WATERFRONT SITES JUST OPENED easy living === Page 23 of 38 W. Beach Biloxi # GAY PAREE W. Beach Biloxi Coast's Largest & Finest Floor Shows DOUBLE FEATURE PROGRAM # ★ DANNY ROGERS ★ Star of Broadway, Stage, Screen & T.V. Walter Winchell's "Favorite Comic" | NIGHT LIFE | SHOW TIME | |---|---| | **BEN BLUE'S**-- | **ED SULLIVAN SHOW** | | Hollywood | | | **THE DUNES**-- | **STEVE ALLEN SHOW** | | Las Vegas | | | **STORK CLUB**-- | **MILTON BERLE SHOW** | | London | | | **EDENROC**-- | **JOHNNY CARSON SHOW** | | Miami Beach | | | **ELEGANTE**-- | **TALENT SCOUTS** | | New York City | | # ★ JULES SAVOY ★ Song and Comedy Stylist | PLUS | | PLUS | |---|---|---| | **Beverly Bartell** | | **Carmen Jean Roland** | | **Maya Nejema** | | **Bob Wiley** | | NO DOOR CHARGE | NO COVER CHARGE | |---|---| HELD OVER BY POPULAR DEMAND # ★ CARLOS AND LINDA ★ TED CAMPBELL'S ORCHESTRA Don't Miss This Show -- Nations Top Comic--Plus Beautiful Girls MAKES A GALA REVIEW === Page 24 of 38 PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1966 B31 Jerry Gaghan # Madlyn Has Hopes She's Found Home VIVACIOUS NEWCOMER to the legitimate theater is Madlyn Rhue, who will make her first Broadway try in the new Gwen Davis comedy "The Best Laid Plans," which premieres at the Walnut, Tuesday. "I've already gotten one fringe benefit from my stage career," she said. "I have a home in California, but I was having a terribly difficult time finding an apartment in New York. Our director Paul Bogart had been separated from his wife; but they reconciled. He moved back home turning over his vacated apartment to me. Now everybody's happy." Miss Rhue's costar in "Plans" will be British actor Edward Woodward. Incidentally, it's also a first Broadway attempt for Bogart. "I've been waiting a long time for a good Broadway part," Madlyn said during a rehearsal break. "I'm positive that this is it. At least, I was positive enough to turn down some well paying TV offers just to join with this very funny show." Her first Broadway try notwithstanding, Madlyn is no novice in the acting department. She has an impressive list of some 150 TV show credits "which run the gamut" and a dozen pictures including "Operation Petticoat," "Ladies Man," "A Majority of One," etc. But she is proudest of the critical notices she received as Gittel Mosca in "Two for the Seesaw," at the Civic Playhouse, in L.A. She is also proud of a collection of some 300 hats, most of which have been left in California. "I will only be able to bring 50 of them to Philadelphia with me," the actress lamented. ![MADLYN ... lucky start] MADLYN ... lucky start PEOPLE IN PLACES: Jack Jones, currently headlining at the Latin Casino, is slated to star on the Bell Telephone Hour's St. Valentine Day show. He gets an ABC-TV special of his own, April 5 . . . Police Inspector John Driscoll will be receiving congrats from all levels tomorrow at 24th & Wolf. The day marks his 39th year on the force . . . Al Fisher, United Artists Pictures publicity chief, and Cathy Tallo, a secretary in UA's home office, will be a Saturday merger in St. Patrick's Cathedral, N. Y. . . . Don Young, the singing-bandleader, is making his debut appearance at Wagner's Ballroom . . . Record promotion man Joe Campellone, who switched from Verve to the Phillips division of Mercury, flew to the Chicago main office for a briefing . . . Sam Scott, program director at Camden's WCAM and a staff member since 1952, has resigned to become executive director of the Philadelphia Hearing Society. === Page 25 of 38 SHOPPER'S SPECIAL: Blonde Greta Thyssen brightened up a "fashion first" in the new fabric department at Klein's Boulevard store during the snowfall yesterday. A former "Miss Denmark" by virtue of her fulsome (39-20-35) endowments, Miss Thyssen was on hand with Loren C. Shockley and a flock of McCrory and Klein executives to cut the ribbon that officially opened the sewing and fabric section. "I made this dress I'm wearing," said Greta proudly, swiveling to demonstrate her "multi-colored printed organdy." It seemed to fit right well. "I am not giving up acting to become a seamstress," she added. "Not going that far. But I like to sew--it's part of the schooling of every girl in Denmark." TV and movies keep her commuting to Hollywood, but she calls New York "home." Her tour for the store chain is to call to the attention of femme shoppers how easy it is to follow fashion trends on a "do-it-yourself" basis. "I just finished a picture--'Double Barreled Detective Story'. It's a combination spy and western plot and spoofs both. We hope it will be another 'Cat Ballou'." REPORTER AT LARGE: The opening night of the Metropolitan Opera's five performance series here (May 9) will be sponsored by the Golden Slipper Square Club in conjunction with Philadelphia Philanthropies. The Met will launch its return to the Academy with "Madame Butterfly." . . . Frank Teodori (Dori's) is back from Florida with not much tan but a four-foot bull dolphin to be mounted. Frank noticed one side effect of Vietnam in the cabana club at Miami Beach's Eden Roc. A Dow Jones ticker is at poolside so bathers can keep tabs on stock market fluctuations . . . The Saxony East's Paul King went to Myrtle Beach for a week of sun and golf and wound up belting snow balls. It was the worst storm in 50 years for the South Carolina resort . . . Bill Mulhern, former eastern regional manager of Kapp Records and more recently g.m. for the Jamie-Guyden Corp., has joined A & M Records as director of eastern operations. One of his first chores will be opening a local office for the label. === Page 26 of 38 1/9/66 # Well, It Would Have Snowed, Except . . . Continued From First Page 32, and all we got was .77 inches of rain. Weather men calculate that the amount of precipitation to produce an inch of rain will produce about ten inches of snow. Last week we escaped two major snowfalls, on Sunday and Thursday, each of which would have ranged from five to six inches. On Sunday, however, the average temperature was 45 degrees, 13 above the normal of 32, and on Thursday it was 42, 10 above normal. The fourth big snow we didn't get was on Dec. 13. It would have been nearly ten inches except that the average temperature was 47, 13 degrees above normal. Another factor, in the snowless season, Stallard said, is that the major storms have been passing to the north through the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence Valley, rather than the Middle Atlantic States. We have had three light snow flurries scattered about Greater Philadelphia, Stallard said. The first was on Oct. 28 and the others Dec. 15 and 21. # Warm Weather Helped Cit Miss 4 Snows in a Month Philadelphia has had a snowless winter so far and you can blame it on the heat, not the humidity. In fact, we could have had four "significant" snow storms by now if it hadn't been unseasonably warm. That is the word from Glenn Stallard, chief of the U. S. Weather Bureau here. "Fortunate," he calls it, but that isn't the way kids with new sleds look at it. **Nonwhite Christmas** On Christmas Day, for example, the city could very well have been blanketed with an eight-inch snow. But the average temperature was 54 degrees, 22 degrees above the normal average of Continued on Page 12, Col. 7 HECK! IT'S JUST SOME CONFETTI! I've clobbered Phila!!! === Page 27 of 38 Read this - They criticize me for using THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, # Vietnam Villagers Suffer Dea By JOHN T. WHEELER BA GIA, Vietnam, July 18 (AP). -- The wailing of women and the stench of burned bodies greeted the column of troops as they marched wearily into Ba Gia. They were searching for a Vietcong force which earlier had overrun a nearby Government strong point. It turned out the search was fruitless. Four men carrying a pallet with a wounded man stared hatefully at American advisers accompanying the Vietnamese marines, seeming to accuse the Americans of the death and destruction. Sitting in the middle of a dirt road was a woman cradling a baby and flanked by two other small children. Her cries of anguish caused some of the Vietnamese troops to turn aside. Surveying the shattered stucco and bamboo homes and the machine-gunned Catholic Church, one U. S. adviser said: "That's why we are going to lose this stupid damn war. Senseless, it's just senseless." Ba Gia, with a high percentage of Catholics, was considered a progovernment village. It was hit three days running with AP Wirephoto Weeping woman cradles baby as South Vietnamese troops enter village of Ba Gia in search of Vietcong who had overrun Government strongpoint. 08/08/2025 15:36 === Page 28 of 38 Against U.S. Govt. in Viet Nam!! MONDAY MORNING, JULY 19, 1965 adh* 3 # th and Terror Meant for Reds bombs, rockets and cannon fire from American and Vietnamese fighter bombers. The first time was after the nearby outpost, headquarters of the 51st Regiment, was overrun by the Vietcong and two 105 mm howitzers taken. The second time was following an attack the next night. The third, as an American Air Force officer expressed it, was an insurance measure to clear the way for Government troops moving back into the area in a sweep to try to catch the Vietcong. The sweep was launched some 24 hours after the Vietcong regiment had pulled out of the area, one American adviser said later. Because the 51st Regiment was under strength due to previous maulings at the hands of the Vietcong and because Vietnamese troops normally fail to patrol aggressively and set out night ambushes, the Vietcong had been able to come into the village in strength. The villagers risked torture and death for themselves and their families if they tried to warn the outpost. So Ba Gia, like countless other villages in Vietnam, was caught in the middle and paid a terrible price, not for its politics but its physical location. A marine corpsman patched up wounded villagers and as the troops bedded down for the night villagers carried one body on a candlelit bamboo bed to the cemetery. Asked how many had been killed and wounded, villagers shrugged and replied "many." The next morning, a Vietnamese captain walked into the still smoldering ruins of one house. Hanging from a doorway that had survived were scorched flags and decorations. The captain fingered them pensively and said they were wedding decorations. A U. S. Air Force spokesman at Saigon, in commenting on air strikes in general, pointed out that targets are selected by Vietnamese commanders and that American strikes are only fulfilling requests from an ally. authors on his measure. Involved in the maneuvering is the issue of city vs. rural political strength. The National Conference of Mayors opposes the amendment because it would open a detour around the Supreme Court's one-man, one-vote decision, which would increase the strength of the cities in many legislatures. If the liberals can stall off action this year, they believe that so many legislatures will have been reapportioned on a population basis by court orders in 1966 that there would be diminished pressure on Senators to support the proposed amendment. # it Birchers hower Slur P). - Denison Kitchel, who di- olican Presidential campaign, the John Birch Society. ed Miller from the very start." Kitchel said his membership LIT BROTH === Page 29 of 38 To my loved children, Lorrie and Harvey, who were with me when it happened The Evening Bulletin PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, August 3, 1965 Rainmaker Offers City a Real Storm For Only $10,000 By HENRY R. DARLING Of The Bulletin Staff A rainmaker has come to Philadelphia. He says he'll break the drought for $10,000--a bargain rate. "I'd want $50,000 to do it in New York," he said. He's been here since the first of July. He said he whomped up the big storm that hit the city the weekend of July 11--remember? -- the first and only soaking rain we've had since December. "It wasn't easy," he noted. "I had to work on it for more than a week." Working on it, he said, requires a combination of parapsychology and "some things my grandfather told me about the way the Apache Indians used to make rain." The rainmaker is a slightly balding, well-fed man in his middle 40s with a pleasant smile and an engaging personality. Ted Owens **Knife-Thrower in Circus** His name is Ted Owens and he was once a professional knife-thrower with the circus. "I'm probably the best knife-thrower in the country," he said, modestly. He wrote a letter to The Bulletin as soon as he arrived in the city and said he was working on a big rainstorm. He wrote another letter after the storm hit, pointed out that he had made everybody happy, and explained why: "I live here now and I do not like hot, dry weather. Therefore Philadelphia will be wetter and cooler than the rest of the U. S. this summer. The people here are lucky . . ." He also said he was working on another storm for Philadelphia for the next weekend. The rain came, a bit north of producing storms to the government. **Turned Down by Government** He took all three briefcases along to prove his point. But, he said, he couldn't make the right contacts. Since the government didn't want his information for free, he decided to try at least to make a living out of it. He said he came to Philadelphia because it is in the center of the present drought area and he wanted to interest some big cities in buying his services. He was reluctant to explain just how he went about producing a storm--not that there was any big secret to it, he said, but because it is a complicated business. Visual Imagery === Page 30 of 38 the city, but enough to produce a good downpour here and .8 of an inch in Montgomery County. Letter Arrives The letter came the next day--Monday, July 19. "Well, I told you," wrote the rainmaker. "You just enjoyed my storm which I referred to in my letter. I was right there in Rittenhouse Square yesterday, calling down the storm and especially the lightning, which is my trademark." He signed his name THE RAINMAKER, c-o Owens. He was finally located in a Spruce st. hotel. He said he was born in Indiana, has had 20 different "professions" besides knife throwing and studied extrasensory perception at Duke University. Says Combination Works He was living in Phoenix, Ariz. in 1963, he said, when he decided to try combining ESP with the Apache Indian rainmaking act. "The Indians had a good thing going but they didn't really know what they were doing," he said. "They thought they had to dance and take drugs and that sort of thing." To his surprise, the combination worked and he got "eight violent storms in five days," he said. He opened one of three well-stuffed briefcases and pulled out a folder containing newspaper clippings of each of the eight storms. The clippings were neatly pasted up, numbered and dated. "This proves it," he said. "The storms nearly wrecked that part of Arizona." Out House Hit One bolt of lightning hit his own house. He said he wasn't scared, "just amused." He moved to Los Angeles and said he produced some rainstorms which culminated in the big landslides of November, 1964. The rainmaker said he doesn't really want to hurt anyone. Pictures of storm damage--houses with the roofs blown off, automobiles wrecked by falling trees--bothered him at first. But he said he got used to them. He went to Washington, D. C. to try to explain his talent for "It's partly a matter of contacting the intelligence behind nature," he said. "It also involves imagery." To explain visual imagery, he took a piece of paper and wrote numbers from one to 20 down the left side. He handed the paper to an observer and told him to write down an object after each number, calling out the number and the object as he did so. 1. Umbrella. 2. Puddle. 3. Camera. 4. House. etc. Without looking at the paper, he read off the numbers and the objects, first going from one to 20; then from 20 back to one. He had the observer pick out numbers at random, and he called off the corresponding object. Then he had the observer call the objects and he gave their numbers. Maybe the rainmaker has just been lucky with storms. But there's certainly nothing wrong with his visual imagery. === Page 31 of 38 YOU SMARTY PANTS PROFESSORS LIKE OURS YEAH!! "I COULD JUST CURL UP AND SPIT!!" The Evening Bulletin PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, July 15, 1965 CHECK FOR $50,000 from the Kresge Foundation is presented to Dr. I. S. Ravdin (right), University of Pennsylvania vice president for medical affairs, by Glenn W. McClelland, manager of the S. S. Kresge & Co. store at Broad st. and Snyder av., at a ceremony in College Hall on the Penn campus. # Kresge Foundation Donates $50,000 to Medical School The Kresge Foundation today presented a check for $50,000 to the University of Pennsylvania toward a $7.7 million medical teaching and research to begin this fall at 36th st. and Hamilton walk, at the east end of the School of Medicine. Past gifts toward the building include $200,000 for the medical ... and two years ago 08/08/2025 15:41 === Page 32 of 38 # 'Flaming Ball' Crashes South of Pittsburgh, Sets Fires in 3 States Special to The Inquirer PITTSBURGH, Dec. 9.--A brilliant ball of fire which was seen streaking across seven States and Canada on Thursday night crashed into woods 20 miles south of here. Flaming objects falling from it touched off fires in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan. The Army and State Police sealed off an area near Midland, Pa., on the Pennsylvania-Ohio border and another area in Lorain county, Ohio, where falling debris was reported. The areas were sealed with the explanation: "There is an unidentified flying object in the woods." The fireball was seen by airplane pilots and residents of Canada, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Virginia, New York and Pennsylvania. **NOT MILITARY CRAFT** The Defense Department in Washington said first reports indicated the fireball was a natural phenomenon. A department spokesman said all military hardware--aircraft, missiles and the like--were accounted for. **FIRES NEAR CLEVELAND** The object apparently landed in woods near Kecksburg. Other early reports indicated it touched off a series of small grass fires in woods 20 miles south of Cleveland and deposited two "small stacks of shredded foil" in a swamp near Lapeer, Mich. Pentagon sources indicated they believed it was a meteorite. Dr. Paul Annear at Baldwin Wallace College said the object could have been a "bolide," a meteor which disintegrates while falling to earth. **DETROIT 'EXPLOSION'** Annear added that the large number of sightings by airplane pilots indicates considerable validity in the reports. Coast Guard officials reported from Windsor, Ont., that a flying object "exploded" over the Windsor-Detroit area. Pilots in the area saw a flash and felt shock waves on the fuselage of their planes. The Coast Guard reported that four vessels were dispatched onto Lake St. Clair but were unable to find any trace of the object. Pilots coming into Windsor said they saw the flash and felt the shock waves. A U. S. weather observer in Columbus, O., said he saw an object to the east which looked like a meteor. In Pennsylvania, State Police were swamped with calls about the "strange fiery object." The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass., said it had recorded sighting of a "falling fir === Page 33 of 38 # 'Fireball' Lands Near Pittsburgh Continued from First Page or flashes of light in the sky. At Lapeer, searchers said they found two small stacks of foil within 10 feet of each other. Other foil was scattered over the swamp. Samples of the foil were sent to the Air Force for laboratory tests. Lapeer deputy sheriff Lenny Tolly said he found "about a peck" of foil in two piles. The foil appeared to be made of lead and was shredded in strips a sixteenth of an inch wide. Meanwhile, a boy reported seeing a flaming object fall from the sky into woods near his home on the outskirts of Cleveland. "I was in the back yard," the boy said, "when I glanced up and saw a fireball. It landed in the woods across the road and it had a funny smell." === Page 34 of 38 # Victim of the Storm ![A photograph showing the damaged exterior of a house with two women looking up at the roof.] -Herald-Examiner Photo A bolt of lightning ripped holes in this home, 653 Hagar St., San Fernando, causing fire which destroyed the roof and roof of the garage. Tenant Carrie McDowell (left) and owner Ella Cleland, survey damage. # Southland Jolted By Thunderbolts (Continued from Page 1) thunderstorm" seen in the area for years. Despite the showers, the city was in for its fourth straight day of 90 degree plus weather. And as a result of the rain, higher humidity readings made today even more uncomfortable though the high was predicted at 90, five degrees cooler than yesterday. Low temperature reading last night was 72 degrees with a much cooler and less humid 65 predicted for tonight. Humidity extremes ranged from a low of 36 per cent yesterday at 3 p.m. to a high of 76 per cent this morning at 4 a.m. === Page 35 of 38 # Bolt Causes Valley Fire, Power Failure (U.S. Weather, Tides D-3) Lightning, thunder and intermittent showers co-starred in an early morning spectacular over Southland skies early today disrupting power service and causing fires in many locations. Lightning bolts etched out crazy-quilt patterns and accompanying thunderbolts woke slumbering residents from the San Fernando Valley to Pomona and from Pasadena to Long Beach. From throughout the city came reports of interrupted power service and activated burglar alarm systems, all attributed to the storm. A bolt of lightning hit a palm tree near White Oak Avenue and Sherman Way in Van Nuys setting fire to the tree while another hit a power pole in the rear of the Van Nuys police station knocking out power there for a few minutes. ## HOUSE SET AFIRE A lightning-caused fire was blamed for damage to a house and garage at 653 Hagar St., San Fernando. Accompanying intermittent showers were held responsible for a chain of minor freeway accidents on the inbound San Bernardino Freeway on Pomona's Kellogg Hill, which were triggered when a garbage truck dumped part of its load and motorists swerved to avoid hitting the debris. West Valley officers on patrol in radio cars summed up the feelings of many persons when they reported to their watch commanders that is was "the best lightning and (Cont. on Page 10, Cols. 2-3) # Mystery Fireball Over L.A. An immense "fireball" which streaked across Southland skies and attracted professional attention from as far away as New Mexico today was tentatively believed to have been a meteorite. Federal Aviation Agency observers also said the object could have been a satellite collapsing in orbit and burning up in the earth's atmosphere. Official switchboards here and in Orange County reported sighting by hundreds of witnesses about 9:45 p.m. Delta, TWA and Bonanza Airline pilots landing here also reported they saw the ball of fire over the Los Angeles area when they were in the Grand Canyon area. The sight was logged in air control towers in China Lake, Edwards Air Force Base, Palmdale and Albuquerque. The gleaming object, trailing fire, "circled" the skies for about 15 minutes, one witness reported. === Page 36 of 38 -Herald-Examiner Photo by BUD GRAY NATURE'S ELECTRICAL FIREWORKS LOOKS DOWN ON CAPTIVE ELECTRICITY Edison plant on Tustin Blvd. in Orange is silhouetted against mammoth lightning flash 08/08/2025 15:44 === Page 37 of 38 # BOLTS 'n' JOLTS # Lightning, Thunder, Rain, Hit Southland FIREBALL in the sky adds to the display: Page 6. (U.S. Weather, Tides D-3) A weather smorgasbord of rolling thunder, blinding lightning and brief but drenching showers enlivened Southland skies early today but failed to keep the mercury out of the 90s. The thunderstorm system moved in from the Pacific about 2 a.m. but headed off for Oregon, leaving the temperature climbing toward a predicted high of 90 degrees. It was the fourth straight day in the 90s for suntanned Southern California. The pre-dawn thunderstorms which fanned all across the Los Angeles basin disrupted power service and started fires in many locations. Precipitation was measured at .01 inch at Civic Center. From throughout the city came reports of interrupted power service and activated burglar alarm systems, all attributed to the storm. A bolt of lightning hit a palm tree near White Oak Avenue and Sherman Way in Van Nuys setting fire to the tree while another hit a power pole in the rear of the Van Nuys police station knocking out power there for a few minutes. -Herald-Examiner Photo by BU **NATURE'S ELECTRICAL FIREWORKS LOOKS DOWN ON CAPTIVE ELECTRICITY** Edison plant on Tustin Blvd. in Orange is silhouetted against mammoth 08/08/2025 15:48 === Page 38 of 38 HOUSE SET AFIRE A lightning-caused fire was blamed for damage to a house and garage at 653 Hagar St., San Fernando. Accompanying intermittent showers were held responsible for a chain of minor accidents on the inbound San Bernardino Freeway on Pomona's Kellogg Hill, which were triggered when a garbage truck dumped part of its load and motorists swerved to avoid hitting the debris. West Valley officers on patrol in radio cars summed up the feelings of many persons when they reported to their watch commanders that is Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1960s Misc letters and clippings part 1 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/1cb642d59b6081fd697ba9e83e96f581.pdf b0da17732e8efee7a5e44b7631766473 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/e446bb9b3e1b3b0b5a82b6abbae65d5f.txt 562fdd2a36cb97020f287e6ea4a95adf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letters to Owens Children Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 # TED OWENS LETTERS TO CHILDREN # GENERAL LETTERS Jeff received week of July 14, 2025 11120 Bermuda Dunes, ABQ. Sent from Lori Rodriguez in Beaverton, Oregon. Recorded by Lewis Barlow July 19, 2025 Majority written in 1965 and 1966 but were a couple of letters from 1970 and 1976. We received several different packages from Lori that contained Ted Owens letters to his children. As this was more of a general package of letters and covered several different dates, for organization purposes we will just call it general letters. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 9 at my July 21 letter, and note that I called the ) that my "little friends" would be seen over a u that I am for real? I told you that they would undertake attacks of ason...to prove that I am for real...their contact ings, in plenty. nk the best signal they gave you was the lightning think it was...on the Moon Rocket pad at Cape hat I wrote Mr. Eastwood at NASA (Inventions Dept.) July 7, 1965 of course, and warned him in the letter that I was again, as of last year, aiming hurricanes and lightning and freak accidents at the Cape this year. Only took four weeks for lightning to chew up the Moon Rocket pad. Not bad, eh? As for up here...I wrote President Johnson August 3, 1965 (this week) and told him: "They (the UFO'S) will do something nice now for Philadelphia, I know...I am asking them to...especially a two-day rain in an effort to get several inches of rain here for the City in appreciation..." The very next day, George, they got their 2½ inches of rain all in a bundle. Did them quite a bit of good. Now, for your amusement, and because you've been so good to listen to me for so long...I will let you in on something. Am calling fleets of UFO'S here to Philadelphia...from everywhere. Trouble is I do not know what they can do to prove to these people here that I'm for real...but I will think of something. Believe they are here already, because I sent for them this afternoon. With all that power, whatever kind it is that they have...and it seems to be miraculous, judging from what they've accomplished this past year, they should do something startling. Am trying to convey the idea to them of coming right down over the city and hovering. They give me the idea back that we might have some kind of rays like the laser, or whatever it is they have...and hurt them or something...so that they are reticent to do this. So I am trying to tell them we haven't any such thing, and it's safe. I want to bring one down right over Market Street and have it hover there for 20 minutes. What else they'll do on their own is anybody's guess. So, have asked them to send rain out to the U.S. for 2-3 weeks, before starting drought conditions again. Am sure that they will. Incidentally, last week I warned you that some terrible blow would be struck at the U.S. soon...and I believe that it was the 08/08/2025 16:08 === Page 2 of 9 For now, will you please get my July 21 letter, and note that I called the shot with the prediction (?) that my "little friends" would be seen over a U.S. city as a signal to you that I am for real? Also, next paragraph down, I told you that they would undertake attacks of lightning...for the same reason...to prove that I am for real...their contact man, so to speak. Well, you've had the sightings, in plenty. As for the lightning, I think the best signal they gave you was the lightning hit this week...August 4, I think it was...on the Moon Rocket pad at Cape Kennedy. So...you have your signal. Might interest you to know that I wrote Mr. Eastwood at NASA (Inventions Dept.) July 7, 1965 of course, and warned him in the letter that I was again, as of last year, aiming hurricanes and lightning and freak accidents at the Cape this year. Only took four weeks for lightning to chew up the Moon Rocket pad. Not bad, eh? As for up here...I wrote President Johnson August 3, 1965 (this week) and told him: "They (the UFO's) will do something nice now for Philadelphia. I know...I am asking them to..especially a two-day rain in an effort to get several inches of rain here for the City in appreciation..." The very next day, George, they got their 2½ inches of rain all in a bundle. Did them quite a bit of good. Now, for your amusement, and because you've been so good to listen to me for so long...I will let you in on something. Am calling fleets of UFO's here, to Philadelphia...from everywhere. Trouble is I do not know what they can do to prove to these people here that I'm for real...but I will think of something. Believe they are here already, because I sent for them this afternoon. With all that power, whatever kind it is that they have...and it seems to be miraculous, judging from what they've accomplished this past year, they should do something startling. Am trying to convey the idea to them of coming right down over the city and hovering. They give me the idea back that we might have some kind of rays like they have, or whatever it is they have...and hurt them or something...so that they are reticent to do this. So I am trying to tell them we haven't any such thing, and it's safe. I want to bring one down right over Market Street and have it hover there for 20 minutes. What else they'll do on their own is anybody's guess. Also, have asked them to send rain out to the U.S. for 2-3 weeks, before starting drought conditions again. Am sure that they will. Incidentally, last week I warned you that some terrible blow would be struck at the U.S. soon...and I believe that it was the 08/08/2025 16:08 === Page 3 of 9 2 We will also add pestilence and sickness and what you call accidents; we will follow the structure of events which we used in the day of the human you know as Moses, as he strove against the ruler of the great country called Egypt. As we helped Moses in that day, so we shall help the human-friend we know now as Ted Owens, you call the Rain Maker. If it please him to think that...of course we make the rain for him, but what is the difference? So that you people of the earth will believe this message we send to you, and we do not expect you to believe it unless we show proof...listen carefully. From now on, in time ahead, we will lift the curtain of drought for a little, and let the thirsty earth have its moisture. We will give the precious rain where it is needed...for a time. Then, lest you think that it is a perchance, we will drop the curtain once more with our machines, and let the rays of the sun penetrate the bowels of the earth and dry up your rivers, your lakes, your plants...until you accept our human as our representative. After you accept him, we have much work for him to do, for we do not speak your language, nor do we know too much, as we should, about your inner workings. It is through this human that we can learn; and it is through us, that you can learn. Even now, we send the meaning of our thoughts to him, and his brain translates through pictures and feelings into your English. It is good. Beware lest you take too long to accept our human-friend, for then we must strike a hard blow at the country which spurns him...to punish your country as you would punish a child which persists in misbehaving. After your country has accepted our Link with humans, and we are able to proceed in keeping earth humans from the time-old habit of erasing === Page 4 of 9 Me: When are you coming to see me? They: Tonight we will try. Flash your light (flashlight) upward every hour as long as you can. Me: Can you locate me from signals from my brain? They: We can. Me: I'll also leave a light on so you can see. They: No. Turn it off so we will not be seen by others. This is important. Me: Where are you from? They: Some - Jupiter. Others, other places. Even from inside this earth. Goodbye, now. Me: Yes, goodbye. ---------- Note: I set up the scene; put the family upstairs, got the flashlight and blinked it for a long while, but no contact. However, during the previous three weeks many flying saucers had been sighted over Washington, D.C., and over nearby Virginia. The night of February 6, many were seen over Washington...and it was written up in the papers. Then...I thought no more about it, since proof was not forthcoming...until the UFO over the South Pole, while I was in Philadelphia, made my prediction come true in detail. There could no longer be any doubt at all, about my having communicated with them, as far as I am concerned. Lornie & Ruth can be reached for confirmation: Lornie & Ruth Owens c/o Shannon 505 S. Osage St. #3 Inglewood, Calif. 08/08/2025 16:0 === Page 5 of 9 2 Me: perhaps you could fly over me and drop me a supply of diamonds. They: We will think on it. If we do we will include the tool you need to prove to your people there must be no people-war on earth with atomic weapons. Me: I am tired. Not used to this. They: Yes. We did not think. Goodbye now, friend. (Next time they "came in" like sounds was the evening of March 6, 1965.) They: Do not go away, far, Viet Nam. Your people will try to kill you. We need you alive. Listen carefully..there are others like us, against us, who could cause you harm. Be careful of your life, of your shell. It has taken us ages, in your time, to find a shell like you who can communicate with us. We do not want to lose you. But remember that you are, every moment, in great danger from "them" who use shells (people) bodies. They look like and seem like real people, but they are not. (I got the impression they mean that there are UFO entities which have somehow entered human bodies, and therefore, since they are enemies of these UFO entities, will try to do away with me.) Me: Can you end the war in Viet Nam and help my country, the United States, to become healthy and great again? They: We can and we will. But you must not go there! Instead go to Hong Kong or Japan as a tourist. Go by freighter ship. We can contact you on the ship. We will defeat your enemies for you in Viet Nam and bring peace. We will help your country. But your country must help you for you are our instrument. Does not your people approach certain fish, to communicate with fish? We do likewise. We go now to try to approach you. Be ready for us. Me: I will. (That same evening, later on, they "came in" again) They: Are you ready? 08/08/2025 16:08 === Page 6 of 9 Me: Yes. They: We have a plan. Please turn that machine off. (My transistor radio.) Me: I did. They: Can't get through tonight very good - very well. Do you have a car-machine? Me: Yes, but it will not work. It's broken. That is why I need money. They: We are going to take care of that...money. Do not worry about it. You will be richer than anyone in your country before long. We want to see you, talk to you. Can we come down? Me: Yes, to my back door. I'll let you in. They: Will you be alone? Me: Yes. I'll have my family stay upstairs. They: No harm will come to us? Me: No. Absolutely not. Lower your flying machine near my back door and step onto my back porch. Knock loudly on the door. I'll let you in and we can communicate. I am very pleased, and anxious to meet you. They: Yes. We have what you need to convince your crazy people...your government...that we exist, and can control your world. You can use it. It will be yours to keep. Me: Thank you. They: You need a car, so that you can go far away. We will try to get you one. Me: My child is sick. Also a girl, our friend, in a hospital (Brenda Sue Pennington.) Will you heal them? They: We will, indeed, heal them. Worry not. Listen carefully...no time is to be lost. Your people must pay attention to you and listen to you, else we must destroy most of the earth's peoples, to begin all over again. Me: You mean, what is happening now has happened before? They: Many times. 08/08/2025 16:08 === Page 7 of 9 Message to the earth people... from the Saucer Intelligences (SI's) through the Rain Maker, Van Owens... August 3, 1964 We are very happy that we are able to reach the ears of human beings, after trying for long, long spaces of time. This human who is talking for us, we have been teaching for a year in your time, and now he knows much... soon he will know much more. He can do much. You must listen to him carefully, and protect him, for if you lose him you lose your link with us, and it is not known how long it may be until we find another human who can receive our thoughts, and send intelligence back to us, in just his way. You do not appreciate the difficulties involved. It would be as if you were trying to teach your earth animals how to talk, and suddenly you found one who could actually converse with you... and through this one animal you had an opportunity to discover the secrets of the animal kingdom. Through us you have the opportunity to discover the secrets of space, of far away places, of advanced technology, but best of all... you have the opportunity of surviving, for as a race you are utterly doomed now, as you are living (this in their words.) Many civilizations before you have so doomed themselves and destroyed themselves, and we were helpless to give them assistance and advice and powerful aid. Now for the first time in long space ages we are able, though a human's senses, to come to the aid of a doomed civilization and help it survive. But we can only do so if you listen, and pay attention. We are causing severe drought, with our machines in your skies, so that we can teach you a basic lesson... which is that our intelligence is far superior to that of earth intelligence. We can control earth people because we can control what you call weather. Then, and not before, our earth human has been accepted by your government, and put to good use, then and only then will we release the drought conditions, and let rainfall come in abundance down onto your thirsty earth. 08/08/2025 16:08 === Page 8 of 9 terrible bomber crash in Vietnam (?) today, because this made us look very bad all over the world, which is bad enough anyway about the Viet Nam war. All those 250 lb. bombs being unloaded there, where the new U.S. Military Headquarters is being set up...and on top of our allies...that is very very bad. A real blow. And the way it was done, is certainly in the pattern of all the rest of this phenomena. Why, when the other bomber made eight passes at it, with all its guns blazing, why didn't it shoot it down, or set off the bombs in it? Then there was the wind...oh yes, the wind...like the rain that put out the fire in that attempt. The wind turned the plane around and took it right into target. I tell you, George, there is much more to this than meets the eye. Don't you agree? Remember the other two times I warned you that the U.S. would be struck blows, in a similar way...and then in quick order after each prediction, the U.S. Embassy was blown up...and then something airfield was set off when the bomber exploded there and blew up other planes and everything, incidentally. But there is something nice...because conditions have just recently been good to me here, and I have had a bit of a chance to get my UFO status at least a tiny bit out into the open...the stock market is already improving, as I told you it would a while back (last month, wasn't it?) Sure do wish this was a two-way communication. Wish CIA...oh, well, keep observing, George, and you will see some very strange things happen yet. PK Man (The Rain Maker) Ted Owens === Page 9 of 9 2 relate, of any value, to Congress? I can give really valuable information, and should be allowed to be there to do so. And the SI's are furious about it. This will undoubtedly be reflected in worse catastrophes just ahead of us. Remember - the primary purpose of the SI's is to establish a meeting of "minds" between themselves, and top U.S. leaders - and from that point on, using the U.S. as a friendly cooperative base of operations, they plan to straighten out world problems, bring about peace everywhere, and show us, from their higher intelligence and experience, how to keep the peace in effect after they are gone. The fact that the U.S. Govt. refuses to listen to them at this point, or help bring this about...of course makes them very angry...and brings disastrous catastrophes upon us. Of course, in order to bring about the above, the SI's first have to be met in a physical meeting...face to face...and myself, PK Man, is the U.S. Govt.'s only key to that meeting. The SI's do not intend for a minute to let the U.S. or any other country capture one of their craft and gain access to their mechanics of propulsion and power...to misuse as we have misused nuclear power, and no doubt will misuse it again in the future. That is why they are almost impossible to contact, let alone meet. Also they do not trust humans, and especially do not trust American military men...or American politicians. For remember, their values and morals are different than ours...they are strict, hard, and they are against war and killing and destruction. Can the same be said for military men and politicians? Of course not. And the same goes for scientists. The SI's do not like them, either. Well, enough. Luckily, the SI's do trust me, and like me. Why, I don't know. But I have submitted more than enough proof by now to you that they do communicate with me, and we with them. So....take it from there. PK Man Love, Dad P.S. Pardon this blankety-blank YMCA typewriter. It is a mess. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1960s Misc letters and clippings part 2 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/d8e0280baa8fa50f663440c44cbd9582.pdf a73874416c191d4e0cd2ef386dd2de22 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/ad61cedb0625a0b1c22ca2580b4bd7f9.txt 58a43a28e36af27919d2b3d6f5737b8b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letters to Owens Children Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 # TED OWENS LETTERS TO CHILDREN # GENERAL LETTERS Jeff received week of July 14, 2025 11120 Bermuda Dunes, ABQ. Sent from Lori Rodriguez in Beaverton, Oregon. Recorded by Lewis Barlow July 19, 2025 Majority written in 1965 and 1966 but were a couple of letters from 1970 and 1976. We received several different packages from Lori that contained Ted Owens letters to his children. As this was more of a general package of letters and covered several different dates, for organization purposes we will just call it general letters. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 31 Congress Hotel THE Bellevue Stratford 12th Broad and Walnut Streets Philadelphia, Pa. 19102 CABLE ADDRESS BELLSTRAT TELETYPE 215 569-9703 PENNYPACKER 5-0700 AREA CODE 215 Dear Lorrie -- Hope you two are having fun by now. Open any mail I might get, forwarded, + send me anything important. Right now am trying to get 200 - 300 to buy a car + go up to New Jersey and sell my services as The Rainmaker to various towns + counties having a terrible drought. They are out of water and need... rainstorms. Ha! I figured I could get $5000 per town, or county, fee paid after their rain comes. However, since the area would probably become a disaster area, they might not pay me. The rain PK I worked so hard last November to sock the U.S. with -- is slow in going away to let heat + drought take its place. But I've set up heat + fire (red) PK, not only over the U.S., but the world, for this coming summer (July -- on.) So you should read about drought all over the place. Nature will use this to make the Govt. more reasonable. Remember I wrote Clark, CIA, + told him all phenomena of Moses' day would now occur to U.S. Govt.? Well, first case of cholera since 1911 just struck -- in Wash. D.C. And since I "hit" Viet Nam with PK -- planes are colliding, Marines are shooting each other by accident -- it's really something. Some day they'll learn. Write. Dad Congress Hotel Rm. 600 12th + Walnut Phila., Pa. AIR CONDITIONED GUEST ROOMS, RESTAURANTS AND FUNCTION ROOMS 08/08/2025 16:31 === Page 2 of 31 Double-crossing, will he? !!! # Tornado Topples S. C. Ferris Wheel CRESENT BEACH, S. C. (UPI). -- A sea-spawned tornado ripped through South Carolina's rich "Grand Strand" resort area and caused an estimated $1 million damage to the posh playground. No serious injuries were reported. The twister knifed out of a squall line of thunderstorms, toppling a huge ferris wheel and severely damaging a restaurant and two motels. Lesser damage was reported at other resort areas north of Myrtle Beach. Communications and power were cut off by the storm. Heavy rains drenched the area and flooded streets and lowland areas. THUNDERSTORMS raked the area from Myrtle Beach northward to Cherry Grove Beach. Police and rescue squads rushed into the stricken area and reported only minor injuries to the throng of summer visitors and residents. Most of the minor injuries were caused by flying glass. Remember the ferris wheel? It got it. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. 08/08/2025 16:31 === Page 3 of 31 Friday Dear Lornie Thank you, honey, for the three cigars...but do not run yourself short of spending money, just for cigars for daddy, hear? Although I surely do appreciate the thought...and the smokes. Our letters are hanging up...I don't get yours for maybe a week after you send it...and I know for sure that you aren't getting mine correctly, on time. Something is funny, somewhere...and I don't mean with the Shannons. Mebbe the govt. t Beau is all right, just cut the corner of his eye. He is awfully sweet, and plays with me constantly. In fact, I can't hardly get him off my lap. He invents games...and teaches me how to play his games with him. The kid is a little wizard. And tough...good lord...if you think he was rugged when you knew him, you should know him now. Martha is afraid to try to put his pajamas on, or take him away from TV...cause he beats up on her. He charges her, and bites, hits, etc. Puts up a damn good scrap. Lots of spunk. Am writing this at work, without benefit of your letter at hand, so will try to remember the points you made. Your letter is at home, and ordinarily I answer it directly. Am doing any old odd job, looking for a way out of my present predicament...which is, stuck in old Philadelphia where few of my talents count for anything. Am sending my novels to N.Y. and trying to make a deal with a local businessman to start my own business, etc. Then...6 months, a year...of saving...and we'll buy a used car and go to some quiet, countryish place...and I will begin my System-teaching, and we will rent a house, or buy one. Rent one, I guess, on sober thought Am glad your school is beginning, and you do sound like you are having fun. If any earthquakes, fires, floods, typhoons, etc., occur, you'll know that Daddy is playing his little games. I am winding up now to swat the West Coast with a big jar of PK; also to make and steer more 'canes into Florida. Debbie was doing all right; she turned right, like I told her to - then stalled just off the Florida coast, and by the time she went into Florida she'd quieted down into a mere 60-70 mile an hour tropical storm, instead of a hurricane. Anyway, I hit Florida with her. Even if I didn't get a hit on Electro directly and in full force. incidentally...last year I wrote Dunn, Chief of the Hurricane Bureau at Miami...remember? And asked him to name Hurricanes after you and Martha this year. Well, he did...but as usual, your name got misspelled, and it is "Laurie" on the official Hurricane Charts. "Martha" is there, too. So - you have a hurricane named after you. I am working hard to make that many hurricanes for that area. I have gotten 28 typhoons so far in the Pacific. They ran clear through the alphabet, and are starting over with Typhoon Bess working now. Love and kisses, Dad 08/08/2025 16:31 === Page 4 of 31 Rick...added note. When UFO was seen by thousands, nearby in New Jersey...it made the front pages of the New Jersey papers. I sent you photos of clippings. But...not a word appeared in the Philadelphia papers. And this was IMPORTANT news! So here is what the U.S. Govt. is doing. Whenever a UFO incident happens, they restrict the news of it just to that little area where it happens...because they know the people will talk around, and if no news appeared then questions would be asked. So maybe 100 UFO's could be seen in the U.S., but it would not appear anywhere except in a few towns around where it happens. The whole US wouldn't know this. Controlled news. This goes against our Constitution. But then, many things our present government is doing...goes against our Constitution. I had wondered at your mentioning UFO sightings in California...because no mention of it had appeared on the East Coast. Now we know for sure why. So...if you ever see any mention of all of UFO phenomena, be sure and send me the clipping, okay? Incidentally, might interest you to know that I use the thermos you gave me in Washington every day...take my lunch to work, and your thermos is with it, holding coffee. I wish you hadn't left me. Young or not, I would like to train you in all these various techniques the Si's have taught me to use...my old list, that you copied, is nothing compared to my new list. Although, of course, every thing on the list you have works. But they have given me much much more. And I have made colored crayon pictures of many things that are important, but have to be explained verbally. For instance, if you saw my "Rainbow Door" picture...it would mean nothing, unless how it works is explained. Keep punching with your school work. Did you read where that M.I.T. graduate with two degrees painted squares on his face with fingernail polish yesterday then shot three atomic energy scientists with a shotgun? Then shot himself. And he was a scientist, too. Happened in New York, not far from the UFO sighting, last week. Evidently the three squares were the men he was going to shoot...and the small square on his forehead above the three squares, stood for himself. He was brilliant...name of Maresco. Had three kiddies. Pitiful. 08/08/2025 16:31 === Page 5 of 31 Wolcott Resident Argues The Case For UFO's To the Editor of The American: Via various of the newspaper items, I see that more recently there have been undeniable reports from scientists at atmospheric research centers of universities, that the sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) are not purely imagination, nor simply "swamp gases," or "meteors," etc. In some cases, yes, but not the majority. So-called "flying saucers" more aptly "space ships" DO EXIST! Why is it so difficult for governments and people in general, to believe the possibility of intelligent forms of life (perhaps far superior to our own planet earth) existing elsewhere in this vast infinite universe? Certainly if our own present civilization is so well-advanced (enough to photograph planets and send men into orbit around the earth) then is it so difficult to believe that there may be perhaps a higher, more intelligent species of beings, somewhere in this universe, capable of these fantastic travels? Unfortunately, mankind has not yet learned, due to his own greed and ignorance, that the very atomic forces which he has so well harnessed for destructive weapons can be used much more intelligently for the betterment of mankind, without "poisoning" the very atmosphere and waters, as now. The earth is abundant and beautiful . . . and there is enough water, food, land, gold and gems for all living things, once man learns that these things are not to be taken for "personal possessions" . . . but to be utilized and enjoyed by ALL of God's created beings. Does any human being have the "right" to claim any land, nation, or body of water as "his," exclusively? Or any part of the world and universe? Now they are wondering and speculating who will land on the moon first, and place a stake of "ownership!" "Brotherhood" as exemplified and taught by many religious sects, is not yet truly the brotherhood by which mankind can truly be happy. When man gives up his desire for war and destruction, his greed for personal power and possessions, then and then only will there be the beginning of Peace on Earth, such as taught by the great Avatars throughout the history of our war-torn, and sorrow-ridden world. Unfortunately mankind's spiritual progress has not kept pace with the material aspects of his accomplishments . . . and here lies the sad story which fills the history books to the brim, of tales of bloodshed, greed and power. There is only ONE True Power . . . the Power of God . . . the Energy or Force which we so well know as The Almighty, Creator of Heaven, Earth and Seas! . . . and the "many mansions" of His infinite universe. Until mankind learns to live in peace, and learns to revere and recognize fully, the Supreme Being, mankind will be forced to suffer, by its own hand, via poverty, strife and the countless "ills" which befall nation after nation, which eventually brings it to its knees or complete destruction. It seems that only when people are beset by woe and great trouble do they remember that there is a "God" . . . somewhere . . . to turn to. (Unfortunately though, at these times, too often they turn to Him, only to "blame" Him, and not to pray). And so, as we look heavenward, we see so much evidence not just of His grandeur, but the infinite intelligence which lies behind it . . . and too, we see what we call "UFOs" which contain perhaps, beings who have progressed far beyond our own worldly attainments . . . beings who have progressed because they have kept pace in both spiritual and material realms . . . and not denied their creator. For man without God is simply a piece of clay. (REV.) IRENE G. KAVULA Wolcott 2 Cliff St. === Page 6 of 31 Sat. 5/21 Dear Lornie: Hi, honey, it was good to hear from you. How do you like my (and Si's) score at Cape K? Haven't missed bringing down a rocket in months there. That's because the Si's added some new PK weaponry...most devastatingly effective. This last Agena I got was said to fall into the Atlantic..but a commercial airplane pilot appeared on a TV program and said he and co-pilot were up in the air near the Agena...and it seemed to vanish into a peculiar yellow cloud. Figure that one out. One turtle just died...and last night the goldfish died...and our canary bird, which is a singing fool...has stopped singing. ???? Yes, read about the 16 year old girl, tortured to death. We are having one to two rapes a day here in Philadelphia...some of them on the torture side. Things are getting rough all over...would advise you to watch your step, especially with the coloreds getting ready to blow up in that area against whites. How about that cop shooting the colored husband who was driving his pregnant wife to the hospital? Don't worry about McNamara...the Si's are taking care of him in beautiful shape! He won't last much longer in his present position of power. Martha got her goodies...and you made me very happy by making her very happy. She and baby fought like tigers over the candy...I nearly died laughing. Baby would take one piece, then snatch another with the speed of lightning before Martha could stop him. And she couldn't get it away from him, either. You are definitely not getting my mail. You ask if I had seen the UFO show on NBC. Immediately after the show I wrote George, etc., that the U.S. Government would be severely punished by the Si's for that lousy show....and sent you your usual copy. Which obviously you haven't seen. By now the Si's have clobbered the U.S. Govt. in spades. The Si's, true to their word (see my ltrs.) have been inundating the East Coast with rain to break the drought. Steadily. Love and kisses, Dad === Page 7 of 31 Si's have: (as per their predictions through myself) 1964 through present May, 1967 Thrown off the magnetic equipment of the two scientific expeditions over the South Pole. Showed themselves over the two scientific expeditions, to get it into the paper, as they said they would do. Showed their craft, and their ray, at Waunaque, as they said they would. Made lightning hit things everywhere and get reported in the papers, as they said they would. Sent a huge "fireball" UFO over Philadelphia six days after they said they would, in my prediction. Saved Brenda Sue Pennington, who was given up for dead by her doctors (or they wouldn't have let me in). Produced an early hurricane (Alma) as they said they would. Destroyed, disabled, or ruined the mission of various forms of rockets and missiles going up at Cape Kennedy, as per their predictions. Produced disasters coast to coast, for a demonstration, per their predictions. Produced negative, destructive conditions around the White House, Johnson, and the U.S. Government. Made it rain in Phila., with me calling the shots. Made it rain all over the U.S., reversing the upper atmosphere conditions to do it, according to the N.Y. Times, to break the 6-year drought. Made it rain in India, to break the 3-year drought. Produced a blinding light to confuse the "eye" on Mariner 4. Produced a savage, hurricane-like storm in the Wash., D.C. Capitol. Warned CIA of North Vietnamese attack on carriers off Vietnam. Warned U.S. Govt. of Viet Cong attack with blowguns and poison darts, and poison. Caused a judge in Selma, Ala., to have a complete change of heart re negros and whites. Brought down the Russian spacecraft, Voshkod. Harassed the U.S. Air Force viciously, as it would an enemy...making the AF Blue Angels crash and collide; AF planes downed everywhere under all kinds of conditions; AF top brass dropped dead, etc. NASA...they did the exact same thing to Nasa as they did the AF. Made U.S. nuclear sub ram freighter, just days after they said they would. Demonstrated their control over our skies...by producing staggering airplane disasters. Demonstrated their control over our seas...by producing ship accidents, fires, attacks by freak waves, etc. Also our naval military...by producing one carrier accident after another after another after another. Same with subs. Produced earthquakes on predicted schedules. Produced lightning attacks at Cape Kennedy, as they said they would, even hitting lightning-proof pad. Put all top U.S. Govt. officials in the hospital with "executive flu" (which was not flu at all, according to the Washington D.C. medical examiners. They have never been able to discover what it was.) Harassed the Needles, Calif. military maneuvers; the NC/SC military maneuvers; and the U.S./Spain military maneuvers, to demonstrate what they can do to our military. Produced hurricanes as predicted, then guided them along predicted routes to target areas, already predicted. LORNIE AND RICK -08/08/2025 16:31 === Page 8 of 31 Page Two Demonstrated their control over the Stock Market, by allowing me to predict for them a drop...the Friday before the Market fell about 15-20 points the following Monday. Demonstrated their knowledge of secret activities in the world... by tipping off the U.S. Govt. of certain things which would occur, and which did. Demonstrated their complete control over weather, by ending years-long droughts, causing hurricanes, earthquakes, blizzards, etc., and predicted in advance (like everything else on these two sheets). Predicted Johnson't hospital stays, and surgery, in advance on three occasions (surgery on only two, "flu" on the other). Predicted an attack on or near the White House, and predicted it would be "symbolic". Warned the President by telegram of an oncoming disaster...the New York Blackout, which followed shortly. Demonstrated their control over "total peoples" by defeating the African rebels, who were killing children. Demonstrated their control over space shots and space activity... by predicting in advance what would happen, then making it happen. Demonstrated their communication ability with P K Man (Owens) by telling him when and/or where and/or why they would appear, before they actually did so, as predicted in advance. Demonstrated again their control over "total peoples" by helping Johnson win, then by defeating the Democrats at the polls in '66. Demonstrated their ability to read human minds...by warning in advance of an ex-flyer's plans to crash his plane into the White House. Demonstrated their power to heal (Mrs. Don White, Ft. Worth; Brenda Sue, Washington, D.C. - plus numerous others in Ft. Worth). And they have just produced an electrical and power blackout in New York, as per my request (from Jim Moseley's request). And just made lightning strike, per my request (as requested by Margulies, the parner-lawyer of this law firm) and the lightning struck the target area requested. === Page 9 of 31 Kids - read this book now! 444 Saddle Lane Grosse Pointe Woods Michigan 48236 April 20, 1967 Mr. Ted Owens 1114 Spruce No. 33 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Dear Mr. Owens I find the study of space and UFO's very fascinating. Upon watching the John Bandy Program of Saturday April 1st, I became intensely interested in you and the intelligence with which you communicate. I write to you now to get more detailed information on the subject, and to offer any assistance possible to you. First of all, let me tell you a little about myself. I am a boy of 15 attending Grosse Pointe High School, and have a 3.4 average in all subjects. I recently started a campaign with a friend to map out all UFO sightings, and attempt to find any set patterns as to their appearances. We detected four patterns, all of which are circular, which seem to have their centers of curvature in Canada and off the coast of eastern South America. Two centers are in Canada and two in South America. Both of these countries seem to have circular, moving areas of UFO sightings. We do not claim that these patterns are valid, but we plan to get more members and continue the study until definite patterns are found. 08/08/2025 16:31 === Page 10 of 31 Page 2 I believe that some alien form has been closely studying this planet for thousands of years, and maybe more. (I also believe that Christ was one of these aliens,) who had a mission to establish a code of laws and to unite our race into one by Christianity. Therefore, your claim of communication supports my belief, and I want to believe you. However, I would like to know how you can differentiate from ESP and the communications of other beings. How do you know you don't merely have ESP? As I said before, I am intensely curious about your contact with intelligence from another dimension. The following are questions which I hope will be answered thoroughly and accurately. I give you my word that I will not inform anyone of your answers unless you will permit me to. (If you are telling the truth, I think you may hold the key to the survival of this world.) Here are my questions: 1. The intelligence is from another dimension. Does this mean that they are from a place beyond our universe, or could it be a zone in our universe? Both. 2. Do our dimensions of depth, width, length, and time apply to this dimension, NO or is it completely opposite ours? Please describe dimension further if possible. 3. Can this intelligence change energy into matter and take any form? YES How is this possible? HOW DO I KNOW? 4. How can energy live, think, and take any form? 5. How does it travel? If they are from another === Page 11 of 31 Page 3 dimension, my guess is that their travel takes no time and is instantaneous. Is this true? Explain. 6. Please tell me exactly what their mission is. Is to set up a permanent base in the U.S.? Will they try and are they capable of correcting human conflicts and other weaknesses? 7. Could they have any interests of their own? Could they be after something? 8. Describe the mission, the intelligence, and the dimension further if possible. I would like to help you to carry out your mission in any way I could. Please tell me if there is anything I can do for you. If you will permit me, I would like to write you to give you the results on our study of UFO's, when it is completed. Please send me more of your predictions in your letter. I am very anxious to prove that you tell the truth. There is one important question I think you ought to ask yourself: "should the people know of your mission and of the intelligence? Thank you very much for information and your time. I will be looking forward for your answer. Sincerely yours, Leonard S. Buccellato My god! 15!!?? === Page 12 of 31 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN I recommend RICK OWENS to any prospective parent...because he is a fine boy. He is very creative...can draw excellent pictures; make paintings; make objects d'art with his hands that most people would never think of. He is a genius at making artistic objects. Rick also is very loyal. I travelled with him, and he not only did his part in making picnic lunches; removing tires from old wrecks to put on our car; feeding our dog and making her comfortable; scrounging up gas money by telling fortunes; pushing the car when it ran out of gas; but he always did more than his share of work...and we were very proud of him. He is a wonderful team-worker. We could always depend on him to come through with whatever the problem was that we were trying to solve...and he always did a brilliant job with his part of the problem. Rick is very kind, good-hearted, and generous. Many times he put covers over us when we were cold, sleeping out at nights. ; It was Rick who made Marthy Ann the happiest, by getting her food, and putting her to bed with him, when the rest of us were preoccupied with other things. Rick always put the happiness of the rest of our group ahead of his own...giving pieces of his candy or ice-cream to Lornie or Martha, if they wanted them, or to Marthy Ann. Rick is honest at heart, and truthful. Of course, he has childishly told lies...perhaps even swiped a few things...as all people do when they are growing up. But he is growing out of that stage, and of all the children I have seen in my life, Rick has been the most honest and truthful boy with his father. I would always trust him. Rick is very affectionate and lovable. He is warm, and outgoing. When a warm, loving hand is needed...his is the first to be extended. Of course, Rick has his faults...everyone has. He acts without thinking sometimes, too fast, and this tends to create errors. Perhaps there are some other little faults...but the big, most important things...make Rick a prince of a boy. He is to be strongly recommended. SIGNED: P K Man (Ted Owens) Father. === Page 13 of 31 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN I strongly recommend LORNIE OWENS to any prospective parent. First, LORNIE is a beautiful human female, and this, of course, has the highest value placed upon it by members of the human race...as witness beauty contests, etc. Lornie could easily win any beauty contest. Then, Lornie has a bright, magnetic personality. She sparkles. She is a great social asset, wherever she may be..in the home, at a party, at the beach, etc. She is always in great demand, socially. Lornie also has a great artistic genius...in painting pictures, writing stories, etc. She is imaginative and creative. Lornie has a good heart, fortunately...in spite of her beauty (this is usually not the case because beautiful girls learn to be superficial and get everything they want just by being beautiful.) Lornie thinks deeply about others, is concerned about others, works for others to help them, etc. As a matter of fact, many times when her own family group was in trouble, Lornie worked very hard in many ways to get them out of their troubles. Children like that are rare. Lornie is highly intelligent, and provides brilliant ideas for those around her. A lot of these ideas are, at times, on a rationalization basis... but they are brilliant. Lornie is affectionate and lovable, like a teddy bear, and she is outgoing with her warm love. Lornie is more honest and truthful than most girls her age. She has her small faults, as everybody has...but they are far outnumbered by her very good traits. Lornie Owens is a wonderful girl, and it is a surety that she will be a wonderful woman, in the years to come, and will make a fine wife and mother. SIGNED: Ted P K Man (Ted Owens) Father. === Page 14 of 31 Pg 1 SECRET INCANTATION Today and every day my autonomic nervous system will function perfectly, in perfect balance. Today and every day I move in a bright new world, which is the reflection of my innermost thoughts and beliefs. Today and every day I consciously and deliberately align myself, focus myself, with all of the powers of God and Nature. Nature always moves in right action, therefore my affairs today and every day will partake of right action. I wish no harm or sorrow to anybody, and all persons wish me well. My business is surrounded by right action. Universal Knowledge gives me fresh, vital ideas. I will meet nice people, make good contacts, because people will like me and like to do business with me. I am surrounded by a circle of protection. God, plus Universal Knowledge, guides me in all of my decisions, and draws to me those persons, places, and things that tend toward my fullest benefit. I will become a blessing to all whom I meet. I absolutely reject any belief in, or fear of, wrong action. I will receive wisdom, knowledge and understanding from God and Nature whenever I am asleep, as well as when I am awake. My body is a temple in which God dwells. All of His methods and activities are those of right action. I welcome every one of these activities, and throw myself wide open to them. I freely give my mind and soul and body to God and His work. I will not waste my money, but will use it wisely, to bring happiness to me and mine. Nothing destructive can enter or operate within my mind or body, for I am deliberately choosing the most constructive molds of thought. My spirit sings with happiness today and every day, for I am filled with the consciousness of life and the STRONG WILL TO LIVE. I am tuned in to every happy, healthy, successful person. Their thoughts travel over invisible paths to me, and my thoughts to them. I am tuned in to them, and whatever I need from their minds, or whatever ones of them I need to meet, Universal Knowledge will furnish it and bring it about. Today and every day I will draw large amounts of money to me from the inexhaustible supply of the Infinite...enough to meet any of my needs. Today and every day I draw STRENGTH from God and Nature and Universal Knowledge. === Page 15 of 31 Secret Incantation Pg 2 Page Two I wish to recognize and respond only to Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. Nothing negative can find a foothold in me. No doubt or fear can attach itself to me. I will have a positive attitude in every way, and will transmit this attitude and state of mind to my family and loved ones. No accidents or mistakes can occur, at any time, because I walk in a path of right action...both when I am thinking of it, and when I am not. I release myself and all of my affairs to the perfect working of God and Nature and Universal Knowledge...which turns these thoughts into action and results. This message, that I speak to my subconscious mind, I do not speak merely from myself...it is God in me, speaking Himself into my experience. This message has all-power to fulfill itself in my life and affairs, and is done with the ease of the Infinite. I release this message to the creative Law of Mind, fully confident that it is even now being fulfilled. IT SHALL COME TO PASS .......... === Page 16 of 31 Dear Lonnie & Harvey It was very good to hear from you. Today is really exciting because the one single odd thing that Nature told me on March 9 - that it would affect the magnetism of the North or South Pole, to prove I was its representative to the world - and that the papers would write it up - This one single thing that puzzled me, has come to pass. See clipping enclosed. Thus, in fact, "something" I call Nature has brought my prediction about in the exact manner to prove what PK Man is. Kids - my hair is standing up on end!! More later. Dad === Page 17 of 31 Lornie & Rick ---------- WHAT MAKES UP DAD - GOOD AND BAD ---------- (<- = ORDINARY SKILLS FOR BREAD JOBS) PROFESSIONAL AND EXPERT SKILLS AND ABILITIES OF TED OWENS (BOGA) RAINMAKER (WEATHER CONTROL) + YAWARA EXPERT Writer <- + LOCKSMITH ASSISTANT Lecturer Rice Univ. stage. Master of Ceremonies Personnel Manager <- Jazz Combo Leader Jazz Drummer Dance Choreographer (Arthur Murray Instructor; Stripper Instructor) Magician Court Reporter Ventriloquist Hypnotist Parapsychologist Hand Writing Analyst Bodyguard (5 sen. Pool and Snooker Hustler Boxer; BOXING INSTRUCTOR Portrait Photographer Oil Painting Artist Private Investigator <- Idea Man (ADVERTISING, ETC.) <- Quality Control Inspector, Steel Mill (C.F.I.) <- Sales, Closing Specialist <- (SWIMMING POOLS, HYPNOSIS, ARTHUR MURRAY LESSONS, JEWELRY, BIBLES, ETC.) Office Manager <- Sales Manager <- Fortune Teller Party Entertainer Teacher of Autosuggestion (Autoconditioning, autohypnosis) Teacher of Memory Improvement Techniques Teacher of Knife Throwing Techniques Greatest knife thrower in the world. Design, manufacture and sale of precious jewelry. Spanish, speak Semi-pro basketball player; coach of team. Medical Secretary <- Legal Secretary <- + SHORT ORDER COOK Psychiatric Secretary <- { LIFE GUARD (Teacher,) Boys' Military School CAPTAIN { SWIMMING INSTRUCTOR Treasure Hunter Ships Entertainer 08/08/2025 16:38 === Page 18 of 31 Tuesday May 17. Rick: For old time's sake, enclosed is my PK maps I made yesterday for the Agena - Gemini shoot. Send it back for my files. The Si's surprised me on Sunday by telling me to go ahead and make PK maps. (I was, anyway.) My, and the Si's, record by now is incredible! Several weeks ago we blocked every shot at the Cape for ten days! Then we "shot down," or destroyed, the two big birds they put up - one was O.S.O. - same as O.G.O., the one we got at Myrtle Beach. We miss you and Lonnie... especially Dean. We hope you are doing fine. Love & kisses - Dad. 08/08/2025 16:38 === Page 19 of 31 Tues Lornie x Rick x Pat Will be on Ed Harvey "Talk of Phila." WCAU radio show this Thursday, at about 2 or 2:30 - in case you've got a long-range radio. Today someone stole my briefcase - which contained my complete Sata records - members, addresses, etc. Interesting. Grabbed it in a grocery store when I turned my back for the count of three. Only 2 persons nearby - one a store employee. I turned back x the bag had vanished into thin air. Interesting. I called the police, but... - Dad. === Page 20 of 31 PHILADELPHIA DAILY # NEWS Afternoon Newspaper Published Daily By TRIANGLE PUBLICATIONS, INC. 400 N. Broad St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19101 Telephone LOcust 3-5200 WALTER H. ANNENBERG, PRESIDENT J. RAY HUNT, MANAGING EDITOR THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1966 Rick LORNIE ## Senatorial Scholarships: Backbacks and Kick in Pants Harrisburg comes the word that Gov. William Scranton has relieved Charles G. Simpson of the chairmanship of the State Council on Higher Education. Simpson has "lost his value" as spokesman, according to an announcement from the Governor's office. A value to the council, maybe. For the people of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, NO. Charles G. Simpson has been the outspoken critic of the senatorial scholarship racket--and the higher education institutions that condone it. To maintain their credentials as first-rate institutions of higher learning, the State's four largest universities are claiming an essential element of academic freedom, according to Simpson. But they lack is backbone, Simpson charges. Simpson has chided Pennsylvania, Penn State, Temple and Pittsburgh universities for their failure to stand up to State legislators on the matter of Senatorial Scholarships. Each of the 50 State senators annually are given scholarships to the four universities to do with as they please. They can and frequently do award the scholarships for every reason under the sun other than academic ability or financial need. Some legislators, Simpson charges, have sold the scholarships for $100 and others dole them out a semester at a time to make certain that they retain the "loyalty" of the beneficiaries. This newspaper supported Simpson's original attack on the scholarship system. Once again we find ourselves in agreement with Simpson in his view that the four institutions involved # Jerry Doyle's Cartoon FRANCE & SOVIET BLOC VIETNAM CRISIS UN JERRY DOYLE The Return of the Dove # Letters to the Editor ### Freeloaders One of the slickest pieces of Madison ave. artwork has been the labeling of Section 14-B as a "Right to Work" law. On proper examination its title should be revised to read the "Right To Freeload" law. Organized labor is being watched constantly as a possible source of inflation. If this could be so--then organized labor must be responsible to a ### Talking Point "Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death." --ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ### Appreciation Members of the Philadelphia Fire Officers Association wish to thank your newspaper for ### How to Tell? Last week I read in the paper where the Vietcong massacred a whole bunch of innocent Vietnamese people. In another part of the paper was an article telling of an Allied airplane killing a whole bunch of innocent Vietnamese people by accident. Gosh, to a civilian way over here in the U. S. it's getting hard to tell an accident from a massacre. --H. T. OWENS # Once Upon Time Camp Meant-Group of Tents By DICK WEST WASHINGTON (UPI).--Reams and reams have been written recently about the new intellectual movement known as "camp." Intellectual movements are, of course, only dimly understood. Particularly by intellectuals. Therefore, the explanations of what camp is have tended to be rather murky. SOME EXPERTS say camp means that something "is so bad it is good." That much I can follow. Thereafter it gets complicated. There are, for instance, degrees of camp--"high camp," "low camp," "middle camp," "pure camp," "classic camp" and so on. Tiffany lamps, feather boas and the movie "King Kong" are regarded as "classic camp." "Pure camp" occurs accidentally. That is, the original failure that caused it to become camp was purely unintentional. THE NEW television series "Batman" is said to be "instant camp." It is supposedly bad because the producers planned it that way. And this is where I become un-camped. I agree that the "Batman" producers have succeeded in turning out a pretty dismal show, but I am unable to recognize wherein the badness reaches the point of goodness. Frankly, it doesn't seem === Page 21 of 31 What Did They See Hovering Over Jersey? By JACK MAHON Journal-American Staff Writer N.Y. 1/12/66 PAPER What was the strange flying object that hovered over the Wanaque Reservoir in Northern New Jersey all through the night, baffling police and terrorizing thousands of residents in neighboring townships? The UFO--which is all anyone could call it -- was still unidentified at dawn today. The police of Wanaque, Wyckoff, Pompton Lakes, Riverdale, Ringwood and Paterson all witnessed the strange, bright light, which resembled a disc, as it dipped and rose over the 15-mile-long reservoir from 7:30 p.m. yesterday until early this morning. HEARD OF IT They didn't know what to call it. Officials at Stewart Air Force Base, Newburgh, N. Y., and McGuire Air Base, Wrightstown, N. J., said they'd heard of the UFO--but acted as if they wished they hadn't. Both bases clamped a tight lid of silence on the subject and denied they had sent planes to investigate the phenomena. A spokesman at the Air Phenomena Branch, Wright Patterson Field, Dayton, Ohio, which processes all UFO sightings, said early today the Wanaque UFO had not been reported to his office. FIRST SIGHTING Ptl. George Dykman, of the Wanaque Reservoir police, first spotted the weird disc about 200 yards from the police station. "It was very bright," Ptl. Dykman said, "about two feet in diameter and, as it dipped over the dam, a round light about nine feet in diameter was reflected in the water..." GOES, RETURNS Ptl. Charles Theodora said the disc disappeared at 8:30 p.m., but returned about 2:20 a.m. It was motionless for about an hour then moved back and forth several times. "It raced about six miles up and down the dam at supersonic speed," said the officer. "At one point it flashed a ray of light on the ice. Ptl. Al Campana and I drove up to investigate. We found a hole in the ice about 40 to 50 feet in diameter--there is no explaining it. The rest of the dam is covered solid." Jack Burchill, an aerospace student at N.Y. Institute of Technology, Westbury, L.I., and Richard Scott, Paterson, a student at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, gave this analysis: "It doesn't twinkle so it is not a star. It's too bright to be a planet or a celestial body. It gives off its own light. It can't be a helicopter, for it is soundless and appears to move at better than 1000 miles per hour." 'DON'T KNOW' Wanaque Mayor Harry T. Wolfe, Civil Defense Director Bentley Spencer, and Howard Ball, suburban editor of the Paterson Evening News, also spotted the UFO. Mr. Ball said: "I was driving up a hill. I thought it was the planet Venus. Then it looked like an airplane--but it was too low. I don't know what it is--or was." Neither does anyone else... === Page 22 of 31 UFO Sighted at Wanaque 1/12/66 NEWARK (N.J.) EVE. NEWS. 'Flying Saucer' Casts Spotlight on Ramapo Area By CECILIA KING Staff Correspondent. WANAQUE -- An unidentified flying object -- "very white, very bright and much bigger than a star" -- hovered silently over this astounded Ramapo countryside for hours last night. Hundreds of eye-witnesses in a 20-mile periphery testified to seeing a flying saucer, first in Oakland, later over the Wanaque Reservoir where it lingered longest, then above Lakeland Regional High School, and finally over the Houdaille sandpit in Haskell. From there it appeared to move southeast toward Pines Lake in Wayne and suddenly disappear. "The phenomenon was terribly strange," Mayor Harry T. Wolfe said. Having been alerted by local police that a UFO was circling over Raymond Dam at the Wanaque headworks, Wolfe drove there to see for himself. With him were Councilmen Arthur Barton and Warren Hagstrom, and the mayor's 14-year-old son, Billy. BILLY SPOTTED the unidentified object at once. Flying low it glided "oddly" above the state's largest water storage basin "like a huge star," he said. "But it didn't flicker. It was just a continuous light that changed from white to red to green and back to white." The older observers estimated "the oval" was between two and nine feet in diameter. First word of the terrestrial visitor reached the North Jersey police radio station in Pompton Lakes at 6:30 p.m. After some 30 telephone calls from excited residents and motorists, the radio monitor contacted Wanaque Patrolman Joseph Cisco. "People in Oakland, Ringwood, Paterson, Totowa, Wayne and Butler claim there's a flying saucer over the Wanaque," he was informed. Cisco radioed reservoir Patrolman George Dykman and even as Dykman was receiving the message two excited teen-agers came running. "Look, look," they pointed excitedly. DYKMAN GAPED along with Michael Sloat, 16, and Peter Melegrac, 15, and a few seconds later they were joined by Civil Defense Director Bentley Spencer and CD member Richard Vrooman. "What the heck is it?" exclaimed Dykman. "Never saw anything like it in my life." Spencer proceeded to the top of 1,500-foot-long Raymond Dam with reservoir employe Fred Steines. From that vantage point he reported later that he saw "a bolt of light shoot down, as if attracted to the water." He said it looked "like a beam emitted from a porthole." In the meantime Reservoir Police Lt. George Destito stood guard at the Wanaque entrance gates turning away swarms of pedestrians and scores of cars converging to (Continued Page 9, Column 3) 'Saucer' (Continued From First Page) the scene from north and south in Ringwood Avenue. The "saucer" hovered for more than two hours over the Raymond Dam area before soaring out of sight. It reappeared over Lakeland Regional High School in the Midvale section of the borough. A bevy of photographers and reporters were on the spot, but before any pictures could be taken the mystery object vanished. THE REPORTEDLY "last good view" was had in Highland Avenue, Haskell where volunteer firemen were burning Christmas trees in the Houdaille sandpit. Police headquarters continued receiving telephone calls however, all in the same vein of petrified wonder: "I saw something weird -- what is it?" Shortly after midnight word came from officials at Stewart Airforce Base in Newburg, N.Y. saying an Air Force helicopter with a powerful beacon had been on a mission over Wanaque about the time the mysterious object was cited. But, at 6:15 this morning, Major Donald Sherman, Stewart Air Force Base spokesman, denied that a helicopter, or any aircraft had been on a mission over Wanaque. Even the helicopter theory, however, failed to dissuade those who claimed they "actually saw the flying saucer." In Butler, as the midnight shift was coming to work at the American Hard Rubber Co., Leonard Tintle of Brown Avenue summed up the general feeling. FRONT PAGE "I BELIEVE my eyes against anybody's word," he said. "Like 18 years ago," he recounted, "when Clayton Brown (now mayor of Butler) and I were pallbearers for Philip Marion. We were in Rockaway Valley Cemetery -- we saw something -- hoverin' a mile up in the air -- backwards and forwards -- then it just disappeared -- " Tintle declared, "the Air Force knows darn well there's something to it. They're not letting on, that's all, because they don't want people to get frantic." "Like the time Orson Wells scared heck out of us with his 'Invasion from Mars' on the radio." Oddly enough, two hours and 15 minutes after Tintle's comments, when the UFO incident was being discussed in the past tense, Wanaque Patrolmen Joseph Cisco and David Sisco hurried headquarters the "thing" had been seen again in the skies. This time it was over Wyckoff. Five minutes later, Cisco and Sisco were taking turns peering through binoculars at the UFO. "It's over the reservoir," they asserted. === Page 23 of 31 COPY XEROX COPY XEROX (FRONT PAGE) ATLANTIC CITY PRESS 1/12/65 # 100s See 'Saucer' At N.J. Reservoir WANAQUE, N. J. (AP) -- An unidentified flying object, described as a brilliant disc of light, hovered over the Wanaque Reservoir for more than one hour Tuesday night, and then disappeared from view, police said. "It was real. I saw it and so did the mayor and the civil defense director and hundreds of other people," said George Dykman, 38, a patrolman on the Wanaque Reservoir Police Department. The officer said the weird light was first spotted earlier in Oakland, then in Pompton Lakes and then over the Raymond Dam at the reservoir--about 200 yards from the police station. "It was very bright, like a star," said Dykman. "From where we stood; it looked like it was about two feet in diameter and it was in the shape of a disc. "It moved in over the dam in a circular motion and then stopped and hovered over the reservoir. "It was too low to be an airplane. "As it dipped down over the reservoir, we saw a round light reflected in the water about nine feet in diameter." Dykman said he spotted the strange object about 7:30 p.m. after receiving a telephone call from the Passaic County Police radio network. About one hour later, he said, it moved away from the dam and paused briefly over Lakeland High School. "Now it's gone," he said late Tuesday night. "We have men searching, but whatever it was, thank God it's gone." In addition to Dykman, several other police officers saw the strange object. So did Wanaque Mayor Harry T. Wolfe and Civil Defense Director Bentley Spencer. Howard Ball, night suburban editor for the Evening News of Paterson, spotted the object in Wayne on Hamburg Turnpike while driving to work. He said he saw the light when he reached the crest of a hill and thought it was the planet Venus. "Then it took a lateral movement toward the West. I knew it wasn't Venus. I thought it might have been an airplane, but the light was too brilliant for that." Police departments throughout the Bergen-Passaic County area reported being flooded with telephone calls from alarmed residents. Officials at McGuire Air Force Base in Wrightstown said they were as mystified as everyone else over the strange object. === Page 24 of 31 Y NEWS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1966 31 ghan adlyn Has Hopes he's Found Home VIVACIOUS NEWCOMER to the legitimate theater is Madlyn Rhue, who will make her first Broadway try in the new Gwen Davis comedy "The Best Laid Plans," which premieres at the Walnut, Tuesday. "I've already gotten one fringe benefit from my stage career," she said. "I have a home in California, but I was having a terribly difficult time finding an apartment in New York. Our director Paul Bogart had been separated from his wife; but they reconciled. He moved back home turning over his vacated apartment to me. Now everybody's happy." Miss Rhue's costar in "Plans" will be British actor Edward Woodward. Incidentally, it's also a first Broadway attempt for Bogart. "I've been waiting a long time for a good Broadway part," Madlyn said during a rehearsal break. "I'm positive that this is it. At least, I was positive enough to turn down some well paying TV offers just to join with this very funny show." Her first Broadway try notwithstanding, Madlyn is no novice in the acting department. She has an impressive list of some 150 TV show credits "which run the gamut" and a dozen pictures including "Operation Petticoat," "Ladies Man," "A Majority of One," etc. But she is proudest of the critical notices she received as Gittel Mosca in "Two for the Seesaw," at the Civic Playhouse, in L.A. She is also proud of a collection of some 300 hats, most of which have been left in California. "I will only be able to bring 50 of them to Philadelphia with me," the actress lamented. MADLYN ... lucky start PEOPLE IN PLACES: Jack Jones, currently headlining at the Latin Casino, is slated to star on the Bell Telephone Hour's St. Valentine Day show. He gets an ABC-TV special of his own, April 5 . . . Police Inspector John Driscoll will be receiving congrats from all levels tomorrow at 24th & Wolf. The day marks his 39th year on the force . . . Al Fisher, United Artists Pictures publicity chief, and Cathy Tallo, a secretary in UA's home office, will be a Saturday merger in St. Patrick's Cathedral, N. Y. . . . Don Young, the singing-bandleader, is making his debut appearance at Wagner's Ballroom . . . Record promotion man Joe Campellone, who switched from Verve to the Phillips division of Mercury, flew to the Chicago main office for a briefing . . . Sam Scott, program director at Camden's WCAM and a staff member since 1952, has resigned to become executive director of the Philadelphia Hearing Society. SHOPPER'S SPECIAL: Blonde Greta Thyssen brightened up a "fashion first" in the new fabric department at Klein's Boulevard store during the snowfall yesterday. A former "Miss Denmark" by virtue of her fulsome (39-20-35) endowments, Miss Thyssen was on hand with Loren C. Shockley and a flock of McCrory and Klein executives to cut the ribbon that officially opened the sewing and fabric section. "I made this dress I'm wearing," said Greta proudly, swiveling to demonstrate her "multi-colored printed organdy." It seemed to fit well. "I am not giving up acting to become a seamstress," she added. "Not going that far. But I like to === Page 25 of 31 is to call to the attention of femme shoppers how easy it is to follow fashion trends on a "do-it-yourself" basis. "I just finished a picture--'Double Barreled Detective Story'. It's a combination spy and western plot and spoofs both. We hope it will be another 'Cat Ballou'." REPORTER AT LARGE: The opening night of the Metropolitan Opera's five performance series here (May 9) will be sponsored by the Golden Slipper Square Club in conjunction with Philadelphia Philanthropies. The Met will launch its return to the Academy with "Madame Butterfly." . . . Frank Teodori (Dori's) is back from Florida with not much tan but a four-foot bull dolphin to be mounted. Frank noticed one side effect of Vietnam in the cabana club at Miami Beach's Eden Roc. A Dow Jones ticker is at poolside so bathers can keep tabs on stock market fluctuations . . . . . . . . . . The Saxony East's Paul King went to Myrtle Beach for a week of sun and golf and wound up belting snow balls. It was the worst storm in 50 years for the South Carolina resort . . . Bill Mulhern, former eastern regional manager of Kapp Records and more recently g.m. for the Jamie-Guyden Corp., has joined A & M Records as director of eastern operations. One of his first chores will be opening a local office for the label. === Page 26 of 31 08/08/2025 16:48 3Z # Earl Wilson # Boyd Will Visit Dolores at Conven NEW YORK.--Handsome movie star Stephen Boyd' going from the Feb. 18 Boston opening of "The Oscar" to a Bethlehem, Conn., monastery for an appointment === Page 27 of 31 Dear Rick: When I was in Ft. Worth, as a hypnotist I sent Pat newspaper write-ups, brochures, etc., re my hypnotism business. Now I need them badly, because everything I had was lost in storage. Will you ask her to send anything she has? Incidentally, those "bumps" on my forehead have grown larger. === Page 28 of 31 Feb. 4, 1966 Dear Rick: Thank you for your letter. That was an interesting dream, re Johnson...and my fingers. The Si's could be talking to you. I know definitely they work on us while we sleep. Martha woke up one night and saw a tiny UFO hovering over my head, while I slept...it was about the size of a quarter, and moved slowly around. She watched it for quite a while. I know she wasn't dreaming, because I woke up about 4 one morning and watched a UFO the size of a dinner plate moving around near the ceiling, slowly...with the most beautiful, gorgeous colors imaginable whirling around inside it. I was wide awake while watching it. I told you the Si's were 3-dimension, Rick...but that was a slip on my part. After writing you, (without thinking)..you asked if they were...I started thinking what 3-dimensional was...I meant, when writing to you, they were real...no, they are not 3-dimension in our apartment. On some craft they are. You have to realize, Rick...there are different shapes and forms of UFO creatures. Solid, and non-solid; human, and non-human. They can take different shapes and forms. But what they ACTUALLY are...is pure intelligence of a high form not otherwise found on this earth. They do not come from another planet, high in the sky...but from another dimension. When I asked them how it is they can give me intelligence, and I know it is from them, and write George Clark...they explained that, if I talked through an electronic remote control through somebody else's radio in another apartment (you can buy these gadgets) - the radio in the other people's apartment does not know where the voice is coming from, or how it is being done. If you want to go out for track, go ahead. Much rather see you put your concentration and energy in on mastering basketball, at school. Way to do it is get a basketball and practice dribbling high and low, easy and hard, all the time in your spare time. Practically live with a basketball. Practice shooting until you are a dead-eye Dick. Practice lay-ups going under from the right; also going under from the left, putting the ball up left-handed. Practice one-handed shots until you are blue in the face, with both hands. AND WATCH THE PRO TEAMS ON TV!! In your spare time, once in a while, shoot pool...great for your reflexes and timing. Am sending you your own personal pool cue...the best...with a special case to keep it in. Plus a fine book by the World's Champion, Willie Mosconi. Stick to one game only...50 point straight. It has everything, and luck isn't in it...just skill. 8-ball is for gamblers, and is pure slop. So is rotation. Stick to 50-point, the champions' game. You will be a champion, if you do. Also see if you can talk the Bentley's into getting you a set of drums, for you'll be a great drummer...not to go into as a pro later...but to help you pay your way through high school and college. And it is great fun, as you know. Also, try to take piano lessons if you can. Tedious now, but loads of fun === Page 29 of 31 joy when you grow up, later. It is something that is worth more than money, going through life, to be able to sit down at a piano and play jazz and blues the way you want to. You can't mix classical...so would advise you to learn jazz and blues and modern piano. If you do what I advise...you'll never go wrong, Rick. At the same time, try to be a good student. Learn when you are in School, or at home studying on lessons...to concentrate on just that. Then when you put your books down to practice basketball...concentrate on just that. Then when you play pool...concentrate on just that. Learn to turn it on and off, like a light switch. You have genius in you, Rick...but all genius carries a price tag. It has to be developed, and used, correctly. And when the power is there...use it well, and wisely. This is why Nature very seldomly gives genius and power to a youngster, because the wisdom to use it is not there yet. Remember...only from age 15 to 25 will you have the time to learn all the hobbies and things that you want, like the above. After that you have to hustle to make a living. Learn typing, too. You write well, and you'll need it to express yourself. Am sending another clip I got into the paper...makes two clips in a week. Funny thing...this is the Editor that doesn't like me because of my UFO connection. I wonder why he prints my stuff? (I send each letter to 3 papers simultaneously.) Also enclosed is clip showing how Dick got racked up again at Myrtle Beach. Ha ha. We got him with a tornado, last year, that cleaned him out. Then hit him with Hurricane Betsy's backlash that ruined that business. And now this. I AM HARD ON DOUBLE-CROSSERS THAT CAUSE ME UNNECESSARY HARDSHIP- AND IF YOU WILL RECALL, DICK AND HIS PHONY PROMISES HURT US BAD, SO, HE'S BEEN RUINED FINANCIALLY EVER SINCE!! AND THE BUSINESS IS ALL WE KNOW ABOUT. NO TELLING WHAT ELSE HAS HIT HIM. Love Dad P.S. NO "TURN OTHER CHEEK" FOR ME. SO'S HAVE ORDERED ME TO ATTACK (WITH PK) ANYONE WHO IS MY ENEMY, OR THREATENS ME. AND THEY GAVE ME A BRAND NEW WEAPON TO DO IT WITH. TV and movies keep her... she calls New York "home." Her tour for the... 08/08/2025 16:48 === Page 30 of 31 Lightning Sets # Blaze in Store 7/19 A bolt of lightning started a fire in one of an arcade of shops on Germantown ave. during Sunday afternoon's showers. Some $50,000 worth of men's furnishings were destroyed. Smoke was seen at the Hamilton Men's Shop, 3630 Germantown ave. by Patrolman Robert Magilton and he turned in the alarm at 5:20 P.M. Battalion Chief Edward McGonigle said lightning had struck a wooden utility a half block away during the short, but intense rainstorm, and was probably responsible for the store fire. Owners of the shop are Frank and Norman Axe. The manager is Jerry Wundohl, of 7023 Calvert st., who told police that there was an inventory of $75,000 in goods in the shop. He gave the damage estimate. A power failure due to the fire stopped oxygen pumps in fish tanks at the Arcade Pet Shop, 3627 N. Broad st., killing fish worth $150. Drifting smoke sickened and upset most of the animals in the shop, pet shop manager Harry Lewis, of 3966 Elser st., told police. Firemen fought the blaze for two hours. Trolley service along Germantown ave. southbound was interrupted for an hour and a half. # Lightning Burns 4 Phila. Girls HAMMONTON, N. J. July 18 --Four Philadelphians suffered slight burns Sunday afternoon when lightning struck a tree under which they were standing during a thunderstorm at Hammonton Lake Park. Burned were Mrs. Paula Puggi, 18, of 1536 S. Colorado ave.; Rita Raffa, 18, of 1715 S. 10th st.; Mary Price, 16, of 1813 S. Rosewood st.; Phylis DiPoali, 9, of 2041 Moore st. All were treated for superficial burns at the W. B. Kessler Memorial Hospital here and released. # Snow, Rain, Winds Lash Australia SYDNEY, Australia, July 18 (AP).--Large areas of southeastern Australia were swept by snow, heavy rain and strong winds during the weekend. Hundreds were stranded at resorts on the New South Wales southern tablelands and Blue Mountains by stalled rail and road traffic. # Hit Area, Ease Crisis July 19 Continued From First Page from the Atlantic Ocean was pushing upriver. The commission set the desirable flow for the emergency at 1200 cubic feet per second, as measured at the Montague, N. J., gauge across the Delaware from Milford, Pa. Despite the release of the water from the reservoirs, the river had been decreasing almost daily for the last week. "The river had been falling off gradually for one reason--lack of rain in the basin area," Fish said. Here are the average flows measured at Montague beginning last Monday. Monday, 1030 cubic feet per second; Tuesday, 1070; Wednesday, 1030; Thursday, 1030; Friday, 997; Saturday, 980. Fish said that Sunday's flow was averaging approximately 1000, although this was before the full impact of the weekend rains had been felt. A long-range forecast by the U. S. Weather Bureau also brought hope that the relief would be more than temporary. The prediction was that between 4 and 5½ inches of rain will fall in the river basin area of Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey between the middle of July and mid-August. The thunderstorms over Saturday and early Sunday were scattered throughout the upper basin area, with an average of .89 inches falling. RAINFALL IS SPOTY Fish reported that the rain measured .50 inch at New York City's Pepacton reservoir, and .91 inch at New York's Neversink reservoir. On the other hand, the measurement at Lake Wallenpaupak was only .13 inch, Fish said. Lake Wallenpaupak serves as reservoir for the Pennsylvania Power & Light Co., one of two utilities which have been ordered to release water into the Delaware. The other utility is the Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc., with a reservoir system on the Mongaup River in Sullivan county, N.Y. DAILY FLOW FIGURES Under the commission's orders, New York is to release 266 million gallons a day from its two reservoirs. The flow from Wallenpaupak set at 200 million gallons daily, and 66 million gallons are to be released from the Mongaup system. Speaking of the thunderstorms, Fish said. "This is some slight improvement. We haven't had anything like this in weeks and weeks here." The "bad" weather which was such good news, canceled a helicopter trip that New Jersey's Gov. Richard J. Hughes had planned. Hughes, who is chairman of the Delaware River Basin Commission, had planned to fly aloft with New Jersey Conservation Commissioner Robert A. Roe to tour North Jersey reservoirs. === Page 31 of 31 The Evening Bulletin DR. CA ESTABLISHED 1847 William L. McLean, President and Publisher, 1895-1931 PUBLISHED EVENING AND SUNDAY BY BULLETIN COMPANY 30TH AND MARKET STREETS, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 19101 ROBERT McLEAN, Chairman of the Board ROBERT L. TAYLOR, President and Publisher WILLIAM B. DICKINSON, Managing Editor - DONALD McLEAN, Editor, Editorial Page DONALD W. THORNBURGH, Vice President - ALBERT SPENDLOVE, Vice President-Business Manager RAYMOND D. McGEE, Secretary and Treasurer - WILLIAM L. McLEAN, III, Assistant Treasurer JOSEPH G. ELLIOTT, Assistant Business Manager - RICHARD W. CARPENTER, Advertising Director LOUIS TRUPIN, Circulation Director - JAMES P. GRANT, Production Manager BARRY URDANG, Promotion Manager - REGINALD E. BEAUCHAMP, Assistant to the President 26 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1966 G .......... we shall fight the battle against aggression in Viet Nam; we shall fight the battle for social construction and, throughout the world, we shall fight the battle for peace. And we shall prevail.--President Johnson, upon his return from Honolulu. "HE THAT LIETH RISE UP WITH F ... de Gaulle ended his boycott and the Commission busy clearing up the debris that accumulated during seven months of uncertainty. The son of law, she was ineligible for marriage with anyone else as long as her husband lived. However, when her marriage terminated by act of God, she became an eligible widow, a further since the lady doesn't want to marry the paramour that legal principle doesn't affect her at all. She may marry indeed, and she has our best wishes. House. Doesn't that stupid, ignorant press room know that President Johnson has strictly forbidden White House leaks of any kind? H. T. Owens # How Vespasian Built HIS Stadium By B. A. BERGMAN I was in Rome recently. A waiter in a cafe near the Colosseum told me about the problems besetting the Emperor Vespasian when he decided to build the world's greatest stadium. He made everything crystal clear, as he explained how Vespasian disposed of all his critics and built his stadium as he wanted it and where he wanted it. You see, Vespasian didn't have an Open Mind. On the other hand, Mayor Tate some time ago confessed that he had an Open Mind about certain aspects of our Stadium design, that started all the foolishness. No mayor should have an Open Mind. That's worse than no mind at all. As a result of the Mayor's Open Mind the Stadium isn't much further along than it was in 1953. Except that we now are going to have still another architect to add to our stable of architects. ## Nero Gets the Nod Here's how Vespasian handled his Stadium, as explained to me by my Roman waiter: Romans, who didn't like Nero because of his lousy fiddling at inopportune times, creamed because Vespasian elected a site near the great statue of Nero for his stadium. "It goes next to Nero," said Vespasian. **The Colosseum in Rome** Merchants objected to the site because it was too far away from the fashionable shops. They wanted the stadium as a come-on for American tourists, so they could take pictures--out of focus--of the Stadium and then buy dresses and neckties at prices much higher than Italian imports would cost back home. Gladiators insisted that 40,000 seats were sufficient. Chariot racers and the soldiers who threw Christians to the lions demanded 60,000 seats plus 15,000 retractable chairs for special killings. No, said Vespasian. Fifty-thousand capacity and no retractable seats. They'd get in the way of the lions. The chariot racers and gladiators wanted a circular stadium. The lions need more room, the Christian killers pointed out, as they asked for a rectangular stadium. Postcard hawkers said nobody would buy pictures of a rectangular stadium. Rectangular buildings are a dime a dozen. Look at Penn Center, if you can. Vespasian shrugged and just said: "It'll be circular." As for a domed stadium for which there was an insistent demand, Vespasian said there'll be no dome. "I'll put up awnings for the VIPs. Fresh air, sunshine and rain are excellent for the people." So Vespasian, who had no Open Mind, ignored all the architects, all the special pleaders and all the pressure groups and built his stadium his way. Why, he even squelched a movement to name the Stadium for himself or for his son, Emperor Titus, who finished the job after good Vespasian died. And a campaign to name it after Paul D'Ortona died aborning. "My stadium is colossal, so we will just call it the Colosseum," the Emperor decreed. A man of few words. ## We Need Vespasian Now Mayor Tate with his Open Mind wouldn't make a very good Roman Emperor. On the other hand somebody like Vespasian might get our Stadium out of the discussion stage, if it isn't too late. I was talking to the chairman of still another Stadium committee which hasn't been appointed yet. He said he was going to propose that the easiest way to solve our Stadium foolishness would be to buy the Colosseum and move it to South Philadelphia. "Then," he said emphatically, "We'd have the greatest stadium in the world. After all it's been just that for nearly 2,000 years." And, at least, it's already built. 08/08/2025 16:54 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1960s Misc letters and clippings part 3 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/bb18005e05e461e431fb1d90ec06e174.pdf 68c44c0e73f2ccf8dc89f8b625030eda https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/f13bfb37fca5bf42a89d2c5ac9c4fdaa.txt f9c1e331745a535916dcc12996e2b9d7 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/2d8cc0193597a86f2461d96998012162.pdf 5eebb5fb4a867ea4811ade58526fa4ce https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/b56adf141f67cca82402fd279b314834.txt e07bcbab5d460561c608604f3e8263d4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letters to Owens Children Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 # TED OWENS LETTERS TO CHILDREN # GENERAL LETTERS Jeff received week of July 14, 2025 11120 Bermuda Dunes, ABQ. Sent from Lori Rodriguez in Beaverton, Oregon. Recorded by Lewis Barlow July 19, 2025 Majority written in 1965 and 1966 but were a couple of letters from 1970 and 1976. We received several different packages from Lori that contained Ted Owens letters to his children. As this was more of a general package of letters and covered several different dates, for organization purposes we will just call it general letters. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 246 August 28, 1970 Mr. Allan Dale Avco Broadcasting Corporation Box 2641 San Antonio, Texas 78206 Dear Allan: It was a pleasure spending an hour talking with you over the phone last night. I hope...that it was up to your expectations. If your program last night with me...is like the others I've had...you'll be deluged with mail as a result of it. Please let me know if this is so. Reason. This letter is a letter of confirmation...that as of last night I hit San Antonio with various powers from another dimension. The only human being in this world able to do such a thing. The object: to heal the people now sick with diphtheria, in much quicker time than is normally possible (especially the children) and to kill and void the diphtheria germs in San Antonio completely, so that the epidemic which is now in effect there, vanishes quickly. The special powers which I sent...other-dimensional powers from another world than our own...should, besides accomplishing the above, create such a healing atmosphere in San Antonio...that many others who are sick and crippled, will get well (besides the diphtheria patients.) After you hung up last night, I communicated with the 51's instantly...told them the situation, and what was needed, then I released the mental connection and made a cup of coffee...right on schedule came their telepathic "capsule"...a whole lot of information given me telepathically in a split-second. I sat down and wrote it out...my instructions from them on how to proceed...then I proceeded. First; I visualized my "Angel box"...a mental picture of a box with the lid opening, then out flows rainbow-like "things" I have named angels, because they are so dynamically healing. I sent 100 of them flowing into San Antonio, which I also pictured in my mind's eye. Thus, the darkened city of San Antonio was covered with 100 of these gorgeous rainbow creatures whose sole duty it is...is to heal and make happy. Next...I visualized the darkened area that was San Antonio at night...opened a mentally-pictured box called "Healing PK" and let the strange forms from it flow into San Antonio, and as they did they changed the darkened area from black into an x-ray white. Next in my mind I picked up "Nature's Telephone"...just like a phone booth...except that the phone is a direct line to Nature. And requested that Nature heal the sick in San Antonio and especially heal quickly the diphtheria-sick, and kill the diphtheria germs, and if Nature might not like to kill them, at least take them somewhere else other than San Antonio. Next I used my disc method on the hundreds or thousands of sick in San Antonio...simultaneously. I.e., instead of 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 2 of 246 4 charging and coding one disc for an individual...I charged and coded an entire city. Instead of a disc, a city. You see with these intelligences...they think to infinity...their powers extend to infinity...it is as easy to charge and code an entire city as a small disc. I could charge and code the world, for that matter. But I will not, until some conditions are met. Next I used time displacement ....by an ODE process I exchanged the year 1970 in San Antonio, for the year 1968 in San Antonio, (when there was no diphtheria, you see?) So that, if that technique works...the diphtheria epidemic that is going on now, will simply vanish and go back in time to the year 1968. Finally, in conclusion...I prayed to God, in the name of Jesus, for Him to heal the sick in San Antonio, and especially the little children. That's a last but not least thing, because once I merely prayed to God, and made him a 'deal' ..and then experienced three consecutive miracles that you'd never believe sworn on a thousand Bibles. I know, and can testify, how very REAL God is and can be. This is the very first time...I've ever broken down and explained the way or the methods I've used...to approach an experiment of this sort, a SI experiment. I have just concluded here in Norfolk...a multiple miracle, involving rainstorms called down onto a drought area, lightning attacks on a certain area, a UFO over Norfolk a hurricane produced and its rains brought to Norfolk...all within the span of five weeks, documented. But I didn't bother to explain how I did it, to anybody. NOW...I HAVE A FAVOR TO ASK OF YOU. I can't get the San Antonio papers here...and it is absolutely vital for my files to get DAILY CLIPPINGS from the San Antonio papers re the diphtheria epidemic, for the next 2-4 weeks. Will you do me this very great favor? Each day scan the papers for your news, and when you see anything at all about anyone being healed or getting well...anything at all about the diphtheria...clip it out and send it to me. I need these badly, Allan, for my files and my work to help people. Incidentally...I'm sorry I interrupted you last night..you were saying something happened that frightened your wife when she was talking to somebody about the SI's...wasn't that it? Please give me all of the details on that, okay? Your new friend.... Ted Owens (PK Man) Box 3134 CHS Norfolk, Virginia 23514 P.S. Wish you'd get some rich Texan to back me...subsidize my work...so that all I could help sick and crippled people, and divert hurricanes. === Page 3 of 246 3/22/79 March 22, 1979 Dear Dr. Miller: It was a pleasure to hear from you. Am a bit tardy, but had to get to Stockholm, Sweden, on a project...and it held me up. Shortly there might be an article re my work in National Enquirer, so you might watch for that. A new hardcover book by Putnam & Son has just been published called "Mysteries", written by Colin Wilson, the famous English author. I feel certain the book would interest you in its thought content. Also it has a nice article on me and my work (he was present in 1976 when I addressed some of the world's scientific greats in parapsych in London...and ended the killer-drought in England.) "UFO Trek" is an excellent paperback book by Warren Smith, which has a chapter on my work (it has also been published under the name of "Book of Encounters." Now, to your letter. Fate must have destined our paths to cross...because your treatise "What Is Thought?" is quite a coincidence in alignment with my mind-training system that I teach a pupil, now and then...the system given to me by my UFOs. There is no other system of its kind in the world and probably there will never be. To explain everything to you...would take a book, so that is not practical. Suffice it to say that the UFOs captured me years ago, modified my brain to make it half-alien, half human...then have worked in cooperation with me to produce over four hundred miracles, all properly documented...some with scientists, some with police, some with lawyers, etc. When I was ten I considered "thought"...and wondered if other humans "thought" in the same manner that I did, or could it be "different" with each human, as each human's fingerprints differ. For instance, in those early years I "knew" what other school kids were thinking, and what the teachers were thinking...i.e., I quite correctly read their minds constantly...and naively assumed that everyone could do the same. Later on, when I found that others could not...this lead me to wonder about the sameness of human thought...or was it? I.e., does everyone see pictures in their mind, as they think? Does everyone "hear" the words that they are thinking...even as they exchange a better selection of word for another in their "mind"? I wondered "what is a 'mind'?" I "teethed" on hypnosis...becoming an expert at the age of 13, and successfully hypnotizing kids in the neighborhood (and almost got run out of town for it in Bedford, Indiana...because of the reaction of infuriated parents when they found out about it.) Long years later...in Ft. Worth, Texas, after an encounter with a UFO on the road with my daughter present...and then the UFOs gave me, telepathically, a full notebook of instructions on how to train the mind of other humans...I began to work full-time using hypnosis to help people, most of whom had been given up by MDs. I got mental patients back to normalcy; got "impossible" alcoholics straightened out; taught female pupils who had had a mastectomy and had excruciating pain to live with...so that they had no pain at all. And so forth. The upshot was...the AMA framed me, had me arrested, fingerprinted, and put on trial...for "practicing medicine without a license." A la Edgar Cayce. The ironical part of it was...that I was working with doctors and dentists at the time! They wanted to appear at my trial and testify in my behalf, but I was told by the DAs office that if they did the AMA would have them blacklisted...so I wouldn't let them, for their own sake. === Page 4 of 246 2 Of course, that was long long years before I began to do "miracles" and become world-famous. What I have become...how I did it...and have proven it...of course makes a mockery of the AMA. I am the only one in the world of its kind...no one else in the world can possibly duplicate my work, and prove it by documentation... and the UFOs have given me the "brain of Future Man", they have told me. In your treatise you state..."by the use of thought per se, actual physical changes could be brought about in the tissues of the body..." I have demonstrated that many many times with my pupils...using a combination of mnemonics (to build a "mental imagery" muscle for them; heterohypnosis; autohyp; plus the priceless "mechanisms" to be "built" into the pupil, given me by the UFOs, using light-waking hyp. For instance...I helped pupils get rid of ulcers quite easily, using my method of "thought" teaching. Horrible burns were healed in nothing flat...using the system. And so forth. (My method of working bypasses the conscious mind and trains the Subconscious mind...which in turn works with the biofield, or life-force field, which surrounds each human body.) "I think, therefore I am," said Descartes..." in your treatise. More accurate, I should say, would be..." I am, therefore I think, and what I think, therefore I become." It is my contention that there is an intelligent power EXTERNAL to each of us, that we draw upon for "thought". In London, listening to a scientist describe his subjects' ability to bend spoons while "using their inner psychic powers" ...I made a note of disagreement. Rather, the subjects draw upon an OUTER power source, intelligent source, to bring this about. I.e., "thinking and thought" need not necessarily stem from the box upon our shoulders, any more than the television picture we are watching on our TV set originates within the set! It is beamed to us from an outside source (as is our radio program, coming to us from that "head" or "box".) I think that the "Unit of Pure Thought" (your term) resides OUTSIDE the meat and bone of each human, and observes and acts through our external biofield, through the energy of said biofield (EM). (This in answer to your comment..."I cannot say where this "Unit of Pure Thought" resides...") When I formulate a mental picture...there is no "thought" whatsoever preceding it. I.e., I can form different and various mental pictures without a thought about it whatsoever...without mentally ordering it up. This puzzles me when I read your material on p. 50 and 51. I.e., with me, in forming mental pictures, no thought whatsoever need precede that action. In your (A) Brain, (B) Mind notation on p. 51...rather, it is my solid belief that our biofield, externally, is in control of and activates the lump of meat we call our brain...and produces our thought and mental pictures, etc. Just as a broadcasting radio station in Portland, Oregon, sends music into my radio set inside my home in Vancouver, Washington. Need all the energy, mechanics, etc., originate WITHIN our body-mind unit. Your paragraph on p. 51, beginning..."When the "Unit of Pure Thought" does assume command..." describes exactly the modus operandi of the ingenious system the UFOs gave to me to help my pupils change their lives and bodies through their own "thought". 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 5 of 246 3/22/79 P3 3 Further down on p. 51, it is stated..."This information is gathered into ourselves from the outside world through all our senses." I.e., EXTERNAL INTELLIGENCE is entering our mind and body, forming our life, as it were, from the total world as we encounter it. Why not, then, an external intelligence and power source located within our body-mind radius, our biofield (re Kirlian camera observations, etc.) acting as our "General" upon the many "enlisted"-man parts of our body-mind combination? If a plant is threatened...without touching it...it reacts. Why? Does it have eyes to see or ears to hear the threat? No, the threat can even be telepathic. Doesn't the biofield of the plant understand, intelligently, and signal the threat to the physical plant...which then activates the scientific machine monitoring the plant? Yes, I think so. Then why not be the same with a human being, except on a much larger, much more intelligent plane? The "brain", as you call it...then is the computer...just the mechanical computer. The "mind", as it is called...would then be our external biofield sending signals to our brain-computer, activating it as you yourself would activate a metal, mechanical computer built into a cabinet in front of you. The biofield selects, arranges and compiles intelligence, then forwards it to the computer-brain inside the body-cabinet for storage or reaction. My contention: The biofield is aware, intelligently, of much more data and intelligence than the body that it surrounds. It works around the clock... just as the heart of the body within its field works around the clock...to assemble intelligence and pass this intelligence on to the physical brain within its field, which either/or stores that material or acts upon it, then this combined action determines the direction and purpose of the life of the body-mind lying within the intelligence/EM/force-field of the Biofield surrounding the Body-mind. Your treatise states on p. 52..."I believe we should all make the effort to strengthen our capacity for thinking and thereby to elevate the level of thought..." and on to the end of the paragraph. THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THE SYSTEM DOES FOR A HUMAN (the system given me by my UFOs!) "All" SHOULD make the effort; unfortunately "All" would be unable to make the effort. Again, further down.."You can create an entirely different being..." etc. THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT MY UFO SYSTEM BRINGS ABOUT! I can train a Pupil with my UFO system...AND CAN COMPLETELY TURN THEIR LIVES AROUND...to give them a "mind" totally superior to that which they have formerly had...IN JUST ONE DAY! Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) 200 NE 76th St. Vancouver, Washington 98665 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 6 of 246 Jeffrey & "Tippy" November 23, 1976 11/23/76? P1 Doctor Jean Dierkens 34, Rue J. Jordaens Brussels 5, Belgium Dear Dr. Dierkens: As per the instructions outlined in your letter of October 29, 1976... I made myself receptive this morning. Nothing unusual occurred, except that my dog seemed frightened...and threw up all over the living room where I was sitting. But I did have a most unusual dream sequence last night...about 4 to 5 AM this morning. It was most realistic. Two men showed me a black box on a table. They went off and sat down at another table, while I examined the black box. Lifting the lid, I saw a lever on the left side, and a lever on the right side. There were also some small gear-handles in the box...but upon examination they turned out to be false, or dummy. One lever had the initial "P" under it; the other lever had the initial "N" under it. (Just after having this dream, which I haven't finished telling you about yet...I woke up and got out of bed and got my tape recorder and taped the information on it. Just turned it on to refresh my memory...and find only loud, explosive sounds on the tape...very unusual. My voice is just barely recognizable on the tape.) After examining the box...and pushing the two levers...I suddenly knew what it was all about...and went to the table and explained it to the two men. When the N lever is pushed down...which pushes up the P lever... (the box is a "unit of action"...can be expressed in a mathematical formula)... (N for negative; P for positive)...when in action (pushing the symbolic lever in the box) is changed from Negative to Positive, N to P...it creates an energy... releases a Positive energy force...just as a radioactive cloud is released into the atmosphere from a nuclear explosion to have an effect somewhere else on something else...then when the action is reversed...from Positive to Negative... this also creates an energy force and releases Negative energy force. After explaining the above to the two men, they gave me two sheets of paper to study...and I was made to know that the papers were my orders...just as I used to get years ago while in the Navy...papers covering my orders to transfer to another location. I studied the two papers...and found that I was ordered to go to an isolated location where a UFO would pick me up. I was to go somewhere, to some meeting. I kept reading the two sheets of paper over and over...there were two men involved, somehow...typing on front and back of both sheets of paper... and I kept wondering why I wasn't going to go by airplane or ordinary transportation. It struck me as strange that the two men had shown me the black box...yet I had explained its workings to them...as the meaning of it unfolded to me slowly... it was dawning on me how it worked. The "black box" was symbolic for a mathematical equation...i.e., everything that happens in this human-race world of ours is either positive or negative...there is no neutral. Each human being is constantly creating either positive or negative effects...releasing energy; a power force...as that human being takes this or that action. (At this point my tape recorder went blank... although I talked considerably on this. To the effect that the masses of human beings on earth constantly created positive or negative effects...which creates either an over-all positive effect on the human race, or an over-all negative effect on the human race at any given time. But it is never in balance. One of the two effects is dominant at any given time.) That was the first dream...and I put it onto tape...but something erased a lot of the material on the tape. Nothing wrong with the recorder; new battery. 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 7 of 246 11/23/76 P2 In the second dream I was talking to someone...and said that "I give my mind and soul and body to God, and reject Evil and the Devil completely." At this point the two men appeared again, in this second dream...and they told me that it wasn't my mind, soul and body to give to God...because I was only borrowing them...and they pointed out, to make it even simpler, that I am "hitch-hiking" through time and space...and my present mind, body and soul is the car, vehicle, that has "picked me up" to give me the ride. "The vehicle doesn't belong to me," they said, "to give to anyone." At this point I awoke and got up and put the second realistic dream onto tape. And unlike the first recording...this remained strong and clear on the tape; nothing was erased. Hope that I haven't wasted your time in this long letter, Dr. Dierkens. Regret that no entity appeared at 11 PM, and that I have only the two dreams to report to you, which occurred some hours earlier. Hope that, by now, the "ending England's drought" file has reached you. Over 100 pages in it. Big thing. friendly yours, Ted Owens (PK Man) Box 311, Cape Charles, Virginia 23310 $\\theta$ Owens $\\lightning$ === Page 8 of 246 March 26, 1976 . 3/26/76 p1. Carl Stone, Research Director, Nutrition Institute of America 200 W. 86th Street, Suite 17A, New York, New York, 10024. Dear Mr. Stone: I have received your February 3, 1976, letter of inquiry...backed by eighteen scientists with varying degrees. That...is ironical. Long years ago...a gentleman by the name of Edgar Cayce was arrested...for "practicing medicine without a license." So was I. Cayce had helped innumerable people...saved quite a few. So did I. When I was arrested...I was so infuriated at the injustice of it that I burned all of the thousands of documents that I had...hundreds of signed, notarized documents confirming that I had healed or saved from death the individuals concerned. This occurred in Forth Worth, Texas...in about 1956-57. I was a "Consultant Hypnotist" and had a sign on my door stating that I was not a doctor or psychiatrist...merely a lay hypnotist...and at my public trial the prosecution waved this sign at the jury and said this sign I had had on my door was a "license to practice medicine." My "practice of medicine" consisted of teaching individuals autohypnosis; also I used heterhypnosis with them to get them started; and then taught them various mental mechanisms which I am sure do not exist elsewhere in the world. I did not touch my pupils; I gave them nothing at all except suggestion. My only equipment was a Brain Wave Synchronizer, which has been described in both Newsweek and the Medical Journal. What happened was...a small group of doctors swung through Texas and gave Texas doctors a quicky course in hypnosis...following which they were designated as "fully qualified medical hypnotists." Ha ha ha. This course, as I heard of it, lasted from 10-20 hours of instruction. I had practiced hypnosis for 14 years by that time. Actively. I knew more about heterohyp and autohyp than these doctors could learn in a lifetime. The AMA decided to make "test" cases out of the lay hypnotists practicing in Texas...Dallas, Houston, and Fort Worth...so I was selected to take the beating in Fort Worth...and a beating I took. The AMA produced a "medical hypnotist" at my trial. Prior, I had both doctors and dentists, with whom I had worked...call me and offer to appear in my behalf at the trial. But a member of the AMA called me and warned me that any doctor or dentist who appeared at my trial would be blacklisted in the medical profession...so I had to reject the kind offer from those MD's who offered to appear in my behalf. Later I discovered that my own lawyer, Shelton, had been bought to "throw the trial" in favor of the AMA. During the years of 1953 to 1957 I had discovered a revolutionary method of helping and healing people. It happened just after a UFO came down to the automobile containing my daughter Lornie and myself. We lost an hour of time. Following that, ideas streamed into my mind...which I wrote down in a book...and still have...and which I put into operation. I had been hired originally by Jack Danciger, an oil-rich multimillionaire in Fort Worth, Texas...to write his autobiography in a plush office in his downtown office building. But at night...I taught pupils this new system that I had discovered, at my apartment...and after long months of working for Mr. Danciger...I decided to quit working for him with an assured future with him...because by that time 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 9 of 246 3/24/76 p2 2 I had dozens of letters from my pupils stating how my system had helped them and saved them. My logic worked thus: with Danciger I was merely helping one man aggrandize himself to the public. With my pupils...I was helping and saving dozens upon dozens. I preferred to go with teaching the new system of healing, so I quite Mr. Danciger. He told me that I was "insane" to do this...but at this time, 1976, I have become recognized as one of the world's greatest psychics...if not THE best...so perhaps I was right and Mr. Danciger was wrong. (He has since expired.) After leaving him, I opened a small office in Fort Worth, and went to work in earnest. The results which I obtained with pupils...were fantastic. One woman was brought in to me by her husband...sent by their family doctor. She came in, foul-smelling and drunk. Her husband explained that she had been through three mental institutions and had had several hundred shock treatments. Nothing had helped. I had this woman on her feet, sober, dressing to the teeth, and mentally on balance...within six weeks. And each year for two years thereafter her husband phoned me and thanked me...said that she had never regressed...that the entire family had become like a new family...and that he couldn't put a price on what I had brought about. (I am having to tell you his now from the top of my head...because I destroyed all of those wonderful records after being arrested.) A Mr. Don Whitehead brought in his wife, I recall, sent by their family doctor...because medicine could not save her. She had a very bad heart condition...was eight months pregnant...and when the baby arrived, she would die. Nothing that the doctors could do would be able to stop it. In the small time left to me, I used a combo of auto and hetero hyp, with transference to her family doctor...plus the mysterious techniques that I had in my Black Book. She had previously had a terrible history of childbirth...with one child she was three days in labor...but after my work she was 45 minutes in labor, and the doctor came rushing out to me and her husband...shook my hand...and told me that miraculously she had been so relaxed by my teaching methods...it had been a perfect delivery...she was quite well, and alive...and that very day she was able to go home...and several days later sent a basket of gifts to me and my little daughter. I could go on and on. Another man came to me because of alcoholism...and while training him I spotted some bad teeth and decided that toxicity from the bad teeth could be a contributing cause to his alcoholic condition...so I asked him to go to a dentist. He said that he had a phobia about dentists, and had not been to one in 14 years. I placed him under hypnosis (light waking), took him down the street to a dentist with whom I worked, the dentist pulled ten teeth, after which my pupil "awakened" and asked when the dentist would begin. This dentist told me that he had known my pupil in school...and asked me how I'd been able to bring him in, because the dentist knew about his phobia. I trained judges, lawyers, doctors, an FBI agent, state undercover narcotics agents (narcs), helicopter pilots, a nuclear physicist from Indiana who had heard of my work and come to Texas, and so on. And they all told me how very much my training had improved them and helped them. === Page 10 of 246 3/26/76 P3 3 But the damned small clique of AMA sharpies in Fort Worth decided that I had to go...because I had no degree. So they bounced me out of Fort Worth, on trumped up charges. (The main witness against me on the stand at my trial...was an outright liar; a brazen liar.) In later years, as I read Edgar Cayce's life history...and his being arrested in the same way and for the same reasons...made me very bitter against the AMA and how it operates and what it stands for (as of 1956-57.) At any rate...when I was arrested and disgraced in Fort Worth, that evening when I went home from the trial I got together all of the years of fastidious records that I had been keeping about each and every one of my hundreds of pupils...and burned them out in back of my apartment, in the alley. And I can assure you, positively and concretely...that was a terrible loss...which mankind could not afford. In the years following...I discovered that I had many other psychic abilities besides healing...and of course, by now, it has been proven out by documented work with scientists and other responsible people. Since you are interested solely in healing...I will tell you that in 1965 a notice appeared in a Washington, D.C. newspaper, that a young female secretary, Brenda Sue Pennington, had been found, days later, in her apartment, with her head crushed in. Burglars had entered, attacked her, robbed her, and left her for dead. I contacted her family and asked permission to try and save her...because the newspaper flatly stated that she could not possibly live...and it asked for donations from people to pay her hospital and funeral bill, because her family was poor. Her family sent the police to come pick me up, along with my daughter Lornie...they got the permission of the hospital plus that of the doctor on the case...for me to try the experiment. So my daughter and I were taken to her hospital room, where she was under police guard. Lornie and I stood ten feet from the girl's bed. I used mental mechanisms given me by UFO entities just for this sort of thing...and from that moment on she began to live. At that time tubes were running in and out of her head and a machine was doing her breathing for her. As of 1974 she was still alive in Rainelle, West Virginia, at her home there, where she was taken by ambulance in 1965. I dropped by there and visited her and her parents. She had never fully recovered...because in crushing her head they had destroyed some of her functions...but she was alive, and living. This case...is on public record. Otto Binder, the prominent author, now deceased, described the case in a Saga article some years ago after checking it out. My main work...during the past years...has been in the area of psi-force. And with UFO's. But psi-force can work on the invisible "life-field" which surrounds each human body. If I had the time and energy now...as well as the means...I could save and heal unlimited amounts of people...by using the Brain Wave Synchronizer, heterohyp and autohyp methods...plus the UFO techniques given to me. But I haven't the time, the energy, or the financial means. If you wish to know more about my dynamic psychic work...contact Dr. Allen Hynek, astronomer at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; Dr. Leo Sprinkle, well-known psychologist at the University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming; Dr. Max Fogel, International Research Scientist for Mensa (of which I am a member) at 340 Brighton 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 11 of 246 3/26/76 p4 Nutrition Institute of America 4 Road, Norristown, Pennsylvania; or Drs. Targ and Putoff, Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California. These gentlemen...have been observing my work, through my cooperation with them...during the past years. It is quite safe to say...that no other psychic in the world...perhaps the entire history of the world...has done or can do... what I am doing, in the way that I am doing it and proving it with proper documentation. Now I will add this before closing. Long years ago hypnosis was thought to be, by the medical profession...something akin to palmistry or astrology. Slowly but surely the medical profession discovered that hypnosis was quite real...and could be utilized as a tremendous tool for the medical profession. So they seized it away from the lay hypnotists (crushing them in the process) then they, the MD's, began fighting with the psychiatrists to see who would monopolize it. To me it was vastly amusing...here you had doctors, with a few weeks of training in the techniques and usages of hypnosis, calling themselves "medical hypnotists...with their Boards"...crucifying lay hypnotists who had spent 20 to 40 years in the practice and application of the art... and it is indeed an art. What should have been done, of course...the doctors should have employed the lay hypnotists and trained them along the lines that they wanted...and used them...as today "paramedics" are used in the field by MD's. A fusion, if you like, between the MD's and the lay hypnotists. In like manner, the medical profession today has finally, finally realized that SOMETHING operates behind their limited applications of medicine...to save people...and that it stems from some psychic source. Some paranormal source. So...instead of crushing every "healing psychic" they can find, as they did the lay hypnotists...the AMA should, instead, offer the psychic healers "sanctuary" and train them to suit their AMA purposes and ethics...and work along with them...and continue to study them and their methods. Breakthroughs an discovery of heretofore unknown facts re psychic healing are sure to occur in this manner. It gave me quite a start...to read your letter, and accompanying explanation. Because it is the very first, very first, intelligent approach by the medical profession which I have been able to witness in my entire life... toward a genuine search for Truth...which lies beyond the medical profession... but which can be bridged, ultimately...utilizing teamwork and cooperation between medical scientists and lay hypnotists and lay healers. I know...what most do not know. There is a "life force envelope" which surrounds the human body, and which governs that human body (and brain and soul.) Teeth, of course, must still be pulled; an infected appendix must still be removed surgically, and so forth. But...miracles can be wrought IF the medical profession can learn how to communicate with, and work in tandem with, that invisible envelope around that human body. I learned long ago how to do it (I was always successful in healing stomach ulcers in a matter of weeks, for example...) and I obtained unbelievable results. But I shall never do it again. Once burned by the hot stove of AMA and wracked up traumatically by its crooked machinations...never again. But...the Truth lies there. And I can give you this much information, which took me long long years to learn. I regret that my records were burned. They would have been invaluable to you. All that I can offer you is my current reputation as one of the world's most powerful psychics... and my word in Truth as a former practitioner of the psychic healing arts. 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 12 of 246 Nutrition Institute of America NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION 200 W 86 STREET, SUITE 17A "RESEARCH, EVALUATION, DEVELOPMENT" NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10024, PHONE 212-595-9244 ADVISORY BOARD Gary Null, Director Michael Casselman, M.D. Elliot Silverstein, J.D. Kyu Yong Lee, M.D. Pierre Sajous, M.D. James Dooling, Ph.D. Max Warmbrand, D.O. Elain Klibbe, Ph.D. Leonard L. Steinman, L.L.B. Lorraine Glemby, Ph.D. Neil Kramer, J.D. Nina Morgan, Ph.D. Neils Lavreson, M.D. Leo Wollman, M.D. Elain Khan, Ph.D. Samuel Klein, Ph.D. Victor D. Berman, D. Sc. Elliot Silverstein, S.D. Elliot Goldwag, Ph.D. COUNCIL OF NUTRITIONISTS Steve Null Morton Jacobe Bruce E. Calnan Herbert Bailey Charles Lowe Kimon H. Voyages Kenneth Rosa Sera F. Izquier Irving Nathanson Edmond R. Sealey Allen Pressman Pat Luongo RESEARCH AND EDITORIAL STAFF Carl Stone Lesslie Lee Neal Koeningsburg Ron Milkie Richard V. Benner Russ Grigan Ron McCulty George Marcus Richard Goldemberg Michael Ricciardi Byhal Phillips Gail Greenbaum Kyra Williams Edith Stern Margo Meginnis Sharon Oswald Tom Croft James Dawson Pat Whitcome Jan Ewing Ann Schlesinger Saraa Dona Katherine Dack Ann Kerns Press Release for March 1, 1976 Re: The Paranormal Healing Division of the Nutrition Institute of America. For the past two and a half years, the Nutrition Institute of America has been collecting data in all areas of paranormal healing. Our staff members have traveled around the world seeking scientific evidence of paranormal healing, especially in the areas of faith healing, psychic healing and spiritual healing. The Institute's researchers and camera crews have concentrated their efforts on these phenomena in the United States, England, South America and the Philippines. Our experience in this work has proved to our satisfaction that the gulf which exists between the medical community and those individuals and groups which are working with paranormal healing methods contributes ultimately to the harm of the patient. The people most responsible for this gulf are those physicians who take the position that the healing arts are totally without merit and those healers who feel that their approach should replace medical science. The N.I.A. Investigation of Paranormal Healing has left us with the conviction that there is a great need for a constructive dialogue to be established between the medical community and those actively engaged in the healing arts. Certain healers have proven their ability to treat psychosomatic illness, a malady which has been left relatively unchecked since the days of the general practitioner. Other healers, in the Edgar Cayce tradition, have shown extraordinary accuracy in the area of diagnosis. In this, the age of the specialist, doctors -1- 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 13 of 246 Nutrition Institute of America NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION 200 W. 86 STREET, SUITE 17A "RESEARCH, EVALUATION, DEVELOPMENT" NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10024, PHONE 212-595-9244 ADVISORY BOARD Gary Null, Director Michael Casselman, M.D. Elliot Silverstein, J.D. Kyu Yong Lee, M.D. Pierre Sajous, M.D. James Dooling, Ph.D. Max Warmbrand, D.O. Elain Klibbe, Ph.D. Leonard L. Steinman, L.L.B. Lorraine Glemby, Ph.D. Neil Kramer, J.D. Nina Morgan, Ph.D. Neils Lavreson, M.D. Leo Wollman, M.D. Elain Khan, Ph.D. Samuel Klein, Ph.D. Victor D. Berman, D. Sc. Elliot Silverstein, S.D. Elliot Goldwag, Ph.D. COUNCIL OF NUTRITIONISTS Steve Null Morton Jacobs Bruce E. Calnan Herbert Bailey Charles Lowe Kimon H. Voyages Kenneth Rosa Sera F. Izquier Irving Nathanson Edmond R. Sealey Allen Pressman Pat Luongo RESEARCH AND EDITORIAL STAFF C. Stone L. Lee Neal Jenningsburg Ron Milkie Richard V. Benner Russ Grigan Ron McCulty George Marcus Richard Goldemberg Michael Ricciardi Byhal Phillips Gail Greenbaum Kyra Williams Edith Stern Margo Mcginnis Sharon Oswald Tom Croft James Dawson Pat Whitcome Jan Ewing Ann Schlesinger Sara Dona Katherine Dack Ann Kerns February 3, 1976 Mr. Ted Owens Box 48 Cape Charles, Virginia Dear Mr. Owens: Enclosed find is a recent press release regarding the Paranormal Healing Division here at the Nutrition Institute of America. We welcome any statement and medical documentation you may be able to send us regarding your experiences with paranormal healing. Where documentation is lacking, please send us the names and addresses of those patients and doctors who would be willing to give us statements for our files and future reports. With the cooperation of doctors, patients and those actively involved with the healing arts, we will be able to help remove the cloak of mystery surrounding paranormal healing. Thank you. Best Wishes, Carl Stone Carl Stone Research Director 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 14 of 246 Feb. 5, 1967 Dear Rick: I'm a little late answering your letter. Forgive me. Yes, you would make a fine tennis player. I wish you luck in whatever you do or take up. It is your life..honey...and there is only one you. You aren't like anybody else, dad or mom or anybody. So do what is in your heart to do. But remember, your body works for you. It depends on you to give it a good deal. That is why I want you to stay out of football and boxing. You wouldn't do your body any favors if you got injured. And you'd be getting injured for nothing. I recommend learning judo, if you wish. Anyway, good luck, boy. Glad to hear your school work is improving. You are very smart and bright. All you have to do is...use those brains the right way, the good way, always, and Nature is on your side. Enclosed is a card showing the outfit I work for. Biggest lawyers in Philadelphia. They just took on a new partner, and I work for the new partner. It's real funny, Rick. I type all day long, and don't even know what I'm typing. Wills, Trusts, Agreements, all that stuff. My top boss owns the Philadelphia Bulldogs. I used PK to help them and they beat everybody in '66...won the Continental League Championship. All my work involves two, three, four million dollars deals. I hate it. But I'm stuck with it. I remember telling Lornie in Ft. Worth, when I was helping people..."Ah, Lornie, it's wonderful knowing I'm teaching auto-hypno don't have to work in an office ever again." Ha ha. Well, one of these days..... We aren't tossing knives because Martha can't stand the show biz route any more...three hundred one week...then lose our storage and can't pay our rent a month later. And she's right. And Beau needs a steady place to live. (Not this one...but that will come.) I have discovered the Si's ruin, flatten, anyone against me. Could tell you about it, but would take too long to do it. I have what might be called "Instant Attack" from their mysterious PK world. I don't even have to direct them...they seem to know when a fly walks across the ceiling. Read the last week's True and Saga mags...good Si accounts in there. Or UFO reports. Might not be my Si's. I don't think regular UFO's are my Si's. Got to put Beau to bed now. Write, honey. Love, Dad === Page 15 of 246 Feb. 5, 1987 Dear Lonnie: Why haven't you written for months? Didn't you like your camera? It worked fine for me...sent you some of the pictures. If it arrived damaged, I had it insured for $50. We can have it fixed or replaced. That is a long way to send a camera. I have sent some rings that have gotten to my Sonas broken. And why didn't you answer Irene Kuvela? She is a very nice person. She thinks you haven't written because you think she is a "kook", to quote her. Well, she isn't. Write her, if only to say thanks for writing. She's human. I hope school is going well for you, and your boy friend is working out. I also hope you are being a pal to your little brother, who needs you, and your love, and what guidance you can give him. The Si's just destroyed the Cape spacecraft and astronauts, to put more pressure on the govt. Things are getting "down and dirty." The govt. is so stupid. Write. Love, Dad P.S. Am sending you some pictures of you as a little girl. Keep them, because your future husband and children will enjoy seeing them. === Page 16 of 246 Friday, August 27, 1965 Today Zachow, the terrific scientist, called. He said that during the week he had confirmed the reality of my work..and the entities that influenced my work, and that helped to produce results. He had, among other things, consulted one of the great "sensitives" of the U.S., who had confirmed the reality of the Si's; that they come from far away from Earth; are a different type of "si" completely than any other known heretofore. Also the "sensitive" was struck, and almost over-powered with, a tremendous fear, relating to these entities (which are non-breathing.) The sensitive sensed a tremendous "animal force" about them. (The Michigan monster...?) Zachow said definitely that I am producing all of the phenomena that has been produced this past year. He said that it is own energy doing it, but that the Si's use me as a pin-pointing, or locating, instrument, and they help me with their own power. He said that our very conversation this minute would be recorded by them instantly... either by machine or by mind...he doesn't know how they do it. Z disagrees with me on one point..that if I were to die, then these entities would lose their human contact with the earth-people. He says that I am nothing to them... that they "don't give a tinker's dam" about me...and if they did, then I wouldn't be starving and we wouldn't have been stripped of all our things. Z recommends I deliver a mandate to them...either produce a way out of my dilemma in the next week, I or I should "resign" as their agent. Then he advises me to quit this completely; put it out of my mind, and go back to ordinary pursuits. Such as knife-throwing. I made a point of asking Z if he thought all of the year's happenings were a "figment of my imagination" as George Clark suggested. He said certainly not; that he had ascertained definitely that I had produced the phenomena, something few humans alive could do - that I had powers far greater in scope than perhaps anyone on earth. But that I was using these powers wrong..destructively. He realizes the ultimate aim of mine...to use these powers to help correct the present ills of this earth...but he states that there seems to be something wrong in the way the Si's are going about it. He added he might be wrong in this, but he feels that way about it. He stated I was a "sending and receiving" radio station for the Si's. He stated that their work, rather than being in the electro-magnetic field... had something to do with the Doppler effect (whatever that is) or laser work of some kind. Within the hour, I had my reply for Arnold from the Si's, attached. === Page 17 of 246 Sat. 8/28/65 Dear Lorrie: I enjoyed hearing from you. You definitely are not getting all my letters. Listen -- any letter I mail to "Lorrie + Rick" means both of you read that letter. Get it? Do not hold any of my letters back from Rick. The enclosed copies of letters reveal the current action, pretty much. Send back the signed affidavit from Dave Richman. As usual I had prepared my "homework" for Gemini-5 before last Thursday -- to get fire, human error, lightning, power-failure, ground-controls, etc. Got just about all of it! Stopped the shot. You know my routine pretty well. The "game" is to harass the shoot without killing the astronauts. I've done well. The idiots then shot up OSO Flying Laboratory (remember the OGO I got last year?) -- and it blew up. They never learn. Martha enclose letter. Be good, and mind Pat. Love and kisses, honey -- Dad. 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 18 of 246 Monday Sept. 13, 1965 Dear Lornie: Thank you very much for your Love Cigars. I really enjoyed them very much. Hadn't smoked a Bering in ages. Put me in mind of the time when you and Rick were with Pat and me in Las Vegas. She and I were "reading minds" and telling fortunes and hypnotizing people...the works...at the Santa Anita Turf Club. Well, I liked cigars so much that Pat would take these same Berings as "tips" for reading people's fortunes between our two shows nightly. When we'd pack up to go home I would have 20 to 40 Berings in my briefcase. Ha ha! Them were the kooky days. (When I was just hypnotizing people and memorizing magazines...now it's just dull guiding hurricanes here and there and putting the whammy on Gemini-5's.) Am glad to hear that you are going to school on time. That is a novelty, what? You probably even have all your notebooks and pencils, too. Livin' it up. Ha ha. Good enough. Now if you turn out a pin-headed nitwit you can't holler 'foul'. Along with all your books, clothes, notebooks, etc., be sure you have all your marbles. Beau is so fantastic by now he can't be described. He isn't just bright, he's awesomely brilliant. He actually can read minds. Punto. The other night I started to tell him to go get me a piece of toilet paper to blow my nose on, to see if he would understand...he can't talk yet. But I didn't, figuring it would be useless. I just looked at him, and he grinned, and toddled the other way from the bathroom, into the bedroom. He came back, with a proud grin on his face, holding a piece of Kleenex tissue out to me. I hadn't said a word. Last night he read Martha's mind, and it scared her. 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 19 of 246 2 He is so damned cute and funny...when there's music on the radio he climbs up on a chair and dances wildly, gyrating all over... with his shoulders, his head, his arms, his hips...then when he thinks he's done a good dance, he claps his hands to show us it's time to applaud...and we applaud. Then he dances some more. But we have to applaud. Affectionate? He gives us hugs and kisses constantly. When I am lying down, sleeping, he'll come over and kiss me on the cheeks a lot, and put his little hand on my cheek and pat pat pat away, gently. We've had a little difficulty with him throwing things...like chairs, small tables, anything he can pick up. Believe me. He takes a kitchen chair, heaves it up, and throws it. Martha is afraid to scold him, because if she makes him mad, he attacks. I think you've seen that...but now he's practiced up. He goes in like a football tackle, grabs a leg, and bites. If you try to fend him off with an arm or hand, he bites that. He does have a spirited temper. Yesterday he astonished me by pointing to his ear, then to the radio. He wanted to hear music on the radio. This is the way he communicates. Am glad to hear that everything is going well there. Here it is the usual chaos. A job today; no job tomorrow. Worked three days last week. No night clubs in town worth spitting at, for my shows. No car to get out with, to find a better place. So, meanwhile, East Lynne. Fudge! You've mastered the course, so you know what it is. But we are making it, the while. Love, Dad 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 20 of 246 in 1964 were controlled...that they found underground by accident? Russia! Yes, a story from Moscow, dated September 30, 1964, AP, went like this: "U. S. AIM WAGING WEATHER WAR". "A Soviet Colonel charged in Moscow Wednesday that the Pentagon has directed United States scientists to work out ways of directing hurricanes toward Communist countries. (Cuba) The charge was made by Col. I. Zheltikov in the Soviet defense ministry newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda (Red Star.) He also claimed...etc." I was greatly amused by this, and wrote to the Kremlin that the U. S. would hardly be running its own controlled hurricanes across the Cape Kennedy area, as was happening at the time. And after Betsy, of course, not running over Cuba...I imagine they know this to be a fact. Betsy would have run over Cuba. All I had to do was keep her in a straight line, instead of turning her. Finally you, the reader, say, "Well, you should be shot. Hanged. Spat upon. Shame on you, if you can do what you say!" Not so, gentle reader. What I have done is harass the U. S. Military, true...but for a relatively short time. This revolutionary weather-control method that I have stumbled upon, which works like a charm most of the time, could be of inestimable value to our country, the United States, in the long long years ahead. If, that is, the Government will ever pay attention and do something about utilizing it. Now, let's see...Betsy...the next hurricane starts with a "C", doesn't it? You, the reader, can have an interesting time on the sidelines now, watching the action. You know the strange duel that is going on. It could even be more fun than watching a pro football game, yes? FK Lynn (The "Rain Maker") Philadelphia === Page 21 of 246 Editor, The Philadelphia Bulletin "I AM GOING TO RUN A HURRICANE ON LEFT" .......... I just finished doing it. This has to be one of the most unusual accounts ever reported...if indeed it does reach print. It is true and factual. But if this newspaper is brave enough to print the story, it must be understood by the readers that the newspaper does not condone the actions taken by the writer; nor does the newspaper necessarily relieve the account as true. As "The Rain Maker" in Philadelphia, however (Jack McKinney "Night Talk Show" and Harvey Clark of Philadelphia Show) I, Ted Owens, assure the reader that every word of this account is absolutely true and accurate. You say it's impossible for a human being to influence a hurricane? Nonsense! I did it in 1964...ran three hurricanes (Cleo, Dora and Isbell) across the Cape Kennedy area. Had Hurricane Gladys almost there in the same spot, but lost control of her at the last minute, and she slid up the coast.) You say they just "happened" to come that way? Nope. Wrong again, friend. In July, 1964, I sent letters to Cape Kennedy Space Center, the State Department, and other government agencies, that I was "declaring a one-man war" on the area from Daytona Beach to Miami...nicknamed "Electro". I told them all that I would run hurricanes into this area, as well as lightning strikes. A few weeks later lightning struck the Titan Missile at the Cape; also struck and knocked out of commission its ground controls. An accident, you say? How? The Titan Missile stood on a lightning-proof pad. NASA has never figured that one out. You see, in 1963, I discovered a revolutionary method of weather control. This method enabled me to make small storms for local areas, or big storms for areas far away, geographically. This phenomenon is under- === Page 22 of 246 serviceable in the context of parapsychology...where time and space are prohibitive. After making storm after storm, without failing, for months, I wrote to the U. S. Government about my discovery...but could get no answer. Imagine what the U. S. could do with this amazing discovery! It certainly would not have to worry about drought! And hurricanes could be used constructively. If you don't think so...New York City could use about three, right now! At any rate, by "declaring war" against Cape Kennedy, I hoped to get the U. S. Government's attention, thus their cooperation in utilizing this rare ability and discovery. But no...even after the Titan lightning strike and three hurricanes; almost a fourth, in their front yard...not a word from the Government. So this year, July 7, 1965, I wrote to NASA and all government agencies thusly: "Just a note to tell you that have begun my PK work now (they know me as PK Man, not "The Rain Maker") as I did last July on...to start hurricanes south of Florida and then guide them to Florida, and across Cape Kennedy etc." Also I warned them of lightning strikes again this year. About one month later, August 4, 1965 (the day I spent four grueling but fun hours on the Jack McKinney "Night Talk" Show, explaining all this) lightning struck the Moon Rocket Pad at Cape Kennedy. I also wrote Mr. Dunn, Chief of the Hurricane Center in Miami, about all this (in 1964 and again this year, 1965 telling him that if I missed my Electro target, southern Florida, then I would take the hurricane away from the east coast so that it would not come up into the northeast coast area. (This just happened with Betsy, if you will think about it.) Now, you have just seen Hurricane Betsy do everything but turn a somersault. All of the newspaper writers have described her as "freakish." But she isn't, really. When she was "born," August 27, she pointed directly === Page 23 of 246 3 at the target, "Electro"...southern Florida. When she got to Guadeloupe Island, about August 28, she swung around to the north. For several days I struggled to get her back onto the target, Electro. August 31 I turned her, but now she had swung too far, and pointed south. So more work on the maps, and along my specialized lines. Slowly she turned, and once more ran toward the target. Then she began to swing up again, out of line with Electro. Too far in a northwest direction that would put her in Georgia, and lose my shot. I worked for about four days to correct this, and drew a "PK line" that I did not want her to cross. She stopped right at the line, and stalled. Now, Betsy had gotten above Cape Kennedy...and she did not want to go sideways at all...so I knew I had to take her backwards, down below Miami, and start her upward again, in the same path I took Cleo, last year. This "putting a hurricane into reverse" I couldn't do last year, although I tried several times. But this year I figured out how to do it, applied the method, and lo and behold Betsy backed up into the Bahamas! (This, incidentally, put a crimp in the Cape Kennedy missile-tracking machinery in that area.) I had drawn a PK line down there, because I didn't want her to go straight south...and she stopped right at the line, and stalled, as before. I did several other things to bring her over into position in front of Miami...and over she went. Since her radius was 600 miles, and the Cape was just a couple of hundred miles from Miami, am sure the Space Center felt her breezes. At any rate, it was a "hit" in parapsychological parlance. At this point Betsy got out of control and went on into the Gulf, having done her duty pretty well in harassing the U. S. Military. I repeat to you, as I have repeated to the U. S. Government...think, just think, what this country, the U. S., could do with this discovery! But do you know what? Guess who knows for sure that these hurricanes 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 24 of 246 August 25, 1965 Dear Lornie and Rick: Ever almost get hit by a City Bus...in the middle of a sidewalk? I did, last night. And it was no "figment of my imagination." Had quit work, and turned down a narrow side-street, walking towards big Market Street. Had gone 1/3 of a block when suddenly I looked up and there, turning at a complete angle to the street, driving up onto the sidewalk, about 5-6 feet from me and moving fast, was a City Bus. Pointed right at me. I jumped...sideways. It missed me and moved on down back onto the street and kept going. I laughed at the incongruity of a City Bus driver being that poor a driver, to go up onto a sidewalk and down again into the street. Then I walked to the Congress Hotel and checked for mail. Then I walked a half-block from the Congress and paused at another tiny side-street. When the light was green I stepped down into the street. Suddenly a big black Lincoln Continental, with two men in front and one man in back, gunned its motor and did a speed-acceleration hard-left around the corner and I leaped back for my life, again. (That made twice in a half-hour's time.) The Continental almost got a colored man just behind me, too, and he yelled, "You sons of bitches...you could of killed us!" He and I cussed the Continental driver quite thoroughly as we walked down the sidewalk. Take the two things...City Bus comes onto sidewalk, pointed at me...and two near-misses within a half-hour...and you have a peculiar series of events, which makes you think. Just before leaving work (before the City Bus) I had typed a message to the U.S. Government that I intend to take my PK findings and research to another nation, another government...which will accept me and work with me in cooperation. Copy enclosed. Another thing. We are not getting our mail at all. It's all screwed up. When I told you an "iron curtain" had been dropped around me, I wasn't kidding, kids. Whatever and whoever it is. Just a note to let you know some of the action. Funny I haven't heard from you re my success with the Gemini shot and Seallab cooperative. I got my hurricane that I've been working for, but there was nothing in the papers until the thing got way up almost to Canada. Pretty slippy. Have sent out 1,000 hurricane-hunter groups, not units. Write, you laggards. Love and kisses, === Page 25 of 246 Monday August 23, 1965 Dear President Johnson: The UFO's (see previous letters) have asked me to pass on this intelligence to you: They caused the power-failure of Gemini-5, of course. Then they could have brought the craft down...and whether the astronauts would have survived is most debatable. Instead, they did something you, personally, could best understand. Politics. Live and let live. You help them, they help you. They turned the power back on. Check with your experts, they tell me to tell you...there is no way that the power could have been restored, as things stood Sunday...unless they, the UFO's had intervened. They have no wish to kill astronauts...to wreck our vehicles...to make us lose face in the world. Their only wish has been expressed to you before, by me, in a long letter. They urge you to consider this, and to contact me here in Philadelphia, as their representative...therefore in a friendly manner...before this coming Sunday...or better still...before this coming Saturday. Respectfully, Ted Owens, P K Man - 1114 Spruce, #33 Philadelphia, Pa. WA 5-3909 (Mon.-Fri., 9-4:15) === Page 26 of 246 Friday August 20, 1965 President Johnson. Dear Mr. President: There is a method by which genuine safety can be obtained from having a nuclear war. That is, a nuclear war will not happen...because a method can be applied so that it will not. Five nations will be fully and completely armed with nuclear weapons: AMERICA (Already are) RUSSIA (Already are) AUSTRALIA (U.S. to furnish) INDIA (U.S. to furnish) WEST GERMANY (U.S. to furnish) (Reason for U.S. to furnish nuclear missiles and ways to shoot them...because we couldn't trust Russia to correctly arm another country for this plan.) Rules: (a) No other nation or country will be allowed to have any nuclear weapons, and if they try they will immediately be attacked by the Big Five. (b) Should one of the Big Five use nuclear weapons on another of the Big Five... then the remaining three nations of the Big Five will destroy the outlaw aggressor nation entirely. This plan was given to me by intelligence from UFO's. Respectfully, Ted Owens, P K Man, 1114 Spruce, Philadelphia, Pa. === Page 27 of 246 Tuesday August 24, 1965 Mr. George Clark, CIA Dear George: This is a general letter to the U.S. Government. Since I have received no affidavits from anyone to the effect that I have called any ESP shots in advance; since I have received no communications from any branch of the Government (and I have been soliciting them for a year now); since it is evident that my own Government does not believe that I have the ability to do the things which I have been endeavoring (and have, in fact, been proving) to do - and I think that I have been fantastically successful.......... then it is obvious that the U.S. Government will not lift a finger to utilize my strange powers, or aid myself and my family. My family and I have undergone many hardships this past year, in an effort to prove to this Government that my "PK" system can attack ships, subs, missile silos, control weather, attack rocket-shots, attack planes, and harass military operations. And affect people, too. Oddly, my own bookkeeping shows tremendous success...beyond any Government's wildest dreams...were they to recognize and utilize this strange power for their own. But the U.S. Government is peculiar in that it does not seem to care about strange powers. Therefore, if the U.S. Government does not believe me, and does not care to hire me, or utilize my powers...then the U.S. Government will not mind at all if I take my ESP gifts to some other nation or country. I do not care to submit my family and myself to another year of hardship, for nothing. And with my gifts, I should not have to. Furthermore, I yearn to join a group of scientists who can recognize my gifts and form a structure or framework that I can work within. I.e., when one is a creative artist, or musician...one does not wish to dig coal in mines. And if one is a master of a branch of ESP, no matter what the causal factor...he wants to work actively in that field, no other. My present job ends this week, or next week at the latest. Then I am free to spend weeks looking for another...unless I can find a country interested in my ESP gifts. This being the case, perhaps I can offer my family more security and happiness as well as myself. And that is just what I am going to try to do. I give up on the U.S. Government's responding to my year-long appeal to respond. Respectfully, Ted Owens P K Man - "The Rain Maker" 1114 Spruce St., #33 Phila., Pa. WA 5-3909 === Page 28 of 246 Thursday, August 19, 1965 Editor, The Philadelphia Bulletin Newspaper 30th and Market Phila., Pa. Dear Sir: Enclosed find a letter from my son, addressed to you and the Bulletin. He didn't know what the name of the people were, or the correct name of the paper. Since I brought practically all of the last six weeks of rain into Philadelphia...and the only thanks I got was from a 16 year-old boy, in a letter to Station WCAU...I thought it only fitting that you see my son's letter, and perhaps publish it in your letters column as an answer to my detractors' letters of attack, which my son refers to. My boy knows what he is talking about...for he has seen daddy perform some incredible feats in the weather-control line. I am proud of him for defending me, at any rate. That's my boy. Sincerely, Ted Owens, "The Rain Maker", 1114 Spruce, Phila., Pa. === Page 29 of 246 (Letter from Rick Owens, 14-year old son of P K Man, "The Rain Maker" (Ted Owens) as sent to The Bulletin from Inglewood, California.) "Dear People of the Bulletin: "A few days ago you had some write-ups on the "Rain Maker." Claiming he was a "phony." I am his son, Rick Owens, and I know that out of all his work with rainmaking, he has missed only once, and he has worked a thousand times and produced record storms for that particular city, and for proof he'll be very glad to show you his "newspaper clippings" about it, which gives definite proof. I wish you would print just this small paragraph on what I'm going to say. "Truth About Rain Maker!" A new era, whether people like it or not, has been discovered. You can shut this fear out, if you like, but someday somebody will have to discover it. H. T. Owens, the Rain Maker, is a genius, and he could have become a scientist. Right now he is trying to help bring out this new discovery that is far advanced than just Indian Rainmaking. In a recent clipping a man who was called Barry Rosenburg called him a phony, but this Rosenburg hasn't seen all of the things, thousands of things, he has done in a lot of years, and so had no right to jump to his own ignorant conclusions. Dr. Rhine will state Owens powerI - Owens's ESP. H. T. Owens personally worked under Rhine. I admit $10,000 is a lot to ask, and disagree that he should ask this much, but think what we could do with a man with his powers. Just think before you lynch him up. Rick Owens c/o Shannon 505 S. Osage, #3 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania === Page 30 of 246 Friday August 20, 1965 President Johnson. Dear Mr. President: There is a method by which genuine safety can be obtained from having a nuclear war. That is, a nuclear war will not happen...because a method can be applied so that it will not. Five nations will be fully and completely armed with nuclear weapons: AMERICA (Already are) RUSSIA (Already are) AUSTRALIA (U.S. to furnish) INDIA (U.S. to furnish) WEST GERMANY (U.S. to furnish) (Reason for U.S. to furnish nuclear missiles and ways to shoot them...because we couldn't trust Russia to correctly arm another country for this plan.) Rules: (a) No other nation or country will be allowed to have any nuclear weapons, and if they try they will immediately be attacked by the Big Five. (b) Should one of the Big Five use nuclear weapons on another of the Big Five... then the remaining three Nations of the Big Five will destroy the outlaw aggressor Nation entirely. This plan was given to me by intelligence from UFO's. Respectfully, Ted Owens, P K Man, 1114 Spruce, Philadelphia, Pa. === Page 31 of 246 Friday August 20, 1965 President Johnson. Dear Mr. President: There is a method by which genuine safety can be obtained from having a nuclear war. That is, a nuclear war will not happen...because a method can be applied so that it will not. Five nations will be fully and completely armed with nuclear weapons: AMERICA (Already are) RUSSIA (Already are) AUSTRALIA (U.S. to furnish) INDIA (U.S. to furnish) WEST GERMANY (U.S. to furnish) (Reason for U.S. to furnish nuclear missiles and ways to shoot them...because we couldn't trust Russia to correctly arm another country for this plan.) Rules: (a) No other nation or country will be allowed to have any nuclear weapons, and if they try they will immediately be attacked by the Big Five. (b) Should one of the Big Five use nuclear weapons on another of the Big Five... then the remaining three Nations of the Big Five will destroy the outlaw aggressor Nation entirely. This plan was given to me by intelligence from UFO's. Respectfully, Ted Owens, P K Man, 1114 Spruce, Philadelphia, Pa. === Page 32 of 246 Thursday, August 19, 1965 Mr. George Eastwood, Inventions NASA Dear George: The Gemini weather trouble...complete with lightning...guess who? You might warn, George, Nasa that this is no time to be sending up a Gemini crew. Consider the number of quick catastrophes the U.S. has had lately: Missile silo explosion. Los Angeles race riots. Bomber that flew the wrong way in Viet Nam and bombed our new Military Headquarters, in an allied village. Loss of face in the world from backing down from the Russians "no pay" in the U.N. (A geo-political tragedy.) ..........all within the past few weeks. Any gambler will tell you, quit gambling when you hit a bad streak, or losing streak, or things are going against you. That is not the time to pull out a new bankroll in the game. And that is what Nasa is doing right now. If anything goes wrong with this Gemini shoot, it will just add to the recent string of catastrophes. My advice, and 10¢, will buy a cup of coffee, George. But there it is, for what it is worth. Ted Owens - P K Man - The Rain Maker 1114 Spruce, #33 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Friday morning at 9 AM, Dave, a psychologist where I work, asked, "Well, ESP man, what's your prediction about the Gemini shot at noon today?" (Friday) I told him, "I'll bet you $10 to $1, ten to one odds, that the Gemini shot will fail." -- Come noon, and lightning (mine) did the shot in. They tried again today, idiots! Read my letter I sent them on Thursday, above. UFO's told me what to say. 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 33 of 246 Friday Dear Lornie Thank you, honey, for the three cigars...but do not run yourself short of spending money, just for cigars for daddy, hear? Although I surely do appreciate the thought...and the smokes. Our letters are hanging up...I don't get yours for maybe a week after you send it...and I know for sure that you aren't getting mine correctly, on time. Something is funny, somewhere...and I don't mean with the Shannons. Mebbe the govt. Beau is all right, just cut the corner of his eye. He is awfully sweet, and plays with me constantly. In fact, I can't hardly get him off my lap. He invents games...and teaches me how to play his games with him. The kid is a little wizard. And tough...good lord...if you think he was rugged when you knew him, you should know him now. Martha is afraid to try to put his pajamas on, or take him away from TV...cause he beats up on her. He charges her, and bites, hits, etc. Puts up a damn good scrap. Lots of spunk. Am writing this at work, without benefit of your letter at hand, so will try to remember the points you made. Your letter is at home, and ordinarily I answer it directly. Am doing any old odd job, looking for a way out of my present predicament...which is, stuck in old Philadelphia where few of my talents count for anything. Am sending my novels to N.Y. and trying to make a deal with a local businessman to start my own business, etc. Then...6 months, a year...of saving...and we'll buy a used car and go to some quiet, countryish place...and I will begin my System-teaching, and we will rent a house, or buy one. Rent one, I guess, on sober thought. Am glad your school is beginning, and you do sound like you are having fun. If any earthquakes, fires, floods, typhoons, etc., occur, you'll know that Daddy is playing his little games. I am winding up now to swat the West Coast with a big jar of PK; also to make and steer more 'canes into Florida. Debbie was doing all right; she turned right, like I told her to - then stalled just off the Florida coast, and by the time she went into Florida she'd quieted down into a mere 60-70 mile an hour tropical storm, instead of a hurricane. Anyway, I hit Florida with her. Even if I didn't get a hit on Electro directly and in full force. incidentally...last year I wrote Dunn, Chief of the Hurricane Bureau at Miami...remember? And asked him to name Hurricanes after you and Martha this year. Well, he did...but as usual, your name got misspelled, and it is "Laurie" on the official Hurricane Charts. "Martha" is there, too. So - you have a hurricane named after you. I am working hard to make that many hurricanes for that area. I have gotten 28 typhoons so far in the Pacific. They ran clear through the alphabet, and are starting over with Typhoon Bess working now. Love and kisses, Dad 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 34 of 246 2/14/66 Dear Lonnie - Thank you for your letter, your very sweet birthday card, and the $1.00. We did just as you suggested, and had a party on your $1.00. Thanks, honey. Enclosed is a ring I have made for you. The initials are poorly made, but so are ones carved on a tree. It's a Love Ring for you & Julio (HOO-LEE-O). In case you change boy friends, send it back & I'll put new initials on it! Major Keyhoe was on TV today (a surprise) telling how the A.F. had fired on UFO's, had lots of pictures of them, and had orders from Wash. to cover up all UFO sightings - hide them from the public. He sneered at sightings by farmers, etc., and stressed again & again that only sightings by Majors, Captains, Colonels, scientists - etc. counted. Anybody else was not a "responsible" source and was only after publicity. Ha ha! He's distorted & twisted that way, but at least, he says the AF & US Govt. knows the UFO's are real. He added that the Govt. now is considering changing its policy & telling the US people all about how real the UFO's are. Now, I have two proofs at hand (which I'll send you this week), that the Govt. knows for sure PK Man and his UFO's are quite real - and fear my UFO's. Be sure & read my letters to you, to Rick, and vice versa. Be sure. 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 35 of 246 7 Don't worry about C's. You're bright, and you'll get along fine. If you're lucky you'll never need brains (school type). You'll "first" be a sweet feminine girl, who can cook & sew, and make a cute nest for your man & your children. Now to answer your questions. I do not wish to put UFO information in letters - that is, some of it I wish to keep secret. UFO intelligences (Si's) have been in our bedroom. Martha saw them first (like you did, that UFO in Texas that night) then I saw them. No talk at all. We just watched them, with our eyes bugging out. Not one time, but three different times. Baby tried to talk to them, jabbering away & pointing. And the sound they have - never heard anything like it. The Si's do not relay information to me in "talk" or voices, either inside or outside my head. Another way. Explain it to you sometime. Watch Spanish men, Lonnie. Treachery and double-crossing are second nature to them. But they can be charming. I know them well, honey. Listen - in early 1950's I had a Julio Rodriguez at the private military school, Calif. Military Academy - he was one of my pupils. Also his dad was an officer in Nicaragua, I think. Ask him about this. Also, he'd remember Captain Owens. Congratulations on dropping the sorority. Yes, you can tell Pat anything. You're lucky that way. She's a good pal for you. Honey, send important mail to me Special Delivery! Here, people open our mail & steal anything out of envelopes. Love & kisses, Dad. === Page 36 of 246 Congress Hotel THE Bellevue Stratford 12th Broad and Walnut Streets Philadelphia, Pa. 19102 CABLE ADDRESS BELLSTRAT TELETYPE 215 569-9703 PENNYPACKER 5-0700 AREA CODE 215 Dear Lorie -- Hope you two are having fun by now. Open any mail I might get, forwarded, & send me anything important. Right now am trying to get $200 - 300 to buy a car & go up to New Jersey and sell my services as The Rainmaker to various towns & counties having a terrible drought. They are out of water and need... rainstorms. Ha! I figured I could get $5000 per town, or county, fee paid after their rain comes. However, since the area would probably become a disaster area, they might not pay me. The rain PK I worked so hard last November to sock the U.S. with -- is slow in going away, to let heat & drought take its place. But I've set up heat & fire (red) PK, not only over the U.S., but the world, for this coming summer (July -- on.) So you should read about drought all over the place. Nature will use this to make the Govt. more reasonable. Remember I wrote Clark, CIA, & told him all phenomena of Moses' day would now occur to U.S. Govt.? Well, first case of cholera since 1911 just struck -- in Wash. D.C. And since I "hit" Viet Nam with PK -- planes are colliding, Marines are shooting each other by accident -- it's really something. Some day they'll learn. Write. Dad Congress Hotel Rm. 600 12th & Walnut Phila., Pa. AIR CONDITIONED GUEST ROOMS, RESTAURANTS AND FUNCTION ROOMS === Page 37 of 246 Thursday Oct. 28, 1965 Dear Lornie - Thanks very much, honey, for the Bering. The Optimos tear up in the mail, but the Berings don't because of the metal tube...you can send Berings anytime, ha ha. Anyway, 1 Bering is better than 2 Optimos. I smoked your cigar after supper last night, while we watched TV. Beau is so cute and darling...he snuggles up in my lap every night, for hours, watching TV with us. We have a dandy TV set...and can get all the channels, including UHF. Your girl friend sounds cute, and am glad that you have some female companionship and friendship. These "queens and princesses" though... ugh. Their values tend to become warped and shallow. Always remember, "All is not gold that glitters." Every time I see a pretty girl I remember that, and wonder if the girl can also cook good; sew good; has a good heart inside the pretty outside; is loyal and honest with her loved ones; and can she fulfill the main female function, that of giving real love and affection. Few can...but some can. It is my hope that you'll fill the bill re the above, and make some man a happy and successful man, some of these days, after you marry him. Because a man's mate can make him happy and successful in the world...or miserable and a bum. I worked here for a Bureau that rehabilitates alcoholics...and had complete access to their files, and studied the cases rather thoroughly. What I tell you was borne out in the histories of most of these men. Am proud of you for making A's in school. That reflects both brains and hard work. Good for you. A's are never just given; they are earned, the hard way. Am doing a great amount of work at this time with PK. Yes, of course I am in contact with the Si's, honey. I have a 2-way communication with them...and can reach them in seconds. Almost instantly. And they, me. This is nothing "hallucinatory" - but is done through controlled visual imagery. Everyone here has colds...regular epidemic going around. You have heat and poisonous smog there, eh? Keep yourself braced for a possible earthquake, 6 or above on the Richter Scale. That's a tough one. You and Rick have your Angel...and PK protection...therefore even if the houses all came down in LA, you'd be protected. Next week I am sending you a present...you've been so sweet about sending cigars. Am sending you a set of colored pics, the ones taken in Washington, of the bunch. Be on the watch for them. Must go now. Be good, and mind Pat. She knows a lot, even more than you do. Love and kisses.......... Dad 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 38 of 246 (Copy of telegram sent to Mr. George Clark, CIA, 9:30 PM, Thursday, October 27, 1965: "A RARE WARNING. SI'S IN FURY. SEE COPY LETTER NASA BEFORE GEMINI SIX SHOT. KEEP IN MIND VANISHING AGENA ROCKET. UNLESS GOVERNMENT COMPLIES WITH SI'S WISHES THEY WILL UNLEASH TERRIBLE U.S. CATASTROPHE WITHIN TEN DAYS. DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY HAVE IN MIND, BUT LET THE GOVERNMENT BE WARNED. P K MAN (Owens) === Page 39 of 246 We missed you this Xmas; Dick. We were thinking about you both on Xmas day. Beau liked the birthday card & he thought it was real cute. The picture is very good of you. Thanks so much for it. === Page 40 of 246 January 10, 1966 Dear Lainie, Your letter came today, and we were real happy to hear from you. We had a real nice Christmas. Thank you very much for all the nice presents. The boxes came a few days before Christmas and the birthday box came the same day as the xmas box. You and Rick made our xmas very happy by sending all of the nice gifts. The hair spray holder is very pretty. I put my hair spray in it and it fits O.K. It must have taken you and Rick a lot of time and work to wrap each present. It was real sweet of you both to send us the box. The candy was awfully good too. Beau got a rocking horse. I strung some popcorn and put it on the tree and Beau ate it off of the tree, it was the cracker jay kind of popcorn, anyway I had to take it off because it didn't look very pretty after he chewed some of it off the string. I had an awful time trying to keep him __________ === Page 41 of 246 from opening the presents before Xmas.) I could put them under the tree + he couldn't keep his hands off of them. He would take them from out under the tree + try to open them. Guess what! Vivian said that she was going to get married during the Xmas holidays. His name is Ronnie Massey + he goes to A + M college. She said she is 20 years old + they already have their house + that he had gotten the rings. I can't hardly believe that my baby sister is growing up so fast. I haven't heard from her so I guess everything went all right. Maggie + the family spent Xmas in Texas. They had a two week vacation so they went home during the Xmas holidays. Jerry is taking piano lessons + is doing very well. Are you still writing to Jo Jo? He sent us a Christmas card. We didn't go out New Year's just stayed home + celebrated. Thanks for a lot for all the nice gifts. I will close for now + love you. Write soon. Love Always, Mama + Beau (over) === Page 42 of 246 Tues. Dec. 28, 1965 Dear Lornie: Thank you, honey, for giving Martha, Beau and I such a wonderful Xmas. Your and Rick's gifts, of course, were our Christmas. Want a laugh? I started smoking your fine cigars Christmas morning, and ran out the next day at noon. 14 Berings. Ha ha. Boy, they were good. All of your gifts, wrapped and all, must have been quite a tremendous job to fix up, you and Rick...and needless to say, our little group appreciate that fact. Beau reads his little books at night...has worn his new pajamas now since Xmas...plays with the picture-puzzles and the chalk-slate...he's having a ball. And Martha, was she tickled with her presents! You know Martha. Her feelings are right out in the open where you can see them...and she was laughing and whooping and opening everything in sight. The only thing we missed, was you and Rick. Martha sadly remarked: "Do you know, honey, this is the first Xmas in years we haven't had Lornie or Rick with us?" Well, it was a wonderful Xmas. Have had several vivid, life-like dreams about Pat. Odd. Girl in the apartment next to us came screaming to our door Friday night...prowler grabbed her when she went into her apartment, she escaped, screaming, to our place. I went after him with a handful of knives, but he got away before I could get my pants on (I was in shorts.) Then last night a pane of glass fell on her hand, and cut it...and the boy she lives with was in an auto wreck Sunday, broke two ribs. My boss's wife was in an auto wreck Thursday. Sound familiar? The girl's name is Trina. === Page 43 of 246 December 22, 1965 Dear Lornie and Rick: Just a note to wish you a Merry Christmas, and send you my love. Your amazing box came yesterday...and the packages are under our little tree. I am immensely grateful to you for giving Martha and Beau (and myself) some sort of Christmas, for we are in the same boat we were in when you were with us. You know. That is why we will send you a small gift for Christmas. But the size of our gift is no indication of what good pals we are. Little Beau, when your packages were rolled out by the dozen, got so excited...he jumped up and down and said one of his few words, "Want." When we put the packages up, he had a fit, and tried to wreck the place, as usual. I waited ten minutes until the uproar died down, then went about setting chairs and tables upright. Saturday you will know that your immense thoughtfulness and labor in preparing packages (and expense) will give a lot of fun and pleasure to your still-broke pals in Philadelphia. Bless your hearts. Love, Dad. P.S. I am building a PK capsule for little Jimmy -- and assigning an incorporeal agent to guard him -- as you have. Will send name later of agent. (It is Moinga -- (moy-nyah.) Am doing this because in our box we found an expression of friendship from Jimmy to Beau. === Page 44 of 246 Wed. Sept 22, 1965 Dear Larrie -- Thank you for the two good cigars! Smoked them tonight after one of Martha's fried chicken suppers. Beau just fell and split his head open -- an inch from his right eye. Lord! We're calming him down. Martha is reading to him. He came in to have me kiss it & make it well. Little as he is, when he gets hurt -- he believes my kiss will make it well. And it does. (Along with my secret system.) Received a letter back today I had sent you kids to 505 S. Daryl. Somebody had returned it... not to me but to an office I had worked. And they thoughtfully got it to me. I returned it to you. Wonder how many other letters I've sent -- have been blocked? You wouldn't know. Bet you had a happy birthday. Your school clothes look like fun. French -- ugh! Sewing is dandy, if you learn anything from it. And you're good at it. I pity your driver-instructor. Ha! If he knew what I know he'd sit behind the car. (Still, there is reverse gear -- even that wouldn't be safe! He ha) Yes -- I met the people. They gave us vegetables. But they, too, are chuck-a-block. Am still yearning to meet somebody interesting. Wrong -- power of any kind never gets extinct honey. If people were afraid of electricity, it would still be around. You dig? Love and kisses -- Dad. 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 45 of 246 Friday November 19, 1965 Dear Lorrie, thank you very much for the swell cigar. Enjoyed it very much. Also, thanks for the picture you sent. I have it in my wallet, and show it to my friends proudly. You asked about hurricanes this year. I covered this in a letter to you a month or so ago...as you know, my Hurricane Hunter Groups cause hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes, etc. These Groups are powerful "weather-upsetters" well....a typhoon is a hurricane, and this year in the Pacific they ran clear through the alphabet, and had to start all over on another round of alphabetic names. In the Atlantic, just a few hurricanes...but of course, Betsy was worth ten hurricanes all in one. Nothing quite like Betsy. As for the PK harassing NASA...guess you just read about Kris Kraft, the Head of NASA, having a pistol pointed at his head and the trigger pulled...but the bullet misfired. There were 13 top key NASA men on the plane with him at the time, and the plane could easily have been destroyed by the 9 pistol shots that went into the floor. Also, practically every shot that has gone up lately at the Cape, has flubbed. The last big one...the Agena...simply vanished. Disappeared. They are still scratching their heads over that one. That Agena was the one that the Astronauts were going to go up and chase, and try to catch up with. Of course the East Coast power-failure was caused by the Si's. But they had to make up some reason for it...Johnson ordered an explanation within 24 hours. Ha ha! "So they gave him one. But they still haven't really figured it out at all. Supposedly a relay broke down...but there is a paradox in it, in that the relay worked and automatically shut down later. They can't understand that. Also, they don't understand the wide area...the magnitude of it, covered by the power breakdown. Then I would point out that lately there have been a rash of power breakdowns. They just had one in England, for instance. Am glad you are having fun at school. MX I sure do miss you and Rick, and so does Martha. Baby Beau used to having spells of crying...and we wondered why...until we realized it was always after we talked about you in front of him, or showed your and Ricks' pictures. But we are rich in memories...I can still see Beau dancing wildly with you and Rick in the Mangel's living room. And that trip across the U.S. was one of the best things of my life, where I got to know you kids really, and we shared down to rock-bottom. Listen...if you ever get a check sent to me...send it to me by registered letter, because people steal mail out of boxes here. Love & kisses, 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 46 of 246 Wednesday, September 15, 1965 Miss Katherine Raley Secretary Drew Pearson 1313 29th St., N.W. Washington, D. C. 20007 Dear Miss Raley: You ask for a brief outline of the story that I have for Mr. Pearson. That "brief" makes it difficult, because of the nature of the story (which the U.S. Government is hushing up..........has clamped the lid on.) Never has Mr. Pearson ever had a story of this size or importance..........and I will grant you that he's had some important ones. To indicate its importance - Betsy need not have devastated Miami or New Orleans. Gemini-5 did not have to have its many difficulties. The Flying Laboratory sent up recently from Cape Kennedy (OSO) did not have to accidentally explode at its third stage, August 25, 1965. And so on. Am enclosing valued file copies. Please return them. They are a scattered few pieces of my bulging files at home. But you wanted a brief outline, and for my story..........this much material, at least, is brief. Let's start in Philadelphia, to explain who I am, what I do. "A" (see enclosed) explains that I am called "The Rain Maker." I have delivered the only rain in Philadelphia since July (except for one small drizzle.) I wrote the local papers before the storms occurred (one to two weeks before) telling them. Jack McKinny, "Night Talk", WCAU Radio here..........asked me to appear for an hour on August 4 on his radio show. So I made a storm that night, which began when I walked into the radio station at 10 PM and ended when I came out at 2 AM. After my hour, then a U.S. Senator was to follow, then Jack Carter, the famous comedian. McKinny called them and cancelled them - and kept me on the program for four hours, non-stop. The following Friday Ed Harve, "Talk of Philadelphia" radio show, asked me to be on his program the following Monday - and make it rain that day to coincide with my appearance. I told him that I would do my best. The storm which hit Philadelphia that day that I was on his program flooded Philadelphia. Lightning bolts struck scores of homes; hit a power station, and a police radio towers. And so on. I am trying to lead into this gradually, because I have discovered how to do something which no other human has ever done. Mr. George Clark, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington 25, D. C., has an almost-complete file of all my work. Mr. Eastwood, Inventions Department, NASA, Washington, D. C., has much the same. Mrs. Louisa Rhine, P.O. Box 46, Rt. 3, Hillsboro, North Carolina, has an almost-complete file also. She is the famous author-scientist wife of Dr. J. B. Rhine, famed parapsychologist (ESP) at Duke. I spent hours in Washington with "George Clark", and with Eastwood at NASA; also with a Mr. Dunn at CIA. 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 47 of 246 2 They had plenty of proof of my incredible work! For instance, see "B". To check this, Jack McKinny, on a six-state radio hook-up, called Mrs. Mangels, who verified the authenticity of it...as well as others. "C" - a prediction sent to Clark, CIA, four days before it developed. Note on the newspaper clip the term "symbolic" just as I described it. Better add here that as far as NASA, CIA, Space Center Cape Kennedy, etc., are concerned - I am known as "PK Man." PK stands for psychokinesis, a parapsychological term. "D" is a prediction made re President Johnson, which came true. Self-explanatory. Made to Hugh Lynn Cayce, son of Edgar Cayce, at A.R.E. at Virginia Beach. My family was travelling through, and we stayed there one day. Enough. Have many more of these in my files. Now, what is so important? See letter attached to "E" - MEMO TO THE PEOPLE OF THE U.S. (This was sent to the State Department, the President, Space Center, etc., in August of 1964. But I had warned the Cape, in early July letters. In other words, I started working with my amazing system...against the forces of the U. S. Government, as an experiment...in early July, 1964. In U. S. News and World Report, Sept. 21, 1964: "Before the hurricane blows fell on Florida in August and September, the State had had only one destructive hurricane in the past 13 years. The northeastern Florida area was hit for the first time this century. After a full of years, why had successive hurricanes suddenly battered the coast?" Why, indeed, Miss Raley. As a matter of fact - why have four hurricanes hit the area of Daytona Beach to Miami, since just last July? Why did two hurricanes hit the New Orleans area...43 miles from NASA's huge Saturn Missile Complex? (I'll answer that in the paragraph following this one.) In today's paper, Phila. Inquirer, article by John O'Brien: "U.S. Spends Millions For Disaster Relief"..."Hurricane Betsy...is the latest in the worst spate of natural disasters on record." (Wrong - they were controlled disasters.) "During the fiscal year from July 1, 1964 (when I began my PK work) to July 1, 1965, President Johnson granted requests from 24 Governors for 29 major disaster declarations...and authorized disaster declarations totalling $85,986,100." "Prior to Hurricane Betsy (billion in damages) since July 1 of this year, the President had to make six major disaster declarations, which entailed disaster allocations totalling $44,661,000. Etc." The rest of the article dealt with results from my "PK" work. Now, please re-read "E", second page of Aug. 25 letter attached. Now I'm getting to the point, Miss Raley - unless you've gone to sleep reading all this. "F" of Aug. 30, 1964, to Space Agency, State Department, etc., is self-explanatory. "G" of Sept. 3, 1964, same. "H" of Oct. 4, 1964. I have successfully guided Hurricane Hilda and Hurricane Betsy to the Michoud Saturn Missile Complex. 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 48 of 246 3 "I" of Aug. 31, July 7, and Sept. 11, 1965. .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... There is the general idea. But here is the shocker. Mr. Dunn, of CIA, asked me what the causal factor was in my strange system, or ability. I thought then (months ago) that I had managed somehow to communicate with the intelligence behind Nature. However, on July 8 I found out definitely what the "causal factor" was. See "J". By August 4 they, the UFO's (I call them Si's...for saucer intelligences...) had given me a message, which Jack McKinney read on that four-hour radio show, over the air. See "K". .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... Now, my two teen-agers (16 and 15) have watched me hit missiles with PK, and bring them down. They have watched me make, and guide, hurricanes. Etc. They are: Lorrie and Rick Owens, c/o Shannon, 505 S. Osage St., #3, Inglewood, California. Feel free to check with them in any way, if you wish. I have offered to CIA and the President to have their men watch me guide hurricanes - tape the process and take pictures, if they like (I work on maps.) I have offered to President Johnson to break the drought on the entire northeastern coast (I can do this.) But no reply from him. Easier, I guess, just to spend a hundred million or so of the taxpayers money to try to figure it out. I will make the same offer to Mr. Pearson. If he can put us up (My wife, baby and I) on his farm for the time it will take; then I will break the entire drought on this eastern coast...give New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, etc., as much precipitation as they need to get well....to fill all their rivers, streams, reservoirs, etc. I will do this by making rainstorm after rainstorm...abnormal amounts of rainfall. Also I will guide hurricanes up to New York so that the entire area will benefit from the billions of gallons of water from the hurricanes. Since I have been a court-reporter and an office-manager, it is possible that I could do some typing work at the farm, while I am working on the rainfall and hurricanes. But the rain-making is a seven-day-a-week job. "L" has, on the second page, the main reason Mr. Pearson should try to get this story out from behind the lid the Government has clamped on it. He could thereby save many lives. "M" is yesterday's letter to my children, in California. And the clipped group of documents are in case you are interested enough to read further. There it is, Miss Riley...all true, so help me God. Fantastic though it sounds. The biggest news story certainly of the century...if not further back than that. Think of it...at last man can finally control hurricanes, rain, snow, sunshine, etc. And the system also has other uses. Since the rain which fell on Mr. Pearson's farm in Maryland came from Betsy - then he does indeed owe me a debt of gratitude...for Betsy was "made" by myself. And there will be others. Sincerely, Ted Owens (P K Man, "Rain Maker") 1114 Spruce, #33, c/o Colonial Hotel, Phila., Pa. 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 49 of 246 Thursday, Sept. 16, 1965 Dear Lornie... Thank you very much, honey, for the cigars. I smoked them last evening, and enjoyed them. What box from Washington...? You thought I sent it...but I am not in Washington, honey. Yes, I had great success with Betsy...am that much better this year than last...also now am working in conscious collaboration with the Si's. I can see them, write down what I want, they change it into their writing, then into sound...and poof...it happens. But there is so much happening now, with the Si's, that you don't know about...and I can't put into letters.......... They told me just today not to worry about money, house, car, etc., that they are "growing a new brain" in me....containing much wisdom and understanding, like the Bible says...and that my new brain will be worth more than "diamonds, rubies and pearls"...and that what will naturally follow...will be wealth, if I want it. Sounds cockeyed, eh? But all of the facts remain...like a lightning bolt hitting the Moon Rocket Pad...like me guiding Betsy left, right, backwards, then right again...her following, following my directions. The facts remain...thus I know they know what they are talking about! Am glad to hear that your school plans are lining up satisfactorily. Have a lot of fun, and be the good student you were in Washington. You are a good student...and since you have a dear little brother..work with him, gently...leading him, not pushing him...into being a good student, also. Tell him to auto-hyp and tell himself that he can be an A student in anything he wants to be...that he will automatically study hard on that subject. You know what to tell him; you've watched me work with people enough. Seattle might send you a check, one of these days, to send to me. Since I move around, I had to have a permanent address to give them. It will be a substantial check, and of course I need it. As for bills...we haven't any here; as for Washington, nothing. Forget it. I fail to see how it could worry Pat. We only owed a couple of teeny weeny bills in Wash., and they can't do anything out there in California. But at any rate...I certainly am not giving that address to any bill collectors. That irked me. It smacked exactly as of the same tone Jim had when he told me those people didn't want to see us up in San Francisco. You handle any mail that might trickle through to me, honey. Love, 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 50 of 246 Friday, Oct. 15, 1965 Dear Lornie: Thank you for the cigars, hon. I'll smoke them tonight, while watching TV, and think of you. I am doing plenty of things with PK, sweetheart...but mostly I don't care to put it into letters going to L.A. You understand. Some things, okay. But a great deal of it I have throttled down, because of no reaction from Washington. That is, I do a lot now, but am not writing on it. For instance...you either have in your files, or you've seen in mine...numerous letters of warning with regard to President Johnson, these past months. So wham...he lands flat on his back and his GB is cut out, and his kidneys worked on. A major operation, putting him out of commission for a couple of months. But...it's a warning from the Si's, pure and simple. They have him zeroed in...I warned him and the government of it a month ago... so it's up to them if they want to keep ignoring me and the Si's. And if you had been reading the papers you'd have seen aircraft carriers colliding; destroyers colliding; nuclear subs colliding; and planes colliding. Remember my Plane-Sub-Ship PK, started over a year ago...and growing? You'd better believe it! As for my Hurricane-Hunter Groups...they ran clear out of the alphabet in the Pacific...and have re-started on another round of the alphabet...Typhoon C or D was the last one I heard of, on the second round. The HH Groups, you know, cause hurricanes, typhoons, earthquakes, volcanoes to erupt, tornadoes, and floods. They cause, in other words, violent aberrations of the weather and of the earth itself. (Typhoons are hurricanes, but in the Pacific, not the Atlantic, and the HH Groups strike anywhere and everywhere.) As I pointed out in one of my letters to you...they have named a hurricane after you this year, as per my request last year (Laurie, not Lornie, but they never get the name right) and one for Martha, too, as I requested. That Mr. Dunn, Chief of the Hurricane Bureau in Miami, is nice, and evidently has a sense of humor. I am going to issue more HH Groups today, in an effort to produce enough 'canes out of Florida to get you and Martha down on the map in 'cane form. You have a lot of school work, eh? Well, that maykeep you out of mischief, ha ha. But I doubt it. Keep me clued in on Rick's "extracurricular" activity. I worry about him. He needs a strong loving hand to guide him, and there he just ain't got it. Love, maybe, but not the judo-type control I can furnish. He'll be a great boy, a winner, if he gets enough special attention with love attached to it. He's so bright he'll run circles around the Shannons and the Bentleys...and get away with murder. You know it. Lots of love, kisses, and hugs Daddy 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 51 of 246 Copy Rick Lornie Wednesday, Oct. 6, 1965 Mr. George Clark, CIA Dear George: President Johnson is not having this operation by accident. If you will glance at my previous correspondence, it spells out the details. I told you that the UFO's had him zero'd in. And they have. And they will continue to have. I have done very poorly these past months; got the newspaper write-up (and so the stock market improved). But nothing has come of it...nobody hired me to break the drought...therefore the stock market is in for a hard time ahead, am afraid. You will see. Sept. 29 two submarines collided off "Electra" (California coast) Oct. 1 two destroyers collided off "Electro" (Florida coast) Oct. 2 two planes collided in Viet Nam. These seemingly separate accidents were not accidents, George...and they were strung like beads on a string...to point out the fact. The UFO's are getting very angry. Ted Owens (PK Man) 1114 Spruce, #33 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania === Page 52 of 246 "A" July 7, 1965 Dept. of Inventions, NASA Wash, D.C. Copy Dear Mr. Eastwood: Just a note to tell you that have begun my PK work now, as I did last July on....to start hurricanes south of Florida and then guide them to Florida, and across Cape Kennedy. (1) HURRICANE BETSY 9/'65 - SEPT. 8, "BETSY" HIT ON "ELECTRO" (DAYTONA BEACH TO MIAMI) In other words, the Cape will be target area again. And I learned much last year ... so that this year should be much more successful. Included with the hurricanes will be lightning strikes, freak accidents, sudden storms of less than hurricane intensity, etc. In the event that a hurricane gets away from me, due to an oversight, which happened once last year...then I'll do the same thing I did last year... try to guide it over to the Michoud space complex in Louisiana, near New Orleans. (3) I also may do some work on Houston, Texas. It is my hope that some day someone wise will believe in my rare PK ability, and allow me to proceed with the work that I am now blocked from doing, by the U.S. Government. Respectfully, P K Man (c/o Owens) Congress Hotel, Room 600 12th and Walnut Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Lightning Kills Worker At Saturn Launch Pad Cape Kennedy, Aug. 4 (UPI)--Lightning hit a crane used on a Saturn 5 moon rocket launch pad yesterday, killing one man and injuring five others. The dead man was identified as A. Trieb, 33, of Mitchell, S. D., one construction worker was hospitalized and four others were treated and released at a base medical center. A spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers, overseer of the construction under way here, said the men were pouring concrete on the 40-foot level of the launch complex when lightning traveled down the crane's cables to the wet concrete. Workers standing near the concrete were burned and knocked down by the flash. Rockets Escape Damage in Storm NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 11 (AP)--The huge Michoud plant which builds Saturn booster rockets came through Hurricane Betsy with superficial damage, it was reported Saturday. A spokesman said damage was confined to broken glass and peeled roofs, with no apparent injury to space vehicles under construction. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration facility was shut down Thursday afternoon as the storm approached. LIGHTNING STRIKE!! AUG. 19, 1965 Fire Damage Assessed New Delay Looms In Gemini Launch CAPE KENNEDY (UPI)--Technicians worked today to eliminate a series of problems that delayed for at least two days America's attempts to rewrite Soviet space records (4) OVER -> The magnificent beauty of Barr's pure white diamonds === Page 53 of 246 SAT. SEPT. 11, 1965 "A" THIS SINGLE LETTER, TO MR. EASTWOOD OF NASA IN WASH., D.C. (PLUS REGULAR COPIES ELSEWHERE) IS SUBSTANTIAL PROOF OF THE DEVASTATING ACCURACY OF MY REVOLUTIONARY DISCOVERY IN THE FIELD OF WEATHER CONTROL. PER THIS LETTER: (1) HURRICANE BETSY WAS GUIDED TO FLORIDA, (2 MONTHS LATER) (2) LIGHTNING HIT MOON ROCKET PAD, CAPE KENNEDY (APPROX. 1 MONTH LATER) LIGHTNING HIT GEMINI 5 CONTROLS, CAPE KENNEDY - STOPPING THE SHOT (APPROX. 6 WEEKS LATER) (3) I GUIDED "BETSY" TO THE MICHOUD SATURN SPACE COMPLEX (NASA), OUTSIDE NEW ORLEANS (APPROX. 2 MONTHS LATER) ADDED LTR. "B" * (4) STOPPED BETSY FROM BRINGING BILLIONS GALLONS WATER N.E. THIS IS JUST ONE LETTER FROM MY FILE WHICH BULGES WITH LIKE PROOF OF OTHER SUCCESSFUL WORK IN THIS FIELD. THE MOST AMAZING DISCOVERY, (NEW SOURCES OF POWER) TO BE MADE IN HUNDREDS OF YEARS!! YET... NO ONE WILL LISTEN. INCREDIBLE! PK MAN (TED OWENS) 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 54 of 246 Lorne & Rick - WHAT MAKES UP DAD - GOOD AND BAD - (✓ = ORDINARY SKILLS FOR BREAD JOBS.) PROFESSIONAL AND EXPERT SKILLS AND ABILITIES OF TED OWENS (BOGA) RAINMAKER (WEATHER CONTROL) Writer Lecturer Rice Univ. stage. Master of Ceremonies Personnel Manager ✓ Jazz Combo Leader Jazz Drummer Dance Choreographer (Arthur Murray Instructor; Stripper Instructor) Magician Court Reporter Ventriloquist Hypnotist Parapsychologist Hand Writing Analyst Bodyguard Pool and Snooker Hustler Boxer; BOXING INSTRUCTOR Portrait Photographer Oil Painting Artist Private Investigator ✓ Idea Man (Advertising, etc.) ✓ Quality Control Inspector, Steel Mill (C.F.I.) ✓ Sales, Closing Specialist ✓ (SWIMMING POOLS, HYPNOSIS, ARTHUR MURRAY LESSONS, JEWELRY, BIBLES, ETC.) Office Manager ✓ Sales Manager ✓ Fortune Teller Party Entertainer Teacher of Autosuggestion (Autoconditioning, autohypnosis) Teacher of Memory Improvement Techniques Teacher of Knife Throwing Techniques Greatest knife thrower in the world. Design, manufacture and sale of precious jewelry. Spanish, speak Semi-pro basketball player; coach of team. Medical Secretary ✓ Legal Secretary ✓ Psychiatric Secretary ✓ (Teacher) Boys' Military School CAPTAIN Treasure Hunter Ships Entertainer + YAWARA EXPERT + LOCKSMITH ASSISTANT (5 sessions) + SHORT ORDER COOK LIFE GUARD SWIMMING INSTRUCTOR === Page 55 of 246 Lorne & Rick THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, AUGUST 22, # AMATEUR EFFORTS BENEFIT SCIENCE Many Important Discoveries Made in Spare Time WASHINGTON--A janitor, a physician, a Roman Catholic monk, a Unitarian minister, two musicians, and an architect swell the ranks of amateur scientists. The janitor, Anton van Leeuwenhoek, swept out the city hall of Delft in the 17th century, the National Geographic Society says. Townspeople thought he was a little daft because he ground chunks of glass into lenses. They were sure he was crazy when he told them he had looked through one of his lenses into a drop of water, and had seen hundreds of small creatures scurrying about. But Britain's Royal Society was more attentive: Leeuwenhoek had discovered germs. Amateurs have made important discoveries in every field of science. Knowledge of dinosaurs was given to the world by an English country doctor, Gideon Mantell, who liked to pick up fossils; the principles of heredity by an Austrian abbot, Gregor Mendel; oxygen by an English Unitarian theologian, Joseph Priestley, and the Kodachrome color photography process by two American musicians, Lee Godowsky and Leopold Mannes, who experimented in hotel rooms while on tour. Even today, a time of tremendous advances in professional science, the amateur appears in no danger of extinction. There are so many thousands of amateur rocket scientists at work that the American Rocket Society issued a booklet warning them of the risks they run. Only a few years ago an English architect, Michael Ventris, solved a puzzle that had long tormented archeologists -- the decipherment of an ancient language of Crete and Greece known as Minoan Linear B. In the United States, another amateur archeologist, a onetime dishwasher, discovered the remains of Thoreau's cabin at Walden Pond. Other sparetime archeologists were the first to investigate Russell Cave, an Alabama cavern inhabited 9,000 years ago. Two teen-age radio hams astounded the scientific community in 1960 by transmitting signals to each other with radio waves bounced off a satellite. A quarter of a century earlier another ham, Grote Reber of Wheaton, Ill., used his own time and money to build the world's first radio-telescope in his back yard. Horst Gerstenkorn, an amateur astronomer, made computations tracing the position of the moon backward in history and suggested, in 1954, that the moon was a small planet captured long ago by the earth's gravitational field. His work was praised in Science, the organ of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The writer expressed amazement that at a time when billions of dollars and rubles are being spent on government moon programs, "a high school teacher having no other assets than his interest and his free time" could still make a contribution. Some observers believe that breakthroughs in each field of science will often come from amateurs. The amateur lacks the professional's training laboratories, staff, and prestige, but he is free to follow his own interests and imagination; he does not have to worry about getting quick results or losing status in the "publish or perish" world. His very ignorance may help sometimes. The German psychiatrist Hans Berger discovered brain waves because, unlike the experts, he didn't know they were regarded as an impossibility. An amateur can still find plenty to do. Take entomology: The world may support 2,000,000 to 10,000,000 insect species. The professionals have hardly begun to catalogue them, let alone record their habits. An amateur can go to work today in his own backyard. === Page 56 of 246 PK Man - "The Rain Maker" ↓ The Saturday Sermon A Fool There Was By DR. FREDERICK BROWN HARRIS Chaplain, United States Senate Washington--FOOL is a barbed word. When hurled it usually carries a stigma. A fool is supposed to be one unbalanced, unable to render a reasonable judgment. A fool is one who plunges ahead with no regard for consequences, who scorns safety first and who refuses to conform. The old adage declares-- "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." "The greatest fool," says Shaftesbury, "is one who thinks he knows with certainty that which he has least studied and of which he is most profoundly ignorant." A foolscap on dunces relegated to a corner in the school of life is a fit insignia. But history makes clear that across the centuries a foolscap often has been put on the wrong head. FOOL is often the label pasted on a wise man by those about him who are ignorant and timid. Those that one generation has pilloried as fools have more than once turned out to be the wisest of their day and the benefactors of all humanity. It is literally true that the world has moved forward on the legs of the alleged fools! Socrates was a laughing stock on the streets of Athens because he refused all sensible advice. He was such a fool that he finally drank the hemlock. Cato was held up to ridicule in Rome because the venal citizens of that great capital called him a fool for refusing bribes. When George Stephenson proposed to draw a train of cars by steam at the rate of 14 miles an hour he was regarded as a fit candidate for the madhouse. When Robert Fulton--in whose honor a memorial stamp has been issued in this year 1965--announced his intention to navigate the Hudson River on a steamboat, his idea was ridiculed by men of sense and science as "the silliest that ever entered a silly brain." When William Carey, father of the modern missionary movement, set about sending a group of missionaries to India he was publicly denounced in the House of Commons and his plan was referred to as "the project of a lunatic." Because he "risked the thing" Charles A. Lindbergh, who disappeared over the ocean in a little plane, now a museum magnet for thousands, was dubbed a "flying fool." When he saw a fleet of fishing boats he records, "I flew down, almost touching the craft, and yelled at them asking if I was on the right road to Ireland. They just stared! Maybe they thought I was a crazy fool. An hour later I saw land." Over our 49th state, Alaska, is today a bright rainbow of promise as its marvelous resources are developed. But the statesman who saw its potential greatness and secured it for a song, was on all sides called a fool and the whole transaction was labeled "Seward's folly!" What a volume could be written entitled--Posterity's Appraisal of Men Whom Their Own Age Called Fools! When we thrill, gratefully, at the surgical miracles of today performed in the hospitals of every city, we cannot forget the doctors willing to be called fools even as was Pasteur by the medical lights of his day. When the first abdominal operation in the history of surgery was performed by a country doctor down in Kentucky, a frenzied mob patrolled the house for two hours ready to lynch the "fool doctor" if the patient died. But with a nerve that failed not, and a hand that did not falter, he went ahead. The life of the woman involved was saved. A Poet's Words Today medical science pays its high tribute to the man who dared the fury of a mob to blaze a new path in surgery. All the valiant men marching ahead of their time who by their contemporaries were decked with foolscaps! A poet listening not to the harsh billingsgate of the day, but hearing the appraisal of the long years, wrote-- Give us now and then a man And life will crown him king; Just to take the consequence Just to risk the thing. Paul Suffered, Too Long centuries ago, Paul, the Apostle, who had suffered all things and had been called almost every vile name, declared he was willing to go even farther. He said he was willing to be called a fool for the sake of the Christ he served. There are those today in this time of destiny who, God forgive them for their ignorance when the truth is so easily available, call certain God-inspired leaders, who in the free world are defying the colossal forces of atheistic communism, fools. But, standing for spiritual verities, and freedom, they are God's fools. Those who sense the real issues of this age on ages telling are crying out in anguish of soul--"Wanted, more fools with unquenchable faith in the precious things we hold nearest our hearts." The world today calls loudly for "fools for Christ's sake" which means--for humanity everywhere threatened by those who have already advanced over half the earth with shackles of slavery. My soul lift up thine eyes; Oh child, in this world's school Wilt thou be counted wise, Or just a fool? === Page 57 of 246 MONDAY SEPT. 13, 1965 DEAR LORNIE AND RICK,.. AT THIS POINT I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT TO GO OVER WITH YOU, MY CHILDREN, MY INTENT AND PURPOSE. AS YOU WELL KNOW, WHEN I DISCOVERED THAT I HAD SOMEHOW OBTAINED A POWER AND ABILITY... NOT KNOWN OTHERWISE TO MANKIND... I DETERMINED TO USE THIS POWER AND ABILITY (WHICH WE CALLED "PK") FOR THE CONSTRUCTIVE GOOD OF THE UNITED STATES, AND THEN THE COMPLETE WORLD PICTURE. ... BUT THE U.S. GOVERNMENT WOULD NOT ACCEPT MY WORK... SO I DETERMINED TO PROVE MY POWER AND ABILITY TO THE U.S. THE ONLY WAY POSSIBLE... BY DEMONSTRATIONS OF MY SYSTEM, FIRST PREDICTING WHAT WAS TO COME, TO VARIOUS GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, SO THAT WHEN IT HAPPENED THEY WOULD KNOW THAT IT WAS NO ACCIDENT. FOR OVER A YEAR I HAVE HARASSED THE GOVT. AND THE MILITARY, WITH THIS "PK" SYSTEM. IT HAS COST LIVES, AND FIVE TO TEN BILLION DOLLARS, IN DAMAGE. ("BETSY" ALONE HAS CAUSED ONE BILLION IN DAMAGE.) BUT THIS IS ONLY A FLY-SPECK IN TIME. ONCE MY SYSTEM IS ACCEPTED AND USED, IN COUNTLESS WAYS (TO DIVERT HURRICANES, TORNADOS, TYPHOONS... TO BRING PEACE, WHERE THERE IS WAR, ETC.) COUNTLESS LIVES WILL BE SAVED. IT IS A CASE OF THE PATIENT TAKING A LITTLE PAIN IN ORDER TO SURVIVE. IT IS A CASE OF LOSING A LITTLE, TO GAIN A LOT. AND MANY LIVES WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN LOST, IF 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 58 of 246 2) PRESIDENT JOHNSON AND THE GOVT. HAD HEEDED MY PLEAS TO LISTEN, AT THIS MOMENT I COULD BE ENDING THE TERRIBLE DROUGHT IN FLORIDA... ENDING THE TERRIBLE EAST COAST DROUGHT... HELPING CHINA'S DESPERATE DROUGHT PROBLEM... STOPPING THE VIET NAM WAR... STOPPING THE PAKISTAN-INDIA WAR... PREPARING TO DEFEAT OTHER HURRICANES COMING UP, AWAY FROM THE U.S., AND SO ON. BUT UNTIL OUR GOVT., WITH ITS FOOLISH FALSE PRIDE, LISTENS AND ACCEPTS, I AM HELPLESS TO UTILIZE THE GREATEST POWER IN EXISTENCE... THE GREATEST POWER HERETOFORE KNOWN TO MANKIND... IN BEHALF OF THAT SAME GOVT. AND MANKIND. I HAVE OFFERED, TO PRESIDENT JOHNSON, WITHOUT A FEE, TO END THE N. EAST COAST DROUGHT. HE DIDN'T EVEN GIVE ME THE COURTESY OF A REPLY. SO YOU SEE WHAT I, AND MY SP'S HELPERS, ARE UP AGAINST. OUR CIVILIZATION CANNOT SURVIVE WITHOUT THE AID OF THE SP'S. AND OUR GOVT., OF THE UNITED STATES, IS BLOCKING THE SP'S FROM SAVING CIVILIZATION. AND TIME IS RUNNING OUT. THIS IS THE TRUE PICTURE... AND WHY YOUR DAD IS STILL HITTING GEMINI-5 AND GUIDING HURRICANES. Love, Dad (PKMan) 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 59 of 246 Wednesday May 4, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: The Si's have waited for some reaction from U.S. Government. Since none has been forthcoming, they will strike with a series of catastrophes to the U.S. Government...in the near future, "dead ahead." In my previous warnings re the above...I have yet to be wrong. P K Man (Owens) Kids - Where are you? === Page 60 of 246 Wednesday May 4 1966 Dear Lornie and Rick I hope you have been well, and things at school are going fine. Just sent you some snapshots...hope you like them. Please convey my deep regrets to Pat, for the loss of Mary. I liked Mary, always did. She was a loss to the family, I know. And her children will miss her very much. Martha hasn't been touched by the virus, but baby and I have really been clobbered. There's a whopping epidemic of it right now in Philadelphia...and it has all started just since the "fireball" appeared over Philadelphia several weeks ago (I sent you a clipping.) I have a vague theory...that perhaps the nearness of a large Si craft might cause humans within their radius to be affected by what humans call "flu" or "virus." Clyde Beatty Circus is coming to town this week...and we are going to see the old gang that we worked with last year. Ain't that a laugh? Stuck here in Philly a whole year? We are going to the circus Sunday, spend the whole day, and take pictures. I'll send you some. We get no mail. Spelled with a capitol NO. Can't figure it out. Have literally hundreds of leads and contacts out...yet our mailbox remains empty, week by week. Had a dream about you kids...dreamed I came home from work, went into the kitchen, and there you kids sat with the baby, just looking at me silently. Somehow I didn't feel that you had been gone, or anything was different...I kissed Martha hello and asked what was for supper...and she said, "Ted, look, Lornie and Rick are here." Got to ring off for now. Get back to work Love and kisses.......... Dad === Page 61 of 246 Sunday April 10, '66 Dear Lonnie -- Well, how'd you & Rick like my PK work (w/ Sis's) at the Cape last two weeks? Stopped seven launchings in 10 days; blew up a Polaris missile (after it went wild, from Cape Control); and destroyed Atlas-Centaur. To top it off -- have the O.A.O. in deep trouble today. (Remember OGO, while we were at Myrtle Beach, & how we got it?) Do you want these pictures you sent returned, honey? They are cute. Julio is a fine looking boy. Only faults I can "read" from his picture are he might be spoiled, and have a fast temper. Good points easily seen -- high IQ; athletic; superior intelligence; creative genius; warmth of personality; handsome; thoughtful; would be a good debater; leader of various things like clubs or classes, etc. Also quite a young philosopher, I'd say. But from his mouth -- looks like he might fold up under strong stress or strain. If you're deeply interested in Julio, don't try to figure him out. Study his parents. What they believe what they are like, will have stamped deep into Julio and reflect their training of him. They are mostly what Julio will be like. Horse experts at race tracks do not learn too much about a horse itself. They study the horses that horse came from -- and that way they learn a lot, and bet accordingly. There are always exceptions to the rule, of course -- but that's the smartest way to proceed, and they know it. Same with humans. 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 62 of 246 2) Lorrie - get & read "Ideal Marriage" by Van de Veld. Never underestimate the importance of sex in marriage. If you have a husband who is a "big brain" & good looking, but a lousy lover in bed - your marriage will be poor. Or, if he's great in bed, but has a lousy character & disposition - you haven't got much, either. Point is... get a man with a loveable, good character & disposition, who also is a dandy lover in bed. This is important. Marriage should not be like buying a box of crackerjack, and after you've bought it & opened it - you don't like the prize inside. I am not for free love - but I do believe it is smarter to try out a boy you might marry to find out if you can "stomach" him sexually. Better than not doing it, then finding him repulsive sexually after you marry him - & either divorcing him or cheating on him. The Bentley's would not approve of the above, but from my rather vast experience & research - I pass the info along because I consider it wise and valuable. Study birth control methods. Do not be promiscuous! The above applies only when you are seriously considering getting married. (Let Rick read this letter.) Martha & I celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary this week. Our marriage thrives healthily, in spite of some basic weaknesses in it. I gave her an expensive Sony radio. Remember, honey - you can't learn how to love, be honest, be faithful and loyal - in school or college. This you do on your own time. So, work at it. Love & Kisses -- Dad. P.S. They just announced total failure of the O.A.O.! We got it!! 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 63 of 246 May 27, 1966. Dear Lonnie, How are you? We are just fine. I hope you are fine. I received the cards & the candy. Thank you very much for the beautiful Mother's Day card & the candy. The candy was very delicious. Beau helped me eat it. Yes, I know about Julia & you two make a cute couple. The picture you sent to us was very good. You both make a handsome couple. He is a nice looking boy. You look very grown up in the picture & a lot older about 18 or 19 years old. My you are really growing fast. Pretty soon you will be taller than Dan (ha ha). Beau had an ear infection about 3 weeks ago. He had a fever. I took him to the doctor & I had to give him medicine & nose drops four times a day. He had a temperature of 102. He is just fine now. I had a very nice Mother's Day. Beau gave me a very pretty card & we went to the circus. Beau had a ball. We went on lots of rides & we saw the side show, we didn't go to the big tent on Mother's Day. We went back the following Sat. to the big tent. Beau had big eyes looking at everything. He was so excited & trying to === Page 64 of 246 remembered us. In there being the show, the circus was here. Mary's still the best at it. Kept wanting to ride on the bus to the circus. He just loves the circus. He is beginning to say sentences now. He loves to watch Batman. He can't say the Bat in Batman so he says, "manman." He gets all excited when he comes on T.V. Was so sorry to hear about your Aunt Mary dying. It was a shock to us. We have a singing canary. It sings very pretty. I named it Twitti, it is yellow and very pretty. It doesn't sing too much now because it's molting. I'm losing feathers sometimes. Sorry to hear that you're not doing too well in school. Have you had your exams? Hope you did pass. When is school out? Hope you get surf princess. Good luck to you. Write and let me know if you get it. Have they already voted or not? The weather is very nice here. It is really hot today. It has been raining a lot here, the weather just got nice and hot here recently. Before it was cold and raining here. I got an electric mixer for Mother's Day. It is real nice. I am so happy to have it. Well, I guess I will close for now. Love, Momma, Beau & Dad (XO XO XO) P.S. I took Beau to an Armed Forces Parade last Sat. It was the first parade he had ever been to. He waved at the soldiers as they went by. He was so excited. __________ === Page 65 of 246 Saturday April 30, 1966 President Lyndon Johnson. Dear Sir: I wrote you, not long ago, and told you that the 5-year drought would be ended in the weeks and months ahead, by the UFO intelligences with which I communicate. Since writing you, you have seen a remarkable display of rain... and the Si's (UFO "saucer" intelligences) made your own State a showcase, to prove their point. At this writing, Dallas and some other cities in Texas are now disaster areas...a very familiar term, what? At any rate, the entire half of the United States (East) is under rain today. Certainly you could not call the weather this Spring...typical Spring weather, or typical Spring showers. You are seeing a remarkable display of Si power...and to bring it about they had to make many many adjustments in many many places, in order to pinpoint our area with rain. I could have brought this about a year or more ago, but could get no cooperation from anyone. So the Si's will make the U.S. a present of the rain, to end the years-long drought and end all of the bad things attendant upon drought conditions. Of course, there will be flooding...for the Si's do not do things half way. P K Man Love, Dad Enclosed are two pictures for you. === Page 66 of 246 SUNDAY MAY 1, 1966 DEFENSE SECRETARY ROBERT MCNAMARA HAS DENIED THE EXISTENCE OF UFO'S - SAYING UFO'S ARE MERELY OPTICAL ILLUSIONS. THIS, IN SPITE OF TREMENDOUS EFFORTS BY THE UFO'S TO PROVE THEIR UTTER REALITY TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE... THEY ARE, IN FACT, IN THE PROCESS OF ENDING THE LONG U.S. DROUGHT. I COMMUNICATE WITH, AND CAN SPEAK FOR, THE UFO INTELLIGENCES. THEREFORE LET IT GO ON RECORD - THAT MCNAMARA WILL HENCEFORTH BE A SPECIAL TARGET FOR UFO (SAUCER INTELLIGENCE) WRATH AND HOSTILITY!! PK MAN (OWENS) === Page 67 of 246 Monday May 19, 1969 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: To that list of top government officials that I sent you this week, you can add another one... Senator William Pomene (Mich.) dropped dead of a heart attack in a hotel fire, May 17. Important reason for writing this letter: Today the Saturn moon ship set-up blew up at the Saturn Complex in Miss. In earlier correspondence, quite a while ago, I told you the "pk" was aimed there... and that the SI's would strike. But... the point is... they struck just after the two big shoots going up at the Cape this coming week. I know the SI's by now, and their pattern... and today's catastrophe with the Saturn moon ship is a harsh warning not to proceed this week at the Cape, unless the U.S. Govt. makes its peace with the SI's first. Thus... the blowing up of the moon rocket was both a carrying out of the SI's earlier threat, on record, that they would now hit NASA in earnest... plus a warning not to proceed this week. P K Man (Owens) === Page 68 of 246 LORNIE - REMEMBER OUR PUPIL WHO COULDN'T RESIST WILD BILLS? The Sunday Bulletin PHILADELPHIA, Sunday, May 29, 1966 AP Wirephoto MASTER'S WINNER -- Frank Stranahan receives master of finance cowl from wife, Ann, at University of Pennsylvania commencement. He quit PGA tour in October, 1964, to study at Wharton School. *note: Frank Stranahan was a golfer who paid expenses and hotel for Dad to hypnotize him. I went with him on the trip. 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 69 of 246 Sat. 5/21 Dear Lornie: Hi, honey, it was good to hear from you. How do you like my (and Si's) score at Cape K? Haven't missed bringing down a rocket in months there. That's because the Si's added some new PK weaponry...most devastatingly effective. This last Agena I got was said to fall into the Atlantic..but a commercial airplane pilot appeared on a TV program and said he and co-pilot were up in the air near the Agena...and it seemed to vanish into a peculiar yellow cloud. Figure that one out. One turtle just died...and last night the goldfish died...and our canary bird, which is a singing fool...has stopped singing. ???? Yes, read about the 16 year old girl, tortured to death. We are having one to two rapes a day here in Philadelphia...some of them on the torture side. Things are getting rough all over...would advise you to watch your step, especially with the coloreds getting ready to blow up in that area against whites. How about that cop shooting the colored husband who was driving his pregnant wife to the hospital? Don't worry about McNamara...the Si's are taking care of him in beautiful shape! He won't last much longer in his present position of power. Martha got her goodies...and you made me very happy by making her very happy. She and baby fought like tigers over the candy...I nearly died laughing. Baby would take one piece, then snatch another with the speed of lightning before Martha could stop him. And she couldn't get it away from him, either. You are definitely not getting my mail. You ask if I had seen the UFO show on NBC. Immediately after the show I wrote George, etc., that the U.S. Government would be severely punished by the Si's for that lousy show....and sent you your usual copy. Which obviously you haven't seen. By now the Si's have clobbered the U.S. Govt. in spades. The Si's, true to their word (see my ltrs.) have been inundating the East Coast with rain to break the drought. Steadily. Love and kisses, Dad === Page 70 of 246 Wednesday May 11, 1966 Rick Dear George: There seems to be no end in sight...for Government stupidity. Last night, over NBC, for an hour UFO's were explained away as anything and everything but UFO's. "Learned" scientists poo-poo'd the idea of UFO's. And so on...for an hour, to millions of American people. Of course, it was quite transparent...the Government is trying to undo the rash of effect of the recent sightings on the people. Good sightings, I might add...solid. However, this was a catastrophic thing for the powers-that-be to do. Why? The UFO's have been trying to prove their reality, and to make friends with us. Last night they were rejected in a big, big way....and actually, the big lie was told to millions of American people about them. For this act, they will retaliate, I am informed. If they do not exist...how can they predict the following, then make it happen? Within the time span of five months they will deal the U.S. Government a smashing blow, probably worse than anything it has experienced these past few years. This will be in payment for that show last night. Simple as that. I do not know what they have in mind. Could be a team of terrible hurricanes sweeping out of the Atlantic onto Florida...could be a terrible disaster in Viet Nam...but will be something on that order, and will be engineered by UFO intelligences. The program was entitled "Friend, Foe, or Fantasy" - and the full hour was spent proving they are fantasy. They will, in the months ahead..show you (U.S. Govt.) what they can be like as a foe. They wanted to be friends. P K Man (Owens) === Page 71 of 246 Wednesday, May 11, 1966 NBC Channel 10 Philadelphia Gentlemen: Last night, in this viewer's opinion, you created a fraud against the American people. It was a terrible thing to do. For a week myself and friends have been waiting for the UFO program... and all the ads said that it would be an "objective" view, giving the "fors" and "againsts". What it was...was a solid hour of explaining that UFO's were marsh-gas, and those who claim to see them are either trying to make money, or are irresponsible, nutty people. I hope enough people rise up in anger, as I did, and as ; my friends did....to register a strong complaint where it counts. IBM, NBC, and Channel 10...should be utterly ashamed of themselves. H. T. Owens 1114 Spruce St., #33 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania === Page 72 of 246 Thursday May 19, 1966 Mr. Dunn, Chief, Weather Bureau, Hurricanes Miami, Florida Dear Mr. Dunn: Last year I deliberately turned Hurricane Betsy around, with the help of the UFO intelligences, so that it would not go up the East Coast and give rain and moisture in the East Coast area. I had written Govt. agencies before, that I would do this. This year, however, the UFO's are engaged in breaking the 5-year drought on the East Coast...and any and all hurricanes will be brought up the East Coast all the way, in order to give moisture to that area. Myself and Si's will endeavor to whip up and guide many hurricanes this season to the "Electro" area of Florida, where Cape K. is located, then bring them on up the Coast to "sprinkle the grass" in a giant way all along the East Coast. Brace yourself, friend...as a Hurricane specialist, you'll have a ball this summer and Fall. P K Man (Owens) 1114 Spruce Philadelphia, Pa. === Page 73 of 246 May 20, 1966 The Si's warn that a man is planning to load a small plane with high-explosives...and send the plane, kamikaze style, into the White House or Johnson's ranch. This man has planned this for a long while - put it off once, but now is getting "worked up" to do it. Of course he'll be killed, but he doesn't care. Believe he's an ex-army flyer...service man, anyway. Si's say by 1967 the White House will have to be ringed with anti-aircraft, just on this account. P K Man === Page 74 of 246 May 18, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: Last night in the paper an article read: "Submerged, Pre-Aimed Missile Reported Developed by Reds." This article pointed out Russia has developed Polaris-type missiles which can be fired by remote control from containers planted under the sea. All of which is exactly what I wrote to you, about a year or so ago. Remember? I told you to count the fishing boats that visited our shores... because when they left, they would be one short... and the one that went down was especially designed to hold a missile... which could be remote-control fired later on. At the present time I am sure this is what Cuba is all about. Yes, there probably are stores of missiles in deep caves... and perhaps a few launching sites for ground-fired missiles... but George, I'll eat my hat if Russia hasn't planted a formidable number of missiles under water at the far edge of Cuba, to be fired at the U.S. when ready. Perhaps even fired from Russia by special radio signal. P K Man (Owens) === Page 75 of 246 DETECTIVE POSTS REWARD 2/19/65 # Beaten Girl Still in a Coma By BRIAN KELLY An Arlington detective has appealed to the public for any information about a television set and a decanter, similar to the ones pictured, taken from the apartment of Brenda Sue Pennington, 19, victim of a brutal beating. Runyon said some 135 persons have been questioned by himself and other Arlington detectives working on the case, but no major leads have been developed. He asked anyone with information regarding the assault to call the Arlington police station at JA 7-2900 and talk to himself, Detective Willard C. Knight, Detective Sgt. George Coppage or Lt. John E. Cullins. Runyon said that Miss Pennington apparently was last seen about 11 a.m. the day before she was found. He said neighbors saw her leave her apartment that Sunday morning with an unidentified man, described as tall, heavy-set with blond, and get into a car with him. She was found about 8 a.m. the next Monday morning, lying on the floor of her bedroom next to the telephone. Runyon said he was offering the personal reward money because he felt it was important for residents to feel safe. # Girl in Coma Since Beating Is Moved 3/2/65 Brenda Sue Pennington, 19, an Arlington career girl who has remained unconscious since she was brutally beaten in her apartment two months ago, has been transferred to a West Virginia hospital near her home of Quinnwood. Officials at Greenbrier Valley Hospital in Ronceverte, W.Va., said today Miss Pennington was resting satisfactorily after the transfer Saturday from Arlington Hospital. During her stay at Arlington Hospital, she hovered in critical or near-critical condition for weeks. Miss Pennington was found unconscious in her one-bedroom apartment the morning of Jan. 25. A portable television set, a heavy brass decanter and her purse were missing from the apartment. Meanwhile, a reward fund started by an Arlington detective investigating the case has grown to $300. Detective Russell L. Runyon started the fund with a personal pledge of $300 for information leading to conviction of the assailant. MONTH LATER!! (3/29) SHE LIVED!! WAS TAKEN HOME. I STARTED ON THIS CASE HERE # Beaten Girl in Coma; Condition Is Critical 2/25 Brenda Sue Pennington, the Arlington girl who was the victim of a vicious beating last month, underwent surgery Thursday to relieve pressure on her brain and remained in critical condition yesterday Meanwhile, several Northern Virginians, have begun raising contributions to help pay for Miss Pennington's mounting medical expenses. A fund for the family has been established at the Fidelity National Bank in Arlington. Miss Pennington, 19, was found unconscious in her apartment Jan. 25. Police said she was clubbed on the head a number of times with an unknown instrument. For a few days, she reached semi-consciousness, but her parents, who came from their home in West Virginia, have not been able to communicate with her. Robert M. Cooper, of 407 Park Ave., McLean, announced the drive for contributions yesterday. Although he did not know the Pennington family until the tragedy occurred, he has spoken to the parents and has joined with others to help them, he said. Cooper, who is an electrical inspector for Arlington County, said the nursing fees alone cost the family $330 every five days. Contributors may mail checks, payable to Fidelity National Bank, at 2009 N. 14th St., Arlington. Frank Embrey, bank president, said the checks should be accompanied by a note indicating the money is for Brenda Sue Pennington Fund. # Fund Started for Victim of Beating 2/15 Miss Pennington, a business machine operator, is still in critical condition at Arlington Hospital. Last week she underwent brain surgery, an operation that piled even more expenses on bills that exceed $30 daily. Her assailant is still at large. I SAW THESE TWO CLIPS IN PAPER. THE "INTELLIGENCE" TOL ME TO CALL. I DID. POLICE, FAMILY & HOSPITAL (DOCTORS, ETC) OK'D TRYING MY "PK", BECAUSE SHE WAS DYING IN SPITE OF THEIR EFFORTS. === Page 76 of 246 SUNDAY FEB. 14 ① " 21 ② " 28 ③ Feb. 14, 1965 Dear Mr. and Mrs. Pennington: My daughter and I were very happy to meet you on Sunday, Mr. Pennington... and my daughter expressed regret that she could not meet Mrs. Pennington at the hospital. It might amuse you, Mr. Pennington, that Lorrie, my daughter, described you as a "great big bear of a man, with real kind, gentle eyes... good eyes." We also appreciated the cooperation of yourselves, the police, and the medical staff in allowing us to enter your daughter's room and use our system in an effort to bring life into your daughter. I thought you might be interested in a few facts pertaining to our System: So far as we know it is not used at any location in the world today, except by ourselves, here in Washington. Our System was used, long ago, during the days of Moses and the Egyptians. It usually takes two to five days to take effect... full effect. Therefore, somewhere between Sunday and Friday, we anticipate that your daughter will open her eyes, and begin to progress, into full health, eventually. And, due to our System, her recovery will be much, much more rapid than under normal circumstances. As a matter of fact, her rate of recovery should be amazing. Our only hope is that we were not called in too late... allowed to come in too late. This factor is very difficult to ascertain. Just how near, or far away, from the line of Life and Death, she may be at the time. However, I used this System on a girl in Texas, near death, and unconscious... and saved her with it. Her father and brother carried her up to my apartment in Fort Worth, deep in a coma. She is alive and happy today. Once we make our initial effort on the scene... in your daughter's room... then we can continue from a distance, with your daughter seen in our mind's eye. And that is what we are doing now, night and day. We work in shifts on it. We would greatly appreciate your letting us know of her progress... how she is... now and then... so that we can gauge our work accordingly. And if we win this battle with death... and your daughter arises, happy and healthy... it is our hope that we may be allowed to visit her at the hospital and say hello to her. Of course, I must add, it is not my daughter and myself who are doing these marvelous things with PK (the name of the System) but it is Nature itself. (The same Nature that puts life into new babies, can put life into your daughter and keep it there.) Sincerely, Tod Owens (PK Man) 1216 Peabody Street, NW Washington, D. C. Phone: RA 30365 Wrote this after Lorrie and I went to hospital. === Page 77 of 246 It has been a year today since they found her, and I don't guess they are any nearer solving the case than they were then. The Millers are fine and said give you their best regards. Wishing you folks the best in everything, we remain your friends. Thank you for writing us. Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Pennington East Rainelle W. Va. === Page 78 of 246 Lornie thought you'd like to see this letter from Brenda Sue's mother. Jan 25 - 66 Mr. Jack Owens Dear Mr. Owens Just a few lines to let you know about Brenda Sue. We have talked & wondered about you folks a lot. It seemed I just never got around to writing. Family are fine. Brenda has improved a lot although she doesn't walk talk or feed her self. But the Dr. said if she continued to improve he would put her in braces in May she seems to know every thing you say to her but just can't answer you she does do every thing she can when you tell her to so we are still hoping & praying for the best. I want to thank you & your daughter again for what you did. We have had Brenda home since the 7th of May === Page 79 of 246 2 from a flying saucer, and wanted to offer proof. He gave the fisherman a piece of metal which he said was not of this earth. Brazilian scientists are now examining the metal. This came over a radio news broadcast. Today there was nothing in the papers. I got 'em all -- even N.Y. papers. Which shows you how the U.S. Govt. controls our so-called "freedom of the press!" And how quickly they shut up, and drop an "iron curtain" around anyone or anything connected with UFO's. Why, I wonder? Be careful there, you & Rick both. These race riots are deadly -- and remember, you are in "Electra." Sure, I have protection over you -- but you wouldn't jump off a high building to test it, would you. Don't tempt Fate! Your school subjects sound interesting. You'll do better in French than I did -- I flunked it. Algebra? $2+2=5$. That's my math. Fortunately, honey, you & Rick have academic brains you're pappy ain't got. Do sumpin' with those brains! Hm?? Love, Dad. === Page 80 of 246 Monday, Aug. 16, 1965 Dear Lorrie -- Thanks for your letter. Yes, things have been popping. Cyclical. They fade, then get bigger -- fade, then get even bigger, etc. Have you gotten my letters -- stuffed with copies of letters to George, Pres. Johnson, etc.? You know what? After I called shot after shot after shot here -- even convincing the hard-boiled newspapers veteran reporter, then prep'd a storm for "The Talk of Philadelphia" show (once a week show with current important personality in Philly on it, interviewed) -- and nearly wrecked Philly with the storm (scores of lightning hits, floods, etc -- you saw the news clips?) -- suddenly, snap! like that an iron curtain came down. Must be Air Force pressure of some kind, since UFO's are in it. The orange glow was a UFO, you can bet on it. Tell them about the beauty that was close to our car in the field, that night in Texas. And the window-tape and the green eyes -- at 310 Hemphill. And the doctor who hypnotized & sent his mind to contact UFO's. My contact with the Si's couldn't get any better, honey. With the system they've given me I can "see" them and communicate with them, and they with me -- directly. In seconds. Only thing remaining is to get to a far-away isolated spot, where they will come down and meet me. Last night, Sunday a news report came over the radio. In Brazil, Sunday, a tiny man 28 inches high walked up to a fisherman's hut and said, in English(?) he was === Page 81 of 246 Thursday June 23, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: The Si's at this time would like me to list the various PK activities they are engaged in, as well as the predictions they have made for what's ahead: "Electro" - the area from Jacksonville, Fla., to Miami, Fla., is heavily PK'd, as you know...has been for two years...and it's growing all the time, the PK. "Electra" - the California coast from Frisco to Dago, PK'd. Plane-Ship-Sub PK - been on for over a year, still growing, attacks these three categories constantly in ever-increasing cyclical intensity. Breaking The Drought - Si's are systematically regulating U.S. weather now to bring to an end the 5-year drought here and once again fill the rivers, streams, wells, lakes, with fresh water for us. Air Force - Si's are presently teaching the Air Force a lesson...that they can rebut in their own way their "marsh gas" tag; they have gone to great effort and trouble to prove their reality, only to have the Air Force block their efforts from the American people. So they are going to teach the Air Force not to do this thing. NASA - Si's are harassing all NASA's efforts in space work, in every possible way, with PK effects. Top U.S. Govt. Officials - PK'd. Prediction - A U.S. naval disaster by Sept., 1966. Nuclear sub, aircraft carrier, etc. Not just a collision, but a disaster of some sort. Prediction - Unless U.S. removes troops and personnel from Viet Nam, U.S. will suffer its worst defeat in its entire history there, from an unexpected twist that will take place. Could be a massacre of Americans. Hurricane PK - is out and working, to develop hurricanes for '66 and bring them either to Cape Kennedy or Mississippi Michoud Saturn Space Complex...then on up East Coast for needed rain. 07/09/2025 16:13 === Page 82 of 246 2 Prediction - There is great danger for the U.S. now...of nuclear war... through January, 1967. That is, the danger is especially keen right now, more so than usual, due to activities the U.S. is not aware of. The Si's plan to do something very unusual...make an appearance and do something no UFO has done before, in the near future, to prove their reality to the U.S. Govt., and their connection with P K Man. Castro and Cuba - have been PK'd since 1964. Si's are PK'ing bodies of water...seas, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc... to reject humans and attack humans in many ways (as never done before) in order to further demonstrate their PK powers. Si's warn...if U.S. peoples keep shooting at their craft, and trying to attack their craft, they will reluctantly have to retaliate in kind. They have been trying hard to avoid anything like this. Si's warn us...watch carefully our 3 coasts...Atlantic, Pacific, Gulf, for great danger threatens the U.S. from the water on these coasts. Si's warned U.S. to cancel present Fleet exercise in Atlantic and Carribean called "Beach Time" because of heavy concentration of PK in these areas, etc. Si's warn that a man somewhere is planning a kamikaze-style small plane crash, loaded with explosives, into the White House or Johnson's Ranch House...and that because of this the White House and Capitol will have to be ringed with anti-aircraft by '67. "Earth Belt" PK - PK used by Si's in area above earth to affect objects in orbit around earth. Russian Earthquakes - PK has been out on this for over a year. Vehicle PK - Autos, trains, planes, busses, etc., will be affected. Klu Klux Klan PK - Hit by PK over a year ago. Johnson Administration Re-election PK - Si's will work against the present Administration, which has rejected them and failed to cooperate with them. "OGO" PK'd...now up. Titan w/8 satellites PK'd...now up. 07/09/2025 16:13 === Page 83 of 246 3 Philadelphia PK'd for Lightning and Savage Storms and Rain, in the near future. Electrical potential to be built up here. WCAU PK Demonstration - Friendly Si demonstration for the benefit of their radio station friends. Jack McKinney PK - Not a "hit", but some unusual demonstration solely for the amusement and education of Jack McKinney re the Si's. A large-scale blow will be dealt by the Si's to the U.S. Govt. because of the nation-wide CBS hour-long TV UFO spoof, not long ago, "Friends, Foes, or Fantasy." This will happen by October 15, 1966. McNamara PK - The Si's have made McNamara a special PK target of theirs, for stating that there is absolutely nothing to the Si's ... to the American people via newspapers, etc. (If there is nothing to the UFO's, then McNamara has nothing to worry about, has he.) Johnson and White House PK'd - some time ago, and since then many odd things have happened there. Moyers fell down stairs, Him run over, etc. Stock Market PK'd. Prediction - Si's now have something much bigger and more important for P K Man to perform, than what he's been doing in the past. (?) Si's warn that the phrase "Black Power" is a sort of magical phrase which will now truly whip the negros into a frenzy - and Stokely Carmichael is the magician who can make that phrase work to its utmost extent in time to come. Si's warn they may put ideas for weapons and unknown tools of Nature into the minds of peoples elsewhere in the world, other than the U.S., who will then humble our country with them...unless our Govt. cooperates with Si's. Si's warn...they intend to deal our seat of Government, The White House, or Capitol Hill, a serious blow of some kind by Sept., 1966, - - - - - - - - - - I think that's the entire list...oh, they are PK'ing for a major earthquake in California some time this year, around 8 on the Richter Scale. All this...to show their various powers to our people...and try to persuade our Government to join them as friends, and cooperate with them They are using pressure on our Govt., just as U.S. is pressuring Hanoi. PK Man - Paul 07/09/2025 16:13 === Page 84 of 246 Thursday June 23, 1966 Dear Lornie: Daddy thinks your birthday card is wonderful, honey...that's a very cute colored picture...and the artwork inside is very ingenious, also, along with your message. Thank you very much, Lornie. Of course...what else is a dollar for but an ice-cream party? So I am following your instructions, and the three of us will have one of these famous "Owens Cross-Country Ice Cream Binges" on you. Wasn't that funny...? All of us, poised and ready with our portable spoons...huddled all around in the car...with the ½ gallon of ice cream in the middle. Then I'd say go, and everybody went. Ha ha! Messy, messy, messy..... Hope your grades are okay, Lornie. And that you are enjoying your school. The Phila. schools are dangerous...full of drugs, dope addicts, prostitution (they've broken up several rings where the high school boys were selling the girls, here) and like that. So.....you are much better off in that school than you would be here. But we ain't going to be here long. We are GOING just as soon as .... we can bankroll the Leaving Philly Project. We are going to a beautiful, scenic, wooded place somewhere...where we can go fishing and camping on weekends, and things like that. Where's there's lakes and rivers, etc. Phooey on big cities. Phooey. Be good, and mind Pat, Lornie. Remember...mama knows best. And that's for **sure**. Don't get too big for your britches. Love and kisses, Daddy XXXXXXXXXX === Page 85 of 246 Friday May 27, 1966 Mr. Eastwood, Inventions' NASA Dear Mr. Eastwood: I have a message for Nasa from the Si's (saucer intelligences). Evidently, they say, Nasa hasn't yet learned its lesson, incredibly. So here is what the Si's are going to do: (1) The Surveyor rocket, going up Monday...they are going to try and destroy, going off the ground...if it gets up, they are going to try to force it off its path so that it does not even reach or hit the moon. (2) The Gemini 9 shot ... they'll harass as usual, trying to keep from harming the men, as usual. However, they warn at this time: Ahead, on some manned shot, they are going to turn off all the power in the manned vehicle, and block all communications to and from the ground, leaving the vehicle helpless. Also they will show themselves to the men in the vehicle. Then, when all seems lost...they will give the power and communications back to the manned vehicle, so that it can come down. === Page 86 of 246 Friday June 10, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: PLEASE READ THIS LETTER THROUGH. IT IS OF THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE. Six weeks ago I began my usual hurricane work...that I have been so successful with since starting it in 1964. The Si's showed me how to plant "P K seeds" down past Cuba, which would develop into hurricanes. (The U.S. Govt. could use this for peaceful purposes, yes?) Anyway...on June 1 I wrote you a letter. Following is the last paragraph of that letter: "Might mention before closing...I expect a hurricane (an early one) in the near future, out of the Florida direction." 5 days later Hurricane Alma, the earliest hurricane in history to hit Florida, was born. Can the U.S. Govt. possibly, possibly, still doubt that I communicate with the Si's? Or that I can make and guide hurricanes? I was working for a record-breaking early hurricane, and got it. I tried to do this last year, but didn't make a full-fledged hurricane... did hit Miami with a "storm of hurricane wind"...but they didn't call it a hurricane then. At any rate, this year I succeeded. And in that June 1 letter the other information was quite quite accurate...keeping in mind the loss of the half-billion dollars Air Force plane this week, plus the loss of the other important plane, and the loss of one of the best Air Force pilots in the world, plus the loss of Major Cross, another Air Force pilot. Anyway, George, the ability I have, nobody else in the world has. Why isn't my Govt. utilizing it? Sincerely, P K Man (Owens) 1114 Spruce, #33 Phila., Pa. === Page 87 of 246 Wednesday, August 24, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank, OSCAR. Dear Rowland: The same old story. I quote my letter to you of August 19, 1966: "I have been neglecting my hurricanes. Will go to work now and try to produce one in the next few days, or few eeks, and this time try and get it to Electro..." Took four days to produce Hurricane Faith, which sprung up August 22 and developed into a real rough cane on the 23rd. But dammit...so far from Electro! Am going to have a hell of a time wrestling it to Electro. In that same letter, I have a sort of an answer to my paragraph about the boa constrictor, monkey, shark, and Asian leopard. These critters are usually found in Asia, not in the U.S. Therefore the Si's, in their "show" language...are trying to tell us something about Asia. Remember how the Si's led the string of police cars to Freedom, Pa.? This is the same sort of "language", I am sure. Anyway, brother Swank, another fine "hit", eh? P K Man (Owens) P.S. Pat - you've got a brave copy. I haven't missed a cane this year! (But am doing poorly in getting them on target.) === Page 88 of 246 Sunday, September 4, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank, C.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: I have been waiting several days for the Si's to contact me...they did today, so I can write at last. First, they want the U.S. to know that, as long as P K Man, their representative, is in trouble...the U.S. is in trouble as a Govt. and as a Nation. Well, I am in trouble...the job went under last week, haven't been able to get another, and we're almost out of food. Therefore this is what will happen...all sorts of catastrophes and crises will hit the U.S. Govt. in the weeks and months ahead. The Si's plan, as told you before, to unleash all forms of "PK" or CDE mechanisms either in multiple patterns, or all at once. This will be something to observe! It hasn't been done before. Fires, plane crashes, floods, tornados, hurricanes, riots, high Govt. or Service men removed...etc, everything you see there in your copy of my Choice File. It will be a tremendous demonstration of their power. Now, I have done poorly with my hurricane work this year. I produced Faith as I said I would, within days...brought Faith in beautifully on target, then dammed if she didn't veer, after coming all the way from Africa, just a few hundred miles from target, and go up the coast. But one thing is very important. Twice I warned Faith she was going to be attacked by seeding planes...and both times she responded like a trained boxer by sidestepping into a safe area for her, thus negating the seeding effort. I have to list Faith as a "miss"...but I cannot understand it. Seems like the Si's did not want to put her into the target. But the Si's wanted to scare the hell out of target, by showing what they could do. After Faith got past the target, I put up a PK wall to stop her, and she stopped, for quite a while. Then she crawled slowly into the PK wall and edged NE. So I worked to turn her NW, or West. She responded by then going NW. But again she went back to the NE route. This cane was determined not to hit land. During the action I called your office almost every day and reported what I was doing so that, fail or succeed, you would know exactly what I was doing. I regret giving such a poor performance, when I did so beautifully in 1964 and 1965. Well, 1966 is not over yet. I told you a couple of weeks ago I would produce another storm after Faith, closer this time to Florida. Today they announced the "Seventh Tropical Storm of the Season... Greta" in the location I was working on, closer to Florida. See where Typhoon Betty ran over the U.S. Base in Korea? Really tore it up. P K Man (Owens) Owens === Page 89 of 246 Sunday, September 4, 1966 TO ALL SOTA MEMBERS The Sota Church, at this particular time, needs a financial transfusion. As President, therefore, I am making a wonderful offer to any member wishing to take advantage of it...and able to do so. At this time I am willing to accept a partner. The cost of the partnership is $3000, with $500 to be sent in advance, as "earnest money," before September 11, 1966. The balance to be paid when my family and I move to that area where the partner lives. My partner will, from that time on, share in the benefits and satisfactions of the Sota Church. It must be pointed out that the partner does not need to do any of the various works necessary to run and build up further this wonderful Church. His, or her, assistance will be purely financial. The $3000 will come back to the partner in a year's time...and he, or she, will still be a partner in one of the greatest Churches-to-be in the United States. This is the opportunity of a lifetime for the lucky person wishing to take advantage of it. Therefore, if you want to be the co-owner of this wonderful Church, send $500 before September 11. Then, after my family and I come to your area to relocate SOTA headquarters, we can complete the partnership. The Si's have instructed me to do this. They want Sota to be out of the Philadelphia area...and this is the best way to move the Sota Church to the right area. H. Owens, President, THE SOTAS 1114 Spruce, No. 33 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania === Page 90 of 246 IN CONCLUSION: I must add this note. Most of you I have been writing to for about two years. And my estimate of you, both high and low people, is that you are either dam fools, or very very dumb scientists...or both. Now that's not nice, to say that. But I think it is accurate, and I am fully qualified to say it. During these past two years I have accomplished impossible things... made absolutely impossible predictions come true...and proved conclusively my connection with UFO's and my two-way communication system with them. Now you cannot possibly think I am just a "contactee" and some kind of nut...because you have more than enough material in your files to prove this is not so. I could cite roughly 100 cases right now...major happenings...that I have predicted in advance, and in most instances with details of what, when, and how. For the Government not to take advantage of this obviously unusual and tremendous ability, therefore, is dam foolishness. In this case, criminal foolishness, for the SI's have been trying to work with our Govt. For the scientists not to take advantage of this, is completely unbelievable...for what I have done, with the SI's, staggers the imagination...and powers and principles have been employed not even known to mankind, except myself. Therefore, I say that the scientists who may have looked at my correspondence, and done nothing, just have to be stupid. Not long ago I gave the Govt. two days warning...before the Reds struck at our warships, and before the Reds put more and better planes into the air. It was a double-prediction that came true within days. Think of the tremendous value I should have to my Govt., who has had two years to think about it and evaluate my work. Yet we remain poor, shabby, live in dangerous surroundings, my family has had to split up, etc etc. Frankly, folks, you don't deserve the brilliant intelligence I've been giving you this long time. Owens 7 === Page 91 of 246 Date: 7/14/66 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: The Si's have decided that (1) The U.S. Govt. is not cooperating with them, and (2) Their representative, P K Man, has not been treated so well. (Was called a "psycho" yesterday on a radio show, over the air; cannot get written confirmation of wonderful predictions of major events made beforehand; cannot get financial help from any source to meet the Si's wishes, etc.) Therefore, say the Si's, the time is over for little miracles...like telling the U.S. Government of a Red attack on warships two days before the attack came; calling earthquakes and hurricanes before they happen, etc. Obviously, they tell me, something must be done on a larger scale to convince those who insult me, and do not cooperate with me. They are going to cause a series of smashing blows, catastrophes, the entire length and breadth of the U.S., and this will be done in the form of a huge "X". See crude drawing below. To further prove this is all real, and that I am speaking for them...they will make "public appearances" in various places (good enough to make the newspapers) as a signature of their own, to this document. They will undertake this action beginning September 1, 1966, if P K Man has not been given cooperation by that time as per the Si's wishes, and signed confirmations have not been given him. P K Man ---------- P.S. THIS IS IMPORTANT. A year ago Zachow, a scientist, told me I was wasting my time and money...that the U.S. Govt. was deaf, dumb and blind to my work. Then I didn't believe him. Now I do. I have proven my connection with the Si's; made astounding predictions ahead of time; and so on. Yet I have not been approached by the Govt.; have not been helped; have not been encouraged - have, in fact, worked in a vacuum under great hardships the while. So now...I quit. I have yet to notify the Si's, and do not know how they will feel. But from now on the Govt. will not know what the Si's are up to...will not know when the Reds are going to strike at our warships, or put more planes into the air against us. Everything from now on will come as a complete surprise to the U.S. Govt. without a P K Man advance tipoff, good or bad. And I guess that's the way the Govt. wants it. So long, you silent people out there...... 07/09/2025 16:13 === Page 92 of 246 8/27/65 P3 They also point out that, as for my being poor...without funds, car, TV, house, etc. Moses was just a sheep-herder. The Disciples had nothing but the clothes on their backs. Others that were guided by a Greater Intelligence...no matter what the name... were poor people. Jesus, to name one. They do put up a strong argument, Arnold. And the feeling that I receive, carried with their intelligence, is a good feeling...a constructive, kindly, loving feeling. I am a damn good sensitive myself, Arnold. I have encountered the "bad" controls... === Page 93 of 246 8/27/65 P 2 Oh, Arnold...had to reopen my letter to insert this.... The Si's also point out that Moses, whom they claim to have helped, received their messages...and they guided him. He was a poor sheep herder, and had nothing, just like me. He was given an impossible task...just like me...and he couldn't believe that anybody would listen to him...just like me. "My people will not listen to me or believe me," he told the Bush. "And certainly the Pharaoh will not believe me or pay attention when I ask him to release my people." But the Voice in the Bush gave him instructions and reassured him that everything would work out all right...that he would be listened to, eventually...and that the Pharaoh, with the help of God...would be forced to release his people. On this basis he proceeded...as I have proceeded...except that instead of a Voice from a Bush, it's been a different source, seemingly. Then Moses, with the "magic" staff, proceeded to wreak devastation upon the Egyptians, when they would not listen to him. Sickness over the land. Fouled-up water. Insects swarming all over everything. And so on, ending with the death of poor, innocent babies. And the final destruction of the Egyptian army. That was about as rough as you can get. And it was done for a good purpose, we can now say, with "20-20 hindsight." But at that time Moses own people got very mad at him...because his "destructiveness" was causing the Egyptians to put worse pressure on them. They begged Moses to stop, and forget the whole thing. They would just go on, as always, being slaves. But Moses...one, poor, man...heeded God's voice and orders...and carried on. So that this, later, was reckoned a very great "good" thing in the Bible. It is holy, as a matter of fact. Well, I have no illusions that God is talking to me, or guiding me...I know darn well, as a matter of fact, that it is UFO's, because I have the proof of it. And Arnold, based on how rough the early Christians were...to burn away the dross from man's soul in order to leave the gold...the present activity is definitely not out of line. In early Bible days, remember, Christian bands that roamed and slaughtered entire tribes...killing women and children? The Si's and I aren't that rough. All that they have done is try and get the ear of this government...by tornados, hurricanes, affecting subs, rockets, planes, etc., to show this government what power they have...but from the start they have pointed out that they want only to use their great powers to help this country; most of all this entire world. And all they want for starters is for this country to start helping them help the world. Arnold, if they wanted to be mean, or were vicious, they could have done far, far more destruction and wreaked far far much more havoc, than they have. They have just done a little, to show their power. Which has the greatest intelligence, Arnold...President Johnson and McNamara and Rusk and the rest of the advisors...or the Si's? Which has the greatest ability to see ahead in time? You know the answer. Furthermore, the course that we are steering now, in our own government, is definitely leading to mass destruction. What worse could the Si's do to us? They are desperately trying to halt things! 07/09/2025 16:13 === Page 94 of 246 8/27/65 p 1 Friday August 27, 1965 Dear Arnold: The Si's wish me to point out to you that they were bringing me along beautifully in Fort Worth, Texas...that I was in fact healing people given up otherwise as hopeless by dentists and the medical fraternity...plus many other things along the lines of auto-hyp, raising the will to live in humans, etc. They were busily teaching me this advanced, far advanced, system of using "something past the mind" - under an umbrella of light-waking-hyp...when my fellow humans tore the entire structure apart. They point out that had people...not them...left me alone...I would have prospered, now living quite happily, and making great strides in the field of helping fellow humans...using their powers constructively. But that people, here on earth, tore down the help they were giving me. They point out that they have no money; they do not use it, or have use for it. What they have is power, and they have given me that...which is all that they have to give. They point out that they have faithfully helped me in every single experiment I have produced, in order to convince my government to take me under its wing, protect me and family, so that then the si's and I can "work around the world" with good, constructive, "white" PK phenomena...healing or putting into balance the present unbalanced weather condition, world-wide; healing, or putting into balance the present unbalanced mental and spiritual condition of the world; etc. They point out that for me to give them a week to bring me money or wealth etc., is ridiculous...because even now my own people are trying to see to it that I am kept in a broke and stripped condition. They point out that my mail and letters may be blocked from coming to me; (I already know that all telephone calls from the radio shows were blocked from me...Mr. Leipziger, at the Congress Hotel, told me. I had dozens of phone calls from people who were interested in me. Leipziger cooly told them I had "checked out!") If the government wishes to keep me broke, that is easy and simple. Any time I get a job a government man unobtrusively goes to see my boss, flashes his credentials...says "Now, actually this man is not a criminal, but will you tell me all you know about him?" Soon I am let go by the boss. This sort of thing is not conducive to longevity in the business world. They point out that they have been trying to help me sustain myself and family, by being hired to break the drought...and they almost succeeded..with the newspaper write-up and the radio shows. They point out, Arnold, that possibly there is an evil force of entities...not themselves...at this point trying to block them, and doing a good job of blocking me. They reiterate that they are only here to help us, humans, restore balance and sanity to an unbalanced and insane world, as it stands today. There it is, Arnold, their rebuttal. It was a pleasure talking to you today. I enjoy your advice, and your conversations, and your wisdom. We do have rapport. And I am still horrified that you went on the defensive when I asked you to watch my fingertips. When I am signalling the Si's, (I have many methods) I "sense" lightning flowing from my fingertips into the skies...and I wondered if you would sense the lightning. Sincerely Ted 07/09/2025 16:13 === Page 95 of 246 Thursday 8/26/65 Copy Lorna + Bob The Editor Philadelphia Bulletin Dear Sir: I apologize for my former rude manners...in offering two inches of rain to Philadelphia in exchange for another story. The only excuse that I have is...that the story was supposed to perhaps find someone that would help me break the East Coast drought, completely, at no fee. Which, I think, is big of me, even if no one else does. Anyway, let's let bygones be bygones, eh? Let me go at this problem another way. I am going to give Philly some real rain within the next week-10 days. That rain last Sunday was not mine...and it was only 7/10 of an inch...just dew, really. My rain is rain - and you can count on 2-4 inches, at the least. I will not ask anything for it. It will be to make up for my bad manners in trying to bribe you with rain. You know, it is hard for me to understand...as long as I would make rain with chemicals, that is all right. Or, with parapsychology, that is all right...but when I make rain by communicating with something...that is wrong... Why? As long as Philadelphia gets the rain! Incidentally, I nearly fell off my chair laughing this evening...to read about the New York officials who returned to New York, not having seen that wonderful rain-making invention in California...because it blew a fuse or short-circuited, or something. Ha ha ha. You will note that my storms do not blow fuses or short-circuit. Hoping we still are friends, I remain Sincerely Ted Owens "the Rain Maker" $\}$ 07/09/2025 16:13 === Page 96 of 246 Wednesday, August 25, 1965 Mr. George Clark, CIA Dear George: Catastrophe after catastrophe.......... Gemini 5 could have been one...should have been...but the UFO's spared it...so far. Then the Hong Kong plane, losing more Marines than what we lost last week in Viet Nam fighting the Cong, if the newspapers are correct with their figures. Then the X-19 crash today. Then the OSO Flying Laboratory at Cape Kennedy today, kaput. How fast can catastrophes come? And these are all "SI" signs, George...laugh if you like. Can the Government explain how they occurred? Only when I am accepted by the U.S. Government, and hired according to their instructions, will catastrophes cease...and the U.S. start winning and getting ahead in every direction. As I told you...it is far worse to have the saucer intelligences against us, than it would be Russia and China combined. Incidentally...where President Johnson went to church last Sunday, the power failed and the electric organ would not play. Then the little girl fainted next to Johnson yesterday. These are signs too, George. It means that the SI's have President Johnson zeroed in now, wherever he goes. Enough said. I don't, George. They do. And one last thought...whoever is blocking me from being accepted by the U.S. Government is actually causing these SI catastrophes. You had better believe it! Sincerely, Ted Owens PK Man 1114 Spruce St., #3B Phila., Pa. === Page 97 of 246 7/11/66 P 3 This letter should have gone to you yesterday...but due to no stamps, and no access to typewriter...had to be delayed a day. Good thing nothing really hot was on to warn about, with the exception of the European blowup ahead. The SI's have finally given me a definition for what I have been calling "PK" all this time. They say to tell you that "PK" means "Other Dimensional Effects", which means simply that they have been creating the phenomena from their own dimension to take effect in our dimension. Remember I told you the SI's were going to PK all vehicles? After that there was the terrible ship strike that paralyzed England's shipping; the great hassle over "unsafe" new cars that sort of bent the auto business and almost unhinged the stock market; last week's auto strike; and the present airplane strike...its biggest in history. All vehicles. Plus yes many ship collisions, burnings; auto accidents; plane wrecks; train derailments; etc. The SI's are near this area, and are about to make a move that will bring them to public notice again, just in case people are forgetting them. Something startling. They are getting restless because I am not getting anywhere with the U.S. Government. That bodes ill for the U.S. Govt.. I know from experience. I direct your attention to my letter of Oct. 24, 1964...the idea therein is still a good one. Incidentaly...another hit. My ltr. to you of January 23, 1965: "I am, therefore, concentrating more deadly PK on Castro...am amazed nothing has happened to him...he is the only one I can remember to resist the PK effects, unless they have a double who has taken his place." Phila. Inquirer. 6/20/66 === Page 98 of 246 7/11/66 B3 P2 2 "CASTRO REPORTED SICK IN EUROPE" - "Miami, Fla. June 20 (AP)-An American anti-Castro organization said Monday that it has been informed from inside Cuba that Fidel Castro is undergoing medical treatment in the Soviet Union or Czechoslovakia and that a double is taking his place in Havana...the committee said that Castro had undergone electroshock mental treatments for three weeks in Havana. Bethel, executive secretary of the committee, said Castro has used doubles more than once in the past several years." So, George, it seems that perhaps my PK did get to the target...and my hunch was certainly right about Castro using a double. When I "hit" Castro with PK, I glued a magnet onto his face, on a picture, and combined it with my usual PK practice. It is interesting that his trouble is mental. The magnet is still there. You know, after all of my success in predictions...the U.S. Govt. should be beating down my door to utilize my services in this capacity alone. DO YOU REALIZE....what I have accomplished these past several months? (1) Predicted A UFO would fly over Philadelphia and be seen by all within a few days...and that is exactly what happened...the East Coast "fireball". (2) Predicted an early hurricane, within a few days...and Hurricane Alma appeared in six days. (3) Predicted big earthquake in California in the "near future"...and they then had the strongest quake in eleven years within two weeks, plus two other big quakes on top of it. (4) Predicted that Philadelphia would be attacked by violent lightning attacks "in the near future"...and it has had three such storms shortly afterward. (5) Predicted the Commies would launch an "imminent" attack on our fleet at Viet Nam. It was imminent. They struck with torpedo boats within two days after my warning. (And that was just the prelude to the symphony.) In other words...my information has been such that I feel quite safe in saying no other human being in this world could have duplicated it...and no intelligence service of this or any other government could have duplicated it. Consider the variety of the predictions. Why is why I think the U.S. Government must have some wheels missing...not to utilize my services. P K Man (Owens) - Owens 4 07/09/2025 16:13 === Page 99 of 246 Kids!! Thanks for those quakclips. We did not get that info here!! Dad Monday, July 11, 1966 Mr. George Clark CIA Dear George: The SI's warn... of an imminent major happening in Europe which will both shock and amaze the U.S. - and confront us with another major crisis to try and cope with. I warned you in my letters of Feb. 18, 1965, and July 17, 1965, that the Russians had some new weapons which we didn't know about that made them confident of having a big edge over us in case of war. Yesterday one of those weapons was exposed through the newspapers to the U.S. - a missile that can alter its direction. BUT I wrote the U.S. Govt. long ago that the Russ had this missile. I wrote you and told you that Russia had a missile that they could shoot, alter its direction, and bring around at us from a Latin American country... and then who could we pin the blame on. One of their other dandy new weapons they are secretly showing De Gaulle, etc., to persuade our allies it would be far better to switch alliances than to fight. Probably is why Wilson is being invited to Moscow. The U.S. is losing its friends - weak though they be - and the U.S. is slowly getting snookered. We haven't had a good idea in a carload for much too long a time. We've been butting heads with Russia, then with China and Asia - and now we're butting heads with our allies and neutrals. Our own country is butting its head against the wall in its spare time, being divided as it is with colored vs whites, anti-war demonstrators, etc. As I warned you some time ago, things will go from worse to worse to worser - unless the U.S. joins the UFO's. They alone can unravel the whole mess and put things right. === Page 100 of 246 9/3/65 p2 2 constructive channels, then things could get rough. Because of my newspaper write-up on rainmaking, and the two radio broadcasts.......... I lost my job..........and the agency that was placing me on jobs, dropped me as "some kind of nut." Ha ha ha! Yep, a 5-10 billion dollars nut..........that's about what I have cost the government so far with PK. But of course, I expected it, and willingly made the "trade"..........as a matter of personal values. I have about three dozen letters I received as a result of the radio programs.......... from everywhere.......... Alabama, Ohio, Illinois, New York, Delaware..........even Canada. Would you like to see these peoples' letters, plus my answers? If so, let me know and will send them..........but you must promise to send them back, because they are a part of my files. When do you start to school? Just think, Lornie, you'll be 16 purty soon. My, my, how you do grow. Be no time at all until you have a beautiful home of your own, a fine husband who loves you, and be raising your own little chilluns. Great care must be used, however, in selecting your man..........remember that. Teen-agers get "crushes" on fellows their age, sometimes ... oh foo, I'm not going to try and advise you. Sometimes I think maybe teenagers, in their brainless "crush" state..........are working on a more accurate "beam" from Nature..........than older, more mature people who think they know all of the answers because they are older and more mature. And they still wind up throwing things at their husband, or worse. Who knows? Only Nature. Not people, that's for sure. One thing is for sure..........Pat is a fine judge of people, and can steer you straight. She can spot a phony a mile away..........just like daddy can. So give momma a look at any of your catches. She'll read him, but good. Well, Rick, what are you doing? Out of town visiting? Be very careful of venereal disease, kids. This week were two articles in the papers..........doctors everywhere now are greatly alarmed because just recently VD rate shot up to the moon. They can't understand why, but they are warning all the highschool and college kids to beware.......... Write. Love and kisses.......... Dad. P.S. Just finished making a dandy rainstorm - which, as a side-product to my prediction - put out a giant 5-alarm fire which the firemen couldn't handle because water facilities were too far away from the scene - people in 10 homes were evacuated because the fire was out of control. Meanwhile I was on the balcony outside our apartment, activating the storm. It put the fire out. See attached. 07/09/2025 16:13 === Page 101 of 246 Friday, Sept. 3, 1965 Dear Lornie and Rick: Hi...what are you two up now? Rick, haven't heard from you for a long time. Am surprised, in lieu of the successes have had with "PK phenomena these past weeks. I wouldn't suppose wild elephants could keep you from writing about it. Right now am working on Hurricane Betsy...naturally...just like last year. Spent hours last night getting Betsy to turn left, hook West. Have had to correct her course several times now. But she's a good little hurricane...and I have added several refinements and mechanisms which I can't discuss here...but which are dandies. For instance, when I read that 15 airplanes were getting ready to attack Betsy, while she was standing still temporarily, with silver iodide, to kill her....I put in anti-plane PK in such a way that Betsy had a chance herself to get the planes, before the planes got her. Like they were reading my mind, the government canceled the plane strike. Good thing they did. I have learned so much...so much...since you kids have left. Damn, wish I could tell you all about it. What I have learned is from the saucer intelligences....the ones I got the message from in Washington that night at Mangels. Whatever you do...if anything ever happens to me....be sure and get my files, which I carry mostly in a black bag, wherever I go...Have a bunch of notebooks in there, and a bunch of folders with material. For God's sake keep this until you grow up...I will never be able to forget what happened to the material I sent to Pat to keep for me, when I was in a jam in Phoenix one time...in the ash can it went. So do not let anyone else get their hands on my file. Keep it yourselves, because it is beyond price or value. When I tell you that, you'd better believe it. I have even drawn colored pictures of the insides of the Si's spacecraft...pictures of the different things they do, and how they do them. For instance, they know where I am at all times, and how I am...because they have rigged a "floating light" high overhead in the sky, over me, wherever I go. This light pulsates, and tells them not one thing...just where I am...but my mood, my emotions, how alive I am, and so on. Yesterday, again, someone in a car tried to hit me. That makes three times in a week it's been tried. New, someone trying to brainwash you would say, "Ah, he's a paranoid nut." But not so...I have been walking to work for months here, and have never had an accident, or a near accident...until this week. Then suddenly pow pow pow...three "freak" occurrences where cars, instead of letting me walk with the light, suddenly accelerate to high speed and except for my peripheral vision and agility would have settled me for good by now. Whoever is behind it...will give up on cars now...for I am wary of that trap...and will try another angle. Am sure it is not our government, because they seem to place ... well ...I don't think it is. Could be commie. My 4-hour radio stint that one night told the commie's all they needed to hear, to try and get me, before the U.S. Government miraculously finds its right mind and accepts me. Am positive you kids are not getting all of my mail; why, I don't know. But if you were, you would be writing differently, and more often. That is for sure. One day you will see my file...and I have copies of all letters I have sent to you...and you can see very easily what you've gotten and what you haven't. Little Bo is so cute, it is almost unbelievable. And smart....wow! Zachow, the scientist who's been investigating me and my work...says to watch Bo carefully and teach him carefully...because he has my eyes and the same ability to direct "projectionalize thought-force" with devastating results. If he isn't taught to direct this ability into 07/09/2025 16:13 === Page 102 of 246 2 Today I got a write-up in the Bulletin newspaper here in Phila., and because this was a major aim of the 84's, it made them very very happy. If you want to know the details...they were twittering and tweeting excitedly, which is the noise they make when they get excited. Because they have been made happy for a change, instead of frustrated, they will do something nice now for Philadelphia, I know...I am asking them to...especially a two-day rain in an effort to get several inches of rain here for the City in appreciation...and I think that they will also do something nice for CIA, and perhaps the U.S. Government, in exchange for this show of friendship...this story. Because this story was a key pivotal point in their plans, since I couldn't get through to official Washington. Only one thing bothers the 84's and gives them trouble...and that is the "time" factor, because they do not know time, or use time, as we know and use it. We measure it by minutes, hours, days, weeks...but they do not. Sometimes when I send them intelligence, and do not get results in a few days, I give up...but it happens, comes about, a week or two later. Sometimes, to my utter amazement, it happens overnight. Such as the Russian spaceship Pashkov. I "hit it with PK" (i.e. sent my instructions to the UFO's) and they got it overnight, just the way I wanted them to. Such as the night I hit the West Coast with "earthquake PK" and by morning Washington-Oregon had the quake. And so on with other examples I could name. I myself do not understand the time angle. Perhaps I will. They are busily telling me things about their activities and themselves, which of course I am faithfully logging. They, and I, do not expect anyone at all to believe us on this...unless it is absolutely proven by them...and that is what I have been doing, and will continue to do. 07/09/2025 16:13 === Page 103 of 246 Kids - The day after I wrote this letter and mailed it - lightning hit the Moon Rocket pad at Cape Kennedy. Killed one, injured up to five for the hospital. Dad Wednesday, August 3, 1966 Dear President Johnson: On July 21, 1966, I wrote George Clark, CIA: "My little friends (in flying saucers; UFO's) say that they will appear over one of our major U. S. cities soon, in one of their flying machines. They won't name the city, for security reasons (theirs.)" "They also state that they will begin an attack campaign on the U.S. with lightning. Lightning attacks everywhere. There will be an unusual abundance of lightning bolts striking everywhere, everything, soon." .......... "The above in an effort to further prove that PK Man (T. C. Owens, The Rainmaker) is their representative and that they can communicate with PK Man." ---------- Mr. Johnson, when I typed that letter the SI's (saucer intelligences) told me they were sending out UFO's to blanket every State in the U.S. Ready to use lightning, or any other signal I should send. Poised and ready. Today I read in the paper that last weekend they had been sighted in many States over Saturday and Sunday. Do not mistake this. They are very excited, as I am excited. For after centuries of time they have at last managed to set up an effective communication with a human being (myself). They have taken a full year of setting this whole thing up with me... as a matter of fact, until the South Pole sighting I did not know that my work had anything to do with UFO's... I thought that I was contacting the intelligence behind Nature, whatever that was. For the SI's have given the U.S. Government proof positive, two different ways and two different times, that I am connected with them, with a two-way communication. Which I most certainly am. 07/09/2025 16:13 === Page 104 of 246 August 6, Friday, 1965 Mr. George Clark, CIA Dear George: I will have an important "intelligence" tip to give you soon, which could conceivably benefit the CIA. For now, will you please get my July 21 letter, and note that I called the shot with the prediction (*) that my "little friends" would be seen over a U.S. city as a signal to you that I am for real? Also, next paragraph down, I told you that they would undertake attacks of lightning...for the same reason...to prove that I am for real...their contact man, so to speak. Well, you've had the sightings, in plenty. As for the lightning, I think the best signal they gave you was the lightning hit this week...August 4, I think it was...on the Moon Rocket pad at Cape Kennedy. So...you have your signal. Might interest you to know that I wrote Mr. Eastwood at NASA (Inventions Dept.) July 7, 1965 of course, and warned him in the letter that I was again, as of last year, aiming hurricanes and lightning and freak accidents at the Cape this year. Only took four weeks for lightning to chew up the Moon Rocket pad. Not bad, eh? As for up here...I wrote President Johnson August 3, 1965 (this week) and told him: "They (the UFO's) will do something nice now for Philadelphia, I know...I am asking them to..especially a two-day rain in an effort to get several inches of rain here for the City in appreciation..." The very next day, George, they got their 2½ inches of rain all in a bundle. Did them quite a bit of good. Now, for your amusement, and because you've been so good to listen to me for so long...I will let you in on something. Am calling fleets of UFO's here, to Philadelphia...from everywhere. Trouble is I do not know what they can do to prove to these people here that I'm for real...but I will think of something. Believe they are here already, because I sent for them this afternoon. With all that power, whatever kind it is that they have...and it seems to be miraculous, judging from what they've accomplished this past year, they should do something startling. Am trying to convey the idea to them of coming right down over the city and hovering. They give me the idea back that we might have some kind of rays like they have, or whatever it is they have...and hurt them or something...so that they are reticent to do this. Am I am trying to tell them we haven't any such thing, and it's safe. I want to bring one down right over Market Street and have it hover there for 20 minutes. What else they'll do on their own is anybody's guess. Also, have asked them to send rain out to the U.S. for 2-3 weeks, before starting drought conditions again. Am sure that they will. Incidentally, last week I warned you that some terrible blow would be struck at the U.S. soon...and I believe that it was the === Page 105 of 246 source ture (Copy - 2nd Page) Monday, August 9, 1965 Letters to the Editor Dear Sir: I would appreciate an opportunity to answer Mr. Rosenberg, of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and Mrs. R. B., of Langhorne, Pa., who placed articles re my rainmaking in your newspaper this evening. WELL-WRITTEN First, Mr. Rosenberg... Mr. Darling, of the Bulletin, is a very intelligent man, and knows that a memory system is simply a memory system, nothing more. I even explained to him at the time of the interview that I learned my memory system from Roth's book, if he should like to take it up. Actually, the demonstration proved only that visual imagery works in this fashion; I am sorrowfully afraid, Mr. Rosenberg, that no matter how I performed a memory system, it would not make me look like a genius, a mind reader, or a mystic, for I am certainly none of these things, and did not try to impress the veteran feature writer in that regard (for he has been long a pro at seeing through ruses such as you mention.) You should have been listening to Radio Station WCAU last Wednesday evening. For four hours I endeavored to explain the why's and wherefore's of my modus operandi of making it rain. That was the Jack McKinney Show. And then again today, on the Ed Harvey's Radio Show, WCAU, I went further into the matter. The trick memory system has absolutely nothing to do with it, Mr. Rosenberg. I wish you would be a good reporter, first get your facts straight. FURTHERMORE, ON LOOKING AT YOUR LIST, I SHOULD LIKE TO STATE UNEQUIVOCABLY THAT MY BASKET WAS NOT SITTING IN YOUR PUDDLES, SIR!! Mrs. R. B., after I got through howling at your rainmaking methods, the thought occurred to me... then and if I ever get a vacation with my wife, and it rains... I hope sincerely that she has the priceless sense of humor that you have. A sense of humor in a wife is worth more than diamonds, rubies and pearls. LIKE YOURSELF In closing, may I point out that the only good rain that Philadelphia has had these past weeks was last Wednesday night, when I went on the air at WCAU to deliver my message re UFO's, and today, when I again went on the air at WCAU. It is a fact that I told Mr. Ed Harvey last Friday that I would do my best to deliver an excellent rain on Monday (today). I believe that this is exactly what has occurred. Station WCAU Anyone interested in my rainmaking work can write to me at the Congress Hotel here in Philadelphia, and I will answer every sincere letter. Ted Owens "THE RAINMAKER" c/o Congress Hotel 1336 Walnut Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Love - Daddy P.S. I deliberately brought in storms on both days of my radio broadcasts... therefore Philadelphia owes its present rain to Mr. Darling at the Bulletin; Jack McKinney and Tom Spence, of WCAU; and Mr. Ed Harvey, of the Ed Harvey Show, WCAU. 07/09/2025 16:13 === Page 106 of 246 8/10/65 P3 ...a signal from the UFO's that they are listening, and are in action. Have you looked at your weather maps lately? That is precisely what has happened. But in the near future I do not think that the East Coast will benefit too much, re drought-relief. They will need the services of a rain-maker; namely, me. And anyone wanting to rent my unique services can write to me care of your paper. For that matter, anyone wanting to write me a personal letter can do that; and I will also be glad to send my message from the UFO's to the American people...the one that Jack McKinney read on his program...to any of your readers who wish it. Sincerely, Ted Owens "THE RAIN MAKER" === Page 107 of 246 8/10/65 p2 2 that my storms feature lightning...remember in my Bulletin story, that I said my specialty was lightning? Also, I pointed out to him that on another occasion here in Philadelphia I had endeavored to "aim" lightning at a radio tower downtown, in Center City. Also I aimed lightning at any power-stations in the area, as an experiment. Remember this. I also pointed out to Mr. Harvey that the rule, for my storms, is that they literally cause disaster-areas. They are violent, full of lightning attacks, and flood. Mr. Harvey jokingly asked me not to flood Philadelphia. So after the show, I went home to my apartment. And it rained, hard. It came down in sheets. But one thing was missing...lightning. So I told my wife that I would add the missing ingredient, and went out onto a balcony outside my apartment, and worked for lightning, lots of it. The results were better than I hoped for. The next rainfall, after an interval, carried lightning with it...lots of it. And, mark this, next morning I read in the paper that lightning had hit a tower, not here but in New Jersey, and knocked out the power for the police. Also it hit a power-supply, and knocked out the power for many many houses. Just as I had mentioned it in the afternoon...as if my little UFO friends had been listening and decided to include it. Fantastic? It happened, just that way. Now I have another assignment to carry out for Mr. Harvey. Keep the sky clear of rain Thursday night, for his ball-game. And for Mr. Harvey, it is a downright pleasure. Before closing, would like to point out that on the Jack McKinney show I told the audience that rain would suddenly appear all over the United States 07/09/2025 16:13 === Page 108 of 246 Evening Bulletin Thursday, August 10, 1955 Dear Sir: Something for you to print, of an unusual nature, if you would like it. This is a recap for the past week for my friends in Philadelphia, of the excitement in the air, with the Rain Maker, straight from the Rain Maker. Last Wednesday Jack McKinney had me on his show at WCAU, and we fought like cats and dogs, in a very friendly way, over rain-making and UFO's. For four hours, which is a long time. Mr. McKinney (a fine man, by the way, even if he does not believe in UFO's, ha ha) sought to pin down the facts on my rain-making, and especially since it is connected with the workings of flying-saucers. For help (as if he needed any) he had Lou Spence, who helped me finish my sentences and dot my i's. Of course, I had already made several storms over Philadelphia..........and written well ahead of time to the papers here that I was making them, (see the Bulletin story.) And, before the show, I had worked on a storm to dramatize my appearance on his show. It began at the beginning of the evening show, and did Philadelphia a bit of good, water-wise. Then, on Friday, Mr. Ed Harvey called me and asked me to appear on his show the following Monday, at WCAU, and he specifically asked me to make it storm that day (yesterday) Monday. I told him that I would do my best. So, all week-end, I worked for a storm, but in an unusual way, for me. I had to time the storm to hit Monday, instead of Sunday, which is my favorite storm day next to Saturday. The storm-materials were all present and accounted for on Sunday, and I fought to hold them in check. Then, on Monday, I released them. It rained a bit in the afternoon, and I went on the Ed Harvey Show. Now, listen carefully..........on the show I told Mr. Harvey 07/09/2025 16:13 === Page 109 of 246 Wednesday August 18, 1965 Editor Philadelphia Daily News Dear Sir: Here is an interesting item, if you would like to print it. In your story "Blonde Gets Black Eye As 'Thing' Attacks Car", in your paper 8/17/65, the mother of the girl who was attacked...and they were both in the car during the attack by the 7-foot, 400 lb. "monster"...has the name of Rose Owens (I refer you to the clipping.) The girl who was attacked, then, was named Owens before her marriage. A strange coincidence. The Wednesday previously I appeared on The Jack McKinney Show, Station WCAU, here in Philadelphia, and Mr. McKinney was kind enough to read a 3-page letter, or message, given to me by the UFO intelligences to pass on to the American people. So what? What is the coincidence? My name is Ted Owens, "The Rain Maker." Why not ask your readers if they would like to read this strange message from the UFO's? I will enclose a copy then, and if readers contact your paper, asking for it, if you wish you can print it. I offered it to the Bulletin for printing, but they have evidently decided not to do so, for whatever reasons. The "monster" in your story, above, could be connected with the UFO's...note that the womens' car stalled, which is a usual occurrence when a UFO is near. Kills the power. Owens === Page 110 of 246 (Exact copy of story which appeared in The Philadelphia Daily News, 8/17/65) "BLONDE GETS BLACK EYE AS 'THING' ATTACKS CAR" Monroe, Michigan (UPI) What weighs more than 400 pounds, smells moldy, growls like a mad dog, and dislikes automobiles? Answer X - The Monroe County Monster. That was the latest on the "thing" that has been sighted here and there in Monroe County during the past two months by at least 16 persons, including Christine Van Acker, 17-year old blonde. Miss Van Acker, who goes to a beautician school here, has a black eye she said was inflicted by the monster Friday night. State police were checking her story and patrolling the area at night northeast of this southern Michigan City. Miss Van Acker gave this story of the encounter: "I was driving mother, Mrs. Rose Owens, home. Suddenly there was this bump and a hairy arm grabbed me by the hair. It wasn't human or anything. I tried to go faster but the car stalled." The girl fainted. Mrs. Owens, who jumped out of the car and ran for help, described the ordeal like this: "The first I knew there was this bang and an arm came through the window. ; Christine yelled, 'Mommy, help me! Oh my God, help!' "I told her to get the car going...but it stalled. The monster had his paw entwined in her hair and kept banging her head on the side of the car. I decided the best thing to do was go for help." "When I got back with other people, Christine was semi-conscious, and the monster was gone." "The monster was at least seven feet tall, weighed about 400 pounds, and it had a long reach. It was all covered with black, bristly hair, towards the end of the hair it was silver. You couldn't see its face, there was so much hair." "And it growled. It had a real growl, and definitely it was not a bear." Christine said she was sure it was not a bear "because bears have fur and this thing had prickly hair like thorns" She also said she was sure it was not a prankster "because nobody human would do anything like that." The monster sightings have occurred in Frenchtown and Ashe townships within the last 60 days. One man reported the monster climbed onto his car, and thumped on the roof and fenders before disappearing into the woods. A woman reported she saw the monster and it smelled moldy. Etc. === Page 111 of 246 8/11/65 p2 2 this letter was written, and sent to you, you have spent a great deal of time travelling about, inspecting disaster areas...catastrophe after catastrophe, as my letter warned. I would venture to state that never, in the entire history of the United States, has there been a year so filled with natural catastrophes as July, 1964, to July, 1965. To name just a few catastrophes...and areas...the disastrous fires on the California Coast; the disastrous floods last Christmas on the California Coast; the giant earthquake in Oregon-Washington; the horrendous damage from Hurricane Cleo, Hurricane Dora, Hurricane Isbell, Hurricane Hilda; crippling floods in North/South Carolina; disastrous floods in the Midwest States; unprecedented tornado attacks in the Midwest; and so on and so on for a long long list. You will note that I state on the first page of last year's letter: "...the aforementioned 'catastrophes' are merely a sample of what lies ahead." This was correct, absolutely. In closing, the UFO's have instructed me to point out that the paragraph of last year's letter which refers to causing missiles to explode in their silos, is now referred to for a reason all their own. (Not mine.) They caused the missile silo tragedy, in order to direct my attention back to this letter, in order for me to write you another letter, one year later...pointing out that this particular paragraph states that it is extremely important that the reason for my "PK" ability be understood by all. The reason. The causal-factor, as Mr. Dunn of your CIA put it to me. And that is...UFO's. Respectfully, Ted Owens (PK Man - Rain Maker) Congress Hotel 1336 Walnut Philadelphia, Pa. 07/09/2025 16:13 === Page 112 of 246 Wednesday, August 11, 1965 President Johnson, The White House. Dear Mr. President: This letter is of the utmost importance to you. Please find attached copy of letter I sent to you almost a year ago. Also State Dept. and other Govt. agencies. A more prophetic "intelligence report" you will never find. The missile silo that just blew up, or whatever happened to it...see paragraph marked in red. This is further emphasized at this particularly peculiar time because of the "rain making" work that I am doing in Philadelphia, predicting rainstorms in advance and then bringing them in on schedule, or as close to schedule as possible. So far I have not missed, and would be surprised if I did. Monday's storm in Philadelphia was made by myself, and the lightning attacks co-incide with other letters which you should have in your file, of weeks ago, when the UFO's said they would provide lightning attacks to prove my connection with them. At the time this letter was written, almost a year ago, I believed that I was in contact with the intelligence behind Nature; only lately have I found out that I am in contact with UFO's, as proved by the UFO sighting over the South Pole, and my earlier letter before that, predicting the event in detail sans UFO. Therefore I believe at this time the UFO's are, at a year's interval, warning the people of the U.S. once more...re my "Message to the American people from the UFO's" as read over the radio from Station WCAU last Wednesday, August 4, 1965, on the Jack McKinney Show. Note that in my letter of last year states: "Or else Nature will chastise the erring country with catastrophe after catastrophe. Earthquake, fire, famine, flood, sickness. Nature will select the proper catastrophes to bring the unbelieving country to its knees." This sentence should make great sense to you...because since 07/09/2025 16:13 === Page 113 of 246 8/25/64? P93 Let Kruschev say "God and Religion - phooey! The State will give you security." Let Papa Duvalier say "My voodoo devils are greater than your God." Let Castro say "Cuba and Russia are friends...we need no God." But Nature wishes to make some drastic changes. Working from my own country, and protected by my government, I will direct certain powers of Nature onto any country filled with the spirit of hate and killing and war. My own country, observing the results, will, when peace in the world is assured, lay aside all weapons of war - or else. And return to a stronger faith in the absolute power of God and Nature than now exists among its peoples. Perhaps from reading this it will be thought that I am 'some kind of nut' - or religious fanatic. But what you may think is really irrelevant and immaterial, for Nature will be heard. It's voice is coming through, loud and clear. You can expect to continue to see signs and wonders, until you believe. Until Nature's voice is recognized, and fully obeyed. H. T. Owens (The PK Man) 6309 Wildwood Trail Myrtle Beach South Carolina === Page 114 of 246 8/25/64? Pg 2 2 Nature (God) is dedicated to the perpetuation of the human race of mankind. But mankind, at present, is seemingly dedicated toward its own obliteration and destruction. "Man's inhumanity to man" is the banner now flying. Nature, therefore, must step in, in an unusual manner, and show the world, by demonstration, that Nature... not mankind... controls the preservation of the species. That Nature's own secrets hold far greater power and scope than do H-bombs and stockpiles of war materials. Nature has, oddly enough, appointed me as its human voice and representative... to speak its intelligence to you. Furthermore, Nature is fully aware that without signs and wonders you wouldn't believe me. Nature has, therefore, endowed me with unbelievable powers - a small demonstration of which I have already made. This is what Nature is saying, through my pen: First, it is absolutely necessary that my own country and Government (which has the Bible and Christianity at its core) be convinced of the basic truth of this message. Nature is eager, and completely, wholeheartedly, willing to back me up in any constructive move to bring this about. (Should I misuse this infinite power placed in my hands by a trusting but omnipresent Nature, then it will transfer the power to a more worthy human, to carry on the program. People can be stopped, but Nature never. Then, after my own Government is convinced, this dynamic power of Nature will be directed, focused, upon the mouldy, rotting spots of mankind - and these spots eliminated, so that mankind will stop deteriorating and grow healthy. Mark this: All materials of warfare must be transformed into plowshares - or else. Or else Nature will chastise the erring country with catastrophe after catastrophe. Earthquake, fire, famine, flood, sickness. Nature will select the proper catastrophes to bring the unbelieving country to its knees. ruined *By this later date, Sept. 25, have successfully brought down Titan III; 000, the Satellite; and directed Hurricane Dora onto Cape Kennedy. 07/09/2025 16:13 === Page 115 of 246 August 25, 1964 pg 1 Lightning struck, and left its mark, on a Titan missile at Cape Kennedy. It was my lightning. Next, Hurricane Cleo formed and descended on . . . Cape Kennedy, Florida. It was my hurricane. You are, of course, quite skeptical, and will think, of course, that it would be impossible to be true. Anyone can check with the Space Agency at Cape Kennedy . . . or the State Department in Washington, D. C., and if they tell the truth they will tell you that I informed them weeks in advance of the above two events. I even wired the Space Agency that I could stop Hurricane Cleo from striking it . . . even before Cleo reached Miami. They did not reply, so I had no alternative but to let Cleo take her route, which I had laid out for her. (Over three hundred million dollars in damage could have been avoided.) But, there are more important matters than a few hundred million dollars loss . . . hence this unusual communication. And, I might add, the aforementioned 'catastrophes' are merely a sample of what lies ahead. Do I think that I've been elected to 'save the world'? No. Do I think, perhaps, that I am God? No. Or Jesus? No. I am not insane or psychotic. I am a human being, utterly astonished at what is being dealt out through me, by Nature. And, I might add, I am quite willing to accept the awesome responsibility given to me by Nature . . . in spite of the lumps that I know I shall receive from my fellow humans. (It is extremely important that the reason for my "PK" ability (to cause storms; to direct lightning bolts; to form and guide hurricanes; to cause fires far away from myself; to sink subs far away in the ocean; to cause missiles to explode in their silos) be understood by all.) 07/09/2025 16:13 === Page 116 of 246 Tuesday, August 31, 1965 Mr. Dunn, Chief U.S. Weather Bureau Hurricane Center Miami, Florida Dear Mr. Dunn: You and I are going to have some fun this hurricane season. I am the man who wrote you in 1964. I successfully ran three hurricanes across the Cape Kennedy area...and also managed to direct one to the Michoud Space Complex in Louisiana. Last year I discovered a method of making hurricanes (have sent out 1,000 hurricane-hunter groups, of PK (psychokineses) several months ago...) then guiding them; and bringing them to life after they die. (Brought 2 back to life last year) Last year I managed to make the hurricane hook left into Florida; a first in a century, the papers said. Also Cleo followed my "PK" map. And one other...I forget offhand now, not having my books at hand. Nevertheless, let us have a game...Dunn versus P K Man. I am producing hurricanes and typhoons. But I am interested only in the hurricanes, insofar as I can guide them to target-area...Daytona Beach to Miami...which area is named "Electro." You and the U.S. Govt. try to stop them...and I will bring them in. It will be very interesting. I was going to bring them up the East Coast in order to bring rain to New York...but was rejected by everyone when I offered to break the East Coast drought...so now I am going to do this. After the hurricanes either hit the target, Electro...or get away from me completely (only one did last year..the rest were hits) then I will take them off to the right as soon as they draw near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and send them off to sea. Do not take this lightly. I warn you most seriously. You would be well advised to contact Central Intelligence Agency and NASA for copies of my file, before you pass this letter off as a "crank" letter. And, as I wrote you last year, would greatly appreciate it if you would name one hurricane after my daughter Lornie...Hurricane Lornie. Respectfully, Ted Owens (PK Man) 111 Spruce, #33 Philadelphia, Pa. P.S. Even "seeding" will not stop them, because I have done a little something with the PK to beat seeding. 07/09/2025 16:13 === Page 117 of 246 2 8/10/65 put satellites (rain or sun, etc.) over it, and throw so many black, or red "units" at it...etc., they could understand this, and rapidly acted. and how they acted, as you well know. The next logical thing now is for someone to hire me to break the drought for New York...or Philadelphia...or the entire East Coast, which would be as easy, as you know. Following the breaking of the drought will be even bigger things, the little "voice" seeps through to me, like osmosis. You were right, one of you, I can't remember which, when you told me that you thought there was something even bigger ahead than my PK discoveries. You were so...right. Nice thing about it is, I was so bored, just causing storms, bringing down airplanes, lousing up military operations, making earthquakes with Emmy-Emma (Rick's brainchild.) Now things are moving, at last. Funny that the Air Force, the CIA, the US Govt., and the Rhines haven't been jumping up and down to get hold of me. They have my letter-file, calling dozens of big events in advance, in detail. I really do not understand it. The US Government probably doesn't want to be forced by the UFO's to pay attention...Johnson, especially. But they are dealing with UFO's, a far greater power than any other existing on this earth. God help them if they delay too much longer. I warned them weeks ago that a terrible blow would be struck at the US Government if they didn't pay attention; and within a week the bomber in Viet Nam turned around, with nobody in it, and flew back and crashed, with all its bombs, on U S Military Headquarters in their allied city, Nan Trang, or something like that. Then today one of their missile silos "accidentally" blew up. They are so dense and stupid. But enough of that. Write often, if you can. Lornie, honey, I like those 15¢ Optimos. They are good cigars. Or those Pats that come 7 in a pack. Love & Kisses - Daddy PK Man === Page 118 of 246 Tuesday, August 10, 1965 Dear Lonnie, and Rick... - enjoyed your letter, Rick my boy. Don't worry, son, can you remember a time when your daddy didn't keep punching? That'll be the day. All hell is breaking loose in Philadelphia...as a matter of fact, I almost ruined Philadelphia last night. Remember how you and I used to stand out in the yard in Phoenix, and bring on those gangbusters? Well, I brought one on in style, and the results are enclosed, in clippings. You'll be proud, and you'll remember Phoenix...and Los Angeles...etc etc. The beauty of it was...Ed Harvey, who has the radio show for CBS here called "Talk of Philadelphia"...called me last Friday and asked me to make a storm tailor-made for this Monday, the day I was to appear on his program, so that he could be telling about it over the weekend. I told him that I would, and set to work. The weather was hot and clear, then. I worked like the dickens Saturday and Sunday...throwing a lot of oomph into it, but also working to hold it back until Monday, so that it wouldn't bust loose Sunday. I'll enclose a copy of letter to the paper here which am sending in, and it tells you the rest, to save wear and tear on my fingers. The point is, at last, kids, at last, people "out there" are beginning to find out what you have known all along. That I can control storms (have made, and written into the papers well in advance, five good storms now) and perhaps other things as well. Also, and more important, Jack McKinney, on that 4-hour brain-buster last Wednesday, I forced into reading a message from the UFO's to the American people. Now, my storm-work of course carries a lot of weight...and I am positive that the message will get across. Am enclosing a copy. Am absent-minded, you know, and don't remember whether I did before or not. Listen, kids, all those "units" and things were a sort of vocabulary that the UFO's were giving me...it was their way of understanding...so when I would put something into a PK bubble, and 07/09/2025 16:13 === Page 119 of 246 8/12/65 p6 the storm here, all areas around benefitted from it. okay. Tuesday came. Dozens of different homes had been hit by bolts of lightning. One lightning bolt came inside a man's kitchen while he was cooking supper, and hit his stove. Lightning hit a police radio tower. A bolt hit the Willow Grove (suburb) power supply and knocked out the power. A bolt hit a hospital. And so on. Nobody was hurt. Tuesday there were black clouds in the sky. I knew the UFO's had plenty of materials if I wanted more. But I didn't. I wanted it clear. I signalled them strongly to hold off all rain. Tuesday passed - a dark, cloudy day just wanting to rain. But it didn't. Wednesday came. Dark boiling clouds overhead. Paper said 6 chances in 10 of rain. I signalled no rain. There was no rain. Today, Thursday, all clouds were gone. Sunny & clear. So Ed Harvey is happy tonight at his ball game. (But Philly could have had two more fine storms. A pity) However, I'm choking off rain out here now. In the PK bubble with sun cats, plus other mechanisms. If they want rain now - they play ball with the UFO's. If they don't play ball - there'll be no water. No offers yet. Write Love & kisses, Dad. * Told them to swing the rain west & dump it there. === Page 120 of 246 8/12/65 P5 "Ted," Martha called from inside the window, "why is it the rain stops each time you begin to signal?" Yep. Even she noticed it. (But the day was full of surprises. On the radio show I had told Harvey that every area I had hit with PK had become an official disaster area. He'd laughed and asked me for Heaven's sake not to flood Philly.) Well. After an hour the storm stopped, and I left to go to the YMCA to type some letters. When I came out of the Y, all hell broke loose. You've seen some of my little beauties - knocking out Baggio's windows, lightning bolts hitting our house etc. This storm was a giant compared to those midgets you saw. Rain was driving down so hard you couldn't see. Cars were stalled in the street. Bolts of lightning were hitting in every direction. It was majestic. It was a regular symphony of a storm. (Days before I had told Martha I wanted Monday's storm to hit Philly - pow! and tear it up! Chew it up! Rain so thick you couldn't see a foot away. Lightning everywhere.) In every detail - this was the storm. You read the papers description of it but they couldn't do it justice. New York City got a billion gallons of rain-water from this Philly flood (yes, it flooded.) When I brought === Page 121 of 246 8/12/65 pg 4 personal favor. He was going to an important baseball game Thursday night - could I keep it nice, clear, & no rain that night? (It was raining outside when I asked this.) I assured him I would take the rain away from Phila. for that night. Now during the program, I discussed how I "aimed" lightning - had aimed at two Phila targets in earlier storms, a radio tower and the power-supply of the city. I'd actually managed to hit the power supply of the city! And I told how I liked lightning - my storms had my "lightning trademark" - it is my specialty. I went home then it began to come down in solid sheets. But no lightning. "Hell!" I told Martha, taking a drink of cold beer, "that's a good storm, but I've got to put more lightning in it!" So I went outside and signalled the UFO's (I have an all-new system now) and told them lightning - lots of lightning. Suddenly there were some lightning flashes and I knew they'd heard me. Took me four or five attempts to get it over to them, though - and each time I'd begin again, the heavy rain would stop. When I'd finish signalling the rain would start up again. It was weird. Like they'd stop the rain temporarily to find out if I was wanting something else instead. === Page 122 of 246 8/12/65 3 by the Central Room that she was still hooked up long distance and was listening to the show over the phone!! Ha ha ha!! Anyway - on the way over to the radio station that Wed. evening the skies were clear. I sent signals to the UFO's desperately to make it rain, fast - to coincide with my program appearance. Half hour later, as I was walking up to the door of the studio, rain began to pour down. During the program people call up, put themselves on the air, and ask questions. I had to answer them. It was great fun. It lasted four hours. And rain soaked the town. It was a nice, quiet downpour. Steady rain all night. Two days later, Friday, I got a call from Ed Harvey, another famous radio personality here with "Talk of Philadelphia" program. He wanted me to be on his program on Monday, Aug. 9. Also, he wanted me to make a storm for Monday - so he could advertise it in advance. (Friday was a smashing, clear day.) I told him I would bring in a rainstorm on Monday + appear on the show. He was nice on the program. Asked me why on earth the Govt. didn't use my services. Why New York didn't hire me. (Oh, it was raining by now lightly, outside.) He told the audience, looking me straight in the eye, "Ted there is no doubt whatever in my mind that you could break the drought on the East Coast." He reached a === Page 123 of 246 8/12/65 Things had been predicted in advance by me - or caused by me. They asked me, real sneakily, which to call? CIA? NASA? Jeane? Cayce? Mangels? I recommended Cayce, on the terrific double-prediction on Pres. Johnson, 3 months in advance. Aha! Said McKrinny - he must be your co-host. So we'll call Mangels, that all right? Sure, be my guest, I told him. So they got hold of Jean - she came through loud & clear. "Miss Mangels," asked McKrinny, "is it true Ted Owens predicted there would be a major earthquake on the West Coast within just a few days - and it happened the next day?" "Yes," said Jeanne, "he did. He absolutely did." McKrinny & Spence frowned, their eyes bulged, and they stared at me unbelievably. "Well," says Mac, "he says he caused the earthquake. Do you believe that?" "No," she answers, "I won't go along with that. I don't think so." "Uh huh," says Mac. "Now did he make any other predictions to you, that came true." "Yes," she said, "he did." "How many of his predictions came true?" "I would say four out of five." They thanked her - forgot her - and went ahead with the program. Half an hour later they were told === Page 124 of 246 Thursday, Aug. 12, '65 -- Lorrie and Rick Dear pals: Time to sit down now and fill you in on all the excitement. You read the Bulletin story on The Rain Maker. Philadelphia has had only 7 rains since the 1st of June -- and I made all 7. Before each one, usually a week, I wrote the papers and told them it was coming. So I was invited to be on the famous (around here) Jack McKinney "Night Show." I was supposed to be on one hour. After me came a U.S. Senator. After him, Jack Carter, the comedian so much on Ed Sullivan's show. All McKinney knew was I claimed to be a rain-maker. PK Man he'd never met. He met PK Man 5 minutes after the show started. I laid out my files in front of the battery of mikes and started to work. (I'd been cued in advance by the 'Sir' what to do.) The hour flew by. McKinney and Spence, a man he'd brought in to help attack me -- were sweating blood, and getting nowhere. They'd prepared a perfect case for attacking mere rain-making, but the PK and all I'd done with it -- plus UFO's, were sinking them rapidly. So McKinney on a station break -- told Spence to call the Senator and Carter at his hotel, and cancel them out. "Boy, I've made two enemies tonight!" he told me, gritting his teeth. The second hour they got a bright idea. They'd call one of my letter-file contacts, unexpectedly, long-distance, to verify my claims that all these impossible === Page 125 of 246 July 11, 1964 Lomie I wrote you a letter, some time ago, telling you we are at the Congress Hotel, Rm. 600, 13th & Walnut, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Also I sent you a giant letter, describing the circus. But you have not written. I want a letter from you telling me you got my long circus letter. Put to you kids away from you, even if it caused me lots of trouble. I expect that same privilege to be given me. If I do not hear from you - then I will know you are not being allowed to get my letters. Then I'll let PK settle the matter. Love, Dad P.S. Enclosed is program from Pres. Johnson's shindig, which we did Saturday. === Page 126 of 246 Note: Attached letter - wrote George day before Adlai dropped dead - warning them!! July 16, 1965, Friday Dear Lornie: I enjoyed your letter. It is good to know for sure that you will get my mail, all of it. Never once, not one time, did I interfere or stop a letter from Pat to you kids...even if it meant your getting upset, as it usually did. But I figured it was more important for you to hear from your mother, than for me to have to handle a problem. And I was right. Bet you didn't dream that all those nights I spent working with PK, and clippings, were being guided and watched over by flying saucer intelligences, did you? Wow! And now, there is absolutely no doubt of it. You have the clipping about the saucer that parked over the South Pole and allowed pictures to be taken of it, and a newspaper report written about it...and knocked out the electromagnetic power in the base......and you have my letter written earlier about this happening, although of course I didn't dream a saucer would bring it about. So, Rick was right after all. It is the saucers, and not the "intelligence behind Nature." Or, maybe they are. And that would explain our weird trip across the U.S., mostly across lonely desert and mountains, and my sleeping on top of the car at night. It explains a lot of things. For instance, who and what was Eric? Where did he disappear to? Nobody knew him; nobody could trace him after he left us. He just plain vanished into thin air, with that woman. But, they parked nose to nose with our car....moved us from broke into about $300 per week; a house, everything in the house....just in time to guide all the tornadoes! If you will remember, just after meeting Eric, I got really "hot" with PK, and began doing tremendous things with it. Still am, as a matter of fact. Back to ordinary things...the baby, Beau, is a doll. And getting bigger by leaps and bounds. And spends most of his time that way...leaping and bounding. Also, he is a little bounder, in more ways than one. But he's learning. Can't talk yet; isn't completely toilet trained yet. But boy, can he point! He absolutely captivates anyone, just anyone, passing by or on the bus or in the restaurant....because he strolls around making friends with everybody, and they light up like a light-bulb with him. Lornie, about my use of PK. You are an utter idiot to think I would ever use it on you or Rick. Of course I wouldn't. Besides, you are protected anyway, so it wouldn't do any good if I did. Which I wouldn't. At one time I liked Jim Shannon, but he alienated me. I couldn't care less now if he got in the way of a PK ripple. As for Pat...you have my absolute word that I would never harm her in any way whatsoever...and especially with PK. She has always been, and will always be, very dear to me, and one of my favorite people. We have had, and have, our differences, but this is nothing..... as far as I am concerned she is to be as protected from PK as you kids. Those people that I hit with PK, Lornie, are very rare. As you know. As a matter of fact, remember how Mangels used to insult me to my face, and make me mad...but I held back the PK. Remember? I did not use it on her. However, Lornie, I will make an exception in the case of anyone blocking me from you kids, interfering with my family, trying to hurt my loved ones, in any way. This area is a deadly area, and no trespassing is allowed. I once offered to Pat, from Dallas, to fly to Los Angeles and whip that Frank, who was bothering her...even though we were separated and had no part of one another any more. Because, I still loved her. And in a way, always will. People do not change that much. Cigars? Am very particular. There is a place in L.A. has my favorite cigars. I'll send the address. Love & Roses - Daddy. === Page 127 of 246 Lornie + Rick July 16, 1965, Friday Mr. George Clark, CIA. Dear George: May I refer you to my letter to you of Sunday, April 11, 1965; second paragraph: "Therefore Nature lets me know that currently it is working to create signs and wonders to impress the U.S. Government of the foolish decision it has made with regard to me, its (Nature's) representative. It lets me know that it is going to strike down, by health, accident, etc., officials of the Government until such time as the U. S. Government obeys its wishes." After this plain, crystal clear warning, George, Senator Johnston died, and Pres. Johnson attended the funereal; Adlai Stevenson just died, and Pres. Johnson attended the funereal; also many key military men have expired since April. ---------- May I refer you to my letter to you of July 9, 1965; second paragraph: "Also, in the same letter (of March 14, 1965) I predicted Pres. Johnson's family member, or close friend, would pass away or be lost, by August...and that he would cry and grieve. Well, it isn't August yet, is it." --- And in the paper yesterday, George, it pointed out that Pres. Johnson cried with regard to Stevenson...had tears in his eyes, is the way they put it, I believe.... which would make my prediction a hit. You might go on and read that third paragraph: "Notice lately how government officials are falling like bowling pins? Reedy out with sore feet. General Taylor out, with sore something. Dirkson out of action, in the hospital, with sore stomach. A Congressman got smashed with a truck, not long ago - and so on. The "PK pattern" is on now and working, after a time-lag, and you can tell." ---------- Now, important, may I refer you to my letter of a few days ago, July 13, 1965, last paragraph: "One last point before closing. I spent our last money today to send a wire to LBJ in Texas. After today we'll have no food, no place to stay, nothing. Nature ...or the saucers...or whatever it is...isn't going to be happy about this, George. They were very unhappy when I came to Washington and saw you and Dunn, and was turned down several times. Things have gotten very rough since then for the U.S., if you'll count up the catastrophes. Etc." Next day, George, Stevenson was struck down....did the saucers wish to make their point on this? Yes, they most emphatically did. They are using many ways right now to try to get recognition from the U.S. Government; drought, is one. Elimination of key people in the U.S. Government is another. Constant harassing of the military and space work, is another. Sure, the U.S. Government can ignore my (and the saucer) warnings....but at what horrible cost in lives and dollars to the U.S.? PK Man 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 128 of 246 July 21, 1965 Mr. George Clark, CIA Dear George: (1) My little friends say that they will appear over one of our major U.S. cities soon, in one of their flying machines. They won't name the city, for security reasons (theirs). (2) They also state that they will begin an attack campaign on the U.S. with lightning. Lightning attacks everywhere. There will be an unusual abundance of lightning bolts striking everywhere, everything, soon. ..........the above in an effort to further prove that P K Man is the ir representative and that they can communicate with PK Man. Note: I told you some time ago that "they" were going to hit the U.S. with the phenomena and afflictions of Moses time. See where they are having the first occurrences of cholera since 1811 (I believe it is) in Washington, D.C. (They had like-illnesses in Moses time, in order to convince the Pharaoh.) Also, they will continue their anti-personnel work. P K MAN Lorne - tell Rick that he made our old car the prettiest car I've ever seen on the inside. Only trouble with the car it wouldn't go & take too much money to fix it. But the inside of the car way he had it fixed, was beautiful. I was very proud of him. Dad 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 129 of 246 # Menu Tomato Juice Cocktail Lemon Wedge + + + Hearts of Celery Ripe and Green Olives + + + Braised Pot Roast of Beef Mushroom Sauce + + + Au Gratin Potatoes New Peas + + + Mixed Green Salad + + + Shoreham Parfait + + + Coffee # Sayonara! With this banquet we gather for the last time under the auspices of the S and the American Athletic Association of the Deaf to mark the end of festivities that began a week ago today. During this past week we have n the finest of the deaf athletes from all over the world compete in the rts arena for the honor of themselves and their nations. We have seen ndships formed and ripened, we have gained new insights on each other l new understanding of ourselves and other people of the world. And such treasures are rare, not to be lightly cast aside, not to be soon gotten or allowed to fall into disuse. It is the hope of this committee that at we have gained here will be of lasting nature, and the friends we have de will continue to be friends for the rest of time. Farewell, Farewell is a lonesome sound, That always brings a sigh So give to me when loved ones part That Sweet Old Word -- Good Bye SAYONARA! # Program OFFICIAL INTERPRETER Yerker Andersson MESSAGES OF GREETINGS Delegates from 29 Nations MESSAGE OF WELCOME Jerald M. Jordan, General Chairman + + + SHOW BIZ PRODUCTIONS presents "ARABIAN NIGHTS" THE SULTANS DANCERS Eight beautiful girls THE GENIE OF THE MAGIC LAMP featuring Ken Sherburne, terrific unicycle and juggling routine, with fire THE DANCING JETERS line of girls THE HAPPY JESTERS featuring 6 yrs. old Mike and 4 yrs. old Paul in comedy acrobatics THE MAGIC MAHARAJAH featuring Josef Smiley & Company--illusions THE BUCCANEER BEAUTIES line of girls LORRAINE DEBOE beautiful girl tap dancer CAPTAIN SILVER & THE GOLDEN FANTASY BOGARDE & LOVELLA a knife throwing act Music furnished by GENE DONATI === Page 130 of 246 Honorary Chairman LYNDON B. JOHNSON President of the United States Patrons BYRON R. WHITE Associate Justice of the Supreme Court ROBERT F. KENNEDY (New York) United States Senator ANTHONY J. CELEBREZZE Secretary Health, Education and Welfare LEVERETT SALTONSTALL (Mass.) United States Senator HOMER THORNBERRY Judge, United States District Court AVERY BRUNDAGE President Comite International Olympique KENNETH L. WILSON President United States Olympic Committee EDWARD P. F. EAGAN President People-to-People Sports Committee WILSON H. ELKINS President of University of Maryland LEONARD M. ELSTAD President of Gallaudet College STAN MUSIAL Chairman President's Council on Physical Fitness Comite International des Sports Silencieux PIERRE BERNHARD, France President S. ROBEY BURNS, USA Vice President C. WLOWTOWSKI, Poland Vice President ANTOINE DRESSE, Belgium Secretary General ROGER LONNOY, Belgium Interpreter D. VUKOTIC, Yougoslavia Board Member J. LUOMAJOKI, Finland Board Member P. SOUTIGUINE, Russia Board Member O. DAHLGREN, Sweden Board Member O. RYDEN, Sweden Past President CISS J. P. NIELSEN, Denmark Past President CISS American Athletic Association of the Deaf EDWARD C. CARNEY President BERT POSS Vice President JAMES A. BARRACK Secretary-Treasurer HERB SCHREIBER Publicity Director and Chairman of A.A.A.D. Hall of Fame JERALD M. JORDAN Chairman International Games of the Deaf HARRY M. JACOBS President Emeritus Tenth International Games for the Deaf Committee S. ROBEY BURNS Chairman Emeritus JERALD M. JORDAN General Chairman LEON AUERBACH Assistant Chairman THOMAS O. BERG Games Director RICHARD M. PHILLIPS Liaison Officer RONALD E. SUTCLIFFE Finance Officer FREDERICK C. SCHREIBER Publicity Director ALEXANDER FLEISCHMAN Local Chairman ARTHUR KRUGER U.S.A. Team Director RICHARD CASWELL Purchasing and Awards INTERNATIONAL GAMES FOR THE DEAF 07/09/2025 16:14 Banquet Show Dance CISS AAAD 27 JUNE 3 JULY 1965 X international games the deaf WASHINGTON, D.C. featuring An International Performance "ARABIAN NIGHTS" SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 3, 1965 REGENCY ROOM, SHOREHAM HOTEL HALL & PARK, SHERATON-PARK HOTEL WASHINGTON, D. C. We did a show at the Shoreham at 8, then went by bus to Sheraton-Park & did another. === Page 131 of 246 Tuesday, March 9, 1965 Dear George: There are two interesting things now to tell you: (1) Nature has told me to tell you that to prove it is using me as its representative, it will do something without my using PK, or knowing any of its workings. Nature will, in the near future, change the North and South Poles. As the message came to me, I believe it will use extreme heat to affect those two places and change the magnetic condition of the Poles. Nature added that you won't have to check with any Bureau on it...that the result will be strong enough to make the newspapers, where you can read about it. Note: this is the first time anything like this has occurred. I don't know what Nature is talking about, or what it plans. Will be interesting to see. (2) Exercise Silver Lance was useless, for test purposes. An invalid experiment. Any results from the Exercise are not worth the paper they are printed on. Why? Because Silver Lance was conducted in a growing, active PK field, with a wide variety of mechanisms at work in the field that would undoubtedly affect the Exercise to a large extent. The field is Electra; the California coast. If you doubt this statement, just look at Electro, in Florida, and what has happened there in my first PK field. Since July the entire area has been like an elephant with the nervous shakes staggering around drunk in a china shop. There have been hurricanes criss-crossing the place; planes have been falling down; President Johnson narrowly escaped bad injury on two occasions; the Space Eye burned down; and over a dozen rockets and missiles either blew up, fell down, or got up and went haywire. So don't tell me the PK doesn't work on an area. So, Silver Lance, to be a true experiment in the logical sense of the word, would have to be held somewhere else, without PK affecting it, to get a valid idea of its results, test-wise. Check? Hoping the U.S. Government will use this tool, sometime this week, I remain PK Man 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 132 of 246 THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, ### sighted at 2 S. Pole Bases # 'Flying Saucer' Is Reported SANTIAGO, Chile, July 8 (AP). -- From the Antarctic Thursday came official reports that a mysterious lens-shaped flying object, maneuvering and moving at great speed, was sighted last Saturday. A Chilean base commander in the Antarctic reported the object was "yellowish red, changing to green, yellow and orange." In Buenos Aires, the Navy issued a communique saying personnel at Argentina's Antarctic base saw the flying object and photographed it. Mario Jahn Barrera, commander of the Chilean base, told the Defense Ministry by radio that it would be too much to say that "all of us saw a flying saucer, one of these science-fiction things." "However," he continued, "it was something real, an object sued in Buenos Aires. "The object was yellowish red," Jahn said, "changing to green, yellow and orange. It would zigzag quickly. Then it was stopped and we promptly reached for field glasses, telescopes, anything at hand to sight it. We watched as it remained quietly there for about 20 minutes." Jahn said a corporal took color pictures but there are no facilities for developing the film. The men must wait for eight months to be relieved to have the film developed on the mainland. === Page 133 of 246 Copy - Lonnie & Rick X July 19, 1965 Philadelphia Inquirer Call Bulletin Newspapers, The Editors Gentlemen: Yesterday you just enjoyed my storm which I referred to in my letter to you of July 14...just five days ago...and I quote: "I am going to deliver some freak weather here in Philadelphia, that will teach you a lesson. Lightning displays of an unusual nature...rain - floods...near tornado winds." Well, is it not so? Can you deny that yesterday you had a whopping storm? And lightning bolts struck all around Philadelphia...destroying $50,000 worth of business goods? And...the high winds blew down trees. I told you ... when it comes, to remember The Rainmaker. For your information I was in Rittenhouse Square the afternoon of Saturday, June 19, having called down the terrific storm then...and even told my wife that I would direct a lightning bolt to knock out the city power...which it did. Then I worked hard to bring in the next big rainstorm, but was not in Rittenhouse Square when it finally broke through and came down. But I was right there in Rittenhouse Square yesterday, calling down the storm, and especially the lightning, which is my trademark, you might say. Bear in mind that I could do this for New York City, in much greater volume and consistency. Notice that these two big storms...three, rather, have come on the weekends. That is because I have to work at something else during the week and cannot turn my full power and concentration on rain-making. I do not understand why you do not give me a story...so that I will have a chance, through your story, of being tried by some area in New Jersey or New York...and help those areas thereby by relief from the drought. Well, I will give Philadelphia more lightning...more wind...more rain. I like it cool, and as I say, the lightning is my trademark. THE RAINMAKER, c/o Owens Congress Hotel 12th and Walnut Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Kids...I brought in another terrific storm yesterday, standing there in the pouring rain directing the lightning to strike...had been working two days on it, just like Phoenix. Was a beaut! The clipping for it attached. Discovered a very weird thing last night...it was so hot in our rooms, I would guess 90-100, because our ventilation is poor...sweat was streaming off of me, dripping down onto my clippings. I went to bed, and put a hand on my chest, and it was as cold as ice-cubes. The area over my lungs, heart, and chest was ice-cold...the rest of me was hot and sweating. Figure that one out. Martha couldn't believe it, and neither could I. 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 134 of 246 Daily: Home Delivered TEN CENTS 48 Cents Per Week Torrential Showers In Parts of Area Water Crisis Eased July 14, 1965 COPY Inquirer Call-Bulletin - newspapers Gentlemen: Shame on you. My name is "The Rainmaker" - or "P K Man" - and two weeks ago I wrote you, and called you also, to the effect that I was in the process of making a big storm for Philadelphia, to prove my ability... so that you would give me a write up... so that I might get an opportunity to perform in the New York-New Jersey areas, and end their drought for them. So, over the weekend you had your biggest storm in six months... just as I worked for it, and called it. It made the front pages of your newspapers, and it made everyone very happy... this great, big rainstorm in the middle of a drought area. I made our weekend storm, and will make more... for I live here, and do not like hot, dry weather. Therefore Philly will be wetter and cooler than the rest of the U.S. this summer. The people here are lucky that way. But you need to be taught a lesson. I am going to deliver some freak weather here in Philadelphia, that will teach you a lesson. Lightning displays of an unusual nature... rain-floods... near-tornado winds. Takes a few days, or weeks, to accomplish. But you'll have it, and when it comes, just remember THE RAINMAKER (P K Man), c/o Owens Congress Hotel, Phila., Pa. *As for the people residing in the Delaware River Basin, they had better relocate, because this summer they will be literally toasted alive, burned out, and water evaporated that is there. 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 135 of 246 JULY 19, 1965 Daily: Home Delivered 48 Cents Per Week TEN CENTS # Torrential Showers Soak Parts of Area Water Crisis Eased By ALFRED P. KLIMCKE and WILLIAM B. COLLINS Of The Inquirer Staff 7/19 Thundershowers that hit parts of the Upper Delaware River Basin over the weekend swept into Greater Philadelphia on Sunday afternoon, drenching some sections with brief but torrential downpours. The showers have eased the water supply crisis for the time-being at least, according to Robert E. Fish, deputy river master. In Philadelphia sporadic street flooding and minor storm damage were reported in sections struck by the quick-skipping storm. Pea-size hailstones that accompanied the rain rattled against windows of Center City office buildings and West Philadelphia homes, stinging hapless pedestrians as they raced for cover. **30 ARE EVACUATED** Weather observers at International Airport reported that .11 inches of rain fell there during one brief, heavy rainstorm and periods of light rain that followed it. A spokesman said heavier rain, up to nearly an inch, fell in some suburban areas west and northwest of the city. More than 30 persons were evacuated from three three-story apartment buildings on Mount Vernon st. after the brick facing on a 10 by 12 foot section of exterior wall at the rear of the center building collapsed minutes after the storm passed through the area. **12 FLEE BUILDING** Residents of 2029 Mount Vernon st. told police of hearing "a rumble," and feeling their floors sag as the brick facing collapsed. Twelve residents of that building, nine of them young children, fled. Residents were also temporarily evacuated from the two adjacent structures. Lightning knocked two-feet off the top of a double chimney at 5028-30 Rorer ave., Feltonville. The brick crashed to a concrete patio in front of the row-house. Winds felled a number of trees and large branches throughout the city, blocking some traffic lanes temporarily 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 136 of 246 trees and large throughout the city, blocking some traffic lanes temporarily CUTBACK ORDERED Fish said on Sunday that he was issuing orders for a cutback of the amount of water released from New York City and utility company reservoirs into the Delaware. "In the next two days, we will cut back about one third each day," Fish said. "This isn't a whole lot," he added, "but it is some saving, and we'll save what we can." Fish, who is with the U. S. Geological Survey, emphasized that the drought was not over and that the cutback may be a temporary thing. EMERGENCY STILL ON The water emergency declared on July 7 by the Delaware River Basin Commission still is in effect. Invoking its emergency powers, the commission ordered the release of a total of 466 million gallons a day from reservoirs in the upper basin. The action was taken to guarantee the fresh water supply of Philadelphia and New Jersey communities. With the normal flow of the Delaware River drastically reduced by four years of drought, salt water Continued on Page 20, Column 2 === Page 137 of 246 Lightning Sets Blaze in Store A bolt of lightning started a fire in one of an arcade of shops on Germantown ave. during Sunday afternoon's showers. Some $50,000 worth of men's furnishings were destroyed. Smoke was seen at the Hamilton Men's Shop, 3630 Germantown ave. by Patrolman Robert Magilton and he turned in the alarm at 5:20 P.M. Battalion Chief Edward McGonigle said lightning had struck a wooden utility a half block away during the short, but intense rainstorm, and was probably responsible for the store fire. Owners of the shop are Frank and Norman Axe. The manager is Jerry Wundohl, of 7023 Calvert st., who told police that there was an inventory of $75,000 in goods in the shop. He gave the damage estimate. A power failure due to the fire stopped oxygen pumps in fish tanks at the Arcade Pet Shop, 3627 N. Broad st., killing fish worth $150. Drifting smoke sickened and upset most of the animals in the shop, pet shop manager Harry Lewis, of 3966 Elser st., told police. Firemen fought the blaze for two hours. Trolley service along Germantown ave. southbound was interrupted for an hour and a half. Lightning Burns 4 Phila. Girls HAMMONTON, N. J., July 18 -- Four Philadelphians suffered slight burns Sunday afternoon when lightning struck a tree under which they were standing during a thunderstorm at Hammonton Lake Park. Burned were Mrs. Paula Puggi, 18, of 1536 S. Colorado ave.; Rita Raffa, 18, of 1715 S. 10th st.; Mary Price, 16, of 1813 S. Rosewood st.; Phyllis DiPoali, 9, of 2041 Moore st. All were treated for superficial burns at the W. B. Kessler Memorial Hospital here and released. Snow, Rain, Winds Lash Australia Torrential Showers Hit Area, Ease Crisis Continued From First Page from the Atlantic Ocean was pushing upriver. The commission set the desirable flow for the emergency at 1200 cubic feet per second, as measured at the Montague, N. J., gauge across the Delaware from Milford, Pa. Despite the release of the water from the reservoirs, the river had been decreasing almost daily for the last week. "The river had been falling off gradually for one reason--lack of rain in the basin area," Fish said. Here are the average flows measured at Montague beginning last Monday. Monday, 1030 cubic feet per second; Tuesday, 1070; Wednesday, 1030; Thursday, 1030; Friday, 997; Saturday, 980. Fish said that Sunday's flow was averaging approximately 1000, although this was before the full impact of the weekend rains had been felt. A long-range forecast by the U. S. Weather Bureau also brought hope that the relief would be more than temporary. The prediction was that between 4 and 5½ inches of rain will fall in the river basin area of Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey between the middle of July and mid-August. The thunderstorms over Saturday and early Sunday were scattered throughout the upper basin area, with an average of .35 inches falling. RAINFALL IS SPOTY Fish reported that the rain measured .50 inch at New York City's Pepacton reservoir, and .91 inch at New York's Neversink reservoir. On the other hand, the measurement at Lake Wallenpaupak was only .13 inch, Fish said. Lake Wallenpaupak serves as reservoir for the Pennsylvania Power & Light Co., one of two utilities which have been ordered to release water into the Delaware. The other utility is the Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc., with a reservoir system on the Mongaup River in Sullivan county, N.Y. DAILY FLOW FIGURES Under the commission's orders, New York is to release 266 million gallons a day from two reservoirs. The flow is haven't had anything like this in weeks and weeks here." The "bad" weather which was such good news canceled a helicopter trip that New Jersey's Gov. Richard J. Hughes had planned. Hughes, who is chairman of the Delaware River Basin Commission, had planned to go aloft with New Jersey Conservation Commissioner Robert A. Roe to tour North Jersey's reservoirs. Philadelphia Inquirer 7/19/65 === Page 138 of 246 store me. Owners of the shop are Frank and Norman Axe. The manager is Jerry Wundohl, of 7023 Calvert st., who told police that there was an inventory of $75,000 in goods in the shop. He gave the damage estimate. A power failure due to the fire stopped oxygen pumps in fish tanks at the Arcade Pet Shop, 3627 N. Broad st., killing fish worth $150. Drifting smoke sickened and upset most of the animals in the shop, pet shop manager Harry Lewis, of 3966 Elser st., told police. Firemen fought the blaze for two hours. Trolley service along Germantown ave. southbound was interrupted for an hour and a half. # Lightning Burns 4 Phila. Girls HAMMONTON, N. J., July 18. --Four Philadelphians suffered slight burns Sunday afternoon when lightning struck a tree under which they were standing during a thunderstorm at Hammonton Lake Park. Burned were Mrs. Paula Puggi, 18, of 1536 S. Colorado ave.; Rita Raffa, 18, of 1715 S. 10th st.; Mary Price, 16, of 1813 S. Rosewood st.; Phylis DiPoali, 9, of 2041 Moore st. All were treated for superficial burns at the W. B. Kessler Memorial Hospital here and released. # Snow, Rain, Winds Lash Australia SYDNEY, Australia, July 18 (AP).--Large areas of southeastern Australia were swept by snow, heavy rain and strong winds during the weekend. Hundreds were stranded at resorts on the New South Wales southern tablelands and Blue Mountains by stalled rail and road traffic. Monday, 1030 cubic feet per second; Tuesday, 1070; Wednesday, 1030; Thursday, 1030; Friday, 997; Saturday, 980. Fish said that Sunday's flow was averaging approximately 1000, although this was before the full impact of the weekend rains had been felt. A long-range forecast by the U. S. Weather Bureau also brought hope that the relief would be more than temporary. The prediction was that between 4 and 5½ inches of rain will fall in the river basin area of Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey between the middle of July and mid-August. The thunderstorms over Saturday and early Sunday were scattered throughout the upper basin area, with an average of .35 inches falling. RAINFALL IS SPOTY Fish reported that the rain measured .50 inch at New York City's Pepacton reservoir, and .91 inch at New York's Neversink reservoir. On the other hand, the measurement at Lake Wallenpaupak was only .13 inch, Fish said. Lake Wallenpaupak serves as reservoir for the Pennsylvania Power & Light Co., one of two utilities which have been ordered to release water into the Delaware. The other utility is the Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc., with a reservoir system on the Mongaup River in Sullivan county, N.Y. DAILY FLOW FIGURES Under the commission's orders, New York is to release 266 million gallons a day from its two reservoirs. The flow is from Wallenpaupak set at 200 million gallons daily, and 66 million gallons are to be released from the Mongaup system. Speaking of the thundershowers, Fish said. "This is some slight improvement. We === Page 139 of 246 Leonid Dick July 15, 1965 Mr. George Clark, CIA. Dear George: Well, just as I have been predicting in my letters....the "PK" is now reaching out and eliminating top officials of the government. Actually, there have been a bunch eliminated, one way or another, these past few weeks. Stevenson, yesterday, was the biggest so far in terms of status. He will be joined shortly, however, by others of like status. The PK, or the saucers, or whatever, are going to work in earnest at this time....part of the reason, of course, is because of their representative, myself and family, being ignored and not helped along the lines the saucers have in mind. There is absolutely no way the U.S. Government, or any other government, can prevent any of this from happening...except to make friends with the saucer-intelligences the same way the U.S. would make friends with a foreign country. Try to give them what they want and need; do not make them enemies, or goad them into war. I know two weeks ago that one of our top men in government would drop dead, as if an invisible wall had fallen onto them. But I didn't know which one...McNamara, Rusk, Johnson, Stevenson, Humphrey, etc. They are all marked by the saucer-intelligence, I suppose I should tell you, for the same thing that hit Stevenson. There is no warning. Just...that's all. Want to know a peculiar thing that has happened where I just went to work? Sunday last my boss, Mr. Hill, saw his wife have an operation at the hospital. Monday his father had a heart-attack. Tuesday our big brawny guard downstairs, Gene, had a heart-attack, and on the same day one of our top counselors collapsed on the street, reason unknown. They took him to the hospital, then took him home, where he is now. He also is an ex-football player, big and tough, name of Bill Flanagan. This same pattern happened when I worked for Gelman in Washington. Everybody in the place had to go to the doctor or the dentist, for emergency operations, etc., and one woman whom I especially disliked, Rose, had the ceiling fall on her! And this a brand new office in a brand new multi-million dollar building! I am working now, temporarily, for Diagnostic and Relocation Center, 304 Arch St., Phila., Pa. Oh, George, an important bit of information from you. My saucer friends will pass this along to you...the Viet Cong and Chinese have found a serious "Achilles Heel" of the U.S., and are preparing to strike a deadly, paralyzing blow at this glaring weakness of ours they have found. This is all they tell me, to pass on to you....to further prove their real-ness, and their power. Many lives could be saved, George, if the U.S. Government would heed me and my message re the saucer-intelligence. Or the "intelligence behind Nature", or whatever. They have also told me to tell you....whatever they say is never forgotten, is etched on time and place like acid on wood...and they remind you and the U.S. Govt. that for every day that their representative, P K Man (me) has to work at ordinary living, instead of for them...as per their instructions, to help them, in their way....they will eliminate a top U.S. official, or important person. I refer you to a letter quite a while back, George. By now, they stand to collect a lot of important people. 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 140 of 246 July 14, 1965 Mr. H. Mat Adams Alternate Chairman Delaware River Basin Commission 25 Scotch Road Suburban Square Trenton, New Jersey Reply to: 601 George Street, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Dear Mr. Adams: With reference to my letter to you of several weeks ago, in regard to alleviating the drought in your area....I appreciate the courtesy of your letter of July 12, 1965, in answer. Especially in view of the fact that my "mysterious suggestion" was not conducive to any serious consideration. However, Mr. Adams, I assure you that the circumstances are unusual, to say the least. Now I am going to tell you something that you will not believe...but it was I who caused the hurricanes of 1964 to hit the area of Cape Kennedy, and Michoud Missile Complex in Louisiana. It was I who caused the floods on the West Coast at Christmas that the newspapers said could never happen again in 1,000 years. And I caused the Midwest tornados and floods, recently. I do not expect you to believe this, of course, even though it is quite true. But I would suggest that you, if you are interested, contact Central Intelligence Agency in Washington, D. C., and tell them of the proposition I made you...which costs you absolutely nothing except maintenance of myself and wife and child for a short while. Of course, when the rains and floods come, and you have water enough for years, with the drought completely broken...then my fee still stands. The CIA know of my work. They should tell you, in effect: This man has done some strange things that we can't explain. He could be just an eccentric, a "nut" - however, there are things that he has done which would not fit into the "nut" category, and we would recommend that you give his abilities a try, at least...since the cost is negligible. Should he do what he claims to be able to do, cause rains and storms and floods that will end the drought, it would certainly be worth the fee. I must tell you in all sincerity, Mr. Adams....the drought will get worse, and worse, and worse, and worse. I do not care what you try in order to alleviate it...seeding, etc., it will not work. There is only one source which can bring your area rain in constant and great amounts necessary to end the drought on the East Coast, which has been in effect for some years. That one source is myself. Should you decide to try me, later on, please do not hesitate to get in touch with me, either at the current address...or c/o Lornie Owens, Shannon, 505 S. Osage, Inglewood, California. If you want the drought ended in the Delaware River Basin, Mr. Adams, you will most certainly be able to find the small amount of funds necessary to keep me and my wife and child while I break your drought for you. And I will even make you a more sporting proposition than that. If I do not completely break and end your drought within three months time (that has lasted for 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 141 of 246 2 years) then I will repay you any monies which you have spent in maintaining myself and wife and child for that brief period of time. What could be fairer? Perhaps you should know the entire story, Mr. Adams. As fantastic as it is, you should know it. The tremendous intelligences of the "flying saucers" are in communication with me - the only human being on earth that they can actually converse with, in their own way. For the past months they have been trying to prove this fact to the U.S. Govt., which quite naturally refused to believe it. It was only just recently that they identified themselves...before that I did not know what it was that was causing storms when I wanted them, where I wanted them...and other things to happen as well. They are now in the process of letting the ..our ... world know that they are real, they are here, and they have great power which we do not have. They do, in fact, want to frighten us with their powers. Their purpose is to stop the warfare now going on; block any possibility of further war; and get people and minds straightened out in the world. In effect, give the world a 10 to 20 year "breather" of peace and true brotherly-love - without war, without hate, without all of the conditions which are now wrecking the world as we know it. The saucers control our weather, when they wish. They can start tornados and hurricanes, and somehow they can guide them. The saucers at this time are creating a world-wide condition of drought. They will dry up the entire earth and make water scarce. This will cause sickness, an imbalance in Nature which will cause trouble with insects, reptiles, etc. Since New York is perhaps the most widely-known part of the U.S., it will be made a drought-example, as well as the entire area surrounding it. Unless, that is, the U.S. Government and the people of the U.S. recognize the saucer intelligences, and take steps to ally our government with the saucer intelligences. It is very comical but somewhat sad that at the present time we are desperately trying to woo Hanoi and Russia and DeGaulle, for peace and political discussions...when we should, and had better, turn our efforts toward making friends with the saucer intelligences. You can check this. I wrote to the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin newspapers, several weeks ago, informing them that I was here, asking for a write-up and announcing that I would make a big rainstorm for Phila. All right. I brought the storm last Saturday and Sunday. It was very good. And I intend to bring more "freak" weather into this pinpointed Philadelphia area. I talked to two different reports at the Bulletins here, telling them that I would make the big rainstorm. New York City, and the entire New York-New Jersey area, etc., could have rainstorm after rainstorm...constant rain - with The Rainmaker working. Very truly yours, PK Mar-- THE RAINMAKER, c/o Owens Congress Hotel, 12th & Walnut 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 142 of 246 July 13, 1965 Mr. George Clerk, CIA Dear George: I will have to admit that any Tom, Dick or Harry could write to Cape Kennedy and say, "I am going to cause lightning to strike your rockets, and make hurricanes hit your area." Then lightning does strike one of the Cape's biggest rockets, which sits on a lightning-proof pad. But - this is just a co-incidence. Could happen to anyone, or any Cape. Soon several hurricanes do hit the area of the Cape; but this, also, could be a co-incidence. Anyone could predict, "There will be a major earthquake on the West Coast within a few days -" and then when the quake actually hits Oregon and Washington, the very next day - it could be just a co-incidence. Too, anyone could write the newspapers and government agencies that he would actually cause rainstorms and blizzards and floods in vast and unprecedented amounts, as a 1964 Christmas gift for the U.S., to help alleviate the drought prevalent in the U.S. Following this prediction came the "freak" West Coast floods of Christmas, 1964, which, according to the newspapers, could not occur again in 1,000 years. This, of course, was all just a big coincidence. Then followed the barrage of some 80 tornados and near-tornadoes, plus floods, in the Midwest...then the Northwest. But what the heck, probably just a coincidence. And anyone could predict to the Government that he could make all top government officials sick and ill, and put them all in the hospital. And then, shortly thereafter, they all do collapse into the hospital, with "Executive Flu." More coincidence. However, George, I have a serious question to ask you, and Mr. Dunn, who loves for me to be "specific" in my predictions. -- When I predict specifically that the electromagnetic condition of the North and/or South Pole will be affected - and when I further predict specifically that the absolute fact of this occurrence will be reported in the newspapers - and when I further state that these two things will occur for the specific purpose of proving that I am the representative of Nature, of the Vast Intelligence behind Nature (which is trying to help the U.S. Govt. but cannot penetrate the Govt. thick-headedness.) - and then, George, a flying saucer makes my predictions come true...makes it happen, just that way, and I send you the clipping and my letter for proof and verification - if anyone infers that this multi-impossibility could be just a coincidence then I am going to sit down on the floor, George, take a deep deep breath, and scream until I'm purple in the face. One last point before closing. I spent our last money today to send a wire to LBJ in Texas. After today we'll have no food, no place to stay, nothing. Nature...or the saucers...or whatever it is...isn't going to be happy about this, George. They were very unhappy when I came to Washington and saw you and Dunn, and was turned down several times. Things have gotten very rough since then, if you'll count up the catastrophes. Ironically, I, a Man, and his link with Nature (saucers) is the one hope for the U.S. Government. And as my situation goes, so will go the situation of the U. S. Government and the U.S. As Nature says that, as a matter of fact, everything I do, with my family, is followed by Nature (saucers) and anyone or anything blocking us, attacking us, giving us a hard time, will be dealt with by Nature (saucers). *For the U.S. 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 143 of 246 07/09/2025 16:14 Dear Doris + Harry, It was very good to hear from you. We are single today as Martha is away because of the national balance which but I think that the migration of the North or South Pacific part of war is an international of the world - and that the papers would write it up - after we left they things before here come to pass. See clipping enclosed. This, in fact, "nothing" as all Hudson has brought my prediction about in the past summer the person what P K 4 pm kids - my hair is standing up on end!! Love later RL === Page 144 of 246 COPY PRESIDENT JOHNSON July 9, 1965 Dear Mr. President: This letter should be the most interesting letter to yourself, as far as you are concerned, in your entire lifetime. Why? Because it proves conclusively that "P K Man" and all of the unusual things claimed by P K Man, are genuine and real. Simply check with the CIA. I sent "George Clark" of CIA a letter on March 9, 1965: "Nature has told me to tell you that to prove it is using me as its representative, it will do something without my using PK, or knowing any of its workings. Nature will, in the near future, change the North and South Poles. As the message came to me, I believe it will use extreme heat to affect those two places...and change the magnetic condition of the Poles. Nature added that you won't have to check with any Bureau on it...that the result will be strong enough to make the newspapers, where you can read about it." There you are, President Johnson. This morning, you can read in your newspaper, the following: "Flying Saucer Is Reported - Sighted At 2 S. Pole Bases" "...It also caused interference in the electro-magnetic apparatus of an Argentine base which is facing ours on a nearby small island. The interference was confirmed by the Navy communique issued in Buenos Aires.........." Well...Nature has proved that it is using me as its representative, just as it said it would...by affecting the South Pole's magnetic condition. Has anyone else lately, in the CIA or the State Department, been able to make such a prediction? I tell you that I am the most valuable human being right now in the entire world, simply because Nature and I can communicate! And the U.S. Government has access to all of this vast power of Nature, which is linked to me...and refuses to use it! Rejects it! Incredible. Respectfully, but very sadly Because I know what is ahead...... P. K. Man c/o Owens Congress Hotel, Room 600 12th and Walnut Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 145 of 246 July 9, 1965 Mr. George Clark, CIA. Dear George: Well, what do you know...after successfully predicting dozens of major happenings (missing only a few times, on space shots) it seems I have missed again! In my letter to you of March 14, 1965, I predicted President Johnson would be gravely ill by June. Tch; tch! Now, how could I have missed that one? And I have been so very very accurate in the past. Also, in the same letter I predicted Pres. Johnson's family member, or close friend, would pass away or be lost, by August...and that he would cry and grieve. Well, it isn't August yet, is it. Notice lately how government officials are falling like bowling pins? Reedy out with "sore feet." General Maxwell Taylor out, with sore something. Dirkson out of action, in the hospital, with sore stomach. A Congressman got smashed with a truck, not long ago - and so on. The "PK pattern" is on now and working, after a time-lag, and you can tell. And the U.S. drought is getting worse now, isn't it....yet no one will take a wild chance, and let P K Man go to work with PK and Nature, to end the drought. Oh yes, I could go ahead and do it on my own....but I cannot, George, because Nature calls the shots, gives me instructions, brings about the results....and Nature insists that the U.S. Government do it Nature's way. Nature is, after all, most concerned because the U.S. Government has put itself above and beyond Nature....so that now Nature is going to prove, bit by painful bit, that such is not so...that Nature is much mightier than all of the money and hydrogen bombs and power of the U.S., or any other country. VERY GREAT Now, here is another thing of interest to CIA...see my letter to you of March 9, 1965, 4th paragraph: "Nature has told me to tell you that to prove it is using me as its representative, it will do something without my using PK, or knowing any of its workings. Nature will, in the near future, change the North and South Poles. As the message came to me, I believe it will use extreme heat to affect those two places....and change the magnetic condition of the Poles. Nature added that you won't have to check with any Bureau on it...that the result will be strong enough to make the newspapers, where you can read about it. Note: This is the first time anything like this has occurred. I don't know what Nature is talking about, or what it plans. Will be interesting to see." All right, this morning in the paper was the clipping: "Flying Saucer Is Reported" "Sighted At 2 S. Pole Bases" "..........It also caused interference in the electro-magnetic apparatus of an Argentine base which is facing ours on a nearby small island. The interference was confirmed by the Navy communique issued in Buenos Aires....." Well, well, George Clark! Now what do you make of that? My prediction of March 9, seems to have been remarkably accurate for July 9, yes? Incidentally, I saw a picture in Life mag of two of the midwest tornadoes (where about 80 tornadoes and near-tornadoes struck) and these two tornadoes in the Life 1 pic were lighted up by lightning. Well, they didn't look like tornadoes to me. I have the picture, and wish I could talk to you about it further. P K MAN (Owens) === Page 146 of 246 July 10, 1965 President Johnson Dear Mr. President: Enclosed is an exact copy of a letter written by myself and sent to Mr. "George Clark" of your CIA, at Washington 25, D. C. It was sent on March 9, 1965. Notice the paragraph marked in red. Now, four months later, comes the proof, referred to in the marked paragraph. See the newspaper clipping attached to this copy of the letter, taken from yesterday's newspaper. Put the two items together, and you have concrete, absolute proof...that all of my past correspondence to you, and the CIA, and NASA, and the State Department...is valid and true, no matter if it sounded fantastic. And, of course, it did sound fantastic. Only myself, and my family, knew that it was true, and now you also, can know it. Mr. Dunn, of the CIA, was interested in knowing the "causal factor" of my "PK" phenomena. At the time I spoke with him, all I could tell him was that the causal factor was the intelligence behind Nature, with which I had managed to arrange a communication, or method of communicating. However, now we know differently. The causal factor, for Mr. Dunn's information, and your own, as well, seems to be these "flying saucers" - whatever they are. But, whatever they are, they can: cause earthquakes to occur; cause fires to start; cause people to become ill, singly or en masse; cause floods and tornados and hurricanes; cause planes to explode in mid-air, or on the ground, and so on. These are some of their destructive abilities. Their main purpose is to stop the warfare on earth; the killing, the hate, the black negativism now so current, world-wide. When these saucers telepathically contacted me, and had me relay this information on March 9 to George Clark, of your CIA...then actually gave the needed proof on July 7, over the South Pole...by changing the electro-magnetic condition of the area, and then getting the action put into the newspapers...just as described in my letter of March 9...they not only gave the U.S. Government the proof that it needs, but the actual letter of March 9 must be read more closely...the rest of the material in it...for these saucers, you must remember, are using my mind, my eyes, my voice...for communication...and they will use my typing, also. I am sure that there is other information in that letter which the saucers want the U.S. to know about, and believe. Now, at the time I typed that information, and sent it to CL, I was perplexed. Because always before I was told that a storm would happen, or an earthquake, or that people would get sick and go to the hospital. But to be told that "Nature" would change the electro-magnetic condition at the N. and/or S. Pole, and then get it put into the newspapers, as proof that I was representing "Nature" - seemed ridiculous to me, and I hated to send that paragraph to Mr. Clark, because for one thing it seemed impossible that anything could change the magnetic condition at the Poles, and then for it to be publicized also seemed impossible. But of course, I didn't reckon on a "flying saucer" to make it possible. The fact that it was brought about...was done in this manner...by this tremendous intelligence which has been running hurricanes across Florida, etc. etc...is an indication of its tremendous knowledge. Any other === Page 147 of 246 3/9/65 p 2 phenomena, such as storms, planes falling, etc., that I have predicted to the CIA and NASA...could be pointed to as accidental, or a coincidence, or that it is just good guessing, or that perhaps I am precognitive, but that is all. Now you, the President, and the U.S. Government, stand notified that this is not so. It is not all indeed. I have all of the power of these "flying saucers" and their intelligent beings, in back of me. A study, or analysis of my previous voluminous correspondence, will readily show you how all this has come about, and how it has been brought about. My own children have seen me sketch on a paper the route I have wanted Hurricane Cleo in '64 to take...and a route contradictory to that given by the Weather Bureau...and the hurricane changed direction, not once but several times, to follow my routing - not only my routing, but to pause for a long interval in two places and just sit there and swirl around. Now you, and I, can understand more about this...how it was done. Somehow these saucers either create these hurricanes, or are the hurricanes. The intelligences running these saucers do not, of course, speak English, and must rely on methods of contacting some person on earth telepathically in order to converse with the peoples on earth. This they have been trying to do by landing, then speaking to one or two people in that isolated spot...but of course the humans they have approached have been too frightened or apprehensive to cooperate. My make-up is so peculiar, and perhaps resembles their own so much, in the mind...that they have somehow managed to break through and reach my mind. It is a two-way communication, in that I can signal them and talk to them also...not in words, but in mental pictures of what is wanted, or needed. Visual imagery. President Johnson, let me speak frankly. Your life is in great danger. Not from me, that would be ridiculous. I understand you, and like you. Do understand that this is no threat from myself against you. I know that you could have the Secret Service pick me up today and throw me into prison for writing the above, just on suspicion. But I am trusting in your good judgment not to have this done, for this is no personal threat of mine. I am interested right now only in providing a home and background for my family. But, what I mean in the above, when I say that your life is in great danger, is that these "saucer" intelligences will not hesitate to eliminate you, in their own way, if you persist in not listening to them, or in paying attention to them. They are trying desperately to avert a nuclear war on this earth...and temporarily you are standing in their way...because you will not recognize me as their representative, and be guided by them, through me. Not to mention the power they wish to place at our disposal, once we listen to them, and begin cooperating. Again I reiterate...I am warning you only as a friend warns a friend. I am not threatening you. Believe me, you could book me into the White House tomorrow to do my knife-throwing act, and you could stand in Louella's place, and I would throw my knives around you without touching you. That is how safe you are, and would be, with me. What I am talking about are these "saucers". 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 148 of 246 COPY Tuesday March 9, 1965 Dear George: Last night I got a real shock. Someone called home before I got home from the office, and my boy, Harvey, took the call. It was someone from St. Paul, Minn., interested "in my offer". My brilliant son did not get the name or identification...the party said they would call back...but they never did. So...I almost had an offer from somebody interested in PK, before I strike out this week at Belmon. Anyway, back to the same theme, George. I guarantee (and look at the astounding success I have had with practically all my projects) to reverse the current trend of the U.S. getting the shaft every day, in every way...and can change the climate in V to winning for us, and bringing about what the U.S. wants. This can be done with PK as easily as swinging about storms...knocking down planes...putting officials in the hospital, etc. I regret Mr. McConal's sister passing away...and PK had nothing to do with that, I am sure. I imagine if Mr. C. thought it had...he would send me to V and have me dropped in a parachute over VC headquarters. There are two interesting things now to tell you: (1) Nature has told me to tell you that to prove it is using me as its representative, it will do something without my using PK, or knowing any of its workings. Nature will, in the near future, change the North and South Poles. As the message came to me, I believe it will use extreme heat to affect these two places...and change the magnetic condition of the Poles. Nature added that you won't have to check with any bureau on it...that the result will be strong enough to make the newspapers, where you can read about it. Note: this is the first time anything like this has occurred. I don't know what Nature is talking about, or what it plans. Will be interesting to see. (2) Exercise Silver Lance was useless, for test purposes. An invalid experiment. My results from the exercise are not worth the paper they are printed on. Why? Because Silver Lance was conducted in a growing, native PK-field, with a wide variety of mechanisms at work in the field that would undoubtedly affect the Exercise to a large extent. The field is Electro; the California coast. If you doubt this statement, just look at Electro, in Florida, and what has happened there in my first PK field. Since July ('64) the entire area has been like an elephant with the nervous shakes staggering around drunk in a china shop. There have been hurricanes criss-crossing the place; planes have been falling down; President Johnson narrowly escaped bad injury on two occasions; the space program turned down; and over a dozen rockets and missiles either blew up, fell down, or shot up and went haywire. So don't tell me the PK doesn't work on an area. So, Silver Lance, to be a true experiment in the logical sense of the word, would have to be held somewhere else, without PK affecting it, to get a valid idea of its results, test-wise. Check? Hoping the U.S. Government will use this tool, sometime this week, I remain /s/ PK Man === Page 149 of 246 a d THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, F # ghted at 2 S. Pole Bases # 'Flying Saucer' Is Reported SANTIAGO, Chile, July 8 ('). -- From the Antarctic Thursday came official reports of a mysterious lens-shaped flying object, maneuvering and moving at great speed, was sighted last Saturday. A Chilean base commander in the Antarctic reported the object was "yellowish red, changing to green, yellow and orange." In Buenos Aires, the Navy issued a communique saying personnel at Argentina's Antarctic base saw the flying object and photographed it. Mario Jahn Barrera, commander of the Chilean base, told the Defense Ministry by radio that it would be too much to say that "all of us saw a flying saucer, one of these science-fiction things." "However," he continued, "it was something real, an object that moved at amazing speed, maneuvered quickly and gave off a blue-green sheen. It also caused interference in the electromagnetic apparatus of an Argentine base which is facing ours on a nearby small island." The interference was confirmed by the Navy communique issued in Buenos Aires. "The object was yellowish red," Jahn said, "changing to green, yellow and orange. It would zigzag quickly. Then it was stopped and we promptly reached for field glasses, telescopes, anything at hand to sight it. We watched as it remained quietly there for about 20 minutes." Jahn said a corporal took color pictures but there are no facilities for developing the film. The men must wait for eight months to be relieved to have the film developed on the mainland. === Page 150 of 246 FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 9, 1965 a d # SUN Since your contact on the 1st, I have been waiting for the highly held to say our own thoughts. (A) They want me to have a talk with Mr. Green. I will tell him things that should be told. He should know that as he would not like to be in a position where he is no good for the world is good for him. He should know right now. There is no...chance. I do not hear voices; no new hallucinations; "delusions of grandeur" or "ideas of reference" troubles. I will stand up to predictions and "hits" against those of our own world. Of course I do not expect any praise or credit for the fact, because during the long run, for that, don't have delivered this message, and they said... and it's done. Respectfully, J B Fox, c/o Foster Entrance Hall, No. 1 10th and Walnut Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 151 of 246 Page Two 7/12/65 since they contact me through telepathic pictures, they wouldn't want me to be rigidly held in any one place...but free to come and go, as necessary. (g) They want me to have quick communication with President Johnson, so that they can tell him things that the U.S. might not know at any given time, which could help us, or he could ask them to perform certain things...which would benefit in bringing about good for the world in general. And they state they are excellent judges of what that might be. There it is...George. I do not hear voices; am not hallucinating. Am not having "delusions of grandeur" or "change-of-life" troubles. I will stack up my predictions and 'hits' against those of any ESP worker. Of course I do not expect any action or answer for the U.S. Government...have been trying too long now, for that. But I have delivered this message, which is what They want. And it's done. Respectfully, P K Man, c/o Owens Congress Hotel, Rm. 600 12th and Walnut Philadelphia, Pennsylvania === Page 152 of 246 July 12, 1965 Mr. George Clark, CIA Dear George: "Nature" or the "saucers" or whatever the intelligence is...wants me to tell the U.S. Government what it wishes from the U.S. Government. So, below, is what it wishes. Incidentally, I was against writing this, for myself, in my own mind...yet this vast, powerful intelligence insisted that I send this to you, so will do it. (a) Wants the U.S. Govt. to provide me with $100,000, tax-free, so that I can fix my wife and child up with a home in Texas, plus all necessities; get tools which I will need; and take myself to Europe. The money is to last 1 year, at which time another $100,000 is to be provided, for the rest of my life (which might not be long, if the Russ get to me.) (b) They want me to be given a permit to carry a gun for protection, and want me to have a guard at all times. Say, a Special Forces judo and gun expert, to accompany me wherever I go. (c) They want the U.S. Government to furnish me with a mountain hideaway in Europe, preferably an isolated castle...yes, they stress this heavily...a castle in an isolated spot. Even if I would have to live in discomfort in the room of the darn thing...they want me to be placed in a castle, in an isolated location, in Europe. That is what comes through, loud and clear. I take it they will then attempt to approach me with their machines, and in person, as soon as they are certain that just myself and my bodyguard are in the area. (d) They want the complete story of "P K Man" sent all around the world, for TV and newspaper coverage. Not to advertise P K Man, who can do nothing of himself, but to advertise the fact that the saucers are here, are for real, are at work doing certain things...what some of those things are...and what the aims of the saucers are. And that they, the saucers, are communicating with me, P K Man, and are back of the United States Govt. in bringing peace to the world. (e) Now, don't laugh at this George...I am only repeating what I am told to tell you, just like the March 9 letter. They want a 2-hour TV appearance of P K Man with Pres. Johnson, to lay the entire matter out for the world to know about. Why? Because, they want to scare the Russians and Chinese into line. And, they state, they will back it all up with action, as needed. Just like they backed up the March 9 letter...and other things, earlier. Their suggestion is to open the TV 2-hour show with something that will get the interest of the world immediately...and hold it. Not the usual yakkity political openings...but President Johnson standing in front of a knife-board, and me knives hitting all around him, while he just stands, with a look of boredom on his face. This is to show the world his bravery, fearlessness, and spirit of daring. It would tremendously impress much of the people's of the world, and it is highly doubtful if any other President would attempt to equal his feat. Also, and just as important, it would serve to introduce P K Man...and rivet the attention of the peoples of the world onto the TV screen, as nothing else would. Then for the remainder of the 2 hours, President Johnson would go over the storm-making, hurricanes, etc etc., with P K Man...and it would be brought out that the saucers are on our side, and so forth. This also would make quite an impression on the peoples of the world. (f) I must have freedom at all times...to get where I want...and do what I want...because 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 153 of 246 Friday, May 28 '65 *Harvey is Rick Dear Lonnie - Thanks for the letter. The owner of the Beatty circus sent his chauffeur down to Washington for us - in an air-conditioned $10,000 Cadillac, just as promised. There wasn't room for most of our things, including your stuff - and we left a note for Jean to send it collect by Railway Express. We are advertised as the world's greatest knife-throwing act. Yesterday they took pictures of the acts, all together in a group. May send you one later. No word yet if our act will go on the road with the circus or not. They are full up - wanted to "beef up" their show for Philadelphia. So - ? Mr. Fuller, expecting our whole family as he saw it in Hyattsville, had a beautiful motel room ready for us - at 17.00 a day. Ha ha! TV & all. We've been here a week. To tell you all the action that has occurred, would entail writing a full length book. Leah, we need a permanent address so agents can contact us. I'm going to give you as my permanent address, & you forward my mail to me. Okay? For instance, the father of our great flying trapeze act - all his sons & daughters (he's a clown) - wants to get us booked with Mexico's biggest circus in Mexico City for a month there. But he'll need a permanent address === Page 154 of 246 Sunday 3/27/66 Dear Rick -- Am glad the pool cue pleases you. Make it your friend for a life-time. Take care of it, honey. It's an ace. Don't loan it to any person, ever. If you do, you'll be sorry. How did you like the way PK took care of Gemini 8 & Agena? NASA is still trying to figure out what hit them. Now the Govt. has angered the Si's -- which have appeared recently to prove their reality -- by calling the Si's "marshgas." So the Si's are going to teach the Air Force a lesson -- they are "hitting" the U.S. A.F. here on out, with all PK phenomena. If the Govt. continues to ignore me -- the Si's are going to PK all U.S. vehicles -- autos, trucks, busses, etc. It will not be safe for anyone to be in a vehicle. Don't worry about your package (Beau is in my lap now, licking my arm) -- the thought is there, honey. People can't prove love with presents, anyway. Bean is big now. Talks a little. Martha is fine -- but she waited downstairs at the mail box day after day for weeks, expecting your package. She's like a child, you know, and her feelings were hurt when it didn't come. I'm trying every way I know to get the Church of Sata started -- and to get an isolated house, so the UFO's can come to me in their craft -- but nothing has worked out so far. Remember my bet with your friend in Wash. -- that Pres. J. wouldn't live past May, '66? His only chance is to make friends with the Si's. Dad === Page 155 of 246 Rick LORNIE Wednesday May 25, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: In my Feb. 25 letter I pointed out that all important people in the U.S. Government must be on guard from 2/25 through May...it would be a danger period. But that prediction, given me by the Si's, has worked out sort of poorly, because not much has happened to validate it. The two astronauts were killed, of course, about ten days after I wrote that to you. Then also I believe some Senator died...Johnson went to his funeral...was it McNamara? Allessandroni was killed in a plane crash...and Milton Shapp's helicopter caught fire and crashed...but he was luckier than Allessandroni, and only got bashed up a little. President Johnson's helicopter caught fire at the White House, but luckily he wasn't in it; his baggage was. Bill Moyers fell down a flight of steps at the White House, hit his head, and went to the hospital with concussion. Senator Dirksen fell down, hit his head and was knocked out, smashing his glasses, and fracturing his hip. Had surgery in Bethesda Hospital. Senator Mike Mansfield went into Bethesda Hospital about a week ago and is still there. Reason not given. Congressman Hardy (Virginia) just underwent surgery at Bethesda Hospital Congressman MacGregor (Minnesota) just underwent surgery at Bethesda Hospital Congressman Moss (California) is now in Bethesda Hospital. Eisenhower has been in the hospital for weeks. Yesterday Bollinger, a top missile scientist with NASA (he developed the hydrogen-oxygen propellant used in the Saturn rocket engine) was murdered in Ohio. And yesterday Congressman Fraser's daughter (Minn.) was killed by a car. But other than that, my prediction didn't pan out. Of course, there's still a wee bit of time left. Something might happen yet. P K Man (Owens) 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 156 of 246 Rick 5.25.66 P2 Wednesday May 25, 1966 The Post Master U. S. Post Office 30th and Market Sts. Phila., Pa. Dear Sir; Yesterday our mailbox was robbed - an envelope ripped open and a ring, sent by our 16-year-old from California to my wife, as a Mother's Day gift, stolen. As well as a supply of stamps the boy enclosed. We live in an apartment house at 1114 Spruce St., and our mail has been opened many times...then we have found it in our box, already opened. We have complained about it to the postman delivering the mail...but of course all he can say is that the situation is being watched. We have heard other people in the building complain that their boxes are being pilfered, also. Someone broke the lock off our mailbox. Isn't there anything the Post Office can do to stop this? Are thugs free to loot mailboxes here and there, at their whim, without the law stepping in? We would certainly appreciate it, if the law did step in. Enclosed is the envelope the ring and stamps were stolen from, exactly as we found it. H. T. Owens 1114 Spruce St., #33 Phila., Pa. === Page 157 of 246 Wednesday May 25, 1966 Dear Rick: I enjoyed hearing from you, honey. But you made a big mistake. Remember I wrote you quite a while back...and told you and Lornie never to send anything to us of value, unless it was by Special Delivery? (Costs 30¢) When I got home last night Martha was crying. She got your letter, but some crook had gotten into our mailbox and taken your ring and stamps out of the letter first. You see, that happens all the time here in Philadelphia, and in our building. All the time we find our letters and mail ripped open before we get down to get it. They have even discovered mailmen in this town looting their own mail. So...after Martha went through weeks of going down to meet the mailman to get your package, the package that never came...now she has had this new disappointment with the ring. Tell you what...pick out another ring, identical to the one you sent. Send me the price of it...I'll send you the money, and you send it to her Air Mail, Special Delivery. I'll include the stamp money, too. Okay? Get into action on this, chum. Our pal deserves a better break than what she's getting. Not getting that ring you sent, just broke her heart. You know how she is. We took Beau to the doctors here, for a cold...but now they are jumping up and down with excitement...because they have discovered something about his mind that is quite unusual. They won't tell me what. They did ask me if he had any unusual powers of the mind...if he managed to do things with his mind children usually couldn't do...and I told them about his reading my mind constantly. They are beginning a series of tests on him June 15. Am glad you get pleasure from playing pool with a fine cue. Like a good horse, it will give you good service, if you take care of it. It's heavy...but that's good...like practicing with extra-heavy drum sticks...then when you swing into hot jazz, the lighter sticks seem to fly. And the heavy stick makes your stroke smoother. So Jimmy could talk at 2...so what? Put Jimmy and Beau together, and you'd see the difference! Whew! Beau has the strongest mind of any human being I have ever encountered...bar none. And he's brilliant. Buy the July Fate magazine...and look in the back in the "Personal" ads...and you'll see your dad's ad. The Si's have given me a way to start the Sota's. Love, Dad === Page 158 of 246 Tuesday May 17. Rick: For old time's sake enclosed is my PK maps I made yesterday for the Agena - Gemini shoot. Send it back for my files. The Si's surprised me on Sunday by telling me to go ahead and PK maps (I was anyway.) My, and the Si's, record by now is incredible! Several weeks ago we blocked every shot at the Cape for ten days! Then we "shot down," or destroyed the two big birds they put up - one was O.S.O. - same as O.G.O., the one we got at Myrtle Beach. We miss you and Lonnie... especially Dean. We hope you are doing fine. Love & kisses - Dad. === Page 159 of 246 Rick Lorne March 24, 1966 THE EDITOR "ENTIRE U.S. FLEET DESTROYED BY OWN H-BOMB" This sounds fantastic, but it could appear at any time in our newspapers. How? Fact...an H-bomb has been dropped accidentally into the sea, and is in an unknown condition. It could possibly explode, no matter if the odds are high against it. Fact...an entire U.S. Fleet is parked just overhead, or just nearby. Therefore simple logic points out the possibility of the loss of an entire U.S. Fleet, at any time. I ask the question, therefore...is this procedure going on off the coast of Spain at the present time being carried out in a manner conducive to the safety of our men and ships? H. T. Owens 1114 Spruce Phila., Pa. === Page 160 of 246 Tuesday May 17, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: Well...as I warned the President...the roof is falling in on him. Dirksen fell down, and went into hospital. Out of action for a while. Moyers fell down the stairs of the White House. Condition not known, but it can't be good. The Gemini 9 double-header, publicized all over the world, blew up in his and NASA's face with the mysterious disappearance of the target, Agena. Ky is running amuck in Viet Nam, plus freak incidents occurring there like a loyal Vietnamese soldier firing at our top officials in a copter...and it all adds up to a catastrophe dead-ahead. Remember my "catastrophes dead-ahead" letter of a week or so ago? Add to all this that the stock market is failing. Then toss in the fact that various parties in and out of the government are calling for Johnson's blood...in the newspapers. The Si's ask me to tell the U.S. Govt. (through you) that they brought all this about...and things will get worse, not better. Until they are recognized by the U.S. Govt., and accepted, and a way made to approach the U.S. Govt. P K Man (Owens) === Page 161 of 246 Rich & Lorrie Sat. 3/26/66 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: Well, the Air Force has done it. By Hyneck's ridiculous "solving" of the UFO's in Michigan in a day or two...he may have doomed the Air Force. Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. They were trying to establish their reality...for it must be done, if they are to help us. Now, they are angry at being called "marsh gas" and are going on record that they are going to harass the Air Force now as they have been doing NASA. Knowing what I know, George, if I were the Air Force I would be scared witless. But of course, who ever heard of marsh gas being dangerous? To make it clear....the Si's (saucer intelligences) are now going to teach the Air Force a lesson it will never forget. They are turning their attention to the harassment of the Air Force in a big way. P K Man (Owens) Dad === Page 162 of 246 Wednesday, June 29, 1966 Lorne Rick Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: NOW is the time to beware! Russia and/or Red China is, this very minute, preparing a terrible, ghastly strike against U.S. forces in Viet Nam. This follows, of course, last night's Hanoi and Haiphong attack by the U.S. After this terrible strike, the Russ will say (or Chinese): (1) All right...we struck, to defend North Vietnam, etc., now what do you want to do about it...go right into World War III? We will, if you want to. (2) Even your allies have left you now...the U.S. stands alone. No other country blames us for attacking you. P K Man P.S. I believe the RR (Russ/Chinese Reds) will strike from subs around Viet Nam, using small A-bombs against carriers, Saigon, etc. Also the RR will fill the air, unexpectedly, with planes and bombers against Saigon and U.S. forces. Watch our fleet, right now, for Pete's sake. I have been offered sanctuary on a beautiful estate, complete with dandy little house, food, etc., for the purpose of making a meeting with a UFO. It is really ideal...except it is a Communist group who work in this area. So I turned it down. A pity my own Govt. can't do that. === Page 163 of 246 THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 23, 1966 # Johnson Meningitis Scare Blows Over By DOM BONAFEDE Special to The Inquirer And N. Y. Herald Tribune WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.--The White House experienced a few anxious hours last week when it was feared that President Johnson may have been exposed to spinal meningitis, a highly contagious and often fatal disease. As it turned out, the fears were groundless. **INCIDENT AT SHORE** The incident, nevertheless, was withheld from the press until Tuesday, when White House officials confirmed it in response to a reporter's inquiry. The story began last Wednesday while the President was visiting Atlantic City, N. J., to speak before the Association of School Administrators in Convention Hall. Among the Secret Service agents guarding the President was Michael Kelly, of the Philadelphia office. **FALLS TO PAVEMENT** Suddenly, Kelly fell to the pavement outside the hall. He was rushed to Atlantic City Hospital, where it was suspected he was suffering from spinal meningitis. Almost immediately, the President's personal physician, Vice Adm. George Burkley, who was in Washington, was informed. Recalling the incident Tuesday, White House sources said there was "concern" that the President might conceivably have been infected. **OUTBREAK REPORTED** Only recently a number of cases of meningitis has been reported in U. S. military camps in Texas and California, some resulting in death. Robert Fleming, deputy White House press secretary, said, "While the President was not close to Kelly, there was concern at any possible infection." At the hospital, Kelly was put in an isolation ward. Medical tests were given him. The following day the tests proved negative. Kelly did not have meningitis. Picking up the story, Fleming said, "Dr. Burkley was advised as soon as it was determined the agent did not have meningitis. "And because the Secret Service and Dr. Burkley kept so close to all the checks that were made on agent Kelly, it was not felt there was any danger to the President, and no treatment was given him." As a result of his mysterious fall, Kelly was reported by hospital authorities to be suffering from a concussion. His condition was listed as serious. But Dr. Lawrence Strenger said that tests showed no contagious illness. Kelly, who is assigned to the Philadelphia office of the Secret Service, was sent to Atlantic City to reinforce the President's bodyguard. # Peacenik Bares Undershirt to LBJ NEW YORK (UPI).--"Mr President," shouted a man in a tuxedo as President Johnson began to speak. "Mr. President, peace in Vietnam . . . peace in Vietnam." With that, the man stood on a chair and stripped off his tux jacket and stiff white shirt. Emblazoned on his undershirt was the same message he had shouted at the President: "Peace in Vietnam." The outburst briefly interrupted the President's address in the Waldorf Astoria's Grand Ballroom. The man who shouted at Mr. Johnson was identified as James Peck, 51, of New York. Secret Service agents, who had been watching Peck because of two previous arrests for demonstrating, seized him immediately. They carried him, his face bloodied, from the plush ballroom. PECK was charged with disrupting a lawful meeting and resisting arrest. He is an employee of the War Resistors League, which sponsored a peace demonstration outside the hotel while Mr. Johnson spoke. Peck had paid $25 for a ticket to the dinner. Nearly 4000 persons picketed the hotel. Six of them carried the orange, blue and yellow flag of the National Liberation Front, the political arm of the Vietcong. The President entered the hotel from a side street and never saw the demonstrators, nor they him. 2/24/66 === Page 164 of 246 Wed., June 29, 1966 Lornie Rick Please get copies of LA papers for yesterday and today...Tuesday and Wednesday...and send me all clippings pertaining to the California earthquake. THIS IS IMPORTANT. I predicted it, 11 days ago, in a letter to George (you have a copy, Nov. 17 ltr.) but way over here they just barely mentioned it as being the "worst earthquake California has had in 11 years." Nothing else ...that's all they said. And I need more on it for my file. Matter of fact...any time you see anything you know relates to my file, please send clippings on it. You can help Daddy that way. So...send me the clips, okay? Am very very busy on all sorts of PK projects right now. Especially hurricane work.. Love, Dad Owens === Page 165 of 246 Page Two 6.29.66 p2 and Magnolia." "In Brick Township, Ocean County, the storm caused flooding and power failures and one house fire." "The Ocean County police and fire radio system was knocked out by lightning. At least six homes were reported struck by lightning in nearby Point Pleasant." "A lightning bolt struck the main police antennae on top of the Seaside Park borough hall and blew out the police and fire department radios." (Note: As I pointed out on the July, 1965, Jack McKinney Show here in Phila., my favorite targets to which I assign lightning hits...are police station towers, fire station towers, radio and TV station towers.) "Lighting struck the home of Carl Belsatti of Willow Grove." "Firemen were called to St. Anne's Episcopal Church in Abington where lightning had struck and started a fire in the steeple." "About 900 homes in the Highland Park and Twin Oak sections of Levittown were without electricity for an hour after lightning struck a transformer near Heartwood road." "In Gloucester township a lightning bolt struck near the house of John Kemml who was sitting on the patio with his wife. The bolt's shock temporarily paralyzed Kemmler's right arm, and stunned Mrs. Kemmler." "Another lightning bolt shattered a brick chimney at the home of D. D. Porterelli, Bellmawr." "Lightning started a fire in a wooded area near the Berlin, N.J. State Police Barracks." "Fire swept the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Olmstead, West Goshen Township, after a bolt of lightning struck a television set in the living room. The blaze completely destroyed the interior of the house and the furnishings." So, not only did I bring the lightning bolts onto Phila., as I said I would but the tremendous action also attacked the nearby parts of N.J. adjoining Phila. Remember, George, lightning is my trademark. What was my prediction again? "Should be an extraordinary amount of lightning striking all around." Well, I'd like to hear Mr. Dunne rebut the results. They don't call me The Rainmaker for nothing. So, you have further proof added on to a mountain of proof, of the kind of power the Si's back me up with. P K Man (Owens) (Signature) 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 166 of 246 you have this prediction in your files. 29 Thursday, June 30, 1966 Rick Lorne I sent Jack McKinney a suit to wear 3 days before this lightning attack so he wouldn't get hit! Dad. Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: Another bullseye. Remember my letter to you of June 17: "Am setting up Philadelphia for some of the roughest, toughest storms Philadelphia has ever had. Am building up the electrical potential for it. Should be an extraordinary amount of lightning striking all around, when it comes." Here are quotations straight out of today's Philadelphia newspapers (13 days after my "prediction"): "Violent electrical storms raked suburban Philadelphia and parts of New Jersey yesterday afternoon and last night. Heavy rain, hail, lightning, and high winds caused floods, power blackouts, fires, and tree damage." "Chester County received a double punch yesterday with a series of storms in the afternoon, and another sequence last night. The first storms bounced around the county beginning about 3 PM, lasting until 5 PM. Torrential rains flooded some areas and hailstones as big as marbles were reported." "Lightning played havoc with the fire signal board at West Whiteland Fire Co. in Exton and firemen were kept busy checking alarms as the board flashed false signals." "At 2:30 PM the storm concentrated in the western portion of the county and lightning touched off a $100,000.00 fire at the Parkesburg Dress Co." "In the afternoon storm a transformer caught fire at the Milprint, Inc., packaging manufacturing company in Downingtown. The fire was confined to the transformer, which apparently had been struck by lightning." "In New Jersey an estimated 14,000 homes and businesses were without electric power for varying periods of time ranging from 30 minutes to five hours." "The Public Service Electric & Gas Co. called the storm "one of the most intensive electrical storms in recent years." "Hardest hit were Cherry Hill, Mt. Laurel, and Evesham townships, where Public Service said some 7,000 customers were without electrical service." "About 4,000 homes and businesses were affected in Burlington, Willingboro, and Beverly." "The five hour blackout was in Bellmawr. Other areas without power for almost as long were the Black Horse and White Horse communities of Somerdale 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 167 of 246 Lorne Rick July 14, 1966 George Clark, CIA Dear George: I am asking the Si's to please let Gemini 10 go unscathed, for a successful flight, on Monday. The reason: There is, at present, a glimmer of hope that perhaps the U.S. Government might recognize PK Man in the near future and provide what the Si's want. Therefore I will not make a PK map for Gemini 10 attack, and I will ask the Si's to abstain from attacking, as they did Gemini 8 and 9, ruining both of those missions. The only question mark is the area, which is alive and crawling with PK (other dimensional effects.) The "Electro" area which, like a trained Doberman, is long-trained to attack anything and everything connected with Cape Kennedy. Whether the Si's can turn the area off temporarily, I don't know. Certainly I can't. It has grown (the PK effect there) for two years, and is now extremely powerful. But at least I am sure the Si's will cooperate with me... so that will remove 2/3 of the threat from Gemini 10 flight. PK Man (Owens) * Temporarily, that is. I could permanently. Am working now to bring Hurricane Cecilia to Electro. One week ago I predicted Hurricane Cecilia!!! See your file copy my ltr to Dunne, July 7! 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 168 of 246 I'm having a meeting with NICAP tonight. Rick Lonnie Kids - I'll be on radio CBS - WCAU 3-4 PM an hour next Monday. Sure wish you could hear it. Dad. Wednesday, July 13, 1966 Mr. George Clark, CIA Dear George: This is an extra-important letter. Next Monday I will be able to take the SI's case to the people on Ed Harvey's "Talk of Philadelphia" Radio show at WCAU/CBS here in Philadelphia, for an hour. As you know, the SI's appreciate this very much...and they repaid my taking their case to the people on the Jack McKinney Show in June by allowing Surveyor to get to the moon and function. Now, Monday, by coincidence, is the same day the Gemini 10 shot goes up (just as my appearance on the McKinney show in June was on the same day the Surveyor was due to get to the moon.) For the record, I am going to ask the SI's to allow this Gemini 10 shot to go all the way, without being attacked and racked up by the SI's...as they did with Gemini 8 and 9, which they ruined. This in exchange for this unexpected opportunity to present their case to the people (which will be few, at 3 in the afternoon...but at least, it's something.) That might be all right with the SI's...but what concerns me is the Cape K. area...which has been heavily PK'd (affected with other-dimensional effects). If the area itself attacks the astronauts and vehicles involved, there is little that can be done. But if there is some way the SI's can call off the area (Electro) for this shot, then perhaps it can be done. I don't know. This is a first for this sort of thing. Of course, the U.S. Government is not cooperating with the SI's...that is, acceding to the SI's wishes as pertains to myself, and their work. Even though I make this request to them, they might feel at this point that although they repaid a kindness once with a kindness, Surveyor....that my being able to present their case to a few housewives at 3 in the afternoon for an hour, is not what they had in mind when they wrote (through me) to the President, stating their wishes. The SI's are greatly appreciative of any step that can be made...to bring their forces together with the forces of the U.S. Government. But I am sure that they feel enough is not being done in this regard. Take the weather. In my letter to the President of March 10 I said that the SI's would end the drought on the East Coast, but I warned, and I quote: "But they warn...and mark this well...after the drought has been completely alleviated, and the humans on the East Coast are smug and happy with their supply of water..then if the U.S. Govt. continues to ignore PK Man and refuses to help him, and cooperate with the SI's...then the SI's will strike the U.S. with something far far worse than drought, as punishment, and they do not communicate idle words." Well, they gave lots of rain to the East Coast...still the U.S. Govt. ignored me, their Rep. Now, I fear, they are doing exactly as they said they would do above...with heat. If they appear publicly now - this will mean I am correct PK Man (Owens) 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 169 of 246 July 15, 1966 Mr. George Clark, CIA Dear George: (1) As per my letter to you last week, warning that the Reds in Viet Nam were going to up their airplane war on our planes...as of this Wednesday, two days ago...this did in fact occur...everyone was surprised when six Migs came out of left field. Fortunately our side were good shots, and disposed of the Migs. Then yesterday more brand new Migs came out...and the newspapers today exclaimed excitedly that there had been a sudden escalation in the air war...which is just what I predicted the week before it happened. (2) As per my letter to you of several days ago...warning that the SI's might be striking the U.S. with a heat storm, as punishment for the U.S. Govt. not acknowledging P K Man and cooperating with them...AND THE HAND-WRITTEN NOTATION ON THE BOTTOM OF THAT LETTER SAID: "IF THE SI'S MAKE A PUBLIC APPEARANCE NOW...IT WILL MEAN THAT I AM CORRECT." This morning in the paper is the following article: "AIR FORCE PROBES NEW UFO REPORT - Omaha, Neb., July 14 (UPI) - "The Air Force began Thursday an investigation of reported unidentified flying objects over east-central Nebraska and western Iowa. The sightings were reported Wednesday (July 13) at Burwell, Ord, Norfolk, Omaha, and North Loup-Scotia in Nebraska and at Council Bluffs, Iowa. A spokesman for Offutt Air Force Base confirmed it had received three such reports and an investigation was being conducted by the Air Force systems command at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio." Therefore the SI's have spoken directly to the U.S. Govt. in this weird way of Ovens to SI's to appearance to U.S. Govt. (When I wrote you that letter with the hand-written notation, then I had to signal the SI's that their appearance publicly would be needed as confirmation that my thought in the letter was correct.) George, the U.S. Govt. is out of its blinking mind for not latching onto me instanter...and working and cooperating with me to the fullest extent! P K Man (Ovens) 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 170 of 246 L+R Friday, July 22, 1966 President Johnson Dear Sir: For some time I have been asking the U.S. Government to set me up for one year with everything I need, in order to make a contact with Si craft and intelligences. I have never had an answer, or been given any help by the U.S. Govt. Yet I have been offered exactly what I want and need, by a Communist organization. They windd and dined myself and family...took us out into the country and showed us their set-up...beautiful and wonderful and isolated...and told me I could have everything I want for as long as I want, in order to contact the Si's in the way I want. I informed the CIA, George Clark, of this, and offered to give this information (names and places of this local Phila. organization) but CIA has never sent anyone around to pick up the information. Perhaps some other branch of the Government would be interested in knowing about this group. I turned them down, it goes without saying. If my own Govt. will not aid me to link up with the Si's...I certainly will not go over to the Communists. P K Man (Owens) 1114 Spruce St. Phila., Pa. Dad 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 171 of 246 Friday July 22, 1966 Mr. George Clark, CIA Dear George: After all the cussin' out I gave my various contacts - feel I must write this prediction follow-up (on the Gemini 10 shot.) As a matter of fact - as the predictions I have made in the past come to pass, feel I must point them out, to keep the file clear for any of those who have been keeping the file. But from now on I won't submit any new predictions. NASA just found out what it means now to have the Si's for them instead of against them. The Gemini 10 shot was THE BEST GEMINI shot to date, says the radio and newspapers. Why? Well, to start with - the Si's pulled Storm Celia away so as not to interfere with the lift-off. I had asked them to help make this a dandy space shot - and to call off Electro if they had any way to do so (and evidently they did) - and to show themselves to the Astronauts if possible so there'd be no doubt about all this. (I told you in a letter a couple of weeks ago that they'd appear to the astronauts on a space shoot.) Well, they did show themselves. I wanted the astronauts to stay away from that dam Gemini 8 Agena because it had been heavily FK'd and this flight was clean - and time hadn't made the Gem. 8 Agena any sweeter. It would still try to scuttle any astros it could get its hands on. At any rate, see my letter of July 13, 1966: "For the record, I am going to ask the Si's to allow this Gemini 10 shot to go all the way without being attacked and racked up by the Si's...as they did with Gemini 8 and 9, which they RUINED." I also made this same statement over Radio Station WCAU on a radio show. So what has occurred? The whole world is applauding one of the best space shots ever made. Records broken all over the place... because the Si's gave this space shot their help...even made an appearance to "sign" their intent, as I'd asked them to do. Not to take a thing away from NASA. Their work is terrific. But all the shots, Gems 5, 6, 8, 9...would have gone off like 10 if the Si's had allowed it to happen. I think their demonstration has been amply complete. They have consistently ruined shot after shot after shot. Suddenly they give NASA a green light on a shot..and it's near-perfect. You-all are right bright. I don't have to say more. P K Man (Owens) Love - Dad === Page 172 of 246 February 7, 1966 File THE EDITOR Dear Sir: ********** A lot of people I know feel real sorry for Hubert Humphrey, because of the way Hubert has to "yes" the President and do as he's told (like Him, or get his ears pulled.) But that's the way it is, when you're only in second place...you have to try harder. ********** McNamara refused to appear in public, on the matter of Viet Nam. Rumor has it that the real reason for this was because President Johnson called McNamara aside and said, Now, you-all see here, Mac...if those Senators try to get you to appear in public on the Viet Nam issue...jest remember whut ah used to teach mah little pupils in Texas, when ah'd ketch them carvin' their names on our schoolhouse seats. Kids, ah'd tell 'em, always remember what Lyndon tells you...'Fools names and fools faces, always appear in public places.' ********** People wondered why President Johnson took off so unexpectedly for a trip to Hawaii. Well, he just wanted to get away for a few days to talk to some Generals - and the only State left in the Union without blizzards, freezing cold, transit strikes, power blackouts, race riots, etc., happened to be Hawaii. If, that is, Hawaii's volcano doesn't erupt. ********** H. T. Owens 1114 Spruce St. #33 Philadelphia, Pa. 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 173 of 246 6-17-66 P2 The noise. A strange, weird, deep humming drone, seems about a foot or two away from us. Comes at odd times, lasts about 2-5 minutes, then goes away. Sometimes we do not hear it for weeks; then we'll hear it two or three times in a week. Never heard a noise like it. Things vanish. I put a pound of oleo in the ice-box one night. Got up in the morning and it was gone. My wife and I were baffled. My cigars have disappeared, without anyone touching them. I had a five and ten dollar bill disappear overnight (my wife didn't touch them.) And other odd things have vanished as well. My wife woke me one night and we both saw small UFO's in the room. Then, on several occasions, she saw a small light the size of a marble moving slowly around my head in the dark, after we'd gone to bed. My clothes are all falling apart. Shorts, shirts, pants...all are coming apart, holes forming. It has gotten funny. Practically every shirt, pants, and shorts I have is full of holes, suddenly. And these have nothing to do with moths. They aren't that type of hole, or tear. My clothes now rip and tear like soft paper. The baby keeps pointing at some "man" he sees, excitedly...but we don't see anybody...and the baby doesn't joke. "Man, man!" he cries, pointing. And of course there isn't any man there. I woke one morning about 3:30 and clouds of smoke or fog were filling the room...I could see them boiling up against faint light on the wall. I thought the place was on fire and called my wife, and we got up and frantically checked out in the hall, etc. But there wasn't any fire... and the "smoke" had vanished when we got back. Three different times the baby was waked up screaming in the middle of the night...and not more than 10 minutes afterward, each time...there is a tremendous explosion outside our windows. First the baby screams and wakes us up, then comes the explosion. One night I jammed the hall door open securely. When we got up, the jamming-object had been removed, and the door firmly closed and locked. We didn't do it. - Also a heavy art-object had moved from a table to the floor. Martha and I both saw a pigeon on the roof opposite with what looked like a small radar-antennae on its neck...it was a collar, but not flat, the edges cupping outwards. Never saw anything like it. Am expecting a major earthquake in the near future in the U.S., in the shape of a huge "T" - with the top of the T running up and down California, and the bottom of the T running toward Colorado. 2 R.C. QUAKES 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 174 of 246 Copy - Rick, Lorrie Keep this in your file, nuthead! This is priceless! Friday, June 17, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: The Si's are frustrated and thus irked, because I am not getting anywhere in an effort to meet them personally...they will not come into downtown Philadelphia, I know...and I cannot get isolated so they can come down without any interference from anyone. Therefore I predict all hell will break loose in the form of catastrophies in the near days and weeks ahead. The Lord only knows what they will think up...they are very ingenious. I wrote you last November about Him and Her, the President's dogs...and in the same letter told you how our dog got ran over and killed. You might be interested in looking at that letter, since the President's dog just got ran over...it's as if the Si's waited until the sense of that letter was accurate, then arranged for Him's accident, so the letter will be read at this time, again. "Him" Whatever happened to OGO, shot up from the Cape a while back? They were supposed to be communicating with it a week ago...but there's not been a word in the papers about it. Am setting up Philadelphia for some of the roughest, toughest storms Phila. has ever had. Am building up the electrical potential here for it. Should be an extraordinary amount of lightning striking all around, when it comes. THREE & FAIR Tornados tore up Topeka, Kansas, not long ago. Si's say...that could happen to the White House and Capitol Hill, just as easily. Si's say they are going to demonstrate with the oceans and seas now...make them reject and attack humans like a body rejects a strange live implant (liver, kidney, etc.) Si's say the seas and oceans have a form of intelligence, taken as a whole unit. They are turning them against humans, as a demonstration of one of their strange powers. Si's say the earliest peoples on earth used these "PK" systems...but as they invented hand tools and weapons, their PK power decreased...until finally the power was usually narrowed down to one person in a tribe, The Elder...until the power was lost entirely. (Up until now. I have it.) Thought you might be interested in all the phenomena that has occurred in our apartment on Spruce: Kids - Si's got your tongues? 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 175 of 246 March 20, 1967 Dear Lorrie I enjoyed your letter, received today. It is very good that you and Rick can double-date together. Sounds like fun. And am glad you are getting that kind of school fun...which you didn't get while with me. It's about time. So you are partial to Latin types, eh? Ugh! Pat can tell you something about Latins...ask her about Frank. Ugh. They are usually overbearing, aggressive, and hard to get along with. Bright in spots...but poison over the long run. Your sweetheart, Julio, might be different. I am speaking of the general Latin trait. I would rather see you going steady with a strong, blond, All-American boy type...but it ain't me is got to kiss them goodnight, it's you. So, shock aw saw goo. Martha sent you a letter last week. I mailed it myself. Beau is a doll. Handsome, tough as nails, gentle as a lamb, loving loving loving. He pours out affection. And reads my mind...last night I looked at him and mentaly told him to go across the room and get me a Kleenex. He was just standing in front of me. Immediately he turned, went across the room, got me a Kleenex, and brought it to me. It is frightening, but he does it constantly. I don't give him a cue or anything. Martha has gotten bigger and heavier. Still a cute doll...a big cute doll. She and Beau get along fine while I am gone through the day. We're a tight little group. There are ten top pool sharks, hustlers, at the Cue and Cushion downtown. I have been eight of them...some by as much as 50 points in a 100 point game. The other two I haven't played. Not much use yet. They both run 50 to 100 balls without stopping. One of them, Scotty, ran 172 the other night before he missed. Whew! So I have a lots of practice ahead of me. Since I can't throw knives...I'll become a very top pool expert. Your chemistry sounds like fun. Glad to hear you are doing fine in it. Just stay far far away from the kids with LSD, whisky, etc etc. You are so fine, so pretty, so nice...keep yourself that way, so we can all be proud of you through the years. Let the other kids ruin their lives; be too smart to follow that kind. Okay? And steer and guide your little smarty-pants brother through the shoals and reefs too, right? Since getting the Searchlight article, which I sent you, have received about twenty letters from interested people. I've offered all of them a partnership in the Soto Church for $5,000, so keep your fingers crossed. Might not be too long before we have our little house in the woods, somewhere, with a cozy fire and pool table...and my Church is there... and my Brain Wave Synchronizer, and I am working with people again. Love and kisses... Dad Sunday P.S. Last night I dreamed I opened a door and went into Pat's apartment. She was in bed and alone. We talked and I got sleepy and lay down on another bed dressed, & fell asleep. Later I woke and wondered where Jim was - & wondered what he'd think if he came and found me there. So I left Pat, asleep, and slipped out. 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 176 of 246 2 Lornie Rick 1/11/66 Now, enclosed you find some clippings. Be sure and send them back for my files. As you will see, there was a great mysterious "fireball" that landed.... in Pennsylvania, naturally. But this was the second one to land in Pennsylvania within weeks. There was another great fireball before this one, on .......... Of course, it was the Si's that caused the Great Power Blackout in New York, and I am sure that it was one of their biggest, greatest craft...a "mother ship"...that landed in Pennsylvania (the "fireball") that caused the power failure on such a large scale. Perhaps you don't know it, but just after the great New York power blackout there was a huge power blackout in....Texas. Yep. President Johnson is trying to have both of them investigated, but how can you check on Si's? All you can do is check on the rubbish they leave behind, after the damage is done. Right? Incidentally, the Si's want you to know what they are doing, through me. They were training you, even though you didn't know it, while you were with me. And they were upset when you left me. Their training includes a great many things...including growing you a new brain, of a different sort than what you have. You have to have it, to receive the greater degree of power that you work with, through them. And they can only give you greater power in slow, graduated degrees. The Si's want me to tell you...if anyone at all blocks mail addressed to you...keeps you from getting it...God help them. It sort of worries me. If they were mad enough about your leaving me..they might wipe out the Bentley's and the Shannons, just like that. You know what happened to Mangels, and others who irked the Si's. I am out of it. Your choice is good enough for me, and this is definitely, certainly not any ploy on my part to try to get you to come back...because what you kids want, I want, for your own happiness (even if I might not agree with it.) But I am being objective when I tell you the above ... I know the Si's, communicate with them, and know their tremendous, unbelievable power that literally creates miracles, good and bad. 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 177 of 246 Wednesday January 12, 1966 Rick Lornie I wrote you a letter yesterday, and got stamps at the PO last night...but before I could mail the letter this morning, a UFO made news this morning. Now, as you know, for two weeks I have been communicating with the Si's, asking them to appear at Cape Kennedy, as a signal to the US Government. Instead, they waited, and appeared last night not too far from here in New Jersey, over a water reservoir...and they stayed there so they would be seen, positively and definitely..........instead of Cape Kennedy. Why? Appearing over the water reservoir was a message to the Government, for one thing. Also, appearing just as Johnson is going to give his big message today to the US, is another reason. They appeared over the water-reservoir in New Jersey, to show that they are here in this very area, active. They appeared over the reservoir to warn the US Government, once again, to let me end the drought, using their (Si) power to do it. They appeared just before President Johnson's speech...as a warning to the President of their reality, and in verification of what I have been saying for them. There should be an article in the paper today on it. I'll clip it, and send it enclosed, along with yesterday's letter...which oddly enough dealt with UFO's. Love, Dad 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 178 of 246 Tuesday January 11, 1966 Dear Rick Lornie Some day somebody is going to make fun of you, if you mention what P K Man has done. Remember, when we waited by the spot where all the government officials would stand, before Johnson was made President...and I laid down a PK effect to put them all in the hospital...wrote the government that I would...and then they all went to various hospitals? Remember my driving dogs away with PK? Lifting the car off my trapped hand with PK? Remember how you stood there and watched me map out routes for the hurricanes to follow...and they followed; my routes? Remember my using Emmy-Emma technique to cause an earthquake on the California coast, and telling Mangels a day ahead of time, as a witness...and then it hit the next day? Remember the Needles Operation? Remember my throwing fire PK at California, and then those great fires of 1965 hit? And so on and so on. Then we found out that the UFO intelligences were supplying the power, and doing the hitting. I pointed out the targets. If anybody doesn't believe you...show them the attached copy of my March 9 letter to George Clark, CIA, whom you met....telling what the Si's were going to do at the North/South Pole. Then show them one of the numerous newspaper clippings telling what happened five months later...when the Si's carried out this assignment, to PROVE I was working with and for them. Any spot I hit with PK...the grass is never the same again. Anybody I hit with PK, is never the same again, if they survive. And so it goes. And anybody I save with PK, like Brenda Sue Pennington (you were there, Lornie) is never the same again. */reason I am sending this one document to you for proof, instead of any of the hundreds of others I have...is because somebody could say that perhaps it is pure precognition...that I am good at predicting ahead of time what is going to happen, and that's all. They'll say that rules out Si's. But...to say that I could predict a change in the electromagnetic setup of the South Pole, and that it would be reported in the newspapers...is ridiculous for plain precognition. And it happened months later, not days. And a flying saucer was there to prove my Si point...and was seen by scientists. The utterly ingenious way in which this was done...was proof by the Si's, that they tell me what will happen, then make it happen. And they give me power, too. 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 179 of 246 May 19, 1967 Mr. James E. Webb N.A.S.A. Dear Mr. Webb: I refer you to my letter of May 24, 1966, in which I carefully explained...that there would be only failures and catastrophes at Cape Kennedy without the friendship of the UFO Intelligences...whom I represent, as an agent. Following that, of course, there has been a horrendous string of lost rockets (Biosatellite, etc etc.) and the astronaut tragedy...and the even worse following catastrophe of both public and Administration wrath toward NASA. A pity that I am not taken seriously. P K Man (Owens) 1114 Spruce St., No. 33 Phila., Pa. (Signed) Owens === Page 180 of 246 Friday, May 19, 1967 Mr. Jim Moseley Saucer News 303 Fifth Avenue New York, New York Dear Jim: I guess this is the correct place to write, since it was on your stationery. Or should I send your correspondence to Ft. Lee? Anyway, thanks for your card. Will be good to see Saucer News about the middle of June. Will it go on news stands, too? Am asking the SI's to deal NY another power blackout, or show their craft there in a striking way...or do something big and mysterious...before June 22...in NY, to help boost interest in the Convention. Am sure you will get powerful results. Something exciting and unusual. Should affect power and electricity, when it happens. Just one thought, however. I hope there is no misunderstanding on their part. Recently there have been a couple...dozens of tornados instead of the hurricane I asked for, was one. I hope they don't misunderstand this, and demolish New York...instead of putting on a demonstration. Ted Owens (PK Man) === Page 181 of 246 May 24, 1967 Ida Lewis 108 School Street Morton, Pa. 19070 Dear Ida: If you will look at my 1967 Predictions, you will see that it is beginning to come to pass. I mention "the blackest year for America"...and even now, this is beginning to take place, and will. Either Russia and China, or both, have amply stockpiled Egypt and its cronies with tremendous weapons with which to obliterate Israel. True, Israel has the best military force...but it will be like fighting a tiger with a fly-swatter, when Israel takes on Egypt and its cronies...with their new weapons. Nothing whatever will stop Egypt and its cronies from crushing Israel now. They have been told by Russia and/or China that they will be backed up against the U.S., if it steps in. I predict, therefore, the complete wiping out and obliteration of Israel (much as I like and admire Israel, which has nothing to do with my prediction.) Just as I have predicted the wiping out, and obliteration, of all U.S. peoples in Viet Nam. Now the Si's have a special message: They have told me to pass on the word to the U.S. Gov. that they will demonstrate their control over peoples minds by seeing to the complete and utter humiliation of President Johnson and fellow Democrats at the polls in 1968...if the U.S. survives to get to that point, which is in grave doubt at this time. They will defeat the present Administration leaders with every weapon at their command, the 'i's will. F E Man (Owens) 1114 Spruce St., No. 33 Phila., Pa. === Page 182 of 246 Monday, May 29, 1967 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency, Wash. D.C. Dear George: Was glancing over my files last night...and find that I gave the U.S. Govt. rather accurate warning of the barrel situation the U.S. now finds itself over on the Egypt-Israel problem. (1) In my letter to you of April 15, 1966: "They (the Si's) are getting set to focus their strange wrath now upon the U.S. Govt., or symbols thereof (Note: Israel is an ally). And the U.S. Govt. can consider itself warned in advance...I pick up a thread of something they might have in mind...foreign countries and peoples rising up against us in masses...actively...to the point of a catastrophe...as has never been done before in the history of the United States, and dangerously so...." That was a pretty good call, George, although it did take a year to develop. But not long ago...Nov. 2, 1966, in my letter to Roland Suank, Organization of Scientific Research, I said: "The Si's warn that dead ahead in the near future...the U.S. Govt. is going to be stricken with a dilemma, a quandary, to beat all quandaries. The U.S. will be faced with a unique problem suddenly thrust upon it...and the decision that is made by Johnson and Co. will decide the fate of the U.S., ultimately." "...this happening will be BIG. Something tremendously important." Now, of course, it is clear that the threat of Israel being attacked and wiped out, with all other ramifications...is what the above two references pertained to. I had thought it might have been a decision Pres. Johnson made to bomb the Hanoi area...but now I realize this sudden, unexpected twist in the Middle East, which could poleax the U.S. if it develops the way it is going...was what the Si's were warning about. H. Owens (P K Man) === Page 183 of 246 May 29, 1967 Mr. Tim Beckley I. N. Service, Searchlight Dear Tim: Just a note to point out that in my letter to you of January 18, 1967, I said: "Today called them (Roland Swank) and warned of a large earthquake to occur within days, or several weeks at the most, on the West Coast. Will be 6 or above on the Richter scale. A very damaging one. The Si's told me about it today...they will make it happen." The earthquake hit Denver, Colorado, on April 10...later than I had thought. There were widespread reports of damage up to points 120 miles away. The earthquake was so severe it knocked the needle off a seismograph at Regis College in Denver. This was the worst earthquake in history to hit Denver...since it was rated at 5.5 on the Richter scale of 10, and previously the worst quake to hit Denver had been 4.3 on Nov. 21, 1965...so nobody could say, well, this was just another quake. Ted Owens (P K Man) The Setas 1114 Spruce St., No. 33 Phila., Pa. === Page 184 of 246 Monday, May 22, 1967 Mr. Jim Moseley Saucer News Dear Jim: I quote the following from the New York Times yesterday, May 21, 1967: "ST. ALBANS BLACKED OUT." "St. Albans section of Queens was blacked out for nearly an hour and a half last night in the area bounded by Linden Boulevard, 118th Road and 198th and 202nd Streets." Since I had written you a few days before that, stating that I would ask the SI's to black out New York... it is most interesting that this seems to be a beginning. Remember that... the approach of thousands of their intelligences and/or craft will stop or block most power operations... such as electric, magnetic, electro-magnetic, etc. All the books say it is because of the power from the SI craft, that cars, etc., are stalled with dead batteries and dead radios. But the SI's have explained it to me differently... the SI's exert a force over the area near and around them, to silence all power sources... so that messages cannot be relayed to other points for help, or to attack them. I.e., if your car is on the road at night, and a SI is near... it will stop your car and stop your radio, holding you helpless to signal for help against them. Attack them. V. L. Dan (Owens) === Page 185 of 246 May 26, 1967 George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: This is confirming phone call of today, as follows; Si's state that Israel...and our accompanying problem with Israel...has only one hope. That of Si help. And they offer to give their help at once, to save Israel and bring about peace there. The U.S. Govt. must secure my family, and send me to Israel just as fast as can be done. I am betting, or willing to bet, my life, on the Si's...against Russian brains and weapons in the hands of Egypt, Syria, etc etc. What's the U.S. got to lose to try it? P E Man (Owens) === Page 186 of 246 Monday, May 29, 1967 President Johnson The i's told me not to write you any more letters...but I want to confirm a prediction I made...so I might as well add some vital information the i's gave me this afternoon to send to CIA. First, the prediction...see my letter to you of April 5, 1967: (I am talking about "kamikaze" techniques which are going to be adopted by the Viet Cong..." ... to overrun those points with mass suicidal attacks of commandos to silence all communications." The part of my prediction that is yet to come to pass...is the suicidal attacks with planes and ships. But let's get back to the confirmation. In tonight's paper, Phila. Bulletin, UPI, May 29, Saigon: "Marine Lt. Gen. Lewis Walt...three star General, recently assigned to Washington, said the Communists had resorted to suicidal attack against the allies." Now, today the i's gave me the following information: Russia has just formulated a new philosophy. They have decided that the U.S. is now weaker than it has been in a long long time, due to confusion in the Administration...conflict between the peoples and the Administration...conflict between the U.S. and foreign countries, etc. They judge the rest of the world including the U.S. as villain. And they have discovered if we haven't the brains and the power to settle the hash of N. Vietnam by now, we never will. Plus the fact they have been preparing for nuclear war for years in a reality way (unlike us) by vast underground shelters...and by sneaking agents into our key cities with A-bombs and bacteriological weapons...Trojan horse technique. The a-bombs and bacteriological weapons all to be set into action on a signal from Russia. After all our key cities are stricken, they'll offer to what is left...to come pick up the poor people and put them to work in Russia as slaves. Mind you, not a missile has been fired. If we do lob missiles onto Russia, they will have struck first...their key people will be scattered out in satellite countries...and most of their people will be in underground shelters. Ours won't be, when their missiles come. And now, with some new weapons they have, which we do not have, plus the above, they are ready...after all these years. It is no longer a Mexican stand-off, because they are prepared and ready to strike. The i's thought our U.S. Govt. ought to know this. P R Men (Owens) 1114 Spruce St., No. 53 Phila., Pa. 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 187 of 246 February 10, 1966 THE EDITOR Dear Sir: I read in the paper where President Johnson called for an end to the slaughter on our Nation's highways. He said, "If we continue at our present suicidal rate, half of all Americans will one day suffer death or serious injury on our highways." Now, he shouldn't say things like that. It might worry and depress our boys in Viet Nam. ********** There was an article in the paper last week about a famous movie star who allegedly stole some dime store merchandise. Good for her! Really, I mean it! Just think what a happy place Hollywood would be if all the famous actresses would stop stealing each other's husbands - and switched to stealing dime store trinkets! But they won't stop stealing husbands...they'd rather fight than switch. ********** To show you how very low the modern-day male of our so-called civilization has fallen, a Mr. Rothschild of Yale, said in the papers last week, "I have become very upset at the female assault on the male world, and want to do something about it..." So, what he did was challenge Miss McVeigh, of Harvard, to a rough and tough game of jacks. They sat down and battled it out. He won. She said, "Because he beat me doesn't prove me any less feminine, it just proves John (Rothchild) more feminine." These gentle words took care of Mr. Rothchild. But my son, 14, who for several years I have been trying to sell on the importance of a college education, said "Gee, Dad, is that what you learn at college? How to play jacks? I already know how to play jacks." Well, I was speechless and at a loss for a suitable answer, naturally. Finally all I could say was, "Son, in the cave man days when men were men they hit the girl on the head with a club, dragged her to his cave. No jacks were played. But now times have changed. They have laws. To keep out of trouble you need to study law...so that is why you need to go to college, because......." ********** H. T. Owens 1114 Spruce St. #33 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 188 of 246 Thunderstorms Drench, Dim Areas in Northern Suburbs LORNIE - REMEMBER OUR PUPIL WHO COULDN'T RESIST THE BUSINESS? The Sunday Bulletin PHILADELPHIA, Sunday, May 29, 1966 AP Wirephoto MASTER'S WINNER - Frank Stranahan receives master of finance cowl from wife, Ann, at University of Pennsylvania commencement. He quit PGA tour in October, 1964, to study at Wharton School. Yes I remember He actually did win! Just not in golf. 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 189 of 246 # Thunderstorms Drench, Dim Areas in Northern Suburbs Northeast Philadelphia and portions of Montgomery and Bucks counties were drenched with heavy thunderstorms last night touching off widespread power shortages and flooding. Hardest hit by the downpour was Willow Grove where the Naval Air Station recorded 1.35 inches of rain from 6:30 to 8 P.M. The Upper Moreland township police reported scores of flooded basements, fires and trees and electrical wires knocked out by the storm. A roof of the Willow Grove Metal Stamping Co. plant on Wyandotte rd. collapsed during the heavy rains. SOME 6000 homes in Warminster township were without power for 40 minutes when lightning struck a 33,000-volt Philadelphia Electric Co. power line at Blair and Monument rds. shortly after 7:30. In the Norristown area, power was knocked out, darkening some 1000 homes. Scattered disruptions were reported throughout Montgomery and Bucks counties. === Page 190 of 246 7.15.66 02 # Tornado Topples S. C. Ferris Wheel CRESENT BEACH, S. C. (UPI). -- A sea-spawned tornado ripped through South Carolina's rich "Grand Strand" resort area and caused an estimated $1 million damage to the posh playground. No serious injuries were reported. The twister knifed out of a squall line of thunderstorms, toppling a huge ferris wheel and severely damaging a restaurant and two motels. Lesser damage was reported at other resort areas north of Myrtle Beach. Communications and power were cut off by the storm. Heavy rains drenched the area and flooded streets and lowland areas. THUNDERSTORMS raked the area from Myrtle Beach northward to Cherry Grove Beach. Police and rescue squads rushed into the stricken area and reported only minor injuries to the throng of summer visitors and residents. Most of the minor injuries were caused by flying glass. Remember the ferris wheel? It got it. === Page 191 of 246 2 15 66 p2 The rainbow-colored light (which humans could not see, but I am lucky in that the Si's let me see it) seemed alive...it moved. My daughter and I left, as soon as the Si's told me it was done and the girl would live (she had been given up by the medical profession, which was the only reason they let me in). As the days went by the Si's let me see the girl in her hospital room...and as the days went by, the tiny small rainbow-light over her head grew in size, until the entire room was filled with beautiful, colored 'things'...and the room pulsated, like a human breathing. That was constructive. The girl is now at home, improving, and alive. The Si's saved her. Electro and Electra, the Calif. coast, are destructive. But the Si's point out that they can only reach humans...prove to humans that they are real...by producing negative conditions, destructive conditions. Just as the only way Moses could convince the Pharaoh that what he was saying was true and real...was by producing negative, destructive conditions. The Si's want you to know they come from another dimension, not outer space. They can produce conditions in our dimension from their dimension, if they wish. Or, they can actually enter our dimension themselves, when they have reason to do so. Before closing, they want you to know they can "melt" the destructive conditions they have set into play in Electro and Electra, and replace with a reverse effect. P K Man === Page 192 of 246 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency 2/15/66 Dear George: The Si's communicated with me this morning...and urged me to pass this following information on to the U.S. Government. Now, I have known this, but I only tell this sort of thing...when they tell me to. Philadelphia recently had a very nice rain. The Si's gave it. XXXXXXXXXX The Si's, for some reason, want the U.S. to know...that they have a Black Box. Say they are irked with the U.S. Government (which they are..the Administration so they slide a card into the Black Box...this is sort of like a printed-circuit in a transistor radio...and what happens is this: The U.S. Government then develops "conditions" which lead to all sorts of unusual and unexpected set-backs, ranging from air-ship-sub collisions, etc., to people catastrophes...like two generals, in different parts of the world, smashing themselves to pieces the same week by parachuting out of planes (last year.) The weather will go against the Government...people will turn against the Government...conditions will go against the Government. This is what the Black Box does, when the card or wafer is inserted in it. If the Si's wish to reverse conditions, they remove that card, and insert another, and then all conditions are "go" (to put it into space language) for the U.S. Government Everything goes right. The weather turns favorable; the people change, and become happy and back the Govt.; ships, planes, and subs stop having accidents; space work, instead of being blocked and hampered by constant set-backs, is speeded forward. The Si's want the U.S. Government to know that they can do this, for it is a different medium of tool than anything we have on earth. They want you to know that they can influence minds, souls and matter on earth in a way humans cannot. They want you to know that they have let me "see" how "PK" works...that is, take the "Electro" area from Daytona Beach to Miami...over it, now (didn't used to be when I just started the PK work) is a growing garden of violently colored 'things'...not plants, but long long things that extend into the air from the ground. The area is covered with these really beautiful, colored plants (?) which humans cannot see...but which are there, nevertheless, and which affect the area. The 'things' are constantly growing. For instance, when I was given permission to go to try to save the life of Brenda Sue Pennington in Washington, D.C., because she was dying...and because the Si's told me to...I "hit" Brenda Sue with certain kinds of constructive "PK" (that is my term for the process of the Si's which I cannot explain, but can use) and a tiny rainbow of color formed over her head (she was in bed, with police standing by, nurses, etc.) I hit her with all the power I had, and used my daughter to supplement my power, by holding hands with my daughter. 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 193 of 246 Bend wrist-band to fit your wrist. P.S. Bend this wrist-band to fit your wrist, honey. Feb. 7, 1966 Rick - The Si's instructed me to make you this wrist band. Made one for myself. We're to wear them as much and as often as possible. They have a reason for it. And the ring too. Try to wear this symbol all the time! Must make Lonnie & Martha & Lonnie a necklace. Beau too - something. It's important to the Si's - so let's cooperate. Did you get my Third Proof? Sent it today! "Emmy-Emmy" is name you gave to crude symbols we used to "PK earth-skin movement into disrhythm, causing floods, hurricanes, violent storms, volcano eruptions, etc. Found out our symbols were a code to Si's, who do it themselves with a form of power not known on earth. Love, Dad HAPPY === Page 194 of 246 January 25, 1966 Dear Lornie: I hope that you are getting along fine in school, and that all is well. Everything is quiet here...right now. But you know, with me...all hell can break loose, any time, any place. Our days are all pretty much the same...to work early, home at 6, where Martha has a hot supper waiting and Beau has a big kiss for me. Then TV, with Beau scrambling to get into my lap. He's so funny...if I bring home a beer, he runs like mad and gets a glass or cup before I even can get the beer out of the sack. And when he climbs into my lap every evening, after supper, to watch TV, first he brings a pillow to put his head on, then his pa-pa (blanket) to hold on to. I tell you he's cute. Once in a while, if Beau gets off my lap to do something, then Martha jumps out of her chair, which is alongside mine, and quickly takes Beau's place in my lap. Then of course Beau runs back and climbs up into her lap, which makes a sort of human pyramid...with me on the bottom trying to smoke a cigar. It is a comical sight. Soon am going to try to make some extra money, some way. Been relaxing long enough, just breaking even. Time to get ahead. This morning Martha said, "Say, if Jim Shannon is so young...like 25 or 27, then why isn't he in the draft, or in the Service?" No matter what PK I hit LA and Calif. with...you kids have no worry. You are protected. Was astonished to see an ad on TV where two kids are in a bubble, floating in the air, and the ad said: "How would you like to have your kids in a bubble of protection?" Be sure, you kids, to read my letters to each other...when I write one, it's for the other one to know about, too. So, take turns. Hope you and Rick liked the color pictures that were taken in Washington. The best one was of you and Beau, upstairs. What did you think of my big, fat letter last week with the photostats of the Si's being seen all night near here in New Jersey...and shooting a ray that burnt a big hole in the ice? The mayor of the town, the cops, and thousands of people saw the Si's that night. Write, Spellbound, when you can. love and kisses.......... Parker Owens P.S. Was there a power blackout in L.A.? If so, please send clipping on it. === Page 195 of 246 2/15/66 Dear Rick... was good to hear from you. Am returning copy of my letter for your files. Wrong one, but I thank you for going to the trouble of looking. Never mind looking further, I've got it covered. Tell Pat that that time she and her mother and I encountered a tremendous "feeling" in the front parlor of their home in Durham, N.C. - we were in a UFO "force-field" which was created by the extreme closeness of the UFO intelligences which were actually present at the time, although unseen. Rhine's work had drawn their interest...they were near Duke...and my own interests and mind drew them. They've told me. Now, about your pool cue. I went into Brunswick, a few doors from where I work, to get your cue. The expert there said to wait about three weeks, because they have a new cue coming from Japan which is superior to anything they've got in the U.S. It is made of rosewood, and is beautiful, and a terrific shooter. You know, Rick, the best radios are made in Japan...also some of the best cameras. Now they are coming out with these pool cues. They are the same price, about $20, as U.S. made, but this expert says they are 100% better in feel, balance, and looks. So, your birthday present will be three weeks late. You'll get a professional pool cue which unscrews and fits into a professional case (one just like you saw in "The Hustler" and a book by Willie Mosconi, one of the all time greats in pool. By the way, Sunday there was a tournament by four of the top pool shooters in the U.S. A Frank McGowan, of Brooklyn...beat the great old-timers he was up against. The old-timers were all about 50-60 years old. This McGowan was in his 30's. They had trick-shot contests, where each one took turns trying to do the same trick shot...and they had straight-pool contests to 100 (not 50). Sunday Electro got the huge Agena rocket they were testing...tore it up at the Cape...and now they are behind the 8-ball in their scheduled target-shot in March. They are "investigating what went wrong." A very very familiar phrase, indeed. Also Sunday Major Keyhoe appeared on a nationally televised program, to my utter surprise, and came out with these gems: (a) The U.S. Air Force has fired upon and attacked UFO's. But orders have now been given for our planes to "force them down to the ground". Ha ha. The AF has clocked the UFO's going 18,000 MPH. (b) Newsmen asked Keyhoe if it seemed "the UFO's were angry with our space efforts, and might be trying to block them." ---------- ! (c) Keyhoe said the A.F. and U.S. Government knew positively the UFO's are quite real...he'd seen a secret Govt. report on it...and that the A.F. had been under orders to shut up anybody or anything that had seen or heard a UFO, in order to keep it from the general public. He said some top AF men were angry about it...because they had to lie, and they weren't natural liars. But he said the U.S. Govt. was now contemplating telling the public about it...bringing it out into the open. ---------- ! Keyhoe said the A.F. and CIA had been working on keeping UFO activity secret, === Page 196 of 246 2 amd away from the general public. The CIA! Looks like I have been writing to the wrong people, Rick. Am having lots of fun with this new thing...sending funnies into the papers... and our kitchen wall is papered with different pages of newspapers that I have got funnies in. Sent you a UFO ring today. And a wrist-band also. Don't wear the wrist-band to school, only around home. These articles were made at the Si's direction, by me for you. Has something to do with a plan they have. Sent Lornie a "boyfriend" wring. I made Martha an out-of-this world beautiful bracelet and necklace for her Valentine. First time I have ever made anything...you know...but so far I have turned out all kinds of things like I'd been doing it for years. Without studying it, or anybody telling me anything...I just went to the right stores and bought the right things, then made the things up. Glad you approve of "hooleeo". That's favorable. You're pretty shrewd judge of character. Am puzzled. You say "The confirmed clipping of the UFO over Cape Canaveral are on their way." You didn't mean this letter of mine, attached, did you? I am 46 now. Always remember...I am 10 years older than Pat. Love always Dad === Page 197 of 246 Jan. 14, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: I am appalled by the apathy of the U.S. Government in checking leads, no matter how "far out" they may be. Now, just lately in my correspondence to you I told you that I would try to get the Si's to display a craft at Cape Kennedy for an extended period of time, to prove that I communicate with them and they understand. They chose, instead to do this in New Jersey, over the Wanaque reservoir. Sent you the info on that yesterday. The point is this...they want to make a personal meeting with me...and the Govt. should have rushed me to that exact spot and given me an opportunity to communicate and bring them down, right there. I have the means of doing this. No one else has. Same thing with their appearance in Michigan, and Florida, some time ago. I should have been sent there by the Govt....rushed...and been given an opportunity to meet them, by talking them down to the spot again. I am talking about the craft, now. We have had Si phenomena in our apartment, believe it or not, these past few weeks...but it is necessary to bring down a craft, and meet it. Two great "fireballs" have landed in Pa. since September, on two different occasions. These were the Si's, and they did not land in Pa. by accident. I am in Pa. They wish to meet me. This was brought out long ago in correspondence, when they stipulated conditions on how they wanted to meet me. But of course, US Govt. made no answer. I wrote you in advance of the events, that the Si's would create an earthquake and a disaster area (this in Dec. 28.) They did just that...a mild earthquake in New York and Pa., followed by a billion-dollar financial disaster in NYC. I told you that Pres. Johnson would be involved in the disaster area. Well, he tried not to be...but it was extended until he was forced into the matter. It is a great pity that I can get no cooperation from my Government to meet a Si craft, and make arrangements with them for future events. P K Man (Owens) 1114 Spruce St. #33 Phila., Pa. 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 198 of 246 Copy - Rick & Leone Monday, April 4, 1966 George Clark, C.I.A., Washington, D.C. Dear George: Yesterday I was in communication with the Si's...and they told me that they were going to make a demonstration of their powers before the AF meets with Congress with its info on UFO's...in order to dramatize the meeting. They told me they would do something at Cape Kennedy, or at Washington (the White House)...and today the tornados struck Cape Kennedy! I could have again warned the U.S. Govt. last night of this, but have no one to report to, and no way to do it. Oh, yes...then they told me yesterday of their plan to hit the Cape, or the White House...I asked them to show one of their crew in the area, as a sort of signature. But they didn't do that. Not long ago I sent you a letter with regard to General Ky, of Viet Nam. At the time he was being painted as a mixture of Batman and George Washington, by the U.S. Govt. But I told you what he was really like. And if you will check my letter, you will see that I was correct. The Si's yesterday told me something else...they do not want me to try to meet them in Michigan, or anywhere in the U.S. They want the original plan...U.S. Govt. gives me the money, I go to England...they specify England...and want me to rent an isolated castle there, etc. You know what that plan is. Now, to business. You will remember that I warned weeks ago that U.S. catastrophes would increase (unless the Govt. enlisted the help of the Si's) It has not, and the catastrophes have. Let's just briefly scan the catastrophes that have struck the U.S. Govt. in just the past ten days (10): (1) Today's tornados, chopping up Florida for three hours and bullseyeing on Cape Kennedy. (2) The railroad strike - "biting into the Nation's economy" as the newspapers put it. This affected hundreds of thousands of workers and jobs, and cost approximately fifty to one hundred million dollars...and created chaos. (3) Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Monday, and Tuesday - six days, count them, six - arrangements were made at Cape Kennedy for NASA to get a rocket off the ground...any rocket. But they could not. And these birds were highly publicized, adding insult to injury when they failed to get up. A true catastrophe for NASA, prestige-wise. (4) The "lost" H-bomb off the coast of Spain was dropped accidentally not once but many times, and is now possibly gone for good, until it goes off some day, or Russia steals it. A catastrophe. (5) The people of South Viet Nam, our allies, turned against the U.S. Govt. this week - and now American personnel are not safe among the people they are fighting and dying for. This rebellion of our allies against us, at this time, is a terrible catastrophe. (6) The blowing up of the hotel in Saigon which housed our military men was most certainly a catastrophe. (7) Devastating forest fires have struck five states in the South...most certainly a catastrophe. (8) And Saturday a hurricane (typhoon Shirley) bullseyed in on the U.S. Nuclear Submarine base in Australia, hitting it with damaging winds. All this action...in the past ten days alone, George. Catastrophes, ever increasing in number and in scope. The Si's are unhappy because I must work at 2% of my capacity, instead of working with them and for them; and they are unhappy because the U.S. Government has not sent for me to add my material to the report of the AF when it meets Congress, this week - since I am in communication with the Si's, and the AF is not - what can the AF P07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 199 of 246 4-4-66 p2 relate, of any value, to Congress? I can give really valuable information, and should be allowed to be there to do so. And the Si's are furious about it. This will undoubtedly be reflected in worse catastrophes just ahead of us. member - the primary purpose of the Si's is to establish a meeting of "minds" between themselves, and top U.S. leaders - and from that point on, using the U.S. as a friendly cooperative base of operations, they plan to straighten out world problems, bring about peace everywhere, and show us, from their higher intelligence and experience, how to keep the peace in effect after they are gone. The fact that the U. Govt. refused to listen to them at this point, or help bring this about...of course makes them very angry...and brings disastrous catastrophes upon us. Of course, in order to bring about the above, the Si's first have to be met in a physical meeting...face to face...and myself, Mr Man, is the U.S. Govt.'s only key to that meeting. The Si's do not intend for a minute to let the U.S. or any other country capture one of their craft and gain access to their mechanics of propulsion and power...to misuse as we have misused nuclear power, and no doubt will misuse it again in the future. That is why they are almost impossible to contact, let alone meet. Also they do not trust humans, and especially do not trust American military men...or American politicians. For remember, their values and morals are different than ours...they are strict, hard, and they are against war and killing and destruction. Can the same be said for military men and politicians? Of course not. And the same goes for scientists. The Si's do not like them, either. Well, enough. Luckily, the Si's do trust me, and like me. Why, I don't know. But I have submitted more than enough proof by now to you that they do communicate with me, and me with them. So....take it from there. Mr Man Love, Dad P.S. Pardon this clankety-clank FMC typewriter. It is a mess. 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 200 of 246 Lornie & Rick Monday May 16, 1966 Mr. Mitarnowski State Police Shade Gap, Pennsylvania Dear Sir: I am the gentleman who called you last Saturday, with regard to using ESP, or in this case...clairvoyance...as a tool to catch the criminal who kidnapped the girl at Shade Gap. However, please hear me out. Here is a complete plan, and I believe an excellent one...with which to catch this man. Spread the word over a wide area there that a famous clairvoyant (something like a witch, they'd better understand) is coming to Shade Gap this next Saturday and Sunday...to use his powers to describe the kidnapper in better detail, and tell the police a great deal more than is known. (I work like Peter Herkos, and you can get this around.) The enclosed sample newspaper story can be used...Wednesday, if possible. Now, the kidnapper, I feel, is very egotistical. He is certainly unbalanced. And he will watch the papers. I am sure that when he reads the newspaper story...and perhaps hears by word of mouth about the strange man coming...he will be sufficiently motivated to try and strike at me, probably Sunday, in the kidnapping area...even though he may be out of it now. My strange, unusual powers may indeed give you some cluesXXX..perhaps important. But also add this plan...and we might get results. I can be the bait to catch this criminal. The woods people and mountain people have much more faith in witchcraft and ESP than sophisticated city people, you'd better believe it. And I am sure this kidnapper would try to eliminate me. You would have to transport me there Friday evening or Saturday morning...and furnish me with a concealed walkie-talkie, plus a .357 Magnum pistol for protection. Withdraw any police from my area, and let me go through the woods from the point of the kidnapping. I am sure that if the man is still anywhere in the area, he will try for me...being of that sick ego, and unbalanced. When he does, I'll contact you, and you come in. As I explained to you on the phone, am not interested in any fee or charge. Just in getting the girl back. And I think I can. Sincerely, H. T. Owens 1114 Spruce St., #33 Phila., Pa. 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 201 of 246 5.16.66 pg 2 (This article, or one like it, to be published in the Shade Gap newspaper and other small towns around...Wednesday of this week, or Thursday.) WITCHCRAFT TO FIND A KIDNAPPER? Well, almost. A famous clairvoyant, with powerful ESP ability, is coming to Shade Gap this Saturday and Sunday, from Philadelphia, on his own, to give clues to the police that he "senses" and "pictures". These impressions he will get from the area of the kidnapping spot. His name is Owens, and he has been very successful in the past. Like the famed psychic Peter Herkos, Owens gets mental pictures of the criminal, and other important facts as well. When questioned, Owens gave this statement: "Obviously this kidnapper is crazy, insane. And also a coward...to pick on a small girl. I intend to spend Saturday and Sunday in the kidnapping area where the girl was taken, and I am positive that I will be able to get a picture in my mind of the kidnapper, and be able to tell the police of his habits, his work, and other facts which can lead to his capture. Perhaps even his present location." When asked if this might not be dangerous...to be in that same areaXX ... Owens replied: "No, this crazy man only picks on helpless girls. I will be alone in the area. As a matter of fact, the police have agreed to stay away and let me work those two days in my own way, by myself there. That way I can concentrate better." Well, it might work. In Philadelphia Owens is regarded as a powerful ESP worker, or "witch". If that is what it takes to catch a criminal...why not? ---------- (Note: The above article would be a personal insult, and dare, to the kidnapper. If he is the "sniper" as the papers think, then he would for sure make a try for me. Then you would get him.) === Page 202 of 246 January 27, 1966 Mr. Jackie Gleason Miami, Florida Dear Mr. Gleason: I have one of the best knife-throwing acts in the world, and would consider it a great honor to appear on your show with my wife. We were on the Steve Allen Show a couple of years ago, and I threw knives around Steve Allen. Maybe you saw it. My wife makes a good appearance...she's part Czech and part Cherokee, 27 years old. I'm kind of paunchy an homely, and 45. But we do things with knives nobody else can do. We are saving our money to start our own church, and we need one big appearance like yours, and we have our start. Sincerely, Bogarde Bogarde (Owens) 1114 Spruce St., #33 Philadelphia, Pa. P.S. Saw you in "The Hustler." A masterpiece of acting on your part. Tell you what...I'll teach you how to throw knives, if you'll teach me trick shots on the pool table. Ha ha. === Page 203 of 246 Tuesday June 21, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: The last time I wrote you a cryptic paragraph which I didn't understand, but which the Si's urged me to send you...and which came out as the South Pole UFO sighting (to prove their connection with me) - was long ago. Later I wrote you about the Si's sending ghosts from Viet Nam to affect President Johnson...but that is no mystery now. I understand that. Today they gave me another very cryptic message to send you. They say to tell you they are up to something most unusual...so much so they won't even tell me what it is. But they want the U.S. Govt. to know it in advance, before it happens...and after it happens there will be no doubt in the minds of the Govt. that it is the UFO's. That they are real...are here...are connected with me. They've urged me today so strongly to send this seemingly meaningless message, that I must. So I am sending it on. P K Man (Owens) P.S. They know what I am thinking...and it also works in reverse... I believe I know what they are thinking. And what they have in mind, I am sure, is to appear, so that many people can see them, and do something most unusual...something no UFO has done before during a "sighting." === Page 204 of 246 Rick Lornie LORNIE Monday, June 20, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: The Si's have been quiet, relatively quiet, for a bit. Soon they will strike through their "time window" as they call it...at the U.S. Govt. some more, to continue their never-ceasing efforts to spank some sense into it. Also they notified me yesterday...that what I have accomplished these past two years with "PK"...has been a training period for me, like a child in kindergarten...and just ahead they have something much more important for me, than what I have been doing...and now they say I have the facility mentally to receive the necessary power from them, to do it. I do not know what they have in mind...but can't possibly conceive of anything bigger than what I've been doing. Guiding hurricanes; causing lightning strikes, etc etc. But by now I know they know what they are talking about, even if I do not. P K Man (Owens) (symbol of a circle with a horizontal line and a lightning bolt) P.S. Today believe I succeeded in "talking" to Si's on my compass. Let you know when I'm sure. === Page 205 of 246 Sat. June 18, 1966 Mr. George Clarkc Central Intelligence Agency RICK LORNIE Dear George, The Si's say that between now and January, inclusive ... is a most volatile, dangerous time for a nuclear wer for the U.S. Watch out now. Also they warn: The words "Black Power" are the signal for the negros to attack at this time ... go all out on a war against whites in a way never before done. And this Stokely Carmichael, their leader ... can do the job for them, where no other nagro can. P & Nat (Ouens) P.S. Enclosed are come letters from my last 2 1/2 hour broadcast on CBS radio "night Talk" Please return them. note how far WCAZ reaches !!! 07/09/2025 16-14 === Page 206 of 246 Tuesday, June 28, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Rick Lerine Dear George: Two fine "hits". In my letter to President Johnson, March 10, 1966, copy to you, I said: "I have some very good news from the UFO intelligences to you. The Si's have decided to end the entire drought on the East Coast. They have told me to communicate this to the U.S. Government, In the days, weeks, or months to come there will be rain rain rain ... not just a little, not just "above average" - but phenomenal rain. The Si's will fill the rivers, streams, etc., on the East and Northeast Coast with rain water ... to overflowing. There will be no doubt whatsoever that this freakish rainfall is unnatural. They also told me to tell you that they want this on record ... so that when it occurs the people will not consider it just an "accident of Nature. "" Okay, George. As of now, June 28, after the East Coast has been greatly improved by rain since I wrote the above in March, I would like to quote from an article in the Phila. Bulletin, by Adolph Katz, on June 26: "One cause cited for the prolonged drought (on the East coast) has been that the high altitude winds - the westerlie which normally bring in rain-laden air from the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean, had shifted out to sea about five years ago. Rain, which normally would have fallen in this area, fell uselessly into the Atlantic ocean. ABNORMAL PATTERN Now the southwesterlies have swung back over the Eastern United Stati (after going 5 years the wrong way .. . my insert here) and are bringing rain once more. However, the wind-pattern is abnormal ... ". (see my 'freakish' predic Finally, the article says : "In a report to President Johnson, Udall said that the northeastern drought has diminished in intensity." Thus, I told you specifically what the Si's would do ... and they did- ic. Shifted the winds into an abnormal pattern in order to help the U.S. with its drought problem. Second hit: In my letter to you of June 17, I said: "Expect a major earthquake in the near future in the U.S .... running up and down Cali That was just eleven days ago. Last night the earthquake arrived,-> just a couple of days off-schedule, by my reckoning ... but in time to make the prediction very accurate, don't you think? P R Man (Ouona) 07/09/2025 16:14 & CD-1 1 man x .0 === Page 207 of 246 Rick P.S. Kidz - Wednesday June 8, 1966 Mr. Dunne, Chief Hurricane Center Weather Bureau Miami, Florida P.S. At bottom of page is exact raplica of "Hurricane Map" I made three weeks ago ... when I "planted" twenty "PK Hurricane seeds" in back of Cuba aimed at Cape K in Florida as soon as they grow". cuotas AK hundcaro Reads. Dal Dear Mr. Dunne: As I told you a month ago ... watch out for the hurricanes coming up ... "en garde." Alma is the first. Am trying to guide her up past Miami onto Cape Kennedy, then on up the coast to New York, for their rainfall needed badly there and to help the East Coast drought. (When I say "up past Miami, am taking her to the left of Miami ... halfway between Naples and Miami. Am telling you this for an accuracy check later on.) See enclosed item, It is most regrettable that you didn't take me up on my proposition, couple of months ago. Am using that tall tall "moonship" thing that doesn't fly, that NASA hauled out laboriously several weeks agoł ... as the absolute bullseye center for my hurricane work this year, on the Cape K. ? K Man (Owens) 1114 Spruce, #33 Philadelphia, Pa. Kids - send me copy your the. where of mention planting BK "ca seats Will vetrin it. Important! L 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 208 of 246 6.8.66 pg 2 P.S. If you see an inevitable bullseye on Miami from Alma ... remember my proposition. I am the only human alive who can take Alma off and away, leaving Florida safe. However, don't wait too long to contract my services. .. for there is a great difference in diverting a tiger while it's springing in mid-air ... and diverting a tiger once it has its teeth in its victim. Then its too late. F K Man (Owens) === Page 209 of 246 Kils - - Jelay! valsts. this explains the Goat. put me an R Friday morning June 3, 1966 Mr. Jack Mckinney Dear Jack: The Si's came through with some very interesting intelligence as I was walking to work today. As you know, they had told me to tell the U.S. Govt. that they would ruin the Surveyor shot ... and harass the Gemini 9 shot, as they have been doing. Well, the Surveyor took off ... and lost an aerial ... and the Si's were getting ready to ruin the gadget when suddenly P K Man their Representative, was called up and invited to talk about them, the Si's, over the radio. This had not been anticipated by the Si's. When Kha P K Man went on the program, was given an opportunity to talk more about the Si's and their wishes, and P K Man was not badly treated ... that is, was treated as a guest, not a man on trial, this pleased the Si's very much. Now Jack ... recall last year when I was on your show ... and the Si's made it rain exactly at the time I went on, and closed down the rain as I went off. Then the following week, on "Talk of Philadelphia" show ... they made it rain because I'd been invited again to talk about them. And the rain stood for what they were willing to "pay" the United States in exchange for the U.S. Govt. fixing me up so that I could arrange to meet them. In other words, whenever I appeared on the radio, the Si's rewarded the town with rain ... and this was at the time of deep drought, remember? When there just was no rain at all. So ... the Si's told me this morning ... they decided to allow the Surveyor to go on and land and function, just as they allowed the rain to fall last year, as a reward to the people of the U.S. for allowing Their case to be further presented to the people. They wish that you would read this letter over the air, to the people, Jack. And it might be pointed out, as far as I am concerned, that one-half of my prediction was correct ... that Gemini 9 was blocked Wednesday From taking off ... harassed as usual. I am just sorry that I didn't know about the change of mind on the part of the Si's ... but the radio program came on took sudden. One other point ... the Si's salute NASA and its workers ... because, although the U.S. people are not aware of it ... NASA has far outdone Russia, in that NASA has had to make all these difficult shots, in the face of Si harassment and hostility. In other words, the Si's have cased practically all of NASa's troubles, but the people do not know it. Nor NASA. 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 210 of 246 6.3.66 pg2 Rück LORNIE THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: IN NASA'S LAST FIFTEEN EFFORTS TO GET BIRDS UP Monday June 6, 1966 AND WORKING TO COMPLETE MISSION, HOW MANY DID? ONE - SURVEYOR - AND BY COINCIDENCE P K MAN WAS STATING THE SI'S CASE OVER RADIO THAT VERY NIGHT Mr. Eastwood, Inventions,AT ITS MOST CRUCIAL POINT ... WHEN IT LANDED ON THE MOON! ONLY .. .. ONE ... OUT OF THE LAST 15. BAJA) Dear Mr. Eastwood: Chalk up another success for "PK" and the Si's. No matter what NASA tells the public. .. NASA can tell itself only one thing. Gemini 9 was a failure. The two reasons for Gemini 9 were: (1) A docking with the target. (2) Use of the back-pack. Neither of these all-important tests were carried out. Therefore ... Gemini 9 can be added to the long long list of "PK'd" rockets and missiles. P K Man (Owens) P. S. Am now in process of guiding 1 Hurricane Alma (dif out line, in anyathe Beach kids remember ? ) elle Fluida Contothan Mine dod Cf K. for rainfall ( Dad) 200 1 /07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 211 of 246 Friday June 3 Dear Rick and Lornie Wednesday afternoon durned if Jack Mckinney didn't call me up and ask me to appear on his "Night Talk" show that night, Wed. night. Remember I was on there for four hours, non-stop, last year? This, of course, gave me no chance to prepare material or anything. Last year I took a week to get ready for them. But to my great amazement ... although a scientist sat at the table with Jack and myself ... there was no attack on me. On the contrary, Jack even testified over the radio that all of the predictions I'd been sending in, had been true (I've been sending him copies, like yourselves.) The "P K Man" (how he addressed me throughout and advertised me late that afternoon) segment lasted until 12:30 ... 22 hours. They spent an hour letting people call up and talk to me over the "phone". Only one man called me a "good-natured phony" ... all the rest of the calls said they believed me, and how they enjoyed hearing the program. And the one man who attacked me ... was bawled out severely by another man who called up and said he "felt sorry" for the man who said "phony" because a person such as him couldn't understand what it is I am doing. The man who said I was a "phony" intemted I was sending in letters after things happened, not before. (Which is quite wrong, of course.) Anyway, it was lots of fun .... and as usual, their telephone switchboard went absolutely crazy with the amount of calls. When we went off the air at 12:30 (program lasts until 2, and they had two more people to interview) telephone calls were still flooding the switchboard with people wanting to talk to me about the Si's. Now, the Si's would like you to do this: Both of you sit down, and write a long letter to Mr. Jack Mckinney, "Night Talk", Radio Station WCAU, Philadelphia, Pa. Tell him in detail of our using PK in Phoenix, and on our long long trip (without telling him we were broke, ha ha). Tell him how we worked with the hurricanes in Myrtle Beach, etc. And ask him, if he tells the people about their report, to give me a callus so I can listen. (Send me a copy of your letter when you write him.){} If you have a friend who has one of these "World radios" you could even hear the program. (Dove?) Must run now. Love always Dad P.S. They did an odd thing- Station WCAll dil a complete re-play of the entire 21/2 hours I did with Jack - when got home was dialing radio for music (about 1:30) + da 07, 09/2025, 16:17 Di wan the boommal'd sich date! === Page 212 of 246 Friday June 3, 1966 Larnie Dear Jack Mckinney: If you get a chance, please read this short letter some evening. It is an afterthought ... two days after appearing on your program, and is a rebuttal to the gentleman who phoned in, asking if it was not "childish" of the Si's to kill two of our Astronauts (plane crash not too long ago) and harass NASA and the U.S. Govt., just for the sake of demonstrations of their powers. My rebuttal: Is it not true that we, the United States, have killed goodness knows how many innocent little babies, and their mothers ... in Viet Nam ... PURELY BY ACCIDENT, MIND YOU ... in order to teach North Viet Nam and China a lesson? The U.S. has been giving tremendous bombing demonstrations for one main purpose ... to show our muscles to N. Viet Nam and China. And this has resulted in our accidentally bombing and killing not only many innocent Vietnamese ... but even many of our own boys ... ACCIDENTALLY. Now, I put it to the gentleman who called; If the Si's are "childish" for killing two of our astronauts ... what does that make us people, who have done far worse ... and for the same reason, teaching a lesson. That would put our U.S. thinking somewhere BELOW childish, I believe. Tell the gentleman to think about it. I'm sure I'm right. Sincerely, P K Man (Owens) Leve - Dad. === Page 213 of 246 Wednesday, June 1, 1966 Nr. George Check Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: Today's decision on the part of WASA to serub the Gemini 9 mission was probably the smartest thing they have done in years. Then I realized the Si's had let the target get up (but the shroud is yxxxx probably on to foul up a docking attempt) I realized the Si's were playing & bigger game today ... more than just the eat-and- mouse game of knocking down the target vehicle, thus leaving the astronauts stranded and junking the mission. Then I remembered ... one of the astronauts is an Air Force man. And I also remembered the recent Si warning that they would deal # smashing blow to the U.S. Government soon ... also their warning that thay would severely punish the Air Force for calling their attempts to be seen, and officially recognized, as "marsh gas." I put the pieces together ... and it all came out a complete destructio of the rocket and men today. It would all tie togather, and I am absolutely positive that is what would have occurred. I know for a fact that the Si's were there today ... poised and ready. Or, to be more exact, their remote-controlled weapons ware there. All this occurred to me 15 minutes before the rocket was to go up. When It was sorubbed, I brenthed a deep sigh of relle[. For I am not a killer, and would not see the astronauts destroyed. P K Man (Owens) === Page 214 of 246 Wednesday, June 1, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: In my letter to you of March 26, 1966 (less than three months ago) I told you that the UFO Intelligences would now harass the Air Force as they have been doing MASA, I said: "Knowing what I know, LE 1 were the Air Force I would be scared witless. But of course, who ever heard of warsh gas being dangerous? To make it clear ... the Si's (saucer intelligences) are now going to teach the Air Force z lesson it will never forget. They are turning their attention to the harassment of the Air Force in a big way. Bos, as I understand it, the Air Force is responsible for the Saturn woon rocket work ... and the entire second stage of the test blew up Sunday. A whopping catastrophe. Then ... Generel Childre of the Air Force, Commanding General of the Continental Air Command ... died last Saturday, at age 54. Then ... General Blanchard, Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force ... only second from the top. .. dropped dend of a heart attack while at a meeting in the Pentagon yesterday, at age 50. Thus, the pattern, so well known to wa, is mor taxing shape. Might mantion before closing ... I expect a hurricane (an early one) in the near future, out of the Florida direction. P K Man (Owens) === Page 215 of 246 Jose 1, 1966 George Claz's Central Intelligence The Si's today gave 150 som Interestin, informaties to Chowy that when they Tles mour sono police cars, in # recent nighting ... the stupid police actually fireå guns at their craft. (This was not made public. . and may even be kept a secret by the officers who committed this colossal blunder.) However, the di's wera ... if they approach in friendly. fashion in the future ... nad nro fired pon or attacked in an waterlandly nummer .. . the police will be minus ens police car and officers. The si's will eliminate it, That war pretty damn stupid, George, of those police to do that. === Page 216 of 246 64.66 Rick Lome Saturday, June 4, 1966 Mr. Eastwood, Inventions N.A.S.A. Dear Mr. Eastwood: Been a lot of action since my daughter and I visited you, eh? At that time my "PK" work must have seemed amusing to you. However, by now, after sending you copies of predictions over a long period of time, you are now better able to evaluate properly the results of "PX". You must admit, the Si's have been busy. Below is a list of rockets, missiles, etc., fired up by NASA which were hit by "PK" and duly logged in my little black book, as the action took place on each, AND WHICH WERE THEN DESTROYED OR DISABLED WITH EK MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: Saturn Rocket Ranger 6 Titan 2 Titan 3 Orbiting Geophysical Observatory (OGO-A) Minuteman 1 Imp 2 Mariner 3 Minuteman 1 Tiros Weather Rocket Centaur Rocket Scout Rocket Titan 34 Space Glider on Thor Delta (Project Asset, above) Atlas-Centaur Rocket (Project Surveyor, above) "Snapshot" - Ion Engine Rocket Air Force Tracking Rocket, Star Gemini 5 - Hit by EMK storm, fire, lightning & mechanical failure ... but still managed to get up and down. O.S.O. Flying Laboratory, 8/25 X-19 Experimental Plane Thor-Agena Titan Rocket Agena Atlas Rocket Titan 3, w/4 Satellites aboard. Gemini 8 wrecked; Astronauts escaped, thank God. Gemini 8 Agena went wild; useless. 07/09/2025 16:17 === Page 217 of 246 6.4.66 Page Two (Continued - Rockets Destroyed or Disabled) O.A.O. - Orbiting Astronomical Laboratory. Atlas-Centaur Rocket New Polaris Rocket, Cape. Explorer Satellite Rocket Saturn Moon Rocket Test Stage, Miss. (Note: After "testing" PK on the first two of this list, I then began writing the Cape and the State Department of what would happen ... and also wrote them that lightning would hit the Cape, as well as hurricanes, as a result of PK work. Then Lightning hit a lightning-proof pad at the Cape. Later, last July, lightning hit another pad, actually striking some workers. And lightning hit very close to Gemini 5. As for my hurricane prediction ... you know well Hurricane Cleo, Hurricane Dora, and Hurricane Isbell sideswiped Cape Kennedy. Hurricane Gladys missed, but just the same tore up the work at the Cape for a time, just from the threat of her. Hurricane Hilda bullseyed on the Michoud Space Complex. Hurricane Betsy bullseyed on Michoud Space Complex, and she bullseyed on NASA's Bahamas set-up. These five different hurricanes that hit NASA were guided by PK work. Then we have to add the destruction of The Space Eye, down near the Cape. One Russian spaceship was worked on by PK - the Voshkod Spaceship, and it was brought down exactly as I said it would be. Crashed in the woods. Add to this list further results of the PK - side-effects - which I do not like, but which happened: Drydon, Deputy Director of NASA, died. Lovelace, Chief of NASA, killed ia crash. One Astronaut killed when a bird flew into his plane, and it crashed. Tuo Astronauts killed in another plance crash. General Branch of NASA killed in crash. Now, the following list are the "ones that got away" from PK, and were successful shots: McNamara's Minuteman from silo, Cape. Gemini From Cape, 1/'65. Explorer Satellite, 12/'64 Minuteman 2 from Cape, 12/'64 O.s.o., 1/2/65 2/17 Cape Rocket === Page 218 of 246 6.4.66 Page Three (Continued - Successful Shots) 2/18 Cape Rocket Gemini 3 Ranger 9 Gemini 6-7 Hangar Polaris, new, Cape Surveyor Moon Rocket Now just compare the two lists. See the difference? Vandenberg shots were left clear by the Si's, so that the U.S. Govt. could be able to tell the difference between an area inundated with "PIC" ... and a free area. (Electra, the California coast, is PK'de, but it is a completely different type of oPK than the Electro, or Florida coast.) I think the Si's have proved their point terrifically, don't you? Point is, the PK grows, as I explained to you when I met you. It grows as time goes by ... gets stronger and more powerful. That is why the Si's cannot be ignored ad infinitum, as they have been in the past ... or called "marsh gas" and dismissed with a flip of the hand. And of course, the point of all that destruction PR was not that it was done for meaness or ornriness ... but TO PROVE THAT PK FORCES NOW EXIST AND CAN DEFEAT ANY OR ALL PARTS OF THE U.S. EFFORTS TO DO ANYTHING AT ALL. Also, TO PROVE THAT THE UFO'S ARE BEHIND IT, AND ARE DOING IT. Also, TO SHOW THE U.S. GOVT., BY THE DEMONSTRATIONS OF THESE TREMENDOUS POWERS, WHAT COULD BE DONE TO HELP THE U.S. GOVT. FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PK COIN. What is a dirty shame ... a lowdown dirty shame ... is that the people of the United States ... the man on the street ... cannot be told by the U.S. Government about this ... that NASA has actually done a superb job, and the Cape workers, and the Astronauts, have done heroic work ... trying in the face of this horrendous PK to succeed in space work ... and in a few cases actually succeeding! It's much much later now, Mr. Eastwood ... but I repeat, the PK is still growing in size and power on the Cape Kennedy area (Electro). And it can only be taken down, erased, removed, by the Si's. And I do their human talking for them, for better or for worse. Some day somebody had better talk to me. P K MAN (Owens) Love Dal 07/09/2025 16:17 === Page 219 of 246 Sunday, April 17, 1966 Mr. George Clark, CIA Tornie Doar Goorge: First, let me pass on to you the hottest message I have had in quite a while from my UFO friends .. . received about noon today. Unless the U.S. Govt. meets their wishes soon, and approaches me, they are going to do the following: The recent uprising against Ky and the American govt. in Viet Nam was merely a spark. The UFO's will ignite entire Agia against the U.S. Government and sweep out every white from Asia ... all ... and instead of a spark hhere will ৳ a roaring fire in Agia ... against America. I know how they will do this ... and unbelievably, to set these forces in motion to reach the above conclusion. .. will only take the Si's a matter of seconds in our time. Don't believe that, do you. But I assure you, it is so. As if to underline their communication with me today, one of their remote- controlled "craft" was watched for hours, this morning, by police and onlooker: while it travelled from Ohio into Pennsylvania. Understand this fact ... the Viet Cong, and the Chinese of Poking, want a massacure of Americans in Viet Nam ... a terrible blood bath ... and right now the Americans are there, in the jaws of the trap. The UFO's advise that nothing at all can save our hundreds of thousands there, unless the U.S. Govt. quickly contacts me and makes arrangements as por their previous instructions. Then, and only then, will the UFO intelligences help us out of Viet Nam, without suffering the worst catastrophe in the history of the U. S. You know, Georg -... some people do not take me seriously. Mrs. Mangels, in Washington, did not take me seriously. . and all sorts of catastrophies hit her including a physical beating from hoodlums on the street, the sudden death of her brother, and so on. January 11, 1966, I sent a letter to my kids ( you met them) c/o Shannon in Inglewood, California (Shannon does not take me seriously, either). In the letter to them I wrote: "The Si's want me to tell you ... if anyone at all blocks mail addressed to you ... keeps you from getting it ... God help them. It sort of worries me. If they were mad enough about your leaving me . . . they might wipe out the Bentleyes and the Shannons, just like that." Woll, George it has begun. Two weeks ago Mary Bentley, sister of my ex-wife, Pat Shannon, ' was found dead in N.w York. No matter how she died (I do not know how) the disturbing fact is ... she died shortly after the Si's communicated with me to write that letter. Probably the U.S. Govt. has not taken me seriously, re my ship-sub-plane PK, but the Michaelangelo and three other ships just ran into it and got chewed up by it. Also the waves will help undo the U.S. east coast drought. But there was more than waves involved ... there was PK power. And to top it off .. . as if the Cape Kennedy PK pounding were not bad enough recently ... now you have a strike down there that will paralyze the entire Space Center. P K Man (Owehs) Love, Dad P.S. Rick, Lonnie - I am really concerned about the Bentley 2 a Shannons, You are protected but they are not Well, I guess Pat is. Hanything else like many happens-notify me fast & I'll get in touch with the Si's a try to call them of. Take a bit of doing 07/09/2025 16:17 === Page 220 of 246 Sb غيا به/ Kich - you have copy of last week's letter. Tuesday April 26, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: See attached clip, then read this following quote from the letter I just sent you last Tuesday, April 19: "Something momentous is in the wind ... with the Si's. ; So big that they are actually going to attempt to bring one of their craft down into Philadelphia to contact me! One of the big ones, that is. For some time I have been trying to get them to do just that ... but not unti today did they signal that they were going to come into Philadelphia ... into Center City ... to try a contact with me. That is how important it is to them to make a contact physically with their human contact. I understand from "thinking with them" that ordinarily they hate to go into a city ... down around buildings, etc. But ... frustrated over the U.S. Government's refusal to help me meet them in the Michigan woods, or in an isolated European castle ... then they will make an effort to find me, here. They know where I am at all times ... but reaching me with one of their large craft ... that's something else. So ... when you read about the UFO seen in Philadelphia, in the days or weeks ahead ... you will know who it is linking up with." - That's what I wrote you, George ... exactly one week ago. Now read clipping P K Man (Owens) P.S. If you will check the picture of this UFO, in this clipping, taken by the 14 year old boy ... you will readily see that this UFO, and the UFO photographed in Australia and pictured in the Life Magazine article on UFO's several weeks ago ... are exactly the same. 07/09/2025 16:17 === Page 221 of 246 ist," he pelt at id the lift- ard Ve Meteor Flashes Over: East Thousands Sight 'Fireball' By ROBERT J. HAYES Of The Inquirer Staff moon. It was also very slow.|said, it was big. Its chances of You can usually count on seeing coming down in one piece, he meteors only for about 15 sec- onds." said, depended on its composi- tion. A bright ball of fire trailing a long fiery tail startled thousands The object, seen about 8:10 P. in the Delaware Valley and most M., caused a general swamping of the Mid-Atlantic Coast as it of area police switchboards. shot across the sky near sun- down Monday. The object; reported seen in Rochester, N. Y., Boston, in areas of Ohio and the Carolinas, Picture and Background Article on Page 3 was described soon after it was ters alone reported more than sighted by astronomers and Fed. 500 calls -- many from policemen. eral Aviation Agency authorities Municipal telephones buzzed to as a meteor. the tune of about 1000 calls. Dr. I. M. Levitt, director of Phone calls swamped police the Franklin Institute's Fels boards in Delaware, Montgom- Planetarium, said the fireball ery, Chester and Bucks counties, was seen by a member of his and in North and South New staff, Edward Bailey, of Bala Jersey. Cynwyd. "From his description," Dr. was seen here, Dr. Levitt said Levitt said, "it was most likely he received a report the object a meteor, but there are too had been sighted over Boston. many unknowns. He said observers in New Eng- "The object," he said, "was land had reported it was headed I very unusual for two reasons. for a crash-down in Canada. For one, it was as bright as a full| Whatever it was, Dr. Levitt Continued on Page 3, Column 5 "If it's iron, it could make it down in one piece," he said. ture-'friable'-it will probably break up." Philadelphia police headquar- "If it's a stone and iron mix- Apparently the object's desti- nation depended largely upon where you were sitting when you saw it. A private pilot landed at the Bridgeport, N. J., airport and reported seeing "a large, bril- liantly green spherical object about 5000 feet in the air going at about 600 miles an hour. About an hour after the meteor "It was headed due west, and extinguished itself in the vicin- ity of the General Electric plant! in Chester." In Washington, reports were that the object landed in the ifit. === Page 222 of 246 rs AP. Wirephoto This photo of long-tailed meteor that streaked across northeast U. S. was taken by 14-year-old Utica, N. Y., youth, Dana DeGeorge, as he stood in his back yard with a friend. Huge Fireball Sighted Flashing Over East By Startled Thousands Continued from First Page |spotted the thing when his col- Maryland countryside about 10 le, Jamie, began barking at miles north of the Capitol. the sky. A Ridley Park man said he The man, John W. Brown, of 237 Stoney Hill rd., said the thing, which he spotted from his backyard, "was well over 10,000 or 12,000 feet high. It was directly overhead and going on a bullet trajectory and died out about 15 degrees above the hori- zon." VAPOR TRAIL LEFT An official of Yale University Observatory in Connecticut said the object might have been a Bolide - a type of meteor which enters the atmophere at slower speeds and seems to travel at a level altitude. The object's long tail left a vapor trail similar to that left by jet planes at high altitudes. This brought fears it was a plane burning and about to crash. Flying saucer fears also were rampant, especially, in all prob- ability, since the recent mysteri- ous UFO sightings in Michigan and elsewhere. 07/09/2025 16:17 === Page 223 of 246 In Asbury Park, N.J., some- one with a wilder explanation told the city's newspaper, "I saw a head peering out a port- hole." Near Atlantic City, an engi- neer at the National Aviation Facilities Experimental Corp., at Pomona, told State Police the object was a meteor that ex- ploded on entering the earth's atmosphere. Descriptions of the object. ranged from "huge Roman Candle" to "starburst," "fire- works," and "flying saucers." Its color varied in observers' eyes from dazzling white to blue green or red. All agreed on one thing the object was traveling on a descending course from south to north. 'LANDING' REPORTED Police from the Carolinas to Toronto checked reports of downed aircraft or that the ob- ject landed in their areas. "Ev- eryone thought it came down near them," a Coast Guard of- ficial said. In Bucks county, a woman called police to say the fireball crashed down on the Levittown parkway. In Scranton, a man was talk- ing on the phone with another man in Binghamton, N. Y. They saw the object at the same time. === Page 224 of 246 forme 201 Tuesday April 19, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: Something momentous is in the wind ... with the Si's. So big, that they are actually going to attempt to bring one of their craft down into Philadelphia to contact me! One of the big ones, that is. For some time I have been trying to get them to do just that ... but not until today did they signal that they were going to come into Philadelphia ... into Center City ... to try a contact with me. That is how important it is to them to make a contact physically with their human contact. I understand from "thinking with them" that ordinarily they hate to go into a city ... down around buildings, etc. But ... frustrated over the U.S. Government's refusal to help me meet them in the Michigan woods, or in an isolated European castle ... then they will make an effort to find me, here. They know where I am at all times ... but reaching me with one of their large craft ... that's something else. So .... when you read about the UFO seen in Philadelphia, in the days or weeks ahead ... you will know who it is linking up with. Incidentally ... had you given any thought to the UFO that wer seen this Sunday, and the police chased it almost 100 miles ... and when it got ahead of the police, it waited for them to catch up? Same with the Waunaque, N.J., UFO ... it first was sigheed by police ... and was actually over a police station. This one Sunday came down over the police car. They are "talking" ... and "police" or "law and authority" are what they are talking about. Then you will notice they lead the police and everybody else to the town of ... Freedom. Then, and only then, it vanished, Think about it, George. P K Man (Owens) Love Dad 07/09/2025 16:17 === Page 225 of 246 Rick- why not write Dex Anderson in San Gabriel? July 1, 1966 P.S. From July, To July 18 d'un laid off. Company shuts down each time this year. Two weeks, and nothing to do with it ! Dear Lornie and Rick Got lucky today, got a little time, and access to a typewriter. Just in the long shot you might want to improve yourself, enclosed is the word-XXXXXX formula I worked up in Ft. Worth, and which worked like a miracle with my pupils there, combined with auto-hyp. You have to use auto-hyp first, close your eyes, tell yourself what you will read out loud will react on you with all the power of Nature ... then open your eyes and read it to yourself out loud. Do this once a day, and zowie ... watch your smoke! After you read it, don't forget to waken yourself and snap fingers. Just in case you've forgotten the routine. Be sure and send back what I ask you to send back, always. Here's my plan for the Sota Church. Church of Sota (Secrets of the Ages) Healing and New Life -The Science of the Soul- Start legal church in L.A., lawyers Neiman and Soroty. Find and develop Sota Masters ... Master Healers ... which I'11 teach to use PK, and they'11 become Church Heads. But there will be few. Each member of the Sota Church will be assigned to a Master ... for their individual needs to be taken care of, and to progress. (My Ft. Worth work, etc.) SOTA LIBRARY - Books pertaining to our teachings and training. Also complete library on psychic phenomena, hypnosis, etc. SOTA HOSPITAL - Medical Doctors, Psychologists, and Sota Masters. THE SOTA SLEEP - under medical framework. If Sota member wishes to withdraw from the world temporarily, let them ... to avoid a psychosis or suicide, and use Sota techs on them while they sleep. SOTA RESEARCH FOUNDATION - research on UFO's, parapsych, the soul, healing, etc. SOTA HAVEN - will take care of any pregnant mother, no questions asked, delivery of child, and find job afterward for her, plus way to take care of her baby. Complete follow up, no charges for anything. SOTA LODGE - Headquarters and Retreat for the few Masters ... each having a small, individual, comfortable cottage. A woodsy place for creative work and thinking, and teaching. SOTA COLLEGE - Classes: Secrets of the Ages Super Memory Trachtenberg Math 07/09/2025 16:17 === Page 226 of 246 7:1.66- Pq 2 Hyp and Auto-hyp techs. ESP techs and usages. Languages (Berlitz method.) Oil painting. Creative writing. Cooking Sewing Music Secretarial Skill: Typing, shorthand, spelling. (The Masters will each be taught individually. It will be a tedious job, and I'm the only one who can do it.) Each Master will be made a Dr. of Philosophy and Dr. of the Soul, and will be issued a special beautiful ring, Sota Ringm made out of copper and precious stones. Each Member of the Sotas will be issued a Sota talisman, PK'd, for wear around the neck. There will be a special Lake ... PK'd ... like Lourdes ... will work like Lourdes. There will be special rooms, PK'd for special effects. Remember the PK grows and grows and becomes more powerful ... so the PK in the room will take effect on any who go into the room (like the curses on the old Egyptian tombs which took effect long long after all the people vanished, on the British and Americans who plundered the tombs ... ) except our PK will be constructive and useful, not destructive, in these roomss And so on. Our motto will be: "And It Came To Pass." Because that's what PK work does ... it comes to pass ... earthquakes, hurricanes, lightning attacks, etc etc. Brenda Sue, Mrs. White in Ft. Worth ... it came to pass that they lived, when they should have died, according to all medical rules. PK made the difference. In case you have forgotten, here are the names of the PK Angels: Lornie ... Sahda Rick ... Veroque (Ver-o-ka) Ted ... Sonyn Martha ... Treya Beau ... Tranya Well, must bing off now. Be good little chilluns, and mind momma. You know, of all the people I have known, and know, there are only two, besides you two kids, who could qualify to become a Sota Master after PK teaching ... Don something in Seattle, and Pat. But neither of them would want to. .. having their own lives to lead. It is going to be a problem to find a dedicated person, wanting to learn all the PK secrets, and being RIGHT for it. Amar wouldn't do, Lornie, she's too set in her ways. Love, Dad 07/09/2025 16:17 === Page 227 of 246 Copy _ Rick Tanie March 10, 1966 President Johnson Dear Mr. President: I have some very good news ... from the UFO intelligences ... to P K Man ... to you. The Si's have decided to end the entire drought on the East Coast. They have told me to communicate this to the U.S. Government. In the days, weeks and months to come there will be rain rain rain. .. not just a little, not just "above average" - but phenomenal rain. The Si's will fill the rivers, streams, etc., on the East and Northeast Coast with rainwater ... to overflowing. There will be no doubt whatsoever that this freakish rainfall is unnatural. They also told me to tell you that they want this on record. .. so that when it occurs the people will not consider it just an "accident of Nature." Their plan was for me to obtain money enough to have independence, so that I would not have to do ordinary work for a living ... since now they can only communicate with me through "cracks and crevices in time, instead of through an "open door" in time, as would be the case if I were free to work with them constantly. This money mentioned above was to be made by me as "The Rainmaker" and by me breaking the drought on the East Coast for the money. However, my fellow humans would not listen ... would not accept. So the MSi's will make the stupid humans a present of the rain. But they warn ... and mark this well ... after the drought has been completely alleviated, and the humans on the East Coast are smug and happy with their supply of water ... then if the U.S. Govt. continues to ignore P K Han and refuses to help him, and cooperate with the Si's ... then the Si's will strike the U.S. with something far far worse than drought, as punishment. And they do not communicate idle words. So, I am very happy that the East Coast will soon be inundated with rain and water. Our friends, the Si's, will now demonstrate their gentle, good side ... and it is their predominant side, as a rule. You, and the U.S. Government, and the people of the U.S., can thank God the Si's are trying to help us, and one on our side. Would be sad if they gave up on us, and took their powers elsewhere to some other, more frindly and cooperative, country to fulfill their pattern of action they are determined upon. P K Man (Owens) 07/09/2025 16:17 === Page 228 of 246 March 9, 1966 President Johnson Dear Mr. President: This is the next important letter of warning to the U.S. Govt. from the UFO intelligences (Si's) ... following their last letter of warning, dated August 11, 1965, written by me to you from their communication. They wish to bring things up to date first. Since their last warning there have been an unprecedented number of airplane and ship accidents ... not at all accidental ... caused by UFO methods. They call it "Ship-Sub-Plane PK", "Storm PK", etc. Although catastrophes have been caused by the UFO's all over the world, to fit their pattern of planning ... we are concerned here with only those catastrophes affecting the U.S., of which, as I said, there have been an unprecedented number and in an ever-increasing cyclical rythm ... if you have noticed. Unless action is taken by the U.S. Government to cooperate with the Si's ... and form a friendly alliance with them ... matters will get much worse in all departments ... Nature, political, financial, health, etc. As they stated before, in my previous letters, it is as in the days of Moses. Speaking, that is, of their catastrophe-effects. In their last letter of warning to you and the U.S. Govt. they warned that catastrophes would increase in number and scope. This has certainly happened, on a giant scale ... although no attention has been paid, that I know of, to their important warnings by the U.S. Govt. XX As you can see, from the list that follows, many of these catastrophes have been the worst experienced here in the U.S. in 100 years ... and some of them the worst ever experienced in the entire history of the U.S. - thus bearing out my message to you from the Si's in the last letter of warning that this would be so. Interesting is the fact that the Si's warned in my letter of February 12, 1965, that the Russ would form small teams to smuggle atom bombs into our U.S. cities for a Trojan Horse attack from within the U.S. This was confirmed by articles in the newspapers just yesterday, quoting J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI warning of the Russ planning to do just that, 1.e., bring in small atom bombs. Also in my past correspondence the Si's warned that they would attack our Stock Market and cause a "storm" therein, to show how they could affect our financial structure, if they wished to do so. These past two weeks you have seen it happen. And unless we make friends with the Si's they might just tear down the structure Please see my letter of January 31, 1966, and read entire letter. 07/09/2025 16:17 === Page 229 of 246 2 3.9.66 In this letter is a paragraph: "They (the Si's) are curious to know ... must they do something worse than put the entire U.S. in the deep freeze? Or will the U.S. make friends with them?" They had their answer ... the U.S. did not make friends ... P K Man was not contacted ... so they did many things worse! It would take too long to list all of the great catastrophes which have struck the U.S. since the Si's last warning to you ... so let us just samm up the past two months: Jan. 31: (Following are newspaper headlines which tell the story) "Worst Storm of Century Hits South .... breaking records that date back to 19th Century." "A severe combination of snow, wind, and icy cold hit most of the Nation, tying up highway, rail, and air traffic ... Washington was virtually paralyzed." ""Northeast Lashed As Another Storm Blows Up In Plains." Feb. 1: "The fury of one of the worst winter storms in years moved into the North Atlantic last night, leaving the Eastern Seaboard and the South battered." ... 34 Degrees Below Zero At Russellville, Alabama." Feb. 1: "New Storm Hits The South and MidWest" - "A new storm today rolled across the Midwest and South, and moved for the snow-packed Mid Atlantic States. In Florida ... nearly all the crops of tomatos, peppers, cucumbers, squash, sweet corn, and poll beans were destroyed." Feb. 1: "30 Foot Drifts Bury Cities In Upper New York" - "Whole counties of Upper New York State lay buried Tuesday, under drifts up to 30 feet deep ... after one of the worst snow storms on record. Winds sometimes approached hurricane velocity." Feb. 2: (Catastrophe in Viet Nam) The First Cavalary was riddled with .50 caliber machine gun fire ... from their own side. Captain Fox there said he had never seen anything to compare with this accident. Sgt. Standfield there said hehad seen no parallel to it in three wars. Feb. 3: "6 men were killed in a C-47 crash in the Navy Operation Deep Freeze in the Antarctic." "It was the worst crash of the Navy's 11-year Operation Deep Freeze in the Antarctic." Feb. 10: "Tornado Hits Houston Area." - "The storm was the worst to hit Houston in years. Winds of 100 mph were reported in Houston." Feb. 11: "Tornados Wrack Texas" - "A massive storm system that spawned tornados ... dissipated in the Gulf of Mexico." (Almost skipped this one ... President Johnson declared American Samoa a 07/09/2025 16:17 === Page 230 of 246 3 3.9 66 P93 a major disaster area, because of a hurricane which just recently struck it. Feb. 12: Lightning struck a plane near the airport at Rome. This happened once to a plane Mrs. Johnson was on, as I recall. And it was recently discovered that tremendous air turbulence blew the plane apart near Tokyo recently ... as the same thing happened to a plane over Florids last year. Of course, Florida is the "Electro" area ... a supercharged PK area. The lightning and the force appdied Kexkha for the air turbulence are of course Si phenomena. (This above is not a catastrophe; but wanted to bring it in as a point of interest.) Feb. 11: Meningitis struck at San Antonio, Texas; Ft. Gordon, Georgea; Lackland AFB, Texas - and other U.S. locations. Feb. XX 20:"Cold Sweeps 17 State Area" (Broke records everywhere in these areas.) Feb. 21: "Flu Epidemic Grips California - Schools Closed." "Flu Bug Spreads Throughout California" Feb. 23: "Tornados Splash Across South" "Tornados Cause Heavy Damage In North Carolina and Georgia" Feb. 28: "Two Astronauts Killed As Jet Hits Plant Housing Gemini 9" March 1: "Stocks Dive 13.70 Points" "Worst Dip In 8 Months Rocks Stock Market" March &: "Tornados Rill 60, Hurt 497, In Two Dixie States" March 5: "Snow Still Falling In Blizzard of Central U.S." - "This was the worst blizzard in recorded history ... since the Weather Bureau began keeping records." Now ... Mr. President .. the Si's want you and the Government to know absolutely that they created all this damage and harassment to further prove what I have been saying ... that I am their "reporter" (as a newspaper hires a reporter to carry the news to the readers) to the U.S. Govt., and that they can and will do what they say they can and will. To summarize the above 2-month list: THE ENTIRE U.S. WAS MADE A DISASTER AREA! Just look. EAST COAST - Worst blizzard in 100 years. WEST COAST - Struck with Flu and Meningitis epidemics. SOUTH - Worst cold freeze in 100 years. Killer tornados. 07/09/2025 16:17 === Page 231 of 246 3.9.66 pg 4 4 NORTHWEST - Worst blizzard in the entire history of the Weather Bureau. MIDWEST - Worst cold in 100 years. Plus blizzard. HOUSTON, TEXAS - Attacked by tornados. MISSISSIPPI - Attacked by tornados. ALABAMA - Attacked by tornados. NORTH CAROLINA - Attacked by tornados. GEORGIA - Attacked by tornados. CALIFORNIA - Killer meningitis. TEXAS - Killer meningitis. NEW JERSEY - Killer meningitis. ALABAMA - Killer meningitis. All this, in only two month's time! It does not include the Great New York Blackout ... or the terrible, paralyzing New York Transit Strike ... or the many crashes of huge airplanes ... or the loss, one way or another, of Köpk top key government personnel ... and so on. NOTE: The Si's are hereby notifying the U.S. Government that, just as they predicted in their last warning ... the catastrophes that have just occurred, record-breaking though they may be, are only a sample of what lies ahead for the U.S. Government ... unless the U.S. Government makes friends with them, and accepts them as an ally. Their conditions for this have been spelled out, previously, several times. The Si's warn ... brace yourself ... because there will be an unexpected twist in Viet Nam ... and our forces will be lucky if they even manage to escape from there with their lives ... regardless of all our military might. (But the Si's can extricate us from that mess, and only they can, if we allow them.) The Si's state that only they can stop U.S. catastrophes, and help the U.S. out of all the troubles that it is in. They also think my Government is erazy for not even giving the Si-power a try-out in the U.S.'s behalf. We can spend millions beautifying highways ... give millions to foreign countries ... but will not trouble to make friends with the Si's ... who are the only ones who can help us. President Johnson ... once more I respectfully ask that you invite me to your Texas ranch for a weekend and discuss this. It is the last time I will ... can .. ask. To sum up ... in my first "Letter To The American People" I predicted great catastrophes. They came. In my# second letter of warning to you, Mr. President, I predicted more and bigger catastrophes. They came. In this, my third letter of warning from the Si's ... I am predicting even bigger, even more terrible catastrophes ahead for the U.S. Government. THERE IS NO TIME TO LOSE. Send for P K Man, UFO representative, immediately, 07/09/2025 16:17 === Page 232 of 246 5 3.9.66 195 and arrange to join forces with the Si's. The Si's predict that the day will come when the U.S. Government, when in trouble, will come to P K Man to send a message to the Si's to get them out of trouble ... just as you would go to the Western Union to send a wire. If the U.S. Government takes good care of me, that is. If anything happens to me, the U.S. Government will never again have this opportunity in this lifetime. In closing, the Si's want you to know that this message, this letter, comes straight from them ... through me ... and they are the same UFO intelligences (saucer intelligences) seen over the Wanaque Reservoir not long ago. Also they want to repeat ... the catastrophes suffered by the U.S. these past months have been produced by the Si's to impress the U.S. Govt. with their powers ... to reinforce the message read by Jack Mckinney over Jack's "Night Talk" Radio Show last summer here in Philadelphia. Owens P K Man (Owens) 1114 Spruce, #33 Philadelphia, Pa. === Page 233 of 246 August 2, 1966, Tuesday Dear Lornie: Thank you very much for writing the letter. I thought perhaps you'd entered a monastery somewhere and wouldn't be out again for ten years. You are right not to worry aboutkys your grades. Just do the best you can do, when going to school, learn all that you can ... especially the things you are interested in ... remember that lots of the teachers are stupid, neurotic wrecks, and they do play favorites ... and if your grades are low, then you have the best attitude about it. If you're not figuring on being a nuclear physist (that dam word I always spell wrong) or like that ... then why worry? Just be sure and get your diploma, then toddle off to the Beauty School with the $600 you've saved out of your weekly allowance, and all is well. Why, just think of those heads of hair you can run your fingers through and tie in knots, if they fuss at you. When I think of all the chaos and carnage you can commit on the heads of innocent citizens ... why, the scope is limitless! (ha ha - it's a joke.) Actually, in all seriousness, I should think you would be a Champion Hair Dresser, Beautician, or whatever they call it. You are creative ... you have quick little hands ... and you are very intelligent. So you will do fine. However, let'ss don't cross any bridges. By the time you get out of High School you just might decide to be a Fireman, or run for Governor, or something like that. Teenagers are notoriously fickle about deciding what they are really going to do. I just hope you don't get out of H.S. then decide what you really want to do is go to college! So, Rick got a surfboard. All he needs now is a loaded .45 automatic. Yes, you had ought to write Martha personal letters, addressed to her. I know she will answer them. Glad you saw "Mice and Men." You see my point, then. What on earth will you do without a phone? You'll get constipation of the conversation, kid. If you get too frustrated ... get one of these toy phones in the dime store and sit in your room and make up phone calls to your girl friends and talk away. That's what Beau does. Have you ever taken all my "George" copies and put them in date order in folders, and read them? If not, why not? Your dad has done something no other human being has done since the time of Moses! I have been literally doing miracles! And you two numbnoses do not even seem to realize it. Two other top govt. agencies besides NASA and CIA have recently spent hours with me, going over my material. I can tell you, one of them is not really govt., although made up of top govt. men. . . NICAP, described in the back of the flying saucer book I sent you to read. The other agency I won't name ... but if you put the initials together, you're hissing. One thing for sure ... they weren't impressed by our tiny apartment! If you can, get away from the coast. The U.S. coastal areas are go9/92506:17 be destroyed ... devastated ... one of these days. Love - Dad === Page 234 of 246 Tuesday, Teb. 14, 1967 Deer Iornie ... good to hear from you. Dr. Irene Kevula's address is 2 Cliff St., Wolcott, Connecticut. Am returning the picture Air Mail, az you request. Have two lorger, wellet size nies made for Marthe and me .. . plus a 5xll pic ... and let me know the cost. Will send it to you, and you send me the pics. Ckay? This is a fine picture, honey. You look great. And he does, as you say, look like a fine young man. I am very hoppy that you have such good taste in the opposite sex. So you flunked History, eh? But you did fine in your other subjects. Congratulations on a rood score. I had trouble with History, too ... hed e dull teacher, also. But maybe you can profit from a lesson I learned in high school. In my Senior year I decided to hell with whether I liked the teachers or not ... they were my grades that were going to show, and it was my time which would be wasted if I flunked ... so Lornie, believe it or not, all I did was study study study on Physics, the toughest course in Bedford I.S., with the toughest most unliked teacher ... and I got & B. The teacher told me himself, afterward, that any other teacher would have given me an A ... but being him, he didn't give out A's. Just B's to too students. Ugh. What a man. If I'd based my action and hours of time on whether I liked him or not ... I'd have flunked flat out. ButI used to be like you in my early H.S. years. Incidentally, your camera will use color film. Just get 35 milimeter film. It has a terrific lens. You know, I sent you some pics from it. Don't worry about presents, hon. Remember all the times when I was flat broke et Xmes or birthdays. Ne ha. Nothing new to us, eh? Beau is something else. Words cannot now describe him. He has to be observed to be believed. It is good that you have to earn your own money, honey. Builds character. T wes so proud of you end Rick on our adventuring, when you kids sold card fortunes, ironing board holders, etc. It was for the good of the gang ... and no one knows better than I thet you two can hold your own, anywhere, eny time. lust go no w Your three pals love you ... always know that. Sincerely, Dad 07/09/2025 16:17 === Page 235 of 246 Thursday, August 25, 1966 Dear Lornie: Thank you very much for the two dandy cigars. They gave me several hours of pleasure. Honey, I don't know what you are talking about when you mention my being sued by a radio station. I haven't been. If anybody did sue me, what could they possibly get? Mebbe an empty bird cage. four days? How did you like my producing Hurricane Faith in just (See my letter to you of last week ... Friday.) Those men weren't "detectives", Lornie. They are Secret Service men. I had written President Johnson that I had a bright idea for him to use, re his popularity improvement with the people ... and these two S.S. men came up to ask what it is. The idea, briefly, is for Johnson to appear on TV with Bob Hope, Groucho Marx, etc., and get some laughs ... and some empathy with the U.S. people. He's too grim and bitter. I pointed out what made Will Rogers lovable, and others, too ... and it was a sense of humor, and being able to make the people laugh, even in tough times. No. Costs money for the docs to go ahead and study Beau. And we haven't any right now. These two women here who have ridden my back and abused me worse than anyone in my entire life. .. are really bad, clear through. I never did hit them with PK, though, much as I was tempted. However, the Si's did ... they told me they were putting the two in PK bubbles, enclosing the yellow gas, and attaching two poltergeists to each of their backs .. . and this condition will go on for the rest of their lives. God. Makes me shudder to think of it. They are walking around, enclosed in that bubble from another dimension, and that horrible stuff inside the bubble with them! For the rest of their lives! Anyway, I didn't do it. But I did resign, to get away from them. Got a fine reference from the Boss, who understands. Tomorrow is my last day. We haven't moved yet. No way to do so. We need a jaloppy, and no way to promote one yet. The papers you sent will help me very much, and I love you for it. It is very humorous that the Commies offered me all I need ... yet I can't get it from my own Govt. I was tempted to take it, though. But I cannot. This is my own country, and I am staying with it, stupid though it may be at times. Be a good girl, and Martha and Beau and I miss you. Love, Ted. 07/09/2025 16:17 === Page 236 of 246 Monday, August 8, 1966 Dear Lornie and Rick: I hope you are both well and happy. Had a visit not long ago from some Secret Service men. Friendly visit, in answer to my letters to the President. They were very much interested in some ideas I had sent. Also, am now being evaluated and analyzed (my work with the Si's is, that is) by a group of General Electric scientists. They think so highly of my work that they just gave me a signed confirmation on a number of my predictions-before-the-events ... and they just made me a present of a glistening, brand new Czech portable typewriter of my own. I have had one 3-hour session with them, and one 42 hour session with them ... everything taken down on tape recorder. And these are for-real SCIENTISTS. They say they know I am getting results, but they don't understand how ... and they want to help me, scientifically. Am having an awful time at work. Some psychotic woman, the sister of the brothers who own the business. .. rides me, every day, sadistacally. Follows me around calling me jerk and dope, and asking me why I do not make it rain inside the office. She's nuttier than a fruit cake, but mean-nutty. I would quit in a minute to get away from her, if there was anything else to go to. But there isn't in this hell-town. And no way to get out of the town. I told you this Company fined me $55.00 for missing one day to be on the radio. It has put Martha and I behind about six weeks in paying bills, etc., and we hardly eat right, what with the two-week layoff they gave everybody without pay ... with no warning. Well, enough sunshine and light. Write once every Christmas and tell me what's going on. Love and Kisses, 07/09/2025 16:17 === Page 237 of 246 Saturday, August 13, 1966 Lornie Owens 26005 Oak Street #18 Lomita, California 90717 Dear Lornie: Thankyou for writing. Notice this typewriter? It is a dandy, and was given to me as a present by some people interested in the Si's and their activities. Very nice people. Scientifically minded, just like Dave. He'd fit right in with them. I was very surprised that you remembered about my hitting the Beatles with PK ... an unusual thing to do, and you will remember I actually apologized to George for it. Remember why? I told you ... it was pitiful that the Beatles were getting more attention and devotion . from the kids of the U.S., than the kids were paying to the Bible, Jesus, and God? I told youthat was wrong ... and so I hit them with PK with the express purpose of ending this state of things. And ITHAPPENED JUST THAT WAY. Took a long time, since we were in either Myrtle Beach or Washington when I sicked PK onto them. And it is amazing that they became disgraced to the point where Senators are trying to bar them and their records, etc., for the VERY REASON I issued PK at them. Jesus and the Bible! You must not be getting my mail. I sent you a letter-form to sign some time ago, listing the prediction hits I had sent you, before the events came true. Will dig up another, if I can find one, and send it. I imagine you'll be glad to get back to school, with all those activities which you like so much. Am quitting my job August 26 (have already quit, am leaving it then.) Have no plans or anything. Just getting the hell out of there. My Si friends just made a public appearance in Erie, Pa., and walked in full sight to within five feet of people. Also left tracks in the sand. Also walked straight into the water out of sight. Very interesting. I had predicted not long ago (see your file of copies) that they were due to make a public appearance soon ... and so something they hadn't done before ... and so they did. You would be surprised at the number of people who have tried to brainwash me away from my working with the Si's. It's a laugh. Might as well try to brainwash a hurricane. Here's another laugh ... the small amount of financial support I need to get isolated and bring the Si's down for a meeting. .. has been offered to me by a Communist organization. Took me out into the country onto a beautiful estate and showed me the layout and said, "All this is yours ... whatever you need for as long as you want. All you have to do is join us." My own government just ignores me. How's them apples? Martha, Beau and I send our love and kisses to you, and to Rick.07/09/2025 16:17 === Page 238 of 246 Sept. 17, 196 Dear Lorme - Martha, Beau + I wish you the happiest of birthdays. You are a woman now, not a little girl any longer. It's been a long time since Pat look a picture of your parched on my shoulder with an old Cannon camera. I'll always have lots of happy memories of the sweet little child, Lornie -who took her lumps and bumps and laughs with Daddy, every where. Your birthday present is something money cannot buy. And there's no other like it. And it's beautiful! I made it. Took heris. It has to crack to be made the way I've invented, but don't worry about the thing cracks. It's firm, Just treat it like the delicate ceramic work that it is. (Take it off before you punch Rick in the noce.) Love x pièces Dod 07/09/2025 16:17 === Page 239 of 246 'S. Oh second day with circus tornado warning came. They et everybody out of tests for 4 his ( very dangerous in a text luring windstorm.) Martha & baby & I crouched behind the Zephants, which were flattened up against a high kindly wall. wings we're flying thin the air - must have been 50-75 mph ind. Rained for several days. (naturally.) dridentally have taken of rain PK - put up sur iata inside PK cover. Harvey know what this means. Drought- everywhere. Heat. no water. You'll be reading about it Worst summer in istory of U.S. They asked for it & they deserve it. Love Dad (PK Man) Jogarele) 5. Thumbs down to no meant "the front is off " i e no more thif (crowd) As bring in, so they hung" closed on the outside - peut chains across the front a closed the text- plays. So if a til was still in the tent we did one more show for that tile, I were of for a half-hour to 2 Los, depending on the day. Man. The Wed we didn't with too hard. Each day the crowds grow progressively. Fri, Sat, Sum are hard days. One show after another in"grind" fashions of the "grind" is on the07 9225 16:17 === Page 240 of 246 8) next the Blade Box. A pretty girl gets in the box and 13 long words are many then it at every angle. They for a drive the crowd can walk back of the box & see how the girl has eluded the knives This is a real money maker. Worked fine until the magician, who performed it vanished for a day and a sub came in to do it- and cut the girl twice putting the prives in. (He didn't give her time enough to guide the blades part her.) The first Blade Box girl gone, was secretly smoching with Fuller the owner (as well as about 20 other assorted males around) until Fuller's wife arrived. Then the girl got fired x they used Julie (myptina) to run over after heract a do the Blade Box. There are dozens of exciting a wonderful things I could tell you about if I could just think of them. Oh last nite I almost gat ran over by a camel. These things are like trains! I was standing inside the tent when suddenly the side of the tent lifted and a camel plunged right of me- knocking the steel tent pole into my arm. I jumped out of the way & Bat the elephant tender rou the camel out the opposite side. The crowd was at the opposite end of the tenta they'd decided to run the camels thou our tent to load them in trucks ) Just as I was recovering from the shock of this another down camel came busting under the playx at me. It was out of control + just missed me. They got it x took it aut Lots of excitement. We got paid & after advances + 5000 deductions for taxes - we had 3.00 left after hotel rent. I sold my watch for 20.00. Sound familiar? Haha! We love you and Harvey. Be a good girl, and help Harvey be a good boy. It's your job as big sister.) tad Over for 07/09/2025 16:17 5 === Page 241 of 246 2 nearest bar and drink. He also drank some kind of dope. He had a rep as a bad very bad man. But he quickly made friends with me. What I didn't know was he wanted to take over our knife act) He took me to his car and took out , 0 knives he had made x need. Told me to use them - that his eyes were had. I said I'd buy Them. He said well I could use the prives during my stint and he'd consider selling them to me. Two days later before my show he asked for his prives - said he'd like to practice on my board I gave them them to him but he went out to his car. At showtimp he came in and hundred them to me in a stack. I put the stack in my bucket i went on to do the show. In the 3rd throw I felt terfi pain in my fingers. There I was, half way then prives around, about 300 people watching is. I glanced down & caw two fingers infred open, deek. Without pausing I governed at the crowd to cover my slight parce licked my fingers to get up the blood & proceeded to finish the act. After the crowd passed on I went to the board x examined that 3 rd prite, which had bounced out of the board. Peanuts had taken pliers and twisted the point around so that there were two rager- thank projections guaranteed to ruin any hand. I need PKinstantly and the cuts were completely healed within hours. naturally the chows couldn't stop so I adapted a grip utilizing other fingers. I called hen acct, mas. over I showed him the gaffed printe. They came the double cross He went to Peanuts, bought the hives for himself (discovered he wanted to start a knife act- he'd been showing his handcut escapes in exchange for psibe lessons. ) Then they fired Peanuts This made me furious, because I'd been double-crossed I feel sorry for anyone using those knives after this -x was sporting enough when I left to warn Ley that there knives hoveds better not be used around a live target. You understand? === Page 242 of 246 was on the roof tops trying to get these negros. One day they caught a regis who had just thing a can of Diano non auto some copa De Feo's partner was real mad about it I when their rengiant hollered up from the street "Get that man Piano-thrower down here fast " De Fes'é partner ched up the megro & threw him of the roof into the street low. They told me many fascinating stories while I taught Heptact, Ting The Fat Man. 6 ft 3, 762 lbs, Bad- mpered, hates people. He just sit there & sells pictures. of had to pile 15 coke cases together to make a chair for him. my is not jolly. One day he slowly laboriously got himself of platform and massively moved to the cookhouse for lunch. that were an hour late. So he bowled out the cook. Now he to a loaf of bread, 2 dozen eggs, 2 lbs. of bacon, and 3 posts of Tee just for breakfast.) Well the cook complained to the haager, + the manager told Tring to apologize to the cook. iny refused to do so, and from that time on refused to eat the colorhouse. He'd wait until the show was over they take ab downtown & eat comewhere We knew how this hust Ting cause he's the tightest man with a crime you've ever seen. Our I day he astonished all the acto by holding out his hand to the Bo who took it and Firmy shook his little hand with a mile. Since Thing is cold as ice, this puzzled everybody, including na. next, The Count one Some best friends. Colored, colorful tremendous personality. Been all over the world. He's a special atile with heavy iron legs. To fact jazz music he leaks outy tte able on roller skates and tap dances & roller chats like med. terrific entertainer. He held Bo for is the most now, Peanuts came next, until he got fired and that's giate story. Peanuts swallowed bay andts, clothes hanger swords etc. Indian with wild eyes, he'd dash of between shown to the 07/09/2025 16:17 === Page 243 of 246 5, grabbed one of the Duke's tom-tom sticks away from him & the Dehe had to chance him all over the text to get it back. Bo finally ( he's very shark) discovered by watching & kids trying to sneak under the text in that he could lift the tent a weak out. Boy! First time he vanished we found him on a kiddy- side outside, having a ball. He just went over a got in a car a rode & rade & rade. The operators nearly died laughing. They all got to know him cause Martha took him on all the pony rides car rides ito (they had 80 different rides.) Bo would wagger around the text lik a grown man, learning at people petting babies. One colored woman had a pretty 2 yr. old colored guil by the hand. Bo grimy dirty by this time in late afternoon walked over to the little girl. Her face lighted up in a big smile x she held out her timy hand. Bo took her hand and the I went hand in hand around the tent. Finally a colored teen ager con of the colored woman came into the tent i went up to his mother. He saw Bo, his face registered uther astonishment , he pointed a finger at Box yelled " Where did he come from?" Only once did Boelde un. I searched high + low. Finally went to the police van. There he was sitting in a chair, calmly jabbering in that Chinese way of his at the cope. I identified myself and one cop said to me " This is impossible, Bogarde, Your boy is talking Korean!" I said haber But he was serious "He absolutely in," he said. "Ispent years in Korea, I talk in Korean Shim & Leanswers me." You figure that one out During the day a half-dagen come clambered outs our platform at my invitation put down their billy duber, & learned hilfe throwing. They ate it up. And they told me things about their work In the race mots here weeks ago negros disimple dumped bushel backets of liches of the roof toks ant, the cops below. One copp is in the hospital from being struck by the bricks not effected to live. Then the negras poured Diano down auto the cake. De Feo who told me about it had a shotgun at 07/09/2025- 16:17 === Page 244 of 246 out the wind blew than the tent & blew the flames back to him - burning of all his hair, etc, a roasting his nel. Steel the magician come from the Ringling Circus. A 25 yr. old and he ware "inside father" on the mike- directing the crowds from act to act. Unfortunately this act come just before outs. Every thing he did his act the crowd would walk away from him, half way than his act to our Platform wanting to use the knives. This made him furious, and the List two days he'd cut our out short on purpose Jealous. we'd do inives around a net up for teeth balloon or blindfold -x he'd read the crowd on. But the manager got him straightened out her name brunette he liked in the crowd dated him one night. She was married. He "went to new York" the next day. The following day when he got back" the husband . the girl's father were at the wichs gunning shim. The girl had vanished. She hasn't been found yet. Evidently 's a good magician. Deptact- Bogarde , Lavella. My knives in that champagne what I bought- look good. Also Peanuts (I'll get to him) loaned + 10 knives he used to use. We'd open with knives around (20 hrive) wering board.) Then teeth balloon. Then blindfold. The did the shield few times. We only had time for 2-3 stunts. They use code words. Manager walk around in front of each platform & holds his fingers lose together means " short act"-"fast" because the crowd must e rushed to the Blade Box where they make extra money the tretches his fingers for apart means do a long act of they say over te mike "Is Johnny Robinson in the crowd" they all acts do short to to much the tip out to make room for a new tip Bo was a hall of a problem. Frist two days Martha would hold i'm back of the platform until and act began then we'd ach a early act to hold him until we finished. Finally we discovered I we put him down in the center of the tent he'd play & run & watch the acts - a we could watch him from the platform. Everybody was crazy about him, a they'd keepan eye on him too. If he tried to sneak out the front of the tent then Duke the Hawaiian creating the tom-tom would shooch him back inside. Once 0109/2025 16:17 === Page 245 of 246 Sun. May 30 - Jean hasn't cent and things yet! 1 Last nite while Bobo The Rubber Man was doing his act one the marks (crowd) jumped on his platform and heehled him, So I Bobo picked up his barrel and hit the mark on the head with it knocking him of the platform .? Let's Make Me crets. See page 2 - the chart. Bobo is very famous written up by Ripley's Believe It or not He's from the Ringting Circus where he was Enmet Kelly's partner. One thing he does is step inside a narrows barrel bend over put his head shoulders a arms down inside the barrel-x buch the hands up over him. He somehow gets both legs up back of him - back of his shoulders- and wings on his hands. He's without a doubt one of the world's best Contantionate. now pass on to mytina The Electronic Guil's platform. She's a pretty bland in gold tights who stands on a plate which charges her up with electricity. of your hand hera light bulb it lights p. H you touch a personene - cooked torch to her hand or tongue - it busta into flame. Lots of things like that Sealo in advertised be half man half-real. He was born with little tienzy flippers attached to his shoulders. He's very happy shows the crowd how he chaves and rate, ita ( he's a regular sleight-)- hand artrit ist/ those flippers) Alsoher the "circus philosopher" All the aute like to hang around Sealo's stand because he's always so happy & jolly. He's really 10.(Sealo keeps yelling at (Bo and flifung fim chewing guten.) Buck is the Giant. He's also crazy about Bo and fiches him up and plays with him constantly. He's 812 feet tall and at our eating table in the cookhave he its in the center and can reach any part or end of the table. Mas c Brisky is the finest Five cater in the world. Any of the most difficult fine - eating triche he can do. Last year he told us he was badly burned in Canada doing the black" this to a fine eater is like a triple- come salt to the trapage people. To to the blast he fills his mouth with a whichy glass of gasoline and somehow spews it out in a fan where he lights it with his torches. In Canada, just as he chnage (7109/2025 16:17 === Page 246 of 246 go rat. Food is excellent. All you want the king pitchers & hot coffee Bean has been hos excited to eat. From doing absolutely nothing in Wachington, to doing everything here, haz lit him up the a light bulb. We have a 12:30 to 1:00 shows call- we go to our giant test (this isn't what you can at Hyattsville_ Beath has three circuses) and go ants our stage, where our board is set up. Inside the text it looks like this: Entrance ( FRONT) Sealo- Halfman, Hall Serp MYSTINA Electric Girl BOBO Rubber man ESCAPE ARTIST Scotch man CROWD (TIP) BUCK - 8 1/2 Fr. TALL X Brisky-Fire Eater/ BO RUNNING AROUND Duke, The Harvainas Steel- magician Bogardé, Lavella Fat Man Trimy - 762 Lbs. Count trackaction chates aga thingtable PEANUTS SWORD SWALLOWER Blade Box felusion 07/09/2025 16:17 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1960s and 1970s General Letters Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 General Letters to Children I do get a sense that there may be some duplicates as the years 65-66 overlap with other years documents sent separately. I have no idea how there could be a 65-66 bundle of documents and then an general letters folder (this one) that covers the same years sent separately from Lori. Perhaps the explanation is as simply as there were different containers of letters saved separately from each other over the years and Lori wanted to send Jeffery everything she had. However, there is also a lot of new documents in these general letters https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/89b55d62d0d596c9f7cd06e9911b5cc3.pdf 6e35a42e632dde121fbffcfd777cc97d https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/aaaa2b049ab9b965c0312d221991854e.txt 4817cb1914b80744ede525ad1bc0c7d1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letters to Owens Children Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 # TED OWENS LETTERS TO CHILDREN # GENERAL LETTERS Jeff received week of July 14, 2025 11120 Bermuda Dunes, ABQ. Sent from Lori Rodriguez in Beaverton, Oregon. Recorded by Lewis Barlow July 19, 2025 Majority written in 1965 and 1966 but were a couple of letters from 1970 and 1976. We received several different packages from Lori that contained Ted Owens letters to his children. As this was more of a general package of letters and covered several different dates, for organization purposes we will just call it general letters. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 11 1964 === Page 2 of 11 July 4, 1964 Lornie -- I wrote you a letter, some time ago, telling you we are at the Congress Hotel, Rm 600, 12th & Walnut, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Also I sent you a giant letter describing the circus. But you have not written. I want a letter from you telling me you got my long circus letter. I **never** held mail from Pat to you kids away from you, even if it caused me lots of trouble. I expect that same privilege to be given me. If I do not hear from you -- then I will know you are not being allowed to get my letters. Then I'll let PK settle the matter. Love, Dad P.S. Enclosed is program from Pres. Johnson's shindig, which we did Saturday. === Page 3 of 11 Kids - thought you'd like this as a souvenir of the beginning of the exciting PK Man work. You were there!! TO: STATE DEPT. FROM THE BEGINNING... (written Before Sin's) October 19, 1964 Gentlemen: I strongly urge you to read this incredible report, because the facts in the report cannot be challenged for validity. I have actual witnesses, and written predictions of these happenings, which are of interest to you, were sent to Government agencies before the actual events took place. For the first time in the history of our world, PK (psychokinetic power - mind power) has been used under absolute control, with fantastic success, to affect government military operations. For the first time, a definite control over ESP (extra sensory perception) has been demonstrably exercised, and proven. Briefly, five geographical areas of the United States were "attacked" with PK (thought force) under definite control, and these five areas were, in each case from one to three weeks later, declared officially a disaster area. In four of the five cases U. S. Government military operations were the target of the destructive PK. Purpose of the PK attacks - to convince the U. S. Government, by actual demonstration, of the reality and existence of this new form of power, so that the U. S. Government would then accept the fact officially and allow PK to be used for, and no longer against, the U.S. I shall stick to documented fact as much as possible. If I should digress, or get part of the material in wrong order...it is because I am not a scientist, writing a scientific report. Before going into the actual Report - allow me to repeat a fact. The U. S. Government has, within its hands, at this time, a weapon and a tool available to no other country in the world. A weapon and a tool which will open up an entirely new field of science, in its application and study. A weapon and a tool which can spell ruin to Communist activity and progress. IF, that is, the Government avails itself of the tool and weapon. REPORT ON "PK MAN" My name is H. T. Owens. I am married, and have three children. My wife's name is Martha, and my teen-age children are Harvey and Lorrie, ages 14 and 15, respectively. (The youngest is Beau, only 2 years, and of course he takes no part in any of this activity.) In August, 1963, it all began. We lived in Phoenix, Arizona, and rented a house from Frank Boggio. It was terribly hot, so my son Harvey and I decided to try to make it rain and storm (my grandfather, John Owens, had shown me how, when I was a child, in Bedford, Indiana. But only once in my life had I attempted "weather control" - when working for Lee Construction Company in Houston, Texas, in 1947. At that time, with three witnesses present, I made lightning strike close by our office on the ship channel, on a clear, sunshiny day.) So August 15, 1963, Harvey and I began our rain-making. On Aug. 18, Phoenix had perhaps one of the worst rain storms in its history. Encouraged, my boy and I...and my daughter joined me for a while... decided, in order to prove it no accident, to prepare a series of storms, 08/02/2025 15:45 === Page 4 of 11 10/19/64 p2 (2) without cease, for that area. I wrote to the local newspapers to that effect, signing my letters "Rainmaker." Something told me I should have something on record. Then followed, within days of each other, eight successive storms... so devastating that the area was officially declared a disaster area. We had to move, then, to Los Angeles, and I read in the LA papers that Los Angeles was suffering from drought and needed rain desperately. So Harvey and I decided to furnish the needed rainstorm. I wrote to both the Los Angeles papers to that effect, on March 12, 1963. And we went to work. March 17 Los Angeles had a terrible windstorm which blew down trees, signs, houses, etc., and started roaring fires. But no rain. We kept on working. March 23 we brought in the rain. The LA Times paper headlined "Rain Plays Havoc." They got their needed rain. While in Los Angeles, during this period of time, I gave considerable thought to the possibilities of what we had done and what we had discovered, and wrote letters to the State Department in Washington, offering to put our abilities at the use of the U. S. Government (weather control being quite a useful tool, both in war and peace.) But no answer. So I decided to force an answer, if possible. I wrote to the State Department and announced that I would "attack" the space center at Cape Kennedy in Florida with PK...and that I would attack Operation Desert Strike, which was to take place at a later date in the Needles, California, area. Shortly thereafter a Ranger VI rocket failed at the Cape; and the Operation Desert Strike turned out to be a deadly, murderous comedy of errors. Also during this time I informed my ex-wife, Pat Shannon (who lives with her husband, Jim Shannon, in Inglewood, California) of my tremendous discovery. I discussed it with my brilliant landlord, Apparicio Ranghel. (Mr. Ranghel can now be reached through the Colombian Consulate in Washington, D.C.) My family left Los Angeles, and proceeded to Las Vegas. We decided to give Las Vegas a storm. In two days they had it. June 8, 1963, the newspaper headlines read "Hurricane Force Winds Lash Vegas." (When they used that word "hurricane" I had no inkling of what was to come later on.) While there, we needed money, but had only $25...so I gambled for three days at the craptables, experimenting with the use of PK. I found that it worked, but slowly, and percentage ate my small amount of money away before the PK could build. While in Las Vegas, I took my son and daughter to the office of the Las Vegas newspaper to see the Editor...and I typed out my work with PK, what we had done, etc., for the Editor, and explained it to him verbally, hoping that perhaps there might be a way of getting the attention of the U. S. Government. I suppose the Editor still has the typed information gathering cobwebs in his file, because nothing came of it. We then drove to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and there I began my work in dead earnest. I wrote to the Space Agency at Cape Kennedy the last week in July; also the State Department; and several other places - === Page 5 of 11 (3). 10/19/64 p3 that in the months ahead I would have my own private "war" with Cape Kennedy and its space work. That I would cause lightning to strike it; would cause human error; fires to start; magnetic disturbances; breakdowns in space equipment; and that I would bring hurricanes into the area. As I have said, this was the last week in July, 1964, and I described my plans in detail, using a map, to Eric Bremmer, a man of German nationality whom I met there. He was a waiter at the Bowery, and was instrumental in my getting a booking there at the Bowery. (Eric is blond, blue eyed, has a wrestler's build (we exchanged Judo knowledge) is covered with tattoos, and travels with his "wife" who lives in Columbia, South Carolina. He had been arrested before on the East Coast for armed robbery; also arrested in Florida for running guns to Cuban rebels...he told me.) Bremmer is not his real name. My family, of course, knew what I was doing, in detail, and my son was working with me on some of my projects with PK. My first big result came on Aug. 19, when lightning struck the Titan II rocket at the Cape, on its "lightning-proof" pad. We had been working for days specifically for lightning strikes. I wrote to the Cape and told them I had caused this, and to look out for havoc and confusion at the space center which would follow in the weeks to come. Hurricane Cleo formed, and I guided it, with my control methods, straight onto my target - the Cape. Now, it is interesting that, before Cleo even reached Miami, I wired to the Cape, offering to stop (divert) Cleo from hitting it, if they would answer and request it. They did not, so I let it strike. A two dollar wire from them would have sent Cleo off to the right into the Atlantic, and saved several hundred millions in damages.) It is also interesting that, as an experiment, when Cleo was officially pronounced "dead" in the papers - I brought her back to roaring life with PK. I did the same thing with Dora, later. Then Titan III was sent up at the Cape, and I brought it down with PK, splashing into the Atlantic. Then newspapers publicized "OGO" - the monster satellite that would be sent up from the Cape. I wrote the Cape again, Aug. 30, warning them. They disregarded the warning, and went ahead. My PK ruined OGO. Meanwhile Hurricane Dora had formed. (My PK method includes the knowledge of how to form hurricanes, as well as how to direct them.) I worked hard to make Dora turn left, because she had been formed aimed in the wrong direction. She did turn, and obeyed, and struck not far from the Cape. Close enough to bother the space center. (While I was giving all of my attention to Dora, Hurricane Ethyl got away from my control and went straight north. I learned a lesson from this.) Would like to point out that, during all this chaos at Cape Kennedy, as I had predicted, missile centers in California were having success with their shots...and this has applied during my months of war with the Cape. Mind you, lightning had struck their Titan II; Titan III came down; OGO had been ruined; and they had had two hurricanes track across them... and still they didn't believe me! All within three weeks time! 08/02/2025 15:49 === Page 6 of 11 (4) STATE DEPT. 10/19/64 10/19/64 p4 On Sept. 3 I again wrote to the Cape, outlining what I had accomplished, and what they yet had to expect. I told them there would be other hurricanes to follow. Then in the papers I read about troop exercises that would take place in North and South Carolina. So on Sept. 5 I wrote the State Department (I have my copies of these letters) that I would use my PK against these military exercises. Result: The area was declared a disaster area, during the exercises, from storms and floods.) And, of course, the Cape Kennedy area was declared a disaster area, from Cleo and Dora. On Sept. 5 I again wrote Cape Kennedy. No answer. Hurricane Gladys formed, and I brought her in on a straight line at the Cape..........and for the first time, I erred. Secure in the belief that she would hit the target, I went to bed. Next morning I discovered that while I'd slept she had veered away at the last possible moment, up the coast. I learned a lesson from that. Then I read of an atomic test to take place in a salt dome in Mississippi. So I hit the site with PK. That was Sept. 17. They haven't been able to set it off yet, and I should not like to be near there when they do. Then I read of NATO ship exercises and sub exercises..........and sent PK at it, to cause confusion and accidents. But evidently I accomplished nothing. At least, nothing was published on it. So I do not know. At this point, irked with the slowness of the U. S. Government, I wrote to President Johnson, Edgar Hoover, the National Security Council, and the State Department..........that I would extend the PK field in the Florida area to cover the entire U.S. area (only military operations) and would make a "Cape Kennedy" disaster area out of the California coast. (Although this takes a bit of time..........it is not done overnight.) I went to work. Three days later came the disastrous fires on the California coast. It was soon declared a disaster area, officially. (I also worked on an earthquake there, but it has not yet developed. It will, of course. Looking at my percentage of success, would you bet against it?) They got up a Minuteman II missile at the Cape at this point..........which I then hit with PK..........and for some reason the PK failed. (They also got a big Saturn up and operational, and I had special PK on it..........do not understand why I failed on it. But I had a couple of failures.) On the 29th a Minuteman I missile was shot up from the Cape. I destroyed it. Then an Imp satellite was sent up. I hit it with PK, and it failed. Then Hurricane Hilda formed. I was, at the time, preoccupied with pressing personal matters, and neglected Hilda during her important opening moves. Seeing that she was going too far West to make my Cape target, I guided her onto the new space activity at Michoud, Mississippi. 43 miles from New Orleans, also my Betsy target (NASA-Saturns) 08/02/2025 15:49 === Page 7 of 11 (5) 10/19/64 p5 Then my family read an article in the newspapers that brought about hysterical laughter. It was an article from Moscow, Russia, saying that the U. S. Government was controlling hurricanes and running them onto their communist countries (Cuba). Well, at least Russia was more discerning than my own U.S. But they had the wrong guilty party. After all, it would be ridiculous for the U.S. to take hurricanes back and forth over their most important space center, true? (Cleo, Dora, Gladys and Isabell.) Well, from Hurricane Hilda the New Orleans (Michoud space center) area was declared a disaster area. Next the Russians announced that they would send up two space ships, each containing three people. So I decided that enough was enough...that I would begin hitting the Russian efforts. On Oct. 11 I wrote NASA and the National Security Council that I would attack this Russ space shoot with my PK work, and force the space ships down. I directed PK at two space ships. One went up. I do not know what happened to the other one. And the one that went up, came down prematurely. Because, it is believed, there was "trouble." I can assure everyone that there was. Then Hurricane Isabell formed, and I guided her straight onto the Cape target. (With each hurricane making "hits" I have had to correct its direction usually one or more times. Cleo started to turn left into the Gulf, and I had to correct her to the right. Dora was going north; I had to correct her to the west. Isabell was going off into the Gulf; I had to correct her to the right. And I might mention that I was successful in experimenting with Cleo in making her circle and hover, for one or more hours, in an area.) There you have a factual report, unbelievable in content, but perfectly true. Perhaps I have written it poorly, but it has happened, and the facts cannot be denied. The question is: What is the U. S. Government going to do about it? Will they use this tremendous ability and power I have stumbled onto by accident...or will they continue to ignore and disregard it? I think that any country in its right mind would immediately contact me and begin tests and assignments. After all, this controlled PK has a wide variety of uses, both constructive and destructive. And I will tell you that I feel that President Johnson must remain our President, for the safety of our country...and am directing harmless PK against his opponents to utterly defeat them. As I say, PK works in a variety of ways. This is sworn to be an absolutely true report. Martha Owens Harvey Owens HT Owens (PK Man) 08/02/2025 15:49 === Page 8 of 11 SPACE CENTER, CAPE KENNEDY SEPT 3, 1964 GENTLEMEN: AM AFRAID THAT IN SPITE OF THE FACT I'VE HIT CAPE KENNEDY - WITH LIGHTNING; HIT CAPE KENNEDY WITH CLEO; AND KNOCKED DOWN TITAN III... YOU STILL ARE NOT TAKING ME SERIOUSLY. YOU CAN CONTINUE TO WATCH DRASTIC STORMS AND LIGHTNING AND FIRE AND HUMAN ERROR GOOF UP THE EAST COAST OF FLORIDA, FROM DAYTONA TO MIAMI, - OR YOU CAN GET IN TOUCH WITH ME. LATER, IF I GET TOO IMPATIENT, YOU'LL HAVE EARTHQUAKES IN CALIFORNIA (HAVE TESTED, THEY ARE EASY) AND YOU'LL HAVE PROBLEMS WITH WEST COAST INSTALLATIONS. (Censored) H. T. Owens (C.K. Man) === Page 9 of 11 Copy: Aug. 30, 1964 9/3/64 P2 In the interest of science and ultimately helping the U.S., I have extended a "PK" field over the area from Daytona Beach to Miami, some six weeks ago. PK, as you know, is Psychokinesis -- powers of the mind over matter. Question -- Can Russia, by finding top ESP personnel, attack US people, US missile bases, Polaris subs, etc -- by using PK? It is fact that I can do this to Russia, for I have discovered a "control" method. Your particular area has been my proving ground for 6 weeks. The lightning and the hurricane were my creation. Around the entire Cape Kennedy area I have set up a PK wall so formidable that technically no missile should be able to take off and become operational. Planes and personnel (human error) can also be affected. The main things to beware of are: (1) Lightning strikes Titan missile & ground controls, Moon Pad Rocket Gemini-5 (2) Tornadoes and hurricanes, Cleo, Dora, Isabell, Betsy '65 (3) Breakdown of small, delicate parts. (4) Fires. Space Eye (5) High % of human error. ↑ These entries added later Your area was set, turned on (like an alarm clock) six weeks ago, and will be (and has been) heavily affected by the above. I could do the same to the California coast & New Mexico installations -- but do not intend to. Yours is the proving ground for PK. in the military. "But I have. -- 'Electra'" (π PK in) === Page 10 of 11 9/3/64 p3 Copy July 7, 1965 Dept. of Inventions, NASA Dear Mr. Eastwood: - SEPT. 8, "BETSY" HIT ON "ELECTRO" (DAYTONA BEACH TO MIAMI) Just a note to tell you that have begun my PK work now, as I did last July on....to start hurricanes south of Florida and then guide them to Florida, and across Cape Kennedy. In other words, the Cape will be target area again. And I learned much last year ... so that this year should be much more successful. Included with the hurricanes will be lightning strikes, freak accidents, sudden storms of less than hurricane intensity, etc. In the event that a hurricane gets away from me, due to an oversight, which happened once last year...then I'll do the same thing I did last year... try to guide it over to the Michoud space complex in Louisiana, near New Orleans. I also may do some work on Houston, Texas. It is my hope that some day someone wise will believe in my rare PK ability, and allow me to proceed with the work that I am now blocked from doing, by the U.S. Government. Respectfully, P K Man (c/o Owens) Congress Hotel, Room 600 12th and Walnut Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Lightning Kills Worker At Saturn Launch Pad Cape Kennedy, Aug. 4 (UPI)--Lightning hit a crane used on a Saturn 5 moon rocket launch pad yesterday, killing one man and injuring five others. The dead man was identified as A. Trieb, 33, of Mitchell, S. D., one construction worker was hospitalized and four others were treated and released at a base medical center. A spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers, overseer of the construction under way here, said the men were pouring concrete on the 40-foot level of the launch complex when lightning traveled down the crane's cables to the wet concrete. Workers standing near the concrete were burned and knocked down by the flash. LIGHTNING STRIKE!! AUG. 19, 1965 Fire Damage Assessed 165 Gemini Shot EMPRESS A PRINCESS Barr's pure white diamonds The magnificent beauty of 08/02/2025 15:54 === Page 11 of 11 9/3/64 P4 U.S. Pole Bases MY LTR. RE HEAT AT POLAR BASES 'Flying Saucer' Is Reported March 9, 1965. SANTIAGO, Chile, July 8 (AP). - From the Antarctic Thursday came official reports that a mysterious lens-shaped flying object, maneuvering and moving at great speed, was sighted last Saturday. A Chilean base commander in the Antarctic reported the object was "yellowish red, changing to green, yellow and orange." In Buenos Aires, the Navy issued a communique saying personnel at Argentina's Antarctic base saw the flying object and photographed it. Mario Jahn Barrera, commander of the Chilean base, told the Defense Ministry by radio that it would be too much to say that "all of us saw a flying saucer, one of these science-fiction things." "However," he continued, "it was something real, an object that moved at amazing speed, maneuvered quickly and gave off a blue-green sheen. It also caused interference in the electromagnetic apparatus of an Argentine base which is facing ours on a nearby small island." The interference was confirmed by the Navy communique issued in Buenos Aires. "The object was yellowish red," Jahn said, "changing to green, yellow and orange. It would zigzag quickly. Then it stopped and we promptly reached for field glasses, telescopes, anything at hand to sight it. We watched as it remained quietly there for about 20 minutes." Jahn said a corporal took color pictures but there are no facilities for developing the film. The men must wait for eight months to be relieved to have the film developed on the mainland. George: (CIA) I got a real shock. Someone called home before I got home from office, and my boy, Harvey, took the call. It was someone from St. Paul, interested "in my offer". My brilliant son did not get the name or location...the party said they would call back...but they never did. I almost had an offer from somebody interested in PK, before I strike out at Gelman. ..back to the same theme, George. I guarantee (and look at the astounding I have had with practically all my projects) to reverse the current the U.S. getting the shaft every day, in every way...and can change mate in V to winning for us, and bringing about what the U.S. wants. can be done with PK as easily as bringing about storms...knocking down ..putting officials in the hospital, etc. Mr. McCone's sister passing away...and PK had nothing to do with that, me if Mr. C. thought it had...he would send me to V and have me dropped rachute over VC headquarters. There are two interesting things now to tell you: (1) Nature has told me to tell you that to prove it is using me as its representative, it will do something without my using PK, or knowing any of its workings. Nature will, in the near future, change the North and South Poles. As the message came to me, I believe it will use extreme heat to affect those two places...and change the magnetic condition of the Poles. Nature added that you won't have to check with any Bureau on it...that the result will be strong enough to make the newspapers, where you can read about it. Note: this is the first time anything like this has occurred. I don't know what Nature is talking about, or what it plans. Will be interesting to see. (2) Exercise Silver Lance was useless, for test purposes. An invalid experiment. Any results from the Exercise are not worth the paper they are printed on. Why? Because Silver Lance was conducted in a growing, active PK field, with a wide variety of mechanisms at work in the field that would undoubtedly affect the Exercise to a large extent. The field is Electra; the California coast. If you doubt this statement, just look at Electro, in Florida, and what has happened there in my first PK field. Since July the entire area has been like an elephant with the nervous shakes staggering around drunk in a china shop. There have been hurricanes criss-crossing the place; planes have been falling down; President Johnson narrowly escaped bad injury on two occasions; the Space Eye burned down; and over a dozen rockets and missiles either blew up, fell down, or got up and went haywire. So don't tell me the PK doesn't work on an area. So, Silver Lance, to be a true experiment in the logical sense of the word, would have to be held somewhere else, without PK affecting it, to get a valid idea of its results, test-wise. Check? Hoping the U.S. Government will use this tool, sometime this week, I remain PK Man 08/02/2025 15:54 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1964 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/9fb9a3a939f71051f431febb2aa7b623.pdf b90e517b3f734bbab2b1ebee69bef563 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/768e6ea9ff4430fdf66f5b8149a9c52e.txt d5fefbc958659db2c401562df688b21a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letters to Owens Children Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 # TED OWENS LETTERS TO CHILDREN # GENERAL LETTERS Jeff received week of July 14, 2025 11120 Bermuda Dunes, ABQ. Sent from Lori Rodriguez in Beaverton, Oregon. Recorded by Lewis Barlow July 19, 2025 Majority written in 1965 and 1966 but were a couple of letters from 1970 and 1976. We received several different packages from Lori that contained Ted Owens letters to his children. As this was more of a general package of letters and covered several different dates, for organization purposes we will just call it general letters. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 3 August 25, 1964 MEMO: TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES Very recently lightning struck, and left its mark, on a Titan missile at Cape Kennedy, Florida. It was my lightning. Next, Hurricane Cleo formed and descended on .......... Cape Kennedy, Florida. It was my hurricane. You are, of course, quite skeptical, and will think, of course, that it would be impossible to be true. Anyone can check with the Space Agency at Cape Kennedy..........or the State Department in Washington, D. C., and if they tell the truth they will tell you that I informed them weeks in advance of the above two events. I even wired the Space Agency that I could stop Hurricane Cleo from striking it .......... even before Cleo reached Miami. They did not reply, so I had no alternative but to let Cleo take her route, which I had laid out for her. (Over three hundred million dollars in damage could have been avoided.) But, there are more important matters than a few hundred million dollars loss.......... hence this unusual communication. And, I might add, the aforementioned 'catastrophes' are merely a sample of what lies ahead. Do I think that I've been elected to 'save the world'? No. Do I think, perhaps, that I am God? No. Or Jesus? No. I am not insane or psychotic. I am a human being, utterly astonished at what is being dealt out through me, by Nature. And, I might add, I am quite willing to accept the awesome responsibility given to me by Nature.......... in spite of the lumps that I know I shall receive from my fellow humans. (It is extremely important that the reason for my "PK" ability (to cause storms; to direct lightning bolts; to form and guide hurricanes; to cause fires far away from myself; to sink subs far away in the ocean; to cause missiles to explode in their silos) be understood by all.) 08/02/2025 15:45 === Page 2 of 3 2 Nature (God) is dedicated to the perpetuation of the human race of mankind. But mankind, at present, is seemingly dedicated toward its own obliteration and destruction. "Man's inhumanity to man" is the banner now flying. Nature, therefore, must step in, in an unusual manner, and show the world, by demonstration, that Nature... not mankind...controls the preservation of the species. That Nature's own secrets hold far greater power and scope than do H-bombs and stockpiles of war materials. Nature has, oddly enough, appointed me as its human voice and representative... to speak its intelligence to you. Furthermore, Nature is fully aware that without signs and wonders you wouldn't believe me. Nature has, therefore, endowed me with unbelievable powers - a small demonstration of which I have already made.* This is what Nature is saying, through my pen: First, it is absolutely necessary that my own country and Government (which has the Bible and Christianity at its core) be convinced of the basic truth of this message. Nature is eager, and completely, wholeheartedly, willing to back me up in any constructive move to bring this about. (Should I misuse this infinite power placed in my hands by a trusting but omnipresent Nature, then it will transfer the power to a more worthy human, to carry on the program. People can be stopped, but Nature never. Then, after my own Government is convinced, this dynamic power of Nature will be directed, focused, upon the mouldy, rotting spots of mankind - and these spots eliminated, so that mankind will stop deteriorating and grow healthy. Mark this: All materials of warfare must be transformed into plowshares - or else. Or else Nature will chastise the erring country with catastrophe after catastrophe. Earthquake, fire, famine, flood, sickness. Nature will select the proper catastrophes to bring the unbelieving country to its knees. *By this later date, Sept. 25, have successfully brought down Titan III; 000, the ruined 08/02/2025 15:45 === Page 3 of 3 3 Let Kruschev say "God and Religion - phooey! The State will give you candy." Let Papa Duvalier say "My voodoo devils are greater than your God." Let Castro say "Cuba and Russia are friends...we need no God." But Nature wishes to make some drastic changes. Working from my own country, and protected by my government, I will direct certain powers of Nature onto any country filled with the spirit of hate and killing and war. My own country, observing the results, will, when peace in the world is assured, lay aside all weapons of war - or else. And return to a stronger faith in the absolute power of God and Nature than now exists among its peoples. Perhaps from reading this it will be thought that I am 'some kind of nut' - or religious fanatic. But what you may think is really irrelevant and immaterial, for Nature will be heard. It's voice is coming through, loud and clear. You can expect to continue to see signs and wonders, until you believe. Until Nature's voice is recognized, and fully obeyed. H. T. Owens (The PK Man) 6309 Wildwood Trail Myrtle Beach South Carolina 08/02/2025 15:45 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1964 08 Memo to the people of the united states aug 25 1964 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/31a80350f1e32f22b909063b2ca8ee60.pdf 6442ca84e2b7ecc10fc87ef41561c9e9 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/59540c39f7d61b50f715d5de5e83b707.txt cafdbfdd16774a72b73075c3c96f6f40 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letters to Owens Children Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 # TED OWENS LETTERS TO CHILDREN # GENERAL LETTERS Jeff received week of July 14, 2025 11120 Bermuda Dunes, ABQ. Sent from Lori Rodriguez in Beaverton, Oregon. Recorded by Lewis Barlow July 19, 2025 Majority written in 1965 and 1966 but were a couple of letters from 1970 and 1976. We received several different packages from Lori that contained Ted Owens letters to his children. As this was more of a general package of letters and covered several different dates, for organization purposes we will just call it general letters. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 140 1/3/65 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence. Dear George: My letter to you of December 28: "The Si's are getting restless...they are going tonudge the United States....I think it would be an earthquake...so, within the next few days or few weeks....." Four days later, Jan. 1, on the front page of the Phila. Bulletin: ""Tremor Is Felt In N.Y., Penna. - "A 15-20 second earth tremor (earthquake) was felt Saturday at 8:24 A.M. in parts of western New York, northwestern Pennsylvania and southern Ontario Province in Canada.........." Now, this was small...not a disaster area, George...and when I made inquiry with the Si's, this was the intelligence I received: The Si's are not trying to be overly destructive; they could have made this 7, 8 or 9 on the Richter Scale if they wanted...but it is in the nature of a warning, for now. Merely a warning that they mean what they say, and to look out if we do not pay attention. Also their quick reaction to my letter to you is to underline my letter's validity. They add: they are not from outer space, as some other UFO intelligences are. They are from another dimension. There is a difference. P K Man (Owens) Dad 08/02/2025 14:37 === Page 2 of 140 1-3-65 P2 # Tremor Is Felt In N. Y., Penna. BUFFALO, N. Y., Jan. 1 (AP). -- A 15-to-20-second earth tremor was felt Saturday at 8:24 A. M. (EST) in parts of western New York, northwestern Pennsylvania and southern Ontario Province in Canada. No injuries or property damage was reported, authorities said. Dr. Austin McTigue, director of the physics department and in charge of the seismograph at Canisius College, said he believed that the tremor originated in the Attica-Warsaw area of Wyoming county in New York State, where there is a known active fault or fracture in the crust of the earth. FRONT PAGE SUNDAY 1/1/66 Ted Owens (P K Man) 1114 Spruce St., #33 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania === Page 3 of 140 1-3-65 p3 Mr. Dunne Chief, Hurricane Center Miami, Florida Dear Mr. Dunne: I will make you one of the most unusual offers you have ever had. If you will check my previous correspondence, you will know that I have made some startling discoveries (I claim) in the field of weather control... and specifically in the field of hurricane control. I will make you the following proposition: I will guarantee that Florida will be free from hurricane attack and damage in 1966 (clear through hurricane season to January 1, 1967) for a fee of $100,000. $10,000 down if the proposition is accepted; the balance to be paid on January 1, 1967, if no hurricane hits or damages Florida during the year 1966. This fee is small, compared to the damage one single hurricane can do to Florida (like Betsy). Also, the fee is not as much as that paid to some pro football players. Now...if I fail to keep my guarantee good...then you may have me put in prison for fraud (because I will use the down-payment of $10,000 on renting a house, expenses, etc., in Miami.) That is the confidence I have in my rare and unique ability... I will bet my winning, against a prison sentence for fraud. Should you be interested in my unorthodox approach to weather-control protection for Miami, and Florida, for 1966, contact me as soon as possible. Sincerely, Ted Owens (P K Man) 1114 Spruce St., #33 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania === Page 4 of 140 2/6/65 p1 (Copy of first UFO message received, at night, at 418 Peabody St., NW, Washington, D.C., with Lormie and Rick present) February 6, 1965 (First came five symbols...triangle, rectangle, "A" "B" "C" - and I realized that the UFO's were testing, much as I would test a microphone, to see if it was working.) They: Can't come (in answer to my request that they come down) - later. Me: Can you knock down satellites up in the sky, as a signal to me that this is real? They: We will go find them and blot out. Me: When can we meet? They: We know you. We are friends. Tonight is late for us. Power low. Keep open! mind. We will be back with you. Your needs will be met. A study is being made of how to bring this about. Why are your people crazy? Your earth is disorganized. We would like to help organize it. We did once before, long ago in your time. People wore robes, as you call them, then, and wore boards, hair on their faces. Me: Can you give me an instrument with which I could demonstrate unusual powers, to convince earth-people that you are real? For instance, a "magic pencil" wand? They: You could not use what you call a "pencil" but it is a good idea, and we will send you a tool for the purpose. You will know...repeat...know you have talked with us tonight. We will arrange next few days to be seen by your people and by that method you will know we are making a signal for you. Count the number of different places we are seen, and this will be the number of days before we are able to contact you again. A magnetic condition makes it hard for us to get through to you at all times. You have a question now? Me: I need $5,000 to buy a car and go across country to meet you. This is money. They: Yes, we know money, but do not use it. (They talk among themselves) Can you use diamonds? Me: Yes, of course, to get the money. They: We have a lot of diamonds. 08/02/2025 14:37 === Page 5 of 140 2/6/65 p2 2 Me: Perhaps you could fly over me and drop me a supply of diamonds. They: We will think on it. If we do we will include the tool you need to prove to your people there must be no people-war on earth with atomic weapons. Me: I am tired. Not used to this. They: Yes. We did not think. Goodbye now, friend. (Next time they "came in" like osmosis was the evening of March 6, 1965.) They: Do not go away, far, Viet Nam. Your people will try to kill you. We need you alive. Listen carefully...there are others like us, against us, who could cause you harm. Be careful of your life, of your shell. It has taken us ages, in your time, to find a shell like you who can communicate with us. We do not want to lose you. But remember that you are, every moment, in great danger from "them" who use shells (people) bodies. They look like and seem like real people, but they are not. (I got the impression they mean that there are UFO entities which have somehow entered human bodies, and therefore, since they are enemies of these UFO entities, will try to do away with me.) Me: Can you end the war in Viet Nam and help my country, the United States, to become healthy and great again? They: We can and we will. But you must not go there! Instead go to Hong Kong or Japan as a tourist. Go by freighter ship. We can contact you on the ship. We will defeat your enemies for you in Viet Nam and bring peace. We will help your country. But your country must help you for you are our instrument. Does not your people approach certain fish, to communicate with fish? We do likewise. We go now to try to approach you. Be ready for us. Me: I will. (That same evening, later on, they "came in" again) They: Are you ready? 08/02/2025 14:37 === Page 6 of 140 2/6/65 p3 3 Me: Yes. They: We have a plan. Please turn that machine off. (My transistor radio.) Me: I did. They: Can't get through tonight very good - ver well. Do you have a car-machine? Me: Yes, but it will not work. It's broken. That is why I need money. They: We are going to take care of that....money. Do not worry about it. You will be richer than anyone in your country before long. We want to see you, talk to you. Can we come down? Me: Yes, to my back door. I'll let you in. They: Will you be alone? Me: Yes. I'll have my family stay upstairs. They: No harm will come to us? Me: No. Absolutely not. Lower your flying machine near my back door and step onto my back porch. Knock loudly on the door. I'll let you in and we can communicate. I am very pleased, and anxious to meet you. They: Yes. We have what you need to convince your crazy people...your government... that we exist, and can control your world. You can use it. It will be yours to keep. Me: Thank you. They: You need a car, so that you can go far away. We will try to get you one. Me: My child is sick. Also a girl, our friend, in a hospital (Brenda Sue Pennington. Will you heal them? They: We will, indeed, heal them. Worry not. Listen carefully...no time is to be lost. Your people must pay attention to you and listen to you, else we must destroy most of the earth's peoples, to begin all over again. Me: You mean, what is happening now has happened before? They: Many times. 08/02/2025 14:37 === Page 7 of 140 2/6/65 p4 4 Me: When are you coming to see me? They: Tonight we will try. Flash your light (flashlight) upward every hour as long as you can. Me: Can you locate me from signals from my brain? They: We can. Me: I'll also leave a light on so you can see. They: No. Turn it off so we will not be seen by others. This is important. Me: Where are you from? They: Some - Jupiter. Others, other places. Even from inside this earth. Goodbye, now. Me: Yes, goodbye. ---------- Note: I set up the scene; put the family upstairs, got the flashlight and blinked it for a long while, but no contact. However, during the previous three weeks many flying saucers had been sighted over Washington, D.C., and over nearby Virginia. The night of February 6, many were seen over Washington...and it was written up in the papers. Then....I thought no more about it, since proof was not forthcoming...until the UFO over the South Pole, while I was in Philadelphia, made my prediction come true in detail. There could no longer be any doubt at all, about my having communicated with them, as far as I am concerned. Lornie & Rick can be reached for confirmation: Lornie & Rick Owens c/o Shannon 505 S. Osage St. #3 Inglewood, Calif. 08/02/2025 14:37 === Page 8 of 140 Show this to Pat. She appreciates creative beauty--and this is!! 2/10/65? Happy Birthday card...made by hand by Lornie and Rick, for Daddy's 45th birthday. It is utterly beautiful....like the inside of the old car that Rick fixed up. This card has a black outside border, with gold sheet in center, and Chinese lettering saying Happy Birthday inside...also a tree showing fruit, and a Chinese pagoda with what looks just like a flying saucer over it. Inside, the verse, which I consider absolutely priceless: "From this house of confusion There comes this saying - "The Honorable PK Man Great man of our house Spreads his mighty branches Beneath his thunder and his rain Where another of his leaves flutters away with the wind. But as the leaf flies, he grows - another root To the vast ground of the understanding of Nature. Where there eventually will lie golden fruit." Happy Birthday, Harv & Beau Lornie Mamma 08/02/2025 14:44 === Page 9 of 140 ② 3/9/65 THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, at 2 S. Pole Bases # Flying Saucer' Is Reported SANTIAGO, Chile, July 8 (AP). -- From the Antarctic Thursday came official reports that a mysterious lens-shaped flying object, maneuvering and moving at great speed, was sighted last Saturday. A Chilean base commander in the Antarctic reported the object was "yellowish red, changing to green, yellow and orange." In Buenos Aires, the Navy issued a communique saying personnel at Argentina's Antarctic base saw the flying object and photographed it. Mario Jahn Barrera, commander of the Chilean base, told the Defense Ministry by radio that it would be too much to say that "all of us saw a flying saucer, one of these science-fiction things." "However," he continued, "it sued in Buenos Aires. "The object was yellowish red," Jahn said, "changing to green, yellow and orange. It was stopped and we promptly reached for field glasses, telescopes, anything at hand to sight it. We watched as it remained quietly there for about 20 minutes." Jahn said a corporal took color pictures but there are no facilities for developing the film. The men must wait for eight months to be relieved to have the film developed on the mainland. === Page 10 of 140 Tuesday, March 9, 1965 Dear George: There are two interesting things now to tell you: (1) Nature has told me to tell you that to prove it is using me as its representative, it will do something without my using PK, or knowing any of its workings. Nature will, in the near future, change the North and South Poles. As the message came to me, I believe it will use extreme heat to affect those two places and change the magnetic condition of the Poles. Nature added that you won't have to check with any Bureau on it...that the result will be strong enough to make the newspapers, where you can read about it. Note: this is the first time anything like this has occurred. I don't know what Nature is talking about, or what it plans. Will be interesting to see. (2) Exercise Silver Lance was useless, for test purposes. An invalid experiment. Any results from the Exercise are not worth the paper they are printed on. Why? Because Silver Lance was conducted in a growing, active PK field, with a wide variety of mechanisms at work in the field that would undoubtedly affect the Exercise to a large extent. The field is Electra; the California coast. If you doubt this statement, just look at Electro, in Florida, and what has happened there in my first PK field. Since July the entire area has been like an elephant with the nervous shakes staggering around drunk in a china shop. There have been hurricanes criss-crossing the place; planes have been falling down; President Johnson narrowly escaped bad injury on two occasions; the Space Eye burned down; and over a dozen rockets and missiles either blew up, fell down, or got up and went haywire. So don't tell me the PK doesn't work on an area. So, Silver Lance, to be a true experiment in the logical sense of the word, would have to be held somewhere else, without PK affecting it, to get a valid idea of its results, test-wise. Check? Hoping the U.S. Government will use this tool, sometime this week, I remain PK Man === Page 11 of 140 7/9/65 ad THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, F ### Sighted at 2 S. Pole Bases # 'Flying Saucer' Is Reported SANTIAGO, Chile, July 8 (AP). -- From the Antarctic Thursday came official reports that a mysterious lens-shaped flying object, maneuvering and moving at great speed, was sighted last Saturday. A Chilean base commander in the Antarctic reported the object was "yellowish red, changing to green, yellow and orange." In Buenos Aires, the Navy issued a communique saying personnel at Argentina's Antarctic base saw the flying object and photographed it. Mario Jahn Barrera, commander of the Chilean base, told the Defense Ministry by radio that it would be too much to say that "all of us saw a flying saucer, one of these science-fiction things." "However," he continued, "it was something real, an object that moved at amazing speed, maneuvered quickly and gave off a blue-green sheen. It also caused interference in the electromagnetic apparatus of an Argentine base which is facing ours on a nearby small island." The interference was confirmed by the Navy communique issued in Buenos Aires. "The object was yellowish red," Jahn said, "changing to green, yellow and orange. It would zigzag quickly. Then it stopped and we promptly reached for field glasses, telescopes, anything at hand to sight it. We watched as it remained quietly there for about 20 minutes." Jahn said a corporal took color pictures but there are no facilities for developing the film. The men must wait for eight months to be relieved to have the film developed on the mainland. === Page 12 of 140 Tuesday March 9, 1965 COPY 3/9/65 Dear George: Last night I got a real shock. Someone called home before I got home from the office, and my boy, Harvey, took the call. It was someone from St. Paul, Minn., interested "in my offer". My brilliant son did not get the name or identification...the party said they would call back...but they never did. So...I almost had an offer from somebody interested in PK, before I strike out this week at Gelman. Anyway, back to the same theme, George. I guarantee (and look at the astounding success I have had with practically all my projects) to reverse the current trend of the U.S. getting the shaft every day, in every way...and can change the climate in V to winning for us, and bringing about what the U.S. wants. This can be done with PK as easily as bringing about storms...knocking down planes...putting officials in the hospital, etc. I regret Mr. McCone's sister passing away...and PK had nothing to do with that, I am sure. I imagine if Mr. C. thought it had...he would send me to V and have me dropped in a parachute over VC headquarters. There are two interesting things now to tell you: (1) Nature has told me to tell you that to prove it is using me as its representative, it will do something without my using PK, or knowing any of its workings. Nature will, in the near future, change the North and South Poles. As the message came to me, I believe it will use extreme heat to affect those two places...and change the magnetic condition of the Poles. Nature added that you won't have to check with any Bureau on it...that the result will be strong enough to make the newspapers, where you can read about it. Note: this is the first time anything like this has occurred. I don't know what Nature is talking about, or what it plans. Will be interesting to see. (2) Exercise Silver Lance was useless, for test purposes. An invalid experiment. Any results from the Exercise are not worth the paper they are printed on. Why? Because Silver Lance was conducted in a growing, active PK field, with a wide variety of mechanisms at work in the field that would undoubtedly affect the Exercise to a large extent. The field is Electra; the California coast. If you doubt this statement, just look at Electro, in Florida, and what has happened there in my first PK field. Since July ('64) the entire area has been like an elephant with the nervous shakes staggering around drunk in a china shop. There have been hurricanes criss-crossing the place; planes have been falling down; President Johnson narrowly escaped bad injury on two occasions; the Space Eye turned down; and over a dozen rockers and missiles either blew up, fell down, or got up and went haywire. So don't tell me the PK doesn't work on an area. So, Silver Lance, to be a true experiment in the logical sense of the word, would have to be held somewhere else, without PK effecting it, to get a valid idea of its results, test-wise. Check? Hoping the U.S. Government will use this tool, sometime this week, I remain /s/ PK Man === Page 13 of 140 COPY Lomie & Rick 7/9/65 p1 PRESIDENT JOHNSON July 9, 1965 Dear Mr. President: This letter should be the most interesting letter to yourself, as far as you are concerned, in your entire lifetime. Why? Because it proves conclusively that "P K Man" and all of the unusual things claimed by P K Man, are genuine and real. Simply check with the CIA. I sent "George Clark" of CIA a letter on March 9, 1965: "Nature has told me to tell you that to prove it is using me as its representative, it will do something without my using PK, or knowing any of its workings. Nature will, in the near future, change the North and South Poles. As the message came to me, I believe it will use extreme heat to affect those two places...and change the magnetic condition of the Poles. Nature added that you won't have to check with any Bureau on it...that the result will be strong enough to make the newspapers, where you can read about it." There you are, President Johnson. This morning, you can read in your newspaper, the following: "Flying Saucer Is Reported - Sighted At 2 S. Pole Bases" "....It also caused interference in the electro-magnetic apparatus of an Argentine base which is facing ours on a nearby small island. The interference was confirmed by the Navy communique issued in Buenos Aires....." Well...Nature has proved that it is using me as its representative, just as it said it would...by affecting the South Pole's magnetic condition. Has anyone else lately, in the CIA or the State Department, been able to make such a prediction? I tell you that I am the most valuable human being right now in the entire world, simply because Nature and I can communicate! And the U.S. Government has access to all of this vast power of Nature, which is linked to me...and refuses to use it! Rejects it! Incredible. Respectfully, but very sadly Because I know what is ahead.......... P. K. Man c/o Owens Congress Hotel, Room 600 12th and Walnut Philadelphia, Pennsylvania === Page 14 of 140 Lornie & Rick 7/9/65 p2 July 9, 1965 Mr. George Clark, CIA. Dear George: Well, what do you know...after successfully predicting dozens of major happenings (missing only a few times, on space shots) it seems I have missed again! In my letter to you of March 14, 1965, I predicted President Johnson would be gravely ill by June. Tch; tch! Now, how could I have missed that one? And I have been so very very accurate in the past. Also, in the same letter I predicted Pres. Johnson's family member, or close friend, would pass away or be lost, by August...and that he would cry and grieve. Well, it isn't August yet, is it. Notice lately how government officials are falling like bowling pins? Reedy out with "sore feet." General Maxwell Taylor out, with sore something. Dirkson out of action, in the hospital, with sore stomach. A Congressman got smashed with a truck, not long ago - and so on. The "PK pattern" is on now and working, after a time-lag, and you can tell. And the U.S. drought is getting worse now, isn't it...yet no one will take a wild chance, and let P K Man go to work with PK and Nature, to end the drought. Oh yes, I could go ahead and do it on my own....but I cannot, George, because Nature calls the shots, gives me instructions, brings about the results....and Nature insists that the U.S. Government do it Nature's way. Nature is, after all, most concerned because the U.S. Government has put itself above and beyond Nature....so that now Nature is going to prove, bit by painful bit, that such is not so...that Nature is much mightier than all of the money and hydrogen bombs and power of the U.S., or any other country. Now, here is another thing of VERY GREAT interest to CIA...see my letter to you of March 9, 1965, 4th paragraph: "Nature has told me to tell you that to prove it is using me as its representative, it will do something without my using PK, or knowing any of its workings. Nature will, in the near future, change the North and South Poles. As the message came to me, I believe it will use extreme heat to affect those two places....and change the magnetic condition of the Poles. Nature added that you won't have to check with any Bureau on it...that the result will be strong enough to make the newspapers, where you can read about it. Note: This is the first time anything like this has occurred. I don't know what Nature is talking about, or what it plans. Will be interesting to see." All right, this morning in the paper was the clipping: "Flying Saucer Is Reported" "Sighted At 2 S. Pole Bases" "..........It also caused interference in the electromagnetic apparatus of an Argentine base which is facing ours on a nearby small island. The interference was confirmed by the Navy communique issued in Buenos Aires....." Well, well, George Clark! Now what do you make of that? My prediction of March 9, seems to have been remarkably accurate for July 9, yes? Incidentally, I saw a picture in Life mag of two of the midwest tornadoes (where about 80 tornadoes and near-tornadoes struck) and these two tornadoes in the Life 1 pic were lighted up by lightning. Well, they didn't look like tornadoes to me. I have the picture, and wish I could talk to you about it further. P M MAN (Owens) 08/02/2025 14:49 === Page 15 of 140 July 10, 1965 President Johnson Dear Mr. President: Copy - Lonnie - Rick (Send me cigars & cigarettes, kids. They'll probably come for me.) Enclosed is an exact copy of a letter written by myself and sent to Mr. "George Clark" of your CIA, at Washington 25, D. C. It was sent on March 9, 1965. Notice the paragraph marked in red. Now, four months later, comes the proof, referred to in the marked paragraph. See the newspaper clipping attached to this copy of the letter, taken from yesterday's newspaper. Put the two items together, and you have concrete, absolute proof...that all of my past correspondence to you, and the CIA, and NASA, and the State Department...is valid and true, no matter if it sounded fantastic. And, of course, it did sound fantastic. Only myself, and my family, know that it was true, and now you also, can know it. Mr. Dunn, of the CIA, was interested in knowing the "causal factor" of my "PK" phenomena. At the time I spoke with him, all I could tell him was that the causal factor was the intelligence behind Nature, with which I had managed to arrange a communication, or method of communicating. However, now we know differently. The causal factor, for Mr. Dunn's information, and your own, as well, seems to be these 'flying saucers' - whatever they are. But, whatever they are, they can: Cause earthquakes to occur; cause fires to start; cause people to become ill, singly or en masse; cause floods and tornados and hurricanes; cause planes to explode in mid-air, or on the ground, and so on. These are some of their destructive abilities. Their main purpose is to stop the warfare on earth; the killing, the hate, the black negativism now so current, world-wide. When these saucers telepathically contacted me, and had me relay this information on March 9 to George Clark, of your CIA...then actually gave the needed proof on July 7, over the South Pole...by changing the electro-magnetic condition of the area, and then getting the action put into the newspapers...just as described in my letter of March 9...they not only gave the U.S. Government the proof that it needs, but the actual letter of March 9 must be read more closely...the rest of the material in it...for these saucers, you must remember, are using my mind, my eyes, my voice...for communication...and they will use my typing, also. I am sure that there is other information in that letter which the saucers want the U.S. to know about, and believe. Now, at the time I typed that information, and sent it to CIA, I was perplexed. Because always, before I was told that a storm would happen, or an earthquake, or that people would get sick and go to the hospital. But to be told that "Nature" would change the electro-magnetic condition at the N. and/or S. Pole, and then get it put into the newspapers, as proof that I was representing "Nature" - seemed ridiculous to me, and I hated to send that paragraph to Mr. Clark, because for one thing it seemed impossible that anything could change the magnetic condition at the Poles, and then for it to be publicized also seemed impossible. But of course, I didn't reckon on a "flying saucer" to make it possible. The fact that it was brought about...was done in this manner...by this tremendous intelligence which has been running hurricanes across Florida, etc etc...is an indication of its tremendous knowledge. Any other 09/22/2025 11:45 === Page 16 of 140 7/10/65 p2 phenomena, such as storms, planes falling, etc., that I have predicted to the CIA and NASA...could be pointed to as accidental, or a coincidence, or that it is just good guessing, or that perhaps I am precognitive, but that is all. Now you, the President, and the U.S. Government, stand notified that this is not so. It is not all indeed. I have all of the power of these "flying saucers" and their intelligent beings, in back of me. A study, or analysis of my previous voluminous correspondence, will readily show you how all this has come about, and how it has been brought about. My own children have seen me sketch on a paper the route I have wanted Hurricane Cleo in '64 to take...and a route contradictory to that given by the Weather Bureau...and the hurricane changed direction, not once but several times, to follow my routing - not only my routing, but to pause for a long interval in two places and just sit there and swirl around. Now you, and I, can understand more about this...how it was done. Somehow these saucers either create these hurricanes, or are the hurricanes. The intelligences running these saucers do not, of course, speak English, and must rely on methods of contacting some human on earth telepathically in order to converse with the peoples on earth. This they have been trying to do by landing, then speaking to one or two people in that isolated spot...but of course the humans they have approached have been too frightened or apprehensive to cooperate. My make-up is so peculiar, and perhaps resembles their own so much, in the mind...that they have somehow managed to break through and reach my mind. It is a two-way communication, in that I can signal them and talk to them also...not in words, but in mental pictures of what is wanted, or needed. Visual imagery. President Johnson, let me speak frankly. Your life is in great danger. Not from me, that would be ridiculous. I understand you, and like you. So understand that this is no threat from myself against you. I know that you could have the Secret Service pick me up today and throw me into prison for writing the above, just on suspicion. But I am trusting in your good judgment not to have this done, for this is no personal threat of mine. I am interested right now only in providing a home and background for my family. But, what I mean in the above, when I say that your life is in great danger, is that these "saucer" intelligences will not hesitate to eliminate you, in their own way, if you persist in not listening to them, or in paying attention to them. They are trying desperately to avert a nuclear war on this earth...and temporarily you are standing in their way!...because you will not recognize me as their representative, and be guided by them, through me. Not to mention the power they wish to place at our disposal, once we listen to them, and begin cooperating. Again I reiterate...I am warning you only as a friend warns a friend. I am not threatening you. Believe me, you could book me into the White House tomorrow to do my knife-throwing act, and you could stand in Louella's place, and I would throw my knives around you without touching you. That is how safe you are, and would be, with me. I am talking about are those "saucers". === Page 17 of 140 Copy - Lonnie & Harvey July 12, 1965 Mr. George Clark, CIA Dear George: "Nature" or the "saucers" or whatever the intelligence is...wants me to tell the U.S. Government what IT wishes from the U.S. Government. So, below, is what It wishes. Incidentally, I was against writing this, for myself, in my own mind...yet this vast, powerful Intelligence insisted that I send this to you, so will do it. (a) Wants the U.S. Govt. to provide me with $100,000, tax-free, so that I can fix my wife and child up with a home in Texas, plus all necessities; get tools which I will need; and take myself to Europe. The money is to last a year, at which time another $100,000 is to be provided, for the rest of my life (which might not be long, if the Russ get to me.) (b) They want me to be given a permit to carry a gun for protection, and want me to have a guard at all times. Say, a Special Forces judo and gun expert, to accompany me wherever I go. (c) They want the U.S. Government to furnish me with a mountain hideaway in Europe, preferably an isolated castle...yes, they stress this heavily...a castle in an isolated spot. Even if I would have to live in discomfort in one room of the darn thing...they want me to be placed in a castle, in an isolated location, in Europe. That is what comes through, loud and clear. I take it they will then attempt to approach me with their machines, and in person, as soon as they are certain that just myself and my bodyguard are in the area. (d) They want the complete story of "P K Man" sent all around the world, for TV and newspaper coverage. Not to advertise P K Man, who can do nothing of himself, but to advertise the fact that the saucers are here, are for real, are at work doing certain things...what some of those things are...and what the aims of the saucers are. And that they, the saucers, are communicating with me, P K Man, and are back of the United States Govt. in bringing peace to the world. (e) Now, don't laugh at this George...I am only repeating what I am told to tell you, just like the March 9 letter. They want a 2-hour TV appearance of P K Man with Pres. Johnson, to lay the entire matter out for the world to know about. Why? Because, they want to scare the Russians and Chinese into line. And, they state, they will back it all up with action, as needed. Just like they backed up the March 9 letter...and other things, earlier. Their suggestion is to open the TV 2-hour show with something that will get the interest of the world immediately...and hold it. Not the usual yakkity political openings...but President Johnson standing in front of a knife-board, and my knives hitting all around him, while he just stands, with a look of boredom on his face. This to show the world his bravery, fearlessness, and spirit of daring. It would tremendously impress much of the people's of the world, and it his highly doubtful if any other President would attempt to equal his feat. Also, and just as important, it would serve to introduce P K Man.... and rivet the attention of the peoples of the world onto the TV screen, as nothing else would. Then for the remainder of the 2 hours, President Johnson would go over the storm-making, hurricanes, etc etc., with P K Man...and it would be brought out that the saucers are on our side, and so forth. This also would make quite an impression on the peoples of the world. (f) I must have freedom at all times...to get where I want...and do what I want...because 08/02/2025 14:51 === Page 18 of 140 7/12/65 p2 Page Two since they contact me through telepathic pictures, they wouldn't want me to be rigidly held in any one place...but free to come and go, as necessary. (g) They want me to have quick communication with President Johnson, so that they can tell him things that the U.S. might not know at any given time, which could help us, or he could ask them to perform certain things...which would benefit in bringing about good for the world in general. And they state they are excellent judges of what that might be. There it is...George. I do not hear voices; am not hallucinating. Am not having "delusions of grandeur" or "change-of-life" troubles. I will stack up my predictions and 'hits' against those of any ESP worker. Of course I do not expect any action or answer for the U.S. Government...have been trying too long now, for that. But I have delivered this message, which is what They want. And it's done. Respectfully, P K Man, c/o Owens Congress Hotel, Rm. 600 12th and Walnut Philadelphia, Pennsylvania === Page 19 of 140 Copy - Lornie + Quick July 14, 1965 Mr. H. Mat Adams Alternate Chairman Delaware River Basin Commission 25 Scotch Road Suburban Square Trenton, New Jersey Reply to: 601 George Street, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Dear Mr. Adams: With reference to my letter to you of several weeks ago, in regard to alleviating the drought in your area....I appreciate the courtesy of your letter of July 12, 1965, in answer. Especially in view of the fact that my "mysterious suggestion" was not conducive to any serious consideration. However, Mr. Adams, I assure you that the circumstances are unusual, to say the least. Now I am going to tell you something that you will not believe...but it was I who caused the hurricanes of 1964 to hit the area of Cape Kennedy, and Michoud Missile Complex in Louisiana. It was I who caused the floods on the West Coast at Christmas that the newspapers said could never happen again in 1,000 years. And I caused the Midwest tornados and floods, recently. I do not expect you to believe this, of course, even though it is quite true. But I would suggest that you, if you are interested, contact Central Intelligence Agency in Washington, D. C., and tell them of the proposition I made you...which costs you absolutely nothing except maintenance of myself and wife and child for a short while. Of course, when the rains and floods come, and you have water enough for years, with the drought completely broken...then my fee still stands. The CIA know of my work. They should tell you, in effect: This man has done some strange things that we can't explain. He could be just an eccentric, a "nut" - however, there are things that he has done which would not fit into the "nut" category, and we would recommend that you give his abilities a try, at least...since the cost is negligible. Should he do what he claims to be able to do, cause rains and storms and floods that will end the drought, it would certainly be worth the fee. I must tell you in all sincerity, Mr. Adams....the drought will get worse, and worse, and worse, and worse. I do not care what you try in order to alleviate it...seeding, etc., it will not work. There is only one source which can bring your area rain in constant and great amounts necessary to end the drought on the East Coast, which has been in effect for some years. That one source is myself. Should you decide to try me, later on, please do not hesitate to get in touch with me, either at the current address...or c/o Lornie Owens, Shannon, 505 S. Osage, Inglewood, California. If you want the drought ended in the Delaware River Basin, Mr. Adams, you will most certainly be able to find the small amount of funds necessary to keep me and my wife and child while I break your drought for you. And I will even make you a more sporting proposition than that. If I do not completely break and end your drought within three months time (that has lasted for === Page 20 of 140 7-14-65 P2 2 years) then I will repay you any monies which you have spent in maintaining myself and wife and child for that brief period of time. What could be fairer? Perhaps you should know the entire story, Mr. Adams. As fantastic as it is, you should know it. The tremendous intelligences of the "flying saucers" are in communication with me - the only human being on earth that they can actually converse with, in their own way. For the past months they have been trying to prove this fact to the U.S. Govt., which quite naturally refused to believe it. It was only just recently that they identified themselves..........before that I did not know what it was that was causing storms when I wanted them, where I wanted them...and other things to happen as well. They are now in the process of letting the ...our ... world know that they are real, they are here, and they have great power which we do not have. They do, in fact, want to frighten us with their powers. Their purpose is to stop the warfare now going on; block any possibility of further war; and get people and minds straightened out in the world. In effect, give the world a 10 to 20 year "breather" of peace and true brotherly-love - without war, without hate, without all of the conditions which are now wrecking the world as we know it. The saucers control our weather, when they wish. They can start tornados and hurricanes, and somehow they can guide them. The saucers at this time are creating a world-wide condition of drought. They will dry up the entire earth and make water scarce. This will cause sickness, an imbalance in Nature which will cause trouble with insects, reptiles, etc. Since New York is perhaps the most widely-known part of the U.S., it will be made a drought-example, as well as the entire area surrounding it. Unless, that is, the U.S. Government and the people of the U.S. recognize the saucer intelligences, and take steps to ally our government with the saucer intelligences. It is very comical but somewhat sad that at the present time we are desperately trying to woo Hanoi and Russia and DeGaulle, for peace and political discussions...when we should, and had better, turn our efforts toward making friends with the saucer intelligences. You can check this... I wrote to the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin newspapers, several weeks ago, informing them that I was here, asking for a write-up, and announcing that I would make a big rainstorm for Phila. All right. I brought the storm last Saturday and Sunday. It was very good. And I intend to bring more "freak" weather into this pinpointed Philadelphia area. I talked to two different reports at the Bulletin here, telling them that I would make the big rainstorm. New York City, and the entire New York-New Jersey area, etc., could have rainstorm after rainstorm...constant rain - with The Rainmaker working. Very truly yours, PK Man THE RAINMAKER, c/o Owens Caman Hotel, 12th & Walnut === Page 21 of 140 July 13, 1965 Mr. George Clark, CIA Copy - Kids Dear George: I will have to admit that any Tom, Dick or Harry could write to Cape Kennedy and say, "I am going to cause lightning to strike your rockets, and make hurricanes hit your area." Then lightning does strike one of the Cape's biggest rockets, which sits on a lightning-proof pad. But - this is just a co-incidence. Could happen to anyone, or any Cape. Soon several hurricanes do hit the area of the Cape; but this, also, could be a co-incidence. Anyone could predict, "There will be a major earthquake on the West Coast within a few days -" and then when the quake actually hits Oregon and Washington, the very next day - it could be just a co-incidence. Too, anyone could write the newspapers and government agencies that he would actually cause rainstorms and blizzards and floods in vast and unprecedented amounts, as a 1964 Christmas gift for the U.S., to help alleviate the drought prevalent in the U.S. Following this prediction came the "freak" West Coast floods of Christmas, 1964, which, according to the newspapers, could not occur again in 1,000 years. This, of course, was all just a big coincidence. Then followed the barrage of some 80 tornados and near-tornadoes, plus floods, in the Midwest...then the Northwest. But what the heck, probably just a coincidence. And anyone could predict to the Government that he could make all top government officials sick and ill, and put them all in the hospital. And then, shortly thereafter, they all do collapse into the hospital, with "Executive Flu." More coincidence. However, George, I have a serious question to ask you, and Mr. Dunn, who loves for me to be "specific" in my predictions. -- When I predict specifically that the electromagnetic condition of the North and/or South Pole will be affected - and when I further predict specifically that the absolute fact of this occurrence will be reported in the newspapers - and when I further state that these two things will occur for the specific purpose of proving that I am the representative of Nature, of the vast intelligence behind Nature (which is trying to help the U.S. Govt. but cannot penetrate the Govt. thick-headedness.) - and then, George, a flying saucer makes my predictions come true...makes it happen, just that way, and I send you the clipping and my letter for proof and verification - if anyone infers that this multi-impossibility could be just a coincidence, then I am going to sit down on the floor, George, take a deep deep breath, and scream until I'm purple in the face. One last point before closing. I spent our last money today to send a wire to LBJ in Texas. After today we'll have no food, no place to stay, nothing. Nature...or the saucers...or whatever it is...isn't going to be happy about this, George. They were very unhappy when I came to Washington and saw you and Dunn, and was turned down several times. Things have gotten very rough since then, if you'll count up the catastrophes. Ironically, P K Man, and his link with Nature (saucers) is the one hope for the U.S. Government. And as my situation goes, so will go the situation of the U.S. Government and the U.S. Nature says that. As a matter of fact, everything I do, with my family, is followed by Nature (Saucers) and anyone or anything blocking us, attacking us, giving us a hard time, will be dealt with by Nature (Saucers). * For the U.S. PL 07/25/2023 15:43 === Page 22 of 140 July 14, 1965 C O P Y Inquirer Call-Bulletin - newspapers Gentlemen: Shame on you. My name is "The Rainmaker" - or "P K Man" - and two weeks ago I wrote you, and called you also, to the effect that I was in the process of making a big storm for Philadelphia, to prove my ability... so that you would give me a write up...so that I might get an opportunity to perform in the New York-New Jersey areas, and end their drought for them. So, over the weekend you had your biggest storm in six months..just as I worked for it, and called it. It made the front pages of your newspapers, and it made everyone very happy...this great, big rainstorm in the middle of a drought area. I made our weekend storm, and will make more...for I live here, and do not like hot, dry weather. Therefore Philly will be wetter and cooler than the rest of the U.S. this summer. The people here are lucky that way.* But you need to be taught a lesson. I am going to deliver some freak weather here in Philadelphia, that will teach you a lesson. Lightning displays of an unusual nature...rain-floods...near-tornado winds. Takes a few days, or weeks, to accomplish. But you'll have it, and when it comes, just remember THE RAINMAKER (P K Man), c/o Owens Congress Hotel, Phila., Pa. *As for the people residing in the Delaware River Basin, they had better relocate, because this summer they will be literally toasted alive, burned out, and water evaporated that is there. === Page 23 of 140 Lornie & Rick July 15, 1965 Mr. George Clark, CIA. Dear George: Well, juast as I have been predicting in my letters....the "PK" is now reaching out and eliminating top officials of the government. Actually, there have been a bunch eliminated, one way or another, these past few weeks. Stevenson, yesterday, was the biggest so far in terms of status. He will be joined shortly, however, by others of like status. The PK, or the saucers, or whatever, are going to work in ernest at this time....part of the reason, of course, is because of their representative, myself and family, being ignored and not helped along the lines the saucers have in mind. There is absolutely no way the U.S. Government, or any other government, can prevent any of this from happening...except to make friends with the saucer-intelligences the same way the U.S. would make friends with a foreign country. Try to give them what they want and need; do not make them enemies, or goad them into war. I knew two weeks ago that one of our top men in government would drop dead, as if an invisible wall had fallen onto them. But I didn't know which one...McNamara, Rusk, Johnson, Stevenson, Humphrey, etc. They are all marked by the saucer-intelligence, I suppose I should tell you, for the same thing that hit Stevenson. There is no warning. Just...that's all. Want to know a peculiar thing that has happened where I just went to work? Sunday last my boss, Mr. Hill, saw his wife have an operation at the hospital. Monday his father had a heart-attack. Tuesday our big brawny guard downstairs, Gene, had a heart-attack, and on the same day one of our top counselors collapsed on the street, reason unknown. They took him to the hospital, then took him home, where he is now. He also is an ex-football player, big and tough, name of Bill Flanagan. This same pattern happened when I worked for Gelman in Washington. Everybody in the place had to go to the doctor or the dentist, for emergency operations, etc., and one woman whom I especially disliked, Rose, had the ceiling fall on her! And this a brand new office in a brand new multi-million dollar building! I am working now, temporarily, for Diagnostic and Relocation Center, 304 Arch St., Phila., Pa. Oh, George, an important bit of information from you. My saucer friends will pass this along to you...the Viet Cong and Chinese have found a serious "Achilles Heel" of the U.S., and are preparing to strike a deadly, paralyzing blow at this glaring weakness of ours they have found. This is all they tell me, to pass on to you....to further prove their real-ness, and their pow er. Many lives could be saved, George, if the U.S. Government would heed me and my message re the saucer-intelligence. Or the "intelligence behind Nature", or whatever. They have also told me to tell you....whatever they say is never forgotten, is etched on time and place like acid on wood...and they remind you and the U.S. Govt. that for every day that their representative, P K Man (me) has to work at ordinary living, instead of for them...as per their instructions, to help them, in their way....they will eliminate a top U.S. official, or important person. I refer you to a letter quite a while back, George. By now, they stand to collect a lot of important people. 07/25/2025 15:43 === Page 24 of 140 July 16, 1965, Friday Note: Attached letter - wrote George day before Adlai dropped dead - warning them!! Dear Lornie: I enjoyed your letter. It is good to know for sure that you will get my mail, all of it. Never once, not one time, did I interfere or stop a letter from Pat to you kids...even if it meant your getting upset, as it usually did. But I figured it was more important for you to hear from your mother, than for me to have to handle a problem. And I was right. Bet you didn't dream that all those nights I spent working with PK, and clippings, were being guided and watched over by flying saucer intelligences, did you? Wow! And now, there is absolutely no doubt of it. You have the clipping about the saucer that parked over the South Pole and allowed pictures to be taken of it, and a newspaper report written about it...and knocked out the electromagnetic power in the base..........and you have my letter written earlier about this happening, although of course I didn't dream a saucer would bring it about. So, Rick was right after all. It is the saucers, and not the "intelligence behind Nature." Or, maybe they are. And that would explain our weird trip across the U.S., mostly across lonely desert and mountains, and my sleeping on top of the car at night. It explains a lot of things. For instance, who and what was Eric? Where did he disappear to? Nobody knew him; nobody could trace him after he left us. He just plain vanished into thin air, with that woman. But, they parked nose to nose with our car....moved us from broke into about $300 per week; a house, everything in the house....just in time to guide all the tornadoes! If you will remember, just after meeting Eric, I got really "hot" with PK, and began doing tremendous things with it. Still am, as a matter of fact. Back to ordinary things...the baby, Beau, is a doll. And getting bigger by leaps and bounds. And spends most of his time that way...leaping and bounding. Also, he is a little bounder, in more ways than one. But he's learning. Can't talk yet; isn't completely toilet trained yet. But boy, can he point! He absolutely captivates anyone, just anyone, passing by or on the bus or in the restaurant....because he strolls around making friends with everybody, and they light up like a light-bulb with him. Lornie, about my use of PK. You are an utter idiot to think I would ever use it on you or Rick. Of course I wouldn't. Besides, you are protected anyway, so it wouldn't do any good if I did. Which I wouldn't. At one time I liked Jim Shannon, but he alienated me. I couldn't care less now if he got in the way of a PK ripple. As for Pat...you have my absolute word that I would never harm her in any way whatsoever...and especially with PK. She has always been, and will always be, very dear to me, and one of my favorite people. We have had, and have, our differences, but this is nothing..... as far as I am concerned she is to be as protected from PK as you kids. Those people that I hit with PK, Lornie, are very rare. As you know. As a matter of fact, remember how Mangels used to insult me to my face, and make me mad...but I held back the PK. Remember? I did not use it on her. However, Lornie, I will make an exception in the case of anyone blocking me from you kids, interfering with my family, trying to hurt my loved ones, in any way. This area is a deadly area, and no trespassing is allowed. I once offered to Pat, from Dallas, to fly to Los Angeles and whip that Frank, who was bothering her...even though we were separated and had no part of one another any more. Because, I still loved her. And in a way, always will. People do not change that much. Cigars? Am very particular. There is a place in L.A. has my favorite. Will enclose their address. Love & Kisses - Daddy. === Page 25 of 140 Lonnie + Rick July 16, 1965, Friday 7/16/65 p2 Mr. George Clark, CIA. Dear George: May I refer you to my letter to you of Sunday, April 11, 1965; second paragraph: "Therefore Nature lets me know that currently it is working to create signs and wonders to impress the U.S. Government of the foolish decision it has made with regard to me, its (Nature's) representative. It lets me know that it is going to strike down, by health, accident, etc., officials of the Government until such time as the U. S. Government obeys its wishes." After this plain, crystal clear warning, George, Senator Johnston died, and Pres. Johnson attended the funereal; Adlai Stevenson just died, and Pres. Johnson attended the funereal; also many key military men have expired since April. ---------- May I refer you to my letter to you of July 9, 1965; second paragraph: "Also, in the same letter (of March 14, 1965) I predicted Pres. Johnson's family member, or close friend, would pass away or be lost, by August...and that he would cry and grieve. Well, it isn't August yet, is it." - And in the paper yesterday, George, it pointed out that Pres. Johnson cried with regard to Stevenson...had tears in his eyes, is the way they put it, I believe.... which would make my prediction a hit. You might go on and read that third paragraph: "Notice lately how government officials are falling like bowling pins? Reedy out with sore feet. General Taylor out, with sore something. Dirkson out of action, in the hospital, with sore stomach. A Congressman got smashed with a truck, not long ago - and so on. The "PK pattern" is on now and working, after a time-lag, and you can tell." ---------- Now, important, may I refer you to my letter of a few days ago, July 13, 1965, last paragraph: "One last point before closing. I spent our last money today to send a wire to LBJ in Texas. After today we'll have no food, no place to stay, nothing. Nature ...or the saucers...or whatever it is...isn't going to be happy about this, George. They were very unhappy when I came to Washington and saw you and Dunn, and was turned down several times. Things have gotten very rough since then for the U.S., if you'll count up the catastrophes. Etc." Next day, George, Stevenson was struck down....did the saucers wish to make their point on this? Yes, they most emphatically did. They are using many ways right now to try to get recognition from the U.S. Government; drought, is one. Elimination of key people in the U.S. Government is another. Constant harassing of the military and space work, is another. Sure, the U.S. Government can ignore my (and the saucer) warnings....but at what horrible cost in lives and dollars to the U.S.? PK Man 08/02/2025 14:51 === Page 26 of 140 Copy - Lonnie & Rick July 19, 1965 Philadelphia Inquirer Call Bulletin Newspapers, The Editors Gentlemen: Yesterday you just enjoyed my storm which I referred to in my letter to you of July 14...just five days ago...and I quote: "I am going to deliver some freak weather here in Philadelphia, that will teach you a lesson. Lightning displays of an unusual nature...rain - floods..near tornado winds." Well, is it not so? Can you deny that yesterday you had a whopping storm? And lightning bolts struck all around Philadelphia...destroying $50,000 worth of business goods? And...the high winds blew down trees. I told you ... when it comes, to remember The Rainmaker. For your information I was in Rittenhouse Square the afternoon of Saturday, June 19, having called down the terrific storm then...and even told my wife that I would direct a lightning bolt to knock out the city power...which it did. Then I worked hard to bring in the next big rainstorm, but was not in Rittenhouse Square when it finally broke through and came down. But I was right there in Rittenhouse Square yesterday, calling down the storm, and especially the lightning, which is my trademark, you might say. Bear in mind that I could do this for New York City, in much greater volume and consistency. Notice that these two big storms....three, rather, have come on the weekends. That is because I have to work at something else during the week and cannot turn my full power and concentration on rain-making. I do not understand why you do not give me a story...so that I will have a chance, through your story, of being tried by some area in New Jersey or New York...and help those areas thereby by relief from the drought. Well, I will give Philadelphia more lightning...more wind...more rain. I like it cool, and as I say, the lightning is my trademark. THE RAINMAKER, c/o Owens Congress Hotel 12th and Walnut Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Kids...I brought in another terrific storm yesterday, standing there in the pouring rain directing the lightning to strike...had been working two days on it, just like Phoenix. Was a beaut! The clipping for it attached. Discovered a very weird thing last night...it was so hot in our rooms, I would guess 90-100, because our ventilation is poor...sweat was streaming off of me, dripping down onto my clippings. I went to bed, and put a hand on my chest, and it was as cold as ice-cubes. The area over my lungs, heart, and chest was ice-cold...the rest of me was hot and sweating. Figure that one out. Martha couldn't believe it, and neither could I. 07/25/2025 15:43 === Page 27 of 140 Copy - Lorrie + Rick July 21, 1965 Mr. George Clark, CIA Dear George: (1) My little friends say that they will appear over one of our major U.S. cities soon, in one of their flying machines. They won't name the city, for security reasons (theirs). (2) They also state that they will begin an attack campaign on the U.S. with lightning. Lightning attacks everywhere. There will be an unusual abundance of lightning bolts striking everywhere, everything, soon. ..........the above in an effort to further prove that P K Man is their representative and that they can communicate with PK Man. Note: I told you some time ago that "they" were going to hit the U.S. with the phenomena and afflictions of Moses time. See where they are having the first occurrences of cholera since 1811 (I believe it is) in Washington, D.C. (They had like-illnesses in Moses time, in order to convince the Pharaoh.) Also, they will continue their anti-personnel work. P K MAN Lorrie - tell Rick that he made our old car the prettiest car I've ever seen on the inside. Only trouble with the car it wouldn't go + take too much money to repair it. But the inside of the car way he had it fixed, was beautiful. I was very proud of him. Dad 07/25/2025 15:42 === Page 28 of 140 Rids The day after I wrote this letter and mailed it - lightning hit the Moon Rocket pad at Cape Kennedy. Killed one, chewed up five for the hospital. Dad Wednesday, August 3, 1966 Dear President Johnson: On July 21, 1966, I wrote George Clark, CIA: "My little friends (in flying saucers; UFO's) say that they will appear over one of our major U.S. cities soon, in one of their flying machines. They won't name the city, for security reasons (theirs.)" "They also state that they will begin an attack campaign on the U.S. with lightning. Lightning attacks everywhere. There will be an unusual abundance of lightning bolts striking everywhere, everything, soon." .......... "The above in an effort to further prove that P K Man (Ted Owens, The Rainmaker) is their representative and that they can communicate with P K Man." Mr. Johnson, when I typed that letter the SI's (saucer intelligences) told me they were sending out UFO's to blanket every State in the U.S. Ready to use lightning, or any other signal I should send. Poised and ready. Today I read in the paper that last weekend they had been sighted in many States over Saturday and Sunday. Do not mistake this. They are very excited, as I am excited. For after centuries of time they have at last managed to set up an effective communication with a human being (myself). They have taken a full year of setting this whole thing up with me... as a matter of fact, until the South Pole sighting I did not know that my work had anything to do with UFO's... I thought that I was contacting the intelligence behind Nature, whatever that was. Now the SI's have given the U.S. Government proof positive, two different ways and two different times, that I am connected with them, with a two-way communication. Which I most certainly am. 08/02/2025 14:51 === Page 29 of 140 8/3/65-66? P2 2 Today I got a write-up in the Bulletin newspaper here in Phila., and because this was a major aim of the 81's, it made them very happy. If you want to know the details...they were twittering and tweeting excitedly, which is the noise they make when they get excited. Because they have been made happy for a change, instead of frustrated, they will do something nice now for Philadelphia. I know...I am asking them to...especially a two-day rain in an effort to get several inches of rain here for the City in appreciation...and I think that they will also do something nice for CIA, and perhaps the U.S. Government, in exchange for this show of friendship...this story. Because this story was a key pivotal point in their plans, since I couldn't get through to official Washington. Only one thing bothers the 81's, and gives them trouble...and that is the "time" factor, because they do not know time, or use time, as we know and use it. We measure it by minutes, hours, days, weeks...but they do not. Sometimes when I send them intelligence, and do not get results in a few days, I give up...but it happens, comes about, a week or two later. Sometimes, to my utter amazement, it happens overnight. Such as the Russian spaceship Voskhod. I "hit it with PK" (i.e. sent my instructions to the UFO's) and they got it overnight, just the way I wanted them to. Such as the night I hit the West Coast with "earthquake PK" and by morning Washington-Oregon had the quake. And so on with other examples I could name. I myself do not understand the time angle. Perhaps I will. They are busily telling me things about their activities and themselves, which of course I am faithfully logging. They, and I, do not expect anyone at all to believe us on this...unless it is absolutely proven by them...and that is what I have been doing, and will continue to do. 08/02/2025 14:51 === Page 30 of 140 Rick Note: By 8/16/65...8/11 Missile Sil 8/11 Los Angeles (Disaster August 3, 1965 (About 9:30 PM) MESSAGE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE..........from the Saucer Intelligences (SI'S) through The Rain Maker, Ted Owens.... we are very happy that we are able to reach the ears of human beings, after trying for long long spaces of time. This human who is talking for us, we have been teaching for a year in your time, and now he knows much...soon he will know much more. He can do much. You must listen to him carefully, and protect him, for if you lose him you lose your link with us...and it is not known how long it may be until we find another human who can receive our thoughts, and send intelligence back to us, in just his way. You do not appreciate the difficulties involved. It would be as if you were trying to teach your earth animals how to talk, and suddenly you found one who could actually converse with you...and through this one animal you had an opportunity to discover the secrets of the animal kingdom. Through us you have the opportunity to discover the secrets of space, of far away places, of advanced technology, but better still... you have the opportunity of surviving, for as a race you are utterly doomed now, as you are flying (this in their words.) Many civilizations before you have so doomed themselves, and destroyed themselves, and we were helpless to give them assistance and advice and powerful aid. Now, for the first time in long space ages, we are able, through a human's senses, to come to the aid of a good civilization and help it survive. But we can only do so if you listen, and pay attention. We are causing severe drought, with our machines in your skies, so that we can teach you a basic lesson...which is that our intelligence is far superior to that of earth intelligence. We can control earth people because we can control what you call weather. When, and not before, our earth human has been accepted by your government, and put to good use, then and only then will we release the drought conditions, and let rainfall come in abundance down onto your thirsty earth. 08/02/2025 14:51 === Page 31 of 140 2 We will also add pestilence and sickness and what you call accidents; we will follow the structure of events which we used in the day of the human you know as Moses, as he strove against the ruler of the great country called Egypt. As we helped Moses in that day, so we shall help the human-friend we know now as Ted Owens, you call the Rain Maker. If it please him to think that..........of course we make the rain for him, but what is the difference? So that you people of the earth will believe this message we send to you, and we do not expect you to believe it unless we show proof...listen carefully. From now on, in time ahead, we will lift the curtain of drought for a little, and let the thirsty earth have its moisture. We will give the precious rain where it is needed...for a time. Then, lest you think that it is a perchance, we will drop the curtain once more with our machines, and let the rays of the sun penetrate the bowels of the earth and dry up your rivers, your lakes, your plants...until you accept our human as our representative. After you accept him, we have much work for him to do, for we do not speak your language, nor do we know too much, as we should, about your inner workings. It is through this human that we can learn; and it is through us, that you can learn. Even now we send the meaning of our thoughts to him, and his brain translates through pictures and feelings into your English. It is good. Beware lest you take too long to accept our human-friend, for then we must strike a hard blow at the country which spurns him...to punish your country as you would punish a child which persists in misbehaving. Already missile silos blew up; L.A. riots catastrophe After your country has accepted our link with humans, and we are able to proceed in keeping earth humans from the time-old habit of erasing themselves as civilizations, we will make your earth a wonderful place, the way it should be. We have no wish to rule you, or dictate to you... 08/02/2025 14:51 === Page 32 of 140 3. XX 3, 1965 (About 9:00 PM) MESSAGE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE..........from the Rain Maker, Ted Owens..........through the Rain Maker, Ted Owens.......... we only wish, as friends, to know you, and teach you, and let you be happy. We are not of flesh and blood such as you. Our composition is that of your grasshopper, so that our bodies will compress and expand with spacework. We have not blood, but different chemicals inside ourselves. We are small, but have the ability to reverse our body-electricity at will and this gives us strength to move and carry great burdens; makes us very strong. Language difficulty makes it difficult for us to send a stream of highly technical information through our human-friend's mind for translation, since he is not a scientist, and must therefore translate as he understands. But for a beginning, it is good. Please, therefore, listen to this human-friend, and accept him, for we wish to help your country, and no other on earth...in your time of trouble, so that you may then properly help the other countries on earth. At this part of time your country has the best philosophy, the best ideas, the best advances, for helping. We can do many many things that you have no dream of, to help you. And may we ask you please be careful not to pursue our craft in your curiosity...not to attack us with your weapons, simply because we are not like yourselves. When our human-friend is in an area, please do not have planes overhead in that area, because you do not know it but we will have our own craft overhead...we have methods that make our craft so that your earth-eyes cannot see them, at times. Especially when we want it so. You ask, is there anything else, earth-friend...just that, we are happy, and excited, for you and your people, and for us. Be patient, and be careful, for we cannot risk losing our human-friend-link. That is all. === Page 33 of 140 August 6, Friday, 1965. Mr. George Clark, CIA Dear George: I will have an important "intelligence" tip to give you soon, which could conceivably benefit the CIA. For now, will you please get my July 21 letter, and note that I called the shot with the prediction (?) that my "little friends" would be seen over a U.S. city as a signal to you that I am for real? Also, next paragraph down, I told you that they would undertake attacks of lightning...for the same reason...to prove that I am for real...their contact man, so to speak. Well, you've had the sightings, in plenty. As for the lightning, I think the best signal they gave you was the lightning hit this week...August 4, I think it was...on the Moon Rocket pad at Cape Kennedy. So...you have your signal. Might interest you to know that I wrote Mr. Westwood at NASA (Inventions Dept.) July 7, 1965 of course, and told him in the letter that I was again, as of last year, aiming hurricanes and lightning and freak accidents at the Cape this year. Only took four weeks for lightning to chew up the Moon Rocket pad. Not bad, eh? As for up here...I wrote President Johnson August 2, 1965 (this week) and told him: "They (the UFO's) will do something nice now for Philadelphia. I know...I am asking them to..especially a two-day rain in an effort to get several inches of rain here for the City in appreciation..." The very next day, George, they got their 2½ inches of rain all in a bundle. Did them quite a bit of good. Now, for your amusement, and because you've been so good to listen to me for so long...I will let you in on something. Am calling fleets of UFO's here, to Philadelphia...from everywhere. Trouble is I do not know what they can do to prove to these people here that I'm for real...but I will think of something. Believe they are here already, because I sent for them this afternoon. With all that power, whatever kind it is that they have...and it seems to be miraculous, judging from what they've accomplished this past year, they should do something startling. I'm trying to convey the idea to them of coming right down over the city and hovering. They give me the idea back that we might have some kind of rays like they have, or whatever it is they have...and hurt them or something...so that they are reticent to do this. So I am trying to tell them we have no such thing, and it's safe. I want to bring one down right over Market Street and have it hover there for 20 minutes. What else they'll do on their own is anybody's guess - 3 DAYS LATER GOT MY BIG STORM!! Also, have asked them to send rain out to the U.S. for 2-3 weeks, before starting drought conditions again. Am sure that they will. Incidentally, last week I warned you that something terrible some terrible blow would be struck at the U.S. soon...and I believe that it was the === Page 34 of 140 August 6, Friday, 1965 Copy - Lorne & Rick 8/6/65 P1 Mr. George Clark, CIA Dear George: I will have an important "intelligence" tip to give you soon, which could conceivably benefit the CIA. For now, will you please get my July 21 letter, and note that I called the shot with the prediction (?) that my "little friends" would be seen over a U.S. city as a signal to you that I am for real? Also, next paragraph down, I told you that they would undertake attacks of lightning...for the same reason...to prove that I am for real...their contact man, so to speak. Well, you've had the sightings, in plenty. As for the lightning, I think the best signal they gave you was the lightning hit this week...August 4, I think it was...on the Moon Rocket pad at Cape Kennedy. So..........you have your signal. Might interest you to know that I wrote M. Eastwood at NASA (Inventions Dept.) July 7, 1965 of course, and warned him in the letter that I was again, as of last year, aiming hurricanes and lightning and freak accidents at the Cape this year. Only took four weeks for lightning to chew up the Moon Rocket pad. Not bad, eh? As for up here...I wrote President Johnson August 3, 1965 (this week) and told him: "They (the UFO's) will do something nice now for Philadelphia, I know...I am asking them to..especially a two-day rain in an effort to get several inches of rain here for the City in appreciation..." The very next day, George, they got their 5 1/2 inches of rain all in a bundle. Did them quite a bit of good. Now, for your amusement, and because you've been so good to listen to me for so long...I will let you in on something. Am calling fleets of UFO's here, to Philadelphia...from everywhere. Trouble is I do not know what they can do to prove to these people here that I'm for real...but I will think of something. Believe they are here already, because I sent for them this afternoon. With all that power, whatever kind it is that they have...and it seems to be miraculous, judging from what they've accomplished this past year, they should do something startling. Am trying to convey the idea to them of coming right down over the city and hovering. They give me the idea back that we might have some kind of rays like they have, or whatever it is they have...and hurt them or something...so that they are reticent to do this. So I am trying to tell them we haven't any such thing, and it's safe. I want to bring one down right over Market Street and have it hover there for 20 minutes. What else they'll do on their own is anybody's guess. Also, have asked them to send rain out to the U.S. for 2-3 weeks, before starting drought conditions again. Am sure that they will. Incidentally, last week I warned you that some terrible blow would be struck at the U.S. soon...and I believe that it was the 07/25/2025 15:35 === Page 35 of 140 8/6/65 p2 horrible bomber crash in Nan Tan (?) today, because this made us look very bad all over the world, which is mad enough anyway about the Viet Nam war. All those 250 lb. bombs being unloaded there, where the new U.S. Military Headquarters is being set up...and on top of our allies...that is very very bad. A real blow. And the way it was done, is certainly in the pattern of all the rest of this phenomena. Why, when the other bomber made eight passes at it, with all its guns blazing, couldn't it shoot it down, or set off the bombs in it? Then there was the wind...ah yes, the wind...like the rain that put out the Fire Bombing attempt. The wind turned the plane around and took it right onto target. I tell you, George, there is much more to this than meets the eye. Don't you agree? Remember the other two times I warned you that the U.S. would be struck blows, in a similar way...and then in quick order, after each prediction, the U.S. Embassy was blown up...and the Bien something airfield was set off when the bomber exploded there and blew up other planes and everything, accidentally. But there is something nice...because conditions have just recently been good to me here, and I have had a bit of a chance to get my UFO status at least a tiny bit out into the open...the stock market is already improving, as I told you it would a while back (last month, wasn't it?) Sure do wish this was a two-way communication. Wish CIA ... oh, well, keep observing, George, and you will see some very strange things happen yet. PK Man (The Rain Maker) Ted Owens === Page 36 of 140 Monday, August 9, 1965 Letters To The Editor Dear Sir: I would appreciate an opportunity to answer Mr. Rosenberg, of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and Mrs. H. S., of Langhorne, Pa., who placed articles re my rainmaking in your newspaper this evening. WELL-WRITTEN First, Mr. Rosenberg...Mr. Darling, of the Bulletin, is a very intelligent man, and knows that a memory system is simply a memory system, nothing more. I even explained to him at the time of the interview that I learned my memory system from Roth's book. If he should like to take it up. Actually, the demonstration proved only that visual imagery works in this fashion; I am sorrowfully afraid, Mr. Rosenberg, that no matter how I performed a memory system, it would not make me look like a genius, a mind reader or a mystic, for I am certainly none of these things, and did not try to impress the veteran feature writer in that regard (for he has been long a pro at seeing through ruses such as you mention.) You should have been listening to Radio Station WCAU last Wednesday evening. For four hours I endeavored to explain the why's and wherefore's of my modus operandi of making it rain. That was the Jack McKinney Show. And then again today, on Mr. Ed Harvey's Radio Show, WCAU, I went further into the matter. The trick memory system has absolutely nothing to do with it, Mr. Rosenberg. If you would be a good reporter, first get your facts straight. FURTHERMORE, ON LOOKING AT YOUR LIST, I SHOULD LIKE TO STATE UNEQUIVOCABLY THAT MY BASKET WAS NOT SITTING IN YOUR PUDDLE, SIR!! Now Mrs. H. S., after I got through howling at your rainmaking methods, the thought occurred to me...when and if I ever get a session with my wife, and it rains...I hope sincerely that she has the priceless sense of humor that you have. A sense of humor in a wife is worth more than diamonds, rubies and pearls. LIKE YOURSELF In closing, may I point out that the only good rain that Philadelphia has had these past weeks was last Wednesday night, when I went on the air at WCAU to deliver my message re UFO's, and today, when I again went on the air at WCAU. It is a fact that I told Mr. Ed Harvey last Friday that I would do my best to deliver an excellent rain on Monday (today). I believe that this is exactly what has occurred. Station WCAU Anyone interested in my rainmaking work can write to me at the Congress Hotel here in Philadelphia, and I will answer every sincere letter. Ted Owens "THE RAINMAKER" c/o Congress Hotel 1336 Walnut Philadelphia, Pennsylvania P.S. I deliberately brought in storms on both days of my radio broadcasts...therefore Philadelphia owes its present rain to Mr. Darling at the Bulletin; Jack McKinney and Tom Spence, of WCAU; and Mr. Ed Harvey, of the Ed Harvey Show, WCAU. === Page 37 of 140 8/10/65 The Editor Evening Bulletin Tuesday, August 10, 1965 Dear Sir: Something for you to print, of an unusual nature, if you would like it. This is a recap for the past week for my friends in Philadelphia, of the excitement in the air, with the Rain Maker, straight from the Rain Maker. Last Wednesday Jack McKinney had me on his show at WCAU, and we fought like cats and dogs, in a very friendly way, over rain-making and UFO's. For four hours, which is a long time. Mr. McKinny (a fine man, by the way, even if he does not believe in UFO's, ha ha) sought to pin down the facts on my rain-making, and especially since it is connected with the workings of flying-saucers. For help (as if he needed any) he had Tom Spence, who helped me finish my sentences and dot my i's. Of course, I had already made several storms over Philadelphia...and written well ahead of time to the papers here that I was making them, (see the Bulletin story.) And, before the show, I had worked on a storm to dramatize my appearance on his show. It began at the beginning of the evening show, and did Philadelphia a bit of good, water-wise. Then, on Friday, Mr. Ed Harvey called me and asked me to appear on his show the following Monday, at WCAU, and he specifically asked me to make it storm that day (yesterday) Monday. I told him that I would do my best. So, all week-end, I worked for a storm, but in an unusual way, for me. I had to time the storm to hit Monday, instead of Sunday, which is my favorite storm day next to Saturday. The storm-materials were all present and accounted for on Sunday, and I fought to hold them in check. Then, on Monday, I released them. It rained a bit in the afternoon, and I went on the Ed Harvey Show. Now, listen carefully...on the show I told Mr. Harvey === Page 38 of 140 8/10/65 p2 2 that my storms feature lightning..........remember in my Bulletin story, where I said my specialty was lightning? Also, I pointed out to him that on another occasion here in Philadelphia I had endeavored to "aim" lightning at a radio tower downtown, in Center City. Also I aimed lightning at any power-stations in the area, as an experiment. Remember this. I also pointed out to Mr. Harvey that the rule, for my storms, is that they literally cause disaster-areas. They are violent, full of lightning attacks, and flood. Mr. Harvey jokingly asked me not to flood Philadelphia. So after the show, I went home to my apartment. And it rained, hard. It came down in sheets. But one thing was missing..........lightning. So I told my wife that I would add the missing ingredient, and went out onto a balcony outside my apartment, and worked for lightning, lots of it. The results were better than I hoped for. The next rainfall, after an interval, carried lightning with it..........lots of it. And, mark this, next morning I read in the paper that lightning had hit a tower, not here but in New Jersey, and knocked out the power for the police. Also it hit a power-supply, and knocked out the power for many many houses. Just as I had mentioned it in the afternoon..........as if my little UFO friends had been listening and decided to include it. Fantastic? It happened, just that way. Now I have another assignment to carry out for Mr. Harvey. Keep the sky clear of rain Thursday night, for his ball-game. And for Mr. Harvey, it is a downright pleasure. Before closing, would like to point out that on the Jack McKinney show I told the audience that rain would suddenly appear all over the United States === Page 39 of 140 8/10/65 p3 3 as a signal from the UFO's that they are listening, and are in action. Have you looked at your weather maps lately? That is precisely what has occurred. But in the near future I do not think that the East Coast will benefit too much, re drought-relief. They will need the services of a rain-maker; namely, me. And anyone wanting to rent my unique services can write to me care of your paper. For that matter, anyone wanting to write me a personal letter can do that; and I will also be glad to send my message from the UFO's to the American people...the one that Jack McKinney read on his program...to any of your readers who wish it. Sincerely, Ted Owens "THE RAIN MAKER" === Page 40 of 140 Tuesday, August 10, 1965 Dear Lornie, and Rick... I enjoyed your letter, Rick my boy. Don't worry, son, can you remember a time when your daddy keep punching? That'll be the day. All hell is breaking loose in Philadelphia...as a matter of fact, I almost ruined Philadelphia last night. Remember how you and I used to stand out in the yard in Phoenix, and bring on those gangbusters? Well, I brought one on in style, and the results are enclosed, in clippings. You'll be proud, and you'll remember Phoenix...and Los Angeles...etc etc. The beauty of it was...Ed Harvey, who has the radio show for CBS here called "Talk of Philadelphia"...called me last Friday and asked me to make a storm tailor-made for this Monday, the day I was to appear on his program, so that he could be telling about it over the weekend. I told him that I would, and set to work. The weather was hot and clear, then. I worked like the dickens Saturday and Sunday...throwing a lot of oomph into it, but also working to hold it back until Monday, so that it wouldn't bust loose Sunday. I'll enclose a copy of letter to the paper here which am sending in, and it tells you the rest, to save wear and tear on my fingers. The point is, at last, kids, at last, people "out there" are beginning to find out what you have known all along. That I can control storms (have made, and written into the papers well in advance, five good storms now) and perhaps other things as well. Also, and more important, Jack McKinny, on that 4-hour brain-buster last Wednesday, I forced into reading a message from the UFO's to the American people. Now, my storm-work of course carries a lot of weight...and I am positive that the message will get across. Am enclosing a copy. Am absent-minded, you know, and don't remember whether I did before or not. Listen, kids, all those "units" and things were a sort of vocabulary that the UFO's were giving me...it was their way of understanding...so when I would put something into a PK bubble 07/25/2025 16:36 === Page 41 of 140 8-10-65 p2 2 put satellites (rain or sun, etc.) over it, and throw so many black, or red "units" at it...etc., they could understand this, and rapidly acted. And how they acted, as you well know. The next logical thing now is for someone to hire me to break the drought for New York...or Philadelphia...or the entire East Coast, which would be as easy, as you know. Following the breaking of the drought will be even bigger things, the little "voice" seeps through to me, like osmosis. You were right, one of you, I can't remember which, when you told me that you thought there was something even bigger ahead than my PK discoveries. You were so...right. Nice thing about it is, I was so bored, just causing storms, bringing down airplanes, lousing up military operations, making earthquakes with Emmy-Emma (Rick's brainchild.) Now things are moving, at last. Funny that the Air Force, the CIA, the US Govt., and the Rhines haven't been jumping up and down to get hold of me. They have my letter-file, calling dozens of big events in advance, in detail. I really do not understand it. The US Government probably doesn't want to be forced by the UFO'S to pay attention...Johnson, especially. But they are dealing with UFO'S, a far greater power than any other existing on this earth. God help them if they delay too much longer. I warned them weeks ago that a terrible blow would be struck at the US Government if they didn't pay attention; and within a week the bomber in Viet Nam turned around, with nobody in it, and flew back and crashed, with all its bombs, on U S Military Headquarters in their allied city, Nan Trang, or something like that. Then today one of their missile silos "accidentally" blew up. They are so dense and stupid. But enough of that. Write often, if you can. Lornie, honey, I like those 15¢ Optimos. They are good cigars. Or those Pats that come 7 in a pack. Love & kisses - Daddy PK Man === Page 42 of 140 Wednesday, August 11, 1965 President Johnson, The White House. Dear Mr. President: This letter is of the utmost importance to you. Please find attached copy of letter I sent to you almost a year ago. Also State Dept. and other Govt. agencies. A more prophetic "intelligence report" you will never find. The missile silo that just blew up, or whatever happened to it...see paragraph marked in red. This is further emphasized at this particularly peculiar time because of the "rain making" work that I am doing in Philadelphia, predicting rainstorms in advance and then bringing them in on schedule, or as close to schedule as possible. So far I have not missed, and would be surprised if I did. Monday's storm in Philadelphia was made by myself, and the lightning attacks co-incide with other letters which you should have in your file, of weeks ago, when the UFO's said they would provide lightning attacks to prove my connection with them. At the time this letter was written, almost a year ago, I believed that I was in contact with the intelligence behind Nature; only lately have I found out that I am in contact with UFO's, as proved by the UFO sighting over the South Pole, and my earlier letter before that, predicting the event in detail sans UFO. Therefore I believe at this time the UFO's are, at a year's interval, warning the people of the U.S. once more...re my "Message to the American people from the UFO's" as read over the radio from Station WCAU last Wednesday, August 4, 1965, on the Jack McKinney Show. Note that in my letter of last year states: "Or else Nature will chastise the erring country with catastrophe after catastrophe. Earthquake, fire, famine, flood, sickness. Nature will select the proper catastrophes to bring the unbelieving country to its knees." This sentence should make great sense to you...because since 08/02/2025 14:51 === Page 43 of 140 8/11/65 p2 2 this letter was written, and sent to you, you have spent a great deal of time travelling about, inspecting disaster areas...catastrophe after catastrophe, as my letter warned. I would venture to state that never, in the entire history of the United States, has there been a year so filled with natural catastrophes as July, 1964, to July, 1965. To name just a few catastrophes...and areas...the disastrous fires on the California Coast; the disastrous floods last Christmas on the California Coast; the giant earthquake in Oregon-Washington; the horrendous damage from Hurricane Cleo, Hurricane Dora, Hurricane Isbell, Hurricane Hilda; crippling floods in North/South Carolina; disastrous floods in the Midwest States; unprecedented tornado attacks in the Midwest; and so on and so on for a long long list. You will note that I state on the first page of last year's letter: "...the aforementioned 'catastrophes' are merely a sample of what lies ahead." This was correct, absolutely. In closing, the UFO's have instructed me to point out that the paragraph of last year's letter which refers to causing missiles to explode in their silos, is now referred to for a reason all their own. (Not mine.) They caused the missile silo tragedy, in order to direct my attention back to this letter, in order for me to write you another letter, one year later...pointing out that this particular paragraph states that it is extremely important that the reason for my "PK" ability be understood by all. The reason. The causal-factor, as Mr. Dunn of your CIA put it to me. And that is...UFO's. Respectfully, Ted Owens (P K Man - Rain Maker) Congress Hotel 1336 Walnut Philadelphia, Pa. 08/02/2025 14:51 === Page 44 of 140 8/12/65 Thursday, Aug. 12, '65 -- Lonnie and Rick Dear pals: Time to sit down now and fill you in on all the excitement. You read the Bulletin story on The Rain Maker. Philadelphia has had only 7 rains since the 1st of June -- and I made all 7. Before each one, usually a week, I wrote the papers and told them it was coming. So I was invited to be on the famous (around here) Jack McKinney "Night Show." I was supposed to be on one hour. After me came a U.S. Senator. After him, Jack Carter, the comedian so much on Ed Sullivan's show. All McKinney knew was I claimed to be a rain-maker. PK Man, he'd never met. He met PK Man 5 minutes after the show started. I laid out my files in front of the battery of mikes and started to work. (I'd been cued in advance by the 'Sir' what to do.) The hour flew by. McKinney and Spence, a man he'd brought in to help attack me -- were sweating blood, and getting nowhere. They'd prepared a perfect case for attacking mere rain-making, but the PK and all I'd done with it -- plus UFO's, were sinking them rapidly. So McKinney, on a station break -- told Spence to call the Senator and Carter at his hotel, and cancel them out. "Boy, I've made two enemies tonight!" he told me, gritting his teeth. The second hour they got a bright idea. They'd call one of my letter-file contacts, unexpectedly, long-distance, to verify my claims that all these impossible === Page 45 of 140 8/12/65 p2 Things had been predicted in advance by me - or caused by me. They asked me, real sneakily, which to call? CIA? NASA? Lonie? Cayce? Mangels? I recommended Cayce, on the terrific double-prediction on Pres. Johnson, 3 months in advance. Aha! Said McKrinny - he must be your co-hort. So we'll call Mangels, that all right? Sure be my guest I told him. So they got hold of Jean - she came through loud & clear. "Miss Mangels," asked McKrinny, "is it true Ted Owens predicted there would be a major earthquake on the West Coast within just a few days - and it happened the next day?" "Yes," said Jeanne, "he did. He absolutely did." McKrinny & Spence frowned, their eyes bulged, and they stared at me unbelievably. "Well" says Mac, "he says he caused the earthquake. Do you believe that?" "No," she answers, "I won't go along with that. I don't think so." "Uh huh" says Mac. "Now did he make any other predictions to you that came true." "Yes," she said, "he did." "How many of his predictions came true?" "I would say four out of five." They thanked her - forgot her - and went ahead with the program. Half an hour later they were to be === Page 46 of 140 8/12/05 p3 by the Control Room that she was still hooked up long distance and was listening to the show over the phone!! Ha ha ha!! Anyway - on the way over to the radio station that Wed. evening the skies were clear. I sent signals to the UFO's desperately to make it rain, fast - to coincide with my program appearance. Half hour later, as I was walking up to the door of the studio, rain began to pour down. During the program people call up, put themselves on the air, and ask questions. I had to answer them. It was great fun. It lasted four hours. And rain soaked the town. It was a nice, quiet downpour. Steady rain all night. Two days later, Friday, I got a call from Ed Harvey, another famous radio personality here with "Talk of Philadelphia" program. He wanted me to be on his program on Monday, Aug. 9. Also, he wanted me to make a storm for Monday - so he could advertise it in advance. (Friday was a smashing, clear day.) I told him I would bring in a rainstorm on Monday + appear on the show. He was nice on the program. Asked me why on earth the Govt. didn't use my services. Why New York didn't hire me. (Oh, it was raining by now lightly, outside.) He told the audience, looking me straight in the eye, "Ted there is no doubt whatever in my mind that you could break the drought on the East Coast." He asked a === Page 47 of 140 8/12/65 p4 personal favor. He was going to an important baseball game Thursday night - could I keep it nice, clear, & no rain that night? (It was raining outside when he asked this.) I assured him I would take the rain away from Phila. for that night. Now during the program, I discussed how I "aimed" lightning - had aimed at two Phila. targets in earlier storms, a radio tower and the power-supply of the city. I'd actually managed to hit the power supply of the city! And I told how I liked lightning - my storms had my "lightning trademark" - it is my specialty. I went home then it began to come down in solid sheets. But no lightning. "Hell!" I told Martha, taking a drink of cold beer, "that's a good storm, but I've got to put more lightning in it!" So I went outside and signalled the UFO's (I have an all-new system now) and told them lightning - lots of lightning. Suddenly there were some lightning flashes and I knew they'd heard me. Took me four or five attempts to get it over to them, though - and each time I'd begin again, the heavy rain would stop. When I'd finish signalling the rain would start up again. It was weird. Like they'd stop the rain temporarily - to find out if I was wanting something else instead. === Page 48 of 140 8/12/65 p5 "Ted," Martha called from inside the window, "why is it the rain stops each time you begin to signal?" Yep. Even she noticed it. (But the day was full of surprises. On the radio show I had told Ed Harvey that every area I had hit with PK had become an official disaster area. He'd laughed and asked me for Heaven's sake not to flood Philly.) Well. After an hour the storm stopped, and I left to go to the YMCA to type some letters. When I came out of the Y, all hell broke loose. You've seen some of my little beauties - knocking out Boggio's windows, lightning bolts hitting our house etc. This storm was a giant compared to those midgets you saw. Rain was driving down so hard you couldn't see. Cars were stalled in the street. Bolts of lightning were hitting in every direction. It was majestic. It was a regular symphony of a storm. (Days before I had told Martha I wanted Monday's storm to hit Philly - pow! and tear it up! Chew it up! Rain so thick you couldn't see a foot away. Lightning everywhere.) In every detail - this was the storm. You read the paper's description of it, but they couldn't do it justice. New York City got a billion gallons of rain-water from this Philly flood (yes, it flooded.) When I brought === Page 49 of 140 8/12/65 p6 6) the storm here, all areas around benefitted from it. okay. Tuesday came. Dozens of different homes had been hit by bolts of lightning. One lightning bolt came inside a man's kitchen while he was cooking supper, and hit his stove. Lightning hit a police radio tower. A bolt hit the Willow Grove (suburb) power supply and knocked out the power. A bolt hit a hospital. And so on. Nobody was hurt. Tuesday there were black clouds in the sky. I knew the UFO's had plenty of materials if I wanted more. But I didn't. I wanted it clear. I signalled them strongly to hold off all rain*. Tuesday passed - a dark, cloudy day just wanting to rain. But it didn't. Wednesday came. Dark boiling clouds overhead. Papers said 6 chances in 10 of rain. I signalled no rain. There was no rain. Today, Thursday, all clouds were gone. Sunny & clear. So Ed Harvey is happy tonight at his ball game. (But Philly could have had two more fine storms. A pity) However, I'm choking off rain out here now with the PK bubble with sun cats, plus other mechanisms. If they want rain now - they play ball with the UFO's. If they don't play ball - there'll be no water. No offers yet. Write Love & kisses, Dad. * Told them to swing the rain west & dump it there. === Page 50 of 140 Friday, August 13, 1965 Mr. George Clark CIA Dear George: Herein is, I believe, a workable plan to force the Viet Cong in Viet Nam to surrender within two weeks time. They would have to. What is necessary for the satisfactory completion of this surrender is a disaster which will sweep the entire length and breadth of Viet Nam North and South. Repairs can be made later. They will have to be made at any rate after the war is over under ordinary circumstances. Leaflets will be dropped over North Viet Nam that all peoples must vacate Viet Nam completely within two weeks. If they surrender to the U.S. and South Vietnamese, then they will be helped to leave peninsula. If they do not surrender, they will have to vacate the peninsula themselves under their own power. Explain that tremendous tidal waves, caused by the U.S. Govt., will come sweeping over the land at the end of two weeks carrying everything before it. Meanwhile, a gigantic, first-time-in-history evacuation on such a large scale would have to take place, getting U.S. personnel and South Vietnamese off the peninsula. The U.S. would indeed cause giant tidal waves to sweep over the peninsula... by exploding nuclear devices close enough to cause the waves to sweep the island but far enough away so that the land would not be rendered poisoned by the devices. (I assume that there is a way this could be done: being an amateur, and not a scientist, I would have to pass on the details of the operation. All I can donate is the bare idea.) The effect: Giant waves of water would flood the peninsula. Of course houses and cities would be wrecked. It would not be possible should not be for any human to survive the flooding. Therefore, after this was over, with U.S. ships patrolling the waters to prevent VC from returning... and the VC who have surrendered already in U.S. hands - then the Vietnamese people themselves would be returned to their homeland sans VC, and their homes rebuilt and cities repaired. At that time tough controls could be instituted to prevent the VC among the "Vietnamese people" who have returned... from starting anything again. But what would they start it with? All weapons would have been rounded up before the mass evacuation... and those weapons hidden would be ruined by the floods. We would, in effect, be erasing an incorrect formula upon the blackboard (Viet Nam) and then writing upon the board the correct answer. Respectfully, Ted Owens P K Man - The Rain Maker. === Page 51 of 140 Monday, Aug. 16, 1965 P.S. Share the enclosed letters + info with Lonnie. Be sure to. Dear Rick Congratulations on your fine PK work. But, what you were doing was using the special PK symbols given me by the UFO's, to call in UFO's, to make the lightning strike + the rain. Honey, haven't you + Lonnie been getting my big, fat letters, with copies of letters to Pres. Johnson, George Clark, etc? Saturday, at 2:30 P.M., I gave a demonstration here to a Tom Wieder (writer) who had asked for an interview, of how to cause a great natural disaster. I told him in South America, drew a map of it -- and set it to happen within days. (I used "Emma-Emma") -- and Sunday a giant series of storms tore up Chile, wrecking 40% of their farms, striking ships, causing huge avalanches. The President, Frei, declared it a disaster area (as usual.) Martha was with me at the time. We were in a restaurant. Took me 2 minutes to do it. Have you considered -- L.A. riots, "mass madness" the papers called it -- L.A. county declared a disaster area -- and "Electra" has been growing!! (Diego + Freco, remember?) May I give you some kindly advice, son? There is an ancient saying in the Bible, "Do not cast your pearls before swine." I. e., do not waste your talent and ability on people who do not appreciate it, or who try to cut you down to their little size. Do not put on demonstrations for anyone who happens to make fun of you, or challenge you. You are wasting valuable time + effort. Even if you do what you say, they'll pooh pooh it or try to brainwash you. It's been tried on me. (Has Jim run down the street naked yet?) 08/02/2025 14:51 === Page 52 of 140 8-16-65 p2 Speaking of Jim - I think a warning is in order. Remind him of how (check with Lorrie) a man who crossed me in Texas - who dropped dead mysteriously of a cerebral hemorrhage. Remind him of Mrs. Mangels, who laughed at me and said I was "drinking too much coffee." Then her brother dropped dead; her son's lung collapsed; a negro broke into her daughter's home at night; and a gang beat up Mrs. Mangels. Remind him of Rose, at Gelman's office, who gave me a hard time - and part of the office ceiling fell on top of her. Etc etc. And there were people I didn't hit with PK!! Let Lorrie tell of how I hit all govt. officials before the inauguration to hospitalize them - and did!!! Jim had better be very very quiet. He is in way over his depth. He's like a man, laughing at the pretty kitty-cats surrounding him. And the "pretty kitty-cats" are huge, ferocious tigers!! But then - Jim could "never take Ted seriously." I wouldn't talk PK or UFO's to Pat or Jim, Rick. That's a different world, and they aren't in that world. Sure we are partners, son. But I cannot send by mail the tremendous, great secrets that I have now accumulated in a new book - given me by the Si's. If you had stayed with me, you'd have grown with me, in all my UFO work. But separated - you'll have to use what I taught you until we get together === Page 53 of 140 8-16-65 p3 again, some day. If we ever do. Getting proof, over & over again, that I'm linked with the UFO's, is something I never expected. But it explains everything. Get Lorrie to describe the beautiful UFO that was near us, one night, in Texas. Now - I am causing terrible drought for the purpose that you mention. But read the message from the UFO's to the American people, again. For a time, they will sprinkle rain all over the US, not to end the drought, but to show what they can do. When they've done it, they'll drop the total drought curtain again, and look out!! I congratulate you deeply, son, on that lightning hit on the trees! That is better than what I've done - except my Cape Kennedy Titan & moon rocket pad hits. But that wasn't close up, like yours! All right - we'll team work. Every day there's a weather map in the papers, showing rain over the US. We'll work to keep the map - total US - clear of rain. No precipitation. When the right time comes - and it will - we'll make it rain, at certain places in the US, and we'll call our shots. I need those clippings. This one of lightning strikes is another good clip for my files. Thanks. My price is right. Pres. Johnson is spending 100 million dollars to try to break the drought, his way. Love, Dad P.S. Write on paper like this. === Page 54 of 140 Monday, Aug. 16, 1965 Dear Lorrie -- Thanks for your letter. Yes, things have been popping. Cyclical. They fade, then get bigger -- fade, then get even bigger, etc. Have you gotten my letters -- stuffed with copies of letters to George, Pres. Johnson, etc.? You know what? After I called shot after shot after shot here -- even convincing the hard-boiled newspaper veteran reporter, then prep'd a storm for "The Talk of Philadelphia" show (once a week show with current important personality in Philly on it, interviewed) -- and nearly wrecked Philly with the storm (scores of lightning hits, floods, etc -- you saw the news clips?) -- suddenly, snap! like that an iron curtain came down. Must be Air Force pressure of some kind, since UFO's are in it. The orange glow was a UFO, you can bet on it. Tell them about the beauty that was close to our car in the field, that night in Texas. And the window-tape and the green eyes -- at 310 Hemphill. And the doctor I hypnotized & sent his mind to contact UFO's. My contact with the Si's couldn't get any better honey. With the system they've given me I can "see" them and communicate with them, and they with me -- directly. In seconds. Only thing remaining is to get to a faraway, isolated spot, where they will come down and meet me. Last night, Sunday a news report came over the radio. In Brazil, Sunday, a tiny man 28 inches high walked up to a fisherman's hut and said, in English (?) he === Page 55 of 140 8/16/65 p2 from a flying saucer, and wanted to offer proof. He gave the fisherman a piece of metal which he said was not of this earth. Brazilian scientists are now examining the metal. This came over a radio news broadcast. Today there was nothing in the papers. I got 'em all -- even N.Y. papers. Which shows you how the U.S. Govt. controls our so-called "freedom of the press!" And how quickly they shut up, and drop an "iron curtain" around anyone or anything connected with UFO's. Why, I wonder? Be careful there, you + Rick both. These race riots are deadly -- and remember, you are in "Electra." Sure, I have protection over you -- but you wouldn't jump off a high building to test it, would you. Don't tempt Fate! Your school subjects sound interesting. You'll do better in French than I did -- I flunked it. Algebra? $2+2=5$. That's my math. Fortunately, honey, you + Rick have academic brains yo're pappy ain't got. Do sump'n with those brains! Hm?? Love, Dad. 08/02/2025 14:51 === Page 56 of 140 Wednesday August 18, 1965 Editor Philadelphia Daily News Dear Sir: Here is an interesting item, if you would like to print it. . . . In your story "Blonde Gets Black Eye As 'Thing' Attacks Car", in your paper 8/17/65, the mother of the girl who was attacked. . . and they were both in the car during the attack by the 7-foot, 400 lb. "monster". . . has the name of Rose Owens (I refer you to the clipping.) The girl who was attacked, then, was named Owens before her marriage. A strange coincidence. The Wednesday previously I appeared on The Jack McKinny Show, Station WCAU, here in Philadelphia, and Mr. McKinny was kind enough to read a 3-page letter, or message, given to me by the UFO intelligences to pass on to the American people. So what? What is the coincidence? My name is Ted Owens, and "The Rain Maker." Why not ask your readers if they would like to read this strange message from the UFO's? I will enclose a copy then, and if readers contact your paper, asking for it, if you wish you can print it. I offered it to the Bulletin for printing, but they have evidently decided not to do so, for whatever reasons. The "monster" in your story, above, could be connected with the UFO's. . . note that the womens' car stalled, which is an a usual occurrence when a UFO is near. Kills the power. Owens === Page 57 of 140 8/18/65 p2 (Exact copy of story which appeared in The Philadelphia Daily News, 8/17/65) "BLONDE GETS BLACK EYE AS 'THING' ATTACKS CAR" Monroe, Michigan (UPI) What weighs more than 400 pounds, smells moldy, growls like a mad dog, and dislikes automobiles? Answer X - The Monroe County Monster. That was the latest on the "thing" that has been sighted here and there in Monroe County during the past two months by at least 16 persons, including Christine Van Acker, 17-year old blonde. Miss Van Acker, who goes to a beautician school here, has a black eye she said was inflicted by the monster Friday night. State police were checking her story and patrolling the area at night northeast of this southern Michigan City. Miss Van Acker gave this story of the encounter: "I was driving mother, Mrs. Rose Owens, home. Suddenly there was this bump and a hairy arm grabbed me by the hair. It wasn't human or anything. I tried to go faster but the car stalled." The girl fainted. Mrs. Owens, who jumped out of the car and ran for help, described the ordeal like this: "The first I knew there was this bang and an arm came through the window.; Christine yelled, 'Mommy, help me! Oh my God, help!' "I told her to get the car going...but it stalled. The monster had his paw entwined in her hair and kept banging her head on the side of the car. I decided the best thing to do was go for help." "When I got back with other people, Christine was semi-conscious, and the monster was gone." "The monster was at least seven feet tall, weighed about 400 pounds, and it had a long reach. It was all covered with black, bristly hair, towards the end of the hair it was silver. You couldn't see its face, there was so much hair." "And it growled. It had a real growl, and definitely it was not a bear." Christine said she was sure it was not a bear "because bears have fur and this thing had prickly hair like thorns" She also said she was sure it was not a prankster "because nobody human would do anything like that." The monster sightings have occurred in Frenchtown and Ashe townships within the last 60 days. One man reported the monster climbed onto his car, and thumped on the roof and fenders before disappearing into the woods. A woman reported she saw the monster and it smelled moldy. Etc. === Page 58 of 140 Copy - Lonnie + Rick Thursday, August 19, 1965 Mr. George Eastwood, Inventions NASA Dear George: The Gemini weather trouble...complete with lightning...guess who? You might warn, George, Nasa that this is no time to be sending up a Gemini crew. Consider the number of quick catastrophes the U.S. has had lately: Missile silo explosion. Los Angeles race riots. Bomber that flew the wrong way in Viet Nam and bombed our new Military Headquarters, in an allied village. Loss of face in the world from backing down from the Russians "no pay" in the U.N. (A geo-political tragedy.) ..........all within the past few weeks. Any gambler will tell you, quit gambling when you hit a bad streak, or losing streak, or things are going against you. That is not the time to pull out a new bankroll in the game. And that is what Nasa is doing right now. If anything goes wrong with this Gemini shoot, it will just add to the recent string of catastrophes. My advice, and 10¢, will buy a cup of coffee, George. But there it is, for what it is worth. Ted Owens - P K Man - The Rain Maker 1114 Spruce, #33 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Friday morning, at 9 PM, Dave, a psychologist where I work, asked, "Well, ESP man, what's your prediction about the Gemini shot at noon today?" (Friday) I told him, "I'll bet you $10 to $1, ten to one odds, that the Gemini shot will fail." - Came noon, and lightning (mine) did the shot in. They tried again today, idiots! Read my letter I sent them on Thursday above. UFO's told me what to say. === Page 59 of 140 Copy - Rick Thursday, August 19, 1965 Editor, The Philadelphia Bulletin Newspaper 30th and Market Phila., Pa. Dear Sir: Enclosed find a letter from my son, addressed to you and the Bulletin. He didn't know what the name of the people were, or the correct name of the paper. Since I brought practically all of the last six weeks of rain into Philadelphia...and the only thanks I got was from a 16 year-old boy, in a letter to Station WCAU...I thought it only fitting that you see my son's letter, and perhaps publish it in your letters column as an answer to my detractors' letters of attack, which my son refers to. My boy knows what he is talking about...for he has seen daddy perform some incredible feats in the weather-control line. I am proud of him for defending me, at any rate. That's my boy. Sincerely, Ted Owens, "The Rain Maker", 1114 Spruce, Phila., Pa. === Page 60 of 140 8-19-65 p2 (Letter from Rick Owens, 14-year old son of P K Man, "The Rain Maker" (Ted Owens) as sent to The Bulletin from Inglewood, California.) "Dear People of the Bulletin: "A few days ago you had some write-ups on the "Rain Maker." Claiming he was a "phony." I am his son, Rick Owens, and I know that out of all his work with rainmaking, he has missed only once, and he has worked a thousand times and produced record storms for that particular city, and for proof he'll be very glad to show you his "newspaper clippings" about it, which gives definite proof. I wish you would print just this small paragraph on what I'm going to say. "Truth About Rain Maker!" A new era, whether people like it or not, has been discovered. You can shut this fear out, if you like, but someday somebody will have to discover it. H. T. Owens, the Rain Maker, is a genius, and he could have become a scientist. Right now he is trying to help bring out this new discovery that is far advanced than just Indian Rainmaking. In a recent clipping a man who was called Barry Rosenburg called him a phony, but this Rosenburg hasn't seen all of the things, thousands of things, he has done in a lot of years, and so had no right to jump to his own ignorant conclusions. Dr. Rhine will state Owens power - Owens's ESP. H. T. Owens personally worked under Rhine. I admit $10,000 is a lot to ask, and disagree that he should ask this much, but think what we could do with a man with his powers. Just think before you lynch him up. Rick Owens c/o Shannon 505 S. Osage, #3 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania === Page 61 of 140 Copy Friday August 20, 1965 President Johnson. Dear Mr. President: There is a method by which genuine safety can be obtained from having a nuclear war. That is, a nuclear war will not happen...because a method can be applied so that it will not. Five nations will be fully and completely armed with nuclear weapons: AMERICA (Already are) RUSSIA (Already are) AUSTRALIA (U.S. to furnish) INDIA (U.S. to furnish) WEST GERMANY (U.S. to furnish) (Reason for U.S. to furnish nuclear missiles and ways to shoot them...because we couldn't trust Russia to correctly arm another country for this plan.) Rules: (a) No other nation or country will be allowed to have any nuclear weapons, and if they try they will immediately be attacked by the Big Five. (b) Should one of the Big Five use nuclear weapons on another of the Big Five... then the remaining three Nations of the Big Five will destroy the outlaw aggressor Nation entirely. This plan was given to me by intelligence from UFO's. Respectfully, Ted Owens, PK Man, 1114 Spruce, Philadelphia, Pa. === Page 62 of 140 22 Copy - Lorne & Rick Friday August 20, 1965 President Johnson. Dear Mr. President: There is a method by which genuine safety can be obtained from having a nuclear war. That is, a nuclear war will not happen...because a method can be applied so that it will not. Five nations will be fully and completely armed with nuclear weapons: AMERICA (Already are) RUSSIA (Already are) AUSTRALIA (U.S. to furnish) INDIA (U.S. to furnish) WEST GERMANY (U.S. to furnish) (Reason for U.S. to furnish nuclear missiles and ways to shoot them...because we couldn't trust Russia to correctly arm another country for this plan.) Rules: (a) No other nation or country will be allowed to have any nuclear weapons, and if they try they will immediately be attacked by the Big Five. (b) Should one of the Big Five use nuclear weapons on another of the Big Five... then the remaining three Nations of the Big Five will destroy the outlaw aggressor Nation entirely. This plan was given to me by intelligence from UFO's. Respectfully, Ted Owens, P K Man, 1114 Spruce, Philadelphia, Pa. === Page 63 of 140 Copy - Lonnie & Rick Monday August 23, 1965 Dear President Johnson: The UFO's (see previous letters) have asked me to pass on this intelligence to you: They caused the power-failure of Gemini-5, of course. Then they could have brought the craft down...and whether the astronauts would have survived is most debatable. Instead, they did something you, personally, could best understand. Politics. Live and let live. You help them, they help you. They turned the power back on. Check with your experts, they tell me to tell you...there is no way that the power could have been restored, as things stood Sunday...unless they, the UFO's had intervened. They have no wish to kill astronauts...to wreck our vehicles...to make us lose face in the world. Their only wish has been expressed to you before, by me, in a long letter. They urge you to consider this, and to contact me here in Philadelphia, as their representative...therefore in a friendly manner...before this coming Sunday...or better still...before this coming Saturday. Respectfully, Ted Owens, P K Man - 1114 Spruce, #33 Philadelphia, Pa. WA 5-3909 (Mon.-Fri., 9-4:15) === Page 64 of 140 Copy - Lorrie & Rick Tuesday August 24, 1965 Mr. George Clark, CIA Dear George: This is a general letter to the U.S. Government. Since I have received no affidavits from anyone to the effect that I have called any ESP shots in advance; since I have received no communications from any branch of the Government (and I have been soliciting them for a year now); since it is evident that my own Government does not believe that I have the ability to do the things which I have been endeavoring (and have, in fact, been proving) to do - and I think that I have been fantastically successful.......... then it is obvious that the U.S. Government will not lift a finger to utilize my strange powers, or aid myself and my family. My family and I have undergone many hardships this past year, in an effort to prove to this Government that my "PK" system can attack ships, subs, missile silos, control weather, attack rocket-shots, attack planes, and harass military operations. And affect people, too. Oddly, my own bookkeeping shows tremendous success..........beyond any Government's wildest dreams..........were they to recognize and utilize this strange power for their own. But the U.S. Government is peculiar in that it does not seem to care about strange powers. Therefore, if the U.S. Government does not believe me, and does not care to hire me, or utilize my powers..........then the U.S. Government will not mind at all if I take my ESP gifts to some other nation or country. I do not care to submit my family and myself to another year of hardship, for nothing. And with my gifts, I should not have to. Furthermore, I yearn to join a group of scientists who can recognize my gifts and form a structure or framework that I can work within. I.e., when one is a creative artist, or musician..........one does not wish to dig coal in mines. And if one is a master of a branch of ESP, no matter what the causal factor..........he wants to work actively in that field, no other. My present job ends this week, or next week at the latest. Then I am free to spend weeks looking for another..........unless I can find a country interested in my ESP gifts. This being the case, perhaps I can offer my family more security and happiness as well as myself. And that is just what I am going to try to do. I give up on the U.S. Government's responding to my year-long appeal to respond. Respectfully, Ted Owens PK Man - "The Rain Maker" 1114 Spruce St., #33 Phila., Pa. WA 5-3909 07/25/2025 15:43 === Page 65 of 140 August 25, 1965 Dear Lornie and Rick: Ever almost get hit by a City Bus...in the middle of a sidewalk? I did, last night. And it was no "figment of my imagination." Had quit work, and turned down a narrow side-street, walking towards big Market Street. Had gone 1/3 of a block when suddenly I looked up and there, turning at a complete angle to the street, driving up onto the sidewalk, about 5-6 feet from me and moving fast, was a City Bus. Pointed right at me. I jumped...sideways. It missed me and moved on down back onto the street and kept going. Just the driver alone in the bus. I laughed at the incongruity of a City Bus driver being that poor a driver, to go up onto a sidewalk and down again into the street. Then I walked to the Congress Hotel and checked for mail. Then I walked a half-block from the Congress and paused at another tiny side-street. When the light was green I stepped down into the street. Suddenly a big black Lincoln Continental, with two men in front and one man in back, gunned its motor and did a speed-acceleration hard-left around the corner and I leaped back for my life, again. (That made twice in a half-hour's time.) The Continental almost got a colored man just behind me, too, and he yelled, "You sons of bitches...you could of killed us!" He and I cussed the Continental driver quite thoroughly as we walked down the sidewalk. Take the two things...City Bus comes onto sidewalk, pointed at me...and two near-misses within a half-hour...and you have a peculiar series of events, which makes you think. Just before leaving work (before the City Bus) I had typed a message to the U.S. Government that I intend to take my PK findings and research to another nation, another government...which will accept me and work with me in cooperation. Copy enclosed. Another thing. We are not getting our mail at all. It's all screwed up. When I told you an "iron curtain" had been dropped around me, I wasn't kidding, kids. Whatever and whoever it is. Just a note to let you know some of the action. Funny I haven't heard from you re my success with the Gemini shot and Seallab cooperative. I got my hurricane that I've been working for, but there was nothing in the papers until the thing got way up almost to Canada. Pretty slippy. Have sent out 1,000 hurricane-hunter groups, not units. Write, you laggards. Love and kisses, [Hand-drawn lightning bolt symbol] === Page 66 of 140 1 Lorne + Rick Wednesday, August 25, 1965 Mr. George Clark, CIA Dear George: Catastrophe after catastrophe.......... Gemini 5 could have been one...should have been...but the UFO's spared it...so far. Then the Hong Kong plane, losing more Marines than what we lost last week in Viet Nam fighting the Cong, if the newspapers are correct with their figures. Then the X-19 crash today. Then the OSO Flying Laboratory at Cape Kennedy today, kaput. How fast can catastrophes come? And these are all "Si" signs, George...laugh if you like. Can the Government explain how they occurred? Only when I am accepted by the U.S. Government, and hired according to their instructions, will catastrophes cease...and the U.S. start winning and getting ahead in every direction. As I told you...it is far worse to have the saucer intelligences against us, than it would be Russia and China combined. Incidentally...where President Johnson went to church last Sunday, the power failed and the electric organ would not play. Then the little girl fainted next to Johnson yesterday. These are signs too, George. It means that the Si's have President Johnson zeroed in now, wherever he goes. Enough said. I don't, George. They do. And one last thought...whoever is blocking me from being accepted by the U.S. Government is actually causing these Si catastrophes. You had better believe it! Sincerely, Ted Owens P K Man 1114 Spruce St., #33 Phila., Pa. === Page 67 of 140 Thursday, 8/26/65 Copy Lonnie + Rich The Editor Philadelphia Bulletin Dear Sir: I apologize for my former rude manners...in offering two inches of rain to Philadelphia in exchange for another story. The only excuse that I have is...that the story was supposed to perhaps find someone that would help me break the East Coast drought, completely, at no fee. Which, I think, is big of me, even if no one else does. Anyway, let's let bygones be bygones, eh? Let me go at this problem another way. I am going to give Philly some real rain within the next week-10 days. That rain last Sunday was not mine...and it was only 7/10 of an inch...just dew, really. My rain is rain - and you can count on 2-4 inches, at the least. I will not ask anything for it. It will be to make up for my bad manners in trying to bribe you with rain. You know, it is hard for me to understand...as long as I would make rain with chemicals, that is all right. Oh, with parapsychology, that is all right...but when I make rain by communicating with something...that is wrong... Why? As long as Philadelphia gets the rain! Incidentally, I nearly fell off my chair laughing this evening...to read about the New York officials who returned to New York, not having seen that wonderful rain-making invention in California...because it blew a fuse or short-circuited, or something. Ha ha ha. You will note that my storms do not blow fuses or short-circuit. Hoping we still are friends, I remain Sincerely Ted Owens "The Rain Maker" 07/25/2025 15:43 === Page 68 of 140 Lornie + Rick Friday, August 27, 1965 Today Zachow, the terrific scientist, called. He said that during the week he had confirmed the reality of my work..and the entities that influenced my work, and that helped to produce results. He had, among other things, consulted one of the great "sensitives" of the U.S., who had confirmed the reality of the Si's; that they come from far away from Earth; are a different type of "si" completely than any other known heretofore. Also the "sensitive" was struck, and almost over-powered with, a tremendous fear, relating to these entities (which are non-breathing.) The sensitive sensed a tremendous "animal force" about them. (The Michigan monster...?) Zachow said definitely that I am producing all of the phenomena that has been produced this past year. He said that it is own energy doing it, but that the Si's use me as a pin-pointing, or locating, instrument, and they help me with their own power. He said that our very conversation this minute would be recorded by them instantly... either by machine or by mind...he doesn't know how they do it. Z disagrees with me on one point..that if I were to die, then these entities would lose their human contact with the earth-people. He says that I am nothing to them... that they "don't give a tinker's dam" about me...and if they did, then I wouldn't be starving and we wouldn't have been stripped of all our things. Z recommends I deliver a mandate to them...either produce a way out of my dilemma in the next week, or I should "resign" as their agent. Then he advises me to quit this completely; put it out of my mind, and go back to ordinary pursuits. Such as knife-throwing. I made a point of asking Z if he thought all of the year's happenings were a "figment of my imagination" as George Clark suggested. He said certainly not; that he had ascertained definitely that I had produced the phenomena, something few humans alive could do - that I had powers far greater in scope than perhaps anyone on earth. But that I was using these powers wrong..destructively. He realizes the ultimate aim of mine...to use these powers to help correct the present ills of this earth...but he states that there seems to be something wrong in the way the Si's are going about it. He added he might be wrong in this, but he feels that way about it. He stated I was a "sending and receiving" radio station for the Si's. He stated that their work, rather than being in the electro-magnetic field... had something to do with the Doppler effect (whatever that is) or laser work of some kind. Within the hour, I had my reply for Arnold from the Si's, attached. === Page 69 of 140 8-27-65 p2 Friday August 27, 1965 Dear Arnold: The Si's wish me to point out to you that they were bringing me along beautifully in Fort Worth, Texas...that I was in fact healing people given up otherwise as hopeless by dentists and the medical fraternity...plus many other things along the lines of auto-hyp, raising the will to live in humans, etc. They were busily teaching me this advanced, far advanced, system of using "something past the mind" - under an umbrella of light-waking-hyp...when my fellow humans tore the entire structure apart. They point out that had people...not them...left me alone...I would have prospered, now living quite happily, and making great strides in the field of helping fellow humans...using their powers constructively. But that people, here on earth, tore down the help they were giving me. They point out that they have no money; they do not use it, or have use for it. What they have is power, and they have given me that...which is all that they have to give. They point out that they have faithfully helped me in every single experiment I have produced, in order to convince my government to take me under its wing, protect me and family, so that then the si's and I can "work around the world" with good, constructive, "white" PK phenomena...healing or putting into balance the present unbalanced weather condition, world-wide; healing, or putting into balance the present unbalanced mental and spiritual condition of the world; etc. They point out that for me to give them a week to bring me money or wealth etc., is ridiculous...because even now my own people are trying to see to it that I am kept in a broke and stripped condition. They point out that my mail and letters may be blocked from coming to me; (I already know that all telephone calls from the radio shows were blocked from me...Mr. Leipziger, at the Congress Hotel, told me. I had dozens of phone calls from people who were interested in me. Leipziger cooly told them I had "checked out!") If the government wishes to keep me broke, that is easy and simple. Any time I get a job a government man unobtrusively goes to see my boss, flashes his credentials...says "Now, actually this man is not a criminal, but will you tell me all you know about him?" Soon I am let go by the boss. This sort of thing is not conducive to longevity in the business world. They point out that they have been trying to help me sustain myself and family, by being hired to break the drought...and they almost succeeded..with the newspaper write-up and the radio shows. They point out, Arnold, that possibly there is an evil force of entities...not themselves...at this point trying to block them, and doing a good job of blocking me. They reiterate that they are only here to help us, humans, restore balance and sanity to an unbalanced and insane world, as it stands today. There it is, Arnold, their rebuttal. It was a pleasure talking to you today. I enjoy your advice, and your conversations, and your wisdom. We do have rapport. And I am still horrified that you went on the defensive when I asked you to watch my fingertips. When I am signalling the Si's, (I have many methods) I "sense" lightning flowing from my fingertips into the skies...and I wondered if you would sense the lightning. Sincerely Ted 08/02/2025 14:51 === Page 70 of 140 8-27-65 p3 Oh, Arnold...had to reopen my letter to insert this.... The Si's also point out that Moses, whom they claim to have helped, received their messages...and they guided him. He was a poor sheep herder, and had nothing, just like me. He was given an impossible task...just like me...and he couldn't believe that anybody would listen to him...just like me. "My people will not listen to me or believe me," he told the Bush. "And certainly the Pharaoh will not believe me or pay attention when I ask him to release my people." But the Voice in the Bush gave him instructions and reassured him that everything would work out all right...that he would be listened to, eventually...and that the Pharaoh, with the help of God...would be forced to release his people. On this basis he proceeded...as I have proceeded...except that instead of a Voice from a Bush, it's been a different source, seemingly. Then Moses, with the "magic" staff, proceeded to wreak devastation upon the Egyptians, when they would not listen to him. Sickness over the land. Fouled-up water. Insects swarming all over everything. And so on, ending with the death of poor, innocent babies. And the final destruction of the Egyptian army. That was about as rough as you can get. And it was done for a good purpose, we can now say, with "20-20 hindsight." But at that time Moses own people got very mad at him...because his "destructiveness" was causing the Egyptians to put worse pressure on them. They begged Moses to stop, and forget the whole thing. They would just go on, as always, being slaves. But Moses...one, poor, man...heeded God's voice and orders...and carried on. So that this, later, was reckoned a very great "good" thing in the Bible. It is holy, as a matter of fact. Well, I have no illusions that God is talking to me, or guiding me...I know darn well, as a matter of fact, that it is UFO's, because I have the proof of it. And Arnold, based on how rough the early Christians were...to burn away the dross from man's soul in order to leave the gold...the present activity is definitely not out of line. In early Bible days, remember, Christian bands that roamed and slaughtered entire tribes...killing women and children? The Si's and I aren't that rough. All that they have done is try and get the ear of this government...by tornados, hurricanes, affecting subs, rockets, planes, etc., to show this government what power they have...but from the start they have pointed out that they want only to use their great powers to help this country; most of all this entire world. And all they want for starters is for this country to start helping them help the world. Arnold, if they wanted to be mean, or were vicious, they could have done far, far more destruction and wreaked far far much more havoc, than they have. They have just done a little, to show their power. Which has the greatest intelligence, Arnold...President Johnson and McNamara and Rusk and the rest of the advisors...or the Si's? Which has the greatest ability to see ahead in time? You know the answer. Furthermore, the course that we are steering now, in our own government, is definitely leading to mass destruction. What worse could the Si's do to us? They are desperately trying to halt things! === Page 71 of 140 8-27-65 p4 They also point out that, as for my being poor...without funds, car, TV, house, etc. Moses was just a sheep-herder. The Disciples had nothing but the clothes on their backs. Others that were guided by a Greater Intelligence...no matter what the name... were poor people. Jesus, to name one. They do put up a strong argument, Arnold. And the feeling that I receive, carried with their intelligence, is a good feeling...a constructive, kindly, loving feeling. I am a damn good sensitive myself, Arnold. I have encountered the "bad" controls... === Page 72 of 140 Sat. 8/28/65 Dear Lonnie: I enjoyed hearing from you. You definitely are not getting all my letters. Listen -- any letter I mail to "Lonnie & Rick" means both of you read that letter. Got it? Do not hold any of my letters back from Rick. The enclosed copies of letters reveal the current action, pretty much. Send back the signed affidavit from Dave Richman. As usual I had prepared my "homework" for Gemini-5 before last Thursday -- to get fire, human error, lightning, power-failure, ground-controls, etc. Got just about all of it! Stopped the shot. You know my routine pretty well. The "game" is to harass the shoot without killing the astronauts. I've done well. The idiots then shot up OSO, Flying Laboratory (remember the OGO I got last year?) -- and it blew up. They never learn. Martha encloses letter. Be good, and mind Pat. Love and kisses, honey -- Dad. 08/02/2025 14:51 === Page 73 of 140 Lornie and Rick August 31, 1965...Tuesday Mr. Eastwood, Inventions, NASA. Dear Mr. Eastwood: Now that the excitement is all over, I would like to respectfully point out that my PK work on Gemini 5 was a classic of what PK effects do. As you well know, if you have read my correspondence this past year, my objectives with PK were: Lightning strikes. Storms. Power failure. Human error. Mechanical malfunction. Communications disruption between ground controls and craft. Electromagnetic interference. I would say that I obtained 80% of my goal. And not the least important..."built in" the PK is the intelligence that the astronauts are not killed or injured in the flight. This was successful. Main purpose, of course, was to show the U.S. Government, as usual, what the "PK" can do with regard to rockets and missiles. Enclosed is a signed prediction that I made, with full confidence, the Thursday morning before the initial Gemini-5 shoot, to a brightly-intelligent college man with a degree, where I work, at Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority. I gave him, when he asked me about the Gemini-5 shot, 10-1 odds against success of the shoot. Of course, this was the first, or Thursday, shoot. We did not know then there would be another attempt. My odds were correct. I further told him that the same odds should apply during the following week. And, of course, this was borne out. Even borne out further when the OSO blew up at third stage. I have applied with another, foreign government, to work at their ESP center. Should this go through, I will be able to fulfill my goal of applying PK around the world, in a constructive way. At any event, at some time in the near future I intend to take down, or disarm, the areas that I have activated with PK in order to demonstrate its working to the U.S. Government (Electro, Electra, etc.) The East Coast drought will continue, and nothing man can do will alleviate it. I can end it, however. But that is not NASA's story. Respectfully, Ted Owens, PK Man. 08/02/2025 14:51 === Page 74 of 140 8/31/65 P2 August 31, 1965...Tuesday COPY Mr. Eastwood, Inventions, NASA, August 26, 1965 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN On Thursday morning, August 19 (last week) 1965, at lunch, Ted Owens predicted to me, (when asked about the success of the Gemini-5 shot to go off later at Cape Kennedy) that the odds, according to him, Owens, were 10-1 against the success of the shot. He stated that if he had the money he would be willing to bet $10 against my $1 that the shot would not be a success...but that, because he is only making $50 a week, he cannot gamble now with money. Mr. Owens also implied that similar odds mitigated against a successful shot for the coming weeks. /S/ David Richman Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority 304 Arch Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Note: Mr. Eastwood...I would have won my bet, since there were two objectives to the shoot, on the second attempt: (1) Link-up with REP, (2) 8 full days of flight. The REP contact was not made. Betsy, the Hurricane (also mine) forestalled the 8 days, and brought it down short of full time. I would have won the bet anyway, without that, because I was betting on the Thursday shoot at the time. === Page 75 of 140 Copy - Lornie & Rick Tuesday, August 31, 1965 Mr. Dunn, Chief U.S. Weather Bureau Hurricane Center Miami, Florida Dear Mr. Dunn: You and I are going to have some fun this hurricane season. I am the man who wrote you in 1964. I successfully ran three hurricanes across the Cape Kennedy area...and also managed to direct one to the Michoud Space Complex in Louisiana. Last year I discovered a method of making hurricanes (have sent out 1,000 hurricane-hunted groups, of PK (psychokinesis) several months ago...) then guiding them; and bringing them to life after they die. (Brought 2 back to life last year) Last year I managed to make the hurricane hook left into Florida; a first in a century, the papers said. Also Cleo followed my "PK" map. And one other...I forget offhand now, not having my books at hand. Nevertheless, let us have a game...Dunn versus P K Man. I am producing hurricanes and typhoons. But I am interested only in the hurricanes, insofar as I can guide them to target-area...Daytona Beach to Miami...which area is named "Electro." You and the U.S. Govt. try to stop them...and I will bring them in. It will be very interesting. I was going to bring them up the East Coast in order to bring rain to New York... but was rejected by everyone when I offered to break the East Coast drought...so now I am going to do this. After the hurricanes either hit the target, Electro... or get away from me completely (only one did last year..the rest were hits) then I will take them off to the right as soon as they draw near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and send them off to sea. Do not take this lightly. I warn you most seriously. You would be well advised to contact Central Intelligence Agency and NASA for copies of my file, before you pass this letter off as a "crank" letter. And, as I wrote you last year, would greatly appreciate it if you would name one hurricane after my daughter Lornie...Hurricane Lornie. Respectfully, PK Man Ted Owens (PK Man) 111 Spruce, #33 Philadelphia, Pa. P.S. Even "seeding" will not stop them, because I have done a little something with the PK to beat seeding. 07/25/2025 15:43 === Page 76 of 140 9-1-1965 P1 "17" 29 hrs. 12 / 350 24 110 108 FORCE-FIELDS / $\oplus$ SO HELP FORCE FIELD-!!! STOP!!! CAPE It followed this line - the wrong line. The line of the square. If it there don't use 3rd frame i+z = then path to follow!! 9/1/65 FLA Miami (Where it went wrong) 9/3 9/2 9/3 Tonight I put a light - same as over me - high over Cape K. - for Betsy to "see" and aim toward. She must swing left, West. It could reach Cape K. by Sat. nite, tomorrow nite!! Will send myself tonite to guide Betsy West, left!! (Also to get power from her.) BETSY 8/29 08/02/2025 14:51 === Page 77 of 140 9-1-65 P2 9-1-65- P2 Storm Brews In Atlantic SAN JUAN, P. R., Aug. 27 (UPI). - Tropical storm Betsy formed off the northeast coast of South America with 45-mile-an-hour winds late Friday, the first tropical twister to threat-en the Western Hemisphere this season. The San Juan Weather Bureau's advisory located Betsy's center 200 miles southeast of the island of Barbados. It was moving in a northwest direction at about 16 miles per hour. The Weather Bureau said Betsy's highest winds were about 45 miles per hour in a band of squalls extending circle to the north of the center. UNITED STATES FINAL DESCENT COMPLETED 120TH ORBIT 8/29 GEMINI 5 BLASTED OFF AUGUST 21 ST AT 10:00 A.M. EDT. Charleston CAPE HATTERAS Gulf of Mexico Jacksonville KENNEDY 655 MILES 8:52 A.M. EDT AT 9000 FT AN 84.2-FT-DIAMETER MAIN CHUTE OPENED Palm Beach 9/3 HELICOPTER TOUCHDOWN ON CARRIER AT 10:25 A.M. EDT Miami GRAND BAHAMA ABACO ISLAND ASTRONAUTS FROM GEMINI 5 PICKED UP BY HELICOPTER AT 9:58 A.M. EDT ANDROS ISLAND Nassau ELEUTHERA ISLAND Atlantic Ocean BAHAMAS CAT ISLAND Good!! OK! 9/3 SPLASHDOWN AT 8:56 A.M. EDT. COMPLETED A 3,338,200-MILE ORBITAL FLIGHT IN SPACE IN 7 DAYS 22 HRS. 55 MIN. GREAT EXUMA ISLAND SAN SALVADOR LONG IS. "B" Guantanamo GREAT INAGUA CUBA TROPICAL STORM BETSY-BECAME HURRICANE 9 HRS. AFTER SPLASHDOWN OF GEMINI 5 Hurricane Betsy Puffs in Atlantic NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, AUGUST 29, STORM CROSSING CARIBBEAN AREA Astronauts Observe Course - Eye Poorly Defined the upper atmosphere were "not favorable for intensification." "Also the eastern Caribbean is a notoriously unfavorable location for the development of tropical storms or the intensification of existing storms," he added. The 1965 hurricane season got off to a start with the first storm, called Anna, sighted only Monday north of Bermuda. It was born in the "graveyard of Hurricanes" and soon died in the Atlantic without threatening the mainland. Betsy Winds At 80 MPH MIAMI, Fla., Aug. 29 (AP). - Tropical storm Betsy slowed down Sunday in her forward speed and grew into a full fledged hurricane with winds up to 80 miles an hour. The Miami Weather Bureau said in a 6 P. M. EDT advisory that the center was located MIAMI (UPI). - Hurricane Betsy, nourished by the warmth of the tropical Atlantic, intensified today while churning harmlesslessly across the open ocean. Betsy became the second hurricane of the season yesterday, lashing the Leeward and Virgin Islands with heavy rain and playing the role of a slight spoiler in the U. S. space program. The storm forced astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad to cut their record-breaking space voyage one orbit short. EARLY TODAY Betsy was centered some 300 miles north-northeast of San Juan, P. R., and was moving north-northeast at 12 miles an hour. It carried winds of 80 M.P.H. at its center. Forecaster Raymond Kraft said Betsy "will gradually increase in intensity, but it is no immediate threat to any land area." ?? A decision is expected later today whether attempts will be made to seed the hurricane with silver iodide to force it to disgorge its moisture and weaken it. Illinois Damage Inspected CHICAGO, Aug. 28 (AP) - Northeastern Illinois may be declared a disaster area because of the storm Thursday night and early Friday that caused an estimated $5 million S...ales annual-in redperales waiting for their return." these men and those who are mankind's future, we greet Bonn West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard cabled congratulations to the astronauts and to President Johnson. Heinz Kaminsky, director of the Bochum observatory in West Germany, said of the The people of this region have been unsuccessful. began to enforce laws against killing and other acts. The Forestal 08/02/2025 14:51 === Page 78 of 140 9-1-65 p3 "C" # Betsy's Winds Abate, Seeding Today in Doubt From Our Wire Services MIAMI, Fla., Aug. 31.-- Hurricane Betsy dissipated Tuesday night without any help from weathermen, cutting down chances that she would be seeded Wednesday. Her highest winds dropped from 85 to 65 miles an hour, and she was demoted to a tropical storm. BETSY UNDECIDED Weathermen had been waiting for the storm to move forward and pick up higher winds, conditions which would improve the chances of success for the seeding experiment, the largest yet undertaken. But for more than a day and a half the storm has thrashed around about 270 miles north of San Juan, P.R., without deciding which direction to go. Fifteen planes stood ready in Puerto Rico to drop silver iodide crystals into her moisture-laden winds if the signal were given. 'A WEAK STORM' But late Tuesday night the final decision had not been made, according to Dr. Cecil Gentry, head of the Hurricane Research Laboratory, who was in Puerto Rico. "It's a weak storm and conditions at this time do not lead to it intensifying," said Miami hurricane forecaster Raymond Kraft. "Simply, there's more air going in and out, and the circulation is falling apart." The planes would spread the crystals through the hurricane's rainbands close to the center "eye" at levels ranging from 1000 to 40,000 feet every two hours. SELF-DESTRUCTION If the experiments succeeded fully, Hurricane Betsy would be fooled into cooling itself off and thus destroying itself. Stalled far from land, Betsy was in an ideal position for the undertaking. Scientists have been working on limited scale seeding experiments for nearly 20 years. Inquirer Staff Map Map shows original Gemini 5 splashdown site and new one made necessary by storm. UNITED STATES Cape Hatteras BERMUDA Orbit 120 3 CAPE KENNEDY SPLASHDOWN 7 Days 22 Hrs. 56 Mins. Orbit 121 Gulf of Mexico BAHAMAS Havana MEXICO CUBA PUERTO RICO DOMINICAN REPUBLIC BETSY JAMAICA HAITI HONDURAS 0 500 Miles Caribbean Sea TROPICAL STORM BETSY cut Gemini 5 flight from 121 to 120 orbits. NEW GEMINI 5 LANDING AREA ORIGINAL LANDING AREA GEMINI 5 Atlantic Ocean PUERTO RICO GUADELOUPE MARTINIQUE BARBADOS 8/29 8/29 Atlantic Ocean Caribbean Sea BETSY Aug. 29 === Page 79 of 140 Hurricane's Winds Rising # Betsy Heading for Bahamas MIAMI, Fla., Sept. 1 (AP). -- Hurricane Betsy, suddenly a mighty tempest, whipped its peak winds up to 100 miles an hour Wednesday night and bore down on the Bahamas Islands. American space personnel on Grand Turk and Mayaguana Islands battened down under the Air Force's No. 1 alert. (But the Weather Bureau said Betsy probably would not hit the multimillion-dollar tracking stations with its worst punch.) Growing stronger on the warm, blue waters of the tropical Atlantic, Betsy turned slightly to the north after having moved to the west all day. The Weather Bureau said it expected an even more north-easterly track Thursday, easing the threat to the southern tip of the 750-mile Bahamas chain and heightening the threat for the populous islands in the center. Beyond Mayaguana -- whose tracking station was de-stroyed by hurricane Donna in 1960 and never rebuilt -- lay other islands in the Bahamas chain and the southeastern coast of the United States. A hurricane command post was established at Cape Kennedy. It put the 150-man missile tracking station at Eleuthera and the 35-man station on San Salvador on alert status No. 3, meaning winds of 35 m.p.h. or more are expected within 48 hours. The 300 men on Grand Bahamas Island were told to get ready for the possibility of 35-mile winds within 72 hours. Betsy's calm eye was about 750 miles east-southeast of Miami, Fla., and 170 miles east-northeast of Grand Turk. The hurricane was spinning toward the west at 8 m.p.h. and expected to continue that way at least until noon Thursday, when a more northwesterly turn was anticipated. Gordon Dunn, chief of the National Hurricane Center in Miami, said the storm posed a potential threat to the U. S. mainland if it continued on its westward course. "But I doubt that it could reach here for at least two days," he said. "It is not moving in perfectly straight lines," Dunn said, "but its net movement is almost due west." He said a slightly more northerly movement was expected Thursday. As Betsy picked up steam, scientists discarded a plan to bombard the storm with silver iodide crystals in an attempt to turn its fury into harmless rain. Its westward movement, they said, made the test risky. In 1949, a seeded storm split in two and one portion hit Savannah, Ga. Weathermen said the seeding was not responsible, but they haven't seeded a hurricane near land since then. | MILES | | | | |---|---|---|---| | 0 | 100 | 200 | 300 | 400 | BERMUDA HURRICANE BETSY BAHAMAS DOMINICAN REPUBLIC PUERTO RICO HAITI JAMAICA Inquirer Staff Map Symbol indicates position and broken line the course of Hurricane Betsy in the Atlantic. "D" # Betsy Gains Strength, Heads for Bahamas Miami, Sept. 1 -- (UPI) -- Hurricane Betsy rapidly gained intensity today on a course toward the Bahama Islands and forced cancellation of plans to chemically bombard the storm to weaken its force. More than a dozen planes had been scheduled to leave Puerto Rico this morning to attack the storm with silver iodide crystals, but they were grounded as Betsy gained strength after being downgraded during the night to a tropical storm. The storm was last located 200 miles east-northeast of Turks Island on the eastern tip of the Bahamas. Winds were 90 miles an hour. Betsy was centered near latitude 22.2 North, longitude 67.9 West. UNITED STATES 0 200 Miles BERMUDA Atlantic Ocean Miami BAHAMAS BETSY CUBA San Juan PUERTO RICO # Revitalized Betsy Nears Bahamas MIAMI (UPI). -- Hurricane Betsy rapidly gained destructive power today on a course toward the Bahama Islands and forced weather scientists to cancel plans to chemically bombard the storm to weaken its force. More than a dozen planes had been scheduled to leave Puerto Rico to attack the storm with cooling silver iodide crystals, but they were grounded as Betsy gained intensity after being downgraded during the night to a tropical storm. With bombardment, the scientists ran a risk of splitting the hurricane and making its fury worse. Forecasters expected it to gain speed rapidly and pick up more strength from a high pressure area off the Eastern Coast. "On its present course, Betsy bears no immediate danger to land." 08/02/2025 14:51 === Page 80 of 140 9-1-65 p 4 "E" ONE of the tonier bakeries in town is Toney's Bakery, located at the world-famous FARMERS MARKET, 3rd & Fairfax. FATHER Earl Toney has been baking for 48 years (he should be done by now) and he's spent the last 16 years at Fmrs. Mkt. Son Eddie moved into the business full-time five years ago. Eddie is the showman these days. He's a color artist and has the touch of a real professional when it comes to matching the cake icing to the color theme of a party. If you're going to paint the town red, for example, Eddie will prepare a cake to match. He does in the elementary grades and the remainder in junior and senior high schools after the term begins Sept. 13. He warned the conferees at an East Los Angeles College meeting that the short session enrollment could grow to 100,000 unless the bond issue is approved by voters. Factors Outlined Continuing classroom shortages, efforts to reduce class size in the first, second and third grades and the recent heavy equipment operators strike were factors in the increasing short sessions, the superintendent said. Last June, there were 26,231 elementary and 4,233 secondary students on abbreviated sessions, or a total of 30,464. the conference that public reaction to the bond proposal is welcomed. The final amount of the bonding will be set by the Board of Education in February, he said, after public hearings. First Since May, 1963 The bond issue election will be the first for the schools since successful passage of a $127.5 million issue in May, 1963. The proposed $15 million program would provide 2,151 classrooms, 25 new schools and sites for 12 schools, designed to keep pace with the annual 25,000 to 30,000 enrollment growth in the city system, second largest in the nation. One of the largest items in the bond program is $22,712,350 for rehabilitation of 45 FINGERPRINTED--cisco tax assessor, Donohue. He was 10 tax assessment S.F. Asse in Tax B Russell L. Wol. Coastline Residents Warned MIAMI (AP) -- Hurricane Betsy whirled relentlessly northwestward Friday night on a course aimed at the Carolina coast. The Weather Bureau said the small but dangerous hurricane posed a threat to Georgia and the Carolinas although her course might suddenly change. There was a better-than-even chance the storm might never touch land at all, the Weather Bureau said. But it asked coastline residents to watch for advisories on Betsy's progress. Bahamas Escape Betsy churned harmlessly past the Bahamas and was expected to pass 250 to 300 miles east of Jacksonville this afternoon. Then the problem will be which steering currents take charge -- ones that would carry the storm westward toward land or more northeasterly up the Atlantic, the Weather Bureau said. Friday night, Betsy, with top winds of 125 m.p.h., was about 500 miles southeast of Charleston, S.C., and heading toward it at 12 m.p.h. 'Hasn't Left Us' "We want to remind the people up there that Betsy hasn't left us yet," said forecaster Sam Pierce. "There always is a big element of unpredictability with hurricanes," he said. "But I'd say chances are better than 50-50 that it will not hit any part of the East Coast of the United States." Small craft owners south of Cape Hatteras were warned not to venture into the Atlantic Ocean because of gradual roughening of waves over the weekend. HURRICANE HALTS OFF FLORIDA; STILL THREAT MIAMI (AP) -- Hurricane Betsy whirled to a stop 350 miles off the Florida coast Saturday night without a hint as to where it would aim its sledge-hammer winds. "This is a large, severe hurricane and all interests along the southeast coast should keep in continuous touch with advisories and bulletins," the Weather Bureau told thousands of people worried about weekend outings. "Many beaches from the Carolinas to northeast Florida will be awash Sunday," the Weather Bureau said. "Boating, surf-fishing and swimming will be extremely hazardous, if not foolhardy." During the day Betsy had turned slightly northward away from the Carolina coast, raising hopes that it might escape Betsy's peak winds of 135 m.p.h. But then -- caught in opposing steering currents that equalized each other -- the storm stopped. The weather Bureau said nothing was in sight that might cause Betsy to resume forward movement until today. Miami Weather Bureau forecasters delayed from Please Turn to Pg. 3, Col. 4 9/4/65 08/02/2025 14:51 === Page 81 of 140 "F" It got Grand Turk! 9/3/65 "BRINGING BETSY IN" THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1965 Bahamas Spared Blow Temporarily Haha!! Good!!!! Erratic Betsy Puzzles Forecasters MIAMI, Fla., Sept. 3 (Friday). (AP)--Hurricane Betsy whipped itself into an intense and dangerous hurricane Tuesday, likely to worry residents of the Eastern Seaboard for another week. Changing directions daily, the small but powerful hurricane has refused to take a steady course since it was born in the Caribbean last week. VEERS TOWARD ATLANTIC Late Thursday it veered sharply away from the Bahamas toward the open Atlantic. At midnight EDT Betsy was centered near Latitude 24.4 north, Longitude 71.7 west, about 540 miles east of Miami, and was traveling toward the northwest at 8 miles an hour. Winds were reported up to 150 miles an hour. "I wouldn't want to take any bets on what it is going to do," said forecaster Raymond Kraft. 'COULD RUN FOR WEEK' "About the only consolation you have is when it gets level with your latitude, the chances are pretty slim it will turn back. It could run on for a week," he said. "It's going to be another two or three days before we have any firm idea on whether any part of the East Coast is going to be threatened." After that, if Betsy were to go inland, it would take three or more days to wear itself out. If Betsy takes a harmless course up the Atlantic, it would take three or more days to move far enough north to wilt in colder climates. GALES EXPECTED The Bahamas Weather Bureau said, despite the anticipated threat to thinly populated out-islands, it had not decided whether to issue warnings. "Right now, the most we expect is gales," said a forecaster. The 4000 persons on Cat Island and the 6000 on Eleuthera would be buffeted by sustained gales for several hours under the present forecast. But they would likely be spared hurricane-force winds, the Weather Bureau said. WRONG!! MILES 0 100 200 300 400 BERMUDA Atlantic Ocean $ heta$: 51° (FORCE FIELD) HURRICANE BETSY FLORIDA West Palm Beach Miami Key West Havana BAHAMAS Nassau TURKS IS. Caribbean Sea JAMAICA HAITI DOMINICAN REPUBLIC PUERTO RICO Inquirer Staff Map Map charts path of Hurricane Betsy as it whirls through the Atlantic on erratic course. === Page 82 of 140 9-1-65 "G" P5 # Betsy Whirls North Past Bahamas, Perils Georgia and Carolinas MIAMI, Fla., Sept. 4 (Saturday) (AP)---Hurricane Betsy whirled relentlessly northwestward Friday night on a course aimed at the Carolina coast. The Weather Bureau said the small but dangerous hurricane posed a threat to Georgia and the Carolinas, although noting that her course might suddenly change. There was a better than even chance the storm might never touch land at all, the Weather Bureau said. But it asked coastline residents to watch for advisories on Betsy's progress. Betsy churned harmlessly past the Bahamas and was expected to pass 250 to 300 miles east of Jacksonville, Fla., on Saturday afternoon. Then the problem will be which steering currents take charge---ones that would carry the storm westward toward land or more northeasterly and up the Atlantic. At midnight (EDT), Betsy, with top winds of 125 miles an hour, was about 500 miles southeast of Charleston, S. C., and heading toward it at 12 miles an hour. "At this time we do not suggest any change in vacation plans for the holiday weekend on account of the storm," the Miami Weather Bureau said. An expected shift to the north or north-northwest would keep Betsy well at sea and bearing toward cooler waters which always sap the energy of tropical storms shunted over them. # 150-MPH Betsy Skirting Outer Bahama Islands Miami, Sept. 3---(AP)---Erratic Hurricane Betsy skirted the Bahamas' Out Islands today with winds increased to 150 miles an hour. Noting that Betsy had changed directions a half dozen times in the past three days, weathermen said the eastern seaboard will probably have to worry about the storm for another week. Navy reconnaissance last located the center of the hurricane near latitude 25.0 north, longitude 72.9 west, or about 460 miles slightly south of due east from Miami and 120 miles northeast of San Salvador, moving northwest at 10 MPH. Gales extended out from the center band of highest winds 20 miles in all directions except 75 miles to the southwest of the center. Betsy's present course would mean that the center would pass just a short distance north of the Abaco Islands early Saturday morning. GOOD! CHANGE COURSE # Missile Trackers In Betsy's Path 9/3 MIAMI (UPI). --- Hurricane Betsy, boasting peak winds of 150 miles an hour, meandered dangerously near a string of U. S. missile tracking stations in the Bahamas today on a course aimed at the Eastern Seaboard. Weathermen said the storm, if it maintained its present course, would take three days to reach the U. S. Early today Betsy was centered about 165 miles east of the shuttered San Salvador Island tracking station. This was about 540 miles south-southeast of Miami. The hurricane was crawling at 8 MPH on a northwesterly course. Exactly 08/02/2025 14:51 at RogB 8/29!!! R.M.P. MILES 0 100 200 300 400 BERMUDA Atlantic Ocean HURRICANE BETSY Wilmington S.C. Myrtle Beach Charleston Savannah Brunswick Jacksonville Daytona Beach FLORIDA CAPE KENNEDY West Palm Beach Miami Key West Havana Caribbean Sea JAMAICA BAHAMAS HAITI DOMINICAN REPUBLIC PUERTO RICO Betsy had a "bulls eye" on Cape. Then I went to bed. Inquirer Staff Map Map traces the path of Hurricane Betsy, which has turned to a more northerly direction. # Betsy Grows, But S. Florida Peril Lessens Miami, Sept. 2---(AP)---Hurricane Betsy's winds built up to 115 miles an hour today but a very gradual northward swing in its forward movement lessened the immediate threat to South Florida. Hurricane Betsy was located by aircraft and land-based radar near latitude 23.0 north longitude 70.7 west, or about 635 miles east-southeast of Miami and 100 miles north-northeast of Grand Turk Island moving west at 9 mph. Highest winds were about 115 mph over a small area near the center. Gales extended out 200 miles in all directions except 75 miles in the southwest quadrant. Cape Kennedy, Sept. 2 ---(UPI)--- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, waiting to see where Hurricane Betsy goes, today delayed until Tuesday moving the Gemini 6 spacecraft to its launch site. PUT "LOCK" ON DIRECTION TOWARD CAPE K. FOR NIGHT!! === Page 83 of 140 9-1-65 p6 "H" THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1965 # Hurricane Veers From Coast, Raising Hope in the Carolinas ![Map showing the path of Hurricane Betsy along the southeastern coast of the United States, with labels for Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and the Bahamas. The storm's eye is marked with a symbol and its path is indicated by a line with arrows.] Sept. 3, 1965 Hurricane's eye (symbol) is moving toward North Carolina. Gales (shading) extend up to 200 miles from eye. MIAMI, Sept. 4 (AP)--The season's second hurricane began to shy away from the United States coastline today and hope rose that the Carolinas might escape the full fury of its winds. In the Miami Weather Bureau, forecasters delayed from hour to hour the posting of a hurricane watch for the vulnerable Carolina coast that juts sharply out into one of the Atlantic Ocean paths often taken by tropic storms. "We're sweating it out until the last minute, to see if Betsy [the name for the hurricane] will continue veering toward the north," said Robert McCaslin, a forecaster. "If the turn persists," he said, "we can take South Carolina off the hook, and maybe later the entire coast. It'll be close--a real squeaker--but the turn has started and we expect it to continue." Winds peaking at 125 miles an hour slammed around the eye of the storm as it roared past the Cape Kennedy missile complex this morning. ### Area Expected to Grow The hurricane then was 360 miles at sea, but the storm sent gale winds lashing out over an area 400 miles wide and churned up 120,000 square miles of Atlantic waters. The area of gales was expected to grow larger. From Cape Kennedy to Cape Hatteras, forecasters warned small craft owners to get into safe harbor before winds and tides rose to dangerous levels. Pending further developments, residents of both North and South Carolina were warned to keep in constant touch with advisories on the dangerous storm. The hurricane was pointed directly at the heavily populated Gold Coast of southeast Florida but on her new course the hurricane only brushed them. On Abaco Island, one of the largest in the chain, winds peaked at 85 miles an hour when the storm passed to the east. ### Normal Crowds on Beaches WILMINGTON, N. C., Sept. 4 (AP) -- Vacationers, taking their final holiday outing of the summer, frolicked on beaches of the Carolinas today apparently unconcerned over the hurricane threat. "Everything is calm here and we're not worried," observed a spokesman for the Greater Myrtle Beach, S. C., Chamber of Commerce. He said the beach crowds seemed to be about normal for the Labor Day weekend. Skies were generally fair and there was a slight swell in the surf. Along the North Carolina coast, "things are about normal for this time of the year," a spokesman at Elizabeth City said. All points reported winds out of the northeast, ranging from 10 to 20 knots, with gusts a little stronger. Automobiles rolled into beach resorts as radio broadcasts told of the hurricane's location, her force and her forward speed. Parents and children with picnic lunches, beach balls and surf boards spotted the sands, but chilly winds and waters at some points discouraged bathing. Wrightsville Beach, Carolina Beach and Morehead City, all in North Carolina, reported scattered showers. Farther up the coast, skies were sunny but beach crowds were about half the normal size. "The sea is pretty rough, but we're having the nicest day we've had in a week," a spokesman at Manteo said. # Betsy Blusters Toward Coast At 125 MPH Miami, Sept. 4--(UPI)--Hurricane Betsy threatened the Carolinas and Georgia with its 125 miles-per-hour winds today, pushing high tides against the coasts where many resorts teemed with Labor Day holiday vacationers. Two Coast Guard lightships moored off the coast reported six-foot seas and increasing winds. The Miami Weather Bureau in a 6 A. M. advisory located Betsy's center near latitude 27.7 north, longitude 75.1 west, or about 315 miles east of Vero Beach, Fla., and 525 miles south of Cape Hatteras, N. C. The storm was moving toward the northwest at eight mph. It was expected to continue on its course several hours and then turn north-northwest. The gale area reached 200 miles out in the northeast semicircle and was expected to expand. The Navy moved 21 aircraft from the Glynco Naval Air Station at Brunswick, Ga., as a precaution. The planes were flown to Stewart Air Force Base at Smyrna, Tenn. The Air Force cancelled the Sunday afternoon drive-through tour of the Cape Kennedy Space Center because of the storm. Betsy also postponed until next Tuesday movement of the two-man Gemini 6 spacecraft to its launch site. The raising of an Atlas-Centaur rocket on its launch pad was also delayed until next week. # Howling Betsy Passes Kennedy, Heads off Carolinas moving forward at nine miles an hour 08/02/2025 14:51 === Page 84 of 140 9-1-65 p7 "I" FLA. BETSY BETSY MIAMI BETSY STOP STOP Mon. 9/6/65 08/02/2025 14:51 === Page 85 of 140 9-1-65 p8 "J" 1965 # Storm Pearst of orange and agy flashes. A burglar suted above the tim of a tobacco sign, cong to flap free. hopping center of the windows criss-postape like the face Soker, would sudden-hen flash on, then good. OKLA. Oklahoma City ARK. Little Rock MISS. Jackson ALA. Montgomery LA. Baton Rouge TEXAS Dallas Houston Galveston HURRICANE WATCH New Orleans Mississippi River Delta Sarasota Miami Brownsville HURRICANE BETSY Key West Straits of Florida Gulf of Mexico Tampico Vera Cruz Campeche Merida Puerto Juarez CUBA Caribbean Sea BR. HONDURAS GUATEMALA MILES 0 100 200 300 Inquirer Map by Francis Pontari, Staff Artist Hurricane Betsy is charted as it heads into the Gulf of Mexico after smashing South Florida coast. # nps Resorts Strip, Aims ows at Gulf major structural damage in the metropolitan areas, which enacted stiff building codes years ago to guard against just such a threat as Betsy. But utility poles, billboards, power lines, street lights and trees were downed, hundreds of unprotected windows smashed, roofs damaged, patio screens ripped to ribbons, and house trailers overturned. About 80 percent of Miami and Fort Lauderdale was without electricity. Residents faced long days without lights, refrigeration or cooking facilities. An estimated 25,000 telephones were out of service in Greater $18. BROCADE-SOFT GLEAM IN A WOMAN'S PARTY PLANS. The dress alone is pretty important, add the jacket and its dates are legion. Gold or blue/green brocade by Crayne. 14 1/2 to 22 1/2. Mail or call WA 3-2500. Fourth floor; all stores. Red Smith. His column is a rare combination. ports pages of The Philadel- AP Wirephoto via cable from London d Nations Secretary Gen- rport hotel, where Thant Way to India and Pakistan. # Land New Drive Dwarka, sacred to all India's Hindus. Defense Minister Y. B. Cha- an told Indian Parliament the army driving into southeast Pakistan had captured Gadra and was still moving ahead. 20 troops the north had broken out of Kashmir and was advancing. Chavan said the second force crossed the northern frontier not far from the Chamb front of southwest Kashmir, where fight- ing between the two nations broke out last week. This would place the front about 100 miles southwest of Rawalpindi. ORNING. 1946, wherea a Nazi conx (948 the Wh essage fro "the focel outh of Ca dian Gulf. Th map CEN ing of allie hough Afg Turkey, uit after t to be char Communis al enemy and guard nst India, === Page 86 of 140 9-1-65 pg "K" Bullseye! 9/10/65 Hit!!! NEW ORLEANS NASA MICHOUD TITAN COMPLEX LOUISIANA MISS. BETSY Fla. AFT 9/9/65 "7" 08/02/2025 14:51 === Page 87 of 140 Friday, Sept. 3, 1965 Dear Lornie and Rick: Hi...what are you two up to now? Rick, haven't heard from you for a long time. Am surprised, in lieu of the successes have had with "PK phenomena these past weeks. I wouldn't suppose wild elephants could keep you from writing about it. Right now am working on Hurricane Betsy...naturally...just like last year. Spent hours last night getting Betsy to turn left, hook West. Have had to correct her course several times now. But she's a good little hurricane...and I have added several refinements and mechanisms which I can't discuss here...but which are dandies. For instance, when I read that 15 airplanes were getting ready to attack Betsy, while she was standing still temporarily, with silver iodide, to kill her....I put in anti-plane PK in such a way that Besty had a chance herself to get the planes, before the planes got her. Like they were reading my mind, the government canceled the plane strike. Good thing they did. I have learned so much...so much...since you kids have left. Damn, wish I could tell you all about it. What I have learned is from the saucer intelligences....the ones I got the message from in Washington that night at Mangels. Whatever you do...if anything ever happens to me....be sure and get my files, which I carry mostly in a black bag, wherever I go...Have a bunch of notebooks in there, and a bunch of folders with material. For God's sake keep this until you grow up...I will never be able to forget what happened to the material I sent to Pat to keep for me, when I was in a jam in Phoenix one time...in the ash can it went. So do not let anyone else get their hands on my file. Keep it yourselves, because it is beyond price or value. When I tell you that, you'd better believe it. I have even drawn colored pictures of the insides of the Si's spacecraft...pictures of the different things they do, and how they do them. For instance, they know where I am at all times, and how I am...because they have rigged a "floating light" high overhead in the sky, over me, wherever I go. This light pulsates, and tells them not one thing...just where I am...but my mood, my emotions, how alive I am, and so on. *I made a picture of this.* Yesterday, again, someone in a car tried to hit me. That makes three times in a week it's been tried. Now, someone trying to brainwash you would say, "Ah, he's a paranoid nut." But not so...I have been walking to work for months here, and have never had an accident, or a near accident...until this week. Then suddenly pow pow pow...three "freak" occurrences where cars, instead of letting me walk with the light, suddenly accelerate to high speed and except for my peripheral vision and agility would have settled me for good by now. Whoever is behind it...will give up on cars now...for I am wary of that trap...and will try another angle. Am sure it is not our government, because they seem to place ... well ...I don't think it is. Could be commie. My 4-hour radio stint that one night told the commie's all they needed to hear, to try and get me, before the U.S. Government miraculously finds its right mind and accepts me. Am positive you kids are not getting all of my mail; why, I don't know. But if you were, you would be writing differently, and more often. That is for sure. One day you will see my file...and I have copies of all letters I have sent to you...and you can see very easily what you've gotten and what you haven't. Little Bo is so cute, it is almost unbelievable. And smart....wow! Zachow, the scientist who's been investigating me and my work...says to watch Bo carefully and teach him carefully...because he has my eyes and the same ability to direct "projectionaliz thought-force" with devastating results. If he isn't taught to direct this ab === Page 88 of 140 9-3-65 P2 2 constructive channels, then things could get rough. Because of my newspaper write-up on rainmaking, and the two radio broadcasts... I lost my job...and the agency that was placing me on jobs, dropped me as "some kind of nut." Ha ha ha! Yep, a 5-10 billion dollars nut...that's about what I have cost the government so far with PK. But of course, I expected it, and willingly made the "trade"...as a matter of personal values. I have about three dozen letters I received as a result of the radio programs... from everywhere...Alabama, Ohio, Illinois, New York, Delaware...even Canada. Would you like to see these peoples' letters, plus my answers? If so, let me know and will send them...but you must promise to send them back, because they are a part of my files. When do you start to school? Just think, Lornie, you'll be 16 purty soon. My, my, how you do grow. Be no time at all until you have a beautiful home of your own, a fine husband who loves you, and be raising your own little chilluns. Great care must be used, however, in selecting your man...remember that. Teen-agers get "crushes" on fellows their age, sometimes ... oh foo, I'm not going to try and advise you. Sometimes I think maybe teenagers, in their brainless "crush" state...are working on a more accurate "beam" from Nature...than older, more mature people who think they know all of the answers because they are older and more mature. And they still wind up throwing things at their husband, or worse. Who knows? Only Nature. Not people, that's for sure. One thing is for sure...Pat is a fine judge of people, and can steer you straight. She can spot a phony a mile away...just like daddy can. So give momma a look at any of your catches. She'll read him, but good. Well, Rick, what are you doing? Out of town visiting? Be very careful of venereal disease, kids. This week were two articles in the papers...doctors everywhere now are greatly alarmed because just recently VD rate shot up to the moon. They can't understand why, but they are warning all the highschool and college kids to beware.... Write. Love and kisses.... Dad. P.S. Just finished making a dandy rainstorm - which, as a side-product to my prediction - put out a giant 5-alarm fire which the firemen couldn't handle because water facilities were too far away from the scene - people in 10 homes were evacuated because the fire was out of control. Meanwhile I was on the balcony outside our apartment, activating the rain to put the fire out. See attached. === Page 89 of 140 9/3/65 p1 Friday Sept. 3, 1965 Dear Rick, The Rain Maker-- Zachow turned out to be a disappointment. He told me to give the Si's a week... to furnish me money... or quit them and go back to throwing knives. I told Zachow... goo'by friend. Rick, I thank you for the medallion. It is a gift... I have actually wanted to buy for myself, in days past, but couldn't. Back in Ft Worth, long ago, I thought of having those "prayer hands" put on a ring. Anyway, pal, I have put it on the string 'round my neck, and there it will always be. Thanks, from Dad. Nobody can discourage my "PK" work, Rick -- plenty have tried. You say you got my letter. Which one? I've sent about 10. I addressed them "Lonnie & Rick Owens." Right now I'm nudging Hurricane Betsy to the target -- Electro -- the Cape K. Have had to turn her a half-dozen times. She keeps swinging north, and I keep swinging her back west, or north west. It's got the Weather Bureau flippin' their wig, trying to keep up with us (me & Betsy). They announced Thursday that all was well -- Betsy was going north -- away from Florida. I worked hard, and swung her 08/02/2025 14:51 === Page 90 of 140 9/3/65 p 2 around again - so Thurs. night she was pointed at the Cape again. Today she swung north again. Tonight I'll swing her around again - and they'll be hopping around in Florida over the weekend. Another car tried to get me this week - makes three attempts. Somebody believes I can do what I say - and fears it. Could I use a thousand? Right now Daddy has 60¢, no food, rent paid until Wednesday, and my job ended today. If we had any money I'd buy a used car and get out of here. We're trapped. Believe me, son, Dad is alone on this deal. Everybody I've met has dropped me like a hot rock. The combination of "UFO's" and me - against - U.S. Govt. nobody wants any part of. It's Dad against everybody. And the joker? I'm trying to help everybody - that is, the Si's are. Actually, I haven't an enemy in the world - except the U.S. Govt. & the Commies. Ha ha. And friends? You know - somebody who'll run thru fire & flames to save you, or dive in deep water when you're going down the third time - ? There aren't any such animal. === Page 91 of 140 9/3/05 P3 It's a shame - but, looking at the picture realistically - it simply could not be any other way. Rick - this is fact. Your Daddy is like Martha Ann running down the highway into the cars. I am using strange powers from another dimension - perhaps hundreds of years ahead of these times. And the reaction of the people and the Govt. is the same stupid insane reaction so prevalent now everywhere - the same reaction an Air Force plane has when it sees a UFO - chase it, shoot it down! The same reaction people had in Michigan when 16 people saw the 7 foot 400 lb. "monster." (See my letter with clipping.) Thousands of people went out to destroy it with knives, pitchforks, guns... and it hadn't hurt anybody! It certainly could have torn any of those 16 limb from limb. But it didn't. To the people, I'm like that "monster." They can't understand me... they are deeply afraid of what I can do. So - destroy. That's all they know in this world. That's what the Si's are trying to change. And by the way - if you hear of me ever "in an accident" - you'll know it's no accident. === Page 92 of 140 9/3/65 p4 And I think as straight as you do - so don't ever let anybody kid you that "Dad's off his rocker." They might try. I mailed you a big, fat letter yesterday, too. Here's a kiss and a hug for my dandy boy. I miss you, my hard-headed pal. Love, Dad. P.S. Your prediction before the riots was excellent! But always get Lorrie, or somebody, to sign as a witness! Like I did Jean Mangels, or Hugh Lynn Cayce. See? Also - keep all my letters in a file-folder, like I do yours. 08/02/2025 14:51 === Page 93 of 140 P.P.S. I am glad your planes did not attack Betsy. Betsy was prepared for them, and you might have lost some planes. Good thinking! Friday, Sept. 3, 1965 Mr. Dunn, Chief Hurricane Center Bureau Miami, Florida Dear Mr. Dunn: Yesterday afternoon, late, I spent two hours getting Betsy back onto the right track. Have had to do that several times in the past few days...but generally Betsy has followed the exact course I plotted for her on 8/29. Target, if course, Cape Kennedy. I do this often enough, and perhaps the U.S. Government will believe in my work and ability. I did it enough last year to convince practically anyone...yet still didn't convince NASA. Well, actions speak louder than words. I have Betsy plotted on the course she has now...to strike on the Cape at Florida. Should she begin to deviate, then I will use my regular corrective measures. But as a rule...when I plot the course for the hurricane...even though it deviates...it readjusts by itself and gets back onto course. I know why this is so, and it is interesting. The reason I work so hard to correct even the slightest deviation...is to make sure. Might interest you to know I have been making storms up here in Philadelphia. Made one just last Wednesday for the Editor of the Phila. "Bulletin," Sept. 1. Clipping attached. Also spent four hours one night going around in circles up here on the Jack McKinny "Night Talk" Radio Show, WCAU, City and Monument Aves., Phila. They put off a U.S. Senator and Jack Carter, the comedian, so that they could hold me on the program for four hours. At least that's what Mr. McKinny said. Then Mr. Ed Harvey, of "Talk of Philadelphia" Radio Show up here, called on Friday and asked me to make a big storm for the following Monday...and appear on his show that day, to co-incide. I told him that I would do my best to make the storm for that day...although I do not usually try to call the exact day. So I had to work to bring in the "materials" then had to work hard not to turn it loose on Sunday. It broke on Monday, and nearly ruined Philadelphia. Dozens of homes hit by lightning; police tower hit by lightning; power station hit by lightning; town flooded..it was a mess. Why am I telling you all this? Because...I have a "control" on weather conditions. I can make storms; I can put a lock on an area and block rainfall; I can make hurricanes, I can guide them, I can sometimes bring them back to life after they are dead (did that twice last year); and I can take the same hurricanes away from areas, if necessary. Of course, last year nobody believed me...although I was calling my shots at Cape Kennedy by letter and by wire. Maybe after this year, all concerned will believe me. Respectfully, Ted Owens (PK Man - "The Rain Maker") 1114 Spruce St., #33 Phila., Pa. P.S. What would be fun would be to accompany you, during hurricane season...and I map the route for the 'cane and bring it in on target, while you actually observe how I do it..and try to block it with all the means at your disposal...seeding, etc., not by hanging me. 07/25/2025 15:43 === Page 94 of 140 9-4-65 p1 Thursday I showed Si's the map on Men-Tel, with the squares which would carry Betsy into the Cape. I also asked for sub-craft to "herd" Betsy from square to square. (What followed afterward is unbelievable!!) 7 PM 9/4/65 # Analysis of Hurricane Betsy I missed the target, the Cape, with Betsy - but in doing so I made a positively frightening discovery!! From the beginning of Betsy - I outlined on the map the path she was to follow. I placed this "path" inside 3 progressive squares. (SEE "FORCE FIELDS" SHEET) Betsy faithfully moved from Square 1 to Square 2. But she acted peculiarly. She'd go North, then West, then North, then West. Quinn said, "it is not moving in perfectly straight lines - but its net movement is almost due west." I wondered why Betsy was zig-zagging the course I'd laid out for her - but she was faithfully proceeding toward the target. She was 360 miles from the Cape - and pointed straight at it. Friday I was happy. Then, she swung north and proceeded up a straight line - missing the Cape!!! Why?!! She'd come all that way, right to the target - then taken a wrong turn. I took a long look at my maps. Then the hair felt like it was standing up on my head! Betsy had been following the lines of my 3 squares. That is, she would go up, then over, then up, then over - until she came to Frame 3. Now, I assumed that the 'core' could roam in the square, but would be near the center of the square, eventually. So on 3, Betsy should hit the center of the square. Instead she stayed on the edge of the === Page 95 of 140 9-4-65 P2 (2 3) square - doing what he had been doing - going up then over. This edge of the square was about 300-400 miles out from the Cape. Therefore, in following precisely the lines of my squares - Betsy did an incredibly intricate maneuver!! Far more difficult than simply following a straight line to the Cape!! It was my error, not Betsy's. Now, at 8 PM this evening, Sat., 9/4, am trying to stop Betsy and bring her back onto the Cape - because she's still in the square, although at the edge of it. (Took out Brains & Guides) 12 Midnite - Betsy has stopped!! Evidently either because she knows an error has been made, or because I removed brains. Now: Am putting in large X number red & black units. Am restoring Brain, but putting it on backwards, in reverse. Same w/eyes; w/ears; with Guides. So that Betsy will activate forwards, going South & West instead of North & East - which could run her into Cape. Let's see if this works. (i.e. I've reversed her.) Also have PK'd force field into reverse, to help Betsy go backward. And have used wand on Men-Tel to show her what is needed - Betsy to go back & over to Cape. Sun. morn. 9/5 Betsy still stopped on that spot. I want her to move down to the Cape Kennedy. (Down or over, it would be.) Note: Put new brain in backwards, which was incorrect. Betsy is 360 miles off New Smyrna Beach, Fla. - almost opposite the Cape. So removed brain, etc., then put back eyes, ears, brains, guides - in new position, facing land - & the Cape. (Sun. morn noon, 9/5.) === Page 96 of 140 9-4-65 p3 Sun. nite - about 10 PM 3 Betsy is moving - SOUTH !!! Which means - my removing mechs then replacing mechs in other direction, to take Betsy backward, or sideways - worked!!! Hooray!! Am now working to take her in a U-curve: this would take her right into the Cape! The radio thinks she's going South into the Bahamas - (to clean up NASA's missile-tracking stations she missed on the first pass?) Anyway - I'll stay up tonight, trying to U-turn her, rather than work to bring her back in a circle onto the Cape, later. At least - I succeeded in stopping her; then in redirecting her!! Two big wonderful accomplishments. (Note: If Si Control takes her into Cape Kennedy, then I'll know Si Control can do anything!) __________ Monday morn. 9/6/65 10 A.M Radio says Betsy has changed direction and is moving toward Florida coast! But from what radio says... it is too far down for Cape. So am going to work to take her in sideways, now... which should spark Cape K. Note:!! Sat. evening, while trying to stop Betsy so I could turn her around (after she'd gone past Cape K.) I drew a "stop line" on my maps - see "A" clips - and showed to the Si's. Today, Monday, NY Times explained that what stopped Betsy was a "high pressure ridge," where I drew my line. See clip attached here. Mon. afternoon - Radio announcers said: "When the citizens of Southern Florida went to bed last night before 11:30, they had no way of knowing that when they woke up this morning Hurricane Betsy had done something a hurricane is never supposed to do! Turned around and gone south!" Mon. evening 8 P.M. Am using various PK techniques - plus communication with Si Control, to get Betsy to turn ("slowly at first") and go back up the edge of the Florida Coast - thru Miami to Cape Kennedy. So far: (1) I took her in sight to the target, but short of it. (2) I stopped her. (3) I got her to reverse direction from N to S, figuring to U-turn her. But... so far she hasn't U-turned, dammit!! 08/02/2025 14:51 ( 3 === Page 97 of 140 9-4-65 p4 Tues. morn 9/7/65 Betsy has stopped exactly as per the PK line I drew on map last night - to stop her from going on South. Now to make a "bank shot" with her against my 2 PK walls, to "bank" her in the side pocket - Cape Kennedy. (Put more power into Betsy.) Noon: Removed Betsy's brain, ears, eyes, guide units - then put them back, but repositioned to take her North and a bit West, to the Cape. Note: She has stopped twice as I asked her to do - and as per "PK wall." [Diagram showing a circle labeled "F.F." and a smaller circle labeled "ck" with arrows and lines representing paths and walls] 3:15 P.M. Betsy has started moving... South, dammit!! Am stopping light, sound, etc. from Cape. Am putting 10x Betsy's force & power in front of her, to Cape K. gently push her back North (reversing her direction) toward the target, Cape Kennedy. [Diagram showing a large circle labeled "BETSY" with eyes, positioned above a horizontal line labeled "PK STOP LINE". Two diagonal lines labeled "10-H PK" form a wedge shape pointing towards the circle. An arrow points from "Miami" towards the circle.] 6:30 PM 9/7 BETSY HAS CHANGED DIRECTION AGAIN, AS PER MY MAP - GOING WEST NOW, ON THE "STOP" LINE INSTEAD OF SOUTH. MUST WAIT UNTIL IT HITS MIAMI - THEN TURN HER NORTH! (AM TRYING, BY MAP AND MENTAL - TO SWING HER UP. 11 PM 9/7 AM WORKING TO PUSH BETSY WEST-NORTHWEST STRAIGHT UP TO TARGET, CAPE K. HAVE PK WALL "TRACK" OR "SIDE-RAILS" FOR HER, PLUS 10-H PROPELLANT BEHIND HER, WITH SI CRAFT RINGING HER, LEAVING ONLY PATH TO CAPE K. OPEN. * 1-H = Power of hurricane. 10 H = 10x power of hurricane 08/02/2025 14:51 === Page 98 of 140 9-4-65 p5 Wed. morn. 10 PM 9/8/65 Betsy has made a hit. Her range easily reached up Cape Kennedy. Also, as a bonus, she racked up Cape Kennedy Missile Tracking Stations in Bahamas. As an added bonus, she racked up two huge military bases in Key West, (Navy Base and Air Base.) Am making new map now - and consulting with Si's - bring Betsy full-circle around to bullseye on the Cape. Thursday morn, 9/9/65 Betsy won't circle. So will try to direct her to Michoud Space (Titan) Complex near New Orleans. Afternoon She changed direction (was overshooting Michoud) and is now going in! Night Betsy is going in exactly where I drew her route to follow on the map! At the juncture of Louisiana - Miss., headed for the Michoud Titan Complex (NASA.) She's on a perfect bullseye course. It's 10:30. If I go to bed - she might veer away. So - armed with coffee & cigars, it will be a late late vigil!! Friday morn., 9/10/65 Hit!!! Right on target. Came in on top of New Orleans - thereby Michoud. Will see now if I can get her to make a full circle back. Friday night - She's no longer a hurricane. Am putting fresh units in her to try to bring her back to hurricane life. === Page 99 of 140 Wednesday, Sept. 8, 1965 Lorne & Rick Editor, The Philadelphia Bulletin "IT'S HARD TO MAKE A HURRICANE TURN LEFT" ...but I just finished doing it. This has to be one of the most unusual accounts ever reported...if indeed it does reach print. It is true and factual. But if this newspaper is brave enough to print the story, it must be understood by the readers that the newspaper does not condone the actions taken by the writer; nor does the newspaper necessarily believe the account as true. As "The Rain Maker" in Philadelphia, however (Jack McKinny "Night Talk Show" and Ed Harvey "Talk of Philadelphia Show) I, Ted Owens, assure the reader that every word of this account is absolutely true and accurate. You say it's impossible for a human being to influence a hurricane? Nonsense! I did it in 1964...ran three hurricanes (Cleo, Dora and Isbell) across the Cape Kennedy area. Had Hurricane Gladys almost there in the same spot, but lost control of her at the last minute, and she slid up the coast.) You say they just "happened" to come that way? Nope. Wrong again, friend. In July, 1964, I sent letters to Cape Kennedy Space Center, the State Department, and other government agencies, that I was "declaring a one-man war" on the area from Daytona Beach to Miami...nicknamed "Electro". I told them all that I would run hurricanes into this area, as well as lightning strikes. A few weeks later lightning struck the Titan Missile at the Cape; also struck and knocked out of commission its ground controls. An accident, you say? How? The Titan Missile stood on a lightning-proof pad. NASA has never figured that one out. You see, in 1963, I discovered a revolutionary method of weather control. This method enabled me to make small storms for local areas, or big storms for areas far away, geographically. This phenomenon is under- === Page 100 of 140 9-8-65 p2 standable in the context of parapsychology...where time and space are not prohibitive. After making storm after storm, without failing, for months, I wrote to the U. S. Government about my discovery...but could get no answer. Imagine what the U. S. could do with this amazing discovery! I certainly would not have to worry about drought! And hurricanes could be used constructively. If you don't think so...New York City could use about three, right now! At any rate, by "declaring war" against Cape Kennedy, I hoped to get the U. S. Government's attention, thus their cooperation in utilizing this rare ability and discovery. But no...even after the Titan lightning strike and three hurricanes; almost a fourth, in their front yard...not a word from the Government. So this year, July 7, 1965, I wrote to NASA and all government agencies thusly: "Just a note to tell you that have begun my PK work now (they know me as PK Man, not "The Rain Maker") as I did last July on...to start hurricanes south of Florida and then guide them to Florida, and across Cape Kennedy." Also I warned them of lightning strikes again this year. About one month later, August 4, 1965 (the day I spent four grueling but fun hours on the Jack McKinney "Night Talk" Show, explaining all this) lightning struck the Moon Rocket Pad at Cape Kennedy. I also wrote Mr. Dunn, Chief of the Hurricane Center in Miami, about all this (in 1964 and again this year, 1965) telling him that if I missed my electro target, southern Florida, then I would take the hurricane away from the east coast so that it would not come up into the northeast coast area. (This just happened with Betsy, if you will think about it.) Now, you have just seen Hurricane Betsy do everything but turn a somersault. All of the newspaper writers have described her as "freakish." But she isn't, really. When she was "born," August 27, she pointed directly === Page 101 of 140 9-8-65 p3 5 at the target, "Electro"..........southern Florida. When she got to Guadaloupe Island, about August 28, she swung around to the north. For several days I struggled to get her back onto the target, Electro. August 31 I turned her, but now she had swung too far, and pointed south. So more work on the maps, and along my specialized lines. Slowly she turned, and once more ran toward the target. Then she began to swing up again, out of line with Electro. Too far in a northwest direction that would put her in Georgia, and lose my shot. I worked for about four days to correct this, and drew a "P K line" that I did not want her to cross. She stopped right at the line, and stalled. Now, Betsy had gotten above Cape Kennedy..........and she did not want to go sideways at all..........so I knew I had to take her backwards, down below Miami, and start her upward again, in the same path I took Cleo, last year. This "putting a hurricane into reverse" I couldn't do last year, although I tried several times. But this year I figured out how to do it, applied the method, and lo and behold Betsy backed up into the Bahamas! (This, incidentally, put a crimp in the Cape Kennedy missile-tracking machinery in that area.) I had drawn a PK line down there, because I didn't want her to go straight south..........and she stopped right on the line, and stalled, as before. I did several other things to bring her over into position in front of Miami..........and over she went. Since her radius was 600 miles, and the Cape was just a couple of hundred miles from Miami, am sure the Space Center felt her breezes. At any rate, it was a "hit" in parapsychological parlance. At this point Betsy got out of control and went on into the Gulf, having done her duty pretty well in harassing the U. S. Military. I repeat to you, as I have repeated to the U. S. Government..........think, just think, what this country, the U. S., could do with this discovery! But do you know what? Guess who knows for sure that these hurricanes 08/02/2025 15:28 === Page 102 of 140 9-8-65 p4 in 1964 were controlled...that they do not wander around by accident? Russia! Yes, a story from Moscow, dated September 30, 1964, AP, went like this: "U. S. SAID WAGING WEATHER WAR" "A Soviet Colonel charged in Moscow Wednesday that the Pentagon has directed United States scientists to work out ways of directing hurricanes toward Communist countries. (Cuba) The charge was made by Col. I. Zheltikov in the Soviet defense ministry newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda (Red Star.) He also claimed ...etc." I was greatly amused by this, and wrote to the Kremlin that the U. S. would hardly be running its own controlled hurricanes across the Cape Kennedy area, as was happening at the time. And after Betsy, of course, not running over Cuba...I imagine they know this to be a fact. Betsy would have run over Cuba. All I had to do was keep her in a straight line, instead of turning her. Finally you, the reader, say, "Well, you should be shot. Hanged. Spat upon. Shame on you, if you can do what you say!" Not so, gentle reader. What I have done is harass the U. S. Military, true...but for a relatively short time. This revolutionary weather-control method that I have stumbled upon, which works like a charm most of the time, could be of inestimable value to our country, the United States, in the long long years ahead. If, that is, the Government will ever pay attention and do something about utilizing it. Now, let's see...Betsy...the next hurricane starts with a "CE, doesn't it? You, the reader, can have an interesting time on the sidelines now, watching the action. You know the strange duel that is going on. It could even be more fun than watching a pro football game, yes? PK Man (The Rain Maker) Philadelphia === Page 103 of 140 SAT. SEPT. 11, 1965 "A" THIS SINGLE LETTER, TO MR. EASTWOOD OF NASA IN WASH., D.C. (PLUS REGULAR COPIES ELSEWHERE) IS SUBSTANTIAL PROOF OF THE DEVASTATING ACCURACY OF MY REVOLUTIONARY DISCOVERY IN THE FIELD OF WEATHER CONTROL. PER THIS LETTER: (1) HURRICANE BETSY WAS GUIDED TO FLORIDA, (2 MONTHS LATER) (2) LIGHTNING HIT MOON ROCKET PAD, CAPE KENNEDY (APPROX. 1 MONTH LATER) LIGHTNING HIT GEMINI 5 CONTROLS, CAPE KENNEDY - STOPPING THE SHOT (APPROX. 6 WEEKS LATER) (3) I GUIDED "BETSY" TO THE MICHOUD SATURN SPACE COMPLEX (NASA), OUTSIDE NEW ORLEANS (APPROX. 2 MONTHS LATER) ADDED LTR. "B" * (4) STOPPED BETSY FROM BRINGING BILLIONS GALLONS WATER N.E. THIS IS JUST ONE LETTER FROM MY FILE WHICH BULGES WITH LIKE PROOF OF OTHER SUCCESSFUL WORK IN THIS FIELD. THE MOST AMAZING DISCOVERY, (NEW SOURCES OF POWER) TO BE MADE IN HUNDREDS OF YEARS!! YET... NO ONE WILL LISTEN. INCREDIBLE! PK MAN (TED OWENS) === Page 104 of 140 9-11-65 P2 "A" July 7, 1965 Dept. of Inventions, NASA Wash, D.C. Copy Dear Mr. Eastwood: Just a note to tell you that have begun my PK work now, as I did last July on....to start hurricanes south of Florida and then guide them to Florida, and across Cape Kennedy. (1) HURRICANE BETSY 9/'65 - SEPT. 8, "BETSY" HIT ON "ELECTRO" (DAYTONA BEACH TO MIAMI) In other words, the Cape will be target area again. And I learned much last year ... so that this year should be much more successful. Included with the hurricanes will be lightning strikes, freak accidents, sudden storms of less than hurricane intensity, etc. (2) In the event that a hurricane gets away from me, due to an oversight, which happened once last year...then I'll do the same thing I did last year... try to guide it over to the Michoud space complex in Louisiana, near New Orleans. (3) I also may do some work on Houston, Texas. It is my hope that some day someone wise will believe in my rare PK ability, and allow me to proceed with the work that I am now blocked from doing, by the U.S. Government. Respectfully, P K Man (c/o Owens) Congress Hotel, Room 600 12th and Walnut Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Lightning Kills Worker At Saturn Launch Pad Cape Kennedy, Aug. 4 (UPI)--Lightning hit a crane used on a Saturn 5 moon rocket launch pad yesterday, killing one man and injuring five others. The dead man was identified as A. Trieb, 33, of Mitchell, S. D., one construction worker was hospitalized and four others were treated and released at a base medical center. A spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers, overseer of the construction under way here, said the men were pouring concrete on the 40-foot level of the launch complex when lightning traveled down the crane's cables to the wet concrete. Workers standing near the concrete were burned and knocked down by the flash. (3) Rockets Escape Damage in Storm NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 11 (AP)--The huge Michoud plant which builds Saturn booster rockets came through Hurricane Betsy with superficial damage, it was reported Saturday. A spokesman said damage was confined to broken glass and peeled roofs, with no apparent injury to space vehicles under construction. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration facility was shut down Thursday afternoon as the storm approached. LIGHTNING STRIKE!! AUG. 19, 1965 (2) Fire Damage Assessed New Delay Looms In Gemini Launch CAPE KENNEDY (UPI)--Technicians worked today to eliminate a series of problems that delayed for at least two days America's attempts to rewrite Soviet space records (4) OVER→ 08/02/2025 15:28 === Page 105 of 140 9/11/65 p3 "B" File Tuesday, August 31, 1965 Mr. Dunn, Chief U.S. Weather Bureau Hurricane Center Miami, Florida. Dear Mr. Dunn: You and I are going to have some fun this hurricane season. I am the man who wrote you in 1964. I successfully ran three hurricanes across the Cape Kennedy area...and also managed to direct one to the Michoud Space Complex in Louisiana. Last year I discovered a method of making hurricanes (have sent out 1,000 hurricane-hunter groups of PK (psychokineses) several months ago...) then guiding them; and bringing them to life after they die. Brought 2 back to life, last year. Last year I managed to make the hurricane hook left into Florida; a first in a century, the papers said. Also Cleo followed my "PK" map. And one other...I forget offhand now, not having my books at hand. Nevertheless, let us have a game...Dunn versus P K Man. I am producing hurricanes and typhoons now. But I am interested only in the hurricanes, insofar as I can guide them to target-area...Daytona Beach to Miami...which area is named "Electro." You and the U.S. Government try to stop them...and I will bring them in. It will be very interesting. Even "seeding" will not stop them, because I have done a little something with the PK to beat seeding. -- NOTE: THEY COULDN'T SEED BETSY!!! 9/7/65. I was going to bring them up the East Coast in order to bring rain to New York...but was rejected by everyone when I offered to break the East Coast drought...so now I am going to do this. After the hurricanes either hit the target, Electro...or get away from me completely (only one did last year...the rest were hits) then I will take them off to the right as soon as they draw near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and send them off to sea. Do not take this lightly. I warn you most seriously. You would be well advised to contact Central Intelligence Agency and NASA for copies of my file, before you pass this letter off as a "crank" letter. And, as I wrote you last year, would greatly appreciate it if you would name one hurricane after my daughter Lornie...Hurricane Lornie. Respectfully, Ted Owens (P K Man) 1114 Spruce, #33 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. NE COAST PK WALL FLA. DURING THIS ACTION WITH BETSY, I DISCOVERED METHOD OF REVERSING HER DIRECTION, FOR FIRST TIME. SO DIDN'T HAVE TO SEND HER OFF THE RIGHT. === Page 106 of 140 Copy and Rick and Lorne Kids - I've dared CIA Pres. Johnson to have govt. men observe me doing this! P.S. Am working on producing three simultaneous hurricanes. Monday, September 13, 1965 Mr. George Clark, CIA Well...am going to give you a most unusual letter. You will probably never get another like it. A day by day, running account of my work with Hurricane Betsy...from the time she was "born" until she hit target... then second target. During the action, I was successful in getting her to turn around; also she went back and picked up the targets she missed on her first pass, in the Bahamas (see my maps.) (A) This was one of my first maps...working in unison with the Si's (saucer intelligences.) I drew the path I wanted Betsy to follow, and placed the path in three frames (force fields). It did excellently in the first two frames, then caught the edge of the third frame and followed it up. (B) Another early map. Bear in mind that I did this all last year with my children around me, watching...and with the same successful results. For verification: Lorne and Rick Owens, c/o Shannon, 505 S. Osage St., #3, Inglewood, California. In the newspaper clip here, is humorous to note that "the eastern Caribbean is a notoriously unfavorable location for the development of tropical storms or the intensification of existing storms." This optimistic gentleman was the Miami forecaster, Arnold Sugg. Hidden inside this same clip where you can't see it is another dandy. "A forecaster in Miami described it (Betsy) as a weak storm, with little chance of intensifying significantly. (C) Here you have poor Betsy "dissipating...and she was demoted to a tropical storm. (So at this point I put a great deal of "PK" into Betsy, to give her strength. Dr. Cecil Gentry, head of the Hurricane-Research-Laboratory, in Puerto Rico, said: "It's a weak storm and conditions at this time do not lead to its intensifying. No, correction...that was said by Miami hurricane forecaster Raymond Kraft. (They were considering seeding Betsy, so I put some special effects into Betsy that would give her a chance against the planes.) After that...they couldn't seed. She grew violent. (D) In this interesting clip, the Weather Bureau says "Betsy probably would not hit the multimillion-dollar tracking stations with its worst punch." The Weather Bureau further said it expected an even more northerly track Thursday, easing the threat to the southern tip of the 750-mile Bahamas chain. Here Mr. Dunn was correct...of all the forecasters...when he noted that Betsy "is not moving in perfectly straight lines, but its net movement is almost due west." (E) Here the Weather Bureau...which is having an awful time predicting accurately...says the small but dangerous hurricane posed a threat to Georgia and the Carolinas...there was a better than even chance the storm might never touch land at all." Forecaster Sam Pierce said: "I'd say chances are better than 50-50 that it (Betsy) will not hit any part of the East Coast of the United States." My..so many people..so wrong...the hurricane is dissipated...it won't hit the East Coast...it's going up into the Carolinas. (F) Here Raymond Kraft, forecaster, says "About the only consolation you 08/02/2025 15:28 === Page 107 of 140 9/13/65 p2 2 have is when it (Betsy) gets level with your latitude, the chances are pretty slim it will turn back." Wrong again. (G) I had brought Betsy in on a perfect bullseye...when she veered at the last minute. So I had to stop her before she went too far. I drew a PK Wall to stop her (working with the Si's and their craft.) She did stop. (H) Here Robert McCaslin, forecaster, utters his fearless predictions. "If the turn persists," he said (toward the north) "we can take South Carolina off the hook, and maybe later the entire coast. -- the turn has started and we expect it to continue." Wrong again. (I) Is my map, showing my PK "stop" line...plus the disposition of my saucer friends around Betsy, helping in their own way. (J) Map showing track I drew for Betsy to follow (with a sharper turn to the right than she was going at the time...which she took, faithfully.) (K) Final map...my own, to go with the newspaper clip map...crude but effective. Betsy followed it right in. ---------- Also enclosed are my daily entries in my log, as I constantly worked to guide Betsy. Bear in mind that my wife watched me constantly...all maps were drawn and used before Betsy made her moves...and Betsy replied to my intelligence and guidance faithfully, most of the time...enough to hit both targets, Florida and Michoud. Since all of the forecasters were wrong, practically all of the time, it is too bad that the Weather Bureau wouldn't let me forecast...for I could have told them, before Betsy was born, that chances were 9-1 that Betsy would hit Florida, then about 5-1 she would hit Michoud. As a matter of fact, much damage and many lives could have been saved if the U.S. Government had believed me...months ago...and accepted my services. If they didn't accept, they might have at least told my story, so that many people who might believe that I could guide a hurricane to Florida, then to Michoud...could take evasive action accordingly. As a matter of fact, some newspaper could do a great service by telling my story...so that people in the target areas can ignore the expert weather forecasters, and take cover regardless. Loss of life is deeply regretted. Yet how else can I prove to the U.S. Government that I can control weather, unless I demonstrate? I have already offered to President Johnson to end the drought in the Northeast Coast, no fee...but get no answer. Using my ability and power...could save perhaps thousands and thousands of lives in the years to come, warding off hurricanes and typhoons, and ending droughts. Ted Owens - P K Man - "The Rain Maker" 08/02/2025 15:28 === Page 108 of 140 9/13/65 Monday Sept. 13, 1965 Dear Rick: Thanks for the clippings. Several of them are valuable to me, very. Take the saucer clipping...what jolted me was the mention there that the Si's guide their craft by "mental waves." This is exactly what I have in my notebook...but I got mine straight from the Si's themselves. They described how they have a control board made of octagonal colored lights. They merely have to think which way to go, and their craft obeys... powered and controlled by the big, "mother control craft"...way off somewhere else. Of course, the news in your letter is old by now. I succeeded in doing what we couldn't do in Myrtle Beach...get the 'cane to back up, or reverse. Remember how we tried? But at that time I didn't have the Si's to work with, either. This time I did. I drew a PK Line on the map just above Cape Kennedy to stop the 'cane, and it stopped. Then I took out its brain, eyes, ears, and guides...and put them back in reverse position...and it worked like a charm, when it took off again, it went forwards, backwards. Sure did make the weather experts look silly, eh? But I simply could not get her to go up, into the Cape, when she got to my next PK Line, which was just below Miami. She turned, as I wanted her to, but then went straight ahead west...into the Gulf...so I worked feverishly (stayed up half the night) to direct her to the huge Michoud Saturn complex (NASA). It was a bullseye. It is 43 miles outside New Orleans, and the 'cane was 600 miles wide. You figure out what a hit it was. That made two hits with one 'cane; a new first...as well as backing up the 'cane...another new first. Honey, I told you two weeks ago that I had cut loose from Zachow, when he asked me to just "quit the Si's" if they didn't furnish me with money. 07/25/2025 16:24 === Page 109 of 140 9/13/65 p2 2 I concur that he was spying...he wanted to know what I had and how I was doing it. And I showed him. Of course, the joker is...if he tries to use the method. No more Zachow. But I do not believe he was commie...or he would even help me go on with my work, which is a bit rough on the U.S., you know. I mean, where my PK hits...be it hurricane form or Gemini-5 form...the grass doesn't grow again, figuratively speaking. So I believe he was from the U.S. Air Force, pretending to be friendly to get "inside" me and find out what I had, so they could pooh-pooh me. They might have thought I was some kind of nut. When they found it that I was for real, and my work for real, then the next logical step would be to try to stop me with their funny about "giving the Si's a mandate" to either support me financially, or I quit them, the Si's. Ha. Momma sent her letter to you in Lornie's letter. She'll send another one. Yesterday (you know how she is) she asked me if Louisiana was a city, and what state it was in. Bless her heart. She's so sweet. She might not know very much in the way of factual knowledge, but she's a winner when it comes to being "all heart". Be a good boy, and mind Pat. I love you. Sincerely, Dad 07/25/2025 16:24 === Page 110 of 140 Monday Sept. 13, 1965 Dear Lornie: Thank you very much for your Love Cigars. I really enjoyed them very much. Best thing that's happened in ages. Put me in mind of the time you and Martha and Pat and me in Las Vegas. She and I were making fortunes and hypnotizing people...the Sands and the Turf Club. Well, I liked cigars so much I bought the same Berings as "tips" for reading fortunes between two shows nightly. When we'd pack up at 4:00 A.M., I'd have 40 Berings in my briefcase. Ha ha! I was just hypnotizing people and memorizing fortunes. Now it's just dull guiding Hurricanes here and there and putting the whammy on Gemini-5's. [Post-it note: 16th My birthday was next day 9-14 (smiley face) oops Think he forgot] Am glad to hear that you are going to school on time. That is a novelty, what? You probably even have all your notebooks and pencils, too. Livin' it up. Ha ha. Good enough. Now if you turn out a pin-headed nitwit you can't holler 'foul'. Along with all your books, clothes, notebooks, etc., be sure you have all your marbles. Beau is so fantastic by now he can't be described. He isn't just bright, he's awesomely brilliant. He actually can read minds. Punto. The other night I started to tell him to go get me a piece of toilet paper to blow my nose on, to see if he would understand...he can't talk yet. But I didn't, figuring it would be useless. I just looked at him, and he grinned, and toddled the other way from the bathroom, into the bedroom. He came back, with a proud grin on his face, holding a piece of Kleenex tissue out to me. I hadn't said a word. Last night he read Martha's mind, and it scared her. 07/25/2025 16:36 === Page 111 of 140 16th my birthday was next day 9-14 :) oops I think he forgot Monday Sept. 13, 1965 Dear Lornie: Thank you very much for your Love Cigars. I really enjoyed them very much. Hadn't smoked a Bering in ages. Put me in mind of the time when you and Rick were with Pat and me in Las Vegas. She and I were "reading minds" and telling fortunes and hypnotizing people...the works...at the Santa Anita Turf Club. Well, I liked cigars so much that Pat would take these same Berings as "tips" for reading people's fortunes between our two shows nightly. When we'd pack up to go home I would have 20 to 40 Berings in my briefcase. Ha ha! Them were the kooky days. (When I was just hypnotizing people and memorizing magazines...now it's just dull guiding hurricanes here and there and putting the whammy on Gemini-5's.) Am glad to hear that you are going to school on time. That is a novelty, what? You probably even have all your notebooks and pencils, too. Livin' it up. Ha ha. Good enough. Now if you turn out a pin-headed nitwit you can't holler 'foul'. Along with all your books, clothes, notebooks, etc., be sure you have all your marbles. Beau is so fantastic by now he can't be described. He isn't just bright, he's awesomely brilliant. He actually can read minds. Punto. The other night I started to tell him to go get me a piece of toilet paper to blow my nose on, to see if he would understand...he can't talk yet. But I didn't, figuring it would be useless. I just looked at him, and he grinned, and toddled the other way from the bathroom, into the bedroom. He came back, with a proud grin on his face, holding a piece of Kleenex tissue out to me. I hadn't said a word. Last night he read Martha's mind, and it scared her. 07/25/2025 16:36 === Page 112 of 140 9-13-65 p2 2 He is so damned cute and funny...when there's music on the radio he climbs up on a chair and dances wildly, gyrating all over... with his shoulders, his head, his arms, his hips...then when he thinks he's done a good dance, he claps his hands to show us it's time to applaud...and we applaud. Then he dances some more. But we have to applaud. Affectionate? He gives us hugs and kisses constantly. When I am lying down, sleeping, he'll come over and kiss me on the cheeks a lot, and put his little hand on my cheek and pat pat pat away, gently. We've had a little difficulty with him throwing things...like chairs, small tables, anything he can pick up. Believe me. He takes a kitchen chair, heaves it up, and throws it. Martha is afraid to scold him, because if she makes him mad, he attacks. I think you've seen that...but now he's practiced up. He goes in like a football tackle, grabs a leg, and bites. If you try to fend him off with an arm or hand, he bites that. He does have a spirited temper. Yesterday he astonished me by pointing to his ear, then to the radio. He wanted to hear music on the radio. This is the way he communicates. Am glad to hear that everything is going well there. Here it is the usual chaos. A job today; no job tomorrow. Worked three days last week. No night clubs in town worth spitting at, for my shows. No car to get out with, to find a better place. So, meanwhile, East Lynne. Fudge! You've mastered the course, so you know what it is. But we are making it, the while. Love, Dad 07/25/2025 16:36 === Page 113 of 140 9/13/65 P3 4 The Evening Bulletin B PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, August 3, 1965 # Rainmaker Offers City a Real Storm For Only $10,000 By HENRY R. DARLING Of The Bulletin Staff A rainmaker has come to Philadelphia. He says he'll break the drought for $10,000--a bargain rate. "I'd want $50,000 to do it in New York," he said. He's been here since the first of July. He said he whomped up the big storm that hit the city the weekend of July 11--remember? -- the first and only soaking rain we've had since December. "It wasn't easy," he noted. "I had to work on it for more than a week." Working on it, he said, requires a combination of parapsychology and "some things my grandfather told me about the way the Apache Indians used to make rain." The rainmaker is a slightly balding, well-fed man in his middle 40s with a pleasant smile and an engaging personality. **Knife-Thrower in Circus** His name is Ted Owens and he was once a professional knife-thrower with the circus. "I'm probably the best knife-thrower in the country," he said, modestly. He wrote a letter to The Bulletin as soon as he arrived in the city and said he was working on a big rainstorm. He wrote another letter after the storm hit, pointed out that he had made everybody happy, and explained why: "I live here now and I do not like hot, dry weather. Therefore Philadelphia will be wetter and cooler than the rest of the U. S. this summer. The people here are lucky . . ." He also said he was working on another storm for Philadelphia for the next weekend. The rain came, a bit north of the city, but enough to produce a good downpour here and .8 of an inch in Montgomery County. **Letter Arrives** The letter came the next day--Monday, July 19. "Well, I told you," wrote the rainmaker. "You just enjoyed my storm which I referred to in my letter. I was right there in Rittenhouse Square yesterday, calling down the storm and especially the lightning, which is my trademark." He signed his name THE RAINMAKER, c-o Owens. He was finally located in a Spruce st. hotel. He said he was born in Indiana, has had 20 different "professions" besides knife-throwing and studied extrasensory perception at Duke University. **Says Combination Works** He was living in Phoenix, Ariz. in 1963, he said, when he decided to try combining ESP with the Apache Indian rainmaking act. "The Indians had a good thing going but they didn't really know what they were doing," he said. "They thought they had to dance and take drugs and that sort of thing." To his surprise, the combination worked and he got "eight violent storms in five days," he said. He opened one of three well-stuffed briefcases and pulled out a folder containing newspaper clippings of each of the eight storms. The clippings were neatly pasted up, numbered and dated. "This proves it," he said. "The storms nearly wrecked that part of Arizona." **Our House Hit** One bolt of lightning hit his own house. He said he wasn't scared, "just amused." He moved to Los Angeles and said he produced some rainstorms which culminated in the big landslides of November, 1964. The rainmaker said he doesn't really want to hurt anyone. Pictures of storm damage--houses with the roofs blown off, automobiles wrecked by falling trees--bothered him at first. But he said he got used to them. He went to Washington, D. C. to try to explain his talent for producing storms to the government. **Turned Down by Government** He took all three briefcases along to prove his point. But, he said, he couldn't make the right contacts. Since the government didn't want his information for free, he decided to try at least to make a living out of it. He said he came to Philadelphia because it is in the center of the present drought area and he wanted to interest some big cities in buying his services. He was reluctant to explain just how he went about producing a storm--not that there was any big secret to it, he said, but because it is a complicated business. **Visual Imagery** "It's partly a matter of contacting the intelligence behind nature," he said. "It also involves imagery." To explain visual imagery, he took a piece of paper and wrote numbers from one to 20 down the left side. He handed the paper to an observer and told him to write down an object after each number, calling out the number and the object as he did so. 1. Umbrella. 2. Puddle. 3. Camera. 4. House, etc. Without looking at the paper, he read off the numbers and the objects, first going from one to 20; then from 20 back to one. He had the observer pick out numbers at random, and he called off the corresponding object. Then he had the observer call the objects and he gave their numbers. Maybe the rainmaker has just been lucky with storms. But there's certainly nothing wrong with his visual imagery. Love to my boy Rick... "The Rain Maker" 07/25/2025 16:24 === Page 114 of 140 Read and keep (Dad 9/13/65 p4 THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, AUGUST 22, # AMATEUR EFFORTS BENEFIT SCIENCE Many Important Discoveries Made in Spare Time WASHINGTON--A janitor, a physician, a Roman Catholic monk, a Unitarian minister, two musicians, and an architect swell the ranks of amateur scientists. The janitor, Anton van Leeuwenhoek, swept out the city hall of Delft in the 17th century, the National Geographic Society says. Townspeople thought he was a little daft because he ground chunks of glass into lenses. They were sure he was crazy when he told them he had looked through one of his lenses into a drop of water, and had seen hundreds of small creatures scurrying about. But Britain's Royal Society was more attentive: Leeuwenhoek had discovered germs. Amateurs have made important discoveries in every field of science. Knowledge of dinosaurs was given to the world by an English country doctor, Gideon Mantell, who liked to pick up fossils; the principles of heredity by an Austrian abbot, Gregor Mendel; oxygen by an English Unitarian theologian, Joseph Priestley, and the Kodachrome color photography process by two American musicians, Lee Godowsky and Leopold Mannes, who experimented in hotel rooms while on tour. Even today, a time of tremendous advances in professional science, the amateur appears in no danger of extinction. There are so many thousands of amateur rocket scientists at work that the American Rocket Society issued a booklet warning them of the risks they run. Only a few years ago an English architect, Michael Ventris, solved a puzzle that had long tormented archeologists -- the decipherment of an ancient language of Crete and Greece known as Minoan Linear B. In the United States, another amateur archeologist, a onetime dishwasher, discovered the remains of Thoreau's cabin at Walden Pond. Other sparetime archeologists were the first to investigate Russell Cave, an Alabama cavern inhabited 9,000 years ago. Two teen-age radio hams astounded the scientific community in 1960 by transmitting signals to each other with radio waves bounced off a satellite. A quarter of a century earlier another ham, Grote Reber of Wheaton, Ill., used his own time and money to build the world's first radio-telescope in his back yard. Horst Gerstenkorn, an amateur astronomer, made computations tracing the position of the moon backward in history and suggested, in 1954, that the moon was a small planet captured long ago by the earth's gravitational field. His work was praised in Science, the organ of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The writer expressed amazement that at a time when billions of dollars and rubles are being spent on government moon programs, "a high school teacher having no other assets than his interest and his free time" could still make a contribution. Some observers believe that breakthroughs in each field of science will often come from amateurs. The amateur lacks the professional's training laboratories, staff, and prestige, but he is free to follow his own interests and imagination; he does not have to worry about getting quick results or losing status in the "publish or perish" world. His very ignorance may help sometimes. The German psychiatrist Hans Berger discovered brain waves because, unlike the experts, he didn't know they were regarded as an impossibility. An amateur can still find plenty to do. Take entomology: The world may support 2,000,000 to 10,000,000 insect species. The professionals have hardly begun to catalogue them, let alone record their habits. An amateur can go to work today in his own backyard. === Page 115 of 140 MONDAY SEPT. 13, 1965 DEAR LORNIE AND RICK, .......... AT THIS POINT I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT TO GO OVER WITH YOU, MY CHILDREN, MY INTENT AND PURPOSE. AS YOU WELL KNOW, WHEN I DISCOVERED THAT I HAD SOMEHOW OBTAINED A POWER AND ABILITY... NOT KNOWN OTHERWISE TO MANKIND... I DETERMINED TO USE THIS POWER AND ABILITY (WHICH WE CALLED "PK") FOR THE CONSTRUCTIVE GOOD OF THE UNITED STATES, AND THEN THE COMPLETE WORLD PICTURE. ... BUT THE U.S. GOVERNMENT WOULD NOT ACCEPT MY WORK... SO I DETERMINED TO PROVE MY POWER AND ABILITY TO THE U.S. THE ONLY WAY POSSIBLE... BY DEMONSTRATIONS OF MY SYSTEM, FIRST PREDICTING WHAT WAS TO COME, TO VARIOUS GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, SO THAT WHEN IT HAPPENED THEY WOULD KNOW THAT IT WAS NO ACCIDENT. FOR OVER A YEAR I HAVE HARASSED THE GOVT. AND THE MILITARY, WITH THIS "PK" SYSTEM. IT HAS COST LIVES, AND FIVE TO TEN BILLION DOLLARS, IN DAMAGE. ("BETSY" ALONE HAS CAUSED ONE BILLION IN DAMAGE.) BUT THIS IS ONLY A FLY-SPECK IN TIME. ONCE MY SYSTEM IS ACCEPTED AND USED, IN COUNTLESS WAYS (TO DIVERT HURRICANES, TORNADOS, TYPHOONS... TO BRING PEACE, WHERE THERE IS WAR, ETC.) COUNTLESS LIVES WILL BE SAVED. IT IS A CASE OF THE PATIENT TAKING A LITTLE PAIN IN ORDER TO SURVIVE. IT IS A CASE OF LOSING A LITTLE, TO GAIN A LOT. AND MANY LIVES WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN LOST, 08/02/2025 15:28 === Page 116 of 140 9-13-65 p2 2 PRESIDENT JOHNSON AND THE GOVT. HAD HEEDED MY PLEAS TO LISTEN. AT THIS MOMENT = COULD BE ENDING THE TERRIBLE DROUGHT IN FLORIDA... ENDING THE TERRIBLE EAST COAST DROUGHT... HELPING CHINA'S DESPERATE DROUGHT PROBLEM... STOPPING THE VIET NAM WAR... STOPPING THE PAKISTAN-INDIA WAR... PREPARING TO DIVERT OTHER HURRICANES COMING UP, AWAY FROM THE U.S., AND SO ON. BUT UNTIL OUR GOVT., WITH ITS FOOLISH FALSE PRIDE, LISTENS AND ACCEPTS, I AM HELPLESS TO UTILIZE THE GREATEST POWER IN EXISTENCE... THE GREATEST POWER HERETOFORE KNOWN TO MANKIND... IN BEHALF OF THAT SAME GOVT. AND MANKIND. I HAVE OFFERED, TO PRESIDENT JOHNSON, WITHOUT A FEE, TO END THE N. EAST COAST DROUGHT, HE DIDN'T EVEN GIVE ME THE COURTESY OF A REPLY. SO YOU SEE WHAT I, AND MY SP'S HELPERS, ARE UP AGAINST. OUR CIVILIZATION CANNOT SURVIVE WITHOUT THE AID OF THE SP'S. AND OUR GOVT., OF THE UNITED STATES, IS BLOCKING THE SP'S FROM SAVING CIVILIZATION. AND TIME IS RUNNING OUT. THIS IS THE TRUE PICTURE... AND WHY YOUR DAD IS STILL HITTING GEMINI-5 AND GUIDING HURRICANES. Love, Dad (PK Man) === Page 117 of 140 9-13-65 Loriest Rick P3-4 PK Man - "The Rain Maker" The Saturday Sermon A Fool There Was By DR. FREDERICK BROWN HARRIS Chaplain, United States Senate Washington--FOOL is a barbed word. When hurled it usually carries a stigma. A fool is supposed to be one unbalanced, unable to render a reasonable judgment. A fool is one who plunges ahead with no regard for consequences, who scorns safety first and who refuses to conform. Dr. Harris The old adage declares--"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." "The greatest fool," says Shaftesbury, "is one who thinks he knows with certainty that which he has least studied and of which he is most profoundly ignorant." A foolscap on dunces relegated to a corner in the school of life is a fit insignia. But history makes clear that across the centuries a foolscap often has been put on the wrong head. FOOL is often the label pasted on a wise man by those about him who are ignorant and timid. Those that one generation has pilloried as fools have more than once turned out to be the wisest of their day and the benefactors of all humanity. It is literally true that the world has moved forward on the legs of the alleged fools! Socrates was a laughing stock on the public streets of Athens because he refused all sensible advice. He was such a fool that he finally drank the hemlock. Cato was held up to ridicule in Rome because the venal citizens of that great capital called him a fool for refusing bribes. When George Stephenson proposed to draw a train of cars by steam at the rate of 14 miles an hour he was regarded as a fit candidate for the madhouse. When Robert Fulton--in whose honor a memorial stamp has been issued in this year 1965--announced his intention to navigate the Hudson River on a steamboat, his idea was ridiculed by men of sense and science as "the silliest that ever entered a silly brain." When William Carey, father of the modern missionary movement, set about sending a group of missionaries to India he was publicly denounced in the House of Commons and his plan was referred to as "the project of a lunatic." Because he "risked the thing" Charles A. Lindbergh, who disappeared over the ocean in a little plane, now a museum magnet for thousands, was dubbed a "flying fool." When he saw a fleet of fishing boats he records, "I flew down, almost touching the craft, and yelled at them asking if I was on the right road to Ireland. They just stared! Maybe they thought I was a crazy fool. An hour later I saw land." Over our 49th state, Alaska, is today a bright rainbow of promise as its marvelous resources are developed. But the statesman who saw its potential greatness and secured it for a song, was on all sides called a fool and the whole transaction was labeled "Seward's folly!" What a volume could be written entitled--Posterity's Appraisal of Men Whom Their Own Age Called Fools! When we thrill, gratefully, at the surgical miracles of today performed in the hospitals of every city, we cannot forget the doctors willing to be called fools even as was Pasteur by the medical lights of his day. When the first abdominal operation in the history of surgery was performed by a country doctor down in Kentucky, a frenzied mob patroled the house for two hours ready to lynch the "fool doctor" if the patient died. But with a nerve that failed not, and a hand that did not falter, he went ahead. The life of the woman involved was saved. A Poet's Words Today medical science pays its high tribute to the man who dared the fury of a mob to blaze a new path in surgery. Ah, the valiant men marching ahead of their time who by their contemporaries were decked with foolscaps! A poet listening not to the harsh billingsgate of the day, but hearing the appraisal of the long years, wrote-- Give us now and then a man And life will crown him king; Just to take the consequence Just to risk the thing. Paul Suffered, Too Long centuries ago, Paul, the Apostle, who had suffered all things and had been called almost every vile name, declared he was willing to go even farther. He said he was willing to be called a fool for the sake of the Christ he served. There are those today in this time of destiny who, God forgive them for their ignorance when the truth is so easily available, call certain God-inspired leaders, who in the free world are defying the colossal forces of atheistic communism, fools. But, standing for spiritual verities, and freedom, they are God's fools. Those who sense the real issues of this age on ages telling are crying out in anguish of soul--"Wanted, more fools with unquenchable faith in the precious things we hold nearest our hearts." The world today calls loudly for "fools for Christ's sake" which means--for humanity everywhere threatened by those who have already advanced over half the earth with shackles of slavery. My soul lift up thine eyes; Oh child, in this world's school Wilt thou be counted wise, Or just a fool? 08/02/2025 15:28 === Page 118 of 140 9-13-65 Lomie & Rick P 34 THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, AUGUST 22, # AMATEUR EFFORTS BENEFIT SCIENCE ## Many Important Discoveries Made in Spare Time WASHINGTON--A janitor, a physician, a Roman Catholic monk, a Unitarian minister, two musicians, and an architect swell the ranks of amateur scientists. The janitor, Anton van Leeuwenhoek, swept out the city hall of Delft in the 17th century, the National Geographic Society says. Townspeople thought he was a little daft because he ground chunks of glass into lenses. They were sure he was crazy when he told them he had looked through one of his lenses into a drop of water, and had seen hundreds of small creatures scurrying about. But Britain's Royal Society was more attentive: Leeuwenhoek had discovered germs. Amateurs have made important discoveries in every field of science. Knowledge of dinosaurs was given to the world by an English country doctor, Gideon Mantell, who liked to pick up fossils; the principles of heredity by an Austrian abbot, Gregor Mendel; oxygen by an English Unitarian theologian, Joseph Priestley, and the Kodachrome color photography process by two American musicians, Leo Godowsky and Leopold Mannes, who experimented in hotel rooms while on tour. Even today, a time of tremendous advances in professional science, the amateur appears in no danger of extinction. There are so many thousands of amateur rocket scientists at work that the American Rocket Society issued a booklet warning them of the risks they run. Only a few years ago an English architect, Michael Ventris, solved a puzzle that had long tormented archeologists -- the decipherment of an ancient language of Crete and Greece known as Minoan Linear B. In the United States, another amateur archeologist, a onetime dishwasher, discovered the remains of Thoreau's cabin at Walden Pond. Other sparetime archeologists were the first to investigate Russell Cave, an Alabama cavern inhabited 9,000 years ago. Two teen-age radio hams astounded the scientific community in 1960 by transmitting signals to each other with radio waves bounced off a satellite. A quarter of a century earlier another ham, Grote Reber of Wheaton, Ill., used his own time and money to build the world's first radio-telescope in his backyard. Horst Gerstenkorn, an amateur astronomer, made computations tracing the position of the moon backward in history and suggested, in 1954, that the moon was a small planet captured long ago by the earth's gravitational field. His work was praised in Science, the organ of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The writer expressed amazement that at a time when billions of dollars and rubles are being spent on government moon programs, "a high school teacher having no other assets than his interest and his free time" could still make a contribution. Some observers believe that breakthroughs in each field of science will often come from amateurs. The amateur lacks the professional's training laboratories, staff, and prestige, but he is free to follow his own interests and imagination; he does not have to worry about getting quick results or losing status in the "publish or perish" world. His very ignorance may help sometimes. The German psychiatrist Hans Berger discovered brain waves because, unlike the experts, he didn't know they were regarded as an impossibility. An amateur can still find plenty to do. Take entomology: The world may support 2,000,000 to 10,000,000 insect species. The professionals have hardly begun to catalogue them, let alone record their habits. An amateur can go to work today in his own backyard. === Page 119 of 140 9/15/65 P1 Wednesday, September 15, 1965 Miss Katherine Raley Secretary Drew Pearson 1313 29th St., N.W. Washington, D. C. 20007 Dear Miss Raley: You ask for a brief outline of the story that I have for Mr. Pearson. That "brief" makes it difficult, because of the nature of the story (which the U.S. Government is hushing up...has clamped the lid on.) Never has Mr. Pearson ever had a story of this size or importance...and I will grant you that he's had some important ones. To indicate its importance - Betsy need not have devastated Miami or New Orleans. Gemini-5 did not have to have its many difficulties. The Flying Laboratory sent up recently from Cape Kennedy (OSO) did not have to accidentally explode at its third stage, August 25, 1965. And so on. Am enclosing valued file copies. Please return them. They are a scattered few pieces of my bulging files at home. But you wanted a brief outline, and for my story... this much material, at least, is brief. Let's start in Philadelphia, to explain who I am, what I do. "A" (see enclosed) explains that I am called 'The Rain Maker." I have delivered the only rain in Philadelphia since July (except for one small drizzle.) I wrote the local papers before the storms occurred (one to two weeks before) telling them. Jack McKinny, "Night Talk", WCAU Radio here...asked me to appear for an hour on August 4 on his radio show. So I made a storm that night, which began when I walked into the radio station at 10 PM and ended when I came out at 2 AM. After my hour, then a U.S. Senator was to follow, then Jack Carter, the famous comedian. McKinny called them and cancelled them - and kept me on the program for four hours, non-stop. The following Friday Ed Harve, "Talk of Philadelphia" radio show, asked me to be on his program the following Monday - and make it rain that day to coincide with my appearance. I told him that I would do my best. The storm which hit Philadelphia that day that I was on his program flooded Philadelphia. Lightning bolts struck scores of homes; hit a power station, and a police radio towers. And so on. I am trying to lead into this gradually, because I have discovered how to do something which no other human has ever done. Mr. George Clark, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington 25, D. C., has an almost-complete file of all my work. Mr. Eastwood, Inventions Department, NASA, Washington, D. C., has much the same. Mrs. Louisa Rhine, P.O. Box 46, Rt. 3, Hillsboro, North Carolina, has an almost-complete file also. She is the famous author-scientist wife of Dr. J. B. Rhine, famed parapsychologist (ESP) at Duke. I spent hours in Washington with "George Clark", and with Eastwood at NASA; also with a Mr. Dunn at CIA. 08/02/2025 15:28 === Page 120 of 140 9/15/65 p2 They had plenty of proof of my incredible work! For instance, see "B". To check this, Jack McKinny, on a six-state radio hook-up, called Mrs. Mangels, who verified the authenticity of it...as well as others. "C" - a prediction sent to Clark, CIA, four days before it developed. Note on the newspaper clip the term "symbolic" just as I described it. Better add here that as far as NASA, CIA, Space Center Cape Kennedy, etc., are concerned - I am known as "P K Man." PK stands for psychokinesis, a parapsychological term. "D" is a prediction made re President Johnson, which came true. Self-explanatory. Made to Hugh Lynn Cayce, son of Edgar Cayce, at A.R.E. at Virginia Beach. My family was travelling through, and we stayed there one day. Enough. Have many more of these in my files. Now, what is so important? See letter attached to "E" - MEMO TO THE PEOPLE OF THE U.S. (This was sent to the State Department, the President, Space Center, etc., in August of 1964. But I had warned the Cape, in early July letters. In other words, I started working with my amazing system...against the forces of the U. S. Government, as an experiment...in early July, 1964. In U. S. News and World Report, Sept. 21, 1964: "Before the hurricane blows fell on Florida in August and September, the State had had only one destructive hurricane in the past 13 years. The northeastern Florida area was hit for the first time this century. After a full of years, why had successive hurricanes suddenly battered the coast?" Why, indeed, Miss Raley. As a matter of fact - why have four hurricanes hit the area of Daytona Beach to Miami, since just last July? Why did two hurricanes hit the New Orleans area...43 miles from NASA's huge Saturn Missile Complex? (I'll answer that in the paragraph following this one.) In today's paper, Phila. Inquirer, article by John O'Brien: "U.S. Spends Millions For Disaster Relief"..."Hurricane Betsy...is the latest in the worst spate of natural disasters on record." (Wrong - they were controlled disasters.) "During the fiscal year from July 1, 1964 (when I began my PK work) to July 1, 1965, President Johnson granted requests from 24 Governors for 29 major disaster declarations...and authorized disaster declarations totalling $85,986,100." "Prior to Hurricane Betsy (billion in damages) since July 1 of this year, the President had to make six major disaster declarations, which entailed disaster allocations totalling $44,661,000. Etc." The rest of the article dealt with results from my "PK" work. Now, please re-read "E", second page of Aug. 25 letter attached. Now I'm getting to the point, Miss Raley - unless you've gone to sleep reading all this. "F" of Aug. 30, 1964, to Space Agency, State Department, etc., is self-explanatory. "G" of Sept. 3, 1964, same. "H" of Oct. 4, 1964. I have successfully guided Hurricane Hilda and Hurricane Betsy to the Michoud Saturn Missile Complex. 08/02/2025 15:28 === Page 121 of 140 9/15/65 P3 "I" of Aug. 31, July 7, and Sept. 11, 1965. .......... There is the general idea. But here is the shocker. Mr. Dunn, of CIA, asked me what the causal factor was in my strange system, or ability. I thought then (months ago) that I had managed somehow to communicate with the intelligence behind Nature. However, on July 8 I found out definitely what the "causal factor" was. See "J". By August 4 they, the UFO's (I call them SI's...for saucer intelligences...) had given me a message, which Jack McKinney read on that four-hour radio show, over the air. See "K". .......... Now, my two teen-agers (16 and 15) have watched me hit missiles with PK, and bring them down. They have watched me make, and guide, hurricanes. Etc. They are: Lorne and Rick Owens, c/o Shannon, 505 S. Osage St., #3, Inglewood, California. Feel free to check with them in any way, if you wish. I have offered to CIA and the President to have their men watch me guide hurricanes - tape the process and take pictures, if they like (I work on maps.) I have offered to President Johnson to break the drought on the entire northeastern coast (I can do this.) But no reply from him. Easier, I guess, just to spend a hundred million or so of the taxpayers money to try to figure it out. I will make the same offer to Mr. Pearson. If he can put us up (My wife, baby and I) on his farm for the time it will take then I will break the entire drought on this eastern coast...give New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, etc., as much precipitation as they need to get well....to fill all their rivers, streams, reservoirs, etc. I will do this by making rainstorm after rainstorm...abnormal amounts of rainfall. Also I will guide hurricanes up to New York so that the entire area will benefit from the billions of gallons of water from the hurricanes. Since I have been a court-reporter and an office-manager, it is possible that I could do some typing work at the farm, while I am working on the rainfall and hurricanes. But the rain-making is a seven-day-a-week job. "L" has, on the second page, the main reason Mr. Pearson should try to get this story out from behind the lid the Government has clamped on it. He could thereby save many lives. "M" is yesterday's letter to my children, in California. And the clipped group of documents are in case you are interested enough to read further. There it is, Miss Riley...all true, so help me God. Fantastic though it sounds. The biggest news story certainly of the century...if not further back than that. Think of it...at last man can finally control hurricanes, rain, snow, sunshine, etc. And the system also has other uses. Since the rain which fell on Mr. Pearson's farm in Maryland came from Betsy - then he does indeed owe me a debt of gratitude...for Betsy was "made" by myself. And there will be others. Sincerely, Ted Owens (P K Man, "Rain Maker") 1114 Spruce, #33, Hotel, Phila., Pa. === Page 122 of 140 Thursday, Sept. 16, 1965 Dear Lornie... Thank you very much, honey, for the cigars. I smoked them last evening, and enjoyed them. What box from Washington...? You thought I sent it...but I am not in Washington, honey. Yes, I had great success with Betsy...am that much better this year than last...also now am working in conscious collaboration with the Si's. I can see them, write down what I want, they change it into their writing, then into sound...and poof...it happens. But there is so much happening now, with the Si's, that you don't know about...and I can't put into letters.... They told me just today not to worry about money, house, car, etc., that they are "growing a new brain" in me....containing much wisdom and understanding, like the Bible says...and that my new brain will be worth more than "diamonds, rubies and pearls"...and that what will naturally follow...will be wealth, if I want it. Sounds cockeyed, eh? But all of the facts remain...like a lightning bolt hitting the Moon Rocket Pad...like me guiding Betsy left, right, backwards, then right again...her following, following my directions. The facts remain...thus I know they know what they are talking about. Am glad to hear that your school plans are lining up satisfactorily. Have a lot of fun, and be the good student you were in Washington. You are a good student...and since you have a dear little brother..work with him, gently...leading him, not pushing him...into being a good student, also. Tell him to auto-hyp and tell himself that he can be an A student in anything he wants to be...that he will automatically study hard on that subject. You know what to tell him; you've watched me work with people enough. Seattle might send you a check, one of these days, to send to me. Since I move around, I had to have a permanent address to give them. It will be a substantial check, and of course I need it. As for bills...we haven't any here; as for Washington, nothing. Forget it. I fail to see how it could worry Pat. We only owed a couple of teeny weeny bills in Wash., and they can't do anything out there in California. But at any rate...I certainly am not giving that address to any bill collectors. That irked me. It smacked exactly as of the same tone Jim had when he told me those people didn't want to see us up in San Francisco. You handle any mail that might trickle through to me, honey. Love, Dad 07/25/2025 16:24 === Page 123 of 140 Thursday, Sept. 16, 1965 Dear Rick: Yes, with Betsy I got several firsts...first 'cane to be able to get to Electro and Michoud in one single shot; first 'cane to be able to put in reverse, or opposite direction (had to work both with the 'cane, and with the force field...something we didn't think of last year.); and first 'cane to stop right on the "PK" line I made for it not to cross (did this twice.) All of which goes to show the tremendous control that I have this year, as compared with last year...although 3 hits on Electro last year were not bad. But I got better performance out of Betsy. Even if I didn't get a dead-bullseye on the Cape. Listen...Rick...quit football. Don't you think Daddy knows what he is talking about? You had some terrible head injuries when you were a baby...and it's taken years for the inside of your head to heal (broken blood vessels, etc.) Now all it would take is a tap, and you might be blinded or paralyzed. Show this to Pat, what I am saying. I warned you, told you, in Washington, to stay away from football, honey....also boxing. They are both suckers game. In football, no matter how good you are...you can get hit from the "blind side" ... that is, from where you are not looking. I had a buddy in high school get killed next to me during a high school football game...Earl Carr, Auburn, Indiana, '36. A kid rammed him after a play was over, head and helmet low into Earl's stomach...tore his guts apart inside, and he hemorrhaged to death before they could get him to a hospital. I held his casket at the funeral. Also, currently they are having a tremendous rash of football deaths in high schools and colleges. They recently had 8 boys killed in 6 days; they cannot explain it. Boxing is just as stupid. The gloves hit your head, do not hurt the outside, but tear loose the tiny delicate membranes and blood vessels inside. And since judo is better than boxing...let boxing go and learn judo. Honey...you know my "sixth sense" and ability to see ahead...predict. Do what I tell you, and get away from football and boxing, like they were poison to you..which they are. Basketball...great! I predict you will be a champion at that. That was my best game, and I played it more than anything else. Now, if I wanted to get rid of you, my boy, I would let you play football and wouldn't say a word. Love, Dad 07/25/2025 16:24 === Page 124 of 140 Wed. Sept 22, 1965 Dear Lorrie -- Thank you for the two good cigars! Smoked them tonight after one of Martha's fried chicken suppers. Beau just fell and split his head open -- an inch from his right eye. Lord! We're calming him down. Martha is reading to him. He came in to have me kiss it & make it well. Little as he is, when he gets hurt -- he believes my kiss will make it well. And it does. (Along with my secret system.) Received a letter back today I had sent you kids to 505 S. Osage. Somebody had returned it... not to us but to an office I had worked. And they thoughtfully got it to me. I returned it to you. Wonder how many other letters I've sent -- have been blocked? You wouldn't know. Bet you had a happy birthday. Your school classes look like fun. French -- ugh! Sewing is dandy, if you learn anything from it. And you're good at it. I pity your driver-instructor. Ha! If he knew what I know he'd walk behind the car. (Still, there is reverse gear -- even that wouldn't be safe! Ha ha) Yes -- I met the people. They gave us vegetables. But they, too, are clunk-heads. Am still yearning to meet somebody interesting. Wrong -- power of any kind never gets extinct, honey. If people were afraid of electricity, it would still be around. You dig? Love and kisses -- Dad. 07/25/2025 16:36 === Page 125 of 140 Copy Rick Lornie Wednesday, Oct. 6, 1965 Mr. George Clark, CIA Dear George: President Johnson is not having this operation by accident. If you will glance at my previous correspondence, it spells out the details. I told you that the UFO's had him zero'd in. And they have. And they will continue to have. I have done very poorly these past months; got the newspaper write-up (and so the stock market improved). But nothing has come of it...nobody hired me to break the drought...therefore the stock market is in for a hard time ahead, am afraid. You will see. Sept. 29 two submarines collided off "Electra" (California coast) Oct. 1 two destroyers collided off "Electro" (Florida coast) Oct, 2 two planes collided in Viet Nam. These seemingly separate accidents were not accidents, George...and they were strung like beads on a string...to point out the fact. The UFO's are getting very angry. Ted Owens (PK Man) 1114 Spruce, #33 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania === Page 126 of 140 10/6/65 p2 Copy-Kids (Copy of telegram sent to Mr. George Clark, CIA, 9:30 PM, Thursday, October 27, 1965: "A RARE WARNING. SI'S IN FURY. SEE COPY LETTER NASA BEFORE GEMINI SIX SHOT. KEEP IN MIND VANISHING AGENA ROCKET. UNLESS GOVERNMENT COMPLIES WITH SI'S WISHES THEY WILL UNLEASH TERRIBLE U.S. CATASTROPHE WITHIN TEN DAYS. DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY HAVE IN MIND, BUT LET THE GOVERNMENT BE WARNED. P K MAN (Owens) === Page 127 of 140 Friday, Oct. 15, 1965 Dear Lornie: Thank you for the cigars, hon. I'll smoke them tonight, while watching TV, and think of you. I am doing plenty of things with PK, sweetheart...but mostly I don't care to put it into letters going to L.A. You understand. Some things, okay. But a great deal of it I have throttled down, because of no reaction from Washington. That is, I do a lot now, but am not writing on it. For instance...you either have in your files, or you've seen in mine...numerous letters of warning with regard to President Johnson, these past months. So wham...he lands flat on his back and his GB is cut out, and his kidneys worked on. A major operation, putting him out of commission for a couple of months. But...it's a warning from the Si's, pure and simple. They have him zeroed in...I warned him and the government of it a month ago...so it's up to them if they want to keep ignoring me and the Si's. And if you had been reading the papers you'd have seen aircraft carriers colliding; destroyers colliding; nuclear subs colliding; and planes colliding. Remember my Plane-Sub-Ship PK, started over a year ago...and growing? You'd better believe it! As for my Hurricane-Hunter Groups...they ran clear out of the alphabet in the Pacific...and have re-started on another round of the alphabet...Typhoon C or D was the last one I heard of, on the second round. The HH Groups, you know, cause hurricanes, typhoons, earthquakes, volcanoes to erupt, tornadoes, and floods. They cause, in other words, violent aberrations of the weather and of the earth itself. (Typhoons are hurricanes, but in the Pacific, not the Atlantic, and the HH Groups strike anywhere and everywhere.) As I pointed out in one of my letters to you...they have named a hurricane after you this year, as per my request last year (Laurie, not Lornie, but they never get the name right) and one for Martha, too, as I requested. That Mr. Dunn, Chief of the Hurricane Bureau in Miami, is nice, and evidently has a sense of humor. I am going to issue more HH Groups today, in an effort to produce enough 'canes out of Florida to get you and Martha down on the map in 'cane form. You have a lot of school work, eh? Well, that may keep you out of mischief, ha ha. But I doubt it. Keep me clued in on Rick's "extracurricular" activity. I worry about him. He needs a strong loving hand to guide him, and there he just ain't got it. Love, maybe, but not the judo-type control I can furnish. He'll be a great boy, a winner, if he gets enough special attention with love attached to it. He's so bright he'll run circles around the Shannons and the Bentleys...and get away with murder. You know it. Lots of love, kisses, and hugs -- Daddy. 07/25/2025 16:24 === Page 128 of 140 Friday, Oct. 22, 1965 Dear Rick: As you can see by the enclosed clipping, there is a good basis for my instructing you to stay away from football like it was poison...which it is, for you. This year there have been twenty-one highschool boys killed playing football. I think I know why this is so, but nobody would believe it, so I won't say it. Anyway, stick to basketball, Rick. You are a genius at it, and I predict that you will be a champion basketball player, able to do trick shots that nobody else can...and score more, too. Not much doing for our little group right now. All is quiet, you might say. I have many irons in the fire, but so far, none of them have gotten hot...well, there's one exception to that...one has sort of gotten hot, but there's no contract yet. If this deal does go through, I'll make two thousand a month. I will either be rich, or starve to death...but I'll be damned if I'll ever "just exist" in between. Beau is more fun than when you were with him; he knows more now, plays more games, can say more words...and is very loving and affectionate. Am sending you some pictures soon; those color pictures, you know. Probably be a week or two. With that camera, you need to stand pretty close, or your subject is sort of far away, and it is necessary for a blow-up to be made of the print in order to see the detail. Will say that the pictures are good. Be a good boy, honey, and make your pappy (yo old grey-haired daddy) proud of you, eh? Love and kisses Dad === Page 129 of 140 Thursday Oct. 28, 1965 Dear Lornie - Thanks very much, honey, for the Bering. The Optimos tear up in the mail, but the Berings don't because of the metal tube...you can send Berings anytime, ha ha. Anyway, 1 Bering is better than 2 Optimos. I smoked your cigar after supper last night, while we watched TV. Beau is so cute and darling...he snuggles up in my lap every night, for hours, watching TV with us. We have a dandy TV set...and can get all the channels, including UHF. Your girl friend sounds cute, and am glad that you have some female companionship and friendship. These "queens and princesses" though...ugh. Their values tend to become warped and shallow. Always remember, "All is not gold that glitters." Every time I see a pretty girl I remember that, and wonder if the girl can also cook good; sew good; has a good heart inside the pretty outside; is loyal and honest with her loved ones; and can she fulfill the main female function, that of giving real love and affection. Few can...but some can. It is my hope that you'll fill the bill re the above, and make some man a happy and successful man, some of these days, after you marry him. Because a man's mate can make him happy and successful in the world...or miserable and a bum. I worked here for a Bureau that rehabilitates alcoholics...and had complete access to their files, and studied the cases rather thoroughly. What I tell you was borne out in the histories of most of these men. Am proud of you for making A's in school. That reflects both brains and hard work. Good for you. A's are never just given; they are earned, the hard way. Am doing a great amount of work at this time with PK. Yes, of course I am in contact with the Si's, honey. I have a 2-way communication with them...and can reach them in seconds. Almost instantly. And they, me. This is nothing "hallucinatory" - but is done through controlled visual imagery. Everyone here has colds...regular epidemic going around. You have heat and poisonous smog there, eh? Keep yourself braced for a possible earthquake, 6 or above on the Richter Scale. That's a tough one. You and Rick have your Angel...and PK protection...therefore even if the houses all came down in LA, you'd be protected. Next week I am sending you a present...you've been so sweet about sending cigars. Am sending you a set of colored pics, the ones taken in Washington, of the bunch. Be on the watch for them. Must go now. Be good, and mind Pat. She knows a lot, even more than you do. Love and kisses.......... Dad 08/02/2025 15:28 === Page 130 of 140 Friday November 19, 1965 Dear Rick... Thanks for your recent letter, honey. I enjoyed reading it very much. Am glad that you enjoy your school there, and are having a good time. After several years of easy-livin' (?) with yore pappy, I reckon you're glad to get some relaxation. Ha ha. But frankly, I had a ball in Seattle...San Diego...Phoenix...cross-country...Biloxi...Myrtle Beach...Washington, D.C....with you and Lornie. Many, many happy memories to remember. Your and my efforts to keep our car moving...keep tires on it...cross-country...would make a good comedy movie. Ha ha. Little Beau right now is funny as all get out. His head is all curly, yet he's like a small bull. Strong. The other night he got mad, picked up a half-table (we eat snacks on it & watch TV) and threw the table onto my foot. Nearly broke my toe. And you wouldn't know him now, he has grown so much bigger than when you saw him last...his shoulders are getting broad and he's grown a foot, I swear, since you saw him last. He dances a lot to TV music, and he still makes faces at us and does that "whispering" act occasionally. Big, big things have happened with my PK work...and the Si's have done some unbelievable things. They tell me first, before those things happen, and I tell the govt. beforehand. So Electra is getting lots of water now. The Si's are causing drought and lowering water tables, in spite of any rain that occurs. The over-all effect will be that of water-shortage. Of course, in Electra and Electro anything can happen...and I mean, anything. Anything drastic, that is. Both of them "growing gardens" of PK; the same as the inside of the ancient Egyptian tombs sealed with a "curse" protecting the inside. You know. Anyway, you and Lornie are protected, so don't worry. I don't remember if we "bubbled" Pat or not. Try hard to be a good student...and I know you'll be a good boy, as you grow up. Make daddy proud of you, yes? Loves and kisses, Dad (Tekman) 08/02/2025 15:28 === Page 131 of 140 Friday November 19, 1965 Dear Lorrie, thank you very much for the swell cigar. Enjoyed it very much. Also, thanks for the picture. I have it in my wallet, and show it to my friends proudly. You asked about hurricanes this year. I covered this in a letter to you a month or so ago...as you know, my Hurricane Hunter Groups cause hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes, etc. These Groups are powerful "weather-upsetters" well....a typhoon is a hurricane, and this year in the Pacific they ran clear through the alphabet, and had to start all over on another round of alphabetic names. In the Atlantic, just a few hurricanes...but of course, Betsy was worth ten hurricanes all in one. Nothing quite like Betsy. As for the PK harassing NASA...guess you just read about Kris Kraft, the Head of NASA, having a pistol pointed at his head and the trigger pulled... but the bullet misfired. There were 13 top key NASA men on the plane with him at the time, and the plane could easily have been destroyed by the 9 pistol shots that went into the floor. Also, practically every shot that has gone up lately at the Cape, has flubbed. The last big one...the Agena...simply vanished. Disappeared. They are still scratching their heads over that one. That Agena was the one that the Astronauts were going to go up and chase, and try to catch up with. Of course the East Coast power-failure was caused by the Si's. But they had to make up some reason for it...Johnson ordered an explanation within 24 hours. Ha ha! So they gave him one. But they still haven't really figured it out at all. Supposedly a relay broke down...but there is a paradox in it, in that the relay worked and automatically shut down later. They can't understand that. Also, they don't understand the wide area... the magnitude of it, covered by the power breakdown. Then I would point out that lately there have been a rash of power breakdowns. They just had one in England, for instance. Am glad you are having fun at school. MX I sure do miss you and Rick, and so does Martha. Baby Beau used to having spells of crying...and we wondered why...until we realized it was always after we talked about you in front of him, or showed your and Ricks' pictures. But we are rich in memories...I can still see Beau dancing wildly with you and Rick in the Mangel's living room. And that trip across the U.S. was one of the best things of my life, where I got to know you kids really, and we shared down to rock-bottom. Listen...if you ever get a check sent to me...send it to me by registered letter, because people steal mail out of boxes here. Love & Kisses - Dad. === Page 132 of 140 November 27, 1965 Dear Rick: I was very glad to receive your letter. And was most surprised that you had noticed many of my PK objectives; most of them, in fact. There is a lot going on that I wish I could fill you in on. The Si's have gotten "down and dirty" as the saying goes in poker...and it would not surprise me if they eliminated Johnson from the human race, shortly. Might interest you to know that they sent a special message...to the U.S. Government, through me, about a week ago...they showed me a drawing of the U.S. without any State lines...and with a death's head in the center of it. My interpretation of it is that there is a definite threat to the U.S. at this time, right now...which the Si's know about, but we don't...and they are trying to warn us. Your dollar went to help me buy Beau an expensive Flipper ride-toy, which he is crazy about. He had a big birthday party...lots of fun, cake, ice-cream and the works. He's getting to be a big boy now. He can go get his little potty, pull down his pants, and go by himself. Then he empties the potty, washes it out === Page 133 of 140 Friday Dec. 3, 1965 Dear Rick: Honey, put date on the top of your letter. Good form. Okay? So you have played pool with Jim. Good. Wish it were me you were playing with. But right now we wouldn't have the money, anyway, even if you were here. But I predict that you will be a real champ pool and snooker player, if you play much. I'd beat the daylights out of you for a long time...but if you had guts, you'd stay with it...until finally you'd be beating me. That's the way I learned...by taking on the toughest pool sharks in Bedford..and getting beaten regularly...until suddenly, one day, my game clicked...from then on, I beat them on, and couldn't hardly get anybody to play me. Will mention that some of those pool sharks tried to get me to drink with them, but I wouldn't; tried to get me to shoot dice, and so on...but I was there just to learn to shoot pool, without having any of the usual pool-hall bad habits and bad people rub off on me...and accomplished the mission, miraculously. I would not recommend this procedure to you, or to anybody else; if you go to play pool, go with Pat or Jim or me, no other. Then you're safe. XX Am enclosing a couple more clips on football fatalities of this season. 25 high-school kids killed this year, in football play....is terrible....and you see what I mean. It just ain't worth it, pal. Save your juice, and courage, to learn judo, basketball, etc. Learn to protect your head, at all costs. Your thinking-apparatus, and your eyesight and hearing, are of the highest importance to you...because you are going to walk a long road in life, and these tools you need. And these tools you can lose, if you box, play football, etc. The first thing you learn in judo is how not to get hurt. Karate is fine, too, but do not try breaking things with your hands, whatever you do. That is fine to impress girls with, but you will injure the fine nerves in your hands...and lose your wonderful sense of touch for art work, pool and snooker, etc. Rather than toughen my hands...I would use a blackjack or "stick-fighting". === Page 134 of 140 Monday, Dec. 13, 1965 Mr. Eastwood, NASA Dear Mr. Eastwood: I have been instructed to send this following information on to you...from the UFO intelligences. When Chris Kraft had a gun pointed at his head...it was no accident. And when the gun misfired, and Kraft was not killed instantly...it was no accident. The UFO intelligences caused it all to happen, just that way. It was their way of telling NASA, in the best way NASA could understand...that they have their (UFO's) gun pointed at NASA's head...and it will fire, or misfire, as they wish it to. They want you to know that it is they who are blocking the work at Cape Kennedy, and will continue to do so, until they are allowed to make an alliance with the U.S. Government. They wish to point out: (1) March 1, 1965 - Atlas Centaur Moon Rocket (Project Surveyor) blew up on its pad at the Cape. (2) April 14, 1965 - Air Force Star Tracking System Rocket blew up 72 seconds after launch, at the Cape. (3) August 19, 1965 - the Gemini 5 was almost hit by lightning; had a fire on or near the pad; was affected by storm at the time - and of course you know what happened to it when it got up. Everything that could go wrong without killing the astronauts, did go wrong. (4) August 25, 1965 - OSO Flying Laboratory blew up just after launching, at the Cape. (5) October, 1965, the Gemini 6 Agena "Target" Rocket blew up, or vanished, after launching, ruining that entire undertaking. (6) December 12, 1965 - the Gemini 6 again failed to lift off...a very embarrassing National failure, since it was on TV at the time. They, the UFO intelligences, point out that they have consistently blocked the U.S. major space efforts. They point out that it could not be chance or coincidence, if that is what you think. Why, they want to know, doesn't the U.S. Government comply with their wishes...which are very simple wishes...and which would put them, the UFO's, on the side of the U.S. for a change, and allow space work to go ahead? You will recall, Mr. Eastwood, in my letter of October 26, 1965...I told you "For the want of a nail (what the UFO intelligences want)...a battle was lost." Surprisingly Walter Cronkite, on CBS News Television yesterday, Sunday, made this very quote...and went to great lengths to spell it out. He was making a different point...but he was talking about Gemini 6, and of course, in a way, so was I. Odd coincidence. To sum it up...the UFO intelligences want you to know, vividly, that they are in control...and the U.S. Government will suffer catastrophe after catastrophe, until it becomes friends with the UFO's. I would point out the various ship collisions and fires that have struck. The Kitty Hawk; the Independence - giant carriers; nuclear subs, etc. This too is the work of the UFO intelligences. But it has all been on a small scale (for them.) In closing, my wife and I met these intelligences last week. PR Man === Page 135 of 140 Copy - Leonie & Rick Wednesday December 22, 1965 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: So...the UFO intelligences again have demonstrated their lesson to the U.S. Government...with the destruction of the Titan III out of the Cape yesterday. The Titan carrying the four satellites. Also please note that not only were 11 top officials and Chris Kraft threatened with death in an airplane several weeks ago..but NASA lost Dryden, Deputy Commander, and Lovelace, Chief Medico, within the past ten days, also. Why did Gemini 6 and 7 rendezvous successfully, without incident? The Si's held their hand because for reasons known best to them they could not interfere with these craft in the air, like they did Gemini 5, without endangering the lives of the astronauts this time...and this they did not wish to do. But a rocket going up without a human aboard...that is different. It is fair game to them. P K MAN (Owens) 1114 Spruce St., #33 Philadelphia, Pa. P.S. Will interest you to know that the Si's have put in an appearance on three different occasions at our apartment, within the past two weeks. My wife and I both have seen them. Even our baby tried to talk to them. ALSO HAVE CONTACTED UFO'S AND REQUESTED THEY SHOW THEIR CRAFT AT CAPE KENNEDY AS SIGNAL OF THEIR REALITY AND THEIR CONNECTION WITH P K MAN. === Page 136 of 140 December 22, 1965 Dear Lornie and Rick: Just a note to wish you a Merry Christmas, and send you my love. Your amazing box came yesterday...and the packages are under our little tree. I am immensely grateful to you for giving Martha and Beau (and myself) some sort of Christmas, for we are in the same boat we were in when you were with us. You know. That is why we will send you a small gift for Christmas. But the size of our gift is no indication of what good pals we are.' Little Beau, when your packages were rolled out by the dozen, got so excited...he jumped up and down and said one of his few words, "Want." When we put the packages up, he had a fit, and tried to wreck the place, as usual. I waited ten minutes until the uproar died down, then went about setting chairs and tables upright. Saturday you will know that your immense thoughtfulness and labor in preparing packages (and expense) will give a lot of fun and pleasure to your still-broke pals in Philadelphia. but still scrapping Bless your hearts. Love, Dad. P.S. I am building a PK capsule for little Jimmy -- and assigning an incorporeal agent to guard him -- as you have. Will send name later of agent. (It is Moiria -- moy-nyah.) Am doing this because in our box we found an expression of friendship from Jimmy to Beau. 08/02/2025 15:28 === Page 137 of 140 12/28/65 P2 Thursday December 23, 1965 Editor The Philadelphia Inquirer Dear Sir: (1) I believe the Viet Cong is using the "sponge" technique...that is, squeeze a sponge in water, and all the cells fill up and retain water. Instead of cells, they use endless tunnels, which they are constantly making. I believe that, at a given time, although now they are vacating these tunnels, they will assemble almost overnight in all the secret tunnels..and the sponge will be filled with water; i.e., Viet Nam will be loaded with hidden Viet Cong en masse...to strike all at once, everywhere. (2) I believe that television will develop "false" IQs for youngsters. That is, they watch countless blood and thunder stories on TV, written by some neurotic writers, perhaps, that are certainly wrong, value-wise, and mostly wrong moral-wise. Later, when confronted with a real-life situation, the youngster who has watched these sugar-coated damaging Tv shows will react to the real-life situation subconsciously, with a stored-away TV memory of how the neurotic Tv writer handled it...with disastrous consequences. As I understand it, IQ is based on how an individual handles a situation at any given time, based upon past experience and present intelligence. I predict that "TV IQ" will develope, horribly, in millions of youngsters...with the result that their subconscious reactions to real-life situations will grow a catastrophic crop of false, invalid results... which will widen, like a stone dropped into a pond creating ripples, to affect their surrounding environment. (3) An even more horrible thing is taking place. Youngsters watching TV, instead of reading books from the library (as we did in the pre-TV years) will tend to lose their ability to form mental images from words. I.E., when a youngster reads, his mind converts the words that he sees into pictures in his mind. This ability, in a world made of words, is of incalculabe value. But now see....he has stopped reading, and only looks at pictures already formed for him, outside his mind. And the "muscle" inside his mind, formed by word-conversion into picture-images, weakens and grows flabby. Mental-imagery for him will grow increasingly difficult, thereby making it very difficult for him to be creative. For are not all great inventions, paintings, etc., taken from the imagination? To sum up: TV is robbing our children of their ability to have imagination. The Tv screen provides them with "outside imagination" without effort on their part. No muscle was ever made strong without flexing; no imagination-ability was ever made strong without practice; and no mental-imagery ability is possible without effort. ---------- Ted Owens, 1114 Spruce Street, #33, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ted O 08/02/2025 15:28 === Page 138 of 140 Tues. Dec. 28, 1965 Dear Lornie: Thank you, honey, for giving Martha, Beau and I such a wonderful Xmas. Your and Rick's gifts, of course, were our Christmas. Want a laugh? I started smoking your fine cigars Christmas morning, and ran out the next day at noon. 14 Berings. Ha ha. Boy, they were good. All of your gifts, wrapped and all, must have been quite a tremendous job to fix up, you and Rick...and needless to say, our little group appreciate that fact. Beau reads his little books at night...has worn his new pajamas now since Xmas...plays with the picture-puzzles and the chalk-slate...he's having a ball. And Martha, was she tickled with her presents! You know Martha. Her feelings are right out in the open where you can see them...and she was laughing and whooping and opening everything in sight. The only thing we missed, was yo babysitting Money :) 08/02/2025 14:37 === Page 139 of 140 and Rick. Martha sadly remarked: "Do you know, honey, this is the first Xmas in years we haven't had Lornie or Rick with us?" Well, it was a wonderful Xmas. Have had several vivid, life-like dreams about Pat. Odd. Girl in the apartment next to us came screaming to our door Friday night...prowler grabbed her when she went into her apartment, she escaped, screaming, to our place. I went after him with a handful of knives, but he got away before I could get my pants on (I was in shorts.) Then last night a pane of glass fell on her hand, and cut it...and the boy she lives with was in an auto wreck Sunday, broke two ribs. My boss's wife was in an auto wreck Thursday. Sound familiar? The girl's name is Trina. Love, Daddy === Page 140 of 140 1- Copy - Lorrie + Rick Tuesday December 28, 1965 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: The Si's are getting restless, because they are getting no help or cooperation from the United States. Therefore, regretfully, they are going to nudge the United States, by giving President Johnson still another disaster area or two to go look at. They do not specify the exact type of disaster...but I think it would be an earthquake. So...within the next few days or few weeks...one disaster area...coming up. And they want me to tell the U.S. Government one more thing...which the Government, of course, will not believe, or even understand the Si's are going to transfer the strong emotions, hate, fear, anguish, frustration....of all dead people who have been killed in Viet Nam, on both sides, to blanket the Capitol in Washington, and the White House, and the LBJ Ranch. They instructed me to tell you; this is something new to me, and I do not know what it is they are talking about, exactly, or what the effect would be, if, in fact, they can do what they are talking about. They also instruct me to again point out my tremendous value to the U.S. - because without me, as a go-between, or interpretor, the U.S. would not know many key things that are happening to it, since I am the only human these particular UFO intelligences have been able to reach. P K Man Dad Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1965 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/025047544fcbebf910046e60fb44c267.pdf fa0574896f260fb78fa8b4fa9229544a https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/135488609b481d9623a597ccd34f275a.txt e2af7369ed2f3d7ba190554b26175634 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letters to Owens Children Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 # TED OWENS LETTERS TO CHILDREN # GENERAL LETTERS Jeff received week of July 14, 2025 11120 Bermuda Dunes, ABQ. Sent from Lori Rodriguez in Beaverton, Oregon. Recorded by Lewis Barlow July 19, 2025 Majority written in 1965 and 1966 but were a couple of letters from 1970 and 1976. We received several different packages from Lori that contained Ted Owens letters to his children. As this was more of a general package of letters and covered several different dates, for organization purposes we will just call it general letters. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 10 the circus Friday, May 28 - 65 *Harvey is Rick Dear Lorrie - thanks for the letter. The owner of the Beatty circus sent his chauffeur down to Washington for us - in an air-conditioned $10,000 Cadillac, just as promised. There wasn't room for most of our things including your stuff - and we left a note for Jean to send it collect by Railway Express. We are advertised as the world's greatest knife-throwing act. Yesterday they took pictures of the cats, all together in a group. May send you one later. She has not yet. These pics are great. No word yet if our act will go on the road with the circus or not. They are full up - wanted to "beef up" their show for Philadelphia. So - ? - They had no way to carry us. We have no car, so, fools. Mr Fuller, expecting our whole family as he saw it in Hyattsville, had a beautiful motel room ready for us - at $17.00 a day. Ha ha! TV & all. We took another smaller room. We've been here a week. To tell you all the action that has occurred, would entail writing a full length book. Losh, we need a permanent address so agents can contact us. I'm going to give you as my permanent address, & you forward my mail to me. Okay? For instance, the father of our great flying trapeze act - all his sons & daughters (he's a clown) - wants to get us booked with Mexico's biggest circus in Mexico City - Bell Circus for a month there. But he'll need a permanent address to contact me, cause I'll be gone from here. === Page 2 of 10 Our day goes like this: Flag goes up (red) in front of cook tent at 12 noon, which is signal for all performers to go eat. Food is excellent. All you want, plus big pitchers of hot coffee. Bean has been too excited to eat. From doing absolutely nothing in Washington, to doing everything here, has lit him up like a light-bulb. We have a 12:30 to 1:00 show call - we go to our giant tent (this isn't what you saw at Hyattsville - Beatty has three combined giant shows) and go onto our stage, where our board is set up. Inside the tent it looks like this: Entrance (FRONT) ESCAPE ARTIST Scotch Man Bo Bo Rubber man MYSTINA Electric Girl Sealo - Half man, Half seal CROWD (TIP) BUCK - 8 1/2 FT. TALL BO RUNNING AROUND Barney - Fire Eater Duke The Hawaiian Steel - Magician Bogarde's Lovella Fat Man Tiny - 762 lbs. Count - trick act on skating table PEANUTS SWORD SWALLOWER Blade Box Illusion (swords thru girl) 08/08/2025 16:23 === Page 3 of 10 Sun. May 30 - Jean hasn't sent our things yet! Last night while Bobo The Rubber Man was doing his act one of the marks (crowd) jumped on his platform and heckled him. So Bobo picked up his barrel and hit the mark on the head with it, knocking him off the platform. Let's take the acts. See page 2 - the chart. Bobo is very famous, written up by Ripley's Believe It or Not. He's from the Ringling Circus where he was Emmett Kelly's partner. One thing he does is step inside a narrow barrel bend over put his head, shoulders & arms down inside the barrel - & push the barrel up over him. He somehow gets both legs up back of him - back of his shoulders - and swings on his hands. He's without a doubt one of the world's best contortionists. He filled us in a lot on psychology of the crowds, how they think & act. Now pass on to Myetina, The Electric Girl's platform. She's a pretty blond in gold tights, who stands on a plate which charges her up with electricity. If you hand her a light bulb it lights up. If you touch a kerosene-soaked torch to her hand or tongue - it bursts into flame. Lots of things like that. Sealo is advertised as half-man half-seal. He was born with little teensy flippers attached to his shoulders. He's very happy, shows the crowd how he shaves and eats, etc (he's a regular sleight-of-hand artist with those flippers.) Also he's the "circus philosopher." All the acts like to hang around Sealo's stand because he's always so happy & jolly. He's really so. (Sealo keeps yelling at Bo and flipping him chewing gum.) Buck is the Giant. He's also crazy about Bo and picking him up and plays with him constantly. He's 8 1/2 feet tall and at our eating table in the cookhouse he sits in the center and can reach any part or end of the table. You'll see Buck the Giant, Sealo & all the rest soon so get this pic copied & send it to you. Buck was in Disney movie "Jack & Beanstalk". Bricky is the finest Fire Eater in the world. Any of the most difficult fire-eating tricks he can do. Last year he told us he was badly burned in Canada doing the "blast" - this for fire eaters is like a triple-somersault to the trapeze people. To do the blast he fills his mouth with a whisky glass of gasoline and somehow spews it out in a fan where he lights it with his torches. In Canada, just as he sprayed it === Page 4 of 10 and the wind blew through the tent & blew the flames back onto him - burning off all his hair, etc, & roasting his face. Steel, the magician, came from the Ringling Circus. A 25-yr. old kid, he was "inside talker" on the mike - directing the crowds from act to act. Unfortunately his act came just before ours. Every time he did his act the crowd would walk away from him, half-way through his act, to our platform, wanting to see the knives. This made him furious, and the first two days he'd cut our act short on purpose. Jealous. He'd do knives around & set up for teeth balloon or blindfold - & he'd send the crowd on. But the manager got him straightened out. Then some brunette he liked in the crowd dated him one night. She was married. He "went to New York" the next day. The following day, when he "got back" the husband & the girl's father were at the circus gunning for him. The girl had vanished. She hasn't been found yet. Evidently he's a good magician. Next act - Bogarde & Lovella. My knives in that champagne bucket I bought - look good. Also Peanuts (I'll get to him) loaned me 10 knives he used to use. We'd open with knives around (20 knives covering board.) Then teeth balloon. Then blindfold. We did the shield a few times. We only had time for 2-3 stunts. They use code words. Manager walks around in front of each platform & holds his fingers close together means "short act" - "fast" - because the tip crowd must be rushed to the Blade Box where they make extra money. If he stretches his fingers far apart, means do a long act. If they say over the mike "Is Johnny Robinson in the crowd" then all acts do short acts, to rush the tip out to make room for a new tip. Bo was a hell of a problem. First two days Martha would hold him back of the platform until our act began, then we'd ask a nearby act to hold him until we finished. Finally we discovered if we just him down in the center of the tent he'd play & run & watch the acts - & we could watch him from the platform. Everybody was crazy about him & they'd keep an eye on him too. If he tried to sneak out the front of the tent then Duke the Hawaiian, beating the tom-toms, would shoosh him back inside. === Page 5 of 10 grabbed one of the Duke's tom-tom sticks away from him & the Duke had to chase him all over the tent to get it back. Bo finally (he's very sharp) discovered by watching kids trying to sneak under the tent in, that he could lift the tent & sneak out. Boy! First time he vanished we found him on a kiddy-ride outside, having a ball. He just went over & got in a car & rode & rode & rode. The operators nearly died laughing. They all got to know him cause Martha took him on all the pony rides, car rides, etc (they had 80 different rides.) Bo would swagger around the tent like a grown up man, beaming at people, petting babies. One colored woman had a pretty 2 yr. old colored girl by the hand. Bo grimy dirty by this time in late afternoon, walked over to the little girl. Her face lighted up in a big smile & she held out her tiny hand. Bo took her hand and the 3 went hand in hand around the tent. Finally a colored teenager son of the colored woman came into the tent & went up to his mother. He saw Bo, his face registered utter astonishment & he pointed a finger at Bo & yelled "Where did he come from?" Only once did Bo elude us. I searched high & low. Finally went to the police van. There he was sitting in a chair, calmly jabbering in that Chinese way of his at the cops. I identified myself and one cop said to me, "This is impossible, Bogarde. Your boy is talking Korean!" I said ha ha. But he was serious. "He absolutely is," he said. "I spent years in Korea, I talk in Korean to him & he answers me." You figure that one out. During the day a half-dozen cops clambered onto our platform, at my invitation, put down their billy clubs & learned knife-throwing. They ate it up. And they told me things about their work. In the race riots here weeks ago negros dumped bushel baskets of bricks off the roof tops onto the cops below. One cop is in the hospital from being struck by the bricks, not expected to live. Then the negros poured Drano down onto the cops. De Feo, who told me about it, had a shotgun at the time. === Page 6 of 10 6 It was on the rooftop trying to get these negros. One day they caught a negro who had just flung a can of Drano down onto some cops. De Feo's partner was real mad about it and when their sergeant hollered up from the street, "Get that damn Drano-thrower down here fast" De Feo's partner picked up the negro & threw him off the roof into the street below. They told me many fascinating stories, while I taught them. Next act, Tiny the Fat Man. 6 ft 3, 762 lbs. Bad-tempered, hates people. He just sits there & sells pictures. They had to pile 15 coke cases together to make a chair for him. Tiny is not jolly. One day he slowly, laboriously got himself off the platform and massively moved to the cookhouse for lunch. But they were an hour late. So he bawled out the cook. (Now, he eats a loaf of bread, 2 dozen eggs, 2 lbs. of bacon, and 3 pots of coffee just for breakfast.) Well the cook complained to the manager, & the manager told Tiny to apologize to the cook. Tiny refused to do so, and from that time on refused to eat in the cookhouse. He'd wait until the show was over, then take a cab downtown & eat somewhere. We knew how this hurt Tiny, because he's the tightest man with a dime you've ever seen. Our last day he astonished all the acts by holding out his hand to little Bo, who took it, and Tiny shook his little hand with a smile. Since Tiny is cold as ice, this puzzled everybody, including us. Next, The Count one of our best friends. Colored, colorful, tremendous personality. Been all over the world. Uses a special table with heavy iron legs. To fast jazz music he leaps onto the table on roller skates and tap dances & roller skates like mad. A terrific entertainer. He held Bo for us the most. Now, Peanuts came next, until he got fired, and that's quite a story. Peanuts swallowed bayonets, clothes hangers, swords, etc. In Indian with wild eyes, he'd dash off between shows to the === Page 7 of 10 2 nearest bar and drink. He also drank some kind of dope. He had a rep as a bad, very bad man. But he quickly made friends with me. (What I didn't know was he wanted to take over our knife act.) He took me to his car and took out 10 knives he had made & used. Told me to use them - that his eyes were bad. I said I'd buy them. He said, well I could use the knives during my stint, and he'd consider selling them to me. Two days later, before my show he asked for his knives - said he'd like to practice on my board. I gave them to him but he went out to his car. At showtime he came in and handed them to me in a stack. I put the stack in my bucket & went on to do the show. On the 3rd throw I felt terrific pain in my fingers. There I was, halfway thru knives around, about 300 people watching us. I glanced down & saw two fingers ripped open, deep. Without pausing I grinned at the crowd to cover my slight pause, licked my fingers to get up the blood, & proceeded to finish the act. After the crowd passed on I went to the board & examined that 3rd knife, which had bounced out of the board. Peanuts had taken pliers and twisted the point around so that there were two razor-sharp projections guaranteed to ruin any hand. I used PK instantly, and the cuts were completely healed within hours. Naturally the shows couldn't stop, so I adapted a grip utilizing other fingers. I called Len, acct. mgr. over, showed him the gaffed knife. Then came the double-cross. He went to Peanuts, bought the knives for himself (discovered he wanted to start a knife act - he'd been showing me handcuff escapes in exchange for knife lessons.) Then they fired Peanuts. This made me furious, because I'd been double-crossed. I feel sorry for anyone using those knives after this - & was sporting enough when I left to warn Len that those knives had better not be used around a live target. You understand? === Page 8 of 10 3) Next, the Blade Box. A pretty girl gets in the box and 13 long swords are run thru it at every angle. Then for a dime the crowd can walk back of the box & see how the girl has eluded the knives. This is a real money-maker. Worked fine until the magician, who performed it, vanished for a day, and a sub came in to do it -- and cut the girl twice, putting the knives in. (He didn't give her time enough to guide the blades past her.) The first Blade Box girl, Jane, was secretly smooching with Fuller, the owner (as well as about 20 other assorted males around) until Fuller's wife arrived. Then the girl got fired & they used Julie (Mystina) to run over after her act & do the Blade Box. There are dozens of exciting & wonderful things I could tell you about if I could just think of them. Oh, last nite I almost got ran over by a camel. Those things are like trains! I was standing inside the tent when suddenly the side of the tent lifted and a camel plunged right at me -- knocking the steel tent pole into my arm. I jumped out of the way & Bob, the elephant tender, ran the camel out the opposite side. The crowd was at the opposite end of the tent & they'd decided to run the camels thru our tent to load them in trucks. Just as I was recovering from the shock of this, another damn camel came busting under the flaps at me. It was out of control & just missed me. They got it & took it out. Lots of excitement. We got paid & after advances & 50.00 deductions for taxes -- we had 3.00 left, after hotel rent. I sold my watch for 20.00. Sound familiar? Ha ha! We love you, and Harvey. Be a good girl, and help Harvey be a good boy. (It's your job, as big sister.) Dad ---------- over for P.S. 08/08/2025 16:23 === Page 9 of 10 P.S.: Oh, second day with circus tornado warning came. They got everybody out of tents for 4 hrs (very dangerous in a tent during windstorm.) Martha & baby & I crouched behind the elephants, which were flattened up against a high brick wall. Things were flying thru the air -- must have been 50-75 mph wind. Rained for several days. (Naturally.) Incidentally, have taken off rain PK -- put up sun sata inside PK cover. Harvey knows what this means. Drought -- everywhere. Heat. No water. You'll be reading about it. Worst summer in history of U.S. They asked for it, & they deserve it. Love, Dad (PK Man) (Bogardé) turn page over -- P.P.S. Thumbs down to us meant "the front is off" i.e. no more tip (crowd) to bring in, so they hung "closed" on the outside -- put chains across the front, & closed the tent-flaps. So if a tip was still in the tent, we did one more show for that tip, & were off for a half-hour to 2 hrs., depending on the day. Mon., Tues., Wed., we didn't work too hard. Each day the crowds grow progressively. Fri., Sat., & Sun. are hard days. One show after another in "grind" fashion. If the "grind" is on they really roll. === Page 10 of 10 P.P.P.S. Martha reminded me of some things -- While we were doing our act, several times, we noticed that Bo had left the center of the tent, gotten behind our platform, and was climbing up the steep steps of our flat-bed truck to get to us. So, with a knife in my hand I'd hiss at Count or somebody for heaven's sake get the kid. They did, every time but once! That time he got loose & I was winding up for a throw with the crowd looking on -- and Bo slowly appeared in front of me -- between me & Martha -- dragging his blanket. I waved him on (hoping he'd go on past) and he did, and we completed the act. The crowd roared. It looked like it was rehearsed. Then, between shows, one day Martha yelled "Look out!" I looked around & Bo who was up on the platform with us, had sneaked over, reached up & pulled a knife out of my bucket, toddled over to the board, and threw the knife at the board. He was to do this many many times. Evidently, watching us from the ground he'd observed this and was imitating. Also he'd go up to the board like Martha, stand exactly in the center, facing me with a grin, & point to the knife-bucket. I found a fine cig lighter, a beautiful ring for Martha, a hat for Bo, during the circus. Many of the acts brought him gifts -- three dolls, from Duke, a doll and candy from the Scotch Bagpiper (82 years old -- a hero of WWI -- chewing gum from Seals, boxes of crackerjack from Fuller & the Scotchman -- Buck the Giant a toy dog -- Brisky a toy. Martha, one into, carrying Bo, fell over a chair and skinned her knees badly -- and Bo's head hit the ground real hard. At the cookhouse, alongside Buck the Giant The Fire Eater, the Magician, etc, Bo sat on a plastic crate to reach his plate (he got full meals with everybody else.) One man who operated a dandy hamburger stand on the midway, always gave Bo free a 15¢ pack of cream puffs, or a doughnut. I asked him why he kept it up (about 8-10 times) "Because," he said, "the kid brings me luck. Business always picks up after he's been here." 08/08/2025 16:23 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1965 05 The Circus https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/7c88fe70b9868a7a79679987b3dd0353.pdf 848395dda8657d3fcc0fdf1c17f29d1c https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/1d81ebfa5505757f8e9b9d386e2e388d.txt 6c31d3f2cbb0760e87a87cfa6a75f1c8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letters to Owens Children Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 # TED OWENS LETTERS TO CHILDREN # GENERAL LETTERS Jeff received week of July 14, 2025 11120 Bermuda Dunes, ABQ. Sent from Lori Rodriguez in Beaverton, Oregon. Recorded by Lewis Barlow July 19, 2025 Majority written in 1965 and 1966 but were a couple of letters from 1970 and 1976. We received several different packages from Lori that contained Ted Owens letters to his children. As this was more of a general package of letters and covered several different dates, for organization purposes we will just call it general letters. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 3 2 Message To The American People...from the Saucer Intelligences (SI's) through The Rain Maker, Ted Owens...August 3, 1965 We are very happy that we are able to reach the ears of human beings, after trying for long long spaces of time. This human who is talking for us, we have been teaching for a year in your time, and now he knows much...soon he will know much more. He can do much. You must listen to him carefully, and protect him, for if you lose him you lose your link with us, and it is not known how long it may be until we find another human who can receive our thoughts, and send intelligence back to us, in just his way. You do not appreciate the difficulties involved. It would be as if you were trying to teach your earth animals how to talk, and suddenly you found one who could actually converse with you...and through this one animal you had an opportunity to discover the secrets of the animal kingdom. Through us you have the opportunity to discover the secrets of space, of far away places, of advanced technology, but better still...you have the opportunity of surviving, for as a race you are utterly doomed now, as you are flying (this in their words.) Many civilizations before you have so doomed themselves and destroyed themselves, and we were helpless to give them assistance and advice and powerful aid. Now for the first time in long space ages we are able, though a human's senses, to come to the aid of a good civilization and help it survive. But we can only do so if you listen, and pay attention. We are causing severe drought, with our machines in your skies, so that we can teach you a basic lesson...which is that our intelligence is far superior to that of earth intelligence. We can control earth people because we can control what you call weather. When, and not before, our earth human has been accepted by your government, and put to good use, then and only then will we release the drought conditions, and let rainfall come in abundance down onto your thirsty earth. 08/08/2025 16:45 === Page 2 of 3 2 we will also add pestilence and sickness and what you call accidents; we will follow the structure of events which we used in the day of the human you know as Moses, as he strove against the ruler of the great country called Egypt. As we helped Moses in that day, so we shall help the human-friend we know now as Ted Owens, you call the Rain Maker. If it please him to think that...of course we make the rain for him, but what is the difference? so that you people of the earth will believe this message we send to you, and we do not expect you to believe it unless we show proof...listen carefully. From now on, in time ahead, we will lift the curtain of drought for a little, and let the thirsty earth have its moisture. we will give the precious rain where it is needed...for a time. Then, lest you think that it is a perchance, we will drop the curtain once more with our machines, and let the rays of the sun penetrate the bowels of the earth and dry up your rivers, your lakes, your plants...until you accept our human as our representative. After you accept him, we have much work for him to do, for we do not speak your language, nor do we know too much, as we should, about your inner workings. It is through this human that we can learn; and it is through us, that you can learn. Even now, we send the meaning of our thoughts to him, and his brain translates through pictures and feelings into your English. It is good. Beware lest you take too long to accept our human-friend, for then we must strike a hard blow at the country which spurns him...to punish your country as you would punish a child which persists in misbehaving. After your country has accepted our link with humans, and we are able to proceed in keeping earth humans from the time-old habit of erasing 08/08/2025 16:45 === Page 3 of 3 the way it should be. We have no wish to rule you, or dictate to you... we only wish, as friends, to know you, and to teach you, and let you be happy. We are not of flesh and blood such as you. Our composition is that of your grasshopper, so that our bodies will compress and expand with spacework. We have not blood, but different chemicals inside ourselves. We are small, but have the ability to reverse our body-electricity at will, and this gives us strength to move and to carry great burdens; makes us very strong. Language difficulty makes it difficult for us to send a stream of highly technical information through our human-friend's mind for translation, since he is not a scientist, and must therefore translate as he understands. But for a beginning, it is good. Please, therefore, listen to this human-friend, and accept him, for we wish to help your country, and no other on earth...in your time of trouble, so that you may then properly help the other countries on earth. At this part of time your country has the best philosophy, the best ideas, the best advances, for helping. We can do many many things that you have no dream of, to help you. And may we ask you please be careful not to pursue our craft in your curiosity...not to attack us with your weapons, simply because we are not like yourselves. When our human-friend is in an area, please do not have planes overhead in that area, because you do not know it but we will have our own craft overhead...we have methods that make our craft so that your earth-eyes cannot see them, at times. Especially when we want it so. You ask, is there anything else, earth-friends... just that, we are happy, and excited, for you and your people, and for us. Be 08/08/2025 16:45 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1965 08 Message to the America People https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/f7ff30b5ce960113b13dedf56bc28ad8.pdf 8f2165d07f006c27f3ecc02d89564723 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/10cd2291dcc21ad9626399942b695c51.txt a4a1c259ea35aa2dc1f6ba479f618764 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letters to Owens Children Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 # TED OWENS LETTERS TO CHILDREN # GENERAL LETTERS Jeff received week of July 14, 2025 11120 Bermuda Dunes, ABQ. Sent from Lori Rodriguez in Beaverton, Oregon. Recorded by Lewis Barlow July 19, 2025 Majority written in 1965 and 1966 but were a couple of letters from 1970 and 1976. We received several different packages from Lori that contained Ted Owens letters to his children. As this was more of a general package of letters and covered several different dates, for organization purposes we will just call it general letters. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 220 Giving Thanks Jeff === Page 2 of 220 Dear Jeff, I know my father's spirit is very grateful for all you've done and are doing now with Lance on his work. It seems many of his predictions have come about or are in the process. Doesn't appear to be any space or time to predictions! They come about in their own time. I felt so guilty not responding to his many requests. Rick and I were 14+15 to 16+17 For all you are and for what you do. Thank you! all my best, Lori P.S. all in chronological order with exception of newspaper clippings === Page 3 of 220 FILE January 7, 1966 2/7/66 Editor The Philadelphia Inquirer Dear Sir: I had read so much in the newspapers about Consensuses being taken on President Johnson and the U. S. Government...saying that President's popularity is high, and that the people are backing the U.S. Government's action in Viet Nam. Well, this made me very curious. So, last weekend, instead of watching pro football, I flew down to Viet Nam ... to take a consensus there among the peoples, in order to satisfy my own curiosity. The first person I interviewed was a beautiful, sexy Vietnamese bar-girl in a bar in Saigon. Me: "Pardon, Miss, may I ask you two questions?" She: "Five dolla." Me: "Just for answering two questions?" She: "Be quick, fella. My time worth plenty money, you bet." Me: "Very well. First, what do you think of President Johnson?" She: "He cute fella. Send plenty GI boy here with plenty money. I like." Me: "How about Viet Nam? Are you in favor of the war here?" (While I am talking, she leans over and drops a handful of powdered glass in the drink of a GI paratrooper who is looking the other way.) She: "War fine. Plenty GI boy, plenty money. You bet." Me: "I saw you put that poison in the paratrooper's glass. How come?" She: "Not mean nothing. Is just chore. Viet Cong make me do little chores. I no do chore, they not let me entertain Gi's upstairs in my room, make plenty money, you bet. Go way now. I losing money on you." So I made my notations in my notebook, then slunk out into the street, slightly depressed, where I met a Buddhist priest. I asked him about Johnson He: "Ugh." I asked him to please clarify his remark, or at least, quality it a little. 08/06/2025 16:08 === Page 4 of 220 4/7/66 P2 He: "My people say they think farming and family life lots more jolly fun than having war. They willing stop fighting any time, they say." At that moment a helicopter comes flying over, and the pilot leans out and sees the Viet Cong talking to me. With a roar forty Phantom airplanes and twenty-five B-52 bombers come down out of the clouds and drop blockbusters and napalm and printed brochures all over the villagers. It's a mess. I make a notation in my book that the villagers are against the war in Viet Nam. I pick up one of the printed brochures, wipe the blood off, and read: PEOPLE OF THE VILLAGE WE ARE GOING TO BOMB. LEAVE AT ONCE, FOR YOUR OWN SAFETY. SOON WE ARE GOING TO DROP BIG BOMBS ON YOU, BUT FIRST WE WANT TO GIVE YOU A CHANCE TO RUN. BE SURE TO PACK A LUNCH, AND DON'T FORGET THE CHILDREN. I toss the brochure away, then walk to the highway, where I thumb a ride in a jeep full of paratroopers, all wearing bloody bandages. Me: "Say, men, will you do me a big favor?" They stare at me. "I am taking a consensus down here in Viet Nam. Ha ha. Well, just let me ask you two questions...now...how do you like President Johnson?" He: "I'm in charge of this group. You can put it in the papers that we dearly love President Johnson. I, personally, carry a picture of him in my wallet, next to my heart. We all love the President, don't we, men?" They all nod, all except one GI, who is holding his head on with his hands because his head has been cut off at the neck. He manages to tip his helmet, though. Me: "That's great! I will make the notation here that the President is very popular with the U.S. troops in Viet Nam. Now, the next question: Are you in favor of the war here in Viet Nam?" He: "Oh, we sure are, aren't we, men! We're having a ball here, right?" They all nod, without changing expression. One tips his helmet. Me: "Fine, then I'll put that down, that the U.S. troops are all back of the U.S. Government in the Viet Nam war." But suddenly the leader reaches over and takes my notebook away from me. He: "You won't need this any more, fella." Me: "What?" I am shocked to the core. He: "No, we need it worse. ; Ran out of paper in our latrine. This'll do fine." So I had to return to the U.S. without a true consensus. Like they have here. 08/06/2025 16:08 === Page 5 of 220 Saturday January 8, 1966 Copy - Rick Lorne Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: Just a note to remind you...that messages from the Si's are not just empty words. When they warned, in my letter to you December 28...that "one disaster area coming up within a few days, or a few weeks" - they weren't kidding. New York has, within the past few days, become a real disaster area.... losing approx. one billion dollars, and now getting help from President Johnson (in my letter I told you President Johnson would have to give his attention to the stricken area coming up.) Mr. Dunn of your Agency said that possibly it might be a mistake, in the Government rejecting my services (with the Si's.) Just a quick glance at my records reveals one billion dollars in damages from Hurricane Betsy, which I could easily have taken out to sea without contact with land. Numerous NASA disasters...so costly that price could hardly be put on them. Now a one-billion dollar or more disaster in New York. ALL SINCE I TALKED WITH MR. DUNN. AND ALL OF WHICH COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED. No one in Government has yet had the brains or intelligence to check out my claims that I can void these disasters...they KNOW, from my predictions in advance, that the disasters are coming. Yet I do not understand why Government doesn't at least try me for a year, giving complete hurricane protection for Florida and Cape Kennedy...protection against disasters, which I can absolutely do, using Si power. My worth to the U.S. Government, George, as I work with the Si's...in helping the U.S. Government...could not even be calculated. The Si's will never quit or give up their activities...catastrophic for the U.S. - until they ARE recognized and dealt with. No matter what happens to me, they will go on. At least, I can tell you what they are doing, and why. P K Man Dad 08/06/2025 16:08 === Page 6 of 220 January 10, 1966 Dear Lonnie, Your letter came today + we were real happy to hear from you. We had a real nice Christmas. Thank you very much for all the nice presents. The boxes came a few days before Christmas and the birthday box came the same day as the xmas box. You + Rick made our xmas very happy by sending all of the nice gifts. The hair spray holder is very pretty + I put my hair spray in it. The blouse fits O.K. It must have taken you + Rick a lot of time + work to wrap each present certainly. It was real sweet of you both to send us the box. The candy was awfully good too. Beau got a rocking horse. I strung some popcorn + put it on the tree + Beau ate it off of the tree, it was the cracker jay kind of popcorn, anyway I had to take it off because it didn't look very pretty after he chewed some of it off the string. I had an awful time trying to keep him === Page 7 of 220 on opening the presents before xmas. I would put them under the tree + he couldn't keep his hands off of them. He would take them from out under the tree + try to open them. Guess what! Vivian said that she was going to get married during the xmas holidays. His name is Ronnie Massey + he goes to A + M college. She said he is 20 years old + they already have their house + that he had gotten the rings. I can't hardly believe that my baby sister is growing up so fast. I haven't heard from her so I guess everything went all-right. Maggie + the family spent xmas in Texas. They had a two week vacation so they were home during the xmas holidays. Jerry is taking piano lessons + is doing very well. Are you still writing to Jo Jo? He sent us a Christmas card. We didn't go out New Year's just stayed home + celebrated. Thanks a lot for all the nice gifts. I will close for now + I love you. Write soon. Love Always, Mama (over) === Page 8 of 220 Thursday January 6, 1966 Dear Rick: We were glad to get your letter of 12/24. By now, of course, you have heard that we did indeed get your box...and what a big, happy Xmas it gave us. Shades of Queenie and Granpa. Baby Beau got mad because we wouldn't open the packages when they came...about Thursday before Xmas... and he beat on us and wrecked the furniture, etc. But we were adamant, and won out, finally. Christmas Day I made Martha Santy Claus (you know how she passionately loves to open packages...especially hers) and she had a ball...her eyes lit up, she got all excited. Beau is crazy about that stuffed doggy with the big ears. He loved all the presents you and Lornie and "Santa Claus" sent him. The Trachtenburg Method is like magic...and like a game. I love it. But can't remember the rules, either. If I have the book, which I haven't, then I study it, about twice a year, and try to apply it. It is far and away superior to ordinary math. HOWEVER...you won't be able to graduate from H.S. or go to college unless you also master ordinary math, so... master ordinary math, no matter what. Leave Trach. until later college years, if you want to. Use it as a supplement method. Ordinary math taught in school is more important to you, honey. Learn it now. Get fancy later, with Tracht. Glad to hear you have a pussycat. ;That figures. You'd die laughing if you heard some of our conversations...which you no doubt remember. Goes something like this: Me: "Well, Martha, what do you think of those two new hits with PK?" Martha: "Uh huh." Me: "You know...the earthquake in New York, and the N.Y. transit disaster which has cost almost a billion dollars." Martha: "An earthquake?" Me: "Of course, haven't you read about it?" Martha: "I will. Did you get any milk at the grocery?" and so it goes. Be a good boy. I am proud of you. Love Dad P.S. Used Emmy-Emana 3 weeks ago. Hits Pacific Coast the around Be more soon === Page 9 of 220 2 Lornie Rick 1/11/66 See Rick Now, enclosed you find some clippings. Be sure and send them back for my files. As you will see, there was a great mysterious "fireball" that landed.......... in Pennsylvania, naturally. But this was the second one to land in Pennsylvania within weeks. There was another great fireball before this one, on SEPT. 28, 1965. Of course, it was the Si's that caused the Great Power Blackout in New York, and I am sure that it was one of their biggest, greatest craft...a "mother ship"...that landed in Pennsylvania (the "fireball") that caused the power failure on such a large scale. Perhaps you don't know it, but just after the great New York power blackout there was a huge power blackout in....Texas. Yep. President Johnson is trying to have both of them investigated, but how can you check on Si's? All you can do is check on the rubbish they leave behind, after the damage is done. Right? Incidentally, the Si's want you to know what they are doing, through me. They were training you, even though you didn't know it, while you were with me. And they were upset when you left me. Their training includes a great many things...including growing you a new brain, of a different sort than what you have. You have to have it, to receive the greater degree of power that you work with, through them. And they can only give you greater power in slow, graduated degrees. The Si's want me to tell you...if anyone at all blocks mail addressed to you...keeps you from getting it...God help them. It sort of worries me. If they were mad enough about your leaving me...they might wipe out the Bentley's and the Shannons, just like that. You know what happened to Mangels, and others who irked the Si's. I am out of it. Your choice is good enough for me, and this is definitely, certainly not any ploy on my part to try to get you to come back...because what you kids want, I want, for your own happiness (even if I might not agree with it.) But I am being objective when I tell you the above ... I know the Si's, communicate with them, and know their tremendous, unbelievable power that literally creates miracles, good and bad. === Page 10 of 220 1/11/66 P1 Tuesday January 11, 1966 Dear Rick Lornie Some day somebody is going to make fun of you, if you mention what P K Man has done. The attached document should stop them cold.* Remember, Lornie, when we walked by the spot where all the government officials would stand, before Johnson was made President...and I laid down a PK effect to put them all in the hospital...wrote the government that I would...and then they all went to various hospitals? Remember my driving dogs away with PK? Lifting the car off my trapped hand with PK? Remember how you stood there and watched me map out routes for the hurricanes to follow...and they followed; my routes? Remember my using Emmy-Emma technique to cause an earthquake on the California coast, and telling Mangels a day ahead of time, as a witness...and then it hit the next day? Remember the Needles Operation? Remember my throwing fire PK at California, and then those great fires of 1965 hit? And so on and so on. Then we found out that the UFO intelligences were supplying the power, and doing the hitting. I pointed out the targets. If anybody doesn't believe you...show them the attached copy of my March 9 letter to George Clark, CIA, whom you met....telling what the Si's were going to do at the North/South Pole. Then show them one of the newspaper clippings telling what happened five months later...when the Si's carried out this assignment, to PROVE I was working with and for them. Any spot I hit with PK...the grass is never the same again. Anybody I hit with PK, is never the same again, if they survive. And so it goes. And anybody I save with PK, like Brenda Sue Pennington (you were there, Lornie) is never the same again. Reason I am sending this one document to you for proof, instead of any of the hundreds of others I have...is because somebody could say that perhaps it is pure precognition...that I am good at predicting ahead of time what is going to happen, and that's all. They'll say that rules out Si's. But...to say that I could predict a change in the electromagnetic setup of the South Pole, and that it would be reported in the newspapers...is ridiculous for plain precognition. And it happened months later, not days. And a flying saucer was there to prove my Si point...and was seen by scientists. The utterly ingenious way in which this was done...was proof by the Si's, that they tell me what will happen, then make it happen. And they give me power, too. === Page 11 of 220 1/11/66 P2 2 Lornie Rick 1/11/66 Now, enclosed you find some clippings. Be sure and send them back for my files. As you will see, there was a great mysterious "fireball" that landed.... in Pennsylvania, naturally. But this was the second one to land in Pennsylvania within weeks. There was another great fireball before this one, on SEPT. 28, 1965. Of course, it was the Si's that caused the Great Power Blackout in New York, and I am sure that it was one of their biggest, greatest craft...a "mother ship"...that landed in Pennsylvania (the "fireball") that caused the power failure on such a large scale. Perhaps you don't know it, but just after the great New York power blackout there was a huge power blackout in....Texas. Yep. President Johnson is trying to have both of them investigated, but how can you check on Si's? All you can do is check on the rubbish they leave behind, after the damage is done. Right? Incidentally, the Si's want you to know what they are doing, through me. They were training you, even though you didn't know it, while you were with me. And they were upset when you left me. Their training includes a great many things...including growing you a new brain, of a different sort than what you have. You have to have it, to receive the greater degree of power that you work with, through them. And they can only give you greater power in slow, graduated degrees. The Si's want me to tell you...if anyone at all blocks mail addressed to you...keeps you from getting it...God help them. It sort of worries me. If they were mad enough about your leaving me...they might wipe out the Bentley's and the Shannons, just like that. You know what happened to Mangels, and others who irked the Si's. I am out of it. Your choice is good enough for me, and this is definitely, certainly not any ploy on my part to try to get you to come back...because what you kids want, I want, for your own happiness (even if I might not agree with it.) But I am being objective when I tell you the above... I know the Si's, communicate with them, and know their tremendous, unbelievable power that literally creates miracles, good and bad. Love, Dad 08/06/2025 16:13 === Page 12 of 220 S. Pole Bases MY LTR. RE HEAT AT POLAR BASES "J" 1/11/66 R3 'Flying Saucer' Is Reported SANTIAGO, Chile, July 8 1965 (AP). - From the Antarctic Thursday came official reports that a mysterious lens-shaped flying object, maneuvering and moving at great speed, was sighted last Saturday. A Chilean base commander in the Antarctic reported the object was "yellowish red, changing to green, yellow and orange." In Buenos Aires, the Navy issued a communique saying personnel at Argentina's Antarctic base saw the flying object and photographed it. Mario Jahn Barrera, commander of the Chilean base, told the Defense Ministry by radio that it would be too much to say that "all of us saw a flying saucer, one of these science-fiction things." "However," he continued, "it was something real, an object that moved at amazing speed, maneuvered quickly and gave off a blue-green sheen. It also caused interference in the electromagnetic apparatus of an Argentine base which is facing ours on a nearby small island." The interference was confirmed by the Navy communique issued in Buenos Aires. 7/8/65 "The object was yellowish red," Jahn said, "changing to green, yellow and orange. It would zigzag quickly. Then it stopped and we promptly reached for field glasses, telescopes, anything at hand to sight it. We watched as it remained quietly there for about 20 minutes." Jahn said a corporal took color pictures but there are no facilities for developing the film. The men must wait for eight months to be relieved to have the film developed on the mainland. March 9, 1965. George: (CIA) Last night I got a real shock. Someone called home before I got home from base, and my boy, Harvey, took the call. It was someone from St. Paul, interested "in my offer". My brilliant son did not get the name or location... the party said they would call back... but they never did. I almost had an offer from somebody interested in PK, before I strike out at Gelman. ...back to the same theme, George. I guarantee (and look at the astounding I have had with practically all my projects) to reverse the current the U.S. getting the shaft every day, in every way... and can change mate in V to winning for us, and bringing about what the U.S. wants.. done with PK as easily as bringing about storms... knocking down putting officials in the hospital, etc. Mr. McCone's sister passing away... and PK had nothing to do with that, if Mr. C. thought it had... he would send me to V and have me dropped parachute over VC headquarters. There are two interesting things now to tell you: (1) Nature has told me to tell you that to prove it is using me as its representative, it will do something without my using PK, or knowing any of its workings. Nature will, in the near future, change the North and South Poles. As the message came to me, I believe it will use extreme heat to affect those two places... and change the magnetic condition of the Poles. Nature added that you won't have to check with any Bureau on it... that the result will be strong enough to make the newspapers, where you can read about it. Note; this is the first time anything like this has occurred. I don't know what Nature is talking about, or what it plans. Will be interesting to see. (2) Exercise Silver Lance was useless, for test purposes. An invalid experiment. Any results from the Exercise are not worth the paper they are printed on. Why? Because Silver Lance was conducted in a growing, active PK field, with a wide variety of mechanisms at work in the field that would undoubtedly affect the Exercise to a large extent. The field is Electra; the California coast. If you doubt this statement, just look at Electro, in Florida, and what has happened there in my first PK field. Since July the entire area has been like an elephant with the nervous shakes; staggering around drunk in a china shop. There have been hurricanes criss-crossing the place; planes have been falling down; President Johnson narrowly escaped bad injury on two occasions; the Space Eye burned down; and over a dozen rockets and missiles either blew up, fell down, or got up and went haywire. So don't tell me the PK doesn't work on an area. So, Silver Lance, to be a true experiment in the logical sense of the word, would have to be held somewhere else, without PK affecting it, to get a valid idea of its results, test-wise. Check? Hoping the U.S. Government will use this tool, sometime this week, I remain PK Man 08/06/2025 16:13 === Page 13 of 220 Tuesday January 11, 1966 Copy - Rick & Lorrie Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: The Si's have instructed me to tell the U.S. Government that, if the government does not ally with them within an appreciably short time... they will use the colored people of the United States as a whip against the white...in a way never before done, and on a scale never dreamed possible. They will use the same method that they used to bring about the strike in New York, making it a financial disaster area. The result will be much more than a billion-dollar Betsy, or billion-dollar NY strike, and will make the L.A. race riots seem like a kindergarten exercise. And you know something, George...I don't doubt for a minute they can do it. Dad *(This is the meaning of the map of the U.S. with the death's head they sent me, then to you...not long ago. An over-all US disaster, not limited to boundaries.) PS They also want me to tell you: They are beaming something (I think it is light, or a sound) at Johnson's head...and so shortly, within days or few weeks...he should have trouble with his head. There is a reason for them telling you this...wanting you to know what they are doing...and how they are doing it. I guess they'll tell the reason later. They do not tell it now; only the action they are taking. === Page 14 of 220 Wednesday January 12, 1966 Rick Lornie I wrote you a letter yesterday, and got stamps at the PO last night...but before I could mail the letter this morning, a UFO made news this morning. Now, as you know, for two weeks I have been communicating with the Si's, asking them to appear at Cape Kennedy, as a signal to the US Government. Instead, they waited, and appeared last night not too far from here in New Jersey, over a water reservoir...and they stayed there so they would be seen, positively and definitely..........instead of Cape Kennedy. Why? Appearing over the water reservoir was a message to the Government, for one thing. Also, appearing just as Johnson is going to give his big message today to the US, is another reason. They appeared over the water-reservoir in New Jersey, to show that they are here in this very area, active. They appeared over the reservoir to warn the US Government, once again, to let me end the drought, using their (Si) power to do it. They appeared just before President Johnson's speech...as a warning to the President of their reality, and in verification of what I have been saying for them. There should be an article in the paper today on it. I'll clip it, and send it enclosed, along with yesterday's letter...which oddly enough dealt with UFO's. Love, Dad === Page 15 of 220 Wednesday January 12, 1966 Rick Lornie I wrote you a letter yesterday, and got stamps at the PO last night...but before I could mail the letter this morning, a UFO made news this morning. Now, as you know, for two weeks I have been communicating with the Si's, asking them to appear at Cape Kennedy, as a signal to the US Government. Instead, they waited, and appeared last night not too far from here in New Jersey, over a water reservoir...and they stayed there so they would be seen, positively and definitely..........instead of Cape Kennedy. Why? Appearing over the water reservoir was a message to the Government, for one thing. Also, appearing just as Johnson is going to give his big message today to the US, is another reason. They appeared over the water-reservoir in New Jersey, to show that they are here in this very area, active. They appeared over the reservoir to warn the US Government, once again, to let me end the drought, using their (Si) power to do it. They appeared just before President Johnson's speech...as a warning to the President of their reality, and in verification of what I have been saying for them. There should be an article in the paper today on it. I'll clip it, and send it enclosed, along with yesterday's letter...which oddly enough dealt with UFO's. Love, Dad PS Not a word of the UFO in Phila. paper!! Means Govt has Phila. sewed up!! === Page 16 of 220 Jan. 14, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Copy - Rick Dear George: I am appalled by the apathy of the U.S. Government in checking leads, no matter how "far out" they may be. Now, just lately in my correspondence to you I told you that I would try to get the Si's to display a craft at Cape Kennedy for an extended period of time, to prove that I communicate with them and they understand. They chose, instead, to do this in New Jersey, over the Wanaque reservoir. Sent you the info on that yesterday. The point is this...they want to make a personal meeting with me...and the Govt. should have rushed me to that exact spot and given me an opportunity to communicate and bring them down, right there. I have the means of doing this. No one else has. Same thing with their appearance in Michigan, and Florida, some time ago. I should have been sent there by the Govt....rushed...and been given an opportunity to meet them, by talking them down to the spot again. I am talking about the craft, now. We have had Si phenomena in our apartment, believe it or not, these past few weeks...but it is necessary to bring down a craft, and meet it. Two great "fireballs" have landed in Pa. since September, on two different occasions. These were the Si's, and they did not land in Pa. by accident. I am in Pa. They wish to meet me. This was brought out long ago in correspondence, when they stipulated conditions on how they wanted to meet me. But of course, US Govt. made no answer. I wrote you in advance of the events, that the Si's would create an earthquake and a disaster area (this on Dec. 28.) They did just that...a mild earthquake in New York and Pa., followed by a billion-dollar financial disaster in NYC. I told you that Pres. Johnson would be involved in the disaster area. Well, he tried not to be...but it was extended until he was forced into the matter. It is a great pity that I can get no cooperation from my Government to meet a Si craft, and make arrangements with them for future events. P K Man (Owens) 1114 Spruce St. #33 Phila., Pa. 08/06/2025 16:16 === Page 17 of 220 January 14, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: The Si's want me to repeat to the US Govt. again what they will give, if they are cooperated with: (1) A prosperous United States..........better than ever before in its history. (2) Peace..........wars and discord will cease with other countries, and other countries will no longer react with distrust and anger toward the U.S. (3) Protection from hurricanes and other forms of Nature-disaster that have heretofore stricken the U.S. (4) An end to racial strife in the U.S. Peace among the black and white peoples. (5) Less illness and sickness and disease than ever before in history. (6) New leaders to improve the U.S., of a type and kind scarcely found in our history. (7) An end to drought..........plenty of water for the U.S. (See #3). (8) Help..........with medical and scientific advances toward the betterment of the human race. Their sustained appearances in New Jersey this last Tuesday night were a solid message in symbolic physical form. My communication with them also gives you the above..........which they have stated before, if you will look at your correspondence from me. I only wish Mr. Dunn could have been at Wanaque reservoir last Tuesday night, and then he would believe in my "causal factor." Sincerely, P K Man. === Page 18 of 220 January 19, 1966 Mr. Dunn, Chief Hurricane Center, Miami, Florida. Dear Mr. Dunn: I recently made you an offer, based on factual knowledge of my true ability (I know it; you perhaps do not) with regard to keeping hurricanes away from Florida. Complete, and I mean complete, safety from hurricanes. Now allow me to add to my offer: I saw a program on TV, which gave a pictorial outline of a terrible drought in the Florida Everglades National Park. It was pitiful. So, I will include with my hurricane protection for Florida...much rainfall for the Florida Everglades, to the point where the Everglades will have a plentiful supply of water, as long as I am on the job. My causal factor for these seeming impossibilities..........UFO power. I have it at my request and command. I have used it extensively. It has come to pass almost without a miss. Taking me up on the proposition that I made you, and the State of Florida, would be the luckiest and most fortunate thing Florida has ever had happen. And remember...I will willingly go to prison if I fail. Could anything be fairer? Very truly yours, P K Man (Owens) 1114 Spruce St., #33 Philadelphia, Pa. === Page 19 of 220 January 18, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: All right. I have tried. The Si's have tried. Still the U.S. Government is not convinced. x So, George, the Si's will demonstrate catastrophe-wise, in a tremendous way, against the U.S. in the next few days, next few weeks. I will ask them, also, to appear and be seen, as they were in New Jersey, as a sort of signature to their catastrophe-demonstration. Rick Lorne P K Man P.S. Right now they will end the horrible drought in South Africa - if you'll let them. Fly me over? === Page 20 of 220 January 19, 1966 Miss Ghandi, Prime Minister New Delhi India Dear Miss Prime Minister: I have heard, with great concern, of the terrible drought in India. It lies within my power to bring about all of the rainfall for India that you may need...for that is my specialty. I am a "rainmaker" and have never failed. Should you be interested in allowing me to give your country much rain, to end the drought, please contact me as soon as possible. I wish no fee for my services; my only desire is to help the peoples of India with my incredible talent. Respectfully, P K Man (Owens) 1114 Spruce St. #33 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. P.S. I sent this same offer to Prime Minister Shastri, about a week before his tragic death. === Page 21 of 220 January 19, 1966 Ambassador to Africa African Consulate Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: Enclosed please find my card. I specialize in creating rain over large areas. And I have never failed. Recently I saw a program on TV that outlined the desperate situation now prevailing in South Africa with regard to the drought. I can end the African drought, completely, and give Africa all of the rainfall that it needs. I alone, have the means to do so. If you are interested, please contact me as soon as possible. There would be no charge or fee for my services; the only thing that I am interested in is...to help the people of South Africa. And by giving them all the rainfall they need in the coming weeks and months, would be my pleasure. Respectfully, Mr. Sota (P K Man, Owens) 1114 Spruce St. Philadelphia, Pa. === Page 22 of 220 January 20, 1966 President Johnson The White House Rick Lornie Well, sir, today I am lucky. Have a few spare moments, and access to a typewriter...so will take advantage of the unusual combination, and drop you a line with regard to UFO's...Si's...saucer intelligences. As you probably know...the UFO's made quite an appearance in New Jersey on the night of January 11. And they did just what I had asked them to do...they appeared, and stayed, for a long time, so that many people could see them and there would be no doubt whatsoever about their existence. Not only that...they used some kind of ray to burn a hole in the ice of the Wanaque Reservoir, as a demonstration of their ability with that particular tool, whatever it was. Prior to their appearance I had written George Clark and predicted a U.S. earthquake, a catastrophe of huge dimension, and the appearance of the Si's at Cape Kennedy as a "signature" that when these things happened, ahead in the future, the U.S. Government would know, for sure, that the Si's brought it about. First, the earthquake occurred. (A slight one, but it made the front page of the Philadelphia paper. In New York. Next, the billion-and-a-half dollar New York strike occurred. Here, the Si's were being merciful. Only a money disaster. Not a "people" disaster, or terrible wreckage as occurred with Hurricane Betsy. Third, the Si's made their appearance THEIR way...not at the Cape...but at Wanaque, New Jersey (and many other towns there, as well.) This week, because the U.S. Government still would not cooperate with them, after all their work to prove their point...the Si's had me write George Clark that they would be forced then to provide a real, honest to gosh catastrophe that the U.S. Government could appreciate....then make another UFO appearance as a "signature" to it. What amazes me is...by now there can be no doubt, none whatsoever, that the Si's are for real. After I predicted the South Pole electromagnetic change....and the UFO showed up there, and caused it; and now the long, full appearance of the Si's at Wanaque...the U.S. Government no longer can have any doubt that all of these things I have been writing about the past year, certainly must be true. And when you analyze the scope and variety of the powers utilized to bring about the various phenomena...guiding hurricanes, influencing masses of people, causing earthquakes in specific locations, eliminating planes, ships and attacking subs....and so on and so on...then the U.S. Government, if it has any intelligence at all, to my way of thinking, should not hesitate to reach out to the Si's in 08/06/2025 16:16 === Page 23 of 220 1/20/66 P2 January 20, 1966 friendship and accept their offer to help the U.S. in the following way: End the US drought and bring about excellent geographical physical changes in the land, water and soil. End the Viet Nam war, and bring about peace for the US with foreign countries, as well as change the thinking of foreign countries toward the US from hostile to friendly. Help the US Government find some REAL thinkers and REAL men and REAL leaders to help build this great country up again into a magnificent place. Take damaging hurricanes, like Betsy, that threaten the US, off in a harmless direction. Protect US shipping, airplanes, subs, etc., from collisions, fire, etc. Help the US make REALLY great advances in Science and Medicine. And many, many other wonderful things for the U.S. This is what they WANT to do. Once that is done, then they will go to work to fix up and patch up the rest of the world, to get it in good operating condition, without hate...wars...killing, etc. The only thing holding all of these good things back is the failure of the US Govt. to accept me as the Si representative, set me up as I need to be set up to work with them. Because I am the only human that can talk to them, and receive intelligence from them. I do not have all of the answers pertaining to the Si's. And many times I do make errors in communication with them, because of its obvious difficulty. But in the past year, if you'll examine my file with my various contacts, you will see that literally miracles have been accomplished...in a destructive, negative way...the ONLY way necessary to bring this to the attention of the US Govt. and to finally convince the US Govt. (sooner or later.) My wife and I most likely are the only humans who have had the Si's appear in an apartment, as they did our apartment, on several occasions. But they cannot get to us with their craft...and this is a necessity. Right now I should be in England, Ireland, or Scotland...out in the countryside, away from masses of people, so the Si's can bring their craft to me. They want this badly. I haven't yet learned why. Owens P K/Man (Owens) 111 1/4 Spruce St. #33 Philadelphia, Pa. 08/06/2025 16:16 === Page 24 of 220 January 21, 1966 President Johnson Dear President Johnson: I have been sending you some mighty unusual letters...based on part with regard to UFO's...and on part, to unusual powers of my own. Now, you can check me out. At Duke University, when I was a secretary for the world-famous scientist, Dr. J. B. Rhine, he personally investigated...with the help of other scientists in the field of parapsychology, my strange abilities. I was able, in full light, at Dr. Rhine's home, surrounded by Dr. Rhine and his associates, to knock a pair of scissors off of a table...by sheer concentration and willpower. The scissors were securely propped up by Dr. Rhine himself on a table fully 10-15 feet away from where I was seated, across the room. I willed the scissors to fall down...but they were knocked flying clear off the table. Dr. Rhine himself then went forward and examined the table, and picked the scissors up off the floor. I think there were about 5-7 scientists present at the time. So you see...when I talk about PK (which was the ability I used above) I do know what I am talking about. Sincerely, Owens PK Man (Owens) 1114 Spruce, #33 Phila., Pa. === Page 25 of 220 January 24, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: My accuracy with "PK" work, in conjunction with the Si's, has been roughly 96% accurate. Rarely a miss, but a miss did just occur, and thought you would be interested to know the details of it. When I appeared on the local radio here in Philadelphia, and got the paper write-up...then suddenly everything was cut off...and the "Rain Maker" received no offers, no takers...I consulted with the Si's, and the upshot was that we placed this area in a "PK Bubble" - that is, sealed off the area, so that precipitation in any form would not fall on this area...and if it should, there would not be enough to matter. This worked just fine, beautifully, I might say...matter of fact, if I could have blocked off the snowstorm we had over this weekend, a 100 year record would have been broken here. But...the PK failed to block the snowstorm; it got through...and so, you see, the PK and the Si's do not always hit the bullseye. 96 out of 100 times they do, but I thought you might like to know of this failure. At least, I guess it is a failure. Unless the Si's wanted this precipitation to get the violent storm in this area...for reasons of their own...to cause a disaster area somewhere soon...and this storm was necessary to their plan. We shall see. If suddenly California or a Western area is racked up with a booming, violent storm, creating a real disaster area...then I'll know what the Si's are up to. If it wasn't just a miss. S P K Man (Owens - Rain Maker) P.S. The recent two mysterious "fireballs" that landed in Pennsylvania, and the recent UFO that parked itself over Wanaque reservoir in New Jersey... were my little friends. Odd that the New Jersey newspapers put the "Wanaque UFO" on their front pages, and not a mention in the Philadelphia papers. The Mayor of Wanaque and thousands of N.J. people saw the UFO...responsible citizens even saw it burn a big hole in the ice with a ray. === Page 26 of 220 1/25/66 P1 Lornie - thought you'd like to see this letter from Brenda Sue's mother. Jan 25 - 66 Mr. Ted Owens Dear Mr. Owens Just a few lines to let you know about Brenda Sue. We have talked & wondered about you folks a lot. It seemed I just never got around to writing. Hope you & your family are fine. Brenda has improved a lot although she doesn't walk talk or feed herself. But the Dr said if she continued to improve he would put her in braces in May she seems to know everything you say to her but just can't answer you she does do everything she can when you tell her to so we are still hoping & praying for the best. I want to thank you & your daughter again for what you did. We have had Brenda home since the 7th of May 08/06/2025 16:16 === Page 27 of 220 1/25/66 p2 it has been a year today since they found her. I don't guess they are any nearer solving the case than they were then. The Millers are fine I said give you their best regards. Wishing you folks the best in everything. We remain your friends. Thank you for writing us. Mr. & Mrs. Dennie Pennington East Rainelle W.Va. === Page 28 of 220 DUE TO FEB. 11 OPERATION, SHE WAS SINKING; WE WENT SUNDAY FEB. 14 ① " " 21 ② " " 28 ③ 1/25/66 p3 Tuesday February 16, 1965 Dear Mr. and Mrs. Penningtons My daughter and I were very happy to meet you on Sunday, Mr. Pennington...and my daughter expressed regret that she could not meet Mrs. Pennington at the time. It might amuse you, Mr. Pennington, that Lorrie, my daughter, described you as a "great big bear of a man, with real kind, gentle eyes...good eyes." We also appreciated the cooperation of yourselves, the police, and the medical staff in allowing us to enter your daughter's room and use our system in an effort to bring life into your daughter. You might be interested in a few facts pertaining to our System: As far as we know it is not used at any location in the world today, except by ourselves, here in Washington. Our System was used, long ago, during the days of Moses and the Egyptians. It usually takes two to five days to take effect...full effect. Therefore, somewhere between Sunday and Friday, we anticipate that your daughter will open her eyes, and begin to progress, into full health, eventually. And, due to our System, her recovery will be much, much more rapid than under normal circumstances. As a matter of fact, her rate of recovery should be amazing. Our only hope is that we were not called in too late...allowed to come in too late. This factor is very difficult to ascertain. Just how near, or far away, from the line of Life and Death, she may be at the time. However, I used this System on a girl in Texas, near death, and unconscious... and saved her with it. Her father and brother carried her up to my apartment in Fort Worth, deep in a coma. She is alive and happy today. Once we make our initial effort on the scene...in your daughter's room...then we can continue from a distance, with your daughter seen in our mind's eye. And that is what we are doing now, night and day. We work in shifts on it. We would greatly appreciate your letting us know of her progress...how she is... now and then...so that we can gauge our work accordingly. And if we win this battle with death...and your daughter arises, happy and healthy...it is our hope that we may be allowed to visit her at the hospital and say hello to her. Of course, I must add, it is not my daughter and myself who are doing these marvelous things with PK (the name of the System) but it is Nature itself. (The same Nature that puts life into new babies, can put life into your daughter and keep it there.) Sincerely, Ted Owens (P K Man) 418 Peabody Street, NW Washington, D. C. Phone: RA 30365 Wrote this after Lorrie went to hospital. 08/06/2025 16:16 === Page 29 of 220 1/25/66 P4 # DETECTIVE POSTS REWARD ## Beaten Girl Still in a Coma By BRIAN KELLY Star Staff Writer An Arlington detective investigating the beating of Brenda Sue Pennington, 19, more than a month ago has offered to pay a $500 reward personally for information leading to her assailant. Detective Russell L. Runyon said he would pay the reward for information resulting in the arrest and conviction of the person who apparently stole a portable television set and a heavy decanter from the Arlington girl's apartment, and brutally attacked her at the same time last Jan. 25. Runyon said the 14-inch decanter, made of dark, smoked glass, was believed to be the weapon with which Miss Pennington was struck several times on the head. He said a matching decanter was left in her apartment. Still Unconscious A clerical worker has been unconscious in Arlington Hospital since she was found on the floor of her bedroom. She has remained in critical condition despite four skull operations. Runyon appealed to the public to watch for the television set if it is offered for sale in the Washington metropolitan area. He described it as a 19-inch Zenith portable, with the serial number 304-8702. Also missing from Miss Pennington's one-bedroom apartment when she was beaten was her pocketbook containing her wallet and personal papers. Runyon said some 135 persons have been questioned by himself and other Arlington detectives working on the case, but no major leads have been developed. He asked anyone with information regarding the assault to call the Arlington police station at JA 7-2900 and talk to himself, Detective Willard C. Knight, Detective Sgt. George Coppage or Lt. John E. Cullins. Runyon said that Miss Pennington apparently was last seen about 11 a.m. the day before she was found. He said neighbors saw her leave her apartment that Sunday morning with an unidentified man, described as tall, heavy-set blond, and get into a car with him. She was found about 9 a.m. the next Monday morning, lying on the floor of her bedroom next to the telephone. Runyon said he was offering the personal reward money because he felt it was important for residents to feel safe. An Arlington detective has appealed to the public for any information about a television set and a decanter, similar to the ones pictured, taken from the apartment of Brenda Sue Pennington, 19, victim of a brutal beating. # Girl in Coma Since Beating Is Moved 3/2/65 Brenda Sue Pennington, 19, an Arlington career girl who has remained unconscious since she was brutally beaten in her apartment two months ago, has been transferred to a West Virginia hospital near her home of Quinnwood. Officials at Greenbriar Valley Hospital in Ronceverte, W.Va., said today Miss Pennington was resting satisfactorily after the transfer Saturday from Arlington Hospital. During her stay at Arlington Hospital, she hovered in critical or near-critical condition for weeks. Miss Pennington was found unconscious in her one-bedroom apartment the morning of Jan. 25. A portable television set, a heavy brass decanter and her purse were missing from the apartment. Meanwhile, a reward fund started by an Arlington detective investigating the case has grown to $900. Detective Russell L. Runyon started the fund with a personal pledge of $500 for information leading to conviction of the assailant. MONTH LATER!! (3/29) SHE LIVED!! WAS TAKEN HOME. I STARTED ON THIS CASE HERE # Beaten Girl in Coma, Condition Is Critical 2/25 Brenda Sue Pennington, the Arlington girl who was the victim of a vicious beating last month, underwent surgery Thursday to relieve pressure on her brain and remained in critical condition yesterday Meanwhile, several Northern Virginians, have begun raising contributions to help pay for Miss Pennington's mounting medical expenses. A fund for the family has been established at the Fidelity National Bank in Arlington. Miss Pennington, 19, was found unconscious in her apartment Jan. 25. Police said she was clubbed on the head a number of times with an unknown instrument. For a few days, she reached semi-consciousness but her parents, who live in West Virginia to maintain a vigil near her, have not been able to communicate with her. Robert M. Cooper, of 407 Park Ave., McLean, announced the drive for contributions yesterday. Although he did not know the Pennington family until the tragedy occurred, he has spoken to the parents and has joined with others to help them, he said. Cooper, who is an electrical inspector for Arlington County, said the nursing fees alone cost the family $330 every five days. Contributors may mail checks, payable to Fidelity National Bank, at 2009 N. 14th St., Arlington. Frank Embrey, bank president, said the checks should be accompanied by a note indicating the money is for Brenda Sue Pennington. # Fund Started for Victim of Beating 2/15 A fund has been started by a 19-year-old Arlington girl who was badly beaten by an intruder in her apartment. The fund, to pay hospital expenses for Brenda Sue Pennington, of 1632 Oak st., is being held by Fidelity National Bank of Arlington. Checks should be accompanied by a note indicating they for the fund. Miss Pennington, a business machine operator, is still unconscious and in critical condition at Arlington Hospital. Last week she underwent brain surgery, an operation that piled even more expenses on bills that exceed $60 daily. Her assailant is still at large. I SAW THESE TWO CLIPS IN PAPER. THE "INTELLIGENCE TOLD ME TO CALL. I DID. POLICE, FAMILY & HOSPITAL (DOCTORS, ETC) OK'D TRYING MY "PK", BECAUSE === Page 30 of 220 January 25, 1966 Dear Lornie: I hope that you are getting along fine in school, and that all is well. Everything is quiet here...right now. But you know, with me...all hell can break loose, any time, any place. Our days are all pretty much the same...to work early, home at 6, where Martha has a hot supper waiting and Beau has a big kiss for me. Then TV, with Beau scrambling to get into my lap. He's so funny...if I bring home a beer, he runs like mad and gets a glass or cup before I even can get the beer out of the sack. And when he climbs into my lap every evening, after supper, to watch TV, first he brings a pillow to put his head on, then his pa-pa (blanket) to hold on to. I tell you he's cute. Once in a while, if Beau gets off my lap to do something, then Martha jumps out of her chair, which is alongside mine, and quickly takes Beau's place in my lap. Then of course Beau runs back and climbs up into her lap, which makes a sort of human pyramid...with me on the bottom trying to smoke a cigar. It is a comical sight. Soon am going to try to make some extra money, some way. Been relaxing long enough, just breaking even. Time to get ahead. This morning Martha said, "Say, if Jim Shannon is so young...like 25 or 27, then why isn't he in the draft, or in the Service?" No matter what PK I hit LA and Calif. with...you kids have no worry. You are protected. Was astonished to see an ad on TV where two kids are in a bubble, floating in the air, and the ad said: "How would you like to have your kids in a bubble of protection?" Be sure, you kids, to read my letters to each other...when I write one, it's for the other one to know about, too. So, take turns. Hope you and Rick liked the color pictures that were taken in Washington. The best one was of you and Beau, upstairs. What did you think of my big, fat letter last week with the photostats of the Si's being seen all night near here in New Jersey...and shooting a ray that burnt a big hole in the ice? The mayor of the town, the cops, and thousands of people saw the Si's that night. Write, Spellbound, when you can. love and kisses.......... P.S. Was there a power blackout in L.A.? If so, please send clipping on it. Tappy Owens 08/06/2025 16:26 === Page 31 of 220 January 26, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: This is a very important letter, that the Si's have instructed me to send you. First...notice the high incidence of key aircraft destroyed this month, along with key people. Just to name a few recent ones...the nuclear-bomber downed over Spain; the Air India crash over Switzerland, carrying India's top nuclear scientist; the Viet Nam troop plane crash, the worst in the history of the war there with 47 dead; the brand-new top-secret spy plane that just crashed this week in New Mexico - and so on. Now, to understand how the Si's knock down these planes...look at the news clips I sent you on the UFO sighting at Wanaque reservoir...and see how the UFO, while people watched, sent out a ray to burn a hole in the ice of the reservoir. Only, it didn't "burn" a hole. The ray is a force ray. To knock down a plane, they hit it with the ray, and the ray simply sets the plane on fire...although the ray does not contain heat. To eliminate a person, such as Adlai Stevenson, Shastri, etc., they hit them with a ray and it just stops the bodily mechanism cold..doesn't burn them. These UFO's can be as large as the entire United States (they have four of them this size, using rays to affect the world's weather) or they can be as small as the size of a dime..and the small ones are as deadly as the large ones. Or as constructive, whatever is on at the time. The UFO's, which are of light...not actual materials...travel at the speed of light...are controlled by a headquarters, located elsewhere, and obtain their ray-power from headquarters by remote control. They gave me the okay to tell you all of this, without giving me a reason. They never give me reasons, as a rule...just instructions. What they are going to do next is...shrink the monies which are donated to Radio Free Europe, Heart Fund, Cancer Fund...all such. Picture a large circle, which is now the amount of monies donated by peoples to all sorts of activities, government and otherwise...shrink this large circle down to a small spot...and you get the idea. People will simply stop giving. When the U.S. Government is ready to listen...the Si's will tell them exactly what it is that they want. Which is not much at all...and very simple. Their efforts to convince the U.S. Govt. of their reality...have cost the U.S. billions of dollars already. And for only $100,000 and a bit of cooperation, this could have been avoided. And the billions to come that will be lost...could be avoided. P K Man (Owens) Owens 08/06/2025 16:26 === Page 32 of 220 1/26/66 p2 1/26/66 George: The Si's want me to add this example, or illustration, of the speed of their UFO "craft" - they say: Point a flashlight, angled upward, into a mirror, in a dark room. Then push the button and turn the flashlight on. The speed with which the light hits the mirror, then reflects up onto the ceiling...is the speed with which their craft move (and also may be a clue to how they move.) It also is an indication of how they make "impossible" right-angle or sharp degree turns, at the speed of light. Just like light hitting a mirror and glancing off in another direction. I am not a physicist, or a scientist...but I wish I were...for the above information they gave me would be darn interesting to try and look into. Anyway, they wanted you to have the information. And there it is. P K Man (Owens) === Page 33 of 220 Copy - Rick Loonie January 28, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: The President is, at present, in a quandary. Whether to bomb North Vietnam some more; bomb more extensively; nor hold off entirely. If the Government would like to have the advice of the UFO intelligences (Si's) then I submit it: There is a huge black shadow hanging over U.S. forces in Viet Nam...a threatening force which is not seen at this time by the U.S. An unforeseen factor, disastrous. More extensive aggressive military force by the U.S. there will unleash this force, causing the U.S. forces terrible loss of manpower and equipment, and terrible loss of money. Too much for us to bear. A little military force...just enough to hold the status quo...they say is like being a little bit pregnant. It is no good. Worthless to us as military accomplishment and worthless to us as international prestige. Thus they rule out minimum military action...and they rule out maximum military action. This leaves only complete withdrawal of all military forces as soon as possible. Not on moral grounds; not because we are beaten militarily; not on political grounds....but because U.S. forces there will be destroyed, and we will be terribly hurt financially...if it is not done, quickly. Yes, undoubtedly the Viet Cong will then take over Viet Nam (Saigon) and get even with those who have opposed them. But the Si's say this is not as bad as what will happen if the U.S. extends operations, or tries to hold at a minimum of operation. Better, they say, to retreat, than be wiped out. At West Point they surely must point out, in teaching the history of wars, that many famous war-leaders and Generals had to retreat at times, to avoid catastrophe. They couldn't win 'em all. If Napoleon had sensed a trap at Waterloo, and not committed his forces, he would have gone on to greater victories, probably. If Hitler had sensed a giant trap in Russia, and withdrawn his forces, that, too, would have made a great difference in the war. We, now, are in the same trap. And it is a trap. If we try to go on...quick escalation will lead, as surely as night follows day, a huge war between the forces of U.S. and Asia. And we will not win, either. Because Asia is clear across the globe...and because while we are battling the huge manpower forces of Asia, Russia will be cutting at our backs, thus you have the picture of a big, powerful moose...with wolves in front of it...and wolves in back of it. And our Allies will be much too afraid to try to help us; they will keep out of it, agreement or no PK Man 08/06/2025 16:26 === Page 34 of 220 January 31, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: And so, once again, the Si's have proven my prediction correct. On January 18 I wrote to you and warned you that the U.S. would have a demonstration catastrophe within the next few days or few weeks. I think this has come about, don't you? And the U.S. Capitol was the bullseye...hardest hit, according to the radio. Snow and cold, the worst in 100 years, radio said. Coldest in dozens of cities it has ever been in the memory of those cities. The Si's have just spoken to you .......... again. (When I say "you" of course I mean you as representing the U.S. Government...since I am their spokes and you are the government spokesman I speak with.) They are now curious to know...must they do something worse than put the entire U.S. in a deep-freeze? Or will the U.S. make friends with them. They wait patiently for some kind of answer, sometime. And I don't thin it had better come from Mr. Dunn, nice though he was...he gives wrong answers. P K Man P.S. Remember last year, George...when I told you the Si's were gettin ready to strike within a few days, a few weeks...and they did, sending dozens of tornados and near tornados through six states.. and giant floods throughout the Midwest...all at the same time, wrecking the area. If the Government were smart, they would count the natural disast and catastrophic accidents that happened since I have been writin as the Si's representative...and they would easily see the follow words in the newspaper write-ups by the hundreds: "The Atlas miss that blew up on the pad at Cape Kennedy...was an impossibility. pad that lightning struck, with the missile on it, was lightning- The NASA program this year has been plagued with mishaps. The co was most unusual, in that it covered the entire United States. T crash of the giant plane is being investigated, because there was apparent sign of trouble. And so forth. One newspaper write-up === Page 35 of 220 Copy - Rick Lornie 1/31/66 P1 , 1966 e Clark ntelligence Agency ge: once again, the Si's have proven my prediction correct. y 18 I wrote to you and warned you that the U.S. would have a ition catastrophe within the next few days or few weeks. this has come about, don't you? J.S. Capitol was the bullseye...hardest hit, according to the cold, the worst in 100 years, radio said. Coldest in dozens of t has ever been in the memory of those cities. have just spoken to you .......... again. (When I say "you" of course ou as representing the U.S. Government...since I am their spokesman, are the government spokesman I speak with.) now curious to know...must they do something worse than put the J.S. in a deep-freeze? Or will the U.S. make friends with them. it patiently for some kind of answer, sometime. And I don't think better come from Mr. Dunn, nice though he was...he gives wrong P K Man Remember last year, George...when I told you the Si's were getting ready to strike within a few days, a few weeks...and they did, sending dozens of tornados and near tornados through six states... and giant floods throughout the Midwest...all at the same time, wrecking the area. If the Government were smart, they would count the natural disasters and catastrophic accidents that happened since I have been writing as the Si's representative...and they would easily see the following words in the newspaper write-ups by the hundreds: "The Atlas missile that blew up on the pad at Cape Kennedy...was an impossibility. The pad that lightning struck, with the missile on it, was lightning-proof. The NASA program this year has been plagued with mishaps. The cold .......... unusual. in that it covered the entire United States. The .......... because there was no 08/06/2025 16:26 === Page 36 of 220 Copy - Rick Lorne 1/31/66 P1 January 31, 1966 George Clark Central Intelligence Agency George: So, once again, the Si's have proven my prediction correct. January 18 I wrote to you and warned you that the U.S. would have a frustration catastrophe within the next few days or few weeks. I think this has come about, don't you? The U.S. Capitol was the bullseye...hardest hit, according to the radio. Snow and cold, the worst in 100 years, radio said. Coldest in dozens of cities it has ever been in the memory of those cities. The Si's have just spoken to you .......... again. (When I say "you" of course I mean you as representing the U.S. Government...since I am their spokesman, and you are the government spokesman I speak with.) They are now curious to know...must they do something worse than put the entire U.S. in a deep-freeze? Or will the U.S. make friends with them. They wait patiently for some kind of answer, sometime. And I don't think it had better come from Mr. Dunn, nice though he was...he gives wrong answers. P K Man P.S. Remember last year, George...when I told you the Si's were getting ready to strike within a few days, a few weeks...and they did, sending dozens of tornados and near tornados through six states...and giant floods throughout the Midwest...all at the same time, wrecking the area. If the Government were smart, they would count the natural disasters and catastrophic accidents that happened since I have been writing as the Si's representative...and they would easily see the following words in the newspaper write-ups by the hundreds: "The Atlas missile that blew up on the pad at Cape Kennedy...was an impossibility. The pad that lightning struck, with the missile on it, was lightning-proof. The war has been plagued with mishaps. The cold entire United States. The 08/08/2025 16:26 === Page 37 of 220 extending the terms of House members but not agree with the President on one important point. Johnson wants future House elections to be concurrent with Presidential elections. Scott is strongly opposed to concurrent elections and argues that they would "deprive the public of any opportunity to correct the excesses of a strong President or the mistakes of a weak one." This shortcoming is one of the arguments that has traditionally been used against moves to lengthen the terms of House members. Scott firmly believes that they should be lengthened so that members of the House will have more time to do their jobs and not be forced to devote so much time to mending political fences back home. But Scott suggests that all Representatives be elected at midterm so that the public will have an opportunity to apprise the President of the people's will. If House terms are to be extended, Scott's midterm proposal would seem to be preferable. # Crackdown on Drug Abuses There were cheers from many quarters last year when amendments to control drug abuses were added to the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. Those amendments become effective tomorrow. They provide strict penalties for the illegal manufacture, distribution, delivery and possession of more than 300 types of stimulant and depressant drugs. Included in the amendments are barbiturates (goofballs) amphetamines (pep pills) and other drugs that can cause hallucinations or effect the brain. The amendments are fine but they would mean little without some practical method of enforcement. Unfortunately, enforcement will lag. A special branch of the Food and Drug Administration has been created to enforce the amendments. The Bureau of Drug Abuse Control is seeking 278 agents who will work out of five field district headquarters. Philadelphia will be served (it remains to be seen how well) through the New York City district office. The new bureau will not be fully operational until next December. By then, we trust, the new bureau will be making some serious inroads into the illegal traffic in pep pills, goofballs and related drugs--a traffic that brings huge profits to some and potential tragedy to its many victims. # Cookie Time Again This is a delightfully dangerous time of the year for those who must count their calories and, for that matter, those who do not. It's Girl Scout Cookie Sale time again. The 33d annual sale will continue until Feb. 23. Waistline watchers who give in to temptation can at least console themselves with the knowledge that the cookie commission go to a most worthy cause, a cooperative project of some 20,000 girls in 970 troops throughout the city and parts of the suburbs. Help send a girl to camp. Buy a box or two. # Sudden Thought We haven't seen anybody burning a draft card in the war on poverty. # ECONOMIC DRESS SALON The Styles Are Getting Out of Line # Letters to the Editor ## Oppose K-444 The Northeast Chamber of Commerce, after months of study, wish to make known that they are opposed to the new concept of K444 and, rather, endorse the former plan of K633. Among the many reasons, four stand out, as follows: (1) The children at nine and ten years of age would be too young to uproot and transport out of their community and environment to a middle school. (2) With the many demands made on the School Board for extra curricular activities and the new concept of education, it would prove an additional economic burden on the taxpayer with no benefit, we feel, coming back to the children. (3) It would add to the busing problem. (4) Just what is wrong with the present system of elementary, Junior High and Senior High. It has produced many, if not most of the leaders that are the captains of industry and the leaders of our government today. We simply wish to go on record so that the School District might be guided in its decision by the thoughts of the community. --W. B. BEATON, Chairman Public Affairs ## Mischief Making An article has appeared in the paper which has me greatly worried. It says that Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who is a very important, highly-placed man in Government, recently said, "The world is round. Only one-third of the human beings asleep at one time, and the other two-thirds are awake and up to some mischief somewhere." This is terrible. If what he says is true--and surely the Secretary of State wouldn't tell a lie--then Mr. Rusk has to be either: (1) Asleep, or (2) Up to some mischief somewhere. --H. T. OWENS ## Talking Point "Some people are easily entertained. All you have to do is sit down and listen to them." --EARL WILSON ## Proud of Ring In response to George Miller, "Henpecked": I wear my wedding ring proudly. It's not a ball and chain as you make it sound. I come and go as I please. Most wives go out to work to help their husbands with the bills and do all the buying because they run the house and know what it needs. A good name for your club should be the "Gutless Club" for men like yourself don't have any to meet and cope with the responsibilities that go with married life and fatherhood. Georgie Boy--Baloney! --GEORGE JOVINELLI ## A Beginning Your editor's Diagnosis of the Governor's Budget Message is encouraging to say the least. An overdue appraisal of a budget far from what is needed here in Pennsylvania. Governor Scranton's budget ignores vast areas of the Commonwealth face serious economic problems, particularly here in our sister city of Philadelphia, behind in the race for jobs. I do think that it should be noted that the "Diagnosis" you mention, the Economy Report, prepared for the State by Milton Shapp, is used by the Democratic candidate for Governor. This Shapp report was also the basis for the charges made against Scranton by House Minority Leader Joshua Eilberg. It represents a thorough study of the methods of preparing a budget in these economic times. THE COMPLICATED MACHINERY OF SELF-GOVERNMENT "Just remember--drive carefully" === Page 38 of 220 PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS An Afternoon Newspaper Published Daily By TRIANGLE PUBLICATIONS, INC. 400 N. Broad St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19101 Telephone LOcust 3-5200 WALTER H. ANNENBERG, PRESIDENT J. RAY HUNT, MANAGING EDITOR MONDAY, JANUARY 31, 1966 # Midterm Elections Best If House Terms Extended Much will be written and said in the months ahead on the subject of the length of terms of members of the S. House of Representatives. In his State of the Union message, President Johnson declared his intention of submitting a recommendation for an increase in the length of terms to four years. Pennsylvania's Republican Sen. Hugh Scott is also in favor of extending the terms of House members but he does not agree with the President on one important detail. Mr. Johnson wants future House elections to be held concurrent with Presidential elections. Scott is strongly opposed to concurrent elections and argues that they would "deprive the public of any opportunity to correct the excesses of a strong President or the mistakes of a weak one." This shortcoming is one of the arguments that has traditionally been used against moves to lengthen the terms of House members. Scott firmly believes that they should be lengthened so that members of the House will have more time to do their jobs and not be forced to devote so much time to mending political fences back home. But Scott suggests that all Representatives be elected at midterm so that the public will have an opportunity to apprise the President of the people's will. If House terms are to be extended, Scott's midterm proposal would seem to be preferable. # Crackdown on Drug Abuses There were cheers from many quarters last year when amendments to control drug abuses were added to the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. Those amendments become effective tomorrow. They provide strict penalties for the illegal manufacture, distribution, delivery and possession of more than 300 types of stimulant and depressant drugs. Included in the amendments are barbiturates (goofballs) amphetamines (pep pills) and other drugs that can cause hallucinations or effect the brain. The amendments are fine but they would mean little without some practical method of enforcement. Unfortunately, enforcement will lag. A special branch of the Food and Drug Administration has been created to enforce the amendments. The # Jerry Doyle's Cartoon [Cartoon depicting three women in dresses labeled "WAGES & PRICES", "TAXES", and "LIVING COSTS" on a runway. A sign says "LATEST SPRING STYLES". The title below reads "ECONOMIC DRESS SALON". A man in the background is watching.] The Styles Are Getting Out of Line # Letters to the Editor ## Oppose K-444 The Northeast Chamber of Commerce, after months of study, wish to make known that they are opposed to the new concept of K444 and, rather, endorse the former plan of K633. Among the many reasons, four stand out, as follows: (1) The children at nine and ten years of age would be too young to uproot and transport out of their community and environment to a middle school. (2) With the many demands made on the School Board for extra curricular activities and the new concept of education, it would prove an additional economic burden on the taxpayer with no benefit, we feel, coming back to the children. (3) It would add to the busing problem. (4) Just what is wrong with the present system of elementary, Junior High and Senior ## Talking Point "Some people are easily entertained. All you have to do is sit down and listen to them." --EARL WILSON ## Proud of Ring In response to George Miller, "Henpecked": I wear my wedding ring proudly. It's not a ball and chain as you make it sound. I come and go as I please. Most wives go out to work to help their husbands with the bills and do all the buying because they run the house and know what it needs. A good name for your club should be the "Gutless Club" for men like yourself don't have any to meet and cope with the responsibilities that go with married life and fatherhood. Georgie Boy--Baloney! --GEORGE JOVINELLI ## A Beginning Your editorial "The Governor's Diagnosis" was an encouraging beginning for the overdue appraisal of the far from wonderful situation in Pennsylvania. Governor Scranton's glowing reports vast areas of the Commonwealth face serious economic problems, and eight of our sister states are far behind in the economic race. I do think you should have noted that the report which you mentioned was the Shapp Report, prepared and financed by Milton Shapp, candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor. The Shapp Report was also the basis for the charges made against Scranton by House Majority Leader Joshua Eilberg, who called for a thorough study of the methods of preparing and releasing === Page 39 of 220 1-31-66 7/28/66 Rick -- do me a big favor! In one of the letters (copies to you of George Clark's) I put on one of them a notation that I was asking the Si's to appear over Cape Kennedy so they would be seen. I can't find my file copy. Please find yours, & send it to me quickly. I'll send it back. Love -- Dad. === Page 40 of 220 1/31/66 as interesting...was a verbal description, from a witness on the scene, of the fires that devastated the California Coast last year (after I had warned that the area had been hit with "fire PK".) The witness said that the fire seemed to form a giant hand, the hand reaching out over the sea. You know, George, it's funny. No doubt the U.S. Govt. keeps thinking "Well, that disaster area happened...with all those floods and tornados, or, with those fires, or, with that damned hurricane, etc., but that's it. Now that's over, back to business as usual. Yet, catastrophes keep coming on catastrophes...weird happening on weird happening (Great Blackout, Big No Go in New York, storm on the West Coast that could happen "only once in 1000 years")...and disaster areas keep coming. The Si's won't stop. Will never stop. They do not think like we do. To try and solve the problem of the Si's by using logic would be like pitting a 4-year old child against a complex computer. They exist. So, why not admit it? And, admitting it, why not let them help the U.S.? That's what they want...once they get the attention of the U.S. with enough disaster and catastrophes. If it ever comes out before the American people that we could have had the help of the Si's one year ago....and Hurricane Betsy could have been averted, plus all of the other things that happened...I think somebody high up in Washington would get spanked hard. If it doesn't come out soon, that the Si's are with us, helping us...and it is arranged...the Si's will go farther than spanking. That's the sad part of it. P.S. Rick - I used Emmy - Emma last 2 weeks hard - and look what Si's delivered! Paralyzed East Coast & worst cold in South in 100 years!! 08/06/2025 16:26 === Page 41 of 220 1/31 was interesting...was a verbal description, from a witness on the scene, the fires that devastated the California Coast last year (after I had warned that the area had been hit with "fire PK".) The witness said that the fire seemed to form a giant hand, the hand reaching out over the sea. You know, George, it's funny. No doubt the U.S. Govt. keeps thinking "Well, so that disaster area happened...with all those floods and tornados, or, with those fires, or, with that damned hurricane, etc., but that's it. Now that's over, back to business as usual." Yet, catastrophes keep coming on catastrophes...weird happening on weird happening (Great Blackout, Big No Go in New York, storm on the West Coast that could happen "only once in 1000 years")...and disaster areas keep coming. The Si's won't stop. Will never stop. They do not think like we do. To try and solve the problem of the Si's by using logic would be like pitting a 4-year old child against a complex computer. They exist. So, why not admit it? And, admitting it, why not let them help the U.S.? That's what they do...once they get the attention of the U.S. with enough disaster area catastrophes. If it ever comes out before the American people that we could have had the help of the Si's one year ago....and Hurricane Betsy could have been averted plus all of the other things that happened...I think somebody high up in Washington would get spanked hard. if it doesn't come out soon, that the Si's are with us, helping us...is arranged...the Si's will go farther than spanking. That's the sad part of it. P.S. Rick -- I used Emmy - Emma last 2 weeks hard -- and look what Si's delivered! Paralyzed East Coast & worst cold in South in 100 years!! === Page 42 of 220 Copy - Rick Lornie February 1, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: The Si's, now that they have given their national demonstration with the winter storm of the century...will concentrate on President Johnson and the White House. They ask...and I don't know what they mean at all..."how would the U.S. like to lose the State of Florida?" Now for a simple suggestion from a simple person....me. Why doesn't the U.S. reverse the Viet Cong's attack? That is, the VC attack Saigon...why don't we (South Vietnamese) attack the capitol of North Vietnam? It's made to order, George, with water all around. Take a force of picked, commando-type Vietnamese to Guam...train them...and fly them back among the usual big bombers. Parachute them near the North Viet Nam Capitol...at the same time let subs pop up and disgorge a lot of frogmen, who go onto the beach in the same area, to attack the capitol and help the chutists. With this shock-wave of tropps raising hell..and going after Ho himself...then let ships come sweeping round the bend and send thousands of men ashore, near the capitol, to attack. The pressure of this should draw troops away from South Viet Nam, quickly. Note, am not recommending American troops for this. Just because it might be a tricky political thing. If it wouldn't make any difference, then they could go in, too. On the Viet Nam chessboard...the action has all been on one side of the board. Time, I would say, to take a crack at the King of the other side of the board. P K Man Owens === Page 43 of 220 Rick Lornie February 2, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: Here is the story on the Blizzard of '66. Note that I called a disastrous storm...but picked the wrong half of the country. Ha ha. I knew definitely that the Si's were up to something on their own...because they were over-riding our "bubble" PK we'd slapped on this area. Up to storm-time, they'd blocked precipitation perfectly. Note one other thing: A mysterious fire-ball landed in Pennsylvania...before the tremendous New York City power blackout. A UFO put on a regular exhibition all night, for thousands of people, in the Wanaque, New Jersey, area...just before the Blizzard of '66 struck. You have to notice these things, George. Anyway, as you can see here, on January 18 I told you the Si's would demonstrate, catastrophe-wise, in a tremendous way, against the U.S., in the next few days, next few weeks. Even Mr. Dunn could not ask for anything more specific than that. And you got the killer Blizzard of '66. PK Man Rick - am sending you your own personal pool cue. Watch for it. Dad. === Page 44 of 220 2/2/66 P2 COPY January 18, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: See your copy! All right. I have tried. The Si's have tried. Still the U.S. Government is not convinced. So, George, the Si's will demonstrate catastrophe-wise, in a tremendous way, against the U.S. in the next few days, next few weeks. I will ask them, also, to appear and be seen, as they were in New Jersey, as a sort of signature to their catastrophe-demonstration. P K Man === Page 45 of 220 2/2/66 p3 NY TIMES # The Blizzard of '66 2/1/66 From Miami to Montreal millions are still contending with the aftereffects of the (great storm) that may go into history as the blizzard of '66. (The bitter cold, the abundant snow and the piercing wind combined to give us all a humbling lesson on the enormous energy at nature's disposal and the impact it can have upon men's petty plans.) These days scientists can send rockets to the moon, to Mars and to Venus; but for many hours on Sunday airlines were grounded, cities cut off, and the Pennsylvania Railroad could not send trains from Baltimore to Washington. Virginia's Governor had to warn that in his state "no one can be assured of safe travel to any given destination." (Even the most powerful hydrogen bomb ever exploded was but a puny force compared to the sources of the atmospheric maelstrom that produced such disruption all along the Atlantic Seaboard.) At the height of this blizzard 20th-century man was no more able to calm the primitive rage of the elements that were his ancestors who cowered in their caves under similar circumstances many millennia ago. But such helplessness may be nearing its end. There are signs that modern science--which already controls so much of the contemporary environment--may soon be able to do more about the weather than just talk about it. A National Academy of Sciences panel on weather modification recently concluded that rain-seeding experiments using silver iodide and other substances had appreciably increased precipitation "over areas as large as 1,000 square miles [and] over periods ranging from weeks to years." The theoreticians still have a long way to go in understanding the thermodynamics of the atmosphere; but it is becoming increasingly probable that some day men will be able to produce the weather they want. Haha When that time comes, will we still be willing to endure blizzards? Probably not. At that time life may be more predictable, but it will certainly be less interesting. === Page 46 of 220 2/2/66 p4 January 24, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: My accuracy with "PK" work, in conjunction with the Si's, has been roughly 96% accurate. Rarely a miss, but a miss did just occur, and thought you would be interested to know the details of it. When I appeared on the local radio here in Philadelphia, and got the paper write-up...then suddenly everything was cut off...and the "Rain Maker" received no offers, no takers...I consulted with the Si's, and the upshot was that we placed this area in a "PK Bubble" - that is, sealed off the area, so that precipitation in any form would not fall on this area...and if it should, there would not be enough to matter. This worked just fine, beautifully, I might say...matter of fact, if I could have blocked off the snowstorm we had over this weekend, a 100 year record would have been broken here. But...the PK failed to block the snowstorm; it got through..and so, you see, the PK and the Si's do not always hit the bullseye. 96 out of 100 times they do, but I thought you might like to know of this failure. At least, I guess it is a failure. Unless the Si's wanted this precipitation to get the violent storm in this area...for reasons of their own...to cause a disaster area somewhere soon...and this storm was necessary to their plan. We shall see. If suddenly California or a Western area is racked up with a booming, violent storm, creating a real disaster area...then I'll know what the Si's are up to. If it wasn't just a miss. P K Man === Page 47 of 220 Feb. 5, 1967 Dear Rick: I'm a little late answering your letter. Forgive me. Yes, you would make a fine tennis player. I wish you luck in whatever you do or take up. It is your life..honey...and there is only one you. You aren't like anybody else, dad or mom or anybody. So do what is in your heart to do. But remember, your body works for you. It depends on you to give it a good deal. That is why I want you to stay out of football and boxing. You wouldn't do your body any favors if you got injured. And you'd be getting injured for nothing. I recommend learning judo, if you wish. Anyway, good luck, boy. Glad to hear your school work is improving. You are very smart and bright. All you have to do is...use those brains the right way, the good way, always, and Nature is on your side. Enclosed is a card showing the outfit I work for. Biggest lawyers in Philadelphia. They just took on a new partner, and I work for the new partner. It's real funny, Rick. I type all day long, and don't even know what I'm typing. Wills, Trusts, Agreements, all that stuff. My top boss owns the Philadelphia Bulldogs. I used PK to help them and they beat everybody in '66...won the Continental League Championship. All my work involves two, three, four million dollars deals. I hate it. But I'm stuck with it. I remember telling Lornie in Ft. Worth, when I was helping people..."Ah, Lornie, it's wonderful knowing I'm teaching auto-hypand don't have to work in an office ever again." Ha ha. Well, one of these days..... We aren't tossing knives because Martha can't stand the show biz route any more...three hundred one week...then lose our storage and can't pay our rent a month later. And she's right. And Beau needs a steady place to live. (Not this one...but that will come.) I have discovered the Si's ruin, flatten, anyone against me. Could tell you about it, but would take too long to do it. I have what might be called "Instant Attack" from their mysterious PK world. I don't even have to direct them...they seem to know when a fly walks across the ceiling. Read the last week's True and Saga mags...good Si accounts in there. Or UFO reports. Might not be my Si's. I don't think regular UFO's are my Si's. Got to put Beau to bed now. Write, honey. Love, Dad === Page 48 of 220 File February 7, 1966 THE EDITOR Dear Sir: * * * * * * * A lot of people I know feel real sorry for Hubert Humphrey, because of the way Hubert has to "yes" the President and do as he's told (like Him, or get his ears pulled.) But that's the way it is, when you're only in second place...you have to try harder. * * * * * * * McNamara refused to appear in public, on the matter of Viet Nam. Rumor has it that the real reason for this was because President Johnson called McNamara aside and said, Now, you-all see here, Mac...if those Senators try to get you to appear in public on the Viet Nam issue...jest remember whut ah used to teach mah little pupils in Texas, when ah'd ketch them carvin' their names on our schoolhouse seats. Kids, ah'd tell 'em, always remember what Lyndon tells you...'Fools names and fools faces, always appear in public places.' * * * * * * * People wondered why President Johnson took off so unexpectedly for a trip to Hawaii. Well, he just wanted to get away for a few days to talk to some Generals - and the only State left in the Union without blizzards, freezing cold, transit strikes, power blackouts, race riots, etc., happened to be Hawaii. If, that is, Hawaii's volcano doesn't erupt. * * * * * * * H. T. Owens 1114 Spruce St. #33 Philadelphia, Pa. === Page 49 of 220 February 7, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: Now you have the third proof that the UFO intelligences are in communication with me; me with them; and that they react to my requests (also independently of my requests). The proof is my letter, which is in your file, dated August 6, 1965. In about the eighth paragraph, I told you: "Now, for your amusement, and because you've been so good to listen to me for so long... I will let you in on something. I am calling fleets of UFO's here to Philadelphia... from everywhere. Trouble is I do not know what they can do to prove to these people here that I'm for real... but I will think of something. Believe they are here already, because I sent for them this afternoon. With all that power, whatever kind it is that they have... and it seems to be miraculous, judging from what they've accomplished this past year, they should do something startling. Am trying to convey the idea to them of coming right down over the city and hovering. They give me the idea back that we might have some kind of rays like they have, or whatever it is they have... and hurt them or something... so that they are reticent to do this. So I am trying to tell them we haven't any such thing, and it's safe. I want to bring one down right over Market Street and have it hover there for 20 minutes. What else they'll do on their own is anybody's guess." Attached is photostat of actual letter, which you have in your file. They did exactly as I asked them to do... they came down and hovered for hours, instead of half an hour... to prove they are real. But they came down over Wanaque, New Jersey (I sent you newsclips of this just a few weeks ago) because evidently they did not trust the Phila. area. Not only did they come down and prove their reality, absolutely... but they demonstrated the ray I mentioned in my letter to you. The Civil Defense Director of Wanaque, the police, and others, saw the ray, and the police investigated the actual hole the ray burned in the ice. So now, without any doubt whatsoever.... you and the U.S. Government absolutely know that what I have been telling you is true, real, solid.... I am definitely communicating with the Si's and they with me -- and they tell me in advance what is going to happen. The first and second proofs of my being the Si's contact and voice for the people on earth... was the South Pole UFO incident (see correspondence); and their making an appearance in a big way, and hitting everywhere in lightning... after I first wrote you and told you they said they would. P K Man (Owens) 08/06/2025 16:26 === Page 50 of 220 2/7/66 p2 He: "GI's chop off head of Buddhist god. I like chop off head Johnson." I made a notation in my book that Johnson's popularity was slipping among the Buddhists. Me: "How about the war in Viet Nam? Are you in favor of it?" He: "What war you mean? War between Buddhist's and Catholics? War between Buddhists and GI's? War between North and South Vietnamese" War between Montagnards and South Vietnamese? War between..." but I held up my hand. Me: "Then I will put you down as not being in favor of it, all right?" Suddenly a bicycle containing a concealed satchel-charge of explosives blew up. Glass shattered and bodies went flying in every direction. The Buddhist priest, in a fit of temper over this outrage, quickly took out a can of lighter fluid and set fire to himself. In the glow of the fire from the burning Buddhist I can see the bar-girl out on the street, counting bodies so that she can estimate her money loss for the evening. Picking steel splinters out of my eyes, I walk moodily back to my hotel. Next morning, Sunday, I go out into the countryside, to take the consensus of the Vietnamese farmers in their village. So I stride into a small, muddy village made up of thatched huts...where tiny children are toddling around and small Vietnamese women are hanging out their wash. Me: "Good morning, there, folks. I have come to take a consensus of opinions from you. Who speaks English here?" A man dressed in black walks forward. He: "I speak English. Me Viet Cong, disguised as farmer to fool American dogs. What you want to know?" Me: "How do you like President Johnson?" He: "How you like have bamboo splinters under your fingernails, fella?" Me: "Well...how about asking all these farmers here, because you're the enemy, and you might be prejudiced." I point to the crowd of peasants around us. He: "Ha ha! They my family, my grand-parents, my children. I raised in this village. Is home. They all same think like me. Every Sunday we cook special dinner we call "President Johnson Special." Boiled dog. Today you invited." Me: "Gee, thanks a lot, but some other time. Now for the second question. Will you ask them if they favor the war in Viet Nam?" He turns and speaks to the peasants. They hiss at me viciously, and jab pitchforks at me. A little dog runs up and bites me on the ankle. === Page 51 of 220 February 8, 1966 Copy - Rick Lomie Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: The enclosed story by Art Buchwald could just as well be the Si's talking directly through the story, (although written just in fun.) Enclosed is photostats, with added notes of my own to tell the story. Is self-explanatory. Very interesting. P K Man === Page 52 of 220 Escalated Weather By ART BUCHWALD 2/8/66 p2 S. IS ANGERED BECAUSE I COULD GET NO CO-OP ON EAST COAST? Washington - Washington just had one of the biggest blizzards in its history and, although snow had been predicted, no one thought it would be on this scale. One of the reasons for this is the credibility gap where people are suspicious of everything that is announced in the nation's capital. Buchwald I discussed this with a high government official as he was digging his car out of the driveway Monday morning. "Sir, did you know there was going to be a blizzard Saturday night?" "I'm as surprised as anybody," he said. "I heard that bad weather was in the works, but I thought this was just a way of President Johnson making it easier to announce he was going to resume the bombing of North Viet Nam." ********** "Who authorized the blizzard?" "It had to come from the White House. My department certainly knew nothing about it. We weren't even consulted." "Do you think a blizzard was a good thing to have at this time of the year?" "Well, you have to remember the President is the only one who can make this agonizing decision. He has all the facts. While a blizzard may look like the worst thing to give the people, it could, in the long run, be the best thing we could do under the circumstances." (AS PROOF TO GVT.) "There are some people who believe Congress should have decided whether we should have had a blizzard or not." ********** "Congress gave President Johnson a vote of confidence in 1965 and said they would support any decisions he made concerning the weather." "Yes sir, but they thought they were voting for a light snowfall or at the most a white Christmas. They had no idea the President was going to get us into a blizzard." "The President didn't want a blizzard any more than anybody else. For the last three months he has done everything to keep the weather from getting out of hand. (But the elements have been against him (S's) and it is his opinion that, unless we stand firm in the face of heavy snowfall now, we will have a worse blizzard later on.) Every one in this administration is for clear weather, but it has to be clear weather with honor." OR SO ME TH IN G "Isn't one of the dangers of a blizzard that the harder you try to dig out of it, the more chance you have of getting stuck in it?" "Nobody knows the dangers of a blizzard more than the President. He did not arrive at his decision to have one until he consulted with many, many people." ********** "Was Dean Rusk in on it?" "I'm sure of it. He had to notify our Allies what we plan to do." "Have they supported him in the blizzard policy?" "They haven't given snow plows or road-clearing equipment, and there are some of our friends who asked the President to hold off on the blizzard indefinitely and give the elements a chance. But here again the President had to make the final decision." ("Could this lead to larger and larger blizzards?") DEFINITELY, "We certainly hope not. (The dropping of snow at this time should indicate that we mean business and, although we may be up to our necks in snow, this doesn't mean we wouldn't be the first ones to want it all to melt." OR SOME THIN G BUSINESS! ********** ("What happens if the blizzard doesn't work?") (SI PROOF) ("We'll have to cook up some other kind of storm.") (EXACTLY) "It looks like it's going to snow some more," I said. "I'm sure the President would allow no more snow to drop than is absolutely necessary." - THEN LET U.S. GOV'T EMPLOY SI'S PK MAN. WHAT WILL HAPPEN === Page 53 of 220 February 9, 1966 Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: Interesting thing happened last Friday night...Si's gave me an important message to wire to you (when they want a thing done, they really push, in a manner of speaking.) I really couldn't afford a wire, but went to Western Union anyhow. Wrote the message to you "Si's say they will make their presence known on Johnson trip to Hawaii" and gave it to the man. That man went back and whispered to another man. They eyed me suspiciously, or something, then whispered some more. Second man sat down and picked up a phone. First man said they'd "have to wait until somebody came back in a few minutes to okay it." This meant only one thing: They were alerted for me, evidently, and had orders to call someone to have me picked up. So I took back my message, and departed. You know, George, might come the day when the Si's would let us know before something really bad happens to us. I'd try to warn you, and be blocked by Western Union. Mailing letters depends on whether I have stamps or not (usually do not) and it takes a day or two. Important events necessitate faster communication. And, based upon the extraordinary (I think) accuracy of my past predictions of "catastrophes ahead" - it would be wise not to block me. So I might send two or three messages where nothing happened immediately. But the fourth might be it. The one that could put you ahead of the event, and be able to handle it. Some of my predictions have taken as long as 5 months to happen. But usually it's a few days, few weeks at the most...when they happen. To add a few predictions: Ky, of South Vietnam, is treacherous, hates Americans, and couldn't be trusted across the street. He'll be disastrous for us. McNamara, Johnson favorite or not...will ruin us, if he hasn't done so already. Johnson himself will become the most hated President in the history of the United States (unless he changes, and Johnson is a man who doesn't change.) I have a little help on these predictions from the Si's. Be interesting to see if I'm right or wrong. My predictions to you have been fairly accurate, so far. Incidentally, I suppose the Si's did zero in on Johnson at Hawaii...re that power blackout for ten minutes. They were doing something, evidently. The blackout in itself is not the end result. Overloaded circuit, sure... when the Si's add their power to any power circuit, it's overloaded and blows up. P K Man (Owens) 08/06/2025 16:26 === Page 54 of 220 Rick Lornie February 9, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: Hell hath no fury like that of the Si's scorned. They tell me to tell the U.S. that the Great Power Blackout, the billion-dollar transit strike, and the Blizzard of '66 catastrophes...were nothing to what they are getting set to do now. If they must keep on dealing out blow after blow, and proof after proof, to prove their reality...and make arrangements with the U.S., then they will just continue to do so. Since they are working from another dimension, there is little the U.S. can do about it. At least, through me, P K Man, you know the thing is going to happen, and why. Why the Government does not join forces with them, I cannot imagine. What this next will be, I don't know. === Page 55 of 220 February 10, 1966 THE EDITOR Dear Sir: It says in the paper that the Post Office is now issuing to mail men mustard-spray guns, designed to keep dogs away. Heck, that's stupid! My dog likes mustard! My suggestion to the Post Office is that they issue a double-barreled gun to their mail men...one barrel for mustard, and one barrel for catsup. ********** The papers say that Ronald Ramsey, who lives in California, sent tapes to Hanoi to play to our American boys who are fighting there, for the purpose of persuading our soldiers to lay down their arms. Shucks, Ramsey is doing it the hard way! My suggestion to the U.S. Government is that they fly Mr. Ramsey to Saigon, all expenses paid, assemble all of our troops, and let Mr. Ramsey explain his advice to those silly mislead boys in person! ********** Was greatly surprised to read in the papers that Senator Morse is trying to block Jack Vaughan from becoming Head of the Peace Corps. For Pete's sake, doesn't Senator Morse know that, considering the qualities of some of our Peace Corps personnel...the U. S. Government needs a professional boxer as Head of the Peace Corps. (Only way he can keep Peace). ********** I read in the paper where "bits of Il Duce's brain were lost at U.S. Hospital." There...see what happens when a dictator loses his head? * ********** Those 1500 members of the Women's Strike For Peace, who picketed the White House recently...were taking an awful chance wearing those white cardboard doves. They might have got shot out of season! ********** H. T. Owens 1114 Spruce St. #33 Phila. * And even if they can't find it they should remember the old saying, "Half a brain is better than none." === Page 56 of 220 February 16, 1966 File THE EDITOR Dear Sir: I read with utter fascination a long long article by a reporter, on how Philadelphia has escaped catastrophes. He must have been so busy writing his article that he didn't read his own paper...all of those college kids in this area arrested for using and/or selling dope. Now, ain't that a catastrophe? ********** I've read in the papers how the U.S. Government has sent military forces to Santa Domingo...and to Viet Nam...in order to protect the two political parties of those two countries from hurting each other. So, don't be surprised if, one of these days, Russia sends half a million soldiers, heavily armed, along with ships, bombers, fighter planes, etc., here to the United States - to protect the Democrats from the Republicans! ********** I read in the paper yesterday where Chubby Checker married Miss World (beauty queen) and then was arrested last week for allegedly sneaking off to a motel with another former beauty contest queen (other than his wife, that is.) The article added that he had once been a "chicken plucker" in a market here in our own Philadelphia. From all his activity with those beauty queens...I'd say he was still quite a chicken-plucker, 1st Class. ********** Reading the paper, I am highly indignant over the mean and cruel way they are treating that Candy Mosler at her trial. Can't they see what a poor, weak, helpless little thing she is? She faints every day, has a nervous stomach, blinding headaches, and the nervous shakes. It's a wonder she ever got up the strength to stab her husband 39 times. Must have plumb wore her out, pore little thing! ********** An article in the paper written by Ailleen Snoddy was headed: "30% Of Us Are Overweight." Well, I can't speak for Ailleen - but more than 30% of me is overweight! ********** President Johnson admits he doesn't know how to end the war in Viet Nam. BUt my little boy knows how to end it. Sitting in my lap last night, he explained it to me, patiently. "Daddy," he said, "you keep laughing and pointing out how prediction after prediction that man McNamara has made about Viet Nam was wrong....so why not let that McNamara tell President Johnson that we'll lose the war for sure and that the war will last a hundred years! Then, you see, since he's been wrong all along...we'll win the war there and it'll be over tomorrow!" - Well, that makes as much sense as any other suggestions I've heard! H. T. Owens - 1114 Spruce, #33, Phila., Pa. 08/06/2025 16:26 === Page 57 of 220 P.S. You nut-head, of course I haven't gone into any UFO saucers. If I do... I'll wire you about it. It could happen if I could ever get way out somewhere where they'd meet me. 2/14/66 Dear Lorrie - Thank you for your letter, your very sweet birthday card, and the $1.00. We did just as you suggested, and had a party on your $1.00. Thanks, honey. Enclosed is a ring I have made for you. The initials are poorly made, but so are ones carved on a tree. It's a Love Ring for you & Julio (HOO-LEE-O). In case you change boyfriends, send it back & I'll put new initials on it! Major Keyhoe was on TV today (a surprise) telling how the A.F. had fired on UFO's, had lots of pictures of them, and had orders from Wash. to cover up all UFO sightings - hide them from the public. He sneered at sightings by farmers, etc., and stressed again & again that only sightings by Majors, Captains, Colonels, scientists - etc. counted. Anybody else was not a "responsible" source and was only after publicity. Ha ha! He's distorted & twisted that way, but at least he says the AF & US Govt. knows the UFO's are real. He added that the Govt. now is considering changing its policy & telling the US people all about how real the UFO's are. Now, I have two proofs at hand (which I'll send you this week), that the Govt. knows for sure PK Man and his UFO's are quite real - and fear my UFO's. Be sure & read my letters to you, to Rick, and vice versa. Be sure. 08/06/2025 16:26 === Page 58 of 220 Don't worry about C's. You're bright, and you'll get along fine. If you're lucky you'll never need brains (school type.) You'll "first" be a sweet feminine girl, who can cook + sew, and make a cute nest for your man + your children. Now to answer your questions. I do not wish to put UFO information in letters - that is, some of it I wish to keep secret. UFO intelligence (Si's) have been in our bedroom. Martha saw them first (like you did, that UFO in Texas that night) then I saw them. No talk at all. We just watched them, with our eyes bugging out. Not one time, but three different times. Baby tried to talk to them, jabbering away + pointing. And the sound they have - never heard anything like it. The Si's do not relay information to me in "talk" or voices, either inside or outside my head. Another way. Explain it to you sometime. Watch Spanish men, Lorrie. Treachery and double-crossing are second nature to them. But they can be charming. I know them well, honey. Listen - in early 1950's I had a Julio Rodriguez at the private military school, Calif. Military Academy - he was one of my pupils. Also his dad was an officer in Nicaragua, I think. Ask him about this. If so, he'd remember Captain Owens. Congratulations on dropping the sorority. Yes, you can tell Pat anything. You're lucky that way. She is a good pal for you. Honey, send important mail to me Special Delivery! Here, please. === Page 59 of 220 Rick LORNE Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency 2/15/66 Dear George: the medical profession, which was the only reason they let me in. The Si's communicated with me this morning...and urged me to pass this following information on to the U.S. Government. Now, I have known this, but I only tell this sort of thing...when they tell me to. Philadelphia recently had a very nice rain. The Si's gave it ********** The Si's, for some reason, want the U.S. to know...that they have a Black Box. Say they are irked with the U.S. Government (which they are..the Administration) so they slide a card into the Black Box...this is sort of like a printed-circuit in a transistor radio...and what happens is this: The U.S. Government then develops "conditions" which lead to all sorts of unusual and unexpected set-backs, ranging from air-ship-sub collisions, etc., to people catastrophes...like two generals, in different parts of the world, smashing themselves to pieces the same week by parachuting out of planes (last year.) The weather will go against the Government...people will turn against the Government...conditions will go against the Government. This is what the Black Box does, when the card or wafer is inserted in it. If the Si's wish to reverse conditions, they remove that card, and insert another, and then all conditions are "go" (to put it into space language) for the U.S. Government. Everything goes right. The weather turns favorable; the people change, and become happy and back the Govt.; ships, planes, and subs stop having accidents; space work, instead of being blocked and hampered by constant set-backs, is speeded forward. The Si's want the U.S. Government to know that they can do this, for it is a different medium of tool than anything we have on earth. They want you to know that they can influence minds, souls and matter on earth, in a way humans cannot. They want you to know that they have let me "see" how "PK" works...that is, take the "Electro" area from Daytona Beach to Miami...over it, now (didn't used to be when I just started the PK work) is a growing garden of violently colored 'things'...not plants, but long long things that extend into the air from the ground. The area is covered with these really beautiful, colored plants (?) which humans cannot see...but which are there, nevertheless, and which affect the area. The 'things' are constantly growing. For instance, when I was given permission to go to try to save the life of Brenda Sue Pennington in Washington, D.C., because she was dying...and because the Si's told me to...I "hit" Brenda Sue with certain kinds of constructive "PK" (that is my term for the process of the Si's which I cannot explain, but can use) and a tiny rainbow of color formed over her head (she was in bed, with police standing by, nurses, etc.) I hit her with all the power I had, and used my daughter to supplement my power, by holding hands with my daughter. 08/06/2025 16:47 === Page 60 of 220 2/15/66 p2 Intelligence Agency The rainbow-colored light (which humans could not see, but I am lucky in that the Si's let me see it) seemed alive...it moved. My daughter and I left, as soon as the Si's told me it was done and the girl would live (she had been given up by the medical profession, which was the only reason they let me in). As the days went by the Si's let me see the girl in her hospital room...and as the days went by, the tiny small rainbow-light over her head grew in size, until the entire room was filled with beautiful, colored 'things'...and the room pulsated, like a human breathing. That was constructive. The girl is now at home, improving, and alive. The Si's saved her. Electro and Electra, the Calif. coast, are destructive. But the Si's point out that they can only reach humans...prove to humans that they are real...by producing negative conditions, destructive conditions. Just as the only way Moses could convince the Pharaoh that what he was saying was true and real...was by producing negative, destructive conditions. The Si's want you to know they come from another dimension, not outer space. They can produce conditions in our dimension from their dimension, if they wish. Or, they can actually enter our dimension themselves, when they have reason to do so. Before closing, they want you to know they can "melt" the destructive conditions they have set into play in Electro and Electra, and replace with a reverse effect. The weather PK Man === Page 61 of 220 2/15/66 Dear Rick, was good to hear from you. Am returning copy of my letter for your files. Wrong one, but I thank you for going to the trouble of looking. Never mind looking further, I've got it covered. Tell Pat that that time she and her mother and I encountered a tremendous "feeling" in the front parlor of their home in Durham, N.C. - we were in a UFO "force-field" which was created by the extreme closeness of the UFO intelligences which were actually present at the time, although unseen. Rhine's work had drawn their interest...they were near Duke...and my own interests and mind drew them. They've told me. Now, about your pool cue. I went into Brunswick, a few doors from where I work, to get your cue. The expert there said to wait about three weeks, because they have a new cue coming from Japan which is superior to anything they've got in the U.S. It is made of rosewood, and is beautiful, and a terrific shooter. You know, Rick, the best radios are made in Japan...also some of the best cameras Now they are coming out with these pool cues. They are the same price, about $20, as U.S. made, but this expert says they are 100% better in feel, balance, and looks. So, your birthday present will be three weeks late. You'll get a professional pool cue which unscrews and fits into a professional case (one just like you saw in "The Hustler" and a book by Willie Mosconi, one of the all time greats in pool. By the way, Sunday there was a tournament by four of the top pool shooters in the U.S. A Frank McGowan, of Brooklyn...beat the great old-timers he was up against. The old-timers were all about 50-60 years old. This McGowan was in his 30's. They had trick-shot contests, where each one took turns trying to do the same trick shot...and they had straight-pool contests to 100 (not 50). Sunday Electro got the huge Agena rocket they were testing...tore it up at the Cape...and now they are behind the 8-ball in their scheduled target-shot in March. They are "investigating what went wrong." A very very familiar phrase, indeed. Also Sunday Major Keyhoe appeared on a nationally televised program, to my utter surprise, and came out with these gems: (a) The U.S. Air Force has fired upon and attacked UFO's. But orders have now been given for our planes to "force them down to the ground". Ha ha. The AF has clocked the UFO's going 18,000 MPH. (b) Newsmen asked Keyhoe if it seemed "the UFO's were angry with our space efforts, and might be trying to block them." ----------! (c) Keyhoe said the A.F. and U.S. Government knew positively the UFO's are quite real...he'd seen a secret Govt. report on it...and that the A.F. had been under orders to shut up anybody or anything that had seen or heard a UFO, in order to keep it from the general public. He said some top AF men were angry about it...because they had to lie, and they weren't natural liars. But he said the U.S. Govt. was now contemplating telling the public about it...bringing it out into the open. ----------! Keyhoe said the A.F. and CIA had been working on keeping UFO activity secret, === Page 62 of 220 2/15/66 p2 amd away from the general public. The CIA! Looks like I have been writing to the wrong people, Rick. Am having lots of fun with this new thing...sending funnies into the papers... and our kitchen wall is papered with different pages of newspapers that I have got funnies in. Sent you a UFO ring today. And a wrist-band also. Don't wear the wrist-band to school, only around home. These articles were made at the Si's direction, by me for you. Has something to do with a plan they have. Sent Lornie a "boyfriend" wring. I made Martha an out-of-this world beautiful bracelet and necklace for her Valentine. First time I have ever made anything...you know...but so far I have turned out all kinds of things like I'd been doing it for years. Without studying it, or anybody telling me anything...I just went to the right stores and bought the right things, then made the things up. Glad you approve of "hooleeo." That's favorable. You're pretty shrewd judge of character. Am puzzled. You say "The confirmed clipping of the UFO over Cape Canaveral are on their way." You didn't mean this letter of mine, attached, did you? I am 46 now. Always remember...I am 10 years older than Pat. Love always, [Signature] Pat === Page 63 of 220 February 17, 1966 THE EDITOR (Note: Please feel free to add to, subtract from, or change...any of my material, if you wish to use it and deem it advisory...I always say "Editors Know Best.") ********** If those Senators who are complaining so much about the hearings now taking place re President Johnson and Viet Nam...damaging our "image" with the enemy... then how about the article I read in the paper today about the State Police in Atlantic City arresting the teenager during President Johnson's visit there? This desperate, mean kid...see...was packing a toy pistol and a play police badge! When the leader of the Greatest Country in the World is protected against kids with toy pistols...well, if that "image" doesn't convulse our enemy with hysterical laughter, nothing will! ********** Its said in the paper yesterday that in Birmingham, Alabama, a girl was shot by a Valentine. And in a current movie a man gets shot by a brassiere (with the girl in it, of course.) What I say is - when people start getting shot by Valentines and brassieres, then hadn't we better pass a Valentine Law and a Brassiere Law...requiring purchasers to register them? ********** Now that Luci is getting married, I bet that LBJ follows his usual m.o. (that's modus operandi, or what he always does. He'll demand, as Commander In Chief, to arrange the security details...and to marry the couple himself, (since Ship Captains can marry people, and isn't He in charge of Ship Captains?) And of course...he'll have to be Best Man. ********** The questions that kids can ask! I was telling my wife about the body of the unfortunate girl, found recently in a stream with the head cut off. My little boy spoke up and said, "Daddy, whatever dirty rat did it...why did he keep the head and throw the rest away?" ********** Read in the paper recently that "President Johnson is pledging nearly $1 billion in economic aid...to South Viet Nam." Gee, I knew he was a rich man, but I didn't know he could afford to be that generous. I am grateful that he's paying for it out of his own pocket, because I'm so busy paying taxes now on Lady Bird's Beautification Program...that if the Government also wanted me to pay on a billion a year to Viet Nam...I'd scream! Then the article goes on to say, "Several officials, including one of the President's top military advisers, contend the U.S. should concentrate on winning the war before going on a spending binge .. that could add to the country's present turmoil." --- What are they trying to do? Spoil all the President's fun? H. T. Owens, 1114 Spruce #33, Phila. 08/06/2025 16:47 === Page 64 of 220 2/18/66 Mr. George Clark CIA Dear George: In my letter of Feb, 1 I told you that the Si's (UFO intelligences) would turn their attention to Johnson and the White House. Since then...I tried to wire you that they would make a contact with Johnson on the Hawaii trip...and the power in Johnson's hotel went off while he was talking. This is typical of the Si presence. This week Johnson went to Atlantic City...his plane had trouble getting there in thick fog. In the limousine going to his speaking engagement the trunk of the car came open and wouldn't close. When Johnson got out the car door stuck and wouldn't open. And in flying back the fog harassed his plane, which had to be diverted somewhere else to land. All this is typical of Si closeness and action. All put together...it means that they are concentrating on Johnson, for some purpose of their own. Now, with the Space shot coming up next week...and more in March...the Si's want it on record that they will harass the Space efforts, to prove to the U.S. Govt. that we need their help. The Electro area, will, I imagine, be a very interesting place to be in the days of the month ahead...with the Si's working there against NASA. UFO's against NASA. Very interesting. PK Man (Owens) Rich Lorne === Page 65 of 220 2/18/66 Rick Lornie Mr. George Clark CIA Dear George: In my letter of Feb. 1 I told you that the Si's (UFO intelligences) would turn their attention to Johnson and the White House. Since then...I tried to wire you that they would make a contact with Johnson on the Hawaii trip...and the power in Johnson's hotel went off while he was talking. This is typical of the Si presence. This week Johnson went to Atlantic City...his plane had trouble getting there in thick fog. In the limousine going to his speaking engagement the trunk of the car came open and wouldn't close. When Johnson got out the car door stuck and wouldn't open. And in flying back the fog harassed his plane, which had to be diverted somewhere else to land. All this is typical of Si closeness and action. All put together...it means that they are concentrating on Johnson, for some purpose of their own. Now, with the Space shot coming up next week...and more in March...the Si's want it on record that they will harass the Space efforts, to prove to the U.S. Govt. that we need their help. The Electro area, will, I imagine, be a very interesting place to be in the days of the month ahead...with the Si's working there against NASA. UFO's against NASA. Very interesting. P K Man (Owens) Dad Flu + meningitis epidemics are the Si's work. Note increasing rhythm of plane-ship destruction world wide. (Ship-plane-sub PK growing) 08/06/2025 16:47 === Page 66 of 220 2/23/66 Dear Lornie Thank you very much for thinking of my birthday...and sending the gift. Am smoking the cigarettes now. Martha and I deeply regretted missing your birthday but we were coming up out of the hole at the time...and couldn't do a damn thing. We got Rick's birthday covered, as we are now doing a little better. I've only got three things in the hock-shop, and that's an improvement. Show this clipping to Rick. And match it up with the letter copy I sent last week to you listing the things that happened to Pres. Johnson at Atlantic City. The Si's are really after him now. And there's nowhere he can hide. They aren't trying to kill him...they could easily have done that...but are up to something else. We'll see. Today is Martha's birthday...but we're stony broke, so we're going to pretend that it is Saturday...after payday...when we've got four or five bucks to use on it. If anybody ever says, "If he's so smart...why ain't he rich?" - point out that all of the top Christians in the Bible, who accomplished the most in helping the world at that time...and time to follow...were all poor men. Why people must equate knowledge with rubies, emeralds and gold...I do not know. It is quite stupid. And some of the worst people we have ever known...have been rich ones. (Gelman, Danciger, etc.) Work hard, honey, and be good. Make Daddy proud of you. Love and kisses, Dad Owens === Page 67 of 220 2/23/66 THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 23, 1966 # Johnson Meningitis Scare Blows Over By DOM BONAFEDE Special to The Inquirer And N. Y. Herald Tribune WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.--The White House experienced a few anxious hours last week when it was feared that President Johnson may have been exposed to spinal meningitis, a highly contagious and often fatal disease. As it turned out, the fears were groundless. INCIDENT AT SHORE The incident, nevertheless, was withheld from the press until Tuesday, when White House officials confirmed it in response to a reporter's inquiry. The story began last Wednesday while the President was visiting Atlantic City, N. J., to speak before the Association of School Administrators in Convention Hall. Among the Secret Service agents guarding the President was Michael Kelly, of the Philadelphia office. FALLS TO PAVEMENT Suddenly, Kelly fell to the pavement outside the hall. He was rushed to Atlantic City Hospital, where it was suspected he was suffering from spinal meningitis. Almost immediately, the President's personal physician, Vice Adm. George Burkley, who was in Washington, was informed. Recalling the incident Tuesday, White House sources said there was "concern" that the President might conceivably have been infected. OUTBREAK REPORTED Only recently a number of cases of meningitis has been reported in U. S. military camps in Texas and California, some resulting in death. Robert Fleming, deputy White House press secretary, said, "While the President was not close to Kelly, there was concern at any possible infection." At the hospital, Kelly was put in an isolation ward. Medical tests were given him. The following day the tests proved negative. Kelly did not have meningitis. Picking up the story, Fleming said, "Dr. Burkley was advised as soon as it was determined the agent did not have meningitis. "And because the Secret Service and Dr. Burkley kept so close to all the checks that were made on agent Kelly, it was not felt there was any danger to the President, and no treatment was given him." As a result of his mysterious fall, Kelly was reported by hospital authorities to be suffering from a concussion. His condition was listed as serious. But Dr. Lawrence Strenger said that tests showed no contagious illness. Kelly, who is assigned to the Philadelphia office of the Secret Service, was sent to Atlantic City to reinforce the President's bodyguard. # Peacenik Bares Undershirt to LBJ NEW YORK (UPI).--"Mr. President," shouted a man in a tuxedo as President Johnson began to speak. "Mr. President, peace in Vietnam . . . peace in Vietnam." With that, the man stood on a chair and stripped off his tux jacket and stiff white shirt. Emblazoned on his undershirt was the same message he had shouted at the President: "Peace in Vietnam." The outburst briefly interrupted the President's address in the Waldorf Astoria's Grand Ballroom. The man who shouted at Mr. Johnson was identified as James Peck, 51, of New York. Secret Service agents, who had been watching Peck because of two previous arrests for demonstrating, seized him immediately. They carried him, his face bloodied, from the plush ballroom. PECK was charged with disrupting a lawful meeting and resisting arrest. He is an employee of the War Resistors League, which sponsored a peace demonstration outside the hotel while Mr. Johnson spoke. Peck had paid $25 for a ticket to the dinner. Nearly 4000 persons picketed the hotel. Six of them carried the orange, blue and yellow flag of the National Liberation Front, the political arm of the Vietcong. The President entered the hotel from a side street and never saw the demonstrators, nor they him. 2/24/66 08/06/2025 16:53 === Page 68 of 220 2/23/66 Mr. George Clarke Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: Re my letter to you of last week, listing the extremely odd things happening to President Johnson on his Atlantic City trip...fog harassing his plane; car trunk coming open; door stuck so he couldn't get out, etc. Now, today, turns out that one of his Secret Service men collapsed and fell, and is in serious condition at the present. The reason for the collapse... unknown...at least, the newspaper says so. You and I know the SS boys judo-train. They can breakfall. So that lets out tripping or accidental falling. They've ruled out meningitis. So...what struck him down? Whatever the cause...it is another, added sign of the nearness of the Si's. You will recall that, on other occasions of Johnson making speeches, strange things have happened. Like last summer when he was talking...and a girl nearby collapsed. Like when he was making an impromptu speech at a White House celebration, and the mike went dead. Like at Honolulu, when the power went dead in his Suite when he was speaking with a group privately (I think it was privately.) Like the power-failure that hit the church when Johnson attended. All....sure signs, to me (for I know the signs by now) of Si activity and nearness. And what happens - the power failures, people collapsing, etc., - is not necessarily what the matter is all about. In these actions the Si's may be sowing seeds that we do not understand....invisible seeds, you might say, that will grow into something strange indeed, in time. It's plain to me...but let's break it down, in case it sounds mixed up to someone else. Let's say the Si's have a "finder" on Johnson, like they have on me...can locate him any time. They follow him to Atlantic City. Now, they can make fog and clouds...so that takes care of the plane trouble. Suppose they "hit" Johnson's limousine with a ray of power, unknown to us...this caused the trunk to fly up and the door to jam. They continued beaming this ray of power over the building where Johnson was speaking...aimed at Johnson and meant to have effect on Johnson..and the SS man was sensitive to the ray and couldn't take it, and collapsed. We know the UFO's are real, don't we. Of course. And we know they have a ray. It was seen at Wanaque. So that much is established. You have only my word that I communicate with the UFO's, and that they are doing something with President Johnson. It is very interesting, George, to consider, isn't it. P K Man Owens === Page 69 of 220 2/23/66 p2 Thought you'd be interested in this. Yesterday I got very very angry in the office where I work...and the lights went crazy...in the office I was in, and the office adjoining...some lights would go on and others would go off...then the others would go on and the first would go out. They sent for an electrician, to fix whatever was wrong. But definitely...it was because I was very angry. This used to happen to me a lot at Duke, when I attended as a student. But yesterday was the most powerful ever. It was never removed; has grown...and no doubt caused the collision of planes, loss of H bomb; crash of giant plane, etc etc. Remember that the PK grows as time goes on. *in Spain P K Man === Page 70 of 220 2/23/66 p3 George Clark Intelligence Agency 4/1/66 Dear George: Would like to point out and remind you that some time ago PK was used to "hit" the US/Spain Military Exercises, as a demonstration to the US Govt. on the effectiveness of PK in the use of military.......... it was never removed; has grown...and no doubt caused the collision of planes, loss of H bomb; crash of giant plane, etc etc. Remember that the PK grows as time goes on. *in Spain P K Man === Page 71 of 220 2/23/66 p4 /66 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: See where a highly-valued space scientist killed himself today in Inglewood, California? So what? First...the Si's are keeping up their campaign of showing that they mean business...by harassing NASA. Since they can control minds, as well as weather...they eliminated this boy as surely as they aimed the gun. Second...the space scientist was lost in Inglewood...where my own two children live. You remember them...you met them...Lornie and Rick. I believe the Si's are saying something with the death of the NASA man in this particular town. But...haven't interpreted it yet. They "tell" a lot of things by doing things of their own...and the action they create tells their story. P K Man All...sure signs, to me (for I know the signs by now) of Si activity and nearness. My own ESP seems to think this NASA boy was murdered...didn't kill himself at all. Of course, the Si's could arrange this, too, because their PK utilizes anything and everything to obtain their objective. Also...shows me the Si's attention is on Inglewood, where my children are. 08/06/2025 16:55 === Page 72 of 220 February 24, 1966 Dear Rick: Am sure glad that you like the ring and wristband. Keep wearing one or the other, or both...for they are not purely ornamental. They have a functional use. We pinned the newspaper clippings all over our kitchen walls...and you'd laugh to see them all over the walls. Evidently they finally found out "H.T. Owens" was the same as "P K Man" or "The Rain Maker" because all 3 papers very suddenly cut off printing my stuff, even though I sent in stuff that would make you howl with laughter. Of course, most of it was making fun of Johnson, Hubert, etc. Anyway, I think the Government, in its investigation of me and my activities, have put an iron curtain around me...as far as newspaper items, etc., are concerned. It's too bad...I was just getting warmed up. And the papers really liked my writing, too. Incidentally, have two men ever, to your knowledge, come to Inglewood and talked to you, Lornie, or the Shannon's...asking questions about me? Just wondered, is all. Good news...am mailing your super pool cue, along with super case, and a dandy book on pool...to you tomorrow evening. You should get it early next week, any day. It's a $30.00 outfit, so please...don't break it or lose it, huh? Why do I get you such a fine outfit? First, because you're my pal and you deserve it...and second, because if you ever serious about learning and mastering anything...only get and use the best tools you can find to do it with. Always. And...what in blazes is a "piquet" shot? Don't you mean..."PK"? My masse' is messy. Need more practice. When you play, always play to win. Winning is a state of mind, mostly. Many many times I have gotten behind on pool scores, midway through the game...and I have talked to myself in my mind...telling myself to cut out silly mistakes, shoot softer, figure out the weakness of my opponent (they all have one, and you can beat them with it.) And many many times I have come from behind and won, that way. Incidentally, to test your stick and make sure it's as super as the man at Brunswick said...I took it down town and beat the top pool (pro) hustler in Philadelphia with it. So its good. Don't worry any more about that clipping, Rick. I've got it covered. The UFO contour you ask about...is a sideways silhouette of the UFO. Not looking down at it, but sideways at it. See? One evening last summer I went out on the balcony outside our apartment and there were just two clouds, hanging low over our apartment house...and inside each cloud...was a UFO. They were plain. Easy to see. Just floating there, inside the clouds. Both identical saucer shapes, close together. I think I forgot to tell you about that. About the secret weapon in Viet Nam that you heard about...re mental imagery... would like to know more about what you are talking about. The Si's are active there, you know. Write me in more detail about that, eh? Love, Dad === Page 73 of 220 2/25/66 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: Well, just as my letter of last week predicted...the UFO's are raising hell down on Cape Kennedy. The Tiros shot has had to be postponed because of technical trouble and bad weather...postponed twice. The Moon shot has been postponed four times. I suppose eventually they'll get the birds off...and then the UFO's will shoot them down or render them ineffectual (strike one n). P K Man P.S. What did you think of the Commander of the entire South Vietnamese Air Force being killed? He wasn't shot down...his plane didn't crash...he didn't have heart failure...and he wasn't assassinated by the Viet Cong. HIS OWN PLANE RAN OVER HIM WHEN HE GOT OUT OF IT TO CHECK ON THE BOMBS! How freak can the accidents get? This is the sort of thing President Johnson and top Adm. officials must guard against...such freak accidents...plus getting hit by lightning, etc., or falling down like that SS man...and the main time to guard against it is between now and the end of May. That is, from now through May...is the danger period, according to the Si's. Forewarned is forearmed. This is, of course, as I have pointed out many times, not a threat but the opposite...a helpful warning. The UFO's are communicating...not me...and I'm the middle man passing along the information. Myself personally I'm just plugging along, working peacefully in an office, and content to be with my little family. But the UFO's...they are something else! 08/06/2025 16:55 === Page 74 of 220 Feb. 28, 1966 Dear Rick and Lornie: The Si's have signalled me that at this point the U.S. Govt. will probably take me out of circulation...so that my story of the UFO's, and what the UFO's are doing, will be shut up and kept secret, along with me...just as as they are doing with other various phases of hushing up UFO findings. Zachow told me, you remember, that he happens to know that the U.S. Govt. spends millions each year in suppressing UFO findings and news from the people of the U.S. So...with me coming up with concrete, solid proof of my connection with the UFO's...the Govt. cannot afford to have me rattling around loose, to talk to just anyone about it. So...the Si's warn the Govt. will "secure" me... arresting me, of course, under some false pretext like "threatening" the President with bodily harm, or some such idiotic thing. Well...we'll wait and see if the Si's are right. They usually know about such things. I have warned the President that the UFO's are a threat to him...but not me, not Ted Owens. I'm just a middle man, passing along information from the UFO's to the President, and to the Govt. Now, another thing.. (I can tell you this today, but may have to retype this tomorrow, and leave it out.) Yesterday a 17 year old woman here in Phila. pushed her little baby girl out of an 8th floor window...the baby fell 8 floors. The woman said "voices told her to do it." She is, quite naturally, assumed to be crazy as a loon. But suddenly...I don't think she is. I think she was instructed to push the baby out the window. Now you'll think I am crazy. But listen...the baby was not harmed. Not a hair of its head was hurt. It fell 8 floors, people picked it up...not even bruised. The little girl is perfectly all right. Now...let us suppose the Si's have a method of injecting themselves into people who die, or who are near death...bringing the body back to life, and carrying on through life...as a Si in a human body. I can recall parachutists falling amile or two, their chute not opening...and their miraculously not being killed, or even injured sometimes. I can recall many cases of people who should have been killed...but were not. Brenda Sue was one. Do you follow me? Remember...the Si's are pure intelligence...they take many forms, and they could easily move into a human. Perhaps they have to time it at the human's moment of death or near death. I, myself, should have been killed a number of times, as Mother or Queenie could tell you. A log fell on my head, splitting it open like a melon... a car hit me in the head and threw me 30 feet...I was out for seven hours... and so on. Oh...I think these humans really do die sometimes...but the Si moves in, and the human "comes back to life." It is something to think about. Just remember, when I tell you this, that I have never heard "voices" when I communicate with the Si's (or any other time) I just suddenly "know" what they are telling me. It is instantaneous. === Page 75 of 220 February 28, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: I was puzzled over the weekend...because the Si's had done what they had said they would do...give NASA fits last week over that Tiros Weather Rocket, and the Moon Rocket. That is, they stopped each shot cold, time and time again. But then...they let the Moon Rocket get up and come down. And today, they let the Tiros get up. (Whether it will survive...I don't know...it shouldn't). This is what I believe they are doing. They are trying to show the U.S. Govt. that they **can** harass NASA...can block shots with weather, with technical difficulties, with freak accidents...but they are also showing the U.S. Govt. that they can and will let the birds go, if they want to. This is not to take a thing away from NASA...they do miraculous work...but they wouldn't have a prayer, if the Si's decided to stop them completely. Can you imagine lightning hitting every rocket....continual storms and rain at launching times, so that NASA would never be able to depend on a weather time-table...every rocket being destroyed that did get up, at its second or third stage...and so on. I do not believe they are trying to destroy the NASA space effort...but they do intend to show the U.S. Govt. that they are here, are present, and are influencing the outcome of things considerably. Now, a human...if he had a "PK" power like that...would stop or block **every** shot...everything NASA moved. But that's a human...the Si's are not human...their wisdom is infinitely more than human wisdom...and I believe they are gently trying to nudge the U.S. into line with them, to cooperate and work with them...with the Si's. You could rebut that hell, of course once in a while NASA has difficulties, so why blame it on Si's? But just reflect how **many** difficulties NASA has had at Cape Kennedy in particular (Electro) this last year or two. And how few successes, compared with the destructs and "freak" accidents. Too too many, George...and the very heavy balance of evidence is on the Si side. I am still trying to get them to go down to the Cape and show their saucer craft there...as the clincher, so I can get down to brass tacks with the U.S. Government, and begin to work with the Si's in earnest. === Page 76 of 220 March 1, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: The Si's fooled me completely. I was watching the Tiros and Moon Shot birds. The Si's toyed with them for three or four days, blocking each shot with bad weather or "technical difficulties" - then the birds got up, and while I was watching them, waiting for something to happen (as it usually does) the Si's switched targets and went for the Astronauts. I knew something was very wrong when the birds got up...have learned by now, from "observing" the actions of the Si's, that when they abandon a project they have started...it is usually for something bigger and harder hitting. I deeply regret the loss of these two good men. As I have stated before, the Si's are rougher than I am...for bringing down birds is one thing, to prove a point. But I am against destroying people. However, the Si's do not think like humans...and are determined to make their point. Forgetting for a moment the money cost (for instance, each Astronaut costs roughly ten million dollars to train - so about twenty million dollars was lost yesterday)....by now key NASA losses in manpower alone are: (1) Astronaut Freeman, killed by a duck, in a plane crash. (2) Astronaut See, killed in plane crash. (3) Astronaut Basset, killed in plane crash. (4) Dr. Hugh Dryden, Deputy Administrator of NASA, died from cancer. (5) Dr. Lovelace, Director of Space Medicine for NASA, killed in plane crash. (6) Major General Branch, major figure in U.S. Space Military Experimental Program, killed in plane crash. (7) Williams, outstanding young Space Scientist with NASA, a suicide at Inglewood, California. Then consider that Kris Kraft and 13 top Space (NASA) officials, all on the same plane, were almost destroyed by a teenager wielding two guns.... and this gives you an idea of the price NASA has paid...in refusing to listen to me with regard to the UFO intelligences (Si's) and the messages they have given the U.S. Govt. through me. I just pointed out to you in my February 25 letter that all important men in the U.S. Govt. must be on guard from 2/25 through May! It is a danger period, according to the Si's...and I guess the Astronauts were not excluded from the category of "important men in the U.S. Govt." to the Si's. You see, if NASA had believed my letter of the 25th...these two boys wouldn't have been in an airplane yesterday, and wouldn't be dead today! P K Man Owens 08/06/2025 16:55 === Page 77 of 220 3/3/66 Dear Lornie It was good to get a letter from you. Sorry to hear about all the flu. Electra, remember. It all started in Los Angeles...swept across the country...bypassed Philadelphia, completely. Bet you did make a good baby-sitter for the sick kids. You probably earned your RN 5th Class. Be sure and don't kiss Juan for a month, or he might get it. Ha ha. Get a copy of current Look mag...there's a hot article in it on sex for the teenager. Glad you like the love-ring. I bought a ring-shank, enamel paint, brushes, powerhouse glue...and made it. Yes, it was great to hear from Mrs. Pennington. Gives you a pretty good idea of how our Si-power works, eh? Too bad we couldn't use more of that kind, instead of what is going on now. Maybe some day someone will listen, and go into action to help me and the Si's. Somebody who counts. Meanwhile they'll keep on losing scientists, astronauts, politicians, planes, subs, ships, H-bombs...you name it. Incidentally, do you remember when I hit the Spanish-U.S. Military Exercises while we lived in Washington? And all sorts of things happened...copters collided, planes crashed, etc? Well, in the same area this year two huge B-52 bombers collided and they lost several H-bombs! Means the PK is still active in the area. If you are following my copies to George...then you will know that I warned that from 2/25 through May...Key government people were in for it, in danger. Following that, a few days later, a Congressman fell down in the White House and broke his hip. On Feb. 18 I wrote George the Si's asked me to put it on record, officially, that they were now out to get NASA to teach it a lesson...and 10 days later (this Monday) the two Astronauts were killed. They'll nver learn. As you know, the Si's (I thought it was nature at that time) told me in Washington that Johnson would be eliminated by May of this year, unless he cooperated with them (while we were in Washington...I made a bet, remember?) Am curious to see what happens. I got birthday dollars...and we had our party. I got your cigarettes. Martha got your birthday $1.25, and lovely hand-made card, which she cherishes on her dresser. With your money she bought a new apron, new pot-holder, and a toy for Beau. Beau doesn't know any English, except "I want ka-ka (candy)". I love you always, my daughter. Keep punching. And never ever lose faith or belief in your Dad. Somewhere along the way people will tell you I'm nuts...I'm having a "change of life"...all sorts of things. Don't you believe it. Love and kisses.......... Dad 08/06/2025 16:55 === Page 78 of 220 March 4, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: I should have written this yesterday...but do not have a typewriter at home, and could not do it at the office. The Si's yesterday told me they were preparing a series of blows - natural catastrophes - coming up.* And of course the tornados this morning in Alabama and Miss. probably caused a disaster area there. It is rare when I cannot get my message off to you, ahead of the event, but I couldn't do it yesterday. That is why I should have my own typewriter. Now...you have noticed the stock market "storm" lately...dropping, dropping... and I call your attention to my letter to you of January 26: "What they are going to do next is...shrink the monies which are donated to Radio Free Europe, Heart Fund...etc...Picture a large circle, which is now the amount of monies donated by peoples to all sorts of activities, government and otherwise... shrink this large circle down to a small spot...and you get the idea. People will simply stop giving." Well, I believe I misunderstood the Si's...interpreted what they sent me wrongly Evidently they meant they would attack the stock market (they can, because they can influence masses of people to do things.) Therefore, since it is the Si's, to the best of my knowledge...then the U.S. can look forward to a terrible crippling blow in the Stock Market, perhaps a depression without precedent. Also remember I told you the Si's were intending to use the coloreds as a whip against the U.S.? And just last week the Black Muslim leader made the statement that the Muslims could literally destroy the U.S., if they wanted to. Backed by invisible Si cooperation...they certainly could do so, by acting as a base for all coloreds everywhere. Long ago I asked you to please get me some action on this matter, because actually the welfare of the U.S. is at stake...it overrides the Communist threat by a great deal. The Si's control our weather, control our air (skies), and even control our masses of peoples in various ways. It is time to break the great silence, George...and time for the U.S. to accept the Si's as allies and friends. This is bad? With all their power to add to ours? P K Man They have more planned, in the next few days, 2-3 weeks. === Page 79 of 220 3/4/66 p2 d note: I would like to point out that, besides controlling our weather and controlling our skies, and controlling masses of our people...the Si's certainly control the good water that we have. Let me point out that the Wanaque UFO flew over not only the Wanaque Reservoir, but a lake, and I believe another reservoir as well. With its ray it burned a hole in the ice of the Wanaque Reservoir. This actual demonstration, witnessed by people, proved the reality of UFO's conclusively...and also pointed out that no power on earth can stop the UFO's from affecting any or all of the water supply of the U.S. Think about that a while, George. What effect did that ray have on the water of the W. Reservoir? Do you think the UFO was just "playing"? I've got news, it wasn't...they do not have a sense of humor like humans, from what I have managed to glean from my acquaintance with them. There was purpose there...and they wanted it known to our people. At any time, anywhere, they could beam their ray at our drinking water...our good water. What it does, I don't know...although I suspect it carries a way to sensitize people's minds a certain way so that they can be influenced by the Si's. And you know, the tornados that hit Jackson, Mississippi today...isn't that the area where the Si's took Hurricane Betsy, to hit NASA there? Once an area is hit with Si PK...I believe it is peculiarly susceptible from that point onward to more hits of the like. For instance, the B-52 crash over the Spanish Coast...losing the H-bomb (had you thought that perhaps the Si's got it? They most certainly brought about the accident...just as they worked with PK in that area during the American-Spanish Military Exercises there.) The U.S. is very very lucky that the Si's want to be their friend...if and when the U.S. ever accepts them. What would it be like to have them as an ever-increasing powerful enemy? What the Si's could do, if they wished...makes Russia and China about as dangerous as my 3-year old baby. === Page 80 of 220 March 10, 1966 Copy - Rick Lornie 3/10/66 p 1 President Johnson Dear Mr. President: I have some very good news...from the UFO intelligences...to P K Man...to you. The Si's have decided to end the entire drought on the East Coast. They have told me to communicate this to the U.S. Government. In the days, weeks and months to come there will be rain rain rain...not just a little, not just "above average" - but phenomenal rain. The Si's will fill the rivers, streams, etc., on the East and Northeast Coast with rainwater to overflowing. There will be no doubt whatsoever that this freakish rainfall is unnatural. They also told me to tell you that they want this on record...so that when it occurs the people will not consider it just an "accident of Nature." Their plan was for me to obtain money enough to have independence, so that I would not have to do ordinary work for a living...since now they can only communicate with me through "cracks and crevices" in time, instead of through an "open door" in time, as would be the case if I were free to work with them constantly. This money mentioned above was to be made by me as "The Rainmaker" and by me breaking the drought on the East Coast for the money. However, my fellow humans would not listen...would not accept. This has certainly happened, on a giant So the Si's will make the stupid humans a present of the rain. But they warn...and mark this well...after the drought has been completely alleviated, and the humans on the East Coast are smug and happy with their supply of water...then if the U.S. Govt. continues to ignore P K Man and refuses to help him, and cooperate with the Si's...then the Si's will strike the U.S. with something far far worse than drought, as punishment. And they do not communicate idle words. So, I am very happy that the East Coast will soon be inundated with rain and water. Our friends, the Si's, will now demonstrate their gentle, good side...and it is their predominant side, as a rule. You, and the U.S. Government, and the people of the U.S., can thank God the Si's are trying to help us, and are on our side. Would be sad if they gave up on us, and took their powers elsewhere to some other, more friendly and cooperative, country to fulfill their pattern of action they are determined upon. P K Man (Owens) Owens Please see my letter of January 1, 1966, and read entire letter. 08/06/2025 16:55 === Page 81 of 220 3/10/66 P2 March 9, 1966 Dear Mr. President: This is the next important letter of warning to the U.S. Govt. from the UFO intelligences (Si's)..........following their last letter of warning, dated August 11, 1965, written by me to you from their communication. They wish to bring things up to date first. Since their last warning there have been an unprecedented number of airplane and ship accidents..........not at all accidental..........caused by UFO methods. They call it "Ship-Sub-Plane PK", "Storm PK", etc. Although catastrophes have been caused by the UFO's all over the world, to fit their pattern of planning..........we are concerned here with only those catastrophes affecting the U.S., of which, as I said, there have been an unprecedented number and in an ever-increasing cyclical rhythm..........if you have noticed. Unless action is taken by the U.S. Government to cooperate with the Si's..........and form a friendly alliance with them..........matters will get much worse in all departments..........Nature, political, financial, health, etc. As they stated before, in my previous letters, it is as in the days of Moses. Speaking, that is, of their catastrophe-effects. In their last letter of warning to you and the U.S. Govt. they warned that catastrophes would increase in number and scope. This has certainly happened, on a giant scale..........although no attention has been paid, that I know of, to their important warnings by the U.S. Govt. As you can see, from the list that follows, many of these catastrophes have been the worst experienced here in the U.S. in 100 years..........and some of them the worst ever experienced in the entire history of the U.S. - thus bearing out my message to you from the Si's in the last letter of warning that this would be so. Interesting is the fact that the Si's warned in my letter of February 12, 1965, that the Russ would form small teams to smuggle atom bombs into our U.S. cities for a Trojan Horse attack from within the U.S. This was confirmed by articles in the newspapers just yesterday, quoting J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI warning of the Russ planning to do just that, i.e., bring in small atom bombs. Also in my past correspondence the Si's warned that they would attack our Stock Market and cause a "storm" therein, to show how they could affect our financial structure, if they wished to do so. These past two weeks you have seen it happen. And unless we make friends with the Si's they might just tear down the structure. Please see my letter of January 31, 1966, and read entire letter. === Page 82 of 220 3/10/66 P 3 In this letter is a paragraph: "They (the Si's) are curious to know..........must they do something worse than put the entire U.S. in the deep freeze? Or it will the U.S. make friends with them?" They had their answer..........the U.S. did not make friends. P K Man was not contacted. so they did many things worse! It would take too long to list all of the great catastrophis which have struck the U.S. since the Si's last warning to you..........so let us just sum up the past two months: Jan. 31: (Following are newspaper headlines which tell the story) "Worst Storm of Century Hits South..........breaking records that date back to 19th Century." "A severe combination of snow, wind, and icy cold hit most of the Nation, tying up highway, rail, and air traffic..........Washington was virtually paralyzed." "Northeast Lashed As Another Storm Blows Up In Plains." Feb. 1: "The fury of one of the worst winter storms in years moved into the North Atlantic last night, leaving the Eastern Seaboard and the South battered." "..........34 Degrees Below Zero At Russellville, Alabama." Feb. 1: "New Storm Hits The South and Midwest" - "A new storm today rolled across the Midwest and South, and moved for the snow-packed Mid Atlantic States. In Florida..........nearly all the crops of tomatos, peppers, cucumbers, squash, sweet corn, and poll beans were destroyed." Feb. 1: "30 Foot Drifts Bury Cities In Upper New York" - "Whole counties of Upper New York State lay buried Tuesday, under drifts up to 30 feet deep..........after one of the worst snow storms on record. Winds sometimes approached hurricane velocity." Feb. 2: (Catastrophe in Viet Nam) The First Cavalary was riddled with .50 caliber machine gun fire..........from their own side. Captain Fox there said he had never seen anything to compare with this accident. Sgt. Standfield there said hehad seen no parallel to it in three wars. Feb. 3: "6 men were killed in a C-47 crash in the Navy Operation Deep Freeze in the Antarctic." "It was the worst crash of the Navy's 11-year Operation Deep Freeze in the Antarctic." Feb. 10: "Tornado Hits Houston Area." - "The storm was the worst to hit Houston in years. Winds of 100 mph were reported in Houston." Feb. 11: "Tornados Wrack Texas" - "A massive storm system that spawned tornados..........dissipated in the Gulf of Mexico." (Almost skipped this one..........President Johnson declared American Samoa === Page 83 of 220 3/10/66 p4 3 a major disaster area, because of a hurricane which just recently struck it. Feb. 12: Lightning struck a plane near the airport at Rome. This happened once to a plane Mrs. Johnson was on, as I recall. And it was recently discovered that tremendous air turbulence blew the plane apart near Tokyo recently...as the same thing happened to a plane over Florida last year. Of course, Florida is the "Electro" area...a supercharged PK area. The lightning and the force applied for the air turbulence are of course Si phenomena. (This above is not a catastrophe; but wanted to bring it in as a point of interest.) Feb. 11: Meningitis struck at San Antonio, Texas; Ft. Gordon, Georgia; Lackland AFB, Texas - and other U.S. locations. Feb. 20: "Cold Sweeps 17 State Area" (Broke records everywhere in these areas.) Feb. 21: "Flu Epidemic Grips California - Schools Closed." "Flu Bug Spreads Throughout California" Feb. 23: "Tornados Splash Across South" "Tornados Cause Heavy Damage In North Carolina and Georgia" Feb. 28: "Two Astronauts Killed As Jet Hits Plant Housing Gemini 9" March 1: "Stocks Dive 13.70 Points" "Worst Dip In 8 Months Rocks Stock Market" March 4: "Tornados Kill 60, Hurt 497, In Two Dixie States" March 5: "Snow Still Falling In Blizzard of Central U.S." "This was the worst blizzard in recorded history...since the Weather Bureau began keeping records." Now...Mr. President..the Si's want you and the Government to know absolutely that they created all this damage and harassment to further prove what I have been saying...that I am their "reporter" (as a newspaper hires a reporter to carry the news to the readers) to the U.S. Govt., and that they can and will do what they say they can and will. To summarize the above 2-month list: THE ENTIRE U.S. WAS MADE A DISASTER AREA. EAST COAST - Worst blizzard in 100 years. WEST COAST - Struck with Flu and Meningitis epidemics. SOUTH - Worst cold freeze in 100 years. Killer tornados. 08/06/2025 16:55 === Page 84 of 220 3/10/66 P5 NORTHWEST - Worst blizzard in the entire history of the Weather Bureau. MIDWEST - Worst cold in 100 years. Plus blizzard. HOUSTON, TEXAS - Attacked by tornados. MISSISSIPPI - Attacked by tornados. ALABAMA - Attacked by tornados. NORTH CAROLINA - Attacked by tornados. GEORGIA - Attacked by tornados. CALIFORNIA - Killer meningitis. TEXAS - Killer meningitis. NEW JERSEY - Killer meningitis. ALABAMA - Killer meningitis. All this, in only two month's time! It does not include the Great New York Blackout...or the terrible, paralyzing New York Transit Strike...or the many crashes of huge airplanes...or the loss, one way or another, of top key government personnel...and so on. NOTE: The Si's are hereby notifying the U.S. Government that, just as they predicted in their last warning...the catastrophes that have just occurred, record-breaking though they may be, are only a sample of what lies ahead for the U.S. Government...unless the U.S. Government makes friends with them, and accepts them as an ally. Their conditions for this have been spelled out, previously, several times. The Si's warn...brace yourself...because there will be an unexpected twist in Viet Nam...and our forces will be lucky if they even manage to escape from there with their lives...regardless of all our military might. (But the Si's can extricate us from that mess, and only they can, if we allow them.) The Si's state that only they can stop U.S. catastrophes, and help the U.S. out of all the troubles that it is in. They also think my Government is crazy for not even giving the Si-power a try-out in the U.S.'s behalf. We can spend millions beautifying highways...give millions to foreign countries...but will not trouble to make friends with the Si's...who are the only ones who can help us. President Johnson...once more I respectfully ask that you invite me to your Texas ranch for a weekend and discuss this. It is the last time I will...can...ask. To sum up...in my first "Letter To The American People" I predicted great catastrophes. They came. In my second letter of warning to you, Mr. President, I predicted more and bigger catastrophes. They came. In this, my third letter of warning from the Si's...I am predicting even bigger, even more terrible catastrophes ahead for the U.S. Government. THERE IS NO TIME TO LOSE. Send for P K Man, UFO representative, immediately, 08/06/2025 16:55 === Page 85 of 220 3/10/66 P6 and arrange to join forces with the Si's. The Si's predict that the day will come when the U.S. Government, when in trouble, will come to P K Man to send a message to the Si's to get them out of trouble...just as you would go to the Western Union to send a wire. If the U.S. Government takes good care of me, that is. If anything happens to me, the U.S. Government will never again have this opportunity in this lifetime. In closing, the Si's want you to know that this message, this letter, comes straight from them...through me...and they are the same UFO intelligences (saucer intelligences) seen over the Wanaque Reservoir not long ago. Also they want to repeat...the catastrophes suffered by the U.S. these past months have been produced by the Si's to impress the U.S. Govt. with their powers...to reinforce the message read by Jack McKinney over Jack's "Night Talk" Radio Show last summer here in Philadelphia. P K Man (Owens) Owens 1114 Spruce, #33 Philadelphia, Pa. === Page 86 of 220 March 21, 1966 Rick Lornie Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: When the two Astronauts were being flown back to the U.S. via Honolulu, and their airplane malfunctioned...the SI's were merely showing NASA their entire control over the Astronauts. They point out that they could have dropped the plane like a rock into the water...or exploded it into a ball of flame...if they had so wished. Also they point out that it would be very very wise of NASA to keep highly-trained, valuable Astronauts out of airplanes entirely, since "PK" has been issued at ships-subs-planes, and is now very highly developed in the skies and in the water. Also they wonder why the U.S. Government does not bring out to the people "the saucer Intelligences (SI) story...that it was not sabotage that injured the Gemini 8 flight, nor was it the fault of the Astronauts, nor was it the fault of NASA. It was done by UFO intelligences, in their campaign to impress the U.S. Govt. with their powers...which lie far outside the scope of human sciences. The SI's again ask...what do they have to do to us, to prove their reality...and to join the U.S. as friendly allies? It might be asked, if what they have done thus far can be regarded as "friendly" then we have no need of enemies...but this would be a grave error, a terrible mistake in judgement. Because the saucer intelligences have been gentle, for them. They can at any given time increase the scope of catastrophes, if they wish. So far the catastrophes have been relatively small. They think what they have done, to prove their reality through me, their interpreter, and with the objective of joining the U.S. in order to turn their constructive and creative powers onto the world in general...is worth the small price the U.S. has so far paid. But unless they get some reaction...some results...from their labors, soon...then the U.S. must really sweat some larger catastrophes now beyond our comprehension. They have always given fair warning, and a friendly offer with which to avoid catastrophes. The U.S. Govt. so far has never reacted to them...and the U.S. Govt. has suffered grievously. It need not be so. P K Man Love Dad 08/06/2025 17:05 === Page 87 of 220 Sunday 3/27/66 Dear Rick -- Am glad the pool cue pleases you. Make it your friend for a life-time. Take care of it, honey. It's an ace. Don't loan it to any person, ever. If you do, you'll be sorry. How did you like the way PK took care of Gemini 8 & Agena? NASA is still trying to figure out what hit them. Now the Govt. has angered the Si's -- which have appeared recently to prove their reality -- by calling the Si's "marsh gas." So the Si's are going to teach the Air Force a lesson -- they are "hitting" the USAF here on out, with all PK phenomena. If the Govt. continues to ignore me -- the Si's are going to PK all U.S. vehicles -- autos, trucks, busses, etc. It will not be safe for anyone to be in a vehicle. Don't worry about your package (Bean is in my lap now, licking my arm) -- the thought is there, honey. People can't prove love with presents, anyway. Bean is big now. Talks a little. Martha is fine -- but she waited downstairs at the mail box day after day for weeks, expecting your package. She's like a child, you know, and her feelings were hurt when it didn't come. I'm trying every way I know to get the Church of Sata started -- and to get an isolated house, so the UFO's can come to me in their craft -- but nothing has worked out so far. Remember my bet with your friend in Wash. -- that Pres. J. wouldn't live past May, '66? His only chance is to make friends with the Si's. Love, Dad. === Page 88 of 220 Copy - Rick & Leonie Monday, April 4, 1966 George Clark, CIA, Washington, D. C. Dear George: Yesterday I was in communication with the 81's...and they told me that they were going to make a demonstration of their powers before the AF meets with Congress with its info on UFO's...in order to dramatize the meeting. They told me they would do something at Cape Kennedy, or at Washington (the White House)...and today the tornados struck Cape Kennedy! I could have again warned the U.S. Govt. last night of this, but have no one to report to, and no way to do it. Oh, yes...when they told me yesterday of their plan to hit the Cape, or the White House...I asked them to show one of their craft in the area, as a sort of signature. But they didn't do that. Not long ago I sent you a letter with regard to General Ky, of Viet Nam. At the time he was being painted as a mixture of Batman and George Washington, by the U.S. Govt. But I told you what he was really like. And if you will check my letter, you will see that I was correct. The 81's yesterday told me something else...they do not want me to try to meet them in Michigan, or anywhere in the U.S. They want the original plan...U.S. Govt. gives me the money, I go to England...they specify England...and want me to rent an isolated castle there, etc. You know what that plan is. Now, to business. You will remember that I warned weeks ago that U.S. catastrophes would increase (unless the Govt. enlisted the help of the 81's) It has not, and the catastrophes have. Let's just briefly scan the catastrophes that have struck the U.S. Govt. in just the past ten days (10): (1) Today's tornados, chopping up Florida for three hours and bullseying on Cape Kennedy. (2) The railroad strike - "biting into the Nation's economy" as the newspapers put it. This effected hundreds of thousands of workers and jobs, and cost approximately fifty to one hundred million dollars...and created chaos. (3) Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Monday, and Tuesday - six days, count them, six - arrangements were made at Cape Kennedy for NASA to get a rocket off the ground...any rocket. But they could not. And these birds were highly publicized, adding insult to injury when they failed to get up. A true catastrophe for NASA, prestige-wise. (4) The "lost" H-bomb off the coast of Spain was dropped accidentally not once but many times, and is now possibly gone for good, until it goes off some day, or Russia steals it. A catastrophe. (5) The people of South Viet Nam, our allies, turned against the U.S. Govt. this week - and now American personnel are not safe among the people they are fighting and dying for. This rebellion of our allies against us, at this time, is a terrible catastrophe. (6) The blowing up of the hotel in Saigon which housed our military men was most certainly a catastrophe. (7) Devastating forest fires have struck five States in the South...most certainly a catastrophe. (8) And Saturday a hurricane (Typhoon Shirley) bullseyed in on the U.S. Nuclear Submarine Base in Australia, hitting it with damaging winds. All this action...in the past ten days alone, George. Catastrophes, ever increasing in number and in scope. The 81's are unhappy because I must work at 2% of my capacity, instead of working with them and for them; and they are unhappy because the U.S. Government has not sent for me to add my material to the report of the AF when it meets Congress, this week - since I am in communication with the 81's, and the AF is not - what can the AF poss 08/06/2025 17:05 === Page 89 of 220 4-4-66 P2 IN CONCLUSION: I must add this note. Most of you I have been writing to for about two years. And my estimate of you, both high and low people, is that you are either damn fools, or very very dumb scientists...or both. Now that's not nice, to say that. But I think it is accurate, and I am fully qualified to say it. During these past two years I have accomplished impossible things... made absolutely impossible predictions come true...and proved conclusively my connection with UFO's and my two-way communication system with them. Now you cannot possibly think I am just a "contactee" and some kind of nut...because you have more than enough material in your files to prove this is not so. I could cite roughly 100 cases right now...major happenings...that I have predicted in advance, and in most instances with details of what, when, and how. For the Government not to take advantage of this obviously unusual and tremendous ability, therefore, is damn foolishness. In this case, criminal foolishness, for the Si's have been trying to work with our Govt. For the scientists not to take advantage of this, is completely unbelievable...for what I have done, with the Si's, staggers the imagination...and powers and principles have been employed not even known to mankind, except myself. Therefore, I say that the scientists who may have looked at my correspondence, and done nothing, just have to be stupid. Not long ago I gave the Govt. two days warning...before the Reds struck at our warships, and before the Reds put more and better planes into the air. It was a double-prediction that came true within days. Think of the tremendous value I should have to my Govt., who has had two years to think about it and evaluate my work. Yet we remain poor, shabby, live in dangerous surroundings, my family has had to split up, etc etc. Frankly, folks, you don't deserve the brilliant intelligence I've been giving you this long time. Owen 08/06/2025 17:05 === Page 90 of 220 Wednesday April 13, 1966 Mr. George Clark, CIA Dear George: Be warned...all ships, planes and subs in the Atlantic will be in deadly danger in the weeks and months ahead...until the East Coast drought is ended. The high waves and wind that just damaged a ship and killed two people were part of it. The Si's are doing something with the weather, using the Atlantic ocean to supply certain things they need to end our East Coast drought. They are just now beginning to get the elements arranged to end our drought...but it is going to be deadly dangerous to all forms of life and locomotion in the Atlantic, for a while. P K Man (Owens) === Page 91 of 220 Copy - Rick / Levine Wednesday April 20, 1966 Mr. Dunn, Chief Hurricane Center Miami, Florida Dear Mr. Dunn: I regret that you have not seen fit to take me up on my unique proposition - of guarding Florida against hurricane activity for the coming season. I can absolutely guarantee plenty of hurricane action in that area this coming season...just as I warned Cape Kennedy that they would have much bad luck with their shots this winter. And they have. Therefore, speaking for my UFO friends and their "PK" power...en garde. Owens P K Man (Owens) 1114 Spruce St. Philadelphia, Pa. P.S. The Si's want it definitely understood... in the event of my death, accidental or otherwise, they (UFO intelligences) will see to the total destruction of the United States, in retaliation. For, as their only human interpreter - I am the key to their plans for bringing peace and order to the world. === Page 92 of 220 Copy - Lonnie Rick Kids - you have copy of last week's letter. Tuesday April 26, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: See attached clip, then read this following quote from the letter I just sent you last Tuesday, April 19: "Something momentous is in the wind...with the Si's.; So big that they are actually going to attempt to bring one of their craft down into Philadelphia to contact me! One of the big ones, that is. For some time I have been trying to get them to do just that...but not until today did they signal that they were going to come into Philadelphia... into Center City...to try a contact with me. That is how important it is to them to make a contact physically with their human contact. I understand from "thinking with them" that ordinarily they hate to go into a city...down around buildings, etc. But...frustrated over the U.S. Government's refusal to help me meet them in the Michigan woods, or in an isolated European castle...then they will make an effort to find me, here. They know where I am at all times...but reaching me with one of their large craft...that's something else. So...when you read about the UFO seen in Philadelphia, in the days or weeks ahead...you will know who it is linking up with." That's what I wrote you, George...exactly one week ago. Now read clipping. P K Man (Owens) Owens P.S. If you will check the picture of this UFO, in this clipping, taken by the 14 year old boy...you will readily see that this UFO, and the UFO photographed in Australia and pictured in the Life Magazine article on UFO's several weeks ago...are exactly the same. === Page 93 of 220 Flashes Over East 4/26/66 # Thousands Sight 'Fireball' By ROBERT J. HAYES Of The Inquirer Staff A bright ball of fire trailing a long fiery tail startled thousands in the Delaware Valley and most of the Mid-Atlantic Coast as it shot across the sky near sun-down Monday. The object, reported seen in Rochester, N. Y., Boston, in areas of Ohio and the Carolinas, was described soon after it was sighted by astronomers and Federal Aviation Agency authorities as a meteor. Dr. I. M. Levitt, director of the Franklin Institute's Fels Planetarium, said the fireball was seen by a member of his staff, Edward Bailey, of Bala Cynwyd. "From his description," Dr. Levitt said, "it was most likely a meteor, but there are too many unknowns. "The object," he said, "was very unusual for two reasons. For one, it was as bright as a full moon. It was also very slow. You can usually count on seeing meteors only for about 15 seconds." The object, seen about 8:10 P. M., caused a general swamping of area police switchboards. Philadelphia police headquarters alone reported more than 500 calls--many from policemen. Municipal telephones buzzed to the tune of about 1000 calls. Phone calls swamped police boards in Delaware, Montgomery, Chester and Bucks counties, and in North and South New Jersey. About an hour after the meteor was seen here, Dr. Levitt said he received a report the object had been sighted over Boston. He said observers in New England had reported it was headed for a crash-down in Canada. Whatever it was, Dr. Levitt said, it was big. Its chances of coming down in one piece, he said, depended on its composition. "If it's iron, it could make it down in one piece," he said. "If it's a stone and iron mixture--'friable'--it will probably break up." Apparently the object's destination depended largely upon where you were sitting when you saw it. A private pilot landed at the Bridgeport, N. J., airport and reported seeing "a large, brilliantly green spherical object about 5000 feet in the air going at about 600 miles an hour. "It was headed due west, and extinguished itself in the vicinity of the General Electric plant in Chester." In Washington, reports were that the object landed in the Continued on Page 3, Column 5 === Page 94 of 220 HEAD AT PORTHOLE In Asbury Park, N.J., someone with a wilder explanation told the city's newspaper, "I saw a head peering out a porthole." Near Atlantic City, an engineer at the National Aviation Facilities Experimental Corp., at Pomona, told State Police the object was a meteor that exploded on entering the earth's atmosphere. Descriptions of the object ranged from "huge Roman Candle" to "starburst," "fireworks," and "flying saucers." Its color varied in observers' eyes from dazzling white to blue green or red. All agreed on one thing--the object was traveling on a descending course from south to north. 'LANDING' REPORTED Police from the Carolinas to Toronto checked reports of downed aircraft or that the object landed in their areas. "Everyone thought it came down near them," a Coast Guard official said. In Bucks county, a woman called police to say the fireball crashed down on the Levittown parkway. In Scranton, a man was talking on the phone with another man in Binghamton, N. Y. They saw the object at the same time. Meteo AP Wirephoto This photo of long-tailed meteor that streaked across northeast U. S. was taken by 14-year-old Utica, N. Y., youth, Dana DeGeorge, as he stood in his back yard with a friend. 4/26/66 Huge Fireball Sighted Flashing Over East By Startled Thousands Continued from First Page Maryland countryside about 10 miles north of the Capitol. A Ridley Park man said he spotted the thing when his collie, Jamie, began barking at the sky. The man, John W. Brown, of 237 Stoney Hill rd., said the thing, which he spotted from his backyard, "was well over 10,000 or 12,000 feet high. It was directly overhead and going on a bullet trajectory and died out about 15 degrees above the horizon." VAPOR TRAIL LEFT An official of Yale University Observatory in Connecticut said the object might have been a Bolide -- a type of meteor which enters the atmosphere at slower speeds and seems to travel at a level altitude. The object's long tail left a vapor trail similar to that left by jet planes at high altitudes. This brought fears it was a plane burning and about to crash. Flying saucer fears also were 08/06/2025 17:13 === Page 95 of 220 Wednesday May 4 1966 Dear Lornie and Rick I hope you have been well, and things at school are going fine. Just sent you some snapshots...hope you like them. Please convey my deep regrets to Pat, for the loss of Mary. I liked Mary, always did. She was a loss to the family, I know. And her children will miss her very much. Martha hasn't been touched by the virus, but baby and I have really been clobbered. There's a whopping epidemic of it right now in Philadelphia...and it has all started just since the "fireball" appeared over Philadelphia several weeks ago (I sent you a clipping.) I have a vague theory...that perhaps the nearness of a large Si craft might cause humans within their radius to be affected by what humans call "flu" or "virus." Clyde Beatty Circus is coming to town this week...and we are going to see the old gang that we worked with last year. Ain't that a laugh? Stuck here in Philly a whole year? We are going to go to the circus Sunday, spend the whole day, and take pictures. I'll send you some. We get no mail. Spelled with a capitol NO. Can't figure it out. Have literally hundreds of leads and contacts out...yet our mailbox remains empty, week by week. Had a dream about you kids...dreamed I came home from work, went into the kitchen, and there you kids sat with the baby, just looking at me silently. Somehow I didn't feel that you had been gone, or anything was different...I kissed Martha hello and asked what was for supper...and she said, "Ted, look, Lornie and Rick are here." Got to ring off for now. Get back to work Love and kisses.......... Dad Pal 08/06/2025 17:14 === Page 96 of 220 Thursday May 12, 1966 Dear Rick: It was good to at last hear from you. I tried to put your good luck card in my pocket, but Martha grabbed it first...to carry it for a while, then she will let me carry it for a while. We are sharing it. Don't worry about your PK work. Could be the magic left you, when we split up. Remember, it's the Si's, not us, doing it. While they are working with me, they might not be working with you. Probably are not, as a matter of fact. I have been working with them on ending the U.S. drought...especially the East Coast...and it is working like a charm. Kind of hard on the fruit crops, though. To get all the rain, you see, there had to be cold air mixing with warm air. Cold records have been broken all over the country...way back past 100 years. Tell you what, my boy...smart thing to do right now is this...forget making weather, shooting pool, etc., and concentrate hard on racking up what good grades you can in the short time left. Then when school is out, shoot pool and things like that. Don't worry about girls. You are an unusually handsome boy...very good looking...loaded with personality. Of course you are kind of stupid and you have big feet, like your daddy, but that doesn't matter. You'll find, as time goes on, you'll have to beat the girls off with a baseball bat. When it happens, remember I told you so. Beau can't say much...just a word here and there. He put his first little sentence together this week. He's so cute and lovable, it doesn't seem possible. But since you kids left, he has stopped eating. I mean it. He's so skinny, and underweight. We have him under medical supervision now. Martha is fine. Wonderful girl. We just celebrated our fifth wedding anniversary. We have a canary in a cage now; two turtles; and a goldfish. The Si's have promised to come to me. I can't wait for it to happen. They've never failed yet in their communications, although at times it didn't seem it could possibly happen. (Am talking of their big flying saucer craft, now...not the form they took in our apartment.) Have to go now. Remember, Big Bogarde' and Little Bogarde' and Martha love you. Love - Pappy 08/06/2025 17:14 === Page 97 of 220 Lornie Rick P.S. Lornie...get Pat to tell you about the time when you were about 2...we left you in the front of the apartment for a few minutes...when we got back you had somehow gotten through our double-locked front door and down a flight of steps. AND THE DOOR WAS STILL LOCKED! Monday, May 16, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: Wonder what on earth ever happened to that Explorer satellite they were going to shoot up at the Cape last Saturday? It was widely advertised...then from Saturday on...no news, nothing. In this shoot going up at the Cape tomorrow..Gemini 9...I wonder how the Si's will treat the astronauts...remembering that they, the Si's, are putting ever-increasing pressure on the U.S. Govt. and NASA. The last two astronauts just barely squeaked through. Reason for this letter: Want to point out that I predicted accurately and correctly two major events of recent note...the drop in auto sales, and the connected battering of the stock market. In my letter to President Johnson of March 9, 1966: "In my past correspondence the Si's warned that they would attack our Stock Market and cause a "storm" therein, to show how they could affect our financial structure if they wished to do so...unless we make friends with the Si's they might just tear down the structure." In my letter of March 4 to yourself: "...they meant they (Si's) would attack the Stock Market...therefore...the U.S. can look forward to a terrible crippling blow in the Stock Market..." In my letter to my two kids in Inglewood, Calif., March 31: "They (Si's) are going to hit all vehicles in the U.S. with PK (Note: I thought the Si's meant they would make vehicles crash and collide when they communicated that to me; instead, they used Nader, radio, and TV, to attack people's faith and confidence in autos.) and they are going to hit the U.S. economy with PK." That's being very specific, George. P K Man (Owens) === Page 98 of 220 5-16-66 p2 P.S. I stopped, some time ago, writing before each bird shoot at Cape Kennedy..........because as I explained - the UFO intelligences plan to attack each and every rocket, missile, etc., going up, as well as ground controls...with 1,001 means at their disposal. As I told you, long ago, if a bird gets up, and completes its job satisfactorily, then gets down again...I would be utterly surprised and astonished. Some of the things the Si's use: Power failure. Fire. Lightning strikes. People error, in the ship, or on the ground. Poltergeist-like activity. Communications disruption. Freak accidents. "PK Force" which forces the missile out of line with its intended direction, or track. Electric failure. "PK Gumming Up" - I call it this, because there are no words to exactly describe it. They issue forth some power, or substance, which acts like glue on the outside of the spaceship, and fouls up external controls. But it is not like glue in that glue is sticky. "Explosive PK" - a form of "PK" which waits for any chance to cause an explosion of any sort...doesn't need a spark. Instrument Failure. Gives false readings and settings. And many many other tools, they have. Then, if they want to do a quick, thorough job...they use the "line of force" I've described previously. So, for Gemini 9, I expect things to go just like they have gone this past year at the Cape. Accidents, technical difficulties, freak weatherXXX....and when the astronauts get down, I will be greatly relieved...because I know what extra dangers they have to cope with, since they do not have the Si's with them, but against them. I would look forward to the day when the U.S. Government puts these UFO intelligences on the side of the astronauts...instead of dangling the astronauts underneath the noses of the UFO's. Believe me, they are not equipped to cope with UFO's...and that is what is happening. You (U.S. Govt.) can train them to handle anything at all, except the "X" factor. Which in this case is the UFO's. As I have said before, "Hell hath no fury like that of the Si's scorned." And the U.S. Govt. has been scorning them thus far. This Gemini 9 shoot is going up just after the Si's were labelled "marsh gas" and a TV program was put forth nation-wide ridiculing them. 08/07/2025 15:39 === Page 99 of 220 Lonie & Rick Monday May 16, 1966 Mr. Mitarnowski State Police Shade Gap, Pennsylvania Dear Sir: I am the gentleman who called you last Saturday, with regard to using ESP, or in this case...clairvoyance...as a tool to catch the criminal who kidnapped the girl at Shade Gap. However, please hear me out. Here is a complete plan, and I believe an excellent one...with which to catch this man. Spread the word over a wide area there that a famous clairvoyant (something like a witch, they'd better understand) is coming to Shade Gap this next Saturday and Sunday...to use his powers to describe the kidnapper in better detail, and tell the police a great deal more than is known. (I work like Peter Herkos, and you can get this around.) The enclosed sample newspaper story can be used...Wednesday, if possible. Now, the kidnapper, I feel, is very egotistical. He is certainly unbalanced. And he will watch the papers. I am sure that when he reads the newspaper story...and perhaps hears by word of mouth about the strange man coming...he will be sufficiently motivated to try and strike at me, probably Sunday, in the kidnapping area...even though he may be out of it now. My strange, unusual powers may indeed give you some clues...perhaps important. But also add this plan...and we might get results. I can be the bait to catch this criminal. The woods people and mountain people have much more faith in witchcraft and ESP than sophisticated city people, you'd better believe it. And I am sure this kidnapper would try to eliminate me. You would have to transport me there Friday evening or Saturday morning... and furnish me with a concealed walkie-talkie, plus a .357 Magnum pistol for protection. Withdraw any police from my area, and let me go through the woods from the point of the kidnapping. I am sure that if the man is still anywhere in the area, he will try for me...being of that sick ego, and unbalanced. When he does, I'll contact you, and you come in. As I explained to you on the phone, am not interested in any fee or charge. Just in getting the girl back. And I think I can. Sincerely, H. T. Owens 1114 Spruce St., #33 Phila., Pa. 08/06/2025 17:14 === Page 100 of 220 5/16/66 p2 article, or one like it, to be published in the Shade Gap newspaper other small towns around...Wednesday of this week, or Thursday.) # WITCHCRAFT TO FIND A KIDNAPPER? Well, almost. A famous clairvoyant, with powerful ESP ability, is coming to Shade Gap this Saturday and Sunday, from Philadelphia, on his own, to give clues to the police that he "senses" and "pictures". These impressions he will get from the area of the kidnapping spot. His name is Owens, and he has been very successful in the past. Like the famed psychic Peter Herkos, Owens gets mental pictures of the criminal, and other important facts as well. When questioned, Owens gave this statement: "Obviously this kidnapper is crazy, insane. And also a coward...to pick on a small girl. I intend to spend Saturday and Sunday in the kidnapping area where the girl was taken, and I am positive that I will be able to get a picture in my mind of the kidnapper, and be able to tell the police of his habits, his work, and other facts which can lead to his capture. Perhaps even his present location." When asked if this might not be dangerous...to be in that same area... Owens replied: "No, this crazy man only picks on helpless girls. I will be alone in the area. As a matter of fact, the police have agreed to stay away and let me work those two days in my own way, by myself there. That way I can concentrate better." Well, it might work. In Philadelphia, Owens is regarded as a powerful ESP worker, or "witch". If that is what it takes to catch a criminal...why not? (Note: The above article would be a personal insult, and dare, to the kidnapper. If he is the "sniper" as the papers think, then he would for sure make a try for me. Then you would get him.) As I explained to you on the phone, am not interested in any fee or charge. Just in getting the girl back. And I think I can. Sincerely, H. T. Owens 1114 Spruce St., #33 Phila., Pa === Page 101 of 220 Wednesday May 18, 1966 Copies - Lonnie & Rick Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: Last night in the paper an article read: "Submerged, Pre-Aimed Missile Reported Developed by Reds." This article pointed out Russia has developed Polaris-type missiles which can be fired by remote control from containers planted under the sea. All of which is exactly what I wrote to you, about a year or so ago. Remember? I told you to count the fishing boats that visited our shores... because when they left, they would be one short...and the one that went down was especially designed to hold a missile...which could be remote-control fired later on. At the present time I am sure this is what Cuba is all about. Yes, there probably are stores of missiles in deep caves...and perhaps a few launching sites for ground-fired missiles...but George, I'll eat my hat if Russia hasn't planted a formidable number of missiles under water at the far edge of Cuba, to be fired at the U.S. when ready. Perhaps even fired from Russia by special radio signal. P K Man (Owens) === Page 102 of 220 5/18/66 P2 Thursday May 19, 1966 May 20, 1966 The Si's warn that a man is planning to load a small plane with high-explosives...and send the plane, kamikaze style, into the White House or Johnson's ranch. This man has planned this for a long while - put it off once, but now is getting "worked up" to do it. Of course he'll be killed, but he doesn't care. Believe he's an ex-army flyer...service man, anyway. Si's say by 1967 the White House will have to be ringed with anti-aircraft, just on this account. P K Man Myself and Si's will endeavor to whip up and guide many hurricanes this season to the "Electro" area of Florida, where Cape K. is located, then bring them on up the Coast to "sprinkle the grass" in a giant way all along the East Coast. Brace yourself, friend...as a Hurricane specialist, you'll have a ball this summer and Fall. === Page 103 of 220 5/18/66 P3 Thursday May 19, 1966 Mr. Dunn, Chief, Weather Bureau, Hurricanes Miami, Florida Dear Mr. Dunn: Last year I deliberately turned Hurricane Betsy around, with the help of the UFO intelligences, so that it would not go up the East Coast and give rain and moisture in the East Coast area. I had written Govt. agencies before, that I would do this. This year, however, the UFO's are engaged in breaking the 5-year drought on the East Coast...and any and all hurricanes will be brought up the East Coast all the way, in order to give moisture to that area. Myself and Si's will endeavor to whip up and guide many hurricanes this season to the "Electro" area of Florida, where Cape K. is located, then bring them on up the Coast to "sprinkle the grass" in a giant way all along the East Coast. Brace yourself, friend...as a Hurricane specialist, you'll have a ball this summer and Fall. P K Man (Owens) 1114 Spruce Philadelphia, Pa. === Page 104 of 220 Monday May 23, 1966 Copy - Rick Lorne Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: A special warning from the Si's...a great danger immediately ahead, dead-ahead, for the country of the U.S. They say...watch carefully our three coastal areas...from the Atlantic side, the Pacific side, and the southern Gulf side. For this is where the greatest threat to us comes from...the water. They way we are foolish at this time to concentrate on outer space, when we should be devising ways to defend our three exposed coastal areas, in depth. They mean...far out for 100 to 300 miles off each coast. To make sure there are no destructive mechanisms within this range now, and to prepare ways and means to insure there will be none in the future. Incidentally, George, only two persons have ever ridiculed to my face my claim of association with the Si's. One was Jack McKinney, whom I like, of the WCAU Phila. radio show...who said he could hardly keep from laughing over the radio - and the City Editor of the Phila. News, when I went up to see him personally not long ago. He was insulting. Well, that same City Editor just dropped dead, while on vacation at Aruba, Dutch West Indies, last Thursday. Did I ever tell you that the key man responsible for my losing my hypnotism business in Ft. Worth, a lawyer named Shelman, dropped dead unexpectedly of a brain hemorrhage not long after I left Texas? In looking over my old letters to you, just realized another terrific prediction I made to you came true. On Feb. 12, 1965, my letter to you, 6th paragraph...Si's warned the U.S. Govt. of a fiendish commie plan to sneak small portable A-bombs into key U.S. cities. On March 7, 1966, an article "The Washington Report" by Allen & Scott (in the Phila. News) this same information came out...that the U.S. Govt. had discovered this, and was taking secret steps to combat it - and it was the same info I'd warned you about a year earlier! Since writing you months ago that the Si's were taking away the "drought PK" from over the U.S. and were bringing to an end the years-long drought a radio reporter said yesterday that recent rains in the Northeast Coast area have made the water picture better than it has been in the past three years! And some previously drought-stricken areas on the East Coast have now even been taken off their emergency basis, and water restrictions removed. You'll have to admit that's progress, George. === Page 105 of 220 5/23/66 p 2 May 23, 1966 May 23, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency This may interest you. The Si's have communicated they will use all their power to see that Johnson & Company lose everything at voting time...at the polls..if indeed they reach that point... because Johnson has rejected their friendly approach. Saw Sec. of Air Force Herald Brown on TV...I would sum him up as a sneaky, two-faced idiot. He and McNamara make a perfect pair. My God!! Where do we get these "top men?" In closing...the Si's warn...the recent stock market clobbering was no accident. You are referred to my letter of June 24, 1965..."unless the U.S. Govt. recognizes its (Si's) agent, P K Man, publicly, and helps P K Man...then Nature (Si's) will wreck and demolish the U.S. economy...will ruin the stock market. It will make the 1929 stock market crash seem like a picnic by comparison." That's what will happen ahead, George, if the Si's continue to be ridiculed and ignored. The U.S. Govt. has paid a terrible price already, by ignoring the Si's...should this stupidly continue? P K Man (Owens) Owens === Page 106 of 220 Wednesday May 25, 1966 Rick LORNIE 5/25/66 P2 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: In my Feb. 25 letter I pointed out that all important people in the U.S. Government must be on guard from 2/25 through May...it would be a danger period. But that prediction, given me by the Si's, has worked out sort of poorly, because not much has happened to validate it. The two astronauts were killed, of course, about ten days after I wrote that to you. Then also I believe some Senator died...Johnson went to his funeral...was it McNamara? Allessandroni was killed in a plane crash...and Milton Shapp's helicopter caught fire and crashed...but he was luckier than Allessandroni, and only got bashed up a little. President Johnson's helicopter caught fire at the White House, but luckily he wasn't in it; his baggage was. Bill Moyers fell down a flight of steps at the White House, hit his head, and went to the hospital with concussion. Senator Dirksen fell down, hit his head and was knocked out, smashing his glasses, and fracturing his hip. Had surgery in Bethesda Hospital. Senator Mike Mansfield went into Bethesda Hospital about a week ago and is still there. Reason not given. Congressman Hardy (Virginia) just underwent surgery at Bethesda Hospital. Congressman MacGregor (Minnesota) just underwent surgery at Bethesda Hos. Congressman Moss (California) is now in Bethesda Hospital. Eisenhower has been in the hospital for weeks. Yesterday Bollinger, a top missile scientist with NASA (he developed the hydrogen-oxygen propellant used in the Saturn rocket engine) was murdered in Ohio. And yesterday Congressman Fraser's daughter (Minn.) was killed by a car. But other than that, ;my prediction didn't pan out. Of course, there's still a wee bit of time left. Something might happen yet. P K Man (Owens) === Page 107 of 220 Rick Wednesday May 25, 1966 The Post Master U. S. Post Office 30th and Market Sts. Phila., Pa. Dear Sir: Yesterday our mailbox was robbed - an envelope ripped open and a ring, sent by our 16-year-old from California to my wife, as a Mother's Day gift, stolen. As well as a supply of stamps the boy enclosed. We live in an apartment house at 1114 Spruce St., and our mail has been opened many times... then we have found it in our box, already opened. We have complained about it to the postman delivering the mail... but of course all he can say is that the situation is being watched. We have heard other people in the building complain that their boxes are being pilfered, also. Someone broke the lock off our mailbox. Isn't there anything the Post Office can do to stop this? Are thugs free to loot mailboxes here and there, at their whim, without the law stepping in? We would certainly appreciate it, if the law did step in. Enclosed is the envelope the ring and stamps were stolen from, exactly as we found it. H. T. Owens 1114 Spruce St., #33 Phila., Pa. === Page 108 of 220 May 25, 1966 Dear Rick: I enjoyed hearing from you, honey. But you made a big mistake. Remember I wrote you quite a while back...and told you and Lornie never to send anything to us of value, unless it was by Special Delivery? (Costs 30¢) When I got home last night Martha was crying. She got your letter, but some crook had gotten into our mailbox and taken your ring and stamps out of the letter first. You see, that happens all the time here in Philadelphia, and in our building. All the time we find our letters and mail ripped open before we get down to get it. They have even discovered mailmen in this town looting their own mail. So...after Martha went through weeks of going down to meet the mailman to get your package, the package that never came...now she has had this new disappointment with the ring. Tell you what...pick out another ring, identical to the one you sent. Send me the price of it...I'll send you the money, and you send it to her Air Mail, Special Delivery. I'll include the stamp money, too. Okay? Get into action on this, chum. Our pal deserves a better break than what she's getting. Not getting that ring you sent, just broke her heart. You know how she is. We took Beau to the doctors here, for a cold...but now they are jumping up and down with excitement...because they have discovered something about his mind that is quite unusual. They won't tell me what. They did ask me if he had any unusual powers of the mind...if he managed to do things with his mind children usually couldn't do...and I told them about his reading my mind constantly. They are beginning a series of tests on him June 15. Am glad you get pleasure from playing pool with a fine cue. Like a good horse, it will give you good service, if you take care of it. It's heavy...but that's good...like practicing with extra-heavy drum sticks...then when you swing into hot jazz, the lighter sticks seem to fly. And the heavy stick makes your stroke smoother. So Jimmy could talk at 2...so what? Put Jimmy and Beau together, and you'd see the difference! Whew! Beau has the strongest mind of any human being I have ever encountered...bar none. And he's brilliant. Buy the July Fate magazine...and look in the back in the "Personal" ads...and you'll see your dad's ad. The Si's have given me a way to start the Sota's. Love, Dad === Page 109 of 220 May 27, 1966 Dear Lonnie, How are you? We are just fine. I hope you are fine. I received the card & the candy. Thank you very much for the beautiful Mother's Day card & the candy. The candy was very delicious. Beau helped me eat it. Yes, I know about Julia & you two make a cute couple. The picture you sent to us was very good. You both make a handsome couple. He is a nice looking boy. You look very grown up in the picture & a lot older about 18 or 19 years old. My you are really growing fast. Pretty soon you will be taller than Mom (ha ha). Beau had an ear infection about 3 weeks ago. He had a fever. I took him to the doctor & I had to give him medicine & nose drops four times a day. He had a temperature of 102°. He is just fine now. I had a very nice Mother's Day. Beau gave me a very pretty card & we went to the circus. Beau had a ball. We went on lots of rides & we saw the side show, we didn't go to the big tent on Mother's Day. We went back the following Sat. to the big tent. Beau had big eyes trying to see everything. He was so excited. He === Page 110 of 220 remembered us being in there & doing the show. The circus was here May 5 till the 15th. He kept wanting to ride on the bus to the circus. He just loves the circus. He is beginning to say sentences now. He loves to watch Batman. He can't say the Bat in Batman so he says manman. He gets all excited when he comes on T.V. Was so sorry to hear about your aunt Mary dying. It was a shock to us. We have a singing canary. It sings very pretty. I named it twitty pie, it is yellow & very pretty. It doesn't sing to much now because it is molting. Beau teases it sometimes. Sorry to hear that you're not doing to well in school. Have you had your exams? Hope you & Rick pass. When is school out? Hope you get surf princess. Good luck to you. Write & let me know if you get it. Have they already voted or not? The weather is very nice here. It is really hot today. It has been raining a lot here & the weather just got nice & hot here recently. Before it was cold & raining here. I got an electric mixer for Mother's Day. It is real nice. I am so happy to have it. Well, I guess I will close for now. Love, Momma, Beau & Dad (XO XO XO) P.S. I took Beau to an Armed Forces Parade last Sat. It was the first parade he had ever been to. He waved at the soldiers as they went by. He was so excited. === Page 111 of 220 June 1, 1966 George Clark Central Intelligence Dear George: The SI's today gave me some interesting information to pass on. Seems that when they flew near some police cars, in a recent sighting...the stupid police actually fired guns at their craft. (This was not made public...and may even be kept a secret by the officers who committed this colossal blunder.) However, the SI's warn...if they approach in friendly fashion in the future...and are fired upon or attacked in an unfriendly manner...the police will be minus one police car and officers. The SI's will eliminate it, as a lesson to humans. That was pretty damn stupid, George, of those police to do that. P K Man (Owens) === Page 112 of 220 6/3/66 P1 Friday morning June 3, 1966 Dear Rick and Lornie Wednesday afternoon durned if Jack McKinney didn't call me up and ask me to appear on his "Night Talk" show that night, Wed. night. Remember I was on there for four hours, non-stop, last year? This, of course, gave me no chance to prepare material or anything. Last year I took a week to get ready for them. But to my great amazement...although a scientist sat at the table with Jack and myself...there was no attack on me. On the contrary, Jack even testified over the radio that all of the predictions I'd been sending in, had been true (I've been sending him copies, like yourselves.) The "PK Man" (how he addressed me throughout and advertised me late that afternoon) segment lasted until 12:30...2½ hours. They spent an hour letting people call up and talk to me over the "phone". Only one man called me a "good-natured phony"...all the rest of the calls said they believed me, and how they enjoyed hearing the program. And the one man who attacked me...was bawled out severely by another man who called up and said he "felt sorry" for the man who said "phony" because a person such as him couldn't understand what it is I am doing. The man who said I was a "phony" intimated I was sending in letters after things happened, not before. (Which is quite wrong, of course.) Anyway, it was lots of fun....and as usual, their telephone switchboard went absolutely crazy with the amount of calls. When we went off the air at 12:30 (program lasts until 2, and they had two more people to interview) telephone calls were still flooding the switchboard with people wanting to talk to me about the Si's. Now, the Si's would like you to do this: Both of you sit down, and write a long letter to Mr. Jack McKinney, "Night Talk", Radio Station WCAU, Philadelphia, Pa. Tell him in detail of our using PK in Phoenix, and on our long long trip (without telling him we were broke, ha ha). Tell him how we worked with the hurricanes in Myrtle Beach, etc. And ask him, if he tells the people about their report, to give me a call before so I can listen. (Send me a copy of your letter when you write him.) If you have a friend who has one of these "World radios" you could even hear the program. Must run now. Love always Dad P.S. They did an odd thing - Station WCAU did a complete re-play of the entire 2½ hours I did with Jack - when I got home was dialing radio for music (about 1:30) & durned if my === Page 113 of 220 Kids this explains the mysterious re-play! Govt. put me on Wed. instead on purpose! Read below. 6/3/66 P2 Friday morning June 3, 1966 Mr. Jack McKinney Dear Jack: The Si's came through with some very interesting intelligence as I was walking to work today. As you know, they had told me to tell the U.S. Govt. that they would ruin the Surveyor shot...and harass the Gemini 9 shot, as they have been doing. Well, the Surveyor took off...and lost an aerial...and the Si's were getting ready to ruin the gadget when suddenly P K Man their Representative, was called up and invited to talk about them, the Si's, over the radio. This had not been anticipated by the Si's. When P K Man went on the program, was given an opportunity to talk more about the Si's and their wishes, and P K Man was not badly treated...that is, was treated as a guest, not a man on trial, this pleased the Si's very much. Now Jack...recall last year when I was on your show...and the Si's made it rain exactly at the time I went on, and closed down the rain as I went off. Then the following week, on "Talk of Philadelphia" show...they made it rain because I'd been invited again to talk about them. And the rain stood for what they were willing to "pay" the United States in exchange for the U.S. Govt. fixing me up so that I could arrange to meet them. In other words, whenever I appeared on the radio, the Si's rewarded the town with rain...and this was at the time of deep drought, remember? When there just was no rain at all. So...the Si's told me this morning...they decided to allow the Surveyor to go on and land and function, just as they allowed the rain to fall last year, as a reward to the people of the U.S. for allowing their case to be further presented to the people. They wish that you would read this letter over the air, to the people, Jack. And it might be pointed out, as far as I am concerned, that one-half of my prediction was correct...that Gemini 9 was blocked Wednesday from taking off...harassed as usual. I am just sorry that I didn't know about the change of mind on the part of the Si's...but the radio program came on too sudden. One other point...the Si's salute NASA and its workers...because, although the U.S. people are not aware of it...NASA has far outdone Russia, in that NASA has had to make all these difficult shots, in the face of Si harassment and hostility. In other words, the Si's have caused practically all of NASA's troubles, but the people do not know it. Nor NASA. 08/07/2025 15:39 === Page 114 of 220 6/3/63 p3 Rick Lornie Friday June 3, 1966 Dear Jack McKinney: If you get a chance, please read this short letter some evening. It is an afterthought...two days after appearing on your program, and is a rebuttal to the gentleman who phoned in, asking if it was not "childish" of the Si's to kill two of our Astronauts (plane crash not too long ago) and harass NASA and the U.S. Govt., just for the sake of demonstrations of their powers. My rebuttal: Is it not true that we, the United States, have killed goodness knows how many innocent little babies, and their mothers...in Viet Nam...PURELY BY ACCIDENT, MIND YOU...in order to teach North Viet Nam and China a lesson? The U.S. has been giving tremendous bombing demonstrations for one main purpose...to show our muscles to N. Viet Nam and China. And this has resulted in our accidentally bombing and killing not only many innocent Vietnamese...but even many of our own boys...ACCIDENTALLY. Now, I put it to the gentleman who called; If the Si's are "childish" for killing two of our astronauts...what does that make us people, who have done far worse...and for the same reason, teaching a lesson. That would put our U.S. thinking somewhere BELOW childish, I believe. Tell the gentleman to think about it. I'm sure I'm right. Sincerely, P K Man (Owens) Love Dad === Page 115 of 220 Rick Saturday, June 4, 1966 Mr. Eastwood, Inventions N.A.S.A. Dear Mr. Eastwood: Been a lot of action since my daughter and I visited you, eh? At that time my "PK" work must have seemed amusing to you. However, by now, after sending you copies of predictions over a long period of time, you are now better able to evaluate properly the results of "PK". You must admit, the Si's have been busy. Below is a list of rockets, missiles, etc., fired up by NASA which were hit by "PK" and duly logged in my little black book, as the action took place on each, AND WHICH WERE THEN DESTROYED OR DISABLED WITH PK MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: Saturn Rocket Ranger 6 Titan 2 Titan 3 Orbiting Geophysical Observatory (OGO-A) Minuteman 1 Imp 2 Mariner 3 Minuteman 1 Tiros Weather Rocket Centaur Rocket Scout Rocket Titan 3A Space Glider on Thor Delta (Project Asset, above) Atlas-Centaur Rocket (Project Surveyor, above) "Snapshot" - Ion Engine Rocket Air Force Tracking Rocket, Star Gemini 5 - Hit by storm, fire, lightning & mechanical failure...but still managed to get up and down. O.S.O. Flying Laboratory, 8/25 X-19 Experimental Plane Thor-Agena Titan Rocket Agena Atlas Rocket Titan 3, w/4 Satellites aboard. Gemini 8 wrecked; Astronauts escaped, thank God. Gemini 8 Agena went wild; useless. === Page 116 of 220 6/4/66 P2 Page Two (Continued - Rockets Destroyed or Disabled) O.A.O. - Orbiting Astronomical Laboratory. Atlas-Centaur Rocket New Polaris Rocket, Cape. Explorer Satellite Rocket Saturn Moon Rocket Test Stage, Miss. (Note: After "testing" PK on the first two of this list, I then began writing the Cape and the State Department of what would happen...and also wrote them that lightning would hit the Cape, as well as hurricanes, as a result of PK work. Then lightning hit a lightning-proof pad at the Cape. Later, last July, lightning hit another pad, actually striking some workers And lightning hit very close to Gemini 5. As for my hurricane prediction...you know well Hurricane Cleo, Hurricane Dora, and Hurricane Isbell sideswiped Cape Kennedy. Hurricane Gladys missed, but just the same tore up the work at the Cape for a time, just from the threat of her. Hurricane Hilda bullseyed on the Michoud Space Complex. Hurricane Betsy bullseyed on Michoud Space Complex, and she bullseyed on NASA's Bahamas set-up. These five different hurricanes that hit NASA were guided by PK work. Then we have to add the destruction of The Space Eye, down near the Cape. One Russian spaceship was worked on by PK - the Voshkod Spaceship, and it was brought down exactly as I said it would be. Crashed in the woods. Add to this list further results of the PK - side-effects - which I do not like, but which happened: Dryden, Deputy Director of NASA, died. Lovelace, Chief of NASA, killed in crash. One Astronaut killed when a bird flew into his plane, and it crashed. Two Astronauts killed in another plane crash. General Branch of NASA killed in crash. ---------- Now, the following list are the "ones that got away" from PK, and were successful shots: McNamara's Minuteman from silo, Cape. Gemini from Cape, 1/'65. Explorer Satellite, 12/'64 Minuteman 2 from Cape, 12/'64 O.S.O., 1/2/65 2/17 Cape Rocket 08/07/2025 15:39 === Page 117 of 220 6/4/66 P3 Page Three (Continued - Successful Shots) 2/18 Cape Rocket Gemini 3 Ranger 9 Gemini 6-7 Polaris, new, Cape Surveyor Moon Rocket ---------- Now just compare the two lists. See the difference? Vandenberg shots were left clear by the Si's, so that the U.S. Govt. could be able to tell the difference between an area inundated with "PK"...and a free area. (Electra, the California coast, is PK'd, but it is a completely different type of PK than the Electro, or Florida coast.) I think the Si's have proved their point terrifically, don't you? Point is, the PK grows, as I explained to you when I met you. It grows as time goes by...gets stronger and more powerful. That is why the Si's cannot be ignored ad infinitum, as they have been in the past... or called "marsh gas" and dismissed with a flip of the hand. And of course, the point of all that destruction PK was not that it was done for meanness or orniriness...but TO PROVE THAT PK FORCES NOW EXIST AND CAN DEFEAT ANY OR ALL PARTS OF THE U.S. EFFORTS TO DO ANYTHING AT ALL. Also, TO PROVE THAT THE UFO'S ARE BEHIND IT, AND ARE DOING IT. Also, TO SHOW THE U.S. GOVT., BY THE DEMONSTRATIONS OF THESE TREMENDOUS POWERS, WHAT COULD BE DONE TO HELP THE U.S. GOVT. FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PK COIN. What is a dirty shame...a lowdown dirty shame...is that the people of the United States...the man on the street...cannot be told by the U.S. Government about this...that NASA has actually done a superb job, and the Cape workers, and the Astronauts, have done heroic work...trying in the face of this horrendous PK to succeed in space work...and in a few cases actually succeeding! It's much much later now, Mr. Eastwood...but I repeat, the PK is still growing in size and power on the Cape Kennedy area (Electro). And it can only be taken down, erased, removed, by the Si's. And I do their human talking for them, for better or for worse. Some day somebody had better talk to me. P K MAN (Owens) Owens Love, Dad === Page 118 of 220 Rick P.S. Kids - P.S. At bottom of page is exact replica of "Hurricane Map" I made three weeks ago...when I "planted" twenty "PK Hurricane seeds" in back of Cuba aimed at Cape K. in Florida as soon as they'll grow. I told you I was planting PK hurricane seeds. Dad. Wednesday June 8, 1966 Mr. Dunne, Chief Hurricane Center Weather Bureau Miami, Florida Dear Mr. Dunne: As I told you a month ago...watch out for the hurricanes coming up..."en garde." Alma is the first. Am trying to guide her up past Miami onto Cape Kennedy, then on up the coast to New York, for their rainfall needed badly there and to help the East Coast drought. (When I say "up past Miami, am taking her to the left of Miami...halfway between Naples and Miami. Am telling you this for an accuracy check later on.) See enclosed item. It is most regrettable that you didn't take me up on my proposition, couple of months ago. Am using that tall tall "moonship" thing that doesn't fly, that NASA hauled out laboriously several weeks ago...as the absolute bullseye center for my hurricane work this year, on the Cape K. P K Man (Owens) 1114 Spruce, #33 Philadelphia, Pa. CAPE ALMA CUBA Kids - send me copy your ltr. where I mentioned planting PK "cane seeds. Will return it. Important! 08/07/2025 15:39 === Page 119 of 220 6/8/66 P2 P.S. If you see an inevitable bullseye on Miami from Alma...remember my proposition. I am the only human alive who can take Alma off and away, leaving Florida safe. However, don't wait too long to contract my services...for there is a great difference in diverting a tiger while it's springing in mid-air...and diverting a tiger once it has its teeth in its victim. Then its too late. P K Man (Owens) === Page 120 of 220 Monday, June 13, 1966 Rick Lornie Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: The Si's did a bang-up job of handing the AF a smashing blow last week (as I warned they would.) Not only did they cause the destruction of over a half billion dollars in planes - but now it turns out the AF made the infinitely stupid booboo of allowing this to happen merely for a publicity stunt for a private company! So the other half of last week's smashing blow will be the after-reaction of the people and authorities toward this AF mistake. Now I will do the U.S. Govt. a good turn - and warn it to call off the fleet exercises ("Beach Time") involving 40 ships, in the Atlantic and Caribbean, June 13-26. Why? (1) You will remember I warned the Govt. last year, when it held fleet exercises off the Pacific coast. They went ahead - and shot a missile at a drone. The missile ignored the drone and bullseyed on a carrier plane up in the sky somewhere else, destroying plane and pilot. (There were other accidents there, too). (2) I have already warned that the Atlantic now is dangerous for ships, subs, planes - because the Si's are using our Atlantic area to correct our long long drought condition for us. (3) I have loaded the Caribbean area with PK to make hurricanes to bring up the East Coast. (Am working on other June Hurricanes.) (4) On June 5 I made a written prediction to Mr. and Mrs. Hansell, 29 S. Wyoming, Ardmore, Pa., that (1) Si's will bring about a nuclear sub catastrophe, or carrier catastrophe - i.e., a naval catastrophe, involving U.S. vessels, by September, 1966. (2) Si's will deal our "seat of government" (The White House, Capitol Hill) a serious blow, by Sept., 1966. (These two effects to further demonstrate their powers to humans, and to prove their much-ridiculed reality...marsh gas, etc. (5) Ship-sub-plane PK has been in effect, growing, for over a year now. (6) These vessels will be within the reach of deadly "Electro" - area PK'd from Miami to Jacksonville. Put this all together, and these ships will be holding exercises in very deadly danger! So, let the U.S. Govt. be warned in advance. Just remember Needles Military Exercises; U.S./Spain Military Exercises; N.C./S.C. Military Exercises - and what happened to them. In closing, the Si's have instructed me to tell the U.S. Govt. that they were the direct cause of the XB 70A & F 104 crash in the desert. They want it clearly understood...that this was part of their punishment for the Air Force...and no accident at all. P K Man (Owens) Owens 08/07/2025 15:39 === Page 121 of 220 Copy - Rick, Lorrie Keep this in your file, nuthead! This is priceless! Friday, June 17, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: The Si's are frustrated and thus irked, because I am not getting anywhere in an effort to meet them personally...they will not come into downtown Philadelphia, I know...and I cannot get isolated so they can come down without any interference from anyone. Therefore I predict all hell will break loose in the form of catastrophies in the near days and weeks ahead. The Lord only knows what they will think up...they are very ingenious. I wrote you last November about Him and Her, the President's dogs...and in the same letter told you how our dog got ran over and killed. You might be interested in looking at that letter, since the President's dog just got ran over...it's as if the Si's waited until the sense of that letter was accurate, then arranged for Him's accident, so the letter will be read at this time, again. "Him" Whatever happened to OGO, shot up from the Cape a while back? They were supposed to be communicating with it a week ago...but there's not been a word in the papers about it. Am setting up Philadelphia for some of the roughest, toughest storms Phila. has ever had. Am building up the electrical potential here for it. Should be an extraordinary amount of lightning striking all around, when it comes. THREE SO FAR Tornados tore up Topeka, Kansas, not long ago. Si's say...that could happen to the White House and Capitol Hill, just as easily. Si's say they are going to demonstrate with the oceans and seas now... make them reject and attack humans like a body rejects a strange live implant (liver, kidney, etc.) Si's say the seas and oceans have a form of intelligence, taken as a whole unit. They are turning them against humans, as a demonstration of one of their strange powers. Si's say the earliest peoples on earth used these "PK" systems...but as they invented hand tools and weapons, their PK power decreased...until finally the power was usually narrowed down to one person in a tribe, The Elder...until the power was lost entirely. (Up until now. I have it.) Thought you might be interested in all the phenomena that has occurred in our apartment on Spruce: Kids - Si's got your tongue? 08/07/2025 15:39 === Page 122 of 220 6/17/66 p2 The noise. A strange, weird, deep humming drone, seems about a foot or two away from us. Comes at odd times, lasts about 2-5 minutes, then goes away. Sometimes we do not hear it for weeks; then we'll hear it two or three times in a week. Never heard a noise like it. Things vanish. I put a pound of oleo in the ice-box one night. Got up in the morning and it was gone. My wife and I were baffled. My cigars have disappeared, without anyone touching them. I had a five and ten dollar bill disappear overnight (my wife didn't touch them.) And other odd things have vanished as well. My wife woke me one night and we both saw small UFO's in the room. Then, on several occasions, she saw a small light the size of a marble moving slowly around my head in the dark, after we'd gone to bed. My clothes are all falling apart. Shorts, shirts, pants...all are coming apart, holes forming. It has gotten funny. Practically every shirt, pants, and shorts I have is full of holes, suddenly. And these have nothing to do with moths. They aren't that type of hole, or tear. My clothes now rip and tear like soft paper. The baby keeps pointing at some "man" he sees, excitedly...but we don't see anybody...and the baby doesn't joke. "Man, man!" he cries, pointing. And of course there isn't any man there. I woke one morning about 3:30 and clouds of smoke or fog were filling the room...I could see them boiling up against faint light on the wall. I thought the place was on fire and called my wife, and we got up and frantically checked out in the hall, etc. But there wasn't any fire...and the "smoke" had vanished when we got back. Three different times the baby was waked up screaming in the middle of the night...and not more than 10 minutes afterward, each time...there is a tremendous explosion outside our windows. First the baby screams and wakes us up, then comes the explosion. One night I jammed the hall door open securely. When we got up, the jamming-object had been removed, and the door firmly closed and locked. We didn't do it. Also a heavy art-object had moved from a table to the floor. Martha and I both saw a pigeon on the roof opposite with what looked like a small radar-antennae on its neck...it was a collar, but not flat, the edges cupping outwards. Never saw anything like it. Am expecting a major earthquake in the near future in the U.S., in the shape of a huge "T" - with the top of the T running up and down California, and the bottom of the T running toward Colorado. 3 BIG QUAKES HIT CALIF. SINCE. Owene 08/07/2025 15:39 === Page 123 of 220 Rick Lornie Thursday June 23, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: The Si's at this time would like me to list the various PK activities they are engaged in, as well as the predictions they have made for what's ahead: "Electro" - the area from Jacksonville, Fla., to Miami, Fla., is heavily PK'd, as you know...has been for two years...and it's growing all the time, the PK. "Electra" - the California coast from Frisco to Dago, PK'd. Plane-Ship-Sub PK - been on for over a year, still growing, attacks these three categories constantly in ever-increasing cyclical intensity. Breaking The Drought - Si's are systematically regulating U.S. weather now to bring to an end the 5-year drought here and once again fill the rivers, streams, wells, lakes, with fresh water for us. Air Force - Si's are presently teaching the Air Force a lesson...that they can rebut in their own way their "marsh gas" tag; they have gone to great effort and trouble to prove their reality, only to have the Air Force block their efforts from the American people. So they are going to teach the Air Force not to do this thing. NASA - Si's are harassing all NASA's efforts in space work, in every possible way, with PK effects. Top U.S. Govt. Officials - PK'd. Prediction - A U.S. naval disaster by Sept., 1966. Nuclear sub, aircraft carrier, etc. Not just a collision, but a disaster of some sort. Prediction - Unless U.S. removes troops and personnel from Viet Nam, U.S. will suffer its worst defeat in its entire history there, from an unexpected twist that will take place. Could be a massacre of Americans. Hurricane PK - is out and working, to develop hurricanes for '66 and bring them either to Cape Kennedy or Mississippi Michoud Saturn Space Complex...then on up East Coast for needed rain. Titan w/8 satellites PK'd...now up. === Page 124 of 220 6/23/66 P2 2 Prediction - There is great danger for the U.S. now...of nuclear war... through January, 1967. That is, the danger is especially keen right now, more so than usual, due to activities the U.S. is not aware of. The Si's plan to do something very unusual...make an appearance and do something no UFO has done before, in the near future, to prove their reality to the U.S. Govt., and their connection with P K Man. Castro and Cuba - have been PK'd since 1964. Si's are PK'ing bodies of water...seas, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc... to reject humans and attack humans in many ways (as never done before) in order to further demonstrate their PK powers. Si's warn...if U.S. peoples keep shooting at their craft, and trying to attack their craft, they will reluctantly have to retaliate in kind. They have been trying hard to avoid anything like this. Si's warn us...watch carefully our 3 coasts...Atlantic, Pacific, Gulf, for great danger threatens the U.S. from the water on these coasts. Si's warned U.S. to cancel present Fleet exercise in Atlantic and Carribean called "Beach Time" because of heavy concentration of PK in these areas, etc. Si's warn that a man somewhere is planning a kamikaze-style small plane crash, loaded with explosives, into the White House or Johnson's Ranch House...and that because of this the White House and Capitol will have to be ringed with anti-aircraft by '67. "Earth Belt" PK - PK used by Si's in area above earth to affect objects in orbit around earth. Russian Earthquakes - PK has been out on this for over a year. Vehicle PK - Autos, trains, planes, busses, etc., will be affected. Klu Klux Klan PK - Hit by PK over a year ago. Johnson Administration Re-election PK - Si's will work against the present Administration, which has rejected them and failed to cooperate with them. "OGO" PK'd...now up. Titan w/8 satellites PK'd...now up. 08/07/2025 15:39 === Page 125 of 220 6/23/66 p3 3 June 23, 1966 Philadelphia PK'd for Lightning and Savage Storms and Rain, in the near future. Electrical potential to be built up here. WCAU PK Demonstration - Friendly Si demonstration for the benefit of their radio station friends. Jack McKinney PK - Not a "hit", but some unusual demonstration solely for the amusement and education of Jack McKinney re the Si's. A large-scale blow will be dealt by the Si's to the U.S. Govt. because of the nation-wide CBS hour-long TV UFO spoof, not long ago, "Friends, Foes, or Fantasy." This will happen by October 15, 1966. McNamara PK - The Si's have made McNamara a special PK target of theirs, for stating that there is absolutely nothing to the Si's ... to the American people via newspapers, etc. (If there is nothing to the UFO's, then McNamara has nothing to worry about, has he.) Johnson and White House PK'd - some time ago, and since then many odd things have happened there. Moyers fell down stairs, Him run over, etc. Stock Market PK'd. Prediction - Si's now have something much bigger and more important for P K Man to perform, than what he's been doing in the past. (?) Si's warn that the phrase "Black Power" is a sort of magical phrase which will now truly whip the negros into a frenzy - and Stokely Carmichael is the magician who can make that phrase work to its upmost extent in time to come. Si's warn they may put ideas for weapons and unknown tools of Nature into the minds of peoples elsewhere in the world, other than the U.S., who will then humble our country with them...unless our Govt. cooperates with Si's. Si's warn...they intend to deal our seat of Government, The White House, or Capitol Hill, a serious blow of some kind by Sept., 1966. - - - - - - - - - - I think that's the entire list...oh, they are PK'ing for a major earthquake in California some time this year, around 8 on the Richter Scale. All this...to show their various powers to our people...and try to persuade our Government to join them as friends, and cooperate with them. They are using pressure on our Govt., just as U.S. is pressuring Hanoi. PK Man - Dad 08/07/2025 15:39 === Page 126 of 220 Thursday June 23, 1966 Dear Lornie: Daddy thinks your birthday card is wonderful, honey...that's a very cute colored picture...and the artwork inside is very ingenious, also, along with your message. Thank you very much, Lornie. Of course...what else is a dollar for but an ice-cream party? So I am following your instructions, and the three of us will have one of these famous "Owens Cross-Country Ice Cream Binges" on you. Wasn't that funny...? All of us , poised and ready with our portable spoons...huddled all around in the car...with the ½ gallon of ice cream in the middle. Then I'd say go, and everybody went. Ha ha! Messy, messy, messy..... Hope your grades are okay, Lornie. And that you are enjoying your school. The Phila. schools are dangerous...full of drugs, dope addicts, prostitution (they've broken up several rings where the high school boys were selling the girls, here) and like that. So.....you are much better off in that school than you would be here. But we ain't going to be here long. We are GOING just as soon as .... we can bankroll the Leaving Philly Project. We are going to a beautiful, scenic, wooded place somewhere...where we can go fishing and camping on weekends, and things like that. Where's there's lakes and rivers, etc. Phooey on big cities. Phooey. Be good, and mind Pat, Lornie. Remember...mama knows best. And that's for sure. Don't get too big for your britches . Love and kisses, Daddy XXXXX ( ) ( ) ( ) === Page 127 of 220 You have this prediction in your files. Rick Lorne I sent Jack McKinney a ring to wear 2 days before this lightning attack so he wouldn't get hit! Dad. Thursday, June 29, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: Another bullseye. Remember my letter to you of June 17: "Am setting up Philadelphia for some of the roughest, toughest storms Philadelphia has ever had. Am building up the electrical potential for it. Should be an extraordinary amount of lightning striking all around, when it comes." Here are quotations straight out of today's Philadelphia newspapers (13 days after my "prediction"): "Violent electrical storms raked suburban Philadelphia and parts of New Jersey yesterday afternoon and last night. Heavy rain, hail, lightning, and high winds caused floods, power blackouts, fires, and tree damage." "Chester County received a double punch yesterday with a series of storms in the afternoon, and another sequence last night. The first storms bounced around the county beginning about 3 PM, lasting until 5 PM. Torrential rains flooded some areas and hailstones as big as marbles were reported." "Lightning played havoc with the fire signal board at West Whiteland Fire Co. in Exton and firemen were kept busy checking alarms as the board flashed false signals." "At 2:30 PM the storm concentrated in the western portion of the county and lightning touched off a $100,000.00 fire at the Parkesburg Dress Co." "In the afternoon storm a transformer caught fire at the Milprint, Inc., packaging manufacturing company in Downingtown. The fire was confined to the transformer, which apparently had been struck by lightning." "In New Jersey an estimated 14,000 homes and businesses were without electrical power for varying periods of time ranging from 30 minutes to five hours." "The Public Service Electric & Gas Co. called the storm "one of the most intensive electrical storms in recent years." "Hardest hit were Cherry Hill, Mt. Laurel, and Evesham townships, where Public Service said some 7,000 customers were without electrical service." "About 4,000 homes and businesses were affected in Burlington, Willingboro, and Beverly." "The five hour blackout was in Bellmawr. Other areas without power for almost as long were the Black Horse and White Horse communities of Somerdale * Bulletin, News, Inquirer 08/07/2025 15:39 === Page 128 of 220 Page Two 6-29-66 P2 and Magnolia." "In Brick Township, Ocean County, the storm caused flooding and power failures and one house fire." "The Ocean County police and fire radio system was knocked out by lightning. At least six homes were reported struck by lightning in nearby Point Pleasant." "A lightning bolt struck the main police antennae on top of the Seaside Park borough hall and blew out the police and fire department radios." (Note: As I pointed out on the July, 1965, Jack McKinney Show here in Phila., my favorite targets to which I assign lightning hits...are police station towers, fire station towers, radio and TV station towers.) "Lighting struck the home of Carl Belsatti of Willow Grove." "Firemen were called to St. Anne's Episcopal Church in Abington where lightning had struck and started a fire in the steeple." "About 900 homesin the Highland Park and Twin Oak sections of Levittown were without electricity for an hour after lightning struck a transformer near Heartwood road." "In Gloucester township a lightning bolt struck near the house of John Kemmler who was sitting on the patio with his wife. The bolt's shock temporarily paralyzed Kemmler's right arm, and stunned Mrs. Kemmler." "Another lightning bolt shattered a brick chimney at the home of D. D. Porterelli, Bellmawr." "Lightning started a fire in a wooded area near the Berlin, N.J. State Police Barracks." "Fire swept the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Olmstead, West Goshen Township, after a bolt of lightning struck a television set in the living room. The blaze completely destroyed the interior of the house and the furnishings." So, not only did I bring the lightning bolts onto Phila., as I said I would, but the tremendous action also attacked the nearby parts of N.J. adjoining Phila. Remember, George, lightning is my trademark. What was my prediction again? "Should be an extraordinary amount of lightning striking all around." Well, I'd like to hear Mr. Dunne rebut the results. They don't call me The Rainmaker for nothing. So, you have further proof added on to a mountain of proof, of the kind of power the Si's back me up with! P K Man (Owens) Owens 08/07/2025 15:39 === Page 129 of 220 Wed., June 29, 1966 Lornie Rick Please get copies of LA papers for yesterday and today...Tuesday and Wednesday...and send me all clippings pertaining to the California earthquake. THIS IS IMPORTANT. I predicted it, 11 days ago, in a letter to George (you have a copy, Nov. 17 ltr.) but way over here they just barely mentioned it as being the "worst earthquake California has had in 11 years." Nothing else ...that's all they said. And I need more on it for my file. Matter of fact...any time you see anything you know relates to my file, please send clippings on it. You can help Daddy that way. So...send me the clips, okay? Am very very busy on all sorts of PK projects right now. Especially hurricane work. Love, Dad Owens === Page 130 of 220 Rick - why not write Rex Anderson in San Gabriel? P.S. From July 1 to July 18 I'm laid off. Company shuts down each time this year. Two weeks, and nothing to do with it! July 1, 1966 Dear Lornie and Rick Got lucky today, got a little time, and access to a typewriter. Just in the long shot you might want to improve yourself, enclosed is the word-formula I worked up in Ft. Worth, and which worked like a miracle with my pupils there, combined with auto-hyp. You have to use auto-hyp first, close your eyes, tell yourself what you will read out loud will react on you with all the power of Nature... then open your eyes and read it to yourself out loud. Do this once a day, and zowie...watch your smoke! After you read it, don't forget to waken yourself and snap fingers. Just in case you've forgotten the routine. Be sure and send back what I ask you to send back, always. Here's my plan for the Sota Church. Church of Sota (Secrets of the Ages) Healing and New Life -The Science of the Soul- Start legal church in L.A., lawyers Neiman and Soroty. Find and develop Sota Masters...Master Healers...which I'll teach to use PK, and they'll become Church Heads. But there will be few. Each member of the Sota Church will be assigned to a Master...for their individual needs to be taken care of, and to progress. (My Ft. Worth work, etc.) SOTA LIBRARY - Books pertaining to our teachings and training. Also complete library on psychic phenomena, hypnosis, etc. SOTA HOSPITAL - Medical Doctors, Psychologists, and Sota Masters. THE SOTA SLEEP - under medical framework. If Sota member wishes to withdraw from the world temporarily, let them...to avoid a psychosis or suicide, and use Sota techs on them while they sleep. SOTA RESEARCH FOUNDATION - research on UFO's, parapsych, the soul, healing, etc. SOTA HAVEN - will take care of any pregnant mother, no questions asked, delivery of child, and find job afterward for her, plus way to take care of her baby. Complete follow up, no charges for anything. SOTA LODGE - Headquarters and Retreat for the few Masters...each having a small, individual, comfortable cottage. A woodsy place for creative work and thinking, and teaching. SOTA COLLEGE - Classes: Secrets of the Ages Super Memory Trachtenberg Math === Page 131 of 220 7/1/66 p2 Hyp and Auto-hyp techs. ESP techs and usages. Languages (Berlitz method.) Oil painting. Creative writing. Cooking Sewing Music Secretarial Skill: Typing, shorthand, spelling. (The Masters will each be taught individually. It will be a tedious job, and I'm the only one who can do it.) Each Master will be made a Dr. of Philosophy and Dr. of the Soul, and will be issued a special beautiful ring, Sota Ring made out of copper and precious stones. Each Member of the Sotas will be issued a Sota talisman, PK'd, for wear around the neck. There will be a special Lake...PK'd...like Lourdes...will work like Lourdes. There will be special rooms, PK'd for special effects. Remember the PK grows and grows and becomes more powerful...so the PK in the room will take effect on any who go into the room (like the curses on the old Egyptian tombs which took effect long long after all the people vanished, on the British and Americans who plundered the tombs...) except our PK will be constructive and useful, not destructive, in these rooms. And so on. Our motto will be: "And It Came To Pass." Because that's what PK work does...it comes to pass...earthquakes, hurricanes, lightning attacks, etc etc. Brenda Sue, Mrs. White in Ft. Worth...it came to pass that they lived, when they should have died, according to all medical rules. PK made the difference. In case you have forgotten, here are the names of the PK Angels: Lornie...Sahda Rick...Veroque (Ver-o-ka) Ted...Sonyn Martha...Treya Beau...Tranya Well, must bing off now. Be good little chilluns, and mind momma. You know, of all the people I have known, and know, there are only two, besides you two kids, who could qualify to become a Sota Master after PK teaching...Don something in Seattle, and Pat. But neither of them would want to...having their own lives to lead. It is going to be a problem to find a dedicated person, wanting to learn all the PK secrets, and being RIGHT for it. Amar wouldn't do, Lornie, she's too set in her ways. Love, Dad 08/07/2025 15:39 === Page 132 of 220 Will appreciate additional information, if available. Thanks. 7/1/66 S. B. EVANS 4407 INGERSOLL HOUSTON, TEXAS 77027 JOIN THE SOTA'S! Organized and directed by Saucer Intelligences, according to communications received: SOTA instructions may enable you to become a UFO contact! Send $10.00 cash or money order for beautiful UFO ring, bracelet or necklace, plus membership, etc.--H. Owens, 1114 Spruce, Philadelphia, Pa. === Page 133 of 220 Sat. July 2, 1966 Dear Rick: It was good to hear from you. You type very good. Am proud of you. Practice a lot. Enclosed is my ad in Fate. Soon will have two ads. It's slow, not much action. Just have 7 members thus far. Beau and Martha are fine. If you want to learn to play the guitar real good, then you will wind up playing the guitar real good. Nothing will stop you. And am sure you will make a record, if you keep at it. If I had the time to practice, and the money, I would go into pro pocket championship pool, Rick. I have a genius for it. But... dreary dull everyday plodding work, plus my PK work, rules it out, for now. I had a most wonderful Father's Day. Beau and Martha both gave me cards and presents...fine sport shirt, and new handkerchiefs. Martha worked for the money, to get it, bless her heart. Lornie sent me a dandy card she made herself, and a dollar for an ice-cream party for us...which we had on her. That was it. You will find a girl you like, honey. You will find many you like. As time goes on. There are millions of girls in the world, and there are thousands who would suit you fine...and you'll start clicking with them, finding them, as you go along. Be patient. Everything happens in good time. At one time, long ago, the girls I liked didn't like me, and vice versa...but as time went on things straightened out and I learned how to make the girls who didn't like me, like me. It was because they didn't know, or understand me, that they didn't like me. They got a wrong impression. I'd show them card tricks, read their palm or cards, etc., and after that we made friends. Some girls who don't like you, aren't worth making friends with. Some are. You have to learn to sort them out. You will. The woods of Pennsylvania are beautiful, I happen to know...but we haven't been out of downtown Phila. because we haven't a car, or money to go out. But things will change. Love, your pal.......... Dad 08/07/2025 15:39 === Page 134 of 220 Monday, June 13, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: The Si's did a bang-up job of handing the AF a (as I warned they would.) Not only did they ca of over a half billion dollars in planes - but AF made the infinitely stupid booboo of allowin for a publicity stunt for a private company! last week's smashing blow will be the after-rea authorities toward this AF mistake. A-Sub Nautilus, Carrier Collide In the Atlantic Norfolk, Va., Nov. 10--(AP)--The Navy said today that the nuclear-powered submarine Nautilus had collided with the aircraft carrier Essex while submerged in the Atlantic Ocean about 360 miles east of Morehead City, N. C. Naval authorities said the ac- SHIP SUB week rely and Now I will do the U.S. Govt. a good turn - and warn it to call off the fleet exercises ("Beach Time") involving 40 ships, in the Atlantic and Caribbean, June 13-26. Why? (1) You will remember I warned the Govt. last year, when it held fleet exercises off the Pacific coast. They went ahead - and shot a missile at a drone. The missile ignored the drone and bullseyed on a carrier plane up in the sky somewhere else, destroying plane and pilot. (There were other accidents there, too). (2) I have already warned that the Atlantic now is dangerous for ships, subs, planes - because the Si's are using our Atlantic area to correct our long long drought condition for us. (3) I have loaded the Caribbean area with PK to make hurricanes to bring up the East Coast. (Am working on other June Hurricanes.) (4) On June 5 I made a written prediction to Mr. and Mrs. Hansell, 29 S. Wyoming, Ardmore, Pa., that (1) Si's will bring about a nuclear sub catastrophe, or carrier catastrophe - i.e., a naval catastrophe, involving U.S. vessels, by September, 1966. (2) Si's will deal our "seat of government" (The White House, Capitol Hill) a serious blow, by Sept., 1966. (These two effects to further demonstrate their powers to humans, and to prove their much-ridiculed reality...marsh gas, etc. (5) Ship-sub-plane PK has been in effect, growing, for over a year now. (6) These vessels will be within the reach of deadly "Electro" - area PK'd from Miami to Jacksonville. Put this all together, and these ships will be holding exercises in very deadly danger! So, let the U.S. Govt. be warned in advance. Just remember Needles Military Exercises; U.S./Spain Military Exercises; N.C./S.C. Military Exercises - and what happened to them. === Page 135 of 220 In the Radar Plane with 19 Down at Sea NANTUCKET, Mass. (UPI) - An Air Force radar picket plane with a crew of 19 went down today in the Atlantic 125 miles east of this resort island. There was no immediate sign of survivors. They were wanted in connection with the discovery of dynamite at SNCC offices in North Philadelphia. Held in $1500 bail each for a hearing next Thursday on charges of possession of explosives. chute into the ocean, were en route from Goose Bay, Labrador. The Coast Guard officials said four-engine HC-130 planes were dispatched to the scene from Bermuda and Goose Bay. Govt. that in the desert. their punish- PLANE <-- === Page 136 of 220 SECOND PAGE GEORGE CLARK CIA 7/13/66 P2 May 23, 1966 This may interest you. The SI's have communicated they will use all their power to see that Johnson & Company lose everything at voting time...at the polls..if indeed they reach that point... because Johnson has rejected their friendly approach. Saw Sec. of Air Force Herald Brown on TV...I would sum him up as a sneaky, two-faced idiot. He and McNamara make a perfect pair. My God!! Where do we get these "top men?" In closing...the SI's warn...the recent stock market clobbering was no accident. You are referred to my letter of June 24, 1965..."unless the U.S. Govt. recognizes it (SI's) agent, P K Man, publicly, and helps P K Man...then Nature (SI's) will wreck and demolish the U.S. economy...will ruin the stock market. It will make the 1929 stock market crash seem like a picnic by comparison." That's what will happen ahead, George, if the SI's continue to be ridiculed and ignored. The U.S. Govt. has paid a terrible price already, by ignoring the SI's...should this stupidly continue? P K Man (Owens) Just remember .......... N.C./S.C. Military Exercises - and what happened to them. 08/07/2025 15:39 === Page 137 of 220 Rick Kids!! Thanks for those quakeclips. We did not get that info here!! Dad Lorne Monday, July 11, 1966 Mr. George Clark CIA Dear George: The St's warn...of an imminent major happening in Europe which will both shock and amaze the U.S. - and confront us with another major crisis to try and cope with. I warned you in my letters of Feb. 18, 1965, and July 17, 1965, that the Russians had some new weapons which we didn't know about that made them confident of having a big edge over us in case of war. Yesterday one of those weapons was exposed through the newspapers to the U.S. - a missile that can alter its direction. BUT I wrote the U.S. Govt. long ago that the Russ had this missile. I wrote you and told you that Russia had a missile that they could shoot, alter its direction, and bring around at us from a Latin American country...and then who could we pin the blame on. One of their other dandy new weapons they are secretly showing De Gaulle, etc., to persuade our allies it would be far better to switch alliances than to fight. Probably is why Wilson is being invited to Moscow. The U.S. is losing its friends - weak though they be - and the U.S. is slowly getting snookered. We haven't had a good idea in a carload for much too long a time. We've been butting heads with Russia, then with China and Asia - and now we're butting heads with our allies and neutrals. Our own country is butting its head against the wall in its spare time, being divided as it is with colored vs whites, anti-war demonstrators, etc. As I warned you some time ago, things will go from worse to worse to worser - unless the U.S. joins the UFO's. They alone can unravel the whole === Page 138 of 220 ...and that is exactly what happened...the East Coast "fireball" and Hurricane Alma mess and put things right. 7-11-66 P2 This letter should have gone to you yesterday...but due to no stamps, and no access to typewriter...had to be delayed a day. Good thing nothing really hot was on to warn about, with the exception of the European blowup ahead. The Si's have finally given me a definition for what I have been calling "PK" all this time. They say to tell you that "PK" means "Other Dimensional Effects", which means simply that they have been creating the phenomena from their own dimension to take effect in our dimension. Remember I told you the Si's were going to PK all vehicles? After that there was the terrible ship strike that paralyzed England's shipping; the great hassle over "unsafe" new cars that sort of bent the auto business and almost unhinged the stock market; last week's auto strike; and the present airplane strike...its biggest in history. All vehicles. Plus yea many ship collisions, burnings; auto accidents; plane wrecks; train derailments; etc. The Si's are near this area, and are about to make a move that will bring them to public notice again, just in case people are forgetting them. Something startling. They are getting restless because I am not getting anywhere with the U.S. Government. That bodes ill for the U.S. Govt., I know from experience. I direct your attention to my letter of Oct. 24, 1964...the idea therein is still a good one. Incidentaly...another hit. My ltr. to you of January 23, 1965: "I am, therefore, concentrating more deadly PK on Castro...am amazed nothing has happened to him...he is the only one I can remember to resist the PK effects, unless they have a double who has taken his place." Phila. Inquirer, 6/20/66 08/07/2025 15 === Page 139 of 220 7/11/66 p3 Monday, July 11, 1966 2 Mr. George Clark "CASTRO REPORTED SICK IN EUROPE" - "Miami, Fla. June 20 (AP)-An American anti-Castro organization said Monday that it has been informed from inside Cuba that Fidel Castro is undergoing medical treatment in the Soviet Union or Czechoslovakia and that a double is taking his place in Havana...the committee said that Castro had undergone electroshock mental treatments for three weeks in Havana. Bethel, executive secretary of the committee, said Castro has used doubles more than once in the past several years." So, George, it seems that perhaps my PK did get to the target...and my hunch was certainly rought about Castro using a double. When I "hit" Castro with PK, I glued a magnet onto his face, on a picture, and combined it with my usual PK practice. It is interesting that his trouble is mental. The magnet is still there. You know, after all of my success in predictions...the U.S. Govt. should be beating down my door to utilize my services in this capacity alone. DO YOU REALIZE....what I have accomplished these past several months? (1) Predicted A UFO would fly over Philadelphia and be seen by all within === Page 140 of 220 YOU REALIZE..........what I have accomplished these past several months: 1) Predicted A UFO would fly over Philadelphia and be seen by all within a few days...and that is exactly what happened...the East Coast "fireball". (2) Predicted an early hurricane, within a few days...and Hurricane Alma appeared in six days. (3) Predicted big earthquake in California in the "near future"...and they then had the strongest quake in eleven years within two weeks, plus two other big quakes on top of it. (4) Predicted that Philadelphia would be attacked by violent lightning attacks "in the near future"...and it has had three such storms shortly afterward. (5) Predicted the Commies would launch an "imminent" attack on our fleet at Viet Nam. It was imminent. They struck with torpedo boats within two days after my warning. (And that was just the prelude to the symphony.) In other words...my information has been such that I feel quite safe in saying no other human being in this world could have duplicated it...and no intelligence service of this or any other government could have duplicated it. Consider the variety of the predictions. Why is why I think the U.S. Government must have some wheels missing...not to utilize my services. P K Man (Owens) Owens === Page 141 of 220 Lorne Rick (This does not apply to you two.) Date: 7/19/66 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: The Si's have decided that (1) The U.S. Govt. is not cooperating with them, and (2) Their representative, P K Man, has not been treated so well. (Was called a "psycho" yesterday on a radio show, over the air; cannot get written confirmation of wonderful predictions of major events made beforehand; cannot get financial help from any source to meet the Si's wishes, etc.) Therefore, say the Si's, the time is over for little miracles...like telling the U.S. Government of a Red attack on warships two days before the attack came; calling earthquakes and hurricanes before they happen, etc. Obviously, they tell me, something must be done on a larger scale to convince those who insult me, and do not cooperate with me. They are going to cause a series of smashing blows, catastrophes, the entire length and breadth of the U.S., and this will be done in the form of a huge "X". See crude drawing below. To further prove this is all real, and that I am speaking for them...they will make "public appearances" in various places (good enough to make the newspapers) as a signature of their own, to this document. They will undertake this action beginning September 1, 1966, if P K Man has not been given cooperation by that time as per the Si's wishes, and signed confirmations have not been given him. P K Man Owens ---------- P.S. THIS IS IMPORTANT. A year ago Zachow, a scientist, told me I was wasting my time and money...that the U.S. Govt. was deaf, dumb and blind to my work. Then I didn't believe him. Now I do. I have proven my connection with the Si's; made astounding predictions ahead of time; and so on. Yet I have not been approached by the Govt.; have not been helped; have not been encouraged - have, in fact, worked in a vacuum under great hardships the while. So now...I quit. I have yet to notify the Si's, and do not know how they will feel. But from now on the Govt. will not know what the Si's are up to...will not know when the Reds are going to strike at our warships, or put more planes into the air against us. Everything from now on will come as a complete surprise to the U.S. Govt. without a P K Man advance tipoff, good or bad. And I guess that's the way the Govt. wants it. So long, you silent people out there...... 08/07/2025 16:02 === Page 142 of 220 August 2, 1966, Tuesday P.S. About the only really safe place to be - considering drought, negro riots, polluted air, polluted water, enemy attacks on our 3 coasts - is high north country, near Canada, mid - U.S. Dear Lornie: Thank you very much for writing the letter. I thought perhaps you'd entered a monastery somewhere and wouldn't be out again for ten years. You are right not to worry about your grades. Just do the best you can do, when going to school, learn all that you can...especially the things you are interested in...remember that lots of the teachers are stupid, neurotic wrecks, and they do play favorites...and if your grades are low, then you have the best attitude about it. If you're not figuring on being a nuclear physicist (that dam word I always spell wrong) or like that...then why worry? Just be sure and get your diploma, then toddle off to the Beauty School with the $600 you've saved out of your weekly allowance, and all is well. Why, just think of those heads of hair you can run your fingers through and tie in knots, if they fuss at you. When I think of all the chaos and carnage you can commit on the heads of innocent citizens...why, the scope is limitless! (ha ha - it's a joke.) Actually, in all seriousness, I should think you would be a Champion Hair Dresser, Beautician, or whatever they call it. You are creative...you have quick little hands...and you are very intelligent. So you will do fine. However, let's don't cross any bridges. By the time you get out of High School you just might decide to be a Fireman, or run for Governor, or something like that. Teenagers are notoriously fickle about deciding what they are really going to do. I just hope you don't get out of H.S. then decide what you really want to do is go to college! So, Rick got a surfboard. All he needs now is a loaded .45 automatic. Yes, you had ought to write Martha personal letters, addressed to her. I know she will answer them. Glad you saw "Mice and Men." You see my point, then. What on earth will you do without a phone? You'll get constipation of the conversation, kid. If you get too frustrated...get one of these toy phones in the dime store and sit in your room and make up phone calls to your girl friends and talk away. That's what Beau does. Have you ever taken all my "George" copies and put them in date order in folders, and read them? If not, why not? Your dad has done something no other human being has done since the time of Moses! I have been literally doing miracles! And you two numbnoses do not even seem to realize it. Two other top govt. agencies besides NASA and CIA have recently spent hours with me, going over my material. I can tell you, one of them is not really govt., although made up of top govt. men...NICAP, described in the back of the flying saucer book I sent you to read. The other agency I won't name...but if you put the initials together, you're hissing. One thing for sure...they weren't impressed by our tiny apartment! If you can, get away from the coast. The U.S. coastal areas are going to be destroyed...devastated...one of these days. Love - Dad === Page 143 of 220 Tuesday, August 2, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: The Si's have an important message for the U.S. Govt., but nobody now to give it to...since I have cut out contacting CIA, NASA, etc. They have given me much information the past few days, which I won't pass on until the Govt. cooperates with me, or does something constructive. However, this much I had better pass on, to NICAP. The Si's have monitored the Russ "fishing boat" activities on our coasts, and they warn the U.S. of GREAT DANGER. The Russ have, under the pretense of having fishing vessels present on our coastal waters...dropped a weapon down into the waters which we do not have. This is a remote-controlled nuclear device which, when activated, will travel up and out of the water like a Polaris missile out onto our land areas and explode...thus our radar and defense warning set-up will have no warning, since these do not rise high into the air, then come down. The Russ idea is, when they attack, for these special devices to wipe out our three coasts...East, West, and Southern. The Si's say the Russ build these contraptions into a fishing vessel, sail the vessel to our shores, sink the vessel...at which time a mechanism separates the bomb and launcher from the rest of the vessel. The device under the water is hard to see because the Russ camouflage the top of it in a dark, scalloped design. PK Man (Owens) PK Man (Owens) === Page 144 of 220 8/2/66 P2 P.S. The Si's point out that this coastal attack method, plus the Trojan Horse method of planting portable nuclear devices in all of our major cities...would eliminate the necessity for missiles fired from Russia and give us no warning whatsoever. What the Si's recommend: Advertise once a month, in all newspapers over the land, that any enemy agent...foreign agent...who will call the following phone number -- and give any information whatever to the U.S. Govt. relating to enemy attack upon the U.S., i.e. which threatens the security of the U.S. - such as telling the U.S. Govt. of any nuclear devices which might be set up in our cities, or secret bacteriological devices, etc. will get the following reward: $25,000 a year for the rest of your life and complete safety and security, plus a home, for yourself and family. And spell it out and make it simple so he or she will understand: If you, Agent of some other country, show us anything, or prove to us, that there is anything in or near our country which might be a threat...you get this wonderful reward. (Or just offer a flat million dollars...but I think the yearly amount would make more sense, for a family man.) The Si's stress this should be done at once, as they happen to know of some weak agents who might just walk in and tell the U.S. Govt. what, when, and where. As for the Speck killing, and the Whitman killing...I can tell you right now the close proximity of UFO's will have a magnetic effect on the minds of humans...and since UFO's were seen not too long ago in the Austin area, I do believe this is what happened. Their nearness changed Whitman's mind, electrically. Something to think about. P K Man (Owens) === Page 145 of 220 Wednesday, August 3, 1966 Mr. George Clark, CIA Dear George: Another great prediction has come to pass! And this one makes you blink! My letter to you of July 11, 1966: "The Si's are near this area, and are about to make a move that will bring them to public notice again, just in case people are forgetting them. Something startling. They are getting restless because I am not getting anywhere with the U. S. Government. That bodes ill for the U.S. Govt., I know from experience." If you read your newspapers today...you read where a UFO landed in front of a group of people in Erie, Pennsylvania, last night...and a creature six feet tall, with head and shoulders but just a blob from there on down...moved to within five feet of the group, in plain sight! To top it off, it left a claw print (picture of it in the newspaper). The group was scared out of their wits, and the girl who tried to describe the creature was hysterical with fear. Makes you think, George. I'm sure this isn't a figment of my imagination. P K Man (Owens) $Θ$ $ℇ$ This UFO creature walked into Lake Erie! Leaving clear tracks. 08/07/2025 16:02 === Page 146 of 220 Monday, August 8, 1966 Dear Lornie and Rick: I hope you are both well and happy. Had a visit not long ago from some Secret Service men. Friendly visit, in answer to my letters to the President. They were very much interested in some ideas I had sent. Also, am now being evaluated and analyzed (my work with the Si's is, that is) by a group of General Electric scientists. They think so highly of my work that they just gave me a signed confirmation on a number of my predictions-before-the-events...and they just made me a present of a glistening, brand new Czech portable typewriter of my own. I have had one 3-hour session with them, and one 4½ hour session with them...everything taken down on tape recorder. And these are for-real SCIENTISTS. They say they know I am getting results, but they don't understand how...and they want to help me, scientifically. Am having an awful time at work. Some psychotic woman, the sister of the brothers who own the business...rides me, every day, sadistically. Follows me around calling me jerk and dope, and asking me why I do not make it rain inside the office. She's nuttier than a fruit cake, but mean-nutty. I would quit in a minute to get away from her, if there was anything else to go to. But there isn't in this hell-town. And no way to get out of the town. I told you this Company fined me $55.00 for missing one day to be on the radio. It has put Martha and I behind about six weeks in paying bills, etc., and we hardly eat right, what with the two-week layoff they gave everybody without pay...with no warning. Well, enough sunshine and light. Write once every Christmas and tell me what's going on. Love and Kisses, Dad 08/07/2025 16:02 === Page 147 of 220 Copy - Pat + Kids Sunday, August 21, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swakk, C.S.C.A.R. I called you yesterday afternoon at 2:30, but you were not there, so I left the following message for you with the girl there...whom I took to be your secretary: I told you last week that the Si's were going to do their best to destroy Luob's (Lunar Orbiter I) mission of taking pics of the moon. I sent you the crude map of what the Si's revealed to me of their ODE methods of attack on Luob. The Si's were successful in causing a malfunction in Luob the day it was to go up...but it was caught in time (seven minutes to blastoff) and the shoot was postponed while they fixed it. Once up, the Si's managed to keep Luob from seeing Canopus. So NASA improvised and put Luob's eye on the Moon, instead of Canopus. So the Si's dropped that method attack (and then Luob could see Canopus) and decided to go after the camera in Luob. The Si's thought there was one camera, and so did I. So they blocked the main camera, the high-resolution camera...which success of the mission depended on. But then yesterday I read that there were two cameras...and NASA would try to use the secondary medium-resolution camera. The Si's immediately directed me to a public phone, to call you and tell you they would now go after the other camera, to block it off...and thus stop the Luob mission in its tracks. Today I don't know if they have accomplished it or not, but their word has been true-blue thus far in every respect. Please refer to my letter to you of August 9: "The Si's...will hit Luob with ODE power-force to force it into a wrong climb or orbit." Now let me quote the local newspaper Thursday, 8/18: "Experts said there were unexplained changes in the spacecraft's orbit of the moon..." "All we can say pending detailed studies is that something is influencing the orbit we can't explain," scientist Edmund Brummer, of NASA, said yesterday. (8/17)" Did I, or did I not, call that correctly? Now I direct your attention to my same letter to you: "The Si's will hit Luob with ODE lasers, causing the metals inside to crystallize and break at the wrong time, etc." Now I quote from Friday's local paper: "Something apparently happened to the camera's high resolution system after the first frame was taken." In other words, the first frame took a good picture...then the camera broke. Following pictures were a mess. Now, I told you over the phone that the Si's were going to use a "sponge" ODE technique, to block and confuse communication signals to and from earth to Luob. I quote the Friday N.Y. Times: "The only problems that have been encountered so far appeared to be minor - a faulty transistor in an electric power system and some strange fluctuations in the communications signal." "Some interference in ground transmission, they concluded had accounted for the poor quality of the initial reproductions over television. (Let me point out that the only good picture was received in Spain...the Si's and I didn't know Spain was even in it...but Pasadena, Houston, and Cape K. sure as shooting didn't receive anything worth printing...which was what I told you beforehand would happen! In the same N.Y. Times article: "With its sharpest camera eye mysteriously dimmed, Luob appeared today to be unable to complete successfully its primary mission of taking detailed pictures of potential astronaut landing spots on the moon." Thus, it would seem as of this writing, the Si's have triumphed once again. === Page 148 of 220 8/21/66 p2 Now, Rowland, let's analyze a little. The following are quotes from newspaper articles: "The countdown progressed smoothly Tuesday when suddenly the blockhouse began receiving unintelligible signals from a system..." "As it sped through space, experts at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory here (Pasadena) ordered Orbiter several times to roll and try to locate its programmed reference point, the bright star Canopus. It failed to do so, for reasons not at once learned." "We're not sure what's wrong yet (Friday)" said Jim Martin, Jr., assistant Luob Project Director, "but we found there's a lot of noise in the sensor's electronic system that seems to block out the Canopus signal." "Puzzling Moon Photos a Fluke?... Space scientists were puzzled today over a "marked" difference in the quality of pictures taken... by Luob." "Experts said there were unexplained changes in the spacecraft's orbit of the moon.." "All we can say pending detailed studies is that something is influencing the orbit we can't explain," scientist Edmund Brummer of NASA said yesterday." "Something apparently happened to the camera's high resolution system after the first frame was taken, officials said." So you can see, Rowland, that in conjunction with Luob's flight... there have been a lot of "mysterious"... "puzzling"... "something is influencing the orbit"... something apparently happened to the camera... unintelligible, unexplainable noises interfering with the flight. You're a scientist, Rowland... are you satisfied that something seems to have been at work on Luob, other than NASA's signals from the ground? One thing is for sure... NASA knows it. Now, I refer you to your letter of July 19, where you ask me: "Your July 11 letter indicated the Si's are in the local area and will do something startling. Is there any way that we (you) could get more details on what and when this might be?" As you know by now it happened at Erie, Pa., August 1, when a Si craft landed near a car and people... a creature emerged from the craft, moved to within five feet of the people, then walked into the water out of sight, away from its craft. As far as I know, this has never been done before by Si's in front of people. I have sent to Erie for the write-ups on this, Rowland, and will send them to you this coming week. Thus my prediction was on the nose, right? I couldn't give you any more details because the Si's didn't tell me anything else other than what I gave you. From my file you've copied, see my letter to Mr. Dun, of April 20, 1966: "Therefore, speaking for my UFO friends and their PK power... en garde." Now I quote from a newspaper clipping, August 6: "Hurricane Forecaster Victim of Hitch-Hikers. Miami... The Chief Hurricane Forecaster here, Gordon Dun, was robbed of $25 today by three hitch-hikers who took his car and left him bound with his own clothing in a cemetery. Dun, 61, freed himself, went to a nearby house, where the resident happened to be up at 3 AM practicing his trombone, and called police." En garde, I told him. He wasn't paying attention. I wrote to Kris Kraft, of NASA, also, not long before he had a gun pointed at his head and the trigger pulled, on a plane. The gun didn't go off... and the hitch-hikers didn't harm Dun. === Page 149 of 220 8/21/66 P3 Now let's take up my (Si) control over the world's weather. See my letter to you of July 23, 1966: "Today am going to signal the Si's to activate the four positioned craft (which I call the "Emmy Emma" setup) around the globe. This will cause severe storms, quakes, volcano eruptions, and weather aberrations all over the world in the days and weeks ahead." (I also predicted a hurricane just ahead...which happened...Hurricane Dorothy.) Now, let's see from the paper clips which I have what happened to the world's weather, after that. (Also recall that I phoned you and told you, some time in August, that in order to keep the weather-demonstration going I was activating this Emmy-Emma setup again...and the Si's seemed to do it in a stronger manner than ever before. Remember?) Prediction on July 23. July 24..."Dorothy, the busy season's fourth tropical storm, whipped herself into a hurricane in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean Sunday while another storm, Ella, popped up in the warm tropical Atlantic." July 26..."Planes from the 7th Fleet carrier Oriskany were limited up to nine missions because of Typhoon Ora's presence in the Tonkin Gulf." July 30..."98 Deaths Reported After Rains in Korea...Floods have left 144,000 homeless..." July 31..."Tornadic Winds Strike Aberdeen, South Dakota." July 31..."Village Flooded in Switzerland." (Oddly, this was done because the gate of a tunnel to a hydroelectric dam was opened by accident.) August 3..."Czech Flood Toll is 4. Last week's floods in Czechoslovakia inundated 148,000 acres and caused $35 million in damages." August 3..."Quake Jolts Wide Area of West Pakistan. An earthquake rocked 2,300 square miles of West Pakistan yesterday, damaging the homes of an estimated 10,000 persons." July 28..."Quake In Yugoslavia." July 28..."Storms Plague Tourists in Italy. Violent wind and rainstorms, rare in July, struck Italy on Thursday, flooding streets, damaging beach resorts and triggering landslides. High waves smashed beach resorts around Naples, carrying wrecked cabins out to sea. Storms swept the whole Sorrentine peninsula south of Naples. Severe rainstorms also swept Piedmont and much of the Venice area in North Italy. Hundreds of cars were stalled along the coastal highway in blinding rain." August 1..."18,000 Flee Taal Area. Manila...The Manila Weather Bureau warned that the volcano, Taal, appeared to be building up to a devastating explosion that could unleash strong earthquakes...flash floods were reported sweeping most sections of the Volcano Island Monday." August 2..."The deadly Taal Volcano belched showers of ashes and quivered with periodic tremors Tuesday while thousands of refugees streamed into government evacuation centers to escape its wrath." August 2...Chamonix, France..."Rescue workers combing the blizzard swept slopes of Mont Blanc found the bodies of four more amateur alpinists on Sunday, boosting to eight the death toll of holiday climbers during a week of freakish weather....blinding snowstorms, etc." August 12...Quakes Rock Capitals of 2 Soviet Provinces. Earthquakes struck two Soviet capitals today." August 13..."Residents Flee Flood in Central Nebraska. Flood waters churned down normally placid streams in the Loup Valley of Central Nebraska, west of Omaha, today following rains of a foot or more. Governor Frank Morrison made an aerial inspection of the area." August 15..."Quake, Rain Kill 15 In India's Capital. An earthquake and torrential monsoon rain struck India's capital today..." August 16..."Japan Floods Kill 19. Torrential rains causing floods and landslides...etc." 08/07/2025 16:12 === Page 150 of 220 8/21/66 p 4 August 16..."Storms Rake Italy. Violent storms today broke a heat wave in northern Italy. Rain, lightning and gale force winds damaged power lines and knocked out communications between cities in the north and Rome most of the day." August 16..."Two more sharp earthquakes struck the Soviet Asian city of Tashkent today. Later the city received mild shock waves from a third quake which reportedly was centered in Afghanistan." August 16...Tropical Storm Connie, which had threatened to belt Hawaii with its first hurricane in seven years, wilted yesterday into a gale-force disturbance. The U.S. Weather Bureau said residents of the Hilo, Hawaii, area could expect winds of 35 miles an hour accompanied by heavy rains late today." August 17...Jakarta, Indonesia..."Volcano Erupts. The volcano Mt. Awu has erupted. It said the explosion hurled ashes 3,000 feet in the air, etc." August 18..."Quake Shakes Southwest. Phoenix...A fairly strong earthquake jarred parts of Northwest Mexico, Southern California and Arizona...the quake had a magnitude of 5.6 on the Richter scale." August 18...Italy.."Rain-swollen Alpine rivers burst over their banks in this northeastern Italian region yesterday, flooding key highways and threatening several towns. Steady rain continued throughout northern Italy following violent storms that accounted for at least 40 deaths over the long mid-August holiday weekend." August 18...Moscow..."Torrential rains drenching Russia's border with Communist China for the last week have left at least 2000 families homeless, etc." August 18..."Strong Quake Noted Off Coast of Mexico. A "very strong" earthquake somewhere off the coast of Mexico was recorded today at the Fordham University observatory, etc." August 18...Milan..."Lightning, hail storms and high winds have battered parts of northern Italy for the third day, raising the death toll to at least 12 persons - six of whom have been struck by lightning." August 18...Vienna...Thousands Stranded by Austrian Floods. Floods and landslides in western Austria today left thousands of tourists stranded in numerous summer resorts. A state of emergency was proclaimed in Lienz, capital of the province, police said. Lienz was unreachable, with all roads and railroad lines blocked by landslides and floods." Another clip..."Five Austrians have died in disastrous floods that struck Alpine southern Austria yesterday. Thousands of German tourists were stranded in eastern Tyrol, which was isolated by the waters rise. Mountain rivulets turned into destructive whirlpools overnight, tearing away bridges and submerging villages and whole valleys, etc." August 19..."1,000 Feared Dead As Turkish Quake Hits Mountain Area. Istanbul..More than 500 persons perished Friday in a widely destructive earthquake in eastern Turkey...etc." August 20...Japan..Earthquakes shook towns and cities in eastern and central Hokkaido today, etc." All right, Rowland...since all the above action was not happening before, but did occur after, my prediction re Emmy-Emma...I rest my case on the Si powers with their "Emmy Emma" control. === Page 151 of 220 8/21/66 p5 Let us go on apiece. As you know, I told you weeks ago to get rid of your stocks, because the Si's were going to punish the American economy by attacking the Stock Market...in their own ODE way. August 20..."Stocks Suffer Declines In Every Day of Week. The bears had the action all to themselves last week in the stock market, as the list took its worst plunge in more than four years. On every single day, from Monday to Friday, losses were chalked up. Etc." As you can see, Rowland, some of my predictions hit almost immediately... then even go ahead and extend themselves in time forward. Oh, in reference to the Emmy-Emma section of this letter, see my letter to you of July 24: "Remember I predicted last week my "Emmy Emma" technique, signalling the 4 Si's positioned around the world, to change the world's timing and cause storms, quakes, hurricanes, etc? Well, today we got one fat hurricane and another cane in the making...Dorothy and Ella. You see how I can call the shots? Lord only knows what other violent weather aberrations will take place the next few days." Yes, the next few days, and next few weeks.... ---------- See my letter in your file to George, dated July 7, 1966: "Also the Reds are planning a massive air-strike, with the aid of the Russ and Chinese, against saigon and other key military points...to take control of the air away from us. Etc." Since writing that prediction, the Migs have come up and filled the air...attacking our planes...also here is a newspaper clip from the Inquirer, August 16: "Entire Squadron of F-105's Downed In Month. Saigon.."North Vietnamese anti-aircraft defenses have wiped out the equivalent of an entire squadron of 25 U. S. Air Force Thunderchief jet bombers in the last month...Reliable sources said the squadron of 25 planes was shot out of the skies in recent weeks in ones and twos as the North Vietnamese stepped up their defenses against American attacks." Well, Rowland, we'd never lost a squadron of bombers in a month before my prediction. I let that case stand. ---------- Now, see my letter to you of August 13, 1966: "Furthermore, they will sign their signature to this...by making another startling public appearance, as they did recently at Erie. This appearance...will confirm again that they are indeed bringing all this about, and I am their Representative." Now I quote newsclip, August 19, Pittsburgh: "Hundreds Scared By Bright Meteor. A meteor so bright that it cast shadows flashed through the sky over western Pennsylvania and Ohio early on Friday, frightening hundreds of persons. Spokesmen at the Allegheny Observatory and the Buhl Planetarium in Pittsburgh said the meteor was of a brightness measured at minus-six magnitude, "the brightest possible." "It lit up the area like a flashbulb," the spokesman said. Etc." This was no meteor, in my opinion, Rowland. It was the Si's with their signal, in answer to the letter to you. ---------- Now a few notes from the past few days. Last night I was astounded when === Page 152 of 220 8/21/66 p6 while turning the knob on the TV...to dial in a football game, pro, on Channel 9...Bears against Redskins. Only thing is, we've never been able to get anything on Channel 9. Our channels are 3, 6, 10, 12, 17, 29, 48. Then I got another surprise...there was a movie on Channel 5, and yet another program on Channel 4. We can't get those channels. As a scientist...and especially in this sort of thing...how could this happen? Furthermore, Fridaynight, while Martha and I were watching TV...suddenly two antennae with protuberances on their end, appeared at the edge of the TV screen, either inside the set or superimposed on the screen somehow. They were animated, as are the antennae on an insect...moving around as if they were on some unseen head. They extended some 3-4 inches long - couldn't have been any insect. We watched them for a few minutes, then they moved out of sight. Thursday, August 18, three of the four people who work in my office group, were out sick. This was one hell of a coincidence. Even the boss, Cotzen, was out sick...and he was out Friday and Saturday, too. Also on Thursday Martha smelled a bad odor in our apartment that made her sick...and at the same time the odor appeared, our canary bird, Tweety Pie, dropped dead in his cage. Si's have told me that, now that I am oriented toward them, I can see and realize their patterns...where other humans cannot. Look, if your Group is in financial trouble, why not let me help? Let the Group furnish me with $1000 (they could borrow it) and I will rent a small office and teach Autohyp, and pay the Group back double in a year. A 100% return on a small investment. My job ends next Friday, and would be an excellent time to do this. If the Group would loan me $3000, I will return it back double, over a period of 3 years ($2000 a year returned) or make them full partners on the Autohyp operation plus my book returns (because it would enable me to have the time to write the book.) Sincerely, P K Man (Owens) Owens === Page 153 of 220 Thursday, August 25, 1966 Dear Lornie: Thank you very much for the two dandy cigars. They gave me several hours of pleasure. Honey, I don't know what you are talking about when you mention my being sued by a radio station. I haven't been. If anybody did sue me, what could they possibly get? Mebbe an empty bird cage. How did you like my producing Hurricane Faith in just four days? (See my letter to you of last week...Friday.) Those men weren't "detectives", Lornie. They are Secret Service men. I had written President Johnson that I had a bright idea for him to use, re his popularity improvement with the people...and these two S.S. men came up to ask what it is. The idea, briefly, is for Johnson to appear on TV with Bob Hope, Groucho Marx, etc., and get some laughs...and some empathy with the U.S. people. He's too grim and bitter. I pointed out what made Will Rogers lovable, and others, too...and it was a sense of humor, and being able to make the people laugh, even in tough times. No. Costs money for the docs to go ahead and study Beau. And we haven't any right now. These two women here who have ridden my back and abused me worse than anyone in my entire life...are really bad, clear through. I never did hit them with PK, though, much as I was tempted. However, the Si's did...they told me they were putting the two in PK bubbles, enclosing the yellow gas, and attaching two poltergeists to each of their backs...and this condition will go on for the rest of their lives. God. Makes me shudder to think of it. They are walking around, enclosed in that bubble from another dimension, and that horrible stuff inside the bubble with them! For the rest of their lives! Anyway, I didn't do it. But I did resign, to get away from them. Got a fine reference from the Boss, who understands. Tomorrow is my last day. We haven't moved yet. No way to do so. We need a jaloppy, and no way to promote one yet. The papers you sent will help me very much, and I love you for it. It is very humorous that the Commies offered me all I need...yet I can't get it from my own Govt. I was tempted to take it, though. But I cannot. This is my own country, and I am staying with it, stupid though it may be at times. Be a good girl, and Martha and Beau and I miss you. Love, Ted. Dad 08/07/2025 16:12 === Page 154 of 220 Joy Lowland - This shows how Si's have shown me - or I've guided - '64 & '65 canes to target, PK man (Owens) Electro. I'm a way a near miss. Si Map 8/25/66 11:30 PM Faith armed with anti-plane O7E "mechanism of Stormfury" FLA CAPE K Miami Nassau Great Inagua Other Puerto Rico FAITH I'm working now to produce a second cane (#7) closer in to Florida & Cuba - to follow on the heels of Faith. In hoping I liked a one-two punch. Call it a Hurricane Party, eh? 08/07/2025 16:12 === Page 155 of 220 PHILA. NEWS # 193 Dead, 123 Missing As Typhoons Rip Japan 9/26/66 TOKYO (UPI) - Japan dug out from its worst storm lashing since 1959 today and officials feared deaths from the two-day pounding by typhoons Ida and Helen would swell to more than 300. Police said 193 persons were confirmed killed and 123 persons were missing and feared dead. The storms sent 100-mile-an-hour winds and torrential rains whipping across the populous Tokyo area, touching off massive mudslides, overturning ships in Tokyo Bay and even washing away a small resort hotel. Ida was the worst of the two and hit in the Tokyo area near famed Mount Fuji. Helen roared across the southernmost island of Kyushu inundating homes under tons of mud. THOUSANDS were left homeless and damage was in the millions of dollars. U. S. military officials said the storm had done from $3 to $5 million damage at the U. S. Atsugi Naval Air Station 20 miles west of Tokyo. About $500,000 in damage to homes and other facilities was reported at Camp Zama and another $300,000 at the Sagami depot - both near Tokyo. Yamanashi Prefecture to the west of Tokyo bore the brunt of Ida's assault. Police said 82 persons were confirmed dead in the prefecture (state) and 94 others were missing. Most of the deaths were caused by landslides. RAIN-LOOSENED rock and mud plummeted down the side of Mount Fuji, killing at least 50 persons in two villages. Some 50 others were missing. Reports said the slides crushed 34 of the 40 houses in one village and 20 of the 96 in the other. At least 14 vessels were reported sunk or capsized in Tokyo Bay and along the nearby coast. One body was recovered and six seamen were reported missing. The death toll from the two storms was the highest in Japan since Sept. 26, 1959, when 5041 persons were killed by Typhoon Kitty. JAPAN HONSHU HIROSHIMA KOSE NAGOYA TOKYO Mt. Fuji SHIKOKU TYPHOON IDA STORM AREA STORM HELEN KYUSHU DOUBLE KNOCKOUT - Map shows paths of Typhoons Ida and Helen, whose one-two punch against Japan left more than 190 persons known dead. Unifax 9/28/66 ## New Storm In Caribbean SAN JUAN, P. R. (UPI). - Another tropical storm sprang up today in the wake of Hurricane Inez, which killed five persons in a smash across Guadeloupe and is still rampaging through the Caribbean. The new storm, named Judith, was discovered 650 miles east of the Windward Islands. Forecasters said the new tropical blow had winds of at least 45 MPH, and perhaps stronger. Inez was aiming its mighty 120 MPH punch at the southern shores of the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Weathermen said the severe hurricane passed south of the Virgin Islands and was expected to skirt Puerto Rico, but was lashing the popular resorts with fringe gales. Gusts of 65-70 MPH winds were expected along Puerto Rico's south coast. 08/07/2025 16:12 === Page 156 of 220 Pat & Kids Thursday, August 25, 1966 Mr. Jack McKinney, WCAU Dear Jack: I think you will appreciate this funny letter. You will remember that I sent you a "PK" map not long ago...to the effect that Station WCAU was going to be harassed by electrical disturbances, lightning, etc? Well...this is the funny part. During one of my lightning-specials (storms I predicted to you) about the middle of August, I told Martha, my wife, that I would signal the Si's to direct a lightning strike at WCAU, just to shake up the station. Instead, it hit KYW. Mr. E. Cummings, Chief Engineer, said it hit about 2:50 AM and knocked out that radio station for about four hours. Incidentally, that lightning is indicated on your map. I see that the PK effect is now working. I see by the paper that WCAU somehow managed to lose a signal yesterday...blanking out Arthur Godfrey for twenty minutes...and causing hundreds of people to call to see what was going wrong. That's the way PK works, Jack. Better get used to it. Any other little freakish things like that happening? Personnel out with bumped heads and colds? Machinery breakdowns? Lightning strikes? Be sporting and keep me informed, will you? Incidentally...am working exclusively with a small group of scientists now who are sporting enough to give me confirmations of my predictions when I am right...and call attention to anything I might miss. I called Hurricane Alma in a letter to them last Friday...four days ahead of time. Am mentioning this to let you know I am still wheeling and dealing with ESP. ESP? Well...whatever it is. P K Man (Owens) 1114 Spruce Street, #33 Phila. P.S. Might interest you to know that I terminate with my present job tomorrow...finis. Got one over there available? Secretary, announcer, writer, janitor, pool player? I challenge you personally to two out of three games of 50 point straight pool...$1 on each game, and time. Ha! Owens === Page 157 of 220 Pat + Kids Sunday night, August 27, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: The UFO's, it seems like, did not take out the medium-camera in Lunar Orbiter. It puzzles me...a miss for me, I guess. Now, I waited to hear from the Si's...right up to the point where they were going to fire that moon craft from the Cape to another point on the globe. (That's why I didn't get a prediction in to you...they didn't contact me as they usually do.) I finally contacted them...and they did not want to touch that shot. They WANTED the shot to go well. Because it was just a "preliminary". They want to chew up the "main event." And so they are waiting...for the main event, to clobber it. They told me to PK-map the Super Titan with 8 satellites...that they would destroy the mission. So I did, and they did. A hit. (Just to keep my records straight...I will have to list that mooncraft test a miss on my books. But it wasn't. It wasn't anything at all.) ---------- Hurricane Faith was following my map (sent you a copy) right down the line...but she got very weak Saturday, and stopped...so I opened the source-boxes and fed her everything she needed. After that she started again, and grew in power again. I have had to correct her course several times. It's sort of like leading a blind man. As of today, in the morning Inquirer, you can see she's pointed dead at the target...Cape K. My job is to see that she stays right on that aim. When the Govt. FINALLY discovers that I can control hurricanes through Si help...perhaps it will listen to reason, and cooperate. ---------- In my files which you copied you will see where the Si's told the CIA they would help them. Well, what isn't there is...the Si's stopped that cold, when CIA didn't help me with confirmations. Now they are just like any other Govt. agency to the Si's. ---------- #75, the "European Happening Will Shock and Amaze U.S."...would seem to be last week's resignation of the three top West German generals which has caused a government crisis...those are the words used by the papers. They also termed it a military crisis. This, coming out of thin air, must have certainly "shocked and amazed" the U.S. Govt. ---------- #88, my "WCAU PK Harassment"... (I showed you my pk map of the station)... the following was in the newspapers Thursday, August 25: "Lost Signal Puts Godfrey Off The Air...Arthur Godfrey went silent for the last 20 minutes of his taped radio show on WCAU yesterday morning because of a telephone line failure. The station played standby music while trying to restore the lost signal from CBS network, without success. Hundreds of phone calls jammed the local switchboard as callers sought to find out why Godfrey was off the air. The Godfrey radio show, normally heard from 10:10 AM to 11, went silent at 10:39. A WCAU spokesman said the station was at the end of a "signal loop" and was apparently the only one to lose the signal..." This, Rowland, is one of the many ways PK attacks occur. At my office last week I was working on the mimeograph machine...and it went dead. The stamp machine broke down. The power on the elevator went dead. The telephone system failed and broke down. This is all PK phenomenon...Si phenomenon. === Page 158 of 220 8/27/66 P2 Now see #36..."Si Warning Re Stock Market." My letter to George Clerk, CIA: "George, please see my letter to you of March 26, 1965.."before closing, Nature has told me to tell the U.S. Govt. that since it has refused to help me, it's agent, then it will damage the Stock Market. Sort of tit for tat. If I must suffer economically whilst trying to lobby for Nature...then Nature will cause the Govt. to suffer." - "Now, Nature has this message for the U.S. Govt. Unless the Govt. recognizes its agent, P K Man, publicly...and helps P K Man to be hired by New Jersey and New York to bring rain to relieve the drought...then Nature will wreck and demolish the U.S. economy...will ruin the Stock Market - it will make 1929 seem like a picnic by comparison." Well, Rowland, "Nature" turned out to be the Si's...and they waited patiently, as is their nature, for the Govt. to cooperate. But it did not. In #82, my letter to you: "Sell your stocks and bonds, friends...the Si's are going to blast the Stock Market, in order to humble this country a bit, and make it harder for the U.S. to keep up wars overseas..." Okay...since that letter what has happened? All hell has broken loose in the Stock Market, that's what. It has gone down, down...and now is in deep trouble. Like a plane in a spin it can't get out of. Here's a Saturday quote from the New York Times: "Erosion on Wall St." "Long Slide In Prices Wearing Down Spirit of the Baffled Stock Salesmen." "The steady sandpapering of stock prices...the market has gone up only one day in the last two weeks...finally is getting under the skin of brokerage-house salesmen. At noon yesterday a customer telephoned his broker and said, "Where are you?" "I'm hiding behind my desk," came the reply in a faltering Harvard accent. "What can I tell my customers?" asked a bewildered salesman, who appeared to be typical of some 35,000 registered representatives working for member firms of the New York Stock Exchange. "To be perfectly honest, you've got to tell them that you don't know what to tell them." At another Wall Street house a secretary wailed: "This is no longer a tight money policy we're seeing. It's a no-money policy." The statistics were fairly grim at the market's close yesterday. The "paper loss" on all Big Board stocks has soared to a $103.7-billion since the market made its historic high on Feb. 9. The Dow-Jones industrial average has tumbled 21.5 per cent...etc" The Si's are causing this grim economical uproar to call attention to the letter mentioned above...which is, after all, their only way of communicating with humans. Their point...the Govt. had dashed well better start cooperating with PK Man at this point...because they can make things much much worse if it doesn't happen. ---------- The "Emmy Emme" jolt was as rough as I told you it would be. The globe is still being battered. Last week there were more earthquakes in various places...thousands of square miles in Texas and New Mexico were flooded...Hurricane Faith sprang up, etc. I quote a paper clip of Sat. "84 Earth Tremors Recorded" Belgrade, Yugoslavia..."The official Yugoslav news agency Tanjug said 84 separate earth tremors have been recorded off the Montenegrin coast at Petrovac-On-The-Sea during the past three weeks." And what do you know, Rowland, somebody OUT THERE is beginning to catch on. Here is a local editorial from the paper a couple of days ago..."TURKISH EARTHQUAKE WARNING. "Although the horror of last Friday's major earthquake was concentrated...if that's the word...over hundreds of square miles in four provinces of eastern Turkey, and the death toll mounting now into the thousands confirms how very major it was, there may also have been a warning implicit in it...for all those persons living near === Page 159 of 220 own "fault lines." .......... On the same day, if not precisely at the same hour, it appears that there were substantial shocks felt from northern Italy all the way to Japan. Buildings fell down on Yugoslavia's Montengrin coast; Tashkent...was hit again - although the Soviets don't say how badly. It does not appear to be any small, isolated phenomenon. The violence of the impact in Turkey seems nearly to have gone "right off the scale." The hundreds of subsequent tremors...could be interpreted as meaning that the shifting of the surface, for whatever reasons, is not finished yet.......... It must seem to many laymen that the incidence of tremors and worse has been more frequent than in the past; with the Turkish experience, perhaps they are becoming more terribly destructive, too." This writer was correct...there was a "warning implicit in it"...but not having anything to do with living near fault lines. And finally even editorial writers are noticing that it doesn't appear to be any small, isolated phenomenon. And the phenomenon are becoming more destructive, as the Govt. refuses to cooperate. Believe me, Rowland, when I tell you...this Govt. vs Si's, with me in the middle as representative...is developing into a classic example of the old saying, "For want of a nail...the battle was lost." The nail being the Govt. setting me up for a year to meet the Si's...and the U.S. with its mounting crises and catastrophes, is fast losing the battle. ---------- This is interesting. See #73. Ltr. to George: "Furthermore, the Reds have feinted at us with torpedo boats from the North shore. The Si's were... to look for an attack upon our warships from the south shores...etc. The Reds are now mulling over a plan to obliterate our fleet, and to take control of the waters surrounding Viet Nam themselves." It is now just happening...although in a bit different way than I thought. They (Reds) have just blown up and sunk a bunch of our ships in the south waters. This is something new. And I was correct in what they were going to do. ---------- In #83, "String of U.S. Disasters" - I have added quite a bit since getting back my files from you. So many, why list them? Terrible, freak accidents in Viet Nam...causing maximum embarrassment to the U.S. Govt. Stock Market going down, down. Etc. ---------- This might not seem important, but believe me it is. Last night I had a vivid dream, and when I woke all I could remember of the dream was that the Si's were telling me to tell the Govt. they mean absolute business on their warning that they will turn loose all ODE forms during September and October, unless the Govt. steps in at this point and cooperates. That's all...I've said it. ---------- The "Asian-type critters" referred to in my letter of August 24, as a "sign" from the Sis...could mean that these creatures were destroyed because they got into the wrong geographical area. A shark...fish out of water...would not have been destroyed if it had stayed in its water home. The Asian leopard...would have been safe in its own jungle. Same with the monkey and boa. The point? The U.S. is as out of place in Asia as the shark was in the cornfield. And the Si's are warning of the U.S. being destroyed in Asia just as the out of place critters were destroyed here. We should stay in our own jungle. ---------- Hard to say what will happen now, friend. We have a quarter, that's all, and I have to mail this. No job prospects. No car. Pretty grim. P K Man (Owens) Owens 08/07/2025 16:12 === Page 160 of 220 Thursday, September 15, 1966 PAT + KIDS Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: Something very strange is happening re the Si's, and I don't know what it is. Also, with me. For weeks I haven't cracked a file...after working with my files daily for years. Another thing...the past year or so they have given me notes daily. This has stopped. I know they are up to something, big...but cannot imagine what it might be. Let's recap Gemini Eleven...which, incidentally, I'm putting down as a "miss" in my book. The Si's harassed the take-off beautifully...stymied NASA twice, but finally had to let it go up. They harassed, and stopped, the space-walk and the testing of the power tool (Space repair) and the use of the jet-gun for maneuvering...and then they ceased. This puzzles me, for I know well there is a more than intelligent reason for every little thing they do. I KNOW the Si's were very much in on the Gemini orbit. Of course, they can't destroy the Gemini capsule and astronauts, as they did the Super Titan with the 8 satellites in August, so perhaps this cramps their style. But they did much more on Gemini shots preceding. Bear one thing in mind...because they do not clobber one shot, does not mean they won't clobber the next. Or the next. But the fact remains, they did not, or were not able to, clobber the Gemini Eleven shot...which was brought off excellently by the astronauts and NASA. Now, a prediction has come to pass. See my letter to George of April 13, 1966 (am enclosing a spare copy I had): George, be warned...all ships, planes and subs in the Atlantic will be in deadly danger in the weeks and months ahead...the high waves and wind that just damaged a ship and killed two people were part of it. The Si's are doing something with the weather, using the Atlantic ocean to supply certain things they need to end our East Coast drought...it is going to be deadly dangerous to all forms of life and locomotion in the Atlantic." ALSO...I have a signed prediction made to Zelda Hansell and George Middle, 29 S. Wyoming, Ardmore, Pa., dated June 5, 1966: "The Si's, to demonstrate their powers further to the U.S. Govt. - will bring about a nuclear submarine catastrophe, or aircraft carrier catastrophe - i.e., a naval catastrophe, involving U. S. vessels, within the near future...the above to take place not later than September, 1966..." Well, it wasn't a nuclear sub...I missed on that...and not U.S., but West German (our ally). Today's headline read: "U-Boat Sinks; 21 Aboard." It pointed out that it was the worst submarine disaster since the Thresher went down some years ago. But it was a naval disaster; was in September; was a submarine; and happened in the Atlantic. The Si's are now, I believe, off on a new tack of some sort. They said they would put on a tremendous demonstration of their many powers Sept. and October...and I believe they will. They usually do what they say. But...there is something else now with them, and they won't tell me what it is. Let me say this...if something weird and mysterious happens to one of our top military or political leaders...I mean, top...then I might know what they are up to. Something like...the top man referred to just vanishing Suppose, say, Humphrey or Johnson or Dirkson or (who are our top military men nowadays?...well, one of them) suddenly can't be found anywhere. 08/07/2025 16:20 === Page 161 of 220 08/07/20 Something odd like that...then I would know what new tack they would be on. Perhaps they did not like my files being copied, and feel you are not friendly...that their precious information had fallen into the wrong hands. That might be why they have changed their form of contact with me. I feel they are as close as before, but they are not telling me as much as before. A note on the hurricanes that didn't. I have made the cakes, but they fell flat in the oven. I've produced a lot of what should have been fine canes this year, but they either didn't build up entirely into full canes, or they missed the target. Odd. Not like the two previous years. It is possible the Si's have tired of the usual demos, and will some something else on a larger scale, in time to come. ---------- P K Man (Owens) Owens 4 Dear Barford: 1951, 12 September, Wednesday. 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You are a woman now, not a little girl any longer. It's been a long time since Pat took a picture of you perched on my shoulder with an old Cannon camera. I'll always have lots of happy memories of the sweet little child, Lorrie -- who took her lumps and bumps and laughs with Daddy, everywhere. Your birthday present is something money cannot buy. And there's no other like it. And it's beautiful! I made it. Took hours. It has to crack to be made the way I've invented, but don't worry about the tiny cracks. It's firm. Just treat it like the delicate ceramic work that it is. (Take it off before you punch Rick in the nose.) Love & kisses Dad === Page 163 of 220 Thursday, September 28, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: Pat & Kids Pat - show all Si letters to Lonnie & Rick, ok? Confirming my phone call to you this afternoon early...I told you I was working to turn Hurricane Inez north (it's headed West); also told you I was working to produce a second hurricane behind Inez. Well, I came off work at 5:45 and bought a News...and read where a great tropical storm had appeared with Inez in the Atlantic. Enclosed is a rather frightening prediction I made August 25. I told you as you can see on the enclosed photostat (and you have a copy) that I would work for a "one-two" punch...twin hurricanes. Oddly, they developed in the wrong location, the Pacific...and hit Japan. (And there is now a third hur - typhoon, same thing, there. Three hurricane-typhoons in the Pacific within one week's time...and giant Hurricane Inez now ripping up the Atlantic, with Judith building up right behind Inez. On my prediction of August 25 I told you "let's have a Hurricane Party." Within one week we've got four full hurricanes steaming and another one in the making...isn't that a hurricane party? What is so startling...were my words of August 25..."in boxing I liked a one-two punch." See the Phila. News write up..."Double Knockout...map shows paths of Typhoons Ida and Helen, whose one-two punch..." And of course, now we have Inez and Judith for a one-two punch in the Atlantic. I wondered why the Si's weren't kicking up catastrophes and all the various phenomena this month...and asked them...and they told me they were getting their craft into position...to just wait, and it would happen. (My sense of time, and their time, are not the same, and when I say September and October it puts a strain on them because that is not the way they measure time.) Anyway, things have been quiet...and that is when to watch out for the Si's. At least they didn't let Surveyor 2 get away from them. We've been having all kinds of Si phenomena in our apartment the past two weeks, hot and heavy. Strange looking hairy arms appearing on our TV screen, on different programs at different times...plus strange looking antennae that move as if alive...plus strange sounds. Word from OSCAR occasionally...will bring better results from me. Dr. Rhine found at Duke that he got his top results from ESP individuals and groups that were encouraged and rewarded. P K Man (Owens) Owens === Page 164 of 220 Sunday, October 2, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank, Organization of Scientific Research Dear Rowland: As I told you Friday, I was working to change the direction of Hurricane Inez...she was heading West, and for my purposes (of proof) she had to change to North. Well, after tearing up Cuba (see my files re my hitting Cuba and Castro with PK in large amounts) it changed direction...and instead of heading for Mexico, began heading for Florida. But she was very very weak by Saturday night...so I worked to put a lot of PK units in her to make her powerful again...and today, Sunday, radio announced she was growing to hurricane strength again. After all, I have produced the many hurricanes and near-hurricanes I outlined for you on the map I sent you with the ten circles (practically, although am still trying to bring in two more) but I have fallen down in putting them on target. Perhaps I can yet. Now...this is most interesting. The middle of September the Si's told me to make some skull and crossbones rings. I did. Also, the last time I was on radio here, the "Talk of Philadelphia" show, I had drawn a skull and crossbones on a map, intending to warn the listeners of great danger to the U.S. not recognized by our Government...but didn't get the chance to get to it because Ed Harvey cut me off. Now, in the papers Sept. 29 was this article, "Marines Kill 50 Reds In Battle Near DMZ, Find Skull Warning." In short, the Marines found a skull on a pole, as a signal to them from the VC. Since the Si's talk to me a great deal by "signs"...and putting two and two together, I am positive at this time that there is great great danger to the U.S. that we are not aware of...immediate danger. In short, a trap is ready to be sprung on the U.S. Might be a mighty trap against the U.S. in Viet Nam. Or could be directed against the U.S. itself. Anyway, just thought I would warn you. There is a deeper wonder in my mind...if the Si's might mean, they are getting deadlier. Remember, I can't understand everything they send me, perfectly. P K Man (Owens) Owens Kids...remember I told you that a tattoo on a human seems to convince that person's subconscious...and the tattoo comes true in his or her life? Also, a person tends to act out his life according to his or her name. That is a man named "Coward" would tend to be cowardly. Etc. Enclosed are some samples I have taken from the papers to illustrate this. Lornie, I enjoyed your letter, and am glad you appreciate that beautiful ring. Since none of my rings are alike...it's the only one there is. Love, Dad Dad === Page 165 of 220 October 3, 1966, Monday Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: Well, I told you Thursday or Friday that I was working to turn Hurricane Inez from going West, to going North, check? -- (ON PHONE) I had to do two things over the weekend...build Inez up to a hurricane again, after she died down to just a storm... then turn her toward Florida. Enclosed is photostat of today's N.Y. Times map of Inez... and you can see for yourself that, although last week she was coming in on Cuba, going West and according to the Weather Bureaus was not supposed to come near the U.S. - she changed direction over the weekend just as I was working for her to do, and shot toward the U.S., just shaving Electro. The paper says Inez's gales and storms are kicking hell out of Electro, but she didn't hit Electro head on. I don't know how much of a miss this is, but it certainly isn't much. I guided Inez 1700 miles in on the target. Not a head on hit, but damn good shooting, nevertheless. Don't you agree? I'm still trying to turn her in left for a head-on hit, because she's alongside...or if she gets out a little, I'll try to repeat Betsy over again. P K Man (Owens) Owens === Page 166 of 220 IOWA ILL. IND. OHIO PA. N.Y. CONN. New York City N.J. DEL. MD. MO. KY. W. VA. VA. OKLA. ARK. TENN. N. C. TEXAS MISS. ALA. GA. S. C. LA. Jacksonville FLA. Gulf of Mexico Tampa Miami Palm Beach BIMINI IS. BAHAMA IS. Straits of Florida ANDROS I. CUBA Havana MEXICO BR. HONDURAS GUATEMALA CAYMAN IS. JAMAICA Caribbean Sea Atlantic Ocean BERMUDA PUERTO RICO DOM. REP. MILES 500 The New York Times Oct. 3, 1966 HURRICANE OFF FLORIDA: Storm called Inez heads north on path between mainland and western Bahamas. N.Y. TIMES MON. MORN. OCT. 3, 1966 === Page 167 of 220 10/4/66 p1 Tuesday, October 4, 1966 Mr. Rowlend Swenk, C.S.C.A.R. You have just been in on one of the greatest proofs, speaking for the scientific interest, of the century. Hurricane Inez obeyed me at every twist and turn...and backed up at my command, as did Betsy. AND YOU KNOW THAT I CAUSED HER DIRECTION CHANGES...BECAUSE I TOLD YOU IN ADVANCE OF EACH CHANCE...AND THE CHANCES CAME ABOUT (AS WELL AS MY TELLING YOU OF THEM) IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT THE MIAMI HURRICANE CENTER, WITH ALL ITS PLANES AND EQUIPMENT...AND THE U.S. WEATHER BUREAU...SAID HURRICANE INEZ WOULD NOT HIT THE U.S! (1) When Hurricane Inez was going West toward Cuba...I called you and told you I would work to turn Inez North toward Florida, and confirmed my call in writing Sept. 28. Local paper, Sept. 30: "Forecasters said that the danger that Florida would be hit 'appears remote at this time'." N.Y. Times, Sept. 29: "The Hurricane Center in Miami said there was only a slight chance that the storm would reach the United States mainland." Local paper, Sept. 30: "Forecasters predicted Inez would turn more to the northwest as it entered eastern Cuba. "THERE IS ONLY A SLIGHT CHANCE THAT HURRICANE INEZ WILL HIT THE U.S. MAINLAND, said Gordon E. Dunn, Chief of the National Hurricane Center at Miami. He predicted that a ridge of pressure to the north of the storm would continue to weaken, allowing Inez to turn to the north and thereby pass far to the east of the mainland. All right. So I was telling you differently than Mr. Dunn. I was telling you that I was working to turn the storm at practically right angles, to ram Florida. I was telling the Si's what I wanted with mental imagery...and making "PK Maps" ...and even contacting Inez directly with Mind, because such storms have an intelligence of their own. I put up a "PK wall" at the end of Cuba, so Inez wouldn't go past it, and like a rail bank shot in pool would go on toward the U.S. Also, since I had heavily PK'd Cuba in 1964...and had done this before...I instructed Inez to kick the daylights out of Castro's Cuba while she was there. She did just that. Then she followed my maps and mental instructions, and the Si's, and the PK wall...and turned at almost a right angle and went for Florida. But she missed by an eyelash. So I put up another PK wall to hold her back...and she stalled, as the weather bureau puts it. At that point I told you (my letter of yesterday, Oct. 3) "I'm still trying to turn her in left for a head-on hit, because she's alongside (Electro)...or if she gets out a little I'll try to repeat Betsy over again (meaning put her in reverse (hurricanes aren't supposed to be able to do that, you know) and sweep her down into Miami like I did Betsy. SHE OBEYED MY MAP AND MENTAL INSTRUCTIONS...AND THE SI'S...PRECISELY. She went into reverse and followed Betsy's track, with a HIT on southern Electro. Of course, she kicked the stuffings out of Nasa's Bahama setup, and also spanked Cape Kennedy good because she was so close. The point of all this? THE SI'S ACTUALLY DID ALL OF THE PHYSICAL WORK WITH INEZ TO SPANK THE U.S. IN ORDER TO GET THE U.S. ATTENTION...AND POINT UP WHAT THEY CAN DO WITH WEATHER CONTROL. They allowed me to call their shots so that it would be on record with humans that this was no "erratic" storm or accident. They brought a big hurricane 1700 miles and put it on target. My hunch about Hurricane Faith was right. They could have rammed the U.S. with it, but it was too destructive, so they 08/07/2025 16:27 === Page 168 of 220 10/4/66 P2 put Faith nose-to-nose with the U.S., scaring hell out of everybody, then let Faith ramble off on a safe path. When the U.S. didn't learn any lesson from it...they brought on Inez. If no lesson is learned from Inez, the Si's will no doubt arrange something stronger. If you think the Hurricane Center and weather experts were not fooled completely by the Si's and my PK work, listen to this: Tonight's local paper, Oct. 4: "RUDE AWAKENING...Many of the two million residents of the "Gold Coast" (Miami) had gone to bed believing they were out of danger. They awoke this morning to the roar of wind and rain...angry winds churned Biscayne Bay into a wild fury...as Inez battered the southeast Florida "Gold Coast" with high winds and tides. Power lines snapped and fell in showers of sparks and debris flew through the air as Inez fell on Miami." On Channel 6 of TV tonight on the news: "Hurricane Inez completely stumped the weather experts, and took one of the most erratic paths of any hurricane on record." Meaning...it went North from Cuba, instead of on west...then backed up and kicked Miami when it should have gone on out to sea. I did this with hurricane after hurricane in 1964, my best year...and with Betsy the following year. Am glad I scored this year in such a clear manner...informing you ahead of each change...so now you can realize what I have been doing. You have actual proof of it. Well, that is that. Done and done. Just for the hell of it am working tonight to stall Inez at Key West and get her up to Cape Kennedy anyway, head on. But she's already done what I wanted her to do...show you, a scientist, how a hurricane can be guided by human intelligence and Si's. It's midnight, and won't be able to mail this until morning...and I'm tired of hurricane work...been at it now for what? almost two weeks? If she stalls and goes up into Cape K, good. If she doesn't, I've made my point to you anyway. I repeat over and over. The United States should take me and my family and respect the Si's wishes and place us with the tools we need where the Si's want...so that they can come down, THEIR WAY IN THEIR OWN TIME, and make a personal meeting with me. Because they know me and I know them...I am not afraid...and no other human being is so prepared. The U.S. Govt. is nuttier than a fruit cake, and you can quote me on that. Of course, it could say the same of me...but I have PROVEN my point, again and again and again, dozens of times...which scarcely makes me a nut. I heard on TV Nasa is planning a series of big shoots in the near future. They'd better clear with the Si's first, or they ARE FLAT OUT OF LUCK AT NASA. With kind regards to you, friend...and your brother scientific researchers. P K Man (Owens) Owens 08/07/2025 16:27 === Page 169 of 220 Pat, Lorne, Rick October 6, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank Organization of Scientific Research Dear Rowland: Enclosed is (1) letter I sent to you Oct. 3, when Inez missed Florida and I told you I'd work to turn her back to the left, or in reverse, for a hit on Florida. Note underlined says "Betsy over again." (2) is clipping of October 5 from New York Times. Note in red circled paragraph my effort to turn Inez into Betsy's path...is confirmed by the Times, in the same words. Same page, up at top, on the map...are the two points where I had to "sweat blood" to get Inez to change her course entirely. Remember I telephoned you beforehand before each change of course of Inez, right? Also confirmed by letter. So there's no argument on that, right? Now, before closing on this wonderful hurricane demonstration I have been fortunate enough to give you (courtesy of the Si's) this year, here's a quote from today's Inquirer, 10/6: "Hurricanes don't usually hit Florida and then strike Mexico. But there is nothing usual about Inez. Forecasters, repeatedly confounded by its erratic turns, watched the new course for five hours before announcing an all-clear for South Florida." So you see...even newspaper writers are aware something funny is going on. Hurricanes doing things they aren't supposed to. And one man in the world telling you beforehand...that they are going to. P K Man (Owens) Owens === Page 170 of 220 October 3, 1966, Monday Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: Well, I told you Thursday or Friday that I was working to turn Hurricane Inez from going West, to going North, check? I had to do two things over the weekend...build Inez up to a hurricane again, after she died down to just a storm... then turn her toward Florida. Enclosed is photostat of today's N.Y. Times map of Inez... and you can see for yourself that, although last week she was coming in on Cuba, going West and according to the Weather Bureaus was not supposed to come near the U.S. - she changed direction over the weekend just as I was working for her to do, and shot toward the U.S., just shaving Electro. The paper says Inez's gales and storms are kicking hell out of Electro, but she didn't hit Electro head on. I don't know how much of a miss this is, but it certainly isn't much. I guided Inez 1700 miles in on the target. Not a head on hit, but damn good shooting, nevertheless. Don't you agree? I'm still trying to turn her in left for a head-on hit, because she's alongside...or if she gets out a little, I'll try to repeat Betsy over again. P K Man (Owens) 08/07/2025 16:27 === Page 171 of 220 October 11, 1966 (Tuesday) Mr. Rowland Swank Organization of Scientific Research. Dear Rowland: Enclosed is a newspaper clipping from last week, sent to me by a very good friend in Connecticut. Also enclosed is my letter to George Clark of Central Intelligence, June 1, 1966. Six months ago my UFO friends appeared in a craft and led a string of police cars along the road. Actually this was about all that appeared in the papers. Then on June 1 the Si's gave me the info to send on to George Clark of CIA. When I received this news clip I got quite a shock. First, it verified my letter to George that the cops had fired on the UFO. This officer in the clip was ordered to do so by Headquarters, but the Si's were in his mind, so perhaps he didn't. But the other cars most likely received the same orders. With stupidity like that, no wonder the Si's are clobbering the Space shots and taking so long to get together with the U.S. Govt. An interesting point of this news clip is...in my letter I warned that a police car and officer would be missing if they shot at the UFO's. In this clip, notice that the officer now is "missing"...and dreams that his police car has vanished! Now, even more astonishing...is the fact that my own symbol was on that car (I use a circle instead of a triangle, but that's the only difference! Therefore...you could say that I am connected with this UFO in a way. Let's review. I was connected with the South Pole UFO, in that I predicted it 5 months in advance. I was connected with the major UFO appearances in 1965, in that I predicted them in advance. I predicted the Wauneque UFO in advance. I predicted the East Coast fireball six days in advance. I predicted the Erie, Pa., UFO in advance. Even more astonishing is the fact that I predicted in advance the details of these UFO appearances. I predicted the South Pole UFO would change the electromagnetic conditions at the Pole, and make the newspapers. I predicted the East Coast fireball would appear over Philadelphia. After that I told CIA (its in the files) that the East Coast UFO would appear again soon and do something different that the UFO's hadn't done before. That's when the Erie, Pa., UFO appeared and the creature approached to within five feet of the people, then walked into the water. So this was a first. I predicted the UFO's would appear near here...but would not come down in Phila. for fear we had a ray like they had...then the Wauneque UFO appeared, with its ray. In other words, I've not only predicted before the UFO's appeared, but what the conditions would be. Enough to identify myself with them. Oh, I left out the Michigan Monster appearance...seen by 16 people. That creature grabbed a woman named "Owens"...my own name. So you can see, at least three times the UFO's have directly connected me with them. South Pole; Michigan Monster and this Ohio UFO with the symbol (mine) painted on the car. It's all in the files you copied, Rowland. Checks out perfectly. The Si's want to reach me. They've tried to point it out every way they could. ---------- P K Man (Owens) Owens 08/07/2025 16:27 === Page 172 of 220 # Flying Saucer Named Floyd Is Man's Eternal Tormentor EDITOR'S NOTE--Last April 17 hundreds of persons in Ohio reported sighting an unidentified flying object. The Air Force said it was a satellite. But whatever it was, his encounter with the phenomenon proved a strange, grim turning point in the life of a deputy sheriff from Ravenna. By JOHN DE GROOT Akron Beacon Journal Staff Writer AKRON, Ohio (AP)--In his ruined world of loneliness and twisted nightmares, Dale Spaur wonders if the chase will ever end. It began six months ago with seven steps to hell and a flying saucer named Floyd. In the predawn hours of a gentle April morning, Spaur, a Portage County sheriff's deputy, chased a flying saucer 86 miles. Now the strange craft is chasing him. And he is hiding from it, a bearded stranger peering past the limp curtains of a tiny motel room in Solon Ohio. He no longer is a deputy sheriff. His marriage is shattered. He has lost 40 pounds. He lives on one bowl of cereal and a sandwich each day. He walks three miles to an $80-a-week painter's job. His motel room costs $60 a week. The court has ordered him to pay his wife $20 a week for the support of his two children. That leaves Dale Spaur exactly nothing. The flying saucer did it. "If I could change all that I have done in my life," he said. "I would change just one thing. And that would be the night we chased that damn thing. That saucer." He spit the word out. Saucer. An obscenity. Others might understand. Four other officers took part in the April drama. Police Chief Gerald Buchert of Mantua saw the craft and photographed it. The pictures turned out badly, an odd fuzzy white thing suspended in blackness. Today, Chief Buchert laughs nervously when he speaks of that night. "I'd rather not talk about it," he says. "It's something that should be forgotten left alone. I saw something, but I dont know what it wa." Special Deputy W. L. Neff rode with Spaur during the chase. He won't talk about it. His wife Jackelyne explains, "I hope I never see him like he was after the chase. He was real white, almost in a state of shock. It was awful. "And people made fun of him afterwards. He never talks about it anymore. Once he told me, 'If that thing landed in my back yard, I wouldn't tell a soul,' He's been through a wringer." Patrolman Frank Panzanella saw the chase end in Conway, Pa., where he works. He saw the craft. Now he is silent. Friends say he had his telephone removed because of calls about that April morning. H. Wayne Huston was a police officer in East Palestine, Ohio. He had worked there seven years. Several months after the saucer passed above him in the night he resigned going to Seattle, Wash., to drive a bus. Huston now goes by Harold W. Huston. He tells you: "Sure I quit because of that thing. People laughed at me. And there was pressure. You couldn't put your finger on it, but the pressure was there. The city officials didn't like police officers chasing flying saucers." Thus the story of the other officers. Three still wear badges, but do not speak of what they saw. Spaur and Huston have turned in their badges. Now Spaur hides in Solon, a fugitive from a flying saucer named Floyd. He cannot escape the strange craft. It remains with him, locked in his mind reappearing in nightly sweating dreams that are a bizarre mixture of reality and fantasy. Of that night: He is driving car 13. Barney Neff is beside him. They are heading east along U.S. 224 between Randolph and Atwater when they spot a red and white 1959 Ford alongside the road. Barney and Dale stop to check it out. The car is filled with walkie-talkies and other radios. A strange emblem is painted on the side. A triangle with a bolt of lightning inside it. Above the emblem is written "Seven steps to hell." 10/11/66 P2 Oct 11. 1966 (Tuesday) 08/07/2025 16:27 === Page 173 of 220 10/11/66 p4 June 1, 1966 George Clark Central Intelligence Dear George: The Si's today gave me some interesting information to pass on. Seems that when they flew near some police cars, in a recent sighting...the stupid police actually fired guns at their craft. (This was not made public...and may even be kept a secret by the officers who committed this colossal blunder.) However, the Si's warn...If they approach in friendly fashion in the future...and are fired upon or attacked in an unfriendly manner...the police will be minus one police car and officers. The Si's will eliminate it, as a lesson to humans. That was pretty damn stupid, George, of those police to do that. P K Man (Owens) === Page 174 of 220 Wednesday, October 12, 1966 P/L/R Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Enclosed is a clipping indicating how optimistic the U.S. Govt. is at the moment..."things are looking up." If so, it is living in a fools paradise. The Si's have been quiet for the past month...because I believe they suspected PK Man might be getting help to meet with them (which of course would cost about $5000 to set up for a year.) If the help materializes, then all will be well and the U.S. Govt. will have just cause to be optimistic, because the Si's will be on their side for a change. If the help does not materialize, then I predict right now a string of terrible catastrophes for the U.S. Govt., starting in the near future (within days or a few weeks). Now, Rowland...I do not know if you recall it or not..but as we were walking outside GE after one of our taping sessions, I told you the Si's were planning to attack the crack U.S. Govt. airplane-stunt teams, as a symbol of their earnestness and because they were mad at the Air Force (Air Force, Navy, Army...to them a plane is a plane is a plane) - well, since that time there have been three devastating crackups of these top flying teams. Today I understand from TV the Air Force ace flyers cracked up at Las Vegas. So I could kick myself for having told you verbally and not writing a letter for my files. As you know, confirmation of my predictions for my files is of the utmost importance to me. Do you remember my telling you that? I did...but wasn't sure if you were paying attention at the time. P K Man (Owens) Owens === Page 175 of 220 Thursday, Oct. 13, 1966 P/L/R Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: This Sunday the Eagles play the Steelers...and the Eagles have five times the team the Steelers have. Regardless, am going to practice using PK against the Eagles to try and make them lose the game. I did this last year with various pro games...was successful with 20, lost two. The PK does two things, actually...thwarts and frustrates the team hit, and improves the other team's chances tremendously. The Si's are trying to get my "near's hideaway money" and this perhaps could be a way. Hope I get them all this year, and don't fail on two. But come to think on it...that's been about my batting average with rockets, etc., up from the Cape K. If you or one of your scientific investigators would like to drop over Sunday afternoon at game time (1:30). I'll show you how to apply other-dimensional effects onto a football game... silly as it sounds. (Have worked on the Eagles the last two games.) Want it on record that am calling to the Si's to make a big public appearance some time between now and Halloween, inclusive, simply because that's my favorite time of year. (If you hear of anybody throwing a Halloween party, get us invited, will you?) The Si's tell me to pass it on that they are going to pull something very unusual at one of our military bases. Something unfriendly, of course. The U.S. hasn't made friends with them yet. (That's a U.S. base - somewhere in the 48 States. They'll never pinpoint their action for security reasons, obviously.) Keep your fingers crossed...have a chance to obtain a few thou (3) from a party interested in my calling the UFO's down for a meeting. But was supposed to get the money Tuesday, out of State, and haven't heard from them yet. So I guess this will fall through, dammit. P K Man (Owens) Owens === Page 176 of 220 Saturday, Oct. 15, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: This is later in the day. I have just decided to conduct a beauty of an experiment. Not only am I going to ask the Si's to appear publicly (newspaper writeups) by Halloween...but I am going to ask them to come down over a crowded pro football stadium (hope they can tell the difference between pro and college) and let all the people in the stadium watch them. If I pull it off as I have the numerous other times, it will establish beyond a doubt that I am in communication with the Si's. Right? Now if I can just convince the Si's it isn't a trap. Oh...and let's do it right. When it comes down over the field, the weather should be cloudy and bad...perfect for them to shine a ray out from their UFO, as further proof. All right. Notice the catastrophes that have begun these past few days since this woman double-crossed me? (She told me last Sunday she was going to send the $3,000 on Monday or Tuesday) - Killer blizzards, killer tornados., fires along the California coast. And it's just begun. P K Man (Owens) Owens === Page 177 of 220 Saturday, October 15, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: Enclosed are stats of an article out in the August Fate mag. I have been telling you and the Govt. that the Si's were close. This sighting I hadn't read or heard about until now. Just happened to see it in Fate by accident. The financial help from a woman in Conn. fell through...because she was advised by a "friend" that I was probably just trying to get her money on false pretenses and wanted to go out and have a big time on it. Ha. I got her letter yesterday. She wrote it Tuesday or Wednesday. The Si's have waited to see what would happen...when it didn't happen they have started turning loose catastrophes....blizzards and 80-90 mph winds in the West N/W and killer tornados in the Midwest. An odd thing has been happening...a half dozen times the Si's have told me what was going to occur, but I haven't written to you because somehow it isn't like writing to CIA...then the things have happened and I'm out any chance of confirmation for my files. Wednesday night, for instance, I saw a skull and crossbones on the weather map on TV on the State of Iowa. Thursday morning I almost wrote to you, then decided..what the heck. I never hear from them. Confirmations I don't get much of. Phooey. So last night killer tornados hit that exact spot. This sort of thing has been going on for weeks. One thing I must report. The Si's have stressed it and underscored it. As things are heading now with the U.S. a circle in the U.S. will be absolutely devastated...literally a hole will be, where States are now. Only the Si's can avert this happening. I will draw a map below to illustrate. See my letter of Oct. 12..."If the help does not materialize, then I predict right now a string of terrible catastrophes for the U.S. Govt., starting in the near future (within days or a few weeks.) So...within days you get killer tornados in the Midwest. Real catastrophe there, for starters. ( HOLE ) C A L F FLA PK MAN 08/07/2025 16:27 === Page 178 of 220 Sunday, October 30, 1966 Mr. Joe McGinniss, Sports Writer Dear Mr. McGinniss: I wish you would print this. Today you saw a picture-book demonstration of what PK will do in a game between two relatively evenly-matched teams (sports writers gave the Eagles a 3 point edge). The past two weeks the Steelers and Giants were given many opportunities by the PK system, but those two very weak teams failed completely to capitalize on their edge, and just gave their games away. Today was a different story. With the PK causing numerous pass fumbles, dropped kicks, etc., on the part of the Eagles (even a sure Eagle touchdown erased when the PK took the ball into the crossbars of the goal posts) Washington did not throw away their advantages... capitalized on them... and as most teams do (with PK helping them, capitalizing on their many breaks) the Redskins won by two lengths. In closing, would just like to point out that if the Eagles lost by two touchdowns playing an "equal" team... what will happen when they play better teams than the Redskins, fighting against their opponent as well as against the force of PK? All the Eagles opponents have to do... is play heads up ball, take advantage of the many extra breaks they will have, and not give away any foolish touchdowns. And they will all beat the Eagles. Just like the Redskins just did. H. T. Owens 1114 Spruce St., No. 33 Phila., Pa. Owens === Page 179 of 220 Thursday, Oct. 20, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: This is a note written under pressure of the Si's insistence. As far as I am concerned, since it isn't a prediction or like that...what's the use? But the Si's have been after me for days to write this, so I will. Perhaps the key to the phenomenon of my work for the past two years... lies in my activity in Ft. Worth, Texas, 6-8 years ago. It really started when a giant UFO came down near our car on a dark deserted road in Texas one night (my daughter, Lornie, was with me.) From that time on...things changed. I was teaching auto-hypnosis as a profession...and began to get stunning ideas on how to help and heal people. I set these down in a black leather book. In a few months the book was filled up. Meanwhile I had formed a "Miracles of the Mind" Club, a free training school for persons without the money to buy my wares. But those who joined were top professional people - doctors, lawyers, architects, etc. From these Club meetings I deliberately tested and culled three top ESP people. These 3 out of the hundreds in the Club were the finest in telepathy, clairvoyance, etc. Mr. Eng, a chinaman, was one: Dr. -, a Chiropractor in a nearby suburb (or was it Osteopath?); and Bill - was the third. Now, to get to the point. We had private meetings, and I would hypnotize one of them...and endeavor to send their mind to find and communicate with UFO's. One night Bill did the unusual...his mind came up inside the earth, instead of up in the sky...where there were tremendously intelligent beings living. We talked with these beings through Bill... found out what they ate, how they reproduced, etc. And finally, one of the beings stated IT WAS COMING TO ME. It didn't know how long it would take, BUT IT WOULD GET TO ME. All of my notes on this were lost in my storage, held by Lyon Van & Storage in San Diego few years ago. I SINCERELY BELIEVE IT IS THESE BEINGS THAT HAVE CREATED ALL THE PHENOMENON THESE PAST TWO YEARS...THAT I CALL "THE SI'S"...AND THAT IS THE REASON THEY ARE NOT LIKE OTHER KNOWN UFO FORMS. THEY CAME TO ME. Am sending a copy of this to George Clark, whose organization can check with Mr. Eng in Ft. Worth and find the other two ESP people...if they want to, to get all the details of this. P K Man (Owens) Owens === Page 180 of 220 Thursday, October 20, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: Another excellent "hit". In my file, that you have, see June 29, 1966, letter to George Clark. In it: (1) I warned the U.S. to watch its Fleet in Viet Nam because it was in imminent danger of attack. TWO DAYS LATER NINE North Viet patrol boats zoomed in to attack U.S. Warships. (2) I warned in the same letter that the Reds would fill the air with planes against U.S. forces. This has since come to pass. (3) I warned in the same letter that the Reds would strike from subs around Viet Nam, using small A-bombs against carriers, Saigon, etc. This did not happen. HOWEVER... in yesterday's Phila. News was the following... THE WASHINGTON REPORT... "Red China's Menacing Nuclear Shift"... An ominous intelligence warning on a new military nuclear development in Communist China is high on the list of BRIEF briefing papers prepared for President Johnson to read on his Asian trip. This highly-classified document, seen only by a handful of Johnson Administration officials, could turn out to be as significant as those U-2 photographs taken over Cuba just four years ago this week. The intelligence report... reveals that Peking's atomic installations are being put under the army's direct control on the orders of Defense Minister Marshal Lin Piao... the ascetic Marshal Lin Piao, the Pentagon's best military experts warn, is capable of launching a sneak nuclear attack against the growing U.S. military forces tied down in a relative small area in South Vietnam. SO MY WARNING IN THE SAME REGARD CAME ABOUT FOUR MONTHS EARLIER THAN OUR MILITARY INTELLIGENCE EXPERTS! That entire letter of June 29, has come to pass... except the last paragraph in the P.S. P K Mon (Owens) === Page 181 of 220 October 26, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: Enclosed is the prediction I made in June re an aircraft carrier disaster. As you know, yesterday there was such an aircraft disaster in the Bay of Tonkin...the "Oriskany"...33 men killed. This came 30 days later than I expected; from now on am not going to set things down precisely in our time span...simply because the Si's work out of our time span, and neither they nor I can be utterly accurate when it comes to timing these events. Incidentally, both the submarine and the aircraft carrier mentioned in my prediction have come to pass, if you will notice. The Si's have done nothing yet re their statement of "deal our seat of government (The White House and Capitol Hill) a serious blow." Because I predicted the carrier first, and it just happened...then perhaps the next thing will be the second part of the prediction to happen, coming up. They've performed oddly on the football experiment. Two games perfectly; then two games they ignore and let the Eagles win. (Of course, the Girl Scouts could have beat the Steelers and Giants, but I can't alibi...has to either be a hit or a miss.) I do wonder what they are up to. Hope they confine their PK to the football field and don't try to wipe out the team or something on a bus. Whew! The Si's...are ... well, you never know. P K Man (Owens) Owens 08/07/2025 16:27 === Page 182 of 220 Sunday June 5, 1966 10/26/66 p2 Prediction By H.T. Owens (PK Man) (UFO's) The Saucer Intelligences, to demonstrate their powers further to the U.S. Govt. -- will bring about a nuclear submarine catastrophe, or aircraft carrier catastrophe -- i.e., a naval catastrophe, involving United States vessels, within the near future. They will also deal our seat of Government, (the White House and Capitol Hill) a serious blow, in the near future. These happenings have a definite "point" -- to show the U.S. Govt. their (sic) power, and to further confirm their reality. H.T. Owens (PK Man) __________ George B. Middle Jr. __________ Zelda S. Hamill __________ P.S. The above to take place not later than September, 1966 -- and probably much sooner -- Owens. Zelda .. 08/07/2025 16:27 === Page 183 of 220 Thursday, November 3, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: Not only did I get my Halloween UFO hit, but now I have some other hits to point out to you. See my letter of October 13: "The Si's tell me to pass it on that they are going to pull something very unusual at one of our military bases. Something unfriendly, of course. The U.S. hasn't made friends with them yet. (That's a U.S. base - somewhere in the 48 states. etc.) The Hit - Yesterday a tremendous roaring, killer fire swept the Camp Pendleton Military base in California and killed four Marines. See my letter of September 4, 1966: "This is what will happen...all sorts of catastrophes and crises will hit the U.S. Govt. in the weeks and months ahead. The Si's plan, as I told you before, to unleash all forms of PK or ODE mechanisms either in multiple patterns or all at once. This will be something to observe! It hasn't been done before. Fires, plane crashes, floods, tornados, hurricanes, riots, high Govt. or Service men removed...etc....it will be a tremendous demonstration of their power." The Hit - Within just the past two or three days there have been great killer fires in California, the worst in 33 years. Almost at the same time we've been hit in the U.S. by a "sneak" storm from Canada that has killed 16 people over the U.S. with violent winds, tornados, snows, etc. All kinds of weather records were broken. And twisters and tornados struck in many places. In my letter to you of October 12, 1966: "If the help does not materialize, then I predict right now a string of terrible catastrophes for the U.S. Govt., starting in the near future (within days or weeks). It's a hit. Finally, you will remember I warned you a short while back that the U.S. would be shocked by something that would happen in Europe? I quote this morning's paper: "Erhard's Fall Is Viewed as a Defeat For U.S." By Anatole Shub, Bonn, West Germany: "It is a hard but unpleasant fact that the collapse of the three year regime of Chancellor Erhard, Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroeder, and Defense Minister Von Hass is being generally interpreted by Germans as a defeat for the United States. It is also more than probable that whatever government now emerges here will be described as...anti-American, etc." So, Rowland, I would seem to be doing very very well. And of course, that UFO showing up right on schedule on Halloween...which was what I was after, for proof....how could you top that? P K Man (Owens) Owens 08/07/2025 16:38 === Page 184 of 220 Nov. 4, Friday, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: It doesn't seem possible...after just having called the UFO out for Halloween verification...but now I have another very big hit. See my letter of July 24, 1966: "**President Johnson will suffer a breakdown in health - or death - in the near future (coming months). This happening will occur in an unusual way, or be brought about by unusual circumstances.**" The hit - It was just announced that Johnson has to go into hospital and have surgery. Now, a little more of interest...in letter to you of October 26, 1966: Incidentally, both the submarine and the aircraft carrier mentioned in my prediction have come to pass, if you will notice. The Si's have done nothing yet re their statement of "deal our seat of government (The White House and Capitol Hill) a serious blow." Because I predicted the carrier first, and it just happened...then perhaps the next thing will be the second part of the prediction to happen, coming up." Next amazing item...just in case of an argument that the West German sub catastrophe would not fulfill my prediction...you now have the Tiru Submarine catastrophe, which is an American submarine. At least the crew were not wiped out...but I can assure you, as an old Navy court reporter, the captain will be disgraced and court-martialled. So that prediction is solid, right? P K Man (Owens) *Owens* === Page 185 of 220 Thursday, November 3, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: Not only did I get my Halloween UFO hit, but now I have some other hits to point out to you. See my letter of October 13: "The Si's tell me to pass it on that they are going to pull something very unusual at one of our military bases. Something unfriendly, of course. The U.S. hasn't made friends with them yet. (That's a U.S. base - somewhere in the 48 states. etc.) The Hit - Yesterday a tremendous roaring, killer fire swept the Camp Pendleton Military base in California and killed four Marines. See my letter of September 4, 1966: "This is what will happen...all sorts of catastrophes and crises will hit the U.S. Govt. in the weeks and months ahead. The Si's plan, as I told you before, to unleash all forms of PK or ODE mechanisms either in multiple patterns or all at once. This will be something to observe! It hasn't been done before. Fires, plane crashes, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, riots, high Govt. or Service men removed...etc....it will be a tremendous demonstration of their power." The Hit - Within just the past two or three days there have been great killer fires in California, the worst in 33 years. Almost at the same time we've been hit in the U.S. by a "sneak" storm from Canada that has killed 16 people over the U.S. with violent winds, tornadoes, snows, etc. All kinds of weather records were broken. And twisters and tornado struck in many places. In my letter to you of October 12, 1966: "If the help does not materialize, then I predict right now a string of terrible catastrophes for the U.S. Govt., starting in the near future (within days or weeks). It's a hit. Finally, you will remember I warned you a short while back that the U.S. would be shocked by something that would happen in Europe? I quote this morning's paper: "Erhard's Fall Is Viewed as a Defeat For U.S." By Anatole Shub, Bonn, West Germany: "It is a hard but unpleasant fact that the collapse of the three year regime of Chancellor Erhard, Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroeder, and Defense Minister Von Hass is being generally interpreted by Germans as a defeat for the United States. It is also more than probable that whatever government now emerges here will be described as...anti-American, etc." So, Rowland, I would seem to be doing very very well. And of course, that UFO showing up right on schedule on Halloween...which was what I was after, for proof....how could you top that? P K Man (Owens) Owens 08/07/2025 16:38 === Page 186 of 220 November 5, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: Would you believe...a third aircraft carrier catastrophe since my prediction? (1) Sept. 15, the Oriskany burned up, for all practical purposes. (2) Nov. 2, a helicopter fell onto the deck of the aircraft carrier Guadalcanal at Portsmouth, Virginia, and its blades broke up, shot out like bullets, killing four men and wounding eighteen others. (3) And now yesterday a "flash fire" hit the aircraft carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt, off Viet Nam, killing seven men and injuring others. They can't really explain how any of it happened. Only guess. The Si's are underlining my prediction. Peculiar. I mentioned a sub disaster. After that the West German (our ally) sub sank mysteriously killing all the crew but one. Then the U.S. Sub Tiru thinks its a duck and tries walking on land, and has to yell for help for somebody to come get them. I predicted a blow at the White House...and Johnson amazes everybody by announcing he's going into surgery. Since the Si's heavily underlined the subs and the carriers...then there may be some sort of "underlining" yet to come to the White House blow. That is, something worse than just Johnson going into surgery. It figures, knowing the Si's like I do. P K Man (Owens) Owens === Page 187 of 220 November 5, 1966 Dear Rick: I was glad to get your letter. Thought maybe you'd turned into a pumpkin. You ask...what have I been doing with PK lately? Ha. My dear boy, you have been getting about three or four letters per week with regard to P K Man and his action. Maybe Lornie is holding out on you, or whoever gets the mail. The scientists here who are evaluating and analysing my work for the past two years told me yesterday that they were extremely "upset" about what I have been doing...Hurricane Inez doing everything it was not supposed to do, and me predicting each contrary move in advance...my asking the Si's to send out a UFO on Halloween to prove I am connected with them (to make the papers) and out it came! I sent all the data to you and Lornie last week. Then, in July I predicted to the Govt. that Johnson would become sick and have a health break-down. The scientists told me yesterday they scoffed at that when they first got it...and now that it has happened, they are again extremely "upset". Not long ago I predicted that the U.S. would have a submarine and aircraft carrier disaster. They've now had two aircraft disasters...no, make that three...and the U.S. submarine "Tiru" just ran itself onto the beach or a reef or someplace mischievous off Australia and had to yell for help for somebody to come get them! Ha ha. Frankly, little buddy, after a quiet spell, I am now hotter than a ceramic oven with PK. Am also using it on the Eagles (no doubt you saw the newspaper writeup I got which I sent you) and the Si's nailed the Eagles last week (tho the gamblers favored the Eagles) and I'm going to have lots of fun with the Eagles this week. The scientists tell me that what I have got...is far too complex for them to comprehend, although they are trying. They are using computers. For instance, I called Swank, the top scientist yesterday at his office at General Electric, and said: "Rowland, I want you to look at that letter of July 24 you have at hand." (Now, for all I knew my records were at his home, because these scientists work at GE and have their hands full there.) But he immediately answered, "Let's see, August, September, July...here it is, handwritten, right?" So (1) How did I know he had hundreds of my Xerox'd copies in front of him on a day I just happened to call? and (2) What's he doing with all my stuff at GE science lab headquarters right in front of him. He said that one of "the group" had already called him yesterday on my hit prediction on Johnson's surgery. I said, "Well, you mean somebody else noticed it besides me?" He said, "Oh, yes, we're following everything you do." He says I am a "hot potato." The U.S. Govt. knows that I am doing all these incredible things; doesn't know how I am doing them; and worse, doesn't know what the hell to do about it! You kiddies can be proud. Your daddy is doing and has been doing what no other person alive in this world can do, or has done, since Moses. I guess you weren't too surprised at the California fires, eh? Had to hit it with red units with intelligence built in to hit a military base. It hit Camp Pendleton. But I regret those Marines. Love, Dad. === Page 188 of 220 November 5, 1966 Dear Lornie: Honey, I told you before and I'll tell you again...you two kids read each others letters, swap, so you'll get all the info and I won't have to repeat lots of material. Also, Rick wrote and asked if I had done anything with PK lately. My god! Suggest you look into this. You kids have got a ton of mail from me on "P K Man." Hope you are enjoying your modern dance lessons. You're a fine dancer. I dreamed about you and Rick last week. You were telling me you were homesick, poorly tho we were and are. I don't know what to tell you about school. Guess I'd better keep my opinions to myself, for your good. But there is one thing that is certain. Without a High School diploma you are dee diddly i dead. So get it. What would make your daddy proud is not a top grade in science or some school effort...but a top grade in TRUTH, LOYALTY, LOVE, PRINCIPLE, VALUES, PERSISTENCE, OLD-FASHIONED GUTS, etc. You can't get these things in school...and these are the REAL things that will make your life ahead a heaven or a hell. Of them all, LOVE is the most elusive - but you will only get it, by giving it. It's a weird reverse-process. You can sit on your fanny with your thumb in your mouth and surround yourself with goodies, TV, candy, money, a fine home, a fine car...and if you haven't got LOVE, forget it. All the goodies will turn to ashes in your mouth. What makes me sick at my stomach are the modern kids...telling lies to get what they want, get by...taking, taking, taking love and not giving any back...cheating and twisting TRUTH to meet their wants...giving up their targets and goals if things get hard or difficult...etc. Pitiful. And the woods of the city jungles are full of these kids. Poor Diogenes, if he went looking for it nowadays. The religious movies are lousy. Too many morons and idiots writing the scripts and directing. To get a good religious movie you'd need Jesus directing, God producing, etc. That's the only way. You have brains, honey. Just use them. They need exercise, like your legs and arm muscles. And use them right. We miss you and Rick. Be good. And please mind Pat. With me, she's the best friend you have in this whole world, even if sometimes it's hard to understand when she is trying to guide you. Be absolutely straight with Pat...she's loaded with ESP and can spot a lie in an instant, and she won't like you for it. Make it a rule absolutely never to cheat on a friend, or lie to a friend. Shouldn't to anyone, but especially to a friend. That's how good character is built deep inside you. Love, Dad P.S. Jack Danziger died. Remember - he gave you a doll when you were a baby. 08/07/2025 16:38 === Page 189 of 220 November 6, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swenk, O.S.C.A.R. Si's will go after Lu of just up + Gem. 12 going up Wed. I want to describe my next HIT, if you can stand another one at this point. On Sept. 24, 1966, I wrote you: "Therefore this is what will happen... all sorts of catastrophes and crises will hit the U.S. Govt. in the weeks and months ahead. The Si's plan, as I told you before, to unleash all forms of "PK" or ODE mechanisms either in multiple pattern or all at once. This will be something to observe! It hasn't been done before. Fires, plane crashes, floods, tornados, hurricanes, riots, high Govt. or service men removed...etc., everything you see there in your copy of my Choice File. It will be a tremendous demonstration of their power." And you have seen it happen, whether you realized it or not. Follow me. Sept. 5 - Boulder, Colo., "Strong Sun Flare Hits Radio Transmission." "The most potent sun flare in nearly six years has wrought havoc...with long range radio transmission throughout the world, etc." Sept. 6 - Secretary of State Dean Rusk becomes ill and is confined to his home. (Thence to the hospital.) Sept. 9 - "Rusk Assistant Is Hospitalized, Too." "Joseph Palmer, Assistant Secretary of State for African affairs has joined his chief, Secretary Dean Rusk, in the hospital." Sept. 8 - San Francisco. "3,500 Fight Blazes in Western Forests." "Uncontrolled forest fires crackled today over more than 17,000 acres in five national forests despite an army of 3,500 firefighters, etc." "Two fires raged in Sierra National Forest, one of them only 12 miles east of Mariposa on Iron Mountain. Some 800 men worked to surround the 1100 acre lightning-caused fire with fire lines. Farther south in the Sierra National Forrest, another lightning-caused blaze flared etc." Sept. 8 - Edwards Air Force Base. "X-15 Test Ended By Fuel Trouble." (Was forced to make an emergency landing). Sept. 11 - Atlanta, Ga. "New Racial Violence Erupts In Atlanta." "Hit and run violence punctuated by gunshots, fire bombs and flying bottles flared Sunday night etc." Sept. 12 - The Harris Survey. "Johnson's Rating Skids to 50 Pct., Lowest In Office." Sept. 12 - Berkeley, Calif. "Quake Hits West Coast." "An earthquake shook a wide area of California and Nevada today...State Houses were rattled both in Carson City, Nev., and Sacramento, California." (It was big; 6.5 on the Richter scale) 08/07/2025 16:38 === Page 190 of 220 11/6/66 P2 Page Two Sept. 13 - "Pupils Attacked In Mississippi" (race riot) (big one) Sept. 16 - Indian Springs, Nev. "Acrobatic Jets Collide" "Two F-100 jet planes in the Air Force's Thunderbird flying acrobatic team collided during formation practice today and crashed on the Nevada desert etc." Sept. 17 - Crawfordsville, Ind. "Truck in Wreck Dumps Secret NASA Materiel." "Classified material belonging to NASA was scattered on a highway near here today when a semitrailer truck overturned. State authorities imposed security measures...and NASA officials flew from Cape Kennedy to supervise reloading of the material." Sept. 17 - "James H. Moyers, White House Aide, Dies." "Press Secretary's Brother Dies at 39." Sept. 19 - Saigon. "6 Yanks Killed, 23 Wounded By Own Troops." "The U.S. command reported two new incidents of Americans mistakenly attacking Americans in the South Viet Namese ground war, with a toll of six dead and 23 wounded, etc." Sept. 20 - Vandenberg Air Force Base. "U.S. Missile Explodes Seconds After Firing." "A Minuteman 1 intercontinental ballistic missile exploded seconds after rising from its launching today at this West Coast base. Etc." Sept. 20 - The Harris Survey. "Confidence In Johnson On War Fades To 42%." Sept. 23 - Saigon. "7 GI's Killed, 14 Hurt By Mine...Devices Were Tripped Accidentally." Sept. 22 - "Surveyor 2 Rams Moon." "Surveyor 2 smashed into the moon at 6200 miles an hour Thursday night-a violent end caused by a small rocket motor that refused to fire on command." Sept. 25 - Riggins, Ida. George Skakel, brother of Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy, killed in a plane crash due to pilot error. Also killed in the crash was Louis Werner, director of the St. Louis regional office of the Central Intelligence Agency. Sept. 28 - Saigon. "Bombing Error Kills Villagers In South Viet Nam." "U.S. Marine planes...dropped 500 lb. bombs by error yesterday on a friendly South Vietnamese village and the explosions killed 35 persons and wounded 16." Sept. 29 - "Storm Slashes Cleveland, 18 Hurt." "A violent windstorm, possibly combined with a tornado..." (hit Cleveland bad) Sept. 28 - "500 Troops Called In As 2nd Night of Riots Hits San Francisco." (this was a serious riot series) 08/07/2025 16:38 === Page 191 of 220 11/6/66 p3 Page Three Sept. 30 - "Congressman O'Konski Treated After Heart Attack." Sept. 30 - Senator Ernest Gruening went into hospital for surgery for a hernia. Sept. 29 - Goldberg and McNamara goof. Goldberg at U.N. made a "we want peace" speech, and at the same time McNamara in a public statement said we were ordering more warplanes for the war. "It was labeled an 'almost unbelievable goof' but blamed the coincidence on the complete lack of coordination between different branches of the govt." Oct. 3 - "Mistaken Attack." "One American was killed and 4 wounded when S. Vietnamese artillery shells accidentally fell on an American armored column. Also a second mistaken artillery barrage, this one fired by U.S. artillery, killed one S. Vietnamese soldier and wounded at least five." Oct. 5 - I succeeded in guiding Hurricane Inez. Oct. 5 - Senator Stuart Symington went into hospital for surgery on a hand injured accidentally while exercising. Oct. 5 - "2nd Vertical Jet Crashes, Pilot Dies." "The second of two $5 million vertical rising research jets crashed Wednesday at Edwards Air Force Base, etc." Oct. 5 - "Two Navy Fliers Lost As Plane Falls Into Sea." A Navy plane rolled over the side of the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk at San Diego. Oct. 6 - Announcement was made in the papers that Lunar Orbiter 1 had failed to get the pictures it was supposed to take for landing sites. Oct. 6 - Saigon. "Three 90 mm. tank shells fired in support of the attacking U.S. Marines fell 500 yards short, killing three Marines and wounding seven others. On Friday night a U.S. artillery round hit near the perimeter of one company, killing one Marine and wounding another. On Saturday, during an attack on a hill, another artillery round fell short and wounded four Marines." Oct. 12 - "Troop Plane Falls In Texas." "A huge military troop carrier aircraft from Dyess Air Force Base, crashed and burned northwest of Abilene, Texas, etc." Oct. 13 - "Two Stunt Fliers Die In Aerial Collision." "Two Air Force Thunderbirds air show jets collided at 6,000 feet yesterday during practice maneuvers northwest of Las Vegas." (This announcement from Indian Springs, Nev.) (These were the famous Air Force acrobatic fliers). Oct. 15 - A Bomarc missile blew up immediately after launch at Vandenburg A.F.B. The article said the cause was "a mystery." 08/07/2025 16:38 === Page 192 of 220 11/6/66 p4 Page Four Oct. 12 - Killer Blizzards hit the Northwest. Killer tornados hit the Midwest (many) Five "great fires" broke out in Southern California. Oct. 28 - U. S. Soldiers goofed and riddled a group of what they thought was Viet Cong...but which turned out to be 15 women and little children, friendly Vietnamese...eight of which they killed, and wounded seven. Oct. 27 - The aircraft carrier Oriskany mysteriously caught fire and burned, killing 34 officers, many of them pilots, and 9 enlisted men. "The flares apparently ignited themselves"... was the explanation of how the fire started. Oct. 31 - Lani Bird, the Nation's newest communications satellite, failed to make orbit change...its guidance rockets misfired. (Launched from Cape Kennedy). Nov. 2 - Vandenburg A.F.B. "Missile Is Destroyed After West Coast Launch." "A Minuteman ICBM launched from this coastal base early today developed a malfunction and was destroyed, etc. The Air Force said the cause of the malfunction was not immediately determined." Nov. 1 - "10 Die as Brush Blaze Traps Crack Calif. Fire Fighters." (Los Angeles area) Great fires. Also four Marines killed in the fires at Camp Pendleton Marine Base. Nov. 4 - Record cold numbed at least seven States of the Southland as the season's first major snowstorm, a killer...etc. The storm's toll of lives totalled at least 32 in six States." (The storm also struck the Northeast and Midwest). Nov. 2 - Helicopter crash on the deck of aircraft carrier Guadalcanal at Norfolk, Virginia, killed four and injured 18. Nov. 2 - U. S. Submarine Tiru runs aground off Australia. Calls for help. Nov. 8 - Flash fire on U.S. aircraft carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt kills seven. "Captain says cause a mystery." Nov. 5 - President Johnson announces he'll have to go into hospital for two operations. ---------- There you are, my scientist friend...every color in the ODE rainbow. Accidents and catastrophes for the U.S. and U.S. Govt. (same thing?) touching on all of the Choice File. Therefore...my prediction was correct. (Not that this is over...far from it. I've just pointed out what is happening. There's more to come, until the Si's are made friends.) 08/07/2025 16:38 08/07/2025 16:44 === Page 193 of 220 11/6/66 p5 Page Five In closing this long prediction-pointer-outer. I have discovered something which, in the interest of science, might interest you. Running through the Si punishment is an identifiable thread. In the killer California fires, the winds changed direction almost in an instant, killing men who had been through hundreds of such fires and were used to coping with wind changes. A sudden wind change. In so many great accidents you read "flash fires...sudden change of wind direction...sudden appearance of giant wave smashes bow of ocean liner...tornados appeared suddenly without warning...the killer snowstorm was a "sneak" storm, completely unexpected, trapping thousands of people...etc. Time, Rowland. A different timing of things than to which humans are accustomed. Another identifiable thread is the constant use of the word "plague" and "plagued by" in news clips, referring to all sorts of things most of which are concerned with Si phenomena. Subconscious discernment? Another identifiable thread is ... well, in the writeup of the recent copter crash on the carrier Guadalcanal: "It was the second recent case in which the American war effort has been hit by mysterious disasters." (I am quoting newsclip) Almost without exception the cause of the many catastrophes cannot be explained...is always under investigation...in many cases is honestly termed "a mystery." (Correction...the above "mystery" newsclip quote came from the mysterious explosion of the ammunition dump in Saigon, because no VC were there and they couldn't figure out how it happened...like the two aircraft carrier fires, where there were no VC either.) One further note; the Si's have told me when they first got to me. I was hit by an auto while standing in a hole by the side of the road, and flung up into the air for 20 feet, when about six. Was knocked out for seven hours. I still remember it all vividly. I was climbing out of the hole in front of my grandfather's house on 14th St., then I woke up in grandpa's bed, seven hours later. In that time, the Si's began their contact. After that, like a case of multiple personality, the Si in me would only "come out" in case of emergency...otherwise it would fade back and let me be myself. This would explain many strange things in my life...like my ability as a hypnotist...like my mind-reading ability, and psychometry ability...like the night while driving my car on a mountain road I tried to turn it sideways halfway up a mountain with a sheer cliff drop on my right...and a car full of negros appeared suddenly without warning coming down the mountain and drove right on through my car, to my utter horror and astonishment...just like a plane flying through a cloud. I got on the phone and told Pat, my wife, long distance about it. Completely unbelievable. I could see far up the mountain before I tried a turn on the narrow, steep cliff road, and saw no car lights. So I turned sharp left into a small road and began to back out, blocking the road completely. Perhaps four or five feet to the steep cliff in back of my car. Suddenly in my rear view mirror I saw car headlights right on top of my car. I closed my eyes and waited for the crash. None came. I opened my eyes and saw this car full of negros, laughing and shouting, driving on PK Man 08/07/2025 16:38 === Page 194 of 220 November 10, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swenk, Organization of Scientific Research. Dear Rowland: What do you think now of my prediction of June 5, 1966, of a nuclear submarine (U.S.) catastrophe and/or U.S. aircraft carrier catastrophe, plus a Si blow struck at our seat of Government, The White House? Since then, would you believe: Three (3) submarine accidents: Sept. 15, West German sub Hai sank with crew. Wipe out. Nov. 4, U. S. sub Tiru runs aground on the rocks; took 3 days to pull it off. Being repaired now in Australia. (When I called you about the Tiru...you asked if the sub was nuclear, as per my prediction, remember?) Nov. 10, today, the nuclear U.S. sub Nautilus collided with the U.S. aircraft carrier Essex, and was extensively damaged. (The Si's must have heard you and wanted the prediction perfect to the smallest detail.) Six (6) U.S. Aircraft Carrier accidents: OCT. 5 CARRIER KITTY HAWK, PLANE FELL OVERBOARD, KILLED TWO PILOTS. Oct. 25, Carrier Oriskany burned, killing 34 officers and pilots and 9 enlisted men. Nov. 1, Carrier Guadalcanal had copter crash on deck that killed 4 and injured 18. Nov. 4, Carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt caught fire, 8 killed. (Note: It is interesting that this carrier got hung up the same day as the sub Tiru, just as the accident today hung up the Nautilus and Essex.) Nov. 8, Aircraft Transport (but former aircraft carrier...must look like carrier and fooled the Si's) caught fire, Kula Gulf, at Hawaii. Nov. 10, Carrier Essex crashed into nuclear sub Nautilus. All this...in the short space of about six weeks, after my prediction. And to top it off, the 3rd part of my prediction has come to pass. President Johnson, symbol of the White House and our seat of govt. is going into hospital for surgery. What do you think of that, Rowland? Still on the co-incidence kick? Respectfully, P K Man (Owens) Owens P.S. Remember I warned the Govt. not to hold these naval exercises!! === Page 195 of 220 November 10, 1966 Rowland - An added letter to this envelope. If the documents, with their truth of PK and SI's, in this envelope do not absolutely frighten you as a scientist, my friend, then you are made of rock. Enclosed is a xerox copy of my May 23 letter to George Clark, CIA, stressing that the SI's would hit the Democrats hard at poll time... and you just saw the results yesterday. The Republicans had a sweeping victory. Johnson and party were dealt a mighty blow. Of further interest is something I noticed...did you notice how many Democrat leaders have had accidents these past two months, and heart attacks? There were two fatal ones just today. I quote newsclip: "Death Overtakes Two Who Won In Indiana" - "Two successful candidates in the Indiana elections have died since Tuesday. Kermit Burrous, at Wabash, and Cecil Bingham, Democrat, etc." Then you have the string of Sharp accidents and mishaps, and other Democratic officials who have succumbed. It is something to think about...how the PK worked. (Odd mechanisms). When the SI's said they would use "all their power" they were not wasting words. Enclosed is another xerox copy of my June 13 letter to George Clark, CIA, in which I warned the Govt. not to allow naval exercises in the Atlantic...and I listed the reasons why...even referring to my June 5 prediction to Zelda Mansell, George, and her husband. I had in mind the exercises at that time, but it would not matter when they were held. Then or now. Would be more dangerous now, for PK grows with time. So today the giant aircraft carrier smashed into the nuclear submarine Nautilus. The sub might have gone down with its crew. They were lucky. The next time, and there could be a next time, there might be no survivors. The warning still stands ahead in the future. PK and the SI's are not bound by time limits, I have found. You may recall I warned to you, Rowland, somewhere along the line, that Atlantic waters would be particularly dangerous to ships, subs and planes. Recall? I sent copies of the above two letters to Eastwood, Inventions, Nasa; Louise Shine; my kids, now in Lomita, Calif.; and perhaps to Jack McKinney. Also, I think, to Zelda Mansell in Ardmore, Pa. So there are two more solid hits for my files, Rowland. PK Man (Owens) Owens === Page 196 of 220 Sunday, Nov. 13, 1966 Joe McGinniss, Sports Writer, Inquirer Dear Mr. McGinniss: Last week, and up until last week, I had ignored the Eagles defensive, thinking that if I stopped the Eagles offensive with PK it would be enough for my purposes. To my amazement...the PK worked perfect, the Eagles offensive wouldn't have beaten the Girl Scouts, as a team effort.. but the Eagles defensive unit won the game. The three run backs and the stolen ball just when the Cowboys could have kicked a field goal...were an absolute miracle, you understand. So this week, with the Browns, I not only called on the si's (saucer intelligences) to stop the Eagles offensive, but also to stop the Eagles defensive effort and kickbacks. You saw the result today as the Browns murdered the Eagles, who could not count on a miracle to win this time. I wish you would do an article on this, pointing out that all the Eagles opponents have to do is take advantage of their many opportunities given them by PK...and not give away touchdowns...to win. And send a tear sheet to those coaches of the teams still to confront the Eagles. Let them know about the PK and what it means for them, as an edge. Sincerely, P K Man (Owens) 1114 Spruce Street, No. 33 Philadelphia, Pa. Owen === Page 197 of 220 Sunday, Nov. 13, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swenk, O.C.A.R. Forgive me for waking you up at 2 in the morning Sat. night, but as I told you...about 1 o'clock the Si's communicated with me strongly and told me, with mental imagery, that they were dropping "white rain" (more like silver, as per their picture) on the Gemini 12 capsule in space, and that it would have an effect on the capsule, and for me to get dressed, find change, find your phone number, leave my 3rd floor apartment, find a phone and call you. I checked it out once, then twice, with them, and they were adamant. So I followed their instruction, as you know, and called you about. This "white rain" is something new in the OIE vocabulary. Evidently they are experimenting with different effects. Will be interesting to see what comes of the "white rain." P K Man (Owens) Kids - send back my UFO pocket book!!! === Page 198 of 220 November 15, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: Nothing could be more important to you and I and the U.S. than this letter...it concerns our survival, I am sure. Last night the Si's let me look through the Window of Time and see what lies ahead. Through the window I could see a gorgeous sunset.. (meaning time, before dark closes in) and there, spread across the sky was a beautiful tiger, in full colors, probably hundreds of miles in length across the sky. I interpret the Si's communication as a prediction that: (1) The Asian race will master the world in the very near future, powerful Russia and U.S. notwithstanding. (2) The Asians will take over complete control and mastery of the skies in Viet Nam, in some way...our great power notwithstanding or (3) The Asians will destroy all of our forces in Viet Nam in the near future. There was more to the communication...that our "house" was mined, set with a booby-trap to blow up the "house". I interpret this as the U.S. has been secretly prepared by enemies to be destroyed, in the near future. Or the U.S. in Viet Nam has secretly been prepared for destruction, which will take place in the near future. PK Man (Owens) === Page 199 of 220 Wednesday, November 23, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: I am angry...the Si's are angry. You can expect airplane crashes all over the United States, under all kinds of conditions, consistently, throughout the following weeks and months. It will be a storm...of plane crashes. The Si's have craft everywhere, positioned over our States. They are now going into action to knock down planes, everywhere. I'm a couple of days late sending this communication to you from the Si's...but I thought perhaps you would send me that confirmation. P K Man (Owens) Owens === Page 200 of 220 Monday, Dec. 5, 1966 Rowland Swank Organization of Scientific Research Dear Rowland: Just a note. Not scientific. But something very unusual and very different happened last night. Better tell it. For some reason none of us were sleepy, as we usually are at midnight. The baby sat at my feet playing with his toys, and I read. About 1 in the morning we still weren't sleepy. I made baby get into bed...and Martha said she felt like walking out onto the balcony outside our windows to get a breath of fresh air. This was quite unlike Martha, because she is afraid of the dark. In about five minutes she ran back inside the apartment, slammed the door, and was hysterical with fear. As I got the story... She went out onto the balcony, where there is a great view of the city at night...and a sweeping view of the sky. She stood there, wondering if there were any flying saucers up there...when suddenly something alive, about two feet high, dropped from nowhere to a position about three feet from her on the balcony, and just stood there. She was scared witless and dashed back inside. The thing was not a cat, she said (she knows cats). She was just standing there when suddenly she saw this dark form drop onto the balcony with a thump...it was about two feet high, and just crouched there where she could see its outline the darkness. I know positively Martha was not imagining it. Once she told me there was a pigeon the roof across, with a collar around its neck, and I told her she must be imagining it. She wasn't. It had something like a radar screen strung around its neck. Another time she woke me up in the middle of the night and said there was a flying saucer in the room, and I thought she must be dreaming. But she wasn't. It was in the room. Sothe Si's have made their first approach to us. Unfortunately it was not me on the balcony. My reaction, however, was typically stupid. I ran out with a throwing knife, a combat knife and a blackjack. Before I thought. And that is the sad history of the human reaction to the nearness of the Si's. In the future, no matter how frightening...I must carry no weapons. P K Man (Owens) P.S. Then we went to bed about 2. And I could not sleep. My mind just would not go to sleep. I fell asleep about 4 or 5. After Martha came back into the room, hysterical with fear, the baby also got terribly frightened and chattered for an hour without stopping. Something he's never done. He scarcely talks. Owens === Page 201 of 220 12/9/66 P1 Dec. 9, 1966 Dear Rick: I enjoyed getting your letters. What do I want for Christmas? Just love and peace of mind. No gifts, thanks very much. I have gotten so dam mad at the crass comercialism now at Christmas I could spit. HOWEVER, please do send baby Beau and Martha a present...for their Christmas is not complete with tree and presents. (Furthermore...I sincerely believe that humans should no longer observe Christmas at all. Honest. Since it is the birthday of Jesus...and that's why we celebrate it...it is no longer a true thing. Because all the rest of the year we humans kill, hate, lie, cheat, steal, corrupt....phooey. Then back on Christmas day we give each other presents. Then back to the stinky rat-race. So I say humans do not deserve the privilege of celebrating the birth of Jesus...until they, humans, become good in all the meanings of the word. Look...right now they are making a big joke out of the word 'holy'. Watch Batman and Robin. Holy this and holy that. It has become a big joke. They have copied the idea on the Milton Berle Show and other shows...holy this and holy that. So now all the tiny kids think the word holy is a joke. Some joke.) Lecture's over. Speaking of lectures, I've been asked to give one at a college here in Philadelphia, on January 11, on the mind. Specifically on memory techniques and hypnotism. Do I think you should go out for pro basketball? Each to his own, pal. Go for basketball in H.S. and see how it develops. You are an ace in my book at basketball. So what if you haven't got all the fine points down yet. They come with practice. Also take up tennis, and take up golf. Golf pros make big money and have lots of fun. But sports aside...you're a dandy writer and typist. I am proud of your good typing. Practice writing stories. Write me a story about our long trip across the United States. That's what I'd really like to have for a Christmas present. Put in everything you can remember. If you could grow up and write books, then you would be doing what I wish I were doing! It's good money, you travel, and you have fun. We have a camera, but it's busted. I'll try to fix it and send you some pictures. You will be interested in my latest project...working with the Si's to end the drought in India (worst in 100 years) and to feed the hunger. 4 million people are supposed to die there this year from hunger. This is a big, good demonstration by the Si's, in the time ahead. Two TV shows have copied my "Knife" idea. That Red Buttons monstrosity which flunked out...and now there's another one going. However, nobody could copy my other novel! Ha ha! "The Love Doll"...remember? You will make a wonderful cheer leader. Always keep a big happy grin on your face and yell real loud. 08/07/2025 16:44 === Page 202 of 220 12/9/66 P2 2 Re the "change of atmosphere" - you are sensitive to it, eh? No, the Shannons certainly would not have the atmosphere which surrounds me and mine. But then, the Shannon's eat better, and live better, don't they? One time Dorothy Frye in Ft. Worth Texas begged me to let her take me to a famous "reader" there...a colored woman, paralyzed in bed, who "read" for people at $10 a throw. I finally went with Dorothy. When I was taken into this famous reader's bedroom...she looked up at me...her eyes got wide...and she was quiet for a while. Then she said, "Mr. Owens...there is so much power around you, that you have brought into this room, that it is impossible for me to read for you...and not only that, but after you leave here I am afraid it will be days before the power dies down enough for me to read for other people." If you want my honest statement on it, Rick...I am charged with some kind of strange power. Not just in me, but it extends all around me. Those living with me become saturated with it. Whether it's from the Si's, or something else...I do not know. At any rate...it is some kind of power...it is not money, and you know very well that although I am loaded with strange power I do not have money. And I wouldn't have it any other way. I will gladly take the strange powers...and let everyone else take the money. Even though it's damned inconvenient sometimes. Then there is something else. When you and Lornie were with us, we formed a team. A fine team. Sure we fussed...but even the best pro basketball teams fuss sometimes between themselves...then they go out and work together to beat the other teams. That's the way we were, Rick. You and Lornie sold those jiggers to get us gas...I told fortunes and taught auto-hyp so we could eat...you and me took wrecked cars apart so we could keep going...we nursed the puppies and helped Marthy Ann bring them into the world...and you and I and Lornie and Martha and Beau helped bury Marthy Ann. We slept together, traveled together, were hungry together, and ate fried chicken and ice cream feasts together...all five of us. That made us a team...and together we had power, a form of personality-power. You don't have that at the Shannon's because it isn't the same set-up, the same kind of team. Their needs are different than what our team had. Tell me one thing...where else in the entire world could you, Rick, in one house, sit down at a set of drums like in Seattle and play, then go watch tiny puppies waddle around, then go outside and throw knives, then come inside and talk to a professional about hypnotism, mind-reading, and UFO's? That's what we had. We haven't got it any more. We were building up to it again in Washington. I never quit building up, if I get knocked down. It's always up and at 'em again. However, don't get me wrong...the Shannon's are fine people...Pat's the best. Their way of living is just different than mine (who's isn't?) and so the atmosphere is different. I wanted to teach you a lot of things when you were with me, but couldn't because your judgement wasn't ready for it. Now it's extremely doubtful if I will ever get to teach you anything more. Beau is bigger and cuter than ever. love, Dad 08/07/2025 16:44 === Page 203 of 220 12/9/66 p3 COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA 34 SOUTH 11TH STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PENNA. 19107 LO 9-3680 December 8, 1966 Mr. Ted Owens 22d floor 12 S. 12th St. Philadelphia, Pa. 19107 Dear Ted: Don Angell's English Composition Class at the Philadelphia Community College accepts with pleasure your kind offer to lecture before it. We are glad you have stated it will be convenient for you to come the evening of January 11, 1967. The class is conducted from 7:30 p.m. to 8:40 p.m. If you do not have that much time to spare, rest assured we shall be grateful for just whatever you think will be effective. You mentioned you were interested in talking about self-hypnosis. I also remember your statement that you dealt with the field of memory improvement technique. The class was vociferous in agreeing that this was what they needed most - guidance so they could improve their ability to retain in their minds the text book material and extra reading assignments showered upon them. We look forward to all the help you can give us in this direction. The classroom number is 211. I think I have given you an understandable map to guide you, and I trust you will not get lost on the way. Remember, the library facilities of the school are at your command if you have time between supper and the witching hour: 7:30 p.m. or as close to that as you can manage. I am sure you would have secured a warm glow of pleasure if you had seen all the hands go up when Don Angell wanted to know if the class would be interested in hearing you. Sincerely, J. M. Poth 08/07/2025 16:44 === Page 204 of 220 December 13, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: I warned three weeks ago that the Si's were angry, and were going to strike...at planes. My letter to you of November 23, copy, plus overnight news-clips, is self-explanatory. I feel they have been waiting patiently...and not getting any cooperation, have just begun on their "bringing down aircraft" campaign. By the way...the radio reports last night said the SAC bomber carried nuclear bombs when it crashed. The papers said it didn't. Makes you wonder who you can believe. Sincerely, P K Man (Owens) Owens Navy Helicopter Crash at Sea === Page 205 of 220 12/13/66 P2 Wednesday, November 23, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank, C.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: I am angry...the Si's are angry. You can expect airplane crashes all over the United States, under all kinds of conditions, consistently, throughout the following weeks and months. It will be a storm...of plane crashes. The Si's have craft everywhere, positioned over our States. They are now going into action to knock down planes, everywhere. I'm a couple of days late sending this communication to you from I thought perhaps you would send that confirmation. Three Airmen Feared Dead As SAC Bomber Crashes McKINNEY, Ky. (UPI). -- A B-58 Strategic Air Command jet bomber on a routine training mission plowed into a rugged mountain section of Kentucky, apparently killing the three crewmen aboard. A spokesman at Bunker Hill Air Force Base, Ind., said the bomber was not carrying nuclear warheads. The plane was headed for Indiana after practice bombing run. Kentucky State Police said one body had been recovered, but identification had not been made. Among those reported aboard was Capt. Clarence D. Lunt, 29, of Williamsport, Pa. Pi Man (Owens) Copter Crashes, 10 Missing SAN DIEGO, Calif (UPI). -- A big Navy jet helicopter carrying eight officers and two enlisted men crashed at sea 30 miles offshore. It was feared all were killed. An intensive air-sea search recovered bits of wreckage of the copter but there was no sign of the occupants. Navy Helicopter Crashes at Sea From Our Wire Services SAN DIEGO, Calif., Dec. 12. -- A Navy H-46 Sea Knight helicopter carrying 10 men crashed at sea 30 miles of-shore late Monday and an intensive search was under way for survivors. The big helicopter left nearby Ream Field at 7:30 P. M. (EST) for the amphibious assault carrier Tripoli, the Navy said. The helicopter, attached to Squadron HC1 at Ream Field, crashed 20 minutes later about four miles short of the carrier. An air-sea search was begun immediately and the crash area was illuminated with flares so the search could continue through the night. Navy and Coast Guard vessels and aircraft participated in the search. NUCLEAR BOMBER!! B-58 With 3 Aboard Crashes on Farm HUSTONVILLE, Ky. -- A U. S. Air Force B-58 bomber with three men aboard crashed Monday night on a farm near here, the Air Force said. The Air Force reported the plane caught fire when it crashed. A spokesman said the flames were caused by the plane's fuel and that there were no munitions aboard. A witness at the scene said he saw the body of the pilot, still in his ejection seat, about 300 feet down the hill from the crash scene. There was no word on the fate of the other two persons aboard. === Page 206 of 220 Kids - am trying to get CIA, etc. confirms. Pat is already a friend of the Si's. Dad. Friday, December 16, 1966 To my contacts and former contacts: Folks: This is what a confirmation looks like. It is a notarized statement of fact, based on predictions made by me in writing before national or international events happened...and which came to pass. I do not ask any of my contacts to state that they believe in UFO's, or believe that I am connected in UFO's, etc. I simply ask them to tell the truth on paper...that I have been doing something no other person in the world has done, or could do. Mrs. Hansell's example is how it is done. It simply states fact. And since most of you got the very same predictions she got...you know absolutely that it is a fact. Jack McKinney, in 1965, scoffed at my predictions and inferred that I perhaps wrote my predictions after the fact. This was a legitimate suspicion, since a person without scruples could do so...but Jack McKinney knows today, absolutely for sure, that the seemingly impossible predictions he scoffed at in 1965 that had come to pass... were in fact sent to CIA and NASA and I said, because Jack has had enough of the predictions ahead of the event...in many various categories (hurricane, earthquake, UFO appearance, etc.)...to know now exactly what I have been doing. That goes for all you others, too. My work in the future will be much more powerful than what I have done in 1964, 1965, and 1966. Those of you who would like to be a friend to PK Man and the Si's, send in a notarized list of simply-stated facts re my "hits". That notarized list puts you on my and the Si's team. Bear in mind I do not ask you to list anything that is false. Why should I, when the predictions I have made that have come to pass by now are well over 100...major events. And much more to come. It is a funny situation. I am doing miracles (saving the girl who would have died in Wash., D.C.; making a hurricane appear early, then making another hurricane go in the direction I want it to go, even back up; making UFO's appear on schedule as proof they are tied in; etc.) yet those to whom I am showing these miracles...instead of being excited about it, and proud to have been shown...seemed ashamed of me, and won't even admit I have done it. What if the people, in the thousands, that Cayce saved, Edgar Cayce, had refused to acknowledge his miracles had helped them or saved them? If you do not want to list any specific happenings...you could at least send a note saying that yes, it is absolutely true that I have predicted many major events before they came to pass. You know I did, so why be ashamed to say so? Owens 08/07/2025 16:44 === Page 207 of 220 12/16/66 p2 November 28, 1966 On June 5, 1966, Ted Owens made the following prediction to myself, my husband, Robert Hansell, and George Riddle: The UFO intelligences, to demonstrate their powers further to the U.S. Govt. will bring about a nuclear submarine catastrophe, or Aircraft carrier catastrophe, i.e., a naval catastrophe involving U.S. vessels within the near future. They will also deal our seat of Government (The White House and Capitol Hill) a serious blow in the near future. The above to take place not later than September, 1966. ---------- (Only the time element was off a bit) Sept. 15, 1966, the West German submarine Hai suddenly sunk with its crew. Oct. 26, 1966, the U.S.S. Aircraft Carrier Oriskany caught fire and burned, killing 34 officers and pilots and 9 enlisted men. Nov. 2, 1966, U.S.S. Aircraft Carrier Guadalcanal, a helicopter crashed on deck killing four of the crew and injuring eighteen others. Nov. 4, 1966, U.S. Navy Submarine "Tiru" accidentally went aground of the coast of Australia and radioed for help. Took three days for tugs to get it off the rocks and it is now in port being repaired. Nov. 5, 1966, U.S.S. Aircraft Carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. caught fire, killing eight of the crew. Commander Schoultz, the ship's captain, termed the cause of the blaze "a mystery". Nov. 8, 1966, former aircraft carrier, now a transport caught fire in Kula Gulf, Hawaii. Nov. 10, 1966, Nuclear U.S. sub Nautilus collided with the aircraft carrier Essex, and was extensively damaged. Also, on Nov. 5, 1966, President Johnson of the United States announced that he must have two operations performed at once; surgery. This was, certainly a blow to our seat of government. Therefore it is my conviction that this 3-point prediction by Ted Owens has come about (although a few weeks late) in the exact order that he predicted it. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 30th day of November, 1966 Zelda S. Hansell 29 S. Wyoming Ave. Ardmore, Pa. 19003 Notary Public, Ardmore, Montgomery County My Commission Expires April 25, 1968 08/07/2025 16:44 === Page 208 of 220 12/14/66 p3 THE FOLLOWING IS A TESTIMONIAL TO THE VALIDITY OF THE PREDICTIONS MADE BY TED OWENS AND SENT TO ME ON THE DATES STATED. MARCH 10, 1966 - End of drought conditions to occur in near future. (By end of June, Udall had made a report to President Johnson stating that the drought had definitely diminished in intensity.) APRIL 26, 1966 - U.F.O. seen over Philadelphia. This was predicted on April 19 in carbon copy sent to me. JUNE 1, 1966 - Predicted early hurricane. Alma occurred five days later. JUNE 17, 1966 - Predicted major earthquake in California. Same occurred eleven days later. JUNE 18, 1966 - Predicted series of violent electrical storms in Philadelphia area. Several fierce storms occurred during the end of June and in July--unusual amount of lighting. JUNE 29, 1966 - Warned that U.S. Fleet would be attacked off Viet Nam coast. Two days later, torpedo boats attacked U.S. warships. OCT. 15, 1966 - Predicted that a U.F.O. would be seen and reported in the mass media, in the vicinity of Philadelphia, on Halloween. The Camden, N.J. newspaper reported a U.F.O. seen by many people on Oct. 31. It was heading for Phila. Zelda S. Hansell Zelda S. Hansell 29 S. Wyoming Ave. Ardmore, Pa. 19003 December 10, 1966 State of Penna. County of Montgomery Sworn to before me this 10th day of December 1966. Maria R. Pavoni Maria R. Pavoni Notary Public My comm. exp. 2/10/69 08/07/2025 16:44 === Page 209 of 220 December 22, 1966 TO ALL CONTACTS Urgent message from Si's today. They say President Johnson will collapse with heart attack within 90 days, placing country in danger without adequate leadership. P K Man (Owens) === Page 210 of 220 December 22, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: Enclosed is xerox of page from my letter to George Clark of July 17, 1965, predicting that President Johnson would be up to his neck in a "bad, smelly scandal"...which of course he is right now, with the Jackie Kennedy material being unloaded in all the newspapers blasting Johnson's motives and actions, etc., in the past. I attached a newsclip to the xerox...the "besmirches" thing...to indicate this. So, another hit. (This is the back-page of letter in your xerox'd files No. 38.) My intuition tells me a different story than appears in the papers. It is this: Johnson found out that the boom was going to be lowered on him in the Jackie Kennedy book...so he sent word to Jackie that he had a dossier on her private life, which is much rawer than the American public could ever imagine. And that if he got clobbered with her book, she'd get clobbered with carefully leaked info on her private life. (The irony is that Bobby Kennedy has a dossier on Johnson's own private life, which is much rawer than the American public could ever imagine, and is prepared to leak out the info if the other two get in a battle of leaked info. Jackie covered her losses in having to make a big show of removing the offensive material from the book...by seeing that the offensive material was leaked out anyway, as it was this week. Ahead, therefore, since the damage has been done to Johnson...the American public will find out through leaks from Johnson friends that Jackie has done such and such with so and so...and Jackie will come off with quite a horrible black eye. After that, the public will find out that Johnson has misbehaved in various ways unbeknownst to the country...which will be leaked out by Bobby Kennedy in retribution for damage done to his sister. And Johnson will be in worse scandal than he is now. That's what I see, looking ahead with intuition (ESP). Let's wait and see if I'm wrong. Incidentally, to change the subject, I refer to my March 26, 1966, letter to George Clark...in the file of Si's vs. Air Force, telling George that Hyneck may have doomed the Air Force by calling the Si's "marsh gas" etc. Well, a few weeks ago, Dec. 17, 1966, front page of the Saturday Evening Post was the article, "Are Flying Saucers Real" "A Surprising Report From The Top Scientific Authority"...namely, Hyneck. An apology of sorts from Hyneck for calling the Si's "marsh gas". It's a The AF has been taking an awful beating. Owens 08/07/2025 16:51 === Page 211 of 220 12/22/66 P2 JULY 17, 1965 William S. White 'Leaks' From Kennedy Book Besmirch President Unfairly DEC. 21, 1966 WASHINGTON. THE great controversy over whether the once family-sponsored book on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is or is not to be published is an empty one so far as its widely heralded personal attacks upon President Johnson are concerned. Among other things it is precisely these "inaccurate and unfair" references to Mr. Johnson, as Mrs. John F. Kennedy herself honorably describes them, which she now seeks national rudderlessness he was continuously and deeply concerned with the understandable grief of the Kennedy followers and made every effort to show to them sympathy and understanding. frankly that and safe - the completely. that is, if a truck, or has problem about simply academic That is h I happy-ates lit by U.S. 'll become al. George - in one to you, I told help flowers & show up on f Since Her in the eye; the sort of grass-di Mrs. Johnson or dying. copy cull effects bitten 't some ers e dead I am afraid, George, that Pres. Johnson may be up to his neck in a bad, smelly scandal in the near future. Then what will he do, fire himself? PR Man 08/07/2025 16:51 === Page 212 of 220 December 27, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: An interesting thing has occurred, which should go on record. On my last job with Fashionbilt Clothes, I pointed out that just about everybody in the two offices on my floor...had an accident or an illness. Oscar Patton, my boss, fell down a flight of stairs and injured his leg and was out for a bit. The girl next to me got a phone call and her mother had crashed her car into another car and been taken to a hospital. My alternate boss had a heart attack. The other woman in our office injured her foot so severely she could hardly hobble about. And at one time everybody was home sick but me and one girl. Now, on my new job...my boss, Mr. Shiekman, was in his car in New York a couple of weeks ago and it was hit by a truck. A friend of mine, a girl, Phylis Moscowitz, was stricken a couple of weeks ago with mononucleosis and has been gone for a couple of weeks, just returned. The office manager, Miss Minter, fell and injured her leg last week and has been hobbling around on it with it all taped up...also her pet cat dropped dead...then last Thursday night her dad, who was standing with her near a highway, was hit and knocked for 12 feet by a car, and he's in a hospital for six months with traction. Drove his eyeglasses into his right eye. And so on. The odd part of it is...these are not people I am angry at or dislike. They are all people I like. That communication to me from the Si's last week re President Johnson was so urgent...that they urged me to leave work and phone it in to George Clark, which I did. They must really see a danger spot for the U.S. just ahead. I tested their info many times for "strength" (feeling) and it was right, it was there...so I passed it on. The Si's have told me to keep passing on information, instead of shelving it until I get proper confirmations. They said they will handle the matter, take care of it themselves. Incidentally, I misunderstood the full meaning when the Si's said they would cause a storm of airplane crashes. I thought they meant just here in the U.S. But they meant just anywhere, everywhere. You will note there were numerous crashes of planes out of the U.S. last week, or involving U.S. people...the Miami to Columbia crash, the Acapulco/Mexican Crash, etc. There have been many in the past week or so. My method of receiving and sending with the Si's is far from perfect as yet. The Si's have said that they have been teaching lessons out away from the top principals involved...that is, storms and hurricanes and floods, etc., and planes downed and subs and carriers affected...but that now they are going to turn their attention to the top men closer to home. They say as long as something happens to somebody else, it doesn't get the attention it would if it happened to you, personally. So now probably top govt. officials will be getting SI phenomena in large doses 08/07/2025 16:51 === Page 213 of 220 December 29, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: The Si's are giving me information not known elsewhere...even to our Intelligence agencies. I pass it on. Picture a powerful batter in baseball, like Babe Ruth, swinging a big bat...against a concrete wall with all his might. The Si's say that is what the U.S. with all its power is running up against in Viet Nam. We are the batter; our planes and guns, etc., are the big bat...and the concrete wall is what the Reds have planned for us there. While it is true that Hanoi and Ho fear a Chinese take-over, they hate us more than they fear the Chinese...and so will use Chinese help. The Chinese soldiers, fliers, etc., will be slipped in, slowly at first, until large forces gather in Cong clothes or North Vietnamese uniforms....then hordes will be turned loose from China onto our forces in Viet Nam. The Red trap is most complex...but what it adds up to is...to take the coastal areas until Saigon is surrounded by a Red circle (constantly adding more and more hordes from Red China...and shrink the circle always tightening inward, until all U.S. forces are wiped out and no more Americans are alive (except in captivity), in the center of the circle. No matter what talk there is of the Russ fearing the Chinese, etc., right now we are pitted against the Russ/Chinese combination in Viet Nam. They have us exactly where they want us...the hated Americans far from home base, where supplies can be cut off (and they are planning to do this with planes and subs against our planes and ships)...where half a million or more Americans can be destroyed, thus showing the world America is vulnerable...and costing us horribly in lost ships, planes, men. We are the Russ/Chinese common enemy, and they have us at their mercy in Viet Nam, and they will work together as a team to destroy us there. Our stock market will go down, and lose and lose and lose...until people curse money and money will have little meaning. (Because of the Johnson prediction, heart-attack, then the stock market should lose 15-30 points in a single day or two span within the coming 90 days.) But no one could believe, at this time, what utter devastation the American economy will suffer in the coming time ahead. Financial structures will crumble and fall apart, of every kind and description, like shoes rotting in the jungle. (The Si's point out that the above two catastrophes are of our own making. If we right now got our forces out of Viet Nam and got everything and everybody home...they could be saved. As for economy...we have gone past the point of no return, and will be badly hurt even if we quickly cancelled all nutty government "goody" projects (glorifying the scenery etc etc.) and cut out so much govt. corruption (Powell's throwing money away and all like him, and cut out giving billions away overseas, etc etc. But we would survive if we did these things. Which we won't, being incredibly stupid. So...our entire economy will drop dead, and America will be a ruined nation, economically. As if this weren't enough grief...the Si's warn of a pestilence that will sweep the land in near time ahead. Call it a plague of some sort. It will happen all at once and people will drop like flies all over the land. (If this occurs, as the Si's say it will, I have a good idea of where it comes from.) P K Man (Owens) 08/07/2025 16:51 === Page 214 of 220 December 29, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Lomie & Rick Re my last letter stressing the large number of persons working around me who have accidents, illness, etc., add the following: Bruce Clutterbaugh, star defensive player for the Phila. Bulldogs, who worked in our File Room, got a broken toe and broken knee cartilage some weeks ago. He's been gone since. I used to chat a lot with Bruce, and showed him some judo to use on the line against opposing players. Mickey Peskin, girl who works ten feet away from me...had a skillet full of Wesson Oil catch fire last Saturday...flames shot clear up to the ceiling, spread soot throughout the house...she said it was very close, almost set the house afire. Same girl, yesterday, complained of pain in her jaw, went to the dentist, and he opened an abscess in her jaw. Same girl, today, told me she was paralyzed last night by a terrible back pain...she could not move...her mother had to put her to bed and get her covered up. This morning the odd, paralyzing pain had gone. Dolores Reardigan...friend of mine here in the office...caught strep throat last week, was out for days...came back sick...is still sick, tells me she can't keep food on her stomach. She's pale, wan and drawn with no strength. Miriam...in the File Room...was stricken several weeks ago with throat pain. Went to the hospital and had to have surgery, tonsils removed (she's in her 20's). Same girl had to go home yesterday, sick. Shiekman, my former boss, had his vacation trip delayed last Saturday when one of his children fell sick. ---------- Just wanted to add these to make the picture complete. There is definitely something about a radius around me...that seems to affect others. Because this has occurred in the various places I have worked. When I worked for Gelman in Washington in 1965, the same thing happened...freak accidents, part of the ceiling fell on a woman, people suddenly stricken with illness, etc. P K Man (Ovens) === Page 215 of 220 December 29, 1966 12/29/66 PZ Dear Zelda: I appreciate very much your offer to locate me on that little old lady's ranch in Yucca Valley in California. I have had several offers like that ... you know, come stay with us ... no money, just park there. But here is why it wouldn't work. You know me. I couldn't sit in a rocking chair and let a year go by without forging steadily, somehow, toward my personal goal of starting the Sotas (Church) and getting once more into the swing of healing people, as I did once in Texas. To park with somebody for a year without money, would mean depending upon them for our needs ... food, cigars, cigarettes, stamps, paper, etc etc. I couldn't do that at all, since I have the habit of producing our supplies by my own effort. I have two goals, as given me by the Si's (both are) : (1) Get isolated, and arrange for them to meet with me in person. (2) Get the Sota Church founded, organized, and started ... to use Si power for healing, etc., along with spiritual power. These two goals are intertwined. Therefore I plan to somehow raise $3000 to $5000, the minimum necessary ... send $1000 to found the Church (then I am safe in my healing practices) ... get a used car to transport us and our belongings ... find a remote house or farm to operate from, and meet the Si's ... advertise the new form of Church so people with their problems will know where it is and what it does ... and be able to sustain for 3-6 months to get a running start to build up. I also have to buy a Brain Synchronizer and a short-wave radio, and a few other lesser tools. The above plan ... is the only plan that will work in my case, considering the Si's wishes, and my own needs (family). With the above plan, I utilize the year of waiting for the Si's in an isolated spot ... to build up the newly-founded Church of Sota and be helping people the while ... healing impossible cases, etc. And perhaps write a great big book about the whole thing that has occurred. It is an absolute certainty that the Si's will make a personal physical contact with me within that year's time. Face to face. But at the rate of progress I'm making toward my plan ... and the speed with which the nuclear war is building up ... it might never happen before the U.S. is destroyed. And that is a certainty, also ... and it isn't years away, but close. P K Man (Owens) === Page 216 of 220 December 29, 1966 Dear Lornie and Rick - Our Christmas was a riot. Went like this. We had enough money to get Martha a nice present (hair drier) but not enough to get a tree and everything and still get Beau a $5 wagon ... so we gave him an IOU for a wagon until next week. For the record, Beau has got more toys than an entire suburban area has got. If you get out of bed you immediately step on Batman's face or go rolling on into the bathroom on Tinkertoy wheels or one or more of the dozen some cars and trucks he has strewn around. We are literally ankle-deep in toys. You wouldn't believe it if you saw it. And remember we live in a tiny, two- room apartment. To open the refrigerator you have to move his full-size merry-go-round horse on springs. We keep his tricycle in the hall outside (I hope somebody steals it, but nobody ever does) with his name on it. Of course he went wild on Christmas, and got so excited he wouldn't mind. So Martha said, "If you don't behave, Beau, I'll get the broom after you." So Beau studies her for a minute, then he runs to the closet, gets the broom, brings it back to Martha, hands it to her, and bends over and points to his rear end, grinning. Martha put her hand over her mouth and tried to keep from laughing. Then Beau ran and got a belt and brought it to Martha and bent over and patted his rear end, grinning. He can put Martha through a KXxxx hoop. And with me he's even more skilled. Remember, he can't even talk yet. A few words ... "me go bed" "ah wan e" (eat) and so forth. To get back to Christmas ... mother sent a box of candy to us and a dandy throw-a-ring toy for Beau (which Martha and I play with). And your box came. So Martha hid them in the closet. So for three days Beau battles to get into the closet and pull out the boxes and open them. And Beau simply doesn't give up. Martha was worn out just pulling him out of the closet. Couple of times he succeeded in getting in there, getting some presents out and opening them. One big present Martha brought in to me couple of days hofuna christmas and said "IVO, know TI77 hat this is a nunca !! T said 11 Van 11 === Page 217 of 220 as standing in the way of TV set) but she went on, "It wouldn't hurt peeked inside, would it?" I said of course not, that we were grown up, Christmas was for children, and most adults looked at their presents ore Christmas. So she undid the top and examined the purse, delighted. en she carefully wrapped it up again and put it with the other unopened resents. She's been pining for a hair-drier for a long time, so I determined to get her one for Christmas. Did. Brought it home. I told her not to peek in the big shopping bag, because her present was in there. "Well," she said, "is it wrapped up?" "No," I told her, "I am Kxxxxx no good at all at wrapping presents." She brightened up, "Then maybe I'd better wrap it, all right?" See how devious she was to find out what her present was? So I said sure, go ahead. So she gets out paper and ribbons and things and wraps it all up then brings me a card ... "Do you want to write me a card?" I said sure, and wrote her a card, which she put on her present and put it with the other things. Christmas Day we got up early and opened presents. As usual I let Martha unwrap everything, which she dearly loves to do. They lay under our giant six-foot-high tree (loaded with angels, sparkling little houses, colored globes, flashing on-and-off lights, etc. and the star Martha made on top). Neither Martha nor I can figure out how to play the Yahtze game ... so we are going to just use the dice and cup and throw for high-dice. Beau latched onto the little toy jeep that runs so well ... and wouldn't play with anything else all day. He loves that jeep. Write and let me know how your Christmas went. Take pictures of your boy- friends, Lornie, and let me see what strange critters you've got hold of. Love, 4 === Page 218 of 220 08/07/2 SOM NIUM, 1 LI VOU VILO LO Dazu, ( she was standing in the way of TV set) but she went on, "It wouldn't hurt if I peeked inside, would it?" I said of course not, that we were grown up, that Christmas was for children, and most adults looked at their presents before Christmas. So she undid the top and examined the purse, delighted. Then she carefully wrapped it up again and put it with the other unopened presents. She's been pining for a hair-drier for a long time, so I determined to get her one for Christmas. Did. Brought it home. I told her not to peek in the big shopping bag, because her present was in there. "Well," she said, "is it wrapped up?" "No," I told her, "I am Kxxxxx no good at all at wrapping presents." She brightened up, "Then maybe I'd better wrap it, all right? See how devious she was to find out what her present was? So I said sure, go ahead. So she gets out paper and ribbons and things and wraps it all up then brings me a card ... "Do you want to write me a card?" I said sure, and wrote her a card, which she put on her present and put it with the other things. Christmas Day we got up early and opened presents. As usual I let Martha unwrap everything, which she dearly loves to do. They lay under our giant six-foot-high tree (loaded with angels, sparkling little houses, colored globes, flashing on-and-off lights, etc. and the star Martha made on top). Neither Martha nor I can figure out how to play the Yahtze game ... so we are going to just use the dice and cup and throw for high-dice. Beau latched onto the little toy jeep that runs so well ... and wouldn't play with anything else all day. He loves that jeep. Write and let me know how your Christmas went. Take pictures of your boy- friends, Lornie, and let me see what strange critters you've got hold of. Love, 0 Dad === Page 219 of 220 we're in mary 31, 1966 Copy- Rick Zanie 1/31/66 PI George Clark tral Intelligence Agency r George: so, once again, the Si's have proven my prediction correct. January 18 I wrote to you and warned you that the U.S. would have a onstration catastrophe within the next few days or few weeks. think this has come about, don't you? | the U.S. Capitol was the bullseye ... hardest hit, according to the ILo. Dw and cold, the worst in 100 years, radio said. Coldest in dozens of ties it has ever been in the memory of those cities. e Si's have just spoken to you ..... again. (when I say "you" of course mean you as representing the U.S. Government ... since I am their spokesman, d you are the government spokesman I speak with.) ey are now curious to know .. . must they do something worse than put the tire U.S. in a deep-freeze? Or will the U.S. make friends with them. ey wait patiently for some kind of answer, sometime. And I don't think had better come from Mr. Dunn, nice though he was ... he gives wrong iswers. P K Man P.S. Remember last year, George ... when I told you the Si's were getting ready to strike within a few days, a few weeks ... and they did, sending dozens of tornados and near tornados through six states ... and giant floods throughout the Midwest. .. all at the same time, wrecking the area. If the Government were smart, they would count the natural disasters and catastrophic accidents that happened since I have been writing as the Si's representative ... and they would easily see the following words in the newspaper write-ups by the hundreds: "The Atlas missile that blew up on the pad at Cape Kennedy ... was an impossibility. The limkning struck, with the missile on it, was lightning08/07/2005 -1669 . ich mishaps. The cold P S G S Hod le fo PUST epo hat P HOL Toda NC ujau Tox P ladel cran === Page 220 of 220 து- 29383214 CC Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1966 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/794c695aa3fe54511b3a807b626d0f5d.pdf 4fa77fd5b4829604466ec2a7703147bf https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/051d0d46c4f63978daad7700f7a18065.txt e76f5e319840e20bc930d9cede44f9e8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letters to Owens Children Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 # TED OWENS LETTERS TO CHILDREN # GENERAL LETTERS Jeff received week of July 14, 2025 11120 Bermuda Dunes, ABQ. Sent from Lori Rodriguez in Beaverton, Oregon. Recorded by Lewis Barlow July 19, 2025 Majority written in 1965 and 1966 but were a couple of letters from 1970 and 1976. We received several different packages from Lori that contained Ted Owens letters to his children. As this was more of a general package of letters and covered several different dates, for organization purposes we will just call it general letters. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 8 Love to my "fellow travelers" from Daddy. Owens # FLYING SAUCER INTELLIGENCE SPEAK BY: Ted H. Owens Suppose a man came to you and said that an earthquake would strike the California coast in a few days...and the very next day a big earthquake on the California coast is reported in all the papers. Then the man comes to you again and says that, in 2 weeks time, by Halloween, he will try to cause a UFO to be seen and reported in the newspapers. And sure enough, on Halloween night a UFO is seen by numerous persons in Camden, N.J. headed for Philadelphia (where the man making these predictions lives) and it is written up in the newspapers, just as the man said it would be. The same man comes to you and says that in the days ahead an early hurricane will appear off Florida...and 5 days later Hurricane Alma appears and hits Florida...the earliest hurricane in history to do so. When Hurricane Inez is born, this man comes to you and tells you that, contrary to what the Weather Bureau says, Inez will turn right at Cuba and go to the U.S. -- IT DOES -- Then, contrary to what the Weather Bureau says, the man says the hurricane will back up and take the same track Hurricane Betsy took last year. WHICH INEZ DOES! The man comes to you and says in the near future President Johnson will have a breakdown in health. In 120 days an unexpected public announcement is made that Johnson will have to have surgery. This same fellow then says that an attack on our warships by the enemy in Viet Nam is imminent...to beware. And sure enough 2 days later North Vietnamese torpedo boats strike with a sneak attack at our aircraft carriers. You are told that within just days a UFO will be seen flying over Philadelphia. In 6 days the now famous "Fireball Over The East Coast" is written up in national magazines and in all the papers. Then he comes to you and says that in the near future the U.S. will suffer a naval catastrophe involving aircraft carriers or submarines...and within 120 days the U.S. Aircraft Carrier Oriskany burns; the U.S. Nuclear Sub Nautilus crashes into the U.S. Aircraft Carrier Essex; and altogether there are 10 U.S. Catastrophes involving aircraft carriers and U.S. submarines within this period of time. But all these miraculous predictions are nothing new to you, because this same man has been doing this same thing for TWO years! Over 100 SUCCESSFUL PREDICTIONS ALL INVOLVING MAJOR EVENTS. You would like to try and pooh-pooh all this, but you cannot, because you know the man has given you the predictions IN WRITING ahead of the events...and you know that he has also furnished various government agencies and scientists with the same information, always AHEAD of the event. I am the man making these predictions. The how and what of it all is quite a long and involved account and will be put into print here for the first time. As you might have guessed UFO intelligences were behind all of these predictions, plus over 100 others like them. What you might NOT have guessed is that the UFO intelligences CAUSED all these things to happen. HOW IT ALL STARTED Let's get one thing absolutely straight. I am not a "contactee" in the often thought of way. In the beginning, several years ago, I was. It all began, somehow, in Fort Worth, Texas, where I had sorted out a group of three super-ESP people (one of them a doctor) who were quite advanced in clairvoyance and telepathy. I systematically used hypnotism with them, endeavoring to send their minds to seek out UFOs and establish mental contacts. This they did with considerable success...but that is another story. At that time I lived with my tiny daughter, Lornie, age 8. One particular evening I was out driving along a lonely road in the Texas countryside, with my daughter in the seat next to me, just after dark. Suddenly she said, "Daddy, look, what is that?" and pointed out my driver's window to the left of our car. I took one look, and immediately pulled over to the side of the road and parked. There coming across a field toward us, about 500 feet away, was a cigar-shaped object, with vivid colors streaming from it. White, blue, red and green are the colors I remember strongly now. It seemed to be floating or gliding toward us, making no noise whatsoever. It came fairly close to our car (I would say to within 50 feet or so) then dipped downward and vanished completely. We had watched it for about 2 minutes, I believe. ONLY THE BEGINNING After that evening, strange things began to happen. Ideas began to come to me in a flood. First these ideas helped me to write a book about healing people. Then, as the years passed, something seemed to give me intelligence about national & international events...which came to pass. I thought at first that I had somehow tapped the intelligence behind Nature. I worked with this intelligence, whatever it was, and literally accomplished miracles with it...but that too is another story. (Continued on Next Page) ********** SEARCHLIGHT is an official publication of the INTERPLANETARY NEWS SERVICE issued monthly from 3 Courtland St., New Brunswick, N.J. 08901. Each issue contains startling new contact accounts: little men reports, Shaver Mystery, etc. 12 issue subscription $2.00 Editor TIMOTHY GREEN BECKLEY Assistant Editor JOHN J. ROBINSON FLYING SAUCER INTELLIGENCE SPEAK is but one such account to be found therein. === Page 2 of 8 Finally I brought my family to Washington, D.C. to place all this information at the service of the United States Government. But they couldn't seem to grasp what on earth it was I was doing, or had. One evening, with the kids (I had my son with me then too) the Intelligence came to me stronger than ever. It told me to give a man I knew in the CIA a message that it would do something at the North/South Pole which would change the electromagnetic field there, and would make the newspapers. They said that when this happened it would be absolute proof of my contact with these then unknown intelligences. Weeks passed and nothing happened. Five months passed... then there it was. The South Pole UFO that parked over the 2 scientific expeditions (making sure it was photographed) altered the electromagnetic equipment at the bases involved. This was of course widely reported on in the newspapers. After this I knew what my contacts were -- UFOs. Shortly after that happened, I received a different sort of intelligence from them, again while seated at the dining table with my two children. I will type it here exactly as it was given to me. INTELLIGENCE FROM AFAR COMMUNICATE First a triangle and rectangle popped into my mind, then the letters A, B and C. I realized that had never happened before... and that the UFOs must be contacting me... so I shushed the kids, grabbed a pencil and paper, and began making notes. The following is what came through at 10 P.M. on Feb. 6th, 1965: "Can't come. Later We'll go find them and blot out." (Here they were talking about some satellites the Government had sent up which the kids and I had been talking about just before the interruption). "When can we meet? We know you. We are friends. Tonight is late, for us. Power low. Keep open mind. We will be back with you. Your needs will be met. A study is being made of how to bring this about. Why are your people crazy? Your earth is disorganized. We would like to help organize it. We did once before, long ago in your time. People wore robes, as you call them, as you call them, then, and wore beards. Hair on their faces." Question: Can you give me an instrument, like a pencil that would do something unusual, that I could use to convince our government of your reality? Answer by Saucer Intelligences: "You could not use what you call a 'pencil' but it is a good idea and we will send you a tool for the purpose. You will know, repeat, know you have talked with us tonight. We will arrange next few days to be seen, by your people, and by that method you will know we are making a signal for you. Count the number of different places we are seen and this will be the number of days before we are able to contact you again. A magnetic condition makes it hard for us to get through to you at all times. You have a question?" Question: Yes, I need money, say $5,000 to buy a car and go across country to meet you. This is money (holding up a bill I had in my pocket). Answer by Saucer Intelligences: "Yes, we know money. But do not use it. (They converse among themselves) Can you use diamonds?" I immediately answered that these could be used to obtain the needed cash. They replied that where they came from they had lots of diamonds. My suggestion was that they fly over me and drop the diamonds. Their reply was as follows: "We will think of it. If we do we will include the tool you need to prove to your people there must be no people-war on earth with atomic weapons." To which I responded that I have tried but to no use. Their answer was a fitting: "Yes, we did not think. Goodbye now, friend." So concluded their contact of Feb. 6th, 1966. One month, to the very day, they again saw fit to communicate with me this time with the following trade of words: Saucer Intelligences: "We have a plan. Please turn that machine off. (The kids and I were listening to the radio. I switched it off.) Can't get through tonight very good... very well. Do you have a car machine?" Answer: Yes, but it will not work. It's broken. That's why I need money. Saucer Intelligences: "We are going to take care of that... money. Do not worry about it. You will be richer than anyone in your country before long (Note: This is one of the things that has NOT come to pass. In fact if anything I have been very much without money since that time.) We want to see you, talk to you. Can we come down?" Answer: Yes, in my back yard. I'll let you in. Saucer Intelligences: "Will you be alone?" Answer: Yes I'll have my family stay upstairs. Saucer Intelligence: "No harm will come to us?" Answer: No. Absolutely not. Lower your flying machine near by back door and step onto my back porch. Knock loudly on the door. I'll let you in and we can communicate. I am very pleased and anxious to meet you. Saucer Intelligences: "Yes. We have what you need to convince your crazy people... your government... that we exist, and can control your world. You can use it. It will be yours to keep." I somehow managed to blurt out a thank you. === Page 3 of 8 directed me to a YMCA typewriter, and had me type out a message from them to the United States. They told me to take it to the radio show, and they would see that the message got to the people. I typed it, next day went to the radio. I enclosed it. It would be good if you could print it, but if you cannot, all right. Since that time I have been amazing a great many people, including radio commentators, scientists...and assuredly the U.S. Government contacts, with predictions of national and international events ahead, which came to pass. And even more amazing...when UFO's would be seen and written up in the papers. Of course the Saucer Intelligence gave me all the information. In these predictions of national and international events ahead, which came to pass. And even more amazing...when UFO's would be seen and written up in the papers. In these predictions the Si's have demonstrated their tremendous powers. Including the changing of weather conditions all over the U.S., the guiding of hurricanes, the making of hurricanes, and many other unbelievable things. They would tell me to write up my contacts and they would cause a California earthquake within days or weeks...and sure enough, California had several big ones. They would tell me they would make an early hurricane off Florida, to tell my contacts...and sure enough...Hurricane Alma appeared, the earliest on record to hit U.S. They told me to warn the Government the communists were preparing to attack our ships off Viet Nam, our carriers. Just two days later, they struck with a sneak torpedo boat attack. But I had called the CIA and passed the message on and when the Reds struck the U.S. was waiting for them...and knocked them out of the water. Always I have written to the government, scientists, and friends before the various happenings, so there would be a concrete record of it all. And it came to pass. ********** JOIN THE SOTA'S ********** Organized and directed by UFO intelligence, according to communications received. These instructions may enable you to become a UFO contact! Beautiful UFO ring, bracelet or necklace plus membership, etc. Write Ted Owens, 1114 Spruce, Philadelphia, Penna. ********** MY TRIP TO WASHINGTON I went to Washington, D.C. in 1965 where I had come all the way from California to present a gift they could not buy with all the gold in the United States Mint. Now, I had been writing the government for almost a year, and they KNEW I had something tremendous because so many of the major events I had predicted in advance had come to pass. I spent hours with George Clark of the Central Intelligence Agency. My two children, Lornie and Rick, were with me there to attest to many of the unbelievable things that had occurred. Mr Clark was a fine and intelligent man and paid the closest attention. Another time at the CIA office I was interviewed by a Mr. Dunn. At NASA I spent hours with Mr. Eastwood, of Inventions, because much of the proof the Saucer Intelligence have been giving me involved NASA. But they refused to take action or act on what I had told them. I was offering to them to place these tremendous powers in the hands of the U.S. Government. So meeting my defeat in Washington I headed for Philadelphia. Here the Saucer Intelligence gave me a plan - which I mentioned just before - of making it storm. The Philadelphia Bulletin printed the story and after that I appeared on the Jack McKinney "Night Talk" radio show heard on WCAU. For four hours I was grilled by Mr. McKinney and his assistant, who attempted to find a major flaw in my work. They couldn't. They even called one of several witnesses to my predictions and had him verify what I was saying right on the program. Several days later I was asked to appear on the Ed Harvey "Talk of Philadelphia" radio show, again on WCAU and was asked to make it storm then, just three days away. The weather was quite clear when they called and asked. I said I would try, and signalled the Saucer Intelligence and the day I appeared on the show Philadelphia was nearly ripped apart by a thunder, rain and lightning attack! Still, unbelievable, nothing came of all this. A full year later I was invited on the show again. This time to attest to the amazing accuracy of my predictions. But still no word from the United States Government would be forth coming. Yet many more strange and "out of this world" experiences were about to happen which would prove the Saucer Intelligence were with me. ********** NEW BOOK! (HARD COVERED) STAR OF THE WHITE SANDS INCIDENT Long John By Dr. Dan W. Fry & Joe Pyne shows! A noted scientist and international lecturer voices his opinions on Flying Saucers and tells of his trip in a UFO and his visits with an alien from outer space. The only book of its kind ever published. Photos...$3.95 ORDER FROM: Timothy G. Beckley, 3 Courtland St., New Brunswick, N.J. === Page 4 of 8 Saucer Intelligence: "You need a car, so that you can go far away. We will try to get you one." Question: My child is sick. (My baby, little Beau, had just come down with a terrible attack of red spots and high fever, diagnosed as German Measles) Also a girl, our friend, in a hospital (this was a girl written up in the newspapers as given up as dying by the doctors, that I had been permitted, under police guard, to go visit her hospital room and use the mysterious healing method that had "come to me" in Fort Worth years before.) will you heal them? (The baby got well almost instantly. The girl, previously given up for dead, because of a crushed skull began to recover and is now living in West Virginia. Saucer Intelligence: "We will, indeed, heal them. Worry not. Listen carefully...no time to be lost. Your people must pay attention to you and listen to you, else we must destroy most of the earth's peoples, to begin all over again." Question: You mean, what is happening now has happened before? Saucer Intelligence: "Many times." Question: When are you coming to see me? Saucer Intelligence: "Tonight we will try. Flash your light upward (my flashlight) every hour as long as you can." Question: Can you locate me from signals from my brain? Saucer Intelligence: "We can." I then told them that I would "leave a light on so you can see.". To this they replied: "No turn it off so we will not be seen by others. This is important. .........." Question: Where are you from? Saucer Intelligence: "Some...Jupiter. Others, other places. Even from inside this earth. Goodbye now." Several hours later they contacted me again, that same evening. This time their message was: Saucer Intelligence: "Do not go away, far... Viet Nam (I was trying to do so at the time, through the government). Your people will try to kill you. We need you alive. Listen carefully...there are others like us, against us, who could cause you harm. Be careful of your life. Of your shell. It has taken us ages, in your time, to find a shell (means a human body) like you who can communicate with us. We do not want to lose you. But remember that you are, every moment, in great danger from "them" who use shellbodies. They look like and seem like real people, but they are not." Question: Can you end the war in Viet Nam and help my country, the United States, to become healthy and great again? (By "great" I didn't mean money and power but doing away with murders, gang wars, teen age vidance, wholesale corruption in high and low places...a return to great moral values this country once had.) Saucer Intelligence: "We can and we will. But you must not go there (Viet Nam). Instead go to Hong Kong or Japan as a tourist. Go by freighter ship. We can contact you on the ship. We will defeat your enemies for you in Viet Nam and bring peace. We will help your country. But your country must help you for you are our instrument. Does not your people approach certain fish to communicate with fish? (They flashed a picture of people training dolphins.) We do likewise. We go now to try to approach you. Be ready for us." I immediately told them I would be. But they never came, and I was most disappointed. However, from the happenings at the South Pole I knew that it was not imagination. Our money got short...and Lornie and Rick, my two teenagers, went off to California at the invitation of my ex-wife, who offered to see that they got into college. This was against my wishes but the kids wanted to go, so I let them. And we moved to Philadelphia. Then things began to happen fast. USED AS A TOOL OF THE S.I.'s Here the UFO intelligence went much farther then the "contactee" stage. They trained me. They gave me the tool with which to prove, without a doubt, to the U.S. Government agencies, that they were real and were major events happen. What I am, instead of a contactee, is the ONLY human representative of the Saucer Intelligence on this earth...able to receive intelligence from these people and transmit it to humans...AND PROVE OUT THE INTELLIGENCE THAT HAS BEEN PASSED! In Philadelphia the Saucer Intelligence told me to write the papers and say that I would make it storm. I did so, naming the dates, and they turned loose some fine storms (this during the height of the drought.) The papers wrote this up, and I was asked to appear on a big radio show in Philadelphia. The night before I was to go on radio "they" contacted me, === Page 5 of 8 past year, they should do something startling. Am trying to convey the idea to them of coming right over the city and hovering. They give me the idea back that we might have some kind of RAYS LIKE THEY HAVE, or whatever it is they have, and hurt them or something. So that they are reticent to do this. So I am trying to tell them we haven't such thing, and it's safe. I want to bring one down right over Market Street and have it hover there for 20 minutes. What else they'll do on their own is anybody's guess." January 12, some 5 months later (evidently they waited so the government wouldn't set a trap) they appeared at the Wanaque Reservoir, near here, and were watched by police, the Mayor, the Civil Defense Director, and countless people, as they stayed ALL NIGHT in the area, maneuvering with their craft...AND THEY SHOWED THEIR RAY! They shined it down onto the ice and the police and others who went to the spot found a large hole burned through the thick ice. On April 19th, 1966 I wrote my contacts: "When you read about the UFO seen in Philadelphia, in the days or weeks ahead...you will know who it is linking up with." Only six days later, the famous "Fireball" flashed over the East Coast...and over Philadelphia. Newsclippings have read "flaming Meteor Seen over Philadelphia" and it was written up in national magazines and debated upon whether it was a UFO or an actual meteor. WHY THEY CONTACTED ME As I have gotten it from "them" rather spottily they had worked with me since early childhood, attempting to get through to me. As I grew up, they kept trying. I worked for Dr. Rhine at Duke in the ESP experimentation there and was found to be loaded with paranormal ability by the lab there. But the Si's still hadn't gotten through to me. It seems to have been a combination of the close approach of their UFO to our car in Fort Worth, and then my work in the field of hypnosis in Fort Worth, and then my work in allied fields, that finally made it possible for them to get through to me, finally. I might add at this point that years ago I did quite a bit of wondering by myself over desert and mountain even across Mexican desert where I am sure they must have contacted me. I recall now several instances when I was alone on a mountain top, or on a desert...under the stars wrapped in a blanket...when various "odd" things occurred. ODD EXPERIENCES You may be interested to know my wife and I have had a small circle of spinning vivid-colored light (many colors) in our apartment in Philadelphia. We woke up one night and there it was suspended overhead in our room. We were NOT dreaming...we watched it, fascinated, until it went away. Then she and I saw some strange things, separately, in our apartment. And just a few Monday's ago she went out onto the fire escape outside our windows for a breath of fresh air and something alive, about two feet long or high, dropped down from nowhere onto the fire escape not more than three feet from her and just crouched there. She dashed inside, scared to death. She saw it fall...heard the thump as it landed...and watched it for a split second as it crouched there, moving only slightly...then ran for dear life. Also we have gotten what looks like long insect-like antennae on our TV screen many times...different programs, so it has nothing to do with the film. These twitching antennae move with life-like movements. Also some other odd things have appeared on there, too. We are fairly certain this must be another way for the Saucer Intelligence to let us both know they are watching over us. EDITOR'S NOTE Timothy Green Beckley It is the stated policy of the Interplanetary News Service neither to accept or reject the various contact stories. We merely print them when they appear to be of interest to most of our members. So it is with the above. We believe that truths unacknowledged "by the many are to be found in the opinions of even the most unlikely." In being fair with Mr. Owens we must state that we have on file notarized statements from at least two persons attesting to the fact that his predictions - exactly as stated above - were made in advance. Whether this is strictly "chance" or proof of actual contact with the "saucer intelligence" must be up to the individual reader to decide. We are interested in hearing from readers of this paper both pro and con on the U.F.O. topic and offer you the same opportunity that Ted Owens has been extended. === Page 6 of 8 MESSAGE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE...FROM THE FLYING SAUCER INTELLIGENCE Sent through Ted H. Owens We are very happy that we are able to reach the ears of human beings after trying for long long spaces of time. This human who is talking for us, we have been teaching for year in your time, and now he knows much... and will know much more. He can do much. You must listen to him carefully, and protect him, for if you lose him you lose your link with us, and it is not known for how long it may be until we find another human who can receive our thoughts, and send intelligence back. It would be as if you were trying to teach you earth animals how to talk, and suddenly you found one who could actually converse with you...and through this one animal you had an opportunity to discover the secrets of the animal kingdom. Through us you have the opportunity to discover the secrets of space, of far away places, of advanced technology, but better still you have the opportunity of surviving, for as a race you are utterly doomed now, as you are flying (this is their exact words). Many civilizations before you have so doomed themselves, and destroyed themselves, and we were helpless to give them assistance and advice and powerful aid. Now for the first time in long space ages we are able, through a human's senses, to come to the aid of a good civilization and help it to survive. But we can only do so if you listen and pay attention. We are causing severe drought, with our machines in your skies, so that we can teach you a basic lesson which is that our intelligence is far superior to that of earth intelligence. We can control earth people because we can control what you call weather. When, and not before, our earth human has been accepted by your government, and put to good use, then and only then will we release the drought conditions, and let rainfall come in abundance down onto your thirsty earth. We will also add pestilence and sickness and what you call accidents; we will follow the structure of events which we used in the day of the human you know as Moses, as he strove against the ruler of the great country called Egypt. As we helped Moses in that day, so shall we help the human friend we know now as Ted Owens, you call the "Rain Maker". If it pleases him to think that...of course we make the rain for him, but what is the difference? So that you people of the earth will believe this message we send to you, and we do not expect you to believe it unless we show proof...listen carefully. From now on, in time ahead, we will lift the drought for a little, and let it rain where it is needed. Then, lest you think that it is a perchance, we will drop the curtain once more with our machines, and let the rays of the sun penetrate the bowels of the earth and dry up your rivers, your lakes, your plants until you accept our human as our representative. After you accept him, we have much work for him to do, for we do not speak your language, nor do we know too much, as we should, about your inner workings. It is through this human that we can learn; and it is through us that you can learn. Even now, we send the meaning of our thoughts to him, and his brain translates through pictures and feelings into your English. It is good. Beware lest you take too long to accept our human-friend, for then we must strike a hard blow at the country which spurns him...to punish your country as you would punish a child which persists in misbehaving. After your country has accepted our link and we are able to proceed in keeping earth humans from the time-old habit of erasing themselves as civilizations, we will make your earth a wonderful place, the way it should be. We have no wish to rule you, or dictate to you..we only wish, as friends, to know you, and teach you, and let you be happy. We are not of flesh and blood such as you. Our composition is that of your grasshopper, so that our bodies will compress and expand with spacework. We have no blood, but different chemicals inside ourselves. We are small, but have the ability to reverse our body electricity at will, and this gives us strength to move and to carry great burdens; makes us very strong. Language difficulty makes it difficult for us to send a stream of highly technical information through our human-friend's mind for translation, since he is not a scientist, and must therefore translate as he understands. But for a beginning it is good. And may we ask you please be careful not to pursue our crafts in your curiosity...not to attack us with your weapons, simply because we are not like yourselves. When our human-friend is in an area, please do not have planes overhead, because you do not know it but we will have our craft there as well...we have methods that make our ship so that your earth-eyes cannot see them, at times. You ask if there is anything else, earth friend...Just that, we are happy, and excited for you, and your people, and for us. Be patient and be careful, for we cannot risk losing our human friend-link. That is all. === Page 7 of 8 MESSAGE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE..........FROM THE FLYING SAUCER INTELLIGENCE Sent through Ted H. Owens We are very happy that we are able to reach the ears of human beings after trying for long long spaces of time. This human who is talking for us, we have been teaching for year in your time, and now he knows much... and will know much more. He can do much. You must listen to him carefully, and protect him, for if you lose him you lose your link with us, and it is not known for how long it may be until we find another human who can receive our thoughts, and send intelligence back. It would be as if you were trying to teach you earth animals how to talk, and suddenly you found one who could actually converse with you...and through this one animal you had an opportunity to discover the secrets of the animal kingdom. Through us you have the opportunity to discover the secrets of space, of far away places, of advanced technology, but better still you have the opportunity of surviving, for as a race you are utterly doomed now, as you are flying (this is their exact words). Many civilizations before you have so doomed themselves, and destroyed themselves, and we were helpless to give them assistance and advice and powerful aid. Now for the first time in long space ages we are able, through a human's senses, to come to the aid of a good civilization and help it to survive. But we can only do so if you listen and pay attention. We are causing severe drought, with our machines in your skies, so that we can teach you a basic lesson which is that our intelligence is far superior to that of earth intelligence. We can control earth people because we can control what you call weather. When, and not before, our earth human has been accepted by your government, and put to good use, then and only then will we release the drought conditions, and let rain fall come in abundance down onto your thirsty earth. We will also add pestilence and sickness and what you call accidents; we will follow the structure of events which we used in the day of the human you know as Moses, as he strove against the ruler of the great country called Egypt. As we helped Moses in that day, so shall we help the human friend we know now as Ted Owens, you call the "Rain Maker". If it pleases him to think that...of course we make the rain for him, but what is the difference? So that you people of the earth will believe this message we send to you, and we do not expect you to believe it unless we show proof...listen carefully. From now on, in time ahead, we will lift the drought for a little, and let it rain where it is needed. Then, lest you think that it is a perchance, we will drop the curtain once more with our machines, and let the rays of the sun penetrate the bowels of the earth and dry up your rivers, your lakes, your plants until you accept our human as our representative. After you accept him, we have much work for him to do, for we do not speak your language, nor do we know too much, as we should, about your inner workings. It is through this human that we can learn; and it is through us that you can learn. Even now, we send the meaning of our thoughts to him, and his brain translates through pictures and feelings into your English. It is good. Beware lest you take too long to accept our human-friend, for then we must strike a hard blow at the country which spurns him...to punish your country as you would punish a child which persists in misbehaving. After your country has accepted our link and we are able to proceed in keeping earth humans from the time-old habit of erasing themselves as civilizations, we will make your earth a wonderful place, the way it should be. We have no wish to rule you, or dictate to you..we only wish, as friends, to know you, and teach you, and let you be happy. We are not of flesh and blood such as you. Our composition is that of your grasshopper, so that our bodies will compress and expand with spacework. We have no blood, but different chemicals inside ourselves. We are small, but have the ability to reverse our body electrically at will, and this gives us strength to move and to carry great burdens; makes us very strong. Language difficulty makes it difficult for us to send a stream of highly technical information through our human-friend's mind for translation, since he is not a scientist, and must therefore translate as he understands. But for a beginning it is good. And may we ask you please be careful not to pursue our crafts in your curiosity...not to attack us with your weapons, simply because we are not like yourselves. When our human-friend is in an area, please do not have planes overhead, because you do not know it but we will have our craft there as well...we have methods that make our ship so that your earth-eyes cannot see them, at times. You ask if there is anything else, earth friend...Just that, we are happy, and excited for you, and your people, and for us. Be patient and be careful, for we cannot risk losing our human friend-link. That is all. === Page 8 of 8 past year, they should do something startling. Am trying to convey the idea to them of coming right over the city and hovering. They give me the idea back that we might have some kind of RAYS LIKE THEY HAVE, or whatever it is they have, and hurt them or something. So that they are reticent to do this. So I am trying to tell them we haven't any such thing, and it's safe. I want to bring one down right over Market Street and have it hover there for 20 minutes. What else they'll do on their own is anybody's guess." January 12, some 5 months later (evidently they waited so the government wouldn't set a trap) they appeared at the Wanaque Reservoir, near here, and were watched by police, the Mayor, the Cival Defense Director, and countless people, as they stayed ALL NIGHT in the area, maneuvering with their craft...AND THEY SHOWED THEIR RAY! They shined it down onto the ice and the police and others who went to the spot found a large hole burned through the thick ice. On April 19th, 1966 I wrote my contacts: "When you read about the UFO seen in Philadelphia, in the days or weeks ahead...you will know who it is linking up with." Only six days later, the famous "Fireball" flashed over the East Coast...and over Philadelphia. Newsclippings have read "flaming Meteor Seen over Philadelphia" and it was written up in national magazines and debated upon whether it was a UFO or an actual meteor. WHY THEY CONTACTED ME As I have gotten it from "them" rather spottily they had worked with me since early childhood, attempting to get through to me. As I grew up, they kept trying. I worked for Dr. Rhine at Duke in the ESP experimentation there and was found to be loaded with paranormal ability by the lab there. But the Si's still hadn't gotten through to me. It seems to have been a combination of the close approach of their UFO to our car in Fort Worth, and then my work in the field of hypnosis in Forth Worth, and then my work in allied fields, that finally made it possible for them to get through to me, finally. I might add at this point that years ago I did quite a bit of wondering by myself over desert and mountain even across Mexican desert where I am sure they must have contacted me. I recall now several instances when I was alone on a mountain top, or on a desert...under the stars wrapped in a blanket...when various "odd" things occurred. ODD EXPERIENCES You may be interested to know my wife and I have had a small circle of spinning vivid-colored light (many colors) in our apartment in Philadelphia. We woke up one night and there it was suspended overhead in our room. We were NOT dreaming...we watched it, fascinated, until it went away. Then she and I saw some strange things, separately, in our apartment. And just a few Monday's ago she went out onto the fire escape outside our windows for a breath of fresh air and something alive, about two feet long or high, dropped down from nowhere onto the fire escape not more than three feet from her and just crouched there. She dashed inside, scared to death. She saw it fall...heard the thump as it landed...and watched it for a split second as it crouched there, moving only slightly...then ran for dear life. Also we have gotten what looks like long insect-like antennae on our TV screen many times...different programs, so it has nothing to do with the film. These twitching antennae move with life-like movements. Also some other odd things have appeared on there, too. We are fairly certain this must be another way for the Saucer Intelligence to let us both know they are watching over us. EDITOR'S NOTE Timothy Green Beckley It is the stated policy of the Interplanetary News Service neither to accept or reject the various contact stories. We mearly print them when they appear to be of interest to most of our members. So it is with the above. We believe that truths unacknowledged "by the many are to be found in the opinions of even the most unlikely." In being fair with Mr. Owens we must state that we have on file notarized statements from at least two persons attesting to the fact that his predictions - exactly as stated above - were made in advance. Wheather this is strickly "chance" or proof of actual contact with the "saucer intelligence" must be up to the individual reader to decide. We are interested in hearing from readers of this paper both pro and con on the U.F.O. topic and offer you the same opportunity that Ted Owens has been extended. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1967 Flying Saucer Intelligence Speak https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/7177e83cfb3103394314109808094bac.pdf 1f3ba298d7ee183312ce13ae33be9b07 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/02252797129f3dbaea14bc46c676e3b0.txt 2df25ea273c96af87c996cbff6f21f2e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letters to Owens Children Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 # TED OWENS LETTERS TO CHILDREN # GENERAL LETTERS Jeff received week of July 14, 2025 11120 Bermuda Dunes, ABQ. Sent from Lori Rodriguez in Beaverton, Oregon. Recorded by Lewis Barlow July 19, 2025 Majority written in 1965 and 1966 but were a couple of letters from 1970 and 1976. We received several different packages from Lori that contained Ted Owens letters to his children. As this was more of a general package of letters and covered several different dates, for organization purposes we will just call it general letters. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 38 Lonie & Rick Sunday, February 5, 1967 Rowland Swank, Organization of Scientific Research Remember you told me...that when I told your Group some of my predictions they just laughed...because they knew how impossible they were...but then my predictions came to pass? This letter they really won't be able to believe. First...am conducting a new sort of experiment with the Si's...and if it is successful, have asked them to appear over Philadelphia plainly, in the near future (few days, few weeks) so they will be written up in the papers. That will be my signal...my experiment has been successful. Now we wait and see. Now to business...the Si's caused the Cape astronaut tragedy. Same with the San Antonio spacecraft tragedy. How? They were there...in the craft with the men. They explain that in pure intelligence form they can't be seen by us humans...our eyes are not geared to pick up the make-up of the vibrations of their form, or something like that. Trouble is, when they are near our materials...they cause fires. Something about their make-up can cause fires, when near our earth materials. Skeptical? Listen further. The Si's are...what we call poltergeists. They have tried, long in vain, to establish contact with humans. They won't risk their craft, so they go, in their pure intelligence (invisible) form, into human habitations, and try to communicate. Remember I told you, and George Clark long ago, they communicate with us generally by "signs"? That is what they have been doing as poltergeists. Trying to communicate by signs. Think for a minute. In most polt cases, what happens? Plates and dishes fly through the air, plus other things. The "other things" are to get attention and perhaps draw those people who might catch on. The plates and dishes...mean flying saucers. They know we call them such...and they are trying to say, "Look, this is what is trying to communicate with you" and they sail some dishes across the room..."see, we are what you call flying saucers...beings." But so far, nobody caught on. Remember, these beings are not vocal...they can't talk...and in pure intelligence form they have power, but no hands or arms. They can cause things to levitate. Let me say it again...when a plate or dish or saucer flies across the room in front of the startled farmer's family...the Si's are trying to say: "Look, there is something invisible in the room...which has intelligence and has force...and we are trying to say, by sailing this dish (plate, saucer, etc.) across the room that we come from the UFO's or flying saucers that are seen in the skies." So from now on scientists can go to the spot, not of a "sighting" but of a "polting" and can try, through reciprocal signs, to communicate with the Si's on the spot. Knowing that the Si's are going to use a sign language of objects and things. As for the astronauts tragedy and the San Antonio space craft tragedy...they deliberately caused it to happen...two almost at once, to show that the one was no accident...to dramatically try to show us by their "sign" method how close we Americans are to a nuclear holocaust. They, who can see ahead, look ahead, are trying to warn us as best they can to let them help us...before it is too late. Just as Cape Kennedy, and the astros, thought everything was safe and all secure...so we Americans think we are safe and all secure...before tragedy strikes the Nation as quickly as it struck in the astros spacecraft. By the way...Aircraft Carrier Essex just ran aground...and U.S. sub just collided. Owens 08/07/2025 17:04 === Page 2 of 38 Feb. 5, 1967 Dear Lornie: Why haven't you written for months? Didn't you like your camera? It worked fine for me...sent you some of the pictures. If it arrived damaged, I had it insured for $50. We can have it fixed or replaced. That is a long way to send a camera. I have sent some rings that have gotten to my Sotas broken. And why didn't you answer Irene Kuvala? She is a very nice person. She thinks you haven't written because you think she is a "kook", to quote her. Well, she isn't. Write her, if only to say thanks for writing. She's human. I hope school is going well for you, and your boy friend is working out. I also hope you are being a pal to your little brother, who needs you, and your love, and what guidance you can give him. The Si's just destroyed the Cape spacecraft and astronauts, to put more pressure on the govt. Things are getting "down and dirty." The govt. is so stupid. Write. Love, Dad P.S. Am sending you some pictures of you as a little girl. Keep them, because your future husband and children will enjoy seeing them. === Page 3 of 38 Tuesday, Feb. 14, 1967 Dear Lorrie... good to hear from you. Dr. Irene Kavula's address is 2 Cliff St., Wolcott, Connecticut. Am returning the picture Air Mail, as you request. Have two larger, wallet size pics made for Martha and me...plus a 5x11 pic...and let me know the cost. Will send it to you, and you send me the pics. Okay? This is a fine picture, honey. You look great. And he does, as you say, look like a fine young man. I am very happy that you have such good taste in the opposite sex. So you flunked History, eh? But you did fine in your other subjects. Congratulations on a good score. I had trouble with History, too...had a dull teacher, also. But maybe you can profit from a lesson I learned in high school. In my Senior year I decided to hell with whether I liked the teachers or not...they were my grades that were going to show, and it was my time which would be wasted if I flunked...so Lorrie, believe it or not, all I did was study study study on Physics, the toughest course in Bedford H.S., with the toughest most unliked teacher...and I got a B. The teacher told me himself, afterward, that any other teacher would have given me an A...but being him, he didn't give out A's. Just B's to top students. Ugh. What a man. If I'd based my action and hours of time on whether I liked him or not...I'd have flunked flat out. But I used to be like you in my early H.S. years. Incidentally, your camera will use color film. Just get 35 milimeter film. It has a terrific lens. You know, I sent you some pics from it. Don't worry about presents, hon. Remember all the times when I was flat broke at Xmas or birthdays. Ha ha. Nothing new to us, eh? Beau is something else. Words cannot now describe him. He has to be observed to be believed. It is good that you have to earn your own money, honey. Builds character. I was so proud of you and Rick on our adventuring, when you kids sold card fortunes, ironing board holders, etc. It was for the good of the gang...and no one knows better than I that you two can hold your own, anywhere, any time. Must go now Your three pals love you...always know that. Sincerely, Dad 08/07/2025 17:11 === Page 4 of 38 Tuesday, Feb. 14, 1967 Mr. George Clerk, Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: This is probably the most important bit of intelligence I have ever brought to your attention. We need to go back a bit. Remember when I came to see you, with my children, in Washington, D.C., in 1965? I told you the entire incredible story...and warned you, rather CIA, that if I died or happened to be killed, accidentally or otherwise, the Si's (it turned out) warned they would destroy the U.S.? They were quite adamant on that point...and it perhaps was the main reason I wound up finding you. Now, you understand...I myself have no power to control weather, attack NASA's rockets, etc., attack the Air Force activities, etc. The Si's do all that. I am the "middle man" telling other humans what the Si's are going to do, before they do it...so that the other humans will know the reality, and the various powers, of the UFO intelligences. In that respect I have incalculable value to the Si's. Actually, there is no one else that can do it. That is why I am so valuable to them. They are counting on getting me isolated, eventually, so they can get to me, to arrange a meeting with U.S. Govt. officials. This is important to them, and most important to the U.S. Govt. Last night, to get to the point, I was shocked when they communicated with me and told me why they caused the great tragedy at Cape Kennedy in which 3 astronauts were lost. The reason? The U.S. Govt., instead of giving me the protection I asked for in 1965, had allowed my life to be jeopardized...threatened...by a fire that was set, deliberately, underneath our apartment January 2. Just a few more minutes undetected, and my family and I would have gone up like a match in this old building. They had planned to merely harass the Moon Shot, and bring about a mechanical failure that would force abandonment of the flight. But when they monitored the near-catastrophe to their one and only link with humans...they decided to show the U.S. Govt. their feelings in the matter...and brought about the stiffest possible punishment they could think of at the time. (The fire in our building happened Jan. 2; the Cape tragedy happened several weeks later.) One of my Sota members, Earl Mack, dropped in last night and pointedly, several times, reminded me that the U.S. Govt. undoubtedly would have me killed, to eliminate a "threat" to U.S. security. After he left, the Si's contacted me and gave me the above startling information. It would be well for the Govt. to remember...even with me gone, the Si's, if they did not destroy the U.S. as they say they will...could go on being destructively hostile...my being gone would not change a thing, since I have no power of my own. The U.S. would simply lose its one really important link with the Si's and their intelligence. Always remember their tip on the North Viet attacking our carriers...and their tip was correct. P K Man (Owens) === Page 5 of 38 Sunday, Feb. 26, 1967 Mr. George Clark, CIA Dear George: The Si's have just communicated with me, and asked me to send the following intelligence on to the U.S. Government: They, the Si's, have severely punished three of the top U.S. Govt. agencies these past several months: (1) NASA (2) CIA (3) AIR FORCE NASA was punished BY THE SI's by having its moon hardware and astronauts destroyed, and the moon program delayed 1 year. CIA has been punished by the recent blow-up of its financial subsidy of NSA and other organizations...and this was quite a heavy punishment, since the lash-back of the blown activity included several negative, damaging ramifications. AIR FORCE has been punished by the Si's by knocking out two Blue Angels fliers, many Air Force plane crashes in the U.S., and just now...a devastating 32 cheating Air Force Cadets who had to resign. As I told you, several years ago when I visited you, this "PK" effect is constantly growing...like an ancient Egyptian curse. That is, the Si's are ever-increasing the scope and depth of their pressure against the U.S. Govt., in an effort to bring them around to paying attention to their requests and, eventually, to manage to meet with the top officials of the U.S. Govt. to make a base in the U.S. - and this would be done through their contact, myself. I told a friend of mine here in Phila. last year that it made no difference whether the Govt. believed me, or cooperated with me, or not...that the Si's phenomenon would go on, and would get worse. And my friend, a member of a scientific group, didn't quite understand this remark. But I think you do. The Communists and Red Chinese...are not the main concern of the U.S. Govt. The Si's are. Until CIA and the Govt. realize this, God help the U.S. Govt. PK Man (Owens) Owens === Page 6 of 38 Show Lornie this UFO article, too. Thursday, Feb. 16, 1967 Dear Rick: No, honey, I am never mad because I don't get a present. Look at all the times I couldn't get you a present, when we were travelling around, broke a lot. Besides, your card and letter were a fine enough present. Beau and "momma" are fine. Martha is changing, almost imperceptibly, into a heavier build...but not fat. Beau has shot way up, is big now. The government has not responded...and I agree with you, they will. Now I mean they have not responded with money or help...actually, Rick, they have responded, about ten times, to my letters. Will tell you about it some time. But what I am waiting for them to do is respond with financial help to get isolated and meet the UFO's in person, as they want to do. Don't worry about my proving how real my communications are with the Si's, Rick...it has been proved by now, without doubt and absolutely. For the past year I have been sending you and Lornie copies of all my letters, care of Pat. So you should know what I am talking about. What upset the Govt. the most, according to Swank, the scientist who is studying my work, was when I told them, against the Weather Bureau and against the Miami Hurricane Center, first that Hurricane Inez would turn right at Cuba and go to the U.S., and then when I told them that Inez would back up and take Betsy's track of the year before. Inez did both things...and Swank says he never saw people so excited in his life, as those Govt. people were, who were keeping tabs on the whole thing. The Si's killed the 3 astronauts in the spacecraft fire...because someone tried to kill Martha and Beau and I a couple of weeks before (Jan. 2) in our apartment building, according to the firemen who investigated the fire. I had actually predicted in my Year 1967 Predictions that astronauts in this year in a space shot activity would wind up in tragedy...and I predicted in August that the Si's would "chew up and clobber" the Moon Shot...which is exactly what happened. Happy Valentine's Day to you, too, pal. If you will give some thought, Rick, to making plans for the day when Russia attacks the U.S. with nuclear bombs (or China does, or both do at once) then you will be way ahead of everybody else, and have a better chance to live. Don't count on any plans ahead more than a year; two at the most. I am sure we will be attacked in that time. That is, during 1967 or 1968, and probably '67. === Page 7 of 38 Now, someone would argue that I shouldn't tell you something like that...might add to your anxiety, etc. Well, it adds to my anxiety, and I believe in facing enemies and fighting them... not pretending my enemies aren't there. Moses was told he was as nutty as a fruitcake because he was building a ship in the middle of the desert (no water around) just because God, or something, warned him to. Well, everybody who thought Moses was a nut...drowned. Moses was ahead of everybody else. And, incidentally...and fill Lornie and Pat in on this...my intelligences tell me that the Coasts are going to be destroyed in quick order...East coast first, West coast second, Gulf coast third. Then the exact center of the U.S. will be devastated, leaving only the "corners" of the U.S. relatively undestroyed. I plan to move, and settle into, the northeast corner, as far from New York as I can get. If you-all are smart, you will do the same. I'll be on the Canadian border, and if destruction begins, we will slip into the Canadian north woods and find a cave somewhere near a lake and dig in and to hell with it. We are going to survive. If you want a laugh some time, get Pat to tell you about the time she and I went to New York and got me a bullet-proof vest, then took it to New Orleans and tried it out with a .32. Ha ha. For a present, she bought me a bear-trap that you could put your hand into and snap it shut with a bang and it wouldn't hurt you. Get her to tell about the time we left a toilet-paper message for our landlord in Des Moines, Iowa. About the picnic we went on in the middle of a driving rainstorm and, I think, tornado. About the seances she was in, with me as medium, at Dr. Rhine's house, where I contacted ghosts and spirits. Get her to tell you about the time six guys jumped on she and I in Durham, and how we beat 'em. Get her to tell you about the time in Las Vegas we did our mind-reading act. You and Lornie will have a ball, if you can get Pat to tell you about those things. Don't worry about getting blue...everybody gets blue once in a while. I bought a picture of Jesus, once...in Ft. Worth, and hung it on my wall. Before you rush out and buy two tape recorders, check and double check to make sure you want to commit yourself to an idea that far. I do that, check myself, and sometimes back away from an idea because it is not good enough, or as good as I thought on thinking it over... or the poker odds on it are not good enough. But if I check it out and think it over, and it still sounds and feels right, then it's green light-go ahead all the way. My Sota deal in Fate mag was that sort. Be good now, or I'll tell Linda how you sat in that girl's lap in Washington D.C., you playboy you. 08/07/2025 17:11 Love -- Your pal Dad === Page 8 of 38 Tuesday, March 7, 1967 Mr. Rowland Swank Organization of Scientific Research Dear Rowland: I wrote you a week or ten days ago and told you I was going to liven up Philadelphia with a lightning attack, tornado, storm, etc. It just happened last night...whole town is flooded... water holes two feet deep in the streets...basements flooded out... cars stalled everywhere (all this according to radio reports). The Si's didn't throw in lightning, which puzzles me. Just tons of rain. And it's still raining, later in the day. The reason I didn't give you the date of the letter, and quote, is because Beau, my baby, got all my papers out and made a carpet covering the living room and kitchen...so that we are actually, literally walking on a carpet of papers. I can't find anything at this point. However, because he did this ... The FBI, the CIA and the Secret Service combined, could not have caught what we had in our apartment Sunday night. Now get this...the baby was asleep in front of us. Martha was sitting behind my right shoulder, and we were watching Porgy and Bess on TV. Suddenly I heard somebody walking heavily, very heavily in the kitchen on all the papers Beau had spread on the floor. I wondered why Martha would leave this good show and go into the kitchen. In a few seconds there was a tap on my shoulder. It was Martha, still sitting behind me. "Ted," she whispered, "who is that walking in the kitchen?" "My God," I said, "I thought you got up and went out there!" But she had no moved from her position. I got up and went out into the kitchen and turned on the light, and immediately was struck with the same feeling I had not felt since Durham, North Carolina, in about 1946, when Pat, my ex-wife, her mother and I were having a seance in their house...my hair stood on end, goose pimples broke out all over me, and I felt as if I were charged with electricity. This lasted only for about 30 seconds, then went away. So I knew it was no burglar who'd got in. Nothing could be seen. But we both heard this heavy walking around in the kitchen on the papers, thick on the floor. That's the point. I know absolutely, therefore, the Si's can come into our apartment, and cannot be seen, when they want, in some form. P K Man (Owens) Owens 08/07/2025 17:17 === Page 9 of 38 Sunday, March 5, 1967 3/5/67 p1 Lornie and Rick: This is an important letter, keep it with all the file letters I have been sending you. Since that couple, written up in Life, were said to have been taken by the Si's into a space ship, then the memory removed, and they lost several hours they couldn't account for...it made something click in my mind, and I used auto-hyp to check it out. While in Noumea, Caledonia, as a sailor, I used to take a little portable radio and hike up high onto a mountain near Noumea, all by myself. Up there high, alone, I could see far out over the sea. And I usually fell sound asleep for hours. Shortly after doing that, I ran across a book in the Red Cross library which got me interested in ESP. I began to experiment, and discovered I could read minds...and proved it with witnesses and signed statements. Then I read in a magazine about Dr. Rhine, wrote him, sent him my experiments, he wrote back and told me to come to Duke when I got back home. Many unusual things happened to me in Noumea...all alone one day, on the beach far from people, I sat looking out to sea...wishing I could get back to the U.S. alive and have children...when suddenly (there hadn't been a sound) little hands came over my eyes. I sat still, because for some reason it didn't scare me at all...although there were still a few Japs hiding out on the island. I turned around, pulled down the little hands, and there were three tiny children...two little boys and a girl, I'd guess about 5 or 6 years old. They didn't say a word, just smiled at me. Immediately, as if they'd told me in words, I knew that something had answered me...that I would go back to the U.S. and have three children. Now I have three children (speaking loosely, of course.) Now, after I got back to the States, I went to Duke, and I am going to tell you the many strange things that happened there. But first let me tell you this. I have a keen memory, absolutely. I can tell you tiny details of my childhood, the names of grade school teachers, etc. Yet there are parts of my life that are blanked out...which I have no memory of...and all of these blanked out portions are in the areas where I made long trips across country, desert and mountains, alone! I'll tell you about those later. Using auto-hyp, I have managed to bring some of it into focus, enough to give me the answer to it. At Duke I worked for Dr. Rhine...and Dr. Rhine investigated my strange powers thoroughly. My powers...for instance, I would be broke...and be walking along and find a $5 bill on the sidewalk. Or, I saw a rich boy with a pearl-handled pocket knife and wished I had one...then couple of days later Pat and I were walking downtown and I looked out into the street and saw a beautiful, expensive pearl-handled knife...and got it. If I walked down the streets at night the lights would go out all along my side of the street. If I dated a girl and we were at home watching her TV...the TV would go dead. When I was inside a building getting my freshman courses lined up...all the lights blew out in the building. When I would date girls...fountain pens would vanish from their purses. Earrings would vanish off their ears...gloves would vanish off their hands...and Dr. Rhine even had his assistants right therealong with me, double-dating, and it still would happen. I was used as a medium by the Rhines, and knocked a pair of scissors off a table about ten feet from where we sat, in full light. With my mind. And got knocks in a === Page 10 of 38 3/5/67 p2 Page Two radiator, consistent knocks in a pattern, to answer questions the Rhines asked. While surrounded by scientists...in full light...and with Pat there. Ask her, she will tell you. Then I discovered Granpa was badly, fatally, sick...in my second semester. I couldn't study, couldn't think, worrying about him...so, with no money and in light clothes, I walked away from Duke onto the highway, in the middle of winter, to make the long trip over the mountains, to Indiana and Granpa. I remember nothing of that trip after being picked up in a car by a man and a woman. I went to sleep in their car, and the next thing I remember I was on the front porch of Granpa's house. I have a vague recollection of offering to tell the couple's fortune in a roadside cafe in exchange for food.. but I believe they smilingly refused, we ate and left. Back at granpa's...one day he was shaving and the light went off over his head. I was sitting nearby and asked him if he wanted the light to come back on. He looked astounded, and said yes. So I told the light to come back on, and it did. He said, "T, I've seen you do some good magic tricks..but how did you do that?" The minute he died (I was alone with him) I saw him get out of bed, apart from his body which was still in bed, dead, come over to me and shake hands. Then he simply walked out the closed windows. Life went on. I went out to Texas with Jack. Married Pat. We travelled, Des Moines, New Orleans, etc. Then Pat's uncle gave us a lot of money, and this tool got us a car...and lo and behold...I began making long long trips, alone. On one occasion, however, with Pat in the car, we were driving across a railroad tracks and the car went dead smack over the tracks...with a train coming. I ran to a bar nearby, yelled to some men, who ran out with me and pushed the car off the tracks and the train went by. This was odd. While Pat and I were in Evanston, with double locks inside our front door, we left Lornie alone for just a few minute in the living room. When we went back, she was gone. We looked under furniture, in other rooms, she was gone. I unlocked the front door and looked down the flight of steps outside, and there was Lornie, sitting, playing with her toes. How she got through a double-locked door, before she could hardly talk or walk, is a mystery. I then made a trip down to Bedford in mid-winter to help granma, who was having an operation. I have no memory of driving down, or driving back. Then I made a long trip across the U.S., driving, through Texas to New Orleans...and should have been killed twice, but was saved by miracles. First, in San Antonio, I bought a magnum pistol. I drove out into the country to test it. I found a lonely, uninhabited spot, and set up paper plates all over the side of a hill. Then I got out my .38's, magnum, .25's, etc., and began target practice. I was walking along, firing, in a little flat valley. Pretty place. Solid ground everywhere, but no birds singing...not a noise. Was an eerie place. Suddenly the ground seemed to open up under me and I went straight down. The magnum pistol saved my life. It flew out of my hands, about five or six feet away...and my main concern, while sinking, was not to lose the pistol. I struggled somehow out, arms reaching for the pistol, and got it. The green ooze had sucked the shoes right off my feet, and I knew I was in a hell of a spot. After about a half of hour of maneuvering into a flat position, I wriggled like a snake out onto solid ground, and just lay there, wondering what the hell it was all about. I was covered with green ooze from head to foot, bare- 08/07/2025 17:17 === Page 11 of 38 3/5/67 p3 Page Three footed, with my magnum in my hand. Finally I got up and looked at where I had been. There was absolutely no sign of mud or anything. It was absolutely normal looking ground, grass and all. There was no sign of anything unusual. I gathered up my stuff and got out of there fast. Wait a minute...that was outside Corpus Christie, Texas, after I had left San Antonio. On the way back, across the mountains, atnight...the most unusual thing of my life happened...I was driving up a mountain in the dark of night. To my right was a sheer drop down hundreds of feet, no guard rail. To my left was a solid cliff. I could see the road up ahead, straight, for a far distance. I figured I was going the wrong way, Just then I came to a road, cut through the solid cliff to my left. I checked the long road up ahead...no car lights, and swung the car left into the side road, then I backed it straight out, cutting off the road completely for a minute. At that exact moment I saw, in my rear view mirror, car lights rushing down the mountain right at me, not far behind...I was paralyzed...the car was so close I had no time to do any-thin and even if I made a sudden quick move, I might go over the cliff. So I wrapped my arms around my head and waited for the smash. Then to my amazed eyes...I saw the car clearly in front of my car, going down the mountain road at high speed. It had passed right through my car! I know that sounds mad...but it is exactly what happened. I saw what looked like negros in the car, and an arm waving a bottle out a window. Shaken to the core, I quickly and carefully finished my backing move, and went down the mountain, found the nearest motel, and checked in. I called Pat, I believe, long distance, and told her what had happened. Then there was one other thing I remember about that long trip (and remember, these few things are all I can remember...I don't remember eating, sleeping, or anything other than these few details of this trip which took a week or two. I was driving along mountain tops at night when suddenly I saw a strange looking side road where no side road should be. It was about 10 at night, no cars on the road, and I was very sleepy. So I drove to the left off the mountain highway along this tiny road cut through solid cliffs. It came out on a flat plateau about 1000 feet in diameter. Except for a mountain side at the left, you could look for what seemed hundreds of miles out. It was an out of this world view. So I secured the car, got out my blankets, and rolled up on the ground and went to sleep looking up at thestars. I don't remember leaving there, and could never find the place again on my other trips along that highway, though I looked high and low. After that trip, my mind is hazy on what happened the rest of that year and the few years afterward. I only know I made many long, lonely trips. And do not remember what happened on any of them. I drove to Mexico City one time. In a rattletrap car. I do remember driving down clearly. A long long trip 1500 miles across desert. But coming back...ah, that is something else. I am puzzled how I got back. I had no money, don't remember buying gas, and hadno food. I did have some giant cigars I had bought in Mexico City, and smoked them. I seemed to drive and sleep at the same time. This is true. Also I read, while driving. Once I woke up, going 50 miles an hour down over an embankment where the road made a hairpin turn to the left. Somehow, I don't know how, I managed to swing the car around while it was whizzing down the 10 foot embankment 08/07/2025 17:17 === Page 12 of 38 3/5/67 p4 Page Four with a steel fence at the bottom, and run the car alongside the fence until I got it stopped. Then somehow I managed to get it back up the ten foot embankment onto the road again. I don't know how. Some time later at night, driving along the Mexican desert under the stars, I got so sleepy I pulled over...no other cars on the road as far as the eye could see in either direction. I got out my blankets, walked straight out into the desert about 500 feet from the car, lay down on the blanket and fell right asleep. The next thing I knew was a blazing hot sun beating down onto me. I opened my eyes. Things were moving around me. I stood up. There in a perfect circle around me were an army of tarantulas, each as big as my hand. They were moving, backing and forwarding, but keeping a perfect circle, and at about five foot distance from me. I would estimate there were at least 50 of the things. I scooped up my blanket and took a flying leap over the circle, ran to my car, and took off. I wondered why they hadn't got onto me while I was asleep. The sun was high, and evidently I had slept long. The next thing I remember is certainly weird...I woke up in the car, while driving, near a bridge. I wondered what on earth I was doing sleeping, and stopped the car for a moment. Just then I was hit from behind with a terrible smash, which threw me violently forward then whiplashed me backwards. It knocked me out for a minute. When I came to I was lying outside the car. I was mad. I got up, and there was this truck behind me, with two men in it, just sitting there. They didn't talk, didn't say a word, just stared at me. That is all I remember until I was driving out of Juarez into San Antonio. Now another weird thing happened. I must have been out of my head. I had no money to speak of...just a few dollars. So I drove to the finest hotel in downtown San Antonio, the Hilton, in my '36 Chevy, went in, and asked for small inexpensive room. They sent me up to...a penthouse suite. A $300 day layout. I stayed there for a day, sleeping, then they moved me down to a small room. No reason for any of this was given. When they moved me down to the small room, I got delirious...knew nothing for several days. Suddenly my mind cleared and I left for Los Angeles and you kids. How I paid the hotel bill, I don't know. Several years later, while working for Jack Danciger in Ft. Worth, I was driving from Ft. Worth to a tiny town in New Mexico, where Danciger had grown up, to get information on a story I was writing about him. When I got to New Mexico...I only remember three things. On the way to the tiny town one evening there wasn't a cloud in the sky...this was just before dusk. Except one huge white circle of a cloud...an immense thing...looked to be as big as one or two football fields, a perfect circle. I marveled at this, because there was no other cloud to be seen as far as the eye could see in any direction. And the cloud did not move. It was just there. And it didn't wisp or thin out. Was a solid white consistency. Then on the trip back in a few days across New Mexico away from the little town my car kept going dead, and I had to have it repaired in some town. Then one night, at about two in the morning, I noticed I was running out of gas. I pulled into a tiny dark town and there, to my surprise, was a filling station all lighted up. I parked alongside the gas tanks and this man walks up. Instantly I knew this man was a UFO creature. And this at a time when I wasn't even thinking about UFO's. He had green, slanting eyes. His face wasn't human...is all the way I can describe it. When he talked, and I deliberately got him into conversation...he had a strange weird accent...and I am familiar with almost all === Page 13 of 38 3/5/67 3/5/67 P5 Page Five foreign language accents. He spoke broken English. I don't remember even driving away, or the rest of the trip back to Ft. Worth. Back at Ft. Worth, I quit Jack Danciger because suddenly ideas kept coming into my head re how to heal people using light waking hypnosis. I began using these ideas, and people began getting well right and left. I put the ideas into a notebook, and soon the notebook was filled up, jammed with these ideas..........none of which I had ever encountered in psychology or abnormal psychology or the study of hypnotism. About this time Lornie and I found ourselves on a lonely road one night with the cigar shaped UFO near us. Much later, when the AMA ganged up and framed me with a lying man... Lornie and I got into our car and proceeded to drive around the United States in a complete circle...across mountains, across deserts. One night we were driving along the road in the Rocky Mountains...it was so pitch black you couldn't see a thing...there were thick trees lining the road on both sides. Suddenly in our car headlights...walked an old man. In the middle of the pitchblack highway. He couldn't possibly have seen a foot in front of him. Yet there he was, walking along. I stopped the car, and he walked over to us in the pitch blackness. He had a kindly face. I gave him our flashlight, so he could see. He smiled, and put his hand over my hand in an odd way, then walked off into the blackness. Lornie and I talked for a minute or two about how weird this was...and decided to give him something else, I forget what...so we turned the car around and drove up and down the highway, but there was no sign of the old man. He had just disappeared. Just one other miracle thing that has happened...while Pat and I lived in Evanston...we were driving in the downtown area around a circle-like thing in the center of the square...suddenly I saw an old woman in the rain directly in front of our car, in the rain, an instant before our car passed over her. I jammed the car to a halt and said to Pat "My god, did you see that?" She said, "Yes, an old woman. Quick, Ted, let's get out and see." We leaped out...and there was no old woman. No one. We had both seen her. Like the old man in the Rockies, she had come from nowhere, and then disappeared. I imagine Pat remembers this. One other strange occurrence...Pat and I were living in Evanston and I was working at Arthur Murray, teaching dancing. We were in our room one night, going to sleep, when Pat suddenly said, "Ted, there's something in the room." Then she let out a terrible scream. Out of the murky dimness of our room sprang an immense black cat right onto Pat, who was sitting up in bed. Our door was closed, so we don't know where it came from. After the experience of the fields...I now firmly believe that the Si's drew me out into lonely places...many many times...and blanked me out, then turned me loose again. Time and time again. This would account for my spot amnesia and behavior at times which was not like me at all. And I believe that Pat will now understand why many things turned out like they did. Let her tell you about the jeep at the top of the mountain...only me outside, and the brakes went off. I had the regular brake on, plus the hand brake. But they both went off. Now Lornie was tied with a rope inside the car, so she couldn't fall out while we drove 08/07/2025 17:17 === Page 14 of 38 3/5/67 p6 Page Six up the almost sheer side of the steep mountain. You must understand, only a miracle could have saved you two and Pat. Rick was being held by Pat, and Lornie was tied in, and the ton or two of jeep was plunging downhill backwards, picking up speed. I believe the Si's wanted to know what value I placed on you three. They found out. Pat used a judo roll and dove out the side with Rick, rolling on her back so Rick wouldn't be hurt. I hooked my left hand onto the inside of the roof, hanging onto the outside of the jeep, with Lornie inside not making a noise, as I recall, but just watching me. By this time the jeep was plunging full speed down the side of the mountain, backwards. I don't know to this day how I did it, or even got the idea, because there was no time to think...out of the corner of my eye to my right I saw a huge boulder, and I reached in with my right hand, still clinging to the side, and twisted the wheel, careening the jeep in a sharp curve at the boulder. The jeep hit, I flew up into the air, and was knocked out for a minute. When I got up, Lornie was scratched. Pat ran down with Rick...said she saw me pinwheel high up into the air, turning over and over. Probably my arduous and thorough judo training saved me and I broke my fall automatically. Anyway, there was no good reason why any of you three should have lived through that. Pat, by all rights, should have gone under the wheels of the jeep, or broken her neck in her dive. And tiny Rick was in her arms. Lornie had no chance at all, tied in with that rope. She should have gone all the way down that mountain in that jeep and smashed to pieces. Pat & I got a bottle of wine afterward and celebrated our "good luck." I have caught the Si's testing me, these past few months. They do it with dreams, believe it or not. They put me in situations...moral situations...and see how I react to them, in dreams. One night I dreamed I was flying (my usual dream) and it was wonderful. But down on the ground below were little Beau and Martha, trying to keep up with me. I flew far ahead, then circled, and went back to them. I wasn't about to fly off and leave them. And in the dream something seemed to ask me...if I could fly...far...would I be willing to leave Martha and Beau, and in the dream I knew it was impossible. I would not leave them on any account, for any reason...even if I could fly. I realized they were the reality of what makes my present world. And I have had other like dreams...clearly testing my thought patterns and moral patterns. You try covering up in a dream...you can't do it. IN a dream you are what you are, and you react as you really are. I believe the Si's had wanted to work with Pat. She and I were drawn constantly into lone, woodsy areas. The side of a hill one night outside Salt Lake City...to a cave in the darkness, one night at Spring Mill Park when Lornie was tiny...many places, many times. But for some reason Pat didn't jell with them. I think Pat subconsciously knew or suspected, and drew away from them...leaving me at key times, breaking up the efforts of the Si's to train her, for she and I were a natural pair together in this area. I am glad to be a part of the Si pattern, willing and able to work with them, trained by them. Perhaps it will come to something worthwhile. We'll see. Meanwhile, you imagine their frustration at not being able to break me loose from the City of Phila. into the lonesome woods again. Love, Dad Owens 08/07/2025 17:17 === Page 15 of 38 Tuesday, March 7, 1967 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: Have two important things to tell you: (1) A price has just been put on the head of any Kennedy... Jackie... Robert... Ted, etc. This information comes from the Si's... who have given you accurate information before, as you well know. From this day on, they say, no Kennedy will be safe, anywhere, under any conditions. (2) Last chance to let me go to Viet Nam... and let the Si's follow and dissolve the war in favor of the U.S. Only they can do it. Last time I suggested this... Dunn saw me at CIA headquarters, and when I said Pres. Johnson would cry in the future... he evidently thought I was a nut, and showed me out. Well, Johnson did cry... not once, but several times, and it was described in the newspapers. So I was 100% right, and not a nut. And Dunn was wrong not to hear me out. If you don't send me to Viet Nam, and let me have a crack at ending the war with the help of the Si's... the U.S. will have its worst disaster in history. That's a promise. The Si's say so. You might as well start listening to the Si's. You've got everything to gain... and not much to lose, at this point. CIA was just dealt a hell of a blow, as you know. It could do worse... than make friends with the Si's. Sincerely, P K Man (Owens) 1114 Spruce, No. 33 Phila. Pa. Owens 08/07/2025 17:17 === Page 16 of 38 Lorne, Rick, Pat March 9, 1967 To All Sota Members - A Special Letter One of our Sota members, has come into a lot of action with the Si's, who are evidently very interested in her. Sota Member#114 Dr. Irene Kavula 2 Cliff Street Wolcott, Connecticut First of all, Dr. Kavula received her Sota ring...and shortly thereafter felt absolutely driven to sit down and write a newspaper article in defense of the Si's. She did so, and submitted it to a newspaper and it was published. Enclosed is a Xerox copy of same. Then Dr. Kavula began to see various phenomena on her TV screen that has occurred in my own apartment, as written about in "Searchlight." She also saw a UFO with her own eyes, in the area of her home. Then the newspapers began to print accounts of UFOs being seen all around her area. For instance a UFO was seen in Bridgeport, Conn., in her area, on February 20. It was seen and observed for a space of 30 minutes by a police officer and other people who were with him. On Oct. 1st a picture of a UFO was taken in New Haven, 17 miles from her home...and printed in Saucer News, Spring Issue. This date was important, Oct. 1st, because she had written her article re the UFO's which appeared in the newspapers Sept. 29! This same UFO was seen by Dr. Kavula. UFO's also have been seen and reported in the papers in Prospect, Conn., and Thomaston, Conn....all within several miles from her home. She reports "It seems that ever since I joined SOTA, and have had my mind on the Si's, that they have been sighted in and around Connecticut, and especially near here." I suggest that you drop Dr. Kavula a line, and ask her what she is doing right...for she is the Sota member getting the most action at this time with the UFO intelligences. P K Man (Owens) President, The Sotas 1114 Spruce, No. 33 Phila., Pa. Owens === Page 17 of 38 March 20, 1967 Mr. Russell Swank Systems Management Analyses - Organization of Scientific Research Dear Russell: I really enjoyed talking to you today, and was most interested to hear of the large UFO seen in Wynnewood nearby over the weekend. Not a thing in the papers on it, though...? Am confirming, for the record, in writing, what I told you today... Am asking the Si's to double their intensity in another attack on aircraft in the U.S. in the coming days and weeks ahead. This should produce a startling account in the papers of planes down everywhere, under all conceivable conditions...and more heavily in numbers than the last "demonstration." I just hope they don't get tired of constantly proving their point the same old way. I'll also ask them to try and keep from killing or hurting anyone. That's pretty tricky... knocking down planes and keeping the occupants safe. But they did it once with the astronauts, and they have done it since on other times. Always the papers say it is a miracle no one was killed or seriously hurt. Also...I told you how Shiekan broke his foot last week, and is on crutches up at the office. And Steinberg had a heart attack Wednesday and is in serious condition at Pennsylvania Hospital. Today found out that two different secretaries...Marylou Schienblum and Sylvia Gross... both had separate car crashes last Friday. Marylou had her car wrecked completely. Sylvia was badly hurt in a whiplash, and is under intensive doctor's care. Also Miriam, who works in the filing room, had to go to New York over the weekend because her uncle had a heart attack there. Enclosed is the article I sent you, but you didn't get. It is my hope that you will, one of these days, sign and return to me the confirmation I sent you some time ago. Or some confirmation. It would motivate me much more better. (Alliteration, and who cares?) P K Man (Owens) === Page 18 of 38 March 23, 1967 Dear Rick -- I enjoyed your letter. Teddy was on Ed Harvey's "Talk of Phila." radio show. This evening the John Bandy TV Show called me, and wants me on their TV show taped next Tuesday. So if you get the John Bandy Show out there on TV, look for it! I'll send you a TV Guide later. Glad to hear you've found out what a girl is. Good luck with Lynda. She sounds like fun. Remember that wild blonde that sat in your lap in Wash? Laugh, I thought I'd die! So mom says write books. Sure. I type 90 words per minute all day in my law office -- by Sat. so tired I can't wiggle. Somewhere in there I write a book? Hah. Couple of people in school you don't like? Grandpa told me once there'd always be one or two bad things I'd have to take to get the goodies. Life's just that way. Don't let "those few" stop you from being a winner, eh? Beau talks eloquently now. He's brilliant. But he gets hurt too much. Always hitting & bumping his head on things. Julio must be a right guy -- if you and Lorrie pass on him. No, I didn't say I have 150 in the lotas. Only 22. My first one I gave the no. 101, so he wouldn't feel lonely. Too bad Jim accidentally broke the TV set. Well, accidents will happen. I love you too, pal. Be a good boy. You know how. Love, Dad. 08/07/2025 17:24 === Page 19 of 38 April 13, 1967 Kids - read this 1, 2, 3, 4 sequence pics of Martha back to me. Thought you'd appreciate seeing them. Love, Dad Russell Swank, Organization of Scientific Research Dear Russell: (1) In my predictions for 1967...I predicted a possible large earthquake for Denver (one of three cities) and it just had its largest quake in history, 5 1/2 on the Richter Scale. But the damage I "saw" in my mind did not materialize. (2) One of the predictions I made to the four office girls has come to pass...that the UFO's would be seen and reported on a big scale. They sure were. Last Saturday on the radio, KYW, it was reported that hundreds of school children and their teachers watched a flying saucer maneuver for ten minutes in Florida. That same night on Channel 3, TV, the same announcement was made. Not one word in the local papers, or the N.Y. Times, or the Miami or Tampa newspapers. Not a word one. Which shows what a tremendous suppression job someone is doing on the news. But there is more. While checking the Miami paper I discovered that last Friday a Phantom Jet crashed there. This was not reported in the local papers or N.Y. Times - further, on Saturday, the day of the UFO, an airliner with over 100 people had a close call and had to belly-land at the Miami Airport. This was not reported in any of the above-mentioned papers..just the Florida papers. Therefore, in keeping track of my airplane incidents I am not getting the news in the local papers or the N.Y. Times. So I can't tell how many planes the Si's are forcing down, because "they" now seem to be restricting that sort of news to local areas. It's something new. (3) Martha saw that "creature" that dropped down beside her on the balcony not long ago...in our kitchen the other night. It popped its head out from underneath the stove. She said it had an odd "band" that ran up the middle of its face back over its head. She had never in her life seen any animal like it, if that is what it was. I couldn't find it, but I know her, and she was not imagining it. (4) Am "planting the seeds" now for beautiful hurricanes, to come sweeping and swooping in on the Electro (Florida) target in the weeks and months ahead. Am working especially for another "earliest hurricane on record to hit the U.S. mainland." Well, I was successful last year...why not again? P K Man (Owens) Owens 08/07/2025 17:24 === Page 20 of 38 Friday, April 21, 1967 Mr. Eastwood, Inventions, NASA Listed as follows are the rockets, satellites, etc., that have been destroyed, harassed, or their mission ruined..........since I began working with "PR"..........the "intelligence behind Nature" which turned out to be UFO intelligences: (Not exactly in the order ruined): Saturn rocket Ranger 6 Titan 2 Titan 3 OGO-A (Orbiting Geo. Observ.) Imp 2 Mariner 3 Minuteman I Tiros Weather Rocket Centaur Rocket Scout Rocket Titan 3A Space Glider on Thor Delta (Project Asset) Atlas-Centaur Rocket (Project Surveyor) Snapshot - Ion Engine Rocket Air Force Tracking Rocket, Star Gemini 5 - Hit by storm, fire, lightning & mechanical failure (but still managed to get up and down) OSO Flying Laboratory, 8/25 X-15 Experimental Plane Thor Agena Titan Rocket Agena Atlas Rocket Titan 3, with 4 Satellites piggy-back Gemini 6 wrecked; astronauts managed to escape. Gemini 8 Agena went wild; useless. OAO - Orbiting Astron. Laboratory Atlas-Centaur Rocket New Polaris Rocket, Cape K. Explorer Satellite Rocket Saturn Moon Rocket Test Stage Apollo Space Craft, Cape K. Lunar Orbiter II, 12/66 Apollo Upper Stage and Gantry blew up, Sacramento, 1/67 Biosatellite I, from Cape K., lost in space. Essa 4 Satellite, failed, 1/67 Space Capsule in Texas, 1/67 Super-Titan Piggy-Back Rocket, blew up after launch, 8/66 Surveyor II, had to be blown up after launch, 9/66 Lunar Orbiter I, failed to complete mission. at Cape K., destroyed, 10/66 Gemini 12 - made flight but seriously harassed by breakdowns and mechanical failures, 11/66 "Handyman" Camera Satellite, up from Cape K., failed to orbit, 4/67 Surveyor 3, readied to shoot at Cape K., found so full of "bugs" had to be returned to West Coast as useless. === Page 21 of 38 4/21/67 p 2 Page Two Now let us look at the devastation among NASA personnel...not in space at all. Dryden, Deputy director of NASA, died. Lovelace, Chief of NASA, killed in crash. One Astronaut killed by a bird that flew into his plane. Two Astronauts killed in plane crash. General Branch of NASA killed in crash. Three Astronauts killed in Apollo mishap at Cape K. Kris-Kraft, NASA head, plus 13 top NASA officials, attacked by gunman on plane. We must add the destruction by fire of The Space Eye, only one of its kind in the world, in Cape K. area. Also we must add the hurricanes which attacked: Hurricane Cleo Hurricane Dora - all three sideswiped Cape Kennedy Hurricane Dora Hurricane Gladys missed, but just the same tore up the work at the Cape K. for a time. Hurricane Hilda made a bullseye on the NASA Michoud Space Complex. Hurricane Betsy made a bullseye on the Michoud Space Complex, and also made a bullseye on NASA's Bahamas setup. The ones that got away...got by the Si's (UFO intelligences) McNamara's Minutemen from silo, Cape K. Gemini from Cape K., 1/'65 Explorer Satellite, 12/'64 Minuteman 2 from Cape K., 12/'64 OSO, 1/2/65 Cape Rocket, 2/17 Cape Rocket, 2/18 Gemini 3 Ranger 9 Gemini 6-7 New Polaris, Cape K. Surveyor Moon Rocket Lani-Bird II That's it. === Page 22 of 38 4/21/67 p3 Page Three Let's recap. I notified Cape Kennedy and other government agencies in 1964...that Cape K. would be attacked by hurricanes, lightning strikes, and all shots going up from there would be affected by "PK" (now explained as Other Dimensional Effects from the UFO's). When I talked with you in Washington...I warned you that this force against NASA would increase as time went by. It did, and the latest explosive culmination of the force was the Apollo disaster with the loss of the three Astronauts and the program delayed for a year...not to mention the other disastrous side-effects. As you know...after my warnings...lightning struck a lightning-proof pad at CapeK...and the next year (the day I went on the Jack McKinney radio show here) lightning again struck a rocket pad, actually striking some workers on the pad. Again, lightning struck very near Gemini 5...or actually struck the wiring. Speaking for the Si's...I can assure NASA that they will create more "Apollo disasters" in the future, and keep the NASA program in a semi-helpless state...until their wishes are met, and you know what that is. Govt. aid to me, their middle-man and spokesman, to enable me to meet with them and set up a meeting with top govt. officials. There is no possible way humans can cope with the Si's and their effects from another dimension. There is no possible way we can force the Si's to change their minds...or make them do anything in our way, only their way. The Air Force and the U.S. Govt. proper have also been severely racked up by the Si's...but this report concerns only NASA. It is much later, in Si time, than NASA thinks. I've said it before, and I'll say it again and again...somebody had better get together with me, in a constructive way. The future of NASA depends upon it. NASA has already lost billions of dollars in destroyed space work, and lost good men...from the strange workings of the Si's, who brought it about...and are enabling me to tell you about it these past three years. It's way past time...someone in NASA listened, and paid attention. Remember when I warned you in your letter that the Si's said...what if they destroyed NASA? Then after that Kris Kraft and all the officials had a close call on the airplane with the kid who put a gun to Kraft's head and pulled the trigger, then shot through the floor of the plane? And in the Apollo disaster...this, in a big general way, very badly crippled NASA. You see my point. The Si's are not limited to one method of attack...they utilize unlimited methods of attack. Quite unlike humans. Sincerely, PK-Man Owens === Page 23 of 38 April 2, 1967 Mr. Trotwood, P.A.S.A. Today I communicated with the SI's (saucer intelligences) and asked them to allow the launching of the giant camera-carrying whatever it is next week..........to go unopposed by them, the SI's. For I happen to know they are planning to destroy it. Their answer was.....for NASA, or the U.S. Govt., to furnish me with the money I need to become isolated to meet them, for one year.....then they will consider deflecting their destructive mechanisms away from Cape Kennedy to allow experiments there to succeed. I reminded them that recently I had a bit of luck in bringing their story out to the public. And they told me they would pay back the U.S. Govt. in kind, in their own way, for this. But they are adamant about the Cape. I sincerely urge NASA to think.....contact me Monday or Tuesday, before the Cape shot.....and arrange to honor the SI's wishes. P. K. Enn (Owens) 1114 Spruce St., No. 33 Phila., Pa. Owens Kids - I'm on TV for one hour, prime time, Sun. night, April 16, 10 PM - Channel 48, John Bandy Show. Several drawbacks to the program, but the SI's got their message across fully. === Page 24 of 38 Sunday, April 23, 1967 Mr. Rowland Swank, Org. of Scientific Research Dear Rowland: Another one of my predictions has come true...amazingly...and took two years to do so. In No. 16 of the files that you xerox'd, read my letter to George Clark, CIA, dated April 11, 1965, and I quote the last part of it as follows: "And Nature (the Si's) to show you its omniscience - warns that U.S. personnel in Viet Nam, in the future, instead of being attacked with explosives - will be attacked with silent weapons, individually. Watch for blowguns.........." Today, April 23, 1967, in the Phila. Bulletin, appeared the following news clip: "USE POISON DARTS, VIET CONG URGED. Saigon, April 23 (AP)- Vietcong documents captured recently by American troops suggested that terrorists begin utilizing poison darts and blowguns as a means of assassination, the Army reported Sunday. The weapons were particularly recommended for use in Saigon and other crowded cities, and at night, when a gunshot would attract attention and possibly result in capture of the terrorist." PK Man (Owens) Owens 08/07/2025 17:34 === Page 25 of 38 Lorne, Rick, Pat April 6, 1967 Mr. Eastwood, Inventions, N.A.S.A. Dear Mr. Eastwood: Just as I told you would happen in my letter to you of April 2, "Handyman" was destroyed for its purpose. It was supposed to go up Tuesday night at 9:27. How come it went up on Wednesday night? Not that it would make any difference to the Si's. And so another valuable space rocket bites the dust...because N.A.S.A. continues to ignore the Si's wishes. It is too bad my letter was not given favorable action by N.A.S.A, because right now "Handyman" would be up there percolating and in good condition...instead of hanging up there a piece of useless junk. Sincerely, P K Man (Owens) 1114 Spruce St., No. 33 Phila., Pa. Owens This is red-hot kids - you've got my April 2 letter in your file. Love, Dad === Page 26 of 38 April 2, 1967 Mr. Westwood, N.A.S.A. Today I communicated with the Si's (saucer intelligences) and asked them to allow the launching of the giant camera-carrying whatever it is next week...to go unopposed by them, the Si's. For I happen to know they are planning to destroy it. Their answer was...for NASA, or the U.S. Govt., to furnish me with the money I need to become isolated to meet them, for one year...then they will consider deflecting their destructive mechanisms away from Cape Kennedy to allow experiments there to succeed. I reminded them that recently I had a bit of luck in bringing their story out to the public. And they told me they would pay back the U.S. Govt. in kind, in their own way, for this. But they are adamant about the Cape. I sincerely urge NASA to think...contact me Monday or Tuesday, before the Cape shot...and arrange to honor the Si's wishes. P K Man (Owens) 1114 Spruce St., No. 33 Phila., Pa. LATER... (2) Rocket Trouble Handyman In Poor Orbit CAPE KENNEDY, Fla., April 6 (Thursday) (UPI) -- A new Handyman satellite ran into rocket trouble Wednesday night and was stranded in a poor orbit that was expected to hamper its mission. The satellite, designed to stretch four booms to a record 251 feet in orbit, fell victim to an errant Agena upper-stage rocket that failed to drive the spacecraft properly into its planned 6900-mile-high circular path. It left it, instead, in a long, egg-shaped path. The trouble was blamed on a fuel valve that failed to close properly. Scientists received an indication that there was a problem a few minutes after launch, but this was not confirmed until three hours later. The multipurpose moonlet, equipped with a pair of weather cameras, was supposed to soar into a circular orbit 6900 miles high. To reach it, the Agena had to fire twice and coast a record one hour and 40 minutes between firings. The indication of trouble was radioed back from the rocket as it shut down its engine for the first time. The satellite was the second of five Applications Technology Satellites designed to test new techniques for future weather and communications spacecraft. U.S. Satellite Is Stranded In Wrong Orbit for Test Cape Kennedy, Fla., April 6 (AP)--A $9 million U. S. satellite circled the globe in the wrong orbit today, its mission ruined by a rocket engine failure. The failure apparently doomed a plan for the satellite to transmit television pictures from space that could be seen "live" on television sets in American homes. The satellite--called ATS for Application Technology Satellite--rode an Atlas-Agena rocket into space last night from Cape Kennedy. The Agena upper stage hurled the 815-pound payload into a preliminary orbit ranging from 114 to about 7,000 miles high, but after it fired, a fuel valve failed to close. With the valve open, the engine could not ignite a second time to shove the payload into a 7,000 mile-high circular orbit, and it continued in the long elliptical path. However, the satellite, as planned, deployed six long stabilization booms that gave it the appearance of a giant spider and the nickname of "Daddy Longlegs." The booms, extending to a span of 251 feet, were part of an experiment to use the earth's gravity as a means of keeping one side of the satellite always facing earth. But they were designed to operate at the high circular orbit. In the circular orbit, the earth's gravity pull would have been the same all the way around. But in an elliptical orbit, the pull varied in relation to the changing distance from the earth, causing the satellite to spin out of control. A television camera aboard the craft relayed pictures of the boom deployment to a ground station in Australia. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration had hoped to use this camera to transmit live pictures from space to home viewers through the TV networks. === Page 27 of 38 Sunday, April 16, 1967 Mr. Ed Hervey, WCAU Dear Ed: Last week a plane crashed in the Pa. mountains. Not a word of it in the papers...heard all about it on KYW radio. The plane crashed, and the man in it was not hurt. He managed to find help, and was taken to a hospital for examination. Hours later they found out he'd been in a plane crash. But they couldn't get back to the plane that night because of heavy fog. In the morning when the authorities found the plane in the remote mountain area...all its instruments had been removed. Now who do you suppose did that? It could easily have been the Si's...to examine the instruments to see how better they can bring down planes without killing anyone. Now let's look at our plane record since I last wrote you about Johnson's plane trouble. "KENTUCKY CRASH KILLS 9 ON PLANE" - Lexington, Ky. April 3. It was run by Piedmont Airlines and Lexington Air Taxi Service. What was interesting was that Piedmont would not identify the passengers, and Lexington refused to name the pilot. "PLANE CRASHES IN FOG, PILOT NOT BADLY HURT" - Quakertown, April 7. Man crashed in his plane; only had some face cuts. "5 AMERICANS MISSING ON FLIGHT IN LAOS" - plane and Americans vanished. "JET LANDS 105 SAFELY WHILE ENGINE BURNS" - N.Y., April 8, an Eastern Airlines jet with 105 people aboard made an emergency landing at Kennedy International Airport after one of the plane's engines burst into fire after takeoff. Passengers climbed down ladders. No injuries. "ICBM DESTROYED" - Vandenberg AFB, "A malfunction forced Air Force scientists to destroy a Minuteman ICBM. "TEXAS WINDS DAMAGE 100 ARMY HELICOPTERS" - Mineral Wells. "A base spokesman said winds up to 70 miles per hour battered Downing Army Heliport" and wrecked about 100 Army helicopters. Now, get this...Friday, April 7, a Phantom Jet crashed at Avon Park out of Miami, Fla. Next day hundreds of school children and their teachers watched, in broad daylight, a flying saucer play peekaboo with them outside their school for ten full minutes. The saucer would go behind a row of trees...hover up in full view...go down again...etc. That same day, on the front pages of the Tampa Tribune and Miami papers it was reported that an United Airlines jet with 102 aboard made an emergency belly landing at MacDill AFB. They put down foam but the plane missed the foam...and landed okay anyway. No injuries. I had to get all this news from the Florida papers about the planes; nothing in the local papers or N.Y. Times. The UFO sighting came from KYW radio and Channel 3 TV, Phila. P K Man (Owens) Owens 08/07/2025 17:34 === Page 28 of 38 Sunday, April 16, 1967 Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: Well, NASA has suffered the tragedy at the Cape with the astronauts... and just lost the giant camera-carrying satellite...and still have chosen to ignore the Si's, and myself. Therefore I can only say that the usual is going to happen...all of the Si's ODE forces will be brought to bear on the Essa shot going up tomorrow for the soft-landing on the moon. They usually get their NASA rocket; only miss very occasionally. So am sure disaster will overtake tomorrow's shot...the Essa rocket with its built-in shovel. The Si's will be after it, to destroy its mission. Interesting that Al Capp, the cartoonist, has a man bringing down NASA shots with double-whammys. Wonder how he stumbled on that plot format? Amazing...the Govt. refuses to give me $5,000 to carry out the Si's wishes...and loses billions. Well, that is exactly why the U.S. Govt. at present is doing so brilliantly at home and abroad, politically and militarily. Brilliant thinking. Save the nail, and lose the horse, and thus the battle. P K Man (Owens) Owens === Page 29 of 38 May 7, 1967 Mr. Leonard S. Buccellato 444 Saddle Lane GrossePointe Woods Michigan 48236 Dear Leonard: Would you believe...Leonard is 15 years old? I wouldn't. Ye gads. Thank you for the most intelligent letter, Leonard. Let's start with the end-question first. "Should the people know of my 'mission' and of the intelligences." Leonard, they had better know...the future of the U.S., and ultimately the world depends upon it. I am the only human able to communicate with the Si's and prove it...and the Si's...well send 50 cents to I. N. Service, Beckley, 3 Courtland St., New Brunswick, New Jersey...ask for the Searchlight book on the Sotas and H. Owens...and your questions will be answered, mostly. Do that, Leonard, without fail. Now, to your questions: I, too, believe either that Christ was one of these Si's (saucer intelligences) or a human who could communicate with them and use their powers. How do I know what I am doing is not ESP? Because I have, by now, predicted to scientists and govt. agencies on five occasions the oncoming appearance of UFO's...on some occasions where and when and what they would do. They are from both beyond our universe, and a zone of another dimension here around us, inside our universe. They can appear and disappear at will. Yes, they can use energy to form into matter, and reverse the process. I do not know how. There are different forms of Si's...some can appear instantly..others use craft for other purposes. They key purpose is to set up a base in the U.S., and from that base to stop all wars and bring peace and harmony back to theworld. No, they are not 'up to something'...if they wanted something for themselves, selfishly, they could take it at will...or destroy us at will. Sincerely, H. Owens, President The Sotas 1114 Spruce St., No. 33 Phila., Pa. 08/07/2025 17:37 === Page 30 of 38 May 10, 1967 Dear Rick...you sent a good letter. Your grades were okay...what did you get A and B in? Quite right about your PK ability and autohyp power...I was a teacher and "recharger", and you left your source of knowledge and power. You could tap power on your own...but you don't know how, and I hadn't taught you yet. When you left you were still a "baby" in the ESP world, and I couldn't teach you many things. Yes, I too hope we see each other, soon. Like I say, if so, bring your pool cue and we'll shoot 50 point straight. You can't beat Dad...but you'll sharpen up your game by playing a pro. Later on, you'll be able to beat your Dad. Sure, we ate good on the long trip. We ate better than I've eaten in Phila. Of course, we did eat in a funny way. Ha ha! Linda...well, she's 13, and has a cute personality, probably. Not too much character there, though...but how could there be? Hasn't had a chance to develop yet. You must be drawn to the fun girls, instead of to the "deep" kind. Be interesting to see how that department goes, as you grow up. I didn't mean to be critical of Julio, Rick...I don't even know him. He must be a dandy if you and Lorrie like him...nobody could fool you and Lorrie. You're too sharp. There was some writing on back of your envelope, so am enclosing it, in case it is important to you. Do you have a transistor radio? If not, I will send you one to replace that one we lost in Washington. Don't worry about Martha Ann, our little darling. She died to teach you and Lorrie an important lesson...not to go off and leave loved ones...to cherish those you love. You won't find many loved ones in this old world...they come few and long years between. So stay close, and take care of their love. Dad, the Predicter, warned you after you went off and left her the first time...and I had to drive back 100 miles and find her myself with ESP...that you'd lose her. So it happened. You've got to take care of what you love. Or you'll lose it. But...the way to look at it is this...you had lots of real love with Martha Ann, and lots of happy memories. Nobody or no thing lasts forever...everything finally passes away...so be happy with the love you had. She gave you, and me, all the love her little heart could give. Could we ask for anything more? And we gave it back to her, and she knew it. She didn't want any more than that. I loved her so much that when she got sick in coast town I was afraid to go near her, or look at her, for fear we would lose her. Funny reaction. Always remember...if you lose somebody you love...don't mourn...but be happy you had their love, and the memories of them. For that is all that really counts. Listen, son, there is a venereal disease epidemic hitting the States. That means, simply...that you can catch horrible disease from any high school girl, or girl...unless you are very careful. Two ways you can catch it...by kissing, or by having sex with them. Wearing rubber prophylactics won't even save you, if they are infected. So, please be careful, for your own sake. And warn Lorrie. Get Pat to enlighten you further, although you could probably enlighten her, and me. It's too important a subject to be bashful or backward about discussing. Am sending some of our recent pictures for you and Lorrie. Be sure and show them to Lorrie, too...they are for both of you. Listen, I want an 8x10 pic of you, and a wallet size. And I will pay, don't argue. Get it done, and let me know the bill. That's an order. Love, Your buddy, Dad Owens === Page 31 of 38 Friday, May 19, 1967 Mr. Jim Moseley Saucer News 303 Fifth Avenue New York, New York Dear Jim: I guess this is the correct place to write, since it was on your stationery. Or should I send your correspondence to Ft. Lee? Anyway, thanks for your card. Will be good to see Saucer News about the middle of June. Will it go on news stands, too? Am asking the Si's to deal NY another power blackout, or show their craft there in a striking way...or do something big and mysterious...before June 22...in NY, to help boost interest in the Convention. Am sure you will get powerful results. Something exciting and unusual. Should affect power and electricity, when it happens. Just one thought, however. I hope there is no misunderstanding on their part. Recently there have been a couple...dozens of tornados instead of the hurricane I asked for, was one. I hope they don't misunderstand this, and demolish New York,...instead of putting on a demonstration. Ted Owens (P K Man) Owens === Page 32 of 38 May 19, 1967 Mr. James E. Webb N.A.S.A. Dear Mr. Webb: I refer you to my letter of May 21, 1966, in which I carefully explained...that there would be only failures and catastrophes at Cape Kennedy without the friendship of the UFO intelligences...whom I represent, as an agent. Following that, of course, there has been a horrendous string of lost rockets (Biosatellite, etc etc.) and the astronaut tragedy...and the even worse following catastrophe of both public and Administration wrath toward NASA. A pity that I am not taken seriously. P K Man (Owens) 1114 Spruce St., No. 33 Phila., Pa. Owens === Page 33 of 38 Monday, May 22, 1967 Mr. Jim Moseley Saucer News Dear Jim: I quote the following from the New York Times yesterday, May 21, 1967: "ST. ALBANS BLACKED OUT." "St. Albans section of Queens was blacked out for nearly an hour and a half last night in the area bounded by Linden Boulevard, 114th Road and 196th and 202nd Streets." Since I had written you a few days before that, stating that I would ask the Si's to black out New York...it is most interesting that this seems to be a beginning. Remember that...the approach or nearness of their intelligences and/or craft will stop or block most power operations...such as electric, magnetic, electro-magnetic, etc. All the books say it is because of the power from the Si craft, that cars, etc., are stalled with dead batteries and dead radios. But my Si's have explained it to me differently...the Si's exert a force over the area near and around them, to silence all power sources...so that messages cannot be relayed to other points for help, or to attack them. i.e., if your car is on the road at night, and a Si is near...it will stop your car and stop your radio, holding you helpless to signal for help against them. Attack them. P K Man (Owens) === Page 34 of 38 May 26, 1967 George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: This is confirming phone call of today, as follows: Si's state that Israel...and our accompanying problem with Israel...has only one hope. That of Si help. And they offer to give their help at once, to save Israel and bring about peace there. The U.S. Govt. must secure my family, and send me to Israel just as fast as can be done. I am betting, or willing to bet, my life, on the Si's...against Russian brains and weapons in the hands of Egypt, Syria, etc etc. What's the U.S. got to lose to try it? P K Man (Owens) === Page 35 of 38 May 24, 1967 Ida Lewis 108 School Street Morton, Pa. 19070 Dear Ida: If you will look at my 1967 Predictions, you will see that it is beginning to come to pass. I mention "the blackest year for America"...and even now, this is beginning to take place, and will. Either Russia and China, or both, have amply stockpiled Egypt and its cronies with tremendous weapons with which to obliterate Israel. True, Israel has the best military force...but it will be like fighting a tiger with a fly-swatter, when Israel takes on Egypt and its cronies...with their new weapons. Nothing whatever will stop Egypt and its cronies from crushing Israel now. They have been told by Russia and/or China that they will be backed up against the U.S., if it steps in. I predict, therefore, the complete wiping out and obliteration of Israel (much as I like and admire Israel, which has nothing to do with my prediction.) Just as I have predicted the wiping out, and obliteration, of all U.S. peoples in Viet Nam. Now the #1's have a special message: They have told me to pass on the word to the U.S. Govt. that they will demonstrate their control over peoples minds by seeing to the complete and utter humiliation of President Johnson and fellow Democrats at the polls in 1968...if the U.S. survives to get to that point, which is in grave doubt at this time. They will defeat the present Administration leaders with every weapon at their command, the #1's will. P K Man (Owens) 1114 Spruce St., No. 33 Phila., Pa. === Page 36 of 38 Monday, May 29, 1967 President Johnson Thesi's told me not to write you any more letters...but I want to confirm a prediction I made...so I might as well add some vital information the si's gave me this afternoon to send to CIA. First, the prediction...see my letter to you of April 5, 1967: (I am talking about "kamikaze" techniques which are going to be adopted by the Viet Cong..." ... to overrun those points with mass suicidal attacks of commandos to silence all communications." The part of my prediction that is yet to come to pass...is the suicidal attacks with planes and ships. But let's get back to the confirmation. In tonight's paper, Phila. Bulletin, UPI, May 29, Saigon: "Marine Lt. Gen. Lewis Walt...three star General, recently assigned to Washington, said the Communists had resorted to suicidal attack against the Allies." Now, today the Si's gave me the following information: Russia has just formulated a new philosophy. They have decided that the U.S. is now weaker than it has been in a long long time, due to confusion in the Administration...conflict between the peoples and the Administration...conflict between the U.S. and foreign countries, etc. They judge the rest of the world is finding the U.S. a villain. And they have discovered if we haven't the brains and the power to settle the hash of N. Vietnam by now, we never will. Plus the fact they have been preparing for nuclear war for years in a reality way (unlike us) by vast underground shelters...and by sneaking agents into our key cities with A-bombs and bacteriological weapons...Trojan horse technique. The A-bombs and bacteriological weapons all to be set into action on a signal from Russia. After all our key cities are stricken, they'll offer to what is left...to come pick up the poor people and put them to work in Russia as slaves. Mind you, not a missile has been fired. If we do lob missiles onto Russia, they will have struck first...their key people will be scattered out in satellite countries...and most of their people will be in under-ground shelters. Ours won't be, when their missiles come. And now, with some new weapons they have, which we do not have, plus the above, they are ready...after all these years. It is no longer a Mexican stand-off, because they are prepared and ready to strike. The Si's thought our U.S. Govt. ought to know this. P K Man (Owens) 1114 Spruce St., No. 33 Phila., Pa. === Page 37 of 38 May 29, 1967 Mr. Tim Beckley I. N. Service, Searchlight Dear Tim: Just a note to point out that in my letter to you of January 18, 1967, I said: "Today called them (Roland Swank) and warned of a large earthquake to occur within days, or several weeks at the most, on the West Coast. Will be 6 or above on the Richter scale. A very damaging one. The Si's told me about it today...they will make it happen." The earthquake hit Denver, Colorado, on April 10...later than I had thought. There were widespread reports of damage up to points 120 miles away. The earthquake was so severe it knocked the needle off a seismograph at Regis College in Denver. This was the worst earthquake in history to hit Denver...since it was rated at 5.5 on the Richter scale of 10, and previously the worst quake to hit Denver had been 4.3 on Nov. 21, 1965...so nobody could say, well, this was just another quake. Ted Owens (P K Man) The Sotas 1114 Spruce St., No. 33 Phila., Pa. === Page 38 of 38 Monday, May 29, 1967 Lorne Rick Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency, Wash.D.C. Dear George: Was glancing over my files last night...and find that I gave the U.S. Govt. rather accurate warning of the barrel situation the U.S. now finds itself over on the Egypt-Israel problem. (1) In my letter to you of April 15, 1966: "They (the Si's) are getting set to focus their strange wrath now upon the U.S. Govt., or symbols thereof (Note: Israel is an ally). And the U.S. Govt. can consider itself warned in advance...I pick up a thread of something they might have in mind...foreign countries and peoples rising up against us in masses...actively...to the point of a catastrophe...as has never been done before in the history of the United States, and dangerously so...." That was a pretty good call, George, although it did take a year to develop. But not long ago...Nov. 2, 1966, in my letter to Roland Swank, Organization of Scientific Research, I said: "The Si's warn that dead ahead in the near future...the U.S. Govt. is going to be stricken with a dilemma, a quandary, to beat all quandaries. The U.S. will be faced with a unique problem suddenly thrust upon it...and the decision that is made by Johnson and Co. will decide the fate of the U.S., ultimately." "...this happening will be BIG. Something tremendously important." Now, of course, it is clear that the threat of Israel being attacked and wiped out, with all other ramificationsX...is what the above two references pertained to. I had thought it might have been a decision Pres. Johnson made to bomb the Hanoi area...but now I realize this sudden, unexpected twist in the Middle East, which could poleax the U.S. if it develops the way it is going...was what the Si's were warning about. H. Owens (P K Man) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1967 Misc letters https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/4c6db17310477e87743dd0b826534dd1.pdf 18aae3861abf15f6f1045da6b7e725d0 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/5cb01282c03d3dcaf7b0a0dfdc150d80.txt 93a7589b8e07568f496c1afc96b3c562 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letters to Owens Children Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 # TED OWENS LETTERS TO CHILDREN # GENERAL LETTERS Jeff received week of July 14, 2025 11120 Bermuda Dunes, ABQ. Sent from Lori Rodriguez in Beaverton, Oregon. Recorded by Lewis Barlow July 19, 2025 Majority written in 1965 and 1966 but were a couple of letters from 1970 and 1976. We received several different packages from Lori that contained Ted Owens letters to his children. As this was more of a general package of letters and covered several different dates, for organization purposes we will just call it general letters. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 8 Red Owens Gen. Del. Bernalillo New Mexico 87004 ALBUQUERQUE, NM 871 NOV 23 PM 1977 Recd 11/28/77 Probably a booklet sent to my grandfather Wray, who did not like my Dad. My mother Pat had just been killed in a car accident. Maybe the phone call was when Dad was told. Mr Wray Bentley 4 Crown Circle Bronxville, New York FIRST CLASS final === Page 2 of 8 08/08/2025 15:07 Wray - don't worry about your phone. I'll never call you again! Ted. === Page 3 of 8 Sunday, January 1, 1967 Rowland Swenk, C.S.C..R. I see by the newspapers that many "psychics" are foretelling the events of 1967. I disagree with most of what I have read...and you know from my amazing accuracy in the past...that I am qualified as a clairvoyant...whether I use a crystal ball, as the Dixon woman does in Washington, or UFO's for my source. (It amuses me that my work this past year has been much more accurate and astounding than the highly-publicized Dixon woman, and I have been performing my miracles in an absolute vacuum of silence.) Following, therefore, are the predictions of P K Man (Owens) for this year of 1967, and beyond. ---------- President Johnson. I once told Mr. Bunn of CIA that Mr. Johnson was a "bad luck Harry" and would cry. Since then (and the CIA man must have thought me a nut, for he immediately showed me out of the CIA building) but since that day Mr. Johnson has been described by reporters, and photographed, as crying several times. Now, in time ahead he will go beyond crying. He is walking into an area of darkness...of sadness...of tragedy. I predict that he will collapse of a heart-attack by April, for one thing. But there is more than that, all bad, for Mr. Johnson. The ironic part of it is...I could have saved him this, since the UFO's offered their power and their help, and he rejected it. The Si's tell me that Mr. Johnson has thought of committing suicide. And might do so, in 1967. Not with a gun or poison but with an "accident"...car crash, etc. Furthermore, I predict there will be a scandal in the Johnson family...not the "Kennedy Book" affair this time, but something involving either Mrs. Johnson or one of the Johnson daughters. The United States. 1967 will be one of the blackest years in the history of the U.S. During one part of 1967 hysteria and fear will fill the land, for the U.S. will be in the greatest danger of its history from attack...either from Russia or China, or both. May, in fact, be attacked. A NASA outer-space flight will end in tragedy for the astronauts. Nature and the weather will attack the U.S. violently with more than the usual ferocity from tornados, hurricanes, floods and earthquakes. A large city in the Western half of the U.S. will be damaged severely by an earthquake. Either Denver, Frisco, or Los Angeles, I believe. Then an epidemic (not flu or anything like that, but much more serious...not polio) will sweep the U.S. and have to be coped with. And an unusually large number of key military men and high government officials will die or be taken out of action in their realm of influence and activity. There will be more than the usual number of plane crashes and accidents; fires, and auto crashes. (Much more) There has been built and structured a hidden power structure composed of military men and scientists, who are interested in taking over and changing our government. (Not CIA) Their presence will not be known until the U.S. is in the midst of a crisis. These are not good men, and their murderous hateful work goes against everything America stands for, even though they rationalize what they are doing is "good for America." (Am not talking about Communists or any known group of revolutionaries.) During 1967 more will be discovered about UFO's and their intelligences than any other period in the past...because of the will of the Si's for this to happen, and their actions in this regard. The Stock Market will get worse and worse and probably crash, worse than '29. Our economy will go to hell. We will have to give up all our big plans to give money to foreign countries, to create a Great Society, to fight overseas wars...for we shall be too broke === Page 4 of 8 5/7/67 P2 Page Two to go on. At last, financial reality will sink into stupid U.S. brains and it will be realized that we cannot pour money into a bottomless yell any longer. And our fabulous giveaways of the past will remain in the past. Providing the U.S. is not destroyed... we will not repeat our mistake in this area, ever. I see the people of the U.S. bewildered, confused and lost...in a strange way as never has happened...in 1967. There are several rays of sunshine through the black clouds over the U.S. One is...the unparalleled threat which will confront the U.S. in 1967 will draw the white and the black people together in a common bond of survival. Also, a good man, now an unknown, will emerge, as Churchill emerged to help England, this year. He will be a "Lincoln" type...wise, uncorruptible by money or politics or people...good in depth. Such a man we have not seen in our history for ages. When he does come forth, the gangster Syndicate, the Mafia, the corrupt politicians...will all try to pull him down, and will fail. This man will have no connection with the revolutionary group now secretly planning against the U.S. government. And his life will be in danger from them. Startling discoveries will be made in the field of television...how the programs affect the minds of people...and this will cause sweeping laws and changes to be made in this regard. (Note: It is possible that some of these predictions may extend on and beyond 1967, provided the U.S. is not smashed by the enemy in 1967...since in this form of precognition it is difficult to judge time accurately as we know it. However, it is my belief that these events will occur in 1967.) The World. China in 1967 will grow infinitely more powerful than ever in history. She will close up Hong Kong. China will begin to take over that portion of the world from India (including India) down through Southeast Asia, and Australia. Russia will begin an overt takeover of Europe...and will clash with China over the Middle East like two dogs fighting over a bone. But China and Russia will unite to smash the U.S., at home and wherever they find U.S. representatives. Russia will try to use portions of West Africa and northern Latin America to set up bases and missiles...directed at the U.S. and Canada. Mexico treacherously makes friendly noises to the U.S. but in fact is in allegiance to Russia...is an ally of Russia. Russia and China are playing for big stakes...and like two pro wrestlers in the ring, are putting on a good show of fighting, for the benefit of the audience. However they have cleverly contrived a plan with which to destroy their powerful common enemy...us, U.S. And their plan involves using nuclear missiles only secondarily...their primary plan will be bacteriological warfare...poisons. If that fails, missiles. With all its vast power the U.S. cannot defeat the Chinese and Russians, just as Rome could not defeat the barbarians in ages past. The only hope for the U.S. lies in help from UFO intelligences, and I repeat once more that I am the key to leading the U.S. toward this help from the Si's. Perhaps, when my predictions all begin to come true, someone will show this to a representative of the U.S. government who will listen...then if there is time, we can reach the Si's, and obtain their help. For the Si's do not wish what is going to happen, to happen. Owens 08/07/2025 17:01 === Page 5 of 8 Monday, January 2, 1967 Mr. and Mrs. Siegel, Landlord Our room is now filled with thick smoke. You can thank Martha, or at this moment you would not have a building left at 1114 Spruce St. 15 minutes ago Martha told me she smelled smoke. We ran outside, and there at the foot of the stairs leading up to our apartment was a 5'x5' cardboard box filled with papers, crumpled and afire. Flames were shooting up along the wall, and the wall was burning. I rushed back into the apartment, grabbed two pans which were luckily filled with water (to take a bath because there hasn't been hot water in days) and threw it onto the fire. I yelled and got people out, and they threw more water onto the fire. We got it put out. Very lucky. The odd part of it is...never has there been a box of anything, let alone burning newspapers, placed at the foot of the stairs leading up to our apartment. I talked with firemen who arrived (somebody must have called them after we got the fire out) and the firemen told me that two minutes later the whole wall and ceiling and thus the building would have gone up like a match. They also told me they were fairly certain the fire had been purposely set...and they forced a nearby door to an apartment open to see who might be inside. You owe a great big thank you to Martha, I kid you not. If it hadn't have been for her your building would be a flaming wreck by now...and we are right at the top of the stairs. As a matter of fact, the fire was set exactly so that the stairs below us would be in flames, thus barring our exit. As well as the other people up where we are. Ted Owens 1114 Spruce St., No. 33 Phila. Owens === Page 6 of 8 January 18, 1967 Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: Look for a strong earthquake...over 6 on the Richter scale, to strike the U.S. in the Western coastal region (in a half-moon line, with one point of the "moon" in California and the other point of the "moon" in Colorado) just ahead, in the next few days, or several weeks (not more than 3). This quake should do some damage. P K Man (Owens) Owens Rick - The quake is being made with the "Emmy-Emma" technique. === Page 7 of 8 Lorne, Rick, Pat. January 23, 1967 Mr. Rowland Swank, Organization of Scientific Research (1) You will be interested in learning of more accidents and illness happening in my office to those around me. (See my recent letters on this.) I work for two men, one of whom is a partner in the law firm, Mr. Kerr. His wife and three children this past week have been sick in bed with ulcerated sores. Doctor calls it Herkes Syndrome, or something like. The other man I work for, Mr. Zatman, has his boy sick at home, being looked after by his wife, with a badly infected ear. Last week Zatman himself was sick with diarrhea. Remember the lawyer in my office whose brother dropped dead with a heart attack about two weeks ago? Well, his secretary, Dolores Reardigan, went home last week and found a colored man, burglar, ransacking her apartment. The burglar got in through a bathroom window. He took her valuables and escaped. Luckily he didn't harm her. Bernadette, the secretary who got the terrible black eye in an auto wreck, see past letter, quit her job this week. Gail Alloway, receptionist, injured her leg in a ski accident. Miss Sally Minter, office manager, was out of the office sick Friday. Alice, the switchboard operator, was out last week to go to the hospital for an examination to find out what is wrong with her. She is sick. I don't know what it means...but do know positively it is no happenstance. It has happened in the various offices where I have worked in Wash., D.C. and here. In Washington I worked for a while in a hotel supply office... and one of the men in the office stepped out the office door and was bitten savagely all over his leg by a dog passing by. Things like that. (2) I had closed my file on the airplane crash demonstration the Si's were putting on for the benefit of the U.S. people (govt.) But the Si's definitely were not ready to close their files. They were not finished by a long shot. I will now pick up where I left off in my letter of January 9, which covered the "storm" of airplane crashes up to Jan. 7. Jan. 9, 1967, a Navy bomber crashed and burned near Washington, D.C. It was out of Andrews A.F.B. in Maryland. Jan. 11, a 2,000 mph SR-71 Spy Plane was torn up when it had a landing gear failure during landing at Edwards A.F.B. in Calif. (This was the second Spy Plane (latest model) accident in two weeks.) Jan. 13, a United Airlines Caravelle made an emergency landing because of landing gear trouble, at International Airport, Jan. 17, a T-37 jet plane crashed and burned near Midland, Texas, out of Webb A.F.B. Jan. 17, a C-141 Military Jet Transport carrying 104 people had a door blow off at 33,000 feet. It made an emergency landing at Hawaii (was out of Travis A.F.B., Calif.) One passenger seriously injured. None of the passengers was sucked out of the plane because all had seat belts buckled on. A team of Air Force investigators flew out into the Pacific to find out how it happened. === Page 8 of 8 Pege Two "I warned not long ago that the Si'swere now going to strike among top officials. See recent letter." Jan. 18, a light plane crashed at Zelienople, Pa. Jan. 18, Fowler, 55, Chief of Air Reserve Training for the Navy, was killed at Glenview Air Station in Illinois. He was Commander of 18 Naval Air Stations across the country, with 38,000 aviation reservists and personnel under his command. I feel that this is part of the pattern, although he was not an airplane.* Jan. 18, Stephen Currier, a member of Mrs. Lyndon Johnson's beautification committee and a millionaire, vanished with his wife in their airplane. Jan. 18, another plane like that of the Curriers, and in approximately the same area, vanished off the Florida keys, carrying four prominent people...the Boardmans, etc. Jan. 19, a United Air Lines prop-jet liner with 50 persons aboard crashed into a snow plow while landing at Norfolk, Va., injuring seven passengers. The belly of the plane was ripped away and one wing torn off by the impact. Jan. 19, a Navy H-19 helicopter out of Camp LeJeune, N.C., was lost in the Atlantic ocean. Jan. 19, an Air Force KC-135 tanker crashed near Spokane, Washington. Incidentally, the Currier plane wreck, above, must have been important. They sent out the U.S. Navy guided missile cruiser U.S.S. Boston, and four submarines, plus 30 other planes and a Coast Guard cutter and two private yachts in the search. Planes in the search were from the Coast Guard, Navy, Civil Air Patrol, U.S. Air Force, Puerto Rican National Guard, the Canadian Navy and "other organizations." Friday, Jan. 20, was a big hit for the Si's. An Apollo Moon Rocket simply blew up, while enclosed in its giant gantry, in California. This was kept out of the papers...not a clipping on it I could find in Phila. or New York papers...but was described in TV and a motion picture was shown of it. One minute it was there being worked on...the next minute it just vanished, in a tremendous smoky explosion. And the gantry was destroyed. Jan. 22, two Marine jet bombers collided and crashed at Santa Ana, Calif. Jan. 23, a light plane crashed at Uniontown, Pa., killing three skydivers. I quote my letter again of November 23, 1966: "You can expect airplane crashes all over the United States, under all kinds of conditions, consistently, throughout the following weeks and months. It will be a storm...of plane crashes." I'll simply ask you, was I not right? P K Man (Owens) Owens Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1967 Package to father and misc letters https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/92d974fa001553bc643845767756ee23.pdf 4175035b718f3e4ccf14c59ec05f2221 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/f01b06863e4d8ad83865ddf76553aeef.txt 354f29659014310b4e024937b0ee1c1b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letters to Owens Children Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 # TED OWENS LETTERS TO CHILDREN # GENERAL LETTERS Jeff received week of July 14, 2025 11120 Bermuda Dunes, ABQ. Sent from Lori Rodriguez in Beaverton, Oregon. Recorded by Lewis Barlow July 19, 2025 Majority written in 1965 and 1966 but were a couple of letters from 1970 and 1976. We received several different packages from Lori that contained Ted Owens letters to his children. As this was more of a general package of letters and covered several different dates, for organization purposes we will just call it general letters. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 5 NO CONTENT === Page 2 of 5 experiments. In a private gathering with Rhine and his wife, Louisa, friends, Owens startlingly dem- off." At first glance, this seems to merely be one of the many vivid, although Ted Owens, shown with his wife Martha and 8-year-old son Beau. === Page 3 of 5 a receding hairline, thin lips, penetrating brown eyes, and an IQ of 150. But that doesn't tell you who or what he really is. Let the man who knows him best do that, Ted Owens himself: "I am the only human being alive able to communicate two ways with the SIs, and prove it. I'm the PK Man." The SIs are Saucer (or Space) Intelligences. PK stands for "psychokinesis," the power to manipulate, move, or otherwise affect physical objects, through mental forces alone. The two are related. Ted Owens claims he gets his PK powers from the SIs. It all began, says Owens, in 1965. In order to support his wife and three children, he had already "mastered 50 professions," a bewildering variety including lecturer, jazz drummer, magician, hypnotist, bodyguard, boxer, private investigator, office manager, fortune teller, teacher of auto suggestion, instructor in knife throwing, designer of jewelry, psychiatric secretary, lifeguard, and last (of this incomplete list) but hardly least--rainmaker. He cheerfully admits he has no academic degree or official standing in the "establishment", yet it's a matter of record that he has an IQ of 150 (genius starts at 140), and for two years worked with Prof. J.B. Rhine at Duke University in various ESP experiments. In a private gathering with Rhine and his wife, Louisa, plus friends, Owens startlingly demonstrated his PK powers by causing a scissors to whisk off a table and fly for several feet without being touched. It all really began on that day in 1965...but let Ted Owens himself describe it (from his book--How to Contact Space People--Saucerian Publications, 1969): "While living in Fort Worth, Tex., my daughter and I were driving in the country one night, when a cigar-shaped UFO suddenly appeared at our left over a field, and came floating toward our car making no noise. It had red, white, blue, and green colors flaming vividly from it. Its nose was tilted down towards the ground. As we watched, it approached close to our car, then instantly vanished, just like a light turned off." At first glance, this seems to merely be one of the many vivid, although common, saucer sightings. But it was far more than that for Ted Owens, as he wrote: "From that day on, my life changed radically... While in Fort Worth I gave my daughter, Lornie, several demonstrations of making lightning strike in certain areas during thundershowers. I was playfully experimenting with a theory I had on the practical application of PK or psychokinetic power, to nature's forces." Notice the word "playfully." Owens was soon shocked to discover that his "playing" was real after his family had moved to Phoenix, Ariz., which at that time was in the midst of a bad drought. The idea to experiment with ESP for weather control came to me again, so I gathered my children together and showed them how I would make it storm. It did, so intensely that the city was declared a disaster area." We can infer that Ted Owens was more amazed at his success than he admits, and a bit dubious of his presumed PK powers. "To make sure that it was I who had brought this about, and not just a coincidence, I announced to my family we would make a series of storms--and I wrote to the local papers to that effect." Owens was certainly gambling, for it would be the first publicized demonstration of his PK powers--if he had them. The results were astounding. Ted Owens's past record--200 documented predictions and paranormal phenomena--is indisputable testimony of the man's unique role as a "go-between" for the Space Intelligences. For instance, in June 1967 he notified the U.S. Hurricane Center that the SI's would produce three simultaneous hurricanes. This had happened only four times before since 1886. In September 1967, Hurricanes Beulah, Chloe, and Doris were all active on the same weekend, something that the weather bureau admitted was "unprecedented" in modern times! Ted Owens, shown with his wife Martha and 8-year-old son Beau. 08/08/2025 15:52 === Page 4 of 5 To my loved children, Lorrie and Harvey, who were with me when it started Rain Maker The Evening Bulletin PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, August 3, 1965 # Rainmaker Offers City a Real Storm For Only $10,000 By HENRY R. DARLING Of The Bulletin Staff A rainmaker has come to Philadelphia. He says he'll break the drought for $10,000--a bargain rate. "I'd want $50,000 to do it in New York," he said. He's been here since the first of July. He said he whomped up the big storm that hit the city the weekend of July 11--remember? -- the first and only soaking rain we've had since December. "It wasn't easy," he noted. "I had to work on it for more than a week." Working on it, he said, requires a combination of parapsychology and "some things my grandfather told me about the way the Apache Indians used to make rain." The rainmaker is a slightly balding, well-fed man in his middle 40s with a pleasant smile and an engaging personality. **Knife-Thrower in Circus** His name is Ted Owens and he was once a professional knife-thrower with the circus. "I'm probably the best knife-thrower in the country," he said, modestly. He wrote a letter to The Bulletin as soon as he arrived in the city and said he was working on a big rainstorm. He wrote another letter after the storm hit, pointed out that he had made everybody happy, and explained why: "I live here now and I do not like hot, dry weather. Therefore Philadelphia will be wetter and cooler than the rest of the U. S. this summer. The people here are lucky . . ." He also said he was working on another storm for Philadelphia for the next weekend. The rain came, a bit north of producing storms to the government. Ted Owens **Turned Down by Government** He took all three briefcases along to prove his point. But, he said, he couldn't make the right contacts. Since the government didn't want his information for free, he decided to try at least to make a living out of it. He said he came to Philadelphia because it is in the center of the present drought area and he wanted to interest some big cities in buying his services. He was reluctant to explain just how he went about producing a storm--not that there was any big secret to it, he said, but because it is a complicated business. Visual Imagery === Page 5 of 5 who were with me when it The Evening Bulletin PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, August 3, 1965 Rainmaker Offers City a Real Storm for Only $10,000 By HENRY R. DARLING Of The Bulletin Staff A rainmaker has come to Philadelphia. He says he'll break the drought for $10,000--a bargain price. "I want $50,000 to do it in New York," he said. He's been here since the first of July. He said he whomped up the big storm that hit the city the weekend of July 11--remember? -- the first and only soaking rain we've had since December. "It wasn't easy," he noted. "I had to work on it for more than a week." Working on it, he said, requires a combination of parapsychology and "some things my grandfather told me about the way the Apache Indians used to make rain." 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Title A name given to the resource Letters to Owens Children Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 # TED OWENS LETTERS TO CHILDREN # GENERAL LETTERS Jeff received week of July 14, 2025 11120 Bermuda Dunes, ABQ. Sent from Lori Rodriguez in Beaverton, Oregon. Recorded by Lewis Barlow July 19, 2025 Majority written in 1965 and 1966 but were a couple of letters from 1970 and 1976. We received several different packages from Lori that contained Ted Owens letters to his children. As this was more of a general package of letters and covered several different dates, for organization purposes we will just call it general letters. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 9 TED OWENS FLYING SAUCER SPOKESMAN THE INCREDIBLE TRUTH BEHIND THE UFO'S MISSION TO EARTH 08/08/2025 15:52 === Page 2 of 9 HURRICANE INEZ HITS FLA. COAST To my old friend Wray Bentley - who doesn't like to make waves. Ted Owens PK Man Have we been sent--and ignored--messages from spacemen? Do the Saucer Intelligences control our weather, our civilization, our very lives with their incredibly advanced science? Has one man, Ted Owens, really been selected to "relay" their warnings and predictions? Do we have in our midst a # "SPOKESMAN" FOR THE UFO'S? By Otto O. Binder A letter to Pres. Richard M. Nixon, dated July 30, 1969, read in part: "The SIs told me that there is a plot already underway . . . has been completely planned . . . to kidnap you at your Key Biscayne residence (Florida). The 'bad guys' (Cubans) know how well protected you are . . . but they are going to strike at night, by water . . . with fast boats . . . with a highly skilled commando group of 50-100 men." The letter was signed, Ted Owens, PK Man. The Miami Herald on August 24, 1969--only three weeks later--carried the headline: SPY PLOT SHATTERS PROSPECTS FOR RENEWING U.S.-CUBA TIES. After revealing that Fidel Castro's U.N. diplomats doubled as spies, the text stated: "The U.S. public is likely to consider the recruitment of spies for a mission relating to Presidential security very much more seriously than guerrilla activities in a faraway land. There was, according to some reports, a James Bond touch to the recruitment plot . . . These reports claimed the plan was to study President Nixon's movements at his Key Biscayne home, using scuba divers as part of the surveillance team." On March 10, 1966, after years of drought in the Northeastern states, Ted Owens wrote to Pres. Lyndon Johnson: "I have some very good news: from the UFO Intelligences . . . to PK man . . . to you. The SIs have decided to end the entire drought on the East Coast. In the days, weeks, and months to come there will be rain, rain, rain . . . not just a little, not just 'above average,' but phenomenal rain . . ." From the Philadelphia Enquirer of July 22, 1967: "We were pleased to note . . . the admission by the United States Weather Bureau . . . that the drought which plagued the northeast corner of the country for the last six years, has ended." After citing that abnormal rains had been reported all through the northeast during the spring and early summer, it was stated that New York's reservoirs "could 08/08/2025 15:52 === Page 3 of 9 747 CRASHES BLACKOUT ASSINATED! 76'ers Lose Play-off Best wishes always to Gray Basket - a fine man. Owens (PK Man) INJURY CURSE HITS EAGLES 08/08/2025 15:52 === Page 4 of 9 hardly be further. The year 1967 was also called the "year that had no spring" because it rained so much. The sunny days of blossoming flowers and awakening life were rare. The rainy spring led to an even wetter summer, as if nature was making up for the six years of drought all in one year. On October 26, 1965, a telegram sent to George Clark, CIA, Washington, D.C., held this alarming statement: "A rare warning. They (the SIs) will unleash a terrible catastrophe within 10 days." Signed: "PK man" (Owens). A little more than 10 days passed without incident. But on November 9, 1965, the Big Blackout hit seven northeastern states and parts of Canada, plunging 30 million people into darkness. Without electrical power for up to 12 hours, the lights of entire cities flickered out, machines stopped, and TV and radio went off. Emergency measures were required to rescue people trapped in stalled elevators and subway trains. Hospitals switched on their own power generators for critical operations. Was this what the telegram meant? On the morning of November 14, 1969, the Apollo 12 was in the final stages of the countdown, ready for lift-off to man's second moon landing. North of Cape Kennedy, in Virginia Beach, Va., three prominent citizens (their signed and sworn affidavits are on file) heard Ted Owens state that lightning would strike either the pad or the spacecraft. Seconds after the giant rocket roared into the overcast sky, the control crew at Cape Kennedy was alarmed to see a sudden drop-off of telemetered data from the spacecraft. Through an alternate voice-circuit, astronaut Charles Conrad told how lights had gone out within the spacecraft, adding: "I don't know what happened. I'm not sure we didn't get hit by lightning." The PK man had done it again. More tragic was the prediction in a letter of March 4, 1968, sent by Ted Owens to government agencies, relaying a warning from the SIs of the "destruction of one or more highly-placed U.S. Government Officials --by assassination." Within 12 weeks, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy were killed by assassins' bullets. The above are only a few cases out of more than 200 documented predictions and paranormal phenomena originated by Ted Owens. Now, just who is this Ted Owens, the PK Man? He is a tall, broad-shouldered man of 50, with Illustration by Hal French 08/08/2025 15:52 === Page 5 of 9 a receding hairline, thin lips, penetrating brown eyes, and an IQ of 150. But that doesn't tell you who or what he really is. Let the man who knows him best do that, Ted Owens himself: "I am the only human being alive able to communicate two ways with the SIs, and prove it. I'm the PK Man." The SIs are Saucer (or Space) Intelligences. PK stands for "psychokinesis," the power to manipulate, move, or otherwise affect physical objects, through mental forces alone. The two are related: Ted Owens claims he gets his PK powers from the SIs. It all began, says Owens, in 1965. In order to support his wife and three children, he had already "mastered 50 professions," a bewildering variety including lecturer, jazz drummer, magician, hypnotist, bodyguard, boxer, private investigator, office manager, fortune teller, teacher of auto suggestion, instructor in knife throwing, designer of jewelry, psychiatric secretary, lifeguard, and last (of this incomplete list) but hardly least--rainmaker. He cheerfully admits he has no academic degree or official standing in the "establishment", yet it's a matter of record that he has an IQ of 150 (genius starts at 140), and for two years worked with Prof. J.B. Rhine at Duke University in various ESP experiments. In a private gathering with Rhine and his wife, Louisa, plus friends, Owens startlingly demonstrated his PK powers by causing a scissors to whisk off a table and fly for several feet without being touched. It all really began on that day in 1965...but let Ted Owens himself describe it (from his book--How to Contact Space People--Saucerian Publications, 1969): "While living in Fort Worth, Tex., my daughter and I were driving in the country one night, when a cigar-shaped UFO suddenly appeared at our left over a field, and came floating toward our car making no noise. It had red, white, blue, and green colors flaming vividly from it. Its nose was tilted down towards the ground. As we watched, it approached close to our car, then instantly vanished, just like a light turned off." At first glance, this seems to merely be one of the many vivid, although common, saucer sightings. But it was far more than that for Ted Owens, as he wrote: "From that day on, my life changed radically...While in Fort Worth I gave my daughter, Lornie, several demonstrations of making lightning strike in certain areas during thundershowers. I was playfully experimenting with a theory I had on the practical application of PK or psychokinetic power, to nature's forces." Notice the word "playfully." Owens was soon shocked to discover that his "playing" was real after his family had moved to Phoenix, Ariz., which at that time was in the midst of a bad drought. The idea to experiment with ESP for weather control came to me again, so I gathered my children together and showed them how I would make it storm. It did, so intensely that the city was declared a disaster area." We can infer that Ted Owens was more amazed at his success than he admits, and a bit dubious of his presumed PK powers. "To make sure that it was I who had brought this about, and not just a coincidence, I announced to my family we would make a series of storms--and I wrote to the local papers to that effect." Owens was certainly gambling, for it would be the first publicized demonstration of his PK powers--if he had them. The results were astounding. Ted Owens, shown with his wife Martha and 8-year-old son Beau. Ted Owens's past record--200 documented predictions and paranormal phenomena--is indisputable testimony of the man's unique role as a "go-between" for the Space Intelligences. For instance, in June 1967 he notified the U.S. Hurricane Center that the SI's would produce three simultaneous hurricanes. This had happened only four times before since 1886. In September 1967, Hurricanes Beulah, Chloe, and Doris were all active on the same weekend, something that the weather bureau admitted was "unprecedented" in modern times! === Page 6 of 9 "It produced eight terrible, rocking thunderstorms complete with tremendous lightning displays, within a period of three weeks." Owens has signed and notarized statements from his family that all this is true. Now all of Owens's doubts vanished. "Electrified by my success, and knowing for certain that I had something, I wrote to government agencies and to many important people, but to no avail. No one would believe me. We moved then to Los Angeles, also in the middle of a drought, and I made some tremendous storms there." This too is fully documented. Owens was careful to document his apparent PK feats by telling various officials or prominent people what he proposed to do, then having them sign an affidavit before or after the event occurred on schedule. Some of these will be quoted later, in connection with more important events. But gradually, there came a greater revelation to Ted Owens. . . "Now, I figured that somehow I had managed to contact the essence of the intelligence behind Nature herself." This seemed to be so, because soon after, when Hurricane Cleo began roaring off the coast of Florida, Owens excitedly drew a rough map and told his family he would "control" the storm. He writes: "To the amazement of my family, the hurricane followed my map to the letter!" Now sure of himself, Owens then stuck his neck out. In October 1966, he boldly announced to the Florida weather bureau exactly what he was going to do--"guide" Hurricane Inez north from Cuba instead of west as expected, then make it backtrack and hit the Florida coast when all the "experts" said it would go out to sea. Inez followed Owens's "schedule" to the hilt. Weathermen admitted it was "unorthodox," almost impossible. Even more "impertinent" was Owens' notice to the Chief of the U.S. Hurricane Center in June 1967, saying that the SI would produce three simultaneous hurricanes. This had happened only four times before since 1886. In September of 1967, Hurricanes Beulah, Chloe, and Doris were all active on the same weekend, something that the weather bureau admitted was "unprecedented" in modern times. Obviously, if he really had this power to turn and guide hurricanes, Owens could perform a great service for the country. He thereupon bombarded government officials in Washington with letters, telling them what he could do and offering his "anti-disaster" powers. Some men, like Clark of the CIA and Eastwood of NASA saw him in person, and admitted a strong interest in his claims, but the regret was, as Owens puts it--"no action." If they didn't consider him a harmless crackpot (he does not resemble one), they were apparently hamstrung in their attempts to reach their superiors. Another big turn in Ted Owens's personal life came when he discovered that he had not, by himself, created or guided storms by some eerie contact with the "essence of the intelligence of Nature." It was some *other* intelligence, and he writes that, after moving to Washington, D.C., in 1965, "I discovered for the first time it was not Nature, but the **UFO Intelligences** who I had been contacting, and who had been guiding me." Owens had become aware of a "saucer flap" in the area, which was part of the great UFO wave of 1965-66. Then, quite unexpectedly, he received a message from the SIs telling him to inform the CIA that incredible magnetic phenomena would occur at the north and south poles. . . After sending this "prediction" to CIA man Clark, Owens wrote: "On July 8 (1965) all the newspapers carried a startling story: FLYING SAUCER IS REPORTED OVER TWO SOUTH POLE BASES! This huge disc-shaped UFO was clearly seen and photographed by many scientists of several nations, and they reported that it created powerful electromagnetic (per Owens's prediction) forces on their instruments. A bombshell burst in Ted Owens's mind. . . "I found out, with a jolt, that what I had been dealing with . . . were UFO Intelligences!" From then on, relates the PK Man, he was able to mentally "tune in" these Space Intelligences at any time. They arranged between them a series of phenomena whereby Owens would "predict" something and the SIs would make it come true. In some cases, they did this by beefing up his PK powers and letting him work the deed. In other cases, the SIs would do the job directly, keeping Owens informed. The result has been the 200-plus PK feats and incredible predictions--all apparently documented--that have flowed from Ted Owens during the past six years. Let's establish one thing here and now: Ted Owens is not a wild-eyed "contactee." He has never met an SI face to face nor has he traveled in their ships; he has not been whisked to their far off Utopian world nor has he eaten their exotic foods. Owens makes it quite plain, repeatedly, that he has only a mental contact with the SIs, that for some reason unknown even to Owens (as he himself freely admits) his brain is the ideal "receiving station" for SI telepathic messages, and most significantly, that he can "talk" directly to them on a two-way hookup. Owens believes that he is the only one on earth today with this remarkable ESP ability, and that in the past, perhaps only Edgar Cayce, Moses, and the wise men from some ancient civilizations had such direct SI contact. Ted Owens variously calls himself a "go-between" for the SIs in their dealings, or attempted dealings, with mankind; their "mouthpiece," their "front," their human "relay station" for messages. Owens constantly reiterates that he is not "responsible" for what the SIs do, even through his own PK powers, as they do all the planning and executing. Their purpose in all their paranormal doings, via Owens, is to prove their presence so that the authorities will listen to them (via Owens) and accept help. Whatever seeming "disasters" Ted Owens has been connected with, in the following accounts, the SIs claim they are here on earth to prevent a *greater* calamity. We will examine the motivations of the SIs more fully later on. Although Ted Owens has never been a UFOlogist or been active in the UFO field in any way, his special and personal relationship with the Saucer Intelligences has shed light on certain UFO phenomena in general. *EM-effects.* In answer to the question "Why do flying saucers affect cars and electrical instruments when they come close?," Owens says: "I'm glad you asked that, because the SIs just recently explained it to me. . . When they come into an area they want to investigate they throw out a 'net,' just like a fisherman throws his net overboard. . . They extend an electromagnetic net all around them that will trap and stop all power in that area in order to keep anybody from being able to communicate with humans outside the SI net, to radio for help, or to radio for airplane interference (from Air Force bases). . . Why don't Forest Rangers, who take care of our national forests, shoot bears and animals instead of tranquilizing them and tagging them? The SIs could actually destroy all humans in that area if they wanted, instead of throwing out a tranquilizing, power-stopping electromagnetic net." This implies (perhaps the most the SIs have revealed to Owens) that those landings which exhibit EM-effects are for the purpose of "tranquilizing" and "tagging" certain human specimens. This activity of course is not seen or reported in saucer sightings. We actually know little about the strange activities the SIs carry on when they mingle with humans. *Falls from the sky.* Though not always directly connected with sightings of UFOs, objects falling from the sky have been a riddle all through history. Huge falls of fish, toads, chunks of meat, blood--almost anything. Hundreds of these reports were collected by Charles Fort and these occurrences still continue in modern times. Sometimes they happen just after a UFO has flown over. And one particular substance--angel hair, a mass of odd fibers--has often been directly seen falling from a UFO. In answer to a question about a recent report of flesh and blood falling from the sky, and whether the SIs had anything to do with it, Owens provides a fascinating answer: "I don't think the flesh and blood fell from the sky. I think the flesh and blood fell out of the other dimension (from which the SIs come). In all the cases where I have read of a shower of fish or rocks falling from the sky, I believe it is caused by the SIs opening a crack in their dimension to let their craft in or out." Owens gives a more specific example in which he supposes that a UFO is rising out of the water and "they see people on the bank of the lake or the ocean, so they switch off into another dimension. But as they have come up out of the water, their power (EM field) might draw fish up with 08/08/2025 15:52 === Page 7 of 9 them, or rocks, or even people. When they switch on again into this (Earth) dimension (a moment later), in a different area than before, perhaps clear across the world, then those same fish or rocks or people--or parts of people--come back out with them and shower down." A rather gruesome explanation as to how flesh and blood might fall from the sky. Ruthless? Cruel? But if our spacecraft some day land on another world and the scheduled time for take-off comes, would the astronauts turn off their rockets just because a few natives or animals were within the blast area and might get burned to death? "Monster-men" and "Humanoids." Owens admitted he knew very little about these creatures so often seen during saucer landings. But he ventured this concept, which should interest Coral Lorenzen, who in one of her books advanced the same theory. She wrote that people saw humanoids or "hairy dwarfs" step out of saucers to collect plants or rocks. Owens said: "Yes, these are the SIs pets, which collect samples from earth for the SIs. Just as we use chimpanzees or porpoises, cats and dogs and horses, etc., to do the work for us. But for what purpose they want these samples, I don't really know." He says the SIs do not consult him on weighty matters, nor include him in master conferences concerning Earth's fate. His messages from them are strictly limited to the PK duties he is to perform. This should make most of us pause before calling this man a charlatan or self-deluded kook. Kooks and crackpots, as everyone knows, always place themselves one step below God (if they're modest) and share his omniscience. Various reporters, columnists, and other influential people (who will be named below) have said the PK Man's remarkable predictions might be coincidence or luck, but not likely. The facts seem to speak for themselves. Let's look at one of Owens's most sensational PK feats. Owens once said to a sports writer: "Sports is a superficial thing. But it's an excellent way to demonstrate the SIs power over a small group of men." Owens demonstrated the truth of his dictum by creating havoc with two Philadelphia sports teams, the Eagles of the National Football League and the 76'ers of pro basketball. Why he chose Philadelphia is a question that remains unanswered. He wrote to a dozen sports writers before the 1968 season opened, that he "would take the Eagles apart with PK," and absolutely crush their chances for the championship. He promised that the Eagles would have at least 20 injuries and would lose more games than they won. The Eagles had 30 injuries that season and lost 11 games in a row. That this was totally unexpected and almost weirdly unbelievable is seen from these expressions and quotes in the columns of sports writers: "Injury curse hits Eagles" . . . "Talk of jinxes and voodoo" . . . "The bewitched Eagles" . . . "Some whammy working on the team." Writer Stan Hochman wrote in the Philadelphia Daily News, September 30, 1968, after taking Owens to an Eagles' game, "I figured I'd pin him (Owens) down as to his claims of hexing the team. When the Eagles scored and went ahead 3-0, Owens said, 'The SIs are going to have to get Woodeshick. Get him out of the game.'" Woodeshick was the team's star. A brawl began between two other players and "suddenly there was Woodeshick out there . . . They threw him out of the game for fighting, (italics added) . . . The game even got stranger in the third quarter. . . ." After a fumble, four Eagles were unable to pick up the ball and the Cowboys took possession. The Eagles lost the game. In another column Stan Hochman wrote: "For a while, Ted Owens was content to cause rainstorms where there had been no rain for six years. He did work up that satisfying power blackout in 1967 (June) when he snuffed out the light for the East Coast. But . . . nobody came clamoring after Ted Owens to buy his cloud-bursting, light-snuffing services." Hochman then recited the incredible roster of injuries, freak plays, and hard-luck breaks that overwhelmed the Eagles during the 1968 exhibition season. (They were to continue throughout the regular season). Without endorsing Ted Owens's claims, Hochman reiterated that everything that had happened to the Eagles was foretold by the PK Man and published. Paid attendance to the Eagles' games naturally fell off and Jerry Wolman the team's owner, filed bankruptcy. Was it all a fluke? Were the Eagles destined to flop on their faces in 1968 without the intervention of the PK Man's alleged powers? Owens tested himself again in pro-basketball. On April 23, 1968, a prominent lawyer signed a statement that Owens had predicted the Philadelphia 76'ers would lose their play-off games with the Boston Celtics, and that the 76'ers would miss their shots to an incredible degree. George Kiseda, sports writer: "76'ers shooting is off . . . They might as well have been trying to put a medicine ball in a teacup." Sam Jones of the Celtics was quoted as saying: "I don't think (our) defense is what's beaten them. They're just missing shots." Again a sports writer: "The 76'ers simply couldn't put the ball in the basket." The strange part was that the 76'ers were famed as a "sharp shooting" team. The payoff, as another sports writer put it: "They went blind from the floor . . . and suffered a 122-104 crushing. Back to Boston Wednesday and the blindness continued . . . They shot a pathetic 18-for-68 and the Celtics had little trouble in slipping away with a 114-106 win that evened it all at 3-3 (games)." The Celtics, the underdogs, went on to win the play-offs, the first team even to come from behind and win. Keeping all the above extraordinary factors in mind, either the laws of chance went completely haywire--or the awesome forces exerted by the PK Man fulfilled his threatening prophecy. Take your pick. Some of his more recent predictions have been startlingly fulfilled according to the available evidence. On February 10, 1970, Owens was interviewed by Lawrence Maddry of the Virginian-Pilot, Virginia Beach, Va. Picking a distant state, Owens predicted that a flying saucer would be sighted over the Brewer-Bangor area of Maine, and that some sort of power failure would occur at the same time. The deadline was two weeks but after only one week headlines from the Bangor area press screamed of a flying saucer sighting; there was also the story of one witnesses's car whose battery went dead. During the interview, Maddry had asked: "Well, Mr. Owens. What do you think will happen while you're here?" "I look for some kind of power failure," he said. When the reporter went out to start his car, he had a dead battery. Maddry's column dryly says--"Informed of this, Owens's eyes rolled slightly in their sockets . . . 'Hmm, they must be very close.'" In early January 1970 Owens handed a letter to a reporter stating that he would make one or more earthquakes for the reporter's paper on January 22nd. . . . On that date earthquakes were reported in Berkeley, Calif., and in Japan. In fact, six earthquakes, were reported from # THERE'S A SAGA IN YOUR FUTURE SUBSCRIBE TO SAGA! IF YOU DON'T, you'll miss out on many exciting articles such as the two that have been reprinted herein. SAGA has published the UFO "big-name" authors, such as John A. Keel and Ivan T. Sanderson. Annual subscription, $5.00 per year (add 50¢ per year for Canada). Make check or remittance payable to: SAGA, c/o UFO Dept., 333 Johnson Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 11206. If you can think of it, tell them Gray Barker recommended it. We're not putting a coupon here, for we know you wouldn't want to cut anything out of this exciting reprint. 08/08/2025 15:52 === Page 8 of 9 January 22nd to February 12th, which Owens explains as the SIs being unable to control the "echo" earthquakes that resulted from those of January 22nd. More impressive is Owens's bold statement to Lawrence Maddry and other reporters that the SIs would carry on a "private war" with Pan American Airways and that the Atlantic Ocean would become a "no man's land" for their giant 747 superliners. Two days later a Pan Am-747 left Puerto Rico, became disabled over the Atlantic and had to return to the airfield. The next day a 747 leaving London had to jettison fuel and also return to base. The following day a 747 crashed on the runway at Stockton, California. Is that guessing--or knowing? There is much more to tell about Ted Owens that could not be included here but will be presented in the next issue of SAGA. To be covered will be Owens's cases of PK healing, which are far fewer than those of the renowned Edgar Cayce but no less astounding. Also an intriguing explanation of who and what the SIs are, how many UFOs they have, how they operate, and what the fate of Earth will be if their (SIs) battle against the evil OIs (Other Intelligences) does not succeed. Then, there is the strange way the SIs communicate with Owens, involving "Tweeter and Twitter," two amazing SI creatures. Let us conclude with one more prediction by Ted Owens--which is really a message from the SIs as to their future plans. It should make all true UFOlogists sit up and take notice. The written-out and signed prediction is dated February 13, 1970, and was confirmed to me in another letter a week later. Here it is, verbatim: "This time the experiment (of the SIs) will not be confined to just one country . . . it will be a worldwide demonstration of UFO power! As of this date I am contacting the SIs and asking them to activate a special apparatus they have . . . to control weather . . . on a worldwide scale! The object: to prove the existence of the SIs, and their ability to receive communications from me. The objective: to cause violent weather worldwide, from this day on, throughout the entire summer coming up in 1970. "Not only that. But for the SIs 'signature' to this, they will appear in great numbers, here, there and everywhere. "In short, you are now going to be privy to one of the greatest shows ever put on, on this earth. And it will be put on by the UFO Intelligences, using their great powers. And these powers will issue forth from the Bermuda Triangle and the Devil's Triangle in the Pacific, I am positive." Well, there you have it. Ted Owens has more-or-less staked his reputation on this direct prediction to SAGA. If, when you read this, the world is being plagued by violent storms and disasters, and if there is also the greatest wave of UFO saucer sightings and landings in history, it could be coincidence. 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Title A name given to the resource Letters to Owens Children Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 # TED OWENS LETTERS TO CHILDREN # GENERAL LETTERS Jeff received week of July 14, 2025 11120 Bermuda Dunes, ABQ. Sent from Lori Rodriguez in Beaverton, Oregon. Recorded by Lewis Barlow July 19, 2025 Majority written in 1965 and 1966 but were a couple of letters from 1970 and 1976. We received several different packages from Lori that contained Ted Owens letters to his children. As this was more of a general package of letters and covered several different dates, for organization purposes we will just call it general letters. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 7 PART II of Ted Owens--Flying Saucer "Spokesman"? # THE INCREDIBLE TRUTH BEHIND THE UFO'S MISSION TO EARTH By Otto O. Binder *Illustration by Hal French* According to the man who claims to be their one and only "contact" on Earth, the Space Intelligences are now hovering in four huge, invisible craft positioned around our globe and "are trying to put the world in balance by cancelling out wars, hate, killing... drought, famine, etc." And with their fantastically advanced science, they are determined to make their presence known by unleashing and controlling the very forces of nature! STARTS ON NEXT PAGE 08/08/2025 15:57 === Page 2 of 7 "The Space Intelligences are pure energy and are invisible," says Owens. "Only the top members of the SIs can construct a form with their intelligence and pour themselves into it." Where do they come from? "The SIs are from a different world entirely. They are from another dimension. But they have discovered how to switch from their dimension into ours!" NOTICE: The material in this booklet is Copyright 1970 by Gambi Publications, Inc., and is reprinted herein by permission of the original publisher. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission of the original copyright owner. Permission is hereby granted to radio and television stations and newspapers to quote from this issue provided a total of not more than 1,000 words is quoted and full credit is given to the title of the magazine and issues as well as the statement, Copyright 1970 by Gambi Publications, Inc. The material in this booklet originally appeared in the August and September, 1970, issues of SAGA magazine. This reprint is published by Gray Barker, Box 2228, Clarksburg, W. Va. 08/08/2025 15:57 === Page 3 of 7 The Big Blackout of the eastern U.S. on November 9, 1965... Hurricane Inez in 1966 that turned the "wrong way"... Three hurricanes simultaneously hitting the U.S. in 1967... The ending of the northeast's drought in 1967... The mysterious "hex" that in 1968 made the Philadelphia Eagles football team lose 12 out of 14 games... The lightning bolt that struck the Apollo 12 mooncraft in December 1969... These and 200 other headline events (SAGA, August 1970), are claimed as PK (psychokinesis) feats performed by one man--Ted Owens--with the aid of the SI (Space Intelligences). A bold statement, yet Ted Owens has impressive documentation. Signed statements of government officials, lawyers, scientists, radio interviewers, sports writers, and many others all attest that Owens predicted those events. He was able to predict them because, he claims, the SIs had given him enormous PK powers. Whether you believe him or not, it would be difficult to explain all those sworn affidavits. For a man to guess right so many times is equally unbelievable. Keeping a careful account, Ted Owens states that 85 percent of his predictions have been fulfilled. He admits there are misses, for not even the SIs with their uncanny powers can always whip up a hurricane or earthquake on schedule. But the record is remarkable; over 200 fulfilled prophecies in five years, from 1965 to date. The PK Man's predictions have ranged far and wide, covering almost every category of world event--sneak attacks against U.S. aircraft carriers in Vietnam, the loss of three submarines in one year, the series of earthquakes that jolted California in late 1969, the failure of various Ranger moon probes, the unexplained crashes of military planes, a violent lightning storm in 1966...on and on the list goes. These calamitous events--at least those for which Ted and the SIs are responsible--supposedly have a "good purpose," as will be seen later. But first, let's get further insight into the life and mind of Ted Owens. In answer to the question, "Why did the SIs contact you and you only?" Owens replies: "As I have gotten it from them rather spottily, they had worked with me since early childhood, attempting to get through to me. As I grew up they kept trying. I worked for Dr. Rhine at Duke (Univ.) in the ESP experimentation there and was found to be loaded with paranormal ability... But the SIs still hadn't gotten through to me. It seems to have been a combination of the close approach of their UFO to our car in Fort Worth in early 1965 (SAGA, July 1970), and then my work in hypnosis and allied fields...that finally made it possible for them to get through to me." He goes on to explain the actual method of contact. "Now in 1965 when I discovered it was actually UFOs that I was dealing with and not 'Nature,' the UFOs gave me a system to use to call upon them, just as if I'd pick up a phone and talk. They showed me, in my mind's eye, a small chamber. Inside the chamber were two small creatures, resembling grasshoppers, standing on two legs. These creatures looked down into a large round oval machine. In it they could see me. If I talked, they heard the sound, but the machine quickly turned the sound into symbols, and the symbols into very high-frequency sound that they could understand... For very important communications I was to appear on the screen and ask for 'Control,' and their Higher Intelligence would appear and listen to me." Owens bestowed on the two little creatures his own names--Twitter and Tweeter. But were they the actual physical form of the SIs? "No," says Owens, "the SIs are pure energy and are invisible. Only the top members of the SIs can construct a form with their intelligence and pour themselves into it. Twitter and Tweeter are merely convenient bodies for handling their apparatus." Where do the SIs come from? "The SIs are from a different world entirely. They are from another dimension. But they have discovered how to switch from their dimension into our dimension." Questioned closely, Owens shrugs and confesses he doesn't know anything more about their world. They have revealed very little to him, which is quite different from the all-inclusive knowledge most contactees claim to have. "They don't confide things like that. They just give me Owens' plastic disk has "cured" sick people. 08/08/2025 15:57 === Page 4 of 7 assignments and training, all pointing at certain objectives." What are those objectives? Owens's voice turns grim and earnest as he gives this brief, chilling answer: "'The SIs will allow Russia and China to destroy us (the U.S.), if we don't cooperate with the SIs. Think of the world as a large field on a farm. If one section of the field won't grow crops, or be productive, then the farmer will just quit planting it and let it go to rot. And that's what will happen to the U.S. if we don't pay attention to the SIs." Owens has reiterated that all the earthquakes, hurricanes, crashing planes, and other events caused by the Owens-SI team via PK, are only spectacular attempts to attract attention to the SIs and prove they exist. And that Owens has been chosen as their sole "emissary" to make formal contact with earth authorities. Their lack of physical form and the handicaps of their alien origin preclude their ever landing and appearing in person on earth. Hence their "training" of Ted Owens and their gift to him of PK power to perform "miracles" of nature is in the hope of getting the U.S. government to accept their presence, and proffered help. So says Ted Owens. When asked why the SIs want to help or "guide" the U.S. in particular, Owens says: "'The SIs are trying to put the world in balance by cancelling out wars, hate, killing, upset weather conditions, drought, famine, etc. They can do all these things easily!" And if they can lend Owens the PK powers that created certain hurricanes and earthquakes, caused vast power blackouts, and ended a six-year drought, they can use these powers in reverse without question. What they can unleash, they can also control. "But first," continues Owens, "they want a base to work from, and they chose the United States, perhaps because it is the most influential nation on earth." Another question really stumped Owens: "Just why have the SIs come here to help earth in the first place?" His candid answer: "'I don't know. I haven't the foggiest notion of why. I have wondered about that myself." Conversely, a bleak future is painted for the U.S. if it continues to ignore the SIs. "Russia and China will combine to attack America and destroy it with both nuclear and biological weapons. The Asian race will become the main power of the world after the U.S. is destroyed, and the black people (of Africa) will become the second largest power." Eventually, Owens finishes, "the whites will practically be nonexistent." Just how the SIs intend to change this course Owens does not know. His only "job" is to keep performing his sensational PK acts, obtain the ear of the government, introduce them to the Space Intelligences by proxy, and then they will tell the U.S. what to do to avoid the above holocaust. This is the "mission" of Ted Owens. The sincerity of his devotion to this cause is beyond question. He has gained no wealth from his "crusade" and in fact, is today in debt with no possessions or home. "Broke at 50," as he puts it. For six years, since 1965, he has wandered with his family to several temporary locations, taking any job he could find. Any confidence man would have given up this poor-paying "racket" long ago, which has netted Owens nothing. One can only assume that Ted Owens, keeping at it doggedly for six years, has no ulterior motives but means exactly what he says. During his life, affluence and Ted Owens never got together. He has two children from a former marriage--Lornie and Rick--but after a divorce, they went with his ex-wife who offered to finance them through college, where they are today. Owens now lives with his second wife and their son, Beau, age 8. His family is one of his strongest supporters. There are signed and notorized statements from his older children on how he drew a map to "guide" a hurricane, or on how he made a prediction on a given date that later hit the headlines when it materialized. One of his most amazing prophecies came in a letter to Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson on May 10, 1966: "The SIs warn that a man is planning to load a small plane with high-explosives, and send the plane, kamikaze style, into the White House or the Johnson Ranch (in Texas). This man has planned this for a long while . . . put it off once, but now is getting 'worked up' to do it. Of course he'll be killed but he doesn't care. Believe he's an ex-Army flyer . . . service man, anyway." Signed, Ted Owens. One can imagine the reception this got from Presidential aides. Utterly preposterous! No President-hater, no matter how insane, would pull that ridiculous manner of assassination. It couldn't happen in real life. The NEW YORK TIMES, May 4, 1967: "FLIER DENIED BAIL ON THREAT OF CRASHING INTO THE WHITE HOUSE. A former Air Force pilot . . . has been jailed pending sentence because of an alleged threat to plunge a plane into the White House. . . ." Somehow, the SIs had read this maniac's innermost mind a year before, and knew that someday he would get up the nerve to commit his spectacular deed. It is doubtful that any other so-called "seer" predicted this unlikely plot, except Ted Owens. Ted Owens still has fascinating revelations about the Space Intelligences: for instance, how they produce earthquakes. Owens reveals that: "There are four great SI craft positioned around our globe. It is these four craft that I signal when I wish to give a demonstration of earthquakes all around the world, as I have done twice for government agencies and scientists." Asking how big those four UFO's are, you get a staggering answer: "'These craft are so big, we couldn't even imagine their size. Each one could be bigger than our earth itself." Yet, being from another dimension, they are completely invisible. Owens explains vaguely that the giant UFOs send down much smaller craft, which are the familiar saucers of sighting reports and which have somehow gained visibility. As to just how they create earthquakes: "After I signaled them, they (the four big UFOs) emitted an electromagnetic effect that slightly affected the rate of the earth's spin or movement, causing earthquakes, floods, and unusual weather." Again rather vague, but if true it means the four SI craft must have a colossal storehouse of electromagnetic power, able to grip the whole planet and give it a slight wrench. Ted Owens must feel like a man in a goldfish bowl, or like an insect under a microscope, because for the past six years: "They have used a monitor on me wherever I go. It is like a beam of light which extends from me through metal, rock, or any material, high up into the sky from wherever I happen to be--in a deep cave underground or on top of a skyscraper, it would make no difference." The SIs Owens says, have often, told him his life is "very important" for their purposes and that they are thus keeping constant watch on him and lending him special PK powers when there is danger. Owens then states that his life has been endangered at least 15 times, and recites several cases, some of which cannot be documented. As a young man, Owens was in Durham, N.C., with a girl friend when six toughs approached, with knives. They cornered the pair on a side street with assault and rape in mind. Owens had a .25 automatic in his pocket but merely withdrew it and handed it to the girl as a last-ditch defense. "Then," says Owens, "I walked right down the street at the gang coming toward us. I stared them all in the eyes and they froze. I grabbed the ringleader by his coat and told him to take his gang and get away from us. And that is just what they did." On other occasions the same thing happened, Owens staring and some mysterious power making a would-be assaulter "freeze" and lose all desire to inflict harm or death. One of the most dramatic cases, and this one fully attested to in writing by his daughter, Lornie, occurred when Owens and Lornie were walking along a street in San Antonio, Tex. Suddenly, a man they had never met rushed at them with a long knife, yelling insanely that he was going to kill them. Owens repeats, rather monotonously: "I stared into his eyes. Suddenly he dropped the knife, got down on his knees, and began to pat Lornie on the head, apologizing for threatening us." Since we have his family's sworn statement that this attack was not a figment of Owens's imagination, how do we explain his extraordinary power to render his assailants helpless without laying a hand on them. If it isn't PK power, what is it? If the SIs are keeping watch on him, they are doing a darn good job. Ted Owens also makes the enigmatic statement that he is part SI. Then he adds, "Somehow, as time went by, they changed the right lobe of my brain so that I could get to this point (to two-way ESP) with them, because the ordinary human 08/08/2025 15:57 === Page 5 of 7 brain will not pick up or send back messages to the SIs." If his brain has been modified or altered to accept SI communications, then technically he is part SI. Furthermore, says Owens, "The ordinary human brain will break down under SI communications . . . The other human beings (they attempted to work with) always had a heart attack or brain hemorrhage or broke down completely in some way. That is why I am so rare." In a sense, Owens is then a "tailor-made" human receiver, deliberately fashioned in the mental sense into the most powerful PK mind living today. This brings us to another amazing facet of Ted Owens's powers--healing. Though he disclaims being another Edgar Cayce, he has to a limited degree been able to perform certain "miracle cures." In one case, a young girl savagely beaten by a street gang suffered a skull fracture and doctors gave her only hours to live. Informed by a friend, Owens went to the hospital and obtained permission to see the patient. Though he does not know just how he did it, Owens believes he "radiated" PK healing power so that the girl survived. The attendant doctors shook their heads and called it a "miracle" beyond medical science. To spread whatever he could of his healing powers among the people, Owens had red plastic medallions made; on them were stamped his private "emblem"--a circle with a line through it and a lightning bolt below. By fingering it before mailing it out, Owens believes he "charges" it with PK power that will work beneficially for the recipient. Owens has sent hundreds of these, without charge to whoever requests them. He says, "This is not a commercial enterprise, but an expression of compassion by the SIs for humans, and of their love and affection for us." Do these "charged" disks have any hidden powers? Some of the letters Owens has received may provide the best answer. Mrs. B. C. of Willowdale, Ontario, Canada, writing of her daughter: "Dr. M. (surgeon) had six or seven doctors with him when he operated on Ruth. Cancer was found in tumors which had spread all through her right (side) up into each lung." The doctor added that if she survived the operation, she might live up to six months, no more. Mrs. B. C.'s letter goes on: "Immediately after she'd been operated on, a disk was sent by you (Owens) and placed on Ruth." Almost a year later doctors reviewed her case and "they can't understand how she can still be alive plus the success they are having with her treatments." One item does not prove the case, however. Mrs. E. B. of Lockwood, Mo. "My husband . . . seems almost entirely free of the terrible neck pains he had for two years. They were driving him insane." Her husband kept his disk with him day and night. G. B., a woman in Cincinnati, Ohio, who has a PK disk: "My doctor told me today that my back seemed straight. He was a bit puzzled because he did say he could not straighten it." (Italics added.) Mrs. L. W., of Canoga Park, Calif., a lady whose hands were almost completely crippled by painful arthritis: "As you will notice I am able to write this letter with my hands . . . I am even able to use the sewing machine to make clothes for my family. This is how much I have improved . . . Most of the time this past month I have been free of pain also. . ." The PK disk's power is not limited solely to "faith cures." From Kodiak, Alaska, a woman writes about her husband's luck in fishing for queen crabs: "He put his pots out in one spot in Alitak Bay . . . He only had 13 pots that first time and in seven fishing days he brought in a full load of tanner (queen) crabs, which is real good. Here is the oddest part of it; a whole flock of boats moved in on him, had him surrounded with their buoys and pots. They didn't do any good at all and they picked up their pots and left . . . But he (her husband) got another boatload of 7,500 crabs. He went back and got his third load of crabs from the same spot, while these other boats got so few they picked up their pots and left. . ." Her husband had been carrying the PK disk. There is yet another angle to this story that makes it even more fantastic. This same woman had first written to Ted Owens, on October 30, 1967, requesting a PK-disk, with this explanation: "My husband's problem is this: in 1964 we lost two commercial fishing boats . . . in the Alaskan Good Friday earthquake. We had to get an SBA loan and went $82,000 in debt . . . With the high cost of living in Alaska, we are very much afraid we are going to have our (new) boat repossessed, as my husband is a crab fisherman and just can't make it unless he catches more crabs." Now reread the woman's first letter and you will see why her husband miraculously caught crabs where nobody else could. Fishing luck, of course, is notoriously quixotic, but the kind of luck that fisherman had is incredible! Unless it was more than luck. One more medical case is startling, according to this note from a woman in Pensacola, Fla.: "Concerning my brother . . . being mentally ill and had been for 15 years . . . Don't know what has happened but his mind is OK now and he is home from the hospital." She had left a PK disk with him a month before. In the stack of letters Ted Owens has received from grateful people to whom he sent his PK disk, these phrases appear over and over--"The doctor was amazed," . . . "The doctor couldn't believe it," . . . "The doctor acted stunned." However, Ted Owens is not touting himself as a miracle healer nor usurping the province of doctors. Far from it. He states firmly that: "I warn all that I work with, to work closely with their doctors, dentists, etc., the PK methods certainly do not replace our human medicine and surgery. . . I explain carefully the UFO intelligences cannot pull teeth, or remove an infected appendix . . . OD (Other Dimensional) methods are to be used, with the doctor's permission, only after all regular medicine and surgery have failed." Owens is also careful not to claim god-like powers for the SIs, although he quickly adds that "the SIs are doing God's work." Owens has pondered the past six astounding years of his life and has come to the conclusion that there are certain parallels between him and Biblical people--notably Moses and Ezekiel, who both performed "miracles." How? With the same PK powers that were bestowed upon Owens. Certainly the ability to conjure up lightning storms, turn hurricanes, and heal the sick--if Owens really has this ability--is comparable to Moses making water pour from a rock, or Ezekiel summoning a strange mechanical "whirlwind" to carry him away--which was undoubtedly a UFO! Hence the strong linkage Ted Owens finds between God, the Space Intelligences, and his own superhuman PK powers. Not that he knows all the answers, which he readily admits. Another reason the SIs may be here as "watchdogs" of earth is because of the OIs--Other Intelligences. Owens cannot elaborate on them, except to say the OIs are "evil" as compared to the SIs. When asked if the SIs and OIs are using earth as a battleground, Owens says, "I think it's more like a game of chess between the several kinds of Space Intelligences, and we are the chess pieces. They (the SIs and OIs) are too advanced to shoot at each other, as we do. They think in such dimensions, and at such depths, that it would be beyond our tiny limited minds to even imagine." For this reason Ted Owens tried to obtain $5,000 in 1968 to have a free year in which to contact the SIs more closely and find out all those answers. Owens was thwarted in gaining the backing of the U.S. government. He had planned it this way: "The U.S. would send me to Europe with one Special Forces man, as a bodyguard and witness. I would be guided by the SIs to select an old deserted castle in an isolated location. I would live there for one year. Sometime during that time the SIs would appear to me for a face-to-face meeting, and arrange a way to meet with the President (of the U.S.)." Owens is serious about this being his "mission," however, he has given the government an alternative. He recently wrote President Nixon and offered to spend 30 days in the Bermuda Triangle, if they would furnish him with a comfortable boat plus a submarine nearby to observe. He would also spend 30 days in the Devil's Triangle near Japan. Owens said his mission would be to make contact with the SIs. The PK man would not guarantee results but said the SIs might very well come to him in either or both triangles because he is the only human being who can "call" them. This raises the point that the SIs, as Owens believes, have been training 08/08/2025 15:57 === Page 6 of 7 him all along. In a letter to me, Owens states: "Yesterday I awoke, and realized that the SIs had been at work on my brain (during sleep). This time they have given me the key to something that has been puzzling me for years. Namely, what has motivated me to learn 50 professions? . . . "Each profession demanded that I learn a 'language'. With Gregg shorthand (my speed was 200 words per minute) I had to learn all the symbols. . . ." He goes on to list how typing forced him to learn the keyboard system . . . As a steel mill inspector he had to learn calibration and other measurements . . . In teaching autohypnosis, it was the symbology of the Brain Wave Synchronizer . . . and so on. "So," concludes Owens, "when it came to the SIs getting a breakthrough into my mind . . . teaching me their OD (Other Dimensional) symbols . . . I had already developed a strong 'muscle,' so to speak, with which to receive their information." This reminds one of the rigorous training astronauts go through in order to "think space," which, with its zero-G and third-law-of-motion characteristics is entirely different from "thinking earth." Without intensive training, no man could ever have mastered the semi-computerized thought processes necessary to fly a ship into space. Similarly, no human mind could possibly grasp the intricate symbology of pure-energy intelligences from another dimension unless it was thoroughly programmed, like the mind of Ted Owens. Logical, understandable, rational, Owens's whole approach to the mystery in which he finds himself is scientific and not mystical as with the contactees. This is clearly seen in Ted Owens' own "SI Glossary" in which he defines various ODEs (Other Dimensional Effects): Nature's Mailbox--A visual-image "mailbox" into which he puts "letters" to be acted upon--as when requesting a storm. Angel Box--ODE container which releases good intelligences which can be assigned to sick or hurt persons (apparently the mechanism by which the PK-disks work). PK Bubble--An ODE force placed around a person, thing, city, or even the U.S., to perform a specific task (which may be one clue to how Owens manipulates his PK powers) White Box, Rainbow Door, Messenger Units, Sound Force PK, Weight PK, Electromagnetic Bubble, Laser PK, (other ODEs based on scientific extrapolations of known forces and energies.) Let us conclude with some more sensational PK feats and fulfilled predictions made by Ted Owens in the past six years, which far exceed the accomplishments of such nationally known psychics as Jean Dixon and Peter Hurkos. On June 1, 1966, in a written notice to the CIA and other agencies, Ted Owens predicted an early hurricane, within days, long before the traditional hurricane season. Loud laughter from the hurricane center must have turned into gasps when on June 7th, Hurricane Alma rose in wrath, the earliest Atlantic hurricane ever to hit the U.S. mainland. One June 18, 1966, Owens' predicted that violent electrical storms would soon strike the Philadelphia area. By the end of June and into July, that city was bombarded by electrical bolts seldom seen before. During this period, with a group of friends, Owens pointed and said a lightning flash would strike over a certain building--this happened within minutes. Owens made it strike there, he claims. It will definitely interest UFOlogists to know that the following "classic" sightings of saucers and occupants were predicted in advance by Ted Owens, and in some cases "ordered" by him. * The "Michigan Monster" case of August 1966, in Monroe County, where Christine Van Acker, a 17-year-old girl and her mother came upon a hairy, black, seven-foot monster. * The "meteor" of August 19, 1966, which was so bright that it cast shadows as it flashed across the skies over Pennsylvania and Ohio. Puzzled astronomers admitted it was too slow for a genuine meteor. It was, says Owens, a spectacular UFO that he had "promised" would manifest itself over Pennsylvania. * The semi-tragic tale of the saucer named "Floyd"--a police code name. In April 1966, State Police officer Dale Spaur and several other troopers pursued a low-flying saucer from the state of Ohio into Pennsylvania, without ever catching up. The sighting came to haunt Dale Spaur to the point where he lost his job and his wife. He became a broken-down hermit because he, or one of the other policemen, had fired at the UFO, which Ted Owens had prophesied would mean the police would be "without one officer." * The "Penninsula Monster" at Erie, Pa., on July 31, 1966, where Betty Jean Klem and three other hysterical teen-age friends in a car were accosted by a hulking gorilla-like creature, which later flew off in a saucer. But of course Ted Owens' most recent and significant prediction, as of February 1970 (SAGA, July 1970) was that the summer of 1970 would usher in the greatest UFO wave in history as saucers would appear in "great numbers everywhere on earth." Is that worldwide saucer flap going on right now? We might also ask that if the flap is going on is it being successfully smothered by the news blackout that has been clamped on all UFO reports since the Condon Report of 1969? If so, Ted Owens today is a frustrated prophet indeed. Finally, here are two more predictions by Ted Owens, which, if they haven't already been fulfilled, will be in a short time. Owens is confident they will. Prediction 1) There is a "terrible threat" to our forces in or near Vietnam. Owens says the SIs showed him the symbolical image of a black triangular mass silently converging there, either through the air or the water. He is not clear as to the exact nature of the threat but it's a "blockbuster force" and will be a major headline about Vietnam. Prediction 2) That Nigeria, because of its inhuman treatment of the conquered Biafrans after their war ceased, will suffer greatly unless they change their policy. "The long unlimited hand of the UFO intelligences," wrote Owens in a letter to President Nixon, "will now reach out and strike at the Nigerian government and teach them a lesson they will never forget. From now on, Nigeria is a marked country, until the present government and all the people responsible for the miseries of the Biafran innocents have been struck down with illness and death and misery themselves." Owens seems to imply that something akin to the "seven plagues" that struck Egypt in Biblical times will scourge the Nigerians. It is a matter of record that as of mid-February, a deadly new virus struck Nigeria only, with a frightful fatality rate of 50 percent. Three out of five medical lab technicians sent by the U.S. died promptly of this Lassa Fever, as it is called, and medical authorities called it an emergency. "The greatest mystery," to quote the The New York Times, "is where the disease came from." An SI warning to the U.S. about trouble in Vietnam (not caused by the SIs), and an SI vengeance on Nigerian cruelty. So says Ted Owens, mouthpiece of the SIs. * THE END 08/08/2025 15:57 === Page 7 of 7 # NOW - YOU CAN CONTACT THE SPACE INTELLIGENCES! READ TED OWENS' NEW BOOK- IT WILL AMAZE YOU! ![Illustration of a book cover titled "HOW TO CONTACT SPACE PEOPLE" by Ted Owens, featuring a stylized grey alien face.] **HOW TO CONTACT SPACE PEOPLE** **By Ted Owens** **$4.95** The runaway best-selling Saucerian Book. Ted Owens tells us about his communication with the "SI's" (Space Intelligences). He has been able to predict the great Eastern Blackout, influence the occurrences of Hurricanes, and perform other marvels as a result of this vast knowledge he obtained from beings not of this Earth. Owens tells YOU in this book how YOU can contact the "SI's" and obtain wonderful benefits from the superhuman knowledge you can obtain. Warning! If you are not sincerely interested in contacting these beings, or if you wish to use these great powers for selfish purposes, do not order this book. It is powerful medicine! The "SI" DISC, containing the symbol of the Space Intelligences has worked wonders for many people as a parapsychological focal point for these great powers (See below). Many readers have acclaimed "HOW TO CONTACT SPACE PEOPLE" as the most important book ever published in this field. It is a large (8½ x 11") volume, with beautiful full-color featuring the painting of a Space Intelligence. AMAZING "SI" DISC DESCRIBED IN THIS PUBLICATION! MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE IT HAS CHANGED THEIR LIVES We make no claims for this amazing DISC (Actual size 1½" diameter), which contains the powerful symbol of the "SI's" (Space Intelligences), according to Ted Owens. Only a limited number of these left. Money cheerfully returned if you are not 100% satisfied. "SI DISC" $1.00 Order from: SAUCERIAN BOOKS, BOX 2228, CLARKSBURG, W. VA. 26301 08/08/2025 15:57 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1970 Flying Saucer Spokesman Part 2 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/f214c5f24f9f43e8ac9b7c2dbb30f151.pdf d6584e484fc4c2360c8a9b128e2ceef8 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/2e7d4d184bc3243bbafd729e5dda5b27.txt e0a47c81ca8a5ad2d612ab76a30db79a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letters to Owens Children Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 # TED OWENS LETTERS TO CHILDREN # GENERAL LETTERS Jeff received week of July 14, 2025 11120 Bermuda Dunes, ABQ. Sent from Lori Rodriguez in Beaverton, Oregon. Recorded by Lewis Barlow July 19, 2025 Majority written in 1965 and 1966 but were a couple of letters from 1970 and 1976. We received several different packages from Lori that contained Ted Owens letters to his children. As this was more of a general package of letters and covered several different dates, for organization purposes we will just call it general letters. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 9 Best wishes always to my old gas-battle-teacher, Murray Bentley, Ted Owens PARAPSYCHOLOGY IN EUROPE Ted Owens Prof. W.H.C. Tenhaeff Prof. Hans Bender Sir John Eccles 08/08/2025 15:57 === Page 2 of 9 MENSA BULLETIN No. 171 EDITOR: KARL F. ROSS NOVEMBER 1973 MENSA BULLETIN November 6, 1973 MensAchievers Stephanie Caruana, of Los Angeles, CA, has become a contributing editor of Playgirl magazine. A feminist comedy written by her, The Rip-Off, has been video-taped for KVST-TV. Howard H. Crumit, Jr. of Detroit, MI has been promoted to Second Vice President and Operations Officer at Manufacturers National Bank of his city. He is also Chairman of the Public-Relations Committee of the Detroit Chapter of the American Institute of Banking. Rose Jacobowitz of New York City has been appointed Executive Editor for the PRODIST division of Neale Watson Academic Publications, Inc., New York. Frank E. Kutcher, Jr. has been appointed Executive Vice President for Foote & Davies, a Division of the McCall Printing Company in Atlanta, GA. He is a member of the National Institute of Financial Executive Institute, and serves on the Board of Governors of Vanderbilt YMCA Men's Athletic Club. Kathleen Ann McMichael, of Wichita, KS, has been chosen as one of the ten President's Australian Science Scholars from the nation's high-school seniors to represent the U.S. at the International Science School at the University of Sydney (Australia) in Late August and early September. Other honors include a National Merit $1,000 Scholarship, listing in the WHO'S WHO AMONG AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS, and a scholarship at Princeton University where she is now a sophomore. Scot Morris, Ph.D. of Del Mar, CA, a member of San Diego Mensa, is the co-author (with Wayne McLoughlin) of a humorous article entitled The Fallout Follies scheduled for publication in the October PLAYBOY. Rosaura Esteva Murray of Knoxville, TN graduated with high honors from University of Tennessee, majoring in Political Science. Franklin G. Osberg, M.D., Director of the Drug-Abuse Division of the Indiana Department of Mental Health, has been elected Chairman of the National Association of State Drug-Abuse-Program Coordinators. Ted Owens, of Cape Charles, VA, has been described as one of America's greatest psychics in various books and other publications dealing with occultism. Philip Philbosian, of Honolulu, HI, has been appointed Executive Vice President and Regional Director for Century 21 of Hawaii, a franchisor of real-estate brokers. Joshua Phillips, of Chicago, IL, has been named Assistant to the President of Pioneer Mortgage Company. He holds an MBA degree from Wharton Graduate School of Finance and a BA degree from Williams College. NEW LOCAL SECRETARIES CT & W MA Southern Ct Coord: Dr Robert Pomeranz, POB 473 W-Haven, 47 Chestnut St., West Haven 06516. FLORIDA Indian River: Marguerite Gerstell, 673 St Lucie Crescent, Stuart 33494. NEW YORK Buffalo: Charles Wertz, 147 N. Long St., Williamsville 14221. === Page 3 of 9 NO CONTENT === Page 4 of 9 NO CONTENT === Page 5 of 9 1974 Ted Owens # Famed Psychic Visits Here By CATHY STOTT (Enterprise-Record Intern) One of the "world's greatest psychics" who predicts that the nation will be plagued by a drought this year is visiting in Chico. Ted Owens, who hails from Virginia and has been the subject of numerous national magazine articles as well as appearing on national television, is a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Al Bailey, owners of Chico MotorLodge, 725 Broadway. Accalimed as one of the "world's greatest psychics" in the April 1971 issue of Saga Magazine, Owens says he doesn't just predict, he claims to have the power to cause "miracles" to happen. He says his mind had control of professional basketball and football teams in recent years and that he caused injuries to key players to keep certain teams out of the Super Bowl. In June 1967, Owens said, he notified the U.S. hurricane center that three simultaneous hurricanes would occur. Just after that, hurricanes Beulah, Chloe and Doris were active on the same weekend. In 1972, Owens told a team of scientists and other authorities that the country would experience terrible floods because humans had been polluting lakes, rivers and streams for too long. Many damaging floods occurred. Owens, who has been written about in many issues of Saga, Sports Illustrated, in two books, "Revelation, The Divine Power" and "Occult America" and many newspapers, explained that he gets his power from the Bermuda Triangle, off the Florida coast where many U.S. aircraft and ships have been reported missing. Owens pointed out that Dr. Jonathan Wright, National Aeronautics and Space Administration physicist has stated there is a UFO base in this area on an island in the Bahamas. "I have worked for and with them (UFOs) for 10 years," Owens said. Owens, who claims an IQ of 153--genious level--is a member of Mensa, an international organization of people with IQs above 148. Only 2 per cent of the world's population belongs to Mensa, he said. To become a member, one must apply and go through extensive tests and analysis by teams of scientists. Owens has been analyzed over and over again by scientists in this country because of his 200 documented predictions and "paranormal phenomena." Owens has been a jazz drummer, lecturer, hypnotist -- the list of vocations approaches 50. He has appeared on a CBS television special and has recently been approached by Hollywood producers about a movie of his life, he said. Owens now trains people to become what he calls "super brains." He teaches individuals how to have instant access to 50 to 80 per cent of their brain power whereas most people have a much more limited usage. He gives them the "tools to solve any problem they are confronted with." He stated he is going to train some people while in Chico. Owens has a wife, Martha, and an 8-year-old son. 08/08/2025 15:57 === Page 6 of 9 cisco Chronicle N Mon., June 3, 1974 # people # When Superbrain Makes It Happen By Kevin Wallace Ted Owens, "the UFO and PK man" from rural Cape Charles, Va., has been widely misrepresented as using his flying saucer contacts to predict the scores of pro ball games. "I don't predict," Owens explained impatiently. "I watch the games, two at a time on the TV, and I MAKE it happen, play by play." Owens, a smiling and portly man with a cigar, has been here at the Bayside Motor Inn for the past few days, on a tutoring errand to improve a local student's brain. "I teach a few people how to have superbrains," he said, offhandedly, and moved back to the bigger picture: "I have a special brain, half UFO, half human. "I see the day when each pro team will have its own master psychic on the bench - say, Jeane Dixon and her crystal ball with the Raiders, and me with my SI Disc with the 49ers - and the most powerful psychic would win." He produced a clipping showing it's already being done on a small scale in Kenya, where soccer teams hire witch doctors. Next he produced an SI Disc - a sort of red poker chip with white squiggles on it. "I don't sell SI Discs," he said. "But since it takes me 20 minutes to program each one, and I have mailing costs, I have to ask for a minimum $5 contribution." He also lectures. SI Discs seem to help people, Owens said - and, from a mass of articles and documents strewn over his bed, he extracted a letter from a small girl in Bremerton, Wash., saying her back trouble cleared up after a year of wearing her SI Disc and seeing the doctor. But SI Discs won't get just anybody into contact with what SI stands for - "Space Intelligences," which are UFO-borne beings, "not from another planet, but another dimension," who ten years ago established two-way telepathic contact with Owens, at the time just another writer, while he was mooning along on a drive through Texas. "They told me I was the only human they'd been able to get into two-way communication with them - and survive it - since Moses," Owens recalled, with modest relish. With a batting average like that, it's hardly likely that a third SI communicator will turn up right away, despite the great revival in occult interest, especially in the Bay Area. "But the new interest is a good thing," Owens said, "even if it only makes everybody read a book called 'Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain', which shows how far ahead the Russians are in all this." He shuddered pleasurably. Actually, when Owens arranges ball game outcomes - and, as he adds, "other large-scale PK things, such as storms, droughts, volcanos and hurricanes, all of them documented by scientists and lawyers in these articles and letters right here" - it's the SI folks up in their flying saucers who are doing it, at Owens' request. By "PK," Owens alludes to "psychokinesis," the term for mentally affecting objects at a distance - the sort of thing that the Stanford Research Institute's Uri Geller likes to do, bending spoons and car keys on TV shows. Owens maintains a common sense skepticism about whether Geller's alleged extraterrestrial contacts are on a par with his own SI friends - asking, reasonably, "If so, why just bend spoons?" From the bed, he produced accounts of his own larger-minded enterprises from the Chicago National News Exploiter, the National Tatler, Saga Magazine, the Chatanooga Times, a couple of paperbacks about "What the Seers Predict," and the Mensa Bulletin, house organ of the society of Owens' peers in the higher IQ brackets. A paperback showed that in 1970 Owens "predicted" - though the verb is at odds with Owens' general usage - "President Nixon will not end in office. Something unusual will occur, and he will either resign or be forced out of office." Other clippings and affidavits credited Owens with arranging for lightning to strike in Philadelphia and three simultaneous hurricanes to harrass Florida in 1968, the losing streak of the Baltimore Colts in 1971, an earthquake in the Texas panhandle last February, and the materialization of a UFO earlier this month over the Dallas Airport - which was nothing. "The time those two Mississippi fishermen went for a flight aboard a UFO - well, I not only asked the UFO to go pick them up, I brought out the other UFOs in 25 states right afterwards, to create a furor." Owens, an Indiana boy to start with, creates his furors nowadays in an otherwise sleepy "six-by-six block" Virginia village, sometimes to the alarm of his wife, who he says is "a simple Texas girl who doesn't know much what goes on. Such unnerving trivia are accepted with aplomb by Owens, much as the whole world was by W. C. Fields. And still is by Walter Cronkite. Owens' four children are more psychically gifted, especially Teddy, 3, who brings an ashtray when Owens is just sitting in his chair, smoking and beginning to wish an ashtray was at hand. The next-youngest, Beau - "actually that's Beau-garde, with an accent over the e" - first showed his own gift four years ago. "I was sitting in front of the TV one day, planning to control two basketball games, when Beau climbed on my lap and controlled them himself - two basketball games in one day, and that's complicated even for me. And Beau was only 3 at the time!" 08/08/2025 15:57 === Page 7 of 9 SCOTLAND DAILY EXPRESS Thursday March 27 1975 # Ted's hot-line to space helps him find Nessie By Alex Main MONSTERS on demand and a hot-line to outer space are just two modest achievements of Ted Owens. And it's all done by spiritual appointment says the American who whistled up Nessie last week. "Ya gotta believe it, baby. It was so close I could have hit it with a stone," drawled the 55-year-old American in Drumnadrochit, Inverness-shire. Mr. Owens's psychic powers stem from a childhood experience when "I was taken aboard a U.F.O. in the Mexican desert and my brain was 'modified' to receive messages." Of his Nessie sighting, he said: "It was dark and impossible to make out detail, but I could see it had a long neck about 6 to 8 inches in diameter and a small egg-shaped head." ![Mr. Ted Owens] Mr. Ted Owens ## Reports Inverness taxi-driver Ron Petri admitted initial scepticism. "Then he told me he had seen a U.F.O. over the loch. The following day there were news reports of similar sightings near Fort William." Fort William police have since confirmed they received several reports of a strange object in the sky. Mr. Owens is author of a book "How to Contact Space-people," which was published in 1968. Why the Loch Ness visit? "I have been informed by U.F.O. that at one of four locations I will receive a psychic operation to the right lobe of my brain which will make my psychic powers even greater. "Loch Ness is one, Stonehenge another." 08/08/2025 15:57 === Page 8 of 9 Virginian-Pilot, Tuesday, March 27, 1973 B7 # PK Man' Owens Retires--Undefeated By FRANK VEHORN Virginian-Pilot Sports Writer Ted Owens, a man who stopped both Julius Erving and Bubba Smith without moving a finger and who wrecked entire major league teams, is disassociating himself from the affairs of sports. A resident of Cape Charles who has achieved international attention by performing supernatural wonders, Owens disclosed he is withdrawing all hexes previously applied to persons, geographical locations and athletic teams. The announcement will be cause for celebration in Philadelphia and Baltimore, where Owens' power did the most severe damage in disrupting athletic teams. In several magazines and national television programs, Owens has explained that his special powers are received from "space intellectuals" with whom he communicates. Most of his predictions have involved storms, earthquakes, space research and draughts. He can produce documented proof of his success. But he also has carried out attacks against several professional teams and assumed responsibility last season for the Squires losing in the ABA playoffs to the New York Nets. Owens made known most of his predictions in news letters to scientists and selected journalists. In his latest, he says he has "erased the blackboard clean... and any vestige of PK (the power he uses) effect in the past, attached to anything or anyone at all... is now gone and erased." Owens would not disclose the reason for removing his power. "I am under orders not to do so," he said. His only remaining act, he said, would be to produce a mild earthquake in northern California in which no one will be killed or hurt. Owens, whose powers are described in an article in the current Saga Magazine annual, said a movie soon will be made of his life but he would not reveal any other future plans. For the past several years, Owens attempted to reach agreement with several proteams for a deal in which he would use his psychic powers to help the team win. Owens said former Baltimore Colts owner Carroll Rosenbloom, who now owns the Los Angeles Rams, wanted to employ him but was prevented from doing so by National Football League commissioner Pete Rozelle. Owens then turned against the Colts, who one year won the Super Bowl and then started falling apart, culminated last season when coach Don McCafferty was fired and the legendary Johnny Unitas was benched. Before the season, Rosenbloom swapped the Colts for the Rams and Owens said the move was because Rosenbloom was trying to escape the hex that Owens had on him. But Owens notified Rosenbloom that he would PK the Rams, too, and a couple of days later Rams quarterback Roman Gabriel was stricken with a rare lung injury. The mood for the Colts was set when Bubba Smith injured himself by running into a yard marker when no one was near him. Smith's season-long absence badly hurt the Baltimore defense. Last year, the Squires infuriated Owens by bringing in an actor who claimed to cast evil spells on New York during the playoffs. The Squires had ignored an offer by Owens. **Owens informed the Squires, who were ahead, 3-1, in the best-of-seven series, that he was working against them. The Nets won the last three games and the series.** In the final game, the Squires shot their worst of the season and one player commented, "It was strange. The shots that usually go in just were not dropping." Not even Julius Erving, the remarkable forward Owens considers the best in basketball, could pull the Squires through. But Philadelphia, home of the worst collection of professional athletic teams, has felt the sting of Owens the most. "It started back in 1966 when I lived there," explained Owens. "The brother of Eagles owner Jerry Wolman met with me and said he was interested in using my powers to help the team. "He gave me a couple of tickets to the game. The opponent was Pittsburgh and that team fumbled and dropped the ball about every time. But Philadelphia was worse." So the Steelers won and the Eagles rejected Owens. Owens then, to prove his powers, turned against the Eagles and eventually all of Philadelphia's athletic teams. Last year the baseball team had the worst record in the National League and this season the basketball team has the worst record in pro basketball. Owens remembers when Norman Snead broke his leg while playing with the Eagles. "There was no one near him when it happened" said Owens. "But I was on the spot, throwing my PK at him." Owens normally PKed teams while listening to games on radio or by watching games on television. Last season Eagles owner Leonard Tose "guaranteed" his team would beat New York in a game on national television. Owens called The Virginian-Pilot and said he was "going one-on-one" with Tose and the Eagles would not win. Sportscaster Howard Cosell remarked the game was one of the strangest he had seen, that the Eagles were moving the ball all over the field but couldn't score. Owens won and Tose and his Eagles lost. "From the time I started working against the Eagles, the team was wiped out, the coach (Joe Kuharich then) was fired and the owner (Wolman) went bankrupt," said Owens, who last season claims to have stopped both the Chicago Bears and Cleveland Browns. **Most of the times Owens went against teams was because he was ridiculed. Two years ago, Baltimore Bullets coach Gene Shue insulted Owens on television while his team was leading in the NBA playoffs.** "I told Shue his team might as well not suit up for the remaining games of the playoffs," said Owens, "and I was right because the Bullets didn't win." Owens says now when he sits down to watch a ball game on television it is just for enjoyment. "I don't care if the Eagles, the Phillies or the 76ers win," he said. "But it may take a while for the PK force to wear off in some areas." Owens says he won't PK a team any more, even if someone calls him a nut or crackpot. He is even forgetting the differences he had the past year with the Squires. "In fact, I hope the Squires win the championship in the playoffs," he said, "and I believe they can do it. The Squires are the best team in professional basketball when Julius Erving is at full strength. "I would even put them up against the Celtics or the Lakers." If the Squires went against the Celtics or Lakers, though, they would probably need the blessing of Ted Owens. Now, that can't happen. For Ted Owens, whose name can't be found in any record book, is retiring from sports unbeaten. 08/08/2025 15:57 === Page 9 of 9 SCOTLAND - EVENING EXPRESS WEDNESDAY MARCH 26 1975 AMERICAN Ted Owens claims he can make the Loch Ness monster appear at his will. And late on Tuesday night, he says, Nessie rose from the depths of Loch Ness a few yards in front of him. Ted (55), from Indiana, describes it as having a long neck, six to eight inches in diameter, and having a small egg-shaped head. It was pitch black by the lochside and he could not make out details, nor could he take a photograph. But this is the least of Mr Owens' claims. He maintains that he communicates with UFOs and makes them appear. He said that last Thursday he went down to the shores of the loch to make a rendezvous with a UFO and saw it in the sky over Drumnadrochit. The following day, the "Evening Express" carried the story of a Fort-William woman seeing a bright light in the sky. She said it looked like a helicopter light but there was no noise. Mr Owens says he was responsible for the sighting. Speaking from his hotel, the Glenurquhart Lodge, at Drumnadrochit, Mr Owens, who claims he is one of the world's leading psychics, said he was in Scotland on a strange and supernatural mission. "I have been guided by UFO since I was a child. "My brain has been modified so I can make things happen and I am here for one final modification to the right lobe. "The UFOs have told me this type of psychic surgery will take place in one of four locations--Loch Ness, Stonehenge, Germany or France. ● ABOVE--Ted is pictured beside Castle Urquhart where he claims to have seen a UFO. 'Nessie does what I say' 08/08/2025 15:57 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letters to Owens Children Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 # TED OWENS LETTERS TO CHILDREN # GENERAL LETTERS Jeff received week of July 14, 2025 11120 Bermuda Dunes, ABQ. Sent from Lori Rodriguez in Beaverton, Oregon. Recorded by Lewis Barlow July 19, 2025 Majority written in 1965 and 1966 but were a couple of letters from 1970 and 1976. We received several different packages from Lori that contained Ted Owens letters to his children. As this was more of a general package of letters and covered several different dates, for organization purposes we will just call it general letters. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 20 To friend George Teixeira from Ted Owens May 8, 1975 Special Report to Millie... (and scientists) The trip to Europe, Millie...was success beyond your or my expectations. Not only was my brain worked on by the SI's...as far as they could take it without damaging me...but I saw the Loch Ness monster on two different occasions... documented my bringing out UFO's in Scotland...activated Stonehenge for the SI's... and made a shocking discovery about Stonehenge that nobody else knows, or ever will. Am enclosing tape recordings that I made on the trip...live, on the spot, recordings... up inside old haunted castles in the wee small hours of the night...owls hooting... on haunted hillsides...it is all there. I EVEN GOT THE UFO SOUND ON TAPE! Thanks to you, Millie...it was all made possible. (And to George Delavan, for keeping the home fires burning.) To go back in time...in 1965 I discovered in Arizona that I had discovered a psi method of controlling weather. Drove to Washington, D.C., with the family, and got together with CIA and NASA...but they refused to do what the SI's wanted...get me to an old, haunted, isolated castle in Europe. So it took ten years...and your magnificent help...to get done what the SI's wanted. After I went to Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minnesota...and got my torn stomach muscles repaired (which you financed)....I returned home and recuperated, making some trips to New York to pick up necessary equipment for the Europe trip. Finally was ready, and flew to New York. They told me at the airport there that they were holding the plane for me...that I was late...and rushed me, not through, but PAST, Customs. At the time this did not register on me...but later it worried me a lot, in Europe...thinking of the return trip...because I had not declared all my equipment and stuff. (Thank God...they rushed me back the same way, so all was well, and my worries were for naught.) Arrived in London, and without leaving the airport caught a plane for Inverness, Scotland. There, got a room at the Caledonian Hotel. I hadn't the faintest idea of where I was going, or what to do. But I work that way on purpose...leaving it up to the SI's to clue me in (which they do with unerring accuracy, always.) There I treaded water for several days, trying to figure out the lay of the land... how to talk to the Scottish people (no small task) etc. Finally lined up a taxi driver named Ronald Petrie, to drive me way out of town late at night and drop me off at an isolated location on the banks of Loch Ness (where the famed monster resides, allegedly...and not allegedly...it does.) He'd return in an hour or two, and pick me up...was the arrangement. I carried my camera, tape recorder, flashlight (although I didn't use one at all...gave my position away...had it just for some emergency.) Wore special warm clothing purchased in New York just for this trip. Carried lots of other stuff...but these were the main items. The first night out there...Ron dropped me off in the pitchblack darkness, and drove off. At midnight, there is no traffic on that one, lonely road...outside Inverness. So...I was all alone in the blackness. I felt my way toward Loch Ness, and found a 40 foot cliff impeding my progress. So I simply jumped down towards a tree growing out of the cliff, and fell the rest of the way. Hitting the bottom, felt blood running down my right leg. But...I was down on the beach, the edge, of the 07/25/2025 16:44 === Page 2 of 20 2 famous Loch Ness, at least. It was freezing cold. I telepathed to the SI's just where I was...also to the Loch Ness creature (which I figure is an other-dimensional entity belonging to the SI's.) Soon a UFO appeared in the sky...darting about, as they do...straight ahead and up over me. Then one by one, three "flying sword UFO's...read Arthur Shuttlewood's book for their description) appeared out over the water, or on the far shore, whichever...hard to determine. Then...heard a splash...and this long neck emerged from the water, with a small, football-shaped head, on top of it...and it stared at me for about five minutes. Then it vanished...after the shock of seeing it wore off and I finally began to grab for my camera (no flash) to try to get a moonlight shot of it. Finally came time to get up to the top of the cliff and over to the road to rendezvous with Ron. I slung everything around me...and climbed up, laboriously, holding on to tree roots, anything. Made it. Ron drove up, lights off, and we returned to Inverness, to my hotel. (Should back up here...and tell you that before taking off for Europe...a flying saucer actually appeared on our TV set at home...completely unlike any color usually on the screen...accompanied by all sorts of odd electrical malfunctions there at home. Also...when I first arrived at Inverness...detectives were busily watching me at the hotel. I could spot them quite easily...and this happened during the course of the entire adventure.) Next day I bought some rope, then when midnight came and Ron dropped me off out in the wilds...I tied the rope carefully to a tree at the top of the high cliff...lowered myself over the edge...and fell down the rest of the way. Actually, it was funny. Like a Marx Bros. comedy. The night before I'd gotten five deep gashes on my right leg. But this fall...just some light scratches on my left leg. Telepathed to the UFO's, and to Nessie. The same four UFO's appeared again...one high in the sky, darting about..and the other three out over the water. This night an owl hooted over to my right for a while...then hooted from directly behind me...then hooted from the far shore. That owl certainly did get around, unless there was a gang of owls, taking turns hooting. And something was scaring the daylights out of the birds across from me on the far shore...they were squawking like mad. Finally I went to the rope, and managed to climb back up the cliff, holding onto the rope. Ron met me, and back we went. Both nights, icy cold...cold wind cutting right through clothing. (Might add that this night telepathed to "sword UFO's" to let me alone...and they went out, changed to red glow. Next day accidentally viewed a TV daytime program called "Tomorrow People" by BBC. Amazingly, it's a show about a few people...who can telepath to UFO's for info and intelligence and help...and who have brains of Future Man, like myself! They might as well have studied my work and past..and done a TV series on it! (Should add...after second night on Loch Ness...felt awful; drained; turned inside out.) Well, I figured I'd done enough at this location...so lined up a plane for Edinburgh the next day. But...I strolled into a small shop and saw a small pamphlet...which told about an old, haunted castle called Urquhart Castle on Loch ness. I cancelled the plane, and hired Ron to drive me to Drumnadrochit, a distance away...and put up at the Glenurquhart Lodge there in that small, country village on the near-vicinity of Urquhart Castle. Well, I lined up a new driver at Drum. Peter Wilson; retired sergeant-major of the British Army. Not a taxi driver at all. Owns an expensive gift shop there. Forget how I met him, but it was accidental...if anything at all on this trip could be termed accidental. Peter had been all over the world in the British Army...tough, tough sergeant-major. He rolled up at the lodge at 11:30, and we drove way out to Urquhart Castle. It's a huge, isolated ruins of a castle...right on the very edge of Loch Ness...and I found out later...is where the Monster has been seen the most! 07/25/2025 16:44 === Page 3 of 20 3 He let me out...and I slipped like a shadow through the gate at the top of the road (no light ever, remember)...and tippy-toed down the long, long path towards the castle...through another gate....then left on a path along the base of the hill below the castle, left far over to the drawbridge...then up into the shadows of the castle...through the empty rooms and door arches...up to the top, to a parapet which I'd marked earlier in the day when Peter and I had made a daylight, trial run out to the Castle. (Might add here...the gates that I had come through...had huge padlocks on them...but someone had obligingly left the padlocks open. I figured that I had the blessings of someone in high officialdom on this. The Castle is a national treasure...kept intact by the Dept. of Environment. Later, In England...I did not get this cooperation by the High Ones...as you will know.) This was a Thursday night...and I telepathed to the SI's, and to the Monster...from the parapet of the Castle overlooking the Loch. This, incidentally...was the Pluperfect Place for me...as far as the SI's were concerned. Moonlight flooding down on my lonely figure atop this isolated old castle, with the spooky Loch below. I could sense it. That the SI's were pleased that I was there. Anyway, soon a UFO danced up just overhead in the sky...darting all about...beautiful. And a column of white light shot down from the sky also...no planes or copters up there. Everything quiet...strange, eerie stillness throughout. The UFO was hypnotic, and I got a headache just from watching it...and nauseated. Finally when the time came I made my way out of the darkness of the castle, up the hill, and through the gate, where Peter was waiting in his car with no lights. I told him to wait a minute, and played the tape recorder relating the UFO sighting and all. Forgot to add...that up at the castle I'd developed a bad ache in my back, along with the splitting headache and nausea.) Next day Ron Petrie phoned from Inverness and said that many people had seen the UFO over the area...called police, etc...and a story had appeared in the newspaper about it. I asked him to drive out with copies of the paper, so that I could document it. All day long...the people at the lodge asked me if I felt all right...said that I "looked different." In the afternoon some friends took me down into the village to watch a shinty game. Fascinating. Came night time and I had to call Peter and cancel our rendezvous. Something had "clicked off" in my brain, and I couldn't stand the strain of it this night. On Saturday night...midnight at the old castle...another UFO danced up over the castle. Very spooky night...bright moonlight...like one of those TV werewolf movies. Got an excruciating pain at the base of my neck. Tape recorder malfunctioning. Also ran out of tape. I know that the SI's are working on me, night by night...either from a distance, or close by, invisibly. I can sense, also, that I am under surveillance at the castle. By whom or what, I do not know. Sunday Ron drove to Drum. and got me and took me back to Inverness, to his home. There I transferred my small tapes to his large cassette recorder...and rented his recorder from him, to continue with...since my small Norelco 95 was malfunctioning. All this time...the day by day routine is horrible. I have no company; no companionship; nothing to do...from early morn until almost midnight at night, when I go to work. There is no diversion whatsoever. Just a glass of beer at the pub, and watch the people having fun amongst themselves. Monday...had a strange thing happen. Went into the pub of the lodge to have a beer...nothing else to do...in the afternoon...and some big, rough character begins to curse and berate the sweet barmaid, Margaret (Ricky's girlfriend.) 07/25/2025 16:44 === Page 4 of 20 4 I tried to use psychology to talk him smoothly...and quiet him down. We three were alone in the pub, with the exception of a salesman over at the side of the room. Well, this character then zeroes in on me...and begins to try to back me into a corner. I could read his mind quite easily...he had a glass of whisky in his hand, and was preparing to slosh it into my eyes...so I got my hands up in a judo posture. He put down the drink and set himself to throw a sneak punch...so I turned with my left side toward him, to give him a small target; also so that I could clobber his neck with a left hand, edge of the hand. Seeing this move, he cannily changed posture and set himself for a kick with his heavy booted foot. Before he could launch the kick...I pivoted around him, out of the corner, to the center of the bar...where I had plenty of room to maneuver. Just then who comes in...but Peter Wilson! Peter positions himself between me and this fractious character. I go over to the salesman, at a table, and leave my camera...then put my watches into my pockets, and ring. Meanwhile the character is still shouting vile curses at the barmaid. I go back to the bar...and flat tell the rat to either shut his vile mouth...or take me on. He starts for me and get ready (just fresh from a double hernia operation, remember...ha) when Peter steps in, spins this thing around....and holds him. Then the manager comes into the pub and tells the character to leave...which he does, promptly. But in all this...it rang as clear as a lead dime. First, I'd seen this character half an hour before he even went into the pub...out in the lodge office. He'd had a full pint of whisky then. In the pub, he still had that same pint...and it stayed full. When he went out, it was with the same full pint. In the bar, he'd had just one small glass of whisky...and he hadn't drunk that, either. This doesn't follow the pattern of a drinker...or a drunk. Also...while he was maneuvering around me...his eyes were clear...and his moves were smart. Remember, I'm an old ring fighter; a judo fighter; and once a nightclub bouncer. I know what I know. This entire situation seemed set up for my benefit....so that British intelligence could find out...how much control I had...if I would resort to quick violence...resort to weapons, or try to handle matters with my hands. Well, if so, they found out...I am very, very controlled...use violence only as a very last resort...and my hands are my first line of defense, even fresh after an operation. (Insert at this point...May 9, 1975...last night I awoke at 4:03 AM by the illuminated clock at bedside...and heard a voice talking to me from the foot of my bed...an unemotional, flat, mechanical voice...instructing me to do something. I listened to it for about five minutes, then inexplicably dropped off to sleep... it must have told me not to remember...because this morning I could not remember what that voice had been telling me. But...the voice was quite, quite real....) Night again, alone, at the isolated, haunted castle Urquehart. Very dark and very cold. I moved through the ruins like a shadow among the shadows...up through the arches, up onto my parapet lookout overlooking Loch Ness. The sky was covered with thick black clouds. Pitch black darkness all about. I telepathed to the SI's, and to the Monster. Soon an amazing thing happened. A circle opened right over me, in the sky. In this circle, the stars and sky were quite clear...but everywhere else in the sky, as far as the eye could see...thick black clouds covered the sky! It seemed like a miracle. Finally the circle of clear sky closed up, and the entire sky once again was all overcast with black clouds. I checked the time on my Pulsar watch at 21 after midnight. Then doublechecked a few seconds later...and it read 28 after 12! I realized that somehow...seven minutes of time had vanished...during which time I had no recollection! (This was like the Dallas incident, years ago, when I was with my daughter, Lornie, and a UFO came down to our car...seemed like a minute...but after it had vanished...we'd lost an hour of time!) === Page 5 of 20 5 I then made my way out of the old castle through the darkness...way up the hill to where Peter waited in his blacked out car...and told him about the missing seven minutes. When I returned to the lodge and went to my room...my neck ached excruciatingly again...at the base, back, of the neck. (Other nights, I might add, I'd felt like I was drugged, after the castle sessions.) But tonight I was clear, and felt all right...except for the pain at the back of the neck. Summed up...I'd had no visual sighting this night...just seven minutes of time vanished. Next night...moved up through the blackness into the castle...up to the parapet. Snowing heavily. Visibility zilch...nothing. Peasoup fog. Then a bright UFO light flickered up overhead, through the blackness. I was protecting Ron's recorder with my body and coat, from the snow. Must have been zero or below. Freezing cold. Telepathed to the SI's, and to Monster. Walked in circles, around and around in the snow, and the blackness, to keep warm, and to keep a keen watch. My ears began to freeze up, so I pulled a ski mask over my entire head...leaving only eye and mouth openings. Completely socked in by fog and snow, and a thick white mist enveloping me. Couldn't even see Loch Ness, 100 feet away. Real spooky. Time seemed distorted up on top of the castle...not like earth time at all...an hour up there seemed like 15 minutes to me...but when I'd get back to Peter he said it seemed like two hours to him. And I had no recollection of time passing at all. Well, I kept circling, watching for SI's, and/or thugs coming at me out of the darkness. Then I saw something moving around in the square of space...an old crumbled room...next to me. It was white...a white blur, 3 or 4 feet wide. The thing moved around...and I drew my knife and went into the enclosure after it. But there was nothing in there. Whatever it was, had vanished. But I'd seen it quite plainly. People in the village had said they wouldn't go to Urquhart Castle after dark for love or money...because a ghost had been seen up inside it many times. Perhaps this was the ghost. Then...that same circle cleared in the sky right over me...with dark sky everywhere else as far as the eye could see. This made the second night in a row...a huge, giant circle had opened up right over me. Next I heard a huge splash in the water near me. Then I saw a UFO right up over me. I knew, for sure, they were working my brain over! Again I got the strong feeling of being watched and observed. I checked my Pulsar at 12:20; then again a few seconds later, and it read 12:29! I had lost more time; time had vanished on me! Finally I made my way out of the dark castle, and back to the road, where Peter awaited me in his darkened car...and told him about the missing time, again. What was striking...was that the missing time was at about the same minute each night...12:20 to 12:28, and 12:20 to 12:29. Next day three reporters converged on me at the lodge...because of my work, and because of the UFO reported in the local paper. They checked my credentials, then took me to the castle for some photos. At this point...I was terribly bored, and homesick. No companionship...nothing. Just sitting around for hours all day, waiting for the night. And it was my little boy Teddy's birthday...so I called him long distance. At night...vibes were horrible; terrible. And everything was going wrong. The lodge phones were not available. The public phone...I could call out, but the party at the other end couldn't hear my voice. The lodge office was closed, and couldn't get at that phone...so I was snookered, as to communication out. Then the gardener (who doubled as a pro hunter) was replaced that day by another man...and he chose to take it out on me...in the pool room he kept calling out loudly... "run the American back where he came from!" Of course, I was the only American there, in this tiny place. But by that time I'd made many friends...and they shut up the ex-gardener. Then the SI's communicated with me and warned me not to go out to the castle any more without an armed guard...because after the newspaper story (which pinpointed where I was going, and when) had made it too dangerous to me. 07/25/2025 16:44 === Page 6 of 20 .6 To add to all of this...I didn't seem like myself at all. More like another personality, or person. This had never happened before...and I mused whether the SI work on my brain...had caused it. When Peter arrived for rendezvous...I told him we'd better cancel...but he offered to go along as the guard...carrying a huge club. So, we went together. This was the first...and only...time anyone at all accompanied me on any of my night work. We moved up into the dark castle to the parapet. There was a full moon...but visibility was bad; there was a dark overcast. However, with another person present...there was no SI contact! It was the difference between hot and cold; white and black. The feeling was entirely different; no good. The second person present seemed to cancel out everything. Next night Peter assured me that it would be okay to go alone up into the dark castle, so I believed him and went on up by myself into the darkness. There was a full moon. The night was clear and beautiful. The castle was all alight with bright moonlight. I telepathed. (Oh, before I forget...that afternoon the wife of the supermarket owner in Drum. had informed me that she had personally watch the UFO maneuver in the sky, the previous Thursday...and I secured a statement from her...which you will get.) As I turned slowly in a circle, watching the skies, the Loch Ness waters, and the shadows nearby...suddenly I saw a huge black mass break through the water out ahead of me! Must have been about 50 feet in length. (Later, back in Inverness, I got a booklet on the Monster...and there was a photo in the booklet...showing this very same picture...this same black mass up out of the water, allegedly the Monster.) There had been no such black mass coming up out of the water on any other night; at least where I'd had visibility. At this point I realized that my location...this spot that I came to every night...was zeroed in by the SI's...for programming my brain, or for invisible approach. And...the castle by now...seemed like a second home. It fascinates me, holds me, attracts me. The castle actually has some kind of occult hold on me, on my mind. And it is the location...where the most people have seen the Loch Ness Monster, for whatever that is worth. To show you how close Loch Ness is...I just flicked my cigar butt out into the water. At this point my feet were numb with cold...and the fingers inside my sheeplined gloves...were numb with cold. I decided not to watch the time...to heck with it...if time was going to vanish, then it would just vanish. I stamped my feet to get some feeling back into them. It was odd that it was so cold...because the night was clear, and shouldn't have been cold. Tonight there was no owl hoot. ..last night the owl had been hooting (like it had way back the first two nights on the Loch bank, down the cliff) but tonight, nothing. I missed it. It was kind of company. The birds on the far side of the Loch were squawking like blazes...something over there getting them upset. Finally I called it a night and made my way out of the castle, back up to the road to where Peter waited in his darkened car. The next night...was a dilly! To pass the time, I decided to shoot some pool with the villagers in the lodge pool room (contained one single table...and the villagers all assembled there every evening to drink beer and shoot pool). Lovey's wife (he was a wrestler) came up and asked me to be her partner. So I was, for one game. Then she went over and asked Malcolm to be her partner. (Malcolm, some nights earlier...I had beaten at 8ball...and he'd calmly walked past me, then swiftly kicked all the glass out of the door! He'd been in the famed Scots Guard...but had been released (I believe for mental instability.) This night...he ignored her, and played with another partner...and she became infuriated with Malcolm rejecting her...picked up a bottle...went up behind him and smashed it over his head! 07/25/2025 16:44 === Page 7 of 20 7 He turned around, with a surprised look on his face...grabbed her by her right arm...and flipped her onto the floor, flat onto her back. Then her husband, Lovey, the wrestler, came hurrying over. At this point there were about twenty people in the room...and they began to get out, quickly. Lovey and Malcolm came to grips...and began throwing each other around the room; smashing each other's heads into the walls! banging each other's heads down onto the floor; kneeing each other; etc etc. Meanwhile, I stood there with my cue in my hand...it had been my shot. Everyone else had fled from the room, except Peter...the habitual character and drunk...who'd gone to sleep sitting in a chair against the wall, and not even the sound of the battling had wakened him. Malcolm picked up a heavy chair, threw it across the room right into Lovey. Then he picked up the cue ball off the table and threw it at Lovey...the ball ricocheted around the walls and came to rest, funnily enough...right in poor Peter's lap! Still Peter didn't wake up. They began throwing beer mugs at each other. Beer mugs broke and glass flew all around my head. Chairs flew through the air. Anything went. Both Malcolm and Lovey were in tatters...bloody tatters...both bleeding like stuck pigs. Then I got an idea. But before I could put it into motion...Lovey's wife began to sneak up on Malcolm, who had Lovey down on the floor, fingers intertwined in Lovey's hair, smashing his head down onto the floor. She had a huge glass beer mug in her hand, and was prepared to smash Malcolm over the head with it, from behind. I used a judo handgrab and took it away from her. Fair was fair, I figured. Then I yelled at the two..."someone called the police, you guy's had better get out of here!" Malcolm got up off of Lovey. Lovey called him chicken for quitting the fight, but Malcolm wanted no part of police. Malcolm went out the door, then stuck his head back inside and yelled at Lovey..."but I still say your wife is a bum!" At which point Lovey threw two heavy beer mugs through the glass door at Malcolm. I was still standing there, pool cue in hand, fascinated. Lovey staggered over to the pool table...blood pouring down from innumerable cuts...his clothes in strips and tatters...and said, "Whose shot?" "Your shot," I said...so he picked up a cue, and we finished the game. The room was a complete shambles...you couldn't take a step without walking into broken glass...everything broken and smashed. And Peter was still leaning against the wall, in his chair, sound asleep. Then Peter Wilson drove up...and we left for the castle. Terrible night. Thick fog. No moonlight at all. Pitch black. Could see nothing. And to add to the lack of visibility...a thick white fog up on top of the castle parapet. When I telepathed to the SI's and the Monster...I could easily sense that there was more than one Loch Ness Monster. There's a bunch! For the first time...as I stood in the utter blackness, alone, in the isolated crumbly castle after midnight...I understood something. If any intelligence agencies of any country...wanted to eliminate me because of my link-up with the UFO's...this Scotland situation had been, and still was, pluperfect! I was alone, in the darkness, on the brink of the Loch. Completely and utterly vulnerable to the Dirty Tricks Department of any agency. Also I realized why the SI's had been concerned...there were several characters in Drum who'd cut my throat for the equipment on my back...which would keep them in living expenses for a year or two. I understood another thing...the SI's were remodifying my brain in steps! Quite ingenious of them. If they did it all at once, it would probably ruin me. So...they were doing it piece by piece, place by place...to give my mind time to recuperate, between treatments. And...they would leave it up to me...to judge when my mind, brain, had had enough. And I realized at this point...that they had worked on my brain extensively. The Wednesday before...I had been upset; hostile; a different personality than my normal self. Peter Wilson knew it. Too much work by the SI's on me? That's why they have slacked off, since that time. Then I got a terrible backache, up on the parapet. But had no weight on my back to cause 07/25/2025 16:44 === Page 8 of 20 8 it. Then a bright "sword UFO" appeared out over the water, opposite me. And my back kept hurting...at the base of my spine, in the small of my back. Finally time was up...and packed up the equipment...made way out of the dark castle up the hill to Peter's car. Then I hired Ron Petrie to drive me to Edinburgh in his taxi. Got a room at the George Hotel. Bought a new cassette recorder to replace my pocket one that had broken down. Very dull city...ugh. Nice people; but so very very dull. Nothing to do there. No way to relax. But I stayed several days anyway. To relax. What I had been going through...brain modification...had wiped out my energy. Flew to London. At the airport...didn't know whether to take a taxi into London, and cast about for some means of finding Salisbury, or what. The SI's communicated...and told me what to do. So I made inquiry...took a bus to Reading; then a train to Salisbury. Was being watched constantly, by two man teams, I might add. Not imagination, or paranoid thinking. Just a fact. At the Hotel George back in Edinburgh this same man had lurked across the street, watching me come out and checking me back in. Then he'd surprised me...by popping up across the street just outside the front door of the hotel, and accosting me..."What kind of cigar is that you are smoking?" We exchanged cigar chitchat...but I realized that he was peering into my eyes and checking my voice...probably to try and evaluate my stability. British intelligence is not stupid...and they'd most likely been with me in Scotland...American intelligence, you can bet your bottom dollar...wanted to know what I was doing, and how I was doing it...and they'd work with British Intelligence, too. Might drop a note at this point...on the tremendous, overwhelming expense of this entire trip. Beginning with my operation at Mayo...where I'd expected to spend a week...then been held there for a month! Then extensive preparation for the European trip...getting tools and equipment and clothes. And the trip itself.... spending a hundred or two hundred dollars on taxi's, hotels, meals, etc., every time I turned around! It could have only been done...with open-ended funds... which Millie had laid out for all this. (And knowing that my friend George Delavan was covering rent, food, etc., back at home.) Drat it...they lost my luggage carrier on the plane coming to London. Have to get another in Salisbury. Made a mental note to be careful in England...because in Scotland things are more controlled...papers full of crime and skullduggery in England. Secured a room at the White Hart Hotel in Salisbury. Got lucky and quickly found a taxi driver, who agreed to the unusual night hours of taking me out to haunty places. Eric Romaine. Heavy set, pipe smoking gent. Met him at the railroad station, matter of fact...he drove me into town and helped me find a hotel. Said he might have a connection who would help sneak me into Stonehenge. He also knew of an old castle, abandoned, isolated...Old Sarum Castle. In my room, waiting for the magic hour of 11:30, and rendezvous with Eric...I unexplainably fell asleep at 9:20. Woke up some time later, feeling exhausted. Eric arrived on time. We drove out into the black countryside. Cold, icy rain falling. Freezing cold. Eric said he couldn't arrange the Stonehenge deal...so he (and his wife in the back seat...no doubt there because she wondered why, at that hour, Eric would be out) drove me out to Old Sarum Castle, isolated in the country. We got out of the taxi...and found out that the castle was surrounded by a very high fence...only access by way of a drawbridge, which had a gate topped with sharp spikes, and secured by a huge padlock. 07/25/2025 16:44 === Page 9 of 20 9 So I dismissed Eric and his wife...watched the taxi with darkened lights turn and leave the location...then I picked up my equipment and moved over to the right of the castle...up onto a hill into a clump of trees. An icy wind was blowing. Two UFO's appeared, after my telepathing. Visibility was zilch; but the UFO's fluttering about were perfectly clear. One "sword UFO" came right at me, at my location. It changed from a white star thing to a dull orange glow (like those had done at the Loch Ness locations). The other one, higher up, did the same thing. Then switched back on to bright again. Then a third UFO appeared, and they arranged themselves into a perfect triangle formation...two up above, and one low for the point of the triangle. Then even more UFOs appeared. It seemed they were putting on quite a show. Changing color; jumping about. The night itself was pitchblack; icy cold; cold rain pouring down; sky murky. Was keeping my new recorder carefully covered, from the rain. Came time to leave, I was numb with cold...the SI's comm'd and led me over to the castle drawbridge and told me how to enter into the castle the next night! They wanted me there. Eric drove up in his darkened car, then...I got in...and told him of the SI plan...and he agreed to cooperate with the plan. Might add here...that all these taxi rides were costing me 15-$20 a shot...and I was taking several a day...scouting out the ground, going here and there. Same with Ron and Peter Wilson in Scotland. And others. Also should add...that the SI's do a tremendous job of leading me to my targets. Tonight, for instance, Eric's wife handed me a book written by Arthur Shuttlewood...about a place called Warminster..and certain hills on which UFO's had appeared. From this book, which I would read...I was guided unerringly to Warminster and to the right places there...and the right people. But...suppose she hadn't shown me the book? This sort of thing was happening on the entire trip. Just this kind of "luck" found me Urquhart Castle and Drumnadrochit. Found the perfect suitcase to take the place of my lost luggage carrier...the thing has a built in handle, and built in wheels. Next day...extreme loneliness hit me with a dull thud, again. Depressed me quite a bit. Night...Eric came by...we went out to Old Sarum Castle. He had a thick blanket; a short stepladder. In the darkness we snuck up to the spiked gate...put up the ladder...I wadded the blanket on top of the spikes, swung my butt up onto the blanket...pulled the ladder up with me...and leaped off onto the other side. Eric got the blanket and took it with him to the taxi, as he left. I left the ladder where it was...and moved through the darkness into the castle grounds...not knowing where I was going inside there. I felt my way through the dark rooms and dark grounds...up and up...and finally found a high parapet on top of the castle. Icy cold up there...couldn't see four feet in front of me, visibility so poor. Not like Urquhart...up there I could check out my immediate surroundings for intruders...not here...all spread out...anybody could come at me from any direction and I wouldn't be able to see them. The cold wind soon began to cut through my pants like a knife. Then the sky cleared, and I could see in every direction out over the countryside. A gale wind was blowing...had to hold the hat onto my head to keep it from blowing off. Cold, biting, icy winds. I tried to light a cigar...and after ten successive matches blew out...I gave it up. I'd goofed in another way, also...had worn soft, felt booties...so that I could pad around inside the castle without being heard, by anybody. Yes, but without shoes inside them. And in no time...my feet were freezing off. I heard a rustling noise over to my left...so I knew for sure that I was not alone up there. It made me uneasy to think of how I had to depend on taxi drivers...like Ron, Peter, Eric...because if any of them failed to show up later...I'd be found frozen in the 07/25/2025 16:44 === Page 10 of 20 10 morning! I thought back...to earlier in the evening...when Eric and I had been driving out toward the castle...and we'd passed a girl hitchhiking on the lonely country road. I'd said, "Eric, make a U-turn and go back and pick up that girl. We'll give her a lift before she freezes." "It wasn't a girl," he'd said, "it was a man." (We each saw a different thing.) But he made a U-turn, went back, and the human had vanished completely. Eric and I had both been mystified. Well, at 1 I made my way back down again through the old, dark castle...and out to the locked gate. Eric was there in the dark. I put up the ladder and went up it. Eric handed me the blanket, and we reversed the process to get me down onto the other side. We went tippy-toeing back to his darkened car, deposited the ladder and blanket inside the car...and just then a police car swung up the road and parked about 20 feet away! Now, we are talking about after 1 at night...out in the dark countryside...no lights and no people! I said to Eric, what the blazes, Eric? The police car didn't come over and investigate us...just sat there for a few minutes, then started up and left. We switched on our lights and drove back into town...and found the police car silently waiting for us, half-way, on the road. I didn't like this turn of events at all! Next day I engaged Eric to drive me way out to Stonehenge, to scout it out in the daytime. Soon as I got there, I realized what Stonehenge was all about. It was a mechanism...a machine. A psychotronic machine (see "Psychic Discoveries Behind The Iron Curtain" book by Ostranger, on psychotronic form.) And the key to Stonehenge...so ingeniously planned for in the ages past by the UFO entities...had to be an alien brain set inside it, to activate it! Its power was so intense...that it could not be trusted to a human brain to activate it. Only an alien, UFO brain...with their peculiar laws and compassionate philosophy...could be trusted to turn on all of that power. (Same thing with the pyramids in Egypt, Mexico, etc. They were designed to be turned on, activated, by an alien brain inside same...just like the battery inside an electric watch...and for the same reason.) Now...and this is very important...while activating Stonehenge, several times... I discovered a tremendous secret about Stonehenge...certainly not known to any other humans. Over and above what I have already told you. Stonehenge...has many functions! It came to my mind...that the SI's primary reason to bring me to Europe...might be to activate Stonehenge for them! Secondary reason, the remodifying of my brain (which they did, right enough.) The SI's are most devious...as I have found in the past. Fair as fair, but...devious. Like the time they guided me to Cleveland to "make some food and rent money giving lectures." Uh huh. Turned out...what they really wanted to do...was demonstrate how they could control the entire city of Cleveland...letting me document it for them! Same thing with the country of France...and my small hassle with Dr. Poher there. Discovered twenty pounds (20) missing from my billclip, during the daytime. No way...it could have become lost. Was in left trouser pocket underneath my heavy leather coat. But, you say...perhaps a pickpocket? Not so...the clip itself is of 18K gold...worth $500-$600 at today's gold prices...have had it for years...and no self-respecting pickpocket would take $50 in bills and leave the $500 clip in my pocket! I think it was the SI's...for whatever reason. Because all along the way...things disappeared from my pockets, fingers, belt. But they appeared later, in a different place. This 20 pounds never did reappear. On the way out to Stonehenge, about 3:30 in the afternoon, in April...sunny day... 07/25/2025 16:44 === Page 11 of 20 11 I explained to Eric, a most intelligent man...how I dreaded going out to Stonehenge on this sunny afternoon...with tourists standing around, gawking and taking photos...while I mentally concentrate on activating the structure-mechanism. Well, as we drove along...the sunshine turned to light snow. By the time we got to Stonehenge galeforce winds were blowing and there was a full blizzard. One could hardly see six feet ahead. I made my way out into Stonehenge...whilst the tourists there were running out of Stonehenge...and I was left alone to do my work! A miracle if you ever saw one! Just as fast as I had used all of the mental "triggers" the SI's had given me, to activate Stonehenge...they comm'd and told me to get out, fast! (I believe this is the first time they have ever done such a thing.) So I did. Left immediately. My impression was...that in activating Stonehenge, according to SI instructions...I released so much power there...that the SI's were fearful that I could be damaged (since I am not a full SI...but a "half-breed"...half SI, half human. The rest of the day, lonesomeness pounded at me...like waves on the beach. Having no one to talk to, or who cares...or to do anything with...gets to you. Just a hotel room. One of the worst experiences...all of this lonesomeness on this European trip...that I have ever gone through. I contacted the SI's and requested that they finish their remodifying of my brain in Warminster...but they comm'd back ... could my brain withstand that? They requested...that I go to Stonehenge this night...break in...activate it...break out...then go to Old Sarum Castle and repeat the entire process. (Oh...before I forget...last night...I had the windows of my hotel room closed...and they steamed over. During the night I heard weird noises...and at bedtime I found pawprints all over the windows. Considering I was on the second floor...a sheer drop down...brick wall...nothing could get to my windows...this was quite puzzling. Except I remembered the time on the Arizona desert...sleeping out in the open in our car...and we'd wakened in the morning and Beau had said he'd seen a "monster face" at my window during the night. Then I'd gotten out of the car and found pawprints and clawmarks in a peculiar stain...all over the car...and something had ripped our back tire, so that it was flat. ) Eric picked me up at 11:30. We drove out to Stonehenge, while I told him what the UFO's wanted me to do. I used the thick blanket up on top of the spikes on the gate...and went over. Now, this is out in the country. Everything dark and pitchblack. No one out there. Stonehenge just a black, dark bunch of rock shadows far over to my left...across a field. Occasionally a car would pass...then I would fling myself flat, to avoid the lights from the car picking up my silhouette in the field. Finally, after getting over several smaller fences...I reached the famous rocks of Stonehenge. I slipped in amongst them...quiet as a mouse in the darkness...found my spot between the two rocks, where I'd been in the afternoon...and commenced using the "triggers" the SI's had given me. But in about 3-5 minutes a light flickered amongst the giant rocks...and I knew I'd been set up. Because lights from the road, far away, wouldn't reach inside Stonehenge. I fell flat between the two rocks, hoping whoever it was would take a quick look and go away. But no...the powerful beam moved straight over to where I was and shone down at me, where I lay inside the rocks. They knew...just where I'd be! I slowly rose...saw a policeman...and thought oh boy, I've had it now! He told me that I'd have to leave, and not come back. That's all he said. He didn't ask me who I was...what I was doing there...or anything. THEN HE TURNED AND WALKED AHEAD OF ME...HIS BACK TO ME...ALL THE LONG WAY BACK TO THE ROAD TO ERIC'S CAR! Now, I'd just broken into a national monument...and you know, and I know, that ordinary police procedure calls for the cop to have me show identification... 07/25/2025 16:44 === Page 12 of 20 12 give a reason for being there, at that hour of the night...and of course no policeman in his right mind would turn his back on some mysterious breaker-and-enterer...and walk out ahead of him! UNLESS, THAT IS...THE COP KNOWS WHO THE INTERLOPER IS...AND KNOWS THAT THE INTERLOPER IS HARMLESS...WOULDN'T HURT HIM! And this...had to be it. He knew who I was...knew where I'd be standing...knew I wouldn't harm him. Well...I skipped the castle, naturally. The cops had almost gotten us there the night before...and I figured that now they'd zeroed in on me...I'd be a dead-duck if I tried the up-over-the-spikes routine now out at the castle. So...back to the hotel...and I raved and ranted in my hotel room for hours, I was so furious and frustrated...because I'd come a long way, and gone to a lot of trouble and wear and tear...to get this thing done for the UFO's...only to be blocked and frustrated at it. In Scotland...I was not blocked. The castle gates were left unlocked for me. And I got results. UFO's appeared, and were seen by others, as well as myself. But now, in England...fooey. The authorities were smoothly blocking my moves. Then I found that my favorite hunting knife was missing from my belt. I'd had it on me...at Stonehenge. Had it for 20 years, and was my favorite (I have a collection.) I determined to go back to Stonehenge at early morn...before tourists got there...and find it! Early morn...called Eric...went out to Stonehenge before it opened to the public. Was first in line at the ticket window. A voice said "You back again?" I laughed and said sure...and buying a ticket, just like anybody else. It was the same policeman, and he emerged from behind a two-way window. I told him I'd lost something the night before. So he took me back into Stonehenge...it wasn't there...but I found it out in the field. The policeman walked me back to Eric's car, then left. I told Eric...I am going to wait half an hour, then go and buy a ticket, go back inside Stonehenge, and activate it in the daytime again...as long as I can't get in at night. And that's exactly what I did. And this is when...I found out a fantastic secret about Stonehenge! During the day...the SI's comm'd and instructed me to skip that night...just rest. Was having supper at a quaint eating place...when an amusing thing happened. A tall, gray-haired man...and an American, judging from his voice...stood about six feet away, talking to another man. We were probably the only two Americans in Salisbury, England, at the time. I called to him and asked him where he was from. Virginia, he said. (I live in Virginia.) Oh boy, I thought...now I'll have somebody to talk to! So, to kid him a bit and warm things up...I said, oh yes? Tourista! Gringo, go home!" and grinned, thinking he'd come over and join me at my table. Instead he got furious, turned his back on me, and walked out of the room. I laughed for half an hour...at the irony of it. Next move...I took a train to Warminster, England. And the very first thing that happened...was most funny! I asked the driver, Peter, if he could do a very special job for me (meaning my night-routine at haunted castles and hills.) I told him I would like to hire him to pick me up at about midnight to do something special. He studied me for a minute...said, I've got just the man for you. Name of Ricky. And he drove me out to some houses; went in, and brought out a tough looking mug. We three went to a nearby pub, where Peter left us by ourselves. This Ricky took me over to a corner table...and proceeded to let me know how valuable he was...as a fence, handling diamonds! Explained how he'd worked in African diamond mines. I laughed and told him that I wasn't in 07/25/2025 16:44 === Page 13 of 20 13 the diamond trade...especially smuggling diamonds (which evidently was his line)...and he quickly got up and departed. I left the place and Peter was waiting outside. I went with him to the Beeline Taxi office and made arrangements with the manager for a night driver to pick me up at 11:30 PM. Then the driver helped me find a room at the Farmer's Hotel. (I'd made prior arrangements, by long distance phone, from Salisbury to Warminster, to stay at another hotel...but the driver told me it was a bad place...to stay at the Farmer's Hotel. So I did.) This hotel...had a ghost, I found out later...had been seen many times...and played tricks on people. The hotel was hundreds of years old. Took a walk into downtown Warminster, and winced. Really mean, tough-looking people here. Gangs of motorcycle riders...clad in black leather...hung all over with swastika pins and the like. I was awfully lonesome..but couldn't even find somebody to talk to. The people there, I discovered...hated Americans. Just like they do in France. Night, and the taxi driver picked me in front of the hotel. The cold was intense...freezing. I told him to drive me out to Cradle Hill, to an isolated location. He drove far, far out...on a country road which would lead to a deadend...but before we got there, another car pulled in front of our car. My driver was astounded. What? he said. Nobody comes out here this time of night...into this isolated country location. At the deadend, the other car made a U-turn, swung around us (and I caught a clear look at the man seated on the righthand side, front...he had a peculiar black beard...a most unusual design)...then the car drove a small way down the road, parked, and switched off lights. I ignored it, and got out. My driver drove off. I climbed over the gate at the deadend, and found three different roads, leading off in different directions. I decided to take the one going up to the top of the hill...where I could see a black outline of trees in the darkness. The driver had said that the hill was barren. The hill was very steep, and I huffed and puffed my way up it, until I'd gotten 2/3 of the way up. Then I could see the outline of a building in amongst the trees. Was it a house? If so...the house might have a vicious dog...or someone might think I was a robber, and begin blasting away with a shotgun...so I stayed where I was, 2/3 of the way up on the hill...on the lonely road...and telepathed to the SI's. A UFO quickly appeared...flashing orange, red and yellow colors. I talked into the tape recorder and pointed out...its color difference from the silvery stars. And as soon as I had done so...the UFO color changed to silver! Just as if it knew what I was saying in the recorder, and made a color correction. This reminded me of Loch Ness...when I had telepathed to the sword UFO's to let me alone that night...and they had immediately turned off...from their brilliant white color to a small, orange glow. Then my tape went bad, of all things...and I could no longer communicate into the recorder. Over to my right...was a huge black cloud...with swirling fog inside it...covering the dimension of a football field. Everywhere else the night was as clear as a bell...so this black cloud stood out like a sore thumb. Finally, as I left my location to go back down the hill...THE BLACK CLOUD FOLLOWED ALONG BESIDE ME! The driver was there; I got in; we drove down off the lonely road...and durned if that same other car didn't pull in behind us from somewhere and begin to follow us. The driver admitted that we were being followed. The other car followed us to my hotel, where I got out, cussing, and went to bed. Speaking of cussing...when you hear the tapes that I made...please forgive my unusual language. Unusual for me...that is. Ordinarily "durn" and "heck" are the extent of my strong language. But night by night exposure to the SI's and 07/25/2025 16:44 === Page 14 of 20 14 their powers...seemed to bring pressure on my mind...that caused me to revert to my old Navy language of 194145, long years ago. I found myself cussing like a trooper, as they say...when blocked, frustrated, etc. I apologize for it...when you hear it...but cannot change it...from the standpoint of experimentation and observation...since it happened, and is a part of all that happened. Next day I hired the taxi driver to take me out to Cradle Hill...and I walked way up it to check out that "house"...but discovered that it was a peculiar, sealed up building...LIKE a barn, but not a barn. Beside it...lay the ruins of an old house. I left, and walked back down the hill to the driver, who had waited. He warned me not to go to Starr Hill, because the army was holding secret maneuvers there. As we passed one hill...I liked it...Copheap, off Elm...and made a mental note to return there some night. Back in town...I determined to find this Arthur Shuttlewood...and secure some of his books for Millie, George...and was directed to the owner of Payne's Drugstore, who presumably knew Arthur. (And, this shows...how the SI's were following me and guiding me.) As I stood inside the drugstore, talking to the owner...the owner said, why, there is Arthur's son now...he just walked in! I went over to the lad, about twenty years old...and gave him a message for his dad...relative to a meeting together. (forgot to mention...the night before I'd had a precog dream...dreamed of an elderly woman...who had dark, black spots on her left leg. This day...an elderly woman was my waitress at the hotel...Peggy...had the same face as the woman in my dream. I asked her if she had any dark spots...birthmarks or whatever...on her left leg. She said, why yes...lifted her long skirt...and showed a bunch of dark bruises on her left leg. Said she'd fallen over a bed. The taxi picked me up about 11:30 PM...and out we went again onto the deadend road at Cradle Hill. The night was very dark, and very quiet and still. As we reached the end of the deadend country road...there ahead of us was the "other" car...of the night before...waiting, with lights off. Oh, was I mad! I didn't know who there were...seemed to be three of them in the car...but I had waited all day long to get out here and meet, alone, with the SI's...and these men were blocking me! I could return to the hotel, and play it safe...or...and I decided that it would be "or". I told the taxi driver to take off...and stood there in the blackness of the night, at the locked gate...studying the other car...and cussing (as you'll discover on the tapes!) After a long while the car door opened, and a man got out...and began to slowly approach me. I warned him, and I surely meant it...not to come any closer...and he stopped dead in his tracks. "Aren't you interested in why we are here?" he asked. "Not at all," I told him. "I'm here to do something very important...and it does not concern you." He stood there for about five minutes, it seemed, in the darkness before me...then slowly turned and went back to the car, and got back in. The car sat there for a while longer, then switched on its lights and drove off, back down the hill, out of sight. That left me alone, in the darkness and the moonlight, and I breathed a sigh of relief. I'd been ready to take on all three of them...if I had to. I climbed over the gate, and started up the road to the top, where I'd scouted during the day...but the SI's comm'd and said no, not to go there. So instead, I took the next road...and followed it in the darkness. Soon a bunch of trees caught my eye over to the right (where the dark cloud was)...and I cut over across the field into the trees...and found that the trees were on the edge of a cliff. It was a dandy location, and I settled down 07/25/2025 16:44 === Page 15 of 20 15 for a good get-together with my UFO friends. Nobody could come at me, without my discovering them...pitchblack darkness or not...because with the cliff at my back, I could spot anything moving through the darkness toward me from the front... It was icy cold there, inside that clump of trees. I'd walked right inside that peculiar black cloud with the swirling mist inside it. I telepathed to the SI's. Later, as it came time to leave the location...I walked out of the clump of trees...when I suddenly heard these strange, weird, eerie sounds coming from the trees I'd just vacated. (I was approx. 100-200 feet away, I reckon.) I turned to see what on earth could have made those sounds...sort of a cross between a screeching eagle and an animal...and just as I turned...a flaming ball of fire shot down out of the sky...right down in front of me...to the position I'd just vacated! It was a lovely, gorgeous, beautiful sight! In short, a UFO...type I'd never before seen, and I've seen many...had come right down to where I was! And if it hadn't "called to me" I wouldn't have seen it! (You actually have that UFO sound on your tape!) Went down and met my taxi. Thank goodness there was no sign of the other car. Next day I made a startling discovery. My eyebrows had turned gray! Now, the hair on top of my head has been gray for a long while...but my eyebrows have been a deep red color. Not a silver hair among them. Suddenly, today, they are 2/3 gray! I shave looking into the mirror each day...and these had not been evident before. I wondered if the black cloud I'd walked into...and the flaming UFO the night before, which had "called" to me...could have turned my eyebrows gray! In early evening, Arthur Shuttlewood, the famous author, came over to the hotel and spent an hour with me. In our chat, we discovered that his life...and my life...contained many of the same elements (as he points out in his new book, where he's doing a chapter about me ("Invisible Worlds"). (Also, oddly enough, all of the many twists and turns of Edgar Cayce's life juxtapose perfectly with those of my own life! For whatever it's worth, I just mention it in passing....) Now, this ghoulish-looking man had been following me for days...when I'd go into the dining room to eat...he'd go in to eat; and sit and stare at me. When I'd go into the TV room, he'd go in...and sit and stare at me. Well, this night, before the taxi driver arrived...the wife of the hotel owner came running upstairs and begged me to be careful. "This man who's been following you," she said, "looks dangerous...and he's downstairs now" (this at almost midnight, when nobody, but nobody, usually stirred in the hotel but me.) "He's been acting very suspicious this evening," she continued, "so my son and I have been watching him. He's downstairs now, at the foot of the stairs, pretending to be making a phone call. Except he's never dialed the phone. My son and I have been watching him. He's just standing there, waiting for you to come down. So do be careful tonight." I assured her that I was always careful...and thanked her...and went down the stairs. Yes, there was this creep...standing over against the wall, in the shadows, watching me...holding the phone to his ear. I went to the front door and looked out. The creep called over to me..."You waiting for a taxi?" "Yes," I answered back, "but how did you know?" He didn't answer that. My taxi arrived, and I went out and got in. (Next morning the owner's wife told me that the creep had gone out right after I left...and hadn't returned to the hotel all night.) When we drove up the long, dark country road to the deadend dropoff for me, the taxi driver turned to me and said, "You know something? You've got more nerve than I've got." And he looked out into the spooky blackness and shuddered. I got out, and he drove off. I studied the layout around me carefully...to see if anything, or anyone, moved in the shadows or along the ground...but everything seemed all right. 07/25/2025 16:44 === Page 16 of 20 16 It was icy cold, and a powerful wind was blowing...blowing so strong you could hear it on the tape recorder. Pitch black dark...very spooky. I walked through the darkness up the second road...then as soon as I could make out the clump of trees to my right I wheeled and ran over into them, out of sight completely from the road...or any other place, for that matter. I lay down on my right side under the tree...my back to the cliff...in the pitchblack darkness...and telepathed to the SI's. In my prone position...I had the big advantage of being able to see low...that is, if I stood up, it was so dark I could see almost nothing...except the sky. But down flat on the ground...I could see the rise of the hill where'd I'd come up outlined against the sky...so that if anyone tried to trail me up the hill, I had an excellent chance to spot them. Suddenly there was a UFO right up over me. Then a second UFO flashed over me. Then two more UFO's flashed right over me. It was incredible to me...they were so numerous...so wondrous to see. Next an airplane flew onto the scene...no doubt from the Warminster Army Base, to check out all those UFO's. (I got this on tape.) Finally a last, beautiful UFO fluttered over me...flashing on and off, silent, darting about in sudden, quick movements which only a UFO can do. I realized with a sort of shock that five (5) UFO's had been directly up over me, this night! At time to leave my stand...I walked down the dark hill to the deadend gate, and climbed over. But no taxi. So...I decided to just keep on walking down the pitchblack dark hill road. Am glad that I did...because in a few minutes, to my left...I saw something moving...stopped, and observed it. It was a baby sheep. So cute and darling. Standing to my left, just beside the road...chewing grass in the night darkness. Close by to it, was a second baby sheep...just as cute. I watched them for a while, then continued walking down the road. Finally the lights of the taxi shown in the distance, as it came driving up the country hill road...and when he reached me, walking down, he apologized for being late. Actually...in all the many, many nights I went out to haunted castles and haunted hills to rendezvous with the UFO's...and the flock of taxi drivers who'd taken me out then returned to get me, later on...this was the first, and only, time a driver had goofed. Quite remarkable, I think. When I got back to my hotel, I made a strange discovery. There were five red dots on the palm of my left hand...and they burned like they were afire. Then I made another startling discovery...my "cross" ring had vanished off my left hand. Of my several rings, this one was my favorite...because it had tremendous sentimental value (actually, it was given to me, in a way, by the UFO's themselves)...so, I was horrified. Next morning, early bright, I called the taxi and went out to Cradle Hill, to my "stand" from the night before. As I searched around in the grass for the ring...a car pulled up close to me, on the lonely road (I'd left the taxi driver waiting, far down the hill) and uniformed military officers got out of the car. I thought...oh oh...now what? But they studiously avoided looking at me, although they were quite close by...and sort of walked around in the field near me. I left, went back down the hill to the taxi, went back into town...went to the local newspaper and put a reward offer for the ring in the classified section...then went to the cab office and told the manager I'd give a reward to any taxi drivers who might run across the ring. Then I returned to my hotel, and had supper. When I reached into my pants pocket for my billfold...there was my favorite "cross" ring in the pocket. No way. My pockets are jammed up with objects...scissors, knives of all sizes and shapes, documents, pens and pencils, and so on into the night. And I know where each object is at all times. The materials are all skillfully, intelligently organized. I can instantly reach into any pocket and take out any object I want. The ring simply could not have jumped from the little finger of my left hand...into my pants pocket. Impossible. But...I was delighted to be able to say hello to it again! 07/25/2025 16:44 === Page 17 of 20 17 That evening I told the taxi driver to take me to Cradle Hill again...but he surprised me by saying, "I thought that you said you wanted to go to Starr Hill some evening. Why not go there tonight?" Previous to this, no taxi driver had opened his mouth to suggest that I go anywhere...unless I asked him first. So...this unsolicited idea-suggestion came as a surprise. So I told him...okay. He drove us far out into the country, up a winding road, onto a hill...and he said okay, here we are. Just then the SI's comm'd...and instructed me to leave this place alone...and to go to the odd-looking, pointy hill called Copheap, off Elm St. I so instructed the taxi driver...who turned the taxi around in the darkness then drove all the way back to the Cradle Hill area...let me off on the dark road at the bottom of Copheap. I walked across a long, dark field toward the black bulk of the hill...then laboriously climbed up the steep hill in the blackness of the night. Lots of trees and logs...some of which I tripped and fell over, since I never used a light. Up, up onto the top of the hill. It was very very cold. Below and over to the side were the lights of the town. The top of the hill where I stood, slowly circling...was inky black...thick with trees and bushes. It was an absolutely fine SI rendezvous spot...except that, oddly, I sensed intelligence down underneath my feet...and wondered if, perhaps, the army had a secret layout built inside this hill. There's one in West Germany like that...I know because an ex-intelligence man confided in me. Might add here that, while climbing up the hill...two flare-like lights shot up over the hill...but I suspect that they were army devices. Didn't seem like UFO phenomena to me. After a long while...and after telepathing to the SI's...my head began to ache and throb. Something told me...I'd reached the absorption point...the point of no return...from the forces of SI-remodification. So I quickly packed up the equipment and started climbing down the dark, steep hill. As I did so...a sword UFO appeared...brilliant white light with radiating spokes...at ground level, not up in the air...and it followed my descent, followed my every move, as I moved across the dark field toward the road. It seemed like an eye watching me, and following my movement...I waved a hand to it in friendly greeting. While crossing the darkness of the long field...I heard a human cough over to my left, twice...would estimate 50-100 feet distance...so quite obviously I was under human surveillance. The taxi met me at the road, and I returned to the hotel. Now...I felt awful...my head ached; my body ached; and just deep down...I felt terrible. The feeling is indescribable. The SI's must have really unloaded on me, up there on the hill, their powers for remodification. At this point I knew for a certainty that under no circumstances must I expose myself further to SI remodification...because most certainly it would result in damage to me. They do not have limited, human bodies...they have other-dimensional life forces; other physical laws govern them...so it must be up to me to say "enough" when I've had enough. And I have. The next day a newspaper reporter came to the hotel for an interview for a local paper. Also, the SI's comm'd...and instructed me...warned me, in fact...not to proceed further in meeting with them. That remodification had been, in fact, accomplished by them. They told me to rest as much as possible...that it would take time, earth-time, for the other-dimensional forces they had planted in my brain to grow and become effective for use. How long, I asked them back...but there was no reply on that. I inquired re the purpose of the remodification...and received encapsulated intelligence...that the hundreds of miracles which I had accomplished heretofore, with my half alien brain, were as nothing compared to the miracles that I will be able to accomplish in the future...with this remodification process. And...my SI brain will be used to help the human race in a most peculiar manner. They want me to become a sort of "world fireman"... 07/25/2025 16:44 === Page 18 of 20 18 dashing off to one country after another..........using other-dimensional powers in a constructive, creative manner..........to "put out world-fires"; i.e., catastrophic events harming the human race yet not helping Nature..........I'd use the analogy of the control of useless pain, wherein a person is tortured and racked by, say, cancer pain..........so that the pain is controlled by drugs, hypnosis, etc. Because Nature uses pain as a most useful mechanism, ordinarily..........but there are situations in which pain has no use at all..........and therefore must be controlled or eliminated by cutting nerves, using drugs, etc. Well..........a geographical area in the world could be beset by "useless pain" in the same manner, causing woe to the humans in that area. A hurricane, say, headed for Miami, Florida..........would serve no useful purpose to Nature, but would cause humans "pain" as it spun towards the large cities. A terrible drought in Africa or India..........would be considered "useless pain" to the humans in that area. A volcano blowing its top and spewing its lava down toward populated cities or towns..........would be an emergency to be controlled by myself and the SI's. And so on. Well, I have documented the control of hurricanes, droughts, and volcano control..........already, in the past..........by myself and the SI's. But ahead in time..........I will be able to do it more easily and quickly..........and on a far more powerful scale..........at least that's what they indicate to me. And of course..........there are many many more world-situations which could conceivably occur as an emergency situation for the humans in various world areas..........for me to go to, and control. For some reason unbeknownst to me..........the SI's wish my physical presence, around the globe, at the location of the miracle to be brought about. I've pointed out to them that I have no monies..........and it would take a fortune to do this sort of thing for them. And that's where it stands with regard to my buying airplane tickets, supplies, etc., to go packing off to India, Egypt, Africa, etc., to help there in those places. They gave me no answer on it. But I cannot conceive that they would go to all of the trouble that they have gone to..........to get me to Europe to redo my brain..........only to let the infinitely-intelligent plan fall through because of lack of human monies to carry it out. Arthur Shuttlewood came over to the hotel..........presented me with a carboncopy of his new book, "Invisible Worlds"..........which contains a chapter on me and my work, and my meeting with him. I packed up and took a taxi to the train station. There a man dressed in black, wearing black gloves, paced all around me, watching me. Got onto the train..........and the same man in black kept walking back and forth outside my compartment, glancing in at me. Went to eat in the diner..........and he came in, took a table, and watched me. He had the strange mustache-beard that the man in the "other" car had had, which kept following me up to Cradle Hill then back to my hotel. Could easily have been the same man. Forgot to mention..........had a deep cut on my thigh this morning, with red edges around it. About two inches long, puffed and swollen. There was no way..........I could have gotten this cut on my thigh during the night..........and didn't have it before. Arrived in London, and took a taxi to the Waldorf Hotel (not to be confused at all with the Waldorf-Astoria in New York!) Room rates reasonable. Was worn out and exhausted..........from the SI work, I suppose..........so just took it easy the rest of the day. Next morning was astonished to discover that I'd slept through..........not to morning, excuse me..........but 3PM in the afternoon! I couldn't believe my watch! When I awoke, it seemed like my usual 9 AM wakening. But 3 PM in the afternoon? Unbelievable, to me. Further, My eyes were red..........and there was a redness of my upper chest and neck..........when I touched it, it turned white, like sunburn does. Except I hadn't been under any sun! What happened last night? Also my brain was groggy and fuzzy. My reflexes were cockeyed..........slow. I felt weak. When I went outside to walk..........I found myself === Page 19 of 20 19 walking aimlessly, without purpose or direction..........quite unlike me. I felt all muddled up inside, and confused. Almost got hit by cars half a dozen times. My timing was bad, and could not judge how to cross streets..........I kept zigging when I should have been jagging. In short..........I was not myself; not Ted Owens..........sure-footed, fast moving, fast reflexes, knowing usually where I was going and what I was doing. Was almost as if there were another intelligence inside of me..........sharing me, you might say..........and it had not yet adjusted to my bodily reflexes and mental processes. Would take some time for it to adjust to my unit; my mechanism (body and mind). But..........if this disorganized state of affairs would be due to a post-reaction to the work the SI's did on me..........then I'd just have to wait to get over it. I remembered the first time the SI's had modified my brain..........in Mexico..........and it took years to get over it. I'd become disorganized and confused, and wandered for some years..........quite unlike my natural self..........until my mind had cleared. I remembered the policeman in that famous case..........the UFO named Floyd..........and the cop had shot at it. Afterward he went haywire..........quit his police job..........left his wife and kids..........and went wandering off to California, where he dropped from sight. Close exposure to SI work..........can have this effect on a human mechanism. And I had just been over-exposed to a great deal of close exposure to many many UFO's! The shock of the UFO work on me, I concluded, was just hitting me. I spent days making copies of my original tapes; fearful that something might happen to my originals before I got back..........wanting a spare set. And as I made the copies, playing the originals over..........I got headaches and dropped off to sleep several times in midday. I hoped that in some way I was not being re-exposed to the SI powers. The next day..........I was my old self again. Sharp and clear; thinking decisive and logical. Timing perfect. Now a phrase kept creeping into my mind..........and I realized that a scrap of material was penetrating into my conscious mind, in spite of the fact that the SI's had undoubtedly given me posthypnotic amnesia: "The hill is the only reality..........your life is an illusion." If the SI's had given me this sort of powerful hypnotic suggestion, while they "had" me..........then it would explain my positive love for Urquehart Castle, and the various haunted places I went to at night. My craving to go back, night after night, into the black darkness..........without any fear whatsoever. Cautious apprehension with regard to human thugs, yes..........but absolutely no fear of the darkness or the UFO entities that I knew were out there. Also a face kept coming to me in my dreams..........and during waking. The face of an alien female. Tiny face; metallic (not human skin)..........but her eyes were the main thing. Like silver metal..........with just a small dark dot in the center. Not like our eye-pupil whatsoever. Cute, sexy little face she had. I reckoned that somehow my mind was recalling a few bits and pieces of what had happened; what I'd seen, etc. Her face was moonshaped; had an elfin expression. The thought came to me..........that if the SI's "boosted" the power in my right lobe, and modified its mechanism..........then it would naturally take time for the left lobe, the human half of my brain..........to adjust and get into a balance..........with the right lobe. A few more fascinating things to mention. While at Mayo Clinic a young lady called me long distance from Beaufort, North Carolina. (Still do not know how she got my phone number at my hotel in Rochester, Minnesota.) Anyway, while we were chatting..........suddenly she said something which had nothing whatever to do with our conversation. 07/25/2025 16:44 === Page 20 of 20 20 She said, out of the blue..."Do you like to go fishing?" We'd been talking about her recent visit to my home in Virginia...and I couldn't see any connection whatsoever to what we were talking about. I blinked, at a loss for words...then gave her some kind of answer. She didn't explain the strange sentence interjected into our conversation. Then I met a young lady there at Mayo Clinic...a registered nurse...who volunteered to come up to the hotel and keep me company, so that I wouldn't be lonesome. She'd sit, knitting, and we'd chat. She discovered during our conversations that I was planning to move from our Virginia home...and actually volunteered to fly to Virginia and help me...because my bilateral hernia operation would make it difficult for me to move without help from some quarter. After I left Mayo she did, in fact, fly to Virginia, and helped my family pack things...she cooked for us...she gave priceless help, where help was needed. As I drove her to her return airplane she said to me..."Ted, do you like to go fishing?" I was dumfounded. That same sentence...spoken out of context with any conversation we were having. The thought occurred to me...had I been programmed somewhere along the way by US Govt. agents and given this posthyp trigger? The way it was done...would simply exclude coincidence. But...it happened again. During the few days in London while I was making tape copies, and trying to relax...I went out to dinner in Soho. Afterward, before returning to the hotel...was walking down the street...about 47th and Frith, I think it was...and a strikingly beautiful young blonde woman in a mink coat walked toward me, a smile on her face...and stopped briefly beside me...looking up into my eyes and smiling. It was an open invitation, and instantly I recalled having read of the London street prostitutes...yet she didn't seem like a pro hustler at all. I smiled back at her, then proceeded on walking. But I glanced back...and saw two men accost her (they'd witnessed her brief pause with me)...and to my surprise she turned up her nose at them...wouldn't speak or look at them...and she walked quickly up the street and turned the corner, out of sight. A while later, after I'd idly gawked into windows up and down different streets...I dropped into a pub to have a beer before returning to the hotel. Was standing at the bar, sipping the lager...when who pops up in front of me but this same pretty girl, smiling into my face. She said, "I've a place inside. Are you interested?" Another invitation. "Come on," she said, "I like you. I really do. DO YOU LIKE TO GO FISHING?" I politely disengaged myself from her and returned to the hotel. But was shaken by this exact, third use of that what must be a key sentence. Well, finally got onto a Jumbo jet back to New York...when the last, astonishing thing happened. I was back in the third section of the plane. Movies were to play in all three sections. Our movie started...then the sound went haywire. The air hostess went to everyone and offered to refund their money. I asked if the other two movies had gone haywire. No, she said...they are fine. I asked her if it was usual for the sound to go crazy during one of these airborne movies. No, she said...it was the first time in all the years she'd been working the planes...and she added that the flight engineer couldn't understand it. I told her about my brain...which causes things like that to happen constantly at my home in Virginia...and showed her a few books and mags re my work. Then my favorite cigar lighter vanished from my top pocket. No way it could have gotten lost. Lighted a cigar; put the lighter inside my pocket carefully...and it was gone! Hostesses came over and searched me, my bag, under the seats...nothing. After I got off the plane a man came running into Customs after me...said the lighter had turned up...and he gave it to me. That made 20 pounds; my knife; my ring; and now my lighter...vanishing. Luckily I got through Customs without getting racked up for not declaring stuff in New York before starting. Closing now. Millie, the SI's and I are forever in your debt for that European work. And George, the same, for keeping me going at home. Ted. 07/25/2025 16:44 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource Letters to Owens Children Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 # TED OWENS LETTERS TO CHILDREN # GENERAL LETTERS Jeff received week of July 14, 2025 11120 Bermuda Dunes, ABQ. Sent from Lori Rodriguez in Beaverton, Oregon. Recorded by Lewis Barlow July 19, 2025 Majority written in 1965 and 1966 but were a couple of letters from 1970 and 1976. We received several different packages from Lori that contained Ted Owens letters to his children. As this was more of a general package of letters and covered several different dates, for organization purposes we will just call it general letters. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 35 January 22, 1976 The Egyptian Report Jeffrey Mishlove received in clasp envelope on July 7, 2025 from Ted Owen's daughter Lori Rodriguez. The file boxes already have copies of these. However, what Lori sent appears to be the original version or a very high quality scan. Recorded by Lewis Barlow July 9, 2025 === Page 2 of 35 January 22, 1976..........THE EGYPTIAN REPORT.......... TO MY SCIENTISTS: This...is a long-delayed report with regard to my trip to Egypt, and the priceless information that I discovered there. The trips and the information...were a gift to me and the SI's...from Millie Miller, without whom it would not have been possible. I might add...Millie could only furnish "shoestring" money for the trip... and I used an American Express card for the rest. I nearly ruined myself, that way...because I am unable to proceed as the ordinary tourist would proceed. I have to bribe here, bribe there...to get certain things done. My drivers go out after midnight...or at all hours...sometimes for the entire day...and I cannot count pennies...it has to be all out or nothing at all. So when I got back...I'd spent all Millie's cash...and was deeply in debt to American Express. Sent them back their card...borrowed $500 and sent to them...and still owe about a thousand, which I cannot pay at this time. All right...just wanted you to know how I have been doing it. We are talking now about early June, 1975. I flew to New York and took a plane to Rome airport...where everybody had to leave the plane and be searched by guards with submachine guns...thence on to Cairo, Egypt. I had no plan...knew nothing about where I was going...didn't know one pyramid from another, or even where they were located. But this is the way I have always proceeded...the SI's clue me in as I go along...and lead me unerringly to the right place/places, as they did in Scotland and England. (See your files for that report.) As soon as the plane landed in Cairo...a beautiful young lady seized my arm, and to my amazement hustled me through Customs and Immigration and bypassed me through a bushel of formalities by the authorities. She worked for an organization called "Green Valley"...as it turned out. Without her wonderful help I'd have spent an entire day bumbling about the airport...trying to cope with the bureaucracy there. She asked me where I had a reservation. I said, "what reservation?" and I thought she was going to faint. She explained to me that hotels were all filled in Cairo...nothing to be had without a reservation. Then she got on a phone...and in minutes told me that she had a nice double room for me in the El Borg Hotel in downtown Cairo. A ten minute taxi ride took me to the El Borg, and I went up to my room. It was spacious...and outside was a patio looking down over Cairo. One point bothered me...the patio had no railing as such...no protection... and if anyone wanted to liquidate me (don't laugh...many top UFO investigators have had mysterious "heart attacks" and fatal accidents) this would most certainly be the place to arrange for it. Night came on, and I left the hotel and walked across a long bridge into the city. Thousands of people, cars, busses, were pouring along the streets...most picturesque locale. Went back to the hotel...and doormen and elevator operators began to teach me Egyptian words for "up" "down" etc. I don't know why they did, but it was most helpful and I welcomed the "instant education." Someone had warned me never, but never, drink the water in Cairo...so I bought a fifth of Scotch and dipped my toothbrush in the Scotch...and brushed my teeth thusly during all my time in Egypt. Believe me, it's the ONLY way to brush! Next day, June 12, a Green Valley bus pulled up in front of the hotel and took me far out into the Sahara. My guide was Abo...an Egyptian approximately fifty years old. The first place he took me was to a pyramid...went down inside a secret passageway and came up in hidden rooms. I became greatly excited...because the stone ceilings were 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 3 of 35 Page Two covered with STAR carvings. Stars all over the ceiling. Then Abo further excited me by telling me...that this was the hidden chamber of King Ti Ti. And that the pyramid was made of limestone. Let me explain my excitement. Some years ago...for some reason I wanted to call myself "Ti Ti" and even painted the name on my ties, in oils. When I was a small child everyone called me "Ti Ti"...my family and all my school friends. But there is much more. My grandfather was an orphan...left on someone's back steps. At age six he supported the old folks who took him in...by shooting rabbits with a broken shotgun. At age twelve he went to work in the famous Indiana Limestone stone quarries (limestone). He was a waterboy, and was paid 15 cents a week to carry water to the stone workers. At age 25, he had become Vice President of Indiana Limestone...and was listed as one of the "great men of Indiana." Somehow he had a tremendous genius...he invented methods of coloring the limestone...of getting it out of the ground...of cutting it. The experts would call him on the phone...I was there at the time...and tell him, "John...we need so many tons of limestone, of a certain kind. Where can we find it?" And he would tell them. Then they would say, "How will we get it out of that corner of the quarry?" He'd suck on his corncob pipe, smile, and say, "I'll take tomorrow off and think about it." Next day he would take me (he and his wife, Queenie, raised me, for all practical purposes) out to Williams Dam, get a rowboat, go out onto the dam...toss our fishing poles into the water...and he'd smoke his pipe and think. At sundown we'd come home...he'd get pencil and paper and draw a complicated rig to get the stone out of the ground...call the experts and tell them he had their answer. (same as are in Cairo, Egypt...and in pyramids.) But there is more. When he became rich he himself drew up plans for a huge mansion in Bedford, Indiana. In front of the mansion he placed two life-sized limestone lions...hand-carved to his own specifications. Inside the house he had a huge sunporch...and he brought an artist from New York down to paint on the ceiling of the sunporch a blue sky...filled with STARS...identical to those I saw, and photographed, in King Ti Ti's chamber! He even nicknamed Clonia, his wife..."Queenie"...and bought her a jeweled crown to wear...as if he were a king and she were a queen. All of this...smashed into my awareness and consciousness...as soon as I got into King Ti Ti's hidden room. You are welcome to draw your own conclusions...as to why it did. While in Ti Ti's pyramid...not the SI's, but another entity or intelligence source communicated with me...and warned me NOT to touch the walls or any part of this or any other pyramid with my skin or hands...because ancient "PK" mechanisms had been set, long long ago, to affect interlopers (those who did not belong in the structures) destructively. (It was at this exact time...that I recalled, while in Philadelphia, Pa., some years ago, doing my miracles...the SI's had shown me with an inverted giant pyramid over me...the point of the pyramid inserted into my brain with the huge base far up overhead. I even had drawn a picture of it at the time and notified my usual contacts about it...in 1967, 68. What this meant...I do not know. But here I was...inside pyramids, real ones...not other-dimensional ones.) Abo then took me to the building of the great High Priest of Egypt...Ka Gemni...and instantly the intelligence (from now on I will call it Pyramid Power) informed me that this was a key place that I was looking for...for me to do my work in! Abo also took me to the Great Pyramid, Cheops, and to Cn Ness...and I was instructed by PP (pyramid power) that these places were also key places for me. (or "Pyr Cre" for pyramid creature) 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 4 of 35 Page Three Now, understand what the background for all of this was: I'd have to have had training through 50 professions; have a Mensa brain; had special training in parapsychology; had my brain modified by the UFO's, then years later remodified again in Scotland-England; performed over 300 miracles embodying other-dimensional principles and effects; then brought to Egypt. Why was I brought to Egypt? I did not know. I only knew at this point that I had key OD mechanisms (other-dimensional) to use inside key places. So at each location Abo took me to...I shooed him away, as well as the guides... and telepathed the OD mechanisms. This first day...after going through this harrowing mental work...I was knocked out completely. Evidently my telepathing was connecting with the ancient mental powers left behind by the Egyptians, and it was too much for me... (my special half-human, half-Si brain, extra-powerful, notwithstanding.) So I ordered Abo to take me back to Cairo, to the hotel...and to forget the rest of what he was going to show me. When he and I returned to the bus... I found that my tape-recorder, which I had left inside the bus...had been tampered with. Someone had been listening to the tape on it. As I recall, there were just two other men on the bus at that time...and they had stayed behind at the bus while Abo had taken me inside the last pyramid. Or, it is possible that a "bug" had been placed inside my recorder...because I had noticed that I'd been followed...surveillance techniques...in Cairo. Anyway...on the bus back to Cairo...the PP communicated, and explained about the "false doors" Abo had shown me inside the key places. (At the temple of the High Priest, Ka Gemni...a false doorway had been carved into a block of solid rock. It was not a doorway; it didn't open. Just a huge block of solid rock, weighing tons. In the ancient Egyptian days the people would bring gifts of food and jewels and place them in front of this false door, turn their backs, and when they had turned around again the gifts would be gone. The High Priest had come through the solid rock, taken the gifts, then gone back again through the solid rock. The PP explained it to me: UFO entities had come and trained a handful of these High Priests, and given them supernatural powers...one of which was to pass through solid rock wall. (Jesus did, you know, or was alleged to so have done.) Because the High Priests had this special power...the Egyptian Kings, whom they served, knew them for what they were...UFO-trained key people. And every so often...the King would order the High Priest to pass through solid rock. If he could not do so, then he had disobeyed some rule the UFO's had given him (and they did give the High Priests rules to follow) and the King would then tie up the High Priest and leave him up at the top of the Pyramid...where he would then vanish, never to be seen again. Another thing that the PP explained to me was: that the pyramid itself, is the illusion...but the various other-dimensional powers left in it, to grow as time went by...was the reality. Treasure left inside the pyramid was to satisfy, and throw off, the understanding of mere humans. The REAL treasure left inside the pyramids...that is, the key ones...was a TREMENDOUS EDUCATION OF WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE LEFT BEHIND FOR KEY PEOPLE IN THE FUTURE WHO COULD LINK UP WITH IT, BE TAUGHT BY IT, AND CARRY ON! Obviously I am one of those key people. Nasr, my Egyptian guide and guard who took me up inside Cheops...informed me that he had worked there for thirty years, and only once...one time...had another man such as I...requested that tourists be kept down inside the passageways (as I requested)...so that the man could do mental work up inside the King's Chamber (the key spot of the pyramid. So there had been one other...long ago...doing what I am doing. 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 5 of 35 Four Back at the El Borg Hotel I collapsed into bed...at mid afternoon... and conked out. When I awakened it was dusk...and I reflected upon how much I had done...and learned...from the days journey into the Sahara. That the pyramids had been ingeniously designed to satisfy ordinary humans with treasure inside...thus stopping them from discovering anything further...just as is done in Brazil, for instance -- when a rancher brings his herd of cattle to a river, he tosses one cow into the river...and the piranha fish gobble up that cow. While this is going on, the rancher is just down river getting his herd across. The piranha do not get the real treasure...and the humans have never gotten the real treasure of the pyramids, either. This day in the Sahara had turned me completely around. I'd discovered that what I was here for, in Egypt...was completely different than what I'd supposed. I'd supposed that I was here to ACTIVATE pyramids as I had done with Stonehenge. Instead, I had been approached and communicated with by the Pyramid Intelligence, or Power, and TAUGHT AND TRAINED. Notes at this point: At Cheops during the day...the Great Pyramid...one has to climb way way up high inside the pyramid, bent over at a certain angle part of the way. It is my belief...that this passageway was designed in this special manner...in order to HURT INTRUDERS WHO HAD TO CLIMB UP IT...that is, affect them physically and mentally. I know that it absolutely wrecked me...climbing that passageway! Of course, I was carrying a camera and other equipment...but should not have been so affected. I was warned again...inside Cheops...by PyrCre (Pyramid Power) not to touch the walls or any part of the pyramid...that it would be far safer to put my finger inside a live electric socket, or into a cobra's mouth. (Those were the pictures and intelligences flashed into my mind by PyrCre.) Also, I was carefully instructed by PyrCre, telepathically, to be sure and telepath to PyrCre as soon as I entered a pyramid...ASK FOR PERMISSION to be inside...and explain carefully that I was not an intruder...but was borrowing PyrCre's power...to help the human race. I wondered if I should tell Nasr, my pyramid guide...or Abo, my pro guide in general, about the danger of touching any portion of the interior of a pyramid, or key place...but PyrCre telepath'd not to tell them...they had done it for years...and it was too late for them. Later that afternoon Abo called me up, came and got me, and drove me out to see his brother, Abo No. 1. ("My" Abo was called No. 2) They put their heads together, then Abo No. 1 told me that Abo No. 2 would take me to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo...that they felt it was in my best interests to go there and see all of the artifacts and have Abo 2 explain their history. We would go to the museum the next afternoon. I felt that this was useless, for my purposes (but as it turned out...I learned invaluable information when I did go the following day!) Added note: During the day I learned that the passageways inside the pyramids were constructed of blocks of stone ingeniously, like a Chinese puzzle...robbers would get through one or two into a passageway...when suddenly they would be confronted by another block of stone which would come crashing down, blocking them. PyrCre telepathed that the real treasure...was not what the robbers found inside the secret passageways...but behind blocks of stone WHICH COULD ONLY BE OPENED BY AN ALIEN MIND OR AN ALIEN-TRAINED MIND using telepathy and psychokinesis (a combination of both). I.e., what was in effect was a PROGRESSION...from the low to the high...from gems and gold, the low...to HIGHER FUNCTIONS OF THE MIND, the high...and this fact was something that ONLY AN ALIEN MIND COULD "SEE" OR DETECT, because of being equipped with higher powers of the mind, than human. This reminded me of a passage in the Bible..."render unto Caesar what is Caesar's...and unto the Lord what is the 06/28/2025 15:0 === Page 6 of 35 ge Five Lord's." In the context of which I have been speaking...the UFO's and the High Priests whom they trained...rendered gems and gold unto "Caesar" (meaning human robbers)...and set up priceless gifts of other-dimensional "time-capsuled wisdom" for later aliens to come to the pyramids, read sign correctly...and "browse in that kind of library." Now, maybe I'd better spell out...what I've been discussing. I understand it easily...but I am dealing with human minds...who just might not understand. If an alien person (from another planet, or another dimension)...or a half-alien like myself who has been trained by aliens and has half-alien brain...comes to the pyramids in Egypt...then that alien quickly realizes what the human beings from centuries past have not realized...that the HUMAN treasure of diamonds, rubies, pearls, gold, etc., found in the pyramids...are merely a DIVERSIONARY MEASURE...put in the pyramids so that the humans will go no further. They have what they want. Things...that will bring them money. All right. But the REAL treasures in the KEY pyramids and temples...are other-dimensional time-capsules left there ages ago...containing wisdom of ages past known only to the High Priests and the UFO entities that taught them...just as if you would walk into a modern library filled with books...the alien walks into a pyramid, uses the correct approach consisting of telepathic key symbols and psychokinesis, blended...and presto, wisdom and knowledge, great great wisdom and knowledge, from the ages past begins to penetrate into their mind or brain in ENCAPSULATED FORM (that is, they will not grasp it all that day, that week, or that month...the information and knowledge will pursue them, wherever they go after that...and they will have it all...IN TIME. Might take years...but that "time-capsule" of wisdom and knowledge will BE GIVEN TO THEM EN TOTO, even after they leave Egypt. This, then...is the VERY REAL treasure...of the Egyptian pyramids (key ones only...there are many pyramids...but only certain ones are the KEY ones...and only an alien brain can separate the key ones from the "dummy" ones...which is why there were so many pyramids built.) Well, back to my hotel. It was night, and I couldn't sleep. The mosquitos were eating me up. In the morning I went into the Hilton restaurant and had breakfast. Since having been in the pyramids I was horribly dehydrated for some reason...and I lined up six huge glasses of orange juice and downed them all...then drank three huge glasses of milk...then bought a huge bottle of mineral water and drank that. The waitress stood by with eyes and face expressing astonishment. (From that time on...whenever I finished my work out in the desert re the pyramids and temples...the same thing happened...I had to get back and down enormous amounts of liquids.) On this particular morning a strange thing happened...I SAW MY DOUBLE. Never in my life have I ever seen a face that looked like mine. But sitting not far away were two men...AND ONE OF THEM WAS THE SPITTING IMAGE OF ME. I mean...if you put the two of us together...I really am sure that you could not tell which one would be me, or him! I rose from my table and walked over to their table...they stared up at me...I said: "Pardon me...but looking at you is like looking into a mirror! You and I are twins!" My look-alike said stiffly "I can assure you that we are not related." I was sort of ill at ease with his cold manner...and I stammered "The only person I've ever met who looked like me was my brother Jack." The man stared at me coldly...with my face and my eyes...and said "Well, I am not your brother Jack." I laughed ha ha and said sure, Jack was dead...and excuse me for bothering them...and returned to my table. But I can tell you...that was a REAL SHOCK! I mean, suppose you looked across the room...AND SAW THE SPITTING IMAGE OF YOURSELF SITTING OVER THERE! 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 7 of 35 Page Six Note: After having been inside the secret passageways of the key pyramids and temples for several days...a strange taste and smell had come into my mouth and nose...and would not leave. A strong, musty smell and odor...most peculiar smell and odor. It was powerful in my mouth and nose all the time I was in Egypt...and still lingers on at this late date, 5/19/76) Note: (I am taking these from written notes that I jotted down at the time, or put on my recorder then jotted down later)...while in Egypt and inside the key places...I did not have the feeling or emotion of affection or closeness...that I felt in Urquhart Castle in Scotland. I.e., while in Drumnadrochit, Scotland, area...I felt an emotion of love or affection for the area, somehow; while in England, at Stonehenge and at Warminster on Cradle Hill...I felt as if I were RETURNING after a long absence...but no emotion of affection as in Scotland; and in Egypt I felt the least affection or closeness. But in Egypt...I felt the most psychic power coming at me...than the other places. Might mention prices in the restaurant in Cairo...most amusing. The average meal cost $6.00 to $10.00. Small orange juice, 60 cents; cup of coffee, 45 cents; glass of milk a dollar, and so on. I had thought prices in Paris were murderous...but Paris is a piker compared to Cairo! Abo came to my hotel and got me and off we went to the Cairo Museum. It wasn't long before I understood why PyrCre had had Abo bring me here! Abo showed me the mummies taken from the pyramids; the gold and treasures that had been found inside the pyramids; the weapons and personal ornaments of the peoples of that age...and there, on a huge golden chair taken from a King's chamber inside a pyramid...WAS MY SI DISC! This, from ages past. Next, I saw some figures inside glass cases...carved out of some kind of wood. I asked Abo what they were...for what they were HAD BEEN IN A PHOTOGRAPH I TOOK IN MAINE SOME YEARS AGO! (Which appears in my book. One face looks like a wolf...and another a huge bird with a beak.) Abo explained that they were ancient gods of Egypt...Horus and Anubis. Ah, the disc on the throne, mentioned above...appeared on King Tut's throne. Another interesting thing...among the artifacts were BLOWGUNS. I hadn't known that blowguns existed in ancient Egypt. But they did. Now keep in mind my being called "Ti Ti" as a child, and all about my grandfather and his tremendous genius along the lines of the ancient Egyptians...when I was a small child, about eight years old...the kids in my town of Bedford, Indiana, formed gangs and threw rocks at each other. But not me. I TRAINED MY OWN GANG TO MAKE BLOWGUNS...by utilizing copper tubing, match sticks with the end slotted to put bits of playing cards into for guiding fins...and a needle driven into the other end...blowgun! We went at the other gangs with our blowguns, blowing needle-darts at them...and were greatly feared for this. BUT AGAIN...WHAT INSTRUCTED A SMALL COUNTRY KID IN THE HILLS OF INDIANA TO CONSTRUCT SUCH A WEAPON? The year was 1928. Back to my hotel, the El Borg. Everything in Cairo is done on a bribe basis, I found. Such a bribe system you couldn't imagine! In the Hilton restaurant I'd been leaving a 10% tip...then weeks later discovered that a 10% tip had also been added to all my daily bills, and deducted at the cashier! So I'd been knicked for 20% all along! So I began not tipping the waitress, but just paying the 10% listed on my check...but then the waitresses came to me and told me not to pay any attention to what the printed check said...but to leave them their tip! Ha ha. I had to tip the hotel clerk $30 to extend my stay at the El Borg (because there are no hotel rooms to be found in Cairo, and you can only stay so many days in the one that you have)...at Cheops I had to bribe Nasr, the pyramid guide, twenty bucks to hold back the tourists so that I could get my work done alone up in the King's Chamber, the secret room. 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 8 of 35 Page Seven This was every day! By Friday, June 13, 1975, I had paid out $200 in bribes alone. I bumped into a man called Ali...and he invited me to his huge shop where he sold Egyptian things. I carried a small Panasonic radio (they don't have them in Cairo...these tiny portables, it seems, or so he said) and he saw it and went wild. What could he trade me for it, he asked? First we sat down and he offered me hot coffee (thick Egyptian coffee, not to be confused with our coffee) or cold beer. This is done any time you enter any shop in the Cairo Bazaar (part of town, the Bazaar, where most of the shops are). It is custom. Business is not discussed. You sip coffee and chat, then after a polite interval of say, ten or fifteen minutes, and your coffee is finished...you get up, look around, and maybe talk business with the shop owner. I found that the shop owners...although like hawks when it comes to business...are also like small children. Ali finally traded me out of the radio, and Hassan, another clerk in the shop who had first talked to me...asked for a "present" too, from me. I.e., we were not "trading" but giving each other "presents". Ali gave me an inlaid cigar box and a Cleopatra tray, intricately made...as his present. I gave him the Panasonic as his present. That's the way they do it. Another amusing thing the guides did was...after we'd been swapping, Ali said he wanted to take me to meet a friend...and he left the shop and drove us to another shop...his father's shop...and we went through the sipping coffee routine...then his dad tried to sell me Egyptian curios...but I told him that I was not on a buying trip, but thanks anyway. We parted friends, regardless of no business having been transacted. And some days when I'd hire taxi drivers to take me out into the desert...when we'd get back to town they would not take me to the address I'd give them...they would drive up in front of a shop...get out and take me into the shop, telling me that the owner of the shop was their friend and would give me special prices. One day a driver did this. "But I don't want to go into that shop," I told the driver, "I want to go to the Nile-Hilton (the boat I stayed on later.) He stood and sulked, with the shop owner at his elbow...so I just took off and walked the ten blocks to my hotel. You see, they all do this, the taxi drivers...and they get bribed by the shop owners to do it, plus they get a commission from what the shop owner sells the tourist. It reminded me somewhat of the day in Paris when I'd put the family in a taxi and instructed the driver to take us to the Eiffel Tower. He let us out in front of an odd building. I said, "Is this the Eiffel Tower?" He said oh no, that the Eiffel Tower wouldn't be as much fun as this place...a huge park...and for us to go and have a good time in the park! At the time I was very angry at the taxi driver for taking us where he thought we ought to go...instead of where I told him. But as it turned out...we had the best time we had in Paris at that park. But back to Egypt. At 6 PM in the evening I was supposed to catch a bus to the train to leave for Luxor...in upper Egypt...to see the pyramids there. The van driver took me to the train...onto the train...and showed me a compartment, which had other suitcases in the compartment. I hit the ceiling. But he ran out and off the train. See, I had been followed all around Cairo...little men hiding behind potted plants and walking behind me, stopping when I stopped, and so on. I didn't mind surveillance, but this was ridiculous. Evidently Egyptian intelligence or CIA had put a man in my train compartment, for whatever purpose. Well, if they thought I was going to sleep in some train compartment with a strange man...ha ha ha! So I picked up my luggage, left the train, and took a cab back to the El Borg. 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 9 of 35 Eight Later PyrCre explained to me that It did not want me to go Luxor...and had caused me to turn back...that the key places for me to do my work...were in the Giza area, the area of the Great Pyramid and all of that. NOT in Luxor. It explained that again, Luxor had been a diversionary measure by the ancient ones...in Luxor they had put oodles of golden things and treasure and places of great beauty...contrasted, say, with the starkness of King Ti Ti's pyramid or the Temple of On Ness or the Temple of Ka Gemni. BUT...the real goodies were at the dull, drab, stark places. Where I was. Not at the flashy, beautiful layouts up in Luxor. At this point in time...I wanted desperately to return home. Yet, I could not. Something held me in place, to stay and keep on doing what I was doing each day...which was to have a driver take me out into the Sahara desert to the key places...go into each key place...to the key place in the key place...and use the mental, other-dimensional mechanisms to activate that particular place. But I had to skip days. The awesome psychic power that I was linking up with...in the key places...absolutely wiped me out on my daily sojourn! So I had to slow down to every day...out to the desert. I had the feeling that if I attempted this work every day...that the power emanating from the key places could kill me. That strong. (Later I was astounded to learn from PyrCre...that during the interval I would be inside a key place, activating the power there...THE POWER WAS TEACHING ME! A reverse process! On a deep level, which I was not aware of.) Listen, something happened most odd! At the Temple of On Ness...I walked on through out into the Sahara Desert, and idly glanced down onto the ground, and saw a stone with a perfect figure of a lady dancing on it! Flint stone. I picked it up and put it into my pocket. The next time I came out to On Ness I walked through the Temple...and an old old man stopped me. "I would like to give you this" he said, in slow English...and he put a coin into my hand. It was a French coin...WITH THE EXACT IMAGE OF THE DANCING LADY ON THE STONE ON IT! I mean...identical. I carry them in my pocket to this day, and every so often take them out, compare them...and wonder. The stone, of course, is ages old. Who was the old man? I'd been alone when I found the stone (among thousands of stones strewn all over)...he couldn't have known about the stone. ????? And why would he have GIVEN the coin to me? In Egypt nobody GIVES anything! All is trade, bribe and barter. A giant hustle. You should see the large image of the dancing lady on this black flint stone...then see the same exact image on the coin...your eyes would pop out! I bumped into Ali in Cairo...and he eyed my camera and other equipment with greedy eyes. Why, he asked me, didn't I leave all my expensive equipment with him at his shop...each day when I went out into the desert? Carefully I refrained from breaking out into hysterical laughter...because all of these shop owners, although like children, are thieves of the first water. "Thanks a lot, Ali" I told him, "but no, I need it with me." For any of you who might ever go to Cairo, Egypt...you could learn something from my experience. Upon first arriving in Cairo...the young lady from Green Valley met me outside the plane and guided me through all the red tape. "And be careful," she told me, "of the Hunters." "The Hunters" I asked? "Yes," she replied, "here in Cairo are some of the greatest thieves in the world...who have shops in the Bazaar. They are called The Hunters...because they hunt tourists and take their money...and are so great at it." 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 10 of 35 Page Nine I was still at the El Borg Hotel. This night I awoke about two in the morning... scratching and covered all over with mosquito bites. I said to hell with it, got up, got dressed, took the elevator down, walked across the bridge over the Nile... and something led me to a boat parked on the Nile outside the Hilton. Now, I knew that there were no rooms to be had in the Hilton... I had tried. I went onto this yacht-boat thing, called the Nile Hilton. Over the gangplank down through doors opened by a doorman I could rent on this boat. I asked the desk clerk if there was a stateroom I could rent on this boat. He smiled and said no. I grinned... having learned something... and said, "Listen, I'll bet you fifty dollars that you do have a room somewhere on here. Will you check your book again and see?" (I bet him he DIDN'T HAVE A ROOM, you see?) If he came up with one, then he gets fifty. He laughs, says "Discuss it with the manager! He's sitting at that table over there in the lobby, listening to us." The manager had heard it all. I turned and bet him fifty he didn't have a room. He examined his finger nails, then called to the clerk to give me stateroom such and so. I handed the manager fifty dollars and said, well, you win and I lose... and moved into the stateroom... which had no bugs, no mosquitos, no busted plumbing. Then went back to El Borg and moved out, and into the Nile-Hilton. The staterooms were on the bottom of the boat. On the topside was a big restaurant on one side; a bar on the other. On the fore deck were about thirty tables with awnings where people could order drinks and look out over the Nile river... which the boat sat right on the edge of. At night it was a gorgeous sight... the black Nile river there in Cairo, where Cleopatra once boated... and now you could see families out in their boats, going up and down the Nile in the evening, enjoying the night air. Mr. Salama was the gent, manager, I'd bribed with fifty. They gave me ten days, too, which is more time than is given to most tourists. Oh, and I had to bribe the clerk at El Borg Hotel five pounds TO GET OUT AND LEAVE THE HOTEL... because I'd bribed them previously to extend my stay there... now I was cutting my stay short. (Remember this particular clerk... he pops up later mysteriously.) Cost fourteen pounds a day to stay at the Nile Hilton. After I moved my things to the Nile Hilton, I went, at four in the morning, into the Hilton to get breakfast at their restaurant, The Ibis (which was to be a sort of headquarters for me while in Cairo... and where I had a lot of fun... as you will see.) Have been extremely ill for days... am weak as a baby... knocked out. Just passed out in my stateroom for a couple of days... didn't know what time it was or what day it was... and couldn't have cared less. (Incidentally... if I accidentally repeat some material herein... forgive me. It could happen. Just be patient.) Ali, Hassan, and Abo... all have begged to take me out to some desert city in the sahara at night... Saraha City, it's called... but have refused... want to keep my mind on my business. Evening... went into the Hilton lobby... and heard wild drums beating! (I'm a former pro drummer, of years past... and these drums were great!) A whole bunch of female voices were yelling like Comanche indians. What it all turned out to be... was an Egyptian wedding. First came about twenty little kids carrying long, tall, lighted candles. Following these kids were about ten women beating on drums... and I mean, it sounded good enough to match Buddy Rich! After them came a belly dancer... dressed in filmy, gauzy gown... writhing and bumping and grinding. Following her came the bride and groom... in bridal attire. I noticed that the groom never once took his eyes off the undulating hips of the belly dancer in front of him... and idly I wondered how his marriage would turn out. His wife to be in a few minutes... kept giving him angry looks. 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 11 of 35 167 The next thing that happened...people on both sides of this strange wedding train...began throwing coins onto the floor in front of the couple to be married. I gasped...this, in show business, is the ultimate insult. Another adult behind the couple ran around scooping up all the coins. I asked someone standing nearby what the coins were for...and they explained that it was a sort of dowry for the married couple. Well, anyway, the belly dancers and drummers and kids and married couple all went up the stairway to the upstairs place where the nuptials were to be tied. I went back into the Ibis Cafe to get some orange juice. Now I can't use the Green Valley bunch...to go into the desert. Since the train fracas. It is costing me a lot more money now...have to hire independent drivers, taxi drivers, who park outside the Hilton, each day. Goes like this... I walk up and down the line of taxis and scrutinize the drivers until my mind senses the right one. I go up to him and we begin to bargain. They all know me...Cairo, Egypt, has millions of people...but as far as what goes on is concerned...it is like a town of only 500 people. The shop owners and taxi drivers and hotel employees have a spy system that would put the CIA to shame. And they all share the information...because they can be mutually helpful to each other in steering tourists around and relieving them of money...for a commission, of course. My driver settled for ten pounds for the afternoon in the Sahara, contacting all the key places. The taxi drivers were all anxious to take me out...because each time I went out we'd stop on the way back at a desert oasis place which serves good food and ice cold beer...and I'd let them imbibe and eat all they wanted, as my personal guest. No other tourists gave them this...so they almost fought over who would take me out into the Sahara. I went back to the boat and assembled my tools for the trip...when suddenly someone inserted a key into my stateroom door and opened it. A man stuck his head in. I started for him...his head popped out of sight and the door closed. I went out to the desk in the lobby and complained. The clerk shrugged his shoulders. Watch it, I thought. (This same thing had happened when I was staying at a hotel in Rochester, Minnesota, in early 1975...there was a knock on my hotel door...when I went to the door and opened it, two men ran down the hall, away from me. I chased them to find out who they were. AND THEY VANISHED in an end of the hall that was padlocked. Nowhere they could have gone. Utterly mystifying. At this point...PyrCre telepathed to me and instructed me in the finer points of telepathing to the power in the pyramids and temples I would be going into, for my own safety. It was a sort of mental ritual...to follow...once inside those places...and completely necessary...unless I wanted the Power inside to track me for the rest of my life and finally destroy me...as those Powers had done with so many people (remember 19 of the 20 scientists who broke into one of the Egyptian king's tomb? All eventually died of freak, violent accidents.) It was an odd time for it...but I suddenly realized...what had happened in the court reporters office in Norfolk, Virginia...some years past. I'd been sitting in the office, alone, typing...when suddenly I HAD HEARD A BRAIN WORKING. I said out loud..."Come on in, Frank." (There hadn't been any footsteps or warning noise to alert me.) The office door opened and Frank walked in...a court reporter...with another court reporter, a girl. He was pale and shaking. "My god," he said to me, "how did you know I was out there?" I couldn't explain to him...that I'd heard his brain out there...so I just grinned. And I wondered...why I would remember this thing now. Might mention here...that I spent only 30 minutes inside each key pyramid or temple, using my mental system to contact the Power within. Why not the 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 12 of 35 Page Eleven whole day? Because...it would destroy me. You see, I was bringing the power of my half-alien, modified and re-modified brain...into direct contact with the INFINITELY powerful live intelligence left behind in ancient times...to merge with it...PyrCre, if you will...and after 30 minutes I was exhausted and would have to take a breather until I got to the next place. Just 10 minutes of this action in Cheops alone... would nearly wipe me out, mentally and physically. As PyrCre (Pyramid Creature) explained it to me telepathically...It had waited for ages...for an alien to return to the Pyramids and Temple key places...and activate the places once again, as was done in the old days. You see, Stonehenge...which I had activated at an earlier date (see your files)...was a sort of computer/switchboard for the UFO entities. Stonehenge is linked up...to the key pyramids in Egypt...key pyramids and places in Yucatan (Mayans)...and key pyramids and places in Peru (Incas). When I activated Stonehenge all these other pyramids in other geographical locations were alerted...much like a silent burglar alarm will register off somewhere else in a police station. So I was setting these giant power-sources in motion, after ages of inactivity. And both the SI's and PyrCre were gently guiding me, instructing me, at every step of the way. I dictated into my recorder...Friday morning, the 15th. Then I went across the road to the Hilton...where I was informed that it was SUNDAY THE 17th! I refused to believe it! I went from taxi to taxi, checking the date...and it was true. Somehow...I had lost two days of time! This...has puzzled me ever since. It put me in mind of the two nights when I stood on the lonely, dark parapets of Urquehart Castle...and lost eight minutes each night (see your files.) Of course, this wasn't eight minutes...it was TWO DAYS. Understand, I keep a close record of time...days, hours, minutes...with two recorders constantly kept in action...one in my pocket, and one that I carry. So the chance of my making an error re time or date...is remote, to say the least. Sunday...today...Abo took me out onto the Sahara. One of the key places I'd been activating was the Temple of On Ness...and Abo explained that it meant "Son of God." At this point the SI's, or PyrCre, telepathd to me and explained that they considered me "their child." Inside the secret passage and secret room of the Pyramid of On Ness...is a ceiling covered with stars, mentioned earlier. It is a very powerful room, psychically...and a very special place. After we left there and went to Cheops...and I climbed up inside the secret passageway to the King's Chamber, with Nasr keeping the other tourists far away at the bottom... I found a "bug"...a listening device...behind the casket of the King. Was CIA or Egyptian Intelligence trying to listen and find out what I was doing? Comical...since I am doing it mentally. If they put that thing there to find out what I was saying, or mumbling... other-dimensional "trigger" mechanisms to activate that Key...then they were grossly disappointed! I'll tell you something at this point...which is not very couth. But just in the interests of being accurate as to what is going on...all this Egyptian action took place in June of 1975. Am finally getting around to typing it in May of 1976. Now, every ten minutes, as I type, 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 13 of 35 Page Twelve I find that I have to get up and go to the bathroom and piddle... WHICH WAS ABOUT THE SAME THING THAT HAPPENED WHEN I WAS IN EGYPT. I.e., just thinking back on all this...seems to have a dehydrating effect on me... Today I walked out of the Pyramid of On Ness...and automatically I turned a corner and walked to the right...in the wrong direction to get back to the Temple, quite a distance away. My native guide called out to me...ran over...and sort of in a daze I told him... This is the right way...there should be a doorway here in the center of the bottom of this pyramid!" It was as if I'd been there before and knew what I was talking about. The old guide studied me, then said: "Long ago there was a building constructed from the Temple, far over there...to this exact spot that you point to. The scientists also have long wondered why the building led to the solid stone blocks of the pyramid here at this point...and have searched for an entrance... but have never found it." He then showed me bits and pieces of stone fragmented over the ground, leading from the pyramid over to the Temple. In the Temple of Ka Gemni, famous and powerful High Priest of ancient Egypt...I made my way through various rooms and hallways...to a back chamber...unerringly...being guided by PyrCre, I suppose. It was a relatively small room...with the colored rock drawings over the walls... but on one wall, on my left, was a huge life-size portrait or picture of the High Priest himself, pointing his magic wand at the drawings on the far wall. On my right...was another, exact same, picture of the High Priest pointing his magic wand at the drawings on the far wall. Immediately...I knew...that this was the key spot...where the High Priest himself had stood...and what I was to do. I was to stand... arms extended and fingers rigidly extended...and "see" lightning coming out of my fingers, the lighting striking the colored pictures on the far wall (I won't tell you which ones, as am forbidden to do so.) If you think this is far out...please recall that I have documented in the past making lightning strike certain targets, with witnesses present...and I did it in this same manner. You may have this in your files.) This action...would activate the key spot...in this key place...accompanied by the proper other-dimensional mental mechanisms. Oh, I might mention...each time that I went into action in one of these key places...all the Power left behind in the pyramids...focused on me. It was like having some living thing...a formidable living thing...sit and stare at you. z AS I left the temple of the High Priest...(or was it On Ness? my notes got scrambled on this)...I saw a high wall with cobras carved into the top of the wall. I pointed them out to Abo, and asked him if he knew what the cobras meant. He didn't. I made my right arm into a "Z"... the cobras were all alike...coiled into a striking Z...EXACTLY IN THE SAME MANNER THAT PYRCRE HAD INSTRUCTED ME TO HOLD MY ARMS INSIDE THE HIGH PRIESTS KEY ROOM! I.e., the cobra sign...meant the High Priest... with both arms held in a Z shape...lightning coming from his fingers, which were pointed at the key portion of the room. Which...caused magical things to happen. Perhaps you are puzzled about "the power" I am talking about in these key places. Might be easier for you to understand it...as an extremely amplified form of PSI FORCE POWER 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 14 of 35 e Thirteen At Cheops..........the Great Pyramid..........Nasr took me up again to the King's Chamber..........through the secret passageway. He paused, turned to me, and said: "You know, I've been working here for 30 years..........and only one other time has a man come here as you come. He, too, had me hold back people at the bottom of the Pyramid..........while he went up to the King's Chamber to work with his mind up there, he told me." This was most interesting..........that another human had come and done as I am doing. After being in Cheops each time..........it was especially dehydrating..........much more so than the other places..........and when I'd come out I would have to rush someplace to drink bottle after bottle of pop or cold beer. Those who are interested in "pyramid power"..........might take note of that. Abo surprised me..........by now he'd seemed to grasp what I was doing..........and turned to me and said: "Ted, now I understand. At first I did not, and thought that you were a tourist and a crackpot. Now I know that you are not. What you are doing..........is making friends with the ancient High Priests!" Of course, in essence, he was quite correct. Would like to add something that has not much business being in this file. Each trek out into the Sahara..........we would drive through the busy, teeming streets of Cairo..........out out out into the countryside. We'd drive along dirt roads underneath palm trees..........and girls and boys would be swimming naked in the Nile, accompanied not by pet dogs..........but by water buffaloes. Women would be walking along the road..........carrying giant baskets on their heads filled with fruit or laundry..........carrying a baby clutched to their bosom. Little boys and men would come racing along the road, riding their camel. Well, the point I want to make..........they all seemed very happy. Smiling, laughing..........mothers all carrying their babies..........some babies too big, but they'd carry them anyway..........all of them laughing and happy. I've been around the world..........but have never seen such happy people. They have very little, in the way of worldly goods or belongings..........but I'll tell you they are happy. Back in Cairo, went to the Ibis Cafe in the Hilton for supper. Abo surprised me by walking in. He told me that Green Valley had sent him..........because they were upset by my beef with them over that train episode. I said sure, tell them to give me my fifty bucks back. He went rushing off to the telephone, then returned, pulled out a bundle and gave me fifty dollars, saying that they had agreed, wanting to keep peace with me. I tipped Abo fourteen bucks and thanked him. He grinned..........said that Green Valley was also tipping him..........for settling the matter. In the cafe, I noticed for the umpteenth time..........the same surveillance agents peering at me. Never one. Always two, or more. (Later this was brought out into the open by Abo, as you will see. Not my imagination at all.) One would inevitably be English..........the other Egyptian. And they were so cute and funny about it..........I would catch them hiding behind the draperies and peering around the draperies..........jerking their head back when I'd spot them. Ha ha. Now, I was working three major pyramids each time out in the Sahara..........plus some table key spots. PyrCre had instructed me not to roam all over Egypt to other places, north or south..........but to concentrate my powers on activating these three pyramids. Today I looked at a map..........and saw that the three pyramids..........if a line were drawn from one to another..........MADE A PYRAMID! Most interesting. 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 15 of 35 Page Fourteen As I have said before, everything in Egypt...revolves around bribery, tipping, corruption, commission. For instance...when Abo took me to Cheops Pyramid today...and Nasr, the government guide, took me into the pyramid while Abo waited outside...Nasr stopped and said, Ted, please do me a favor? When you leave, tell Abo you've paid me another ten dollars...making twenty...will you? (See, I'd already paid, tipped, Nasr twenty to keep the tourists back...but Abo gets a commission off any tip I give to Nasr...and Nasr only reported ten...but innocently, without knowing the setup, I'd told Abo I tipped Nasr twenty. Now Nasr wanted to get straight with Abo...or Abo would steer tourists in the future away from Nasr. Sound complicated? It is, believe me. I told him, okay. So when I left and rejoined Abo...I grinned at Abo and told him I had given Nasr the other ten dollar tip. He grinned at me, and winked and nodded. Nasr walked up to him and slipped the commission from the twenty into Abo's hand...and everyone was friendly again. Next Abo wanted me to ride a camel. I said, man, what? I am here to do something much different than riding camels. But Abo has a charm and persuasiveness which Phil Silvers (Sergeant Bilko) would envy. And before you knew it, he had me on the back of a camel, to ride from Cheops down to the Sphinx. The camel trainer, a young fellow in his teens, held the reins of the camel and ran along beside the camel and me. Abo followed in his taxi about 100 feet behind. Suddenly the young camel driver uttered a command...and the camel began running. Now, I don't know how long it's been since you've been on a camel...but let me explain. A camel is a giant creature, not to be fooled with. To get on it, it must sit down flat...you get onto a huge saddle arrangement...and when it stands back up...you are about eight feet in the air! When it walks, you sway, violently from side to side. A camel walking is one thing. A camel running, is quite another. Those things can run like a bat out of hell! There I was, reeling from side to side in the saddle, camera around my neck going to one side, me to another...clutching my tape recorder in one hand, other stuff in another...and the desert sand a blur beneath the speeding camel. Suddenly the camel driver yelled a command, and the camel stopped. I looked down at the face of the camel driver, who smiled innocently. "Gee," I said, "that was great! Real fun!" His face instantly registered puzzlement and disappointment...and I realized that this was his only way of striking back at the rich tourists and bosses over him...by having his camel scare the living daylights out of them. But I cheered him up...slipped a tip into his hand. He was horrified, and turned and looked at Abo's car which had stopped about 50 feet behind. "Don't let Abo see it," he said, and handed it back to me. Now, when I'd taken the money from my pocket, a small slip of paper had fallen out. A receipt from the Ibic Cafe. We proceeded down the rest towards the Sphinx when Abo's car pulled up alongside us. He got out and handed me the tiny paper. "You dropped this back there," he told me. How he could have spotted that, I don't know...but it revealed to me how closely Abo was watching. Before we got to the Sphinx I managed to slip the tip to the camel driver without Abo seeing it...so the kid wouldn't have to give his commission to Abo. But do you think that fooled Abo? Forget it. We were standing in front of the Sphinx when Abo said: "Did you remember to tip the camel driver?" I just grinned at him. He grinned back and said, "I see that you did. All right." And I knew that Abo would get his cut of that tip. === Page 16 of 35 Page Fifteen Incidentally, when I speak of "activating" these key spots...PyrCre tells me that in doing so...I am USING MORE POWER THAN IS KNOWN ON EARTH ANYWHERE! Also, another fascinating happening today...while climbing down inside the secret passageway of Cheops...a party of lovely German girls were coming up...and to do so they had to climb up a steel ladder at the lower part of the passageway, which I'd reached and gone down the ladder. I decided to help them up. I put my hand under the elbow of the first one and hoisted her up the ladder...BUT SHE FLEW UP AND BOUNCED OFF THE STONE WALL VIOLENTLY! She turned, up there, and gave me the most astonished look. I helped a second up...AND SHE FLEW UP AND BOUNCED OFF THE STONE WALL! I tried another...SHE FLEW UP AND BOUNCED OFF THE STONE WALL! They looked at me with astonishment and fear, then turned and hurried on up the passageway...AND I REALIZED THAT AFTER HAVING BEEN UP IN THE KING'S CHAMBER AND ACTIVATED THE GREAT PYRAMID...THAT I HAD MY STRENGTH MULTIPLIED somewhere from 20-50 times! I had barely touched the girls...lifting gently underneath their elbows...yet they'd shot upward and bounced, is the only word for it, off the stone! As if they'd been flung...by some giant with supernatural strength. This would be a good place to explain...that on these unusual trips (Paris, Scotland, England, Cairo)...I do not perform in the usual tourist manner or procedure. As you noted from the Scotland/England files...I had to bribe people to do this, do that...get over spiked gates at night into old haunted castles...hire drivers to take me out into the dark isolated countryside when nobody living there in their right mind would consider being out after ten o'clock (it is not the United States.) In Cairo...I was doing the same thing. To get my unusual chores done...I must tip, bribe, and so forth, on and on. Most tourists can cut corners and be economical about the whole thing; but I cannot. To get the results I need to get...I have to employ extraordinary measures...and extraordinary amounts of cash. But, and this is the whole point...I get results that tourists cannot get. They hire cheap guides...I hire the best guides to get me where tourists can't go. Now, I have hired Abo away from Green Valley Tourist Company, for which he usually works as a top tourist guide. I pay him more each day...than Green Valley pays him. But Abo is a real ace in the hole. He gets things done that need to get done...greased, of course, by mucho dinero. Am going in the hole back home with each of these trips...but this is the way I have to operate. It costs more, true...but I get more done this way. Got a shock today. Was sitting in the Ibis Cafe having lunch, when a man and his wife and teenage son asked to sit with me. Sure, I said. Soon he'd struck up a conversation about ESP and parapsych...so to have a little fun I pulled out a ring with a black stone, and asked him what the stone was. He examined it with a puzzled expression, then handed it back and said, "Maybe I'm crazy, but is it from the moon?" Now, the stone is black and polished. It is a tektite...and NASA scientists have stated they think that they fall from the moon...meteorites, you know. I was flabbergasted, to say the least! And told him that he was correct. Another humorous thing that happened...a man and his wife sat down nearby at a table...they had a baby in a high chair sitting all by himself over to one side of the table, crying and screaming. I called my waitress over and told her to move the baby around the table to sit beside its momma. She did, and the baby stopped crying and began cooing. The waitress came over, looked me in the eye, said "You are very intelligent." "No I'm not," I answered. 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 17 of 35 Page Sixteen "I just like babies." Tonight I was bored. There is really nothing to do in Cairo. It is not as dull as London, but runs a close second. So I figured well, why not go out to that Sahara City and see the tent show all of them are talking about? So I sashayed out, got a taxi driver who named a fair price, and took off. He seemed a nice sort...had a small black mustache...was very proud of his taxi, as all the drivers are...they all have pictures of their wife and kids inside the front windshield...and all sorts of colorful decorations strung around. He was especially proud of his taxi...which was a Mercedes Benz. Well, we drove way out onto the Sahara Desert under the full moon... to this giant tent...where Egyptian bands played; jugglers juggled; belly dancers bellyed around...all the while the gawking tourists drank cold beer and had all sorts of cheeses and foods thrust at them to go with the beer. I was not impressed at all by the show. You can see a better show almost any night of the week on TV at home. We started to drive back to Cairo across the moonlit desert when the show was over. Now, the driver had asked me to sit up front with him. I'd shrugged, thinking poor fellow, he must be lonesome...so I did. Ha. We'd gone a little ways across the deserted desert...when his right hand grabbed at my groin. My left hand grabbed his right hand. He started telling me he loved me...and what he'd do to me out under the moonlight. I told him that I was queer for girls...and kept fighting his hand off. Finally I had him stop the car, and got into the back seat, and we drove silently, oh so very silently, back into Cairo, where I paid him off and went into my boat. Then I discovered that a valuable silver and amethyst fob was missing from its place on my belt...where it had been held by a keychain. Not being as slow as molasses...I figured it out. While acting "queer" he actually pickpocketed my fob! Beautiful. Probably those men who are bent that way...who would go along with him out of his cab into the desert...would get pickpocketed out of their money, wallet, even the gold in their teeth! Wow. So I learned a valuable lesson...never, but never, sit up front with the hired help! His name was Abraham...remember it, it comes up later on. Note: If I hadn't actually come to Egypt...I would not have been made privy to the discoveries that I have made. I.e., the importance of getting to the OTHER key spots...Yucatan and Peru. Thought: at Cheops, all the tourists went back down from the King's Chamber FACING FORWARD. I did not...I BACKED DOWN on the long ladders and steps...not even thinking about it. But old Cairo Nasr pointed it out to me. Like I had been there before, and knew what I was doing. Note: It has been so easy...to spot my tails...surveillance people... because they all wear dark glasses...hide behind newspapers and peek around them...hide behind draperies and peek around...etc. Sort of like a Marx Brothers comedy. I put a note on my recorder at this point: The SI's took me to Europe for brain remodification...to strengthen my brain (beef it up) for the power that I would encounter among the pyramids. A step by step process. But Millie...was the key...to getting me to the entire thing! (While George held me up, financially, at home.) Note: I have the psychic impression...that Egypt is in great danger of war... 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 18 of 35 Page Seventeen in time ahead. Note: the triangulation...me here to ScotlandX, to Egypt and back. Always...the triangle. Check map...me to Scotland and England; Egypt; back. Triangle. Or...pyramid shape. Thought: I have TWO powers to work with now...the SI's and PyrCre. Is there a THIRD power? Are the pyramids like broadcast stations? In the Cairo museum there are many carvings, etc., showing an "eye". You can also see it on a dollar bill...which shows a pyramid with an eye on it. The SI's and PyrCre explained to me what this "eye" meant to the ancient Egyptians. For ages...it has thought to be a "sign" that will ward off evil...by the Egyptian people. But...it is not. I was informed...that it meant, in reality, by the ancient High Priests of Egypt...PyrCre (the Pyramid Creature power)...which was "all seeing"...the eye which would watch and guard...the pyramids and the great knowledge and wisdom that they contain. When the top scientist (Egyptologist) in charge of all the diggings and excavations in the Giza area...came to meet me, and invited me to a personal audience in his chambers...I told him that the stone of the pyramids and treasure within (gems and gold)...were not the reality...that the power and intelligence left behind, still alive...were the great treasure...he knew it. He said, "That is true, Mr. Owens, but how many tourists would know that?" His name: Dr. Ali El-Khouli, Egyptologist, Chief Inspector, Sakkara.....31 El - Galaa St., Cairo. Tel. 79218. He was a fine man...and a tremendously intelligent man. PyrCre telepathd and told me that the pyramid openings would be found in the north...and the treasures found in the south. (Like Egypt itself...northern Egypt the "openings"...but the real treasure, wisdom and knowledge...found in the south.) I told Abo this...and he was very surprised that I knew this. (He's an old pro, remember...and grew up studying egyptology.) Zoroaster's Pyramid...the oldest, 3,800 B.C....Abo took me to it. PyrCre told me that this side is very dangerous...trapped to kill others. Long passage this end...spiral passage to the top...where a secret is. In round cylinders. Parchment. Information re magic and psi force. Also a box with gems. I passed this info on to Abo. At On Ness, this day: I found a real live scarab in the tomb. It was the sacred symbol of the Egyptians. I put it in a paper napkin to bring back. Also...found a rock with a petrified scarab in it. Ka Gemni, the High Priests temple...and King Ti Ti's Pyramid and temple...4th dynasty, 2,560 B.C. (quoting Abo's knowledge.) Went on to Cheops this day...300 feet up to the top, inside secret passageway. I was up inside the King's Chamber, arms up in the cobra (Z) position...when suddenly a guide appeared with some tourists in the chamber. Nasr had goofed, and let some get by him. Anyway, the old Egyptian guide saw what I was doing...realized instantly what it must have been...and jumped backwards a good five feet...out of sight. 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 19 of 35 Page Eighteen I couldn't bring a gun to Egypt for self-protection, as is my wont... so I brought along a nunchok... a Korean karate weapon... two sticks connected with a cord... which I have practiced to use. Am carrying that in a small bag, plus a fighting knife on my hip in a holster. Next trip: Abo met me in the Ibis Cafe preparatory to leaving for the Sahara. I took one look at him and told him he'd had a fight with his wife. His eyes bulged out and he said, "How you know that?" Then for the next half hour he talked about it. At On Ness a guard came up... and presented me with a piece of alabaster from the tomb itself. Seems that I am getting to be a sort of celebrity with these people. Word has gotten around. Have noted... that each time I go into the pyramids or tombs... hours later information seems to come pouring into my mind... usually after I retire to bed. Have to get up and get it onto the recorder. Wednesday... got up in the morning and recalled a vivid dream that I'd had... seemed a warning. I'd been walking along and up came a boy I'd been a boy with... Mark Caress. He'd smiled, then pulled a gun and shot me. I pulled my gun and riddled him... then staggered home, blood pouring out of my shirt, to confront my wife... and told her I'd been shot. Strange dream. Abo met me in Ibis Cafe... and told me that Green Valley had put the squeeze on him... had found out about his moonlighting with me. He said I'd have to pay them, and not him, for his services. Well, I refused, knowing that Abo would only get about 10% of it as commission. So... that's the end of Abo's invaluable services for me. I'd have to use a taxi driver that I'd pick out. Found one... miracle of miracles... he told me that he knew me... that he'd been the clerk at El Borg Hotel that I'd bribed... he'd quit there, and now had a taxi. (Peculiar coincidence.) Picked up a news paper in the Hilton and read where Idi Amin of Uganda was getting ready to blow the guts out of two innocent Englishmen with firing squads. So I sent a wire to the British Embassy that I knew how to stop Amin. Some Egyptian words... "why not?" they like to say... is "is lay-la." Thank you... is "choke-a-ron." "Ah-wan" means you're welcome. "Massa lama" means goodbye. The thought occurred to me today: in judo... striking a man with your fist... is not an iota so destructive... as balling your fist and bringing the small point of your fist down over his heart. Can knock out a cow. (According to my old judo instructor, Johnny Osako.) This squares... with PyrCre's instructions to confine my activating activities to a relatively small area of key locations in Egypt... instead of traveling all over Egypt to do it. 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 20 of 35 Page Nineteen On desert next: Achmed, my driver. While going out onto the Sahara PyrCre telepathd to change my procedure...gave me a focal point on a different wall...to project OD symbols onto wall. At Ka Gemni and TI TI...the guides and drivers are going nuts trying to understand what I am doing...they are used to tourists just taking photos, and not coming back. I am returning time after time, and not taking photos. PyrCre showed me a new spot on the wall to work on. It also instructed me not to go to Cheops today. Said that the power there was so much greater...too much. I had wondered why I was doing all my work in the daytime...out in the Sahara...until it came to me...that I was working inside dark-black secret passageways and secret rooms...about the same as on top of Castle Urquehart at midnight in Scotland. On the way back to Cairo...I saw a woman trying to carry a baby, leading another baby by the hand...with a giant basket on her head full of laundry. I told the drive to stop and pick her up and give her a ride. But...he refused to do so. A little further on...there was a priest by the side of the road. I told him to pick up the priest and give him a lift, which he did. ????? Back at the Ibis Cafe, tanking up on orange juice and milk...I discovered Vittel water from France. And ordered a batch. Then a government agent came to my table and sat down...I'd noticed him watching me yesterday at the Ibis. He told me that government people wouldn't contact me today (re Idi Amin and my wife wire) because it was a holiday. Then he did something extraordinary. He looked down at the chair beside me...upon which I had laid my nunchok wrapped in a net sack...said: "I see that you're armed for the fray." Nobody, but nobody, could have recognized that as a nunchok! Went up on deck, on the Nile-Hilton yacht that night. I was god-awful lonesome. Took a table at the rail...ordered a cold beer...and gazed out over the Nile. Suddenly PyrCre appeared. Awesome. Huge blazing eyes up close to mine...peering into mine...I had the impression that It knew, in an instant, all that I was, had been, and would be. It studied me. I telepathd was it Horus? It telepathd no. I asked, are we friends? It said yes. I asked would the pyramid power help in what I was doing (helping the human race). It said yes. Then it vanished. The thought then came to me that because of half-alien brain...I was able to see these other-dimensional creatures where other humans could not. Also the thought: after ages, this entity, PyrCre, finds a human popping up in front of it and using the old high priests' techniques of thousands of years ago...must be a shock to it...as it was to me when It popped up! 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 21 of 35 Page Twenty Wednesday night...gone to bed; saw myself sleeping and a black cloud hanging over me...the black cloud went down into my body. Then I woke up and recorded this. A warning dream? Thursday...Sayed, my driver again. An agent? (The El Borg clerk.) Today Sayed invited me to his home, in old Cairo, for coffee. He honors me! You won't see another American in old Cairo. In the Ibis Cafe...sitting with Sayed...I explain that the nunchok, which I hold up/..(this dam typewriter)....it is really a musical instrument...clavos...Spanish wood blocks that you knock together. Sayed nearly falls off his chair laughing. So HE KNOWS a nunchok! An Egyptian taxi driver? Fooey. For-git it! He's got to be an agent. Should explain more about Sayed's home...he drove me from the Hilton through "new" Cairo into "old" Cairo...the ancient section. There were no Americans or Europeans obviously present on the streets...only Egyptians and Arabs. Tiny shops and selling stalls lined the small, narrow, crooked streets that we drove through. It was a riot of color, because the "natives" wore colorful headware, scarves, dresses, etc. In front of the shops were baskets full of brightly colored scarves, mats, etc. And the streets were jammed with people, going and coming. Our taxi had to move slowly, inch forward. Finally he turned up an alley, twisted and turned through dark alleys...and came to a sort of wide parking place amidst many alleys. We got out and he took me into a tiny apartment...no doors...just open doorways and open windows. Small ducks ran loose through the apartment. A huge, fat, giant woman moved forward to meet us and he introduced her as his wife. She was dressed in a flowered dress. Soon little children came pouring through the doorway into the apartment. His kids and relatives kids...plus their relatives. His wife made us some thick, black, Egyptian coffee, which we sat and sipped. I hauled out my camera and made some family photos...(which did not come out...I figured the color film wrong with my meter.) I did coin and dish tricks for the kids...and it was a whole lot of fun. Finally we left, Sayed and I, in the Taxi, with the small square outside packed with people who came to see the "foreigner." I had the thought that I should be an Ambassador...I get along so well with foreign people (except the French...can't figure them at all.) We go on out into the Saraha Desert...to On Ness, first stop. When I get out of the car some Egyptian guides who work there come rushing up and say that "the Director" would like to see me. They lead me to a small building nearby. Inside is a heavily-built, intelligent looking man. Serious expression on his face. First, of course, after he introduces himself as the Director of all egyptology and excavation activities in the area...he suggests that we have hot coffee together. I'd been through this lots of times by now...so asked no questions...aides brought us the hot, steaming, thick black Egyptian coffee...and we sipped for a spell. The Director explained to me that he was in charge of all that was going on at present in Sakara...and offered me any help that I needed in my work. He placed himself at my disposal. Did I need to get into any of the places at night...when the places were locked to tourists? If so, he would arrange it. Would I like to see a new tomb that had just been discovered... 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 22 of 35 Page Twenty One which contained fifty thousand ibis bird mummies, among other things. I thanked him, but said no, that was not my purpose in the area. After a bit he invited me to visit him any day in his offices nearby (which I did later on.) We both left, and I finished my work at On Ness; went on to Ka Gemni; then to King Ti Ti's place. The guides by this time, of course, all knew me...knew my procedure and what I wanted done...and they would be waiting for me at each place, smiling and beaming. No tourist could go into these select places, of course... without going with these assigned, old, grizzled Egyptian guides (and guards)...but once inside they would withdraw from me, allowing me to proceed to my key place and do what I do. They would not interfere with their personal presence. After I would finish telepathing... I would leave the chamber and pick up the guide who would be waiting outside the chamber...and we would leave the pyramid or temple together, and he would padlock the doors behind us. My On Ness guide was one of the fiercest looking men you would ever see...Abdul...but he grew to like me and called me "Teddy". This day at On Ness, before I got to Abdul...in the Temple that I had to walk through...suddenly a group of six mean, tough looking Arabs appeared around me in a circle as if by magic. By now I'd been there many times, and nothing like this had occurred. I looked around at them...took out my nunchok and shoved it into my belt in the ready position...and switched on my tape recorder and put the happening on tape in pig-latin...just in case I got jumped and somebody found the recorder later. Even with the nunchok I didn't figure to be able to beat six tough Arabs carrying knives (if in fact they did...but I could see bulges under their burnooses...gowns.) (I guess you call a burnoose a gown...anyway, it's what they wear...long, flowing robe...usually dirty looking.) Inside On Ness I began to say my "triggers" out loud...but PyrCre communicated and ordered me to only do it mentally. A strange thing happened...while I was standing, arms outstretched in the "Z" position...running through the trigger mechanisms mentally...the loud buzzing of a fly interrupted the silence. This was most odd. Had never happened before. This is a sealed, locked temple. Nothing, but nothing, can get out or in. I never did spot the fly...but its loud buzzing all around me was a distraction. PyrCre has smoothed out and improved my procedural methods...but has absolutely forbidden me to reveal any of it. (Later on, on the plane homeward-bound, PyrCre appeared and okayed a verbal report only to Millie. One person. Millie, who made it all possible. Following which the airplane ahead of ours got hit by lightning and blown up... but you'll read about that later on.) On the way back to Cairo...we stopped at a small cafe' sitting beside the road...to get a cold drink...and a little Arab boy about five years old came to me and handed me a lovely flower from the garden. (I took it back and put it in a glass of water in the cabin of the yacht.) But my mind went back to Scotland...on the previous adventure...when the tiny three year old girl came up to me and handed me a lovely flower, also (which I still have, pressed into a book to keep.) 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 23 of 35 Page Twenty Two Learned two new words today (Egyptian)..........book-er-ah, tomorrow. War-da..........flower. All the writing on store fronts and all along the streets in Cairo..........is in Egyptian..........so there is no way of knowing what the heck anything is. I miss the Scotland-England midnight thrills..........with UFO's overhead. None of that here. Nothing at all..........UFO oriented. Here, it seems, I am activating, and learning. Here the challenge and excitement of the unknown..........is missing. Am especially lonely for Urquehart Castle. I predict..........that I will get back there! Sometime. Upon returning to Cairo, I found a message from Rose..........a representative of the British Embassy..........to call him. I did so, and we arranged to meet at a certain time at the Ibis Cafe..........I told him that I would wear a "purple shirt" for ident purposes. I cleaned up, then went to meet Rose..........wearing a red, candy-striped shirt. Inside Ibis Cafe I waited at a table..........suddenly a man walked inside, looked around the room, came right over to me and extended his hand..........said "I'm Rose." Then he looked me over and chuckled and said, "Purple shirt! Hah!" I didn't point out the obvious..........that he'd known me..........regardless of what shirt I wore..........so the agents that had been following me had briefed him, complete with photographs. I laughed and said yes, I'd make a lousy spy. We sat down and for about an hour I outlined my ingenious plan..........which he liked. The only rub that I could see in the plan..........lay in the fact that I was too blamed close to Amin..........and Uganda. In hours, he could have one or more killers here in Cairo after my scalp. (The plan revolved around the British contacting Amin..........and telling him that I would sic my UFO's onto him if he shot those two Enlishmen. Amin, you see, had only recently seen a UFO with his own eyes..........it was in the newspapers..........so he knew that they were a reality. And my background with UFO's was concrete solid..........I had the Saga articles with me to back it all up. Should note here: my breathing changed while telepathing triggers inside the passageways and secret rooms of the pyramids and temples. I noticed it today. Just as soon as I'd telepath to the key section of the wall..........my breathing would switch into a sort of suspended animation process. Then, as soon as I'd finished..........I'd be forced to get the heck out of there as fast as possible..........and my breathing would go back to its normal pace. Noted also today: since and including yesterday, not one but two of these tough guides..........went into Ka Gemni or Ti Ti..........with me, one in front and one behind me. I wonder why? Is it perhaps extra protection..........or is the extra one an intelligente agent? Don't smile. Egyptian intelligence agents are as thick as flies around me most of the time. (Wait until the incident on the Nile!) So many of the Egyptians are fond of saying "Why not?"..........lay-al. Friday..........Odd procedure today at On Ness. The guide won't talk..........and no special guide to meet me. So I have to find my own way..........it is quite a hike from the temple to the pyramid, and I got lost on a couple of twists and turns..........But finally found it. PyrCre gently 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 24 of 35 Page Twenty Three rebuked me today, in the midst of my telepathing...correctly, as it should have...I was inserting some personal wishes into the telepathing and PyrCre smoothed out the procedure for me. I've got it ALL...the High Priests' methods and procedures...the why and the how and the where! No other human being will ever be able to duplicate this work I am doing. Noted today that the telepathic triggering methods are NOT remaining constant. It is awesome. The methods change daily...due to PyrCre instructing me in the changes...and today I learned a chilling fact! It is because...I am being made a PART OF THE POWER ITSELF IN THE AREA! Closer and closer every day, being absorbed into the Power! At the third place today PyrCre came up close to my face and put its eyes close to my eyes...and looked deeply into me. It is GIANT. Its head is as big as a huge, round table. When those big eyes came close to my eyes...whew! Immediately after, when it vanished...I understood the difference between what I was doing here and in Scotland-England. This has nothing to do with UFO's or UFO work, as in Scotland-England. I have, in effect, been turned over, or passed on, to this Power...and the difference is psychic phenomenon in depth and in scope! I.e., in the U.S. the popular psychic experimentation is done with Zener cards...but the difference between what I am doing in Egypt and Zener card work...is the difference between Einstein's work and a game of mumbly-peg! Might just mention...that PyrCre's eyes were hypnotic...they glowed as if having a blazing fire inside...completely unlike human eyes. Poor Sayed today...we had come into a tiny village along the road in the Nile Valley...and I asked Sayed to stop for a minute for me to take a photo. It was an error. In an instant a huge crowd of people surrounded our car...thrusting their hands through the window, wanting a cigarette, money, anything. Sayed was frightened. I handed him a bunch of coins, which he threw out the window then gunned the car and burned rubber getting out of their at about fifty miles an hour. I couldn't understand why...but I reckon he had a reason. Could be, if Sayed was an Egyptian agent...which I think he was.. he had the responsibility of guarding me and keeping me safe...and it was a lovely spot for some sort of attack. But the people looked peaceful to me. Oh well... Back to the Osiris...the yacht...cleaned up and went up on deck, got a table and a cold drink, and sat down to ponder...looking out over the Nile. It was quite obvious now that the SI's had gotten me to Scotland-England in order to do a brain re-modification...beef up my mental power (because contact with PyrCre takes EVERY OUNCE of my energy and brain power). While telepathing here, in the secret passages and secret rooms...I seem to be in a different world, than the world-world...picking up techniques thousands and thousands of years old...and having to match power with power. This evening my mind and energy are run down. Am just wiped out. I rose and went to the men's room. Upon returning to the outer deck... Achmed, the waiter...had given my table to somebody else (for a bribe, no doubt...you see, these tables are hard to come by...a line waiting for them.) My beer and cigar were gone. I was furious, and stormed downstairs to write a note for Salame...owner of the yacht. I wrote that Achmed should be demoted to Chief Dish Washers. Later in the evening I bumped into Salame...who grinned and said that if I didn't 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 25 of 35 Page Twenty Four forgive the waiter Achmed then he'd have to make Achmed a dish washer. I leaned over and pointed at Salame..."Okay," I said, but remember...make him a CHIEF dish washer!" Salame broke up laughing. Later in the privacy of my stateroom, I contacted PyrCre...and asked permission to give the Direction at Sakara details of what I had learned. The answer was an angry and explosive NO! I gently pointed out to PyrCre that there was no danger...that no other humans, since they had no alien, or half-alien, brain, could activate the key places. The answer was still a definite, angry NO. So...that's it. (Later PykrCre modified this...to allow the details to be passed to Millie in person.) Friday night: scanning the newspapers, learn that one of the two Englishmen has been released by General Amin. One to go, for release... A number of times...someone has opened my door to my stateroom (which is kept locked) and has peered in, then popped out again. I finally figured it out. In Cairo it is against the law to entertain visitors in hotel rooms...and I am constantly talking into the tape recorder, then playing it back...and sounds like a bunch of people...and they keep trying to catch somebody in here with me. Ha hXa! Fun...nee! At night: had another strange dream...was with Aunt Eva, Dad, Jack, and granma...all dead. Was like real. NNext morning took a taxi over to another cafe to eat...and should mention that Cairo taxi drivers drive with suicidal abandon. Whizzing along, if another car gets in their way, they do not slow down...but jam their foot onto the accelerator and strongarm their way around either side of the car...or latch right onto the backend of the front car until it swerves to let them by. Have never seen any crazy driving like in Egypt. When you first get into thXeir taxi...all is sweetness and light. They show pictures of their family, and religious decorations all over the front of their car...then a wild light comes into their eyes...and they declare war on all the other cars in front of them! A screamingly funny thing happened at the cafe, whXure I got breakfast. This pretty waitress comes to my table and takes my order. After she walks away...there is a huge puddle of red blood next to my table where she'd been standing. (This is the sheraton.) About ten feet away there's a waitress station where the waitresses line up and wait their turn to go to tables. I flagged one over, and pointed down at the puddle of blood. She put a hand over her mouth and ran back to the station. One by one the waitresses came over, stared down at the blood...then retreated hurriedly. A rich oil sheik, curious over what was happening...rose from his table across the room, came over, stared down at the large puddle of blood...then with no change of expression walked back to his table and sat back down. A different waitress was assigned to me, who took the order...and also took me to a different table. Sayed has explained to me...that the cars and buses in Cairo are very old, most of them...one bus that we passed, for example, he said was fifty-four years old. But, he explained, they could 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 26 of 35 Page Twenty Five do this because the Egyptian and Arab mechanics in Cairo were so clever and ingenious mechanics. He said they could exchange parts and jerry-rig stuff...and keep a car or bus going practically forever. Saturday morning (still)...Sayed brought his boy, Mahmoud, along with us. He's about ten. I told him to. We stopped and got him some candy to eat on the trip out into the Sahara. At On Ness there was an American woman in the Temple...I chatted with her briefly and found out that she was from Indianapolis, Indiana...which is just a few miles from my home town, Bedford. Found the "dancing lady" on the piece of black flint. Also found a rock laying on the ground...turned it over and there's painting and etching on it...must have broken off a wall from some inner tomb. A museum piece, but I'll keep it. To Ka Gemni, Ti Ti. Went to visit "Dr. Ali" as he is called, The Director, in his offices. He ordered the hot, thick black coffee...and while we waited for it I turned on my tape recorder and pointed it out to him. His eyebrows rose and he said, "Is that turned on?" I said yes. He said harrumph. (Correction...this time he ordered hot Egyptian tea...and it was the best tea I've ever encountered, even in Scotland or England.) We had about an hour's chat...all on tape. He told me that he could tell that I was a powerful psychic...and that I certainly had knowledge not known to tourists...as we chatted along. Today, while making my "rounds" Pyrere instructed me to put the star Chamber (and pyramid containing it) around me at night, mentally, before going to sleep. Saturday night...sat on deck of the Osiris, sipping cold beer and smoking and looking out over the moonlit Nile. I was bored and homesick. Fooey. Instead of just going to bed, as I usually did at this time...I decided to walk down the dark waterfront and find the man called Hassan, who had a boat to rent to go out onto the Nile. So I left the Osiris and climbed down the steep embankment onto the edge of the river and walked along it until I came to a huge 50-foot boat. It was Hassan, who was working on the boat with another tough-looking man. Could I rent the boat for an hour? Yes. I told Hassan just him on the boat with me...not the other guy. (They were eyeing my camera and tape recorder...and if I was going to be jumped it would be by one guy, not two.) They chattered and argued in Egyptian...then Hassan said okay. I jumped on board, he fixed the sails, and the boat edged out onto the black water into the fast current. Hassan sat at the front of the boat at the tiller, guiding...guiding with his fanny...whilst he used his arms to manipulate the giant sails. He jumped off the tiller and tells me to take the tiller while he rigs the sails differently. I couldn't believe my ears! I'm sitting in the middle of the boat, back against the rail...under a bright lantern which is suspended from a skeletal ceiling...so I put my stuff down and leap to the tiller...and the boat steers like a dream! Like a Lincoln-Continental with power steering. We're now speeding down the Nile at high speed, with a full moon overhead. Across on the other side of the Nile is a nightclub 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 27 of 35 Page Twenty Six built onto a yacht...and Egyptian bellydance music is blaring out from it. It's all lit up with lanterns like a Christmas tree. Hassan starts singing and dancing in the middle of our boat...hanging onto the sail ropes. I turn on the tape recorder, because all this is really funny. Hassan is young, dark haired, tough looking. But full of mischief, like most of the other Egyptians I had met. He finally stops dancing, and we leave the music behind us on the dark water...Hassan says that this boat is the biggest boat on the Nile. I can well believe it. He says that he usually rents it to a party of fifty people (i.e., it seats fifty.) Now comes the real fun part of the whole thing. Hassan begins to swear in Egyptian...and points out onto the river. "Police" he yells at me in a low voice. I laughed hysterically. After days and days of being followed by police agents all around the place...THEY'RE EVEN TAILING ME OUT ONTO THE NILE. Sure enough, a large white launch appeared out of the darkness. There are about twenty tough-looking men on board, all on the side facing us...dressed in plain clothes, not uniforms. They stand off, about thirty feet out...and jabber at Hassan in Egyptian in rapid-fire manner. And in no-nonsense, businesslike tone of voice! Soon they swing their big boat around and vanish, moving toward the Osiris, back a ways on the shore. Hassan explains limply that he has received orders, which he does not understand, to return to shore and deposit me there. So he swings the boat around...and becomes strangely silent. But instead of going toward the Osiris...Hassan takes his boat along the other, far shore...and swings it in close to a bunch of giant, bare rocks. As it passes the rocks he yells loudly in Egyptian...and an answering yell comes from the blackness around the rocks. Evidently Hassan had someone there...waiting. Waiting...for what? Then Hassan swings the boat across the Nile toward the Osiris...and his berthing place. Finally he says something to me..."Here," he says, "I am going to let you dock it." I looked at him, dumfounded, then looked at our target area which the huge boat was swooping toward...a small, narrow area sandwiched in between two other, smaller boats. Well, I figured...if he's crazy enough to let an amateur like me try to get this speeding boat into that little space...then I'm crazy enough to try it. So I went over, got the tiller, while he handled the sails. To put our big boat in that space...moving at fast speed, now, remember...I had to figure to make an arc to the left...judge the boat's speed and distance away from the other boats...and time the move exactly right. Otherwise there was going to be the loudest smashing noise ever heard in that area of the Nile, probably. Sweat beaded on my forehead, I figured we were just at about the right angle to make the left turn...and made the arc turn. The boat sped in toward shore. I was about a hundred feet from the other boats...and the space between. "Here, Hassan" I told him, "so far so good...but let's let the expert put this boat in that space...you." I had seen that there were people in the two boats on each side of the space...and if I erred...some people were going to get wet or flattened out. Hassan grunted, came over and took the tiller and eased the boat into the space. I thought...that gives one an idea of how wild these Egyptians can be...to take a chance on me like that! Looking back on the police affair...I think that the police were warning Hassan that I was not the ordinary tourist to be taken, in any way...in short, I may have been getting some protection. 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 28 of 35 Page Twenty Seven Incidentally, tonight I saw a UFO flitting up over the opposite bank of the Nile! No question that it was a UFO. Soundless...glowing light...exactly like those I saw so often every night at Loch Ness. Note: Yesterday and today both...early in the morning, as soon as I have emerged from the Osiris boat...a complete stranger has walked up to me...and asked me what my plans were for the day! I simply tell them...they say thanks, and walk away. Hah! Egyptian Intelligence, probably...or British...now that I've cut into the Amin thing. Had a comical thought...after the experience of having the police "surveil" me clear out into the middle of the Nile river at midnight. (Earlier now..."Subject Owens has gone into the old Egyptian quarter...what do we do?) In the boat on the Nile: "Subject Owens has gone out into the middle of the Nile, just before midnight. What do we do?" Ha ha ha. Can you imagine them phoning that into headquarters? Sunday morning...Abo popped up at the Isis Cafe at breakfast, and wants to have a "meet" with me tonight at six. ??? Achmed is my driver today. I notice that as we go out into the Sahara we are followed wherever we go...by a Green Valley car. Achmed suggests today that we go to the Sphinx. I haven't been there yet. I say OK. When we get there he assigns me to one of the Sphinx guides, who tells me proudly that he was in the Ten Commandments movie which was filmed there. The name of his camel is "California." (The name of the camel that I rode was "Whisky.") The old pro guide told me that no opening had ever been found in the Sphinx. I scrutinized the Spinx...there IS an opening. A clever one, yes...but there is one. (Was using my clairvoyant powers.) Also, I knew that the UFO's of that age...had had the High Priests hide THE MOST precious scrolls of secrets and wisdom...inside the head of the Sphinx...along with a box of giant diamonds, emeralds, etc. BUT...this secret room cannot be opened...except by the telepathic/PK process. Which is why it has never been unearthed. (I picked this information up with the alien half of my brain.) What the Spinx "means"...i.e., was carved in the body of a lion with a man's head...is that it stands for "high intelligence"...and that it is the MOST GUARDED OF ALL THE EGYPTIAN PYRAMIDS, TEMPLES, ETC. (By Pyramid Creature.) To make the meaning clearer...the "lion" would attack and spring on...anyone attempting to rob it of its secrets. We left here and went on to On Ness...and as I was walking through the Temple the old man came up to me and gave me the silver coin...which had THE EXACT "DANCING LADY" ON IT AS THE FIGURE ON THE PIECE OF BLACK FLINT ROCK I'D FOUND. Today I made photos of the fierce-looking Egyptian guides. Tough birds. And one could easily observe the bulge of gun or knife underneath their robes. (Note: I've mentioned picking drivers for each day to go out...but haven't told you the comical way it goes: Driver says to me, "No money. Just give me what you want. I love you...you fine man!" So I say all right...four pounds for the day. He says, "Oh no...always get eight pounds!" I say seven. He says OK. ) 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 29 of 35 Page Twenty Eight After Ka Gemni...about 20 minutes out onto the road back to Cairo...PyrCre appeared to me...and informed me that IT HAD BEEN TEACHING ME ON A SUBLIMINAL LEVEL, WHILE I HAD BEEN DOING MY "CHORES"...FOR ME TO BECOME AWARE OF AT A LATER DATE! I.e., each 20 minutes that I worked to activate the force at that key spot...PyrCre was working on ME. It told me that I had been trained and taught each place, every time.... "Welcome...mah-habiba. "I am happy"...anna-mahmut. "No good"...mis-guise: "Good"...quise. Incidentally...in this age we do have high frequency sound, or magnetic releases, or photoelectric cells...to open secret doors or vaults. But in those ancient days...the High Priests used parapsych methods to open the most secret places in the pyramids and temples...and at times they would change the frequency of their body and simply pass like an X-ray through the solid stone...the same as SI craft can do to pass through a solid mountain to the center of the mountain HQ...or through the bottom of the ocean floor deep into the earth to a secret HQ there. Sunday night...PyrCre appeared and COMMANDED me NOT to go into the desert tomorrow. It FORBADE me. Warned me that I am being stalked and hunted by the "hunters"...very dangerous Egyptians in Cairo. Met Abo at the Isis Cafe at 6, as per arrangement. He said that he just sincerely wanted to see me one more time...before I left. We spent a couple of hours talking. He said that he is very sad because I have to leave. Then he told me something fascinating. He'd come in earlier and asked Samia, the waitress, if Owens had come in yet. She asked Abo if he was "one of the secret police." He said yes. She said, "I will do as I have been instructed...when I see him enter I will call you." Abo, bless his heart...was tipping me that I was under surveillance. I laughed heartily and told him that I'd known that ever since being there. Abo finally left. For the past few days drivers, waitresses, etc., have been coming up to me and asking me to use my powers to help them. I mean...they are utter strangers to me...but the word has gotten around that I am a "famous psychic from America." Perhaps you wonder why on earth the Egyptian intelligence would place me under surveillance? Or the same in Scotland or England (as was very much the case while I was there.) Very simple. Suppose the famous Russian psychic Wolfe, I believe it is...who can hypnotize people telepathically as well as other things...came to America. And suppose that he could do what I can do...which he cannot...that is, control weather, cities, even countries...through paranormal means, and it had been widely documented. Do you think for a minute that our CIA and FBI wouldn't have agents all around him at all times? You BET they would! Tonight all the lights went out in this fabulous Hilton on the Nile. I was walking through the lobby and blam...darkness. Employees began rushing around lighting candles, etc. I went over to the Osiris boat...and blam...all the lights went out on the boat...and THEY had to get candles! 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 30 of 35 Page Twenty Nine This morning Sayed met me at the Isis Cafe...to take me out to the Saraha...but I dismissed him, because of the stern PyrCre warning, which had instructed me to keep to my stateroom on the boat. Yet... something PULLS me to go back out to the pyramids and temples. Well, finally I could stand the pull no longer...and decided to take my chances in order to get in one more "good lick" out on the Sahara, because I'm leaving tomorrow, Tuesday. I went out and canvassed the drivers outside the Hilton, asking for Sayed. BUT NONE OF THEM KNEW SAYED! Now, all these drivers know each other...spend all their spare time fraternizing together...they are like a big family. So...if they do not know Sayed...THEN SAYED MUST BE AN AGENT. A driver I'd never seen then came up to me and said "I hear that you are leaving tomorrow." I'd never laid eyes on him. Which shows you how much all these drivers, waitresses, etc., learn on the sly. Anyway, I left word for Sayed to come to the Ibis Cafe...with the head driver. I went back to the Osiris boat and was writing a letter to Salama, the owner...when I sensed a close presence...turned my head...AND A STRANGE MAN WAS ON TIPPY TOE READING THE LETTER OVER MY SHOULDER. In the newspaper today...I read that the second man, the young man... has been released by Amin also. So...mission accomplished, as far as I am concerned. No, wait...correction...the young man was the first to be released..the older man's time for execution was extended. I'm not done yet. Am down to six cigars now. Can't buy any here...they cost four dollars each here...just ordinary U.S. cigars. Went to Isis for lunch. Suddenly an expensively dressed man was brought to my table by Samia...with empty tables all around...could he sit with me? I said sure, curious, as I always am...what intelligence was up to now. I ignored the man, studiously...not even looking at him. Several times he cleared his throat...finally he started a fast conversation, pumping me for information...all key questions. How long was I staying? Where am I staying. Etc. Said that he was South Korean. He asked me my opinion of politics in Korea...I told him that North Korea would definitely take over South Korea...the country would unify, just as Viet Nam had done. I told him how weak the South Korean military commanders were...compared to the ones in the North. That they were corrupt, too...just as those in South Viet Nam had been. He didn't believe any of this. I told him that after North Korea took over the entire country, that the country would be far better off! He gave a rebuttal based on the economy of South Korea...and the ratio of three military men in South to one in the North. I argued that the North had more character and principle...and that the size of a dog in a fight doesn't determine the outcome of a fight...but the fight in the dog goes! We went around in circles for an hour. I had never previously given any thought to the future of Korea...so this was stimulating to me, to use my psychic powers to probe ahead in time re the matter. Oh, and he asked me would not the U.S. use nuclear missiles if North Korea attacked South Korea? I replied that absolutely and definitely...the U.S. would not. 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 31 of 35 Page Thirty After I left the Isis, walked through the lobby of the Hilton to the men's room...when suddenly a strange man came running up to me, said "I hear that you want me!" Then he turned and ran away down the hallway. I just stood there, staring. What? Bought a newspaper and read that Sam Giancana had been murdered. That means one thing to me...Frank Sinatra will be murdered up ahead in time not too far away. He and Sam were big buddies...and confided in each other too much. So the Mob will have to "excise" Frank. At dinner in the Isis a waiter (they use boys and girls both) that I'd nicknamed "The Wart" because of his ugly manner...came over to my table and made friends with me. (We'd spent weeks scowling and frowning at each other.) Will wonders never cease. To give you an idea, a better idea...of what the meals cost there...a small bowl of soup; rolls and butter; cup of coffee; a small plate of roast beef and cauliflower; slices of tomato; bowl of strawberries...cost $8.00 tonight. This is average. That...is eight bucks American translated into Egyptian money. During the meal I brooded over Samia's being a "bird dog" for Egyptian Intelligence. Suddenly a fiendish idea occurred to me. I told my waitress to send Samia over to my table. Samia appeared. I said, "Samia, don't tell anybody...but I am a Chinese secret agent in the Chinese secret service!" She cut me off and said "I no talk" and ran off, having turned pale white (Egyptians are dusky complexioned.) Then I could hear her screaming and having hysterics back in the kitchen. All the waiters and waitresses went running back into the kitchen...then emerged, grinning over in my direction. I got out fast, sensing trouble. The thought occurred to me...that I have a bad combination...a top psychic with a "monkey" sense of humor. Que combinacion! As I swiftly exited from the Isis, I could hear all the waitresses laughing back in the cafe...and Samia was still screaming and yelling out in the kitchen. Had to have a ring re-sized...so the man in the shop called an eight year old boy over and told him to take me down into a place in the city. So the little boy led me about twelve blocks away from the Nile, into downtown Cairo...into dark streets...to a tiny shop. Inside the shop were two smaller boys...six to eight years old. I looked around for the jeweler. The two small boys took the ring and went to work. I was utterly fascinated. They used old Egyptian methods to pound and stretch the gold of the ring. These kids were real pros! On the way back to the Hilton I stopped my eight year old guide at a candy stand...and told him to pick out any candy he'd like to have. Very seriously, like an adult...he pointed out a huge lollipop to the candystand man...who gave the boy change. With real dyed-in-the-wool class...the boy handed the candyman back a big tip! It was one of the cutest things I've ever seen. Evidently, working around the Hilton and watching Americans...some of the American ways had rubbed off on this boy...and he was showing me that he knew a thing or two! Well, PyrCre had won out this day. Sayed hadn't shown...and I hadn't gotten out into the Sahara. 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 32 of 35 Page Thirty One Note: In case I hadn't completely made this clear before...the Pyramids (and Stonehenge) are like TV broadcasting stations...having world-wide power. Their scope is awesome! The power that is "broadcast" can help the entire human race. By turning on Stonehenge...and now the key Egyptian pyramids and temples...it has activated the other pyramids all over the world, and alerted them...now the entire network of pyramid power in Yucatan, Peru, etc., is interested and alerted to what I am doing. For such a thing has not been done, evidently, in a long long time. Ages. And the alien half of my brain...which is sort of like "another world"...knows this. Bothersome thought...I am "out of synch" with my regular contacts back in the U.S., going around the world faster than I can fill the contacts in on the action! I had set up an arrangement with Sayed...to take me to Sahara City one more time tonight...since am leaving tomorrow...and am too bored to sit around on the boat tonight. But Sayed shows up at the Osiris, returns my five pounds...says that his wife is sick and he cannot take me. A driver came up to me at the Hilton and asked to drive for me...so I said OK. We had only gone a short distance when the driver begins to talk about my SI discs! (I'd never seen this man before...name of Alexander.) Then he begins to talk about Abraham stealing my amethyst fob. Says that HE IS A CLOSE FRIEND OF ABRAHAM. Ye gods...and here I am driving out into the night...onto the Sahara...with this guy! He mysteriously stops beside the road and sits, waiting...and I ask him what he is doing. He mumbles and looks around, as if looking for somebody...then drives off again. I had my nunchok ready, you bet! Had an impression four of his and Abraham's friends might have been ready to pull me out of the car and beat me up. It's been known to happen. At Sahara City I get a table with two Englishmen...next to a table where a rich Arab sheik sits with his family...from Saudi Arabia, it turns out...since the sheik and I spend a long time talking. He asked for a disc, so I got his address and promised to send him one. Alexander quietly drove me back to the Hilton, later. No action. Good. Next day Sayed showed up to drive me to the airport. He didn't say a word...and tears rolled down his face. I asked what was wrong. With a straight face he said that he was very sad that I was leaving. (These people actually get emotional about things like this, it seems. I know that you must be tired of reading this report...but don't quit now. The most astounding happening of all...is coming up before the report finishes! Finally, got onto the plane at the Cairo airport...and headed for home. Crossing the Atlantic...the seating was like this: sitting on the left of me was a Dr. Riffet. In the seats in front of us, on the left, was a tough specimen. Seated across the aisle...directly to my left and to the left of Dr. Riffet...was another very tough looking specimen. 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 33 of 35 Page Thirty Two I had a distinct feeling...that the two "tough specimens" were related, or connected... Dr. Riffet and I chatted extensively...and I told him who and what I was. In the course of our conversation...he mentioned sawing a leg-bone in half (related to his work as a surgeon.) I asked...would there be marrow in the leg-bone? He answered why yes, there would be. So I asked him, with a perfectly straight face..."Well, Dr., if you sawed someone's head in half...then there must be marrow in that skull bone, right?" "Well, yes," he said, "but it is a very narrow layer of bone, you know." "Right," I answered, "then that must be what you'd call 'narrow-marrow'!" I thought he'd fall out of his seat laughing. Shortly thereafter, having gone to the john, before entering to get into my seat past the doctor, I leaned over the tough specimen in front of us and said, "Pardon me...are you not a karate expert?" The man looked up at me, startled...then beamed. He dove into his pocket and took out a bunch of photos...showing him fighting at karate with various opponents. Then he actually climbed out of his seat...took a karate stance...and told me how he could kill anyone with the edge of either hand...and then proceeded to give me a lesson in slow motion of offense and defense with karate...meanwhile the doctor's eyes are popping out in disbelief. Finally I sat down...and the doctor leaned over to me and said, "You know, for a minute there I thought he was going to take you on!" "Doctor," I told him, "that man is a sissy." The doctor reared back, again with a look of disbelief. "True," I said. So he can kill someone with a blow of his hand. But...by using my techniques...I can control an entire city or country. So...who is the most powerful...him? Or me?" (He'd seen the Saga articles). He squirmed in his seat and said that he'd better take a nap. In a few moments the funny thought came to me...here is this doctor...in front of him is a deadly karate killer-type...who can wipe out someone with a swipe of either hand. On his left, across the aisle (unless I am wrong) is another, equally dangerous man (both Egyptians, by the way.) On his right am I...who claims to be able to control a city or country with my mind. Is it any wonder that the good doctor is getting nervous? Ha ha ha! I nudged the doctor and he opened his eyes. I said that I was going to wake him up every five minutes. He asked why. I said...to get even for all the times I've been the hospital and the nurses have waked me up that way. He smiled feebly and closed his eyes once more. After a bit we were served our meals. Then something frightening, to me, occurred. The doctor began arguing with me...on a deep level...that is, about rather deep, abstract subjects. A layman would not have been able to even understand him, let alone rebut him. BUT MY MIND PLAYED WITH HIS MIND LIKE AN ADULT WOULD PLAY WITH A BABY! He would make a profound, logical statement...and answers would flash into my mind like flashes of lightning...and I would take his arguments apart easily and effortlessly. (I had never had these kind of thinking processes before Egypt.) Later...PyrCre appeared in front of me...It gave me permission to tell what I had learned...in detail...to only one living person...the person who had made it possible for me to get to Egypt...Millie...and orally, not over the phone or in writing. In person, orally. It must not be passed on to other humans. I was astounded, because PyrCre had been so 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 34 of 35 Page Thirty Three adamant in Egypt...about my keeping it away from ANYONE. I note...three men on the plane...recognize their faces...same ones that kept following me all around Cairo. The tough man on the left, across the aisle...watches me all of the time. I mean, constantly. Doesn't take his eyes off of me. After the long, grinding flight...we began our approach to New York. Now, follow me closely on this. You'll never hear anything more amazing than this. The pilot talked over the mike to the passengers, "Folks, "he said, "I'm sorry, but we must turn around and fly to an alternate airfield to take on more fuel. We'll make an emergency landing in Connecticut." The plane landed at Windsor Lock, Connecticut, Hartley Airport. The stewardesses would give no explanation. This was too much for me. My legs were all cramped up from the hours and hours and hours of flying from Cairo to New York...so I slid past the doctor and went to the back of the airplane, where they had a lounge section to hang out. In this lounge were two stewardesses, relaxing...plus a tall, important looking man. He was, it seems, a producer for the movie in Russia...which has Elizabeth Taylor in it plus a lot of other big names...and the stewardesses were questioning him about Liz Taylor and the movie. He was explaining all of the snafus and troubles they'd had in making the movie. One stewardess turned to me and asked me who I was, what did I do? Like a robot...I didn't answer but returned to my seat and got the copy of Saga magazine...and returned to them...and showed them what I do. I told them that I had, on many occasions, made lightning strike selected targets. There in the Saga magazine, was a page drawing...showing a bolt of lightening striking the tail of an airplane...with my name on it. The stewardess holding the magazine...her hands began to shake. She looked up at me. "Do you do this with your mind?" she asked. "Yes," I said, "with the help of UFO's. If I think it, it can happen. That's why I have to be so careful...while in planes...and keep my mind off of all of this sort of thing. It might happen." "Oh, my god!" she exclaimed. "Do you know why we turned back from landing at New York?" "Nope," I answered, "why did we?" She shook her head. "If you don't know," she answered, "then I'm not going to tell you. Do you mind...if I take these forward and show them to the Captain in the pilot's section?" (The Saga mags.) I said sure, why not? She took them forward and closed the door to the pilot's section behind her. I sipped my drink...then returned to my seat. She finally came out...after a long interval...and returned the Sagas to me, without a word...and averted her eyes from mine. We finally landed at Kennedy...and the rain was pouring down and lightning was smashing and crackling all around. We hurried from the plane into the terminal. The tall producer passed me and yelled at me, "Did you make this storm?" I grinned and said no. Inside, I went to Customs. The Customs man looked at me, at my ticket...and said, "Were you on this flight?" I answered why, yes. He said, "You're lucky to be alive, do you know that?" I said, what? "Sure," he said, "the plane that tried to land ahead of yours was struck by lightning and it blew up!" "Oh, no," I said, "was anybody hurt?" He gave me a funny look and said, yes. I went from there to the girl clerk at 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 35 of 35 would unhesitatingly destroy the entire United States..........the same way that they did that airplane..........if I am killed or assassinated before my time to go. Page Thirty Four National Airlines counter..........and asked her what had happened. She laid it all out for me..........and I got her complete answer on tape. A policeman near the plane while it was landing saw lightning hit its tail (just like the picture in the Saga article)..........and the airplane exploded. He ran over and picked up what people he could find (the pieces of the airplane were scattered all over the field) and put them in his car and rushed them to a hospital. Now, if you stop and think..........here was a curious circumstance. What happens on the field..........plane struck by lightning..........is exactly as shown on the page of my Saga article..........WHICH I HAD SHOWED TO THE STEWARDESS AND PILOT OF OUR PLANE! I still am in the dark about this. The way it happened..........is the exact way that I document my miracles constantly..........except in this case I didn't know what I was documenting. Were the SI's trying to tell the government something? Or PyrCre? Were they unhappy because of the toughies around me on the flight? I simply do not know. And no answer has been given to me. But one thing I do know is..........that was no accident. Back at Cape Charles..........while washing up..........I showed Beau, my boy, pictures of Horus and Anubis..........as shown in the Cairo museum. "Why, daddy," he exclaimed, "these are the very same pictures of creatures in the photograph in your book!" I said yes, that was true but that I hadn't expected him to realize it so fast and so quickly. He didn't blink an eye.........."and," he continued, "this Egyptian eye..........isn't that on a dollar bill, along with a pyramid?" I looked at him, amazed. This was out of his own mind..........he hadn't studied up on it..........hadn't had time to read it, or even look at a dollar bill. CORRECTION: I have gotten ahead of myself in my notes! A bit later on..........on my tapes..........the SI's communicated with me and said that they had set up the airplane being hit by lightning..........to let the U.S. government and authorities know just how serious my work is with the SI's..........and HOW SERIOUS THEY ARE. Then they flashed pictures into my mind..........of the work Moses did..........killing thousands of first-born Egyptian children..........to make a point. Meaning, they can kill some people, too..........although I am sure that it grieves them to do so..........but to a greater purpose..........like, perhaps, averting a nuclear war which would kill, not a relative handful of people..........but hundreds of millions. They had even controlled me..........had me DOCUMENT the lightning/plane incident..........by showing my mag to the people on the plane..........so that it would be known that I was directly connected with the incident..........with the SI's. And..........they did this also..........TO SHOCK ME. And teach me. What awesome responsibility I have now..........linked up both with UFO power and PyrCre. Also they wanted the U.S. govt. to know. Personally, I hated this incident. And the human half of me cries inside..........for those in that plane. But..........I know what the SI's mean. Hundreds of millions of humans can perish..........unless I survive and progress with my work with the SI's and PyrCre. So..........the FAA and the Fed know now, without any doubt whatsoever..........who I am..........and what I can do..........and what the SI's can do. Understand..........I had nothing to do whatsoever with that airplane explosion. It was an SI demonstration completely. In their infinite chessboard plan of things. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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I'd like to begin by asking a few questions to help give me an intuitive sense of the people to whom I'm speaking and sharing this time with. How many of you are involved in any traditional, conventional religious practice? A sprinkling. How many of you feel that spirituality is an important part of your life? Isn't that interesting? I suspect it as much. I suspect it as much. We live in an age in which it seems as if, if you want to follow a spiritual path, one of the best steps that you could take is to disassociate yourself with the religion of your upbringing. 00:01:21 Do most of you have felt that way? I don't know if that's really a reason to applaud. I mean, in some ways, it's a very sad comment on our age because isn't that the purpose of religion? I mean, it's wonderful that we have a PRS here, but we're like an oasis in the desert if the religions are not fulfilling that function. And, well, I'm of Jewish origins, and so today is not the Jewish Sabbath. Yesterday was. But today would be, for those of you who have a Christian upbringing, today would be the Sabbath. And I want to share a little bit about the Sabbath to begin with because it's become very important for me. I was bar mitzvahed at the age of 13, and I'm 48 now; 35 years, you barely saw me inside of a synagogue. 00:02:29 I mean, I couldn't wait to not be obliged to attend. And now, something happened to me inwardly. I'd just like to share with you briefly. I was in Israel over the summer on a cruise, speaking as a lecturer on a cruise ship, and we had eight hours in Israel. And when I came back, I found that I was different inside. I could no longer just ignore my Jewish heritage. Something had told me, you know, show up. And it was a struggle. I didn't want to step inside of a synagogue. It was the last thing I wanted to do. But I struggled with it. I took Yom Kippur, the Jewish high holy day, and I decided, well, at least I won't go into the office. I'll stay home. I'll meditate. 00:03:18 I'll read Jewish prayer books. And one thing led to another. Now I find that the Sabbath is one of the most precious gifts that God ever gave to humanity. Because I don't know how many of you are like me. How many of you are workaholics? Come on now, be honest. A sprinkling. Okay. A sprinkling. For those of us who are workaholics, who work from early morning to late at night, what a gift. It is to say, you know, for one day a week, I'm going to meditate, I'm going to read sacred texts, I'm going to enter into an attitude of prayer and reverence today. And so I want to honor that this is a Sabbath day today. And when we talk about intuition, That honoring of the Sabbath is very important because in the Judeo-Christian tradition, the Sabbath is a holy day. The reason it is is because God is holy and the Sabbath is a time that we let God into our lives. Now, I'm sure many of you find greater inspiration from the spiritual traditions that are not part of the Judeo-Christian heritage that most of us were educated in in our youth. I would imagine that many of you feel inspired by Buddhist teachings or by American Indian teachings or by Hindu teachings. 00:05:06 Exploration, that there's a common theme that runs through all of these. And that common theme is expressed in Judaism as the idea that there is one God. Hinduism, it's expressed in the idea that there is Brahman, the soul of the universe. And in the Hindu tradition, they talk about the two great principles, Brahman and Atman, the essence of the individual and the essence of the whole universe. And they've come up with perhaps one of the greatest mathematical equations of all time, of all philosophy, that Brahman equals Atman, that the essence of you is the essence of the universe. And in Buddhism, there's a slightly different way of expressing it because Buddhism has the notion of no self. There is no essence of you. There is no essence of the universe, but they are also equal. 00:06:06 It sort of reminds me of the equivalence of modern day. Christians and Jews, such as I'm sure many of us here, what we have in common is that I have a synagogue I don't go to, and you have a church you don't go to. Well, what does all of this have to do with intuition? You know, there are many, many definitions of intuition, and as the director of the Intuition Network, I made it my business to avoid all of them. And the reason I've had to avoid them all is because I want to include them all. And some of these definitions, they exclude other definitions. We have the artificial intelligence crowd, for example, and we try and reach out into the sciences and academia, and they say, well, intuition is subliminal computation. 00:07:07 You see, the brain is really a biocomputer, and it's always cranking away, even if you're not conscious of it. So while you're not aware, the brain is doing computations, and that's intuition. Then you have people who say, well, intuition is the result of experience. You learn, you grow. It's knowledge that has become unconscious. The one thing we do know about intuition is that by definition it's knowing without knowing how you know. But for purposes of those of us here who are on a spiritual path, who are deeply involved in understanding our own consciousness, I think it's fair enough to say that intuition comes out of the roots of consciousness itself. It comes out of that deep interconnectedness that at some fundamental level we are all one. Consciousness is all one. 00:08:12 And so it's no surprise that our consciousness has access to information that we shouldn't have through our senses, through our normal external means, because of course that's not how we got it. Intuitive knowledge doesn't come by some kind of magical mental radio. It comes because we are it. And yet there's this paradox. There's this paradox that we sure spend most of our time feeling very separate from it all. I mean, how do you drive your car if you are it? I am one with this tree. And it started a long time ago. For each of us personally, it started when we were born. Let's see, can I come down here? It started when we were born, you know. As young infants, we don't have this notion that I'm separate, that this is me and that's mommy. 00:09:15 It's like all one. Freud called it sort of an oceanic state of consciousness, and Freudians today still think of the mystical path as nothing more than a regression to an infantile state of awareness. And yet scientific research in my field of parapsychology, I prefer the term psi research, but it shows that young children are more intuitive. That is, in the laboratory, they can demonstrate this ability more. They're more psychic, you might say. And I think it has to do with they're closer to that oceanic state of oneness. They haven't yet been taught that they are not everything. Even a four-year-old, even a seven-year-old has more access. And the older they get, the less of it. Until by the time we're 13, it's pretty much all beaten out of us. 00:10:14 And then we go through an unfolding. We awaken into adulthood and go; we retrace the mystical path. And it can open up for us again. And the beauty of it is that we can simultaneously live in the separateness of our ego and in the oneness. Although there's a lot of social reinforcement in our secular culture at large to live mostly in the separateness and not in the oneness. I love the great Hindu myth of creation, which talks about in the beginning, in the earliest times, there was the One. It's all that was. And out of that oneness, there arose a heat. There arose a desire, there arose a passion, a ferment, and it was out of that passion for the oneness to know, to experience, to touch, to feel itself, that it divided. 00:11:14 And it was out of that division that the great divide was formed between the earth and the sky, between the belly of the dragon and the surrounding chaos, between male and female. And so on followed the differentiation until here we are, you know, each of us in our chair with computers and automobiles and artificial fabrics in our clothing. And so the interesting thing of these teachings is that all of these states exist simultaneously. The oneness never went away. It's just that our consciousness descended, so to speak, that's the theosophical term, that we descended into this material plane from a higher plane of consciousness, a Buddhic plane, a causal plane, an astral plane, an emotional plane, and a mental plane, which are all there, all of these planes of consciousness interpenetrating each other, and now here we are. 00:12:25 In the physical plane. Here we are in our separateness. Here we are in a mode of being. And I'm sure everyone here is very sincere in their spiritual quest, but each of us spends time feathering our nest, acquiring things, taking care of our family, making sure that we look good. Doing things that reinforce the separateness. In other words, we live in both worlds. And we lose touch with that intuition. We lose touch with our source. The Jewish people have a wonderful way of phrasing it because, you know, they lived in exile for 2,000 years from the land of Israel. And so they said that that was symbolic of our exile from God, that it was as if the Shekinah, the bride of God, had been separated from God. 00:13:31 And the bride of God is wandering throughout the world, longing for reunion with the beloved. And so, in a sense, are we in exile? That's one reason I think why I personally have felt so heartened to leave the exile that I had been in from my own heritage and to discover a newfound spirituality in the Reformed Jewish synagogue that I had never experienced during my earlier years. It's funny how you can go full circle. But how do we awaken ourselves? How do we reunite the Shekinah with God? How do we cultivate intuition? Fortunately, this morning, I had the opportunity to look through the library here and find the answer to that question. The answer is very interesting. It's just as in the beginning when there was the great oneness which grew through passion, through desire. 00:14:57 The universe unfolded and so it is for us as we are, you might say, trapped in this physical realm that's not necessarily such. such a prison. We have wonderful things. Look at the beautiful artwork in this room. The wonderful music that we listen to. It's through desire. It's through desire that our soul awakens its own yearning to return back to the source. And that desire can start out as sexual desire. Let's see if I can swing around here. Not really. I could jump, right? It starts out as, you know, the love of a husband and a wife, the love of a parent and a child. It may seem like this is my wife or my husband or my child, but that's the beginning of a love that expands out to encompass everything, to encompass everyone's wife, right? 00:16:04 Everyone's child. And I think that in our age, one of the fullest expressions of what I'm trying to get at comes from the poetry of Walt Whitman. How many of you are familiar with Whitman's poetry? Practically everybody. Isn't that something? You know, they say his great poem, Song of Myself, may be the greatest American poem ever written. Some people find it long and tedious, but he had what the critics call an earthy mysticism. I mean, he had wonderful lines like, 'Boy, I just love the smell of my armpits.' And he must be the person from whom we derive the phrase, 'you know, have you hugged a tree today?' Because in Whitman's poetry, he loves everything. He loves the ocean. He loves the trees. 00:17:05 He loves people from every walk of life and every age, whether they are trappers or Indians or working-class people or dying soldiers. Old and sick people. And he looks at people and he says, 'I recognize you.' I see your yearning. I know that you, scurvy-ridden leper, that you long to be hugged and nurtured and nourished. I love you, air and trees and the crow.' You know, it was love bursting out of everything. And there's that wonderful line in, in Whitman where he goes, he says, 'You can hear my barbaric yap over the rooftops of the world.' It was like bursting out. Bursting out of everything. I love the carpets. I love the flowers. I love the chair. I am that. There is nothing that I am not. 00:18:09 And he would then wax into metaphysical descriptions of the cosmos and the heavens and the realms of astrology and Pythagorean philosophy, and then he would bring it right back down to some smelly canvas sail on a sailboat and say, 'I love that too,' and savor its essence. That there is nothing, there is no molecule. And of course, you know, his great book, Leaves of Grass. I think what he's saying by titling his book of poetry, Leaves of Grass, is even in the most simple, most mundane thing, a leaf of grass, a grain of sand, is a universe, is an infinity. But it's not just the intellect. You know, we all know this intellectually. But to reach out with passion, to reach out with the fullness of our hearts is how we open our consciousness to reclaim the world that we are. Because it's just fundamentally an illusion to think that we are these separate, skin-encapsulated egos sitting in these chairs. That we have been conventionally taught to believe. You know, if I want to see who I am, I just look in the mirror, right? Wrong. That's just the tip of the iceberg. 00:19:46 And as we allow ourselves as mature adults to appreciate that our identity, who we are, extends out beyond this suit and tie and shirt. It extends out beyond the room, extends out beyond the city of Los Angeles or the political culture of Southern California or out beyond North America or out beyond the oceans, out beyond the planet, out beyond the solar system, out beyond the cosmos, and even inside, inside ourselves. inside our organs, inside the molecules that make us up, that we are part of every virus and every bacteria. And at the same time, embracing the dark side, that we are part of that which we conventionally label evil. There are murderers walking amongst us and here in this metropolitan community, and we are they. We are they. 00:21:00 There are thieves, and we partake of that. That's part of who we are. There are rapists, and that's part of who we are. There are people who are cheating on their wives, people who are cheating on their employers. We are they. We have all of that. There are animals living in the woods who live by hunting and killing, and we are them. And certainly at the cellular level, there are amoebas who go around swallowing up other amoebas, and that's part of our consciousness too. Everything that we fear and find loathsome and disgusting and abominable is part of our consciousness, the light side and the dark side, Christ and Satan. Our consciousness embraces it all so that we can feel compassion for all of that. That's the unfolding of intuition. 00:22:08 You know, who is one of the greatest intuitive geniuses of humanity? If I had to put on my list of the top ten, I would put very close to the top, William Shakespeare, of whom Manly Hall wrote. Because in the plays of Shakespeare, we see a couple of things. We see first the Renaissance embodiment of the ancient Celtic mystery traditions, but also we find in Shakespeare a consciousness who extended into the superconscious, but also he could write. From the inside of everybody, a drunkard, a beggar, a king, a lover, male and female, he knew them all. He loved them all. He wrote with great love for all of these figures. And some of his greatest characters are distasteful. They're the villains. Or they're the simple people. 00:23:16 And why I mention Shakespeare, I know that probably nobody in this room has his writing talent. But you see, we all have his consciousness. We all are Shakespeare. We all have the capacity to enter into, to unite with realms of consciousness everywhere. Because our consciousness is a drop in the same ocean. of consciousness that was Shakespeare, that was Beethoven, that was Mozart, or Plato, or Manly Hall, or Obadiah Harris, or Urbindo. Every being, whoever existed, whose life entered into that super-conscious realm, or whose life was an expression of genius, has left their mark in what the theosophists would call the Akashic Records, which is just another realm of consciousness. And had we more time, I could demonstrate this to you. Obadiah talked earlier about the mystery school traditions. 00:24:31 I have had the good fortune of being associated with one such Mystery School run by Jean Houston and I remember over 20 years ago attending one of the first sessions with her and she took a young woman who had some musical ability and she put her into a hypnotic trance state for about 30 seconds and she said, 'now go into the realm of consciousness that is Vivaldi' and come back out with a Piano concerto. Thirty seconds later, that woman came out of the hypnotic state, sat down at the piano, and played a piano concerto in the style of Vivaldi. One that had never been played before. See, she was trained to go into that state. And of course, we can't all play piano, we can't all write, we can't all act, but we can go. 00:25:35 Each of us has a place where we can go. We don't all do Vivaldi or Mozart or Shakespeare, but we each have our own very special channel into the supraconscious realms, into the archetypal realms, the realms of genius, the realms of spirit. Maybe we resonate because of our training in a particular profession or trade. Maybe we resonate because of a past life resonance. I have a past life resonance with the Roman philosopher Seneca, who actually was a playwright and a philosopher and ran the Roman Empire for five years because he was the tutor to Nero. For each of us, it's different. But we get in touch with it through our longing, through our yearning, and through an acknowledgement that that yearning is important. Maybe the most important aspect of our whole life, that yearning for the beloved, that yearning for oneness, that yearning to return to the prime evil source from which we came. That yearning for union with the divine, with the absolute. 00:27:12 I think this would be a good point for me to open up the floor and I'll be happy to field any questions that you may have. Yes, sir. I want to thank you for talking to us as if we know, opening the door of your mind much more so that we could also receive and recognize it. You're welcome. I'm thanking him. Yes. He's talking to us as if we know. He opens the door for you to receive and give us more. As if we may not know. We may offend someone. Did everybody hear that? He's thanking me for talking to you as if you know. And I guess I do feel that way. I don't like to set myself up as the expert on intuition because I run the intuition network. 00:28:01 I happen to feel that every one of you knows something about intuition that I can't quite yet grasp at all. That I can learn something about it from everyone of you. And one of the things that we say in the intuition network, if you want to cultivate your intuition. All you have to do is get together with a small group of people, five or six or ten, and share with each other what you already know. Because every one of you is an encyclopedia of knowledge. If you begin to probe what you already know and have someone to listen to you. Are there other questions? Yes. Hi, Sandy. 00:28:53 Facilitator. And I'm more unconventional. There are three who are really corporate people. And I sat around the table and I tried to show love. They hardly acknowledged me. I mean, not being the victim. But I would feel a happiness if I said there's a reason why I'm there. And I tried to play it through. But I went home and I couldn't wait until I got home and played with my dog and felt more centered. I didn’t want to feel a separation, but the lesson I got, and I want to ask you about it, was that it’s still about nobody out there is going to fix me. It’s still about going within. But I really wanted to be part of these three people who were like the corporate, and it was such a heaviness. 00:29:39 So I know that we’re all one, and we’re all one conscious mind, but I couldn’t seem to do it. I couldn’t wait to get home at night. I mean, I called out and went to dinner with someone, but I could feel joy again. So how do you? Thank you for the question. Did everybody hear that? Okay, what Sandy was saying is that she was in a situation, a business situation, with people with whom she wanted to feel one with, but she didn't feel that. She felt excluded. She felt separate. And she's saying, what can I do to break through? to reach that feeling of oneness. And I have to say that, first of all, what you need to do is accept the separateness. The separateness is there. 00:30:25 It can't be denied. It's part of our condition, living in this world of exile. But once you accept the separateness, there is a whole art to the oneness. One of the words for that art is tantra. It's a practice of oneness. And sometimes it involves things that would be considered socially taboo and things that can even be a little risky, in fact even dangerous, if they're not practiced sometimes with a teacher or in a context where you have some social reinforcements so that you can feel that it's okay, you can understand that it's okay. For example, a tantric practice in this situation might involve letting yourself really enter into an imaginal world, a world of images, in which you are loving those people, even physically. Breaking through that barrier. 00:31:27 There are tantric exercises to that effect. I don't necessarily recommend that you just go home and try that, because it's; The tantric path is considered a path that you really do need a teacher to do it with. But that's one method. And in general, though, you can, if I didn't want to do that, and if I were you, what I would do is I'd take a long walk in the woods, you know, and I'd talk to the trees, not out loud necessarily, but from my heart. I've been very influenced by one of the rabbis of the Hasidic Jewish tradition. One of my favorite prayers is, O Lord, please make it possible for me to walk in the woods every day and let it be possible for me to see the radiance of the plants and the trees and understand the pulse of your spirit that flows through me. 00:32:30 Through them, and let my heart open up and radiate with them, so I can pour out my soul to you in that environment. That's where, you know, you have to find sacred space, moments of oneness, and you can take that situation, for example, to which you just referred that felt so isolating, and when you're in that state of oneness, however it is, if it's in a bathtub for you or if it's in the woods, or if it's in meditation or reading poetry. And from that place of wholeness and oneness, send healing to the place that needs healing in your life. And there's a wonderful secret about healing. I got it out of A Course in Miracles. At the end of A Course in Miracles, there's a lesson on healing, and it's this. 00:33:19 Healing can take place in an instant. It just takes about an instant when you send healing. And the thing that you need to do is always trust that once you've entered into that state, that you've focused on the situation or person which you believe requires healing, enter into a state of healing consciousness, send it, and then let go. Trust that the healing will be accomplished, that the Great Spirit will find a way to heal that situation. Does that help? Oh, great, thank you. You're welcome. Yes? Do we all have the same capacity for intuition? I know we all have that certain part in us, but can we all achieve the same capacity, such as yours? I know it takes years and years and years. Is there a certain time? 00:34:14 The question is, do we all have the same capacity for intuition? And actually, it's very funny because You say it takes years and years and years, and yet I can tell you I don't think I'm as intuitive today as I was when I was born. We all do. We're all born totally open. We're all born totally intuitive. No one is more intuitive than that young baby who can learn how to speak and how to walk. Look at all the things that a baby learns intuitively in their first years of life. The differences between us have nothing to do with our capacity. We all have infinite capacity. The differences between us have to do with how we block ourselves, how deeply we have bought into the illusion that we are separate, that we are not intuitive. 00:35:10 And some of us are much more attached to that illusion than others. But it's still nothing more than an attachment to an illusion. And some who are the most attached can let go the quickest, too. So please don't think that I'm setting myself up as being more intuitive. I'm just a person who's spent more time focusing in on it. On that question, can I read a line from Manley Hall? Yes. Here. Do you want the microphone? Oh, you've got yours. I've got it here. I'm just going to read a line from Manny Hall on that question, if I might. Can you hear me? Yes. Why don't you stand up, Obadiah? I'm just going to read a line from Manley Hall on that question, if I might. 00:35:53 All things derive their life from light, and this light in its root is life itself. This indeed is the light that lighteth every man who cometh into the world. Everybody's got it. Was that, you know, Browning who said, 'there's a divine spark in every person, though he may desecrate it, he cannot quite lose it?' Yeah, I think it really is like that. It's not quite like the skill to be an athlete or the skill to be a great pianist. Intuition is different. Intuition is fundamental. It has to do with the fact that we are part of the oneness. Of the universe. That's where it comes from. That's the source of intuition. And we all partake of that equally. But we all have differences in terms of how we block it. 00:36:50 And we have differences in terms of what talents we have with which we can express it. I will never have the talent to express my intuition the way Shakespeare or Mozart did. Then again, they didn't have the talent to express it the way Jeffrey does. So each of us is unique, and each of us is totally connected to it. One more just short question on the intuition. Are females more intuitive, or are they just more open than males? Well, now, based on what I've just told you, the question is, are females more than males? And actually, everyone's different. I don't think, really, that females are more open. In fact, I recently did a television interview with a spiritual teacher who said it's just the opposite. It's the men who are more intuitive, not the women. 00:37:49 That this is one of these cultural myths, and there's a way in which men are more intuitive. I mean, like, you know, when a man sees a woman he's attracted to, he just goes for it, right? Like, gut level. Whereas a woman, when a woman's looking for a mate, she's thinking, hmm. can he support the kids? So women are more logical in some respects. Yes? You pointed out that we all basically have the ability to be intuitive. Don't you think an important key note is focus? If we don't focus on it, if we don't reach up for it, we don't develop it. If we focus on it, whatever our interests are, then we're going to pull down the intuitive knowledge. 00:38:43 And of course, what she's saying is, we can all be 100% intuitive, but if we don't focus on it, so what? And that's the paradox of all spiritual training. That's the paradox of living in a world where we're separate, and yet we're one. It's like, The Zen people who say, you know, there's nothing to do to get enlightened. You're already enlightened all the time. You just have to kind of appreciate that that's the case. But, you know, that appreciation is a subtle thing. It's a very subtle thing. It's a very special thing. And I've found in my life that it has to do with, like, if I tell you to relax, if you're really tense. How many of you are feeling tense this morning? A couple of you. 00:39:32 See, if I tell you, okay, hey, relax! Right? It's not going to work. What's the matter with you? You can't relax. But, you see, there's an art to relaxation. If I tell you, for those of you who are tense, and many of you are tense and you don't know it, because it becomes so chronic. In fact, all of us, we all walk around with chronic tension. It's true. So if I tell you, you know, squeeze your shoulders up to your neck. Go ahead. It's okay. Do it. And squeeze your fists, right? And tighten your arms and hold it tighter and tighter and tighter and tighter and squeeze your back and your other fist and tighten up your pelvis and tighten it. Tighten your legs. Curl your toes and tighten them. 00:40:21 Okay, and now relax. Right? See, that's how you relax. You tighten. You tighten beyond the level of the chronic tension that we all walk around with. And chronic tension is almost the same as chronic separateness. Because when we're relaxed, then we open up. We breathe and we feel that oneness. It's an equation. Sort of tension is equivalent to separateness. But sometimes it's important to get even tenser and tenser and tenser. And then when we relax, we really open up. So that's part of the striving. That's part of the discipline of spiritual practice, of opening up to intuition. And then there are many tools. You see, there are an infinite number of tools for intuition. Here in this room, there are a thousand intuition training devices, if we care to use them. 00:41:25 Every object can be a device for intuition. You know how Walt Whitman found that he could love every grain of sand and every leaf of grass. He could see God in each, the infinite. With God so near at hand, every manifestation of God is a teacher of intuition. You can, for example, I'll just give you one simple example. How many of you have a problem? Right. I mean, we all have at some level of our life a problem. Whether it is, what am I going to have for lunch? What am I going to do at work? Or what am I going to do with my house? Or with my primary relationship? You can take any little object. It could be a pen. It could be a thread. It could be a flower, a picture, any item. In fact, let's just do it for a second. Focus on an object in this room. It could be something personal. It could be something in the room. It could be anything. It could be a person. And just mentally, to yourself, tell your problem to that object. And in your mind, just wait and see if the object won't speak to you and tell you its answer. How would it advise you with regard to your problem? 00:43:25 Okay, how many of you felt that a message came? About, it looks like about a third of you, and I know I kind of rushed through it and did it spontaneously without much preparation, but if you take a little more time, if you put yourself into a receptive state, you can find answers everywhere. You know, the native peoples called that; let me rephrase that. The anthropologists notice that native peoples do this all the time, and the anthropologists call it animism, which is the idea that everything is filled with spirit. Everything is alive. Everything can speak to you. My wife, who teaches creativity programs, calls that ability holographic thinking. That the holograph of consciousness is everywhere and every image, every shape, every object has its own message. Yes. 00:44:39 The question is whether you can use this method of holographic thinking to predict into the future. And I guess the question depends on a couple of different things. Number one, it depends on the state of awareness that you are in. I do think that we have access to the future just as much as we have access to the past. But it does require you to be centered and really open to that. So, how well you do at any given moment depends on how busy your mind is with other things, how focused you are. And also, with regard to the future, there is a certain amount of uncertainty regarding the future. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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My favorite theoretical approach is, if we think of the universe itself as being a giant hologram, a hologram is a three-dimensional image. And if you know how holography works, if you take a hologram and cut it in half or cut it in quarters, every little piece represents the whole. So you can see the entire image by shining a laser on just a piece of the holographic film. However, the smaller the piece, the more vagueness, the less distinct it is. And I think that's a very good metaphor. We ourselves are pieces of the whole. We are pieces of the entire universe. But because we are tiny pieces, we see things indistinctly. 00:01:21 There's a certain uncertainty, a certain fuzziness in our picture. And that happens when we look at the future. In that famous encounter of Moses with God, when Moses asked God about his identity and the Hebrew words that came that came back was 'I will be what I will be'. Totally different than our Hellenistic thought 'I am that I am', God says 'I will be what I will be.' So even in the divine there is this evolutionary aspect which has some unpredictable nature to it. And now there's another deeper question as well, because when we talk about intuition, people often, because I'm in parapsychology, and frankly it's my interest as well, there's the question, well, can we use this to make money? 00:02:22 Like, if I can look into the future, I could predict what the stock market's going to do next week. I could predict football games. I could predict election results. And simply by placing some strategic bets, I could accumulate a lot of money. And the answer is, yes, you can. However, there's another function that intuition has. That's not the function of intuition because all of those things can serve to reinforce your sense of separateness. I'm going to do all of these things to build up myself, me, as opposed to everybody else. And naturally, of course, we do want to act in a way that enhances our lives. I'm not saying that that's wrong, but what I am saying is that the function, of intuition runs deeper than that. 00:03:21 Gary Zukoff, whom I've interviewed, the author of The Seat of the Soul, says, you can use your intuition for practical purposes, for seeing into the future, but be aware that whenever you attempt to use your intuition, it will work fundamentally to give you the information and the direction that your soul most needs. And your soul may most need to let go of money or to let go of something to which you are very attached, something to which you are trying to acquire or trying to cling to by looking into the future. The soul may give you just the opposite of what you think you're going to do. You see, it may very well be in your soul's interest for you to have a divorce or a bankruptcy or something that you're not anticipating here. 00:04:15 And that's why I think when we work in this realm of intuition, it's very good to ask the deeper question, what is my purpose? And let your actions flow out of that. What is my highest purpose for being here right now on this planet? How can I best fulfill that purpose? And when you use your intuition in the service of your highest purpose, your destiny, As a human being on this planet, you're less likely to run into the kind of trouble that I have seen people run into when they use their intuition in ways that really enhance their sense of self-importance. Yes? I understood what you said about the uncertainty relating to the future. Intuitively, I tend to think The uncertainty should also apply to the past, or what we call the past. But that doesn't jive with my analytical mind. We have this notion in our culture that the arrow of time. People say time flies like an arrow and fruit flies like bananas. 00:05:42 Shifting ground here. There is another view. There is the Einstein view in which we think of space and time as a four-dimensional matrix. And it's true, in that sense. That if we look into the past, it's uncertain, just as we look into the future. We're not sure about the origins of the universe entirely. We're not sure about evolution and the history of our species on this planet. Why, we don't even know who killed Nicole. And not only that, there are physicists who suggest that we can change the past. Just the way we can change the future because we're living in parallel worlds. There are many pasts and there are many futures and we can jump from one to another. So I think these questions are in both a philosophical and a scientific sense. 00:06:49 They're open. In fact, there was an article in Scientific American not too long ago that said it would be possible to build a time machine to go back and to change the past. As long as whenever that happened, then we jump into a different parallel universe where that was the past. So you could even avoid the problem of killing your own grandfather and then never being born. There are paradoxes like this. There are very strange realms of thought that are becoming are speakable now. I mean, serious people in scientific journals are speaking of them because, let me just expand on that a little bit more. It's 1995 and many of us, I can see we've been around, we've been watching these changes accelerate for the last 10, 20, 30 years. 00:07:46 How many of you have personal computers right now? Okay, how many of you 20 years ago would never have imagined that you would own a personal computer. Right? And the speed of transportation is increasing. The speed of information is increasing. New technologies are coming down the tubes quickly. Nanotechnology, little machines that will be as small as molecules, like tiny little vacuum cleaners that will go into your bloodstream and clean out the cholesterol, are going to be invented. Genetic engineering, virtual reality is around the corner. And these things are going to change our civilization probably as much in the next 20 years as we have seen in the last 2,000. Right on the cusp of all of that. 00:08:37 And it's a time in which we are You know, in addition to all the other reasons that we've been talking about for going within, for getting in touch with your intuition, for getting in touch with your true nature, these changes are going to demand it of us even more strongly. Because with these new technologies comes awesome responsibility. We become almost like gods. And if we're going to have the power of gods, and we do, we have the power to annihilate the whole planet in many different ways now, we have to grow and have the maturity and the responsibility of gods. And that means going deep, deep, deep into the inner worlds, opening up not only to the oneness, but to the many stages of archetypal reality. 00:09:30 The layers of consciousness that lead us into the oneness. Yes, sir? The question is, are happiness and sadness intuition? And the answer is yes and no. The yes is that when you're talking to the director of the intuition network, maybe I'm like a fish swimming in a fishbowl, but as far as I'm concerned, everything is intuition. And I mean that sincerely, and in a deep philosophical sense, intuition underlies all human experience. Before we even know that it's happy or sad, it emerges out of an intuitive level. You're being intuitive right now, just listening to the words that come out of my mouth, because I can speak so rapidly that I don't even pause between the words, and yet you know when one word ends and another word begins, and you know it without knowing how you know. 00:10:31 It's automatic. And with emotions, we respond. At an emotional level, our body is a great intuitive antenna, and when we're happy or sad, we have hormones coursing through our brain and our heart and our body, and those hormones are part of an instinctive, intuitive reaction to the situations around us and within us. So, even when we think we're being very logical, every logical thought, if you follow it to its root, is deeply intuitive. Yes, and then the reason that they are not is because they're emotions. And at another level of discourse, one would distinguish between emotions and intuition, just as one would distinguish between logic and intuition. But I prefer to look at the way intuition underlies everything. I think that's where we understand intuition not just as a concept, but it's meat that we can chew on. 00:11:34 How do you distinguish logic from intuition? The question this lady asks is how do I distinguish logic from intuition? Well, in a conventional sense, logic follows an algorithm. It's a set of rules that you apply to a premise. So I can take a premise, for example, If I take the premise that men typically wear suits, and I can go around the room and look at the people who have suits on and say, well, you're a man, and, oh, you're a man. It won't always apply, but that's a logical operation, applying a principle to a set of premises. But the premises themselves are not logically derived. Where do the premises come from? And every system of logic has to have a premise, and every premise is ultimately arrived at through intuition or experience or common sense, which all of those are different kinds of language for talking about pre-logical human processes that are related in different ways to intuition. 00:12:51 Well, that's what I'm saying. At this level of discourse, you can't separate them. There is a level of discourse which is very meaty, at which intuition underlies everything, virtually everything. But isn't it true, you know, logic follows a premise. And if that premise is incorrect, then the logic is incorrect. For example, you say A doesn't like B because because B cheated A in a transaction. That's a logical premise. But if you said A doesn't like B, and he doesn't know why, that's an intuition. 00:13:40 Lots of times, in daily parlance, we make these distinctions. But you see, Obadiah, what I'm liking to do is reach a little deeper. Let's say, okay, it's perfectly logical to say A doesn't like B because B cheated A. There's nothing intuitive about that. We all know, but if we look a little deeper and we say, what is cheating? What is our sense about cheating? There's a moral sense underneath that, and that's intuitive. In fact, the great philosopher Immanuel Kant, one of the greatest of Western philosophers, in his book, A Critique of Pure Reason, points out that there are logical categories that we can't derive from anything else. Space, time, energy, identity, purpose. And these are the most important things that motivate us, that color our life, our sense of good or bad, our sense of values. 00:14:41 They underlie everything else that we do, and they fundamentally grow out of our intuition. Or one might say, well, they grow out of the structure of our brain. There are many things that people will say they grow out of, but they come out of what one would think of as pre-logical. Yes? What is the difference between intuition and God? The question is, what is the difference between intuition and God? That's a very good question. And maybe it would be best to leave you with the thought that there isn't such a difference. That after all, God is undefinable, ultimately. You know, somebody once asked Einstein, did he believe in God? And he sat there for about a half hour. And then he said, you know, there are 30 definitions of God. 00:15:37 Which one do you mean? But Aristotle spoke of God in the sense of being the prime, the unmoved mover, which is the same as saying, you know, the original premise out of which everything else came. And that's the level that I'm thinking of when I talk about intuition here, that there is a sense of the origin, the beginning, the fundamental connection, the eternal, the divine. And one word for that is God, another word is spirit, another word is intuition. So when I use the word intuition, I am definitely pointing in that direction. Yeah. I mean, we could quibble about grammar and semantics and theology and so on, but I would choose to emphasize the similarity there rather than the distinction. Would I say intuition is a tool? 00:16:38 Yes, I could say that intuition is a tool, and I suppose I wouldn't say that God is a tool. I'd rather say that we are God's tool. And maybe the same is actually true of intuition, that it's much better to think of ourselves as the tool of intuition than to think of ourselves as the master of the tool of intuition. But, you know, we're talking about paradoxes within paradoxes within paradoxes. I wouldn't ever advise any one of us to become merely the tool of intuition. Intuition needs to be combined with reason. Actually, the quote that Obadiah opened our talk with points this out, that intuition without experience can lead one into just into the realms of fantasy that are ungrounded. It can take us in any direction. Experience without intuition lacks vision, lacks purpose. 00:17:36 They need to be combined. So maybe the better way to say it is that we are God's tool and God is our tool and the same with intuition. Well, it's just about 12:30. Let me conclude with one final note. If I may, somebody at one of my talks asked me in a deeply imploring way, she said, 'Well, but who am I? Who am I in all of this?' And it reminded me of a story of a great seeker who had climbed to the highest mountain And opened up his robes in ancient times and beat on his chest and looked up at the heavens and said, Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? And just then the clouds darkened and began rolling and there was lightning and a parting of the skies and a deep voice boomed out. Who wants to know? Thank you all. You've been a delightful audience. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound 00:00:13 Quite no, we see the future like a distant hologram. Here's how it works, if you want a little scientific explanation. My favorite theoretical approach is, if we think of the universe itself as being a giant hologram, a hologram is a three-dimensional image. And if you know how holography works, if you take a hologram and cut it in half or cut it in quarters, every little piece represents the whole. So you can see the entire image by shining a laser on just a piece of the holographic film. However, the smaller the piece, the more vagueness, the less distinct it is. And I think that's a very good metaphor. We ourselves are pieces of the whole. We are pieces of the entire universe. But because we are tiny pieces, we see things indistinctly. 00:01:21 There's a certain uncertainty, a certain fuzziness in our picture. And that happens when we look at the future. In that famous encounter of Moses with God, when Moses asked God about his identity and the Hebrew words that came that came back was 'I will be what I will be'. Totally different than our Hellenistic thought 'I am that I am', God says 'I will be what I will be.' So even in the divine there is this evolutionary aspect which has some unpredictable nature to it. And now there's another deeper question as well, because when we talk about intuition, people often, because I'm in parapsychology, and frankly it's my interest as well, there's the question, well, can we use this to make money? 00:02:22 Like, if I can look into the future, I could predict what the stock market's going to do next week. I could predict football games. I could predict election results. And simply by placing some strategic bets, I could accumulate a lot of money. And the answer is, yes, you can. However, there's another function that intuition has. That's not the function of intuition because all of those things can serve to reinforce your sense of separateness. I'm going to do all of these things to build up myself, me, as opposed to everybody else. And naturally, of course, we do want to act in a way that enhances our lives. I'm not saying that that's wrong, but what I am saying is that the function, of intuition runs deeper than that. 00:03:21 Gary Zukoff, whom I've interviewed, the author of The Seat of the Soul, says, you can use your intuition for practical purposes, for seeing into the future, but be aware that whenever you attempt to use your intuition, it will work fundamentally to give you the information and the direction that your soul most needs. And your soul may most need to let go of money or to let go of something to which you are very attached, something to which you are trying to acquire or trying to cling to by looking into the future. The soul may give you just the opposite of what you think you're going to do. You see, it may very well be in your soul's interest for you to have a divorce or a bankruptcy or something that you're not anticipating here. 00:04:15 And that's why I think when we work in this realm of intuition, it's very good to ask the deeper question, what is my purpose? And let your actions flow out of that. What is my highest purpose for being here right now on this planet? How can I best fulfill that purpose? And when you use your intuition in the service of your highest purpose, your destiny, As a human being on this planet, you're less likely to run into the kind of trouble that I have seen people run into when they use their intuition in ways that really enhance their sense of self-importance. Yes? I understood what you said about the uncertainty relating to the future. Intuitively, I tend to think The uncertainty should also apply to the past, or what we call the past. But that doesn't jive with my analytical mind. We have this notion in our culture that the arrow of time. People say time flies like an arrow and fruit flies like bananas. 00:05:42 Shifting ground here. There is another view. There is the Einstein view in which we think of space and time as a four-dimensional matrix. And it's true, in that sense. That if we look into the past, it's uncertain, just as we look into the future. We're not sure about the origins of the universe entirely. We're not sure about evolution and the history of our species on this planet. Why, we don't even know who killed Nicole. And not only that, there are physicists who suggest that we can change the past. Just the way we can change the future because we're living in parallel worlds. There are many pasts and there are many futures and we can jump from one to another. So I think these questions are in both a philosophical and a scientific sense. 00:06:49 They're open. In fact, there was an article in Scientific American not too long ago that said it would be possible to build a time machine to go back and to change the past. As long as whenever that happened, then we jump into a different parallel universe where that was the past. So you could even avoid the problem of killing your own grandfather and then never being born. There are paradoxes like this. There are very strange realms of thought that are becoming are speakable now. I mean, serious people in scientific journals are speaking of them because, let me just expand on that a little bit more. It's 1995 and many of us, I can see we've been around, we've been watching these changes accelerate for the last 10, 20, 30 years. 00:07:46 How many of you have personal computers right now? Okay, how many of you 20 years ago would never have imagined that you would own a personal computer. Right? And the speed of transportation is increasing. The speed of information is increasing. New technologies are coming down the tubes quickly. Nanotechnology, little machines that will be as small as molecules, like tiny little vacuum cleaners that will go into your bloodstream and clean out the cholesterol, are going to be invented. Genetic engineering, virtual reality is around the corner. And these things are going to change our civilization probably as much in the next 20 years as we have seen in the last 2,000. Right on the cusp of all of that. 00:08:37 And it's a time in which we are You know, in addition to all the other reasons that we've been talking about for going within, for getting in touch with your intuition, for getting in touch with your true nature, these changes are going to demand it of us even more strongly. Because with these new technologies comes awesome responsibility. We become almost like gods. And if we're going to have the power of gods, and we do, we have the power to annihilate the whole planet in many different ways now, we have to grow and have the maturity and the responsibility of gods. And that means going deep, deep, deep into the inner worlds, opening up not only to the oneness, but to the many stages of archetypal reality. 00:09:30 The layers of consciousness that lead us into the oneness. Yes, sir? The question is, are happiness and sadness intuition? And the answer is yes and no. The yes is that when you're talking to the director of the intuition network, maybe I'm like a fish swimming in a fishbowl, but as far as I'm concerned, everything is intuition. And I mean that sincerely, and in a deep philosophical sense, intuition underlies all human experience. Before we even know that it's happy or sad, it emerges out of an intuitive level. You're being intuitive right now, just listening to the words that come out of my mouth, because I can speak so rapidly that I don't even pause between the words, and yet you know when one word ends and another word begins, and you know it without knowing how you know. 00:10:31 It's automatic. And with emotions, we respond. At an emotional level, our body is a great intuitive antenna, and when we're happy or sad, we have hormones coursing through our brain and our heart and our body, and those hormones are part of an instinctive, intuitive reaction to the situations around us and within us. So, even when we think we're being very logical, every logical thought, if you follow it to its root, is deeply intuitive. Yes, and then the reason that they are not is because they're emotions. And at another level of discourse, one would distinguish between emotions and intuition, just as one would distinguish between logic and intuition. But I prefer to look at the way intuition underlies everything. I think that's where we understand intuition not just as a concept, but it's meat that we can chew on. 00:11:34 How do you distinguish logic from intuition? The question this lady asks is how do I distinguish logic from intuition? Well, in a conventional sense, logic follows an algorithm. It's a set of rules that you apply to a premise. So I can take a premise, for example, If I take the premise that men typically wear suits, and I can go around the room and look at the people who have suits on and say, well, you're a man, and, oh, you're a man. It won't always apply, but that's a logical operation, applying a principle to a set of premises. But the premises themselves are not logically derived. Where do the premises come from? And every system of logic has to have a premise, and every premise is ultimately arrived at through intuition or experience or common sense, which all of those are different kinds of language for talking about pre-logical human processes that are related in different ways to intuition. 00:12:51 Well, that's what I'm saying. At this level of discourse, you can't separate them. There is a level of discourse which is very meaty, at which intuition underlies everything, virtually everything. But isn't it true, you know, logic follows a premise. And if that premise is incorrect, then the logic is incorrect. For example, you say A doesn't like B because because B cheated A in a transaction. That's a logical premise. But if you said A doesn't like B, and he doesn't know why, that's an intuition. 00:13:40 Lots of times, in daily parlance, we make these distinctions. But you see, Obadiah, what I'm liking to do is reach a little deeper. Let's say, okay, it's perfectly logical to say A doesn't like B because B cheated A. There's nothing intuitive about that. We all know, but if we look a little deeper and we say, what is cheating? What is our sense about cheating? There's a moral sense underneath that, and that's intuitive. In fact, the great philosopher Immanuel Kant, one of the greatest of Western philosophers, in his book, A Critique of Pure Reason, points out that there are logical categories that we can't derive from anything else. Space, time, energy, identity, purpose. And these are the most important things that motivate us, that color our life, our sense of good or bad, our sense of values. 00:14:41 They underlie everything else that we do, and they fundamentally grow out of our intuition. Or one might say, well, they grow out of the structure of our brain. There are many things that people will say they grow out of, but they come out of what one would think of as pre-logical. Yes? What is the difference between intuition and God? The question is, what is the difference between intuition and God? That's a very good question. And maybe it would be best to leave you with the thought that there isn't such a difference. That after all, God is undefinable, ultimately. You know, somebody once asked Einstein, did he believe in God? And he sat there for about a half hour. And then he said, you know, there are 30 definitions of God. 00:15:37 Which one do you mean? But Aristotle spoke of God in the sense of being the prime, the unmoved mover, which is the same as saying, you know, the original premise out of which everything else came. And that's the level that I'm thinking of when I talk about intuition here, that there is a sense of the origin, the beginning, the fundamental connection, the eternal, the divine. And one word for that is God, another word is spirit, another word is intuition. So when I use the word intuition, I am definitely pointing in that direction. Yeah. I mean, we could quibble about grammar and semantics and theology and so on, but I would choose to emphasize the similarity there rather than the distinction. Would I say intuition is a tool? 00:16:38 Yes, I could say that intuition is a tool, and I suppose I wouldn't say that God is a tool. I'd rather say that we are God's tool. And maybe the same is actually true of intuition, that it's much better to think of ourselves as the tool of intuition than to think of ourselves as the master of the tool of intuition. But, you know, we're talking about paradoxes within paradoxes within paradoxes. I wouldn't ever advise any one of us to become merely the tool of intuition. Intuition needs to be combined with reason. Actually, the quote that Obadiah opened our talk with points this out, that intuition without experience can lead one into just into the realms of fantasy that are ungrounded. It can take us in any direction. Experience without intuition lacks vision, lacks purpose. 00:17:36 They need to be combined. So maybe the better way to say it is that we are God's tool and God is our tool and the same with intuition. Well, it's just about 12:30. Let me conclude with one final note. If I may, somebody at one of my talks asked me in a deeply imploring way, she said, 'Well, but who am I? Who am I in all of this?' And it reminded me of a story of a great seeker who had climbed to the highest mountain And opened up his robes in ancient times and beat on his chest and looked up at the heavens and said, Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? And just then the clouds darkened and began rolling and there was lightning and a parting of the skies and a deep voice boomed out. Who wants to know? Thank you all. You've been a delightful audience. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound 00:00:11 This effect shows the new quantum physics was a Pandora's box of occult magic that subverted the naive belief in a mechanical universe completely described by dead forces obeying strict laws of cause and effect. The ERP effect showed that reality is telepathic. 00:00:50 By 1978, von Zimmer was denazified, claiming Jewish ancestry, and was well established in the American academic world with the aid of secret units of the Fourth Reich, operating out of Chile. The Fourth Reich had penetrated multinational corporations and the intelligence organizations of the Western powers. It dominated South American politics and controlled a major part of the Arab oil wealth. It's objective. A coup d'etat of the United States government on July 4th, 1984. Conditions were right. The United States was like Weimar Germany. San Francisco was Berlin. The hippie movement and the anti-Vietnam War movement had their counterparts in Weimar in the 1920s. The United States had lost a war that left great divisiveness within the nation, just as in Germany. An American president had abdicated in disgrace, just like the Kaiser. 00:01:52 Most people were hypnotized into a narcotic despair by the intrinsic brainwashing of compulsive television watching. The American family had disintegrated. Punk rock bands mutilated themselves on stage. One punk musician committed suicide in front of a cheering audience of thousands. The erotically aroused crowd dismembered the body and drank the blood, in a ceremony reminiscent of ancient rituals. The American people suffered from the high cost of oil, just as the German people had suffered from the war reparations dictated to them in the Treaty of Versailles. Inflation and unemployment were irresistibly building tension in the American subconscious. The corporate greed for higher profits using mass media had destroyed the spirit of the West. Our bankrupt leaders declined into a perplexed passivity, displaying weakness and cowardice. The Fourth Reich had secret agreements with the Chinese communists as well as with certain elements in the Soviet state. After all, the precedent had been set in 1939 between the Fuhrer and Stalin. 00:03:14 Technique in the new war against the United States was not military, but psychological. We had entered a new post-industrial phase of warfare. We were all participants in the galactic cyber-war that had been spreading faster than light across the star fields. Earth was caught in the wake of probability storms originating in the galactic center where the telepathic mule dictator of the Union of Worlds was battling the Second Foundation of psychic physicists. The Second Foundation had left a small unit of warriors in San Francisco's North Beach. The leader of this unit, of the elite HIA, the Higher Intelligence Agency of the Second Foundation, was a certain Rabbi Sarfati, whose cover was that of the village idiot of Grant Avenue. HIA's headquarters was the Café Trieste, frequented by myriads of strange denizens of the embattled galaxy. Rumors were rife that new mutants from other galaxies and other realities from the future were also taking demonic possession of native biocomputers that were of woman-born. In all cases, the mechanism for possession of a human by alien intelligence was that of quantum cloning through the extension of the ERP effect. 00:04:59 Meanwhile, back in 1945, von Zimmer, acting under direct orders of the Führer, had activated a deep cover SS unit in Philadelphia where the recipient for the Führer's consciousness was growing up. The reprogramming of this Jewish child's bio-computer began. The Führer's mind was part of the non-local collective quantum wave function, as was the mind of the telepathic mule. This wave function is the pattern of all potential thought, feelings, and behavior in the stream of consciousness, caused and guided by a non-local higher intelligence acting from more complex levels of the stratified reality in which dreams undergird hard facts. The meta-programmer intervenes. What might be is transubstantiated into what is, creating the illusion of historical time, for it is the basic insight of quantum physics: that what is isn't always. 00:06:12 This was the secret of the quantum cloning that the Führer was about to initiate. The last act of the Führer was an act of the ultimate evil. Von Zimmer had decided that it would be best not to possess the biocomputer of the Jewish child in 1945. Rather, he would metaprogram the jump to start in 1945 and end up in the early 1970s, when the child would be grown and sufficiently experienced in the ideology and sales techniques of the sophisticated Fourth Reich. Hans Zimmer would be there to act as midwife to the rebirth of the Führer. 00:07:17 The Fuhrer Bunker rots with the concussions of the heavy Soviet artillery now only hundreds of meters away. The Fuhrer is now in a barbarian frenzy of erotic fanaticism for his final gesture of disobedience to God as the curtain comes down on his production of God of Dameron. The mule, acting as a non-local hidden variable from the future, touches the emotional centers of the limbic regions of the Fuhrer's brain. The Fuhrer displays great bravery at the end under the spell of the mule's extraterrestrial quantum grip of conversion. The Fu replaces the Luger in his mouth and prepares to receive the wafer of Lucifer which will propel him beyond space-time to the projected level where he will ascend the throne of the psychopathic god. It is the moment of glory felt by the punk rock samurai who disembowels himself with his electric guitar. The totalitarian triumph of insanity. The countdown is over for the Blastoff into inner space. The mule in the far future snaps his spindly fingers. The quantum message of feeling without a physical signal triggers a nerve impulse in the Furious Motor Quartet in 1945. The Furious Finger squeezes the trigger of the gleaming black Luger. 00:08:45 The Führer's released negentropic patterns of self-sustained awareness without object, fragment into infinite patterns of Tibetan deities reflected without end in the many worlds of coexisting ultimate reality. The Führer is like Satan flying to Eden out of Hades after his defeat by the armies of the Lord. The Führer is the demented voter whose maniacal laugh tilts down the corridors of time in the zero-point vibrations of the chatter in the stream of everyone's collective unconsciousness. 00:09:30 When Christ said that his Father's house had many mansions, he meant that the intuition of man experiences on the level of quantum potential to the extent that we forget and become as mechanical automata, asleep to the higher occult realities; we cannot feel our schizoid split into the many cracked mirrors of the quantum magic theater. We see through the glass darkly, now fall from the Eden of potential into the irreversible flux of appearance and historical change. But Christ reminds us that the temple of God is the inner quantum order enfolded within the metrical outer layer that we quantify with clocks and measuring rods. The rise of quantum physics has allowed Homo scientificus to enter once more into the hidden wisdom of alchemy. 00:11:27 Our Jewish sacrifice sat in a white recreational vehicle that he purchased with a phony check in Fernwood, Ohio. He had to leave in a hurry when the salesman caught him in flagrante delicto with his wife Mary. Our boy, tired from his long journey in the night, looked at San Francisco Bay from the parking lot at Coit Tower on top of Telegraph Hills. The back of the van was loaded with unsold encyclopedias, organic detergents and cosmetics, and used clothes. Porno magazines. Suddenly, in the glory of a multicolored sunset with a low-flying fog swiftly covering the Golden Gate Bridge, the wave function of the Führer, like a malevolent eagle swooping down on its prey, collapsed onto the world tube that was the body of our Jewish land. 00:12:38 The wave function of our boy and that of the Fuhrer had been correlated by the SS men many years ago in 1945 by ordinary forces of brainwashing. Even though this mechanical interaction had ceased, the irrevocable effects were permanent. It only took the hidden variable of the mule, using von Zimmer as a tool, to collapse the correlated wave function of the Fuhrer and the Jew. It was no mean task to make sure that the designated clone received the most demonic powers of the Fuhrer and diminished. But the mule's relatively weak influence from the future was coherently amplified in a psi laser technique competently executed by von Zimmer, the meticulous midwife. 00:13:42 Von Zimmer, at that moment, was in a remote viewing trance while sitting in a hot tub at a spiritual spa in central California. The Fourth Reich had infiltrated the human potential movement and was about to transfer part of its huge hidden corporate assets to the clone. The mission of the clone was to create a new fifth column under the subterfuge of a mass consciousness expansion training. In fact, the clone would create a powerful political machine ready to take over key government and business positions in the United States by July 4th, 1984. As a symbol of the enlightenment of the clone, now possessed by the essence of the Fuhrer's spirit, the clone changed his Jewish name, proclaiming that he had given up Jewish weakness for German strength. The clone's new name was Ludwig von Braun, The Ludwig came from Mad King Ludwig of Bavaria, von Braun from the ex-Nazi rocket engineer, Werner von Braun, designer of the B-2 rocket that killed many in England in World War II. So began the blitzkrieg rise to power of the first psychic dictator of the United States, Ludwig von Braun, Chancellor of Megalomania. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Quantum Opera Fragment https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/d167fd0b6ee19d06b8172aacb8267793.pdf 0e5a94951b50f37d94cc76373420314c https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/61c7ef5176c56956ba64337d4e38a514.txt aa9a05efe08b08a5f6cf49dad4a52f5c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 8 PART II-- Ted Owens's UFO Mission Received Mar. 20/1971 from Mr. Colin Calvas Although he can't tell precisely why he was selected by the SIs (Space Intelligences) to be their "envoy" on earth, two things he is sure of: 1) he has been "programmed" to receive messages from these ultra-scientific extraterrestrials, and; 2) the feats he's performed with the amazing PK powers they've bestowed on him are merely their way of trying to get the attention of the world, particularly the U.S. Government, in order to help mankind out of its many difficulties. Up to now, no one has paid any attention to his ominous warnings of an imminent crisis, but can we much longer ignore TED OWENS Flying Saucer PROPHET of DOOM 22 - [ ] SAGA === Page 2 of 8 By Otto O. Binder Illustration by Gil Cohen === Page 3 of 8 In Part I of the Ted Owens story (SAGA-March), Otto Binder described the amazing fulfillment of the predictions made by the incredible PK man. Now, in Part II, Binder explains how Ted came into possession of his fantastic powers, and why the Saucer Intelligences chose him to be the agent for their vital mission to Earth. Somewhere in another eerie dimension, strange beings of pure energy cast their all-seeing eyes upon the tiny planet earth. They see strife and trouble and moral degeneration there. Moreover, they see organic creatures (humans) defiling their beautiful world, spreading pollution senselessly. They pity the disorganized earthlings who are unknowingly heading for worldwide disaster and eventual oblivion. A voice booms out to the DIs, (Dimension Intelligences), an omniscient voice, one that the DIs, through ages of spiritual development, have often tuned in directly. The Voice commands--"Go to that doomed planet and help those pitifully blundering souls to save themselves before it is too late. Go!" Obediently, the DIs utilize their ultra-scientific and supernormal powers to penetrate to the earth-dimension in craft shaped like flying saucers. The DIs are now the SIs, or the Saucer Intelligences, as far as earth is concerned. Their super-ray monitors scan the teeming millions on earth below. Where can they find a human mind less primitive than the average and capable of receiving ESP communications from them? It is no easy task to match minds from two utterly different dimensions. No such mind is found, not one that would withstand their powerful and indeed lethal thought-impulses. Ah, but that child--his brain and mind might be developed to the point where it would not be blasted and burned out by an interchange of communication. It would take time--an earthly lifetime, in fact--but there is no other alternative. They must begin now, for time is running out for earth. . . . Harry T. Owens was born in Bedford, Ind., in 1920. The "T" doesn't stand for anything, but an aunt began calling him Ted and the name stuck. From the beginning, Ted was a "loner," uninterested in joining other children in their "silly" games. Only sports interested him, somewhat, in school. And here the first indications of his strange powers became evident. In basketball, he would make a 20-foot shot with his back to the basket. The ball would swish through the hoop miraculously. When he passed the ball, nobody saw it move, yet the boy he shot it to would suddenly find it in his hands. Needless to say, his friends began to shun him for his mysterious doings. Ted took up boxing later, excelling in it. However, when he fought a much bigger boy, he was battered savagely in the head and suffered a latent concussion. As Ted sees it today, this seemed to have been deliberately planned by the SIs. Even before that, at age five, Ted had been playing in the street when a car struck him and knocked him 15 feet, leaving him unconscious for hours. Then, after the boxing incident, he received more "brain-rattl- *Ted Owens was parked on a one lane mountain road years ago when a car passed through his!* 24 - [ ] SAGA === Page 4 of 8 ing" blows as if his brain were being "shook up" or "scrambled"--for a purpose. While playing, another boy rolled a huge log down on Ted that ripped his scalp open. As a teen-ager, Ted was a passenger in a car that ran off the road at 90 miles per hour. The car was totally smashed, and Ted's head was almost split open. Ted's head and brain received four brutal blows, from which he always miraculously recovered. That is certainly, and oddly, more than most people suffer. Ted has since found out from the SIs, he says, that these "accidents" were necessary in order to allow one of the invisible SI entities to enter his brain at the moment of injury and perform a strange healing that altered his brain each time, for future SI communications. **T**his becomes more credible when one remembers that head and brain injuries have played a part in the careers of noted psychics. Peter Hurkos fell off a ladder onto his head, for instance, and thereafter gained his famed psi-powers (a fully documented story). Dr. Franz Polgar was shot in the head in WW I and lived to become a noted "sensitive." There are hints from the SIs that those men, and others, might have been earlier experiments of theirs to reshape a human brain into an SI "receiving station," but without success. Only in the case of Ted, it seems, could the SIs go all the way. Sheer imagination? Blatant nonsense? Then read these excerpts from Ted's diary. July 4, 1966--"Woke up this morn with two sore spots on back of head, proportionately spaced...two little bumps. Family noticed them immediately, said they were never there before." July 1, 1968--"Martha (his wife) pointed out this morn...two deep scars under my ear, on neck...that have never been there before. Did the SIs do something to me overnight?" Then, in April, 1970, a deep indentation appeared behind Ted's right ear. Martha exclaimed--"Why, Ted, it looks like something has been *inserted* there!" **I**n October 1968, Ted also had felt a new ridge of bone at the back of his head, below the brain case. Now the other "indentations" and "scars" might conceivably have been ordinary bruises that Ted received unknowingly. But when a ridge of solid bone appears overnight--and stays--we can't explain that away. Another remarkable change in Ted's physiognomy occurred recently, in July, 1970. Ted woke up with two sets of eyebrows. In the mirrors, he distinctly saw a new growth of reddish hair over his normal brown eyebrows. It could have been another sign of brain "tampering" by the SIs. The SIs have since told Ted what they are up to in these brain "modifications." It was a form of "psychic surgery" to beef up the right lobe of his brain in order to allow him to perform PK feats and also to receive their high-voltage ESP messages. These weird alterations within Ted's brain are given strong credence by Dr. Ansel Kowzak (his real name is not given to protect his position), an astrophysicist as well as an expert in paranormal phenomena. Kowzak told Ted that the government had performed secret autopsies on several "contactees," notably the famed George Adamski. The results were startling. In all the dead contactee brains, a pattern of odd growths were found on the frontal lobe of the cerebrum. They were called "dendrites" and seemingly had something to do with the ESP communications the contactees claimed to have had with the saucer people. (In medical terms, dendrites are bunches of tiny sensory tips which link up brain cells. The more dendrites, the more sensory impressions going through the brain. Presumably, large growths of dendrites were found in the dissected brains of the contactees, which might have given them extra-sensory powers. This would give more credence to their stories of receiving ESP messages from saucer people.) This story naturally cannot be verified, if true, as it would obviously be classified by the government to camouflage its secret interest in the "non-existent" UFOs. Ted is sure that something similar to dendrites have been implanted in his brain by the SIs to make him a sensitive ESP receiver. Up until March, 1965, Ted had believed he was in communication with the "Intelligence behind Nature" who had given him his PK powers to create or guide storms. Then, as related in the previous issues of SAGA (August and September, 1970), Ted suddenly became aware that he was being contacted by the SIs. **One astrophysicist, who has studied UFO phenomena for many years, became quite excited after a careful examination of Ted's record of accomplished PK feats and called him "one of the world's greatest psychics" and said he "might be the most powerful mind on earth today!"** **A**t first their ESP communications were vague, but gradually, as the SIs "modified" his brain properly, the messages became more direct. The exact contact method kept changing, too. For example, in August, 1965, the SIs switched (Continued on page 70) SAGA - [ ] 25 === Page 5 of 8 (Continued from page 68) head down past the islands. . ." Taking a deep breath Marsh signaled to Foulk who moved his engine levers to "slow ahead." Marsh swung the Far West cautiously about, bucking the swift current, and headed her downstream. He intended to maintain a midchannel course but soon groups of hostile Sioux arrived at sharp bends in the river and galloped along the bank, shooting flaming arrows at the deck and pilothouse. They succeeded in starting several fires, which were extinguished by the crew. Marsh signaled to Foulk for more speed and swung dangerously close to the far bank. Taut with suspense, he piloted the Far West around the bends and through menacing rapids, reaching the Yellowstone without grounding her. Here he tied up to await the arrival of Reno and Gibbon and ferry their mauled commands across to the north bank of the river. Despite Terry's other instructions to make all haste conveying the wounded to Bismarck he was compelled to hold the Far West back throughout July 1st and most of July 2nd before the slowly moving columns arrived. On the following morning he ferried the tired cavalrymen and their mounts across the river and experienced further delay when one of the wounded, Pvt. William George of H troop, succumbed and was buried in a grave on shore. So it was that the Far West, after another stop at the cavalry encampment at Powder River to take aboard the personal effects left there by officers and men killed on the battlefield, did not begin her record dash of 700 miles to Bismarck until five p.m. on the afternoon of July 3rd. From here on Marsh and Campbell spelled each other at the wheel in four hour shifts, both remaining in the pilothouse. They reached Fort Stevenson in North Dakota on the afternoon of the 5th, and the Far West halted so that a deckhand could be sent ashore to obtain whatever black cloth was available. Then the vessel proceeded to Bismarck with her derrick and jackstaff draped in mourning. She completed her epic run shortly after 11 p.m. Marsh hurried to the telegraph office, and the wounded were transported to Fort Lincoln. Carnahan, the telegrapher on duty, had a badgered look. He had been pounding the key for hours and had no rest since the first report of the Custer massacre reached Bismarck. He waved a sheaf of telegrams at Marsh. "Everyone is asking for confirmation of the death of General Custer. Wires have been pouring in from all over the East." "Which is the most urgent?" "General Sheridan. We've received several from his headquarters in Chicago." Marsh heaved a sigh. Tired as he was he felt that this was still something he had to do. "All right, let's get at it." Throughout the next day anxious women visited Fort Lincoln to inquire about their soldier husbands. Some, a pitiful few, found them among the wounded survivors. Others were sympathetically informed that advance reports of the deaths had been confirmed. Among those who called was the widowed Elizabeth Bacon Custer. Captain Marsh was permitted short time to rest from his arduous journey. Both his skill and his ship were vitally needed. Army headquarters reluctantly acknowledged: "The Indians have secured a resounding victory over the U.S. Army unparalleled in history. General Custer's violation of the principles of maneuver and security have cost dearly. It is imperative that the U.S. Army immediately take steps to rectify the situation. All posts in the military division of the Missouri are to supply reinforcements." Marsh continued to skipper the Far West in the service of the U.S. Army throughout the Indian campaigns. He transported soldiers and supplies on the Missouri and its tributaries and was cited by General Sheridan for his "zeal, competence and energy," a commendation he highly prized. In 1879 he had a river boat, the Andrew S. Bennett, constructed at Sioux City for use as a local ferry. While it was being built he found time to go to Bozeman where he made an unsuccessful effort to locate the freighting company whose driver, Gil Longworth, had entrusted the $750,000 gold shipment to his care. He learned that following the death of Longworth and several other attacks on drivers by roving Indian war parties the company had been forced out of business. Nor could he contact any of the miners whose gold had been in the shipment for the company's records of the names of the individual shippers could not be found. Marsh, himself, did not attempt to recover the treasure. On returning to Sioux City he learned that the Far West had been sold--literally--down the river and was to ply between St. Louis and other cities along the river. His mate, Ben Thompson, decided to go with her. The last heard of him was on October 20, 1883, when the Far West hit a snag in Mullanphy Bend, seven miles below St. Charles, and went aground so hard that she was subsequently disposed of to a wrecking company. As far as known Thompson never tried to retrieve the treasure either. Marsh, following the sale of the Far West, took command of another packet, the F. Y. Batchelor, traveling between Bismarck and the Yellowstone. George Foulk went along with him as the engineer. Early in November 1881, the F. Y. Batchelor was caught in a sudden blizzard on the Yellowstone. Marsh ordered her tied to shore and waited for the storm to blow itself out. Instead, there was one storm after another, and the snow became so deep that not even a train could move anywhere in northern Minnesota or the Dakotas until late in March. Marsh left Foulk and nine crewmen as caretakers on the ship and returned to Sioux City with the others after an arduous trip. When he returned early in the spring he found that Foulk was in poor health. This is the last news of Foulk, who was taken back to Sioux City and, presumably, had neither the stamina nor inclination to make his own search for the treasure. According to old river boat records Capt. Grant Marsh retired in 1906 following the death of his wife, to whom he had been married for 46 years. He died in 1916 at the age of 82. There is good reason to believe that the $750,000 is still hidden, all but forgotten, where Marsh, fearing an Indian attack, left it. Clues and circumstances indicate that the cache awaits a lucky finder. I, for one, am convinced it is still there. ★ THE END UFO PROPHET OF DOOM-- (Continued from page 25) from vague "voices" in Ted's mind to "mental TV." Ted then saw two odd creatures appear called Twitter and Tweeter. They appeared on a "screen" and relayed messages to him from "Control." This involved changing earth language into "color and sound codes" and then into the SIs' own language. By September, 1965, Ted writes--"The SIs have taught me to write what I want on a (mental) tablet . . . on 'Men-Tel.' What I write then changes to odd symbols that 'crackle and pop' into odd sounds . . . and the SIs read those sounds." Evidently this was part of a program to improve communications, for only a few days later, Twitter and Tweeter did not appear on the Men-Tel screen and instead a figure with a shadowy head used a long pointer. The figure seemed to ask Ted what he wanted and told him to use mental images, which were then mirrored on the huge screen. The shadowy figure, Ted learned, was the great "Control" himself, the top commander aboard the SIs' most gigantic spaceship hovering far above earth. Thus Ted had been "graduated" from the roundabout T and T method to direct mental contact with Control. On June 27, 1968, Ted's diary entry is--"Control will flash 'yes' or 'no' on screen now, instead of flashing a light." This was the first yes-no contact, which Ted is using today, plus a unique method of passing along information. As Ted explains it, he calls for Control when he wants contact and immediately the Men-Tel image of the shadowy form leaps into his mind's eye. Ted then transmits his questions or requests, and the screen lights up with a "yes" or "no." For example, if Ted wants to perform some PK feat, he first asks permission. If he gets a "yes," Control also sends along a "capsule" of rapid-fire information on how to accomplish the task. In one split second, Ted is given an intricate series of instructions about PK units, "boxes," and other PK manipulations. So much for mere communications. Now, just what are the awesome PK powers the SIs have bestowed on Ted? More than earthly "psychokinesis," for Ted has been allowed to tap a reservoir of powers called the ODE forces. ODE stands for "Other Dimensional Effects." These ODE powers extend Ted's PK performances into any and all conceivable 70 - [ ] SAGA === Page 6 of 8 areas, via various "boxes" and "bubbles" and other amazing devices he visualizes in his mind. We cannot go into this deeply without getting too complicated, but a partial list of these mental devices will give an inkling of the ODE range--Electromagnetic Field Box, Laser PK-Light Projector, Emmy-Emma Rolling Lightning Box, Sound Force PK, Weight PK, Poltergeist Box, Magnetic Bar PK, Crystallization PK, Floating Wand PK, PK Fist, Earthquake Box, Moonray PK, Rainbow Door, Nature's Mailbox, etc. The list goes into many more eerie avenues and subdivisions. Ted has been making precise and orderly lists of these PK-ODE powers and how each or several were applied to a particular case. Ted's record is a glimpse into the awesome powers and forces that the SIs wield. Probably only a tiny portion has been relegated to Ted for use on earth. All these facets of Ted's life and his partnership with the SIs are necessary for a full understanding of why the UFOs are here on earth--the big riddle we promised to answer in the previous issue of SAGA. And there is still more to tell about Ted's personal life, which ties in strongly with the great "mission" that the SIs have revealed to Ted recently. If this sounds "over-dramatic," you will see that, if anything, it falls short of describing the SI's Master Plan. After examining Ted's life, we find that "paranormal" incidents have always happened to him, everywhere he goes. For one thing, he seems to make that old legend of the "charmed life" come true. Years ago, while driving out west at night, Ted followed a winding mountain road wide enough for only one car. He stopped and worriedly thought that if another car came from the opposite direction, he would have to back down a long way for it to pass. Suddenly, to his horror, a car's headlights appeared, coming straight for him. Seeming not to see his parked car blocking the way, the other vehicle roared closer. Ted prayed and awaited the deadly crash. But nothing happened! Ted opened his eyes to see the other car behind him, speeding safely away as if it had gone right through his car! There was no other possible explanation. Another time, while lifting the hood of his automobile to show a mechanic a problem he was having with his engine, Ted carelessly stuck his hand into the engine's whirling fan-blades. The mechanic turned white, expecting Ted's hand to be sliced into bloody shreds. Ted withdrew his hand, unmarked. But even more dramatic are the cases where mysterious assailants seemed to be after Ted's life. At least six times, cars or trucks deliberately tried to run him down. In some cases they missed as some sixth sense made Ted jump aside, but in two cases Ted swears the vehicles struck him--and passed through his body without harm (as in the above case out west). There are other episodes in Ted's diary where attempts on his life were made in various ways, and he often mentions odd-looking men in dark clothes. 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SAGA ☐ 71 === Page 7 of 8 (Continued from page 72) behalf of the SIs, with no result except a chilling silence (plus routine investigations by the FBI which could only clear him of any "maniac" tendencies or plans). What is the urgent message from the SIs that earthly authorities must heed? The full and stark message? Through Ted, the SIs have constantly warned that a "great crisis" faces the world, and that they, the SIs, need a "base of operations" in the U.S. in order to stave off that catastrophe. And now we are coming close to the great revelation Ted recently perceived--just why the SIs here on earth are operating through Ted Owens. What tremendous "crisis" could possibly require their inconceivable supernormal powers? To give the answer its proper perspective, we must first examine certain key "insights" that came to Ted through the years. The answer lies partly in the Bible. Ted scrawled in his diary some years ago--"I was horrified at the death and destruction which ensued (after he had contacted the SIs). I asked them, why such horrendous deeds?" The SIs gave a rather strange answer: that Ted was the first human being they were able to communicate with since Moses; and that he would find the answer to his agonized question in the Biblical account of Moses. As we know, Moses warned the Egyptians that "seven plagues" would strike them if they did not free his people, the Israelites, from bondage. When the Egyptian Pharaoh "hardened his heart," the "predictions" of Moses came true--plagues of locusts and vermin and diseases and storms that ravaged Egypt, until the Israelites were released. Ted saw the analogy with himself--in order to achieve a good thing, Moses had been forced to be the harbinger of evil things, but only because of the stubbornness of the ruthless Pharaoh and his priests (the "authorities" of that era). Ted also saw that he was akin to a modern Moses. Substitute "U.S. government" for "Pharaoh" and there it was plain as day. Significantly enough, when Ted and his small daughter were first visited by a low-flying UFO back in 1965 (SAGA, August and September, 1970) it was a pillar-shaped object. Moses led his people through the desert, guided by a "pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night." These are excellent descriptions of today's UFO sightings by day and by night. However, his role as latter-day Moses did not fully satisfy Ted. Things did not quite fit. He wasn't freeing enslaved people and leading them to a promised land except in a vague symbolic sense. And then, in 1968, came the really blinding insight, when the SIs informed Ted he was partly like Moses but more like Ezekiel. First of all, as some of you may know, Ezekiel's vision in the Bible is an unmistakably clear description of a flying saucer coming down, with its "wheels within wheels" (or disks), "glowing metal in the midst of fire", "burnished brass", "wings" and many more "technical" terms utterly surprising when read in the scriptures. Secondly, the voice of the "Lord"--obviously the commander of this imposing UFO--boomed down and told Ezekiel that he must prophesy all sorts of catastrophes that would be visited on the people of that time, who had fallen into decadence. That should immediately remind you of Ted Owens, for Ted has repeatedly warned that civilization is going downhill morally, with the general breakdown in law and order and the spreading of social conflicts. Can anyone deny the steep rise in crime today, the constant threat of war, juvenile drug-taking to "escape reality," corruption of public officials, race riots, poverty in the midst of affluence, and all the other evils of present-day society? Hardly anyone believes the "world is still a good place to live in." But take Ezekiel's day. The "Sins" of the ancient people--oppression of the poor, usury for illicit wealth, whoredom or promiscuous sex, slayings and savage little wars, worship of the money idol, and most of all, pollution of the land. Who can deny that all these earmarks of a declining culture exist today and are steadily--or rapidly--increasing? Another analogy between Ted Owens and the prophet Ezekiel is uncanny. . . Ezekiel was told to "smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot" to cause widespread famine, pestilence, and upheaval--how else but through some mighty "PK power"? Similarly, Ted Owens has been constantly ordered by the SIs to whip up hurricanes, lightning, violent storms. But why do you think Ted Owens, who often balked at the SI's "holocausts," did not simply bow out and decline their offer to be their "representative?" Ezekiel was plainly warned by the Lord that if he did not give his prophetic warnings and carry out his feats, the blood of the dead would be on his (Ezekiel's) hands. In several diary entries, Ted reiterates that the SIs gave him no other choice--"Carry out our plans or you will suffer." The SIs are not playing patty-cake. But now we can reveal the full scope of the SIs "grand mission" on earth (akin to the Biblical "angels" and "messengers" of the Higher Power who runs the entire cosmos)--and with it, Ted's ultimate mission. The SIs made it all clear in the following "message to earth" via Ted Owens (which was ignored by the national press and printed only in a limited-circulation UFOlogy pamphlet)--"Through us you have the opportunity to discover the secrets of space, of faraway places, of advanced technology. But better still you have the opportunity of surviving, for as a race YOU ARE UTTERLY DOOMED AS OF NOW. Many civilizations before you (on earth) have so doomed themselves." There you have the stark truth, that civilization is doomed unless mankind changes for the better with the aid of the SIs. Sheer nonsense? The twisted thinking of a "messianic" mind that has gone mad? Someone else, oddly enough, seems to think Ted's mission is somewhat like John the Baptist's. Dr. Morris K. Jessup, before he died in 1959, was an eminent scientist who also researched UFOs thoroughly. He wrote five penetrating books on UFOs, including UFO and the Bible. Jessup in that book analyzes portions of the Bible, particularly the Gospel according to St. Mark, Chapter 13, and comes to the conclusion that Christ's prophecies of destruction to the world--when it had become too "evil" to exist--could very likely come true in our time. "The imminence of catastrophe," wrote Jessup in 1950, "may be measurable on a comparable (future) scale or on a shorter one. 'Even at the doors' (Christ's warning after all his prophecies of intervening events had taken place) may mean tomorrow, or this afternoon. It may mean next month or next year--perhaps 10 years from now; but it almost certainly does not mean 100 years from now, and perhaps not even 50." After further analysis of the "time scale," Jessup comes to a shocking conclusion--"If that is correct (his analysis), and if we have a margin of about a generation in which to anticipate destruction, then we can roughly say that something (of world destruction) should be expected within the 30-year period starting sometime in the postwar decade (after WW II)." He comes to the grim point--"Should we say, then, between 1950 and 1980?" Now Ted Owens has consistently been warning the U.S. government (and the world through them, presumably) that a great crisis is imminent. Ted has never been given any exact time by the SIs, but he has the urgent feeling it will be soon, within a few years at the most. His warnings from the SIs have more and more included words like--"Tell your people the time is running dangerously short." Is there a "deadline for doom?" And will it be before 1980 as Dr. Jessup calculated? At first, Ted thought the SIs warnings might mean to beware nuclear war engulfing the world. But very recently, a new illumination came to Ted from the SIs, and now he knows it will be NATURE'S WAR ON MAN that will wipe out humanity. And "Nature's War" does not necessarily mean the SIs will destroy mankind with storms, but that man himself will bring about his own end. In Ezekiel, key words appear over and over--pollution, filthiness, fouling, defilement. The Israelites were polluting their environment and their minds. Are we not doing the same today, asks Ted? Pollution of the air, of water, of the soil; industrial carbon dioxide pouring out in such great volume that it threatens to upset the world's weather balance; mountains of trash and junk piling sky high; litter and debris tossed carelessly to the wind. But even worse is the pollution of the mind by ever-spreading materialistic, greedy, dog-eat-dog, anti-Christian, soulless doctrines. 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It will cause a "backlash" by Nature and its natural forces, and the big guns may start soon in the war on man. It's a war man can never win. And has that war already begun? The signs? The corn blight that wiped out much of the crop this year... oil pollution of tidewaters... mice and rat rampages in Europe... the starfish destruction of coral reefs in the South Pacific... the violin spider and fire ant in the southern U.S.... smogs in many big cities causing deaths... tests proving radioactive (nuclear) wastes have poisoned portions of the oceans. All of these and many more may build up to a crescendo of adverse "natural" bombshells all over earth, in time--in a short time. As Ted puts it, "Nature has started to turn its hand against Man. Nature has had it with Mankind and only wants to rid the earth of him." And who would replace man on earth? Ted has an ominous answer out of the documented files of UFOlogy. The Mothman, the Michigan Monster, the "little men" humanoids, and the various other non-human creatures seen emerging from flying saucers--they may be SI experiments to find a being able to replace man on earth. They are "monsters" only in our egocentric eyes. In the eyes of the SIs, human beings may be the worst "monsters" known. Yet the world can be saved! That's what SI messages through Ted Owens indicate. Suppose the miracle happened. Suppose the U.S. government "unhardened its heart" and backed up Ted. All he asks for is sanction and the means to meet the SIs in person, at some isolated spot where others can't be harmed. Ted himself will somehow be protected from the SI-forces radiated by their pure-energy bodies. Ted would then return with absolute proof of their existence, plus a world plan for reversing the self-inflicted doom syndrome to which all of humanity is heedlessly contributing. These plans would include, Ted says, a way to totally disarm the world and outlaw war... to end poverty and injustice... to wipe out disease and prolong life... to bring new joy and understanding to human spirits. A large order? All wishful thinking? Then read the book of Ezekiel in the later chapters, and see what the "Lord" promised his people if they repented. If there is any truth in the Bible at all, those are the kind of magnificent "world reforms" that the SIs perform as "angels." Ted's personal plans--if the world follows the SI program--are equally altruistic. He yearns to found the Church of Sota, a long-time dream of his. "Sota" means Secrets of the Ages. And in that, Ted includes healing secrets, both for the body and mind. Ted has fully outlined his grand establishment, which will include the Sota Library of Great Books, the Sota Hospital, the Sota Research Foundation (into "faith healings"), the Sota Haven for the Poor, and many other programs that will strive to uplift humanity. Even with his Church of Sota unborn, Ted for years has still sent out his PK disks to anyone requesting them--free. Each one is "charged and coded" with PK power to aid the particular person receiving it. And it is on record (SAGA, August and September, 1970) that Ted has received thousands of letters from grateful people, stating that "miracle cures" occurred when they wore his disk, or sudden "good luck" came to the despairing. Ted bears all the cost and effort of making the disks, charging them, mailing them, and writing long sympathetic letters to each claimant. There is a plain and simple word for it--humanitarianism. Perhaps you believe nothing of what has been written above. You, the reader, have the right to call it all sheer poppycock; the ravings of a demented man with illusions of grandeur, compounded by a messiah complex. But Dr. Jessup had this to say--"Seers and prophets, such as are quoted and written about in the Bible, would be considered crackpots today and reckoned insane." It's all well and good if you want to call Ted Owens, the SIs' Soothsayer, an insane crackpot. But suppose... just suppose... that Ted Owens is RIGHT? ★ THE END SAGA ☐ 75 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 7104 SAGA Ted Owens Flying Saucer Missionary Part 2_ with Note https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/95d2aca58052e5a331201b9fa9856fa4.pdf 596a584e85e2a8480049b79ec3080c5f https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/90bce40b452e408d96169d09bba43332.txt e4da07334eb94cd6f15a8f734c8ea051 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ted Owens: Author & Subject Description An account of the resource A selection of magazines, articles, and news clippings. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 11 V.A. Hospital Crisis VIETNAM VETERANS VICTIMIZED BY NIXON'S BUDGET POLITICS # SAGA 60¢ FEB./72 MAC 16008 Dateline: 1985 U.S. Colonization of VENUS The Occult Aspects of Political Assassination Vacation Special *Escape The Grind--Jet To Jamaica* $20 Million Spanish Gold Bars Buried In Carson National Forest Saga Salutes *The Tantalizing Donna Theodore* Spear Hunting The Man-Eater of Chabunkwa === Page 2 of 11 Ted Owens, the PyschoKinesis man who has performed over 200 recorded miracles to date (such as controlling hurricanes, earthquakes, and lightning storms, mentally guiding airplanes and ships, summoning rainstorms to drought areas, and helping and healing human beings who were beyond the reach of modern medicine), now shares his secret of the ages-- # How You Can Communicate with UFO SPACE INTELLIGENCES By Ted Owens First, let's get one thing straight. I'm not going to waste your time. This is a "how to do it" article, and if you're interested in doing the following by using your mind, then this is for you: * Hypnotize yourself at will (with a double safety). * Summon storms to rain on drought areas. * Direct lightning at certain targets. * Make and guide hurricanes. * Control airplanes in the sky. * Control ships on the sea (and submarines, too). * Manipulate and control *groups of humans*. * Help and heal human beings who are beyond the reach of modern medicine. * Control the minds of humans, near or far, either singly or collectively. * Create earthquakes and floods whenever you wish, wherever you wish. There is much, much more that you will be able to do, once you learn how to apply the instructions in this article, but the above is only a small sample of what you can bring about *with your mind*! At this point you should be extremely skeptical of the above statement. In fact, you shouldn't believe a word of it. Because to do the things mentioned above would not be humanly possible. Or . . . would it? Now let's see . . . Moses did things like that, didn't he? And 34 - [ ] SAGA === Page 3 of 11 Illustrated by Morgan Harris === Page 4 of 11 Ezekiel? Way back in Biblical days? But more important to you is who is Ted Owens and what does he do? What are his credentials for making such seemingly wild claims? If that's what you're thinking, then you're thinking correctly, and we're getting somewhere already. I'm Ted Owens, the "PK Man" who uses psycho-kinetic powers and special effects to produce miracles; Otto Binder wrote about me in SAGA in August and September of 1970 and again in March and April of 1971. I've already *done* the seemingly impossible things listed above, and have sworn, notarized affidavits saying so from responsible people. As a matter of fact, I've performed over 200 recorded "miracles" to date, using mind over matter power. Just recently, in a span of three weeks, with scientists watching "over my shoulder," so to speak, I brought a tremendous rainstorm to the Norfolk area--which had been stricken by months of ruinous drought--directed lightning attacks on the Norfolk area; produced a hurricane and brought it so close to Norfolk that the rain fell unceasingly for four days; and just to put the "icing on the cake," I had a UFO ("mysterious halo in the sky" as the TV stations called it) appear over Norfolk so that all could see it . . . simply as a "signature" to the other phenomena I had produced. But *before* all this happened I had notified scientists, government agencies, and local newspapers by letter that it *would* happen, so that when it did occur it could not conceivably be called "just a coincidence." I have sworn affidavits to this event. All the above are only a few of the over 200 miracles I've performed. All right . . . so I have credentials strong enough to impress an army of skeptics. What's the next step as far as you are concerned? Well, before we get down to fundamentals on how you can proceed to perform miracles, we first need some general background information so you'll have a better idea of how this all came about. I was born in Bedford, Ind., 50 years ago. Forty of those years were spent learning and perfecting the powers *you will be able to use after you read this article!* But that should not be so surprising--Edison conducted 50,000 experiments over many years before he perfected his first workable light bulb. Once he had it and made it public knowledge, anybody could build a light bulb in short order. Actually, I am only part human. My brain was modified by UFO intelligences (who we'll call SIs, for "space intelligences") so it would become a two-way sending and receiving set for the SIs. Once you follow my instructions, the same thing can happen to you, and then you will also be able to not only communicate with these UFO creatures, but perform miracles as well. There are a few books you should read. *Secrets of the Ages*, by Robert Collier, is one. *The Sky People*, by Brinsley le Poer Trench, is another. *Flying Saucers Are Watching Us*, by Otto Binder is yet another. These are must reading in order for you to obtain a proper background for what I'm teaching. The books are easy to read and easy to understand, yet all three are key books. Once you've received the proper background and mastered the instructions in this article, then *you* will perhaps be able to "move the world." The obvious question arises--why place this priceless information before the general public? Isn't it dangerous? Suppose someone with evil intent got hold of it and used it against the U.S. or the world? That's a fair enough question. Now I'll answer it. There are certain people among us now who are "sleepers"--that is, people who have the potential to become great--to enrich humanity--given the proper training and instruction. It's no secret that the U.S. is now in deep trouble. The SIs are going to try to help us out of the mess we are in by finding and activating these "sleepers," just as they found and activated me. As soon as my instructions are 36 - [ ] SAGA === Page 5 of 11 The goal of the Space Intelligences (who come from another dimension and whose powers and intellects are unimaginably superior to ours) is to help mankind. If after scanning your past, present, and future, they decide you have the capacity for it, they may bestow superhuman powers on you. But if they feel you will use them selfishly--to obtain money, or hurt, rob, kill, or hate your fellow man--they will ignore you, for the SIs are only interested in finding and developing those humans who will use their new powers to advance the human race creatively and constructively! first pass exhaustive, rugged IQ tests--the minimum IQ necessary is 148. Yet the SIs may choose a farmer, a soldier, a secretary, a truck driver--that is, anyone who might follow the instructions in this article--and build up their minds so they will have superhuman brains that would put a member of Mensa to shame! That person could very well be you! All right. Enough background. Let's get down to business now. You want the instruction; the system. Now bear in mind that it is unorthodox. But never mind that. While you are learning it, putting it into practice, do not discuss what you are doing with anybody, except your "helper"--one person, who will assist you, as I'll soon describe. First thing in the System--get the book, Roth's Memory Courses, by D. Roth. This book teaches you how to memorize lists of words by associating unusual thoughts. It is only necessary that you master the first 20 words. For instance, No. 1 is "hat" . . . and what you want to memorize, like an airplane, goes with a hat, as No. 1. To memorize it, you simply see a giant 747 plane taxiing around the rim of a tophat. Silly, yes? It's supposed to be. Helps you to remember. This is the technique of "mental imagery," and mental imagery is one of the two keys to becoming a superhuman. Get Roth's book, practice the first 20 words to be memorized therein . . . hat, hen, ham, hare, hill, shoe, cow, hive, ape, woods, tide, tin, team, tire, hotel, dish, dog, dove, tub, and nose. Practice getting up in front of groups (this will make you a big hit at parties) and letting members of the group call out objects, one at a time, which another member writes down on a pad, starting with No. 1. When you've gotten to 20 stop them, and then you can call back the entire list in any order, backwards or forwards! mastered and put into operation the SIs will be alerted. At that time they'll scan your mind, telepathically, just like you are reading this article. All that you have been and done will be "seen" by them. Also everything you can do in the future will be observed, because they can "see ahead" in time. They will decide then whether or not to contact you, modify your brain, give you superhuman powers, as they did with me, and use you to benefit and lead mankind. Should you be interested in hurting, hindering, robbing, killing, hating your fellow man, or acquiring money and riches, they will ignore you. THE SIs ARE INTERESTED ONLY IN FINDING AND DEVELOPING THOSE HUMANS WHO WILL USE THEIR NEW POWERS TO ADVANCE MANKIND CREATIVELY AND CONSTRUCTIVELY. So I assure you, there is absolutely no danger whatsoever of "bad people" using these priceless secrets to harm either the human race or the U.S. Now, you would think that the SIs would find and develop only the brilliant minds among us, wouldn't you? For instance, I happen to belong to "Mensa," an international organization of some 15,000 members whose IQs are exceptionally high. In order to be accepted by this organization you have to Now why, you ask, is this parlor trick necessary in order to become superhuman? When you finally communicate with the SIs, and when you perform your miracles, assuming you get to that point, it will all be done through mental imagery. Therefore, while you are performing your "parlor trick" of giving memory demonstrations, you are actually building a muscle in your mind for mental imagery! Each time you do the memory exercises, it will easier and easier for you to see pictures in your mind, and to control these mental pictures. Let me give you an idea of how important this mental imagery is to become superhuman. While in Maine several years ago I told a prominent real estate man, Mr. Ed Ames, I would communicate with the UFO (Continued on page 66) SAGA - [ ] 37 === Page 6 of 11 THIN HAIR RECEDING HAIRLINE? FACT: As some men become older, the dermis of the scalp becomes thin. This limits blood circulation to hair follicle. Eventually the hair dies. [Illustration of hair follicles in skin] NORMAL YOUNG SCALP * Normal Dermis is fairly thick, acts as a cushion, and allows blood to circulate freely to hair follicle. OLDER SCALP thin dermis * Less fatty tissue between scalp and skull. This causes: * Restricted circulation to hair follicle * Loss of adequate protein nutrition to hair * Thin hair * Hair dies # Introducing HAIR PRO ## Hair is Protein - HAIR PRO is concentrated Protein! WILL HAIR PRO HELP YOU? 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A-2 Radio City Station New York, N.Y. 10019 World Handwriting Center Copyright © 1971 # UFO INTELLIGENCES (Continued from page 37) intelligences, ask them to bring a UFO into plain sight over the Brewer-Bangor area within a few days' time, and it would be reported in the newspapers! He said all right, he'd like to see if that could happen. So I used mental imagery to contact the SIs, then used mental imagery to show the SIs what I wanted as a demonstration. A few days later a flying saucer was sighted over the Brewer-Bangor area, knocked out automobile power, and then vanished. And the story appeared on the front page of the local newspapers. (I have Mr. Ames's sworn affidavit on this event.) Now, without mental imagery I could not have performed this "miracle." Or take the case of Brenda Sue Pennington, a girl in a hospital just outside Washington, D.C., who had a crushed skull and was dying. Her parents asked me to try to save her. I used mental imagery to contact the SIs and "tell" them what I was attempting, then stood inside the girl's hospital room and used mental imagery to place other-dimensional symbols onto the girl so that they would grow and help her. One, for instance, was a rainbow effect on top of her head, which would then spread and grow larger with the passing of each day, until it eventually filled her entire hospital room! That was the turning point for the girl, who'd been given up for dead by the doctors; today she is living in West Virginia. The point, is, without mental imagery the whole thing would have been impossible. (That case also is documented.) I first stumbled upon, and learned, the Roth memory system when I was 18 years old. Of course, I hadn't really "stumbled" onto it; the SIs had led me telepathically to it, just as they would lead me, a "sleeper," to all the other necessary materials for communicating and working with and for them. So you can see how vitally important it is for you to learn and develop this mental imagery technique! It isn't hard; it's lots of fun; it's entertaining to your friends; and best of all it will make your brain more powerful! (By the way, if any of you have questions about any of this, or difficulty in following the directions for this System, just write to me care of SAGA Magazine, 333 Johnson Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11206, and I'll help you personally, as much as my time allows, by answering your letters. It could take a while for me to answer, so please be patient.) The next step in learning this System, is the most important! A famous scientist, who wants to remain anonymous to protect his reputation, thoroughly investigated me and my work and stated unequivocally that it had to be my mastery of self-hypnosis that was the key to the SIs being able to give me superhuman power! And that is your next step--to hypnotize yourself. I'll make it simple for you, too. Some people take years to learn autohypnosis, but you'll be able to do it in days. Actually, self-hypnosis is the key that unlocks a secret door in your mind that leads to a storehouse of tremendous === Page 7 of 11 unused power! Let me give you a few examples of what can be done with self-hypnosis. Some years ago in Texas, I bought a car from a salesman named Charlie Turner. Charlie was English, and his accent interested me. We chatted as I filled out the necessary papers, and he said it had been the first car he'd sold in several months, that he was broke. I "scanned" his mind and telepathically ascertained that there was an unusual man, one with great potential. So I told him that I taught self-hypnosis, and that he should learn it. He said he hadn't the money to pay for the instruction. I said that it wasn't necessary, I'd be glad to train him for nothing. So he made an appointment, and I began training him. Shortly after learning self-hypnosis he quit selling cars, and started an import-export business. Within months he'd become fantastically successful! He had quite a bit of money in the bank and was becoming widely known in his field. He attributed all this success to his learning of autohypnosis and application to his daily life. But that wasn't all. One night Charlie, who lived far out in the suburbs, lifted an outboard motor on top of his stove to repair it, and the stove's pilot light ignited the motor; it blew up, spraying flaming gasoline on Charlie's left hand and arm. Charlie quickly doused the flames and called an ambulance, which didn't get there for almost half an hour (this happened at 3:30 in the morning). Charlie told me that if he hadn't used self-hypnosis on himself to deaden the excruciating pain, he'd have gone out of his mind. But worse was to come. After Charlie reached the hospital he removed the self-hypnosis from his arm (as I had taught him to do) so the doctors could work on him, that's when he was told that they couldn't give him a shot to ease his pain until the doctor arrived to authorize it! Therefore because the pain was unbearable, Charlie put himself under hypnosis again, and sat for 40 minutes until the doctor got there. The doctor told Charlie that he might never be able to use the arm again. It was burned that badly. And then, at that point, Charlie deviated from my instruction and told the doctor he would treat the arm himself without the doctor's help! Charlie took a cab home and stayed in bed for a week, using autohypnosis not only to deaden the pain in his arm but also to rebuild and restore the skin and muscle! At the end of that week he climbed up on top of his house and installed a new TV aerial, using the left arm the doctor said would be useless! The following week he was up and about driving his car and doing all his normal chores. The week after that he came to see me, told me the story, and showed me his left hand and arm. Only a tiny brown spot remained on the back of his left hand. The arm was entirely normal! I've gone into this case in detail because it demonstrates how self-hypnosis can help, both your life situation as a whole and in countless emergency situations. Of course, pain is a warning signal, and autohypnosis should be used only in an emergency until you get to a doctor. I bawled Charlie out for not staying in the hospital and following the doctor's instructions. "Medicine and doctors and # MODERN SCIENCE GROWS HAIR EVEN ON BALD HEADS! ### SENSATIONAL -- NEW MODERN MIRACLE!! Whether you are losing your hair, have thinning hair or are already bald. 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One man learned autohypnosis because he had a deathly fear of dentists--hadn't been to one for 12 years. As soon as he mastered the technique, he marched to the nearest dentist and had 12 teeth pulled, all under self-hypnosis! In order to find out more you should read some good books on autohypnosis. There are a number of them, so I'll leave the choice up to you (they are for background and general instruction). I'm going to teach you a superior method right here, which is sufficient for your use. Before teaching you how to hypnotize yourself, let me give you some preliminary instruction. Pain is a warning signal; you should only use self-hypnosis to deaden pain in an emergency, until you can get to a doctor; then you should remove the autohypnosis, because you need the pain as an indicator for the doctor to work with. ALWAYS WORK WITH THE DOCTOR. Self-hypnosis should not be used to take the place of medicine, or doctors, or surgery! I can't stress that point enough. By the way, allow me to quote some people who I taught self-hypnosis (names are unimportant, but they are identified by profession, to show its scope). Business owner: "Since I've used autohypnosis I find that people can't irritate me or insult me anymore. It just seems to bounce off me. I'm much happier. I feel like a new man!" Court reporter: "Since I've learned autohypnosis from you I've been amazed at the good results of it! And I've been deeply happy since using it!" Jeweler: "Money could not buy what your autohypnosis has done for me, Mr. Owens!" Secretary: "Nothing happened the first two weeks but suddenly I've become happier than at any other time in my life. I can't believe it, and I'm scared that it might go away. I'm so happy!" Lawyer: "My work has improved 30 percent because of the autohypnosis you taught me. It's really working!" Court reporter: "This week I have been happier, made more money, and got more work done that at any time in my entire life! I even increased my stenotype speed by 25 words per minute by using my autohypnosis. This autohypnosis is the best thing that ever happened to me!" Nurse: "It's like a miracle! Now I'm sleeping like I used to years ago! For years I have only gotten half a night's sleep, until now." Electronics expert: "I didn't believe in this for a couple of weeks, but now I'm sleeping without pain, and soundly." These comments from former pupils go on and on but you can see how powerful and effective this method is. Used intelligently (with the cooperation of your doctor, if you so desire), self-hypnosis can improve your life tremendously! But even more important, it can lead you directly to the SIs and to superhuman power. (Two superior books I suggest you read are: Autoconditioning by Dr. Hornell Hast, and Hypnosis by Drs. S. J. Van Pelt, Gordon Ambrose and George Newbold.) Now, the autohypnosis I'm going to teach you is designed to lead you to the SIs. However, here are a few of the things it can do for you when it is used simply for itself: * It can make you feel happy and cheerful, instead of depressed and blue. * It can give you the courage to face anything. * It can refresh you in minutes, if you are tired. * It can keep you wide awake, if that is necessary (be careful not to extend this over too long a period of time.) * It can put you soundly to sleep, all night long, or at any time. * It can relieve pain and discomfort. (Useless pain, that is. Read those books I referred you to concerning this point.) * It can help you break bad habits, such as procrastination, overeating, smoking drinking, etc. * It can remove panic, fear, tension, self-consciousness, etc. * It can help improve your personality and your attitude toward people, and situations. * It can help you improve your income, by improving you. But what is the "secret" of self-hypnosis Just this: in your normal conscious state your thoughts do not register very deeply upon your subconscious mind. In contrast, when you utilize your autohypnotic "trigger" mechanism, all your mental power is focused on whatever you are concentrating on, and when you come out of your self-hypnosis your mind is set, just like an alarm clock, to get the maximum results that you have ordered while under autohypnosis. (This is called post-hypnotic suggestion.) You see, in your normal conscious state you use a mere five to 10 percent of your brainpower. But your subconscious mind, controlled by your self-hypnosis, gives you access to approximately 70 to 90 percent of your brainpower! Quite a difference! O.K. Now I'll teach you exactly how to hypnotize yourself, step by step. The first step is to have you hypnotized by your "helper"--your husband or wife, or girlfriend or boyfriend. Someone you trust who will take this seriously and not make fun of it, and will above all else, be considerate and cautious. If you have any doubts or reservations, you should not attempt it (and that goes for any step along the way). A pendulum will be needed--one can be acquired in novelty or magic shops, or you can simply tie a ring to a six-inch string. Turn off all the lights in the room except one just above and behind your head, as you lie on a couch. Your helper will be seated beside the couch in such a position that he can hold the end of the string of the pendulum and let it dangle in front of your eyes, swinging it back and forth. He can put this page in his lap and read the instructions below, as he slowly swings the pendulum back and forth about six inches in front of and slightly above your eyes, so that you have to look up at it. 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Each time you breathe your body will become much heavier and your feet, legs, hands, and arms will become heavier and more limp. Listen closely to my voice for it is going to help you, and you will not listen to other sounds, and they will just fade away. Now feel your feet, your legs, your hands, your arms growing heavier and heavier and more and more relaxed. Let your hands become as limp as though they were pieces of cloth, or two empty gloves lying on top of a dresser, completely heavy and limp. Remember, all you have to do is listen to me and imagine what I am suggesting. And the better you concentrate your mind on listening to my suggestions, the better the results you will obtain through the power of your mind. Now be aware of any tense muscle in your body, and simply let it relax, let it go limp. Just let go and keep on letting go. Now your entire body is getting heavy, limp, quiet, and relaxed. Feel your hands getting still heavier and heavier, and more and more relaxed. "Feel more and more peaceful. Feel a sense of peace and well-being coming over you. Feel at peace with yourself. Now turn your attention to your face and neck and let all tension and nervousness go out of your face and neck. Just relax your face and neck and let those areas become quiet, peaceful, and relaxed. Feel a great peacefulness. Feel at peace with yourself. Now, with your entire body relaxed, quiet, peaceful, limp, and relaxed, I am going to count from one to four, and as I count feel this relaxation and quiet peacefulness sinking in, deeper and deeper. One, more relaxed. Two, deeper and more peaceful. Three, more quiet, more relaxed. Four, still deeper, more quiet, more peaceful. Now you are deeply relaxed, and must not try to come out of your concentration until I count back to zero. "Now listen carefully . . . from this minute on, whenever you practice your self-hypnosis, it will be five times deeper and five times more powerful for you than ever before! And each day, as you use your self-hypnosis, you will become happier and more relaxed and your nerves will become calmer and calmer, and you will be able to relax more quickly each time you practice it and more easily each time you use it. And each time you practice you will be able to let yourself sink into the concentration more easily, and more quickly. "Now, listen to me carefully, and ac- === Page 10 of 11 cept each of my suggestions. The following suggestions will be indelibly engraved upon your subconscious mind for the rest of your life, and will serve you powerfully for the rest of your life. Powerfully! "From now on, whenever you wish to hypnotize yourself, look at the moon of either of your thumbnails, and simultaneously say, or think, the words "deep asleep.' Always remember these two key words, 'deep asleep.' Then feel your eyes get heavy, and let them close. Next picture in your mind a dark light blub and touch your forehead between your eyes and see this light bulb in your mind click on. Now, that much is your 'trigger mechanism,' and the instant you have completed it you have turned off your conscious mind and turned on your giant, subconscious mind . . . although there will be no apparent difference to you, that you're aware of. Next, count to three, slowly. Then you are ready to give yourself your autosuggestion . . . and you must speak to yourself with emotion and feeling . . . also over and over, to make it stronger. For instance, instead of just saying, 'I'll be happy today,' say 'Today and every day I'll be happy, relaxed and calm, and the things that have been worrying me, irritating me, will no longer have the power to upset me; they will just bounce off me like a rubber ball off a wall.' In other words, give yourself a regular pep talk under your own hypnosis . . . then repeat it over and over several times, to make it even stronger. Then you are ready to wake yourself, and for this you always follow the same procedure, saying 'I'll waken now at the count of zero, wide awake, refreshed and happy, with my mind and body in perfect balance, and going with God.' Then you count backward . . . four, three, two, one, zero . . . see the light bulb in your head click off when you touch your forehead, say to yourself out loud, 'wide awake now!', open your eyes, and snap your fingers right in front of your eyes . . . just to make sure that your are out of your deep concentration. Do you have these instructions in mind? (He or she nods) "Good. Now I'll touch your forehead and these instructions will be indelibly engraved upon your subconscious mind for the rest of your life, and will serve you powerfully! Powerfully!" (The helper touches the subject on the forehead between the eyes and says "there!") "Now, before you come out of your deep concentration, a few more instructions. For the next two weeks do not try to analyze what is going on or it might keep it from working. It would be like your going into a dark closet with a bright light to see if there was any dark in there. The secret to obtaining powerful results is to just let yourself go, and follow these instructions. Also, it will take two to four weeks before you have completely mastered this skill, so do not expect any miraculous results before that time. Now, for two minutes there will be quiet." (At this point the helper puts his hand on the listener's forehead, closes eyes, and says a personal prayer . . . asking God to make the listener happy and healthy.) 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We will send your personal "POWER DIAL" to you FREE! Please only one to a family. Write to: "DIAL", 6311 Yucca St., Dept. 7759 Los Angeles, Cal. 90028. SAGA 71 === Page 11 of 11 (Continued from page 71) and mind in perfect balance, and going with God. Your nerves will be relaxed and quiet. All tension will be gone from your body and mind. Your body will feel refreshed and light. If there have been any worries, fears, or anxieties on your mind, they will be gone when you come out of your concentration. Four, three, two, one, zero! Wide awake!" (The helper snaps his finger right in front of the listener's just-opened eyes.) All right, now, readers. That is the rather long, but necessary "magic formula" for your helper to teach you the self-hypnosis routine. The entire procedure outlined above should be repeated once more the next evening or at some time during the same week. Then all you have to do to hypnotize yourself at any time during the rest of your life is look at the white, or moon, of either your left or right thumbnail, say or think the words "deep asleep," close your eyes, count to three slowly . . . one, two, three . . . and you are ready to tell yourself the suggestion you want to take effect. All that remains now to reach the SIs, the UFO intelligences, is: type or print on a card, which you will keep in your handbag or wallet, the following: "I am now sending my mind back through the ages . . . to the times of the ancient Egyptians, Incas, Aztecs . . . to learn the great secrets of those times, and to bring those secrets back to me here, so that I can know them and use them in the world I live in today to help mankind." Now, you will take that formula to bed with you twice a week after you learn how to hypnotize yourself. Just before going to sleep you'll autohyp, go through the routine, and tell yourself before you open your eyes that "when I open my eyes, what I read to myself will take effect on my life with all the power of Nature." Then simply open your eyes and read that formula off the card. When finished, set the formula aside, turn off your light, and go to sleep. On a second card, type a second formula, which reads as follows: "I hereby give my mind, my soul, and my body to God, to do with as He sees fit to improve the world, to improve mankind. But I deny and reject the Devil and evil completely and entirely!" You use this second formula twice a week, but in the morning just after you awaken. Just go through your autohyp routine, open your eyes and read this formula out loud to yourself, close your eyes and count backward and bring yourself "out." And you'll have a happy day. O.K. . . . let's take a brief look at what you need to do: learn Roth's memory system, at least the first 20 words, but practice until you are an expert with those 20 words. Get your helper and have him teach you autohypnosis as outlined above. All he or she has to do is use the pendulum to make your eyes tired, read the passages from these pages, and presto, you learn how to hypnotize yourself. Once that is done, make out your two formula cards and begin to use each of them twice a week on yourself, under your autohyp. Any questions? If your helper should at any time deviate from my written instructions and give suggestions of his own, then you just come awake and get another helper at some future time. You must have a helper you can trust. I've worked out this formula word by word, precisely, with thousands of people, and it works like a charm, if followed correctly. That is why I stress that your helper must be someone you can trust. Some of you will read this and say, I haven't time to learn a memory system and all these instructions. Too much trouble. Interesting, though. And you'll close the magazine and watch TV. Some of you will read this, go to the trouble to get Roth's book, learn the 20 words, become a whiz at entertaining at parties, and let it go at that. Some of you will go further--you'll learn the memory system and develop a strong mental-imagery technique; then you'll get a helper and learn autohypnosis as outlined above. And you'll feel like a million. You'll get happier, and as time goes by your entire life will change for the better. But the cards and formulas will seem silly to you, and you'll skip that. A few of you will go the whole route: learn the memory system master the autohypnosis, use it as instructed, and apply the formula system as instructed. Then one of two things will happen: the SIs will be alerted automatically, as if you'd rung their doorbell, so to speak . . . and they will scan your mind to determine if you are the right kind of person to handle the awesome responsibilities of secrets from Infinity . . . from another world, their dimension. If when they scan your mind and find you wanting, or weak, or power hungry, or greedy, or mean and cruel--and they can see it clearly, no matter how you've fooled the people around you--then it will not go any further. The superhuman powers will be denied you. But somewhere in your midst--perhaps a housewife, an office clerk, a truck driver, a lawyer or ballplayer, perhaps even a college youngster--will be a chosen few "sleepers" who will zealously master what I've written . . . use the formulas . . . have their minds scanned by the SIs . . . and pass the test! From that point on the SIs will take you in hand and bestow on you superhuman powers. Just as they did with me. And the rest will be history. The world will hear about you and the "miracles" you'll perform. You are needed badly, right away, by the SIs for training and use, because the world is in a dangerous state today. Mankind could be destroyed on any day of the week. But if some of you can be found by the SIs--and accepted and trained--then perhaps there is still a chance for the world to be made a happy, safe place. Healthy to live in and with no more wars and killing and hate. I want to express my deepest thanks to SAGA magazine for allowing this unusual message and set of instructions to be printed for the general public. SAGA is probably the only magazine in the world with enough interest in mankind to try this unorthodox approach. The SIs also wish to thank SAGA. In closing let me say God bless you, readers, whoever you may be, and if you feel inspired, or feel the urge to follow these instructions, please do it, for God's sake! ★ THE END # ESCAPE TO SEA (Continued from page 40) can have it. If you want embroidered roses and plastic daisies, that's available too. The choices are as limitless as there are different people. Boat builders offer endless choices of color and materials, or you can even start from scratch and be your own designer. You can buy old or new, revamp some other man's ideas or create your own. You can build of wood or fiberglass, from a prepared kit or from dozens of different blueprints or pay $1,000 for a hull that needs work, or any amount you can afford. The word "secondhand" doesn't mean the same thing in boats as it does in cars. A car can go out of style, but a boat is like a house--it's basically good or bad. You can buy any number of boats that are 10, 15, 20 or more years old. 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With his white beard, battered blue sneakers, and old work clothes, Thomas looks every bit the seadog as he stands on the fantail of his bright red steel ship looking out to sea. "I wanted to see how other people live, learn their customs and understand their problems. Just thinking about it took my mind off mundane things." He plans to visit the Caribbean, South America, and eventually the South Pacific. "The only reason to go back to work is to eat." Pete Allison lives in dread of being called back to work at Pan American Airways, where he has been a high salaried mechanic for 12 years. He was laid off in a cutback over a year ago and hopes they never call him back. The reason? He's living on his 30-foot cruiser and makes frequent trips to the Bahamas to dive for treasure. (Continued on page 78) 74 - [ ] SAGA Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 52 Air Force Closes Its Bluebook ARGOSY UFO See P. 21 02256 JANUARY 1977 $1.00 Russians Encounter Problems With UFOs / Ted Owens: Earth's Link With Spacecraft? TV Star Mike Douglas Is Serious About UFOs Astronauts Sightings Of UFOs Unexplained Appearance Of Cone Shape UFOs On Increase Electro Magnetic Field A Key To Space Objects? === Page 2 of 52 TED OWENS: EARTH'S LINK WITH SPACE CRAFT? He might well be the world's most controversial--and most unorthodox psychic. He is Ted Owens of Virginia, and he claims to have established a strong communication link with UFO intelligences. BY BILL R. QUINALTY Other-Dimensional forces are saturating this area," remarked the husky, middle-aged man sitting next to me in the car. His voice had a ring of authority and, during the two days ahead, I would become convinced myself of the existence of that mysterious "Other-Dimensional" (OD) power to which he referred. The man?--Ted Owens. But he is not just an ordinary man--at least not by ordinary standards. He is a very controversial (and somewhat unorthodox) psychic! With an impressive background of ESP research and many related mental/psychic skills, plus experience gained from diverse professions, it was probably only natural that Ted would develop extraordinary psychic abilities. In ages past, he might have been called a prophet, magician or wizard. Today he is most widely known as "PK man." (PK stands for psychokinetic) From the psychic viewpoint, Ted Owens may have advanced far ahead of his time, because he not only predicts coming events but--with help from the UFOs--actually commands the forces of nature to bring them about on occasions! A virtual library of documented evidence and testimonials of 'OD' miracles now back him up. Prior to our actual meeting, I had learned of the 'PK' man due to my interest in metaphysics and psychic matters. But merely reading was not enough. Determined to see for myself what type of person he really was--in addition to expanding new mental skills--I set out for Cape Charles, Virginia, in July of 1973. I had expected the psychic to be a super-cool, slightly aloof personality. Reality proved otherwise--psychics are human too! In fact, had I not known Continued on page 56 ARGOSY UFO 21 === Page 3 of 52 TED OWENS Continued from page 21 exactly where we were meeting, I could have mistaken this heavily-framed, casually-dressed gentleman in brown shirt and black trousers for an average "man on the street." Upon approaching closer, however, I instinctively sensed an aura of power radiating from him. I then realized I was in the presence of a dynamic person. Ted Owens has accomplished nearly 500 proven "miracles"--true! That is simple fact, and the list grows longer daily. Though he does not "beat around the bush" about his accomplishments, one should be careful not to confuse this directness (typical of Ted) with arrogance. A family man, who is quite fond of his loved ones, Ted says, ". . . My children and my wife . . . are my life. Without them, there would be no meaning." His activities and lifestyle are unpretentious. One feels welcome in the friendly, warm atmosphere of the Owens' home--an old-style, but neat, two-story building, nestled in pleasantly simple surroundings. With the fantastic psychokinetic strength he has developed throughout years of intense training, this master psychic claims to have literally unleashed powerful storms and caused hurricanes to change their course, when desirable; yet he has a subtle gentleness about him that is not always apparent but that is recognized and trusted by children. Both "Beau" (Bograde Owens, age 10) and "Teddy" (age 2½) regard their dad as a real pal. And, why not? He's a man who always finds time to lovingly hug or play around with his youngest son Teddy, no matter how busy his life may be. Like any other human being, psychic or not, Ted has down-to-earth traits too. Among other things, he appreciates good food, ("Chef" Owens prepared a scrumptious breakfast on my second day there) and enjoys an occasional cold beer during hot weather. The Owens' are not petty, but simply likable people--as some folks might say, "neighborly." "Just make yourself at home," Ted admonished immediately after my arrival. Ted's manner of speaking was notable. He talks with conviction and his brisk conversation reminded me of a radio or television commentator's style. After introducing ourselves, we shook hands and Ted motioned me to his car. As we stepped inside, I glanced back at the quaint combination drugstore-bus station I had just left, situated in the heart of downtown Cape Charles (a small, quiet community on Virginia's eastern shore peninsula). I had left Norfolk at 4:30 that morning on a northbound bus and arrived in Cape Charles at 6 a.m.--the early departure being necessary since busses stop in Cape Charles only twice a day. After exchanging a few more casual comments with Ted, I looked around once more. We drove slowly down the street and I observed a few people starting to mill about. A couple of "old timers" could be seen sitting outside a store, talking--possibly sharing past experiences still vibrant in their memories. Across the street, a woman was busily toting a bag of groceries to her car. A young couple strolled by, oblivious to all but their own emotional world. The whole business area, consisting entirely of a few small stores, one food market and a gas station further down the street, reminded me of similar country towns in my own native state (Arkansas). At first we discussed conventional topics. Then Ted changed the conversation: "I'll take you for a short drive to show you around." A few sailboats and small fishing craft could already be seen dotting the water. In the distance, the long Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel was partially visible, and a new morning sun was peaking through the clouds as if to assure us of a clear day ahead. As we approached the curved cape road outlining a beach strip, a rustic wood-framed hotel appeared on my right. "It's all rather scenic," I remarked, glancing down toward the beach that was now coming into view. Ted agreed, emphasizing that he also liked the area because it was far removed from larger cities with their pollution and noise. But, "Most of all, I've always wanted to buy my own place and settle down near the ocean some day," he added. Reflecting his innate love for the sea. I then remembered that there was another great psychic who had settled down and carried on his life's work not too far from this very spot--Edgar Cayce, the famous "sleeping prophet" of Virginia Beach, who is said to have literally tapped the Universal Mind. A wisdom far beyond his own seemed to guide Cayce from childhood, as he gave fantastic health readings and life-changing philosophy to thousands. There are definite parallels between the two Virginia psychics. First, Edgar Cayce practiced the art of healing by utilizing a (then, unorthodox) system that combined psychological and physical methods, tailored to individual patients. He also believed in higher spiritual intelligences, who apparently channeled vital information through him while in a trance. In addition, many of Cayce's prophesies, like Ted's, were of the earth-shaking variety: earthquakes, shifting of large land masses, violent disruption and sinking of continents, and other dramatic changes in the physical (as well as moral) planet environment. (However, out of such turmoil an age of love and enlightenment is eventually to emerge.) With the exception of so-called "readings," Ted has done all the psychic marvels that Cayce has done, perhaps more. However, his system has expanded far beyond the confines that limit most modern psychics. He works with mysterious but powerful "Other-Dimensional" mechanisms, which, according to Ted, "are not within the framework of this world's physical laws." There are testimonials of healing in Ted's files that back this claim--some cases were beyond the help of conven- === Page 4 of 52 tional medical science, when he stepped in and turned the tide. Nevertheless, Ted does not oppose the medical profession. He urges the use of doctors and medicine in circumstances where it is practical, but reminds people that the "giant subconscious mind" can also be depended on to supplement medical or dental aid. At one period during Ted's long years of work with psychic forces, he came in contact with advanced beings who are not of this world. Evidently, they recognized his potential and singled him out as the one-in-a-billion earth creatures worth establishing communication with. Called "SI's" (space intelligences) by Ted, these awesome entities have formed a link between Ted Owens and themselves. They are the underlying influence behind many of the psychic's fantastic "miracles." As to their ultimate purpose, Ted has only been able to conclude that they are working within some kind of universal framework. Part of their mission at present is to get this sick planet back into balance and to save nature from man's contamination. Through their spokesman, Ted, the SI's are also trying to get the attention of those in authority and impress upon them that they do exist and are trying to help us. It is also evident that the SI's stand by to defend the cause of justice, if mankind continues to disregard its moral responsibilities. Interrupting my wandering thoughts, Ted announced, "I just completed an experiment a few weeks ago at a large radar installation near here . . . controlled the radar with my mind while experts watched." "It was rather strange how the whole thing came about," he added, candidly. Apparently Ted had an acquaintance who worked at the complex. While talking with him on the telephone one day, Ted was casually asked if he might be interested in seeing the installation. He admitted that he *would* like to visit, but that he knew tight security must surround such a place, since it was government-operated. Nevertheless, Mr. Owens was assured that much of the red tape could be cleared within a few days for him--and it was. After a brief tour of the station, Ted received a go-ahead from higher officials for a psychokinetic experiment that would demonstrate the awesome nature of what he terms "Other-Dimensional" powers. Ted stood near the center of the main complex for a while, observing its impressive electronic array. Then he gazed directly into a computer-linked radar console, as if in deep contemplation. Suddenly, mouths dropped and eyes widened as they fastened on the screen. The radar had suddenly "lit up like a Christmas tree!" From twenty to fifty UFOs appeared, streaks of light flashed, and, to top things off, a huge "shaft" of white, glowing light appeared across the screen. An amazed technician gasped with excitement--explaining later the reason for his reaction: The shaft was, he said, an indication that "a powerful force is coming from somewhere right in this room." "Don't you think it might be coming from my mind?" Ted inquired. (This phenomena, incidentally, is well documented. A notarized statement was signed by a government official at the installation.) Not fully realizing at the time just how much power he had unleashed in the area, Ted became somewhat concerned over the secondary effects of "OD" forces. "You see, Other-Dimensional energy takes weeks, sometimes months to wear off," he explained to me with a note of seriousness, pointing out that, although such was not purposely intended, it could cause adverse reactions in the atmosphere, affecting aircraft and possibly ships at sea, for miles around. We then drove to a restaurant along the nearby highway and had a quiet breakfast while discussing general topics, in addition to mysteries of the human mind. Ted described the "SI system," which I had wanted him to teach me (a mind conditioning program developed by him over the years, under the direction, he claims, of the Space Intelligence themselves.) Next, we stopped briefly at the motel where I was to spend the night and checked in. Ted went over the room thoroughly; turning on the television to check its operation, testing the firmness of the bed's mattress with his hand, and making sure things were in order. I later learned that there was good reason for this. First, I was told that a good, sound night's sleep would be essential, as a heavy build-up of "OD" energy would tax the body. Ted explained that "OD" recharges one's whole system during training, somewhat as a battery is recharged. Nevertheless, the body has to slowly adjust to such additional "voltage--by letting it settle, so to speak. (Once during our sessions, after Ted recommended a half-hour break, I was made even more aware of "OD" effects on one's system. I could almost sense a subtle, but vital, "electric" influence in the air. I took a short walk to a local cafe--and promptly dozed off while sipping coffee!) As for the television adjustment, apparently the SI's are able to project needed symbols and/or general communications into a television set, where they are absorbed and, in turn, used by one's deeper mental levels. While en route to Ted Owens' home, I asked numerous questions and absorbed more information. I was told of a recent trip he had made to California with his oldest son, and of the sighting of a "golden globe of light" by Ted, his boy, and another witness who happened by while they were traveling in the Arizona desert. (This incident is also documented.) Evidently, the SI's were observing the psychic throughout his trip. In addition, he was later directed to stop at a spot in the road, where he discovered a smooth, round rock, strongly resembling an alien face, complete with eyes, nose, mouth and other features. Ted wonders if perhaps this is a "petrified head" of some small UFO humanoid who once walked the earth ages ago. ARGOSY UFO 57 === Page 5 of 52 Before we entered Owens' house, Ted delighted in showing me a once-withered plant that had been transplanted and was showing marked signs of recuperation. First we went through the spacious back yard, where I observed his pets--a small squirrel monkey and a white rabbit. As we approached for a closer observation, Ted explained: "The mother rabbit actually adopted the baby monkey as her own." The little fellow, sensing a stranger, was now clinging closely to his "mother's" back. Ted talked to the animals and we watched their antics a while before entering the house. A large number of Ted Owens' uncanny demonstrations revolve around a highly-advanced psychokinesis (mind over matter) system, which in turn is linked up via his brain with Other-Dimensional ("OD") forces. "OD" energy normally functions outside of our own third-dimensional plane, and is awesome in its scope. The very possibility that such phenomena could exist fascinated me from the beginning. Later, on the basis of personal experience and observation, I was able to accept much of what Ted claimed myself. With a background in metaphysics, it was probably natural for me to recognize parallels between Ted's situation and certain biblical events. For example, in Sunday school most of us learned how prophets of old, such as Moses, Elijah and others commanded nature's forces to do their bidding: Elijah caused "fire" (lightning?) to descend from "heaven." He also caused both draught and rain. Moses was constantly surrounded by paranormal events--influences potent enough to push aside a path in the sea, manifest "pillars" of fire and smoke, cause intense plagues, etc. In Ted's case, we seem to be dealing with similar Other-Dimensional phenomena--only with a more modern terminology being used to describe it. According to Ted, Other-Dimensional power expands--that is, like other things in nature, it grows with time--and is essentially used to radiate a constructive influence. The Space Intelligences are able to tap this energy directly, but they often relay it through Ted. (He uses "OD" in his healing work and to promote better weather conditions.) Extraordinary results have appeared in countless cases. Nevertheless, since Ted Owens works with the "SI's," who have a superior knowledge and better overall perspective of things, he admits he cannot always "call the shots." Many plastic "SI" discs have been carefully and patiently charged with beneficial "OD" forces by Ted--then distributed to those in need of them. Healings, protection, good luck, better jobs and other benefits are reported by people who wear the discs. Other-Dimensional forces appear to be linked up with the universal principle of cause and effect, and Ted has been quite outspoken in this area. He is concerned about mankind's continued abuse of nature and disregard for moral responsibility. Perhaps the "bad seeds" we have sown over the years (war, intolerance, greed, etc.) are now bringing their unpleasant harvest in full force. Most psychics feel that the long build-up of negative energies has only started to unleash unpleasant retribution. Logically, the Higher Intelligences would find it necessary to take appropriate steps towards normalizing conditions. Unfortunately, however, if the ancient prophets are on target, our planet could be in for a period of cataclysmic change brought about by natural and cosmic agents in order to purify it. Such assumptions coincide with the Space Intelligences' messages issued through Ted. One of their earliest communications was a warning to planet earth; yet, in the same note, the UFO/Inter-dimensional entities promised to help us, if we would only cooperate with higher powers, with nature and with our fellow man. Ted has constantly tried to get proper recognition from government spokesmen and scientific officials for his important work. For the most part, he has been dismissed lightly, without fair and unbiased consideration. Ted feels that disaster can be averted in numerous cases--in spite of ourselves--if we but wake up and take proper steps in time. But, we are told, it may already be too late! Beings of higher wisdom such as the SI's, wish to set a "salvage" plan in operation that will bring everything back into balance on this planet--and they indeed have the means to do it--but since they respect human choice, they will not force it down our throats. In a letter to various scientists observing his work, Ted explains why the ways in which Other-Dimensional effects are manifested often seem so unusual to humans: "The reason my psychic work is so hard and difficult to understand . . . is because I work other-dimensionally . . . with that half of my brain that the SI's changed, modified, to link my brain with/into their dimension. And being other-dimensional . . . the laws of that other dimension do not apply to, or agree with, the physical laws in this dimension. But they will bring about cause and effect with our physical laws nonetheless. Why modify half of my human brain? Because, in this way, I can 'translate' the SI Other-Dimensional effects into this dimension . . . so that (they) . . . can be understood in our own cause and effect language." Although a good percentage of Ted Owens' prophesies appear startling, they are often accompanied by even more unbelievable demonstrations. The evidence is impressive and well-documented. It would take a large volume to cover all the varied types of predictions and "miracles" Ted has to his account. His first major psychokinetic experiments involved weather and other activities of nature. More specifically, they involved such activities as: drenching chosen areas with torrents of rainfall (for days at a time), unleashing powerful thunder and lightning storms, and--believe it or not--directing and/or diverting the course of hurricanes! His 58 === Page 6 of 52 book, How to Contact Space People contains accounts of these experiments, as well as the large east coast "blackout" ordered by Ted, which occurred in the late 1960s. One can only conclude that the SI's mean business; and, even though their initial purpose was to help us, they will not sit back at present and be passive while we senselessly try to destroy ourselves (and our world). The major areas covered by Ted's amazing psychic foresight in the last few years include: **EXTREME WEATHER PHENOMENA** Note the following headlines gleaned from US News and World Report (June 11, 1973): Odd Weather: No End in Sight. Among the unusual weather patterns that year were-- * Heavy rainfall in the east, while . . . * Drought was experienced in the northwest * Floods "damaged crops over a vast area" * An unprecedented volley of disastrous tornadoes occurred (169 in a four-day period!) In his November, 1971 newsletter, Ted had written: "My demonstrations will be . . . in the skies and heavens overlooking our earth," adding that it would be his own work and not involve the Space Intelligences. It is very interesting to note that the aforementioned odd weather news account stated that erratic jet streams flowing through the upper atmosphere were responsible for most of the unusual weather. You may inquire: "But can Other-Dimensional forces actually control the jet streams?" They did, according to Owens. **EARTHQUAKES AND ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA** Major quakes and minor tremors have also been plentiful in the 1970s. But a specific case loosely tied in with erratic atmospheric behavior (predicted by Ted) took place about mid 1972. Ted, in a letter to his circle of scientists and researchers, reminded them that he had been working to cause an earthquake in northern California: "One was produced," he affirmed, ". . . off target somewhat, but in the time frame specified." The major part of the quake occurred in Hawaii--200 miles southeast of Oahu Island on April 1, 1973. It was indeed quite mysterious at that! During the earthquake, the ionosphere apparently vanished, mystifying scientists considerably. Various other strange things "smacking of science-fiction" according to an AP report, also took place in the atmosphere shortly before a major tremor reached the largest island. Suddenly, long-wave radio signals, "began drifting and not making sense. The ground vibrated for about two hours," (after the quake first registered) whereas it should have ceased within about a half-hour span. One person was quoted as saying the quake "shook this island like a rug." Because of such unusual circumstances, one is tempted to conclude that a paranormal force was, in actuality, at work here. California was not entirely spared either: From the April 12, 1973 Costa Mesa Register, we read of, "The fourth earthquake in two weeks" which struck the Fontana-Rialto area west of San Bernardino (registering 3.5 on the Richter scale). One man was reportedly knocked out of bed, but "otherwise there were no reports of damage." On the same day tremors, registering 5.0 on the Richter scale were reported in Mexico City (as in the above account, however, reports of damage or casualties were not evident). **FLOODS** In August, 1972, Ted Owens again reminded contacts of the earlier prediction, adding: "Now I would assume from here on . . . planes might be in danger, and the water attack (catastrophic flooding) that I write of . . . might be even more dangerous than it has been." (Hurricane Agnes in West Virginia, floods in South Dakota, etc., not to mention the worst typhoon in Philippine history) "So here it is. The power I 'sent up' in 1971 . . . has arrived." Referring briefly to the "lag" in this particular prediction, Ted explained that there are occasional time variations due to dimensional differences between our world and that of the SI's. In 1971, Ted made comments on prior floods: "This (situation) was brought about . . . because my word of warning was not heeded . . . regarding further pollution. Now . . . the very air of the earth overhead . . . will be a no-man's land . . ." Each day new and formerly unknown dangers threaten an atmosphere already saturated with poison. Some experts say that we may have already passed the point of no return in atmospheric pollution. As Ted predicted in 1973, nature has truly started her war of retribution on man. We can expect more unusual weather patterns and drastic earth and atmospheric changes to come, warns Ted. **WORLDWIDE DROUGHT** In the latter part of 1972, the SI's informed Ted that they had set in motion drought conditions to "demonstrate their reality . . . their power to control the natural resources of our earth," and to teach "the human race a lesson it badly needs to learn . . . not to pollute and waste the earth's water." Note the following evidence: From the San Francisco Chronicle, June 14, 1973, we read the heading: "Dry Spell Worst in 25 Years." The report says, "The United Nations early warning system for famine is signaling a red alert." Major world areas such as Latin America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East were affected by prolonged dry spells. Ted realizes that some people will claim that droughts occurred prior to his prediction, but he points out that these scattered situations did not all jell together in a specific time/group pattern until shortly afterward. For the short period involved, it seems they intensified and multiplied unusually fast! Realizing the harshness of these lessons, Ted assured correspondents that he felt "very deeply for the people all over the earth," who were deprived of water; he noted that 60 === Page 7 of 52 the droughts were not something he wished on the earth. Instead it was a temporary, though drastic, measure taken by Higher Intelligences who have the whole progressive cosmic plan in mind, not just one egotistical, uncooperative little planet. In spite of man's inhumanity toward his fellow beings, Ted has not completely given up hope for the human race. For that reason he has won SI approval to carry out a plan: Willing to go the "second mile" rather than merely express concern, Ted volunteered to use his own personal psychokinetic ability to influence nature and work to replenish stricken areas. His offers to help countries if their officials would simply contact him are a matter of record. But, in spite of proven credentials, there seem to be no authorities interested in such quick, unorthodox methods. Nonetheless, Ted Owens is no "quack," nor is he a "crackpot." He is a man of both high ideals and intelligence--a member of "Mensa," an international organization requiring an exceptionally high IQ for membership, a devoted family man, and an individual with straight-forward, simple manners who is deeply concerned about the problems of our country and our world. His warning to those who would try to obtain and abuse supernormal powers from advanced spiritual entities leaves no room for doubt: "If they feel you will use them selfishly (against your fellow man), they will ignore you, for the SI's are only interested in finding and developing those humans who will use their new powers to advance the human race creatively and constructively!" It is a fact that Ted Owens has used paranormal powers to successfully rid select areas of drought, even though proper credit has not always been given where due. It is clear to many scientists and far sighted thinkers that, through nature's erratic patterns, she is trying to tell us something vital. The point is, will we take heed? A most unusual warning, recently circulated by Ted Owens concerns what he calls the "rich gang" (an international underground organization of economic manipulators). These men, he feels, are the power behind much of the political corruption and inner turmoil in this country. He stresses that they try to gain control of key officials in various countries through advanced psychological tactics, financial power or graft, and occasionally, downright violence in subtle forms. We have only recently discovered a few small exposed "cogs" within the vast machinery built by these power-crazed, wealth-hungry men. The largest portion still remains well hidden--and, as long as individuals allow greed to rule their better judgment, it will remain so. Ted does not beat around the bush about the "rich gang's" diabolical objectives: "Their purpose was to 'take' the world . . . by first gaining control of the U.S., the most powerful country . . . on down the line . . . so that they could make and dictate our policies, rig the market, control things," says Ted. "The only shield against them . . . is principle, morals, ethics. Their money goes over, under and around just about everybody's principles, morals, and ethics . . . except a handful. They'll be back with a 'new ballgame' in time ahead," warns Ted. He thinks this "gang" may have been the "incredibly intelligent brains" behind numerous assassinations of progressive leaders. Other murders and 'dirty work' are made to look accidental. The "rich gang" gains governmental advantage by setting up puppets within certain essential areas of the particular system's structure. Whether the puppets are aware of it or not, they can be used to advantage by the diabolical manipulators. According to Ted, these men are "picked . . . and patiently maneuvered into position." The "rich gang" is not just made up of dishonest, wealthy financial Barons or Mafia types; it may also include corrupt individuals who are their "dupes" and who have infiltrated the ranks of politics, religion, business and various organizations, such as unions, industry, media and higher educational institutions. Unfortunately, since a large majority of the people in our land today are apathetic, their attitudes add immensely to the "rich gang's" success. We can gain courage however, from the fact that spiritual forces such as the SI's are causing a "chemicalization" (or stirring of negative forces like this to the surface, much as impurities are brought to the surface of a liquid mixture and skimmed off for purification). It is a painful, trying process, but a necessary one. ### SPACE EFFORTS The SI's appear to be keeping a close eye on our space shots, probably to insure that we do not spread our destructive tendencies and greed to other worlds. Some noteworthy researchers into extraterrestrial and Other-Dimensional theories, such as Brinsley LePoer Trench, feel that earth was placed in a type of "quarantine" in the distant past by space people. They tell us that once enough men of strong character, linked with higher perception, emerge from this present challenging age, however, our planet will gravitate toward harmony, and the quarantine will be lifted. Earth will again have open communication with advanced races--as did the ancient masters. In the meantime, "They (the SI's) simply do not want us humans 'up there' fouling outer space as we have 'fouled' our own nest," remarks Ted in his typical direct manner. News media accounts of instances where space shots were dogged by difficulties are quite plentiful. In addition, the space programs involving astronauts have often had a pattern of bad luck mysteriously clinging to them. Such events are now a matter of history, so they will not be covered in detail here. Suffice it to say, the troubles have been many. For example, consider the Skylab missions. Skylab III was "peppered with problems from the beginning," according to a spokesman. One AP report quotes the flight director as saying that troubles had been so numerous, "I have the feeling somebody doesn't like us," add- === Page 8 of 52 ing later, "It can't be real." Ted's reaction to this was . . . "It always seems with SI miracles good and/or bad . . . 'it can't be real!' " CELEBRITY TRAGEDIES Ted has accurately predicted the tragic fate of a number of movie stars or well known personalities--for instance, the suicide of a government official (Congressman Mills), the divorce of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, the death of several celebrities within a two week period . . . Robert Ryan, Veronica Lake, Joe E. Brown, Lon Chaney and Jack Hawks. PRESIDENT NIXON Over five years ago, Ted predicted that President Nixon would not be able to complete his term in office for some reason. In What the Seers Predict for 1971, by Warren Smith (Lancer Publications), Ted says: "President Nixon will not end in office. Something most unusual will occur, and he either will resign or be forced out of office." THE FUTURE As to the future, here is a summary of things we may expect. (Many are already well underway): * more inflation and eventual depression * failing crops * insect invasions * shortages of food and water * strange new ailments (due to negative influences from outer space) * more drastic earth changes (in the form of unusual weather, earthquakes, etc.) * discoveries of new lifeforms in space. * more exposure of corruption in "high places" There is a positive note to add to such bleak news as the above: The SI's have led Ted into new, expanded areas of assignment concerning constructive OD. So far, he has successfully experimented with "coding" numerous SI disks with OD mechanisms, then spreading them over large areas--such as farms. The objective is "to produce favorable weather and growing conditions," and also, "to control insect infestation of crops." Ted writes: "My new project . . . told to me by the SI's just last week (and I had been standing by for months waiting for their instructions) . . . is to get around the world, putting things right that go wrong . . . by using OD mechanisms and powers (stopping destructive volcanos; blocking hurricanes from hitting land mass; and so on and on in a thousand different mediums). "All of the above, of course is positive and constructive . . . and they have 'jumped me up' to a higher plateau . . . requiring much more issuance of OD power on my part . . . so evidently my mental power has grown much more this past year, or they would not consider me ready for this assignment." From the moment I met Ted Owens, unusual things happened! Most of my initial curiosity over his work centered around that mysterious group of entities Ted calls SI's (space intelligences). While with him, I continually had the feeling we were not alone! Was he indeed in contact with higher intelligences, as claimed? Ted had told me that the SI's kept him under constant observation with one invisible UFO craft hovering overhead at all times--no matter where he was. However, I did not expect them to provide us with an impressive demonstration soon after my arrival! The first phenomena occurred at Ted's home where I was to receive training in the SI System mentioned earlier. Early in the training sessions, I had sensed a presence of some kind within the room, followed by a strong feeling that I was under close observation. Instinctively, my impression was that this was a friendly influence so there was no alarm. And the "third person" did not limit him (or her) self to just one demonstration. A factual description, recorded by Ted on the spot, gives the details of this case: "At 6 P.M. Bill and I (Ted Owens) seated ourselves at a table at a local restaurant to have dinner. The waitress called over to Bill and me from a distance of 20 feet away: 'How many of you? Are there three of you?' Bill and I looked at each other puzzled. We were sitting at a table by ourselves, no other people within 30 feet. I called the waitress over, remembering that Bill had experienced sensing a third person present in my office today, when in fact there was none, and asked her why she had asked if there were three at our table. She said, 'Why I thought I saw another person sitting with you!' I was stunned. Two different people today, strangers to each other, and in different geographical locations . . . had seen or sensed another person near me!" A placemat--the only paper immediately available on which to write--was signed by the waitress and witnessed by myself. Ted still has it in his files. "The SI's are directing various people to me for training." Ted had informed me earlier. His task was to wake up these "sleepers" to a fuller psychic potential. But, from that time onward, their progress would be measured in proportion to their own initiative. According to Owens, the SI's could, quite logically, appoint people from all walks of life to work with directly. However, he emphasizes that the requirements are very challenging and require strong character as well as mental discipline. Ted explains that the SI's have ingenious methods of testing one's real motivations--such as dream projections testing reactions to different simulated situations in these dreams. The fact remains that only the SI's themselves know whom they will ultimately select as contacts and coworkers. The training sessions with Ted Owens were most memorable. In addition to giving the subject the ability to program his mind into positive patterns, Ted states that he "recharges the batteries" psychically--meaning that their whole system is energized while conditioning takes place. One might compare the psychic channel, Ted, to a sort of receiver/transmitter for Other-Dimensional forces. Basically, the program deals with all essential areas of a person's makeup (mental, spiritual, physical). In 64 === Page 9 of 52 # Before I joined the Payroll Savings Plan all I could save was string. When it comes to saving money, most of us can use all the help we can get. Joining the Payroll Savings Plan is one easy way to force yourself to save. When you sign up, an amount you specify is set aside from each paycheck and used to buy U.S. Savings Bonds. It's automatic. Everything is done for you. And now there's a bonus interest rate on all U.S. Savings Bonds--for E Bonds, 5½% when held to maturity of 5 years, 10 months (4% the first year). That extra ½%, payable as a bonus at maturity, applies to all Bonds issued since June 1, 1970 . . . with a comparable improvement for all older Bonds. Stick with the plan and before you know it you'll have a bankroll waiting. That's when you'll find you can do a lot more with money than you can with string. SERIES E Bonds are safe. If lost, stolen, or destroyed, we replace them. When needed, they can be cashed at your bank. Tax may be deferred until redemption. And always remember: Bonds are a proud way to save. ## Take stock in America. Now Bonds pay a bonus at maturity. The U.S. Government does not pay for this advertisement. It is presented as a public service in cooperation with The Department of the Treasury and The Advertising Council. 66 addition, Ted often has the uncanny ability to 'psyche out' certain problem areas, injecting a more personal approach toward specific 'hangups' when needed. During breakfast Saturday morning, as we discussed present world conditions and our country's domestic problems, Ted pointed out the need for better political leadership in our country, for stronger officials with greater integrity to steer us through the storms of social and political unrest and turmoil. I could see that he was greatly concerned about the world's present situation. I was not told just exactly how the SI's plan to deal with such conditions on this planet, but I was made to realize that, in the larger perspective of things, their purpose is constructive. In spite of occasional "chastisement," the SI's are here to implement a positive plan to salvage this planet before it is too late. By working through people and events, they are bringing about a needed balance. Remembering various supernormal interventions described in Biblical accounts, I asked, "Could the SI's be compared to angels of ancient times?" "They were probably called angels back then," affirmed Ted, stressing that early men, with a limited technical background would see them from a slightly different perspective than we do and, therefore, attach a different label. But whether seen from the eyes of ancients or moderns, these UFO entities possess vast knowledge of the universe far beyond the realm of known science. From previous articles on Ted, I learned that the SI's are from another dimension entirely outside our own space/time continuum and that they possess fantastic powers that could make our most cherished marvels look puny by comparison. They provide the channel for the 'OD' powers. Why they selected Ted as a contact is yet another lengthy story which has been covered well in numerous other magazine articles (See Saga Magazine: August and September, 1970; March and April, 1971). Nearly a dozen books by noted writers in the occult/psychic field also describe his works. Ted is certainly not a "fly by night" operator. He claims the SI's have been working with him since childhood. For over 50 years, he has been involved in numerous mental/psychic innovations including the initial ESP experiments at Duke University years ago. And his communications with space intelligences is the result of painstaking effort over a large number of years. Presently he is in touch with various scientists who are observing his psychokinetic experiments. When a man devotes most of his life to developing powerful mental and psychic aptitudes, he should have ample basis for claiming psychokinetic (mind over matter) ability. One thing is evident: Profit has not been Ted's major motive. He has unselfishly given much time and effort to the SI's plan (to save this planet), while also saddled with the responsibility of supporting his family. Sometimes the going has been rough, because no one has seemed interested in giving the SI work the support it needs in order for Ted to be freer to devote more time to his research; yet he has often used his ability to help numerous people in need without asking compensation. Though his approach is unusual in comparison to most other psychics, Ted might truly be considered a master psychic--perhaps an essential earth link to other dimensions. One might even call him a UFO Prophet. === Page 10 of 52 SAGA THE MAGAZINE FOR MEN FEBRUARY 1972 Vol. 43, No. 5 JOHN J. PLUNKETT Publisher MARTIN M. SINGER Editor GEORGE A. RADA Art Director GEORGE T. GAMBELLA General Manager ROBERT BROWN DAVID ELRICH associate editors ALAN GOLDFARB sports editor PATRICK SNOOK outdoors editor ARTURO F. GONZALEZ, JR. european editor JOHN WASHINGTON asst. art director WARREN GIBSON JOHN F. 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Only those manuscripts accompanied by stamped, self-addressed envelopes with sufficient postage will be returned. Foreign editions handled through International Division of MacFadden-Bartell Corp., 205 East 42nd Street, New York, N.Y. 10017. === Page 11 of 52 Ted Owens, the PsychoKinesis man who has performed over 200 recorded miracles to date (such as controlling hurricanes, earthquakes, and lightning storms, mentally guiding airplanes and ships, summoning rainstorms to drought areas, and helping and healing human beings who were beyond the reach of modern medicine), now shares his secret of the ages-- # How You Can Communicate with UFO SPACE INTELLIGENCES By Ted Owens First, let's get one thing straight. I'm not going to waste your time. This is a "how to do it" article, and if you're interested in doing the following by using your mind, then this is for you: * Hypnotize yourself at will (with a double safety). * Summon storms to rain on drought areas. * Direct lightning at certain targets. * Make and guide hurricanes. * Control airplanes in the sky. * Control ships on the sea (and submarines, too). * Manipulate and control groups of humans. * Help and heal human beings who were beyond the reach of modern medicine. * Control the minds of humans, near or far, either singly or collectively. * Create earthquakes and floods whenever you wish, wherever you wish. There is much, much more that you will be able to do, once you learn how to apply the instructions in this article, but the above is only a small sample of what you can bring about with your mind! At this point you should be extremely skeptical of the above statement. In fact, you shouldn't believe a word of it. Because to do the things mentioned above would not be humanly possible. Or . . . would it? Now let's see . . . Moses did things like that, didn't he? And 34 - [ ] SAGA === Page 12 of 52 Best wishes to Dr. Leo Sprinkle Owens "PK Man" 3/18/72 Illustrated by Morgan Harris === Page 13 of 52 Ted Owens, the PyschoKinesis man who has performed over 200 recorded miracles to date (such as controlling hurricanes, earthquakes, and lightning storms, mentally guiding airplanes and ships, summoning rainstorms to drought areas, and helping and healing human beings who were beyond the reach of modern medicine), now shares his secret of the ages-- # How You Can Communicate with UFO SPACE INTELLIGENCES By Ted Owens Best wishes to Dr. Leo Sprinkle, Owens "PK Man" 3/18/72 Illustrated by Morgan Harris First, let's get one thing straight. I'm not going to waste your time. This is a "how to do it" article, and if you're interested in doing the following by using your mind, then this is for you: * Hypnotize yourself at will (with a double safety). * Summon storms to rain on drought areas. * Direct lightning at certain targets. * Make and guide hurricanes. * Control airplanes in the sky. * Control ships on the sea (and submarines, too). * Manipulate and control groups of humans. * Help and heal human beings who were beyond the reach of modern medicine. * Control the minds of humans, near or far, either singly or collectively. * Create earthquakes and floods whenever you wish, wherever you wish. There is much, much more that you will be able to do, once you learn how to apply the instructions in this article, but the above is only a small sample of what you can bring about with your mind! At this point you should be extremely skeptical of the above statement. In fact, you shouldn't believe a word of it. Because to do the things mentioned above would not be humanly possible. Or . . . would it? Now let's see . . . Moses did things like that, didn't he? And 34 ☐ SAGA === Page 14 of 52 Ezekiel? Way back in Biblical days? But more important to you is who is Ted Owens and what does he do? What are his credentials for making such seemingly wild claims? If that's what you're thinking, then you're thinking correctly, and we're getting somewhere already. I'm Ted Owens, the "PK Man" who uses psychokinetic powers and special effects to produce miracles; Otto Binder wrote about me in SAGA in August and September of 1970 and again in March and April of 1971. I've already done the seemingly impossible things listed above, and have sworn, notarized affidavits saying so from responsible people. As a matter of fact, I've performed over 200 recorded "miracles" to date, using mind over matter power. Just recently, in a span of three weeks, with scientists watching "over my shoulder," so to speak, I brought a tremendous rainstorm to the Norfolk area--which had been stricken by months of ruinous drought--directed lightning attacks on the Norfolk area; produced a hurricane and brought it so close to Norfolk that the rain fell unceasingly for four days; and just to put the "icing on the cake," I had a UFO ("mysterious halo in the sky" as the TV stations called it) appear over Norfolk so that all could see it . . . simply as a "signature" to the other phenomena I had produced. But before all this happened I had notified scientists, government agencies, and local newspapers by letter that it would happen, so that when it did occur it could not conceivably be called "just a coincidence." I have sworn affidavits to this event. All the above are only a few of the over 200 miracles I've performed. All right . . . so I have credentials strong enough to impress an army of skeptics. What's the next step as far as you are concerned? Well, before we get down to fundamentals on how you can proceed to perform miracles, we first need some general background information so you'll have a better idea of how this all came about. I was born in Bedford, Ind., 50 years ago. Forty of those years were spent learning and perfecting the *powers you will be able to use after you read this article!* But that should not be so surprising--Edison conducted 50,000 experiments over many years before he perfected his first workable light bulb. Once he had it and made it public knowledge, anybody could build a light bulb in short order. Actually, I am only part human. My brain was modified by UFO intelligences (who we'll call SIs, for "space intelligences") so it would become a two-way sending and receiving set for the SIs. Once you follow my instructions, the same thing can happen to you, and then you will also be able to not only communicate with these UFO creatures, but perform miracles as well. There are a few books you should read. *Secrets of the Ages*, by Robert Collier, is one. *The Sky People*, by Brinsley le Poer Trench, is another. *Flying Saucers Are Watching Us*, by Otto Binder is yet another. These are must reading in order for you to obtain a proper background for what I'm teaching. The books are easy to read and easy to understand, yet all three are key books. Once you've received the proper background and mastered the instructions in this article, then you will perhaps be able to "move the world." The obvious question arises--why place this priceless information before the general public? Isn't it dangerous? Suppose someone with evil intent got hold of it and used it against the U.S. or the world? That's a fair enough question. Now I'll answer it. There are certain people among us now who are "sleepers"--that is, people who have the potential to become great--to enrich humanity--given the proper training and instruction. It's no secret that the U.S. is now in deep trouble. The SIs are going to try to help us out of the mess we are in by finding and activating these "sleepers," just as they found and activated me. As soon as my instructions are 36 - [ ] SAGA === Page 15 of 52 The goal of the Space Intelligences (who come from another dimension and whose powers and intellects are unimaginably superior to ours) is to help mankind. If after scanning your past, present, and future, they decide you have the capacity for it, they may bestow superhuman powers on you. But if they feel you will use them selfishly--to obtain money, or hurt, rob, kill, or hate your fellow man--they will ignore you, for the SIs are only interested in finding and developing those humans who will use their new powers to advance the human race creatively and constructively! first pass exhaustive, rugged IQ tests--the minimum IQ necessary is 148. Yet the SIs may choose a farmer, a soldier, a secretary, a truck driver--that is, anyone who might follow the instructions in this article--and build up their minds so they will have superhuman brains that would put a member of Mensa to shame! That person could very well be you! All right. Enough background. Let's get down to business now. You want the instruction; the system. Now bear in mind that it is unorthodox. But never mind that. While you are learning it, putting it into practice, *do not discuss what you are doing with anybody*, except your "helper"--one person, who will assist you, as I'll soon describe. **F**irst thing in the System--get the book, *Roth's Memory Courses*, by D. Roth. This book teaches you how to memorize lists of words by associating unusual thoughts. It is only necessary that you master the first 20 words. For instance, No. 1 is "hat" . . . and what you want to memorize, like an airplane, goes with a hat, as No. 1. To memorize it, you simply see a giant 747 plane taxiing around the rim of a tophat. Silly, yes? It's supposed to be. Helps you to remember. This is the technique of "mental imagery," and mental imagery is one of the two keys to becoming a superhuman. Get Roth's book, practice the first 20 words to be memorized therein . . . hat, hen, ham, hare, hill, shoe, cow, hive, ape, woods, tide, tin, team, tire, hotel, dish, dog, dove, tub, and nose. Practice getting up in front of groups (this will make you a big hit at parties) and letting members of the group call out objects, one at a time, which another member writes down on a pad, starting with No. 1. When you've gotten to 20 stop them, *and then you can call back the entire list in any order, backwards or forwards!* Now why, you ask, is this parlor trick necessary in order to become superhuman? When you finally communicate with the SIs, and when you perform your miracles, assuming you get to that point, it will all be done through mental imagery. Therefore, while you are performing your "parlor trick" of giving memory demonstrations, you are actually building a muscle in your mind for mental imagery! Each time you do the memory exercises, it will easier and easier for you to see pictures in your mind, and to *control* these mental pictures. Let me give you an idea of how important this mental imagery is to become superhuman. While in Maine several years ago I told a prominent real estate man, Mr. Ed Ames, I would communicate with the UFO (Continued on page 66) mastered and put into operation the SIs will be alerted. At that time they'll scan your mind, telepathically, just like you are reading this article. All that you have been and done will be "seen" by them. Also everything you can do in the future will be observed, because they can "see ahead" in time. They will decide then whether or not to contact you, modify your brain, give you superhuman powers, as they did with me, and use you to benefit and lead mankind. Should you be interested in hurting, hindering, robbing, killing, hating your fellow man, or acquiring money and riches, they will ignore you. **T**HE SIs ARE INTERESTED ONLY IN FINDING AND DEVELOPING THOSE HUMANS WHO WILL USE THEIR NEW POWERS TO ADVANCE MANKIND CREATIVELY AND CONSTRUCTIVELY. So I assure you, there is absolutely no danger whatsoever of "bad people" using these priceless secrets to harm either the human race or the U.S. Now, you would think that the SIs would find and develop only the brilliant minds among us, wouldn't you? For instance, I happen to belong to "Mensa," an international organization of some 15,000 members whose IQs are exceptionally high. In order to be accepted by this organization you have to SAGA ☐ 37 === Page 16 of 52 # THIN HAIR RECEDING HAIRLINE? **FACT: As some men become older, the dermis of the scalp becomes thin. This limits blood circulation to hair follicle. Eventually the hair dies.** | NORMAL YOUNG SCALP | OLDER SCALP thin dermis | |---|---| | Normal Dermis is fairly thick, acts as a cushion, and allows blood to circulate freely to hair follicle. | * Less fatty tissue between scalp and skull. 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Or take the case of Brenda Sue Pennington, a girl in a hospital just outside Washington, D.C., who had a crushed skull and was dying. Her parents asked me to try to save her. I used mental imagery to contact the SIs and "tell" them what I was attempting, then stood inside the girl's hospital room and used mental imagery to place other-dimensional symbols onto the girl so that they would grow and help her. One, for instance, was a rainbow effect on top of her head, which would then spread and grow larger with the passing of each day, until it eventually filled her entire hospital room! That was the turning point for the girl, who'd been given up for dead by the doctors; today she is living in West Virginia. The point, is, without mental imagery the whole thing would have been impossible. (That case also is documented.) I first stumbled upon, and learned, the Roth memory system when I was 18 years old. Of course, I hadn't really "stumbled" onto it; the SIs had led me telepathically to it, just as they would lead me, a "sleeper," to all the other necessary materials for communicating and working with and for them. So you can see how vitally important it is for you to learn and develop this mental imagery technique! It isn't hard; it's lots of fun; it's entertaining to your friends; and best of all it will make your brain more powerful! (By the way, if any of you have questions about any of this, or difficulty in following the directions for this System, just write to me care of SAGA magazine, 333 Johnson Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11206, and I'll help you personally, as much as my time allows, by answering your letters. It could take a while for me to answer, so please be patient.) The next step in learning this System, is the most important! A famous scientist, who wants to remain anonymous to protect his reputation, thoroughly investigated me and my work and stated unequivocally that it had to be my mastery of self-hypnosis that was the key to the SIs being able to give me superhuman power! And that is your next step -- to hypnotize yourself. I'll make it simple for you, too. Some people take years to learn autohypnosis, but you'll be able to do it in days. Actually, self-hypnosis is the key that unlocks a secret door in your mind that leads to a storehouse of tremendous === Page 17 of 52 BILLS? I owed $12,000 and no way out! Interstate Acceptance showed me the EASY way! Send your name and address and we will send you our NOBODY REFUSED HELP APPLICATION up to $20,000. NOT A LOAN COMPANY WE CAN HELP YOU RETURN THIS COUPON T-O-D-A-Y-! ---------- IF COUPON IS CUT OUT, SEND NAME & ADDRESS TO: INTERSTATE ACCEPTANCE 139 MATHEWSON ST. PROV., R. I. 02903 (COUPON) PLEASE PRINT CLEARLY (COUPON) E-3 NAME ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIP Please Rush Me Your FREE Application 68 - [ ] SAGA surgery first, Charlie," I yelled at him. "Then use auto-hyp." Control of useless pain is only one of thousands of possible uses for self-hypnosis. One man learned autohypnosis because he had a deathly fear of dentists--hadn't been to one for 12 years. As soon as he mastered the technique, he marched to the nearest dentist and had 12 teeth pulled, all under self-hypnosis! In order to find out more you should read some good books on autohypnosis. There are a number of them, so I'll leave the choice up to you (they are for background and general instruction). I'm going to teach you a superior method right here, which is sufficient for your use. Before teaching you how to hypnotize yourself, let me give you some preliminary instruction. Pain is a warning signal; you should only use self-hypnosis to deaden pain in an emergency, until you can get to a doctor; then you should remove the autohypnosis, because you need the pain as an indicator for the doctor to work with. ALWAYS WORK WITH THE DOCTOR. Self-hypnosis should not be used to take the place of medicine, or doctors, or surgery! I can't stress that point enough. By the way, allow me to quote some people who I taught self-hypnosis (names are unimportant, but they are identified by profession, to show its scope). Business owner: "Since I've used autohypnosis I find that people can't irritate me or insult me anymore. It just seems to bounce off me. I'm much happier. I feel like a new man!" Court reporter: "Since I've learned autohypnosis from you I've been amazed at the good results of it! And I've been deeply happy since using it!" Jeweler: "Money could not buy what your autohypnosis has done for me, Mr. Owens!" Secretary: "Nothing happened the first two weeks but suddenly I've become happier than at any other time in my life. I can't believe it, and I'm scared that it might go away. I'm so happy!" Lawyer: "My work has improved 30 percent because of the autohypnosis you taught me. It's really working!" Court reporter: "This week I have been happier, made more money, and got more work done that at any time in my entire life! I even increased my stenotype speed by 25 words per minute by using my autohypnosis. This autohypnosis is the best thing that ever happened to me!" Nurse: "It's like a miracle! Now I'm sleeping like I used to years ago! For years I have only gotten half a night's sleep, until now." Electronics expert: "I didn't believe in this for a couple of weeks, but now I'm sleeping without pain, and soundly." These comments from former pupils go on and on but you can see how powerful and effective this method is. Used intelligently (with the cooperation of your doctor, if you so desire), self-hypnosis can improve your life tremendously! But even more important, it can lead you directly to the SIs and to superhuman power. (Two superior books I suggest you read are: Autoconditioning by Dr. Hornell Hast, and Hypnosis by Drs. S. J. Van Pelt, Gordon Ambrose and George Newbold.) Now, the autohypnosis I'm going to teach you is designed to lead you to the SIs. However, here are a few of the things it can do for you when it is used simply for itself: * It can make you feel happy and cheerful, instead of depressed and blue. * It can give you the courage to face anything. * It can refresh you in minutes, if you are tired. * It can keep you wide awake, if that is necessary (be careful not to extend this over too long a period of time.) * It can put you soundly to sleep, all night long, or at any time. * It can relieve pain and discomfort. (Useless pain, that is. Read those books I referred you to concerning this point.) * It can help you break bad habits, such as procrastination, overeating, smoking drinking, etc. * It can remove panic, fear, tension, self-consciousness, etc. * It can help improve your personality and your attitude toward people, and situations. * It can help you improve your income, by improving you. But what is the "secret" of self-hypnosis Just this: in your normal conscious state your thoughts do not register very deeply upon your subconscious mind. In contrast, when you utilize your autohypnotic "trigger" mechanism, all your mental power is focused on whatever you are concentrating on, and when you come out of your self-hypnosis your mind is set, just like an alarm clock, to get the maximum results that you have ordered while under autohypnosis. (This is called posthypnotic suggestion.) You see, in your normal conscious state you use a mere five to 10 percent of your brainpower. But your subconscious mind, controlled by your self-hypnosis, gives you access to approximately 70 to 90 percent of your brainpower! Quite a difference! O.K. Now I'll teach you exactly how to hypnotize yourself, step by step. The first step is to have you hypnotized by your "helper"--your husband or wife, or girlfriend or boyfriend. Someone you trust who will take this seriously and not make fun of it, and will above all else, be considerate and cautious. If you have any doubts or reservations, you should not attempt it (and that goes for any step along the way). A pendulum will be needed--one can be acquired in novelty or magic shops, or you can simply tie a ring to a six-inch string. Turn off all the lights in the room except one just above and behind your head, as you lie on a couch. Your helper will be seated beside the couch in such a position that he can hold the end of the string of the pendulum and let it dangle in front of your eyes, swinging it back and forth. He can put this page in his lap and read the instructions below, as he slowly swings the pendulum back and forth about six inches in front of and slightly above your eyes, so that you have to look up at it. Then he begins reading out loud as you keep your eyes focused on the swinging pendulum, moving it slowly back and forth: "Now, all you have to do is listen to my suggestions, and imagine the suggestions taking effect. Just watch the pendulum. (Continued on page 70) === Page 18 of 52 unused power! Let me give you a few examples of what can be done with self-hypnosis. Some years ago in Texas, I bought a car from a salesman named Charlie Turner. Charlie was English, and his accent interested me. We chatted as I filled out the necessary papers, and he said it had been the first car he'd sold in several months, that he was broke. I "scanned" his mind and telepathically ascertained that here was an unusual man, one with great potential. So I told him that I taught self-hypnosis, and that he should learn it. He said he hadn't the money to pay for the instruction. I said that it wasn't necessary, I'd be glad to train him for nothing. So he made an appointment, and I began training him. Shortly after learning self-hypnosis he quit selling cars, and started an import-export business. Within months he'd become fantastically successful! He had quite a bit of money in the bank and was becoming widely known in his field. He attributed all this success to his learning of autohypnosis and application to his daily life. But that wasn't all. One night Charlie, who lived far out in the suburbs, lifted an outboard motor on top of his stove to repair it, and the stove's pilot light ignited the motor; it blew up, spraying flaming gasoline on Charlie's left hand and arm. Charlie quickly doused the flames and called an ambulance, which didn't get there for almost half an hour (this happened at 3:30 in the morning). Charlie told me that if he hadn't used self-hypnosis on himself to deaden the excruciating pain, he'd have gone out of his mind. But worse was to come. After Charlie reached the hospital he removed the self-hypnosis from his arm (as I had taught him to do) so the doctors could work on him, that's when he was told that they couldn't give him a shot to ease his pain until the doctor arrived to authorize it! Therefore because the pain was unbearable, Charlie put himself under hypnosis again, and sat for 40 minutes until the doctor got there. The doctor told Charlie that he might never be able to use the arm again. It was burned that badly. And then, at that point, Charlie deviated from my instruction and told the doctor he would treat the arm himself without the doctor's help! Charlie took a cab home and stayed in bed for a week, using autohypnosis not only to deaden the pain in his arm but also to rebuild and restore the skin and muscle! 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Listen closely to my voice for it is going to help you, and you will not listen to other sounds, and they will just fade away. Now feel your feet, your legs, your hands, your arms growing heavier and heavier and more and more relaxed. Let your hands become as limp as though they were pieces of cloth, or two empty gloves lying on top of a dresser, completely heavy and limp. Remember, all you have to do is listen to me and imagine what I am suggesting. And the better you concentrate your mind on listening to my suggestions, the better the results you will obtain through the power of your mind. Now be aware of any tense muscle in your body, and simply let it relax, let it go limp. Just let go and keep on letting go. Now your entire body is getting heavy, limp, quiet, and relaxed. Feel your hands getting still heavier and heavier, and more and more relaxed. "Feel more and more peaceful. Feel a sense of peace and well-being coming over you. Feel at peace with yourself. Now turn your attention to your face and neck and let all tension and nervousness go out of your face and neck. Just relax your face and neck and let those areas become quiet, peaceful, and relaxed. Feel a great peacefulness. Feel at peace with yourself. Now, with your entire body relaxed, quiet, peaceful, limp, and relaxed, I am going to count from one to four, and as I count feel this relaxation and quiet peacefulness sinking in, deeper and deeper. One, more relaxed. Two, deeper and more peaceful. Three, more quiet, more relaxed. Four, still deeper, more quiet, more peaceful. Now you are deeply relaxed, and must not try to come out of your concentration until I count back to zero. "Now listen carefully... from this minute on, whenever you practice your self-hypnosis, it will be five times deeper and five times more powerful for you than ever before! And each day, as you use your self-hypnosis, you will become happier and more relaxed and your nerves will become calmer and calmer, and you will be able to relax more quickly each time you practice it and more easily each time you use it. And each time you practice you will be able to let yourself sink into the concentration more easily, and more quickly. "Now, listen to me carefully, and ac- === Page 20 of 52 cept each of my suggestions. The following suggestions will be indelibly engraved upon your subconscious mind for the rest of your life, and will serve you powerfully for the rest of your life. Powerfully! "From now on, whenever you wish to hypnotize yourself, look at the moon of either of your thumbnails, and simultaneously say, or think, the words 'deep asleep.' Always remember these two key words, 'deep asleep.' Then feel your eyes get heavy, and let them close. Next picture in your mind a dark light bulb and touch your forehead between your eyes and see this light bulb in your mind click on. Now, that much is your 'trigger mechanism,' and the instant you have completed it you have turned off your conscious mind and turned on your giant, subconscious mind . . . although there will be no apparent difference to you, that you're aware of. Next, count to three, slowly. Then you are ready to give yourself your autosuggestion . . . and you must speak to yourself with emotion and feeling . . . also over and over, to make it stronger. For instance, instead of just saying, 'I'll be happy today,' say 'Today and every day I'll be happy, relaxed and calm, and the things that have been worrying me, irritating me, will no longer have the power to upset me; they will just bounce off me like a rubber ball off a wall.' In other words, give yourself a regular pep talk under your own hypnosis . . . then repeat it over and over several times, to make it even stronger. Then you are ready to wake yourself, and for this you always follow the same procedure, saying 'I'll waken now at the count of zero, wide awake, refreshed and happy, with my mind and body in perfect balance, and going with God.' Then you count backward . . . four, three, two, one, zero . . . see the light bulb in your head click off when you touch your forehead, say to yourself out loud, 'wide awake now!', open your eyes, and snap your fingers right in front of your eyes . . . just to make sure that your are out of your deep concentration. Do you have these instructions in mind? (He or she nods) "Good. Now I'll touch your forehead and these instructions will be indelibly engraved upon your subconscious mind for the rest of your life, and will serve you powerfully! Powerfully!" (The helper touches the subject on the forehead between the eyes and says "there!") "Now, before you come out of your deep concentration, a few more instructions. For the next two weeks do not try to analyze what is going on or it might keep it from working. It would be like your going into a dark closet with a bright light to see if there was any dark in there. The secret to obtaining powerful results is to just let yourself go, and follow these instructions. Also, it will take two to four weeks before you have completely mastered this skill, so do not expect any miraculous results before that time. Now, for two minutes there will be quiet." (At this point the helper puts his hand on the listener's forehead, closes eyes, and says a personal prayer . . . asking God to make the listener happy and healthy.) 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"We've been flying across the Gulf Stream to the Bahamas for 52 years and haven't hurt anyone yet," Pappy says proudly. Besides flying services, Pappy's pilots run errands for Bimini residents, too. "When someone has a yen for a steak in Bimini," Pappy says, "they just call Chalk's. We go to a Miami store, have the steak cut to order, and deliver it on the next flight." ★ THE END 72 - [ ] SAGA === Page 22 of 52 (Continued from page 71) and mind in perfect balance, and going with God. Your nerves will be relaxed and quiet. All tension will be gone from your body and mind. Your body will feel refreshed and light. If there have been any worries, fears, or anxieties on your mind, they will be gone when you come out of your concentration. Four, three, two, one, zero! Wide awake!" (The helper snaps his finger right in front of the listener's just-opened eyes.) All right, now, readers. That is the rather long, but necessary "magic formula" for your helper to teach you the self-hypnosis routine. The entire procedure outlined above should be repeated once more the next evening or at some time during the same week. Then all you have to do to hypnotize yourself at any time during the rest of your life is look at the white, or moon, of either your left or right thumbnail, say or think the words "deep asleep," close your eyes, count to three slowly . . . one, two, three . . . and you are ready to tell yourself the suggestion you want to take effect. All that remains now to reach the SIs, the UFO intelligences, is: type or print on a card, which you will keep in your handbag or wallet, the following: "I am now sending my mind back through the ages . . . to the times of the ancient Egyptians, Incas, Aztecs . . . to learn the great secrets of those times, and to bring those secrets back to me here, so that I can know them and use them in the world I live in today to help mankind." Now, you will take that formula to bed with you twice a week after you learn how to hypnotize yourself. Just before going to sleep you'll autohyp, go through the routine, and tell yourself before you open your eyes that "when I open my eyes, what I read to myself will take effect on my life with all the power of Nature." Then simply open your eyes and read that formula off the card. When finished, set the formula aside, turn off your light, and go to sleep. On a second card, type a second formula, which reads as follows: "I hereby give my mind, my soul, and my body to God, to do with as He sees fit to improve the world, to improve mankind. But I deny and reject the Devil and evil completely and entirely!" You use this second formula twice a week, but in the morning just after you awaken. Just go through your autohyp routine, open your eyes and read this formula out loud to yourself, close your eyes and count backward and bring yourself "out." And you'll have a happy day. O.K. . . . let's take a brief look at what you need to do: learn Roth's memory system, at least the first 20 words, but practice until you are an expert with those 20 words. Get your helper and have him teach you autohypnosis as outlined above. All he or she has to do is use the pendulum to make your eyes tired, read the passages from these pages, and presto, you learn how to hypnotize yourself. Once that is done, make out your two formula cards and begin to use each of them twice a week on yourself, under your autohyp. Any questions? If your helper should at any time deviate from my written instructions and give suggestions of his own, then you just come awake and get another helper at some future time. You must have a helper you can trust. I've worked out this formula word by word, precisely, with thousands of people, and it works like a charm, if followed correctly. That is why I stress that your helper must be someone you can trust. Some of you will read this and say, I haven't time to learn a memory system and all these instructions. Too much trouble. Interesting, though. And you'll close the magazine and watch TV. Some of you will read this, go to the trouble to get Roth's book, learn the 20 words, become a whiz at entertaining at parties, and let it go at that. Some of you will go further--you'll learn the memory system and develop a strong mental-imagery technique; then you'll get a helper and learn autohypnosis as outlined above. And you'll feel like a million. You'll get happier, and as time goes by your entire life will change for the better. But the cards and formulas will seem silly to you, and you'll skip that. A few of you will go the whole route: learn the memory system master the autohypnosis, use it as instructed, and apply the formula system as instructed. Then one of two things will happen: the SIs will be alerted automatically, as if you'd rung their doorbell, so to speak . . . and they will scan your mind to determine if you are the right kind of person to handle the awesome responsibilities of secrets from Infinity . . . from another world, their dimension. If when they scan your mind and find you wanting, or weak, or power hungry, or greedy, or mean and cruel--and they can see it clearly, no matter how you've fooled the people around you--then it will not go any further. The superhuman powers will be denied you. But somewhere in your midst--perhaps a housewife, an office clerk, a truck driver, a lawyer or ballplayer, perhaps even a college youngster--will be a chosen few "sleepers" who will zealously master what I've written . . . use the formulas . . . have their minds scanned by the SIs . . . and pass the test! From that point on the SIs will take you in hand and bestow on you superhuman powers. Just as they did with me. And the rest will be history. The world will hear about you and the "miracles" you'll perform. You are needed badly, right away, by the SIs for training and use, because the world is in a dangerous state today. Mankind could be destroyed on any day of the week. But if some of you can be found by the SIs--and accepted and trained--then perhaps there is still a chance for the world to be made a happy, safe place. Healthy to live in and with no more wars and killing and hate. I want to express my deepest thanks to SAGA magazine for allowing this unusual message and set of instructions to be printed for the general public. SAGA is probably the only magazine in the world with enough interest in mankind to try this unorthodox approach. The SIs also wish to thank SAGA. In closing let me say God bless you, readers, whoever you may be, and if you feel inspired, or feel the urge to follow these instructions, please do it, for God's sake! ★ THE END # ESCAPE TO SEA (Continued from page 40) can have it. If you want embroidered roses and plastic daisies, that's available too. The choices are as limitless as there are different people. Boat builders offer endless choices of color and materials, or you can even start from scratch and be your own designer. You can buy old or new, revamp some other man's ideas or create your own. You can build of wood or fiber glass, from a prepared kit or from dozens of different blueprints or pay $1,000 for a hull that needs work, or any amount you can afford. The word "secondhand" doesn't mean the same thing in boats as it does in cars. A car can go out of style, but a boat is like a house--it's basically good or bad. You can buy any number of boats that are 10, 15, 20 or more years old. You can find dowagers from the 30s that are still in first class condition, and which you would be proud to own. Usually, the largest boat you can afford is the one to buy. Dr. Don Thomas, a Midwest dentist paid $35,000 for a 100-foot Scandinavian freighter and converted it into a virtual floating palace. It has 2,000 square feet of living space with plenty of room for his wife, two children and their two teen-aged friends. The freighter was completely renovated before Thomas took off, even to the addition of paisley wallpaper in the playroom. He sold all his belongings and cashed in his life insurance to do it, and it's still not as complete as he would like. But even though his "Shangri-La" doesn't have all the comforts most Americans consider standard--air conditioning, television, telephones, and cars--Thomas has no regrets. "When the money for food and fuel runs out, I'll start drilling teeth again," he says. With his white beard, battered blue sneakers, and old work clothes, Thomas looks every bit the seadog as he stands on the fantail of his bright red steel ship looking out to sea. "I wanted to see how other people live, learn their customs and understand their problems. Just thinking about it took my mind off mundane things." He plans to visit the Caribbean, South America, and eventually the South Pacific. "The only reason to go back to work is to eat." Pete Allison lives in dread of being called back to work at Pan American Airways, where he has been a high salaried mechanic for 12 years. He was layed off in a cutback over a year ago and hopes they never call him back. The reason? He's living on his 30-foot cruiser and makes frequent trips to the Bahamas to dive for treasure. (Continued on page 78) 74 - [ ] SAGA === Page 23 of 52 PART II-- Ted Owens's UFO Mission Received Mar. 20, 1971 from Ms. Calu Calvas Although he can't tell precisely why he was selected by the SIs (Space Intelligences) to be their "envoy" on earth, two things he is sure of: 1) he has been "programmed" to receive messages from these ultra-scientific extraterrestrials, and; 2) the feats he's performed with the amazing PK powers they've bestowed on him are merely their way of trying to get the attention of the world, particularly the U.S. Government, in order to help mankind out of its many difficulties. Up to now, no one has paid any attention to his ominous warnings of an imminent crisis, but can we much longer ignore TED OWENS Flying Saucer PROPHET of DOOM 22 - [ ] SAGA === Page 24 of 52 (Left) The cross bears legend "Here Custer Fell, June 25, 1876." The surrounding white shafts represent the estimated (exact number is not known) 260 troopers who were killed at the Little Big Horn. Map indicates (arrow) the position of the Far West at the time treasure was buried. Photo Courtesy of West Point Museum Collections, United States Military Academy for more than 20 miles before Marsh sighted a break in the shore line and a body of water leading inland. Marsh anchored here and wondered if this was the mouth of the Little Big Horn, where he had been ordered to station the Far West. Or was it an unknown creek or stream swollen by the recent rains? Captain Baker volunteered to find the answer. He was rowed ashore with some of his infantrymen. They traveled for four miles up the waterway and upon their return Baker expressed his conviction that it was not the Little Big Horn. loaded to her 400 ton capacity she drew four and a half feet. When soundings showed that the depth of the river had dwindled to three and a half feet Marsh decided not to venture any farther. He was also now convinced that he overshot the mouth of the Little Big Horn that the "creek" explored by Captain Baker was the river they had been seeking. Baker also had been having second thoughts about it and had reached the same belated conclusion. "We'll anchor here for the night ### The slaughter of "Yellow Hair" and the 261 officers and men of his command has long obscured the fact that three quarters of a million dollars in miner's gold is still resting along a bank of Montana's Big Horn River--only 15 miles from the national monument honoring Custer and his valiant men! During the next several months I managed to assemble other bits of pertinent information. Over a span of years in tracking down the fact and fiction of lost treasures many turned out to be legend or folklore. But this one began fitting together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. There was no doubt that Marsh had endeavored to carry out Terry's directive. He had piloted the Far West up the Big Horn through treacherous rapids and a twisting channel full of snags, sandbars, and tiny islands. The vessel journeyed Marsh was still dubious but permitted himself to be persuaded by Baker. He weighed anchor and traveled 15 miles farther up the Big Horn without observing another break in the shore line. He became increasingly worried as the river shallowed. The Far West, 190 feet in length with a beam of 33 feet, had been constructed in Pittsburgh in 1870 expressly for navigating such tricky rivers as the upper Missouri and the Yellowstone. She drew only 20 inches of water when empty; when and head back downstream in the morning," Marsh told him. A short time later, just before his evening meal, Marsh was informed that a mule-drawn freight wagon had appeared on shore. It had three occupants, the driver, Gil Longworth and two armed guards, Dickson and Jergen. Longworth hailed the Far West, was rowed out to her and requested to see the captain. Marsh related later that the mule driver was weary and agitated, "and with good reason." The (Continued on page 66) SAGA - [ ] 21 === Page 25 of 52 By Otto O. Binder Illustration by Gil Cohen === Page 26 of 52 PART II-- Ted Owens's UFO Mission Received Mar. 20, 1971 from Mr. Calu Calvas Although he can't tell precisely why he was selected by the SIs (Space Intelligences) to be their "envoy" on earth, two things he is sure of: 1) he has been "programmed" to receive messages from these ultra-scientific extraterrestrials, and; 2) the feats he's performed with the amazing PK powers they've bestowed on him are merely their way of trying to get the attention of the world, particularly the U.S. Government, in order to help mankind out of its many difficulties. Up to now, no one has paid any attention to his ominous warnings of an imminent crisis, but can we much longer ignore TED OWENS Flying Saucer PROPHET of DOOM By Otto O. Binder 22 SAGA Illustration by Gil Cohen === Page 27 of 52 In Part I of the Ted Owens story (SAGA-March), Otto Binder described the amazing fulfillment of the predictions made by the incredible PK man. Now, in Part II, Binder explains how Ted came into possession of his fantastic powers, and why the Saucer Intelligences chose him to be the agent for their vital mission to Earth. Somewhere in another eerie dimension, strange beings of pure energy cast their all-seeing eyes upon the tiny planet earth. They see strife and trouble and moral degeneration there. Moreover, they see organic creatures (humans) defiling their beautiful world, spreading pollution senselessly. They pity the disorganized earthlings who are unknowingly heading for worldwide disaster and eventual oblivion. A voice booms out to the DIs, (Dimension Intelligences), an omniscient voice, one that the DIs, through ages of spiritual development, have often tuned in directly. The Voice commands--"Go to that doomed planet and help those pitifully blundering souls to save themselves before it is too late. Go!" Obediently, the DIs utilize their ultra-scientific and supernormal powers to penetrate to the earth-dimension in craft shaped like flying saucers. The DIs are now the SIs, or the Saucer Intelligences, as far as earth is concerned. Their super-ray monitors scan the teeming millions on earth below. Where can they find a human mind less primitive than the average and capable of receiving ESP communications from them? It is no easy task to match minds from two utterly different dimensions. No such mind is found, not one that would withstand their powerful and indeed lethal thought-impulses. Ah, but that child--his brain and mind might be developed to the point where it would not be blasted and burned out by an interchange of communication. It would take time--an earthly lifetime, in fact--but there is no other alternative. They must begin now, for time is running out for earth. . . . Harry T. Owens was born in Bedford, Ind., in 1920. The "T" doesn't stand for anything, but an aunt began calling him Ted and the name stuck. From the beginning, Ted was a "loner," uninterested in joining other children in their "silly" games. Only sports interested him, somewhat, in school. And here the first indications of his strange powers became evident. In basketball, he would make a 20-foot shot with his back to the basket. The ball would swish through the hoop miraculously. When he passed the ball, nobody saw it move, yet the boy he shot it to would suddenly find it in his hands. Needless to say, his friends began to shun him for his mysterious doings. Ted took up boxing later, excelling in it. However, when he fought a much bigger boy, he was battered savagely in the head and suffered a latent concussion. As Ted sees it today, this seemed to have been deliberately planned by the SIs. Even before that, at age five, Ted had been playing in the street when a car struck him and knocked him 15 feet, leaving him unconscious for hours. Then, after the boxing incident, he received more "brain-rattl- Ted Owens was parked on a one lane mountain road years ago when a car passed through his! 24 - [ ] SAGA === Page 28 of 52 ing" blows as if his brain were being "shook up" or "scrambled"--for a purpose. While playing, another boy rolled a huge log down on Ted that ripped his scalp open. As a teen-ager, Ted was a passenger in a car that ran off the road at 90 miles per hour. The car was totally smashed, and Ted's head was almost split open. Ted's head and brain received four brutal blows, from which he always miraculously recovered. That is certainly, and oddly, more than most people suffer. Ted has since found out from the SIs, he says, that these "accidents" were necessary in order to allow one of the invisible SI entities to enter his brain at the moment of injury and perform a strange healing that altered his brain each time, for future SI communications. This becomes more credible when one remembers that head and brain injuries have played a part in the careers of noted psychics. Peter Hurkos fell off a ladder onto his head, for instance, and thereafter gained his famed psi-powers (a fully documented story). Dr. Franz Polgar was shot in the head in WW I and lived to become a noted "sensitive." There are hints from the SIs that those men, and others, might have been earlier experiments of theirs to reshape a human brain into an SI "receiving station," but without success. Only in the case of Ted, it seems, could the SIs go all the way. Sheer imagination? Blatant nonsense? Then read these excerpts from Ted's diary. July 4, 1966--"Woke up this morn with two sore spots on back of head, proportionately spaced. . .two little bumps. Family noticed them immediately, said they were never there before." July 1, 1968--"Martha (his wife) pointed out this morn. . .two deep scars under my ear, on neck. . .that have never been there before. Did the SIs do something to me overnight?" Then, in April, 1970, a deep indentation appeared behind Ted's right ear. Martha exclaimed--"Why, Ted, it looks like something has been inserted there!" In October 1968, Ted also had felt a new ridge of bone at the back of his head, below the brain case. Now the other "indentations" and "scars" might conceivably have been ordinary bruises that Ted received unknowingly. But when a ridge of solid bone appears overnight--and stays--we can't explain that away. Another remarkable change in Ted's physiognomy occurred recent- **One astrophysicist, who has studied UFO phenomena for many years, became quite excited after a careful examination of Ted's record of accomplished PK feats and called him "one of the world's greatest psychics" and said he "might be the most powerful mind on earth today!"** ly, in July, 1970. Ted woke up with two sets of eyebrows. In the mirrors, he distinctly saw a new growth of reddish hair over his normal brown eyebrows. It could have been another sign of brain "tampering" by the SIs. The SIs have since told Ted what they are up to in these brain "modifications." It was a form of "psychic surgery" to beef up the right lobe of his brain in order to allow him to perform PK feats and also to receive their high-voltage ESP messages. These weird alterations within Ted's brain are given strong credence by Dr. Ansel Kowzak (his real name is not given to protect his position), an astrophysicist as well as an expert in paranormal phenomena. Kowzak told Ted that the government had performed secret autopsies on several "contactees," notably the famed George Adamski. The results were startling. In all the dead contactee brains, a pattern of odd growths were found on the frontal lobe of the cerebrum. They were called "dendrites" and seemingly had something to do with the ESP communications the contactees claimed to have had with the saucer people. (In medical terms, dendrites are bunches of tiny sensory tips which link up brain cells. The more dendrites, the more sensory impressions going through the brain. Presumably, large growths of dendrites were found in the dissected brains of the contactees, which might have given them extra-sensory powers. This would give more credence to their stories of receiving ESP messages from saucer people.) This story naturally cannot be verified, if true, as it would obviously be classified by the government to camouflage its secret interest in the "non-existent" UFOs. Ted is sure that something similar to dendrites have been implanted in his brain by the SIs to make him a sensitive ESP receiver. Up until March, 1965, Ted had believed he was in communication with the "Intelligence behind Nature" who had given him his PK powers to create or guide storms. Then, as related in the previous issues of SAGA (August and September, 1970), Ted suddenly became aware that he was being contacted by the SIs. At first their ESP communications were vague, but gradually, as the SIs "modified" his brain properly, the messages became more direct. The exact contact method kept changing, too. For example, in August, 1965, the SIs switched (Continued on page 70) SAGA - [ ] 25 === Page 29 of 52 (Continued from page 68) head down past the islands. . . ." Taking a deep breath Marsh signaled to Foulk who moved his engine levers to "slow ahead." Marsh swung the Far West cautiously about, bucking the swift current, and headed her downstream. He intended to maintain a midchannel course but soon groups of hostile Sioux arrived at sharp bends in the river and galloped along the bank, shooting flaming arrows at the deck and pilothouse. They succeeded in starting several fires, which were extinguished by the crew. Marsh signaled to Foulk for more speed and swung dangerously close to the far bank. Taut with suspense, he piloted the Far West around the bends and through menacing rapids, reaching the Yellowstone without grounding her. Here he tied up to await the arrival of Reno and Gibbon and ferry their mauled commands across to the north bank of the river. Despite Terry's other instructions to make all haste conveying the wounded to Bismarck he was compelled to hold the Far West back throughout July 1st and most of July 2nd before the slowly moving columns arrived. On the following morning he ferried the tired cavalrymen and their mounts across the river and experienced further delay when one of the wounded, Pvt. William George of H troop, succumbed and was buried in a grave on shore. So it was that the Far West, after another stop at the cavalry encampment at Powder River to take aboard the personal effects left there by officers and men killed on the battlefield, did not begin her record dash of 700 miles to Bismarck until five p.m. on the afternoon of July 3rd. From here on Marsh and Campbell spelled each other at the wheel in four hour shifts, both remaining in the pilothouse. They reached Fort Stevenson in North Dakota on the afternoon of the 5th, and the Far West halted so that a deckhand could be sent ashore to obtain whatever black cloth was available. Then the vessel proceeded to Bismarck with her derrick and jackstaff draped in mourning. She completed her epic run shortly after 11 p.m. Marsh hurried to the telegraph office, and the wounded were transported to Fort Lincoln. Carnahan, the telegrapher on duty, had a badgered look. He had been pounding the key for hours and had no rest since the first report of the Custer massacre reached Bismarck. He waved a sheaf of telegrams at Marsh. "Everyone is asking for confirmation of the death of General Custer. Wires have been pouring in from all over the East." "Which is the most urgent?" "General Sheridan. We've received several from his headquarters in Chicago." Marsh heaved a sigh. Tired as he was he felt that this was still something he had to do. "All right, let's get at it." Throughout the next day anxious women visited Fort Lincoln to inquire about their soldier husbands. Some, a pitiful few, found them among the wounded survivors. Others were sympathetically informed that advance reports of the deaths had been confirmed. Among those who called was the widowed Elizabeth Bacon Custer. Captain Marsh was permitted short time to rest from his arduous journey. Both his skill and his ship were vitally needed. Army headquarters reluctantly acknowledged: "The Indians have secured a resounding victory over the U.S. Army unparalleled in history. General Custer's violation of the principles of maneuver and security have cost dearly. It is imperative that the U.S. Army immediately take steps to rectify the situation. All posts in the military division of the Missouri are to supply reinforcements." Marsh continued to skipper the Far West in the service of the U.S. Army throughout the Indian campaigns. He transported soldiers and supplies on the Missouri and its tributaries and was cited by General Sheridan for his "zeal, competence and energy," a commendation he highly prized. In 1879 he had a river boat, the Andrew S. Bennett, constructed at Sioux City for use as a local ferry. While it was being built he found time to go to Bozeman where he made an unsuccessful effort to locate the freighting company whose driver, Gil Longworth, had entrusted the $750,000 gold shipment to his care. He learned that following the death of Longworth and several other attacks on drivers by roving Indian war parties the company had been forced out of business. Nor could he contact any of the miners whose gold had been in the shipment for the company's records of the names of the individual shippers could not be found. Marsh, himself, did not attempt to recover the treasure. On returning to Sioux City he learned that the Far West had been sold--literally--down the river and was to ply between St. Louis and other cities along the river. His mate, Ben Thompson, decided to go with her. The last heard of him was on October 20, 1883, when the Far West hit a snag in Mullanphy Bend, seven miles below St. Charles, and went aground so hard that she was subsequently disposed of to a wrecking company. As far as known Thompson never tried to retrieve the treasure either. Marsh, following the sale of the Far West, took command of another packet, the F. Y. Batchelor, traveling between Bismarck and the Yellowstone. George Foulk went along with him as the engineer. Early in November 1881, the F. Y. Batchelor was caught in a sudden blizzard on the Yellowstone. Marsh ordered her tied to shore and waited for the storm to blow itself out. Instead, there was one storm after another, and the snow became so deep that not even a train could move anywhere in northern Minnesota or the Dakotas until late in March. Marsh left Foulk and nine crewmen as caretakers on the ship and returned to Sioux City with the others after an arduous trip. When he returned early in the spring he found that Foulk was in poor health. This is the last news of Foulk, who was taken back to Sioux City and, presumably, had neither the stamina nor inclination to make his own search for the treasure. According to old river boat records Capt. Grant Marsh retired in 1906 following the death of his wife, to whom he had been married for 46 years. He died in 1916 at the age of 82. There is good reason to believe that the $750,000 is still hidden, all but forgotten, where Marsh, fearing an Indian attack, left it. Clues and circumstances indicate that the cache awaits a lucky finder. I, for one, am convinced it is still there. ********** THE END # UFO PROPHET OF DOOM-- (Continued from page 25) from vague "voices" in Ted's mind to "mental TV." Ted then saw two odd creatures appear called Twitter and Tweeter. They appeared on a "screen" and relayed messages to him from "Control." This involved changing earth language into "color and sound codes" and then into the SIs' own language. By September, 1965, Ted writes--"The SIs have taught me to write what I want on a (mental) tablet . . . on 'Men-Tel.' What I write then changes to odd symbols that 'crackle and pop' into odd sounds . . . and the SIs read those sounds." Evidently this was part of a program to improve communications, for only a few days later, Twitter and Tweeter did not appear on the Men-Tel screen and instead a figure with a shadowy head used a long pointer. The figure seemed to ask Ted what he wanted and told him to use mental images, which were then mirrored on the huge screen. The shadowy figure, Ted learned, was the great "Control" himself, the top commander aboard the SIs' most gigantic spaceship hovering far above earth. Thus Ted had been "graduated" from the roundabout T and T method to direct mental contact with Control. On June 27, 1968, Ted's diary entry is--"Control will flash 'yes' or 'no' on screen now, instead of flashing a light." This was the first yes-no contact, which Ted is using today, plus a unique method of passing along information. As Ted explains it, he calls for Control when he wants contact and immediately the Men-Tel image of the shadowy form leaps into his mind's eye. Ted then transmits his questions or requests, and the screen lights up with a "yes" or "no." For example, if Ted wants to perform some PK feat, he first asks permission. If he gets a "yes," Control also sends along a "capsule" of rapid-fire information on how to accomplish the task. In one split second, Ted is given an intricate series of instructions about PK units, "boxes," and other PK manipulations. So much for mere communications. Now, just what are the awesome PK powers the SIs have bestowed on Ted? More than earthly "psychokinesis," for Ted has been allowed to tap a reservoir of powers called the ODE forces. ODE stands for "Other Dimensional Effects." These ODE powers extend Ted's PK performances into any and all conceivable 70 - [ ] SAGA === Page 30 of 52 areas, via various "boxes" and "bubbles" and other amazing devices he visualizes in his mind. We cannot go into this deeply without getting too complicated, but a partial list of these mental devices will give an inkling of the ODE range--Electromagnetic Field Box, Laser PK-Light Projector, Emmy-Emma Roll-ing Lightning Box, Sound Force PK, Weight PK, Poltergeist Box, Magnetic Bar PK, Crystallization PK, Floating Wand PK, PK Fist, Earthquake Box, Moonray PK, Rainbow Door, Nature's Mailbox, etc. The list goes into many more eerie avenues and subdivisions. Ted has been making precise and orderly lists of these PK-ODE powers and how each or several were applied to a particular case. Ted's record is a glimpse into the awesome powers and forces that the SIs wield. Probably only a tiny portion has been relegated to Ted for use on earth. All these facets of Ted's life and his partnership with the SIs are necessary for a full understanding of why the UFOs are here on earth--the big riddle we promised to answer in the previous issue of SAGA. And there is still more to tell about Ted's personal life, which ties in strongly with the great "mission" that the SIs have revealed to Ted recently. If this sounds "over-dramatic," you will see that, if anything, it falls short of describing the SI's Master Plan. After examining Ted's life, we find that "paranormal" incidents have always happened to him, everywhere he goes. For one thing, he seems to make that old legend of the "charmed life" come true. Years ago, while driving out west at night, Ted followed a winding mountain road wide enough for only one car. He stopped and worriedly thought that if another car came from the opposite direction, he would have to back down a long way for it to pass. Suddenly, to his horror, a car's headlights appeared, coming straight for him. Seeming not to see his parked car blocking the way, the other vehicle roared closer. Ted prayed and awaited the deadly crash. But nothing happened! Ted opened his eyes to see the other car behind him, speeding safely away as if it had gone right through his car! There was no other possible explanation. Another time, while lifting the hood of his automobile to show a mechanic a problem he was having with his engine, Ted carelessly stuck his hand into the engine's whirling fan-blades. The mechanic turned white, expecting Ted's hand to be sliced into bloody shreds. Ted withdrew his hand, unmarked. But even more dramatic are the cases where mysterious assailants seemed to be after Ted's life. At least six times, cars or trucks deliberately tried to run him down. In some cases they missed as some sixth sense made Ted jump aside, but in two cases Ted swears the vehicles struck him--and passed through his body without harm (as in the above case out west). There are other episodes in Ted's diary where attempts on his life were made in various ways, and he often mentions odd-looking men in dark clothes. 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Ted thinks he has found the explanation for his "charmed life" since those things happened. As early as 1965, the SIs told him how to put protective and good-luck "bubbles" around himself and his family, which would account for his narrow escapes from death or bodily harm. But there's more to the picture. In November, 1968, a medium met Ted and notified him that she could see an invisible Indian "guide" behind him, named White Eagle, who acted as his "guardian angel," apparently allocated to him by the SIs. Furthermore, Ted has had several messages from the SIs saying his "life is too valuable to lose," and that they are "monitoring" him night and day, using a peculiar ray from above that penetrates solid matter so they can observe him anywhere. Ted can only surmise (some things are never made crystal clear to him) that many of the psi-phenomena that dog his footsteps are manifestations of the SIs guarding him and aiding him in difficult situations. Once, during an interview regarding a radio appearance, the questioner was hostile but suddenly turned friendly and arranged a long four-hour show for Ted, cancelling other programs. The SIs later told Ted they had sent down a ray to "change his mind." As if to also remind and reassure Ted at all times that he is their special "ward," the Owens TV set--no matter where they live--has for years shown crawly things like tarantulas superimposed over the screen. These are different TV sets and could not all exhibit the same aberration if they needed repairs. His wife and children see them as clearly as Ted does. The crawly figures are somewhat similar to Twitter and Tweeter who had "grasshopper" forms. Ted thinks these "tarantulas" on TV are some form of lower life in the SI's world, whose images they project as a "sign" to Ted that they are always around. Another significant event in Ted's life includes his acceptance by Mensa in 1968. Mensa is the group for people who have IQs of 148 or above (genius level). Its members include those from the top two percent of the human race; in short, the intellectual elite. Ted's basic IQ is 148 but it can vary up to 152. And for those among you who perhaps put Ted down as a "madman" for telling his "wild" story about being the SI's representative--a seemingly paranoid syndrome--it should be noted that the Mensa organization with its lofty intellects is far too canny to be fooled into accepting a psychotic. Thus Mensa, in effect, has put its stamp on Ted's mental balance, clearing him of being any sort of crackpot with vivid hallucinations, illusions, delusions, or what have you. The Mensa tests are exhaustive and thoroughly preclude any "mad genius" gaining their sanction. Ted Owens, the PK Man, is of sound mind. 72 SAGA This is further borne out by Dr. Ansel Kowzak, the earlier-mentioned astrophysicist who has also studied UFO phenomena for many years. When he heard Ted's story in 1965, he did not laugh or edge away or call the men in the white coats. He became more and more excited, and, after careful examination of Ted's record of accomplished PK feats, he pronounced Ted to be "one of the world's greatest psychics" and said he "might be the most powerful mind on earth today." Dr. Kowzak, far from doubting any of Ted's testimony, flatly stated (in writing) that his PK deeds were authentic and also that it was proof positive that the SIs did exist around earth in their flying saucers--Condon Report and Project Blue Book to the contrary. Kowzak was dismayed that the government would not recognize Ted or even acknowledge the presence of aliens in our skies. In only one area did Dr. Kowzak differ with Ted, saying that Ted was "erroneously" using the SI's PK power for "destructive" deeds of a negative nature. What good would it do the world for the SIs and Ted to create hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, and plane crashes? This is the most difficult thing for Ted to put across to people--that in actuality, the aims of the SIs are to help earth, not destroy it. And that their seemingly "brutal" methods have a definite and positive purpose for good. Even Ted himself rebelled at times against the disasters planned by the SIs (Ted plans very few of them). As we noted in the previous issue, the astronauts of the Apollo 12 and Apollo 13 moon flights were "saved" by Ted himself. The SIs had grimly informed Ted that their crews would die (to jolt the U.S. into realizing once and for all that some greater "power" existed in space). In his diary, Ted records how he "hotly protested" this until the SIs gave in. They then allowed both astronaut crews to return alive. Then, in his entry for April 26, 1968, Ted wrote--"SIs told me to write letter . . . would bring down airplanes over cities . . . but I chickened out." Ted, in fact, refused to PK any planes out of the skies, but the SIs adamantly carried out the program on their own. Many of the plane crashes that have occurred around the world are listed in Ted's files as SI-caused. But Ted balked even more in this entry of June 6, 1970--"Just had an earthquake that tore up Peru and killed 50,000. God! I contacted Control and quit. But Control argued back . . . if we quit now we've wasted those lives for nothing. The demos (demonstrations) have to be completed to impress U.S. government to cooperate." Therein lies the crux of the whole SI venture with Ted as the earthly focus of their mighty ODE (PK) powers--they are trying to get the attention of the world, and particularly the U.S. government, in order to help the world out of its many difficulties! A question immediately pops into mind--why don't they just land on the White House lawn and introduce themselves to the President? In answer to that old chestnut of UFOlogy, Ted writes--"That is so funny, to me. Because nobody knows what it is like to be close to the SIs." Ted describes an experience years ago, which his former wife and her mother shared. First Pat (his ex-wife) went into the living-room and ran out screaming about a huge shadowy "thing" in there. Pat's mother scoffed and went in to take a look for herself--and she too ran out hysterical. After calming them down, Ted decided to solve the mystery and entered the other room. "It is an experience that is indelibly engraved on my brain," Ted wrote in a detailed account. "As I went into the room, every step was against a powerful force . . . a force I could feel into the bone. At the same time my hair simply and truthfully stood right up on my head . . . goosepimples covered me, and I gasped for air. I felt like electricity was running through me. I wanted to yell, scream. I made it to about the middle of the room and could stand no more exposure to it (the shadowy figure) and ran out as fast as I could." Ted draws a simple but eloquent truth from this--"That is the sort of thing the President would be exposed to. He'd last about two seconds." Ted was never able to adequately describe the alien presence, for he later found out the SIs are from another dimension entirely, are invisible, and are only known to us as a vague shadow, exuding terrific forces that no human body can withstand. They seem to have no way of "toning down" these deadly forces. And for this reason, quite logically, Ted is not a typical "contactee"--he has never met the SIs face to face or taken a ride in their saucerlike spaceships. And the SIs ultra-alien forms would naturally lead to their desire to contact some human being by ESP alone from afar. That person would then become their "spokesman"--and Ted was chosen. Actually, he was pegged for the job as a child, and the above episode might have been an "experiment" by the SIs, with their forces toned down, that didn't work. Thus it is Ted who would meet the President and transmit SI messages to him. But the government has never accepted Ted's "credentials" (his mighty PK-feats), much less the many messages from the SIs constantly relayed by Ted. All their efforts were laughed at, forcing Ted and the SIs to draw attention through major PK feats, not nice ones like making flowers shower down on a city, but "destructive" feats. What else would really put fear and wonder in people's hearts? Ted had one slight ray of hope in August, 1970, when he received a letter from a government official (whose name of course is wrapped in security) who said the government was "interested" and that if Ted could furnish documentation of his PK powers, and also perform some striking PK feat for them exclusively, they might "computerize" his powers and come to some "favorable conclusion." Typical official doubletalk that means "try and prove it!" When Ted tried to make further arrangements with that mysterious party, nothing came of it--the same old story. Ted has been "pestering" the CIA, FBI, Secret Service, National Security Council, NASA, and many other government agencies for years for a "fair hearing" in (Continued on page 74) === Page 32 of 52 (Continued from page 72) behalf of the SIs, with no result except a chilling silence (plus routine investigations by the FBI which could only clear him of any "maniac" tendencies or plans). What is the urgent message from the SIs that earthly authorities must heed? The full and stark message? Through Ted, the SIs have constantly warned that a "great crisis" faces the world, and that they, the SIs, need a "base of operations" in the U.S. in order to stave off that catastrophe. And now we are coming close to the great revelation Ted recently perceived--just why the SIs here on earth are operating through Ted Owens. What tremendous "crisis" could possibly require their inconceivable supernormal powers? To give the answer its proper perspective, we must first examine certain key "insights" that came to Ted through the years. The answer lies partly in the Bible. Ted scrawled in his diary some years ago--"I was horrified at the death and destruction which ensued (after he had contacted the SIs). I asked them, why such horrendous deeds?" The SIs gave a rather strange answer: that Ted was the first human being they were able to communicate with since Moses; and that he would find the answer to his agonized question in the Biblical account of Moses. As we know, Moses warned the Egyptians that "seven plagues" would strike them if they did not free his people, the Israelites, from bondage. When the Egyptian Pharaoh "hardened his heart," the "predictions" of Moses came true--plagues of locusts and vermin and diseases and storms that ravaged Egypt, until the Israelites were released. Ted saw the analogy with himself--in order to achieve a good thing, Moses had been forced to be the harbinger of evil things, but only because of the stubbornness of the ruthless Pharaoh and his priests (the "authorities" of that era). Ted also saw that he was akin to a modern Moses. Substitute "U.S. government" for "Pharaoh" and there it was plain as day. Significantly enough, when Ted and his small daughter were first visited by a low-flying UFO back in 1965 (SAGA, August and September, 1970) it was a pillar-shaped object. Moses led his people through the desert, guided by a "pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night." These are excellent descriptions of today's UFO sightings by day and by night. However, his role as latter-day Moses did not fully satisfy Ted. Things did not quite fit. He wasn't freeing enslaved people and leading them to a promised land except in a vague symbolic sense. And then, in 1968, came the really blinding insight, when the SIs informed Ted he was partly like Moses but more like Ezekiel. First of all, as some of you may know, Ezekiel's vision in the Bible is an unmistakably clear description of a flying saucer coming down, with its "wheels within wheels" (or disks) . . . "glowing metal in the midst of fire" . . . "burnished brass" . . . "wings" . . . and many more "technical" terms utterly surprising when read in the scriptures. Secondly, the voice of the "Lord"--obviously the commander of this imposing UFO--boomed down and told Ezekiel that he must prophesy all sorts of catastrophes that would be visited on the people of that time, who had fallen into decadence. That should immediately remind you of Ted Owens, for Ted has repeatedly warned that civilization is going downhill morally, with the general breakdown in law and order and the spreading of social conflicts. Can anyone deny the steep rise in crime today, the constant threat of war, juvenile drug-taking to "escape reality," corruption of public officials, race riots, poverty in the midst of affluence, and all the other evils of present-day society? Hardly anyone believes the "world is still a good place to live in." But take Ezekiel's day. The UFO-master (Lord) enumerated all the "sins" of the ancient people--oppression of the poor, usury for illicit wealth, whoredom or promiscuous sex, slayings and savage little wars, worship of the money idol, and most of all, pollution of the land. Who can deny that all these earmarks of a declining culture exist today and are steadily--or rapidly--increasing? Another analogy between Ted Owens and the prophet Ezekiel is uncanny. . . . Ezekiel was told to "smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot" to cause widespread famine, pestilence, and upheaval--how else but through some mighty "PK power"? Similarly, Ted Owens has been constantly ordered by the SIs to whip up hurricanes, lightning, violent storms. But why do you think Ted Owens, who often balked at the SI's "holocausts," did not simply bow out and decline their offer to be their "representative?" Ezekiel was plainly warned by the Lord that if he did not give his prophetic warnings and carry out his feats, the blood of the dead would be on his (Ezekiel's) hands. In several diary entries, Ted reiterates that the SIs gave him no other choice--"Carry out our plans or you will suffer." The SIs are not playing patty-cake. But now we can reveal the full scope of the SIs "grand mission" on earth (akin to the Biblical "angels" and "messengers" of the Higher Power who runs the entire cosmos)--and with it, Ted's ultimate mission. The SIs made it all clear in the following "message to earth" via Ted Owens (which was ignored by the national press and printed only in a limited-circulation UFOlogy pamphlet)--"Through us you have the opportunity to discover the secrets of space, of faraway places, of advanced technology. But better still you have the opportunity of surviving, for as a race YOU ARE UTTERLY DOOMED AS OF NOW. Many civilizations before you (on earth) have so doomed themselves." There you have the stark truth, that civilization is doomed unless mankind changes for the better with the aid of the SIs. Sheer nonsense? The twisted thinking of a "messianic" mind that has gone mad? Someone else, oddly enough, seems to think Ted's mission is somewhat like John the Baptist's. Dr. Morris K. Jessup, before he died in 1959, was an eminent scientist who also researched UFOs thoroughly. He wrote five penetrating books on UFOs, including UFO and the Bible. Jessup in that book analyzes portions of the Bible, particularly the Gospel according to St. Mark, Chapter 13, and comes to the conclusion that Christ's prophecies of destruction to the world--when it had become too "evil" to exist--could very likely come true in our time. "'The imminence of catastrophe," wrote Jessup in 1950, "may be measurable on a comparable (future) scale or on a shorter one. 'Even at the doors' (Christ's warning after all his prophecies of intervening events had taken place) may mean tomorrow, or this afternoon. It may mean next month or next year--perhaps 10 years from now; but it almost certainly does not mean 100 years from now, and perhaps not even 50." After further analysis of the "time scale," Jessup comes to a shocking conclusion--"If that is correct (his analysis), and if we have a margin of about a generation in which to anticipate destruction, then we can roughly say that something (of world destruction) should be expected within the 30-year period starting sometime in the postwar decade (after WW II)." He comes to the grim point--"Should we say, then, between 1950 and 1980?" Now Ted Owens has consistently been warning the U.S. government (and the world through them, presumably) that a great crisis is imminent. Ted has never been given any exact time by the SIs, but he has the urgent feeling it will be soon, within a few years at the most. His warnings from the SIs have more and more included words like--"Tell your people the time is running dangerously short." Is there a "deadline for doom?" And will it be before 1980 as Dr. Jessup calculated? At first, Ted thought the SI's warnings might mean to beware nuclear war engulfing the world. But very recently, a new illumination came to Ted from the SIs, and now he knows it will be NATURE'S WAR ON MAN that will wipe out humanity. And "Nature's War" does not necessarily mean the SIs will destroy mankind with storms, but that man himself will bring about his own end. In Ezekiel, key words appear over and over--pollution, filthiness, fouling, defilement. The Israelites were polluting their environment and their minds. Are we not doing the same today, asks Ted? 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As Ted puts it, "Nature has started to turn its hand against Man. Nature has had it with Mankind and only wants to rid the earth of him." And who would replace man on earth? Ted has an ominous answer out of the documented files of UFOLOGY. The Mothman, the Michigan Monster, the "little men" humanoids, and the various other non-human creatures seen emerging from flying saucers--they may be SI experiments to find a being able to replace man on earth. They are "monsters" only in our egocentric eyes. In the eyes of the SIs, human beings may be the worst "monsters" known. Yet the world can be saved! That's what SI messages through Ted Owens indicate. Suppose the miracle happened. Suppose the U.S. government "unhardened its heart" and backed up Ted. All he asks for is sanction and the means to meet the SIs in person, at some isolated spot where others can't be harmed. Ted himself will somehow be protected from the SI-forces radiated by their pure-energy bodies. Ted would then return with absolute proof of their existence, plus a world plan for reversing the self-inflicted doom syndrome to which all of humanity is heedlessly contributing. These plans would include, Ted says, a way to totally disarm the world and outlaw war... to end poverty and injustice... to wipe out disease and prolong life... to bring new joy and understanding to human spirits. A large order? All wishful thinking? Then read the book of Ezekiel in the later chapters, and see what the "Lord" promised his people if they repented. If there is any truth in the Bible at all, those are the kind of magnificent "world reforms" that the SIs perform as "angels." Ted's personal plans--if the world follows the SI program--are equally altruistic. He yearns to found the Church of Sota, a long-time dream of his. "Sota" means Secrets of the Ages. And in that, Ted includes healing secrets, both for the body and mind. Ted has fully outlined his grand establishment, which will include the Sota Library of Great Books, the Sota Hospital, the Sota Research Foundation (into "faith healings"), the Sota Haven for the Poor, and many other programs that will strive to uplift humanity. Even with his Church of Sota unborn, Ted for years has still sent out his PK disks to anyone requesting them--free. Each one is "charged and coded" with PK power to aid the particular person receiving it. And it is on record (SAGA, August and September, 1970) that Ted has received thousands of letters from grateful people, stating that "miracle cures" occurred when they wore his disk, or sudden "good luck" came to the despairing. Ted bears all the cost and effort of making the disks, charging them, mailing them, and writing long sympathetic letters to each claimant. There is a plain and simple word for it--humanitarianism. Perhaps you believe nothing of what has been written above. You, the reader, have the right to call it all sheer poppycock; the ravings of a demented man with illusions of grandeur, compounded by a messiah complex. But Dr. Jessup had this to say--"Seers and prophets, such as are quoted and written about in the Bible, would be considered crackpots today and reckoned insane." It's all well and good if you want to call Ted Owens, the SIs' Soothsayer, an insane crackpot. But suppose... just suppose... that Ted Owens is RIGHT? * THE END SAGA 75 === Page 34 of 52 In the most extraordinary symposium of its kind, SAGA has gathered the forecasts for the next 12 months of the nation's most outstanding seers, clairvoyants, and astrologers. Here, EXCLUSIVELY, are the # SENSATIONAL PREDICTIONS FOR '71 ## From 19 of America's GREATEST PSYCHICS By Warren Smith & Brad Steiger POLICE 18 - [ ] SAGA January, 1971 === Page 35 of 52 sons while the grand old man labored 40 years to displace Sir Gordon Richards--his mounts have earned over 42 million dollars; he has won 82 $100,000 races; he has won 485 races in one season; he led the jockeys' list in races won five times and in money won 10 times; he has ridden six winners in a single day nine times; and his lifetime average is 25 percent, and that's one winner for every four rides! There is, simply, no one in the same class with him. It was not my intent to do a biography on Shoemaker--his career has been probed ad infinitum--I was looking for the maelstrom beneath the placid exterior. But after a week of talking with people whose lives touch his I have yet to find anyone who put the knock on him. Dr. Robert Kerlan, nationally known orthopedic surgeon who administered to Shoe after his two recent, violent spills, regarded me intently for several moments before replying to my inquiry about him. "He is a giant," he said at last. "A very rare human being. I think Bill could achieve anything he wanted to achieve." Burt Bacharach, Academy Award-winning song writer, horse owner, tennis player, and actress Angie Dickinson's husband, also left little doubt as to his feelings: If you're looking for something to spice up a story on Shoe, forget it. He's a class guy. The closer you get to him the better you like him." Famed trainer Charlie Whittingham, for whom Shoemaker has ridden such outstanding horses as Pretense, Tell, Pinjara and Fiddle Isle, will tell you Shoe is the same person today he was the first time he met him in the paddock at Santa Anita in 1950. "And after all he's achieved that's saying a lot." Even jockey Alvaro Pineda, a fiery aggressive competitor, could not criticize Shoemaker. "What can I tell you?", he said. "He's a consistently good rider." "How about more coffee?" Shoe asked, smiling that slow, easy smile, reaching for my empty cup. "Sorry about that call," he said, "I just couldn't get rid of him." He sat at the end of the table holding the warm coffee cup to his cheek. "So, shoot," he said, "but what can I tell you that I haven't told you before?" I told him what I wanted. How does a little bit of a guy from Texas grow up so damn well adjusted? Where are the scars from the fights he had to have as an El Paso version of Tom Thumb? Where were the neurotic hang-ups from watching the other kids take the good looking girls to the prom while he quietly went to the movies? Why isn't he psychologically bent? I've done maybe a half-dozen short pieces with Shoe over the years but have never really been close to him. I wondered, momentarily, if I had been too frank? But he only smiled. "I've had to fight for everything I've ever gotten," he said. "So much so that now I guess it's just a way of going. I even had to fight for my life. I was born prematurely, and they tell me that for a while it didn't look like I'd make it. My mother and father are average size so I guess I wouldn't be where I am today if I wasn't premature. "I had the usual fights in school--yeah, they bugged me a little about size--but I never gave it much thought. I hung around with the bigger kids, and now that I look back at it, I think most of them wanted to protect me. "We left Fabens, Tex., a little town about 30 miles east of El Paso, when I was about 10 and moved to California. In high school I didn't have many dates, but, honestly, I never thought much about that either. There was always a group of guys who didn't go to the dances and parties, and we'd get together and go to a show and afterwards we'd hang around some of the neighborhood spots. I was small but I always felt I belonged." He paused a moment and stretched lengthily, his fingers forming fists over his head. "You want a laugh. I went out for foot- (Continued on page 72) SAGA - [ ] 17 === Page 36 of 52 rid of him." at call," he said, ty cup. able holding " . . . A terrible earthquake will rock South America!" " . . . Fidel Castro will lose out in Cuba, be assassinated, or die!" " . . . President Nixon could be very close to death!" **These** are but a few of the sensational predictions for 1971 from the nation's foremost psychics, clairvoyants, ESP practitioners, and astrologers. It has often been said that momentous events cast their shadows before their occurrence; as testimony to the truth of that saying, these amazing men and women have demonstrated their ability in the past to predict the future. We may not understand their methods of forecasting, but we can note their predictions and keep score on their hits and misses during the next 12 months. Our participants are listed alphabetically. They are: **Countess Amaya, Santurce, Puerto Rico, U.S.A.:** Gypsy Markoff Amaya is the well-known former entertainer who survived the 1943 Lisbon Flying Clipper airplane crash. Of the 39 entertainers aboard, 24 were killed. Countess Amaya and actress Jane Froman were among the survivors. The Countess underwent 30 operations to regain her health, made a dazzling comeback in show business, and is now a well-known psychic. Her predictions for 1971 and beyond include: * The outlook for the coming year is as topsy-turvy as events of the past 12 months have been. I foresee a trend where our individual rights must be guarded with vigor and courage. * Expansion for economic growth in the 70s will begin in June 1971; however, money will remain tight until 1972. The signs for money are extremely foggy and very unpredictable. * Although there are no indications for another world war, defense spending will continue at a peak. * There will not be enough troops removed from Vietnam to satisfy critics of the war. I also foresee another foreign crisis that will create an emergency for the President and the United States. * President Nixon: There are dangerous vibrations around the figure of the President, and he could be very close to death. He may also discover that those he believes to be his friends are not acting in his behalf. He must exercise great care due to these adverse vibrations. If anything happens to the President, there will be disaster on the world's stock markets. * Russia: I see a new leader coming to the fore. China: This nation will be struck by a plague. Cuba: There are strong indications that Castro will be replaced by another man. South America: Fewer revolutions, but financial problems and instability. Middle East: The war will continue, but there are good vibrations from mid-1971 to 1973. Israel will continue to be courageous. England: A great strain will be imposed upon Queen Elizabeth; the event will break her spirit although she will hold out until the last moment. **Doc Anderson, Rossville, Ga.:** A towering, six-foot, two-inch giant, Doc Anderson is an internationally known psychic, often called the "Living Edgar Cayce." He is an impressive ESP practitioner who has proved his prowess as a prophet. His view of the future includes: * Business: A pick-up by mid-1971 . . . more strikes in several industries . . . interest rates remaining high "so long as President To Dr. Leo Sprinkle, a rare scientist with an objective, open mind, from Ted Owens (PK Man) SAGA - [ ] 19 === Page 37 of 52 Nixon remains in office" . . . the possibility that wage-price controls will become a reality. "I also foresee problems with the U.S. gold supply," Anderson said. * General U.S. Predictions: A top leader of our country will die in 1971 . . . The Vietnam War will continue into 1971, and it will be some time before we realize our true enemies in Asia are North Korea and Red China . . . I foresee startling revelations swirling around the bankrupt Penn Central Railroad . . . There will be movement toward repression of individual rights in the U.S. . . . Church membership will drop . . . There will continue to be turmoil on the nation's college campuses . . . The "brown-outs" and "black-outs" of utility services will continue into the coming year. * International Predictions: "This will be a year of great tension in the world," Anderson declared. "We will see Castro's reign end in the near future. There will be continued strife in the Middle East, although Israel will prevail. The key to the Arab-Israeli war has now shifted to the Arab guerilla forces. They hold the true power in the Mideast." Japan: The old War Lords are starting to rise again. Africa: Continued strife. China: More clashes along the Russian border. I have predicted previously that Russia and China will go to war, and the U.S. and Russia will team up to end the Chinese peril in the Orient. These events are moving toward a climax. India: Famine and strife; unsettled political conditions. Vietnam: More shocking stories about the Saigon government. Formosa: Generalissimo Chaing Kai-shek will die soon. Russia: A change in leadership is forthcoming. Britain: More racial clashes in the headlines. Ireland: Religious conflict dominates the news. Korea: More clashes between U.N. and North Korea forces; trouble is smouldering there. Quanah Bollen, Peoria, Ill.: "My first psychic experience occurred when I was 19 years old," reported Mrs. Bollen. "However, even as a child I knew things before they took place." She has studied psychic subjects for several years and was ordained in September 1963, in the International General Assembly of Spiritualists. Her predictions for the future are: * An assassination attempt: I predict that there will be an attempted assassination of President Nixon. A high-powered bullet will pass through the body of a secret service agent and enter into the body of Mrs. Nixon. She will be seriously, but not critically, injured. * Peace in Vietnam: By March 1971, there will be peace, and the terms will be dictated by the U.S. * Danger for Howard Hughes: Billionaire financier Howard Hughes will be lost in a plane over a rugged, mountainous region. It will be several days before he is found--alive, but seriously injured. * Power Struggle in the Catholic Church: I predict that Pope Paul will be taken from this earth in 1971. In early 1972 there will be a great struggle for power in the church. * Russia-China: There will be border clashes with the Chinese as the aggressors. A possible war: Russia and China could start another war by mid-1971. * International Predictions: Cuba: I predict Castro will die as violently as he lived. The date: 1971! South America: A devastating earthquake across the top of the continent. Britain: In this coming year, the people of Great Britain will be stunned and shocked by a scandal. This will be followed by tragic deaths that will make news around the world. Japan: Be aware that Japan has not given up her dream of expansion into the Western hemisphere. Mrs. Bollen also predicts changes in television programming, movies, and plays with less emphasis on nudity, obscenity, and 20 - [ ] SAGA === Page 38 of 52 sex. "The nations of the world are now manipulating and maneuvering for world power," Mrs. Bollen said. "Within five years, I predict they will be fighting nature for survival." Bertie Catchings, Austin, Tex.: Mrs. Catchings has received considerable acclaim as a "psychic person" in the southwest. The Daily American-Statesman, Austin, Tex., reported that she "has gained considerable local reputation for her ability to predict the future." Mrs. Catchings believes no single psychic receives impressions of total future events. "Things are given in part to different psychics around the world," she said. "We can join these pieces of the puzzle together to see a picture of the future." Her psychic glimpses of the future in 1971 and beyond include: * An assassination of a high U.S. political figure will occur in 1971. * Many deaths from an avalanche in France or Switzerland. * Earthquakes in China, Guam, the Philippine Islands, Alaska, Ecuador, California, and Rumania. * There will be a major oil fire in Louisiana. * The Oakland Raiders will be the Super Bowl champions in 1971. *Topics covered range from: politics, President Nixon will be in danger; to international events, new clashes along the Russian-Red Chinese border; to business, a collapse in the credit card industry; to religion, power struggle in the Catholic Church; to weather, major earthquakes will wrack California, Alaska, and South America; to celebrities, marital problems for Beatle John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, Liz Taylor and Richard Burton, Tiny Tim, Princess Grace of Monaco; and DOZENS OF OTHER PREDICTIONS!* * There will be a major space disaster in 1971. * A well-established magazine will be discontinued. This will shock the nation because this is a very popular publication. * A scandal will be centered around a large oil corporation. * Arkansas will win the Southwestern Conference Championship and play against Ohio State to decide the national championship. These two teams may tie, or seem to tie. If the tie is broken, Arkansas will be the National Champions. Malva Dee, West Guilford, Ontario, Canada: Canada's charming seeress is acclaimed for her impressive psychometric talents. Malva is one psychic who feels there will not be world-wide devastation. She believes the future holds the promise of greater understanding and the arrival of true brotherhood among mankind. Her predictions for 1971 and the near future include: * Heaviness hangs over Elizabeth Taylor, Lyndon B. Johnson, and the Pope. They must consider matters of health very carefully. * Vietnam: The unrest in the Far East will spread to Laos and Burma . . . The U.S. will be forced to send more troops, rather than less, to the Far East. * The White House will enforce tighter security measures as violence erupts in Washington. Fire bombs will be thrown at the nation's capitol by a highly organized group with big money behind them. The incident will be a carefully planned maneuver to place the blame on black militants. This same money-backed group will be responsible for a rift between the President and Vice-President. (Continued on page 88) SAGA - [ ] 21 === Page 39 of 52 Not a myth (although it was a dying Mexican's last-gasp directions that led them to the ancient site), this fabulously rich gold mine was last worked in 1935--at the height of the Depression. And back then they managed, with relatively crude equipment, to net thousands of dollars in just a few months--before the "bandidos" drove them off. Incredible as it may sound, the millions they left behind are still there, waiting for someone to reopen the # CABORCA BONANZA By Edwards Hay "Senor Evans, you have been good to me and my people. I am about to die. Although I am more than 100 years old, I suddenly remember as if it was only yesterday, the richest gold mine in all of Mexico." The year was 1934, and my friend Earl Evans of Douglas, Ariz., was working a silver mine in the Sierra Madres of Mexico, east of the Rio de Bavispe and 28 miles from Moctezuma, Sonora. Earl realized that his friend, Pablo Miguel, was having a "flashback." Pablo was now clearly remembering when he was seven years old. But the old Mexican was fading rapidly, and Earl had to quickly write down the directions Pablo was giving him or it would be too late. The closest thing he could find to write on in that primitive silver mining camp was a wrapper from a package of dynamite. A cartridge he pulled from his pocket served as his lead pencil. Illustration by Marv Friedman === Page 40 of 52 Continued from page 86) after holding my gun at an awkward angle. We moved as soon as we could, relieved to work out our aching muscles. Almost immediately I saw, left-back stage as it were, a single young buffalo bull leisurely skirting the main line of trees. He caught our motion. I will never know what his intention was, whether it was one of those rare occasions when a buffalo decides to attack unprovoked, or whether it was the fact that the ground sloped from him to me, or whether perhaps he was some kind of herd rear guard, checking against hyenas or lions that might be tailing the herd and thus keyed up for action. For one of those reasons maybe, he came running toward me. I was still very stiff and my hands and arms were just beginning to lose their cramps. I sat down, so that I could support my unsteady left elbow on my knee for better control, and to get a peek at the buffalo's chest. An effective head-on shot at a buffalo is not an easy thing. When he was 30 feet away I fired. He swerved to the right and stopped, clearly dying on his feet. At the sound of the shot a crashing noise came from the forest, and the entire buffalo herd, about 60 strong, came hurtling down-slope toward us in a full-blown stampede. I dived for the only vaguely protected spot within reach, a small hump of earth that marked the base of a long-vanished tree, with Kula right beside me. There was no time to do more, and we huddled close together hoping for the best. I could have touched a dozen of the animals as they galloped by, heads bobbing under the weight of the horns. Then they were gone into the bush below us, from which we had come. In the same general area, there was a buffalo bull I wanted very much. He belonged to a sizable herd, and I had spent many early mornings and evenings trying to get near him. I had even gone so far as to trail the herd all night, hoping to have a better chance with the first light. We would locate the herd in the evening as it came out to graze, then place ourselves on its flank a few hundred feet away and move with it, guided by its sounds. In the dark, like blind people, we learned to interpret the various goings on by sound. I found this fascinating, and the hunt for my big buffalo became more a pretext than the main pursuit. We would wait until the noises outdistanced us by a few hundred yards, catch up with them, find a comfortable place under some trees and settle down, sleeping now and then. There seemed to be some danger that we might run into other predators following the herd in the dark (such as lions and hyenas), when we would be at a disadvantage. But as no carnivore got in our way, such worries lost their edge. One late afternoon, when we had a good idea where the herd would come out of the woods, we sat in the grass some 50 feet away from the forest edge, sheltered from sight by a bush and prepared for an hour's wait. I knew that my bull was often with the first group to come out. With a little luck I may get a very close shot at him. Sure enough, a little later we started hearing the unmistakable noises of a buffalo herd coming to life after a day's rest in the thickets. There was splashing and the clatter of stones coming from the bed of a little stream in the forest, sucking noises as heavy feet were lifted out of mud, a crackling of branches, a swishing of leaves and terse, sonorous grunts. They were surely coming this way. The wind was right, and I was full of expectation. They would come out exactly where predicted, and if we sat still we would not be seen but we could see well enough. The bushes moved and a large, wet, black muzzle appeared, sniffing. For a while nothing else happened, then the rest of the head emerged. Against the foliage, it looked a little like a stuffed head hanging on the wall of a trophy room, but it certainly was not my buffalo. It was an old cow, with one horn deformed and pointing backwards. With jerky, nervous little steps she minced out of the greenery and stopped again, sniffing, listening. She was very big, like a bull, and I decided that she must be nearly blind. Even so, the amount of precaution she was taking surprised me. We sat absolutely still through a long sniffing and listening routine. The cow moved a few steps forward, halted and the reason for her caution came to light. Behind her came a flock of eight calves of assorted sizes, some quite young, others bigger, already with six or eight-inch horns. They came out in a tight little group, shouldering each other out of the way and generally behaving like kids of most mammalian species, including man. When the old cow moved forward, they followed, when she stopped, they staggered to a halt. In this manner, the procession came to within 20 feet of us. The cow stopped once more and turned toward us, realizing there was something wrong but clearly unable to see us properly. We sat like statues, barely breathing while she took several nervous steps toward us. With the edge of my vision I saw beads of perspiration on Kula's forehead. He was right, I could not allow this to go on much longer. I had been hoping that the cow would pass without spotting us, but now she was obviously worried, aware of our nearness and position. It was anybody's guess whether she would choose to protect her charges through flight or by attacking us. I knew that I would kick myself from here to kingdom-come if I shot her. I had to panic her before she made up her mind, so I sprang to my feet, shouting and waving my arms. The old cow quivered, spun around nudging the calves ahead of her, and a moment later they were gone among the trees. We listened to the racket as the alarmed herd retreated deeper into the forest. They would not come out until after dark and we could not guess where, so we returned to camp. The country where this happened--Lolgoricn is the name on the map--was the land of milk and honey as far as my wife and I were concerned. When the time came to leave the circular mud huts which I had put up in preference to tents because of the length of our stay, I suggested to Ellen that we make a final tour of the countryside. We stood on a small ridge overlooking a field that stretched away into the distance. The yellow grass was two feet high, and a few trees were scattered over it. We saw something move close to the ground, in the shade of one of the trees. Not enough was in sight to identify the animal. We decided it must be a warthog but curiosity led us down into the plain. Cautiously we made our way to a cluster of bushes close to our objective and peered. Lying down peacefully under the tree and looking more or less our way was a bull buffalo of huge size. He was not asleep. He kept turning his head leisurely from side to side, then gazing for a while toward a single point. He did not see us, partly perhaps because he was old. If the distance between his eartips was close to three feet, which is par for a big bull, the spread of his horns must have been well over four feet. Their bases were nearly joined, forming the massive looking boss on his forehead which is one of the glories of the African buffalo bull. This was an exceptional trophy. A breeze was swaying the long grass, the strong shadows were getting longer and it was a scene of the peace and the might of nature. Ellen was staring, fascinated by the enormous beast. She whispered, maybe a little too dramatically, "Now I've seen creation." It suited the circumstances. After some time, the big bull stood up and wandered off in the opposite direction from us, to graze. I slung my gun over my shoulder and we went away. ★ THE END PREDICTIONS FOR 1971 (Continued from page 21) * A plane carrying dignitaries will be the target for espionage and only the alertness of a crew member will avert disaster. * I foresee that Premier Kosygin will be ousted from power in Russia. A new leader will take control. The threat to world peace is not Russia, but Red China. * Two important U.S. Ambassadors will be kidnapped and held for ransom in South America. They will not necessarily be taken together, but the one kidnapping seems to trigger the other. * A team of Arctic explorers will disappear into the vast wastelands. * President Nixon will, I believe, run for office again. He will know conflict within his own party, but I feel his candidacy will be supported. Joseph DeLouise, Chicago, Ill.: The windy city's clairvoyant crime-buster has had extrasensory awareness since age five. He achieved national attention by predicting on television the collapse of a major bridge--three weeks before the Ohio River bridge disaster at Point Pleasant, W. Va., in December 1967! Since then, he has turned his psychic abilities to the Sharon Tate Murder Case and California's "Zodiac" killer. His psychic reports on the cases were of considerable assistance to the police officials. "My predictions for the future are very gloomy," DeLouise remarked. "I see revolutions breaking out all over the world: Japan, the Philippines, South America, and the Caribbean areas. I see the same problems for the U.S. and other countries. "In the coming year I predict there will (Continued on page 90) 88 ☐ SAGA === Page 41 of 52 Continued from page 88) be many attempts to bomb and burn police stations," DeLouise continued. "Government installations, banks, and any institution that represents society, will also be a target." Other predictions: * We will be entering a depression starting in 1970 and ending in 1976. This will be a financial depression that is unparalleled in the history of our nation. Thousands of business firms will be bankrupted and millions of families will be displaced when they are unable to pay the taxes on their homes. The U.S. will face severe problems of unemployment, and the number of jobless will reach as high as 15 million within three years. I also predict the collapse of the unions as we know them today. I also feel that wage and price controls will go into effect within two years. * There will be great concern in the free world over an impending change of government in Russia. * There will be a breakthrough in cancer research; this will have something to do with the blood. * I predict the deaths of three political figures; one will die due to an accident. I also foresee the assassination of certain civil rights leaders in the Midwest. The Black Panthers, and similar groups, will be outlawed. * Haile Selassie, the ruler of Ethiopia, is in great danger for his life. Joseph DeLouise also foresees an assassination attempt on the life of Vice President Agnew. "The Vice President will be shot at, but he will not be killed," DeLouise said. "I have seen a speeding car in the shooting, and I believe this will happen in the near future." The full story of Joseph DeLouise will be published in a forthcoming book by the Henry Regnery Company, Chicago. **Joseph Donnelly, Sebring, Fla.:** A spiritualist seer, Donnelly retired from an executive position with the City of New York in 1963 and moved to Florida. His psychic talents were first manifested in 1917, and he has studied many areas of the occult. Mr. Donnelly's spirit teachers are of many races, and many religious faiths. "I have never been a professional public medium," he declared. His predictions for our future include: * There will be a collapse of the credit card business due to overextension of credit to poor risks, unwarranted buying, and unreliable debtors. It feeds inflation and there will be government controls. * There will be no good news from the stock market for a long time. * We are rapidly approaching a fascist state. At the time of preparing these impressions (June 1970) I saw wage and price controls within 23 months. Also, control of the unions by government fiat. * The war in Vietnam will increase in intensity and will continue in surrounding areas. It will last for many years. The Chinese are biding their time to strike. * The sporadic war in the Middle East could erupt into a major confrontation with Russia. If both sides are not brought to the conference table soon, then look for a serious and more plaguing war than Vietnam. * There is an underground plot afoot in California to foment armed insurrection to take over the government. The initials of this organization are LARGO. The FBI is aware of their activities. * The United Nations will go the way of the League of Nations. * The day of high-priced stars is about over in both movies and television. TV will soon be in decline . . . Nightclubs are in their last throes now . . . Football has replaced baseball as the national pastime. Baseball is past its prime, and many baseball clubs will soon have financial problems. * The NASA space agency will have more setbacks due to economic conditions and from interference from Unidentified Flying Objects. **Reverend A. William Goetz, presiding Bishop, National Christian Spiritual Mission, Houston, Tex.:** Born in Milwaukee in 1890, Reverend Goetz is one of the oldest--yet, most active--clairvoyants in the nation. One of the most remarkable feats of his spiritual ministry occurred from 1941 to 1944, when Reverend Goetz walked as Peter walked during Biblical times. "I made four trips from coast-to-coast, carrying no script, no money, no purse," he stated. "I carried nothing except my Bible." Predictions given by Rev. Goetz during trance include: * The war between the Arabs and Israel will increase until we shall hear and read of things which will be a horror. * The Vietnam situation will reach a climax in 1971. The U.S. will leave in dishonor because our troops were not allowed to fight to win. * The Pope will need the prayers of his people because of illness. * Russia's space program will collapse. * The earthquake that was mentioned in my prophecies for 1970 occurred recently in the Andes Mountains, of South America. This will be a minor disaster compared to the one that is coming in 1971. * The U.S. will be struck by three hurricanes in 1971. They will do much damage to the Gulf, South Atlantic, and North Atlantic States. We will have earthquakes in unusual places, and there will be storms out of the ordinary. Chicago and New York will have extremely large fires. They will be larger than the Chicago fire of years ago. **David Hoy, who is known as the "Grand Panjandrum of ESP,"** is a former Baptist minister who encountered a series of dramatic experiences indicating he was endowed with the gift of ESP. Today, Mr. Hoy is popular on the lecture circuit as well as nightspots such as the Playboy Clubs. He has lectured to executives of U.S. Steel, RCA Whirlpool, Bell Telephone, and many other large corporations. Here are a few of his many predictions for 1971: * I feel May 1971, will go down in history as a month of major change in Soviet foreign policy. * I sense a plot for blowing up the Statue of Liberty. The scheme will be thwarted by the FBI in February 1971. * I prophesy that President Nixon will announce plans to visit Russia during 1971. * I predict that the cave-in of two large dams, one in California, one in Mississippi, will cause flooding in both states during the Spring of 1971. * I see startling news of Mafia contacts in a high government agency that will stir the nation in March 1971. * I forecast that a nuclear sub base will be discovered in Cuba during the summer of 1971. * I have been predicting since 1965 that the war in Vietnam will be over by late 1971, when it will be settled by negotiation. David Hoy predicts the following good news during the coming 12 months: No assassinations in the U.S., no severe recession, no major California earthquakes, no crashes of a 747 airliner, and no major blackouts. **Irene Hughes, Chicago, Ill.:** The predictions of Irene Hughes have consistently placed her in the top ranks in the international prediction world. Her predictions are always printed well in advance of the event in her weekly newspaper column. From her offices in Chicago, Mrs. Hughes offers counsel and advice to people from all walks of life. A few of Mrs. Hughes predictions include: * I predict that much talk will center around controls or methods of controlling the news, which means the beginning of oppression and suppression of the news media. On the other hand, an innovative type of magazine format that will appear in 1971 will prove to be highly successful. * There will be changes in the space program which will allow for two major trips in 1971. One will involve a fire, which will not be totally devastating. * The stock market faces a critical low trend in the spring of 1971. A rough year all the way through for the market. * The accidental death of a movie star will provide startling news. * The ties between Russia and Red China will begin to loosen to such an extent that they become entirely separate. * With the current rise of neo-Nazism, Germany will be on the march again within 25 years. * There will be earthquakes throughout the year--again in and near Iran, Japan, Alaska, South America, and various parts of the U.S., touching upon Canada. * Red China will become more deeply embroiled in the Middle Eastern war. **Al Manning, The ESP Laboratory, Los Angeles, Calif.:** Al Manning graduated magna cum laude in 1950 with a degree in Business Administration from University of California (L.A.), and he is one of the most unusual people in the predictive field. A practicing psychic of considerable repute, Manning prefers to encourage others to develop their latent ESP talents. On June 8, 1970, a seance was held, and these predictions were made through Al Manning: * We look now upon the economy of the U.S. and find 1971 yet another nervous year for the stock market. But, through the nervousness and worry, we find a general up-trend without the very deep valleys found in 1970. * The sleeping dragon (China) rattles (Continued on page 92) 90 - [ ] SAGA === Page 42 of 52 (Continued from page 90) her tail and breathes fire, but this is for show. We find no major confrontations that shed great blood between China and any of her neighbors . . . There will be a replacement of their leader as Mao will either be cast aside or will die. * President Nixon's plan to withdraw American troops from Vietnam seems to continue gradually in 1971, not to the complete satisfaction of the peace forces, but it is in a continual direction of progress. * We feel that Jacqueline Onassis will reach toward separation from the present husband. Dr. Ernesto A. Montgomery, Los Angeles, Calif.: Dr. Montgomery, pastor of the Universal Metaphysical Church, was born in Jamaica on October 2, 1925, of royal Ethiopian parentage. Following his graduate studies, Dr. Montgomery served in the British Armed Forces and with police departments in Britain and the U.S. His psychic talents manifested themselves early in life, and he has predicted the future for such world luminaries as Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Princess Margaret, and many others. In addition to his ministerial work, Dr. Montgomery holds healing services in his church and sponsors healing crusades throughout the western states. He is also the executive director of the Youth Opportunities League, an organization to assist young people. He also operates a "hot-line" phone service for people who are in trouble. His forecasts for the future include: * Former President Lyndon Johnson will suffer a "heart attack" in 1971. * I predict race relations in the summer of 1971 will take a downward trend with race rioting in New York, Cincinnati, Dallas, Miami, and Alabama. Martial law will be declared and damages from rioting will run into millions of dollars. * I predict there will be a new U.S. Military involvement in 1971. * I predict that as a result of confrontation between the Red Chinese and the Russians, a new Korean crisis, the continuous war in Vietnam, riots, and the destruction of property, and confrontations between radicals and the police, the stock market will take a plunge. This will hamper the economy of the nation. * There will be continued hostility in the Middle East, with U.S. troops landed there. * I predict the East Germans will stop all traffic to Berlin, prompting another airlift and a new East-West confrontation. * I predict that King Hussein of Jordan will be overthrown and a Castro-type dictatorship will replace the monarch. * I predict that birth control pills will soon be outlawed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Dr. Montgomery also forecasts marital problems for Beatle John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono, Liz Taylor and Richard Burton, Tiny Tim, Princess Grace of Monaco, and Audrey Hepburn. He also predicts several deaths among Hollywood stars. Reverend Marion Owens, pastor, The Temple of Light, New York, N.Y.: Reverend Owens' psychic gifts have been widely reported in numerous publications. Marion Owens attended New York University's School of Journalism and also completed nine years of post-graduate work in Business Administration. She has also attended Hunter College and Columbia University. She became interested in developing her psychic talents and is now pastor of the Temple of Light church, a Spiritualist Church, affiliated with the Independent Associated Spiritualists. Rev. Owens was the channel for these "predictions from the spirit world": * Curfews, as of old times, will be established in many localities to restrain people from venturing forth during the night hours. * War in some form will continue in the Asiatic region. We predicted nine years ago that the war in Vietnam would last for 10 years before it would be interrupted and transferred to another region close by. This will come to pass in the coming year, although some troops will continue to remain in Vietnam. * The draft will continue. * The Third World War is in the offing. * A partial withdrawal of U.S. Forces from the Mediterranean will take place in 1971. There will be a considerable withdrawal of U.S. troops from European countries. * Interest rates will soar in the U.S. and banks will be frantic for customers to invest large sums. Banks will need a flow of money to offset bankruptcies and other deficits. * The President will call upon Congress during the immediate future to enact laws freezing salaries and prices. * New York City will witness an uprising of persons of Spanish derivation, especially Puerto Ricans, who feel they have been discriminated against as U.S. citizens. * You will read about slumps in utility services: lack of controls, defects in service, and the inefficiency of the Post Office will become a political issue. * Inflation, until it is controlled, will be the chief problem in what will be more than a recession. Ted Owens, Norfolk, Va.: Known as the "UFO Prophet," Ted Owens claims to receive his glimpses of the future through the SIs--Space Intelligences. He has documented more than 200 predictions during the past six years, sending his forecasts to writers, journalists, and news media in advance of the actual occurrence. Owens' unusual story was published in the August and September issues of SAGA. "Time is a fooler when it comes to predicting," Ted Owens declared. "I am not sure of the order in which these things will occur. I am sure that they will occur." His predictions: * There will be an accidental nuclear explosion in the U.S. that will cause havoc. I believe it will occur in the southern Midwest. * I see the White House in flames. Washington, D.C. will be a no man's land. Militants will even poison the water reservoirs. * President Nixon will not finish his term. Something most unusual will occur, and he will either resign or be forced out of office. * The wealthy citizens of the U.S. will lose their riches. I can see them shaking their heads in stunned disbelief, trying to imagine their lives ahead of them. I see empty houses everywhere, and empty towns, as people who have lost their jobs wander aimlessly. Everyone is broke. Business is broke. * I foresee the time when the U.S. will be virtually leaderless. The total government structure will begin to break down . . . Our military will be confused, with general against general, admiral against admiral . . . There will be millions of cars stalled on the streets, with no gas and no repair parts . . . People by the millions will "head for the woods" to escape the cities . . . The cities will be deadly jungles--virtually deserted except for armed gangs of killers, mostly blacks . . . It is at this point that a new Civil War begins . . . whites against the blacks, both races fighting without mercy. We can only hope that these fearful prophecies of the future do not come true. (Continued on page 94) SUBSCRIPTION SPECIAL SPACE SPORTS ADVENTURE ANIMALS GIRLS GUNS ASTROLOGY ACTION You've just spent 60¢ for this issue of SAGA and if you're like hundreds of thousands of men you buy SAGA each month at your local newsstand. 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Harold Schroeppel received his graduate training in chemistry at the University of Notre Dame and has worked full-time as an analytical chemist in various industries. During WW II, he was a flying radio operator and mechanic with General Chennault's famed "Flying Tigers" in China. "We were not born psychic," they declared, "and we believe psychism can be taught. We are primarily dedicated as teachers in this field." Lasca Schroeppel's direct psychic predictions include: * In the fashion world, there will be trends toward freedom of choice of styles. * In student rioting, more avenues will open for professors to hear students, and they will both realize their respective roles. * In education, there will be a re-investigation of existing systems by Federal authorities. (Psychically, I see the detectives "first degree" lamp, she stated.) The astrology based predictions for 1971 include: * The pressures around Senator Ted Kennedy; the heavy effort to subvert young people; the turmoil in the churches; and the continual breakdown of centralized planning when it gets over-extended, i.e., one man walks through a computer room with a magnet and kills a huge company. * There is a plan now in motion (June 1970) to kidnap one of Jackie Onassis' children. The motive is political, not individual. Jackie Kennedy Onassis will find that great wealth brings more danger than it does prestige. * Mayor Daley will lose his next election in Chicago. He will get "clobbered" on the police and bribery issue. * Several attempts will be made on the Pope's life. The outlook for him personally looks grim. There may also be an attempt to destroy Vatican City. * A revolutionary group headquarters in New York will be uncovered. This group will be found to be actively engaged in destroying our country. * Other Predictions: Earthquakes in the Philippines, Japan, Malay states, and New Zealand . . . I feel Alaska is due for another good shake . . . Prices will keep rising . . . Plane hi-jackings will continue and several hi-jackers will be killed . . . New feet will land on the moon in 1971 . . . Atomic Energy will be used for the excavation of a harbor or canal this year. * Political assassinations will remain at about the same level. About 70 to 100 attempts will be made on President Nixon's life. There will be more assassinations in South America! LaVerne Shaw, Tinley Park, III.: Mrs. Shaw is the mother of four children who has been gifted with psychic powers all of her life. "I was an orphan, and I have been doing psychic readings for people since I was 13 years old," she related. "Prophesying dreams is very easy to me. I was instructed entirely through dreams to reproduce what I was shown so that others might see and know." Mrs. Shaw is forthright about the problem of timing predictions: "I can't be phony about dates," she said. "I can't date these predictions because the time is not always given to me." Some of her predictions are: * A member of the Royal family will marry a commoner as his uncle did. Because of this event, a change may come about in the Royal system. * There will be an attempted assassination of a prominent black leader by a woman of his own race. This will fail, but the victim's eyesight will be affected. * Another large state will legalize abortion. * There will be a breakthrough in cancer research and a cure for some types of this illness will be found within a year. * A person in high office will make an attempt on his own life. * Marijuana will become legalized in some states. * An official of a state will be caught using state funds illegally. His apprehension will create a national scandal that will have an effect on an election. * In 1972 or 1973 there will be a severe earthquake in California. I also foresee a quake in the Midwest. Cora Sitrusis, Sitrusis School of Astrology, Denver, Colo.: Cora Sitrusis is a graduate of Stephen's College, holds a bachelor of science degree and has done advance studies at Germany's University of Heidelberg. "I began studying astrology in 1963 under Dr. Frederic Mazain, a contemporary of Max Heidel, one of the world's greatest astrologers," she reported. "I feel compelled to bring astrology up to the scientific level where it should be, and once was, in the past." She operates her school of astrology and has a private practice. Her astrological predictions for education in 1971 are: * It is my belief that the turmoil on campus and in our schools will intensify in destructiveness, disruption, and scope. This will be particularly noticeable during the semester change at the end of January 1971. * Beginning the week of May 17th, there appears to be a general rebellion of the entire student body of the U.S. This could take an aspect similar to civil war. It is my belief that from May 17th through June 30, 1961, we will see much bloodshed on our campuses. * The uprising will lead to many replacements on the teaching staffs, administrative heads will roll, and a complete transformation of our educational system will ensue. It is my belief that many of our educational facilities will be closed--some permanently, others for the summer semester. "I believe this summer of 1971 ends our student rebellion," Cora Sitrusis declared. "I sincerely hope that my interpretation of the chart for the U.S. in the educational area is completely wrong. However, when you have the Sun, Moon, Mercury, and Mars all in square aspect to Saturn, as we have in the 1971 United States chart, you can expect the indications I have given here." Paul Twitchell, Eckankar-Asost, Las Vegas, Nev.: "Any person can predict the future if they have mastered the art of soul travel," reports Paul Twitchell, the world's leading authority on the spiritual philosophy of Eckankar. "ECK teaches the chela, or student, to transcend his physical form and explore the spiritual worlds in his soul body." The seer arrived at these predictions through the ECK method of prophesy. "This is known as ECK-Vidya," he stated. Twitchell travels extensively throughout the world to meet with his followers. His predictions include: * Greece will again be torn by riots and a bloody revolution during 1971. * Heavy earthquakes will shake San Francisco during April 1971, causing some destruction. There will be panic and rioting among the citizens. Many people will leave the city permanently to make their homes in other places. * Racial troubles will break out more widely during the summer of 1971 in most of the metropolitan areas of the country. * The announcement of Tricia Nixon's engagement will be made during the middle part of the year. * There will be another jump in prices for food, shelter, and clothing. * Everyone will be happier because of the uptrend on the stock market and the general economy. * There will be a break-up in the Hanoi government in spring 1971. * There will be serious repercussions in China following the death of Mao Tse-tung in the late Spring of 1971. Civil war will rock the Chinese mainland and Russia will be blamed for the destructive riots. * President Nixon will make a decided change in his cabinet during 1971, in hope that it will give him a better administrative record. He wants to run again for the Presidency in 1972. * The death ray will be the next weapon which the military forces of the world will develop. Ron Warmoth, New York City and Hollywood: Mr. Warmoth has read the Tarot cards on television for Garry Moore, for other famous celebrities, and unemployed youngsters needing advice on their future. "I don't believe the Tarot can be used for predicting definite happenings," Ron Warmoth revealed. "However, it can reveal approaching trends. Distinct future happenings must be done through psychic projection of the Tarot reader." His Tarot-psychic predictions include: * There will be race riots in Trenton and Atlantic City, N.J., during the summer. * There will be an earthquake in Wyoming in the early summer. * War in the Middle East will be stepped up in 1971. The U.S. will become involved during the early part of the year. * A general recession in the U.S. economy will occur in 1971. * Cuba will be in an underground revolution, striving to overthrow Castro. 94 - [ ] SAGA ★ THE END === Page 44 of 52 SPORT MAGAZINE JULY, 1971 SPORT TALK BY RAYMOND HILL **THE PK MAN** To all Baltimore Bullet fans, a plea for justice: Don't blame the team's failure in the NBA championship series on Lew Alcindor or the Big O. Don't blame it on the Baltimore players, either. Put the blame where it belongs. Blame it on Ted Owens. How's that? Ted who? Just a moment, fans. Ted Owens happens to have super-human power. By simply concentrating, Ted Owens says, he can control events anywhere on earth or in space--all without leaving his living room. And when the Bullets made Ted Owens mad, he used his power. It happened during the first quarter of the second playoff game. The Bullets were trailing the Bucks, but not by much, when telecaster Keith Jackson mentioned that "a man in Virginia has offered to cast the evil eye on Milwaukee to help Baltimore win." The man from Virginia (Norfolk) was 51-year-old Ted Owens and he had made that offer to Bullet coach Gene Shue, who politely declined it. "That was bad enough," says Owens, "but when Keith Jackson made it public on TV, I immediately called the Baltimore Sun and told them: 'I'll wreck the Bullets in the second half. Watch it. I'll make them miss their baskets and I'll throw their timing completely haywire.'" The Bullets trailed by four at the half; they lost the game by 19. The rest of the series was a Milwaukee laugh-in. "I have stumbled on a way to tap powers from another dimension," says Ted Owens, "not the dimension we live in. I have about 150 techniques, or usages, of the power which I lump under the general heading, 'PK.' Now that's a little misleading, because PK, as it's known in scientific circles, is psychokinesis (the power of controlling physical objects by the mind only). It's misleading because psychokinesis is just one of my 150 usages." How did he come by this power? He says solemnly that he inherited it as a child; it was the gift from a race of superintelligent beings from that "other dimension." Owens cannot readily account for the fact that he and nobody else was the recipient of this magic, but he is using it to predict events and to change the course of history, of sports history at least. He claims to be 85 percent accurate at foretelling events. For instance, he warned the government of the great East Coast blackout of 1965 ten days before it happened. He predicted lightning would strike the Apollo 12 spacecraft during launch in 1969, and it did. Because of his interest in basketball (he's a big Earl Monroe fan) and football, he has been PKing sports events on TV for the last ten years. Not that he needs television to make it work. "Suppose," he says, "there's a big game and they decide to black it out. All I have to do is draw a square on a card, put a team's name in it, stare at it and project what I want to happen to them and--pluto!--that's it." In the early 1960's Owens began contacting pro football teams and offering his extraordinary services (for a big fee, of course). Most NFL clubs at least answered his letter. One, the Philadelphia Eagles, ignored him. So Owens immediately "doomed" owner Jerry Wolman, coach Joe Kuharich and the whole team to a life of misery following the 1967 season. Wolman is gone, Kuharich is gone and, in the latest bit of Owens' wizardry, quarterback Greg Barton, the man Philadelphia was depending on so much to lead the team back this fall, defected to Canada. The New York Jets were nasty to Owens, too. Several months before the 1970 season, Owens sent the Jets a telegram stating that he would hurt the team through injuries to several key players. Well, you know what happened. Feeling stronger than ever, Owens sent letters to 13 NFL teams last February, announcing his intention to hex **WHAT ARE THESE MEN DOING?** During a game against Houston last April Dodger catcher Bill Sudakis (the hatless player, far left) lost a contact lens. The action came to a standstill, as players and umpires combed the AstroTurf. It was never found, and Sudakis left the game. 18 === Page 45 of 52 VIEWPOINT SOUTH BY PAUL HEMPHILL "Tell you how I wound up here," Scoopie Chappell said, scratching his crew cut and grinning like a little boy. "That was 1950 and I'd won ten straight games for Alex City, when they got this second baseman from a Class-B league and asked me to go on the disabled list so they could make room for him. It was just before a game with LaGrange. I'd already pitched batting practice. So I told 'em to go to hell and they released me on the spot. I walked across the field and signed up with LaGrange, took a uniform off somebody, and went out and beat Alex City, 5-4, in ten innings. And I struck out that second baseman to end the game." It had been a long time since anybody had asked him to get out his scrapbook, or to tell stories about those days. He is 50 years old now, a freelance house painter in the sleepy west Georgia town of LaGrange. He lives in a rented frame house up the hill from the textile mill. "Seems like I've spent my whole life living in a mill village," he says. Now and then, in the taverns or the barber shops, somebody in town will recognize him. But to most people, especially those who are under 30, he is simply Marvin Chappell, the house painter. Has it really been that long? It seems only yesterday that the small towns of the South were throbbing with minor-league baseball. Nearly every town of any size had a minor-league club--the state of Georgia alone once had 22--and the biggest men in town were not the businessmen or the mayor but the .400 hitters and the fireballing pitchers. One of the best leagues was the eight-team Class-D Georgia-Alabama, which was stocked with wide-eyed rookies making $150 a month and fading veterans averaging twice that. It was in this league that Scoopie Chappell found reasons to live. He began to pitch for Alexander City, Alabama, in 1947, after the war, when he was 26. Over a five-year span there and at LaGrange he won 85 games. When he gave up only one hit pitching a doubleheader, he made Ripley's Believe It Or Not. People who remember say he might have gone on up the ladder except for his late start, because he could hit and he had a fastball that hummed. "After that no-hitter a scout came around, but when they told him I was 28 he never talked to me." The league died in 1951. Scoopie was 30, was making only $300 a month and had five kids, so he took a job at the mill. Now he is left with a scrapbook, and memories. There are only two minor-league towns in Georgia now, and even the mills don't have teams anymore. He follows the Atlanta Braves on radio and television, but baseball isn't the same when you aren't involved. "Whenever you threw the knockdown you made sure the catcher got the ball back to you fast so you'd have a weapon if the hitter took it serious," he cracked, sitting on a lawn-chair on his front porch in the afternoon sun. We must have been talking for three hours, swapping stories and laughing over midnight escapades. Then I told him about the scout who once said the death of the minors was merciful from one standpoint--it had eliminated the career bush leaguer, the "baseball bum." Scoopie squinted and thought it over for a while. "Well, I might've been a bum," he said, "but I'll tell you one thing. That was five years I didn't have to work in no textile mill." 20 SPORT TALK CONTINUED them because they either ridiculed him publicly or, worse, ignored him. The jinxed teams are Philadelphia ("it's a year-by-year thing now"), Kansas City, Dallas, the Jets, Chicago, Baltimore, Washington, San Diego, Denver, Los Angeles, Miami, Boston and Houston. These teams, according to the PK man, will be lucky to salvage a winning record in 1971. At least one owner got the message. The Colts' Carroll Rosenbloom, shortly after visiting John Unitas in the hospital (yes, Owens' takes full credit for PKing the Unitas injury) dashed off an urgent letter to Norfolk. "If you will please advise me," Rosenbloom's letter read, "as to a course of action . . . I will do whatever I can to comply." Give me a job, came the reply. But the Colts' boss wrote back: "My fellow owners would never forgive me for signing you up." He suggested Owens see Pete Rozelle. Owens wrote the Commissioner. No answer. Owens says now: "Either I get to sign up or I'll wreck the whole pro football mechanism." You're free to believe or not about Ted Owens. But if the 1972 Super Bowl pits Buffalo against Atlanta . . . HE CAME BACK It happened on June 2, 1967. Bob Johnson, then a 24-year-old pitcher for the Williamsport (Pennsylvania) Mets of the Eastern League, went motorcycling with a teammate, Jerry Hinsley, after a game. They traveled along a mountain road overlooking the town. Johnson's bike, a new one, was giving him trouble and he fell a good ways behind his pal. He was going about 65 or 70 miles per hour when he hit a pile of gravel on the road. Johnson was thrown from his fish-tailing machine. The motorcycle flipped over and landed on his left leg. Hinsley got Johnson to a nearby hospital in a hurry. He was conscious all the time, unable to take his eyes off the bloody, mangled mess that had (Continued on page 22) === Page 46 of 52 THE CHATTANOOGA TIMES, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1972. # 'The Only Man in History Who Has Done the Things I've Done Is Moses' "I put Bill Bell in professional football and I'm gonna take him out. And any team that hires him will be absolutely zonked." That's the voice of a man scorned. It's the voice of a man that I'm not going to fiddle around with. I'm thankful that he said he likes me. I want to introduce you to Ted Owens, a famous Virginia psychic who says he may be the only hope for the United States, whose actions are controlled by the UFOs, who keeps in practice by controlling professional football and who claims all he has done is fully documented. Bill Bell is an example close to home. Bell, as you know, is the kicker for the Atlanta Falcons and his failure to convert a 10-yard field goal two weeks ago cost the Falcons a victory against New England. "Bill Bell came down to Norfolk over a year ago," Owens said, "and begged me to use my powers to get him a job with the Falcons. He said he had tried for two years without success. I got him on the team and he wrote me back and said he didn't believe I did it. He also wrote a national magazine and called me a fake. He blew the one-in-a-million field goal attempt. And, it's gonna get worse for him. Wait and see." ## A Blast From Chicago Ted Owens was insulted last week in a national newspaper article in which he was blasted by Chicago psychic Joseph DeLouise. The Chicago seer said Owens was hurting legitimate ESP's image and "we psychics have enough trouble with the skeptical public without having some guy popping off with phony claims." He went on to say that if what Owens says is true, he should go to jail and that guys like Roman Gabriel or Johnny Unitas or Joe Namath should punch him in the mouth. "That was a naughty article," Owens said, the writer (Tom Valentine of Chicago) is way down with pro football. He's trying to get someone to nit-pick with me. That writer doesn't know the whole picture. If someone has the power I have, it's unlimited. A man who can control weather, radar installations, military exercises. A man who can knock down 12 planes with his mind; this is the kind of guy that governments get together with and work with." Ted Owens feels he can help pro sports teams. He doesn't ## PASSING THE BUCK ### By Buck Johnson (Photo of Ted Owens) mess with the amateurs. If the pro sports teams refuse his help, he talks with outer space intelligences and they direct him as to what happens next. Did you ever wonder. - Why the Baltimore Bullets lost four in a row in the playoffs against the New York Knicks a few years ago? - Why Unitas and Tom Matte were out of action at the same time? - Why Carroll Rosenbloom traded the Baltimore franchise and moved to the Los Angeles Rams? - Why Philadelphia teams never win? - Why the Virginia Squires lost superstars Charlie Scott and Julius Erving? - Why Roman Gabriel suffered a collapsed lung and his backup quarterback's house burned? - Why the Cleveland Browns are struggling? - Why the Chicago Bears aren't winning? - If the Dallas Cowboys will repeat as Super Bowl champs? ### Watch What You Say Ted Owens has the answers and here's the way he tells it: "During the first quarter of the first playoff game the Baltimore announcer said I had offered to help the Bullets, but they didn't want to have anything to do with me. I called a Baltimore newspaper and told them that the Bullets had this game and three to go; that it would miss baskets and lose the games. I sent Coach Gene Shue a letter to that effect. Well, the second half they fell apart and won none of the games, just like I said." As for Baltimore and Rosenbloom, Owens said Rosenbloom actually wanted him to help the Colts but NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle wouldn't let him. Earlier, however, Owens claims he wrote Rosenbloom and the owner had Coach Don McCafferty answer him. "Standby for a ram," he wrote Rosenbloom, and shortly thereafter Unitas ruptured an achilles tendon and Matte underwent an emergency appendectomy. Owens hits out at quarterbacks first. "I don't get any pleasure in dealing with these teams, but I am trying to block a nuclear war between the U.S. and Russia and I need money to buy tools for the UFO. I'm not a mean guy," Owens said. "To get away from me," continued the psychic, "Rosenbloom swapped teams. I wrote him and told him it wouldn't do him any good. A week later Gabriel's lung collapsed and a few days later his backup quarterback's house caught fire." ### Philadelphia Has Had It Owens says he's the only man who can stop these pitfalls and all can be saved except Philadelphia. He claims to have sat in the press box with two sportswriters as witnesses and caused a man (Tom Woodeshick) to be thrown out of a game in five minutes. Lloyds of London called the odds of it happening at 100,000 to one. The Cowboys mauled the Eagles and the ball has never taken such crazy bounces. "I had to show them I could perform a miracle and I did. I've performed over 400 miracles. When's the last time the 76ers or the Phillies won? That town's had it," he said. The pro hockey match at Philadelphia Friday night was postponed because of unfit ice. The psychic has offered the Squires his services. The Squires refused and have lost Scott and Erving and have lost more than twice the number they have won this year. It takes a good memory to remember when the Chicago Bears last won. They are on Owens' list. His primary target now is the Cowboys. "I've kept the Super Bowl champion from repeating now for four years and the Cowboys will not win it this year. The reason is that I'm proving myself. This power is being used in a negative way because the trouble is nobody believes you have it if you don't." The word I'm giving you this morning is to don't mess with Ted Owens. He was kicked off a radio show in Cleveland === Page 47 of 52 BILL BELL The hex is on him CARROLL ROSENBLOOM 'Stand by for a ram' and decided to give the city a lesson with a heat wave. He says he wanted lightning and intense heat and, with six scientists observing his work, it happened two weeks later. The heat buckled sidewalks and, to top if off, city hall got dozens of calls from citizens who claimed the UFOs were talking to them. The Browns haven't set the football world afire, either. Owens claims a farmer by the name of David Watson in Saskatchewan hired him to make it rain so he could get his sunflower crop out. The rains came. Then, with a freeze expected last month, Watson needed heat. He got heat and harvested a fine sunflower crop. A Slip of the Mind The noted seer says he has just finished controlling a radar station with his mind at Cape Charles. "It was linked with a computer and I proposed 25-50 UFOs on the screen. There was some doubt. I told the government agent to let me check to see if it was my mind. I hit the screen with all the power of my mind and it lit up as the arm swept around." The government agent signed a notarized statement to what he saw. Suddenly, Owens exclaimed, "Good lord! I never thought about it, but the power I put over this area could knock down planes and ships." Owens then remembered that since that time 12 planes have crashed in or around Chesapeake Bay, an aircraft carrier caught fire and lightning blasted the entire area. Ted Owens was one of several psychics asked to make one prediction for 1972 a year ago. He predicted (and it's recorded in a book) that UFOs would make bodies of water attack human beings. "They now call this the year of the floods. I warned people about this last year. South Dakota was hit hard and right here in Virginia we have been called a disaster area three times." Owens doesn't worry that DeLouse, his fellow psychic, is rapping him. "I'm an expert in judo and I've fought in the ring and that guy's only a hairdresser. "I'm a family man and I'm not mean. The UFOs have trained me from childhood. I can back up what I say and do with documented evidence. I'm not petty. I have powers and won't use them against an individual without UFO permission. The UFOs determine what is hexed. I explain to them why and they check it out. I've healed a lot of people. "The only man in history who has done the things I've done is Moses." That's Ted Owens. Before he hung up the phone he said he liked me. Boy, am I glad! Note, Contacts... I will be on the Allan Dale Radio Show, KITE, San Antonio, by phone, for an hour, Oct 31 at 8 PM my Va. time, 7 PM Texas time... if you'd like to listen in. Owens === Page 48 of 52 APPROVED FOR VETERANS under new G.I. BILL FREE FACTS mail coupon on how to become a GAME WARDEN FISH-WILDLIFE MANAGER FORESTER GOVT HUNTER Requires Less Formal Education PROTECT FORESTS and WILDLIFE--ARREST VIOLATORS! To guard and protect our forests, fish and wild game, Game Wardens are empowered to enforce the Conservation Laws and arrest violators. Positions of prestige and authority! 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Logical, understandable, rational, Owens's whole approach to the mystery in which he finds himself is scientific and not mystical as with the contactees. This is clearly seen in Ted Owens' own "SI Glossary" in which he defines various ODEs (Other Dimensional Effects): Nature's Mailbox--A visual-image "mailbox" into which he puts "letters" to be acted upon--as when requesting a storm. Angel Box--ODE container which releases good intelligences which can be assigned to sick or hurt persons (apparently the mechanism by which the PK-disks work). PK Bubble--An ODE force placed around a person, thing, city, or even the U.S., to perform a specific task (which may be one clue to how Owens manipulates his PK powers) White Box, Rainbow Door, Messenger Units, Sound Force PK, Weight PK, Electromagnetic Bubble, Laser PK, (other ODEs based on scientific extrapolations of known forces and energies.) Let us conclude with some more sensational PK feats and fulfilled predictions made by Ted Owens in the past six years, which far exceed the accomplishments of such nationally known psychics as Jean Dixon and Peter Hurkos. On June 1, 1966, in a written notice to the CIA and other agencies, Ted Owens predicted an early hurricane, within days, long before the traditional hurricane season. Loud laughter from the hurricane center must have turned into gasps when on June 7th, Hurricane Alma rose in wrath, the earliest Atlantic hurricane ever to hit the U.S. mainland. One June 18, 1966, Owens' predicted that violent electrical storms would soon strike the Philadelphia area. By the end of June and into July, that city was bombarded by electrical bolts seldom seen before. During this period, with a group of friends, Owens pointed and said a lightning flash would strike over a certain building--this happened within minutes. Owens made it strike there, he claims. It will definitely interest UFOlogists to know that the following "classic" sightings of saucers and occupants were predicted in advance by Ted Owens, and in some cases "ordered" by him. * The "Michigan Monster" case of August 1966, in Monroe County, where Christine Van Acker, a 17-year-old girl and her mother came upon a hairy, black, seven-foot monster. * The "meteor" of August 19, 1966, which was so bright that it cast shadows as it flashed across the skies over Pennsylvania and Ohio. Puzzled astronomers admitted it was too slow for a genuine meteor. It was, says Owens, a spectacular UFO that he had "promised" would manifest itself over Pennsylvania. * The semi-tragic tale of the saucer named "Floyd"--a police code name. In April 1966, State Police officer Dale Spaur and several other troopers pursued a low-flying saucer from the state of Ohio into Pennsylvania, without ever catching up. The sighting came to haunt Dale Spaur to the point where he lost his job and his wife. He became a broken-down hermit because he, or one of the other policemen, had fired at the UFO, which Ted Owens had prophesied would mean the police would be "without one officer." * The "Penninsula Monster" at Erie, Pa., on July 31, 1966, where Betty Jean Klem and three other hysterical teen-age friends in a car were accosted by a hulking gorilla-like creature, which later flew off in a saucer. But of course Ted Owens' most recent and significant prediction, as of February 1970 (SAGA, July 1970) was that the summer of 1970 would usher in the greatest UFO wave in history as saucers would appear in "great numbers everywhere on earth." Is that worldwide saucer flap going on right now? We might also ask that if the flap is going on is it being successfully smothered by the news blackout that has been clamped on all UFO reports since the Condon Report of 1969? If so, Ted Owens today is a frustrated prophet indeed. Finally, here are two more predictions by Ted Owens, which, if they haven't already been fulfilled, will be in a short time. Owens is confident they will. Prediction 1) There is a "terrible threat" to our forces in or near Vietnam. Owens says the SIs showed him the symbolical image of a black triangular mass silently converging there, either through the air or the water. He is not clear as to the exact nature of the threat but it's a "blockbuster force" and will be a major headline about Vietnam. Prediction 2) That Nigeria, because of its inhuman treatment of the conquered Biafrans after their war ceased, will suffer greatly unless they change their policy. "The long unlimited hand of the UFO intelligences," wrote Owens in a letter to President Nixon, "will now reach out and strike at the Nigerian government and teach them a lesson they will never forget. From now on, Nigeria is a marked country, until the present government and all the people responsible for the miseries of the Biafran innocents have been struck down with illness and death and misery themselves." Owens seems to imply that something akin to the "seven plagues" that struck Egypt in Biblical times will scourge the Nigerians. It is a matter of record that as of mid-February, a deadly new virus struck Nigeria only, with a frightful fatality rate of 50 percent. Three out of five medical lab technicians sent by the U.S. died promptly of this Lassa Fever, as it is called, and medical authorities called it an emergency. "The greatest mystery," to quote the New York Times, "is where the disease came from." An SI warning to the U.S. about trouble in Vietnam (not caused by the SIs), and an SI vengeance on Nigerian cruelty. So says Ted Owens, mouthpiece of the SIs. * THE END === Page 49 of 52 This Is What Started It # BATTLE OF THE PSYCHICS! ********** # Seer Ted Owens Answers DeLouise Charges That He's a 'Fake, Phony' Joseph DeLouise Raps A Fellow Psychic 'Seer Ted Owens Is Ruining Legitimate Image Of ESP' By TOM VALENTINE 'If I were Namath, Unitas or Gabriel, I'd punch Owens in the nose' By TOM VALENTINE A tremendous "battle of the psychics" has erupted between Chicago's Joseph DeLouise and "PK man" Ted Owens of Virginia. It all started with the Oct. 22, 1972, edition of the TATTLER when DeLouise criticized the claims and tactics employed by Owens. "He hurts the image of legitimate ESP," DeLouise charged. After reading the TATTLER story, Owens flipped his psychic wig and wrote a scorching letter to DeLouise and dared TATTLER to print it. In addition, he told TATTLER he would "hex" the Chicago Bears pro football team. In his letter, Owens writes to DeLouise: "You have to be stupid. You know, dumb. No one in this world, in their right mind, would take me on. Not after I have documented causing hurricanes with my mind; controlling radar installations with my mind; controlling pro teams with my mind..." "Mind you, we are speaking of documented before-the-fact actions. But you have chosen to insult me... as did Long John Nebel some years ago, then he lost his prime time radio show; then his wife committed suicide; then he got cancer... and, so, you will get what you richly deserve, as time goes by. "You have to be stupider and dumber than me, because my IQ is scientifically certified. I am a member of Mensa. You are not. You couldn't make it. So... you are a dumb bunny. "As a psychic, fella, you are a nothing. So you can make some predictions. Big deal. I can make predictions that come true; also I can control exploding volcanoes, control the weather, control military forces, heal people given up by doctors for dead, control pro football and basketball teams, control radar installations... and on and on..." Owens signed his letter "Ted Owens, PK man" evidently the initials stand for "psychokinesis," the ability to control matter with one's mind. DeLouise reacted calmly to the tirade in writing, he told TATTLER: "I think Mr. Owens smelled publicity; and that's fine. But, after reading his letter, I have even more doubts about him than before. He claims he can control all those things, but it appears he can't control his mouth too well. "As for his promise to hex the Chicago Bears, I'm laughing... since his so-called hex the Bears, who hadn't won a game, won three straight... some hex. With results like that, I hope he hexes me." Owens claimed he "doubled the power of P.K." against the Bears and they will continue "to lose games and lose men to injuries until DeLouise makes a public apology to me." Owens charged DeLouise with seeking publicity by attacking him in the first place. DeLouise, however, stuck to his original guns. "I am convinced that Mr. Owens' claims are a detriment to legitimate ESP. In his letter to me, he actually takes credit for doing terrible harm to another human being -- Long John Nebel, the New York radio man. He claims he causes football players' injuries. "That's an easy claim to make, football players are always getting hurt. However, I do understand the power of the human mind and the forces of psychokinesis... it is entirely possible to do others harm in the manner Owens claims. Therefore, if he insists on taking credit for causing injuries, he should be jailed for assault with a deadly weapon." TATTLER asked Owens why he made such claims and what reasons did he have for attacking pro sports. "I do what I do to make people aware of the existence of higher spiritual entities who are not happy with the trends of our society." Owens claims that, by attacking pro sports, he attacks a decadent level of society without doing great harm to the masses of people. One of Owens' followers, Bernard Brugger of Edmonton, Canada, wrote TATTLER with the Owens' point of view: "Mr. Owens' activities (as attacked by DeLouise) have been taken out of context and I can assure you that Mr. Owens' purpose is not, but absolutely not, to hex football teams, etc., for the sake of doing evil or forcing the teams' owners into hiring him for a handsome salary. "He is using his tremendous mind powers in order to make people realize that such powers exist and that space people exist, too." Brugger lauded Owens' healing ability and the positive side of the man who claims he caused Los Angeles Rams pro football quarterback Roman Gabriel's lung ailment earlier this year. In ending his defense of Owens, Brugger wrote: "What do you think of Moses? Didn't he use sinister powers as Ted Owens? Sometimes, in a spectacular way, you have to admit. Should he have been jailed, also?" DeLouise, upon reading Brugger's defense, said: "Some people will believe anything. I accept that Owens could be an excellent healer and psychic -- I don't attack healers and psychics who use their abilities for beneficial purposes, but his reasons for putting the hex on football players and persons who he feels insult him are weak and a little sick. "Moses didn't pick on the little things, like Egyptian chariot racers, he reluctantly used his God-given powers only when absolutely necessary. Moses and Jesus and other Higher Beings who worked among the masses never used their powers to deliberately harm another individual... they taught their philosophies by example, they showed others the right way with their actions. "Owens, then, is teaching others that if the world doesn't take your word for something you believe, you have every right to cause injury, sickness and even death. This is simply not true nor logical. "I'm not giving this character any more of my time or energy... as far as I'm concerned, I've made my point and that's that." In an effort to get expert opinion, TATTLER asked Jeane Dixon, one of the world's leading prophets, to comment on the controversy: "I don't like to grace such a thing publicly, but all persons with the psychic gift should use their talents for constructive reasons. I use my talents to help people. I'm here to help and not destroy." Caught In Gas War, This Station Owner Drives His Tanker To Rival Station And Says... 'Fill 'Er Up' Here's Owens' Reply Tattler editor... read this first before forwarding. Funny that you didn't publish it! Owens Oct. 7, 1972 Mr. Joseph DeLouise, Psychic Chicago c/o National Tattler Fella,... A friend of mine in Chicago saw an article today, in which you say some nasty things about me in Tattler. You even have the gall to instruct me, as he explained it long distance, that I might be a "fake and phony." Let's take it one step at a time. You have to be stupid. You know, dumb. No one in this world, in their right mind, would take me on. Not after I have documented causing hurricanes with my mind; controlling radar installations with my mind; controlling pro teams with my mind... and mind you, we are speaking of documented before-the-fact action. But you have chosen to insult me... as did Long John Nebel, some years ago (then he lost his prime time radio show; then his wife committed suicide; then he got cancer)... and so, you will get what you richly deserve, as time goes by. You have to be stupider and dumber than me, because my IQ is scientifically certified. I am a member of Mensa. You are not. You couldn't make it. So... you are a dumb bunny. Second: (we've taken up the mental, now the psychic)... as a psychic, fella, you are a nothing. So you can make some predictions. Big deal. I can make predictions that come true; also I can control exploding volcanoes, control the weather, control military forces, heal people given up by doctors for dead, control pro football and basketball teams, control radar installations... and on and on. And all of it is documented; proved. I have notarized, signed affidavits from lawyers, scientists, etc., to the truth of what I have just stated... so there can be no argument. I even have UFO's appear at certain times and places so that scientists and others could examine them with binoculars, etc. This, too, is proven. So... you have to be stupid to call me a fake or a phony. Third: why try to dare football players? I want to show Charles and much on the coast! No, now hear me real! Let's you and him fight, you say, "wait, fella..."! I live at 619 Shadwell Street, Cape Charles, Virginia. I weigh 200 and 10 lbs., 10-inch yellow coward, that is when I label you, Mr. If you aren't a coward, come on down, and we'll settle off in my backyard with our fists. I am 52 years old, with a phlebitis, and you're out of condition... but it would be a pleasure to give you a lesson in manners. Look at it any way you turn it, fella... mental, physical or psychic... you are far, far away from being anything, or being anything, like Ted Owens, PK Man... so for your sake you'd better believe it. Ted Owens (PK Man) Box 4, Cape Charles, Virginia 23310 Owens (PK Man) cc: National Tattler, Joseph DeLouise ... 'Owens can't even control his mouth'. Ted Owens ... His hex on the Bears didn't work. === Page 50 of 52 # Pastor Takes Sunday Sermon to Rich Sipping Drinks Aboard Luxury Yachts The Rev. Jerry Hunter preaches his Sunday sermon from a riverbank while his congregation sits sipping martinis aboard their luxury yachts. The Chatham, Ont., minister figures it's the only way he can reach the rich pleasure-seekers. Every Sunday during the summer months, Rev. Hunter sets up his pulpit on a well-trimmed lawn along a river that leads into Lake St. Clair, a favorite playground for hundreds of boaters. He usually speaks about the problems of businessmen's "pressure-cooker" lives and some practical and spiritual solutions to them. Most of the boaters are businessmen trying to relax for the weekend. As he talks, the cocktail parties on the boats grow quiet and the bathing suit-clad yachtsmen drift closer. While they might not dump their cocktails into the lake, they do listen to Rev. Hunter. And most think his dockside ministry is a good idea. "It's the only way I can get my kids to go to church," commented one Detroit boater. "We've been to the services at Chatham three times this summer and we plan to come more often next year." Rev. Hunter's services are sponsored by a local church group and a large motel. He never takes up a collection, even though his congregation could well afford it. **YOUR WEEK THAT WILL BE (Dec. 3-9)** Travel, new modes of communicating -- these are apt to be very much featured during this, the week that will be. Psychic healing and ESP and cosmology and related areas grab headlines. At forefront, much to consternation of his more conservative associates, is apt to be CAPT. EDGAR D. MITCHELL, one of the astronauts who walked on the moon. As we forecast months ago in these TATTLER columns, Mitchell has left the Space program and the military, renounced former materialistic aims, declares he intends to devote himself to the study of man and why he is here, what his purpose is -- and to open a center in Houston, Tex. to concentrate on and promote such subjects as psychic phenomena, ESP, psychic healing. Mitchell, it will be recalled, was the astronaut who conducted ESP tests with persons on earth while he was on his way to the moon. Mitchell is a no-nonsense Virgo, analytical, disciplined. I feel his studies and his associates eventually will be probing the question of the survival of human personality after bodily death, a bigger story, when proven, than even man walking on the moon. Developments in this area in Russia and other Iron Curtain countries far outdistance us. The Soviets want to use this area, including astrology, for military purposes among others. It is good we have a Capt. Mitchell. Lunar cycle this week will be high for SCORPIO, SAGITTARIUS, CAPRICORN and AQUARIUS. When cycle is high, your judgment is apt to be correct. It is time to take initiative, to make contacts and new starts. When cycle is low, let others take initiative. Listen and observe. Wait. Cycle will be low for TAURUS, GEMINI, CANCER and LEO. KEY NUMBERS: 7, 4 and 3. # in your stars ### astrological forecast by world-famous Sydney Omarr **ZODIACAL BIRTHDAY TABLE** | | | |---|---| | ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 19) | LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) | | TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20) | SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) | | GEMINI (May 21-June 20) | SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) | | CANCER (June 21-July 22) | CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) | | LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) | AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) | | VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) | PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20) | **AT LAS VEGAS OR THE TRACK:** Scorpio should stick with number 7. Leo can win with 3 and Virgo might show a profit with number 4. **BEST PLANTING DAY:** 3rd. **BEST FISHING DAY:** 5th. **AVOID PLANE TRAVEL:** 5th and 9th. **NEWSMAKERS:** Pisces and Virgo. **MOST SIGNIFICANT DAY:** 5th. **For ARIES**, this is week to delve inward -- find out what it is you actually desire. Avoid fooling yourself. Face facts as they exist. Open lines of communication. Correspond with those at a distance. Travel, travel plans dominate. Come down to earth about budget, money affairs. You face opposition it is likely to evaporate. Accent is on legal matters, joint efforts, partnership and marriage. Confusion results if you attempt to force issues. Play waiting game. When you don't know what to do, do nothing. This is a week when you should let others reveal their views, plans. Change routine. **For CANCER**, there is a swing away from fantasy and back to the practical. Family obligations, a slowing down, a coming to grips with reality -- this is featured. You may be pulled in two directions simultaneously. Aquarian plays prominent role. Trust hunch. Share knowledge. Diet and health in general require special consideration. Take one step at a time and you will achieve goal. **For LEO**, this is a week of greater freedom, more creativity, intensified relationship with opposite sex. Romance is highlighted. You meet people, go places and do things. You come alive. Health improves because you feel more vital. Sagittarian is likely to be in picture. Travel is indicated and so is publishing, advertising. Your efforts become known to more persons. You are feted, congratulated. **For VIRGO**, be thorough. Insist on facts, not rumors. Build on solid base. Emphasis is on completion of projects, on property, on cementing relationships with those who do have your best interests at heart. Important matters come under your scrutiny. You get nothing for nothing. But sincere effort now will pay dividends. **For LIBRA**, you will be more active than usual, taking calls, writing, visiting, receiving visitors, hearing from neighbors and relatives. Short trips are featured and financial gain is shown during early part of week. Gemini and Virgo persons are in picture. Forces are scattered but indications are that you will be enjoying yourself. **For SCORPIO**, cycle is high early in week. You make peace with family. Domestic situation improves, especially if you are diplomatic. Accent also is on paying, collecting, adding to possessions. You find genuine bargain, probably in luxury item. Your life can become more comfortable as you become more comfortable in your home surroundings. Contacts indicated with Taurus, Libra persons. **For SAGITTARIUS**, you pause and seem to be off track early, but you regain rhythm and make fine comeback. You gain access to private information. You will have to decide what is of value, what should be discarded. Pisces person could play key role. By week's end, you will be relaxed, maneuverable, more mobile and able to get along better with neighbors and relatives. **For CAPRICORN**, you could be involved in power play, especially around the 5th. Protect your interests. Take nothing for granted. Another Capricorn figures prominently. Work behind the scenes. Ferret out information that has been held under cover. Refuse to be deceived by appearances. Accept responsibility. But also be sure you get credit deserved. And cash, too! **For AQUARIUS**, accent is on friends, fulfillment of desires. You find understanding from one who previously seemed aggressive, even insensitive. Aries could be involved. Don't be too forceful. What you really require will come to you. Know it and act accordingly. Develop friendships, additional social contacts. **For PISCES**, emphasis is on advancement through original procedures. Adhere to your own style, methods. Leo can lend helping hand. By week's end you gain information needed. Obstacle really is a healthy challenge. Know it and respond accordingly. Accent is on career, ambitions, ability to make room for yourself at top. And until next week ... FOLLOW YOUR LUCKY STARS! === Page 51 of 52 THE NATIONAL TATTLER 20¢ A VOL. 17 NO. 24 WORLD'S FASTEST GROWING FAMILY WEEKLY DEC. 10, 1972 New Book Serialization: 'You Live After Death' See page 12 # Miracle Healing ## Dying Heart Patient Totally Recovered After Surgery By Psychic; MDs Baffled By TOM VALENTINE Dominic Albano's doctors gave him up for dead in 1971, but today he looks back and laughs, thanks to a miracle of "psychic surgery." The 60-year-old Chicago man recently was cured by a remarkable phenomenon that has raised the hopes of sick people everywhere, despite charges of hoax and fraud from orthodox medicine and the press. ### Good Reading Cover-To-Cover: * How To Brighten Your Menus With Plentiful Foods ..........page 4 * He Wants To Buy Rome's Colosseum And Remodel It ..........page 6 * Meet 'Doubleheader,' The World's Only Two-Headed Turtle ..........page 12 * Ex-Witch Claims She Watched Satan Destroy Her Home ..........page 21 * Florida's Costly 'Big Ditch' That Leads To Nowhere ..........page 26 Psychic surgery is performed by a number of spiritual healers in the Philippines. No instruments are used, no anaesthetic is given the patient, yet the body is opened and the affliction cured with no pain to the person being healed. WHEN THE HEALER removes his hands, the opening closes without leaving a scar and there is no post-operative trauma. The patient simply gets up and walks away. Few of the testimonials favoring Antonio Agpaoa, the famous "Dr. Tony" of Baguio City, are as remarkable or as thoroughly documented as the case of Dominic Albano. Said Albano: "In August of 1971, my heart condition was so severe that a team of physicians at Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital refused to perform an operation on me. They feared I might die on the operating table. "They gave me anywhere from two weeks to six months to live," Albano added wryly. Dominic Albano's heart pains were so severe and so frequent that he was swallowing up to 30 nitroglycerine pills per day. He was no longer able to work. He had given up all hope. (Continued on page 5) ### Sonny & Cher Split ## Those TV Squabbles Were Real TATTLER has learned that Sonny and Cher have outside romantic interests and stayed together in hatred only because their talent and their contracts bound them to each other. Their image of "groovy togetherness" is smashed after Cher stormed out in the middle of a show. --See Page 3. === Page 52 of 52 Behind The Front Page IT'S A LITTLE hard on the imagination to work around Tom Valentine. You keep asking yourself: "How can one guy be so good at so many different things?" From his days as an award-winning sports editor for a California daily, Tom has moved from one resounding success to another all the way acrosss the whole broad spectrum of American journalism. He has been a top rewrite man for Chicago Today, is the author of a half-dozen books, and for the past year has been TATTLER'S expert-in-residence on just about everything, especially the intriguing world of psychic phenomena. Tom took some time out from the vigors of covering football, baseball, track and golf back in 1963 to begin a serious investigation of ESP, the occult and related subjects "out of curiosity and doubt." Since then, he has turned up enough evidence on these mysterious goings-on to fill several volumes, to convince himself of the reality of many psychic claims, and to become one of the country's leading journalistic authorities on the entire field. In this issue, Tom scores with two exclusive stories out of the psychic world. One is the story of a man who came back from the edge of the grave to become a healthy, normal human being through the miracle of psychic surgery. The second concerns a developing "battle of the psychics," in which some members of the fraternity of prophets are condemning others as vicious charlatans. Certainly, there is no person in the country more qualified to write on these fascinating subjects. Last summer, Valentine became the first U.S. reporter ever to view and photograph psychic surgery in progress during a visit to the Philippines. Jeane Dixon herself, perhaps the most famous seer in American history, has worked with Tom on numerous occasions and each has learned to respect and admire the talents of the other. Our man Valentine with Jeane If you're one of the millions of Americans who share Tom's interest in exploring the unknown, you won't want to miss either of his latest articles. They're on Pages 5 and 7. ********** IF THERE'S ONE thing any average American housewife (and her husband, too, for that matter) should be interested in knowing, it's how to serve good-tasting nutritionally balanced meals. With this in mind, TATTLER'S newly appointed food editor Constance Donnellan, begins a brand-new feature this week, in which she combines recipes for delicious dishes with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's weekly lists of plentiful foods. Starting with this issue, Constance will be offering one or more "plentiful foods" recipes each week. She plans to test most of them in her own kitchen at home before passing them along to TATTLER readers. If you're concerned with "what's for dinner tonight," you'll want to turn right now to Constance's "Food for Thought" column on Page 4.--RJS. It Costs Airlines Only $20 to Fly You Overseas It costs airlines only $20.34 to fly a passenger across the Atlantic, according to technical summaries issued by Lockheed and McDonnell Douglas, manufacturers of the 1011 TriStar and the DC-10. This is the word from George Bryant, a sharp-eyed columnist for the Toronto Star. Bryant reminds outraged airline passengers that the $20.34 covers only direct operating costs for the airplane. Corporate overhead--labor for ground staff other than maintenance workers, airport charges, VIP lounges, etc.--isn't included in that figure. Furthermore, the $20.34 per passenger applies only when every seat is filled (as is the case on charter flights). But the fact remains that air travel is cheaper than you think--or cheaper for the airlines, anyway. Says columnist Bryant, "Ever wonder why charter operators are lining up to carry future passengers for $150, round trip?" THE NATIONAL TATTLER December 10, 1972 Page 2 Wisconsin Basement Houses A Tribute to Shirley Temple By PAUL R. LANE Shirley Temple Black is 44, a housewife, a Nixon appointee (Council on Environmental Quality), and a veteran of breast cancer. But the other Shirley--the bright-eyed little curly-top who charmed Depression America in more than 100 movies--still lives in a Wisconsin basement. "Little Shirley" lives through the hundreds of photos, dolls, jewelry, doll beds, coloring books, autographed movie stills, posters, cereal dishes, press releases, shoes, dresses and effects in Mrs. Ione Wollenzien's personal museum. The Waukesha, Wis., basement is the biggest existing collecting of memorabilia devoted to the movies' littlest superstar. Time-Life Books demonstrated this recently when they sent a camera team out to take more than 700 photos, a number of which appear in the 1930-40 volume of their series, "This Fabulous Century." Mrs. Wollenzien never intended to go into the museum business, she says. "It started in 1963 when my husband brought me home a Shirley Temple doll from San Francisco. I had collected dolls for years. But this particular one intrigued me. Soon, I was advertising in national hobby magazines for other Shirley Temple items." The museum idea owed much to Harley Wollenzien's carpentry ability. He built the floor-to-ceiling cabinets with sliding glass doors that house and protect the priceless collection. "People will send me items they wont sell or give to anyone else, because they know I'll display them, not just pack them away in some box." Mrs. Wollenzien finds herself playing hostess to collectors and Shirley Temple enthusiasts from many states. Recently, she was visited by a man named Lou Angel from New York City. Angel once danced professionally with Miss Temple, and he presented Mrs. Wollenzien with a colorful photo of he and Shirley dancing together. The sheer variety of items in the collection shows the depth of 1930 American's love affair with the curly-haired scamp. Although the items of jewelry are Mrs. Wollenzien's favorites, more than 100 Shirley Temple dolls dominate the display. Mrs. Wollenzien sewed most of the costumes--representing Shirley's roles in her 1930s movies--although she admits that a seamstress made some of the more elaborate ones. A woman in Florida made the boots and shoes that needed replacement. To restore the curly-head trademark, Mrs. Wollenzien set each doll's hair with small plastic curlers. Mrs. Wollenzien and one of many display cases. Mrs. Wollenzien loves to show visitors through her museum. She has a story to tell about every item. 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Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 11 ARCHETYPAL SYNCHRONISTIC RESONANCE: A NEW THEORY OF PARANORMAL EXPERIENCE JEFFREY MISHLOVE, PhD, is dean of consciousness studies at the University of Philosophical Research in Los Angeles. He is former host and producer of the *Thinking Allowed* public television series. He serves as president of the nonprofit Intuition Network. He received his doctoral degree in parapsychology from the University of California, Berkeley. BRENDAN C. ENGEN, PsyD, received his doctorate in clinical psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies and is currently completing his postdoctoral clinical training at a private practice in southeastern Georgia. His research interests include the psychology of art and creativity, the control-mastery approach to psychotherapy, consciousness studies, and the philosophical assumptions of psychotherapeutic practice. Summary This article proposes a new theory, archetypal synchronistic resonance (ASR), to explain ostensible paranormal experiences that can be neither accepted as literally construed nor dismissed as mere artifact or error. Drawing on ideas from Jung, ASR holds that ostensible paranormal experience is the result of archetypal-synchronistic functioning. To illustrate this theory, the authors analyze several mutual, emotionally potent, apparently synchronistic experiences involving the Stoic philosopher and Roman statesman Seneca and the concept of reincarnation. The authors discuss phenomenological features of the theory's resonance component and bring to light nontrivial parallels between ASR and Maslow's account of *peak-experience*, Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Vol. 47 No. 2, April 2007 223-242 DOI: 10.1177/0022167806293006 © 2007 Sage Publications 223 === Page 2 of 11 224 Archetypal Synchronistic Resonance Jeffrey Mishlove, Brendan C. Engen 225 between ASR and Otto's description of the numinous, and between ASR and Frankl's construal of *super-meaning*. The authors conclude with a discussion of a competing "error-theory" of the phenomenon, which holds that putative paranormal experiences are products of apophenia, the mistaken attribution of intent or meaning to events that in fact are meaningless or purely chance occurrences. **Keywords:** *archetypes, Jungian psychology, synchronicity, reincarnation, paranormal phenomena, paranormal experience, parapsychology.* ### INTRODUCTION AND CLARIFICATION OF THESIS Ostensible paranormal experiences have been the subject of continuous scientific investigation since the founding of the British Society for Psychical Research in 1882. During this extensive period, certain categories of analysis have emerged to become salient within both the professional discipline and popular culture. These are exemplified by such standard nomenclature as *extrasensory perception, telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, survival of the human personality after death*, and (in particular, with regard to this article) *reincarnation*.¹ Scientific evaluation of paranormal claims has reached something of a stalemate in recent decades. On the one hand, parapsychologists and psychical researchers have been unable to convince either themselves or the scientific community at large that there as yet exists an adequate theoretical model for explaining the anomalous phenomena they endeavor to study.² On the other hand, after many decades, honest skeptics have found themselves in the frustrating position of being unable to explain away as artifact or error the many statistically improbable findings that have been observed under well-controlled conditions and documented in the parapsychological literature (Mishlove, 1980).³ Conspicuous in its absence hitherto has been any sustained attempt among researchers to break free of this impasse in a way that theoretically integrates both honest skepticism and anomalous evidence. This article seeks to fill that gap. We postulate that conventional explanations of paranormal experience, from both skeptical and traditional parapsychological camps, are so deeply and inextricably embedded within incongruent conceptual systems or paradigms--each being predicated on an incommensurable set of unspoken (unconscious) assumptions, such as epistemological norms and ontological commitments--that the aforementioned stalemate will continue indefinitely in the absence of a reasonably thorough process of conceptual analysis, clarification, and eventual revision. The following pages, we hope, are at least a small step in that direction. This article offers a new approach for resolving this stalemate. It considers ostensible paranormal experience from a naturalistic, depth-psychological perspective. Drawing on some of the ideas of Carl G. Jung, we propose a model which we have dubbed "archetypal synchronistic resonance" (ASR).⁴ As we discuss it in the subsequent pages, we highlight how ASR illuminates many of the more baffling experiential aspects of paranormal experience. We also point out some affinities that ASR shares with Abraham Maslow's account of the "peak-experience" and Viktor Frankl's description of the experience of "super-meaning." Furthermore, we address an anticipated objection to ASR--a competing "error theory" that holds ostensible paranormal or synchronistic experience to be the manifestation of the psychological phenomenon known as *apophenia*, the paranoid attribution of esoteric meanings to random occurrences or inherently meaningless events. ### DEFINING KEY CONSTRUCTS It is reasonable to ask what ASR means and what its distinctive phenomenological features are. The experience's *archetypal* aspect refers to the activation of primordial ideas or universal models (e.g., hero, mother, anima, persona, shadow, rebirth, etc.) that are hypothesized to be native endowments of the prepersonal or collective unconscious, according to Jungian psychological theory (Jung, 1990). Psychological archetypes, according to Jung (1990), are "unconscious but nonetheless active--living dispositions, ideas in the Platonic sense, that preform and continually influence our thoughts and feelings and actions" (p. 79). He points out that archetypes are not, strictly speaking, inherited ideas but rather "inherited *possibilities* of ideas" (p. 66). Therefore, being innate idea-forming dispositions of the psyche (or basic organizing structures of the unconscious), archetypes are not learned or acquired but rather *actuated* or *released* in response to relevant stimulating events. At this point, we wish to note that Jung's concepts of archetype and collective unconscious need not be conceived in idealist, mystical, or non-naturalistic ways. For, given his strong developmental === Page 3 of 11 226 Archetypal Synchronistic Resonance Jeffrey Mishlove, Brendan C. Engen 227 and heritability language, it is not hard to see how Jung's concept of archetype might be preserved within the framework of a psychology informed by evolutionary theory. Indeed, some contemporary Jungians reconstrue or redefine archetypes, using terminology from evolutionary psychology and the Lorenz-Tinbergen ethological theory, as "innate releasing mechanisms"--namely, modules of instinctive behavior that remain dormant or inhibited until the organism is exposed to the relevant "sign stimulus" (Stevens, 2000, 2003). From a Darwinian standpoint, if this ethological construal is correct, then archetypes qua innate releasing mechanisms must have conferred survival advantages of some sort on our evolutionary ancestors who presumably passed them on to us (Stevens, 2000). In other words, the existence of archetypes conceivably has a natural and scientifically warrantable explanation (Stevens, 2000, 2003; Van Eenwyk, 1997). The personal accounts that shortly follow involve a situation in which at least one operative archetype is the hero (the hero in this instance being the ancient Roman philosopher, statesman, and playwright Lucius Annaeus Seneca, who is someone long admired by both coauthors). According to Jungian theory, the hero represents the urge for "individuation"--that is, the inborn drive to become a distinctive, integrated self against the onrush of conflicting, fragmenting impulses (Edinger, 1992). As we shall see, another archetype implicated in the reported experience below is the rebirth archetype, which involves the myth of someone, usually a god or hero, dying and subsequently being restored to life, often in a glorified form. Jung notes that this archetype has concrete expression in many ancient cult rituals that enact the death and rebirth of a mythic hero, such as Osiris, Adonis, Mithras, Demeter, Quetzalcoatl, and Jesus Christ. The archetype evokes from the ritual participants a vivid identification with the hero, such that his or her death and rebirth symbolically becomes their own (Jung, 1990). Jung (1990) theorizes that the rebirth archetype symbolizes the process of individuation as a natural transformation of the personality, an inherent law of psychological development: "Nature herself demands a death and a rebirth. . . . There are natural transformation processes which simply happen to us, whether we like it or not, and whether we know it or not" (p. 130). More abstractly considered, the rebirth archetype is an instinctive prefiguration of what is both continuous and restlessly self-transcending in the human psyche (Jung, 1990). We postulate that archetypes, such as those mentioned above, serve as the central organizing components of a given paranormal experience. The elusive means by which this organization occurs is denoted by Jung's (1976) term synchronicity. In his paper "On Synchronicity," written in the mature years of his theorizing, he defines synchronicity as "a meaningful coincidence of two or more events, where something other than the probability of chance is involved" (p. 505). In his subsequent development of this concept, he described it as an "acausal" connecting principle, namely, a subjectively significant relationship between two or more events or states of affairs that appear to be causally independent of each other from the standpoint of current scientific or objective analysis (Jung, 1973). He attributes much of the enduring appeal and influence of archaic divination systems such as the I Ching and astrology to this principle (Jung, 1976). All systems of divination, according to Jung, endeavor to discern an occult or empirically hidden conjunction between the macrocosm and the microcosm--the subjective and objective worlds--the awareness of which reportedly enables one to see into the future or into invisible realms of being (Jung, 1973). He speculates that synchronicities prove that a content perceived by an observer can, at the same time, be represented by an outside event, without any causal connection. From this it follows either that the psyche cannot be localized in space, or that space is relative to the psyche. (Jung, 1976, p. 518) In addition, there is a mysterious, cognitively jarring, awe-inspiring quality that distinguishes synchronistic experience from most other types of observed conjunctions (Jung, 1976). To witness a synchronicity is to experience being caught up in--or perhaps even overwhelmed by--the presence of a meaningful orderedness that surpasses comprehension. Felt as a shock whose origin is alien and unfathomable, the synchronistic experience resembles in this respect Rudolf Otto's (1959) description of the experience of the numinous: "It is the emotion of a creature, submerged and overwhelmed by its own nothingness in contrast to that which is supreme above all creatures" (p. 10). Finally, the resonance component of ASR refers to the person's experience of likeness, affinity, identification, or otherwise deep empathic familiarity with another (who may be separated from him or her by vast stretches of space or time). Phenomenologically, this resonance quality can be unpacked in greater detail, and we === Page 4 of 11 228 Archetypal Synchronistic Resonance will do so after presenting some personal examples of paranormal experience. REINCARNATION/REBIRTH Reincarnation or rebirth doctrines figure prominently in many world religions and spiritual traditions. Indeed, in several established varieties of Buddhism, Hinduism, indigenous folk tradition, New Age mysticism, and neo-pagan and Goddess religion movements, endorsement of some or other rebirth or reincarnation notion arguably plays a foundational role in their respective constructions of the self and its world (Garrett, 2005; Harris, 1990; Smith, 1991). In the scientific, parapsychological literature (Stevenson, 1967), the term reincarnation is used as an explanatory concept to account for well-documented instances in which young children appear to have verifiable memories concerning the experiences of deceased individuals. In some instances (Stevenson, 1997), these children are actually discovered to have birthmarks corresponding to the death wounds of the remembered, deceased individuals. This article does not address the type of evidence produced by Stevenson and his colleagues.⁵ However, we claim that, in principle, even that strong evidence could be explained within the framework of ASR. The West has witnessed something of a proliferation of interest in reincarnation during the past few decades. It appears to be a topic that has readily captivated the modern spiritual imagination, regardless of the validity of reincarnation concepts and doctrines. One has only to scan the self-help and spirituality sections of the local bookstore to see ample evidence of this popular interest. Certain books on the subject of reincarnation, such as Brian Weiss's (1988) *Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy that Changed Both Their Lives*, even attain bestseller status from time to time. We suspect that at least part of the widespread appeal of the reincarnation idea stems from its roots in the mind's archetypal functioning and atavistic fantasies about indestructible life. Reincarnation is an anglicized term of Latin derivation that literally means "reinfleshment" or the re-embodiment of a nonphysical Jeffrey Mishlove, Brendan C. Engen 229 self, soul, or personality that has somehow survived the death of its previous bodily machinery (de Purucker, 1958). In subtle contrast, rebirth, according to the *American Heritage Dictionary*, means "a second or new birth" (and, in figurative use, a "renaissance, revival, or recurrence") but does not logically require or imply the existence of a discarnate self or soul. Some traditions to which we alluded in the preceding paragraph, such as Theravada Buddhism, that disaffirm the reality of an ego or soul entity capable of "reinfleshment" (the doctrine of *anatta* in classical Buddhist thought) may prefer to use the latter English term over the former for this reason (Obeyesekere, 2002; Rahula, 1974; Wallace, 2003).⁶ These terminological distinctions reveal just a few of the many confusing interpretative and philosophical issues implicated in the rebirth doctrine and alleged rebirth experiences--issues that we hope the following pages will elucidate and make some headway toward resolving. Although approaching this subject from different backgrounds and theoretical orientations, we share a deep fascination with putative accounts of rebirth experiences and an interest in some of the philosophical, psychological, and sociological questions they entrain. We are admittedly skeptical that reports of the rebirth experience, however sincere, well documented, or internally consistent, are veridical testimony of the transmigration of consciousness from one body to another. At the same time, however, we are convinced that there is something cognitively valuable and edifying to be gleaned from such reports and experiences. We submit that alleged rebirth or reincarnation experiences--as emblematic of all ostensible paranormal experiences--ought neither to be dismissed as delusory confabulations or defensive self-deceptions nor accepted literally and uncritically. A third alternative is available. We might profitably regard alleged reincarnation experiences as signs of archetypal-synchronistic activation, manifesting in, for example, uncanny impressions of a kinship, resonance, or identification with a long-deceased individual. Using personal experiences to illustrate this idea, we will next attempt to show how certain concepts from analytical psychology can illuminate some of the latent meanings and values of the reincarnation experience without thereby committing one to belief in the transmigration of souls or even belief in the survival of the personality beyond death. === Page 5 of 11 230 Archetypal Synchronistic Resonance THE SYNCHRONICITIES THAT INSPIRED THIS ARTICLE Mishlove's Initial Synchronistic Resonance With Seneca In the late 1980s, Jeffrey Mishlove was put into a hypnotic trance by Dr. Martin Rossman for the purpose of demonstrating the principle of the "inner healing advisor." This session was videotaped for the InnerWork series produced by Mishlove's production company, Thinking Allowed Productions (Rossman & Mishlove, 1988). On returning to normal consciousness, Mishlove described the imagery he experienced. He stated that he encountered a man wearing a toga who identified himself as the Roman Seneca referred to previously. After a detailed discussion (in the trance state), Mishlove asked this figure how he should proceed to work with him as a "healing advisor," and Seneca responded by saying, "Study my life." At this point in Mishlove's life, he was consciously aware of only miniscule details regarding the life of Seneca some 2,000 years earlier. Rossman, the hypnotist, had made no specific suggestions pointing toward Seneca (nor any other specific figure) as Mishlove's "inner healing advisor." Interestingly, Seneca's last moments allegedly exhibited some of the features of an archetypal hero transcending death--in this case, a moral hero bravely facing his imminent end and overcoming his attachment to life rather than a savior or god-man magically resurrected. Seneca lived during the reign of Emperor Nero, whom he had tutored and advised in statecraft during the early years of the young emperor's reign. After retiring in 62 C.E., Seneca eventually lost favor with Nero and in 65 C.E. was accused of being involved in a conspiracy against the emperor (an event known as the Piso Conspiracy), for which he was ordered to either commit suicide or suffer a more degrading and (in Roman eyes) shameful execution by the centurion's sword (Hadas, 1958). Good Stoic that he was, Seneca is said to have accepted his sentence graciously and severed the arteries of his arms without protest. Tacitus reports the last scene: Seneca calmly requested tablets for making a will, and on the centurion's refusal turned to his friends and declared that as he was prevented from showing gratitude for their deserts he would leave them his only, but fairest, possession, the pattern of his life; if they heeded this they would win reputation for good character and the reward of steadfast friendship. (cited in Hadas, 1958, p. 7) Jeffrey Mishlove, Brendan C. Engen 231 Tacitus depicts Seneca in this scene as a man who heroically retains his philosophical integrity, his compassionate concern for his friends, even his deportment and civility up to the bitter end. On reading this passage, Mishlove noticed that the message he received from the Seneca figure in hypnosis, "Study my life," resonated synchronistically with Tacitus's account of Seneca's last words. He does not remember reading this passage at any point prior to his hypnotic experience with Dr. Rossman. Mishlove did make a point of studying the life of Seneca. On subsequent occasions, also, Mishlove was surprised to hear from two independent, purported psychics that they believed him to have been Seneca in a past lifetime. Engen's Synchronistic Resonance With Seneca Eighteen years later, in the summer 2005, Brendan Engen had one of the most unusual experiences of his life. His wife, who is interested in the idea of reincarnation, bought him a "past life" reading with a trance-medium as a present for having graduated from his doctoral program in clinical psychology. The medium supposedly "channels" various extradimensional entities that offer spiritual and practical guidance to his clients. Engen was intrigued by the gift but was doubtful that this telephone appointment would offer anything beyond entertainment value. As it turned out, the reading left a powerful impression and was thought-provoking. The entity allegedly "channeled" by the trance-medium made a number of interesting claims about Engen's past and present lives. He reported that in one of Engen's "past lives" he had lived in a rural area near Rome a little less than 2,000 years ago and that he had been a devoted student of the Stoic Seneca. A remarkable feature of this report is that Engen had had, long before meeting this medium, an abiding interest in the prose writings of Seneca and other ancient Stoic philosophers. In fact, several years earlier, he had written, for a graduate seminar, a paper that compared ancient Stoicism to some of the ideas and philosophical commitments of modern cognitive therapy. One might say that Seneca functioned for Engen as an archetypal hero.⁷ However, Engen had not mentioned this particular connection during his telephone appointment with the trance-medium. This, also, was an instance of synchronistic resonance. === Page 6 of 11 232 Archetypal Synchronistic Resonance Engen was also told by the trance-medium that he would "meet Seneca again" in the future or, rather, meet the person who had been Seneca. He was, in fact, told that this person was Mishlove. Engen had enjoyed watching episodes of Mishlove's *Thinking Allowed* interview program on public broadcasting, but he had had no prior contact or correspondence with Mishlove and knew very little about him at that point. Engen was bemused by his reading from this medium and was definitely of two minds about it. His more objective or rationally inclined and tough-minded nature dismissed the medium's report as emotionally stimulating but factually unsupportable, even unfalsifiable, and therefore unworthy of further attention and reflection. Yet his more tender-minded, imaginative self was enchanted by these mystical claims, entertained the possibility that it might be true. He wondered if he really had been this student of the Stoic Seneca in a "previous incarnation" and would meet this teacher again. He wondered if he were presented with some important "karmic lessons" from that previous life, as the medium had claimed, that he yet needed to fulfill to develop spiritually. He wondered if rebirth is real in the most robust sense of the word, and this life and this world he now knew are not the last. These and relevantly similar possibilities left Engen in a state of perplexity. Confident that he had had an experience that was vaguely meaningful although still largely enigmatic, Engen decided to contact Mishlove by e-mail and inquire as to his thoughts about the reading and its contents. The day following the reading, Engen found Mishlove's e-mail address through an Internet search. He composed and sent an e-mail to Mishlove introducing himself and detailing the above account; he was particularly interested to see whether Mishlove had felt any affinity with Seneca and, if so, how he interpreted that affinity in light of the trance-medium's claims. Because the content of the e-mail was admittedly odd and Engen was a complete stranger to Mishlove at that point, he did not expect a response. ### Synchronicities Between Mishlove and Engen Mishlove received Engen's e-mail while he was at a conference in Madrid, Spain, about to take a brief vacation in Cordoba, the city of Seneca's birth. This was the third synchronicity in this series. Describing his deep parallel interest in Seneca, Mishlove noted that Jeffrey Mishlove, Brendan C. Engen 233 he has felt a spiritual connection with Seneca for nearly 20 years. Mishlove added that he was familiar with the trance-medium and his claims but that he similarly remained deeply skeptical and made mention of his own rendering of such affinities. He pointed out that he was *much more* comfortable with a Jungian interpretation than with thinking of reincarnation in a literal way. He added that receiving Engen's e-mail just as he was embarking on a journey to Cordoba seemed a confirmation of the synchronistic perspective. Thus began an interesting correspondence between the authors on the topic of rebirth and ASR that continues to this day. As fate would have it, Engen experienced a fourth synchronicity just a day or two after receiving Mishlove's first e-mail. He traveled to Walnut Creek, California, from his home in San Francisco and browsed through a bookstore before meeting friends at a nearby restaurant. While there, he found and purchased a used book entitled *The Looking-Glass God*, by Nahum Stiskin (1972), which compared conceptions of divinity in Shinto, Taoism, and contemporary Western philosophical theology, a topic that seemed strangely interesting. Opening and examining the book more closely some time after his purchase, Engen was quite startled to discover the following inscription from the previous owner on the frontispiece page: "Jeffrey Mishlove / MIND'S EAR / Received 5-12-73." Interestingly, this book had been previously owned by Mishlove and somehow ended up in a Walnut Creek bookstore and ultimately in Engen's hands--and all this very shortly after making first contact with Mishlove by e-mail!¹⁸ ### PHENOMENOLOGICAL CLARIFICATIONS AND EXISTENTIAL IMPLICATIONS After examining and comparing their own "reincarnation experiences," the authors have noted several distinct experiential aspects. That is to say, an alleged rebirth experience can be said to be "resonant" in the following ways. The experience is *inspiring, mobilizing intense interest* in the experience. One may feel a vital connection to the past figure and be highly motivated, perhaps even compelled, to learn as much one can about the past figure with whom one feels the resonance. There is often an onrush of excitement and enthusiasm about the experienced resonance, such as we described several pages above. === Page 7 of 11 234 Archetypal Synchronistic Resonance The experience involves a sense of *uncanny familiarity*. Often a feeling of déjà vu, which one cannot adequately account for in terms of one's background, memories, and current self-knowledge, is powerfully triggered on learning details (even apparently insignificant ones) about the past figure with whom one is resonant, such as the person's name, major life events, professional trade, and so on. For example, long before Engen had his reading with the trance-medium and gave any thought to rebirth concepts or the other topics addressed in this article, he felt a particular interest in and affinity with those portions of Seneca's writing that he addressed to Lucilius (e.g., his essay on providence, his *Letters on Morality to Lucilius*, which are epistolary essays on practical ethics, and his *Natural Questions*, which are philosophical treatises on nature and statements of his version of Stoic physics and cosmology). It also conveys a related quality of *intimacy at a distance*. In addition to the inexplicable déjà vu feeling noted above, there is also the perception of a "good fit" or "match" between one's own life and personality and that of the resonant figure from the past. As one continues investigation into the life of the resonant figure, one may discover some interesting parallels between one's own life history and that of the past figure in terms of personality dispositions, values, key life traumas, ambitions, talents, career and professional attainments, relationships, or even facial architecture and physical appearance. The rebirth experience is also commonly experienced as *edifying*. The past figure with whom one feels resonant may appear, say, in spontaneous fantasies or in dreams, as something of a healing guide, spiritual teacher, or wise counselor, in the same way that Seneca figured in Mishlove's fantasy during the hypnotic session mentioned earlier. Alternatively, just studying the figure's life or extant works may prove personally instructive and relevantly action-guiding ("Study my life . . ."). Finally, the experience is *numinous* in the sense described earlier (Otto, 1959). That is, there is an impression of directive forces immeasurably larger than the self at work, whose meaningfulness is real but inscrutable. However, this numinous aura need not imply the presence of a personal god, protective spirit, anthropomorphic intelligence, or other supernatural entity; in such moments of numinous encounter, one may even regard the aforesaid theistic and supernaturalistic constructs as obsolete and distorted--merely historically and culturally conditioned phrasings of a natural ecstatic experience or peak experience (Maslow, 1970). In fact, the numinous Jeffrey Mishlove, Brendan C. Engen 235 object often has a disturbingly impersonal, non-humanlike quality whose source eludes our categories or our powers of conceiving it. For instance, it might strike the person experiencing it as an impersonal truth, principle, realm of being, or "suchness" (Maslow, 1970). One may sense that one is in the midst of "something I know not what," for which one can find no suitable philosophical or theological reference points and that can only be put into figurative or symbolic (archetypal) or otherwise highly abstract language. In short, one may find oneself frustratingly confined to poetic or metaphysical phrasings in one's best attempts to communicate the experience. We are reminded of Ludwig Wittgenstein's (2001) admonition that whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must remain silent. The preceding description of the ineffability of the numinous element in the paranormal experience is redolent of logotherapist Frankl's (1986) discussion of "super-meaning"--that is, the meaning of the world or of existence considered as a whole. Frankl explains, We cannot begin to question the "purpose" of the universe. Purpose is transcendent to the extent that it is always external to whatever "possesses" it. We can therefore at best grasp the meaning of the universe in the form of a super-meaning, using the word to convey the idea that the meaning of the whole is no longer comprehensible and goes beyond the comprehensible. (p. 31) His account suggests that when we experience the numinous, we are (usually unconsciously) bumping up against a "super-meaning," namely, a meaning that cannot be defined or grasped because its referent encompasses the very source of meaning itself. Frankl points to the therapeutic, redemptive, and indefatigably hopeful existential implications of such an encounter: It is self-evident that belief in a super-meaning--whether as a metaphysical concept or in the religious sense of Providence--is of the foremost psychotherapeutic and psychohygienic importance. As a genuine faith springing from inner strength, such a belief adds immeasurably to human vitality. To such a faith there is, ultimately, nothing that is meaningless. Nothing appears "in vain"; "no act remains unaccounted for" (Wildgans). The world appears to manifest something akin to a law of the conservation of spiritual energy. No great idea can vanish, even if it never reaches public circulation, even if it has been "taken to the grave." In the light of such a law, the drama and tragedy of a man's inner life never have unfolded in vain, even when played out in secret, unrecorded, === Page 8 of 11 236 Archetypal Synchronistic Resonance uncelebrated by any novelist. The "novel" which each individual has lived remains an incomparably greater composition than any other that has ever been written down. Every one of us knows somehow that the content of his life is somewhere preserved and saved. Thus time, the transitoriness of the years, cannot affect its meaning and value. Having been is also a kind of being--perhaps the surest kind. And all effective action in life may, in this view, appear as a salvaging of possibilities by actualizing them. Though past, these possibilities are now safely ensconced in the past for all eternity, and time can no longer change. (p. 33) THE PROBLEM OF APOPHENIA Frankl's (1986) therapeutic endorsement of a faith for which there is "ultimately, nothing that is meaningless" (p. 33) and Jung's (1976) assertion that alleged synchronicities show that "the psyche cannot be localized in space, or that space is relative to the psyche" (p. 518) have met with plausible criticism. Recent psychological research suggests that reported experiences of synchronicities, such as those recounted in the authors' reports above, might be more economically explained as basic errors of interpretation rather than veridical perceptions of occult conjunctions. These erroneous interpretive processes constitute a psychological phenomenon known as *apophenia*--that is, the mistaken ascription of meaningful connections to coincident occurrences that are unrelated or merely accidental, even in cases of statistical improbability (Brugger, 2001). As a rival to ASR, these critics would propose an "error-theory" of apparent synchronicities, according to which paranormal experience is the result of an invalid construing tendency, something like a design flaw in human cognition. This error theory, they would claim, has the decided advantage of being more conceptually parsimonious because it does away with the need to posit any transcendental meanings, said to belong to a world of nonphysical dimensions while at the same time supervening on observable cause-effect relationships.⁹ In other words, the all-too-human tendency to construe subjectively significant coincidences as synchronistic may in fact reflect nothing more mysterious than a "glitch" or breakdown in reality testing. An illustration of this kind of processing glitch is found in the life of Bishop James A. Pike (1913-1969) who, shortly after the suicide of his son, reported picking up meaningful messages in such things as a stopped clock, the angle of an open safety pin, or the juxtaposition of postcards lying on the floor (Christopher, Jeffrey Mishlove, Brendan C. Engen 237 1975). Pike judged that these common household items were conveying actual messages about the time that his son had shot himself (Christopher, 1975). Additional salient examples are readily found in clinical settings with persons undergoing a paranoid psychotic episode. For these unfortunate individuals, the most innocuous of phenomena--for example, the position of a cup on a coffee table, an upholstery pattern, the sound of street traffic--can readily take on diabolical and terrifying significance. Is it possible that the ostensibly synchronistic experiences of the authors were *mere* apophenic "glitches"? We hold that it is indeed possible. Visionary states and other vivid episodes of archetypal activation provide no guarantee of objective truth, validity, or even psychohygienic value and certainly no conclusive indication of "gnosis," theophany, or revelation, as Jung (2002) himself was well aware. Such experiences are deeply ambiguous, *both* cognitively and morally. They can obsess, distort, and figuratively hijack human consciousness as much as they enrich and liberate it in other circumstances (Corrington, 1997; Edinger, 2002; Jung, 2002; Neher, 1996).¹⁰ Eisenbud (1992) has documented cases from his psychiatric practice in which synchronicities and other paranormal events have acted in the service of an individual's unconscious self-destructive tendencies. Mishlove has observed similar cases in his own psychotherapy practice. We acknowledge that mere subjective conviction about allegedly meaningful conjunctions is not evidence of genuine synchronicity, as cases of psychotic delusion and hallucination make apparent. We acknowledge, too, that Jung spoke in this vein not as a psychologist but rather as a philosopher and to that degree took something of a leap of faith because his concept involves not only states of the psyche but also allegedly meaningful correspondences between those psychic states and events in the external world. These concerns notwithstanding, we remain unpersuaded that the phenomenon of apophenia can adequately account for all ostensibly paranormal experiences. Of course, we are unable to defend this claim on the basis of observational considerations and criteria alone. Yet error theory proponents find themselves in a similar position--unable to discredit all ostensible synchronistic experiences according to empirical decision procedures *tout court*. This state of affairs brings to light the unavoidable theory-ladenness of our judgments about the evidence and, more to the point, about what validly constitutes "evidence" (Feyerabend, 1993; Rorty, 1981). Unawareness of one's === Page 9 of 11 238 Archetypal Synchronistic Resonance set of background beliefs and guiding assumptions leads theoretical opponents to the kind of figurative stalemates mentioned previously, in which each camp inevitably accuses the other either of begging the question at issue or of excluding relevant evidence in advance of reflective appraisal. Our assessments of theories are informed not only by a conscious and methodical thinking and deliberating but also by a rich network of implicit, unconscious, "latent" background beliefs--that is, assertions about the way the world is, which we may not, in a given instance, even be aware that we endorse (Haack, 1995; Rorty, 1981). For this reason, it has been observed that debates concerning a particular theory's evidentiary claims can naturally mutate into debates about competing frameworks of background beliefs or competing epistemic systems (paradigms; Kuhn, 1977; Rorty, 1981). One assumptive philosophical issue that figures prominently in the present controversy and could easily escape notice is the immemorial disagreement between nominalist and Platonic/realist theories of meaning--that is to say, the conflict between the view that abstract ideas, values, and meanings have no independent existence but exist only as names or words (nominalism) and the view that ideas, values, and meanings have reality in their own right and cannot be reduced to denotative speech or other verbal behavior (Platonism/realism). In a short article, of course, it is not possible to adequately address the deeper theoretical and philosophical issues that motivate this debate, but we think it important to point out that the present dispute is more complex than it might first appear. To be sure, attributing meaningful connections to what are in fact intrinsically meaningless coincidences is a lamentable, even potentially dangerous error of judgment. We believe that it is also important to avoid making the opposite possible mistake--construing connections that are authentically significant and valuable as meaningless or false. NOTES 1. The relationship between these topics and the field of humanistic psychology has been explored regularly in the pages of this journal (Criswell, 2000; Feinstein, 1998; Frick, 2001; Keutzer, 1984; Krippner, 1994; Krippner & Murphy, 1973; Levitt, 1999; Parapsychological Association, 1989; Tart, 1992; Taylor, 1991; Teguis & Flynn, 1983; Vaughan, 2002; Walsh, 2001). Jeffrey Mishlove, Brendan C. Engen 239 2. This conclusion is based on several informal polls taken on e-mail discussion groups of professional parapsychology researchers. 3. As the Pyrrhonian skeptic Sextus Empiricus first pointed out many centuries ago, "dogmatic skeptics," of course, are faced with the logically impossible task of proving a negative (Hallie, 1985). This creates something of an interesting asymmetry in their debates with empiricists, who are armed with data but lack a theory. 4. This particular terminology was developed by Mishlove in his attempt to explain various attributions of reincarnation associated with his person by different psychics and mediums. He was influenced in this effort by Dr. Jean Houston's (1996) explanation of an uncanny psychological connection with the 5th century neoplatonic philosopher Proclus. In addition, Mishlove was also influenced by Dr. John Palmer's (1979) presidential address to the Parapsychological Association, during which Palmer suggested that synchronicity might be an alternative explanation with the potential of supplanting traditional parapsychological terminology. 5. In fact, Stevenson and his colleagues would certainly maintain that the personal experiences recounted in this article fall far short of their standards for scientific evidence suggestive of reincarnation. 6. Naturally, the question arises as to what could possibly be reborn, according to such Buddhist thinkers, if not a discarnate soul or self. In a short article, it is not possible to address these issues adequately without venturing too far afield from the article's central issues. Suffice it to say that many Buddhist proponents of the anatta doctrine submit that what is really "reborn" from one life to another is not a substantial self or reified ego but rather a supervenient or second-order pattern of volitional and noetic states and dispositions that are more or less distinctive of a given personality (Thera, 1996). Interested readers are referred to Thera's (1996) philosophically sophisticated and plausible treatment of this question from a Theravada Buddhist perspective (pp. 63-66). 7. With regard to this particular archetypal function, Engen notes that he has been most drawn to (and generally profited most from) reading Seneca's writings on Stoic philosophy during periods of dislocation or existential indecision or periods when he felt himself to be unfocused or scattered. Revisiting and studying Seneca's ideas and his biography often brought renewed order and moral clarity to whatever confusing circumstance he happened to find himself in at the time. From the standpoint of analytic psychology, what Seneca has represented for him at such times was an integral and centered self or a self that had become conscious of its own values, potentials, and realizations against the sway of "psychic entropy"--pathogenic forces of unconsciousness and dissolution (Edinger, 1992; Jung, 1990). 8. Engen later learned that Mishlove had been given this copy prior to interviewing the author about three decades before on his KPFA-FM radio program, The Mind's Ear, in Berkeley, California, which is not far from Walnut Creek. As it turned out, mention of the book's rediscovery elicited interesting e-mail correspondence between the authors about Jung's discussion of the "godhead archetype," a psychic content perhaps only vaguely or remotely implicated in the synchronistic experiences that are reported above but relevant to the very principle of synchronicity. For === Page 10 of 11 240 Archetypal Synchronistic Resonance considerations of space and relevance, the authors do not discuss this archetype in this article. 9. 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Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 48 Oct. 7, 1972 Mr. Joseph DeLouise, Psychic Chicago c/o National Tattler fella.... A friend of mine in Chicago saw an article today, in which you say some nasty things about me in Tattler. You even have the gall to insinuate, as he explained it long distance, that I might be a "fake and phony". Let's take it one step at a time. You have to be stupid. You know, dumb. No one in this world, in their right mind, would take me on. Not after I have documented causing hurricanes with my mind; controlling radar installations with my mind; controlling pro teams with my mind... and mind you, we are speaking of documented before-the-fact action. But you have chosen to insult me...as did Long John Nebel, some years ago (then he lost his prime time radio show; then his wife committed suicide; then he got cancer)...and so, you will get what you richly deserve, as time goes by. You have to be stupider and dumber than me, because my IQ is scientifically certified. I am a member of Mensa. You are not. You couldn't make it. So...you are a dumb bunny. Second: (we've taken up the mental, now the psychic)....as a psychic, fella, you are a nothing. So you can make some predictions. Big deal. I can make predictions that come true; also I can control exploding volcanos, control the weather, control military forces, heal people given up by doctors for dead, control pro football and basketball teams, control radar installations...and on and on and on. And all of it is documented; proved. I have notarized, signed affidavits from lawyers, scientists, etc., as to the truth of what I have just stated...so there can be no argument. I have even had UFO's appear at certain times and places so that scientists and others could examine them with binoculars, etc. This, also, is proven. So...you have to be stupid to call me a fake or a phony. Third: why try to dare football players to come to Cape Charles and punch me in the nose? My, how brave you are! Let's you and him fight, you say. Well, fella...I live at 619 Randolph Street, Cape Charles, Virginia. I say you are a dirty, lowdown yellow coward. That is what I label you. Now, if you aren't...come on down, and we'll square off in my backyard with bare fists. I am 52 years old, with a potbelly, and years out of condition...but it would be a pleasure to give you a lesson in manners. Look at it any way you can turn it, fella...mental, physical or psychic...you are light years away from being anything, or doing anything, like Ted Owens, PK Man. And for your sake you'd better believe it. Ted Owens (PK Man) Box 48, Cape Charles, Virginia 23310 cc: National Tattler, === Page 2 of 48 Jeffrey... this is a most intelligent rebuttal against "Owens just uses precog" from a learned man. Thought Bernstein might want it. Ted (The following is copied from page 84 of March 1971 Saga magazine article written by Otto Binder, entitled "Ted Owens - Flying Saucer Missionary." This is Binder's argument...against my critics who say that I have no powers and cannot communicate with UFOs...that I am merely talented at the use of precognitive ability. Owens.) ..."It is quite impressive to look over Ted's list of "PK feats accomplished" and see that many are marked as occurring in "three days," "five days," or "nine days." Some are even overnight, while others take a month or more. But the numerous close-hitting cases compel one to seek a paranormal rather than a "chance" or a "luck" explanation. "One question remains. Is Ted unwittingly using pure cognition and only that? That is, does he have the power (miraculous in itself) to peer into the future and see coming events that turn out true 85% of the time? The SIs and his contact with them could then be sheer mental "window dressing" out of his subconscious mind, as it delves with uncanny accuracy into the future. This would mean too that all his so-called powers are imaginary -- that he does not control or make hurricanes, and has never spoiled a space shot with a PK shot. "He would, in short, be foreseeing those events by his purely prophetic powers, and nothing more, with his subconscious imagination supplying the rest. But, because of his overwhelming list of "hits," that would still make him the greatest seer of all time, far above Jeanne Dixon or any others today, and even dwarfing the feats of the biblical prophets or the Oracle of Delphi. "Explaining a fantastic phenomenon by one even more fantastic, is hardly a rational way of solving a riddle. "Dr. Rhine would be the first to snort at this explanation, for his precognition experiments with ESP cards have revealed no such enormous prophetic powers in the human mind or psyche. Thus, with the precognitive theory, there is nothing to explain why Ted Owens should alone be able to read the future like a book -- unless God himself has lent him divine powers. "The other explanation gives us something more rational as a method -- that other-dimension beings with their super-science have given Ted PK powers to perform feats he merely announces in advance. === Page 3 of 48 2 "And one other strong point backs up Ted's SI-contact claims. There are flying saucers seen all around earth (unless you are a last-ditch skeptic). If the UFOs exist, then the people who fly them exist. Certainly they cannot be ordinary humans but must be far beyond us in intellectual power. "Thus, there is no great assumption to make as to the very probable existence of the SIs that Ted claims to talk to. Nor does his contact by ESP -- now a well-established phenomenon -- in any way stretch the imagination. "The pure-precognition theory is barely possible while the SI-contact explanation is more highly probable..." (Note: Otto Binder was co-author of the book, "Mankind - Child of the Stars," with Max Flindt (a Fawcett Gold Medal Book). The foreword of the book was done by Erich von Daniken, author of "Chariots of the Gods." In the foreword, von Daniken states, of Otto's book..."I know of no work since Darwin that deserves as much attention with regard to the evolution of man." Otto Binder was a noted author - and his thinking was highly regarded by many experts in the field of the paranormal, and UFOs. This should be kept in mind while reading the afore-mentioned material. Owens.) === Page 4 of 48 21 March 1977. Jeffrey Mishlove % PSYCHIC (New Realities) 680 Beach Street San Francisco, Ca. 94109. Dear Jeffrey: Read your article in "Psychic", Jan./Feb. '77 on the subject "Parapsychology in Europe" and found your report very interesting. Well, it is a great magazine! Now---------- in regard to Ted Owens, I don't know how he does it or if he does it or if he has some deal going with the C.I.A. in regard to the so-called "U.F.O.'s". (I knew "Castaneda" was full of it, I couldn't take any interest in his books, and there have been several that have taken his books apart in the last few years. I couldn't waste my time). Owens, like so many, makes many claims. Chicago psychic Joseph De Louise has called Owens a liar and has evidentially proven it via these lie detector tests. See enclosed. It would be interesting for Rick Bennett (up here) and his voice stress tests to interview Owens and ask him if he has some connection with any government agency or some research group that may have some connection. It seems to me that the government really wants us to believe that all this is from another planet rather than a new source of free energy??? Most thinking people are quite aware that these government agencies are the instruments useful to the multi-national corporations and the owners of the capital stock (i.e. financial houses). This is news? So---------- people like Ted may jolly well fit right into this pattern for the (they hope) unthinking masses. Best of luck young man---------- Aron Abrahamsen has moved to Everett, Wa. and to escape the land upheavels in California. I should think you fellows would really begin to think about this very seriously, especially Jim Bolen. 1524 nw 52 Seattle, Wa. 98107 Best Regards, Ruth Ingalls (Ruth Ingalls) === Page 5 of 48 THE NATIONAL TATTLER October 20, 1974 # War of the Seers! ## Chicago's Joe DeLouise Spurs Virginia's Ted Owens To Take Lie Test, Which He Flunks, in Latest Round EDITOR'S NOTE: A bitter war between psychics Joe DeLouise and Ted "PK Man" Owens has raged ever since the former challenged the latter's abilities in a TATTLER article two years ago. Owens claims to receive communications from outer space intelligences and to have hexed professional sports teams and personalities. He is a phony, DeLouise claims. Here is the latest report from the war front. By TOM VALENTINE Of the Tattler Staff Psychic Ted "PK Man" Owens has failed a lie detector test about the alleged powers he claims to possess. Those powers have been the subject of a long-standing debate between Owens and seer Joe DeLouise, a fight that began in the Oct. 22, 1972, TATTLER, when the two men launched charges and countercharges about each other's ability. According to a polygraph expert, Owens has failed to tell the truth when stating he has communicated with super-beings from outer space, caused injuries to professional football players and the death of a radio personality. The mystic from Cape Charles, Va., submitted to the test at the insistance of Ed Busch, host of a popular radio talk show on WFAA, Dallas, Tex. "I'd read about the claims made by Owens and the rebuttal by DeLouise in TATTLER," Busch said. "So I asked Owens if he would submit to a test. He agreed." Owens originally angered DeLouise by claiming he caused injuries to sports personalities and the death of radio announcer Long John Nebel and his wife. "HE'S HURTING the image of legitimate ESP," DeLouise said. "What's wrong with his claims is, if he has really done what he said, he should go to jail -- if not, he should shut up." Basis for the dispute began in 1966, when Owens tried to earn $25,000 by putting a "hex" on opposing teams for Philadelphia Eagles football team owner Jerry Wolman. Wolman requested a demonstration. Owens joined him in the stands and made the New York Giants play miserably, he claimed. But the Eagles played worse and lost. Wolman booted Owens out. In retaliation, the psychic threw a hex on Wolman's team. He tried the same stunt with Baltimore Colts former owner Carroll Rosenbloom in 1971, that time asking $100,000. When Rosenbloom refused, he cast another hex, he said. OWENS CLAIMS responsibility for injuries to quarterback Roman Gabriel and other stars, as well as the death of Nebel, who was openly critical about the psychic's abilities years ago, lost his own show and his wife by suicide before contracting cancer and dying himself. "If I were one of the quarterbacks, like Gabriel or Joe Namath, who is injury-prone, I'd go out and punch Owens in the mouth for just thinking I should get hurt," DeLouise said. "If he insists his hex claims are true, then jail him for assault with a deadly weapon." Owens answered DeLouise by calling him "stupid" for not accepting substantiations of his powers. He invited the Chicagoan to Virginia so the two could literally slug out their differences in his backyard. THE VIRGINIAN cited his membership in Mensa, an organization of people with genius IQs, as proof of his superior intellect. When contacted by radio announcer Busch this summer, Owens again professed the ability to contact space beings, perform mind-over matter feats (including changing the weather) and control sports teams. A skeptical Busch then asked the psychic if he would care to appear on his talk show and submit to a lie detector test. Owens agreed. The trial was administered by Wayne Baker, who directs the polygraph division of the Dallas-based American Bureau of Intelligence, Inc., a highly reputable firm. "THE EVALUATION of Owens' polygrams revealed criteria indicating deceptive responses to several relevant questions," Baker said. Four times, Baker asked Owens direct questions about the latter's relationship with UFO entities. Four times, Owens professed having such a relationship. Each time, the polygraph indicated "deception." Twice, Baker used reverse questioning procedure, asking his subject, "Have any of the miracles you say are documented been falsified in any way?" "No," Owens replied. Again, the machine registered "deception." "Have you made any false statements to the public concerning your psychic powers?" Baker queried. "No." Again, the machine indicated deception. WHEN INTERVIEWED by Busch after the test had been completed, Owens challenged the results, stating: "Lie detector tests often lie themselves. This test proves nothing." When DeLouise learned about the results, he told TATTLER: "I could have told you that. It's too bad the rest of the psychics who are sincere and trying to build credibility have to be linked with a character like Owens." # HOW TO HANDLE A HANDGUN TATTLER PEOPLE === Page 6 of 48 Article by Eva Åström, Journalist, from the Swedish magazine, Saxons veckotidning, Sveavägen 145, 106 63 Stockholm, Sweden. HALF MY BRAIN IS POWERED BY FORCES FROM SPACE...! (Caption on picture) YOU MAY THINK WHAT YOU WANT ABOUT TED - BUT HE IS AN EXCITING PERSON. (Caption on picture) TED OWENS HAS PERFORMED 307 MIRACLES. HERE HE SUMMONS SUPERIOR FORCES... Ted Owens is a remarkable man. To say the least. He is not only a sociable person of great talent - he also maintains that half his brain is governed by forces from outer space. Read and judge for yourself the truth of the accounts of his experiences. By Eva Åström Photo: Kurt Pettersson He is a man in his late middle age. Big, loud and with an eternal cigar glued to the corner of his mouth. Ted Owens has the capability of dominating a large group of people. Not in an unpleasant manner but through his imposing personality. The things he tells make people shut up and listen. Ted, who has flown to London from his home in Virginia, USA, over the weekend, maintains determinately that he is no longer an ordinary earth being. Unflinchingly, he declares that his brain has been modified by space creatures. His brain is only half human. The other half is a UFO-brain! I have looked upon all reports about UFOs, flying saucers, with the greatest scepticism myself. Still Ted is treated with the greatest respect by professors and other prominent scientists. Even if maybe they are not always convinced about the truth in all that Ted tells - and those are fantastic things - they don't seem to regard Ted as a fake. The story about Ted's UFO brain starts in Texas in 1953. - I was driving alone through the desert in a 1937 Chevrolet. I had been driving on and on for several days. The perspective of time had lost its meaning to me. One evening I stopped the car and hiked out into the desert. Why, I did not know. It was merely an irresistible impulse. - That was the last I remembered. Gradually I woke up. It was hot and in the middle of the day. All round me there was the marks after some strange type of fence. === Page 7 of 48 2. - Well, the car was still there and I drove to the nearest gas station, considerably confused. I filled up at the gas station and bought the daily newspaper. To my amazement it became apparent that 3 days had elapsed since I stopped the car in the desert. Several days were just gone! Ted lights the butt of his cigar and takes another gulp from his glass of beer. We are all awaiting the continuation of the story breathlessly. - All the time I felt strange. Still I drove on. I did not go very fast, maybe 60 miles an hour, when I entered a sharp curve. I was terrified, noticing that my body was as though it had been paralyzed. The car of course continued in its direction straight forward, down toward the ravine at the side of the road. - I hardly dared to keep my eyes open. Without my touching the steering wheel the car turned up the road again all by itself and went on running. The paralysis ceased immediately. (Caption) 307 MIRACLES The strange occurrences continued during Ted's journey. He drove into Mexico and ended up in a strange hotel. To start with the hotel had been an old castle. Now the saying was that the hotel was haunted. Ted spent the night in the room which according to hearsay was the one most afflicted by the ghosts. Unfortunately, they refused to appear before him. - On the road back to San Antonio I happened to run into another car. Nothing serious, I could go on driving. Once in the city I felt so exhausted that I had to rest. I checked in at the Hilton and asked for the most moderately priced room. - The bellboy took my little bag and directed me to the most lavish suite. There must be some mistake, I said. But the boy persisted that it was the right room. Tired as I was, I didn't feel like arguing but went straight to bed. - The next time I woke up, 3 more days had passed! Furthermore, I had been moved to an entirely different room. - What had happened was that SI, Science Intelligence, had taken me up to one of their spaceships and operated on my brain. When I felt the back of my head, I noticed a huge scar running along my skull. It was the scar from the operation. === Page 8 of 48 3. From that day on Ted was an entirely different man. His intelligence was tremendously increased and he soon became aware that the operation had led to unexpected possibilities. - Up till now I have performed 307 documented miracles. I've made hurricanes, floods, electromagnetic disturbances, governed football games and made UFOs appear. Among other things. Everything happens at the command of the UFO-men, SI. Ted stops for an effective interval and lets his message sink into our minds. We giggle nervously, looking at each other. What is one to believe? Ted is composed. He does not need to think anything! He knows... We are sitting in the home of George, one of Ted's new friends and admirers in London. George's two Labrador dogs run excitedly around the PK-man, as Ted calls himself. Ted seems to think that we have had enough time to digest his statements and goes on: - Each time I intend to perform a miracle I first write a letter to six different scientists and predict what is going to happen. That is, I really don't predict things - I arrange so that they happen. - At home I've several rooms filled with documents showing that I have been right. I've only brought a fraction of all my material with me to London, says Ted, pointing at a huge bag. The bag is filled with letters and newspaper clippings and presented as proof of the fact that Ted's miracles have really occurred. Bending forks like Uri Geller does is something that Ted frowns at with contempt. - I want to do GREAT things. Some years ago in 1972 I wrote to different scientists in California. There had been a prolonged drought in the state. It had lasted for several years. I made so that it should rain for exactly 90 days, which I also wrote in my predictions. (Caption) IT RAINED FOR 90 DAYS. - Not only did I promise rain, but also snow and hailstorms. === Page 9 of 48 4. Five days later the storms began and lasted as predicted for 90 days. In a desert region, where there had been no snow for 15 years, the depth could be measured in decimeters. The newspaper San Francisco Chronicle of February 6 the same year prints an interview with a meteorologist: - What has happened is so complicated and unexpected that I don't even understand it myself. I can't recall that a similar type of weather has ever occurred... In 1966 Ted wrote to the Meteorology Station in Florida that he could control the hurricane Inez, which threatened to pass in over land. Ted would see to it that it would instead be routed over northern Cuba. A day or two later Inez quite unexpectedly changed course and followed the route directed by Ted. - I have of course not always been right in my predictions. But 85 per cent of them come true, says Ted modestly. SI are very good at arranging weather changes, but their technique is not entirely perfect. Ted shows me a book from 1971 where he foretold what was going to happen within the nearest future. "President Nixon will not remain in office. Something very unusual is going to happen. He will resign or be forced to resign..." We certainly all remember the Watergate scandal and its consequences. "Millions of cars will be brought to a standstill in the U.S. and the whole western world. There will be no gasoline to run them." Some years later there was the oil crisis. - In July of 1966 I got a command from SI to write to CIA. They wanted to prove that they really existed. SI promised to appear over the North as well as the South Pole and cause electromagnetic disturbances. A few days later, on the 8th of July, one could read in the newspapers about a mysterious saucerlike object, which had landed at the South Pole. It was observed by several scientists, who also managed to take several color photos of the object. === Page 10 of 48 5. At the same time strange electromagnetic disturbances afflicted the area... What is the purpose of the spacemen's weather interferences and other phenomena? Are they out to conquer the Earth? - Strange as it may seem, I know very little about their purposes, Ted declares. It may seem as though they wanted to hurt mankind, but I'm convinced that whatever occurs is part of a major plan for the good of humanity. (Caption) INVISIBLE UFO-MEN - SI have an intelligence by far superior to man's. They are not created from the same matter as we, they consist entirely of energy. Consequently, they are invisible. I've never seen any of them. - Through the exchange of thoughts and symbols we maintain our contact. SI are thousands of years ahead of us in development. They don't live, as one might think, on another planet, but in an entirely different dimension. By means of their symbols, I believe I've been able to understand what their intentions with man are. - The white man is about to annihilate the Earth. That's what SI want to prevent. Before we began to conquer the Earth and enslave other people, they used to live in harmony with the nature. - SI want the Indians to get back their country, the USA, the blacks Africa and the Eskimos their territories. The natural disasters are punishment and an exhortation from SI for man to reconsider his actions. They don't govern man - they give guidance - but man decides his own fate. In April of 1972 Ted wrote to NASA and told them that he would incapacitate the electric system of Apollo 16, create electromagnetic disturbances and cut off the radio contact. But no astronaut should come to any harm. Ted reads aloud out of a newspaper from the day after the homecoming of Apollo 16. "4-5 things happened to Apollo 16 which have never happened to a space capsule before. It is a total mystery. The rocket had problems with the antenna, the computer which was supposed === Page 11 of 48 6. to guide it, broke down and the main engine malfunctioned. The orange juice leaked into the space suits of the astronauts. They could hardly remove their helmets." "When they had landed at Cape Kennedy the gasoline truck, which was supposed to empty Apollo of its fuel, exploded. The rocket was destroyed by fire. Investigations show that the astronauts had been exposed to radioactive radiation." (Caption) UFOs BUILT PYRAMIDS - I'm not the only one in contact with SI. Moses was one of the first. Without the cooperation of SI the Egyptians would never have been able to build the pyramids. - The pyramids have ever since been protected by the SI. Enclosing the pyramids there is still another invisible pyramid. Its power punishes those who enter the pyramid. What it protects is not any worldly riches. It is guarding the old knowledge. The knowledge, among other things in the form of unexplained murals, can only be used by humans possessing the powers of a medium. - Now and then I'm being tested by the SI. Once I dreamed that I flew over the city. SI asked if I wanted to go on flying. I looked down at all the people who walked there, heavy and earth-bound on the ground. It would have been tempting... but... I knew that my place was with the humans. I wanted to remain with my wife and our child. Before the transformation of Ted's brain he lived an exciting and varied life. He had had 50 different professions and in his leisure time he practiced knife-throwing, judo and hypnosis. Music is another great interest of his. He was so good at it that he played the drums with several well known jazzbands. The claim that he is a crackpot is rejected by Ted by way of showing his membership in the very exclusive society MENSA. To become a member you have to have an IQ of at least 148. Ted has 153. A person with an IQ above 140 is generally regarded as a genius. - I exercise my brain like any other muscle. Through training you can increase the capacity of your brain with at least 80%, maintains Ted. My brain is not completely developed as yet. SI have promised to improve my brain further. === Page 12 of 48 7. Around his neck Ted wears a strange pendant. Its sign looks like a Danish O with a bolt of lightning running through it. The cipher symbolizes Ted himself. - I always wear it. It has saved me from disasters and assaults many a time. I've in my possession letters from several people, who have been saved from disasters only by wearing the pendant, Ted tells us. In December of last year Ted performed his most complicated and controversial miracle. A TV-company wanted Ted to prove that he really possessed supernatural powers. Ted made a list of no less than 11 phenomena which were to happen in Chicago within the nearest future: Chicago would be hit by both record heat and an unusually powerful snow blizzard. The sky will be ablaze from lightning and hurricanes and tornadoes would sweep the region. Electric blackouts and strange radio signals were to paralyze the life of the city. Waves were to destroy many vessels, UFOs would appear, airports were to practically stop functioning and strange things were to happen to Chicago's football team, the Chicago Bears. Everything came about in rapid succession. Record temperatures of 86°F were registered in December. The day after all traffic was paralyzed by snow blizzards. Three tornadoes with a wind velocity of 80 miles an hour caused great damage. Radio signals made drawbridges open and close by themselves. The bus services of Chicago broke down, when the buses started and stopped without anybody touching the instruments. Chicago's main airport had more accidents than ever. Several planes were very close to collision. Nobody could find an explanation. An entirely new safety system at a cost of millions of dollars had to be ordered. The Chicago Bears had their worst season ever. The players were injured and were taken ill all the time. The few remaining, capable of playing, acted like beginners on the field. The predictions of Ted are well documented. He shows the letters he wrote before everything happened and clippings with surprising newspaper articles from the following months. It is rather weird to leaf through Ted's book of newspaper clippings. His success cannot be explained by pure luck or chance. He has been found right too many times. What can we expect from next year, according to Ted? === Page 13 of 48 8. - Mostly bad things. Huge natural disasters will strike as punishment for man's destruction of the Earth's natural resources. Ex-president Nixon will die, possibly he will be murdered. Also Pat Nixon will die. Kissinger will be subjected to an assault which may prove to be fatal. -The President of Uganda, Idi Amin, will be murdered or thrown out of his country. The stock market will experience a crisis of about the same magnitude as the depression of the 1930s. Ted cannot promise anything positive for the future. Much depends upon how man takes care of his Earth. Before we part Ted shows me a letter where he promised that England should be afflicted by rain when he came for a visit. Quite right, it started to rain the same day he arrived after many months of drought and heat. As soon as I get back to my hotel I take out a Swedish evening paper of yesterday's date. Maybe Ted had looked at the weather forecast before he predicted the weather. I quote from the paper: "Not a single cloud over England. The high pressure covers large parts of Europe. England lies within its central parts and the problem with the drought remains." === Page 14 of 48 NATIONAL TATTLER, OCT. 22, 1972 Joseph DeLouise Raps A Fellow Psychic # 'Seer Ted Owens Is Ruining Legitimate Image Of ESP' By TOM VALENTINE Famous Chicago psychic Joseph DeLouise has accused another famous seer, Ted Owens, of "hurting legitimate ESP's image." "We psychics have enough trouble with the skeptical public without having some guy popping off with phony claims," DeLouise said. DeLouise told TATTLER in an exclusive interview that Owens, a seer who claims he talks with outer space intelligences, is "opening a Pandora's box with some of his claims about his influence on professional sports teams." Owens claims he has put a "whammy" on such teams as the Baltimore Colts and Los Angeles Rams of pro football, the Baltimore Bullets in pro basketball, and everything in Philadelphia. "What's wrong with his claims," DeLouise points out, "is if he has really done what he said, he should go to jail--if not, he should shut up." Here's what Owens has claimed: He started in 1966 trying to earn $25,000 by putting a "hex" on opposing teams for Philadelphia Eagles owner Jerry Wolman. Wolman asked for a demonstration, so Owens sat in the stands with the club owner and made the New York Giants play miserably, he said. However, the Eagles played worse and lost, so Wolman booted Owens out. Seeking revenge, Owens claims he hexed the Eagles and they went steadily downhill. Owens claims his hex was responsible. Last year, he offered his services to the Baltimore Colts' owner Carroll Rosenbloom and this time the price was $100,000. Rosenbloom said no, so Owens claims he's the one that hexed them out of the Superbowl against Dallas in 1971 and cost them the playoff against Miami in 1972. When Rosenbloom made his unprecedented franchise trade of the Colts for the Rams, Owens gave the owner a second chance. He wrote to Rosenbloom on June 30 suggesting: "You are acquiring a team that I will stop like it has run into a stone wall unless you hire my services." Rosenbloom ignored him. On July 17, Rams quarterback Roman Gabriel suffered a collapsed lung and the Rams are hindered despite having a fine team. The Cleveland Browns are another team Owens claims to have personally wrecked: "One of the team's executives called me a two-bit ESP phony on live radio. Well, you'll notice that Art Modell, (Browns owner) has had an accident. That's just the beginning. Once the season begins, I keep a file on the team and start with the quarterback." DeLouise is furious at such claims. "If a person caused another person harm with a club or a gun, they'd go to jail; so if Owens is really doing these things as he claims, he should be locked up. If not, then his outrageous lies are giving all psychics a black eye." DeLouise said he does not doubt the powers of hexing. "The human mind can do many things, good or evil, and what he claims to be doing is evil. "If I were one of the quarterbacks, like Gabriel or Johnny Unitas or Joe Namath, who is injury prone and must face the danger of getting hurt, I'd go out and punch Owens in the mouth for just thinking I should get hurt." DeLouise suggested the owners of a team Owens claims to have hexed take him to court. "If he insists that his hex claims are true, then jail him for assault with a deadly weapon." De Louise Says Owens Should Be Tossed In Jail # 'If I were Namath, Unitas or Gabriel, I'd punch Owens in the nose' === Page 15 of 48 LARRY DONKO "I've done over 400 miracles". -Ted (PK Man) Owens OH, oh. Ted Owens is at it again. He has cranked up that force he refers to as PK Power. While trying to keep a cigar lit, Owens told me, "Using only my mind, I'm going to hit the current Nato exercises with PK Power to scramble them as much as I can. This may cause ships to come together, airplanes and helicopters to fall down. "This may cause all kinds of freak things to happen, making everything go wrong that can go wrong." "PK Power" is a short phrase for psychokinesis power. This is the talent to move things with psychic force. Years ago in Texas, Owens became acquainted with space intelligences who traveled in a cigar-shaped craft. Ever since then, these persons (?) have been using Owens as a transmitter for mysterious energy. Said Owens. "I can sit here in my living room with my cigar and a can of beer and, with my mind, control a whole professional team for a whole season. Or control a whole Appollo moon shot. Or hit an entire city, like I did with Cleveland." ## Power proclaimed Owens isn't bashful. He announces the miracles in advance. From a 2-story frame home on Randolph Street in Cape Charles, Owens sends bulletins to college professors, writers, astronomers, newsmen and others. During my visit, Owens told me, "I will build into my mental attack on the Nato exercise the intelligence to prevent anyone from being killed or hurt." Nato's Operation Strong Express opened yesterday and will continue until Sept. 28 in European waters. It is the largest combined land, sea and air maneuver for Nato since 1968. The operation involves 64,000 men, 300 ships and 700 aircraft. The U.S. Navy is participating with 37 ships. "I refer to this as a huge laboratory experiment for PK Power; just like the Olympics." I said to Owens, "You don't mean that YOU and the PK Power made that mess in Munich?" "At first," said Owens, "I was going to employ my mental powers against the Russians. The U.S. refused to cooperate. So, instead of experimenting with the Russian team, I switched to the Americans. You saw what happened." ## An evil force? To hear Owens describe PK Power, it sounds are welcome as the heartbreak of rasis. Question: is this PK Power the devil's work? Is it a curse upon mankind? "Not at all," said Owens. "I'm proving I'm demonstrating that the power of the mind has infinite ability. People don't realize this. So, I'm making miracles. I do it on a scale to impress, to boggle the mind." Since last spring, Owens has been working on several miracles of the first rank. They include: Inflicting Apollo 16 with everything from a fouled up guidance system to a lost lunar lander cover to orange jucie in the space suits of the astronauts. "I affected the whole thing, from here to the moon, with my mind. I made all kinds of freak things happen." The blitz of Cleveland. "For the first time, I controlled an entire city for a week. I caused intense heat, severe lightning, made people do crazy things. It all hit. Pow! Here are the clippings. Look and you'll see reports of a heat wave, streets buckling, lighting hitting railroad tracks, high winds, people calling City Hall to say they've been talking to Howard Hughes." ## Football teams target Dooming 15 pro football teams to disappointing seasons. "None of the teams will get into the Super Bowl. I will control them and see that they lose enough personnel, enough games to miss taking all the marbles." The teams are Washington, Baltimore, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, Atlanta, Chicago, New England, Houston, Denver, Kanssa City, New York Jets, Phalidalphia, Cleveland and San Diego. Before the training camps opened, Owens wrote to 15 teams and offered to help with PK Power. His fee is $25,000. None accepted. So, Owens will turn on the teams, hurling the PK Power at them by way of television. He did it to Baltimore last season. He did it to the Virginia Squires in basketball. "I give the teams a fair chance to employ PK Power to help them win. I would use the money for my little church, the Church of Sota. So far, I have made no money from PK Power." Last year, Owens zapped the Colts when owner Carrol Rosenbloom would not meet his terms. In 1972, Rosenbloom took control of the Los Angeles Rams. When Owens zaps somebody, they stay zapped. As Rosenbloom assumed ownership of the Rams, quarterback Roman Gabriel suffered a collapsed lung and quarterback Jerry Rhome was burned in a garage fire. ZAP. === Page 16 of 48 3/20/72 The Sun Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio # PINCH HITTING ## Psychic Force to Wreck Browns By Dan Coughlin I'm afraid that Browns fans had better hedge their bets this season if they believe the track record of a well-known mystic. The seer is Ted Owens, who claims he can talk with Space Intelligences from an alien dimension. Owens, 52, who lives in a suburb of Norfolk, Va., maintains that he derives psychokinetic powers from his friends in outer space. He tells his gift KD Power and he says he is directing it against the Browns. He promises they'll finish under .500 this fall. This isn't Owens' first intrusion into the world of sports. In recent years he claims to have put the whammy on the Virginia Squires, Baltimore Bullets, Baltimore Colts, Los Angeles Rams and everything in Philadelphia. HE FIRST DABBLED in pro football in 1966. Needing money to support his family and to further his own research, Owens asked Philadelphia Eagles owner Jerry Wolman for a job. He promised to hex opposing teams for a stipend of $25,000. Wolman was skeptical but he also was desperate, so he consented to a demonstration. Owens sat in the stands in Franklin Field and made the Giants play miserably. Unfortunately, the Eagles played worse and lost the game. Wolman booted him out. Further correspondence went unanswered. "No one is perfect," said Owens, who claims to have a batting average of 92%. The next season an angered Owens turned his powers AGAINST the Eagles, and they went from 9-5 to 6-7-1. Owens was in high gear in 1968 when the Eagles dropped to 2-12 and Wolman went bankrupt and lost the club. CONVINCED OF HIS POWERS, last year he offered his services to each team in pro football. Some filed his letter under junk mail. One who replied was Baltimore Colts owner Carroll Rosenbloom. Owens' price by now was up to $100,000, and Rosenbloom backed off. So Owens directed his evil eye at Rosenbloom and claims to be personally responsible for the Colts losing the Super Bowl game to Dallas. He doesn't explain how they got that far. When Rosenbloom traded the Colts for the Rams, Owens gave him a second chance. I have a copy of the letter dated June 30 in which Owens wrote, "You are acquiring a team that I will stop like it has run into a stone wall unless you hire my services." No answer. On July 17 Rams quarterback Roman Gabriel suffered a collapsed lung. BASKETBALL HAS NOT escaped his voodoo, either. In 1971 Owens warned in advance that the Baltimore Bullets would lose four straight playoff games to the Milwaukee Bucks because a Baltimore newspaper editor had been rude to him. The Bullets lost four straight. He apparently gives Jabbar no credit. Sports has been only a sidelight for the mystic. He points to other catastrophes. For example: On Oct. 26, 1965, he cabled the CIA that a terrible catastrophe would hit the United States within 10 days. Actually it took 13 days. On Nov. 9 the biggest power failure in history hit the east and became known as the Big blackout. He takes credit for it. HIS FORECASTS HAVE been studied by several university scientists, including Dr. Max Fogel of Norristown, Pa. Duke University's School of ESP also has perused him at length. Dr. Fogel, incidentally, is the international scientist for Mensa, the organization of persons with IQ's over 148, which is generally accepted as genius level. Upon learning that Owens' IQ is 150, I was reminded of that old fable that there's a thin line of difference between genius and lunacy. In 1968, however, Owens was accepted to Mensa, which usually tries to purge its rolls of known loons. WHY, I ASKED HIM, was he turning his great might on the poor Cleveland Browns, who had enough trouble winning their division title last year. "The reason is Pete Franklin," said Owens. I knew there had to be something sinister. "He called me a two-bit ESP phony on live radio," Owens explained. "You'll notice," Owens pointed out, "that the Browns owner Art Modell recently had an accident. That's just the beginning. Once the season begins I keep a file on the team and start with the quarterback." I didn't tell him about Bill Nelson's knees. Slick Runway Sept 1972 # Worms Close Airport CLEVELAND (UPI) -- The longest runway at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport was closed for 30 minutes Thursday as a motorized broom swept the concrete clear of hundreds of thousands of earthworms. Captains of four jetliners reported that braking action on landing was extremely poor because of the worms. The 9,000-foot northeast-southwest runway was closed and traffic diverted to shorter runways which did not have the problem. A tower air traffic controller said recent heavy rains in the area apparently brought the worms to the surface of the ground around the runway. "This is the worst we've ever had," said a spokesman in the airport operations office. "Usually we just ignore them, and when the sun comes out they go away. "But this time there were so many on the last one-third of the runway that we had to sweep them off to the side and scoop some up," he said. "We have places in fields beyond the airport where we can take them." Both of these items are recent, and both from recently-PK'd Cleveland. Owens (PK Man) === Page 17 of 48 # THE PLAIN DEALER OHIO'S LARGEST NEWSPAPER 1801 SUPERIOR AVE. CLEVELAND, OHIO 44114 PUBLISHED BY THE FOREST CITY PUBLISHING COMPANY CLEVELAND, OHIO 44114 Sept. 13, 1972 Mr. Ted Owens (PKMan) Box 48 Cape Charles, Va. 23310 Dear Ted, Please forgive the delay in returning this material to you. It was fascinating to peruse. I enclosed several copies of a column I did on you which appeared in The Plain Dealer on Sunday, Aug. 20. So far, your power directed against the Browns seems to be working. They look pathetic. A key defensive player, defensive end Joe Jones, has been lost for the season with a knee injury. Team owner Art Modell's right hand is still partially paralyzed as a result of that accident in July. You itemized several other atmospheric conditions that would hit the Cleveland-Akron area this past summer, however, which weren't quite so close. For instance, you forecast blazing hot drought. In reality, Cleveland had it's rainiest summer in 102 years. There were no major power blackouts, just the usual breakdowns at the Muny Light plant. There were no 60 to 90 mile per hour winds except a couple windstorms where the breeze reached close to 60 in gusts, but that isn't unusual for a Cleveland summer. That usually happens a couple times. However, you also predicted planes would be forced down and ships sunk offshore. It seems to me that more small planes crashed in the Cleveland area this summer than in recent years. Also, one storm ---------- I think it was the backwash of Hurricane Bertha ---------- caused considerable damage to boats at local marinas and several were sunk. I don't have any comparison figures on the number of small plane crashes, however. I do know we had a helluva rainstorm, though. Thanks for your cooperation. I hope you like the column I did on your powers. Sincerely yours, Dan Coughlin Dan Coughlin === Page 18 of 48 # Psychic Sees Jackie O. Being Murdered, Burton Dumping His Aging Liz ![Image: Liz Taylor and Richard Burton] Liz Taylor and Richard Burton -- their marriage will come apart, Owens predicts. ![Image: Jackie Onassis] Jackie Onassis: more violence, says Owens. ![Image: President Nixon] President Nixon will be unable to finish his term. BY PAUL ADELSON Jackie Onassis faces more violence and suffering. Richard Burton is going to dump Liz. Russia will soon rule the world. These are just a few of the predictions made by Ted Owens, a 52-year-old "UFO Prophet" from Cape May, Va. "I don't make the predictions," Owens began. "They're given to me by the SI's, Space Intelligence." Space Intelligence, Owens explained, are beings from flying saucers. He said that these beings are responsible for increasing the ESP ability he has had since childhood. Owens said he has been guided by the UFO people since 1965. "One night, I was riding down the highway with my daughter, when we lived in Ft. Worth, Tex.," he explained. "A cigar-shaped UFO suddenly appeared over a nearby field and then floated toward my car. "It didn't make any noise. It had red, white, blue, and green colors flaming out of the end of the craft." Owens never met the men in the spacecraft. But, from that moment, his entire life changed. "Suddenly, I learned to develop my powers," he said. "I started experimenting with mind over matter to control nature's forces." Owens can recall hints of his ESP power during his childhood in Bedford, Ind. "My teachers and family figured I was dumb and stupid," he said. "Even as a child though, I was capable of using my ESP abilities. Later, I took an intelligence test and found I had an I.Q. of 150. "An I.Q. of 140 means you're a genius." Because of his I.Q., Owens belongs to "Mensa," a society of people who are geniuses. Owens elaborated on his relationship with the beings from outer space. "The SI's used my brain to set up a two-way radio with me," he said. "I have the power to cause things to happen by using PK, or psychokinesis." For many, the story about the spacemen is hard to swallow. But Owens has indeed "made things happen." With 85 per cent of his predictions correct, Owens has a reputation for accuracy. Larry Bonko, a newspaper columnist for the Norfolk Ledger-Star, wrote about one example of Owens' ability: "Owens was at the post office in Norfolk when a thought struck him about a bomb," Bonko wrote. "He went up to a man at the counter and said, 'My special ESP ability and powerful mind have picked up the thoughts of some bad people who are planning to bomb the post office here.'" People laughed at this prediction. But, shortly afterwards, somebody firebombed the post office in Norfolk. Bonko has documented other accurate predictions, such as the great East Coast power blackout in 1965, three hurricanes, and the 1969 Cuban plot to kidnap President Nixon. Owens doesn't like it when people scoff at his powers. In fact, when ![Image: Ted Owens] Ted Owens, the "UFO Prophet." === Page 19 of 48 some of the professional football teams laughed at his offers to make them win for a price, Owens hexed them. Now they wish they never had laughed. In February, 1971, Owens cast his evil eye on the Baltimore Colts. The spell would be lifted, he said, only if they paid him $100,000. Team owners ignored his demands. But soon enough, bad luck hit the Colts. Johnny Unitas hurt his heel tendon and was sidelined. Top player Sam Havrilak sprained an ankle. Running back Tom Matte was hospitalized with Appendicitis. Team owner Carroll Rosenbloom finally decided it was no joke and personally wrote a letter to Owens, asking him to please remove the hex. Since then, Owens has hexed other teams, including the Baltimore Bullets basketball team. "Make no mistake about it," Owens disclosed in his form letter to several teams, who are all suffering unexplainable losing streaks. "I can control your teams!" Owens sees an ominous future for some jet set celebrities. Concerning Jackie Onassis, Owens said there is an aura of violence hanging over her. "I see Jackie murdered. I see her lying covered with gore. Ari will be delighted to see her exit. He hates her. When the murder happens, he will be away somewhere, with a perfect alibi." On Liz and Burton, Owens predicted that the aging actress will soon be dumped. "Liz hates men. She rapes and robs them. But Time has caught up with her. As she gets wrinkles, and more fat, her screen of beauty will fade away. Burton will divorce her." And when will all this happen? "I can't give the exact time for either prediction," Owens stated. "I find it hard to pinpoint predictions in a time reference. I can only say what shows up on my 'mental screen.'" Owens offered some other predictions for the coming months: The ground level in Nevada has started to sink, and Owens predicts the entire state will suffer natural catastrophies. The Russians will gain additional power in the near future. In effect, Russia will rule the world. But the Red Chinese will be quietly sneaking up on Russia behind her back. Mexico and Canada will become openly hostile towards the United States. The borders of these countries will be partially sealed off. Long-range predictions: There will be an accidental nuclear explosion in the United States, probably in the Midwest. President Nixon won't complete his second term in office. He will either resign, or be forced out. The wealthy will lose their riches as businesses go broke. Jobless people will roam the land. THE NATIONAL NEWS EXPLOITER, Volume 7, Number 12, September 17, 1972 Second class postage paid at Chicago, Ill., and additional entry. Authorized as second-class mail by the Post Office Department at Ottawa, Canada and for payment of postage in cash. Copyright © 1972 and published weekly by Novel Books, Inc., 2715 N. Pulaski Rd., Chicago, Ill. 60639. Subscriptions: 26 issues, $6.00; 52 issues, $10.00. Advertising inquiries invited. Right is reserved to reject any ad without explanation. Publisher not responsible for unsolicited material though ideas for features from qualified writers and photographers are welcomed. All manuscripts should be accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Publisher is not responsible for specific opinion expressed in this paper. Written permission from publisher required to reprint all or part of articles appearing in this publication. === Page 20 of 48 Psychogenetic Systems 1975, Vol. 1, pp. 98 © Gordon and Breach Science Publishers Ltd. Printed in Great Britain # Letter Sir--I would like to suggest to those planning further work with Uri Geller (as well as similar psychokinesis sensitives and "healers") a line of research whose significance, were anything like positive data to be obtained, would be difficult to overestimate. I am referring to the possibility of replicating--and even extending--the type of experiment which followed S. L. Miller's production in 1953 of amino acids from the electrical sparking of a mixture of water vapour, methane, ammonia and hydrogen (all presumed to have been available on earth prior to the beginning of primitive life). Since Miller's classic experiment (1959), investigators have played with the idea that the production not only of amino acids and protein molecules and chains but of the basic genetic material itself--"life" in the form of self-replicating molecules--could be achieved (Calvin, 1969; Rutten, 1971; Strong, 1970). Despite the use of a variety of approaches and catalytic agents, however, this goal has continued to elude them. The possibility is worth considering that physical psychics of the stature of Uri Geller, and conceivably proven "healers" (let us say those who have successfully altered rates of enzyme reactions), might be able to provide what electric current, ultraviolet light, high pressures, and high temperatures have not themselves been able to provide. I do not feel that experiments with persons of this stature should be limited solely to trying to achieve the types of things which have, in essence, been done repeatedly in the past. Investigators in psychical research might as well go for broke in one of the most baffling areas in current science. Positive data would also, needless to say, provide a link to a number of areas in our own riddle-wrapped area, from the data of materialization to data now on dead center in the survival problem (Cairns-Smith, 1971; Eisenbud, 1972). It need hardly be emphasized that this type of research might be far more complex and difficult than that heretofore carried out. I feel certain, however, that the cooperation of biochemists can be counted upon. ### REFERENCES Cairns-Smith, A. G. *The Life Puzzle*. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1971. Calvin, M. *Chemical Evolution*. Oxford: Clarendon, 1969. Eisenbud, J. The dilemma of the survival data. Discussion of Professor Flew's paper. *Journal of the American Society of Psychical Research*, 1972, 66, 145-154. Miller, S. L. Formation of organic compounds on the primitive earth. In Oparin, A. I. (Ed.), *The Origin of Life on Earth*. London: Pergamon, 1959. Rutten, M. G. *The Origin of Life by Natural Causes*. New York: Elsevier, 1971. Strong, C. L. Experiments in generating the constituents of living matter from inorganic substances. *Scientific American*, January, 1970, 130-139. JULE EISENBUD, 4634 East 6th Avenue, Denver, Colorado 80220, U.S.A. === Page 21 of 48 BILLS? I owed $12,000 and no way out! Interstate Acceptance showed me the EASY way! Send your name and address and we will send you our NOBODY REFUSED HELP APPLICATION up to $20,000. NOT A LOAN COMPANY WE CAN HELP YOU RETURN THIS COUPON TODAY! IF COUPON IS CUT OUT, SEND NAME & ADDRESS TO: INTERSTATE ACCEPTANCE 139 MATHEWSON ST. PROV., R. I. 02903 (COUPON) PLEASE PRINT CLEARLY (COUPON) E-18 NAME __________ ADDRESS __________ CITY __________ STATE ZIP __________ __________ Please Rush Me Your FREE Application 64 - [ ] SAGA (Continued from page 62) Sun's strange activity could mean something else.) The Indian astronomer and mathematician, Chandrasekhara Vekata Raman, now an American citizen, studied how a star reaches supernova explosiveness. Any star with a mass less than one and a half times that of our Sun (called "Chandrasekhara's limit") is believed to be incapable of exploding. Instead, it's supposed to die slowly as the star evolves from blue giant babyhood to white dwarf senility. The shrinking process supposedly maintains the energy equilibrium. When the energy cannot be radiated into space fast enough, pressure rapidly builds up in the core. Stars with greater mass and volume therefore, are unable to maintain their pressure balance by shrinking. The result is an explosion of such terrible violence that in addition to destroying all of its planets, the total volume of the star stuff may expand as far as the next nearest star. Our Sun is one of the most enigmatic objects we know. Since the modern astronomical symbol for the Sun, as well as the chemical symbol for hydrogen, its most abundant element, is a circle with a dot in the center, it seems a rather odd "coincidence" that two disciplines which developed independently should arrive at the same symbol for the major component of the Sun and the Sun itself. Until the discovery of the neutrino no one knew that an accurate representation of the Sun and its neutrino core was a dot surrounded by a circle. This raises the interesting question of how ancient astronomers (circa 4000 to 2400 B.C.) with no admitted knowledge of chemistry (let alone atomic particle physics, spectroheliograms, or radio astronomy) arrived at this most simple, all inclusive Solar symbol imaginable. This evidence suggests prehistoric solar disturbances that may have caused radical changes throughout the entire planetary system. Such disturbances could have been responsible for all the cataclysmic effects so painstakingly recorded by Immanuel Velikovsky. Extremely long solar cycles could have resulted in exactly the kind of Earth and solar disturbances that Velikovsky writes about--and as the geological and fossil records indicate. A crash "Sunwatch" program is now underway--with OSOs (Orbiting Solar Observatories), SOEPs (Solar Orbit Experiment Packages), and many similar probes. No one expects too much from them. The best we can hope for is an early warning system. Whether the current solar disturbances indicate short or long-range upheavals, there's just no foreseeable way to escape even a minor solar catastrophe. ★ THE END JIM LINDENSMITH "If you think you're bad off, you should see the car!" === Page 22 of 48 EXPLODING SUN (Continued from page 31) the eye, so that estimate could mean that a catastrophe is frighteningly imminent! Every star must have equilibrium. If the energy generated at the core exceeds the amount being radiated into space from the Sun's photosphere (visible surface) one of two things can happen: the Sun's great volume will shrink or expand in a sudden increase of light, heat, and energy. This could be up to a billion times its former output. The Sun would explode into nova or even supernova violence. Gravity is the main clue to solar activity. It varies. Scientists can describe what it does, but no one knows exactly what it is, except that there are periodic changes in the Sun's gravitational activity. At times gravity is very intense in one area of the Sun and very weak at others. Because we depend on its steady, uninterrupted heat, light, and energy for our very existence, any disturbance, however slight, in the Sun's internal mechanism is an alarming prospect. Astronomers admit they know very little--almost next to nothing--about this source of all life. More than 90 percent of what they do know has been learned since 1955, and almost all of that knowledge, moreover, has been learned during the past seven years. Until the odd coincidence between the great solar eruptions last August and the discovery of the outburst from Cygnus in September, it was universally believed that (with the exception of occasional magnetic storms, flares, and sunspots) the Sun was a stable, main sequence star (yellow-white stars about the Sun's age). But like so many recently overturned scientific beliefs, the serene picture of the Sun as a nearly changeless nuclear energy mechanism seems about to be overthrown. Any great change in temperature or variation of the Sun's magnetic or gravitational activity would mean the end of all life on Earth. Such upheavals may very well signal an impending nuclear chain reaction that could convulse the star and trigger a nova. Such an event would, of course, mean the virtual destruction of every planet in the solar system. But there are other, less dramatic solar mechanisms--possibly undiscovered cycles that could bring on another ice age or--worse--turn the Earth into a burning, lifeless desert. The energy we receive from the Sun has strange properties. For example, if it were physically possible to immerse your arm in the Sun's kinetic (cool molecular vibration) temperature, you could come into contact with temperatures as high as 20,000 degrees without even blistering your skin. On the other hand, if the Sun's radiant (hot) temperature suddenly became equal to the kinetic, every planet in the system would be vaporized! However, in spite of everything astronomers have learned, the Sun is still largely a mystery. Within a range of 93 million miles we have a splendid specimen of a main sequence star which could have been studied intensively, yet modern astronomers have preferred to concentrate on distant stars and galaxies. Few laymen are aware that the Sun (surprisingly) possesses an atmosphere--and clouds! These enormous formations of metallic gases, calcium vapor, and hydrogen float between 15,000 and 30,000 miles above the Sun's visible surface. They often last for weeks. The Sun rotates in approximately 25 days, but due to inertia, its polar regions spin faster than the equatorial region which lags by about 10 days per revolution. Oddly enough, the Sun's axis is tilted (like the Earth's) from the plane of the ecliptic, but the inclination is only about seven degrees (Earth's is 23.5 degrees). No one knows why the Sun rotates or even why it shines. We've only recently learned how. There's almost no scientific agreement about why the Earth spins on its axis. This professed ignorance is probably due to the survival of the dogma of the 19th Century scientific materialists that the solar system--in fact the entire Universe--is a vast accident and that its order and reason exist only in the mind of man. If one assumes that the entire cosmos is an accident, the logical conclusion would then be that "all is chaos." However, it seems both logical and reasonable that the Sun's light, heat, and energy is specifically engineered to provide the most hospitable environment for the generation of life. The Earth seems to rotate for pretty much the same reason. If it didn't, the dark side of the planet would be plunged into eternally lifeless cold and ice, and the sunlit side would be just as sterile from the ceaseless intensity of the solar furnace. Trying to grasp such complex, interfaceted functions is like trying to empty the ocean with an eyedropper. But we're practically forced to see it from a viewpoint of purposefulness. "The Sun appears," said the late French Jesuit philosopher-scientist Teilhard de Chardin, "to be a great engineering achievement." Our local star operates on the power of the atom, which is how it generates energy. This energy spreads from the incredibly dense core to the Sun's visible surface by conduction (i.e., through physical contact between the energy particles). Still there is almost nothing material in the near vacuum of space between the Sun and the Earth. The Sun's life-giving energy is transmitted through space by radiation. To maintain its critical balance, the escape of heat energy from the photosphere has to be exactly equal to the amount of energy being generated by nuclear fusion at the Sun's core. Although the solar core is gaseous, it is far denser than the hardest metal and has a temperature range between 10 and 70 million degrees Centigrade! The atoms of this gas are under such enormous pressure that their outer electron shells are smashed and the atomic nuclei swarm together. Although a cubic inch of this star stuff weighs somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 tons, it is still a gas. Some of the energy emitted by the reflecting or reversing layer of the Sun's photosphere is absorbed by the chromosphere (the reddish layer of incandescent gases seen surrounding the Sun during an eclipse) and the corona (the Sun's halo, also visible only during eclipses of the Sun). The rest of the energy radiates through space, and by the time it reaches the Earth it is further filtered by the thick layer of ionized gases in the highest reaches of our atmosphere (the ionosphere) which absorb most of the ultraviolet rays. The Earth's atmosphere is only about 12 miles high while the Sun's atmosphere extends for millions of miles, up to about 3,000 miles, the solar temperature (between 8,000 and 10,000 degrees Centigrade) is the same as that of its photosphere, but instead of becoming cooler with increasing altitude, its atmospheric temperature starts to climb! At a height of 5,000 miles it reaches 20,000 degrees Centigrade. In the highest reaches of the chromosphere (at an altitude of 9,000 miles) the temperature rises to 100,000 degrees! In the corona itself, the heat goes as high as a million degrees or more. The kinetic temperature alone rises to many millions of degrees. As it is, X-rays and ultraviolet radiation from the highest and lowest parts of the corona have many effects on the different layers of the Earth's atmosphere. Solar magnetic storms bombard our ionosphere with charged particles, thus altering it and the underlying troposphere. About 50 years ago, the Sun was thought to be the center of everything, and the extent of the "universe" was considered to be the 10,000 to 50,000 stars visible with a telescope on a good night. No one had any idea of the shape of our Milky Way Galaxy until in 1948 American astronomer Harlow Shapley put forth the most remarkable theory since Copernicus deduced that the Earth moves around the Sun. The Sun is just like any other star, he said, inasmuch as it orbits the galactic nucleus. He calculated the location of the heart of the galaxy by figuring out the center of gravity of the great globular clusters of stars positioned around the galaxy. Beyond these globular clusters there are star systems hundreds of times larger. These "satellites" of our galaxy are about 100,000 light-years away and contain about 10 million stars apiece. Beyond these satellites of the Milky Way there are an entire family of galaxies clustered into a single system. The nearest of these is the giant galaxy named Andromeda--two million light-years away. Astronomers call these scores of galaxies "The Local Group." Stretching to "infinity" as far as the largest optical telescopes and most powerful radio telescopes can penetrate--about eight billion light-years (the distance light travels, at the speed of light, 186,200 miles per second, in eight billion years)--are approximately 200 billion galaxies, all of them racing away from each other at speeds approaching that of light itself. Mathematicians theorize (relatively, at least) that at the outermost limits of visibility, these galaxies exceed the speed of light, at which point they "disappear" because they're moving away from us faster than their light can reach us. Every so often astronomers observe a brilliant flare of light inside our galaxy where there was previously only a faint (Continued on page 60) SAGA ☐ 57 === Page 23 of 48 Why Show Your Age? ANATONE 2-WEEK HOME PROGRAM NOW HELPS ELIMINATE DOUBLE CHIN, REDUCE NECK WRINKLES Guaranteed by Tru-Health Dieting isn't enough. Exercise is a chore. Who can afford a masseuse? 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Largest selection of UFO books anywhere. 25¢ NOTE: When sending cheques add 25¢ for handling. GALAXY PRESS, 489 Krug St., Kitchener, Ontario N2B 1L2, Canada (Continued from page 57) pinpoint of light. Because they were once thought to be "new" stars they were called "novae." On rare occasions these distant suns explode in an even more brilliant pyrotechnical display that dazzles the heavens. Only about four nearby supernovae are observed each century. Some are so brilliant that they can be seen with the naked eye in broad daylight. They actually rival the Sun itself in brightness. The first documented supernova was described by Chinese astronomers in 1054 A.D. American Indian rock drawings in Arizona show this supernova rising beside the crescent moon about an hour before dawn. The date, translated from the Chinese calendar to ours, was July 5, 1054. It was the most stupendous explosion ever witnessed by man. Chinese, Japanese, Indian, and European records are in complete agreement about the time and place of this great exploding star. Such a supernova produces more light, heat, and energy than all the other stars in the galaxy--combined! After almost a thousand years, the remains of that explosion are still visible--as the Crab Nebula in the constellation Taurus. Although it is 4,000 light-years distant, it is still expanding at a speed of 680 miles per second, and has now reached a diameter of five light-years. In November 1572, the famous Danish astronomer-astrologer Tycho Brahe, discovered another exploding star. At its period of maximum brilliance it too could be seen in full daylight. In 1604, Tycho's pupil, Johannes Kepler, discovered still another brilliant nova. There hasn't a notable stellar explosion near our Sun until 1918 when an extremely brilliant star destroyed itself in the constellation of Aquila. At least 20 stars explode every year within our Milky Way Galaxy, but supernovae are 10,000 times more powerful than ordinary novae and exceed the brilliance and energy output of the Sun by a factor of several billion. So far, 25 well-established examples of supernovae have been detected. And, science writer and astronomer, John Rublowski said last year, "Our own galaxy is just about due for another of these spectacular displays." No one can guess which star will face utter destruction. Astronomers theorize that stellar anomalies should become fairly obvious to any inhabitants of planets that lie within the "life zone" of a star before it goes nova. One of these anomalies is increased activity, especially on or within a flare star like our own. What other clues indicate that such a star is due for a supernova explosion? The Italian physicist Enrico Fermi, who played such an important role in the development of the atomic bomb, was the first man to investigate pre-supernova conditions. He proved that it takes at least 150 million pounds of pressure per square inch at the Sun's center for the atoms to arrive at a collapsed state. In this condition there are no "elements" as we know them, only shattered atoms--electrons, protons, neutrons, etc., all whirling around each other. At this pressure, atoms collapse and become what is called Fermi gas. (The Earth's internal pressure is only about 22 million pounds === Page 24 of 48 per square inch. The entire mass and density of the planet aren't enough to crush a single atom.) Due to the fantastic pressures at the Sun's neutrino (collapsed particle) core, hydrogen is constantly being changed into helium, thus balancing the energy being generated by the energy being radiated into space through the photosphere. Now that the Sun's hydrogen which provides the fuel for its nuclear chain reactions has been almost half-consumed, its equilibrium may be drastically tipped much sooner than anyone suspected. Judging from the Sun's recent dramatic eruptions and the corresponding changes in terrestrial weather--record-breaking rainfalls, floods, summer hailstorms, a drop in global temperature, etc.--we may be facing an imminent decline in the energy being produced by the Sun. It seems only natural to assume that as the Sun's fuel is used up, its production of heat energy will decline very gradually, and that in a few hundred thousand to a few billion years our local star will slowly die, becoming colder and dimmer with each passing century until the blazing nuclear fire simply goes out like a smoldering ash. That's logical enough, but happens to be wrong. Investigators such as Dr. George Gamow, professor of physics at the University of Colorado, have discovered that the *exact opposite* would happen. Instead of becoming dimmer and colder as its supply of hydrogen reaches the critical stage of depletion or (as some astronomers now fear) half-depletion, the Sun will act up dramatically, with an increase in flares, magnetic storms, and huge sunspots which are out of phase with its 11-year cycle. Under these conditions, the Sun will grow larger, hotter, and brighter. As the hydrogen decreases and the supply of helium increases, the difference in the proportions of these gases will produce even greater changes. Helium is not as transparent as hydrogen. Consequently it would become more difficult for the nuclear energy generated from the core of the Sun to penetrate the more opaque helium than it did when a greater amount of the more transparent hydrogen was present. This halfway stage is almost here. 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Name Address City State __________ Zip Code __________ SAGA - [ ] 61 === Page 25 of 48 2) that the normal course of stellar development consists of cycles of violent activity; the Sun appears to undergo periodic upheavals, some of which result in (or are caused by) changes in magnetic polarity. This would account for the interruption of history and the occurrence of interplanetary disturbances recounted in such vivid detail by Velikovsky. Science is beginning to fit the pieces together, and they do not conform to the picture of slow, orderly, quiet evolution painted by the Gradualists and Uniformitarians of science. Catastrophism appears to be an indispensable part of natural evolution. In early August 1972, during what was supposed to be the lowest ebb of the 11-year sunspot cycle, the Sun erupted in a violent series of flares and major magnetic storms. Astronomers classified them as the most severe ever recorded. There was some speculation about the possibility that the Sun was "changing its magnetic polarity." In immediate, numerous and complex ways, the Earth responded to the solar upheaval. The aurora borealis (which is caused by charged solar particles caught in Earth's magnetic field), previously visible only in the polar regions, was seen in the U.S. as far south as Richmond, Va. Radio communications were garbled and disrupted as the highest reaches of the Earth's atmosphere were ripped apart by magnetic storms of unprecedented intensity. Something strange and foreboding does seem to be happening to the Sun, and it baffles the world's leading scientists. ### Astronomers believe that the beginnings of a star's violent death throes should become fairly obvious to any inhabitants of planets within its life zone. One such sign is increased activity--such as violent solar flare activity, magnetic storms, and a sudden surge of X-ray and radio wave emissions. Even though there has been no publicity, worried scientists have been observing our Sun going through just such a strange, hyperactive stage at this very moment! tists. Nothing in astronomy or astrophysics provides a solid clue to the Sun's unprecedented outburst of radio wave broadcasts and X-rays. On the night of September 2nd, exactly one month after the solar upheaval, radio astronomers in Canada and the U.S. who had been observing a binary star (two stars orbiting each other) called Algol were surprised by two extremely interesting flares. But because of bad weather, astronomer Philip C. Gregory figured he would check out an object in Cygnus which was known for its radio bursts and X-rays. He tuned in on a star in our galaxy called Cygnus X-3 but could hardly believe his own senses. There was a rapid increase of 220 times in the amount of radio emissions from Cygnus X-3--something that had never been seen before! "At first I thought something had gone wrong with the receiver," Gregory said, "and I had to keep turning the sensitivity down." Within an hour he alerted Robert Hjellming of the U.S. National Radio Observatory at Greenbank, W. Va. "Would you believe an increase of 220 times more flux units from Cygnus X-3?" Gregory asked incredulously. Before the night was over they had confirmation from Greenbank, as well as from astronomers at the University of Toronto, and Queens University (also Toronto). "What makes this even more spectacular," Hjellming said, "was that only the night before, emissions from Cygnus X-3 had dropped to below the lowest they had ever been! We're now sitting on reams of unpublished data, and are frankly puzzled. We've never seen anything like this outburst!" The subsequent galvanic activity was reminiscent of science fiction film. By the following Sunday morning scientists were vigorously investigating and had alerted six observatories. Astronomers in charge of orbiting telescopes in space were also alerted to make observations over the entire radio spectrum. "In a celestial event as violent or abrupt as this--at such high temperatures--we'd expect to detect bright X-rays as high as 10 million degrees Kelvin," Gregory said. Paradoxically astronomers at Mount Palomar Observatory said they saw "nothing obvious" in the visual range of Cygnus X-3 (which is 50,000 light-years from Earth). "This is a very, very strange object," Gregory admits. "The outburst is as hot as a nova or supernova, but we'd expect to see some optical brightening from such an explosion." Astronomers E. R. Seaquist and P. P. Kronberg of the University of Toronto have suggested that flare stars (such as our Sun), X-ray stars and others experience cycles of much longer duration than those recorded since the birth of modern observational astronomy. Last year the X-ray satellite Uhuru confirmed that Cygnus X-3 was an X-ray source. In June 1972, it was also discovered to be a radio source. "It's compact and very powerful, and behaves very erratically," says American astronomer Riccardo Giacconi, the foremost investigator of the Uhuru data. On September 7th, astronomer Chi Chao Wu of the University of Wisconsin discovered still further evidence of anomalous stellar energy outbursts. With raw data from Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2, he reported a remarkable increase in the output of ultraviolet rays from Cygnus X-3--enough for scientists to press the latest orbiting telescope, Copernicus, into service to help in trying to solve the unnerving Cygnus X-3 mystery. Why all this fuss over the violent activity of a distant star? Is it possible that whole groups of blazing suns in line with our own undergo regular pulsations in sequence, like a string of Christmas tree lights? "All we know right now," says Giacconi, "is that something very weird is going on." Since that announcement, the astronomical community as a whole has become increasingly reticent in making public statements about the immediate fate of our Sun. All they are willing to admit is that "we need more study and observation to find out exactly what is happening." The eruption of our normally quiet Sun on August 7th was the most severe ever recorded. According to David McLean of the Space Environmental Sciences Center at Boulder, Colo., "the exceptionally large centimeter-wave radio bursts that accompanied the unexpected flares indicated that this was a most extraordinary solar event. The August 7th flare ran the X-ray sensors right off the scale!" It's generally known that the Sun's gravity holds all the planets, comets, and other bodies of the solar system in strict orbits, and that sunlight is the original source of all our energy, such as that stored in our food and fuels. Solar energy is used by green plants in photosynthesis and also powers our weather, for example. The Sun's diameter is 865,400 miles and its volume about 1.3 million times that of the Earth. Its mass is almost 700 times the total mass of all other bodies in the solar system and 332,000 times that of the Earth. Since prehistoric times, men have pondered the mystery of the strange "fire" which causes the Sun to radiate such enormous amounts of heat, energy, and light without becoming either cooler or hotter. Only during the past couple of decades have scientists deduced the nature of the forces that cause the Sun to "burn." While our local star is a life-supporting system for Earth--and possibly other worlds in our solar system--by its very nature, our life-giving Sun could also be the cause of mass extermination! Like all stars, the Sun must maintain its equilibrium in order to radiate. It does this by converting hydrogen (the most abundant element in the Universe) into helium. Astronomers figure that this process has been going on in the Sun for about 5,000 million years. 30 - [ ] SAGA === Page 26 of 48 FATE MAGAZINE BOOK REVIEW DEPT. "Earth's Ambassador" by D. Scott Rogo and Jeffrey Mishlove. Now, Fate readers, first I must explain something to you. The Editor of Fate Magazine asked me not to review this book. Because, you see, I wrote it. But I explained to him sincerely that, as a scientific investigator I am scrupulously honest and objective and would not even think about praising a book just because I happened to write it. (Mishlove didn't write the book. I did. He just did the introduction. I did all the work.) Another reason I wanted to review this book - the other book reviewers at Fate Magazine would probably give it a bad review, you see. As for the book itself, it reflects month of research and the documentation of the cases is impeccable. If I do say so myself, the author did a brilliant job of putting together a book on a difficult subject. And after I had finished the first completed copy of the book I began to read the first part of it and found that I had made the subject matter so interesting that I couldn't put the book down until I had finished all of it! Frankly, I would place the book in the "superior" category. As for what is in the book...it is about some idiot who thinks he can talk to flying saucers; thinks he can make it rain; and imagines that he can cause football players to fall down. Ha ha ha! Nevertheless, I was given the chore of writing the book, so I went up to Vancouver, Washington, to personally interview the moron. (Mishlove warned me beforehand to wear a bulletproof vest and take nothing to eat or drink that might be offered to me, for safety's sake. He even offered to loan me his own bulletproof vest, the one with hearts and flowers design all over it, but I declined.) Well, Owens was what I expected him to be. A regular slob. He had no taste whatsoever in clothes. Tacky, you know? He had no taste in good music, preferring horrible jazz music to my own beautiful classic music. He prefers banging around on drums instead of playing a decent musical instrument like my own oboe. And he had no couth at all. The chap sat around swilling scotch and beer and yelling at his TV set. Really, now, I ask you. To cap it all off he inveigled me into playing some games of pool and he beat me five games to three. But it was the way he won the games that infuriated me! I noted, with my scientific investigator techniques, that during the first game he was pushing glass after glass of white wine into my hand. Soon I was smashed, and Owens got ahead of me. The man has no scruples whatsoever, and simply is not to be trusted, if you see what I mean. Not since W. C. Fields laced Baby LeRoy's lemonade with gin have I seen such a dastardly ploy. Anyway, rush out and buy this book. It is one you will not want to miss. Or write me and I'll sell them to you by the dozen. (I have to move fifty million of these books, you see.) The author, D. Scott Rogo. === Page 27 of 48 Owens 200 NE 76th St Vancouver, Wash. 98665 PORTLAND, OR 972 PM 31 JAN 1980 ALWAYS USE ZIP CODE USA 15c HOME OF THE BRAVE Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 === Page 28 of 48 Rus devastating droughts followed by floods. be in chaotic condition. Farmer vote will be im- in the elections. The elderly who resent prevailing conditions will come out to vote in a strong block. Prominent newspapers in different localities will disappear from the scene. **Ted Owens, Predictions From Space Intelligences** In a letter dated May 23, 1971, we received from Ted Owens, the man who claims he serves as Earth's intermediary for Space Intelligences, details of "one of the most exciting things" that he had ever done. "You know, of course," he reminded us, "how I have documented in advance . . . creating three simultaneous hurricanes . . . guiding hurricanes against the predictions of the Hurricane Center in Miami . . . ending droughts . . . creating droughts . . . making UFO's appear over cities . . . and so on, for about 250 miracles. Here is a new one. For the first time I have gone one-on-one with a molten, lava-belching volcano!" The astounding Ted Owens told us that he had specified to columnist Larry Maddry of the (Norfolk) Virginian Pilot that he would try to save Sant-Alfio, Sicily, the village that lay in the path of erupting Mt. Etna, by Sunday, May 23rd. In the letter, Owens told me that his UFOs had saved the village, and he went on to tell us exactly how it happened. "Last Thursday, I read where the fiery molten lava was pouring down on this town of Sant-Alfio in Sicily. The news item read that the lava couldn't miss--the people and the town were directly in its path. So I picked up the phone and called Larry Maddry, reporter for the Virginian Pilot in Norfolk and told him that I would use my considerable powers 134 and telepath to the UFO intelligences that I am linked up with to save this village and its people. On that day, Thursday, I sent a letter to him (Maddry) backing it up in writing with copies to Otto Binder and two scientists who are overseeing my work. (It is thoroughly documented.) "I used a shotgun approach--my own brain, plus telepathing to SI control--to bring this about. "Saturday night, two days later, the fiery flow of lava--a mile wide and eighteen feet deep--burning up everything in its path, miraculously diverted and flowed to one side of the town, saving the 4,000 people there. "No finer demonstration of SI power would you ever want to see. I told four very responsible people two days in advance specifically what I was going to try to accomplish. And I accomplished it." Along with his letter, Owens sent a newsclip that headlined, "Lava diverted past town." According to the Associated Press, a "flaming river of lava" from Mt. Etna was suddenly diverted from the village of Sant-Alfio and had begun a two and one-half mile path down the Cavagrande Canyon to the sea. The new course had no town or village in its path. A few days later, Owens sent us a full-page story in the Virginian-Pilot that chronicled "The Day Heywood Hale Broun Came to Town." The reason for CBS' colorful sports essayist's coming to Norfolk had been to interview Ted Owens on his amazing documented ability to, ostensibly, psychically "zap" professional football teams. Owens is a prolific letter writer to his "contacts," and we receive on an average of two letters a week advising us on the activities of the Space Intelligences and their Earthly emissary. We must admit that he has told us which teams have been singled out to be on some kind of cosmic smear list, and, fantastic as it may seem, something invariably happens to key players on those teams. Of course, one does not have to be voodooed to sustain a barrage of injuries in the less-than-gentle world of professional football. On April 8, 1971, Ted Owens sent the following open letter to all pro football teams: 135 === Page 29 of 48 "The attached newsclip (telling about Johnny Unitas' injury and Tom Matte's attack of bleeding ulcers) is a special delivery letter to you from my SI's (UFO intelligences). What am I talking about? "Weeks ago, Don Klosterman, General Manager of the Colts, dropped me a line inquiring about my reason for using "PK" (psychokinesis) on the World Champion Colts. I answered and explained that I must demonstrate each year my incredible powers by holding back the winner of the Pro Championship the preceding season, as I have done with the Jets and Kansas City Chiefs, and now must do with the Colts. "I warned Mr. Klosterman and Mr. Rosenbloom, Sr. specifically and clearly that my mental attack had already been placed in motion against the Colts, was affecting them now, and if they intended to hire me (for $100,000) they had better do it quickly before the PK began to tear the team apart. (You don't believe this? Then check with the two gentlemen.) "They ignored me (always a terrible mistake, but no one seems to learn from it) and two of their fine stars are zonked, Unitas and Matte, both in the same hospital at the same time, both struck down in the same time period of 24 hours. "Also, just recently, my number two PK target, the Cowboys, have had two star players . . . and one of their coaches zonked. "And the regular season hasn't even begun yet! "I keep on giving these fantastic demonstrations of how my 150 or more other-dimensional powers can take pro teams apart, stop them cold, etc., yet none of them seems to want this hair-raising power on their side! This, to me, is unbelievable. "Last year, I stopped approximately fifty million dollars worth of pro football teams. This coming season . . . let's see, what's thirteen times ten million?" The May 3rd issue of Sports Illustrated took official notice of the PK man in their "People" section: ". . . back in February Owens decided to cast a spell upon 136 the Baltimore Colts. And charge $100,000 to unhex them. Now, was it Owens' fault that Johnny Unitas tore his Achilles' tendon, Tom Matte got appendicitis and Sam Havrilak sprained his ankle? Well, when a Philadelphia writer challenged Owens to 'prove you can do something' the PK man announced he would hex Tom Woodeshick of the Eagles, and within 15 minutes, Woodeshick was ejected from the game for fighting. Colt owner Carroll Rosenbloom has dropped Owens a polite note requesting him to remove Baltimore from his list of losers. 'If you will advise me as to a course of action which we could follow . . . I will do whatever I can to comply,' Rosenbloom wrote. But the question seems to be, will he come across with $100,000?" Although Ted Owens generally limits his sports activities to hexing football teams with PK, he claims that he also whammied a basketball team this year when coach Gene Shue of the Baltimore Bullets made the mistake of publicly refusing Owens' offer of assistance over television. "They had a right to refuse the PK man," he said, "but not over television." Within moments of the insult to his pride, Owens telephoned the Baltimore Sun and told them that he would have his revenge. The Milwaukee Bucks downed the Bullets 102 to 83. "I sat by my television set and followed the game play by play," Owens told us. "Everytime the Bullets got the ball, I called in power on the court so they would make mistakes. My power would then throw off their timing and make them miss their shots. After the game, the Bullets admitted that they got enough shots at the basket to have provided them with a winning margin, but they simply could not get their shots through the hoop!" In last year's annual, we told you Ted Owen's incredible story of how he has established mental contact with the SI's, who are using his brain as a receiving station for their telepathic messages. Owens, who was born in Bedford, Indiana, in 1920, says that he first acquired his contact with the Space Intelligences one night in 1965 when he was living in Fort 137 s reveal 1976 ks: Air mishaps yweight cham- ad Ali will be of a baby boy. assis and her e, will reveal ble wedding s year.. destined to world's ppists. sion near u peaks will occur ne last week of March, 1976. Two other tragic air mis- === Page 30 of 48 Worth, Texas. He and his daughter were driving in the country when a cigar-shaped UFO suddenly appeared and came floating toward their automobile. No space-suited aliens stepped forth to converse with Ted, but he writes in his book How to Contact Space People: "From that day on, my life changed radically . . . while in Fort Worth, I gave my daughter, Lornie, several demonstrations of making lightning strike in certain areas during thundershowers, I was playfully experimenting with a theory I had on the practical application of PK, or psychokinetic power, to nature's forces." Ted, a married man with three sons in addition to his daughter, Lornie, is also a member of Mensa, the high intelligence society, proving, at least to several peoples' satisfaction, that he is no dummy on any level of consciousness. "Not only are my regular ESP powers outstanding in the world," Ted told us, "but combined with these powers, I am able to communicate with, and receive answers from, UFO intelligences--and prove it! I am able to utilize these powers from their world, or dimension, in this, our own dimension and world." Owens prefers to call his strange friends "Spatial Intelligences," and he says that they have "fantastic, awesome powers." Ted Owens claims that he is the only psychic in the world who can cause and create major national and international events to happen. He says that he had documented such occurrences time and time again. He points out Otto Binder's articles in Saga magazine, his frequent letters to "contacts," and the fact that he is working ". . . under the scrutiny of three of the world's best scientists, Owens says, has given him a notarized affidavit pertaining to one of his psychic feats. "At present I am using my powers and the SI powers to try and stave off a Russian nuclear strike," Owens told us ominously. "If you're reading this now, we will have been successful!" In regard to his predictions, Owens reminded us that he 138 would not attempt to pinpoint time exactly, because ". . . in psychic perspective, one can most times tell you what is going to happen, but not exactly when it is going to happen. That's just how it is." Ted warned us that his material would probably "shock, horrify, and or infuriate your readers. But I can't help it. I'm telling it just like it is." The spokesmen for the SI's told us that we would have to understand that he and the SI's were presently forced to give negative demonstrations in order to bring financial cooperation from the U.S. Government. "Just as Moses did in his time, and in exactly Moses' own way," he commented grimly. "By plagues." Assuming that the U.S. Government will still not have cooperated with Ted and the SI's by the time this book is released, here is what Owens sees in store for 1972: Weather Phenomena During the winter of 1971-'72, there will be unprecedented weather phenomena. Snowstorms, vast and deep. Hurricane winds and unseasonal tornados. Rainstorms marked by violent lightning attacks. Terrible floods. see next page In the summer of 1972, there will come searing heat and drought. Fires will start mysteriously, everywhere, with no logical explanations. Hurricanes will strike Florida. Then there will come another winter of record-breaking snowstorms, hurricane winds, and tornados. Money and the Stock Market By 1972 the Stock Market will either already have crashed to bits, worse than in 1929, or it will do so shortly. The false god of money will be taken away from the American people. Hopefully, it will be replaced by some of our older, truer values and the old pioneer spirit. Animals, Birds, and Fish Animal lovers may now know that PK similar to that planted long ago in Egyptian tombs to attack and destroy 139 === Page 31 of 48 those who might come later to plunder has been issued by myself to protect animals, birds, and fish all over the world. This type of PK is called "hunter PK" and it envelopes each animal, bird, and fish. Those humans who wantonly and wastefully kill creatures for nonsurvival purposes will thus activate this invisible, deadly shield and release it to track and to punish them in its own time. In 1971, after I first issued this particular PK project, hundreds of baby seals were killed in Alaska in order to sew up their pelts into fur coats. I had already sent the PK out around the world to protect animals, fish, and birds. Well, when they loaded up all those poor, little, pitiful furs onto a sealboat, what happened? Blocks of ice converged on that boat from every direction, crushed it, and sank it, furs and all. This is how PK works. ### Mysterious Forces from Bodies of Water The SI's have ordered humans to stop polluting lakes, rivers, streams, and oceans within three months time or they will have the bodies of water--which carry a combined intelligence which humans know nothing about--attack human beings in their own way. As of this time, the governments have done nothing, so you might expect all sorts of things going on against humans coming from bodies of water in 1972. This will not be a good year to go swimming, fishing, or boating. It could cost your life. ### Rains in Africa In Africa the rains will come and fill up the empty rivers, streams, and water holes where wildlife go to obtain their water. I have set this up in 1971, and the PK should be working up great power for this in 1972. The SI's and I intend to drive out all whites in Africa and to stop the needless killing of wildlife there. We shall return the country to its native blacks so that the country can once again become healthy and grow. The animals will then multiply, and Africa can once again become the wonderful "cradle of the Earth" that it once was. 140 ### Strange Sonic Signals from Space In order to demonstrate their powers, the SI's will send out sonic signals to Earth from their four huge space craft stationed around this planet. These signals will cause abnormal insect, animal, fish, and bird behavior. This should be occurring often in 1972, and all kinds of strange things will be taking place which will probably affect your own life in one way or another. ### Space Intelligences to Halt Earth's Rocket Programs In 1972 NASA will be fortunate indeed to get even one rocket off the ground. The SI's have ordered all space work to stop completely until humans have themselves under control. Suppose you had a farm next to another farm, and on the other farm you could see mad dogs fighting and killing each other. Would you want these mad dogs to make their way over onto your farm? So it is that the SI's want us humans to stay out of space orbit, off the moon, away from other planets until we have grown up enough to stop our own wars and halt our own pollution problem. In order to keep us on Earth, they have set up a deadly PK attack in space orbit and in outer space, also. They have warned the U.S. Government not to send any more humans up. (At this writing, three Russian cosmonauts recently went up, planning on spending two weeks; they came down in a few days. The newspapers reported both "human and mechanical" trouble. Then the U.S. shot up a $73 million Mars rocket, two years in the making . . . and it fell back into the ocean. NASA was unable to explain why this happened.) And so it will be. ### Trouble in Nevada It would be wise to stay away from the state of Nevada. The SI's have begun demonstration against the modern Sodom and Gomorrah of Reno and Las Vegas, and all sorts of things have begun to happen--earthquakes, riots, sinking 141 === Page 32 of 48 earth. I have just received a report from a reliable source that says the ground level of Nevada has begun to sink. So stay away from Nevada--or the PK may get you there if you don't watch out! Russia to Gain Superiority in 1972 The Big Red Bear will be kingpin of the world in 1972. Ahead in weapons capability and in scientific capability, they will, in effect, rule the world. But Red China will be quietly sneaking up behind Russia. Hostility Against U.S. from North and South of the Border Both Mexico and Canada will be openly hostile towards the U.S. in 1972, and I expect the borders of those countries to be sealed off partially, or completely, against visiting U.S. citizens. South American nations will really express hostilities against the U.S. in 1972. The SI's to Control Pro Football Teams It is estimated that a few hundred million people watched the Pro Bowl playoff in 1970 (A game which I controlled, by the way, hitting the Cowboys with PK to make them lose. Remember that freak double-tip which led to the winning touchdown for the Colts?). In 1972, I will be attacking, play by play, game by game, thirteen pro football teams--my most ambitious PK undertaking yet in the field of sports (I controlled five in 1970). I am now talking about the winter of 1971-'72, culminating in the Pro Bowl World Championship Playoff. Here is a list of the Unlucky Thirteen: The World Champion Colts, Kansas City Chiefs, Cowboys, Jets, Bears, Redskins, Chargers, Dolphins, Rams, Broncos, Eagles, Patriots, and Oilers. In controlling these thirteen teams and causing them to be the losers, I will be demonstrating further the great powers that I have through the SI's. In all aspects of my work, overall, I have never dropped below 85% success, and usually the percentage is higher. In sports, I have never failed in attacking a team over a season. 142 The above discussed sports demonstration can possibly be shelved in the event that one of the above-named teams should hire me to help it. In this case, I shall remove the thirteen-team PK attack and simply help my team win as many games as it can, which should be considerable. You will know if this happens, because it should appear in the newspapers--if the team allows it to be publicized, that is. After making his predictions for 1972, Ted Owens informed us that if he should receive the financial backing to carry out certain SI assignments, much of what he had prognosticated would not come to pass. "Because then I will be using my powers to stop wars all over the Earth, to stop hating, killing, and corruption, to stop pollution of all kinds, and so on," he said. How will we know if Ted obtains the necessary backing to carry out his work? "I will issue a statement to the newspapers which will probably be carried nationwide, and you will see it," he told us. "The only thing that will not be changed is the space-PK. Earth must be cleared up first; mankind must be brought back into proper balance with Nature. And that will take years to clear up, with me working full time with the SI's. God bless you, and keep you!" And there we have Ted Owen's predictions for another year. Owens never fails to stir up controversy with his SI point of view, and program hosts who have had him as a guest on radio and television talk shows state that he always keeps the lines humming. Interested readers may contact Ted Owens, the PK man, at Box 3134, Norfolk, Virginia 23514. 143 === Page 33 of 48 Chico (Calif.) Enterprise-Record, Thursday, May 3, 1973. Page 6B Ted Owens # Famed Psychic Visits Here By CATHY STOTT (Enterprise-Record Intern) One of the "world's greatest psychics" who predicts that the nation will be plagued by a drought this year is visiting in Chico. Ted Owens, who hails from Virginia and has been the subject of numerous national magazine articles as well as appearing on national television, is a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Al Bailey, owners of Chico MotorLodge, 725 Broadway. Acclaimed as one of the "world's greatest psychics" in the April 1971 issue of Saga Magazine, Owens says he doesn't just predict, he claims to have the power to cause "miracles" to happen. He says his mind had control of professional basketball and football teams in recent years and that he caused injuries to key players to keep certain teams out of the Super Bowl. In June 1967, Owens said, he notified the U.S. hurricane center that three simultaneous hurricanes would occur. Just after that, hurricanes Beulah, Chloe and Doris were active on the same weekend. In 1972, Owens told a team of scientists and other authorities that the country would experience terrible floods because humans had been polluting lakes, rivers and streams for too long. Many damaging floods occurred. Owens, who has been written about in many issues of Saga, Sports Illustrated, in two books, "Revelation, The Divine Power" and "Occult America" and many newspapers, explained that he gets his power from the Bermuda Triangle, off the Florida coast where many U.S. aircraft and ships have been reported missing. Owens pointed out that Dr. Jonathan Wright, National Aeronautics and Space Administration physicist has stated there is a UFO base in this area on an island in the Bahamas. "I have worked for and with them (UFOs) for 10 years," Owens said. Owens, who claims an IQ of 153 -- genious level -- is a member of Mensa, an international organization of people with IQs above 148. Only 2 per cent of the world's population belongs to Mensa, he said. To become a member, one must apply and go through extensive tests and analysis by teams of scientists. Owens has been analyzed over and over again by scientists in this country because of his 200 documented predictions and "paranormal phenomena." Owens has been a jazz drummer, lecturer, hypnotist -- the list of vocations approaches 50. He has appeared on a CBS television special and has recently been approached by Hollywood producers about a movie of his life, he said. Owens now trains people to become what he calls "super brains." He teaches individuals how to have instant access to 50 to 80 per cent of their brain power whereas most people have a much more limited usage. He gives them the "tools to solve any problem they are confronted with." He stated he is going to train some people while in Chico. Owens has a wife, Martha, and an 8-year-old son. MY SEVEN SCIENTISTS.......... When being interviewed by Miss Stott...she kept a poker face throughout, for approximately an hour. At the finish...after she'd seen my documentation... she stared at me, still pokerfaced, and said calmly, "You've just blown my mind." This was so funny, thought you'd like a chuckle on it. Ted === Page 34 of 48 Tattler Special Report January, 1976 # Top Psychics Foresee Massive UFO Sightings in Coming Year AMONG THE NOTED psychics who predict that UFO sightings will increase during 1976 are Marc Vito (left) and Ted Owens. They and other seers are in agreement that aliens from space will transport many humans to other worlds. However, the psychics say, the aliens mean us no harm and actually only want to help us develop more advanced techniques. By CLIFF LINEDECKER Of the Tattler Staff Top psychics contacted by Tattler claim there will be more sightings of UFO's in 1976 than ever before and hundreds of vanishings as alien intelligences transport humans to other dimensions and worlds. However, the psychics agree that the aliens mean no deliberate harm. Instead, some psychics say, the beings from other worlds are already helping mankind develop solar energy and to advance other areas of knowledge. As the number of sightings and contacts increases, according to psychic Ted Owens, of Cape Charles, Va., the U.S. government will reluctantly admit the UFO's are a reality. Owens, who is known as "The UFO Prophet," says there will be so many reputable witnesses, including scientists and police, that the government will be forced to admit that UFO's are observing mankind. "The government's job is to protect the people of the U. S. In this case, we are talking about the military, but if the military knows unequivocally that it cannot protect people from UFO's, then it doesn't want to admit that," explains Owens. "So they've been covering up the sightings hoping the whole thing will go away." OWENS SAYS there is nothing to fear, however. The UFO's are not hostile. "If they were, they would have taken us over long ago. My estimate is that the UFO's could take over the surface of the earth in a matter of minutes if they wished - but they don't wish to and have no reason to." The "UFO Prophet" says there are two types of beings responsible for the phenomena and claims to have been working personally with higher intelligences from another dimension for years. "They claim to have worked with Moses," he says, "and they never die. They are all knowing, and using telepathy, have personally gained much valuable knowledge from them." The second group of UFO's, Owens refers to as "O.I.'s," or "Other Intelligences." Although meaning no deliberate harm to life on this planet, he says, they are of lower intelligence than the other dimension beings and sometimes cause injury through carelessness. "O. I.'s are from other planets, and they can be rough on humans. The O.I.'s are responsible for some of the cattle mutilations. There is also some cult involvement, but the O.I.'s are the ones involved in the the very mysterious cases where surgical procedures come in that even our top surgeons could not accomplish." "WHY ARE THEY doing it? They don't want to interfere with our culture, but they do want to study life here. So they sneak around the periphery of our culture, dissecting some of these strange animals (cattle) and taking them back to their planet for closer examination." === Page 35 of 48 Three leading psychics reveal their predictions for 1976 Ted Owens: Violent storms Maris De Long: Small riots THREE of America's foremost psychics this week revealed their latest predictions exclusively for The Star's readers. Among the startling events they foresee for 1976 are: * President Ford's life will be in extreme danger. He will not be reelected. * Jackie Onassis and her teenage daughter Caroline will have a double wedding. * Violent storms will wreak havoc across the entire nation. Maris De Long of Los Angeles was Marilyn Monroe's personal psychic and predicted Kissinger's marriage and the death of Aristotle Onassis. She predicts: Ronald Reagan will be Ford's running mate in the national election. But Ford will not be re-elected. An obscure politician will go to the White House. Small riots will erupt in Los Angeles about mid-year. Christina Onassis will bear a son and heir to the Onassis fortune. But health problems will surround her at this time. Henry Kissinger's marriage will be rocky in 1976. There will be persistent rumors of divorce. Dr. K will resign from the Ford Administration. His wife will accept a public affairs appointment in the near future and become a famous stateswoman. Ted Owens, a prophet and healer from West Virginia, foretold the Watergate scandal and Nixon's historic departure from the White House. He predicts: America's economy will nosedive in 1976, causing an epidemic of crime and unemployment. President Ford is now in the greatest physical danger of his life. In the next few months an assassination attempt will be made on him that is not amateurish. A storm of revolution will sweep America during 1976 and in the following year. Politicians and government workers will be mobbed in the streets by angry citizens. More great celebrities will pass away in 1976 than in any previous year. Violent weather will wreak havoc on most parts of the nation. Freak tornados, hurricanes, droughts and raging storms will be reported more often than ever before. Jandolin Marks, a former model who lives in Alaska, foresaw the United Air Lines crash that killed 43 persons including the wife of Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt. She predicts: Jandolin Marks: Air mishaps World heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali will be the proud father of a baby boy. Jacqueline Onassis and her daughter Caroline, will reveal plans for a double wedding ceremony later this year. Patty Hearst is destined to become one of the world's most loved philanthropists. A mid-air collision near snow covered peaks will occur in the last week of March, 1976. Two other tragic air mishaps will be reported during January -- one involving a military plane crash on a mountain side, the second caused by a thunder storm. THE Star 30c Jan. 13, 1976 America's liveliest family weekly === Page 36 of 48 December 27, 1973 TO MY SEVEN SCIENTISTS, MY REGULAR CONTACTS, AND THE UFO (SI) DISC PEOPLE.......... Listed below are the books and magazines which, so far, have carried articles and pictures of me in them...which have described my work, in part or in whole. And soon there will be two more books coming out doing same. (BOOKS) "Occult America" by John Godwin, Doubleday & Co., Inc., Garden City, NY $7.95. "Revelation: The Divine Fire", Brad Steiger, Prentice-Hall Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ. $7.95. "How To Contact Space People", Ted Owens, Galaxy Press, 200 Chapel St. Kitchener, Ontario, Canada (or from Saucerian Pubs., Clarksburg, W. Va.)...$5 "Predictions For 1973", Glenn McWane, Award Books, #AQ1032, 235 E. 45th St., NY NY 10017 $1.25. "What The Seers Predict For 1972", Brad Steiger and Warren Smith, Lancer Books, 1560 Broadway, NY NY 10036 $1.25. "What The Seers Predict For 1971", Brad Steiger and Warren Smith, Lancer Books, 1560 Broadway, NY NY 10036 $1.25. "The Devil Is Alive And Well And Living In America Today", Jason Michaels, $1.25 Award Books, AQ1137, 235 E. 45th St., NY NY 10017 "Flying Saucer Intelligences Speak", Ted Owens, Galaxy Press, 200 Chapel St. Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, $1.25. "Other Dimensions: 1974" by Brad Steiger, Other Dimensions Inc., 104 Washington St., Decorah, Iowa, 52101, $1.25. "Danger On The Moon", Michael X, Saucerian Pubs, Box 2228, Clarksburg, W. Va. $1.50 "PREDICTIONS FOR 1974", WARREN SMITH, BOX 897, CLINTON, IOWA, 52732, $1.25. (MAGAZINES) Saga Magazine, 333 Johnson Avenue, Brooklyn, New York...the following issues: (at 60¢) August, 1970 September 1970 January 1971 March 1971 April 1971 October 1971 January 1972 February 1972 Saga Annual 1972...75¢ January 1973 Saga Annual 1973...75¢ and Saga UFO Special 1973...75¢ Sport Magazine, 205 E. 42nd St., NY NY...50¢. (July 1971, Vol. 52, No. 1) There you have it to date. Of course there have been dozens and dozens of newspaper articles written about my work...also articles in National Tattler publication. They contain detailed descriptions of my work, my miracles, my predictions...and will give you a wealth of information about PK Man! Owens (PK Man) Ted Owens (PK Man) Box 48 Cape Charles, Va. 23310 === Page 37 of 48 Virginian-Pilot, Tuesday, March 27, 1973 B7 # 'PK Man' Owens Retires--Undefeated By FRANK VEHORN Virginian-Pilot Sports Writer Ted Owens, a man who claims to have stopped both Julius Erving and Bubba Smith without moving a finger and who wrecked entire major league teams, is disassociating himself from the affairs of sports. A resident of Cape Charles who has achieved international attention, Owens disclosed he is withdrawing all hexes previously applied to persons, geographical locations and athletic teams. The announcement will be cause for celebration in Philadelphia and Baltimore, where Owens said his powers were used in disrupting athletic teams. In several magazines and national television programs, Owens has explained that his special powers are received from "space intellectuals" with whom he communicates. Most of his predictions have involved storms, earthquakes, space research and draughts. He can produce documented proof of his success. But he also has carried out attacks against several professional teams and assumed responsibility last season for the Squires losing in the ABA playoffs to the New York Nets. Owens made known most of his predictions in news letters to scientists and selected journalists. In his latest, he says he has "erased the blackboard clean... and any vestige of PK (the power he uses) effect in the past, attached to anything or anyone at all... is now gone and erased." Owens would not disclose the reason for removing his power. "I am under orders not to do so," he said. His only remaining act, he said, would be to produce a mild earthquake in northern California in which no one will be killed or hurt. Owens, whose powers are described in an article in the current Saga Magazine annual, said a movie soon will be made of his life but he would not reveal any other future plans. ![TED OWENS ... removes hexes] For the post several years, Owens attempted to reach agreement with several proteams for a deal in which he would use his psychic powers to help the team win. Owens said former Baltimore Colts owner Carroll Rosenbloom, who now owns the Los Angeles Rams, wanted to employ him but was prevented from doing so by National Football League commissioner Pete Rozelle. Owens then turned against the Colts, who one year won the Super Bowl and then started falling apart, culminated last season when coach Don McCafferty was fired and the legendary Johnny Unitas was benched. Before the season, Rosenbloom swapped the Colts for the Rams and Owens said the move was because Rosenbloom was trying to escape the hex that Owens had on him. But Owens notified Rosenbloom that he would PK the Rams, too, and a couple of days later Rams quarterback Roman Gabriel was stricken with a rare lung injury. The mood for the Colts was set when Bubba Smith injured himself by running into a yard marker when no one was near him. Smith's season-long absence badly hurt the Baltimore defense. Last year, the Squires infuriated Owens by bringing in an actor who claimed to cast evil spells on New York during the playoffs. The Squires had ignored an offer by Owens. Owens informed the Squires, who were ahead, 3-1, in the best-of-seven series, that he was working against them. The Nets won the last three games and the series. In the final game, the Squires shot their worst of the season and one player commented, "It was strange. The shots that usually go in just were not dropping." Not ever Julius Erving, the remarkable forward Owens considers the best in basketball, could pull the Squires through. But Philadelphia, home of the worst collection of professional athletic teams, has felt the sting of Owens the most. "It started back in 1968 when I lived there," explained Owens. "The brother of Eagles owner Jerry Wolman met with me and said he was interested in using my powers to help the team. "He gave me a couple of tickets to the game. The opponent was Pittsburgh and that team fumbled and dropped the ball about every time. But Philadelphia was worse." So the Steelers won and the Eagles rejected Owens. Owens then, to prove his powers, turned against the Eagles and eventually all of Philadelphia's athletic teams. Last year the baseball team had the worst record in the National League and this season the basketball team has the worst record in pro basketball. Owens remembers when Norman Snead broke his leg while playing with the Eagles. "There was no one near him when it happened" said Owens. "But I was on the spot, throwing my PK at him." Owens normally PKed teams while listening to games on radio or by watching games on television. Last season Eagles owner Leonard Tose "guaranteed" his team would beat New York in a game on national television. Owens called The Virginian-Pilot and said he was "going one-on-one" with Tose and the Eagles would not win. Sportscaster Howard Cosell remarked the game was one of the strangest he had seen, that the Eagles were moving the ball all over the field but couldn't score. Owens won and Tose and his Eagles lost. "From the time I started working against the Eagles, the team was wiped out, the coach (Joe Kuharich then) was fired and the owner (Wolman) went bankrupt," said Owens, who last season claims to have stopped both the Chicago Bears and Cleveland Browns. Most of the times Owens went against teams was because he was ridiculed. Two years ago, Baltimore Bullets coach Gene Shue insulted Owens on television while his team was leading in the NBA playoffs. "I told Shue his team might as well not suit up for the remaining games of the playoffs," said Owens, "and I was right because the Bullets didn't win." Owens says now when he sits down to watch a ball game on television it is just for enjoyment. "I don't care if the Eagles, the Phillies or the 76ers win," he said. "But it may take a while for the PK force to wear off in some areas." Owens says he won't PK a team any more, even if someone calls him a nut or crackpot. He is even forgetting the differences he had the past year with the Squires. "In fact, I hope the Squires win the championship in the playoffs," he said, "and I believe they can do it. The Squires are the best team in professional basketball when Julius Erving is at full strength. "I would even put them up against the Celtics or the Lakers." If the Squires went against the Celtics or Lakers, though, they would probably need the blessing of Ted Owens. Now, that can't happen. 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BROOKLYN, NEW YORK 11206 EXCELLENT REPORTING Three cheers for SAGA. You've done it again. Your article about strange findings on the moon in your March issue was marvelous. Your magazine does more to inform the public about UFOs, astronomy, psychic discoveries, and related subjects than any other magazine, newspaper, ra- dio or television, and I, for one, am most grateful. Joseph Goodavage, the author of "What Strange-and Fright- ening-Discoveries Did Our Astronauts Make on the Moon?", is an excellent re- porter, and he has many admirers among the thinking public. Please continue to do such an excellent job of reporting on Ted Owens, Mariner findings, and other data and discoveries on related subjects. The moon article real- ly held my attention, and I bought several copies and passed them out to friends. You deserve a lot of credit for giving us the truth. It's what we need the most right now. Future success to your magazine. K.S. Phinney Sepulveda, Calif. SLOWER IS FASTER In the April Sound Off you ran a letter headlined Time Travel. The writer presented a case for using time travel in star travel. He built his case pretty well but he completely missed the most likely and best method of using time travel in space exploration. This method is what I call the "Time Di- lation Effect." It consists of 2 concentric spheres of time traveling at different speeds. The outer sphere will travel at a much slower pace than normal speed, holding the ship back in time. The inner sphere will travel at the same pace as the normal universe. Thus the outside world can make a trip to a star at a speed slow- er than light, but to the people inside the ship and on the parent world it would ap- pear to be traveling faster than light. In this way you have circumvented the speed of light barrier without breaking it. If you cannot understand this it is be- cause your human brain is not powerful enough to conceive of something on so high an order. David Mortimere Goffstown, N.H. GOVERNMENT SUPPRESSION To begin with, you deserve a big pat on the back and a warm thank you for telling it like it is. All of your articles are great and informative, but being a UFO buff for a long, long time now, I refer to your cov- erage of the UFO controversy. It gives me a secure feeling to know that at least one part of the news media-your maga- zine-keeps the general public informed about things which they are concerned about and which really matter to them in their everyday lives. I firmly believe that our government should be doing the same thing that SAGA is doing; keeping the public aware so we won't be in the dark about what to do or expect if, by chance, we are con- tacted by spacecraft and beings from an- other planet. There is no doubt in my mind that the government is suppressing and hiding facts and evidence that we should know about. Because of your pub- lication, and the way you dig up material for us to read, we will at least be a whole lot smarter and wiser about what is going on. You are doing a superior job. Name and address withheld by request UFOs EXPLAINED This concerns "Amazing Super Sci- ence Of The Ancients" by Joseph F. Goodavage (April 1974). Forty years ago when I was in the third grade, I looked around one day and said to myself, "this cannot be all there is to it. There have been those before us and there will be those who will follow!" I had already had a taste of biblical teachings on the creation, which occurred 8,000 years ago, and wondered who was trying to kid whom! As time passed and I found out more about the world and about what has been discovered by different investigators, the more I tried to convince others that the Bible is an unproved book of folktales and mythology. Our society is so bound up by religious doctrine that it is a wonder to me that the radio has ever been accepted as a fact. One can tear a radio apart and not find where the voices and music come from. so one can say the radio doesn't exist! UFOs don't "exist" because they are impossible according to most of the sci- entific and engineering brains (?) of the world. Former civilizations are impossible because no mechanical artifacts have been found. Even if bulldozers and au- tomobiles were to be dug up, the diggers and scientific minds would not accept the facts before their eyes! WHY? Because we all are told that we started from Adam and Eve 8,000 years ago, and they did not have clothing much less any machinery. I may be the only one on Earth who tru- ly feels the way I do, but I think it's a won- der that the human race as we know it ever learned to hunt and fish and use fire to cook with. Because, by and large, the scientific and ruling types are so utterly pigheaded and dense when anything new is even mentioned as a possibility! Every time progress has been made in (Continued on page 6) SAGA 4 === Page 39 of 48 Psychoenergetic Systems 1975, Vol. 1, pp. 98 © Gordon and Breach Science Publishers Ltd. Printed in Great Britain # Letter Sir--I would like to suggest to those planning further work with Uri Geller (as well as similar psychokinesis sensitives and "healers") a line of research whose significance, were anything like positive data to be obtained, would be difficult to overestimate. I am referring to the possibility of replicating--and even extending--the type of experiment which followed S. L. Miller's production in 1957 of amino acids from the electrical sparking of a mixture of water vapour, methane, ammonia and hydrogen (all presumed to have been available on earth prior to the beginning of primitive life). Since Miller's classic experiment (1959), investigators have played with the idea that the production not only of amino acids and protein molecules and chains but of the basic genetic material itself--"life" in the form of self-replicating molecules--could be achieved (Calvin, 1969; Rutten, 1971; Strong, 1970). Despite the use of a variety of approaches and catalytic agents, however, this goal has continued to elude them. The possibility is worth considering that physical psychics of the stature of Uri Geller, and conceivably proven "healers" (let us say those who have successfully altered rates of enzyme reactions), might be able to provide what electric current, ultraviolet light, high pressures, and high temperatures have not themselves been able to provide. I do not feel that experiments with persons of this stature should be limited solely to trying to achieve the types of things which have, in essence, been done repeatedly in the past. Investigators in psychical research might as well go for broke in one of the most baffling areas in current science. Positive data would also, needless to say, provide a link to a number of areas in our own riddle-wrapped area, from the data of materialization to data now on dead center in the survival problem (Cairns-Smith, 1971; Eisenbud, 1972). It need hardly be emphasized that this type of research might be far more complex and difficult than that heretofore carried out. I feel certain, however, that the cooperation of biochemists can be counted upon. REFERENCES Cairns-Smith, A. G. *The Life Puzzle*. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1971. Calvin, M. *Chemical Evolution*. Oxford: Clarendon, 1969. Eisenbud, J. The dilemma of the survival data. Discussion of Professor Flew's paper. *Journal of the American Society of Psychical Research*, 1972, **66**, 145-154. Miller, S. L. Formation of organic compounds on the primitive earth. In Oparin, A. I. (Ed.), *The Origin of Life on Earth*. London: Pergamon, 1959. Rutten, M. G. *The Origin of Life by Natural Causes*. New York: Elsevier, 1971. Strong, C. L. Experiments in generating the constituents of living matter from inorganic substances. *Scientific American*, January, 1970, 130-139. JULE EISENBUD, 4634 East 6th Avenue, Denver, Colorado 80220, U.S.A. 98 === Page 40 of 48 Are you playing apps. with Owens? copy for Jeff people 20 San Francisco Chronicle N Mon., June 3, 1974 # When Superbrain Makes It Happen By Kevin Wallace Ted Owens, "the UFO and PK man" from rural Cape Charles, Va., has been widely misrepresented as using his flying saucer contacts to predict the scores of pro-ball games. "I don't predict," Owens explained impatiently. "I watch the games, two at a time on the TV, and I MAKE it happen, play by play." Owens, a smiling and portly man with a cigar, has been here at the Bayside Motor Inn for the past few days, on a tutoring errand to improve a local student's brain. "I teach a few people how to have superbrains," he said, offhandedly, and moved back to the bigger picture: "I have a special brain, half UFO, half human. "I see the day when each pro team will have its own master psychic on the bench -- say, Jeane Dixon and her crystal ball with the Raiders, and me with my SI Disc with the 49ers -- and the most powerful psychic would win." He produced a clipping showing it's already being done on a small scale in Kenya, where soccer teams hire witch doctors. Next he produced an SI Disc -- a sort of red poker chip with white squiggles on it. "I don't sell SI Discs," he said. "But since it takes me 20 minutes to program each one, and I have mailing costs, I have to ask for a minimum $5 contribution." He also lectures. SI Discs seem to help people, Owens said -- and, from a mass of articles and documents strewn over his bed, he extracted a letter from a small girl in Bremerton, Wash., saying her back trouble cleared up after a year of wearing her SI Disc and seeing the doctor. But SI Discs won't get just anybody into contact with what SI stands for -- "Space Intelligences," which are UFO-borne beings, "not from another planet, but another dimension," who ten years ago established two-way telepathic contact with Owens, at the time just another writer, while he was motoring along on a drive through Texas. "They told me I was the only human they'd been able to get into two-way communication with them -- and survive it -- since Moses," Owens recalled, with modest relish. With a batting average like that, it's hardly likely that a third SI communicator will turn up right away, despite the great revival in occult interest, especially in the Bay Area. "But the new interest is a good thing," Owens said, "even if it only makes everybody read a book called 'Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain,' which shows how far ahead the Russians are in all this." He shuddered pleasurably. Actually, when Owens arranges ball game outcomes -- and, as he adds, "other large-scale PK things, such as storms, droughts, volcanos and hurricanes, all of them documented by scientists and lawyers in these articles and letters right here" -- it's the SI folks up in their flying saucers who are doing it, at Owens' request. By "PK," Owens alludes to "psychokinesis," the term for mentally affecting objects at a distance -- the sort of thing that the Stanford Research Institute's Uri Geller likes to do, bending spoons and car keys on TV shows. Owens maintains a common sense skepticism about whether Geller's alleged extraterrestrial contacts are on a par with his own SI friends -- asking, reasonably, "If so, why just bend spoons?" From the bed, he produced accounts of his own larger-minded enterprises from the Chicago National News Exploiter, the National Tatler, Saga Magazine, the Chattanooga Times, a couple of paperbacks about "What the Seers Predict," and the Mensa Bulletin, house organ of the society of Owens' peers in the higher IQ brackets. A paperback showed that in 1970 Owens "predicted" -- though the verb is at odds with Owens' general usage -- "President Nixon will not end in office. Something unusual will occur, and he will either resign or be forced out of office." Other clippings and affidavits credited Owens with arranging for lightning to strike in Philadelphia and three simultaneous hurricanes to harrass Florida in 1968, the losing streak of the Baltimore Colts in 1971, an earthquake in the Texas panhandle last February, and the materialization of a UFO earlier this month over the Dallas Airport -- which was nothing. "The time those two Mississippi fishermen went for a flight aboard a UFO -- well, I not only asked the UFO to go pick them up, I brought out the other UFOs in 25 states right afterwards, to create a furor." Owens, an Indiana boy to start with, creates his furors nowadays in an otherwise sleepy "six-by-six block" Virginia village, sometimes to the alarm of his wife, who he says is "a simple Texas girl who doesn't know much what goes on. "But she's had phenomena happen to her. Like the knife floating around in the kitchen. And the night she came in screaming from the balcony, after a little creature had dropped down beside her. And the time she saw this pigeon with a radar antenna around its neck." Such unnerving trivia are accepted with aplomb by Owens, much as the whole world was by W. C. Fields. And still is by Walter Cronkite. Owens' four children are more psychically gifted, especially Teddy, 3, who brings an ashtray when Owens is just sitting in his chair, smoking and beginning to wish an ashtray was at hand. The next-youngest, Beau -- "actually that's Beau-garde, with an accent over the e" -- first showed his own gift four years ago. "I was sitting in front of the TV one day, planning to control two basketball games, when Beau climbed on my lap and controlled them himself -- two basketball games in one day, and that's complicated even for me. And Beau was only 8 at the time!" ted Owens keep Sounds like a real nut or a clever money game!! === Page 41 of 48 Best to Dr. Sprinkle... Owens (PK Man) PARAPSYCHOLOGY IN EUROPE Ted Owens Prof. W.H.C. Tenhaeff Prof. Hans Bender John Eccles 56 === Page 42 of 48 Courtyard of the Utrecht cathedral Dr. John Hasted by Jeffrey Mishlove The 1976 convention of the Parapsychological Association was held under the shadow -- in fact, virtually in the courtyard -- of an 800 year old gothic cathedral at the State University of Utrecht in Holland. Located in the center of the Netherlands, the University of Utrecht is the largest in the country with an enrollment of over 30,000 students. Combining ancient traditions with modern science, the university actually houses two separate parapsychology laboratories. Dr. Martin Johnson, president of the P.A. and host of the conference, is a modern researcher, steeped in both the philosophy of science and empirical research methods. His colleague, 88 year old Dr. W.H.C. Tenhaeff, Europe's first academic parapsychologist, is still an active researcher. The conference itself was a mixture of old and new approaches to psychical research at a level of intensity rarely, if ever, equalled in the history of this emerging science. Over 80 papers were presented covering phenomenal new research in psychokinesis, ganzfeld techniques, out-of-body experiences, physiological measures, hypnosis, meditation, subliminal perception, and general ESP. The keynote address was delivered by Sir John Eccles, Nobel laureate in physiology, who described his dualistic theory of mind-body interaction; and, of particular interest, specified psychological experiments which, in his opinion, indicated both precognition and psychokinesis taking place *within the brain!* The precognitive experiment involves conscious detection of a signal a fraction of a sec the neural impulses act the cortex. As for psy the brain, the exa supports J.B. that an act ing a o Psychic -- January/February 1977 57 === Page 43 of 48 Even if Hasted's paper had been the only one presented, the P.A. Convention would have still been an important scientific landmark. In one of his experiments, Hasted made simultaneous electronic measurements of the PK "strain" on three keys which were suspended from the ceiling of the laboratory, equidistant and out of reach of his young subject. The results show a comparable, but not exactly identical, force affecting all three keys simultaneously. In another study, aluminum strips which were left alone in a room became twisted and braided like pigtails within a matter of seconds. The subject was in an adjoining room. Electronic strain gauges recorded a force on the metal unlike anything that would be seen by normal human bending. The extraordinary success of the PK research has led some experimenters to seriously question ethical ramifications. Dr. Zbigniew W. Wolkowski of Paris announced (at a later conference in London) the discontinuation of his PK research, after he was asked to explore the use of psychokinesis to modify genetic material. Citing the admonitions of philosophers and spiritual teachers, Wolkowski stated his opinion that psychokinetic forces were of a "low level," and possibly quite destructive. He maintained that clear ethical positions should be formulated before such research is allowed to continue much further. On the other hand, Hasted suggested that in a few years, commercial applications of PK and telekinesis would be possible. Important breakthroughs were also announced in ESP research. Ernesto Spinelli, a doctoral student in psychology at the University of Surrey, England, created a ripple of excitement when he reported the results of a three-year study relating chronological age to ESP abilities. Over 700 subjects ranging in age from 3 to 35 participated in over 7,500 experimental trials. The results were remarkable and will probably have a profound effect on our understanding of developmental psychology. Children in the age range of 3.3 to 3.7 years scored 672 hits out of 1500 trials in a situation where only 300 hits would be expected by chance. The experimental task was a uniquely designed card-guessing test which was electronically monitored with rigorous controls against sensory leakage or cheating. The chance probabilities of such incredible results is less than one in $10^{90}$. Children in the age range of 4.5 to 4.9 years also scored significantly above chance, obtaining 523 hits out of 1500 trials. The probability of this score being obtained by chance is less than one in $10^{30}$. Children between 5 and 8 years of age achieved 386 hits out of 1500 trials. The probability of this score occurring by chance is less than one in a thousand. Above the age of eight years, the ESP scores in Spinelli's experiment dropped to the scoring level of most average adults, less than one percent above chance expectations. When they are repeated, these results should clearly establish the important role of psychical research in developmental psychology. Other studies explored the relationship between ESP and meditation, psychotherapy, relaxation, erotic stimulation, openness of personality, call-time, cognitive modes of awareness, classroom experience, mother-child relationship, emotionally loaded targets and experimenter personality. Nicholas Tornatore, a psychologist from Staten Island, N.Y., conducted a survey of over 600 psychiatrists regarding the incidences of psi during therapy with their patients. Twenty-eight percent of the psychiatrists reported that they had personally had at least one paranormal experience. Over ten percent of the psychiatrists noted paranormal phenomena during their sessions with patients. The data tended to support the notion that psi occurred at times in the therapy when significant emotional breakthroughs or shifts in attitude were taking place. In half of the cases, the psychiatrists felt that the paranormal incident aided in the analysis of the patient. Often, however, the analyst was not aware of the implications which the incident might have for therapy. Tornatore concluded his paper by suggesting that institutions providing training for psychiatrists and clinical psychologists should be concerned with psi phenomena and their relationship to therapy (see his report in this issue). Following the Utrecht convention, many researchers traveled to London for the Institute of Parascience conference at the City University of London. The presentations at this meeting covered a greater range of topics than at the Parapsychological Association Metal objects sealed in tubes developed paranormal bends in the presence of Hasted's young subjects. Straightened paperclips intertwined themselves in a few moments while placed in a glass globe. Perhaps the key point in evaluating the success of the glass globe experiment is that, after two years Hasted has been unable to discover any technicians or magicians who have been able to produce comparable bending of the paper clips using normal means. Hasted has now gathered enough solid data to begin forming theories regarding the vectors and forces required for the phenomena he has observed. Psychic--January/February 1977 59 === Page 44 of 48 how to encourage and foster the psychic aptitudes of their children, before the major governments of the world establish reliable lines of communication with civilizations beyond the earth? After attending the research conferences in Utrecht and London, I can clearly imagine the possibility that these events will occur before the end of this century. (Continued from 40) that "the basic underlying idea is the same. More fascinating and important, however, is their view that altered states of consciousness produced by psychedelic drugs, by toxic substances and by anoxia (often characteristic of dying persons) result in deathbed visions, apparitions and other unusual mental experiences. They further suggest that it is such experiences that are the source of the eschatological mythologies that are to be found in the world's religions. They provide interesting data in substantiation of these claims. In Part III, Chapter XIII--the only chapter that is devoted entirely to a parapsychological approach to survival after bodily death--Rosalind Heywood relates a number of her own psychic experiences which are suggestive of survival. Her paper is well-written, interesting and makes only modest claims, but it adds no new theoretical knowledge to this sort of presentation. One noticeable error in the volume is Koestler's attribution of "the best of all possible worlds" doctrine to Hegel. This is a view for which Leibniz is widely known. Frederick C. Dommeyer, Ph. D. (Dr. Dommeyer is professor of philosophy at San Jose State University.) ========== ALSO OF NOTE ========== **Seeing with the Mind's Eye** by Mike and Nancy Samuel. New York/Berkeley, Random House Bookworks, 1975. 331 pp. $9.95. The history and practice of visualization; contains a chapter on parapsychology. **Occult Illustrated Dictionary** by Harvey Day. New York, Oxford University Press, 1976. 156 pp. $8.50. A dictionary of terms used in parapsychology and occult sciences. **The Paranormal Perception of Color** by Yvonne Duplessis. New York, Parapsychology Foundation, 1975. 117 pp. $4.50 (Paperback). Skin vision and the use of color for ESP tests. **Vibrations** by Daniel Logan. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, 1976. 193 pp. $7.95. Well-known psychic tells how to help yourself channel and deal with ESP experiences. **The Space Gods Revealed** by Ronald Story. New York, Harper & Row, 1976. 139 pp. $7.95. An expose of van Daniken's views and facts. **The Healing Environment** by Cristina Ismael. Millbrae, Ca. Celestial Arts, 1976. 206 pp. $4.95. A survey on occult, psychic, and mental healing. **A Meditator's Diary** by Jane Hamilton-Merritt. New York, Harper & Row, 1976. A western woman's experiences with meditation in Thailand. # Bibliography **PSYCHIC COUNSELING** EISENBUD, J., *Psi and Psychoanalysis*. New York: Grune and Stratton, 1970. HONORTON, C., "Psi-Conducive States of Awareness," in Mitchell, E. D. et al., *Psychic Exploration*. New York: Putnam's 1974. ROGERS, C., *Client-Centered Therapy*. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1971. ULLMAN, M., "Psi and Psychiatry," in Mitchell, E. D., et al., *Psychic Exploration*. New York: Putnam's, 1974. **THE PARANORMAL EVENT IN PSYCHIC THERAPY** COLEMAN, M. L., "The paranormal triangle in analytical supervision," *Psychoanalysis and the Psychoanalytic Review*. 1958, Vol. 45, pp. 73-84. EHRENWALD, J., *Telepathy and medical psychology*. New York: Grune & Stratton, 1966. EHRENWALD, J., "Presumptively telepathic incidents during analysis," *Psychiatric Quarterly*, 1950, Vol. 24, pp. 726-743. EISENBUD, J., "Telepathy and problems of psychoanalysis," in G. Devereux (Ed.), *Psychoanalysis and the occult*. New York: International Universities Press, 1953. EISENBUD, J., *Psi and psychoanalysis: Studies in the psychoanalysis of psi-conditioned behavior*. New York: Grune & Stratton, 1970. FREUD, S., "Dreams and telepathy," in G. Devereux (Ed.), *Psychoanalysis and the occult*. New York: International Universities Press, 1953. JUNG, C. G., *Memories, dreams, reflections*. New York: Vintage, 1961. SERVADIO, E., "Psychoanalysis and telepathy," in G. Devereux (Ed.), *Psychoanalysis and the occult*. New York: International Universities Press, 1953. ----------, "Telepathy and psychoanalysis," *Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research*, 1958, Vol. 52, pp. 127-133. # Astrobiology TAKING THE PLACE OF # Parapsychology? ASTROBIOLOGY THE SCIENCE OF THE UNIVERSE Th. Gudjonsson 208 pages. Illustrated. Paperback. Price $ 7.00. Is parapsychology only something about relations between people -- plants and animals perhaps also -- but nothing else? Or is there an extraterrestrial source of the phenomena involved? If you think so **ASTROBIOLOGY** by Th. Gudjonsson is the book for you. In Astrobiology, the cosmic philosophy from Iceland and its relations to recent discoveries, is being introduced. BIORADII I enclose check or m.o. for $.......... payment in full for ..........copy(ies) of Astrobiology. The Science of the Universe. Airmail delivery and guaranteed refund. ---------- To Bioradii Publications, P.O. Box 722, Reykjavik, Iceland. Psychic--January/February 1977 61 === Page 45 of 48 signal a fraction of a second before the neural impulses actually reach the cortex. As for psychokinesis in the brain, the example Eccles chose supports J.B. Rhine's contention that an act of pure will, such as lifting a finger, is evidence of mind over matter. To do this properly, there should be no apparent stimulus for the action. Eccles discussed the neurophysiological concomitants of such an act. His dualistic notion of mind-body interactions was provocative in that it contradicted both the orthodox neurophysiological view and the newer theories of consciousness now being put forth by quantum physicists. A major highlight of the conference was a Japanese television film which documented the spectacular talents of Dutch psychic sleuth Gerard Croiset. Croiset was flown to Japan from Amsterdam in order to locate a missing child. Upon his arrival he was taken straightaway to a television studio in front of the cameras. Immediately, on seeing a photograph of the missing child, he began furiously drawing a map of the area where he thought she should be found. Then Croiset went to bed, but the television crew used his map to find the actual site and set up TV cameras there before dawn. As the sun came up, the film shows the young girl's body rising out of the lake, where Croiset had pinpointed her--before either Croiset or the police had arrived on the scene. A further interview shows the amazement of the police chief when he arrives. Many experimental researchers found loopholes in the TV film presentation and stated their opinion, quite accurately, that from an evidential point of view the film was too uncontrolled and proved nothing. Yet the purpose of such a film wasn't to provide proof, but rather documentation for those who were willing to assume the basic honesty of the participants. The film drew a loud applause from the hundred participants who had missed lunch and packed into a hot crowded room to see it. Under the direction of Dr. W.H.C. Tenhaeff, in-depth personality studies with talented "paragnosts" such as Croiset have been the main focus of research for many decades. Tenhaeff has studied over 500 police cases solved by Croiset, and even more failures. As Croiset has shown a particular talent for locating the bodies of drowned children, it is interesting to note that he himself nearly drowned in a lake at the age of six. The event left a lasting impression on his mind. A touching moment for the audience of researchers occurred when Dr. Hans Bender, director of the Institute for Border Areas of Psychology and Mental Health in Freiburg, Germany, described his long friendship with Tenhaeff--which had inspired him to create his own laboratory in Germany. Bender was reduced to tears when he recalled how their association had been disrupted during the painful years of the second world war in Europe. Of great importance to contemporary parapsychology were the reports of unusually talented psychokinetic subjects from around the world--whose abilities were generally triggered when they learned of Uri Geller's amazing talents. E. Alan Price reported studies with ten such subjects in South Africa. Other reports came from France, Germany, Denmark and England. Dr. John B. Hasted, chairman of the physics department at Birkbeck College, University of London, has been conducting intensive studies with six subjects over the past two years. Hasted's documentation of extraordinary PK phenomena seems to exceed that of any other scientist in the world. He has shown the bending of metals (Fry's #11 alloy) normally so brittle that they would fracture sooner than bend. Hasted has now conducted over twenty experiments in which his young subjects are asked to cause metal-bending in unfolded paper clips which are placed inside of a glass globe six inches in diameter. This experiment has produced marvelous results. Sometimes as many as eighty paper clips become entirely knotted, gnarled, twisted and intertwined--packing the globe so tightly that it will not rattle when shaken. Sometimes the experiment is done twice, first with silver colored clips, then with copper clips which become intertwined with the others. The experiment does have a few drawbacks. First the globes are not entirely sealed. A small hole, about a quarter of an inch in diameter, is left so that the clips may be inserted. The experiment has not been successful when the glass is completely sealed (although Zbig-niew Wolkowski in Paris has done this successfully with Pierre Gerard). Also, the subjects are generally alone when the metal bending occurs, without any scientists watching (again, Wolkowski in Paris has actually seen the metal bending in the sealed glass container). Once in a while Hasted and his colleagues are fortunate enough to actually see, and videotape the bending of the paper clips in the glass globes. *Straight pieces of metal braid themselves together while the subject is in the next room at Prof. Hasted's laboratory.* *Metal so brittle that it breaks rather than bends was deformed by one of Prof. John Hasted's subjects.* 58 === Page 46 of 48 convention, and were also addressed to a wider audience. Topics ranged from theoretical physics and cybernetics to testimonies of personal encounters with UFO intelligences. Noted novelist Colin Wilson spoke on the Gurdjieff techniques of psychic development. The general tone of the meeting was lively and personal. Scottish physicist and astronomer, Axel Firsoff, presented a paper on theoretical physics and parapsychology. Then he discussed his experimentation on reincarnation in cats and his personal encounters with UFOs. Professor John Taylor, of King's College in London, showed videotapes which had captured the apparent materialization of a small metal object, as well as several other objects bending in front of the camera without being touched. Unfortunately, Taylor's videotape was made in the home of his subject, using equipment that Taylor had left with him, at a time when no scientists were actually present. It's therefore not impossible that the image on the videotape was fraudulently produced. Taylor, nevertheless, affirmed his trust in the subject. Furthermore, examination of the actual magnetic tape showed no evidence that it had been tampered with. Other calculations made it seem to Taylor highly unlikely that the metal object was thrown at high speed to produce an effect similar to materialization. Dr. Keith Birkenshaw of University College in London suggested that the entire issue of psychokinetic metal bending may be a "non-problem" comparable to the efforts of early explorers to find the edge of the earth. Suzanne Padfield, a well-known psychic whose PK talents have been extensively tested in the British Paraphysical Laboratory of Benson Herbert, presented an interesting paper on the use of "psychic support figures." These are the "guides," "spirits," "space-brothers," "masters," and other assorted other-dimensional entities to which many psychics attribute their powers. Padfield stated that in the beginning of her psychic work, she thought that her powers had come through extraterrestrial sources. Since then she has learned to take responsibility for her psychokinesis as a natural human talent. She suggested that parapsychologists should be tolerant of the needs of psychics to maintain "psychic support figures," without letting these extraneous concepts interfere with good research and theoretical understanding of psi. Perhaps more than other psychics, Padfield is sensitive to the different conceptual frameworks which distinguish psychic practice from scientific practice. Her husband, Ted Bastin, an eminent British physicist, presented a paper on the philosophical issues in attempting to reduce psychic phenomena to the language of quantum physics and relativity. Padfield's presentation was followed by what might be considered the most unusual talk ever to be presented on a scientific podium. Mr. Ted Owens, "the PK Man," from Cape Charles, Virginia, spoke before the parascience conference on his own psychic achievements which he claims resulted from his personal communication with flying saucer entities. To back up his claims, Owens produced piles of affidavits, newspaper clippings, letters and documents sufficient to astound the most open-minded and experienced researcher of the paranormal. A letter from Max L. Fogel, Ph.D., director of science and education for Mensa in America testified that in 1973, two days after a written "prediction" from Owens, a UFO was sighted by a policeman in Chase City, Virginia. Owens claimed that he had actually caused that sighting by signalling his UFO "friends" to appear. In California, last April, two days after Owens sent a letter to scientists at the Stanford Research Institute, claiming that he was about to have his UFOs interfere with the weather, it snowed for the first time in over ten years in the City of Menlo Park. Newspaper clippings indicated that some teenagers had never seen snow before! An affidavit from a radio producer in Dallas, Texas, stated that within weeks of Owens' public claim that he would produce a "major demonstration" of his power over the weather in Texas there was an earthquake of 4.5 on the Richter scale, high winds and tornadoes, the coldest weather in Texas history, followed by hot winds which destroyed half of the Texas wheat crop. Other documents indicated similar "demonstrations" in Cleveland and Chicago. The parascience conference was not totally prepared to handle a character the likes of Owens. Outrage was expressed by such notable members of the audience as Professor J.B. Hasted when Owens suggested that the U.S. government should use him as an agent of psychic warfare against the Russians. Due to irregularities in the schedule, Owens took the podium on several occasions but was abruptly cut short by the moderator. This produced loud cheers and hisses from the assembled crowd. Many felt that if Owens wasn't an outright liar, that he was a dangerous character. There was little sympathy in the room for his messianic proclamations as the premier representative on earth of the UFO cosmic intelligences. His claims were difficult to accept, yet the documentation was there for all to look at. I had already known of Owens' snowstorm prediction in Menlo Park, so perhaps I took him more seriously than most and am now in the process of carefully reviewing his documented claims. Later on, as things calmed down somewhat, Owens appeared in a panel discussion with Dr. Alan J. Mayne, a UFO researcher from University College in London. UFO researchers feel certain that all of the reported sightings cannot be explained away as ball lightning, cloud formations, temperature inversions, meteors, aircraft, weather balloons, poor observation, fraud, etc. Many cases, which have been observed by reliable witnesses under good conditions still remain unexplained. A number of these cases involve claimed contact with UFO occupants and often involve a parapsychological dimension. Only time will tell if the enormous breakthroughs implied by the reports of Croiset, Hasted, Spinelli, Owens and others will lead to a new era in parapsychology--perhaps even a psychic revolution. Since the time of D.D. Home and Sir William Crookes in the last century, Europeans have seen many apparently well-documented psychic claims come and go without leaving an appreciable dent in the texture of society's institutions. Perhaps the events of the summer of 1976 presage something different. How long will it be before psychokinesis and dematerialization have found reliable commercial applications, before psychic detective training is considered a regular adjunct to police academies throughout the world, before a new Dr. Spock tells millions of mothers 60 === Page 47 of 48 SAGA Science Special # IS OUR SUN ABOUT According to science writer and astronomer, John Rublowsky, our galaxy is due for another spectacular and unbelievably destructive upheaval--with a star going nova or even supernova (literally burning itself out in just a few months or years). Although no one knows exactly which star will go critical, or when, increasing signs of violent instability are now being displayed by our Solar System's very own Sun! Astronomers recently reached the alarming conclusion that the nearby cosmos is not the changeless, serene environment it had always been believed. "Something weird," says Robert Hjellming of the U.S. Radio Astronomy Observatory, "is happening to the star system called Cygnus X-3." Even more ominously from our viewpoint, new studies indicate that our Sun is beginning to exhibit signs of instability. When an unprecedented solar storm passed OSO-7 (Orbiting Solar Observatory 7) on Aug. 7, 1972, the chief of solar physics for NASA reported that the solar eruption released more energy in one hour than the U.S. could consume in 100 million years. By the time the incredibly hot solar wind from this storm rocked Pioneer 10 on its voyage to Jupiter (at a distance of 204 million miles from the Sun), the temperature of its gas particles had increased to about two million degrees Fahrenheit--20 times higher than normal. The interplanetary magnetic fields in space were more than 100 times stronger than usual. American Pioneer and Explorer satellites, which were tuned in to the storm, were quickly joined by two Soviet and three European Space Research Organization satellites. Astronomers and physicists are deeply concerned about this turn of events on the Sun. So much so that three emergency sessions were held at the American Geophysical Union's special meeting in San Francisco in December. Is it possible for the familiar, life-giving Sun to act in such a destructive way that all life on Earth will be affected? Astronomers have always believed that Sol would blaze on for billions of years. Why, then, all this talk about a premature cycle of solar instability? For one thing, during the last two periods of lowest activity in the 11-year sunspot cycle, scores of eyewitnesses reported that the Sun had apparently "moved." They seemed to be experiencing a subjective preview of how the Sun would appear if the Earth--through some mysterious gravitational anomaly--suddenly began to wobble on its axis. Any such interruption of what we regard as the normal orderly activity of the solar system would necessarily originate from the Sun--and it would be catastrophic. Lunar samples returned by the Apollo astronauts and close-up pictures of the Moon have revealed fused, glazed particles from the topmost layer of lunar crust. Because this condition on the Moon is extensive, geologists have concluded that during some brief period of instability, the Sun blazed forth with 100 times as much energy and heat as usual. They've fixed the time of this near-catastrophe at about 1500 B.C., thus adding still more evidence to that compiled by Immanuel Velikovsky in his monolithic book Worlds in Collision, which documents massive civilization-destroying natural disasters that occurred eons ago. The Sun's symbol--a circle with a dot in the center is also the symbol for the chemical hydrogen, Sol's most abundant and indispensable element. It is an extremely ancient symbol and provides tantalizing evidence to support two unorthodox theories: 1) that human knowledge was far more scientifically advanced in prehistoric times than anyone up to now has dared to admit; and 28 SAGA === Page 48 of 48 Only recently, astronomers still believed that this atomic process would continue indefinitely--for at least another 10 billion years before all the hydrogen was depleted and the Sun shrank to white dwarf size, less than 15 miles in diameter. Under these conditions the atoms' electron shells are compacted together and crushed. The escaping radiation of heat, light, and energy from such a super-compacted dwarf star would be insufficient to support life on Earth. But even more recent spectroheliographic analysis has revealed that almost half the Sun's store of hydrogen has already been used up! Scientists estimate that the Sun will "burn out" in five billion years instead of 10. However, as new data keeps flowing into NASA's computer banks from orbiting planetary satellites, the solar observatories, a strangely disquieting picture is emerging. The Sun is beginning to behave in odd and unpredictable ways. Instead of gradually growing cooler over a period of billions of years, the critical stage of Sol's existence could be reached very quickly when the amount of hydrogen is balanced by the helium produced in the nuclear fusion process at its superhot, superdense core. This may be much sooner than anyone had previously suspected. The current estimate is anywhere from a decade to a few hundred thousand years. In cosmic terminology a million years is a mere blink of (Continued on page 57) A total eclipse of the Sun, top left, in 1970 showing details of the corona. Top right, this photograph of the Sun shows some regions that generated major flares. Above, solar flares seen during an eclipse. Magnetic storms, after flares, disrupt radio broadcasts. Lately, the Sun has been behaving unpredictably. May, 1973, Saga SAGA - [ ] 31 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Misc Articles and Notes Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 Articles and Notes Appears to be mostly documents from 1972 The more I scanned these documents the more I realized how this blank folder was very valuable and needed to have a name attached. So I renamed it Articles and notes. Many interesting documents besides just newspaper articles including a national enquirer article about Ted Owens and another article that is difficult to find the title page. Perhaps they are the same article? There was article about parapsychology in Europe written by Jefferey and at about two more articles that mentioned Ted Owens. https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/5c889942bb7bf7b243d2cfe2e9a6cbe3.pdf 6485100583b4cba9599c5bf128f8c7ba https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/f289e6d96dd05213f3fbd9b38da77ba9.txt 1e313835e0fceaabfca9e3a41b2b3b72 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Misc Articles, Notes, and Content Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 103 JEFFREY MISHLOVE 3103 WASHINGTON STREET SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115 (415) 346-7770 July 22, 1977 Millie Miller 635 Paul Avenue, Apt. # 1 San Fransisco, CA 94134 Dear Millie, I have recently received two communications from Ted Owens which were sent by you. Since I can't write directly to Ted, I am sending this letter to you and ask you to pass it on to him. I am very disturbed by Owens allegation with reference to me in the letter of July 17, which states, "Jeffrey Mishlove and his company of government agents refused to let this message get to the public." The statement is blatantly untrue, for the following reasons: (1) I published material about Ted Owens in Psychic Magazine with his picture in the company of several distinguished scientists. (2) I put Ted on the radio in Berkeley, where several thousand people heard his state that he could control the drought. (3) I helped arrange another radio interview for Ted on KFAT. (4) I loaned Ted $300, out of my educational budget, when he needed money. This allowed him to come to San Francisco. (5) I arranged another $150 grant for Owens--for which he had to do nothing in return. (6) I arranged for Owens to meet with Milan Ryzl, a psychic researcher. (7) I arranged for Owens to meet with Alan Vaughan, the editor of New Realities magazine. (8) I notified over 70 scientists and government officials of Owens UFO demonstration from November 7 until February 7. (9) I notified them all of the preliminary results of that research, which included one major UFO sighting, one UFO abduction case and one power blackout. (10) I am still working, with Jo Ann Partridge, on a high-quality scientific paper which will discuss the details of that experiment. === Page 2 of 103 (2) (11) I arranged for Ted to have the use of a house in Sonoma County for eight days, when he had no place to stay. (12) I introduced Ted to numerous other people in the hope that they might be able to help him obtain his base in Oregon. (13) I don't have a "company" of any sort and furthermore, none of my friends, acquaintances, or associates are government agents. Frankly, I would have no objection at all if some of them were--but this is simply not the case. I have no idea what sort of impulse led Ted Owens to make such an unfair attack on me. In fact, I genuinely am sorry that he wasn't able to reach some of the right people with his message. If I had had more advance notice of his arrival I might have been able to do more for him. However, neither I nor any of my associates did anything at all to prevent Owens from getting his message to the public--quite the opposite. I suppose Ted thinks that he knows these untrue things about me through his psychic abilities--in spite of all the above mentioned evidence to the contrary. It's unfortunate if he does, because he is wrong. Perhaps there are some government agents in my company that I am not aware of. This is highly unlikely, but not impossible. Even so, the thrust of his attack is essentially misguided. Last January, Ted predicted an assassination attempt against Carter's life during the inauguration. This never happened. Later Ted wrote and told me that he must have actually been picking up on the Hanafi Muslim terrorism in Washington, D. C. So, his accuracy in these things is often partial. In the meantime, I am very angered by his attack on me and have no motivation whatsoever to continue to work in Ted's behalf until he corrects his unfortunate mistake. Sincerely, Jeffrey Mishlove Jeffrey Mishlove === Page 3 of 103 Washington Research Center 3101 Washington Street San Francisco, CA 94115 April 29, 1980 Dear Ted, I've been thinking about you and your situation lately, so I thought I would drop you a letter to share some of my thoughts with you. As you know, I've been receiving your information about shutdowns at nuclear power plants lately and I think that this is very interesting. Of course, I have no background statistical data base regarding these events, and as I've told you many times, this is necessary to make any logical evaluation of your demonstrations. However, as I recall, you originally stated that this one was not for the scientists. Back in 1976, when we first met and I started following your career, it was my intention to help you then establish some credibility for your work in the eyes of the larger public. My attempt was in terms of well-written, logical letters--and the scientific report on you. The impact of this has been largely minimal. I think there are several reasons for this, which I shall list as follows: (1) Probably most important, what you have done is mind-boggling. Many people are simply not willing to accept that weather control or prediction is even possible. In fact, they are not even willing to seriously examine data, such as the report, which suggests such a possibility. It is too much of a challenge to people's belief systems. (2) There are a number of people, however, who accept the reality of psi. They don't exactly disbelieve your powers, rather they dislike your flamboyant style. It will be to your advantage if you can understand their point of view with sympathy, even if they cannot understand or sympathize with your position. To many of these people you seem evil and dangerous (injuries, plane crashes, forest fires, droughts, accidents, storms, deaths, etc.). To some people you seem crazy, with your insistence on exorbitant (or at least unrealistically negotiated) fees for your services. To some you seem paranoid in your belief that government agents are out to destroy your career, with apparently little thought with how you yourself interfere with your own best interests. To others you seem, at times, like a braggart and egotist--even if your abilities are real. From my point of view, frankly, you are all of these things and also none of them. I think you understand me. Now that I have finally received my doctoral degree, I am in a position where what I have to say is given greater legitimization and credibility. I have the ear of the newspapers, wire services, the business world and the academic world--at least to a larger extent than before. So, to a degree, the first objection that I mentioned above is being overcome. This leaves the second one for us to deal with, if we wish to achieve mutual goals. === Page 4 of 103 217 Connecticut Rd. Union, New Jersey 07083 # Peter Jordan 8/21/79 Dear Jeff: Your letter brought me unexpected shock and disappointment. I have always been of the opinion that, when an offer is made, it is fulfilled. Although I greatly admire the work of Scott Rogo, I feel as though you have dealt me an undeserved hand. To pass Rogo the same offer originally made to me is, I feel, cold and unethical. John Keel once advised me of the instability of the Fortean field, and cautioned me against involving myself in its "seamy" activities. He told me it was his experience that many of the investigators, writers, and researchers within the field have little regard for each other, and generally are manipulative, cold, self-serving, and immature. I doubt very much that such brash, descriptive adjectives could be applied to your character, but it is increasingly becoming my opinion that traditional codes of honor have no place or meaning in this unfeeling world. I hope you succeed without sacrificing your spirit. Yours, Peter A. Jordan === Page 5 of 103 Jeffrey Mishlove Washington Research Center 3101 Washington Street San Francisco, CA 94115 (415) 346-7770, 668-0482 August 24, 1977 Peter A. Jordan 217 Connecticut Road Union, New Jersey 07083 Dear Peter: I have received your letter of August 21, expressing your disappointment regarding the book with Owens. Let me clarify the situation as I see it. Your letter implies that I originally made an offer to you to write this book with me, which I then in a "cold and unethical" manner abruptly withdrew. I'm sure that if you review our previous correspondence, you will discover a different story. You originally proposed to me the possibility of co-authoring a book about Owens, based presumably on my years of research with him. My response was twofold: (1) I believed that a book on Owens should be done, and that my editor at Harcourt would be interested; and (2) I was concerned about both your writing experience in handling such a difficult project, and the possible conflict of interest if you attempted to simultaneously write about Owens and conduct research. I can see that my response may have raised your hopes, but it can hardly be considered an "offer" which I was not ready to make without further interaction with you. Frankly, in your second letter to me, you avoided dealing in a substantive way with the issues I had raised in point (2), except to make an offhand remark that you had published some articles in FATE magazine. Frankly, I do not feel that I have violated any "traditional codes of honor" in dealing with you. However, I believe that in your accusations that you have violated some traditional codes of clarity. If this situation repeats itself, there can be no basis whatsoever for any continued cooperation with you on the Owens research. Owens has forwarded to me copies of your letter of 8-14 to him about research and his responses to that letter. He has asked that I mediate in the organization of further experiments. For your information, I am enclosing a suggestion by Eisenbud for an experiment which has caught Owens' imagination. If you are seriously interested in initiating research with Owens, I suggest that you contact some biochemists about setting up the protocols and equipment for this experiment in cooperation with the ASPR or PRF. Owens is also interested in fogging photographic film simultaneously. He believes that he will require about two weeks to complete the experiment, concentrating on the target apparatus for about eight hours a day. Everything must be set up with the strictest experimental controls, so that if results are obtained Owens cannot later be accused of fraud. Furthermore, Owens is interested in this research for scientific purposes. He is not seeking popular acclaim if he succeeds; nor does he desire any public announcements should he fail to succeed in controlled experiments of this sort--which, after all, will constitute a new effort for him. Sincerely, Jeffrey Mishlove === Page 6 of 103 | 1-11-77 | 10:10 am | I return Owens' call | |---|---|---| Trying to keep demonstration as scientific as possible. Something he must tell me, can't keep it to himself. "When I got irked, I did a bad thing." Dictated notes into tape recorder. Looked at map and hit it with a couple of sledgehammer blows in my mind." Promised never to it again. Dec. 31st! I'm going to hit SF with all the power I can hit it with. On tape he says he forbids me to do the book, but he apologizes for that now. === Page 7 of 103 Ted Owens 3:07 pm 1-19-77 Serious attempt to kill Carter in next two weeks. Local militants. Using same man used to kill JFK. Short, red hair. An "ace" at killing. 1 team & back-up team. Doesn't know motive. He trains teams. Tomorrow or in next two weeks. It won't succeed if we can tip them off & alert them. Code name, "Apple" Diversion that they would use with a woman so they can hit at Carter. Some weapon pistol or rifle. Schmidt, Mueller, Scott, Bill Underground militants, revolutionaries - led by "aces" outside US - Germany - Noon & 3 pm - planned for inaug. - flexible plan. - "I'm very excited about it." - "They bought off some people to get near President Carter, bought off guards (secret service)" === Page 8 of 103 - doesn't have complete security. - because he can't be controlled! - S. Cal. based - (for fun) Michaels, Michelles - One or more women involved - at a ball or party. - attempt to blow whole place up with grenade or mortar. - wipe out everyone === Page 9 of 103 Ted Owens 6 UFOs in a circle around SF. 1 over SF EM effects between them. Radius 100 miles "time is short for the world" Power blackouts EM streetcars running backward lightning Millie Miller 635 Paul Ave., Apt. 1 467-7456 Send Ted a map Dr. Dierkins, Brussels, Belgium England Carol Stebbing 804 331-2999 EM Grid over Frisco Radio & TV interference Ted Owens Uri Geller 1st third Owens 2/3 of Spectrum PK on people who kill without needing === Page 10 of 103 Feb 9 8:00 am Ted Owens higher plane "I know what I could do" I once gave an earthquake demonstration around the world for scientists in Phila. Time is short for US - nuclear shootout with Russia. SIs want a big negative dem. so that he can get backing to direct nuclear war. "I can't see it that way. One little child wouldn't be worth it." Put on demonstrations for Russia's benefit. __________ Richard Austin $\rightarrow$ 387-8190 461-4012 Cal. Inst. Asian Studies __________ Birth Data __________ Lon __________ send Rauty __________ Dorothy Gundling - MPI - music & physiology - 5 min each, diff types of music - 3 aura readers __________ Human Targets for remote viewing === Page 11 of 103 Dec. 31, 2:20 p.m. - Ted Owens Professional gunman hired bodyguard ========== equiv. of shooting a 45 magnum at target - "psis never lied to him" - "something rough will happen" - "all hell is going to break lose in this area" - "I'll give you hell in that area." ---------- 12:30 p.m. Ted Owens 1-1-77 - apologize - Idi Amin: "I'm not allowed to hit a person." - an area, not people ========== each person has a pattern: I can't interfere. - "I don't complete every pass." - just enough to win games enough - Over 300 demonstrations - not all completely the way I wanted - 4 pts. out of 6 - like a good quarterback - Amin: the only thing I missed in years. - UFO Saga. Quite - from military: - knocked out Fla. radar. === Page 12 of 103 ② - article says Owens "tampered with by UFOs" - Owens has choices, can be wrong. - BIs say that they have fulfilled the sightings - FBI, NASA, SS, NSA - dossiers on Owens - indep. of the others - UFO reports squelched! - write to people again, ask if anything! === Page 13 of 103 1-8-77 51's told Ted to call and tell me to 1. pass the word on 2. forget $1,000,000 in Swiss Bank 3. States of Cal. & Oregon to obtain top of hill in Oregon for Owens & family. - [x] Cave - [x] tourist attraction - [x] cafeteria in cave - [x] Hotel - [x] legend of bear, bush, hole, cave - [x] use as headquarters - [x] with employees - [x] everyone else off the hill - [x] $25,000 for a year they will end drought over Cal & whole USA take MENSA test! Carter -- tell him about MENSA -- get together the best psychics as US Gov't team === Page 14 of 103 November 29, 1977 Mr. Jeffrey Mishlove Dear Jeffrey: Received your letter of Nov. 25, for which, thank you. Your book outline looks very good. Would recommend "The UFO Connection" (singular). Also, I am quite amenable to the terms which you outline, and when your co-worker sends the contract I shall sign it and return it. In the interests of accuracy... see Chapter V...I have never, ever, "psychically attacked you"... nor would I, or will I, ever. I felt an extraordinary friendly warmth toward you when we first met...and this has never changed. Sometimes I get angry...but friends can and do get angry, sometimes, but remain good friends nonetheless. At any rate, I will never throw any OD mechanisms your way...and you have my sacred oath, word, on it...and the SIs are witness to it. I haven't gotten anything out for a long while...because my electric typewriter was inoperative. Thankfully Henry (Dr. Monteith) made me a gift of a beautiful, brand-new, manual Royal typewriter. So now I can perk. The Selectric had blinding speed; I did over 100 wpm on it...can only do about 20-30 wpm on this Royal...but at least, it will not break down every other week like the Selectric. When we hit town here we were riding in a busted U-Haul and didn't have a dime. Had to pawn a whole bunch of stuff (which is still in pawn at Liberty Loan) just to get up a month's rent so we could move in some place quickly and unload the truck. It's been like that ever since...last week was down to $13, and nothing coming in. Am explaining this to you so that you will realize that I have been unable to get together any money to send to you to repay your loan. As soon as something good happens financially, I will take care of it, you can rest assured. Through Henry (Dr. Monteith) I discovered that the scientists and government agencies in this area are absolutely venomously hostile toward me. He even tipped me off that they were planning a PR attack on me in the newspapers, attacking my credibility. The SIs instructed me to disengage myself completely, then, from Henry as a scientist...from the other scientists and govt. people in this area. They told me my job had been completed...what they had led me here for and literally forced me down here for. (I === Page 15 of 103 2 was forced to set down in this area...and forced to even take this particular mobilehome in this particular small town, 17 miles from Albuquerque...out in the country...filled with Mex and Indians.) Evidently the SIs wanted to know if I would be accepted by, and treated well by, the scientists and govt. agencies in this tremendously sensitive government area. I was not..so they found out what they wanted to know. Henry is an incredible chap...he doesn't lie, no matter what. He told me some of the bad things which some people were saying about me...even some of my regular contacts, when he checked with them about me. When I asked him if my phone was tapped, he admitted that it was. Came right out with it. He told me that if he had the base money for Oregon, personally, he'd give it to me...just to see what I could do. He told me that the 'hostiles' local govt agencies had published that letter in the News relative to my working to produce UFO phenom in this area within 60 days...in order to embarrass me. He said that even if a UFO did appear...they would pay me nothing...that they would insist that I prove that I was connected with the sighting. I've never met a scientist like Henry. And both the kids and I are extremely fond of the man. He is colored, you know. A most brilliant man. He is a physicist...his hobbies are theoretical physics and the study of UFOs and paranormal phenomena. In Chap. V of your outline you describe the difficulty of conducting and analysing such experiments...that is what Henry brought up. He told me to move things on a table, like the French lad. He said that if I were such a hotshot at PK, as I claimed, then I could do a little thing like that. I pointed out to him that I had already done that...30 years ago, already...in 1946, for Dr. Rhine, his wife Louisa, Dr. McMahan and Dr. Humphreys at Duke...when Dr. Rhine set up scissors on a table, 8-10 feet away, and asked me to knock the scissors down with my mind. And I did so. (You can check with Rhine...he is hostile toward me, but if he is truthful, he will admit it.) Well, Henry argued, he and other scientists had to have something out of me that they could measure...and if I could pull 1,000 pounds then surely I could pull an ounce. The SIs comm'd and told me to tell Henry that they had given me the brain of Future Man...and they did not want me to back up 30 years to === Page 16 of 103 3 where the human scientists are now...instead the SIs want the scientists (or whichever of them are capable) to progress forward to where my mind and my work are...which is far, far ahead. They want the scientists to try and understand other-dimensional mechanisms and how they work; how they affect Nature, etc. To do that, the scientists must come to where I am. Nothing is gained for the SIs if I must regress 30 years to do something some other humans are doing now. Do you understand? They told me to tell Henry...if I have taken 30 years to learn how to pull 1,000 pounds, I would be an idiot now to pull an ounce. Henry told me, "Ted, I thought I was a rebel...but you're more of a rebel than I am!" Coming from Henry, that's a compliment. Now to a few inaccuracies in your outline, again...Chap. VI... "One researcher has diagnosed him as clinically psychopathic." Let's look at that. If I were paranoid, as is inferred...then I would have delusions of grandeur and persecution. (Remember, my major at Duke in 1946 was psychology...and even at that age I was an expert at abnormal psychology...the subject of.) All right. I have never had 'delusions of grandeur'. I have been poor; have remained poor; have never had any illusions of being grand, rich, or however you could define it. I do not identify with a king; Jesus; or anyone else. I have been, and am, Ted Owens...a human with lots of faults and weaknesses...who has goofed all over the place at times. The only 'grandeur' you could attach to me, is that I claim that I work with UFOs who can make lightning strike targets at times; UFOs who will appear at times where I say they will; UFOs that will change the weather; UFOs that can tear up military exercises; UFOs that can heal people, etc. Well, my documented files indicate surely that all of this has happened. Look at the affidavit from Dr. Fogel, for whom I had a UFO appear in a certain area of Virginia, under certain conditions, at a certain time. Look at the affidavit from Margulies, partner in the huge law firm of Cohen, Shapiro, Berger, Polisher and Cohen in the PSFS Bldg. in Philadelphia...to the effect that I caused a lightning bolt to hit a specific target that he pointed out (after challenging me) from the tall building there. Look at the newspaper column confirmation of === Page 17 of 103 4 Stan Hochman, of the Philadelphia News...who challenged me to go with him and Bill Shefski to a pro football game and demonstrate the power of the UFOs to control a game. I did go, and did so demonstrate...100% successful. Where was the delusion in any of these things? Then plow through dozens...hundreds...of like demonstrations, affidavits...and you get the same answer. No, there was never any 'delusion'. It happened. While working for Cohen, Shapiro, etc., in Philly, I told the lawyers there that I would cause, with UFO help, a major power blackout on the East Coast (this in 1967). You should have seen their scared, white faces when the lights went out and phones went dead and typewriters went dead...when it happened just as I had told them it would. No 'delusion'. It happened. All power knocked out in five States, on the East Coast, before June 21st, as I had said I would cause it to happen. Delusions of persecution? Ha ha ha. Hundreds of people no doubt were accused of that...when Nixon was in power. Now, after the fact...we all know that hundreds or thousands of innocent people were in fact surveilled, phones tapped, mail opened. But never mind them. Henry, who speaks for the scientists in this area, has already admitted that my phone is tapped. So do I imagine that? In Cairo, Egypt...I was followed and surveilled by both British and Egyptian intelligence agents. Imagination on my part? My pro guide, Abo...told me that Egyptian intelligence were tailing me. I knew that already (see my file on it) but it amused me. As for the British...one of their agents sat at a table with me in the Hilton Restaurant, let me know who and what he was. Do you think I imagined that? Thus my phone is tapped; I am followed; my mail is checked (I found out there was a mail cover on me in Philly in 1968 when the Postmaster mistook me for a govt. Agent and gave it away, by accident.) Add to this the fact that I have received innumerable phone calls and letters...threatening my life because of what I do (I have one such call on tape...threatening to cut my brain out.) Any wonder then that I walk wary...and remain on the defensive? Henry himself pointed out how the govt. agencies here were planning to persecute me, through PR means. So where is my 'delusion'? === Page 18 of 103 5 There is no question of my being 'normal'. No member of Mensa could be 'normal'. But a "psychopath"? It is to laugh. Do I carry weapons? Sure I do. I have already explained why...the threats, etc. Remember that I am a special person to the SIs... they have taken ages to find and develop me...they have caused me to learn boxing, judo, quick-draw...to protect myself for their work. It figures. And my personal philosophy is...if some freak out of the woodwork comes at me with a gun...I do not intend to stand there and be butchered like a hog. I intend to go down shooting at him, or them. I will have that much satisfaction, at least. Remember, I am not Jeffrey Mishlove. How many people want to kill you? I am PK Man...and religious fanatics and just plain kooks all over the United States have expressed a desire to eliminate me by violence. I do not intend to just sit or stand while they do it. And even if they get in the first shot or blast...I intend to try, at least, to take them with me. Try to get your mind in gear with this. On July 19, 1977, after the kids and I had left your friend's cabin and headed down through an isolated area of northern California...the SIs let me know for sure, concretely...what they had telepathed to me for years. THEY WERE INDEED WITH ME. 28 of them overhead, within hours. One huge one, just over my head where I could bounce a rock off it. And they stayed there for hours, too. And Beau watched them, too. Me deluded? Ask Beau. So at last I knew the tremendous power that I have...within a rock's throw at any time, I imagine. If you'd have been there, you'd have been scared witless. For years I took the SIs pretty much on faith...through the miracles that they supplied me with. But on this "haunted night" as Beau and I call it...they simply put themselves, and their power, right in front of my eyes, to see! Tell you what...if you have any doubt...hook a phone up to an PSE outfit (psychological stress evaluation) and call me and ask me to tell you all about it. Ask whatever you want. You'll get an accurate readout. Talk to Beau, too. All I ask is...be on the level...not one of the govt. agencies dirty tricks boys on dallas style..and print the results in your book! That night...was the highlight of my entire life. Can you imagine your seeing three Big Foot creatures === Page 19 of 103 6 and 28 UFOs overhead...in one night, Jeffrey? Think about it. And remember...both Beau and I...saw them. In Chap. VII..."Filled with paranoid visions (I resent that very much) he blames secret government agents for hindering his efforts.." Not so. As a matter of fact...the SIs have let me know that in fact GOVT. AGENTS HAVE AT TIMES HELPED ME. That letter you got from Millie...was Millie's own thought...had nothing to do with me, that crack about govt. agents...and I did apologize for it. This sentence is completely out of line. Then it goes on.."and declares all out war on the United States." Not true. I, Ted Owens, did not declare all out war on the U.S. -- the SIs did and told me, their spokesman (just as Henry is here for the scientists) to report it. I am the man in the middle, Jeffrey. Then the SIs kicked the bejesus out of California. Not me. I have no such powers. (Oh, you can check with the Cape Charles police...some "dark skinned men" tried to break into my house there at 1:30 at night by cutting the glass on my bedroom window for entry...and the next-door neighbors saw them and yelled and ran them off. It was reported to the police it is in their records. But this was only one of three attempted "hot-prowl" entries into our house. Add this paragraph to the 'paranoid delusions of persecution' part of this letter.) Incidentally, I wish you the best of luck...all good things... on your getting your PhD, Jeffrey. In closing, you mention 'apparent poltergeist effects' centered on the files of materials about me. Ha! We had those in our house in Cape Charles...but here it is even worse! Two weeks ago, after I had put Teddy to bed in his own bedroom...I heard loud, savage, leopard-like growls coming from his room. I thought that somehow he was making the noises, and told Beau about it the next day. But last week, one night...about 4 in the morn, I was wakened in my own bedroom...by loud, savage, animal growls, at the foot of my own bed. I got up, checked the room with a flashlight...but nothing there. Next morning when I got Teddy up... first thing he said was, "Daddy, something was growling real loud in my room last night!" I.e., he and I had both heard the loud, horrible growls (that would raise the hair on your head.) Also at === Page 20 of 103 Timothy Leary San Diego get police report "insulators" - 4" square article insulating-like - Santa Cruz police were called in. - Man went to get friend friend saw it just receding - 3 am, - landed on Pacific & Laurel Sentinel, Santa Cruz (last week) 11-17 === Page 21 of 103 This sighting discussed with Nick Herbert & Jim Harder. - Harder suggests that in letters to the police, I not mention Owen's name - but say that a computer made the predictions. Note: this sighting in Oct '76 - witness unreliable. === Page 22 of 103 Ted Owens 3-29-77 Last night being taught by some man in my sleep. - [ ] 10 commandments being given to aliens. - [ ] Podgorny: wake up in sleep all night - [ ] gone to Africa from Russia - [ ] Dynamite. === Page 23 of 103 US Govt not to try & shoot down and interfere with UFOs. __________ "let them alone" === Page 24 of 103 K.H. Newton Denny Pulis x3487 Ralph Fairchild x3136 Outages every day 80,000 meters PG&E News Bureau 77 Beale St. S.F. 94106 === Page 25 of 103 Bodega Susan, Chairman of Art History 12 years ago, Upstate NY Poughkeepsie band of black on the bottom of the sides larger than plane on sides not luminous when I saw it Oakland 12-11-76 Stephen Poleskie Carl Sagan === Page 26 of 103 Shorter Paper in mail tomorrow! stockholder suit SF Foundation Exxon Foundation Media Support Bright light on black mountain. North Marin Water Board Esalen Dianne Vaughan === Page 27 of 103 6:10 p.m. 9-28-80 Ted Owens Wants to do demonstration for T.V. Chew up all pro-football teams. Rhine seeing psychiatrists a result of his work. Working with Greenpeace __________ Knows what Russia are doing Af. is a start, jigsaw puzzle __________ Judged this is time to start. Perhaps in W. Germany. 1000 fires for Russia - make moves. === Page 28 of 103 TED OWENS BIOGRAPHY He claims that at the age of three he was abducted by the saucer intelligences (SI's) who performed some sort of brain surgery which modified the left hemisphere to enable him to establish instantaneous two way telepathic contact with these beings. He claims to have mastered some fifty different skills in his life and credits the modification for this flexibility. For over ten years, he has created "demonstrations" of unusual abilities ranging from apparent feats of psychokinesis, healing, geological and atmospheric disturbances of massive proportions and causing the appearances of UFO's. Although vague about the exact relationship between himself & the SI's, he projects the image of both liaison between the SI's and humans and the image of a forceful character whose interests are mainly for personal gain. His personality, as he admits, is abrasive and straight forward. He speaks with undertones of resentment towards the skeptical scientific and scholarly community. Self contradiction is the predominant factor in his philosophy of governing the ethical use of his alleged psychic abilities. He has come under attack by psychics and scientists, not only for the possibility of fraud (as he has failed polygraph tests) but also for the destructive use of his alleged PK ability. Owens has been very vague about his personal code of ethics and his plans for the future use of his alleged powers. However, throughout the years, virtual mountains of documented information in the form of clippings, affidavits, letters and articles have been amassed about this controversial figure and his exploits throughout the world. MAJOR EVENTS 14 November 1969 Apollo 12 -- Owens notified NASA that the SI's were angry due to lack of his recognition and that they were going to sabotage the moonshot by striking the craft with a bolt of lightning. Owens arranged with the SI's to have the attack before the craft lifted off to avoid injury. The Apollo 12 was struck 36.5 seconds into lift-off, however NASA ordered the astronauts to continue the mission. No lasting harm was done and the lightning was explained as the result of the rocket piercing a rain cloud. It should be noted that in 1964 and 1965, Owens warned NASA of this same attack and it was ignored. A sworn affidavit testifying to Owens' prediction was signed by two court reporters and a secretary on this date. ? ? 1967 Philadelphia -- Owens and two witnesses, Charles Ray and Kenneth Batch, tried another lightning experiment in which City Hall was the first target. Within minutes of the moment when Owens pointed his hands, three bolts in succession struck on or about the City Hall building. A second target was chosen some minutes after in a different section of the sky. Again within minutes, lightning appeared in that section and not anywhere else. It should also be noted that between the choosing of the targets no lightning struck anywhere at all. Both witnesses signed sworn affidavits on 12 August 1967, both were of high integrity judging from their occupations. === Page 29 of 103 Business / TM Dramatic positive Intuition Natural motivation A good feeling for Gigi's career Dream Music comes forward === Page 30 of 103 May 3, 1996 A 'Knockout Blow' to be delivered against the skeptics of psi. My work moves congenially, effectively to highest levels of society - broadest levels. Long, healthy life === Page 31 of 103 University Extension University of California Berkeley EIGHT-WEEK SUMMER PROGRAM CONDUCTED BY JEFFREY MISHLOVE # Parapsychology and ESP Learning July 11-September 2 Mishlove is one of the major catalysts in the field, a student, supporter and synthesizer who suggests connections others are simply less equipped to see as possibilities. I have worked in this area for more than 25 years, and I know it well. But I know of no one today with as good a grasp of the many facets of this most fascinating of all fields. MICHAEL SCRIVEN, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy and Education, UC, Berkeley; President-Elect, American Educational Research Association Research in parapsychology has been advancing for more than 100 years. Since 1969 parapsychology has been officially recognized as a branch of science by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The use of psychic abilities in business, medicine, crime detection, archaeology, scientific exploration, and personal growth has been widely reported. Unfortunately, perhaps, there has also been resistence to training in psychic development. Civilization has yet to provide comprehensive models for psychic training comparable to the well-developed programs and incentives in athletics, music, science, and art. Recently, however, Milan Ryzl, Charles Tart, and others, have scientifically demonstrated that some individuals can learn to use their ESP abilities. 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Parapsychology in medicine; Zen, Tibetan, alchemical, and shamanistic systems of transpersonal psychology; psychic events in hypnotic, psychedelic, and psychotic episodes; psychokinetic phenomena, and work with psychics. **Analytical and Experiential Approaches to the Study of Hypercognitive Skills X 106.5 (3)** Hypercognitive skills are mental processes--other than strictly rational thinking--for perceiving, knowing, and acting. These processes involve relaxation, concentration, creativity, and self-awareness. This course familiarizes participants with the literature on hypercognition, demonstrates hypercognition training techniques, and help in discriminating between legitimate uses of these techniques and their abuses for fradulent or unethical purposes. **Investigations in Parapsychology: Analysis and Participation X 106.4 (2)** This course provides experiences as subjects in parapsychological experiments, and critical tools necessary for the evaluation of experimental reports in the literature. It deals with principles of experimental methodology and technique, the differences between field investigation of spontaneous ESP experiences and the experimental exploration of ESP, and the issue of repeatability and ESP learning. Please note: A separate evening section is available to those who cannot enroll in the entire program. **New Research in Parapsychology X 106.3 (2)** A series of evening lectures by researchers involved in experimental research and evaluation. Topics and speakers: July 13 Factors affecting ESP performance--JOHN PALMER, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, UC, Davis July 20 Remote-perception of natural targets--HAROLD PUTHOFF, Ph.D., and RUSSELL TARG, Ph.D., Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park July 27 Ganzfeld studies and psychokinesis--EDWIN MAY, Ph.D., Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York Aug. 3 Hypnosis and ESP learning--MILAN RYZL, Ph.D., formerly with the Czechoslovakia Institute of Biology, Prague Aug. 10 Psychic integration counseling: ESP and mental health--ELEANOR CRISWELL, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, California State College, Sonoma Aug. 17 Learning to use extrasensory perception--CHARLES T. TART, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, UC, Davis; President, Parapsychological Association Aug. 24 Physical properties of Psi phenomena--ELIZABETH RAUSCHER, Ph.D., Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, UC, Berkeley Aug. 31 Philosophical overview of parapsychology--MICHAEL SCRIVEN Please note: The lecture series is open to enrollment apart from the entire program. **Coordinator and Instructor: JEFFREY MISHLOVE**, Ph.D. candidate, UC, Berkeley, and author of *Roots of Consciousness: Psychic Liberation Through History, Science and Experience*, published by Random House/Bookworks, 1975. For the past nine years he has led courses and workshops on psychic exploration, mysticism, and consciousness development at colleges throughout the United States. He has produced more than 300 radio programs that approach psychic consciousness from the scientific, experiential, humorous, social, and artistic perspectives. The eight-week program has been developed as a whole, and enrollment may not be made for individual courses, except for the Wednesday evening lecture series "New Research in Parapsychology" and a section of "Investigations in Parapsychology: Analysis and Participation," which will be given on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. **Prerequisite:** upper division standing or consent of the instructor. If you are enrolling for the entire program, please submit with your enrollment form a résumé of your interest and experience in parapsychology and a statement of why you wish to take these courses. Enrollment is limited. **Dates:** July 11-Sept. 2; Mon.-Fri., 8 a.m.-5 p.m.; Wed., 7-9:30 p.m. for the entire program. Evening courses: "New Research in Parapsychology," July 13-Aug. 31; Wed., 7-9:30 p.m.; and "Investigations in Parapsychology: Analysis and Participation," July 12-Sept. 1; Tues. Thurs., 7-10 p.m. **Location:** All sessions meet in International House, Piedmont Avenue and Bancroft Way, Berkeley, with the exception of "New Research in Parapsychology," which meets in 155 Dwinelle Hall, UC, Berkeley campus. **Housing:** Rooms are available at International House for this period. Housing information will be sent upon request. Please write to Dept. SBHS, University Extension, 2223 Fulton Street, Berkeley, CA 94720, or call (415) 642-1064 in Berkeley. **Credit:** 10 quarter units in Psychology for the entire eight-week program; 2 quarter units each for "New Research in Parapsychology" and "Investigations in Parapsychology: Analysis and Participation." **Fees:** $450, entire program (edp 105304); $55, New Research in Parapsychology lectures (edp 105312); $7.50 individual lectures, available at the door, space permitting; $75, Investigations in Parapsychology: Analysis and Participation (edp 105320) **For Information:** write Continuing Education in Behaviorial Sciences, University Extension, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720; or call (415) 642-1064. To enroll: complete and return the form on the reverse side of this announcement. ---------- === Page 32 of 103 # ENROLLMENT FORM Please mail to: Dept. 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I enclose $ .......... to cover ..... enrollment(s) in the following: - [ ] edp 105304 Eight-Week Summer Program Conducted by Jeffrey Mishlove, $450 - [ ] edp 105312 New Research in Parapsychology X 106.3, $55 - [ ] edp 105320 Investigations in Parapsychology: Analysis and Participation X 106.4, $75 Please make check payable to The Regents of the University of California, or if using BankAmericard give: __________ __________ your account number date card expires __________ and your signature to authorize charge Please use a separate sheet giving above information for others covered by this enrollment. As required by Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (45 CFR 86) the University of California does not discriminate on the basis of sex in admission to or employment in the educational programs and activities that it operates. Inquiries concerning Title IX may be directed to the Assistant for Legal Affairs to the Vice Chancellor, Administration, 228 California Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, or the Director of the Office for Civil Rights, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Washington, D.C. 20203. === Page 33 of 103 Ted Owens Box 1171 Libby, Montana 59923 Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove 190 25th Ave. San Francisco, California 94121 === Page 34 of 103 Schneider leaves Rick Schneider, publisher of The Western News, this week announced that he is resigning his position. He has been replaced by H. Markley McMahon, president of Cabinet Publishing Co., the firm which owns The Western News. Schneider, who has been with The Western News for four years, including 16 months as publisher, said that he will leave Libby with regret, but that he had an opportunity in Alaska too good to pass up. McMahon also announced that he was naming his wife, June, as editor of The Western News. She has more than 30 years of newspaper experience, including five years as co-publisher of the Humboldt Sun, a semi-weekly newspaper in Nevada. McMahon, who brings 38 years of newspaper experience to the job, has spent the past 20 years as publisher and co-publisher of newspapers in Nevada and New Mexico. He said that his appointment and that of his wife's were temporary, pending finding a permanent replacement for Schneider. "Saga", Mish/Rogo book; several TV + radio talk show hosts w/ me. February 23, 1983 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS The above may simply be one of those famous 'coincidences' connected with me which Dr. Hynek has attributed to me. But then again, it might not. Do you remember, in the early 1970's, when Saga Magazine did five different big articles about me and my work? Just afterward the Editor responsible for the Otto Binder articles was fired...a new Editor Brought in...and Saga from that time on studiously ignored me and my work...IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT THE FIRST EDITOR INFORMED OTTO BINDER THAT THOSE ARTICLES ABOUT ME BROUGHT SAGA MORE MAIL FROM ITS READERS THAN EVER BEFORE IN SAGA HISTORY! Logic would demand...why, with the bringing in of a new Editor, would I then be blacklisted, in effect, with Saga. D. Scott Rogo and Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove wrote a brilliant book about my work and it was purchased by a famous publishing house in New York, which provided thousands of dollars in advance money. Suddenly, what do you know, the Editor who chose the book mysteriously resigned and a new Editor came in and rejected the book. Back again to the newsclip up at the top of this sheet. Schneider, the publisher of Western News, suddenly departed and a new publisher came in...immediately after a very large article appeared in the Western News about me and my work. Not only the above 'coincidences' happened...but through the years I appeared on numerous television host-talk shows and radio host-talk shows. In one instance I appeared on a Philadelphia TV show and the host was a negro. The very next day he was fired from the television station. In Norfolk, Virginia, I appeared on a radio show and the very next day he was fired from the radio station...he called me in Cape Charles, Virginia, and said "would you believe it? It was because I had you on my show!" There have been these and other similar 'coincidences' as Dr. Hynek loves to apply the situation to me. It is quite obvious that one or more government agency is stalking me...keeping me "in a box"...and punishing those who "let me out of the box" albeit temporarily. A policewoman, Scarlett, secretly came to my home in Libby with her mother and gave me valuable information from inside the Sheriff's Dept. (She had been 'taken' by a UFO here, at night.) Within days she was off the force...and she and her mother vanished from Libby. Friend === Page 35 of 103 UFOs Sun Attack G Reis 3/9/83 # Weather forecasting # A long way from perfect The art of forecasting still has quite a ways to go. Economic forecasts of recent years are noted more for being wrong than being right. Recent forecasts of electricity demand turned out to be so far off that they helped trigger the near downfall of the Washington Public Power Supply System. And, to add to the list of "misforecasting" achievements, we have the weather. Last fall, weather experts checked their isobaric maps, ocean temperature gradients and charts of the jet stream and other pertinent data and announced that the prospect was for the coldest winter in years. A consensus of meteorologists, quoted in U.S. News and World report last October, said the United States "was heading for a brutal winter, perhaps the coldest of the century." Ominous signals abounded. Autumn weather began two to four weeks ahead of schedule, with record lows for September reaching as far south as Alabama. Dust from the Mexican volcano El Chichon was expected to shield the earth from warming sunlight. Peter Leavitt, vice president of Weather Services Corp., a commercial weather-forecasting company, noted that the high-altitude jet stream did not make its usual shift to the Arctic. That meant large parts of Canada and the Eastern United States never really warmed up during the summer. Then there were measurements of a slight decrease in the energy Earth receives from the sun, which could have devastating effects on the planet. Norton Strommen, chief meteorologist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, concluded: "When you combine winter trends over the last few years with this fall's chilly temperatures, it is difficult to come to any other conclusion than this is going to be a long, hard winter." This winter isn't over yet, but so far it has been noted for its extreme mildness. Here in the Northwest, this January and February rank as among the warmest on record. In the East, energy experts report that many billions of dollars in fuel costs have been saved because of generally warm temperatures. While many meteorologists are willing to go out on a limb with long-range forecasts, the National Weather Service has adopted a highly cautious attitude. Donald L. Gilman, chief meteorologist there, observes that a forecast for the coming winter made in September is probably "no more accurate than the flip of a coin." And that comes from one of the nation's top weathermen. For the rest of us, it fortunately is not necessary to have a track record for accuracy in order to be able to talk about the weather. We can continue to talk about the weather and can continue to do nothing about it for as long as we like. March 9, 1983 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS I told you well in advance of the above information, of course, that my UFOs were going to deflect the sun's rays onto Earth...causing the center of the Earth to gradually increase in heat-intensity also causing weather anomalies on the face of the Earth. The UFOs are also causing the "intelligence" of the Sun to attack the Earth. You will read above: "Dust from the Mexican volcano El Chichon was expected to shield the Earth from warming sunlight." Obviously those experts were not aware of the Sun attack my UFOs are inflicting onto Earth. Also, above, you will note that all of the experts predicted an almost-record cold winter...and what they got was record heat in many places and a warm winter. Caused by the work of my UFOs, of course! The UFOs Sun Attack seems to have affected Australia the most, first; I have written to the Prime Minister, as you now know...and if they contract with me to give me the Base if I, with my UFOs, produce enough water for them...then the UFOs Sun Attack will be removed from its effect on Earth...after my UFOs and I get that Base. Owens === Page 36 of 103 Date: 2/28/83 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN A few years ago Ted Owens (PK Man) sent me documentation to the effect that he was working on ending a terrible drought in Australia at that time; following documentation indicated that he and his UFOs had indeed ended the drought in Australia. Then Owens informed me that he had been insulted by an authority in Australia who had been closely cooperating with him, sending him maps and documents, etc., but that, after he, Owens, had ended the drought, the man in authority had rudely broken off their connection without even a word of thanks from the Australian government. Owens told me at that time that, to redress this wrong, he would bring back an even greater drought in Australia, a drought ten times worse than the drought he had ended. Owens has requested that I supply him with a notarized affidavit of the above facts and I am doing so. George E. Delavan George E. Delavan Des Plaines, Illinois Joan H. Citro Notary Public === Page 37 of 103 UFOs Sun Attack # Australian brushfires controlled; 69 killed SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Fire brigades fought brushfires around Melbourne on Thursday but controlled most of the conflagration that has swept across Australia's southeast coast like "a panzer division." Police said at least 69 people were killed. "It was like a giant flame thrower," said one weary firefighter. "The wind was like it came from a huge hair dryer," said a man who lost his house -- one of 3,000 homes destroyed in seven towns that were consumed by wind-driven flames Wednesday and Thursday. "A panzer division going through could not have caused so much damage," said Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser after an inspection tour. More than 4,000 firefighters had most of the fires under control by Thursday. The flames, fanned by gale-force winds, devastated 2,600 square miles of drought-stricken farmland, forest and scrub along a 500-mile stretch of Australia's southeast coast in the states of South Australia and Victoria. Exhausted firefighters were still battling outbreaks late Thursday in the hills around Melbourne, Australia's second-largest city. Elsewhere, they remained on guard. Police said 69 bodies had been found. With 46 bodies already found in Victoria and 23 in the state of South Australia, police expected the total to exceed the 71 killed in Victoria in 1931 in the worst brushfire in Australian history. Some died in their automobiles, trapped as they tried to flee the flames. About 900 people were reported injured. Officials estimated property damage at more than $400 million. With the Southern Hemisphere's summer at its height, the worst drought in Australian history spawned brush fires that 60-mile winds from the central desert whipped through the Adelaide Hills and down the south coast past Melbourne into the Dandenong Ranges. Foreign Minister Tony Street, whose election district in Victoria was badly hit, said the winds were so strong they sent the fire truck in Airey's Inlet "sailing down the road" even though the fire chief "had his foot on the brake and the handbrake jammed on." "He ended up in a ditch and got up and ran for his life," said Street. "Another man was driving down the road and saw a complete roof of a house pass him about 12 feet up." Twelve volunteer firemen were incinerated Wednesday at Cockatoo, 31 miles from Melbourne, when flames surrounded their two trucks. But 120 children in a Cockatoo school were spared when two men sat on the roof hosing down the building while the children huddled under wet towels. February 23, 1983 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS You may or may not recall that several years ago I worked on ending the then terrible Australian drought. I was actually approached, through the mails, at that time, by a person of authority in Australia, requesting that I take that action, which I did. The man sent me all sorts of huge maps of Australia and government books showing the drought, month by month...and I brought in huge rains all over Australia and wiped out the drought. To my amazement the man then wrote me and said that all correspondence must cease...I must not write to him again. In short...once I got the job done they didn't want to know me...evidently for fear the fact would get out that PK Man, with UFOs, had worked on ending their drought. Well, I informed Mr. George Delavan, computer specialist and close friend of mine...that I would restore the Australian drought "ten times worse than the one I ended." Australia is in that drought now. As you can see above it is "the worst drought in Australian history." (I always keep my word, if humanly possible.) When an area incurs my wrath (Australia, England, Texas, etc.) then God help it. CALIFORNIA Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 38 of 103 Schneider leaves Rick Schneider, publisher of The Western News, this week announced that he is resigning his position. He has been replaced by H. Markley McMahon, president of Cabinet Publishing Co., the firm which owns The Western News. Schneider, who has been with The Western News for four years, including 16 months as publisher, said that he will leave Libby with regret, but that he had an opportunity in Alaska too good to pass up. McMahon also announced that he was naming his wife, June, as editor of The Western News. She has more than 30 years of newspaper experience, including five years as co-publisher of the Humboldt Sun, a semi-weekly newspaper in Nevada. McMahon, who brings 38 years of newspaper experience to the job, has spent the past 20 years as publisher and co-publisher of newspapers in Nevada and New Mexico. He said that his appointment and that of his wife's were temporary, pending finding a permanent replacement for Schneider. "aga" mesh/Rogo book; several TV + radio talk shows note w/oe. February 23, 1983 Ted Owens Box 1171 Libby, Montana 59923 Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove 190 25th Ave. San Francisco, California 94121 on numerous television host-talk shows and radio host-talk shows. In one instance I appeared on a Philadelphia TV show and the host was a negro. The very next day he was fired from the television station. In Norfolk, Virginia, I appeared on a radio show and the very next day he was fired from the radio station...he called me in Cape Charles, Virginia, and said "would you believe it? It was because I had you on my show!" There have been these and other similar 'coincidences' as Dr. Hynek loves to apply the situation to me. It is quite obvious that one or more government agency is stalking me...keeping me "in a box"...and punishing those who "let me out of the box" albeit temporarily. A policewoman, Scarlett, secretly came to my home in Libby with her mother and gave me valuable information from inside the Sheriff's Dept. (She had been 'taken' by a UFO here, at night.) Within days she was off the force...and her mother vanished from Libby. === Page 39 of 103 Partly Cloudy High 70, Low 48 Details, Page A2 The Virginian-Pilot Norfolk, Portsmouth, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, and Suffolk, Virginia, Thursday, March 10, 1977 112th Year, No. 110 Price 20 Cents # Muslim Terrorists Seize 3 Buildings, Take Scores Hostage in Washington Two hostages released from B'nai B'rith headquarters wait in a rescue vehicle. By WALTER R. MEARS WASHINGTON (AP)--Terrorists invaded the headquarters of a Jewish organization, a Moslem religious center, and Washington's City Hall Wednesday, killing a radio newsman and seizing scores of hostages. The gunmen held their captives into the night in buildings ringed by police, who sealed off sections of Pennsylvania Avenue, close by the White House, and Massachusetts Avenue, in the heart of Embassy Row. Police are in contact with the terrorists, seeking release of the hostages. The apparent leader of the four invaders at the B'nai B'rith headquarters, a Jewish service organization, demanded and got cancellation of the premiere of a motion picture, "Mohammed, Messenger of God." The gunmen demanded that five men convicted of the 1973 massacre of seven Hanafi sect Moslems in Washington be brought to the building. As the takeovers unfolded, at least 11 people were shot, stabbed, or beaten. A city councilman was shot in the chest and the mayor of Washington was, for a time, barricaded in his office against the intruders. The man known killing was at the District of Columbia Building. Radio station WHUR said the victim was Maurice Williams, 22, a staff reporter. Police said there are two gunmen holding hostages in that building. A police spokesman said the invasions are the work of Moslems, apparently members of the predominantly black Hanafi sect, and were coordinated. Victims of the 1973 slayings were members of the same sect. J. E. Sarner, a police spokesman, said the gunmen talked to each other on the telephone. At nightfall, four intruders were holding more than 100 hostages at the B'nai B'rith building. They made the public demands. "I'm a Muslim, that's it," one of the gunmen told a radio reporter who telephoned from WBE in Boston. "Now get that straight or I'll hang up on you. . . Do you remember they killed my family in 1973? . . . Now we are fighting for our lives because we are not going to let this picture be shown in this country." The intruder told an Associated Press reporter that the film tries to make a joke of his religion. In New York, Irwin Yablans, U.S. distributor of the movie, said it had been ordered out of American theaters. He said people were asked to leave theaters where the film was showing in Los Angeles and New York. At the Rivoli Theater in New York, the film was halted during showing, and about 1,000 patrons got refunds or rain checks. Aside from the apparent quest for retribution and the insistence that the movie be cancelled, there were no clear demands. Police negotiated with the gunmen by telephone and by shouting through office-building stairwells. "We're asking what their demands are and they said we'll find out later," Sarner said. The three invasions happened within hours. First came the strike at B'nai B'rith, headquartered seven blocks north of the White House. Then at least one gunman invaded the Islamic Center, a mosque on Embassy Row, taking 15 hostages. Then came the shootings at the District of Columbia Building. (See Terrorists, Page A7) WASHINGTON, D.C. The invaded buildings are all within 1 1/2 miles of the White House. # U.S. to Ban Saccharin Soon Because of Cancer in Animals WASHINGTON (AP)--The Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that it is banning saccharin, the only artificial sweetener approved for use in the United States, because it causes cancer in laboratory animals. Acting FDA Commissioner Sherwin Gardner said that it will take at least until July to complete the administrative requirements before the ban goes into effect. But he called on manufacturers "to discontinue use of saccharin as soon as possible, even while we are drafting the documents needed to accomplish this action." The FDA said that it will not order a recall of the many soft drinks and foods that contain the sugar substitute since tests "do not indicate an immediate hazard to public health." A similar ban was announced simultaneously by the Canadian government, whose scientific studies were the basis for the U.S. action. Under the FDA's order, it will take 30 days for the agency to draft the ban. The FDA then will allow 60 days for comments from interested parties. The agency will then take another 30 days to make the rule final, making July the earliest month the ban could take effect. Americans eat or drink more than 5 million pounds of saccharin a year, about three-quarters of it in diet soft drinks and the rest in coffee, tea, and diabetic foods such as canned fruits, gelatin desserts, jams, ice creams, and puddings. It also is used in some mouthwashes, cosmetics, and over-the-counter drugs. The Canadian study involved feeding 100 rats a diet of 5 per cent pure saccharin during their entire lives, from conception until death. Fourteen of the rats developed cancerous bladder tumors compared to only two such tumors in a group of 100 animals given no saccharin. In order to consume an equivalent amount of saccharin, a person would have to drink 800 12-ounce diet sodas a day for a lifetime, the FDA said. The FDA order was denounced by an officer of Sweet 'N Low, a large saccharin user. "Any call for a ban of saccharin is an outrageous and harmful action based on flimsy scientific evidence that has absolutely no bearing on human health," said Marvin E. Eisenstadt, executive vice president of the company. "It is an action that provides no public benefit, and indeed, could cause great harm to the millions of Americans who need an artificial sweetener for medical reasons and as an aid in weight control." The federal law under which the FDA acted prohibits the use in food of any ingredients shown to cause cancer in animals or humans. Gardner said that he could not assess the economic impact of the FDA's decision but said that it will be "substantial, no question about it." # Confirmed The Senate, after days of heated debate, has confirmed Paul Warnke as President Carter's chief negotiator for strategic arm talks with the Soviets. Warnke also was confirmed as director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Story is on Page A7. # Apology on Chile Not Policy: Carter WASHINGTON (AP)--President Carter said Wednesday that a newly recruited American diplomat's apology for past U.S. action in Chile was "inappropriate," and the State Department promptly announced that the envoy was being called in for "consultations." Brady Tyson, deputy leader of the U.S. delegation to the U.N. Human Rights Commission meeting in Geneva, expressed regrets in a speech Tuesday "for the role some government officials, agencies, and private groups played in the subversion of the previous, democratically elected Chilean government." Carter told a nationally broadcast news conference that he did not have advance notice of Tyson's remarks, which he characterized as "a personal expression of opinion by that delegate." Carter also spelled out some of his thoughts on a possible Middle East settlement, announcing that he soon will begin exploring his ideas with Arab leaders. And he announced that he is lifting restrictions on Americans traveling to Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea, and Cambodia effective March 18. Saying that Tyson's words did not reflect government views, Carter said Senate investigators found no evidence that the United States was involved in the 1973 overthrow of the Chilean government of Salvador Allende. Shortly after Carter's meeting with reporters, a State Department spokesman said Tyson had been called into the department for a review of his speech. The State Department also said "the procedures for coordinating U.S. policy" will be reviewed in the consultations with Tyson. The State Department said the action does not represent a recall of Tyson from Geneva, because Tyson was planning to return to the United States on Wednesday, anyway. Carter's apparent candor on the superpower arms race and on the Middle East of his free-wheeling disclosure at his first news conference Feb. 8 of proposals for conducting arms-related negotiations with the Soviet Union--an action that surprised many conventional U.S. diplomats. At the broadcast news conference, Carter said he can foresee a Middle East settlement in which Israeli forces might be permitted to go beyond that country's established boundaries to provide protection against any sudden Arab attack. He also talked about the possible use of international forces to police a demilitarized zone that might extend, he said, for 20 kilometers or more. Having met here this week with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Carter said, "I will be meeting in the next few weeks with representatives of the Arab countries when they come." Carter plans to consult with leaders of the Arab nations most directly involved by mid-April. The President acknowledged that the search for a Middle East settlement "will be a long, tedious process." But he pledged "to mount a major effort in our own government" to bring the parties to a Geneva conference in the last half of the year. Carter also: * Said the United States is concerned about human rights under the present Chilean government. (See Carter, Page A7) # In Today's Pilot | | | | |---|---|---| | Ann Landers | | D4 | | Bridge | | A25 | | Business | | B5-7 | | Classified | | C9-19 | | Comics | | B2 | | Dr. Thosteson | | A14 | | Editorials | | A10 | | Movies | | C8 | | Obituaries | | A12 | | People Column | | A14 | | Sports | | C1-7 | | Tidewater Living | | D1-7 | | TV-Radio | | B4 | | Weather | | A2 | # Today's Chuckle Little boy's description of his baby sister: "She has some teeth, but her words haven't come in yet." # Friend's $153,000 Bequest Stuns Beach Couple By GEORGE BRYANT Virginia Beach City Editor VIRGINIA BEACH--"My husband and I just kind of looked at each other to make sure we weren't dreaming," the wife of a Virginia Beach man said this week after being informed that her family will inherit an estimated $153,000 from a family friend. "We knew his father left him some money but not to the extent of this," said Mrs. Jerold A. Goldy as she reminisced about her husband's Navy buddy, who died in September. In a will probated in Ohio last month, retired Corpsman Robert Edward Lee, 49, named the Goldys beneficiaries of his entire estate, which lawyers estimate is worth $133,000 in cash and property before taxes. The Goldys said Lee, who never married, "just kind of adopted us as his family." Goldy met Lee seven years ago while stationed at Oceana. "He was a good friend," Goldy said. "He enjoyed the same things we liked." For several years Lee "lived with us on and off. He was kind of like a built-in boarder," Mrs. Goldy recalled, "a permanent resident of our sofa." Lee referred to the Goldys' three daughters, aged 12, 13, and 16, as his girls, she said. When an Ohio attorney notified the Goldys of the will they couldn't believe the amount. But the fact the Goldys were beneficiaries was not completely new. Lee's sister, Mrs. Mary M. Brown of Akron, told the Goldys shortly after Lee's death that they were the beneficiaries of his $20,000 Navy insurance policy. But the rest was a complete surprise. Lee died of a heart attack on an Akron street corner on his way back to Virginia after a 10-day visit, his sister said. His sister and friends were unaware he had heart trouble, though Lee apparently knew, because relatives found unfilled prescriptions for a heart ailment in his personal belongings. Goldy said Lee once mentioned in passing that he was going to look after the children, but never said any more about it. Mrs. Brown said this week that her brother had few friends, but the Goldys were special. "Their family was his family." Lee was a small, shy person who "was never one to make friends," Mrs. Brown said, "but he would always do anything for anybody." Despite his shyness, Mrs. Brown said, her brother would give a beggar on the street $100 if the mood struck him. "And that was just the kind of person he was." The Navy was Lee's life. "When he got out . . . he never did go to work. He just didn't seem to have a life afterwards, except for the Goldys, his sister said. She speculated that Goldy's active-duty status was Lee's link to his 20-year Navy career. "The ironic thing is we couldn't even go to his funeral," Mrs. Goldy said. Her husband was at sea at the time and she and her children could not afford the plane fare. "I had airline tickets reserved for the girls and myself," Mrs. Goldy said, "but I knew I couldn't afford it." Goldy has had part-time jobs and his wife has worked most of the 18 years they've been married, but they still have to make an occasional extra. But Lee spoiled her daughters, Mrs. Goldy said. "It was nothing for him to hand them a $10 bill to go roller-skating when all they needed was a dollar," she said. Lee even offered to buy 16-year-old Angela a car for her birthday but the Goldys put their foot down on that. "It hurt his feelings but I didn't feel that a 16-year-old needed to be given a car," Mrs. Goldy said. But Angela said Lee told her in a phone conversation the night before he died that he would figure a way to get her that car when he got back to Virginia. "He was good to us," she said. It will be a year under Ohio law before the Goldys actually receive the proceeds of the estate, but they have no immediate plans except to fulfill a promise Lee made to take the children to Disney World and possibly send them to college. Beyond that, they hope their good fortune won't change their way of life, and they're already leery of those who might have 'good deals' for them. === Page 40 of 103 # Terrorists Continued from Page A1 lumbia Building, within sight of White House grounds. Police said they believe eight to 10 hostages are being held at the District building, with an undetermined number of workers barricaded in their offices. Mayor Walter E. Washington was for a time locked in his own office before he was able to escape the building. City Council President Sterling Tucker, first reported a hostage, later was found to have eluded the gunmen. But Councilman Marion Barry was shot in the chest, underwent surgery, and was reported in stable condition. At B'nai B'rith, Daniel Thursz, the executive director, said the gunmen apparently released about 20 hostages who were not Jewish. President Carter ordered the FBI into the case. FBI Director Clarence M. Kelley said Carter ordered the bureau to investigate "all violations of federal law involved in the terrorist-type activities being perpetrated in the Washington, D.C., area." The terrorists struck as Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin concluded a three-day visit to Washington. Departure ceremonies near the Washington Monument were canceled abruptly, and Rabin's motorcade sped without stopping to his waiting airplane at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. At all three buildings, police cordoned off the streets. Police riflemen and special weapons units stood at the ready. "We're just sitting and staring at each other," said a woman barricaded in her fifth-floor office at the B'nai B'rith building. She said there were five coworkers with her. "We're fine. We're barricaded in," she told a reporter by telephone. At the B'nai B'rith, a gunman who identified himself as Khalifa Hamaas Abdul Khaalis demanded withdrawal of the movie and said the invaders want retribution for the 1973 murder of the seven members of the Hanafi sect. The Hanafi group is a predominantly black sect of the Islamic movement in the United States, independent of the much larger Black Muslims. The Hanafis are thought to number about 1,000. In January 1973, seven sect members, five of them children, were killed in Washington in a house owned by professional basketball star Kareem Abdul Jabbar. Five men associated with the Black Muslim mosque in Philadelphia were convicted of the murders and are serving long sentences. Here is how the three episodes unfolded: Photos by The Associated Press An unidentified woman peers from a fifth-floor window of the B'nai B'rith headquarters. * At B'nai B'rith headquarters, at midday four men entered the white-brick building in a downtown area of offices and embassies. They carried weapons gangland style, in what looked like guitar cases. When police arrived, they found the door lashed shut with chains. They cut their way in, and officer William Stansbury said a half-dozen people were lying on the floor, along with two bayonets and a pistol. "There was blood on the floor," Stansbury said. He said a hail of gunfire ricocheted from above when police started climbing the stairs. The police retreated, escorting out the people they found in the lobby. Police said the intruders had rifles, two of them automatic, apparently carried some pistols, and were armed with knives and a machete as well. At least eight people were shot, stabbed, or beaten. The takeover began on the fifth floor. A woman employe there said she and six others locked themselves in their office after staff members shouted warnings. Another employe said the warning came at about 11:10 a.m. EST. "And about a quarter of 12, we heard three shots. . . ." Office workers barricaded their doors with chairs, desks, and bookcases, and waited it out. The terrorists took no more than 20 hostages at first, but captured more as they moved to two other floors, finally taking up positions on the eighth floor. Police said they used rollers to paint over rear windows in the building, apparently to block the view of police sharpshooters. Steven Hurwitz, a B'nai B'rith official in Richmond, Va., said he was talking by telephone with Dr. Sidney Clearfield at the D.C. headquarters when he heard a commotion over the line. He said he heard a voice, and while he isn't sure of the exact words, they amounted to "Up against the wall or we'll blow your head off." Clearfield didn't return to the phone. Thursz, B'nai B'rith executive director, said "there was blood and glass all over the place" when he went into the building with police to set up an operations center in the lobby. Thursz said he and B'nai B'rith President David Blumberg were on their way to lunch with Rabin when the takeover occurred. By nightfall, the four gunmen were holed up in a cafeteria on the top floor, and police said they had more than 100 hostages. Khalifa did most of the talking, telling newsmen who telephoned his stronghold that the film "Mohammed, Messenger of God" is offensive to his faith. "Tell everybody we don't want that picture playing, trying to make my religion into a joke," he said. He also posted the demand for the murderers of the Hanafi Moslems, and said at one point that the gunmen want the slayer of Malcolm X brought to them. * In the second invasion, police said one and possibly two gunmen walked into the Islamic Center mosque on Washington's plush Embassy Row during the lunch hour and seized 10 to 15 hostages. No shots were fired and no injuries reported. Among the hostages is the director of the center, Dr. Muhammad Abdul Rauf, a traditional Moslem religious official in Washington. Dr. Rauf lives at the mosque with his family. Also seized was an unidentified Chilean student who was with a group touring the mosque, and the tour director, the Rev. Robert Teasdale of New York City, president of the World Association for Travel Exchange. John Ashton of Fredericksburg, Va., who was among more than 40 members of the tour group who escaped at the outset of the incident, said he first noticed something was wrong when he saw a mailman suddenly drop his bags and flee the building. Outside the mailman told a policeman there was a man with a gun in the mosque, Ashton said. Ashton then warned members of his group and also fled. Within half an hour after police first learned of the seizure, about 50 officers converged on the scene. Traffic was blocked off along a three-block section of Massachusetts Avenue, a heavily traveled four-lane street lined on either side by foreign embassies. The mosque serves as a religious and social center for Moslems from several embassies as well as Americans of that faith. * At about 2:15 or 2:30 p.m. two men armed with a shotgun and a handgun entered the District Building, rode an elevator to the fifth floor, and opened fire, according to accounts by witnesses. They killed Maurice Williams, 22, a black man employed for the last 18 months by Howard University's radio station, WHUR-FM. The gunmen wounded Councilman Marion Barry and two guards. By nightfall the invaders were holding about 15 hostages. Mayor Washington remained for several hours in his office in the building, under police protection, then went to police headquarters. Barry, interviewed later at Washington Hospital Center, said the shot that hit him apparently was a ricochet. "The doctors say if it had been a direct hit I wouldn't be here talking to you," he said. A hospital spokesman said doctors removed a bullet from Barry's chest, where it had lodged a quarter-inch from his heart. Barry said guards warned him of trouble when he entered the District Building, and two of them rode up with him on an elevator. On the fifth floor, he said, "I heard two shots and my instinct was to hit the floor and move out of the way." Then he heard a third shot, and felt a burning sensation in his chest. Knowing he was hit, he stumbled into the City Council room, where a sparsely attended hearing was in progress on the economic development of the district. Barry said he waited 20 to 25 minutes before medical help arrived, and heard intermittent gunfire during that time. === Page 41 of 103 WASHINGTON STREET RESEARCH CENTER 3101 WASHINGTON STREET SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94115 Ted Owens Research Project Preliminary Proposal for Continuing Investigation Project originator Jeffrey Mishlove proposes to continue research and development work on the case of Mr. Ted Owens along the following lines: (1) Continued collection and analysis of documents relating to Owens' demonstrations. (2) Collection of statistical data bases regarding phenomena symptomatological to the Owens effect; such as lightning, UFO sightings, hurricane activity, tornado activity, drought, rain, and power blackouts. (3) Interviews with individuals associated with previous demonstrations by Owens. (4) Medical and neurological studies relating to Owens' claim that the "SIs" have surgically operated on half of his brain. Some records may be available from tests done at the Mayo Clinic. (5) Hypnotic regression of Owens, if possible, to periods relating to his alleged actual physical contact with the "SIs." (6) Personality tests and in depth clinical interviews of Owens for the purpose of elucidating the relationship between his psi abilities and his psychological makeup. (7) Analysis of Owens' PK techniques in order to determine whether these apparent skills can be learned by other individuals. (8) Experimental projects designed to test Owens' alleged ability to control weather in ways beneficial to people, i.e. causing rain in drought stricken areas. (9) Experimental projects designed to test Owens' alleged ability to produce UFO appearances, or other forms of contact, under circumstances where physical measurements can be made. The duration of the proposed work will depend on specific project objectives and on availability of personnel, facilities and funding. The Washington Street Research Center (WSRC), can accept tax exempt contributions through its affiliation with a sponsoring tax-exempt public foundation, the Regional Young Adult Project, or can accept non-exempt contributions directly. WSRC is committed to maintaining high technical and ethical standards in the conduct of its research programs, and encourages communication between research associates and funding sources, through regular reports and through informal discussion as needed. === Page 42 of 103 PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION OF EVENTS WHICH SUGGEST THE POSSIBLE APPLIED PSI ABILITY OF MR. TED OWENS Jeffrey Mishlove 3103 Washington Street San Francisco, CA 94115 December 1977 === Page 43 of 103 Note: This factual report is one of the most unusual documents, non-fiction or fiction, that you are likely ever to have read. The author would appreciate readers monitoring their personal, psychological reactions to this report as well as their critical comments. === Page 44 of 103 Introduction Mr. Ted Owens--currently of Bernadillo, New Mexico--is an individual who purports to be in telepathic contact with other dimensional beings which he calls Space Intelligences (SIs). For many years, Owens has supported this hypothesis by making written predictions regarding a variety of unlikely events which he claimed the SIs would be instrumental in causing. These events have included UFO sightings, hurricanes and storms, lightning striking pre-selected targets, mishaps on NASA spaceflights, power blackouts, earthquakes, and anomalous radar sightings. The present investigation with Ted Owens utilizes two methods: (a) collection and evaluation of documents relating to Owens' demonstrations during the past ten years and (b) observations from a ninety day, pilot demonstration during which Owens attempted to have the SIs produce a variety of unusual phenomena in the San Francisco area. History of Owens' Demonstrations The data upon which this historical evaluation is based has been gathered from the files of Dr. Leo Sprinkle, of the University of Wyoming, Laramie, whose correspondence with Owens begins in 1970; and Dr. Harold Puthoff and Mr. Russell Targ, of SRI International in Menlo Park, CA, whose correspondence with Owens dates back to about 1974. Owens has been sending his predictions to these researchers, at their request. Some of the items in the files go back as far as 1966, but were apparently sent to these researchers years later. These files document Owens' financial difficulties, his family life, his religious speculations, and his many conflicts with the outside world. Many of the records contain instances in which Owens seems to be taking credit for events which one would not reasonably think he predicted in advance. In other instances, Owens' predictions are clearly inaccurate. Often the events which Owens predicted occurred nearly, but not exactly, as he claimed they would. When the events did occur as Owens === Page 45 of 103 2 predicted, it is often difficult to determine whether the prediction was actually psi-mediated rather than being the result of informed intuition, or perhaps misleading or even fraudulent documents. Finally, when the dramatic probabilities suggest an actual psi-mediated event, we are often unable to distinguish SI intervention from PK or precognition. In reviewing 144 claims by Owens, I have arrived at a preliminary judgement that over 73 of these cases would suggest paranormal functioning to a rational person who is already willing to accept this as at least a possibility. 42 cases exist which are not likely to support Owens' hypothesis and another 29 cases are clearly disputable. These judgements have emerged from a sympathetic, but critical, theoretical orientation. Others are likely to differ in both directions. The following highlights from Owens' career are selected not always for their evidential nature but also because they provide interesting information about Owens and his work. These cases have not been personally investigated with the thoroughness than a criminologist might apply. **March 10, 1966:** In a letter to Lyndon Johnson, Owens warned that "our forces will be lucky if they even manage to escape from Viet Nam with their lives...regardless of all our military might." Owens also told LBJ that the SIs will bring rain to end the five year drought on the East Coast. He warned that after the drought has ended, if he is still ignored by the U. S. government, then the SIs will create something even worse. Newspaper clippings from May 1966 through July 1967 show continuing rain on the East Coast, and in fact many floods in 1967. Clippings from **U.S. News and World Report**, July 7, 1967, indicate that experts did not then have a handle on the reasons for the drought or its end in massive rains. Contrary to the indications provided by Owens, the rains of 1966 alone were insufficient to end the entire drought although conditions did substantially improve. **June 13, 1966:** In a letter to Mr. George Clark of the Central Intelligence Agency, Owens warned that the SIs will bring about a nuclear submarine catastrophe, === Page 46 of 103 3 or a carrier catastrophe, by September of 1966. Owens also predicted a "serious blow" to the White House. None of these events happened within the specified time limits. However, on November 10, 1966, the U. S. nuclear submarine Nautilus collided with the aircraft carrier Essex, and was extensively damaged. On October 26, 1966, the U. S. aircraft carrier Orinsky was struck by a fire which killed 44 men. Two other submarine accidents and four other carrier accidents were reported during September, October and November of 1966. Also in November of 1966, LBJ received surgery in both his throat and abdomen--possibly a serious blow to our seat of government. The Owens files are periodically confounded by the fact that unusual events which Owens predicted seem to have occurred just beyond the specified time limits. Owens believes that this is because the SIs operate from a different dimension of time. **May 8, 1967:** In a sworn affidavit, Sidney Margulies, partner in a Philadelphia law firm, states that Owens caused lightning to strike the Camden Bridge, a target preselected by Margulies. Lightning struck within minutes after Owens pointed his hand at the target. Margulies states that there was no other lightning either before or after the experiment. Other affidavits testify to similar lightning demonstrations. The logic of this experiments suggests psychokinesis. **August 1970:** Science writer Otto O. Binder published an article about Owens in Saga based on files which I have not seen myself. One prediction mentioned by Binder is of interest: "On October 26, 1965, a telegram sent to George Clark, CIA, Washington, D.C., held this alarming statement: 'A rare warning. They (the SIs) will unleash a terrible catastrophe within 10 days.' Signed: 'PK man' (Owens). A little more than ten days passed without incident. But on November 9, 1965, the Big Blackout hit seven northeastern states and parts of Canada, plunging 30 million people into darkness." **January 1971:** Owens published his predictions for the year in Saga. He states, "President Nixon will not finish his term. Something most unusual will occur and he will either resign or be forced out of office." This may be the earliest Watergate prediction on record. **March 23, 1971:** In a letter to government agencies and scientists unnamed, === Page 47 of 103 4 Owens stated that the SIs want earthlings to "get your earth back into good condition before you even think about outer space." Owens warned that the SIs would attack space shots and cause death to astronauts. May 9, 1971, newspaper clippings indicate a disappointing failure in the NASA Mariner 8 Mars launch. "Officials reported after studying radio data that the second stage began to deviate from course about 20 seconds after ignition and that it tumbled out of control at an altitude of 92 miles." On May 12, 1971, in a letter to NASA officials Owens specifically warned against sending up the Apollo 15 moon shot. On June 16, 1971, minutes after scientists put the moonship through a mock launch, the umbilical tower next to the rocket was struck by lightning damaging power units that had been knocked out by lightning the previous day. In his letters, Owens refers to previous undocumented demonstrations where he had caused lightning to strike "lightning proof pads" at Cape Kennedy. The Apollo 15 shot was, nevertheless, eventually successful. On May 20, 1971: In a letter to Larry Maddry, an editor with the Norfolk Virginia Pilot newspaper, Owens stated that he will use his PK to save farms and villages from being destroyed by molten lava from Mt. Etna which had then erupted in Sicily. Copies of this letter were sent to three scientists. Newspaper clippings from May 20 indicated that thousands of villagers in Sant' Alfio and Fornazzo lived in the path of the lava flow. Newspaper clippings from June 9, 1971, indicate that while the lava caused $8 million in damages, destroying about 50 buildings, the villages of Sant' Alfio and Fornazzo narrowly missed destruction. Priests called it a miracle. July 18, 1971: Mr. Bill Bell, a placekicker with the Atlanta Falcons signed the following sworn affidavit: While the Russian cosmonauts were up in orbit, and everything was going perfectly, I phoned Owens at midnight on Friday, June 25, 1971, and asked him why the UFOs had not killed the Russian cosmonauts up in orbit. He answered that he was sure the UFOs were curious about what they were doing; would watch them carefully until the end of their experimentation, and then "clobber" them with it came time for them to come down. He said he did not know for sure what the UFOs would === Page 48 of 103 5 do to the cosmonauts, but that it would be "drastic." He further stated adamantly that the UFOs never said anything they did not mean; that they were always deadly serious; and if they said they would kill humans from now on in orbit or outer space...well, that's what they meant. Several days later I told some of my friends of Owens' dire prediction concerning the Russian cosmonauts. On Wednesday, June 30, 1971, I was amazed to hear that the Russian cosmonauts had been found dead. January 22, 1972: In a letter to Otto Binder, Owens speculated that his PK operates subconsciously, which is why he believes several people who "double crossed" him have been mysteriously killed. January 29, 1972: The following handwritten statement is signed by Juan Jose Arenas, M. D., Post 16 N, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico: Last night, Friday night, Ted Owens sat with my son, Kevin, and I on our veranda overlooking the mountains, and I requested that Owens make a flying saucer (UFO) appear over our house! He said that he would communicate with UFOs, and try to bring one over our home. For quite a long while we waited. The sky was absolutely clear. Then peculiar clouds began to fill the sky directly in front of us, until our immediate field of vision was obscured. I went in to bed. Shortly thereafter my son, Kevin, rushed in to tell me that a UFO had in fact appeared. I went out to the veranda, with binoculars, and observed the UFO carefully. It was standing above a line of trees, on a mountain top. It had the appearance of a brilliant star (but seemed to have more brilliance than a star). It kept changing color from red to gold to blue to yellow. It also kept moving, slowly, in an erratic manner in a slight zig-zag direction. It rose upward slowly and then moved horizontally across the sky to another point some distance away, where it stayed, but still moving about erratically. At this point I, being a physician and having put in a very hard day at my clinic, decided to go to bed, which I did. However, I am making an honest, true, and accurate statement of facts as they occurred: Ted Owens told us that he would try to make a UFO appear, following which a UFO did in fact appear, observed by me, my son Kevin and Owens. March 7, 1972: In an apparently sworn affidavit (no notary stamp and confusion of dates), Otto Binder made the following statement: My name is Otto Binder. I am an author. Last night, Sunday night, February 27, 1972, Ted Owens called me long distance from Cape Charles, Virginia. The time of the call was approximately 8:00 PM. He told me that it was his intent to stop the Jupiter shot at Cape Kennedy, which was forthcoming about an hour later and that he would do this with his mind...the power of his mind. He explained that the UFO intelligences had given him a new technique to use...which he had === Page 49 of 103 6 used the past week to obtain earthquakes on the West Coast (which he had documented with scientists several months past). He also informed me that he had telephoned the city editor last night at the Virginian-Pilot newspaper in Norfolk, and left the message for Larry Maddry, columnist, as follows: "Jupiter rocket going up tonight. Will not allow success." What followed, factually, was that around 8 PM (the same time, approximately, as Owens' call) all power facilities around the Jupiter rocket at Cape Kennedy went utterly dead. Without power the rocket could not go up, and did not. I am confirming these true and accurate facts at the request of Ted Owens, who keeps a file of such things, I understand. In order to maintain a semi-scientific approach to all this, I have telephoned the Virginian-Pilot editor, and actually confirmed that Owens did indeed make the other call and left the message that he would make the shot unsuccessful with the city editor. So all is in order. I swear that this is a true and accurate statement of facts as I know them. In his own remarks on the Jupiter shot, Owens noted that the newspapers attribute the power failure to a storm over the area two hours before. Questioning this interpretation, Owens asked why the power failure didn't occur earlier at the time of the actual storm. Double Space **April 19, 1972:** In a letter to six scientists who have been interested in his demonstrations, Owens discussed his purported PK control of the Apollo 16 moon shot. Owens claims that he telephoned Otto Binder and J. Allen Hynek on the evening of April 15, 1972, the day before the flight and told them the following: I am going to give this NASA Apollo space shot fits. Will try to knock out power before it goes up. Failing that, will pursue it with my mind, my PK mechanisms to cause it all sorts of troubles and difficulties. Give them fits. I will build into the intelligence of this PK attack that it not injure or kill the astronauts. I will do whatever I can to make the mission a failure for NASA. The reason for this is that the government has not cooperated with me; neither has anyone else. Therefore their reason must be that they do not think I have any such power. I will do what I can to show them I do indeed have such power. There is nothing in the files from Binder or Hynek to support Owens' claim that he did, in fact, notify them in advance of the flight. There is only a copy of the "PK Map" which Owens drew with the rocket as his target, and also copies of telegrams Owens sent to Binder and Hynek after the flight which state, "I have done exactly what I told you I would do." Newspaper clippings subsequent to the flight indicate that an unusual number of problems occurred. The insulation on the outside of the lunar landing module was torn into shreds. An errant electrical surge confused a spaceship computer and caused ut === Page 50 of 103 7 it to send commands which locked the guidance system of the spacecraft, wiping out the basic references needed to for the craft to steer itself in space. Mission control later indicated that the electrical surge which flashed through the craft was as if it had been struck by lightning in space. Communications systems were dropping out because the lunar command ship, Casper, was spinning slowly in space and the antenna was pointing away from earth three times an hour. This happened when Casper's steering mechanism failed to work. It was the first failure in space of the command ship's main propulsion system. Problems also occurred with the astronauts. Orange juice seeped into their helmets and dried like glue, preventing the helmets from being unlocked later on. Several major scientific experiments were lost as the astronauts stumbled over power cables and failed to throw crucial circuit breakers. Later reports indicated that the astronauts were exposed to radiation from the first solar flare ever to occur during a manned moon mission. Finally after the mission had safely returned to earth the space capsule's fuel tank exploded causing damage to the capsule and blowing a hole through the roof 250 feet above. In his letter Owens gladly took credit for all of the mishaps involved, including the fact that, in spite of the difficulties, none of the astronauts were injured. I could imagine that, after his failure to stop the Apollo 15 flight, Owens was hedging his bets on Apollo 16 and therefore failed to insure adequate documentation of his intentions before the flight. I have no evidence which directly suggests that Owens, himself, has ever been dishonest regarding his demonstrations. April 27, 1972: The National Tattler received the following prediction from Owens, which he had actually made the previous month for Warren Smith: "George Wallace will be assassinated in time ahead. Shot." On May 15, 1972, Wallace was shot. April 30, 1972: In a letter to John Kerr, vice-president of the Virginia Squires basketball team, Owens predicted that he was going to use his PK powers to cause Kerr's team to lose its ABA playoff series against the New York Nets. At the time ens === Page 51 of 103 8 the letter was written, the Squires were ahead 3-2 in the seven game series. Owens stated in his letter that he was angered when he received a call from a representative of the team asking him to help out also--but refusing to pay him a fee for his service. Furthermore, the Squires had hired a "PK Master" called "The Great Kahuna" to help them win the series (and to entertain the audience at halftime). Newspaper clippings indicate that the Squires lost the next two games and thus the series. One article states that in the final game the Squires missed 57 of 91 shots and made the fewest number of points since moving to Virginia two years previously. There are dozens of similar cases in the files where Owens has used his PK abilities to affect the outcome of basketball and football games with apparent success. Sportswriters have generally received Owens' claims favorably and presented him as something of a hero opposing the big business management of the teams. His exploits have even received coverage in several national sports magazines. **May 30, 1972:** In a letter to six unnamed scientists, Owens stated that he was going to embark on a demonstration in the Cleveland-Akron area in order to teach a lesson to the people who mistreated him during a recent visit to that city. Owens stated that he would produce the following phenomena: Power blackouts there...big ones. More than the usual number of fires. All kinds of electrical disturbances. Lightning storms...with lightning striking many places. Planes being forced down; power failure, etc. Ships sinking just offshore. Blazing hot drought. The people in the area behaving peculiarly more than usual. Odd animal behavior (dogs, cats, etc.). Possible epidemics. 60-90 mile-per-hour winds. In a sworn affidavit, Otto Binder states that Owens told him personally in June of 1972 that he would also "hit" the Cleveland Browns football team with his PK mechanisms. Newspaper clippings indicate that the Clevela === Page 52 of 103 9 nd area was hit with an unusual heat wave in July of 1972. One article states that the heat caused the city streets to buckle and manhole covers to "blow their tops." Another article in the Cleveland **Plain Dealer**, dated July 23, 1972, stated that crackpots were swarming to City Hall to see the mayor: The flow of those claiming to hear the voice of God, receive messages from outer space or be secret agents on secret missions started to climb last Monday and remained at a high level all week. Other articles discuss lightning striking which killed three people and caused power blackouts. The heatwave, combined with pollution blanketed the area with a rotten egg smell for four days. Cars were stalling and failing to start === Page 53 of 103 10 in the heat. In Akron, over a million pounds of garbage went uncollected by July 25 in the heat as municipal workers went out on strike on July 10. Residents were dumping their garbage in the city parks. Another article stated that Art Modell, owner of the Cleveland Browns was hospitalized for surgery on July 13 after walking through a sliding glass door at his New York home. In subsequent letters about his Cleveland demonstration, Owens made a number of interesting points. Owens had appeared as a guest on the Pete Franklin show on Tuesday, May 23, 1972, where he felt publicly insulted and walked out of the studio "sizzling mad." The next day there were two major power failures in the downtown Cleveland area. When Owens returned to Virginia on Monday, May 29, and shortly thereafter a newspaper clipping reports power blackouts throughout the Norfolk area. Owens suggests that the strong emotions he felt triggered these blackouts-something like a super RSPK effect. Owens also sent to his scientific correspondents a UPI clipping, dated August 9, 1972, documenting an enormous sunspot which according to a scientist at Boulder, Colorado, was "sort of like getting snow in Atlanta in July." Owens points out that the concentration technique he was using during the Cleveland demonstration involved an intensification of the sun's energy onto the Cleveland area. The sunspot, he suggests, may have been caused by his mind. June 29, 1972: In an apparently sworn affidavit (no notary seal) Bill Richards, a radar expert from Cape Charles, VA, stated that Owens' description of a radar experiment was accurate in every way. Owens' story is as follows: Yesterday afternoon (June 26, 1972), the UFOs communicated with me (SIs) and told me to get to a radar screen and try to demonstrate phenomena on a radar screen....So I phoned a man I know who by chance is a radar expert....The upshot of it was last night I wound up in a huge radar setup, sitting before a radar screen with my friend sitting beside me. This was not done through official government channels.... First my friend explained what was what, patiently. Then mentally I called the SI's to appear on the radar screen. Then a strange ring of objects appeared on the screen, in a concentric circle. My friend, who is a top expert, would not identify these objects. He could readily point out ships, airplanes, etc. After a bit the ring of strange objects faded out and vanished. Then after a bit, they reappeared again. Before my === Page 54 of 103 11 session was over another ring of strange objects appeared inside the first ring. But the big result was this: I'd been concentrating for about an hour on the screen when suddenly what my friend called "spokes" or "strobes" began to appear. These were heavy, straight lines of light revealed when the sweeping arm went over them. My friend explained that sometimes these spokes could be seen at sunup or sunset, but never at 10 to 11 PM at night (when we were working on this demonstration). My friend got very excited at these spokes which began to appear at different points of the circle. After checking he stated that these spokes were caused by something very powerful RIGHT OVER THE RADAR DOME WHERE WE WERE OPERATING! ...I used my regular excitatory technique, same as I use on TV screens to control pro football games, exuding PK power from my brain, backed by verbal exclamations. AS SOON AS I DID THIS CLUSTERS OF SPOKES APPEARED CLEAR AROUND THE CIRCLE, IN EVERY DIRECTION! Up until I used this PK "attack" technique, there had only been a spoke here, a spoke there. But immediately when I began to exude PK force, psi-force, the spokes appeared in multiples, everywhere. This lasted for a brief time, then the spokes vanished entirely. The radar expert told me that he had never seen this phenomena in all his years of radar work. The above quotation is taken from a letter by Owens to J. Allen Hynek, which in his affidavit Richards stated is accurate. The affidavit continued to add further details regarding the experiment: Furthermore, Owens told me personally the night that he did his radar screen experiment that the technique which he was using on the screen could probably result in immediate rainstorms, because he was using on the radar screen lightning coming from his fingers which was the same technique that he used to make storms at other times. (And weather was clear.) Last night, the night following the experiment, there was a huge rainstorm here in Cape Charles, Virginia, then again today, two days later, there was yet another rainstorm; rather two, one in the afternoon and another tonight. Furthermore, on Monday night Owens told me that as a result of his use of psi-force over the radar screen ships might sink and planes might crash in the Chesapeake Bay area (which the radar screen denoted). Tonight a Navy Phantom Jet airplane crashed in the Chesapeake Bay area (this is Wednesday night, two days later after Owens prediction). And furthermore, Owens told me on Monday night to watch the television and newspapers for just such a happening! This news of the plane crashing appeared on local television tonight! (June 28, 1972) I swear that all of these statements are true and accurate to the best of my knowledge. Subsequent to Richards' affidavit, the files indicate a number of other crashes and accidents in the Chesapeake Bay area. Up to three inches of rain was reported === Page 55 of 103 12 in some Tidewater locations on June 28 and there were also many power outages throughout the area. On June 29, a newspaper clipping reports a variety of unusual "gremlin" type phenomena interfering with a Navy change of command ceremony for the Vice-Admiral of the Atlantic Fleet in Norfolk. Also a Navy jet was almost lost near the Chesapeake Bay when a wheel dropped off the jet was flying. Only tremendous flying skill got the plane down without crashing. On July 10, 1972, a fire aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier Forrestal caused some $12 million dollars in damages. A sailor who was caught setting one small fire was charged with arson and newsclips mentioned a possible death penalty. On August 6, Owens wrote a lengthy letter to the attorney defending this sailor suggesting that he, Owens, was responsible for the fire as a by-product of his radar demonstration. The attorney's reply indicated that while he was very interested in Owen's argument, it would hold no weight at all in a court of law. On July 28 a small twister hospitalized two people and damaged several motels and automobiles in Virginia Beach. July 29, 1972, lightning struck and killed two people in Norfolk, VA. On August 1, a civilian pilot was killed in a crash near Zuni, VA. An accident occurred with a Navy Blue Angels Phantom jet on August 3, 1972, in Kingston, N.C., which was within the 150200 mile range of the radar demonstration. On August 10, another Navy jet crashed at the Ocean Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach after returning from field carrier landing practice at Fentress Air Station in Chesapeake. The pilot was killed. Another Navy jet crashed off of the Virginia coast on September 14, 1972. On September 21, 1972, an empty barge, drifting in high winds and heavy seas, slammed into the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, heavily damaging the structure and forcing it to close. A survey showed no fewer than 30 impact points. The bridge was closed for about three weeks. Owens claimed that this bridge was actually the === Page 56 of 103 13 main focus of his PK radar demonstration. The storm which occurred at the time of the accident which was the worse in that area in over ten years. **October 25, 1972:** In a letter to "my six scientists," Owens states that he will create a giant psi-force demonstration with the help of his UFO friends: I propose to CREATE summerlike weather this winter--warm, pleasant weather, little or no snow or cold. In this manner the fuel shortage need not happen, and people in the U.S. will not suffer. To do this I am going to communicate with my four huge giant UFO's and arrange for one (or two) on the far side of the earth to reflect the sun's rays onto THIS side of the earth, these rays to then be reflected downward onto OUR side of the earth by the one or two huge UFO's on THIS side. Whether my understanding of the sun is correct or not, I am going to use the four huge UFO's positioned around this earth to furnish heat to the U.S. this winter! So that the U.S. can have one of the warmest winters in its history. Newspaper clippings from the winter of 1972-1973 reveal that it was, indeed, a warm winter. Norfolk, VA, reported 73º sunshine on December 5, the warmest weather for that day in 47 years. An AP story dated January 21, 1973 shows that New York City set a new record high for the day of January 18 with a temperature of 66º. The City of Washington, D.C. set a new record by going without snow all winter according to a UPI article dated February 14, 1973. An article dated March 20, 1973, in the Philadelphia Inquirer states that that city "logged an interesting 'first'--its first winter with no measurable amounts of snow." The fuel shortage never did manifest during the winter of 1972-73, however it did get very cold in parts of the western United States and in February 1973 the southeastern states were blasted with the worst snowstorm in a century. Newsclippings show that Governor Jimmy Carter's home in Plains, GA, was buried under two feet of snow. In a letter dated March 27, 1973, Owens noted that it snowed in the south for about a week where it hadn't snowed in ten years. This, he said, was nature's way of maintaining its delicate ecological balance. **January 22, 1973:** In a letter to his six scientists, Owens made the following === Page 57 of 103 14 claim: Since no government takes me seriously and just a few scientists are even interested, they (the SIs) deem it necessary to give a demonstration of their powers further in order to prove that they are real and that I am indeed a living link with them, as no other human being is. This last year was called "The Year of the Flood" (a special television show to that effect, outlined the many floods and heavy rainfall, which I had in fact predicted in Brad Steiger's book, "What the Seers Predict for 1972" a year ahead of time). All right. Ahead is NOT the year(s) of the flood. But the REVERSE. The SIs are going to produce world-wide drought, intense heat, and LACK of rainfall and water. Otto Binder once asked me, "Ted, which plague are we in now?" The above is it. Newspaper and magazine articles document terrible drought conditions in 1973. Owens' plan was to use his powers to end the droughts in various countries when the various governments would ask him to do so. None asked. An article in the San Francisco Chronicle dated June 14, 1973, states that the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations listed 28 countries stricken by drought that year. "The prolonged series of dry spells, the worst in 25 years, has killed cattle and reduced crops in wide areas of Latin America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East." "'Too many countries have had droughts simultaneously,' said Anthony Leeds, of FAO's basic foodstuffs service. 'They came at a time when there has been a big drop in grain production in the world.'" An article in Newsweek dated June 4, 1973, called 1973 "The Year of the Famine." Newspaper clippings stated that Britain, famed for the moistness of its climate, had its lowest rainfall since 1749. China, the Soviet Union and Australia were all effected. Africa had the worst drought in 60 years. November 9, 1973: The following letter, written on MENSA letterhead stationary is signed by Max L. Fogel, Ph. D., Director of Science and Education for Mensa: TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN Ted Owens, who is known as "PK Man - The UFO Prophet," and is a member of Mensa, informed me by letter on Tuesday, October 23, 1973, that it was his intention to telepathically communicate with UFOs and ask them to appear within a 100 mile area of Cape Charles, Virginia, and show themselves to the police within that area. On October 25, === Page 58 of 103 15 1973, two days later, a UFO appeared over the head of a policeman in Chase City, Virginia (within the specified 100 mile area) for 15 minutes, as described in the Richmond Times-Dispatch dated October 26, 1973. Thus, an example of the type of occurrence predicted in Mr. Owens' letter to me, written in advance of the occurrence, did take place. Interestingly enough, one of the two witnesses of this sighting was Marion Owen, the Chase City police radio dispatcher who first sighted the object after noticing an unusual light reflection on the window of the police station. Ted Owens, in later correspondence, claimed that the similarity in names is a signature from the SIs to acknowledge that the sighting was, in fact, one of his demonstrations. There are several other instances in the files where this name similarity seems to occur. Actually, in Owens' original letter to Fogel, he stated that he would cause UFOs to appear all over Virginia. He would almost have to make such a large claim as the country was already in the middle of a major UFO flap in October of 1973--having been triggered by the famous Pascagoula, Mississippi, case. Owens, in his correspondence, took credit for having caused the entire wave of UFO sightings throughout the country--although he admitted there was no documentation to support this claim other than in his personal notes. February 12, 1974: In a letter to Ed Busch, of Radio Station WFAA, Dallas, Texas, Owens--who had been on Busch's radio program the week before--made the following prediction: If you recall, on the program itself you requested that I make it snow instantly, and your colleague wanted heat. All right. The SIs have given their permission. This is not for "funzies." I will notify the scientists who are observing my work, thus it will be a large-scale demonstration. There are four, huge, giant UFOs circling our earth (on your show, we didn't even scratch the surface of all that could be brought out) and I am going to utilize them to reflect heat back onto earth, the bullseye being Dallas, Texas. This will cause freakish weather and, of course, heat. Normal summer heat, coming up, should be amplified tremendously, perhaps to break a record. You will have great storms, lightning attacks, etc. Built into this will be the intelligence not to cause death or injury to Texas people, but to show how I, and the UFO entities, can control the weather anyplace in the world. On February 16, 1974, newspaper clippings record that an earthquake centered === Page 59 of 103 15 in the Texas panhandle shook parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. The tremor registered between 4 and 4.5 on the Richter scale. On March 20, 1974, a storm developed over Texas and moved rapidly to the northeast. By the time it arrived in Georgia, winds reached up to 100 miles per hour. A meteorologist with the National Weather Service said, "It's the strongest wind I've ever seen in the continental United States." Large areas of Texas were under tornado watch and at least two were reported on the ground. No injuries were reported. On March 24, unexpected freezing rain glazing the roads of north and west Texas, "and the resulting auto accidents brought deaths to the highways." Midland, Texas, recorded a record low temperature for that day of 28°. All of the above news items were clipped by Owens, who didn't have access to Texas newspapers, from the Virginian-Pilot. In a sworn affidavit, dated May 7, 1974, Ed Busch made the following statement regarding the Texas demonstration: ...Owens sent me a letter, stating that he, working with the UFOs would produce a "major demonstration" of weather control over Texas. Following Owens' letter Texas was struck by an earthquake, 4.5 on the Richter scale. Then Texas was struck by high winds and tornados. Then Texas had the coldest weather ever in its history. Then Texas was struck by hot winds that destroyed half of the Texas wheat crop. I am submitting this statement of fact to Owens at his request. It is true and accurate to the best of my knowledge. Whether Owens had any connection with the above weather phenomena, I do not know; perhaps it was mere coincidence. But I am stating the plain facts as they occurred, at Owens' request. **April 4, 1974:** In a letter "TO THE SCIENTISTS," Owens presented a very intimate story of his psi abilities interacting with a personal relationship: I am writing this special, very sad, report...because I am collaborating with a scientist actively in the search for Truth as pertains to the UFO enigma. Thus, it is more important, in the matter of values...to bring out the Truth as I know it...since I am part space-intelligence, and work for and with them. Believe me when I tell you...this is one report I do not wish to send you. Several weeks ago, after I had been challenged by Ed Busch, of Radio WFAA, in Dallas, Texas, to produce freak weather in Texas...the SIs produced first an earthquake; then a tornado attack; then unexpected cold that broke the Texas record. I had informed Mr. Busch in advance...that the SIs would do so. But the SIs were making their point...they could === Page 60 of 103 17 produce tornados! Now it is necessary to go back to early March. The SIs communicated with me then (or was it late February...somewhere in there) and told me that they were sending a female to me, for a purpose. They told me what the purpose was...and I wrote it down on a slip of paper and put it in my wallet. I told no one of this. Weeks later a girl called me from California, named Judy. She was in danger and did not know what to do...and she had my disc. (Ed note: Owens sells these SI charged discs at a nominal price.) During her call the SIs communicated and told me that this was the female. So I told her to come to Cape Charles and I would see that she was protected until the danger was over. Several days later she called from Phoenix...she'd changed her mind and was going back home to Los Angeles; had written me a letter to that effect, but was calling anyway. I told her that it was a great mistake; to come ahead. She did, changing from bus to airplane...and arrived at Norfolk airport, where I met her. During the first hour of meeting her, over coffee at the airport, I told her that the SIs had informed me a month earlier of her coming...and showed her the slip of paper containing notes re their communication, from my wallet. I was also very angry, because I thought that the SIs had made a ghastly mistake. This female did not resemble in the least...what they said they were sending. I told the girl this, and she cried. The general purpose of the SIs sending the female, as of that moment as I knew it...was to save my life. I have pointed out before that the SIs regard me, PK Man, as priceless to them...and to their plans to save the human race. But, known only to myself, and the SIs...my will to live had been getting lower and lower with each passing year, until this year, 1974, it barely flickered. By the next day...I discovered that the girl wore a disguise. (Dress, hair and make-up.) True. And she was in absolute fact...what the SIs had promised me. And I fell deeply in love with her, as I have never loved another female in my lifetime. (But I had to...as it turned out, because the SIs had planned it that way. And evidently they had been able to pick out this one female...perfect for me...an absolute stranger to me...and motivate her to come to me. Which can give you some inkling of the infinite intelligence, and powers, of the SIs.) All right. She was to stay in Cape Charles for a month, under my protection. I had fallen deeply in love with her in 24 hours (sooner, really). And for several days all I could do was watch her move around and talk, speechless myself with the wonder of it all...absorbing her warmth and personality. For years it had been my habit to drink Scotch, whenever I felt like it. She lectured me about that. She showed me how to cook vegetables and cut my food bill in half. Then...came the shock. Remember, for years and years and years...each day has been like the next day. Suddenly, like a flower blooming in the springtime...I am deeply in love...and long-fading feelings, deep feelings...are fanned within me to a lovely, roaring blaze. Also remember...PK Man has a brain. A powerful brain. The most powerful brain, in fact, in the whole world. Most of you are familiar with the hundreds of miracles I have CAUSED to happen...if not, I can show you the documentation. What kind of brain...would it take, think === Page 61 of 103 18 you...to cause those kind of miracles? So...what would be an ordinary human emotion in an ordinary male...strong human emotion...would be magnified god knows how many times in PK Man. I.e., as I have long told my friends, when PK Man gets angry, trees fall down. Quite unlike...the ordinary human. And also remember...the SIs had gone to a great deal of trouble to bring this female to me...and nothing they do is trifling. Whatever they do, has tremendous significance. So, the SIs thought they had arranged it...to extend my lifespan by ten to twenty years. The shock: several days after she arrived, the female...well, it happened like this. Each day I slept late, until ten in the morning...before driving far out to her motel to bring her into Cape Charles. But on Saturday morning the SIs woke me early in the morning...about 7:30...and warned me to go to the female quickly. I got dressed and drove out to her motel. She was dressed, and in the lobby. We went to the coffee shop. I was puzzled, but said we'd have breakfast before going into Cape Charles for the day. Then she dropped the bomb. "Would you be upset," she asked me, "if I left today?" I just sat and stared at her. Now, at this point...I only knew that the SIs had brought her, and why. I thought to myself, oh, no....and I'm in love with her...and the SIs are monitoring...and she's leaving the SI plan! (You see, human choice is most important to the SIs...they cannot force humans to carry out their wishes; just set up their plans, and hope that the humans follow through.) So I thought to myself...my God, will the SIs be upset! She told me that she'd already booked a plane in Norfolk, to fly away. So I drove her to the Norfolk airport, and saw her onto her plane. Her previous long distance call to me from Phoenix, as I have described...had been an error on her part...but she'd taken my advice then and come ahead. I knew...that this decision on her part to leave abruptly...was an even greater error.... On Monday following her departure...the SIs communicated and told me they'd sent the female, having picked her from all other females, knowing full well that I would fall in love with her...and that the result would be eliminating my drinking Scotch and beer which, they said, was due to shorten my life considerably ahead. (They can see ahead; precognition.) She also had another, much more important function...but that will be in confidence. But I could sense, from the tone of their communication...that they were disturbed. The SIs do not emote as humans do...but since I am half-SI, I share and sometimes sense...what they are "feeling". And...they were disturbed. Their plan...an excellent one...had been sabotaged by the female's decision to leave just a few days after arriving. And now the reason for the writing of this report...after the necessary background. On Wednesday, yesterday, April 3, 1974....tornados struck in eleven of the U.S. states. The radio said that it was the worst tornado attack in the history of the United States. I wondered...on hearing this...about the coincidence...of my SI tornado demonstration just several weeks ago in Texas...to prove a point there. Could there be any connection? Today, Thursday...the SIs communicated with me...said they had done it on purpose. To demonstrate their intense anger over the shattering of === Page 62 of 103 19 their plan...and to show you scientists, and the government...what very serious powers they have. They said that I am no joke; I am so important to them...they must keep me alive and well and happy and healthy...yet they cannot get humans to subsidize me and my work with them, and provide situations where they, the SI s, can keep me alive, happy and well. And the massive, enormous tornado attack...was their signature to the "letter" of their Texas demonstration of several weeks past. I.e., if they could make a few tornados in Texas to prove a point...then they would produce and eleven state tornado attack to prove a point as well. The record tornado attack was the SI equivalent of a small child stamping its foot in a rage of frustration. Why, you say...if they are so infinitely intelligent...yes, I say, but they do not think like humans. And in their communication today...they reminded me of years ago...when they deliberately burned up three astronauts on the pad at Cape Kennedy...because the night before, a killer tried to wipe out me and my family in our apartment in Philadelphia by setting fire under us, and we barely escaped. At that time they were furious...because I wasn't being given ample protection by the government, or somebody...being as important to them as I was...their only link with the human race. The reason for the female being here...was just as important...to save my life. But it was not her fault for wanting to leave...and the SIs knew it. But they also know...I cannot go on much longer as I have been going on...financially supported mainly by the help of one man, George Delavan, in Illinois...who has been sending me several hundred dollars a month, sometimes more...to help me keep my head above water. They know my life-flame has burned too low (will to live) because of the unemotional, dull life that I lead (hence bringing in the female). Something has to give...and the eleven-State tornado attack was a SI warning...that whatever has to give, it had better not be PK Man. With this letter is a copy of the Virginian-Pilot dated April 5, 1974, with the following headline story: Death Toll From Tornadoes Mounts -- Injured, Homeless In the Thousands. **July 23, 1975: The following letter from Owens:** SCIENTISTS.... In this file you will find some strange documentation re the Kennedy airplane crash. I was returning from Egypt, from Cairo via Rome...and showing my Saga magazine writeups to the stewardesses and others...particularly the page where the artist has my face looking up into the sky...where an airplane is being struck by lightning...and on the page are the words "Tornado Winds Rip Area." Then my plane began its approach to Kennedy Airport and the pilot told everyone to buckle seatbelts for landing. But the plane, going down, veered off...circled over the ocean...went to another airport for a while...then returned to Kennedy and landed. When I went through customs the customs officer looked at my flight ticket...said, "You are lucky to be here. You know that don't you?" I asked what he meant...and he told me that the plane ahead of ours had been struck by lightning; had crashed. Words to that effect. All of the action, move by odd move, is on my "crash" tape.... === Page 63 of 103 20 The other material is self-explanatory. There were so many military plane crashes IN THIS AREA that the government grounded those type of planes everywhere. It was caused by my radar demonstration of some time ago. The power is still active here. To bad the government will not subsidize my work. In the file with this letter is a newspaper clipping about the airplane crash at Kennedy Airport, dated June 25, 1975. The article states, "More than 100 people were killed in the crash, the worst single-plane disaster in the history of U. S. aviation." "At least two witnesses said they saw lightning strike the aircraft just before it tore through three landing-approach light stanchions and plowed into an area of parkland north of the airport." Owens includes a xerox of his flight ticket for TWA flight 491 into JFK airport on June 24 from Cairo. A copy of the Saga article and illustration is shown, as Owens described it in his letter. In a newsclipping of June 26, 1975, winds are now cited as the cause of the airline crash. One one other time in U.S. aviation history has there been a case where lightning has been cited as the cause of a crash. And never had lightning destroyed the airframe or damaged it to the extent that the plane couldn't fly, according to a spokesman from the National Transportation Safety Board. Then follow a series of articles about two more jet crashes in the Virginia area and the Navy grounding all 139 of its multimillion dollar F14 fighter planes because of suspected engine problems. A number of other miscellaneous articles follow including one which states that "Kenya Asks for Soccer Sans-Witch--Black Magic Blackballed." "Medicine men who claim they make the ball disappear or cast a spell on opposing players with animal or bird charms are especially active in soccer, officials note." OCTOBER 8, 1975: In a letter to Mr. Doug Dahlgren, Radio Station === Page 64 of 103 214 WCFL, Chicago, Illinois, Owens told some stories about his past and promised another demonstration: ...Shortly thereafter a stranger sent money to me to move to Colorado. So we packed up and drove to Colorado. But once there things went wrong as far as this stranger was concerned, so we drove towards Florida, at the direction of the SIs. A UFO followed us overhead all the way. We would get out and look at it, and it would go into a cloud...wait until we drove on...then emerge from the cloud and keep following us. When we reached Dothan, Alabama, we parked for the night on top of a high hill, and I spread some blankets on top of the station wagon and slept up there. I was wakened by a blinding flash of light...then a loud crash nearby our car. Strangely I simply went back to sleep. In the morning a car came rushing up to our car...and a man leaped out and asked if we had seen an army helicopter. I pointed over to the side of our car and said, there it is. He shouted for us not to go near the copter, because it had secret equipment in it...leaped in his car and drove away. I sauntered over to the copter and a negro in uniform leaned out the window with a .45 in his hand and cheerily told me to stay right where I was because he had orders not to let anyone approach the copter. I asked him what had happened. He said the copter had flown down over our car and turned their searchlight on us...and at that exact instant all the power in the copter went dead. Lights, radio, everything. He couldn't even radio out for help...and the copter of course crashed. Then a whole fleet of cars, officers, and heavy equipment arrived to try and extricate the copter. I showed the army officers my book re UFOs...and warned them not to buzz my car again, because the UFO that had followed us from Colorado had evidently thought we were being attacked by the copter, and had downed it.... Now, to the business at hand. You have requested that I give a UFO demonstration over Chicago. I can do much better than that...and have cleared it with the SIs by direct communication today. Please note in the March 1971 Saga Mag article, "Ted Owens - Flying Saucer Missionary" by Otto Binder. In this article is described one of my 300 miracles...causing all sorts of weird things to happen in and around Norfolk, Virginia...as well as the appearance of a UFO over Norfolk. I am going to duplicate this miracle, with some embellishments, for the benefit of Chicago. And I will spell out what I am going to do, and then notify my scientists, so that they can observe. UFO appearances...will ask the SIs to appear outstandingly in and around the Chicago area, and possibly do some very strange things to accompany the appearances. EM phenomena...I will cause electromagnetic changes in the Chicago area. This will cause power blackouts and various forms of magnetic and electromagnetic anomalies. It should also cause many lightning strikes, violent storms and high winds. Poltergeist phenomena...I will send hundreds of poltergeist entities into the area...to cause all sorts of mischievous, prankish, freak happenings. This will cover, of course, the O'Hare Airport and the stadium in which the Chicago Bears play football. I will especially request that the === Page 65 of 103 22 poltergeists not harm anyone, or make any planes crash. But the football games of the Bears in that Stadium, in the months ahead...should be wild, freakish, and downright funny. And all sorts of strange things should happen at O'Hare Airport. Instruments going crazy; tires blowing out; etc. Not to mention human error by the bushelful. The Grid...I will set up an other-dimensional grid over the Chicago area. Won't tell you what it will do...but you'll see the results. Now...I have never yet failed in a demonstration on this huge scale. Never. But the difficulty here is...to try and minimize the effects so that no one gets hurt. In short...I have far too much power for such an experiment. Sort of like using a shotgun to shoot a fly in a barrel. This will not make too much sense to you, but believe me I know what I am talking about.... P.S. The time element on this: will set it all up today. Things should start popping within days or weeks. The entire demonstration should cap and climax within 90 days. It could well be the wildest 90 days in the history of Chicago! An extensive assortment of newspaper and magazine clippings accompanies the file of Owens' Chicago demonstration. The Chicago Tribune, October 14, 1975, reports that "A Mysterious radio signal apparently coming from the Michigan Avenue bridge has caused occasional brake failures on new buses operated by the Chicago Transit Authority and the United Motor Coach Co...." A Chicago Tribune article of October 15, 1975, states that, "Police are investigating the possibility that the recent slaughter of two calves and the beheading of a rabbit in an area 50 miles Northwest of Chicago may have been the work of a mysterious "UFO" group reportedly traveling across the country from Oregon." A letter to Owens from Doug Dahlgren, on December 1, 1975, states, "We even had the UFO sightings within the prescribed area. We tried to call the parties who were involved but they refused to talk to us." A Newsweek article of December 22, 1975, reports on unusual traffic jams that have occurred recently at O'Hare Airport. A Tribune article of December 13, 1975, states that there have been four near collisions between commercial jets flying to or from O'Hare field in less === Page 66 of 103 23 than two weeks. The October 14 Tribune states, "After a month of below-normal temperatures, the mercury hit 88 degrees breaking the old mark of 83 set nineteen years ago. The following day also set a record high temperature. A Tribune article of November 10, 1975, ran the bold headline, 75-mile winds pound city. Several tornadoes were also reported. While early November was the warmest in Chicago history, the November 28 Tribune reports "The worst Thanksgiving Eve snowstorm in Chicago history." Again on December 1, the Tribune reported high winds and tornadoes across northern Illinois. A Tribune article of December 2 states that November 1975 was the "second warmest November in 100 years" and the warmest since 1931. A series of Tribune articles on Bear football games seem to bear out Owens' prediction. On October 13, "Lions ax Bears in 'laughter' 27-7." Coach Jack Pardee is quoted as saying, "This is the first teach I've ever been associated with where we were so bad the opposition laughed at us on the field." October 20, "Steelers crumple bumbling Bears." October 29, "Vikes' TD a Freak," referring the the play when the Bears had only 10 men on the field. In the Tribune of October 29, 1975, columnist Jack Mabley remarks on Owens' demonstration as follows: **The Bears Are Bugged:** I've come across an interesting theory about what's happening to the Chicago Bears. Poltergeists. From flying saucers. When a team lost a close game because on one play they had only 91 per cent of their team on the field, you've got to look for more sophisticated reasons than bad coaching or missed signals. The poltergeist theory is contained in an "I told you so" letter from one Ted Owens, of Cape Charles, Va., who calls himself "The UFO Prophet," to one Doug Dahlgren of WCFL. Apparently Dahlgren challenged Owens to produce UFO phenomenon in Chicago. On October 8 Owens announced he would "send hundreds of poltergeist entities into the area...to cause all sorts of mischievous, prankish, freak happenings." He says he has connections with the occupants of the flying objects, === Page 67 of 103 22 and set this up with instructions that nobody was to get hurt. ..........Of the caliber of the Bears' play I'd say the poltergeists had some of their greatest moments Monday night when the Bears had only 10 men on the field as Tarkenton tossed the winning touchdown, I could almost see the little men sitting in their saucer over Soldier Field with the lights out, hugging their sides in mirth. What's cooking for the next game, fellows? On November 3, "Have mercy...don't laugh at Bear comedy." November 17, "Bears can't win for fear of losing." January 30, 1976: Owens' letter: TO MY SCIENTISTS I am giving you notice well in advance...of major phenomena that I am going to cause...over the State of California.... Last night over TV the evening news showed a stricken California. No water. "The worst drought in 72 years." "Only three times in the entire history of the State of California...has such a drought appeared." Crops are dead and dying...and the animals are in pitiful condition. Now I, Ted Owens, PK Man...will change all of that. Within the next 90 days from the time of this letter...I will pour and pour and pour rains onto and into the State of California...until it is swimming in water, and the dangerous drought is completely over. There will be storm after storm, lightning attack after lightning attack, and high winds.... A UPI clipping from February 1, 1976, confirms Owens statement about drought. "The cost of a California winter-drought has mounted to about $310.5 million Saturday, and dried-out Kansas wheat lies vulnerable to wind erosion." "Ten more days of drought could precipitate an emergency in the livestock industry. But there is little moisture in sight." However by February 6, 1976, the headlines changed: San Francisco Snowed by a Record Snowfall. "...the biggest snowfall in exactly 89 years hit the city and surrounding areas." "The storm also featured lightning and sleet. A giant television tower on Mt. San Bruno, south of San Francisco was hit by lightning about 8:30 p.m. Wednesday knocking several TV stations off the air." The following newsclip was sent to Owens by Dr. Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ from SRI International in Menlo Park, CA, who had received Owens prediction only days earlier. From the Palo Alto Times, Thursday, February 5, 1976: Rare snowfall ends drought on Peninsula. "The unexpected and unfamiliar weather was at odds with a forecast Wednesday that the dry spell would === Page 68 of 103 25 continue in the Bay Area." "Not since the morning of Jan. 21, 1962, have Mid-peninsulans awakened to find their homes blanketed with snow." Puthoff and Targ wrote Owens the following note with the clippings, "Ted--Just as you predicted in your letter of January 30. Kinda makes me stop and wonder." The Oakland Tribune of February 5 goes on to state that the storm brought with it "nearly every phenomenon in the weatherman's book throughout the Bay Area." "Snow, hail, sleet, light rain, thunder and lightning hit the Bay Area after weeks of dry, Balmy weather." "Varying amounts of rain fell upon the lower two-thirds of the state..." "In northwestern California, there are gale warnings..." On February 10, a UPI story states, "The rainy season continued in California for the sixth consecutive day. Some mountainous regions of the state have received 6 to 8 inches of rain and coastal areas have measured 3 to 4 inches." The San Mateo Times of January 31, 1976, reports that several nights earlier "half a dozen law enforcement agencies reported a cigar shaped object with flashing lights leaving what looked like a vapor trail in the sky over southwestern Nevada and southeastern California." A San Francisco Chronicle reports a UFO sighting in Siskiyou mountains of northern California on February 8 and 9 by Tom Gates, director of the De Anza College Space Center, and Paul Cerny, mechanical engineer for an electronics firm. Both of these men were investigating earlier sightings reported in December for Northwestern University's Center for UFO Studies when their own sighting occurred. On March 10, 1976, a large power failure hit state government offices in downtown Sacramento. The lights went out shortly after 1:30 p.m. and remained out all through the rest of the afternoon. On April 19, 1976, a giant fireball was reported near San Jose. On April 8, massive outages affected more than 600,000 electricity customers in California from two to ten minutes. With regard to the April 8 power blackout, Owens told an interesting story. In a letter of April 9, 1976, Owens wrote: TO MY SCIENTISTS: === Page 69 of 103 246 A most astounding thing has occurred: The SIs...my UFO connection...have "spoken"... in their own inimitable way...before I could even get the Wednesday, April 7, letter, enclosed, off to you! I typed ten copies of the Wednesday, April 7, letter, enclosed, Wednesday afternoon...then had to desist because I had the flu...also was shook up by the IRS agents...and was so angry that I could have cussed. Matter of fact...I did cuss. (This emotional response of my part is important in your understanding of what follows.) All right. Wednesday night late...about 3 AM Thursday morning, really...all power went out on the West Coast from Portland, Oregon, down to almost Los Angeles, California...for from 3 to 7 minutes depending on where you lived there. (Millie, my San Francisco friend and scout...called me long distance on Thursday and told me about it...said that it was reported in the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper...and I will document it later in my last file on the "California Miracle.") That's "one." Also...in that same time-frame...there was an earthquake in California...approximately 5 on the Richter scale...reported here in Virginia on our TV set. That's "two." I.e., the SIs...UFO connection...en rapport with the "alien" half of my brain (belonging to them) (Ed. note: Owens claims that his brain was operated on by the SIs. He does, in fact, have an unusual groove in the back of his head where he says the incision occurred.)...picked up my distress caused by the Wednesday IRS agent happening...and decided to show the United States government, on a small scale, what they could do. They did it to California because that is where I am putting on a UFO-connection demonstration at the present time. (If they had knocked out the power and put an earthquake anywhere else in the U. S., it would have had little meaning with regard to me and my demonstration in California.) Enclosed with his April 9 letter is a letter dated April 7, which describes several incidents of apparent harassment and makes a number of dire predictions. In the April 7 letter, Owens stated: Anyway, I want you to know...that I am being harassed...and I can tell you...that the SIs...my UFO connection...will be greatly angered by this. Because they feel...that the U.S. Government is my "host government"...i.e., I am their ambassador to the human race, residing in the United States. So that...anything bad...that befalls their "Ambassador"...they will retaliate...in their own, UFO, way. I myself first learned of Owens, shortly after his California demonstration, when Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ eagerly shared with me the snowstorm story. This sort of phenomena was outside the boundaries of their experimental investigations, however they hoped that someone, like myself, would follow up on the case. A news brief in Psychic Magazine of April 1976, mentioned Owens apparent === Page 70 of 103 28 success with this demonstration. This news item led to Owens being invited to end the drought in Britain. It should be noted that, in spite of the unexpected storm following Owens' prediction, the drought continued in many areas of California. By February 27, 1976, Governor Brown had declared 29 of the state's 58 counties as economic disaster areas due to crop losses. **May 10, 1976:** Owens wrote the following letter to Susanne Stebbing in Kent, England, who had written to him requesting that he use his powers to end the terrible drought in England: In your letter...you state that you are a friend of Professor John Taylor of King's College in London...and that he is doing research into the paranormal...he has studied Uri Geller and various children with mind-bending powers. You state that Dr. Taylor is "one of the top men in science at the Dept. of Mathematics at King's College." You go on to state: "As you may know, England is in the midst of a severe drought - the worst in over 150 years and our water supply will be cut off to domestic use and industry within 6 weeks from now - unless some heavy rains fall." ...In order to work to produce prodigious amounts of rain onto England within the next 90 days...all during that period, and starting right away...it would be proper for Dr. Taylor to write me a personal letter on his stationary, requesting this...because I thoroughly document all that I do and his personal approach on his own stationary would be a necessity for me.... Since time is of the essence...I will accept you at your word...re Dr. Taylor...and set up this demonstration at once...this very day. Obviously it takes much time for a letter to reach you...judging from the date on your own letter...so that we can save England much anguish from prolonged drought if I begin my work at once, without waiting for Dr. Taylor's personal letter before commencing.... Very well, this demonstration of producing massive amounts of rain for England during the next 90 days...will do the following: Rain, rain and rain...in huge amounts, and over all of England. Lightning attacks accompanying. High winds, sometimes at hurricane force. Appearance of UFOs...and UFO creatures. And my demonstration should end England's drought.... In this demonstration...I need your assistance, and also that of Dr. Taylor. His letter, for one thing. Then, as the phenomena unfolds...I need clippings from your English newspapers re what I am doing, sent to me so that I can put them together, xerox them, and get the completed 90 day file out to my scientists at this end (copy to you and to Dr. Taylor).... I begin. Will await word from Dr. Taylor, personally. And will be a pleasure to hear from you again. === Page 71 of 103 28 (Ed. note: Owens frequently uses the three dot...punctuation in his own writing, for non-grammatical reasons. Therefore, in indicating that I have skipped over nonessential material, I have used four dot punctuation....) In a letter to Owens dated June 4, 1976, Susanne Stebbing indicated that Professor Taylor was too busy to write to Owens for the time being. However, she had arranged for Owens to be invited to speak at a conference to be held in August at City University of London (at his own expense) and hoped that Owens could meet Dr. Taylor there and also be tested in Taylor's laboratory. She also added, "The drought here has been aborted slightly, but the danger to reservoirs still remain. We have had some showery rain in local areas which just keeps the crops and gardens in order. Also a few local thunderstorms and 'cloud bursts' mentioned on local news bulletins. Any phenomena you could produce including UFO activity would certainly interest Prof. Taylor and his colleagues." Newspaper clippings in the England file indicate some rain in June, particularly on the courts of the $100,000 women's tennis tournament and the Wimbledon tennis tournament. However the drought continued. The following letter, from John Taylor, University of London King's College, is dated July 12, 1976: I have received letters and copies of letters sent by yourself to Miss Susan Stebbing. You said in your letter of May 10th to Miss Stebbing that you would attempt to produce rain in England as rapidly as possible. It is now July 12th and since May 10th there has indeed been very low rainfall and England has got into a worse and worse state. I am afraid that clearly your attempt, at least from what I can see has failed dismally. If, when storms do come in about three or four days time, according to the weather forecast, you then claim success I can only say that of course if you wait long enough certainly rain will come. However, if you have been trying at the highest level that you can since May 10th, then I can only say that I have no faith at all in your powers. I look forward to discussing this further with you at the City University conference, to be held here in London shortly. Owens response (as tape recorded by me later in London) to Taylor's remark that the drought must end eventually was that there had been longer droughts in Africa === Page 72 of 103 29 and other countries and that the British drought would continue until he personally ended it. Another letter from Taylor is dated July 14, 1976: ..........I hope you have received by now my brief response to your earlier letter to her (Stebbing). I am afraid that I am not at all convinced by your demonstration as yet; the weather reports for the last two months have been uniformly hot and dry and that there is no alleviation of the drought. There have been rains in the north-west of the United Kingdom, but they have in no way touched the east, nor have they alleviated the drought. Indeed there is now rationing in parts of Wales, and this will have to be brought elsewhere. I would only hope that they will indeed be alleviated, but I don't see any clear prospect of this, at least according to the meteorological forecast. Looking forward to seeing you at the City University as I said. The British drought did not end within the 90 period specified by Owens. When I arrived in London on August 27 for the Parascience conference, conditions were severe. Residents of London were being asked to reduce their water consumption to 1/3 of normal use. In some villages, the only water was brought by trucks twice a week. On August 24, Prime Minister Callaghan called an emergency Cabinet meeting to discuss the drought. A London **Times** article dated August 27 states the following: **Water chief see no end to drought in long-range forecast** Britain could not count any any early substantial rainfall to relieve the drought, Lord Nugent of Guildford, chairman of the National Water Council, said yesterday after being shown a preview of the September long-range weather forecast to be published next week. However, the British forecasters failed to take into account the fact that Ted Owens would be arriving in person on August 27, 1976. I was there myself and friends told me I could get my picture on the front page of the **Times** if I only walked through Piccadilly Circus with my umbrella open. However a UPI story dated Friday, August 27, 1976, states: "Rain fell on London today for the first time in 38 days and showers dampened the southeast of England but weathermen said it made no difference to Britain's worst drought in 500 years." On the following day, August 28, the London **Evening News** carried a story about a power failure, causes unknown, which halted the entire underground subway system for about a half hour. Thirty trains were stopped. And the rains continued along with hail. === Page 73 of 103 39 The rains continued and continued. On September 29, 1976, the British Environment Ministry announced that the drought was officially over. In his presentation at the London Parascience conference, Owens stated that it was he who was ending the drought. There were many cultists who were getting coverage in the news at the time for similar claims. To answer this, Owens pointed out the power failure which occurred when he arrived in London. This, he said was a feature common to his many demonstrations. Owens also predicted at this conference that droughts would continue around the world until the nations of this planet called on him to bring rains. June 7, 1977: Owens writes the following document: STATEMENT OF FACT FOR THE SCIENTISTS The first of June...I telephoned the Chief of Police of Cape Charles...Mr. Charles Powell...and informed him of my INTENT to cause a hurricane to come to this area, which is composed of Cape Charles and the Eastern Shore plus the Tidewater Area just across the Chesapeake Bay. I warned him to get into his police car and drive away from this area quickly as soon as he heard that the monster storm was coming. He said that he couldn't...that he has a family here and that it would not be practical to do so. I told him that I wanted to warn him anyway. Yesterday, June 6, 1977...a FREAK monstrous storm of hurricane force (98 miles per hour winds; hail the size of a fist, etc.) struck this area...just grazing the Eastern Shore but knocking the stuffings out of the Tidewater Area just across the Bay. Boats were knocked over and sunk; radar screens were completely blanked out for a while; TV stations were knocked out; people hung on trees just to keep from being blown away; huge loaded trucks were blown off the road; airplanes were blown over...and so forth. All of this described, and more, in the Virginian-Pilot newspaper of Norfolk, this date. The reason I am informing you of this...is simply to let you know that I told the Police Chief here in Cape Charles in advance. Another great point of interest to you scientists...is the fact that this freak monstrous storm is the SAME as the freak monstrous storm that struck the San Francisco area during my demonstration there for Jeffrey Mishlove, the young....scientist who lives in that area. Both freak storms came out of nowhere (as described by various witnesses in the newspapers following both storms in both areas) and were NOT anticipated by the Weather Bureaus of either the San Francisco area or this area. Upon receiving this letter, I immediately telephoned the Chief of Police of Cape Charles, VA, who was indeed Mr. Charles Powell. Powell confirmed every detail of === Page 74 of 103 30 Owens' story and added that he had signed a statement for Owens to that effect. The Virginian-Pilot, June 7, 1977, ran the following banner headline: **5 Killed in 98-m.p.h. Wind that Leaves Cities Stunned.** "The storm caught Tidewater by surprise. Although the Weather Service had predicted thunderstorms, a severe thunderstorm watch did not go into effect until 3 p.m. At 4:15 p.m. a tornado warning was put into effect." One witness described the storm as follows: "I was out at 3 p.m., and it was sunshiney, and all of a sudden it got dark and you could hear the wind and you could see the hail. You can't describe it. It's such an eerie feeling to see it light one minute and dark the next. If the wind wasn't so hard, the hail wouldn't have caused so much damage. I have a very small fist, but the hail was about the size of my fist." Admittedly, the above episodes are not documented in sufficient detail for a qualified scientific or judicial opinion regarding Owens' activities. Further documentation exists and will be made available to serious researchers. The history has been presented in such a fashion as to suggest possibilities, rather than certainties. I myself can no more accept Owens' story than I can discount the likelihood of enormously significant events taking place. === Page 75 of 103 My Encounter with Ted Owens outline I learn about snowstorm at SRI I read Owens' book. Owens speaks in London The rainbow UFO connection. The San Francisco demonstration. My letter exchange with Owens. Owens visit to SF Owens stays with Janelle California fires Am I a government agent? Poltergeist on Owens files. I write the report. My personal reaction to this experience. The public response. Ethical issues. === Page 76 of 103 LOG 3. OWENS REPORT PP 10-31 21 PAGES 6. TED OWENS REPORT PART I, PAG 9 PAGES 7. OWENS REPORT TITLE PAGE 2 PAGES 8. PAG OWENS 10 22 PAGES PAGES AVAILABLE: 10 === Page 77 of 103 LOG 6. OWENS 30 PAGES 7. OWENS REPORT TITLE PAGE 2 PAGES PAGES AVAILABLE: 25 === Page 78 of 103 Prophetic Power: The Fury of Ted Owens by Jeffrey Mishlove 2430 Lake Street, Apartment 4 San Francisco, California 94121 === Page 79 of 103 Jeffrey Mishlove is a doctoral candidate in parapsychology at the University of California at Berkeley through the individual, interdisciplinary doctoral program. He is the first individual to create a doctoral major in parapsychology at any accredited university in the United States. Mishlove is also the author of The Roots of Consciousness: Psychic Liberation through History, Science and Experience (Random House, 1975) which is used by dozens of college and university courses as an introductory parapsychology text. The material in the following article is factual. Photographs of Ted Owens as well as photostats of relevant affidavits and newspaper headlines are available. === Page 80 of 103 Copyright (c) 1978 by Jeffrey Mishlove. All rights reserved. This article may not be reproduced in whole or in part or in any form without written permission. === Page 81 of 103 Forward Mr. Ted Owens is an individual who purports to be in telepathic contact with other dimensional beings which he calls Space Intelligences (SIs). For many years, Owens has supported this hypothesis by making written predictions regarding a variety of unlikely events which he claimed the SIs would be instrumental in causing. These events have included unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings, hurricanes and storms, lightning striking pre-selected targets, mishaps on NASA spaceflights, power blackouts, earthquakes, and anomalous radar sightings. The data which relates to Owens' claims is presented in this book. I do not believe that we can approach the Ted Owens case in an objective manner unless we are willing to examine our own predisposed attitudes to this subject matter. Thus, I feel it is incumbent for the reader to understand my basic stance in relationship to the Owens data. In 1975, before I knew anything about Owens, I had published in my first book, The Roots of Consciousness (New York: Random House/Bookworks) a chapter which argued that there was a legitimate relationship between UFOs and psi phenomena. Similar positions have been held by many researchers who have a first-hand familiarity with the UFO data such as J. Allen Hynek, Jacques Vallee, James Harder, Leo Sprinkle, D. Scott Rogo and Berthold Schwarz. Nevertheless, this is a position which is as emotionally repugnant to some today as Freudian concepts of sexuality were to those of the nineteenth century. My position has been sarcastically treated in the two major American academic parapsychology journals. I have answered the charges brought against my position in both the Journal of Parapsychology (March, 1977) and The Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research (April, 1977). However, the logical issues surrounding my position are not all that seems to be at stake. The very fact that the "UFO-psi" viewpoint is treated with such contempt--in the face of a considerable body of evidence--indicates that raw nerves are being touched === Page 82 of 103 Forward somewhere. We may be dealing with a situation analogous to what T. S. Kuhn, in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962) has called a "shift in paradigms." The Owens phenomena may challenge not only our research capabilities, but also the very notions of space and time upon which much of our research is predicated. (I say "much of our research" because developments in quantum physics and general relativity have already severely challenged our common sense notions of space and time.) Even more distressing, the evidence herein presented suggests a new understanding of our notions of mind and personality. In presenting the Owens files, I have attempted to let the data speak for itself. Admittedly I have selected from the files those cases which I believe highlight the radical possibility that Owens is, in fact, in possession of unusual talents related to both psi and UFOs. Another selection of cases could paint a different picture. Owens hasn't always called the shots correctly. My best estimate is that he is at least 50% accurate in predicting events with an a priori chance probability of less than 1%. So, for all of his faults and errors, the pattern of his apparent successes stands out from the "rubbish" in the data. Whether I have endangered my own scientific objectivity, integrity and reputation by presenting this material is a question which you, the reader, may well ask for purposes of your own evaluation. I have certainly not shied away from presenting my own subjective impressions and from including myself as a character in the Ted Owens story. If I were the reader of this book, I would have to ask tough questions. Recently I had lunch with a reporter from the San Francisco Chronicle who for many months has been interested in my experiments on ESP learning. This research had not been published for my scientific colleagues, so I was reluctant to allow him to report on my studies in the press. Instead, I steered the conversation to Ted Owens and the research report I had published on Owens. At first the newsman was very 2 === Page 83 of 103 Forward interested, but the more I told him of the story the more disgusted he became. Finally he looked at me and angrily stated, "I have to deal with reality. I can't afford to indulge in fantasies like this." With that he abruptly left the table. The experience was not a pleasant one for me. It brought home quite clearly the fact that my integrity is being questioned every time I mention the Ted Owens material. Those who will accept the psychokinesis (PK) are unwilling to accept the UFOs--as in the case of this reporter and most of the parapsychology community. Those who can accept both psi and UFOs are unwilling to accept Ted Owens' ego--as in the case of other investigators who have known Owens during the past ten years. And a large segment of the population accepts none of the premises which led me to this study in the first place. Until now, no individual with any claim to scientific credentials has been willing to tell the Ted Owens story. And although my first book, The Roots of Consciousness, is used as a standard parapsychology text in dozens of colleges and universities, I am still a graduate student myself at the time of this writing. I hope to retain my status with the University of California in spite of my inquiry into this rather taboo area. Like any other scientist, my reputation cannot stand on my story alone. It stands on the corroborating evidence, on the testimony of other witnesses, on the ability of the data to withstand careful scrutiny, and on the ability of Owens to continue to repeat the phenomena for more scientists under conditions where more controls can be instituted and more careful measurements can be made. I have asked Ted Owens to tell his own story in subsequent chapters of this book. He has done so candidly and, in my opinion, with style. This story is his, from his own memories, in his own words. He claims, for instance, that he learned to read instantly at the age of four when he was taught by a beautiful red-haired woman who mysteriously appeared to him. 3 === Page 84 of 103 Forward Many people would argue that I have lost all claim to scientific objectivity if I let such stories pass in a book such as this without challenging them. I concur with this view. I find it perfectly reasonable and healthy to challenge all of Owens' claims. I certainly do not endorse all of them myself. It is not my intention to present anything that Ted Owens states in this book as fact--but rather as data, as testimony to be analyzed and critically evaluated by the reader. I feel that the reader has a right to be informed of our scientific progress in all stages of its development. Were this presentation limited only to the results of the hard-core, controlled experimental tests there would be no book whatsoever. Nevertheless, I feel it is my obligation as a scientific writer to present only that material which is what it claims to be. This I have done. However, I caution the reader to be careful in distinguishing the extent of my own qualifications for any piece of data. I regard as most evidential the material presented in relationship to my 90 day pilot experiment with Owens in San Francisco and those cases which are from the scientific files I have gathered on Owens where his predictions have been sent in advance to scientists. Next most evidential are those cases where I have personally interviewed witnesses. I have explicitly stated in the text when this has occurred. Most of these witnesses are available to be interviewed by other serious inquirers into the Owens affair. After this, I hold as most evidential those cases for which I have signed statements and affidavits from witnesses who I have not been able to interview. From a scientific perspective, Owens own claims and interpretations of his life are least evidential. From a humanistic perspective, they are of the greatest importance and it is particularly for that reason that they are included in this book. I cannot vouch for the entire accuracy of Owens' story. However, I can vouch with absolute certainty that it is his story. 4 === Page 85 of 103 Forward Many people have asked me why, with all of his alleged powers, hasn't Owens become rich, famous or powerful in the world. Often the question is meant to imply that these powers cannot be real; or, if they are real, they cannot be of any value. Whether or not Owens' powers are real, of course, depends only on the facts and not on our preconceived notions of whether or not such powers can exist or what they must be like if they do exist. I cannot emphasize this point enough. The value which these powers have, be they real, depends as much on us, who give value and shape events by our mutual agreement, as it does on Ted Owens. We are all, in our own ways, as powerful and as powerless as he seems to be. === Page 86 of 103 PK Man Scientists who know about Ted Owens have found it convenient to pretend that he doesn't exist. Skeptics who learn of his claims are outraged. Occult fanatics have sent hate letters to Ted Owens and mysterious strangers have threatened to kill him. Millie Miller, a sweet older woman who works for the telephone company in San Francisco, admires Owens' work as a cosmic agent. For years she has been providing financial support for his work--as has George Delevan, a computer specialist in Cleveland. As a scientific parapsychology researcher, there have been many moments when I would rather not have had to confront the enigma which Ted Owens represents. I first learned about Owens in the parapsychology research laboratories of SRI International, in Menlo Park near San Francisco, California, the military-industrial think tank complex, where physicists Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ have achieved public acclaim for their experiments with Uri Geller, Ingo Swann and other talented psychic subjects. Owens contacted Puthoff and Targ in 1973, shortly after their work with Geller received attention in the national media. In a letter to these researchers, Owens described himself as "the world's greatest psychic" and offered himself as a subject for testing. Puthoff and Targ declined the offer, but did continue to receive correspondence from Owens for several years documenting his "demonstrations." In January of 1976, Owens wrote to Puthoff and Targ telling them that he was going to show them his powers directly by causing storms over the San Francisco area to end the drought which was then reaching significant proportions. Days later, it snowed and stormed with hail and sleet and rain throughout the Bay area. The Palo Alto Times ran a headline story on the event which stated, "Rare snowfall ends drought on Peninsula." The storm was completely unexpected by weather forecasters. Puthoff and Targ sent Owens a note congratulating him on his successful prediction and received a telegramed response from him stating that it was not a === Page 87 of 103 PK Man prediction--but that he, Owens, had caused the snowstorm. This was food for thought and when I visited Puthoff and Targ some months later, they eagerly discussed this case with me. Puthoff and Targ showed me the intriguing book authored by Ted Owens in 1969 titled, How to Contact Space People. The book was sensationalistic and poorly written. It contained loose descriptions of a variety of demonstrations which Owens claimed he had provided for both NASA and the CIA, naming the officials he had interacted with in each case. For the CIA, Owens maintained that he had used his powers to interfere with military exercises and for NASA he had demonstrated his control over lightning. Nevertheless, Owens pointed out that these agencies still refused to take him seriously. Owens also described the visualization techniques which he used to communicate with the Space Intelligences (SIs). He saw them as insect like creatures looking into a screen where his thoughtforms appeared. Other people could communicate with them using this same method, he stated. They were the ones who really had the power to control the weather and create other phenomena. It was through their aid that Owens believed he caused his psychokinetic (PK) effects. What fascinated me most about Owens' book was a section where he described past events in his life relating to his UFO contact. There were instances where thugs would ominously approach him with weapons bared only to suddenly pale and run away from him. This puzzled Owens until it dawned on him that the SIs were protecting him. Another fascinating story in Owens' book is his description of how the SIs captured him and operated on his brain--causing him to become half human and half alien. He still carries a thick scar at the base of his skull which he says is the result of this operation. In August 1976, some months after learning about Owens, I had the opportunity of inspecting this scar for myself at the City University of London where he was an 2 === Page 88 of 103 PK Man invited speaker at an international conference sponsored by the Parascience Foundation. Owens was an impressive speaker with a large frame and a booming voice which rang throughout the auditorium. His words were clear and articulate. His manner was confident. His eyes sparkled with charisma and precocious genius. He rocked the audience with his claim that he had established telepathic contact with other dimensional space intelligences. He described how they, the SIs, had guided his career since infancy through over fifty different occupations--bodyguard, bullwhip artist, judo expert, jazz musician, knife thrower, dance instructor, shorthand expert, high speed typist, parapsychology researcher at Duke University--so that his mind would be flexible enough to manipulate their complicated symbolic system. He stated that while he was not a scientist, he was a member of MENSA an organization limited to individuals with high IQ test scores. He presented statements from a MENSA researcher on official letterhead stationary stating that he, Owens, had predicted UFO sightings and other events. He spoke of hundreds of demonstrations which he had documented for scientists and he carried with him a stack of newspaper clippings two feet thick documenting his exploits. He shocked the audience with the claim that he was being used by the space intelligences to end worldwide drought and that he would also be useful in psychic warfare against the Soviet Union. Because the conference was running behind schedule, Owens was asked by the moderator to finish his talk early. When he received this abrupt news, his manner changed. Like an obedient, but bitter, child he left the podium not even taking advantage of the few minutes time remaining. The conference was of a scientific nature and, in this context, Owens was out of place. He was speaking as a "psychic" to scientists who are by nature and profession skeptical of individual psychic claims beyond those which they have investigated or have been reported in the scholarly literature. To make matters worse, another psychic speaker preceded Owens on the podium--Susan Padfield, the wife of noted British === Page 89 of 103 PK Man physicist Ted Bastin. Padfield, whose psychokinetic (PK) abilities had been extensively tested by Benson Herbert at the British Paraphysical Laboratory, spoke about "psychic support figures." She claimed that when she first started doing PK, she assumed that UFO intelligences were working through her. Since then she has come to realize that the powers were her own and that the notion of a UFO intelligence was a "psychic support figure" necessary only to satisfy her emotional needs and not to explain her PK abilities. She stated that other psychics who claimed to work with spirit guides, or saints or deities were also satisfying this same emotional need. When Owens got up to speak, the cards were stacked against him. Even if people did accept the seemingly outlandish claim that he could cause large scale weather changes, they were not likely to accept the notion that he did so through the agency of UFOs. They were not likely to embrace his desire to use his talents in psychic warfare with the Soviet Union; and they were not likely to accept his claim that he was the supreme representative on earth of UFO intelligences. Either Owens was a liar or a madman, an evil magician or an egotistical maniac. Few people saw him as a human being struggling to communicate and share with other humans the methods by which he had cultivated powers so rare we think they are either nonexistent or demonic. Few people realized that Owens had travelled across the ocean--at Millie Miller's expense--in order to ask for help from the small group of individuals who might be able to appreciate his situation. Owens has been asking for scientific help for over a decade. One researcher, Professor J. B. Hasted, had little difficult in imagining that Owens' claims were real. Hasted, who is Chairman of the Department of Physics at Birkbeck College, University of London, has conducted laboratory tests with half a dozen individuals who have shown remarkable psychokinetic abilities to bend metal under controlled conditions. Hasted presented a paper at the Parascience Conference on his PK studies which have been continuing with success for two years. 4 === Page 90 of 103 PK Man Hasted's work with PK began when he and his colleagues tested Uri Geller at Birkbeck College. Before that he had shown no interest whatsoever in psychical research. Since then, however, he has shown an extraordinary talent in working with gifted subjects in the laboratory. Because of his communist sympathies, Hasted has rarely been allowed to present his research findings in the United States. Undoubtedly he would have taken more of a personal interest in working with Owens, had he not been horrified at Owens suggestion that someday his PK abilities would be needed by Western powers to use against the Soviet Union. During one of the breaks in the scientific program, I took the opportunity to meet Owens personally and also to interview him for radio broadcast in America. While we were in the middle of this interview the conference organizers interrupted us to announce that one of the scheduled speakers had not shown up and that his time would now be made available to Owens to make up for the previous disruption of his talk. We walked together into the auditorium and, realizing Owens' precarious position at the conference, I volunteered to make a brief introductory statement regarding my knowledge of the San Francisco snowstorm demonstration. Perhaps this move on my part helped to increase Owens' credibility; however, again he was cut short when the scheduled speaker arrived late. Flustered, Owens left the lecture room amid a loud display of hissing and applause. Later that day, Owens described to me how the SIs had taught him 150 different techniques for telepathic transmission and psychokinetic weather control. The most important of these, which he used every day, he claimed was a visualization of the "rainbow UFO." Coincidently I was at that moment wearing a pin with the image of a UFO in front of a rainbow. It was a gift to me and I had never paid much attention to its symbolism. Owens expressed a strong desire to have that pin and, after much reluctance, I finally parted with it. In exchange he later sent me a fancy Swiss watch with two dials on it which he claimed he had taken with him on his "Egyptian adventures." Since then Owens and I have enjoyed a good, albeit sometimes stormy, 5 === Page 91 of 103 PK Man working rapport. I returned from London to San Francisco with my head full of ideas about Ted Owens. If he was real, he was undoubtedly the most powerful psychic in the history of paranormal research. And I had by then become aware that a fair amount of documentation existed to support Owens' story. During a subsequent visit to SRI International, I managed to obtain from Puthoff and Targ their accumulation of correspondence and documentation from Ted Owens: a stack of letters, affidavits, and newspaper clippings over six inches thick. Much of this material seemed almost nonsensical to me. In his "Egyptian" file, Owens claimed to have established telepathic linkage with "Pyrcre" an occult creature that lived inside the great pyramid and was the source of its mystical powers. In another file, Owens claims to have communicated telepathically with the Loch Ness monster. Oddly enough in this file there were also signed statements and a newspaper clipping from Inverness, Scotland, testifying that a UFO had appeared over the town at the time Owens was staying there. The files also contained numerous letters from individuals who have received "SI disks" from Owens. These are poker chip sized pieces of plastic with Owens' SI insignia engraved on them. For years, Owens has sold them as good luck charms for a nominal price. Dozens of letters testified to miraculous healings, narrow escapes and other moments of fortune and grace bestowed upon disk recipients. The files also contain a few crank letters threatening Owens' life. One item of interest in the files was an affidavit signed by Ed Busch of radio station WFAA in Dallas, Texas, dated May 7, 1974. The affidavit stated that after Owens had promised to produce freakish weather in the Texas area the following events occurred: an earthquake, high winds and tornadoes, record cold weather followed by a heat wave. 6 === Page 92 of 103 PK Man I spoke to Ed Busch on the telephone to confirm the affidavit. Busch acknowledged that all of the events did occur as stated in the affidavit--although he couldn't recall whether or not he had actually signed such a statement. What he did remember quite well were the events which preceeded Owens' Texas demonstration. It seems that Owens had been publicly challenged by another "psychic" from Chicago, named Joe DeLouise, who felt that Owens' activities were giving the whole psychic field a bad name. He was convinced that Owens was a liar, or a criminal who should be punished. Ed Busch offered to help settle the dispute by arranging for Owens to take a lie detector test. The test results indicated that Owens was not telling the truth when he stated that he was in telepathic contact with UFO intelligences. It was after this experience that Owens offered to demonstrate his abilities directly for Busch in Texas. Owens' own version of the lie detector test was that he failed the test because he was intimidated by the operator of the lie detector apparatus. Many of his anxieties had been triggered by his recollections of having been arrested in Texas years earlier for practicing medicine without a license. The "medicine" that Owens was engaged in at the time was hypnosis. Owens felt the lie detector test was invalid. After reading through the files, I asked Owens about his apparent use of PK ability for harmful or destructive ends. There were many instances in the files which seemed to point to this. Football players were injured when Owens wanted their teams to lose. Businessmen who refused to play ball with Owens suffered losses. Ships sank, planes crashed, lightning struck and killed people--all after Owens predicted that he would cause these events. In one letter Owens remarked on the mysterious accidents which had killed several people who had "double-crossed" him. Owens' response was quite simple. He claimed that the SIs would never allow him to use his abilities for evil or destructive purposes. His intention was never 7 === Page 93 of 103 PK Man harmful he maintained even though his PK demonstrations were sometimes hazardous. In many instances, Owens claimed that he had warned government officials of the possible harmful side effects of some of his demonstrations so that appropriate safeguards could be taken. But, sadly enough, he was never listened to. Owens stated that he deeply regretted the damage that he has inadvertently caused. The injuries to athletes were always minor, he claimed; enough to remove them from the game but not to seriously hurt them. Owens felt that if a few innocent people were hurt during his demonstrations, it was regrettable; it was nevertheless essential for him to prove to scientists and to the world at large that he had these powers. The good that he could do would always outweigh the inadvertent harm that might be caused. This logic is not uncommon. It justifies over 50,000 automobile deaths a year in the United States as well as a variety of other occupational hazards. Of course, it also justifies military activity and covert dirty tricks. What seemed more insidious was the possibility that Owens was capable of injuring other human beings unconsciously, or perhaps in a fit of rage. Owens does, in fact, have a very temperamental personality. Fits of rage are not unknown to him. Perhaps the SIs who work with Owens are his personification of dynamic forces within his unconscious mind, or even the larger collective unconscious in the Jungian sense. Owens does not claim that he can account for the behavior of the SIs. If they choose to punish a person or an institution, Owens states that there is nothing he can do to intervene, even though he has at times begged and prayed that they would cause no more harm. The issue is complicated by Owens' notion that he himself is half SI, because of the mysterious operation on his brain. One is never clear whether Owens' demonstrations are the results of his own PK abilities (after all he does call himself "PK Man") or if the SIs, if they exist, are creating these effects 8 === Page 94 of 103 PK Man through their own powers after Owens telepaths to them. Another possibility is that Owens is not involved causally with these events at all. Dr. Leo Sprinkle, a psychologist at the University of Wyoming at Laramie who has been studying the Owens case, prefers the hypothesis that he is simply precognizing the events which he claims to cause. The sceptic, of course, would suggest that Owens utilizes both a shrewd, logical understanding of events and the gullability of others who will believe him. To me, this hypothesis does not square with the evidence. Sceptics generally don't care to look at the actual evidence, since they are already convinced by their theories. In Owens' eyes, it sometimes appears that the SIs take it upon themselves to punish people who maliciously or rudely block his work. In fact, sometimes it even appears as if the SIs attempt to extort financial support for Owens by the implied threat of such punishment. This, Owens claims, he has no control over. For example, during the summer of 1977 Owens unexpectedly appeared in San Francisco. Owens wanted to tell people that he could end the drought in California, if he were invited to do so by the people or their government representatives. The SIs had instructed him, he believed, to communicate this message through the newspapers and television media. So, like one of the Beverly hillbillies, he drove over to the offices of the San Francisco Chronicle with his family in a rented truck. Unfortunately, he never got past the guards in the lobby who simply asked him to leave. Of course, he was infuriated, and perhaps the SIs even moreso. In a fit of anger he wrote to his scientific correspondents that the SIs had declared war against the United States to retaliate for the awful way he had been received in San Francisco. Owens predicted that there would be outbreaks of poltergeist activity and fires all over the state, as well as lightning attacks. Weeks later, when the State of California was ablaze with forest fires which set a record by burning over 400,000 acres, I was able to assuage my mind by asserting that this was the result of the drought and that anyone might have been able to predict it. 9 === Page 95 of 103 PK Man Certainly no government official would dare blame Mr. Ted Owens for setting over 1000 fires across the state by using either psychokinesis or UFO aid. In fact, no government official, journalist, or "responsible" scientist would even entertain the thought for more than thirty seconds. When Owens wrote that the SIs were declaring a war, there was a record low amount of forest fires in California, despite the drought. People, recognizing the fire hazards, were simply being more careful in the woods. Normally most forest fires are caused by human carelessness, less than 20% are the result of lightning. However, last summer the forest fires in California mostly resulted from lightning. Lightning is Owens' PK specialty. I have personally interviewed, over the telephone, the Philadelphia lawyer who signed an affidavit in 1967 stating that Owens had provided for him a remarkable demonstration of his ability to make lightning strike a target preselected by the lawyer within a few minutes after Owens pointed his finger at the target. The probability that this would happen by chance is less than one in a million according to researchers at SRI International who have been studying lightning. The logic of this incident very strongly suggests that Owens does, in fact, use psychokinesis. If Owens or the SIs used PK control over lightning to cause the rash of fires in California in the summer of 1977, then we are faced with an ethical dilemma of considerable proportions. Were it not the result of psychokinesis, such an act would be criminal arson. But who is to blame? Although there is no real legal issue today, we might remember that there have been periods in our history when this would indeed have been a criminal issue. Certainly in a superstitious society, the laws against witchcraft created more problems than they solved. Apparently, however, our own age is still not sufficiently enlightened to nurture the talents that Owens and others seem to exhibit and to guide them in a positively healthy direction. 10 === Page 96 of 103 PK Man Owens takes credit for this damage--which he claims he greatly regrets. He suggests that the good that he could do, if people would only listen to his claims, would more than make up for the inadvertent destruction caused in getting people to believe him. Owens believes that he and the SIs have used all of the nondestructive means at their disposal to convince the people whose support he desires that his powers are real. Furthermore Owens maintains that the SI war against the United States is still continuing and will remain in effect until he, Ted Owens, is granted official recognition as the Ambassador to the United States from the Space Intelligences. This sounds like madness, since Owens' behavior is severely lacking in political or social effectiveness and hardly fits our image of diplomatic dignity. A psychiatrist might label it the behavior of a paranoid, schizopathic personality. Such a diagnosis, however, must be tempered by a study of Owens' unusual psychic abilities as well as the social stigmas attached to these alleged abilities. Perhaps there is little justification for taking Owens at face value. However, there is no valid, scientific justification whatsoever for ignoring Owens. There are only justifications of disinclination and perhaps personal safety. If his claims regarding psychokinetic ability are true, continuation of a "head in the sand" attitude may result in continued destruction because of both Owens' rage and frustration and our inability to understand the safety factors surrounding these apparent powers. If his talent is primarily precognitive, the ball-game is less dangerous, and the scientific payoff is not reduced. I suspect that both types of psi are active in Owens and that, through intensive investigation of his case, we can learn to activate such abilities in many people with positive social support and social benefit. Perhaps we would do well to accord Owens the respect which he asks for. === Page 97 of 103 PK Man As for the charge of madness, Owens has his own answer. He acknowledges that he is eccentric, but asks us whether any individual with his apparent talents might not be judged insane by his contemporaries. Owens acknowledges the many rough edges and signs of stress in his personality. While, at a deep level he is puzzled by his own abilities, his sense of braggadocio imbues him with mountains of occult rhetoric to hide his ignorance and fear of the powers within his mind. Nevertheless, through the complexities of his personality, he seems to have retained his rationality, as exemplified in the following statement in answer to my suggestion that he might be losing his sanity: Let's look at that. If I were paranoid, as is implied, then I would have delusions of grandeur and persecution. All right. I have been poor; have remained poor; have never had any illusions of being grand, rich, or however you could define it. I do not identify with a king, Jesus, or anyone else. I have been, and am, Ted Owens--a human being with lots of faults and weaknesses, who has goofed all over the place at times. The only "grandeur" you could attach to me is that I claim to work with UFOs who can make lightning strike targets at times; UFOs who will appear at times when I say they will; UFOs that will change the weather; UFOs that can tear up military exercises; UFOs that can heal people, etc. Well, my documented files indicate surely that all of this has happened. I have interviewed over a dozen individuals who have had interactions with Owens. In most cases these persons, with no vested interest of their own, have completely confirmed Owens' accounts of various events. In some cases, events were recalled similarly but the witnesses differed with Owens' interpretations. In a few minor instances, witnesses have recalled factual events differently than Owens. Sociologists would expect rational, sane people to disagree in similar circumstances. None of the people I interviewed from Owens' past, who knew his character, thought that he would deliberately falsify information. Owens is a very human person with very human faults. He incessantly smokes cigars; he has not given up drinking although he has stated that the SIs would like him to do so. He is temperamental and irascible, rough and hardy. 12 === Page 98 of 103 PK Man Owens has an ego and a temper, much like some members of my own family or faculty. My conversations with him vary from moments of great clarity and affinity to moments where I lose all trust completely. My mind explores the notions that Owens is a con man trying to use me, that he is a madman, that he is dangerous, that he is immature and irresponsible. Whether he is these things, I am learning, is as much my decision as it is his. He is very quick and responds instantly to my labels. One might well think of Owens as an "ordinary man in extraordinary situation." We have had our arguments; and our differences have been heated ones. He has been as much a gentleman as I have been with him and my politeness has been strained at times. He has been honest with me as far as I have been able to determine. And Owens has always treated me with respect. He is willing to learn from others, to communicate frankly, to anguish with some authentic awareness of his existential dilemma. He asks that we accept him. Ted Owens' activities and our responses to him are most aptly described by the fictional Lacombe in *Close Encounters of the Third Kind* as an "event sociological." If we are looking for insanity, we must look at the behavior of many people, not just Owens himself. My own background as a conscientious objector provides something of a contrast to Owens love for fighting. One incident has occurred which brought my pacifism into direct conflict with Owens' fiery temperament. Over the years, many people have suggested to Owens that he provide some sort of simple laboratory demonstration of his abilities. To a scientist, it is much more impressive for Owens to create a psychokinetic effect under controlled conditions in a laboratory, such a moving a small object in a sealed container, than all of his large scale weather demonstrations. === Page 99 of 103 PK Man To these requests Owens' response has been that such experiments would be too trifling for his powers. Back in the mid-1940s when he was at Duke University he provided some small scale demonstrations. Since then, Owens claims that the SIs have expanded his abilities in a manner such that it is now easier for him to control the weather over thousands of square miles than it is to effect the fall of dice in a laboratory test. Nevertheless, the pressure continues for Owens to repeat such small scale tests on demand. One day, in January of 1978, I received a phone call from Owens who urgently insisted that I contact some of the individuals who might have witnessed his demonstrations at Duke University over thirty years ago. He felt that it would be important to have their testimony on the record for historical reasons and, I suspect, also to help him deal with the continual pressure to engage in further experiments of a trivial nature. I telephoned several researchers (who wish to remain unnamed) who remembered Owens from that time period. They all emphasized very strongly to me the arguments which they had had with Owens about the scientific necessity to institute experimental controls for all possible alternative explanations to psychokinesis before assuming that it did in fact occur. They felt Owens was too quick to interpret events as examples of psychokinesis. While they suspected that Owens did have psychokinetic ability, they all emphasized that they had never personally observed any extraordinary PK phenomena around Owens under controlled conditions. I have no reason to doubt either the memory or the integrity of those researchers. They all remembered Owens quite well and spoke of the fondness which they had for him. They were aware to some extent of his subsequent career as "PK Man," and one researcher told me, "It seems as if Ted takes himself a little too seriously." 14 === Page 100 of 103 PK Man Nothing could have been closer to the truth. Owens went into a rage after he pried the information from me that the individuals in question would not authenticate the story that he had psychokinetically caused an object to levitate. (Some remembered the incident, but were unimpressed with the experimental controls; others didn't even recall the incident.) His anger at that moment was as heated as it had ever been. I imagine that he had been drinking as well. We did not spend much time on the telephone. Minutes later, Owens phoned back again to announce that he had just received a communication from the SIs. They were angry, he claimed, at the pettiness of the researchers who would not support his story. These researchers would have to be taught a lesson and so, to make their point, the SIs were going to cause airplane crashes on the East Coast. I became furious with Owens and lost my temper myself. Even if the alleged levitation incident occurred exactly as he had stated, I told him that the SIs were not justified in causing any harm to humans to retaliate for the fact that some scientists remembered an event differently after thirty years. I was well aware of the pressure on parapsychological researchers to make public statements only about the most foolproof of cases--and then to suffer the sarcasm of clever skeptics who draw innuendos of fraud and carelessness with a literary vengeance. Owens and the SIs might be fighting for the truth; I'm convinced that Owens believed that he was. But, in the most forceful terms, I told him that there was something more important than truth! My statement caught Owens off guard. His anger subsided and he asked me what I meant. When I answered very simply that compassion and love were more important than truth, Owens quietly mumbled that he wished he had a blond in bed with him that night. And I agreed, I wished that he did also. The conversation ended there. He hung up on me. 15 === Page 101 of 103 PK Man Frankly, I didn't know what to make of things. My mind was working overtime wondering how I had ever gotten involved with Owens and trying to compute scenarios. I knew I would feel terribly guilty if there were any plane crashes, just on the chance that Owens' abilities were real and that my interaction with him triggered such destruction. I had given Owens and the SIs a choice. If they decided to teach a lesson to those researchers from the past, they would lose one researcher in the present who was very actively on the case. For I was clear that no matter how valuable the scientific payoff, I was not about to continue to cooperate with such destructive forces. I was also relishing the strength I had found within myself to confront Owens during one of his bad moods. It reminded me of Captain Kirk's most dramatic scenes in Star Trek where he forcefully persuades powerful aliens to abandon their destructive intentions towards humans. Somewhere within me I was certain I had reached Owens and that he would abandon this foolish notion to cause airplane crashes. It's clear to me that on this occasion and many others, Owens has set himself up in a position where he cannot win. If the airplanes did crash, people would have strong emotional needs not to believe that he caused it; and if they did believe, they could only feel repugnance toward him. If airplanes failed to crash, Owens would still look like a fool. The next day, Owens called again and apologised to me for losing his temper. There really had never been a danger, he claimed, because the SIs would never have allowed him to cause such destruction even though he had wanted to. I was puzzled because on the previous day he had told me that it was the SIs, and not he, who were going to cause all the crashes. In fact, he said that he himself didn't desire it at all. When I confronted him on this discrepancy, he reminded me of the operation on his brain and the notion that he is himself half alien. The matter ended in that confusion which I have still not been able to resolve to my satisfaction. I have no 16 === Page 102 of 103 PK Man idea to what extent the SIs exist outside of Owens' imagination. I am simply comfortable in knowing--even if the SIs are at war with the United States--that I seem to be able to work with Owens without my actions endangering myself or other people. My position has been to allow a deep sympathy for Owens' situation to emerge. I have encountered his world view and I have survived so far. My sympathy for his predicament is occasionally almost overwhelming and at times my antipathy is almost overwhelming. I might never have compiled this report if it were not for an apparent outbreak of poltergeist activity surrounding the Owens files which were then in the possession of one of my assistants, Joe D'Ambria. While I was busy with other research, D'Ambria was organizing the Owens material. For a two week period in late October, 1977, Joe reported strange events in his own apartment. Lights would go on and off by themselves; the stereo would go on and off in the middle of the night; strange footsteps were heard and doors would lock by themselves. One evening the box in which the Owens files were contained apparently moved by itself twelve feet across the room. For several evenings in a row, Joe took special care in placing papers inside the box in chronological order before he went to bed. He reported that on two occasions he awoke in the morning to find that the papers which he had organized were rearranged in totally random order. In July of 1977, Owens had predicted an outbreak of poltergeist effects in California. Oddly enough, during the same time that Joe D'Ambria and his wife reported these incidents to me, several other acquaintances independently reported similar poltergeist stories. Owens himself reports constant poltergeist activity in his own home. Owens claims that he desires to use his abilities to help the planet by improving the climate, and improving economic and political stability "in a thousand different 17 === Page 103 of 103 PK Man ways." If this is madness, I am for it. As a humanist, my intention is to direct Owens' apparent abilities in a positive direction--just in case he is for real. Perhaps Owens is a mad god mirroring the mental images of those with whom he interacts. As a scientist my intention in working with Owens is to continue the investigation. There are a thousand questions to be answered. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 19 Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America # Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America ---------- Compiled by Marc Carlson It was last edited 9 June 2004 ## North America (N.b.: An Asterisk indicates someone who was specifically involved in the Salem Proceedings (1692), regardless of their town of origin) ---------- | Date | Place | # | Name | Sex | Notes and sources: | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 16?? | NEngl/MA | 1 | Dutch, Grace | f | Accused? (Source: Heyrman, Christine. *Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1650-1750*)) | | 1622 (9/11) | VA/Jamestown | 1 | Wright, Goodwife Joan | f | Although she was arraigned, she was not clearly tried. Her husband was Robert Wright and they had been married for 16 years, apparently in Virginia. (Source: Davis, Richard Beale "The Devil in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century" *Virginia Magazine of History and Biography* 65 (1957) 131-49.) [N.B. although they were to have been married in Virginia, it would have been in 1606, thereby predating the colony of Jamestown] | | 1631 | New Mexico, Santa Fe | 1 | ? | f | Mother. A mother and a daughter, charged with witchcraft for midwifery. It doesn't appear to ever have come to trial. (Source: Hill, David V.. *The Interconnexion*, 1996 [n.b. I am trying to backtrack this citation as it seems to have vanished. You may want to discount it]. | | 1631 | New Mexico, Santa Fe | 1 | ? | f | Daughter. A mother and a daughter, charged with witchcraft for midwifery. It doesn't appear to ever have come to trial. (Source: Hill, David V.. *The Interconnexion*, 1996 [n.b. I am trying to backtrack this citation as it seems to have vanished. You may want to discount it].) | | 1641 | Virginia | 1 | Barker, Mrs. George | f | Accused by Jane Rookens, the court acquitted her, and the Jane Rooken's husband was charged to pay the Barker's court fees. (Source: Davis, Richard Beale "The Devil in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century" *Virginia Magazine of History and Biography* 65 (1957) 131-49.) | | 1645 | NEngl/MA Springfield | 1 | Parsons, Hugh | m | May not have been specifically accused in 1645, but "several were disturbed" (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1645 | NEngl/MA Springfield | 1 | Parsons, Mary | f | May not have been specifically accused in 1645, but "several were disturbed" (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1647 | NEngl/CT Windsor | 1 | Johnson, Mary | f | Although she is the traditional first person executed, there is no documentary evidence to support this. She may be the same as Mary Jonson from Wethersfield. (Source: Taylor, John M. *The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut, 1647-1697*. New York: Burt Franklin, 1971). | | | | | | | | Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America.html[12/2/25, 20:47:48] === Page 2 of 19 Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America | Year | Location | Count | Name | Sex | Outcome/Source | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1647 (5/25) | NEng/CT Windsor | 1 | Young, Alse | f | Hanged, She is acknowledged as the first person executed as a witch in North America. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1648 | NEng/MA Charleston | 1 | Jones, Thomas | m | Arrested, final fate unknown. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1648 (12/7) | NEng/CT Wethersfld | 1 | Jonson, Mary | f | Hanged. This Mary Johnson left a definite record of her fate (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1648 (6/15) | NEng/MA Charleston | 1 | Jones, Margaret | f | Executed at Boston. She used medicines to cure the sick. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1649 | NEngl/CT Windsor | 1 | Grant, Matthew | m | Acquitted. He disappeared from the colony shortly after his trial (Source: Taylor, John M. *The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut, 1647-1697*. New York: Burt Franklin, 1971). | | 1649 | NEng/MA Boston | 1 | Oliver, Mary | f | Confessed to Witchcraft, Fate unknown. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1650 | NEng/MA Boston | 1 | Lake, Mrs. H. | f | Executed (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1651 | NEng/Untd Colonies | ? | "Hostile Indians" | ? | Harassed Uncas, a Mahegan Sachem. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1651 | NEng/CT Stratford | 1 | Bassett, "Goody" | f | Hanged. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1651 | NEng/MA Rowley | 1 | Bradstreet, John | m | Fined 20 shillings and a whipping. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1651 | NEng/CT New Haven | 1 | Godman, Elizabeth | f | Freed her "under suspicion" (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1651 | NEng/MA Cambridge | 1 | Kendal, Mrs (fnu) | f | Executed. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1651 (3/6+) | NEng/CT Hartford | 1 | Carrington, Joan | f | Hanged. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1651 (3/6+) | NEng/CT Hartford | 1 | Carrington, John | m | Hanged. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1651 (5/31) | NEng/MA Springfield | 1 | Parsons, Hugh | m | Acquitted. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1651 (5/29) | NEng/MA Springfield | 1 | Parsons, Mary | f | Executed. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1653 | NEng/MA Andover | 1 | Godfrey, John | m | Final trial not held until 1659, final outcome unknown. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | | | | | | Hanged. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the | Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America.html[12/2/25, 20:47:48] === Page 3 of 19 Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America | Year | Location | Count | Name | Gender | Notes/Sources | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1653 | NEng/CT Fairfield | 1 | Knapp, "Goody" | f | American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1653 | NEng/CT Fairfield | 1 | Staples, Mary | f | Acquitted and her accuser, Roger Ludlow, was fined 20 Pounds for defamation. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1654 | VA/Jamestown | 1 | Grady, Kath | f | Hanged at sea. (Sources: Davis, Richard Beale "The Devil in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century" *Virginia Magazine of History and Biography* 65 (1957) 131-49.) | | 1654(10/16) | Maryland | 1 | Manship, Mrs. (fnu) | f | Acquited, her Accuser Peter Godson was judged to have defamed and slandered Mrs. Richard Manship (Sources: Maryland Archives, v.10 p.399. Parke, Frances Neal "Witchcraft in Maryland", *Maryland Historical Magazine* 31:4 (Dec 1936) p.271-298.) | | 1654 (6/23) | Maryland | 1 | Lee, Mary | f | Hanged at sea, No verdict found on John Bosworth, Master of the *Charity*, whose crew Hanged her. (Sources: Maryland Archives, v.3 p.306. Parke, Frances Neal "Witchcraft in Maryland", *Maryland Historical Magazine* 31:4 (Dec 1936) p.271-298.) | | 1654 (9) | NEng/CT Winsor | 1 | Gilbert, Lydia | f | Hanged. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1655 | NEng/CT New Haven | 1 | Bayley, Mrs. Nicholas | f | Freed, but banished from the Colony. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1655 | NEng/CT New Haven | 1 | Bayley, Nicholas | m | Freed, but banished from the Colony. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1655 (9/?) | NEng/CT New Haven | 1 | Godman, Elizabeth | f | (Second Trial) Verdict "Suspicious of Witchcraft" (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1655 (10/4) | NEng/CT New Haven | 1 | Godman, Elizabeth | f | (Third Trial) Verdict "Suspicious of Witchcraft", released upon payment of 50 Pounds security against her future good conduct. (As she was poor, and likely a begger the payment of this fine is dubious). (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1656 | NEng/NH Hampton | 1 | Cole, Eunice | f | Discharged and released. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1656 | NEng/NH Dover | 1 | Welford, Jane | f | Freed upon condition of good behavior. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1656 (11) | VA/Nrthmberland | 1 | Harding, William | m | Ten Stripes from a lash, and permanent panishment from the county. His accuser was Reverend David Lindsay. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725 Davis, Richard Beale "The Devil in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century" *Virginia Magazine of History and Biography* 65 (1957) 131-49.) | | 1656 (6/19) | NEng/MA Salem | 1 | Hibbins, Anne | f | Hanged (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | | | | Batchelor, | | Final result unknown. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft | Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America.html[12/2/25, 20:47:48] === Page 4 of 19 Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America | 1657 | NEng/MA | 1 | Goodwife | f | in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694- 725) | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1657 | NEng/MA | 1 | Hogg (fnu) | ? | Final result unknown. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694- 725) | | 1657 | NEng/MA | 1 | Hogg, Jane | f | Final result unknown. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694- 725) | | 1657 | NEng/CT New Haven | 1 | Meaker, William | m | Acquitted. (It's likely that this is the same "William Meeker" who, in 1649 married Sarah Preston, and who later relocated to Newark, N.J.) (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1657 | NEng/MA | 1 | Pope, Anne | f | Final result unknown. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694- 725) | | 1657 (1/12) | Virginia | 1 | Wingborough, Barbara | f | Acquitted (Source: Davis, Richard Beale "The Devil in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century" *Virginia Magazine of History and Biography* 65 (1957) 131-49.) | | 1658 | Maryland | 1 | Elizabeth, Richardson | f | Hanged at sea, No verdict found on the complaint brought by John Washington against Edward Prescott, Master of the *Sarah Artch*, whose crew Hanged her. (Sources: *Maryland Archives*, v.41 p.327-329. Parke, Frances Neal "Witchcraft in Maryland", *Maryland Historical Magazine* 31:4 (Dec 1936) p.271-298.) | | 1658 | NEng/Easthampton | 1 | Garlick, Eliz. "Goody" | f | Brought before the Magistrates of East Hampton on 5/5/1658, and sent to Connecticut for trial. Released but had to pay court costs. Husband Joshua Garlick of East Hampton. (Sources: Lyon, John "Witchcraft in New York" *New York Historical Society Collections* 2 (1869):273-6. Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1658 | NEng/Jamestown | 1 | Grade, Katherine | f | Hanged at sea, Cpt. Bennet was call for by a jury, but no verdict (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1658 (9/5) | NEng/CT Saybrook | 1 | Jennings, Margaret | f | Released when the jury became Hanged. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1658 (9/5) | NEng/CT Saybrook | 1 | Jennings, Nicholas | m | Released when the jury became Hanged. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1659 (12) | Virginia | 1 | Robinson, Mistress | f | Not tried. Her accuser, Ann Godby, was fined three hundred pounds in "Tobacco and Caske". (Source: Davis, Richard Beale "The Devil in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century" *Virginia Magazine of History and Biography* 65 (1957) 131-49., Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1660 | NEng/MA Cambridge | 1 | Holman, Winifred | f | Unknown Verdict. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1660 | NEng/Plymouth | 1 | Holmes, Mrs. W (fnu) | f | Acquitted. Her accuseer needed to make a public statement. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | | | | | | Acquitted. She had been accused of witchcraft in Oyster Bay, and | Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America.html[12/2/25, 20:47:48] === Page 5 of 19 Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America | 1660 | NEng/Long Island | 1 | Wright, Mary | f | sent to Massachusetts for trail; Convicted of being Quaker and banished. (Sources: Lyon, John "Witchcraft in New York" *New York Historical Society Collections* 2 (1869): 273-6. Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725; ) | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1661 | Maryland Charles Co. | 1 | Mitchell, Joan | f | Technically not a Witchcraft Trial, but rather an accused witch bringing suit against four people for slandering her. However, it appears that Joan Mitchell had long been accused. (Sources: *Maryland Archives, Charles County Court Proceedings* (1658-1662) Parke, Frances Neal "Witchcraft in Maryland", *Maryland Historical Magazine* 31:4 (Dec 1936) p.271-298.) | | 1662 | NEng/CT Hartford | 1 | Ayres, Goodwife | f | Deathbed accusation by the 8 year old daughter of John Kelley of "disturbing" both her and the older Anna Cole. Found guilty by the Water Test, she escaped prison and fled the Colony. (Sources: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725, Levermore, Charles H. "Witchcraft in Connecticut" *New Englander* 44 (1885): 788-817) | | 1662 | NEng/CT Hartford | 1 | Ayres, William | m | Accused by the daughter of John Kelley of "disturbing" Anna Cole. Found guilty by the Water Test, he escaped prison and fled the Colony. (Sources: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725, Levermore, Charles H. "Witchcraft in Connecticut" *New Englander* 44 (1885): 788-817) | | 1662 | NEng/CT Farmington | 1 | Barnes, Mary | f | Accused (by Rebecca Greensmith's confession?) with Elizabeth Seager, and tried on 6 Jan, 1662-3. Hanged (Probably on 1/20). (Sources: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725, Levermore, Charles H. "Witchcraft in Connecticut" *New Englander* 44 (1885): 788-817) | | 1662 | NEng/CT Hartford | 1 | Grant, Mrs. Peter | f | ? (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1662 | NEng/CT Hartford | 1 | Greensmith, Rebecca | f | Hanged. Accused by William Ayres and the victim of "disturbing" Anna Cole. She confessed and implicated her husband and several others. (Sources: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725, Levermore, Charles H. "Witchcraft in Connecticut" *New Englander* 44 (1885): 788-817) | | 1662 | NEng/CT Hartford | 1 | Palmer, Katherine | f | ? (Sources: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725, Levermore, Charles H. "Witchcraft in Connecticut" *New Englander* 44 (1885): 788-817) | | 1662 | NEng/CT Hartford | 1 | Sanford, Mary | f | Hanged. Accused by William Ayres and the victim of "disturbing" Anna Cole. (Sources: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725, Levermore, Charles H. "Witchcraft in Connecticut" *New Englander* 44 (1885): 788-817) | | 1662 | NEng/CT Hartford | 3 | Seager, Elizabeth | f | Wife of Richard Seager. Tried three times, acquitted twice. She was found guilty the last time, but was discharged "under suspicion". Accused of "disturbing" Anna Cole. (Sources: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725, Levermore, Charles H. "Witchcraft in Connecticut" *New Englander* 44 (1885): 788-817) | Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America.html[12/2/25, 20:47:48] === Page 6 of 19 Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America | 1662 | NEng/CT Hartford | 1 | Varleth, Judith | f | Found guilty 1/6. She was released after her brother in law, Peter Stuvesant, intervened. Accused of "disturbing" the daughter of John Kelley. (Sources: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725, Levermore, Charles H. "Witchcraft in Connecticut" *New Englander* 44 (1885): 788-817) | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1662 | NEng/CT Hartford | 1 | Wakely, James | m | Verdict unknown, but since he quickly escaped to Rhode Island, it was probably Guilty. Accused of "disturbing" the daughter of John Kelley. (Sources: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725, Levermore, Charles H. "Witchcraft in Connecticut" *New Englander* 44 1885): 788-817) | | 1662 (1/20) | NEng/CT Hartford | 1 | Greensmith, Nathanial | m | Hanged (2/24). Accused by his wife Rebecca, and either by the deathbed statement of the daughter of John Kelley of "disturbing" Anna Cole. (Fairly well-to-do). He had been accused in 1650 of stealing by William Eares (Ayres) (Sources: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725, Levermore, Charles H. "Witchcraft in Connecticut" *New Englander* 44 (1885): 788-817) | | 1662 (1/20) | NEng/CT Hartford | 1 | Sanford, Andrew | m | Acquitted. Accused of "disturbing" Anna Cole or the daughter of John Kelley. (Sources: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725, Levermore, Charles H. "Witchcraft in Connecticut" *New Englander* 44 (1885): 788-817) | | 1665 | NEng/NY Brookhaven | 1 | Hall, Mrs Ralph (Mary) | f | Acquitted (Sources: Lyon, John "Witchcraft in New York" *New York Historical Society Collections* 2 (1869): 273-6., Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1665 | NEng/NY Brookhaven | 1 | Hall, Ralph | m | Acquitted (Sources: Lyon, John "Witchcraft in New York" *New York Historical Society Collections* 2 (1869): 273-6.) | | 1665(16/10) | Maryland St Mary's | 1 | Bennett, Elizabeth | f | Charged by Philip Calvert. Acquitted "Cleared by Proclaimation". (Sources: *Maryland Archives*, v.49 p.476,486,508. Parke, Frances Neal "Witchcraft in Maryland", *Maryland Historical Magazine* 31:4 (Dec 1936) p.271-298.) | | 1668 (11) | Virginia | 1+? | | f | Not tried. Charges brought against the accuser of a "Woman and her Children". (Source: Davis, Richard Beale "The Devil in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century" *Virginia Magazine of History and Biography* 65 (1957) 131-49.) | | 1669 | NEng/MA | 1 | Hutchinson, Anne | f | Her miscarriage was ascribed to her "relationship with the Devil" (i.e., she was a Quaker)(Source: Heyrman, Christine. *Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1650- 1750*) | | 1669 | NEng/MA | 1 | Dyer, Mary | f | Her miscarriage was ascribed to her "relationship with the Devil" (i.e., she was a Quaker)(Source: Heyrman, Christine. *Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1650- 1750*) | | 1670 | NEng/CT Wethersfld | 1 | Harrison, Katharine | f | Found Guily and banished from Connecticut (Sources: Lyon, John "Witchcraft in New York" *New York Historical Society Collections* 2 (1869): 273-6.) | | 1670 | Mexico, Mexico City | 1 | Gruber, Bernardo | m | Two men accused of talismanic magic in 1668 at Quarai Pueblo are tried by the Inquisition. Bernadro finally escaped the Inquisition, only to be killed by Apaches on his way back to Sonorro. (Source: Hill, David V.. *The Interconnxion*, 1996.) | Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America.html[12/2/25, 20:47:48] === Page 7 of 19 Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America | 1670 | Mexico, Mexico City | 1 | Serrano, Juan | m | Two men accused of talismanic magic in 1668 at Quarai Pueblo are tried by the Inquisition. Bernadro finally escaped the Inquisition, only to be killed by Apaches on his way back to Sonorro. (Source: Hill, David V.. *The Interconnxion*, 1996.) | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1671 | NEmg/CT, Groton | 1 | ???? | f | Accused by 16 year old Elizabeth Knap. (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1671 | VA/Northmbrlnd | 1 | Neal, Mrs Christopher | f | Not tried. Charges brought against the accuser of a "Woman and her Children". (Source: Davis, Richard Beale "The Devil in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century" *Virginia Magazine of History and Biography* 65 (1957) 131-49.) | | 1674 | Maryland St Mary's | 1 | Cowman, John | m | Charged and convicted for under the Statute of James I for witchcraft, conjuration, sorcery or enchantment upon the body of Elizabeth Goodale. He received a reprieve from execution from the Upper House of the Assembly. (Sources: *Maryland Archives*, v.2 p.425-426. Parke, Frances Neal "Witchcraft in Maryland", *Maryland Historical Magazine* 31:4 (Dec 1936) p.271-298.) | | 1675 (6/15) | VA/Norfolk | 1 | Jenkins, Jane/Joan | f | Not tried. (Source: Davis, Richard Beale "The Devil in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century" *Virginia Magazine of History and Biography* 65 (1957) 131-49.) | | 1631 | New Mexico, Santa Fe | 3 | ? | m | Hanged. Governor Juan Francisco de Treviño has 47 influential men of the Pueblo arrested on a charge of witchcraft. 3 are hanged, and the remainder are beaten up before being released. (Source: Spanish Mission in New Mexico (1609-1700), http://etss.simplenet.com/hts/hts2/notes2.html 15 March 1999). | | 1631 | New Mexico, Santa Fe | 44 | ? | m | Beaten up. Governor Juan Francisco de Treviño has 47 influential men of the Pueblo arrested on a charge of witchcraft. 3 are hanged, and the remainder are beaten up before being released. (Source: Spanish Mission in New Mexico (1609-1700), http://etss.simplenet.com/hts/hts2/notes2.html 15 March 1999). | | 1678 (1/15) | VA/Norfolk | 1 | Cartwrite, Alice | f | Acquitted. (Source: Davis, Richard Beale "The Devil in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century" *Virginia Magazine of History and Biography* 65 (1957) 131-49.) | | 1679? | VA/Accomack Co. | 1 | Carter, Paul | m | ? The change in the condition of the corpse of his victim was sufficient to prove his guilt (Source: Davis, Richard Beale "The Devil in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century" *Virginia Magazine of History and Biography* 65 (1957) 131-49.) | | 1679 | NEng/MA Newbury | 1 | Gowell, Caleb | m | A seaman accused of disturbing the Morse household. He served his apprenticeship with the "Wizard" Francis Norwood (Source: Heyrman, Christine. *Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1650-1750*) | | 1683 | NEng/CT Hartford | 1 | Desborough, Nicholas | m | Suspicioned. (Source: Taylor, John M. *The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut, 1647-1697*. New York: Burt Franklin, 1971). | | 1684 | Pennsylvania | 1 | Mattson, Margaret* | f | Two "Old Swedish Women" and "Quakers". Acquitted by order of the Governor William Penn. (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959; E-mail from Janet Ortman, (descendant)) | | 1684 | Pennsylvania | 1 | ? | f | Two "Old Swedish Women" and "Quakers". Acquitted by order of the Governor William Penn. (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | | | | | | Executed. N.b. She lived in Calvert County. (Sources: Parke, Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America.html[12/2/25, 20:47:48] === Page 8 of 19 Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America | 1685 (10/3) | Maryland St Mary's | 1 | Fowler, Rebecca | f | Frances Neal "Witchcraft in Maryland", *Maryland Historical Magazine* 31:4 (Dec 1936) p.271-298.) | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1686 | Maryland St Mary's | 1 | Edwards, Hannah | f | Acquitted. N.b. she lived in Calvert County. (Trial 4/27-5/10) (Sources: Parke, Frances Neal "Witchcraft in Maryland", *Maryland Historical Magazine* 31:4 (Dec 1936) p.271-298.) | | 1688 (11/15) | NEng/MA Salem | 1 | Glover, "Goody" | f | Executed. Probably the last person Hanged for witchcraft in Boston. (May be the Irish Catholic that Cotton Mather wrote about) (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1692 | NEng/CT Fairfield | 1 | Clawson, Elizabeth | f | Acquitted. (Source: Taylor, John M. *The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut, 1647-1697*. New York: Burt Franklin, 1971). | | 1692 | NEng/CT Fairfield | 1 | Harvey, Hannah | f | Jury found no bill. (Source: Taylor, John M. *The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut, 1647-1697*. New York: Burt Franklin, 1971). | | 1692 | NEng/CT Fairfield | 1 | Harvey, Mary | f | Jury found no bill. (Source: Taylor, John M. *The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut, 1647-1697*. New York: Burt Franklin, 1971). | | 1692 | NEng/CT Fairfield | 1 | Miller, "Goody" | f | Acquitted. (Source: Taylor, John M. *The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut, 1647-1697*. New York: Burt Franklin, 1971). | | 1692 | NEng/CT Fairfield | 1 | Staples, Mary | f | (Second Trial) Acquitted. (Source: Taylor, John M. *The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut, 1647-1697*. New York: Burt Franklin, 1971). | | 1692 | NEng/CT Fairfield | 1 | Disborough, Mercy | f | Convicted, but reprieved. (Source: Taylor, John M. *The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut, 1647-1697*. New York: Burt Franklin, 1971). | | 1692 | NEng/MA Billerica* | 1 | Abbott, Goodman | m | Accused (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Ipswich* | 1 | Abbott, Arthur | m | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 (4/22) | NEng/MA Topsfield* | 1 | Abbott, Nehemiah | m | Cleared of charges. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 (5/31) | NEng/MA Boston* | 1 | Alden, John (Cpt) | m | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Andrew, Daniel | m | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Billerica* | 1 | Andrews, M. | m | Accused (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Baker, Mrs. Ebeneazer | f | Accused (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Barker, Abigail | f | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Barker, Mary | f | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Barker, William (Jr.) | m | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Barker, William (Sr.) | m | Confessed. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Barry, William | m | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | | | | | | Examined. Maiden name Hood. Daughter-in-Law of a Lynn | Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America.html[12/2/25, 20:47:48] === Page 9 of 19 Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America | 1692 | NEng/MA Lynn* | 1 | Bassett, Mary | f | Quaker William Basset (Sr.) and wife of William Bassett (Jr) (Sources: Heyrman, Christine. Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1650-1750) | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1692 | NEng/MA Lynn* | 1 | Bassett, Sarah | f | Examined. (N.B. She is either the same as Mary Bassett, or possibly a daughter of William Bassett Sr.)(Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Wenham* | 1 | Bibber, Sarah | f | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 (6/10) | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Bishop, Bridget | f | Hanged (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 (4/22) | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Bishop, Edward | m | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 (4/22) | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Bishop, Sarah | f | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 (4/22) | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Black, Mary | f | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) Slave? (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 (9/9) | NEng/MA Salisbury* | 1 | Bradbury, Mary | f | Tried and condemned 9/9 (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Bradstreet, Justice Dudley | m | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Bradstreet, John | m | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Bridges, Mary (Jr) | f | Accused. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Bridges, Mary (Sr) | f | Accused. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Bridges, Sarah | f | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Bromage, Hannah | f | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Buckley, Sarah | f | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Buckley, Sarah (Jr) | f | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 (8/19) | NEng/Maine, Wells* | 1 | Burroughs, Rev. George | m | Hanged. Arrested in Wells, Maine and extradited to Salem. (5/4) (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Buxton, John | m | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (T)* | 1 | Candy | f | Examined Barbados Slave. Acquitted on 2 charges of Witchcraft. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Charleston* | 1 | Carey, Elizabeth | f | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) (aka Cary, Elizabeth Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Charleston* | 1 | Carey, Nathaniel | m | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/MA | 1 | Carrier, | m | Verdict? Son of Thomas and Martha Carrier (Sources: Boyer and | Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America.html[12/2/25, 20:47:48] === Page 10 of 19 Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America | | Andover* | | Andrew | Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1692 (8/19) | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Carrier, Martha | f | Hanged (People in Andover had been living in fear of her "Powers" for years) (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Carrier, Richard | m | Verdict? Son of Thomas and Martha Carrier (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Carrier, Sarah | f | Confessed. Daughter of Thomas and Martha Carrier (Age 8) (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Carrier, Thomas (Jr.) | m | Confessed. Son of Thomas and Martha Carrier (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (T)* | 1 | Carroll, Hannah | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Woburn* | 1 | Carter, Bethia (Jr.) | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Woburn* | 1 | Carter, Bethia (Sr.) | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Cave, Sarah | f | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 (5/9) | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Churchill, Sarah | f | Examined. One of the "Afflicted "girls. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Haverhill* | 1 | Clarke, Mary | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Ipswich* | 1 | Clenton, Rachel | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 (2/29) | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Cloyce, Sarah | f | Examined. Rebecca Nurse's sister (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Coffin, Sarah | f | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (T)* | 1 | Cole, Sarah | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Lynn* | 1 | Cole, Sarah | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Reading* | 1 | Colson, Elizabeth | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Reading* | 1 | Colson, Mary | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 (9/16) | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Corey, Giles | m | Pressed to Death. Note that he refused to plead to the indictments to his case (possibly because he did not accept the legality of the court he was in) and thereby brought about his own torture. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 (9/22) | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Corey, Martha | f | Hanged (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Dane, Deliverance | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Dane, Mrs Nathan | f | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Wenham* | 1 | Davis, Sarah | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | | NEng/MA | | | | ??? Daughter of Margaret Prince (Source: Heyrman, Christine. | Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America.html[12/2/25, 20:47:48] === Page 11 of 19 Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America | 1692 | Gloucester* | 1 | Day, Phoebe | f | Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1650-1750) | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1692 | NEng/MA Lynn* | 1 | Derick, Mary | f | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | DeRich, Mary | f | (Aka Rich, Mary de) Examined. Sister of Elizabeth Proctor and daughter of the Lynn Quaker, William Bassett Sr. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977; Heyrman, Christine. Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1650-1750) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Lynn* | 1 | Derrill, Mary | f | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/ME Piscataqua* | 1 | Dicer, Elizabeth | f | Examined. Listed as the wife of a Seaman from Gloucester. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977; Heyrman, Christine. Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1650-1750) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Gloucester* | 1 | Dike, Rebecca | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Gloucester* | 1 | Dolliver, Anne | f | Examined. The daughter of Salem Reverend Higginson, and married a Gloucester seaman, who deserted her. She was living in Salem with her family at the time. (n.b., aka Ann Dolliber) (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977; Heyrman, Christine. Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1650-1750) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Ipswich?* | 1 | Downing, Mehitabel | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Draper, Joseph | m | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 (5/10) | NEng/MA Reading* | 1 | Dustin, Lydia | f | Examined. Died in prison. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Reading* | 1 | Dustin, Sarah | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Gloucester* | 1 | Dyke, Rebecca | f | Accused by "Salem Girls". Examined. Anne Dolliver's sister in law (Sources: Heyrman, Christine. Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1650-1750) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Eames, Daniel | m | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 (9/17) | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Eames, Rebecca | f | Tried and condemned, Reprieved? (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977, Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959 (The latter gives Bixford as her home) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Bixford* | 1 | Eames, Robert | m | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 (5/18) | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Easty, Mary | f | Released after examination. After the public outcry, she was arrested a second time. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977, Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959 (The latter gives Topfield as her home)) | | 1692 (9/22) | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Easty, Mary | f | Hanged (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA | 1 | Elwell, Esther | f | Accused by "Salem Girls". Examined. Daughter of Grace Dutch, who had been accused of witchcraft ???? (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977; Heyrman, Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America.html[12/2/25, 20:47:48] === Page 12 of 19 Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America | | Gloucester* | | | Christine. *Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1650-1750*) |---|---|---|---|---| | 1692 | NEng/MA Haverhill* | 1 | Emerson, Martha | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | 1692 | NEng/MA Manchester* | 1 | Emons, Joseph | m | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | 1692 (4/22) | NEng/MA Salem (T)* | 1 | English, Mary | f | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (T)* | 1 | English, Philip | m | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | 1692 | NEng/MA Lynn* | 1 | Farrer, Thomas (Sr) | m | (aka Farrar) Examined on charge of Wizardry (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977; Heyrman, Christine. *Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1650-1750*) | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Farrington, Edward | m | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | 1692 (9/17) | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Faulkner, Abigail (Jr) | f | Tried and condemned, pleaded Pregnancy. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | 1692 (9/17) | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Faulkner, Abigail (Sr) | f | Tried and condemned (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977)) | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Faulkner, Dorothy | f | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | 1692 | NEng/MA Rowley* | 1 | Flood, Capt John | m | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977, Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959 (The latter gives Romney Marsh as her home)) | 1692 | NEng/MA Malden* | 1 | Fosdick, Elizabeth | f | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | 1692 (9/17) | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Foster, Ann | f | Tried and condemned. Died in Prison? (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | 1692 | NEng/MA Manchester* | 1 | Frost, Nicholas | m | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Fry, Eunice | f | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Good, Dorcas | f | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) [Good, Dorothy? Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)] | 1692 (7/19) | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Good, Sarah | f | Hanged (Wife of a common laborer) (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | 1692 | NEng/MA Haverhill* | 1 | Green, Mary | f | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | 1692 | NEng/ME, Piscataqua* | 1 | Hardy, Thomas | m | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977, Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959 (The latter gives his home as Great Island)) | 1692 | NEng/ME, Andover* | 1 | Harrington | ? | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | 1692 | NEng/MA Lynn* | 1 | Hart, Elizabeth | f | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | NEng/MA Ipswich? | | Hatfield, | | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem* Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America.html[12/2/25, 20:47:48] === Page 13 of 19 Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America | 1692 | * | 1 | Rachel | f | Witchcraft papers. 1977) | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (T)* | 1 | Hawkes, Margaret | f | Examined. May be related to the Quaker Hawkes' of Marblehead? (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977; Heyrman, Christine. *Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1650-1750*) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Hawkes, Sarah | f | Examined May be related to the Quaker Hawkes' of Marblehead? (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977; Heyrman, Christine. *Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1650-1750*) | | 1692 (9/21) | NEng/MA Beverly* | 1 | Hoar, Dorcas | f | Confessed. Her execution was delayed. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 (9/17) | NEng/MA Topsfield* | 1 | Hobbs, Abigail | f | Tried and condemned, She confessed (4/19) Repreived? (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977, Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Topsfield* | 1 | Hobbs, Deliverance | f | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Topsfield* | 1 | Hobbs, William | m | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 (7/19) | NEng/MA Topsfield* | 1 | How, Elizabeth | f | Hanged (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Topsfield* | 1 | How, James | m | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Rowley* | 1 | Howard, John | m | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Hubbard, Elizabeth | f | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Haverhill* | 1 | Hutchins, Francis | f | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (T)* | 1 | Indian John (or Indian, John) | f | Tituba's Husband, and accused? (Source: Mitchaell, Roger, *Witchcraft, the history and mythology*. 1995). | | 1692 | NEng/MA Lynn* | 1 | Ireson, Mary | f | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Rowley* | 1 | Jackson, John (Jr) | m | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Rowley* | 1 | Jackson, John (Sr) | m | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Jacobs, George (Jr) | m | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 (8/19) | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Jacobs, George (Sr) | m | Hanged (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 (5/10) | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Jacobs, Margaret | f | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Jacobs, Martha | f | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Jacobs, Rebecca | f | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Johnson, Abigail | f | Examined. Age 11. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Johnson, Elizabeth (Jr) | f | Examined. Age 22. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America.html[12/2/25, 20:47:48] === Page 14 of 19 Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America | | | | | | | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Johnson, Elizabeth (Sr) | f | Examined. Age 51. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Johnson, Rebecca | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Johnson, Stephen | m | Examined. Age 13. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 (9/17) | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Lacy, Mary (Jr) | f | Tried and condemned. Age 15. Grandaughter of Ann Foster. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 (9/17) | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Lacy, Mary (Sr) | f | Tried and condemned. Reprieved? Daughter of Ann Foster (Andover) (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977, Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Demonology and Witchcraft. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Laundry, John | m | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Lee, John | m | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Lewis, Mercy | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Malden* | 1 | Lilly, Jane | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Marston, Mary | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 (7/19) | NEng/MA Amesbury* | 1 | Martin, Susannah | f | executed (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Beverly* | 1 | Merrill, Sarah | f | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 (5/2) | NEng/MA Beverly* | 1 | Morey, Sarah | f | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 (7/19) | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Nurse, Rebecca | f | Hanged (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Osborne, Mary | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 (5/10) | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Osborne, Sarah | f | She died in prison in Boston. A Widow, she possessed a considerable estate. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Osgood, Mary | f | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Paine, Ellizabeth | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) (Aka Payne, Elizabeth) | | 1692 (9/22) | NEng/MA Salem (T)* | 1 | Parker, Alice | f | Hanged (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 (9/22) | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Parker, Mary | f | Hanged (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 (9/22) | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Parker, Sarah | f | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (T)* | 1 | Pease, Sarah | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Gloucester* | 1 | Peney, Joan | f | Examined. Impoverished widow (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977; Heyrman, Christine. Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of | Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America.html[12/2/25, 20:47:48] === Page 15 of 19 Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America | | | | | | Colonial Massachusetts, 1650-1750) | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1692 | NEng/MA Rowley* | 1 | Post, Hannah | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Rowley* | 1 | Post, Mary | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Post, Sarah | f | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Post, Susannah | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Gloucester* | 1 | Prince, Margaret | f | Examined. A Widow. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977; Heyrman, Christine. *Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1650-1750*) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Gloucester* | 1 | Prince, Mary | f | (May also be listed as Martha Prince) Daughter of Margaret Prince (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959; Heyrman, Christine. *Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1650-1750*) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (T)* | 1 | Proctor, Benjamin | m | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 (8/6) | NEng/MA Salem (T)* | 1 | Proctor, Elizabeth | f | Tried, Convicted, Plead Pregnancy. Sister of Mary de Rich and daughter of the Lynn Quaker, William Bassett Sr. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977, Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959; Heyrman, Christine. *Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1650- 1750*) | | 1692 (8/19) | NEng/MA Salem (T)* | 1 | Proctor, John | m | Hanged (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (T)* | 1 | Proctor, Sarah | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (T)* | 1 | Proctor, William | m | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 (9/22) | NEng/MA Salem (T)* | 1 | Pudeator, Anne | f | Hanged (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 (9/22) | NEng/MA Marblehead* | 1 | Reed, Wilmott | f | (Aka "Mammy Redd") Hanged. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977; Heyrman, Christine. *Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1650-1750*) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Reading* | 1 | Rice, Sarah | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem* | 1 | Riels, Mary de | f | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Beverly* | 1 | Riste, Sarah | f | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Gloucester* | 1 | Roe, Abigail | f | Accused by "Salem Girls". Examined. Margaret Prince's Granddaughter. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977; Heyrman, Christine. *Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1650-1750*) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Beverly* | 1 | Roots, Susannah | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | | NEng/MA | | | | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem* | Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America.html[12/2/25, 20:47:48] === Page 16 of 19 Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America | 1692 | Andover* | 1 | Salter, Henry | m | Witchcraft papers. 1977) | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Sawdy, John | m | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 (9/22) | NEng/MA Rowley* | 1 | Scott, Margaret | f | Hanged (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Woburn* | 1 | Sears, Ann | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem ? * | 1 | Sheldon, Susannah | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (T)* | 1 | Somes, Abigail | f | Examined. An Invalid. Sister of John Somes, a Boston Quaker. She is listed by some sources as a resident of Gloucester. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977 Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959; Heyrman, Christine. Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1650-1750) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Chelmsford* | 1 | Sparks, Martha | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Reading* | 1 | Taylor, Mary | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 (2/29) | NEng/MA Salem (T)* | 1 | Tituba | f | Tried, Held in Jail. Carib Indian Slave (sometimes refered to as a Negro slave) tried (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Beverly* | 1 | Tookey, Job | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977)(Aka Tukey) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Billerica* | 1 | Toothaker, (fnu) | f | Examined. (Daughter of Mary) (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Billerica* | 1 | Toothaker, Jerson | m | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977)(aka Jason) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Billerica* | 1 | Toothaker, Mary | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Billerica* | 1 | Toothaker, Roger | m | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Tyler, Hannah | f | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Tyler, Johanna | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Tyler, Martha | f | Confessed (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA ?* | 1 | Usher, Hezekiah | m | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Ipswich? | 1 | Vinson, Rachael | f | (aka "Widow" Vincent) Examined. Some sources suggests that she was from Gloucester. Her family had allegedly been implicated in an earlier witchcraft case? (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977; Heyrman, Christine. Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1650- 1750) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Wardwell, Mary | f | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Wardwell, Mercy | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | | | | | | Hanged. Probably the "Village Fortune Teller" (Sources: Boyer | Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America.html[12/2/25, 20:47:48] === Page 17 of 19 Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America | 1692 (9/22) | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Wardwell, Samuel | f | and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977; Heyrman, Christine. *Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1650-1750*) | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Wardwell, Sarah | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (T)* | 1 | Warren, Mary | f | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (T)* | 1 | Warren, Sarah | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (T)* | 1 | White, Mrs | f | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 (7/19) | NEng/MA Topsfield* | 1 | Wildes, Sarah | f | Hanged (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Haverhill* | 1 | Wilford, Ruth | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 (8/19) | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Willard, John | m | Hanged (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Williams, Abigail | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Wilson, Sarah (Jr.) | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Wilson, Sarah (Sr.) | f | Confessed (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Witheridge, Mary | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) (aka Whittredge, Mary) | | 1693 | NEng/CT Stratford | 1 | Crotia, Hugh | m | Jury found no bill. (Source: Taylor, John M. *The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut, 1647-1697*. New York: Burt Franklin, 1971). | | 1693 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Post, Sarah | f | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1694 | VA/Kg & Queen Co | 1 | Cane, Nell | f | ??? Mrs Ball accused her of having "Ridden" her twice. (Source: Davis, Richard Beale "The Devil in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century" *Virginia Magazine of History and Biography* 65 (1957) 131-49.) | | 1694 (1/11) | VA/Westmoreland | 1 | Money, Phyllis | f | Acquitted. She countersued her accuser, William Earle for defamation, but received no damages. She was alleged to have cast a spell on Henry Dunkin's horse, and to have taught her daughter, Dunkin's wife to be a Witch, and to have taught Dunkin to be a Wizard. (Source: Davis, Richard Beale "The Devil in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century" *Virginia Magazine of History and Biography* 65 (1957) 131-49.) | | 1695 | VA/Westmoreland | 1 | Dunkin, Elizabeth | f | Acquitted. Henry Dunkin accused John and Elizabeth Dunkin. She countersued for 40000 Pounds in damages, and received 40. (Source: Davis, Richard Beale "The Devil in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century" *Virginia Magazine of History and Biography* 65 (1957) 131-49.) | | 1695 | VA/Westmoreland | 1 | Dunkin, James | m | Acquitted. Henry Dunkin accused John and Elizabeth Dunkin. (Source: Davis, Richard Beale "The Devil in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century" *Virginia Magazine of History and Biography* 65 (1957) 131-49.) | | 1695 | VA/Kg & Queen | 1 | Morris, | f | ??? Mrs Ball accused her of sorcery. Mrs. Morris's husband countersued for defamation, and received 500 Pounds (Source: Davis, Richard Beale "The Devil in Virginia in the Seventeenth | Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America.html[12/2/25, 20:47:48] === Page 18 of 19 Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America | | Co | | Eleanor | Century" Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 65 (1957) 131-49.) | |---|---|---|---|---| | 1697 | NEng/CT, Hartford | 1 | Benham, Winifred | f Excommunicated, but Acquitted. (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959; Taylor, John M. The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut, 1647-1697. New York: Burt Franklin, 1971) | | 1697 | NEng/CT, Hartford | 1 | Benham, Winifred | f Excommunicated, but Acquitted. Daughter of the above. (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959; Taylor, John M. The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut, 1647-1697. New York: Burt Franklin, 1971) | | 1697 (2/4) | VA/Pr.Anne (Nrflk) | 1 | Sherwood, Grace | f Acquitted, Countersued accuser for defamation (Source: Davis, Richard Beale "The Devil in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century" Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 65 (1957) 131-49.) | | 1697 (2/4) | VA/Pr.Anne (Nrflk) | 1 | Sherwood, James | m Acquitted, Countersued accuser for defamation (Source: Davis, Richard Beale "The Devil in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century" Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 65 (1957) 131-49.) | | 1698 (7/8) | VA/Pr.Anne (Nrflk) | 1 | Byrd, Anne | f Acquitted. Countersued accuser for defamation (Source: Davis, Richard Beale "The Devil in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century" Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 65 (1957) 131-49.) | | 1698 (7/8) | VA/Pr.Anne (Nrflk) | 1 | Byrd, John | m Acquitted. Countersued accuser for defamation (Source: Davis, Richard Beale "The Devil in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century" Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 65 (1957) 131-49.) | | 1698 (9/10) | VA/Pr.Anne (Nrflk) | 1 | Sherwood, Grace | f Acquitted, Countersued accuser for defamation (Source: Davis, Richard Beale "The Devil in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century" Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 65 (1957) 131-49.) | | 1698 (9/10) | VA/Pr.Anne (Nrflk) | 1 | Sherwood, James | m Acquitted, Countersued accuser for defamation (Source: Davis, Richard Beale "The Devil in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century" Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 65 (1957) 131-49.) | | 1702 (1/15) | Maryland Charles Co. | 1 | Prout, Katherine | f Technically not a Witchcraft Trial, but rather Charles Killiburn brought suit against the witch. She was fines 100 pounds of Tobacco. He later re-sued her for slander and was awarded 1101 lbs of tobacco. She countersued one of the witnesses for slandering her. (Sources: Parke, Frances Neal "Witchcraft in Maryland", Maryland Historical Magazine 31:4 (Dec 1936) p.271- 298.) | | 1703 | S. Carolina | ? | ? | ? Judge Nicholas Trott of Charleston. (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1705 | VA/Pr.Anne (Nrflk) | 1 | Sherwood, Grace | f After declining to appear before the court, she was arrested and put to the Water Test. She was remanded to to the county jail and clapped in irons. The record ends there, although there is a record of her will being written 8/20/1733. (Source: Davis, Richard Beale "The Devil in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century" Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 65 (1957) 131-49.) | Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America.html[12/2/25, 20:47:48] === Page 19 of 19 Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America | 1709 | S. Carolina | ? | ? | ? | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1712 (5/10) | Maryland Annapolis | 1 | Violl, Virtue | f | Acquitted. Spinster. She lived in Talbott County. (Sources: Parke, Frances Neal "Witchcraft in Maryland", *Maryland Historical Magazine* 31:4 (Dec 1936) p.271-298.) | | 1724 | NEng/CT, Colchester | 1 | Spencer, Sarah | f | Accused. Awarded damages against Elizabeth and John Ackley of 1 shilling. (Source: Taylor, John M. *The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut, 1647-1697*. New York: Burt Franklin, 1971) | | 1730 | NEng/NJ, Mount Holly | * | * | * | A Hoax perpetrated by Benjamin Franklin in the *Pennsylvania Gazette*. No such trial ever occured. (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1760 | NEng/CT, Bristol | 1 | Norton, (fnu) | f | Suspicioned. No record of the outcome. (Source: Taylor, John M. *The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut, 1647-1697*. New York: Burt Franklin, 1971) | | after 1762 | New Mexico, La Cañada | ? | ? | ? | Condemned into servitude. Governor Thomas Velez Cachupin has a number of indians living at Albiquiú tried for witchcraft (Sources Twitchell, Ralph Emerson, *Leading Facts of New Mexican History* Cedar Rapids: Torch Press, 1911). | | 1878 | NEng/MA, Salem | 1 | Spofford, Daniel | m | The "Ipswich Witchcraft Case", both plantif and defendant were students of Mary Baker Eddy. (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | Added to these should be the "Satanic Ritual Abuse" trials of the late 20th century. ## Some Statistics: | 1645-1662 | New England 58 ??? ? | |---|---| | | Tried. 75% Women; 36.6 executed (Source: in Levack.) | | 1663-1692 | New England 250+ ??? ? | | | Arrests; 19 executed, 3 died in prison, 1 under torture. 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Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 10 July 27, 1981 Jeffrey Reagan will be forced by circumstance (and my UFO.) to resign and Bush will take over. Also CIA Casey will be forced to quit. Owene === Page 2 of 10 Owens 200 NE 76th St Vancouver, Wash 98665 PORTLAND, OR 972 PM 28 JUL 1981 USA 18c ...for amber waves of grain Dr Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St (Research Center) San Francisco, California 94115 === Page 3 of 10 July 20, 1973 SCIENTISTS.......... There will be loud wailing...and crying...and wringing of hands... all over the United States, in near time ahead. Something terrible, ghastly...is going to happen...in the United States! Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 4 of 10 COPY Oct. 18, 1974 Precog Predictions. President Ford will not be made President in the elections coming up, if he runs. America is now in greater danger...than during Nixon's "Watergate" presidency...because while Nixon was in he was simply a tool of the Rich Gang who controlled things. Now the Rich Gang is trying to get Rockefeller (one of their members) into the Presidency...(the lord only knows what trick they'll pull to get Ford out, but the Rich Gang will see to it)...i.e., whereas before the Rich Gang had a "President in their pocket"...with one of their own in as President, the Rich Gang will have not only the pocket, but the entire suit! If, that is, Rockefeller is made VP. I am using my powers against that...for whatever it is worth. === Page 5 of 10 Oct. 25, 1974 PRECOG -- by Ted Owens (PK Man) (1) All hell..........is fixing to break loose in the United States. Cannot figure out...what it will be...but it will be BIG... (2) Four to six...major psychics...world psychics...will expire, die or be killed within 1-2 years from now. (None of them at present in any danger, or sick.) (3) Get your money out of the bank...banks will begin to fold very soon... fail and close up...all over the United States...as the Greatest Depression Ever begins. (4) Organized crime...is getting everything together...for an unprecedented attack on armored cars, banks, etc., in near time ahead. This will be on a scale never before witnessed by police or FBI. The key to this: police formerly honest will now go on the take...sell their services to criminals. Crime is going to skyrocket in near time ahead, over what it is now. In 1975-76, you will see The Greatest Depression Ever...begin its horrible plunge downward! Note: What I predicted, in "What The Seers Predict For 1971" by Brad Steiger and Warren Smith..Lancer Books...IS NOW BEGINNING! Owens === Page 6 of 10 Nov. 14, 1974 PRECOG PREDICTION Within 1-2 years world-famine will have spread to half of the United States; all of South America and half of Argentina; All of Spain; half of Russia; half of China; all of Laos; half of Japan; all of Africa; nearly all of Libya; most of Albania; all of France, England, Ireland, and half of Scotland. All of India also. By "world-famine"...I mean, there will be no food available; lack of food and food products. And the water shortage...will be right behind the food shortage, surprisingly. This will all cause an astonishing amount of mental illness....among the peoples of these countries...due to lack of nourishment and oxygen to the human brain caused by these shortages. Owen === Page 7 of 10 Dr Tang February 16, 1974 C O P Y Mr. William Randolph Hearst, c/o San Francisco Examiner Newspaper Dear Mr. Hearst: At the moment your daughter is in the hands of kidnappers. "mistakenly to San F. Chronicle" I sent you the following telegram Feb. 13, 1974: AM ONE OF NATIONS FOREMOST PSYCHICS. AM POSITIVE COULD FURNISH INVALUABLE INFORMATION TO RECOVER YOUR DAUGHTER IF COULD GET THERE AND TALK WITH YOU. SEVERAL YEARS AGO I FORETOLD THAT PRESIDENT NIXON WOULD BE IN DANGER FROM CUBAN KIDNAPPERS AND THREE WEEKS LATER THEY CAUGHT THE KIDNAPPERS. THIS IS ON RECORD AND DOCUMENTED. SUGGEST A TEAM OF TOP PSYCHICS, HURKOS, JEAN DIXON, MYSELF, AND SEVERAL OTHERS...BE ASSEMBLED THERE, EACH SPEND HALF AN HOUR WITH YOU AND PERSONAL OBJECTS OF YOUR DAUGHTER, AND ALL PREDICTIONS AND IMPRESSIONS FROM THE PSYCHICS BE COLLATED AND WOULD GIVE YOU AND THE FBI INFORMATION YOU COULD NOT GET OTHERWISE. CURRENTLY A CHAPTER ON ME IS IN PREDICTIONS FOR 1974, BOOK BY WARREN SMITH, AWARD BOOKS AT NEWSSTANDS. I have received some strong "impressions" here at Cape Charles with regard to your daughter, and those holding her, and will list them as follows: Your daughter is being held on a boat, off the beach south of San Francisco. However, the BG's (bad guys) have two other locations where they hide her, and they move her from location to location every two days. The second location is east of the boat-location...inland...and sense a ranch or farm; something to do with chickens, livestock. From there they take her into Frisco's Chinatown...a basement-type place in a run-down sleazy wino-type area. Sense a laundry connected with this hideout...and they use a laundry truck to transport her down to the boat location from there. It is a triangular system...i.e., Frisco location down to boat location; boat location sideways over to farm or ranch location; then up and over again to Frisco location, on an alternating two-day basis. I sense they use an egg-truck, or chicken-carton truck...to transport her from the ranch or farm up to Frisco. The main man...holding her...is a foreigner...from mideast, I believe... Lebanese?...anyway, sense he has been connected in the past with murder at airports, plane hijackings...in the same sense as the murder of the Israeli athletes last year at the Olympic games in Germany. He wants to murder the Hearst girl...so that their next targets in the U.S. will be genuinely frightened...but another important BG has a different plan...to smuggle the girl out of the U.S. by boat, down the coast, through or around Mexico...to Central America. Costa Rica? If the throat-cutter has his way...she'll be dead in a week's time. The throat-cutter is a genius, by the way, at guerilla warfare...teaches it. The Symbionese have links with negro groups, Chinese groups, the Mafia...it is not that they are a large group...they do not have to be...because they link up with large groups. That is the meaning of Symbionese, of course, "symbiotic"...dissimilar living things that can work together as a unit. In this case, dissimilar people, races, groups...working together for a common cause. Symbiotic. (While I think of it...the group of top psychics could also use telepathy and psychometry on the two captured Symbionese...to great effect!) My impression of the Symb. leader...he is small, 5'5 approx., dusky complexion, mustache, penetrating eyes, high IQ, fanatical, foreign, highly trained in arms-handling, ambush, assassination, and could be from same area approx. as Sirhan-Sirhan, RFK assassin. He has two female lovers, one American girl, one black girl. === Page 8 of 10 2 Dr. Tang The Symbionese have other key kidnap targets to hit. Hearst is to be used as an example...so that later kidnap targets will kick in quickly with the Symbionese demands...like the old protection racket used by gangsters in the old prohibition days. One major plan...I have picked up from the minds of the Symbionese minds...is to hijack a half-dozen airplanes, commercial liners, simultaneously. Using no guns or weapons on the planes whatsoever. Their plan...is to kidnap the President of the airline and his family...instruct him to order certain planes turned over to Symbionese...half a dozen at once, in different locations where the Symbionese are waiting. I.e., several Symbionese will be in Chicago airport; New York airport; Philadelphia airport, etc., waiting for the signal to board the planes and tell the pilots where to fly. And if the airlines president does not comply...zap. Entire family. And the Symb. will use it as another example, for the next target. This letter...will probably never be seen by you...but I have tried my best...doing what I do best...all the way from Virginia. Incidentally...if you wonder how I can pick up thoughts of the Symb. in California...know that in reading minds...distance and time are no barrier at all. Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) Box 48, Cape Charles, Va. 23310 Ph: (804) 331-1208 Owens === Page 9 of 10 August 1, 1980 Jeffrey... just a note confirming my phone call to you informing you that SI (UFOs) are readying an 8 on the Richter scale earthquake for California (entire length) in hours, days or weeks. Owens (PK Man) === Page 10 of 10 These predictions phoned Monday afternoon, October 25, 1982, To Cliff Linedecker National Examiner, West Palm Beach, Florida Owens. President Reagan will not finish his term. (Mental or physical malfunction.) But should he somehow finish his term...he will definitely not be re-elected. There will be no "upturn" for U.S. economy in this next year, as govt. experts predict. The economy will get progressively worse; jobs will become scarcer and scarcer; and unemployment is heading non-stop for 20%. Failure of businesses and banks will increase dramatically this coming year. Although the general public does not suspect it, the Stock Market is sick with a "terminal illness" and this coming year could be when it collapses entirely...therefore the man on the street should get rid of his stocks and bonds. Any U.S. citizen should try to avoid flying in any military or commercial craft airplane because this next year the skies are going to become extremely dangerous from an effect known only to myself. I.e., U.S. people should not fly in airplanes. During this next year there will be freakish weather; actually caused by abnormal heat from the interior of the earth itself and from the sun's rays...solar flares...that is, flares from the sun, also will create havoc upon earth, during this next year. During this next year the people of the United States will rebel against the United States government in an unprecedented manner against the wasting of money of the administration...especially the top echelons of the administration...and the folly of the U.S. administration, the people who are supposed to be running the country. The people of the U.S. will begin to rebel in full force against the top government. Food will become scarce in the United States this coming year, as it becomes more and more expensive and fewer and fewer people have jobs and can buy it...as farmers go out of business...as breakdowns in government occur and as farms fail and more and more strikes occur; the trucking industry and probably the railroad industry making it more difficult to deliver food and pick up food and so forth...so the food problem is going to be a very big one for the American people this coming year. Crime...robberies, rape, burglaries, and so forth...will escalate to unprecedented proportions this coming year. The ordinary people, and families, will have to arm themselves and defend their loved ones as never before in the history of the United States. Keep their guns!!! Interest rates on houses and other items will skyrocket...will be much much higher than at present this coming year. What would be an interest rate at 15% now, for example, will go to 20% or 25% this coming year. It is going to be terrible. There will be outstanding freak weather this coming year. It will be caused by the earth heating up from the earth's core radiating to the earth's surface...it will become hotter and hotter and as the heat exudes from the earth's core in an unprecedented manner it will change the exterior of the earth with living things upon it. Also there will be unusual heat from the sun this coming year which will have a devastating effect upon earth. There will be also numerous giant solar flares in unprecedented number of scope. There will be an unprecedented number of military air crashes and air mishaps in the United States this coming year. The skies will not be safe. The black people of the United States will rise up in an unprecedented manner against whites and white authority. There will be an explosion of violence of blacks against whites this coming year. And white authority. Especially at higher levels of government. Nature itself is against the whole human race at the present time...for ruining its animals, its fish, its birds, its air, its water...and hell hath no fury like Nature in a war against anything or anybody. Finally, in my opinion alone, God, the omniscient and omnipresent force for good in this world... Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 1 From Ted Owens : Modern Moses by Andy Eastman © 2004 - 2005 |Home||Contents| Contents # Childhood Ted was born into a family of European descent who probably lived in the United States of America. His birth year was about 1920 and he would live as a physical person until 1987, a total of about 67 years. It is obvious that Ted had a very adequate diet of food and plenty play, exercise and work as a child. Later in life his physical stature was about six foot six inches (200cm) in height and about 250 pounds (115kg) in weight with plenty muscle and good bone structure. (Since Ted was living in a EuroRussian society in North America, among human baboons, it is possible that his physical size was predestined, a great advantage in persuading human baboons to have extra regard and respect for himself and his Higher Being friends.) Ted was probably quite healthy early in life and had above average intelligence with few if any psychological problems. Unfortunately Ted, like many other children of EuroRussian culture, never developed enough caution towards the use of drugs like alcohol. Also he was probably ignorant of the fact that people like many other mammals, have a vegetarian digestive system. Because of a lack of good childhood health education Ted's life was shortened by use of alcohol, eating meat and other unhealthy practices. It is possible that Ted was an Advanced Being (AB) before his birth on Earth and that SI's specially planted, monitored and guided part of his childhood. Sometimes children know they are special in certain ways related to AB's or have gifted talents. As a child Ted might have known he was to become one of the most unusual people to ever live on Earth. Ted rarely mentioned religious doctrine or dogma. He perhaps had an exposure to Christian Judaism as a child and knew about the historical characters such as Moses and Christ. (He would later claim to be a modern day Moses and that Christ was possibly one of the SI's). He probably went through the usual schooling for 12 years. However something terrible yet secretly necessary happened to Ted. He suffered horrific head injuries on several occasions. In one of these incidents Ted was the victim of violence perpetrated by other youths. Despite these extreme injuries Ted developed a very active, strong and healthy mind and brain. Ted probably never had severe mental or emotional illness due to the injuries. In summary Ted inherited a physical body with excellent genetic heritage, had a healthy childhood and enjoyed a fully functional physical, emotional, mental and Soulful start to life. At the boundary between childhood and adulthood Ted was like a worker or soldier fresh and ready for the fields of toil or battle. |Home| |Contents| |Search| |GuestBook| |DownLoad| Please Send Nature-Friendly Recycled Paper Mail to: Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 2004 Andy Eastman Ted Owens childhood bio Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 Andy Eastman Ted Owens Childhood One page document found in the files. Not in a particular folder. But I will replace it into the folder that has the CDs and other misc. items Note: In the CDs, there are the electronically saved Andy Eastman interviews of Ted Owens. I also backed up these CDs in my files. https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/266f3cb7d704be63bca8ef0de5973855.pdf 11b10246ee1b2b5c5e354a6bfc3f9009 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/d5f8f2a9fa9cd80b940af52be0b7b255.txt eff665446bf384ccb4163d2a0ab3689d https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/5b6db0097684c89c388bf53ae9f976d4.zip c81af64930db42ae62eea3c5af4993d1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Misc Articles, Notes, and Content Website A resource comprising of a web page or web pages and all related assets ( such as images, sound and video files, etc. ). Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 2004 Andy Eastman - Ted Owens Modern Moses Website Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 Andy Eastman Research He did some research on Ted Owens in early 2000s I believe. Might be some audio interviews others did included in this material I am not 100% sure. 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Title A name given to the resource Misc Articles, Notes, and Content Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 11 July 6, 2025 Welcome to anyone else working on digitizing or creating a database of the Ted Owens articles. I wanted to give you an introduction to the processes I am using for the digitization. We are always open to any suggestions on how the process can be improved. Although all we are doing is just taking photos of articles on a cell phone or scanning and putting dates on them, it is still important to have a basic understanding of Ted Owens' work and to be aware of some of the patterns and themes of the articles. This can help when for example you understand that sometimes Ted Owens put notes on the second page of an article that refers to the previous page and those two pages thus need to be digitized as single document not separate documents. Or for example of why we need to keep each article filed under month received instead of by actual date of the article. This will be explained more later. Furthermore, please remember to put the articles back in the storage boxes as you found them. Unstaple and re-staple as few as documents as possible and try to keep any loose envelopes next to the article they appear with. Fortunately, there are very few times I ever have to take out a staple and re-staple the document. Please keep any duplicate pages in the files. Ted Owens was sending articles more than just to Jeff and occasionally people would send the exact same article from Ted Owens to Jeff. Jeff filed the duplicates received in the files. Of course, you don't need to scan the duplicates but just keep both of them in the storage boxes. These articles will be researched for centuries and we need to protect their original condition as much as possible. These articles also represent person's life's work and story and I think we need to respect that. Once you begin to read or research the articles it will dawn on you what a treasure trove and amazing collection of primary source material these articles are!!! I have been completely blown away. === Page 2 of 11 ### Background The copies of newspaper articles sent by Ted Owens number in the thousands. They were sent to Russel Targ and his colleagues from 1966 to 1976 and to Jeffrey Mishlove from approximately 1976 to 1987. These photocopied newspaper articles were mostly sent in 8 x 11 clasp envelopes containing several pages. Regular size envelopes were used from time to time when Ted Owens just sent typed letters. We have no idea where the original articles are that Ted Owens photocopied. The original regular size envelopes for letters appear every now and then. So far I have not seen any of the paper size 8 x 11 clasp envelopes. Jeffery first met Ted Owens in 1976 at a conference in England. At about that same time Russell Targ asked if Jeff would like to take on the work of collecting the articles. Some of the 1976 to 1987 newspapers articles and letters are addressed to Jeffrey so I would assume that prior to 1976 we will see some of the articles and letters addressed to Russell Targ and his colleagues. Jeffrey categorized the articles by month and year he received them in and kept them in large storage boxes. Sometimes Jeffrey would receive an envelope a couple times a week and sometimes just a couple times a month. Sometimes a month may only contain 20 articles and sometimes month perhaps as much as 100. But they just kept coming. === Page 3 of 11 ### The articles The pages sent to Jeffrey could be single articles photocopied on one page or 2 or 3 articles or more photocopied on one page. Sometimes the articles were just single pages not attached together. But most pages were either stapled or paper clipped together. Staples were definitely far more common than paper clips. Perhaps that represented a batch from one envelope sent to Jeffrey? As mentioned before, we don't have the original clasp envelopes so we don't know for sure which pages were a batch from a single envelope. Whether or not they were a batch sent together in one envelope or not is most likely not very important but there is that angle to research more deeply if it is important to you. Typically, there was a similar theme for articles appearing on a single page or if they were 5 or 6 pages attached together. For example, a theme of the articles might be weather, sports or nuclear power. And less often there simply wasn't a similar theme in the attached articles. Sometimes Ted Owens wrote notes next to the articles for additional details. I notice sometimes Jeffrey's handwriting appears next to the articles as well but it usually just short sentences or phrases to help categorize the theme of the articles. Sometimes Jeffrey's writing would provide further details on the articles but that was rare. Jeffrey's very fancy and clear cursive is very easy to spot compared to Ted Owens' handwriting. === Page 4 of 11 ### Digitizing and dating them I simply took a photo of each page with my cell phone and then downloaded them to my computer from iCloud. I then attached a date to each digital file pertaining to one of the dates of an article. For example, a page may have one article dated March 2, 1980 or two articles with one dated March 2 and one dated March 3rd. I would then date the digital file March 2nd or March 3rd 1980. Thus, the articles being digitized match the copies kept in storage boxes and also categorized by month and year. And when articles that I titled had the same date, then I would add a number for example March 30 1980 1 and March 30 1980 2 etc. We considered that scanning them as a group into a scanner and that might be faster. If that works for you then please use the scan method. The challenge is that this might hinder one's ability to decipher when two pages need to be entered as a single digital document. One would also have to remove and replace the staples. Regardless, taking single photos of each page doesn't add that much time to the process as most of your time will be spent adding dates to the documents. You will have to search for a reliable place in your room that gets good lighting without casting shadows. === Page 5 of 11 After a long discussion with Jeffrey, we decided to create one photo per page. And if the article was two pages or if there were notes on the second page that referred to the article on the first page I then combined them into one digital document. Due to time constraints, I technically speaking just took a screen shot on my computer of the two pages next to each other. There are other ways of documenting the articles of course. For example, one could create one digital file per batch of articles stapled together. But would create other issues and take a tremendous amount of time. === Page 6 of 11 # Challenges with dates that sometimes occur Taking photos and attaching dates on the digital file was very easy task. Basically 99% pages were very straightforward with clear dates of the articles. The articles either had a date already in the article or Ted Owens wrote the date of the article by hand. But there were of course some exceptions that occurred every now and then. For example, there were every now and then articles didn't have dates. In that case I would assign a date closest to the date of the article on the next page. And I wrote down the new date assigned to the article in the storage box with a Post It note. And sometimes there were articles with dates from different months on the same page. In that case, I just chose a date from one of the articles that corresponded to the batch of monthly files currently digitizing. For example, from February folder a page would have two articles with one date being February 2nd and the other being January 30th. As this was from the February folder, obviously I would use February 2nd as the date. Occasionally this would get a little more complicated with a two or three page document consisting for example of an article from March 14th with letter written on Feb 16th on the second page and then a handwritten note dated March 20th. In that case I would simply choose a date that made sense to me. Sometimes I asked Jeffrey for more guidance when something like this occurred. He was kept in the loop how things were getting digitized. === Page 7 of 11 ### Letters, notes and telegrams Ted Owens also sometimes sent typed letters to Jeffrey. And sometimes Ted Owens photocopied some letters he sent to several people. A few times Ted Owens sent telegrams to people. I attached "letter" or "telegram" onto the digital file in case someone wants to distinguish between letters/telegrams and articles. There are also random handwritten notes that appear from time to time that I can't tell if they are notes pertaining to an article or simply a handwritten letter to unaddressed person. Note: I need to go back and check if the letters addressed to Jeff were actual original letters or copies. ### Quality of the photocopies The articles in the storage boxes have been very well taken care of and most of the articles and letters are clear and easy to read. Ted Owens sending most of the articles on clasp envelopes so the paper wasn't folded helped a lot. Very few times were there any issues of articles going off the frame of the page. Sometimes it was as small as just having one or two letters of a single word off the page and sometimes slightly more than that. There were a few exceptions which occurred every now and then in regard to clarity of the articles. For example, one time I saw he wrote one letter that went to several people by photocopying the original in which the copies sent were a little unclear. Another exception to clarity was that some boxes received water damage in the early 2000s when in storage facility in Las Vegas, NV. I actually remember going to the storage facility with Jeffrey to pick them up. It wasn't major water damage but Jeffrey still paid a restoration company to restore them as they Ted Owens files are so important. Fortunately, the water damage at this point is a very small issue. Very few times did I ever have to take out a staple to gain a better photo in the margins. And there were a few times I wish I could have taken out the staples but the staples were so embedded in the paper that I basically couldn't take them out without a lot of tears to the paper. So, I chose not to take out the staple. === Page 8 of 11 **Other people researching the boxes of articles** The articles appear to be in the original state Jeffrey received them. I know a few people have gone through the files in the storage boxes over the last 40 years. There a few instances where you see a missing paper clip or sheets of paper that have the staple removed or even restapled. I am not seeing any article organized by the wrong month. The people who previously viewed the articles obviously respected their original state. I will do the same. Occasionally I have to remove a staple and restaple it to get a good view for a picture but that is rare. Occasionally I find a regular size envelope attached by paper clip. Occasionally I find a loose regular size envelope that I don't know which letter it pertains to. === Page 9 of 11 ### One potential issue on document titles that may need to be fixed As mentioned before sometimes a page would have different months of article on the same page. For example, a page might have March 30th and April 1st articles on the same page. That is easy to manage. But for some months this would be taken a step further with articles entered under one month containing several articles entirely from the previous month or even two months back. April 1980 is a great example. For the April 1980 articles there were about 15 articles entirely with March dates in addition to April dates for the articles. That would mean there could be an article intitled March 30 1980 in the March file and an article intitled March 30 in the April file. I am going to leave them as is right now. But at some point we will need to distinguish between the two March 30 articles and many others. Depending on methods used, this might also affect how the articles are entered into the database. Regardless it won't take much time to add numbers by the duplicate dated articles. I simply don't have the time to correct these right now. And of course, we have no intention of physically reorganizing all the articles in the storage boxes to the exact month. If you have March articles that arrived in March and April that simply represents when Jeffrey originally received the articles or letters in the clasp envelopes. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or if you have any suggestions on how I can make it easier for other people in the next steps of digitizing the articles into a database. Best regards, Lewis Barlow LewisBarlow@hotmail.com 702 239-5907 === Page 10 of 11 1982-1987 Misc & Testimonials TED OWENS FILES SAVE!!!! TED OWENS FILES SAVE!!!! 1966-1974 OCTOBER 1981 SEPTEMBER 1981 APRIL 1981 JUNE 1981 AUGUST 1981 MAY 1981 MARCH 1981 NOVEMBER 1980 AUGUST 1980 OCTOBER 1980 SEPTEMBER 1980 JULY 1980 MAY 1980 JUNE 1980 JANUARY 1980 === Page 11 of 11 MARCH 1980 Storm Cuts Deadly Path In Broward "World power" attack Trojan to close in April for refueling, fix-ups By THE OREGONIAN STAFF PORTLAND - Portland General Electric's Trojan nuclear plant will be shut down for about seven weeks beginning April 11 for its annual refueling and maintenance, a PGE spokesman said Wednesday. PGE spokesman David Heintzman said the shutdown is expected to last until about June 1. The refueling and maintenance work will be done by about 1,000 PGE and contract workers. Heintzman said the shutdown will be the fourth for the 1.1 million-kilowatt plant since it began commercial operation in 1976. The plant was shut down for about 13 weeks in 1978 and about 11 weeks in 1979 for refueling and maintenance. In addition to the refueling, Heintzman said, workers will perform routine maintenance on the plant's turbine and generator and will continue work on the plant's control building to meet seismic safety standards. The seismic work, which has been under way for about 18 months, involves the addition of steel plates to the building's walls and the installation of additional anchor bolts for equipment. Heintzman said the refueling and maintenance work will cost about $10 million. The cost of the seismic work is estimated at about $15 million. During the shutdown, PGE will purchase power from other utilities to replace the power normally generated by Trojan. Heintzman said the cost of the replacement power will be about $1 million a day. Twister Linked To Cold Front By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MIAMI - The tornado that ripped through Broward County early Sunday was spawned by a fast-moving cold front that swept across South Florida, the National Weather Service said. Weather service meteorologist Robert Ebbs said the cold front, which moved through the area at about 20 to 30 miles per hour, collided with warm, moist air over the Everglades. "The warm air was forced up over the cold air, and that's what caused the instability that led to the tornado," Ebbs said. Ebbs said the tornado was on the ground for about 10 miles, from the Everglades to the Atlantic Ocean. He said the tornado's path was about 100 yards wide. The tornado caused an estimated $1 million in damage to homes and businesses in Broward County. No serious injuries were reported. Shutdowns When a nuclear power plant shuts down, it's not like turning off a light switch. It's a complex process that can take several days. The first step is to reduce the power level of the reactor. This is done by inserting control rods into the reactor core. The control rods absorb neutrons, which slows down the fission process. Once the power level has been reduced, the reactor is cooled down. This is done by circulating water through the reactor core. The water absorbs heat from the reactor and carries it away to a heat exchanger. After the reactor has been cooled down, the fuel assemblies can be removed. This is done using a special crane. The fuel assemblies are then placed in a storage pool, where they will remain until they are cool enough to be transported to a reprocessing plant or a permanent disposal site. Dr. Mishlove "The world power" attack N-plant shuts off TOKYO (AP) - A nuclear power plant in the northern district of western Japan shut down automatically Sunday when the water level in a vapor-generator rose abnormally, a plant official said. The official, Hiroshi Maruta, said there was no danger of radiation leakage outside the Kansai Electric Power Co.'s plant No. 2, 220 miles west of Tokyo. The 826,000-kilowatt power plant is Japan's second-largest generator of electricity. According to Maruta, the governor shut down automatically after a pilot valve controlling water supplies in the secondary cooling water malfunctioned, allowing a buildup of water in the vapor-generator. It was not known if there was any leakage of contaminated water inside the plant. FBI probes 3 mysterious reactor shutdowns By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON - The FBI is investigating three mysterious shutdowns at nuclear power plants in the past two weeks, a government official said Wednesday. The official, who asked not to be identified, said the shutdowns occurred at the Trojan plant in Oregon, the Indian Point plant in New York, and the Zion plant in Illinois. In each case, the reactor shut down automatically after a sensor detected a problem. However, investigators have been unable to find any mechanical or electrical cause for the shutdowns. "We're looking into the possibility of sabotage," the official said. "But at this point, we don't have any evidence to support that." The FBI is working with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the utilities that operate the plants to determine the cause of the shutdowns. The Trojan plant, which is operated by Portland General Electric, shut down on March 12. The Indian Point plant, which is operated by Consolidated Edison, shut down on March 15. The Zion plant, which is operated by Commonwealth Edison, shut down on March 18. All three plants have since returned to service. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 22 bad bit of paper - Hope this lasts until you read it. seems "aged" + breaking up. Warned if I'm going to rewrite it. From Ethel Balch Post Office Box 63, Alpaugh, Cal. 93201. Friday, May 25th. Results Book Send Books "Occult" address Answer 4/5 Dear Ted: Received your welcome letter yesterday, and was greatly relieved you and Beau had arrived safely back home after your arduous trip. Re: your escape from injury in the car crash - I too had a narrow escape -- my own proof of protection. I had occasion to go to Visalia. Driving down the main blvd. my attention was to the left when I heard a loud frantic blast on a car horn. Evidently the man in front of me had suddenly decided to turn into a driveway on my right and was probably blocked momentarily by a car ahead of it - the back end of his car stuck out like a sore thumb in my path. I was right on it before I saw it AS I WAS PASSING IT- I swear I didn't miss it by a hair breadth - even had the impression I had passed THROUGH it. I've heard of such things, and drove on undisturbed, and forgot it until I got to a friend's house. Note: Yet another car through car?!! Ted. To begin with I had taken what I thought was a short cut -- then I seemed lost in the maze of country roads. I was unfamiliar with the town signs on the road, but kept going, turning this way and that wondering where I would end up, and finally found myself at last passing the airfield I remembered passing once before going into Visalia and I knew I was headed right. My friend, greatly disturbed, wanted to know what took me so long, and, reciting my adventures to her the enormity of the car incident hit me full blast, and I felt weird! and weak-kneed! not with fright - but the sudden realization of THE CIRCLE OF PROTECTION! Sunday, May 27th. Got side-tracked. Information, please re. auto-hyp--- Why is the count sometimes 1 to 10 and then again -- 1-2-3? Does it really make a difference which is used. Sometimes you just said - "use your auto-hyp mech...but which one? Perhaps the 1-10 was used in - for instance, going back in memory for refreshing good memories: also, going back to the birth moment -- those were two trips regressing to time tempo, but otherwise its the "use your auto-hyp mech" I've stubbed my toe on -- which mech? No difference? As to books we made a list of -- your book on "How to Contact Space People: Predictions of Glenn McWane for 1973: and Occult America. I cant find them in this god-forsaken valley and you said you would send them to me. I managed to get "Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain" thru ad. literature that came to me in the mail. Your book and Glenn McWane's Predictions I would very much like to have - I'll of course include postage with the cost of the books. === Page 2 of 22 Infinity Newsletter -5- David Graham, Editor Decorah, Iowa DIRECT VOICE MEDIUM is being sought for a research project by a group of scientists engaged in psychical research on survival, according to a notice in SFF Newsletter. For full information, write to: Mr. Julius Weinberger, 8 Milburn Lane, Huntington, NY 11743. ********** SPIRITUAL FRONTIERS FELLOWSHIP is planning the 1975 Annual Conference. It will once again be at the Bismark Hotel, Chicago, May 22-24. Info: SFF, 800 Custer Avenue, Evanston, IL 60202. ********** NIXON PREDICTION--A letter from Irene Hughes, 500 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611. "There was an interesting little item in your recent newsletter (IN September) about Ted Owens being the only psychic that predicted Richard Nixon would be forced out of office. It indicates that he made his prediction in 1971. I would like to say that he is not the only one--that I made the prediction before Mr. Nixon was elected in 1968. It is a matter of published record and in a number of different papers and in my own column. I indicated that there would be a scandal that would touch Mr. Nixon and that three members of his cabinet would immediately resign. That happened. At that time, I also predicted that he would not stay throughout his term of office and that he would probably leave two years before it was up, or at least one year before it was up and that would not be due to assassination or health. Also, I indicated that when it was over, that he would come out smelling like a rose! Actually, part of this prediction is included in my book, KNOW THE FUTURE TODAY. That book was published in 1970 and the materials for much of it was available in 1959." In a current prediction, Mrs. Hughes says, "The moment that Ford became President, I said, Mr. Ford will never be elected President in 1976, and that by the end of June of 1975 that he will be in such grave difficulties due to economic problems in this nation, and due to international problems, that he will have thoughts in his mind to resign." ----Thank you, Irene. dg. ********** AWAREHOUSE, 436 N. Clark Street, Chicago, Illinois. An emerging concept of how life is meant to be. Offering classes in Meditation, Graphology, Astrology, Hatha Yoga, Hypnotism, Qabala as well as classes dealing with everyday problems of alcohol, divorce, etc. Chicago area residents may call 328-1852 (Mornings) or 973-1843 (afternoons). ********** A TELEPATHIC COMPUTER. Stanford Research Institute at Menlo Park, California, is working on a computer system that will read minds and obey unspoken words. The computer is said to monitor and identify patterns in human EEG signals that are associated with language. Accuracy of the test equipment ranges from 60 to 100 percent, depending on the words used. "Up" and "stop" are the most easily recognized words, while "near" and "far" are the most difficult for the computer. ********** LUCIUS FARISH, Route 1, Plumerville, Arkansas 72127, UFO researcher, would like to hear from anyone having information on historical UFO reports (pre-1947), such as the 1897 flap, etc. Lou will be glad to exchange data, provide information on books, magazines, etc. ********** BIORHYTHM, HEALING AND KIRLIAN PHOTOGRAPHY will be the subjects of a conference at Holiday Inn, 1501 Sherman Avenue, Evanston, Illinois October 19-21. For further info: Michael R. Zaeske, 331 Ashland Avenue, Highwood, IL 60040, or phone (312) 433-2147. ********** ECKANKAR, Box 5325, Las Vegas, NV 89102 will hold its 8th World Wide Seminar at the Exposition and Convention Center, Indianapolis, Indiana, October 19-21. Sri Darwin Gross will be there. Theme of the Seminar is "The God Worlds of ECK." ********** YES EDUCATION SOCIETY, 1035 31st Street, NW, Washington, DC 20007, is offering classes and seminars in metaphysical and esoteric subjects. Full information on request. ********** INFINITY NEWSLETTER is $6.00 for 12 issues, published monthly. Be sure to include your Zip Code along with your check or money order when subscribing. === Page 3 of 22 SPECIAL NOTE TO MY DISC PEOPLE.......... I have just returned from a long trip to Scotland and England. There I spent many, many nights on Loch Ness...communicating with the "Loch Ness Monster". It came up twice in front of me. Also I communicated, there in the dead of night...with UFO's...and they appeared all around me. One came down to where I was. One night on famous Cradle Hill, outside Warminster, about 1 AM in the morning...while I stood in the dark...the "Tin Bird" sound, made by UFO's (read Arthur Shuttlewood's great book, "Warnings From Flying Friends"...meaning UFO's...in which he describes this sound coming from UFO's...) anyway this weird sound came to me as the UFO came down to where I was...and I have it on my tape recorder. Matter of fact...all those nights spent in haunted castles, on Loch Ness, on famous "UFO hills" like Cradle Hill, Elm Hill, etc...were taped by my tape recorder. And the tapes are priceless. It takes me, under the conditions which I work...two days to make a duplicate set of tapes from my seven originals (I used hour tapes... try to get them onto 90's). Very well. For those few people who would like a complete set of these priceless tapes...with me in person, night after night after night at Stonehenge, at Urquhart Castle, at Old Sarum Castle, on Cradle Hill...and much more...(and bear in mind that I had to actually break into many of these places...like a burglar...in order to do my work)... I will personally take two days and make you a duplicate set of tapes...plus a complete written report...astounding report...only one of its kind... for any of you who will contribute $100 or more to my work and research. Not only my work and research...but this year I must write a complete book of my incredible life (and remember that I have accomplished hundreds of miracles...most of them fully documented) and your money will help me to get this done. Not only will you get the set of priceless tapes...and the fully written report...but I will keep your name on a special list and after my book is published, will send you an autographed copy. Ted Owens (PK Man) Box 32, Cape Charles, Virginia 23310 Owens (PK Man) === Page 4 of 22 SCIENTISTS..........Report on my trip to California for five weeks. Started out April 5. As Beau (my boy, age 10) and I drove across country, low-south..........through Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana, those states..........it began to rain behind us, and flood behind us. (Then as we returned, swinging across the upper part of the U.S., Wyoming and those states, weeks later..........it began to flood behind us again. Denver was drowned out.) Starting out, we ran into heavy fog in Alabama..........and doing 40 mph, discovered a car parked flat across our half of the road directly in front of us! Not at an angle, but straight across the road, like a roadblock. I took a chance and passed around it fast..........shot a glance at the parked car and saw a man just sitting there like a robot, staring straight ahead. Not moving. This parked car in the fog seemed like some deliberate thing. By rights we should have hit it head-on. In the next town we came to I stopped at a police car, and reported the parked car across the highway. We got to California and went to visit my daughter, Lori Rodriguez, and her husband, Julio. I got into a hassle with him, and our week-long stay was shortened to a one-day stay. I then taught two different doctors my Si System..........special mental system shown me years ago by the UFO entities. Next I took Beau to Disneyland, where he had a fine time. Then the movie director, Ted Mikels, and the producer, Paul Burkett, came to get us at Disneyland..........and took us to Samuel Goldwyn Studios, where they showed us their offices and staff. The movie they plan to make of my life was discussed, and how to make it. Since it is a "first"..........i.e., I'm the first human to accomplish 190 miracles..........just how to make the movie, is a puzzlement. Mr. Mikels, the director, took Beau and I out to his home in the hills, where he had a big party and we met movie people. I had lots of fun because a sultry redheaded girl jumped into my lap, whispered sweet nothings into my ear, and so on. This was totally unexpected, since I was sitting minding my own business sipping a scotch and talking to someone. However, as I told the redhead, it was about the nicest thing that had happened to me in 15 years. Unfortunately the redhead's stint in my lap was a short one..........from behind us came a boy's voice..."Oh, oh, daddy...I'm going to tell momma!" Beau had been playing downstairs in the rumpus room...but that special ESP brain of his had told him that daddy's brain was emitting odd signals. True. If he only knew how odd. Dam. Beau and I then spent several days visiting with friends in the Thousand Oaks area. I shot lots of 50 point straight pool..........and beat everybody. Had already beat Julio Rodriguez, a "shark"..........took on a fellow called Davey, another shark, and beat him..........took on two more champ-type shooters and beat them..........and I'd had a 10-year layoff with the cuestick! Either everybody decided to let me win..........or somehow my reflexes and accuracy have become super-sharp. We then went to Alpaugh, further north, where I trained a nice lady in the System. Beau and I saw "phenomena" over her house at night..........all the sky was black, except over her house, at 10 PM. There was a hole in the blackness, and light poured through. Neither Beau or I had seen anything like it. After we'd left, the Si's communicated and told me to call her LD and trade her out of her pickup truck. She said no. Then we drove to Chico, California, and stayed with Al and Piler Bailey for days, as their guest. I taught Al the System. Years ago he'd been in contact with UFO's over radio, and had co-authored a book on it. === Page 5 of 22 2 While with Al and Pilar, I showed Al, outside the motel he owns, how to "make" storms with the mind. He asked me if my instruction...would result in an actual rainstorm, since I'd actually used my methods...and I told him yes, but it might take days, because the sun was shining, it was warm...so the "PK" might have to "bring in" materials from a distance to do the job. (That was May 1. On the 4th of May it poured rain; lightning attacked the town of Chico; and radio and TV stations were knocked out.) When we got ready to leave Al and Pilar shocked me almost senseless...by presenting Beau and I with their personal Lincoln Continental, loaded with everything! This, of course, was the finest gift I'd ever been given in my life. So Beau and I left our dog-eared '65 Merc there, and proceeded onward in style, luxurious style. We drove to Lake Tahoe, where I trained a nice lady, Ruth Jahnke. Then Beau and I pointed the nose of our car toward home...driving across the upper part of the U.S. After a couple of days, about noon, we were crossing desert...and I told Beau I was going to communicate with the SI's and ask them to show themselves, if they wouldn't mind. Shortly thereafter, I got strangely sleepy, and couldn't keep my eyes open. It was about 1 in the afternoon. We pulled over near some rock formations...and suddenly my sleepiness vanished. Beau and I got out and strolled into the rocks. Suddenly at my feet was a face. Instantly I knew I was looking at the same face as one sketched by witnesses who'd seen a UFO land, and creatures come out. I picked up what looked like a rock, but could not be. It seems to be a small petrified head. Two eyes, identical, geometrically, each one having a slit in the center, again, geometrically perfect. Below there is a tubular mouth. No nose or ears. As I say, at 53, I know a rock when I see one. This is no rock. It is a face, in stone. That night Beau and I sat in our car and watched a giant tornado swirling down out of the sky, across the road from us. A huge, black funnel, stretching down from far, far up, to the ground. Gave us an eerie feeling. Meanwhile radio reports were telling us of great floods below us in Denver, and elsewhere behind us. About this time...Beau and I heard what sounded like eerie music in our car. I checked the radio, it was off. A sort of ghostly music...low, moaning, melodious. I'd never heard anything like it; neither had he. At the time we were speeding along the highway, alone on the road, pretty much. We reached Dallas, where we spent a few days as the guests of the Kennedy sisters. I was working with Rita Kennedy, had her in light waking hypnosis and was building in an autohyp system...in the afternoon...when a roaring airplane swept low over the Kennedy house, and I was infuriated because of the delicate mental training going on with my pupil...and I jabbed my fist in anger up at the ceiling toward the plane noise. Then the airplane crashed with a booming noise. (Some years ago I'd gotten very angry at a large turtle we'd caught and put into a cardboard box in the back of our car. We were broke and had to sleep in the car, and the turtle was scratching noisily trying to get out...and kept me awake. So I picked up the box and set it outside the car, got back in, and went to sleep. Next morning when we woke up we looked outside the car and the turtle, box and all had been smashed flat like an elephant had stepped on it! It is just a suspicion...but I believe that when I get angry...my mind uses great force on a subconscious level at the target of my anger.) === Page 6 of 22 2 within a week! (According to the man who managed the Parascience Conference, and who also lectured at that Conference...Peter Maddock.) Therefore my work must have completely baffled England's top meteorologists who forecast no substantial rainfall through September! I worked on telepathing to the SIs the night of August 26, upon my arrival in London; then again the next morning, on the 27th; this paper, The Times, came out in the morning and I snipped out the newsclip...and the rains began pouring down shortly afterward! (See the running account of this in this file!) Meanwhile...what has happened to PK Man...who brought all of this good thing about by working with his UFOs? (1) I have been notified by The Virginian-Pilot newspaper, who have been xeroxing all of the files that you have for years...that they can no longer do my xeroxing. I have no other source for xeroxing...so this could be your very last "miracle" reported by documentation! (2) I haven't a cent of money, after xeroxing and mailing this approx. 115-page file to 50 contacts. Am broke, in other words, with nothing coming in. (3) Today my car's transmission went out completely...the old '66 Lincoln Continental given me as a gift years ago by a pupil of mine in California. So...now I am on foot, and that is bad, for it is utterly necessary for me to be mobile; have a car. With no money, of course, I cannot buy a car. Maybe I should have told the Governor of California that I'd end the drought there if he'd furnish me a new car. Or told Queen Elizabeth I'd end England's horrible drought if she'd send me an English Rolls Royce. Ha ha. Well, there doesn't seem to be much gratitude floating around these days. At any rate, the UFO connection will not allow me to put a price tag on my work. As their "human ambassador", or link to the human race...I am not allowed to act like a human...i.e., seek profit from such a vast accomplishment as ending England's worst drought in 500 years. (4) Word has been passed to me that very shortly my family and I will be forced by our landlord to leave our rented house. When that happens...with no money; no car; no place to move to; no way to move our things out of the house...I'll be ruined, rather completely. (Brown and Root, wealthy Texas company, has just bought up most of the land around Cape Charles, because the company is moving into Cape Charles to look for oil just off this coast...and already many families here have been forced out of their rented houses, which are being repainted and repaired...and are being put up for sale (instead of rental) at three times the price they are worth. And since this will be a 'boom area' they will sell quite readily...probably to Brown and Root employees. I almost fell off my chair laughing, this morning, thinking about the above four points. Here I'd just saved California and England from a dire fate...yet I myself am almost completely wiped out. Certainly, under the present circumstances, I'll not be able to function further as I have the past six years, as a foremost psychic with proper documentation. Take away my tools...money, car, xeroxing, home...and there's little left for me to work with. It also fascinates me...that out of the 50 contacts I SOSd for expense money to xerox and mail this huge report file...ONLY SIX HAVE CHIPPED IN! No matter...it will get xeroxd somehow, and mailed somehow...and out to the 50 contacts. 15 of the contacts are wonderful folks, and send in a little if they can when the chips are down once in a great while...the other 35 do not seem to give a dam, ever. Oh, well... Ted Owens (PK Man) Ted Owens (110 === Page 7 of 22 3 The next strange thing that happened...a miracle...was that Rita, Beau and I went out into a pasture to help a horse that had gotten a rope tangled around its neck and was strangling. While I was trying to help that horse, Rita, who was standing three feet from me, approx., was kicked savagely by yet another horse standing nearby...a huge huge horse which lashed out behind it with both hooves...and caught Rita squarely in the body...one hoof struck her on the hip, the other hoof on the spine as she spun from the impact of the first hoof...and she was knocked flat. Strangely, as if I were dreaming, I just smiled, went over, not at all concerned or worried...picked her up...and neither was she hysterical, concerned or worried. Beau, of course, was horrified...standing nearby and witnessing it. Rita and I walked to the house...she was not broken or injured, but should have been fractured or killed, easily (if you'd seen the way it happened). She did have a bruise on the thigh. Next day her two sisters insisted on taking her to their family daughter...who pronounced her fine, okay. It is interesting to note...that she was in fact recuperating from a fractured shoulder when this horse-kicking happened! Yet the shoulder wasn't re-injured, either, when she was kicked flat! Beau and I left and headed for home. Before we got to Atlanta, Georgia...I told Beau that I feared trouble in Atlanta of some kind. I had a feeling about it. Now, go back and note that the Si's had instructed me to ask Ethel Bolch in Alpaugh, over long distance phone, if she'd be willing to trade her pickup truck for our car, because the Si's wanted us to have a larger, heavier, safer car. But Ethel wouldn't. Then Al and Pilar gave us the larger, heavier car, the Lincoln Continental. We got to Atlanta amidst a big storm...the wind was blowing cars and trailers off the road. We gassed up at a filling station, I checked the road both ways...and nothing was in sight...no cars at all within driving distance. I made a left turn and proceeded to the corner...when there was a loud crash. We'd been hit from behind...by a car doing 60 mph. (This car came from nowhere...the same as the truck that came from nowhere a couple of days ago in Cape Charles, when Ken Gregerson was with me...and I have his affidavit on it!) Beau and I got out...broken glass was everywhere...the other car was demolished...telescoped. We walked to the back of our car expecting the worst. Yet not one light was broken. Not one scratch. Just one dent in our trunk! I had delicate machinery inside the trunk...camera, Brain Wave Synchronizer, etc., yet when I tested them later...they were 100% okay! I tell you that it was unbelievable. A wrecker came and dragged the other car away. The police came and charged the driver of the other car. And Beau and I then drove home to Virginia. Our car was perfect; absolutely nothing wrong with it in any way, mechanically. Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens * this communication on the part of the Si's indicated they knew our car would be hit, days & days later, in Atlanta!! === Page 8 of 22 # Reports Flood in on North State, National UFO Sightings By United Press International Unidentified Flying Objects, some with spider legs and some that omitted blue-green flashes, were swarming over the San Francisco Bay Area and other Northern California places, according to reports today. Numerous sightings were reported by people and law officers in Oakland. Others saw them in San Jose, Mill Valley, Sausalito and other areas. A woman in Oakland called police Tuesday night about 10 p.m. saying that she was just about to give up a three-hour saucer-watch at her home when she saw it--a craft with spider like legs--settle down on a golf course. Police went there but didn't find the saucer. Oakland police checked out other reported landings, including one at busy 55th and Grove Streets. Then officers themselves saw something hovering over the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. It turned out to be a weather balloon. In suburban Marin County north of the Golden Gate, Sheriff's Sgt. Kenneth Froberg said he spotted a "bluish green flash" in the sky Tuesday night that lasted about five seconds and then disappeared. "It was coming out of the sky at an angle to the earth," Froberg said. "It had a long orange tail with articles flying from it." Tuesday night Mrs. Ruth Wilson of Mill Valley said she was getting out of her car in a parking lot near Marin General Hospital when she also saw a "bluish green object" low in the sky over San Quentin Prison. It vanished in the direction of Oakland, she said. In San Francisco, radio stations reported numerous calls about unidentified flying objects of various description. At San Jose, Mrs. Ann Rodriguez said she was walking with her little girls Tuesday night when they saw something land near the road. It emitted flashes "like they were taking pictures of us" and then took off, she said. There have been a number of recent sightings of strange flying objects in Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Ohio, Mississippi, Texas and Georgia, and some people, mostly those who have done the sighting, are beginning to get concerned. Ray Stanford of Austin, Tex., told a late-night radio talk show host Tuesday his group, the Association for the Understand-ing of Man, is setting up a huge signal light to attract unidentified flying objects. He said the light, in Central Texas, can be seen by the naked eye as far as 150 miles into space. People reported seeing strange flying objects at a Pascagoula, Miss., fishing hole, near the Beckley, W.Va., airport and in the piney woods of Louisiana. A woman in New Orleans said she saw something shaped like the Houston Astrodome hover over her home. The Air Force chief of staff said UFOs touched off fighting during the Vietnam war, and even the Russians have been hearing things from outer space. The Tass News Agency said Soviet scientists are hearing unusual radio signals--never heard before--coming in pulses after definite lapses of time, lasting for several minutes and being repeated several times a day. "It is not precluded that they may be sent by a technically developed extraterrestrial civilization," the Russian report said. Two Pascagoula shipyard workers said they were hustled aboard a blue, fish-shaped craft by three weird creatures who gave them the once-over with an eye-like scanning device. And they're going to take lie detector tests to prove it. At Pine, La., sheriff's deputies chased five orange-reddish flying objects 12 miles through the woods. Pilots at the Raleigh County Airport at Beckley, W.Va., saw a mysterious night flyer that turned red, then green, then white. "Where they are coming from and why they were here is a matter of conjecture," said Northwestern University astronomer Dr. Allen Hynek. "But the fact that they were here on this planet is beyond a reasonable doubt." Dr. Robert G. Connell, an LSU astrophysicist, disagrees with Hynek. "There's probably some mundane explanation for the ones right now and for probably any UFOs," he said. O'Connell said he was skeptical of most UFO reports, especially the Pascagoula case. "I don't necessarily dispute what they're saying," he said. "It could be a hoax. The hoax could be on two levels: the people themselves or somebody else carrying out a hoax." "This area (of UFO reports) is notorious for hoaxes." In Chicago, U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. George S. Brown told a news conference Tuesday UFOs were reported in Vietnam during the war and even triggered an air-sea battle near the Demilitarized Zone in 1968 in which an Australian destroyer was hit. "I don't know if this story has ever been told," Brown told a news conference, "but they (UFOs) plagued us in Vietnam during the war." "I think it's nothing," Brown said. "I think it is atmospheric." Dozens of UFOs were again reported by citizens and police officers in southern and central Ohio Tuesday night including a woman who said three UFO's forced her car off a roadway. The objects, mostly described as orange in color, were reported in several areas including Columbus, Coshocton in east-central Ohio, and in the southwestern part of the state at Middletown and Greenfield. date? === Page 9 of 22 QUAKE JOLTS 20 STATES Although he can literally unleash and control hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes, influence our space probes, and make UFOs appear at his request, he is not a sorcerer--but the representative of the SIs (Saucer Intelligences) who have bestowed the most incredible power in him so that he could act for them on Earth and prove to the world that they really exist! By Otto O. Binder # TED OWENS--FLYING SAUCER MISSIONARY 22 SAGA === Page 10 of 22 TORNADO WINDS UP THE AREA For 24 years since 1947, when Kenneth Arnold sighted nine disks, everyone who believes in flying saucers has been wondering why the UFOs are here and what the occupants, if any, are up to on earth. NOW THE ANSWER IS KNOWN! It is known by courtesy of Ted Owens, the PK Man. As SAGA readers know from last year's August and September issues, Ted Owens claims that he is the "spokesman" for the SIs (Saucer or Space Intelligences) who communicate with him via two-way ESP. Ted has now made his private diaries (from 1963 to date) available to me Illustration by Gil Cohen SAGA 23 === Page 11 of 22 QUAKE JOLTS 20 STATES TED OWENS FLYING SAUCER MISSIONARY Although he can literally unleash and control hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes, influence our space probes, and make UFOs appear at his request, he is not a sorcerer--but the representative of the SIs (Saucer Intelligences) who have bestowed the most incredible power in him so that he could act for them on Earth and prove to the world that they really exist! By Otto O. Binder 22 SAGA === Page 12 of 22 PERSONAL SERVICES..........BY OWENS (PK MAN) -- (1) THE SI SYSTEM I refer you to the article that appeared in Saga Magazine, February, 1972... written by myself: This article outlines the system... by which human beings can learn to have SUPERIOR minds... and to have SUPERIOR POWERS. It is a System... given me by UFO intelligences... which will enable an individual to do things, accomplish things, solve things... that normally he or she could not cope with. First, my Pupil is taught Auto (Self) Hypnosis. Then, my Pupil is provided with mental mechanisms, each containing a secret code (trigger)... WHICH CAN CHANGE THE ENTIRE LIFE OF MY PUPIL FOR THE BETTER, after the mechanisms are put into action. (Note: to my knowledge, nothing else like this Si System exists in the world, OR HAS EVER EXISTED.) My Pupil must come to where I live; be able to stay at a nearby motel for two days, while I train him or her. Since my time is priceless, and very limited... only those who contribute $200 or more to my work and research in ODP (other-dimensional-phenomena)... will be accepted by me for personal training. (2) THE SI DISC Some years ago the Si's (UFO intelligences) instructed me how to code discs and send the discs to people who had need for them... Since then I have received hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of letters from people who have received their Si Disc... then had something miraculously good happen! People's lives were saved... after they wore their Si Disc. People found new and better jobs... after they received their Si Disc. All sorts of good and wonderful things happened, too numerous to list here... for the Si Disc People, after they received their Disc. My time is very limited; I cannot get out too many discs (takes me 20 minutes to code one and prepare it to send out) therefore only those who contribute $5 to my work and research... will get a Si Disc now. Others who request a disc, but contribute little or nothing to my work... may have to wait a year or two for their disc. Books mentioning my work: "Revelation: The Divine Fire", Brad Steiger, 104 1/2 Washington St., Decorah, Iowa, 52101. "Occult America", John Godwin, your book store. $7.95 Owens (PK Man) Mr. Ted Owens (PK man) Box 48 Cape Charles, Va. 23310 === Page 13 of 22 SCIENTISTS NOTE: FIRST MY "UFO" ATTACK ON CHICAGO PRODUCED RECORD HEAT. NEXT, HURRICANE WINDS AND TORNADOS. NEXT, RECORD SNOW BLIZZARD. (ADD A LIGHTNING ATTACK ALSO. SEE FILE.) SINCE I ANNOUNCED MY INTENT TO CAUSE ALL THIS CHAOS IN CHICAGO AND SURROUNDING AREA IN MY OCT. 8, 1975, LETTER TO DOUG DAHLGREN, AND TO YOU... ANYONE WHO READS THIS FILE, WITH AVERAGE INTELLIGENCE... AND SAYS I HAVEN'T ACCOMPLISHED MY UFO ATTACK... WOULD BE A STUPID IDOT. === Page 14 of 22 OH 430 John Hancock Patriot U.S. Postage 10¢ Mr. Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St San Francisco, CA 94115 © USPS 1978 === Page 15 of 22 1103 E. Church Marion, OH. 43302 1103 E. Church Marion, OH. 43302 1103 E. Church Marion, OH. 43302 1103 E. Church Marion, OH. 43302 1103 E. Church Marion, OH. 43302 1103 E. Church Marion, OH. 43302 Dear Mr. Mishlove: Please have your friend, Ted Owens, make a U.F.O. appear over my home here in Marion, I have seen U.F.O.'s on three other occasions, so I know what they look like. Sincerely yours Dr. Dan Moran === Page 16 of 22 Dear Tony + Staff... I have just finished reading the story of China and its surrounding area... It was a help. Documented fully and completely. Thanks. Love, Jan X === Page 17 of 22 Part of the screen at the Crystal Lake Theater, an outdoor drive-in in Crystal Lake, was blown down, according to McHenry County sheriff's police. In Chicago's Loop, winds blew roofing material onto Michigan Avenue and the sidewalk just north of the river. A roll of tarpaper and several city trash cans were blown into the middle of Michigan Avenue. The Sunday night storm came after nine days of what the National Weather Service called the warmest weather in Chicago history for the first days of November. Sunday's high of 73 degrees at Midway also tied a record for the date set in 1931. ELSEWHERE IN THE Midwest, severe winds from at least two confirmed tornadoes injured three persons in Terre Haute, Ind., and 10 more persons in Andrews, Ind. The winds were accompanied by heavy thunderstorms. In Iowa, a tornado tore down power lines and caused scattered damage to Waterloo homes and businesses. In Dunkerton, at least 10 homes were destroyed in a new residential area. Up to four inches of snow was reported in northern Wisconsin. === Page 18 of 22 UFO SIGHTING? - The tiny light appearing in a twisting pattern in this photo is a UFO which Mrs. Sandra Hodgson of Grapevine says is keeping watch on the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport. FOUR OF THE FIVE witnesses who say they have seen numerous UFOs taking off at night from a remote western area of the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport point to the spot they say one of them landed in a clearing in the woods. See March 22 letter to Bunch Dictionary of Symbols p. 14 Dictionary of Symbols by J. E. Cirlot, Philosophical Library, 15 E 40th St. NY NY === Page 19 of 22 # MESSAGE OR MYSTERY traption he suddenly realized his car was heating up. Not only his idling engine, but the entire car! After a bewildering few seconds, panic hit him. He lunged from the car and rolled into the ditch beside the road. Smoke curled from under the car's dashboard. The engine burst into flames. Now the object rose slowly into the air. Raper said "it sorta cranked up" and sounded like a large Diesel engine. In a few moments it was swallowed in the low clouds overhead. Raper scrambled out of the muddy ditch and ran toward Provencal just as the car's gas tank exploded, splashing flaming gasoline where he had just lain. He awakened the town marshal, who alerted authorities. Although Raper was driven to near-distraction by the unexpected, nightmarish confrontation on the night road, the really upsetting mystery stands out today: what did the English language-type inscription mean? Did the familiar "UN" mean the saucer was Earth-made? Is it possible that Raper's mind, shocked and surprised by the sudden meeting, distorted an alien inscription into something reassuring and familiar from Earth? Or did the intruders deliberately camouflage their vehicle with counterfeit lettering to make us think it was of our manufacture? In our recent past UFOs have overflown and-landed near witnesses who got clear, close views of their details. Several objects were marked with symbols or insignia and many witnesses have photographed or accurately sketched them, fresh from their memories. If the UFOs through the ages have not been mysterious enough in themselves, they have further confounded their purpose with the mysterious markings seen on their surfaces. Although certain of the symbols resemble Earthly ones, none appear to be identical. Yet, they must mean something to someone. But what? And to whom? They have (Continued on page 37) 17 ![Illustration of the underside of a UFO with three horizontal lines] The underside of a UFO seen in June of 1967 on the outskirts of Madrid, Spain. ![Illustration of the underside of a UFO with three curved lines] The underside of a UFO seen by Jose Luis Jordan in February 1966 near Madrid, Spain. ![Illustration of the underside of a UFO with three distinct symbols] On the underside of a UFO photographed along a coastal road in 1959 by Helio Aguiar of Salvador city, Brazil, these three markings were clearly revealed. # IX1478 These characters appeared on the lower one-third of the UFO seen by Morris Heflin of Oklahoma City in April and May of 1971. # UN On a landed UFO near his home in Provencal, Alabama one night in 1957, Haskell Raper clearly saw the letters "U N" preceding several other characters which, in his excitement, he could not recall. # TL 4138 # (OR) # TL 4738 Eddie Laxon saw these characters on a lighted, fish-shaped object that blocked Highway 70 eight miles from Temple, Texas early one morning in March of 1966. ![Illustration of a circular emblem with a lightning bolt and a diagonal line] A 28-year old Belgian observed a UFO for almost four minutes as it hovered over his garden wall in December of 1973. He took careful note of the emblem on its body. === Page 20 of 22 RID MICE OFFER BY MIRACLE MAN A Virginian (U.S.) "miracle worker" has offered to rid Queensland of its mouse plague in one day. This is claimed in a letter to the editor of The Chronicle from an Innisfail woman, Mrs. Winifred Mossop. "I don't want you to toss aside this suggestion as a crackpot, as it's for real," Mrs. Mossop writes. "And since I was once farming in your district and know what crop loss means, I think anything is worth trying once." Mrs. Mossop said she had spoken to the man, Ted Owens, known as "P.K." or the "flying saucer missionary," by phone at Cape Charles, Virginia. The call, with two extensions, cost her $17. "He said that if any farmer in Australia would pay his return fare, he would guarantee to get rid of the mice in a day," Mrs. Mossop says. Mr. Owens gets his miracle working power, according to Mrs. Mossop, from Unidentified Flying Objects. He believes U.F.O.s are here to help us, and to stop man from wiping out earth. Quoting the American Saga magazine as her source of information, Mrs. Mossop says Ted Owens:-- * Warned the Weather Bureau that U.F.O.s would work up three hurricanes simultaneously. Beulah, Chloe and Doris faithfully showed up on the same week-end in June 1967 and smashed their way into Florida. * Worked up a lightning storm over Philadelphia on a specified night in 1966. * Predicted the explosion of a French submarine Euridice in the Mediterranean with the loss of 60 lives; and * Saved a corn crop by sending rain. Mrs. Mossop lists several other accomplishments of Mr. Owens. "He said if all the farmers put a little each towards his fare, he will do them a good deed." She says Mr. Owens can be contacted by telephoning Cape Charles, Virginia, 3311208, or at his home address P.O. Box 48, Cape Charles. NO TRACE BRISBANE. -- Detectives yesterday conducted investigations in the city, Clayfield, Amberley and Ipswich in the hunt for missing W.R.A.A.F. policewoman Gaye Christine Baker. However, they said the leads had revealed no trace of the 23-year-old woman, who was last seen in the Clayfield area last Sunday. MIRACLE WORKER WILL 'END PLAGUE OF MICE' TOOWOOMBA.--A Virginian (US) "miracle Worker" has offered to rid Queensland of its mice plague in one day. This is claimed in a letter from an Innisfail woman, Mrs Winifred Mossop. Mrs Mossop says she had spoken to the man, Ted Owens, known as "PK" or the "Flying Saucer Missionary", by phone at Cape Charles in Virginia. The call, with two extensions, cost her $17. "He said that if any farmer in Australia would pay his return fare he would guarantee to get rid of the mice in one day," Mrs Mossop says. Mr Owens gets his miracle-working power, according to Mrs Mossop, from unidentified flying objects. He believes UFOs are here to help us and stop man from wiping out earth. "He said if all the farmers put a little each towards his fare, he will do them a good deed." CONTACTS THESE ARTICLES APPEARED RECENTLY IN THE AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPERS. Owens === Page 21 of 22 C O N T A C T S Leo The attached case, within, shows the beginning...and the end... of the hardest and most exciting project I have ever taken on! I had to do two things: make seven monster lava flows miss people and villages; and then I had to put the volcano out. (Of course, I also called the UFO's in on it and used them and their powers, as well as my own mind.) I was 100% successful...in my first battle with a live, belching fiery volcano. Study this carefully. You will see how much work I put into it. Had to leave out some pages...not enough money for the xeroxing of all the pages. Just this alone cost $30. (Anyone want to send in a few bucks to help me on it, feel free to do so.) As I told Maddry, Norfolk reporter, before beginning this project... "If I can stop this volcano, and save the people and villages... then I can stop 13 pro football teams." Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens PS - Of course, not only Maddry the columnist, was notified in advance of my taking on this fiery volcano - but four scientists also were notified right from the onset. (Plus lawyers, etc.) (So this is soundly documented.) Ted === Page 22 of 22 WHKUK. TECIOWUIUS We were in the parasci. conf. in London with you. We very much enjoyed meeting you and hearing your fantastic story. You mentioned you would send us a BIG picture of you looking straight ahead please if you will we'd love it. Hy J. Byars and Grocel Byars % Verelst 26 Sporthalenplein 2610 Wilrijk Belgium Antwerpen 53 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 8 N.R.L. - F.S.D N.A.S. Patuxent River MD. #20670 Dr. Jeffery Mishlove Washington Research Center 3101 Washington Street San Francisco, Calif #94115 Dear Dr. Mishlove: Under instructions from Ted Owens, who has listened to this tape, I am sending it to you - considering there is mention of using his book "How To Contact Space People" in it - and results from doing so - plus other para-normal events noted down and dated - I recorded this for a UFOlogist in New Jersey, Mr. Tom Benson - P.O. Box 1174 Trenton N.J. 08606 === Page 2 of 8 - 2 - I have just taken Jedi Training which he has said was given him by the UFO's (SI's) He also said that anyone who comes to him for that training, has been sent there for one reason or another, by UFO's - There were several things which he said were very similar in which our minds were on the same frequency - so the training would be that much better between me and himself - 1. He had been wanting to get his Teddy (10) a space ship (Toy) and finances were such that he was unable to - I had just completed a model of the movie starship enterprise in which lights worked by Battery power - I brought === Page 3 of 8 - 3 - this for his son because I could not find another one like it Amt Corporation quit making them - (2) He had some time ago, admired a set of Black Cross pens which he could not buy - I spied the exact same and bought them for him as a gift when I came (3) The UFO's left dolls for him to find. I brought one for little Jerome to cuddle with - (4) When he went to Scotland - for some strange reason I "saw" the very same castle and fog & lake & when he went to Egypt I was there where he was under a well or cave - and just last month when he was pouring out energy - I "felt" this energy - & saw it too - For many years I have traveled (I am in the service) and each time I have gone to a different place - that day - or next - I would see a disk - shaped object in === Page 4 of 8 - 4 - the sky - I would look up see it - and it would disappear just as fast. But now, I have the training and, according to Ted Owens - am closer to the UFO entities than ever before - he said also, that I had a very strong mind - I had always thought I was weak - but that was because of my childhood fears and allowing others to dominate me with theirs - Listen to the tape and let me know what you think - Thank you very much for taking up some of your precious time in your busy schedule - I have been reading from a very "rough" manuscript which I was going to write as a book - Very Sincerely Carolyn Valentine === Page 5 of 8 MENSA® A NON-PROFIT EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION CHARTERED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, 50 EAST 42ND STREET, NEW YORK, N.Y. 10017 November 9, 1973 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Ted Owens, who is known as "PK Man - The UFO Prophet", and is a member of Mensa, informed me by letter on Tuesday, October 23, 1973, that it was his intention to telepathically communicate with UFO's and ask them to appear within a 100 mile area of Cape Charles, Virginia, and show themselves to the police within that area. On October 25, 1973, two days later, a UFO appeared over the head of a policeman in Chase City, Virginia (within the specified 100 mile area) for 15 minutes, as described in the Richmond Times-Dispatch dated October 26, 1973. Thus, an example of the type of occurrence predicted in Mr. Owen's letter to me, written in advance of the occurrence, did take place. Sincerely, Max L. Fogel Max L. Fogel, Ph.D. Director of Science and Education CHAIRMAN, Herbert Ahrend; FIRST VICE-CHAIRMAN, Dr. Emerson Cowie; SECOND VICE-CHAIRMAN, Joseph Frisch; EASTERN VICE-CHAIRMAN, Fred Lowenstein; MID-WESTERN VICE-CHAIRMAN, Lou McGowan; WESTERN VICE-CHAIRMAN, Ellison Jack; SECRETARY, Irene Turchin; TREASURER, Sander Rubin; LOCAL GROUPS OFFICER, Stuart Friedman; RESEARCH OFFICER, Max L. Fogel, Ph.D.; LEGAL COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN, Jack Weinstein; MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN, Vernon K. Schumann; PUBLIC RELATIONS COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN, Allan Wikman; RECORDING SECRETARY, Carol H. Stephens; SUPERVISING PSYCHOLOGIST, Allan H. Frankle, Ph.D.; EDITOR MENSA BULLETIN, Lee Russell; GREATER L. A. REPRESENTATIVE, Mel Springer; N.Y.C. REPRESENTATIVE, Ita Solomon; MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY, Margot Seitelman. === Page 6 of 8 November 28, 1966 On June 5, 1966, Ted Owens made the following prediction to myself, my husband, Robert Hansell, and George Riddle: The UFO intelligences, to demonstrate their powers further to the U.S. Govt. will bring about a nuclear submarine catastrophe, or Aircraft carrier catastrophe, i.e., a naval catastrophe involving U.S. vessels within the near future. They will also deal our seat of Government (The White House and Capitol Hill) a serious blow in the near future. The above to take place not later than September, 1966. (Only the time element was off a bit) Sept. 15, 1966, the West German submarine Hai suddenly sunk with its crew. Oct. 26, 1966, the J.S.S. Aircraft Carrier Oriskany caught fire and burned, killing 34 officers and pilots and 9 enlisted men. Nov. 2, 1966, U.S.S. Aircraft Carrier Guadalcanal, a helicopter crashed on deck killing four of the crew and injuring eighteen others. Nov. 4, 1966, U.S. Navy Submarine "Tiru" accidentally went aground of the coast of Australia and radioed for help. Took three days for tug to get it off the rocks and it is now in port being repaired. Nov. 5, 1966, U.S.S. Aircraft Carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. caught fire, killing eight of the crew. Commander Schoultz, the ship's captain termed the cause of the blaze "a mystery". Nov. 8, 1966, former aircraft carrier, now a transport caught fire in Kula Gulf, Hawaii. Nov. 10, 1966, nuclear U.S. sub Nautilus collided with the aircraft carrier Essex, and was extensively damaged. Also, on Nov. 5, '66, President Johnson of the United States announced that he must have two operations performed at once; surgery. This was certainly a blow to our seat of government. Therefore it is my conviction that this 3-point prediction by Ted Owens has come about (although a few weeks late) in the exact order that he predicted it. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 30th day of November, 1966 Zelda S. Hansell 29 S. Wyoming Ave. Ardmore, Pa. 19003 # Carrier Hit By Nautilus Under Sea **Crewman Hurt, A-Sub's Tower Badly Damaged** NORFOLK, Va. Nov. 10 (UPI) - The world's first nuclear submarine, the Nautilus, rammed the aircraft carrier Essex while running submerged off the North Carolina coast Thursday, slightly injuring one crewman. The Navy said the mishap occurred during a routine anti-submarine warfare exercise. The Nautilus, commissioned Sept. 21, 1954, suffered heavy damage to its conning tower, the Navy said, and immediately surfaced. It struck out for the New London, Conn., submarine base with an unidentified destroyer as an escort. **CARRIER DAMAGED** The 27,100-ton Essex, a 24-year-old anti-submarine warfare ship, was reported damaged below the waterline. It was commanded by Capt. S. W. Fly, was taking some water, but that it was under control. The Navy said the Essex was heading for Quonset Point, R.I. # Johnson's Doctors Negotiate On a Site, Time for Surgery By LAWRENCE M. O'ROURKE Of The Bulletin Staff JOHNSON CITY, Texas, Nov. 11 - Getting several busy doctors to agree on a single time and place for surgery is a difficult task, even when the patient is President Johnson. Mr. Johnson apparently still doesn't know when or at what hospital his abdomen and throat will be operated on. He hopes it will be early next week in the Bethesda Army Medical Center in Maryland. That is only a half hour helicopter flight from his LBJ ranch. Mr. Johnson could decide. A high official in the Johnson Administration asserted that Mr. Johnson could fix the time and place in a minute. He could call the doctors on the phone and say he wanted them to come to Texas, and they'd come. But the President doesn't want to impose his will on the physicians, though he has made his own desires clear through Dr. George G. Burkley of the White House staff. The complications arise from the fact that there are four doctors involved. Four are at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., one is in New York City, another is in Atlanta, and Dr. Burkley is in Washington. Sources say that the operations may be done at the same time at the U.S. Naval Hospital at Bethesda, Md., or at a hospital associated with Mayo. **Shoulder Soreness** The President, resting more than normal and soaking up the sun on his LBJ Ranch, feels fine despite a number of ailments. In addition to the abdominal and throat problems which were revealed by surgery, the President has felt soreness in his right arm and shoulders. The White House said today that it is nothing serious, although it is unexplained. Mr. Johnson has reportedly had massages to ease the discomfort. The doctors have checked out the soreness, White House acting press secretary George C. Smith said, and found nothing serious. A high administration official himself is at a loss to explain the soreness, but he said it's not from cutting wood. **Sometime Next Week** At a news conference yesterday - the first since he came to his LBJ ranch, the President said the surgery will take place next week. Surgeons will repair an abdominal defect at the lower end of the scar on the President's abdomen left by gall bladder and kidney stone surgery 13 months ago. The surgery will involve the closing of an incisional hernia, a weak spot in the stomach wall. There is a lump at the site the size of a golf ball. While Mr. Johnson is under anesthesia, a throat specialist will remove a small non-malignant polyp from near the President's right vocal cord. The polyp will be examined immediately to determine if there is malignancy. The doctors said that nearly all polyps are non-malignant. # Background # Navy Has Rough Sailing WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (AP) - THE Navy has had a tough time in the way of ocean safety the past 16 days. Thursday's collision of a submerged submarine with a carrier in the Atlantic marked at least the sixth accident involving Navy vessels since Oct. 26 when a flash fire swept the aircraft carrier Oriskany off Vietnam. That fire claimed 44 men. "When you have several hundred ships operating at sea, these things are bound to happen," one high officer said. "The best you can hope to do is take steps toward preventing them." Here are recent accidents: Oct. 26 - A fire that broke out in a locker containing flares swept the Oriskany off Vietnam. The flattop, from which U.S. jets strike at North Vietnam, had to be pulled off its "Yankee Station" and sent home for repairs. Nov. 3 - The submarine Tiru ran aground on a reef in the Coral Sea off Australia and was stuck four days before it could be towed away. None of the 80 men aboard was injured. Nov. 4 - The LST (Landing ship, transport) Churchill County rammed the top of the Bay Tunnel at Norfolk, Va., and had to be pulled away by two tugs. No injuries. Nov. 5 - The carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt operating in South China seas, was hit by a fire which killed eight men. The carrier remained on station. Nov. 7 - Fire erupted in a storage room of the 24,000 ton aircraft transport ship Kula Gulf stationed at Pearl Harbor. No one was injured; the blaze was brought under control in three hours. Nov. 10 - The submarine Nautilus rammed the carrier Essex during a maneuver 35 miles east of Wilmington, Del. The atomic sub suffered extensive damage to a super-section but surfaced with only one injury, a possible broken arm sustained by one of the crewmen. The Essex was not damaged. One of the Navy's more embarrassing incidents of recent months occurred in July, however, when a radar picket destroyer, the Frank Knox, was hung up for five weeks on a reef in the South China Sea. The Navy later reprimanded the commander of the destroyer after a court martial on charges of "negligently failing to keep himself informed of the ship's position." # Burned Carrier Is Home to Prepare for Next Round San Diego, Calif., Nov. 16 - (AP) - The fire-scarred attack carrier Oriskany and her proud, weary men returned from war today, their home-coming saddened by the loss of 44 men. Band played and an estimated 2,000 wives, children and friends greeted the huge 42,000-ton carrier as it docked under gray skies. Forty-four men, including 25 pilots, were victims of the tragic Oct. 26 fire, evidence of which still lingers on scorched walls of the hangar bay and living quarters. Ten other Oriskany pilots were lost on strike missions over Viet Nam. **Morale 'Terrific'** The skipper of the 21-year-old carrier, Capt. J. H. Iarrobino of Coronado, Calif., praised his 2,500-man crew and said he hoped the ship would not miss its third rotation back to the Viet Nam war zone. "The morale of the men is terrific," the skipper said. "This ship's performance was really outstanding - not just outstanding, but great. "We were in a state of shock for a short period of time," Iarrobino said. "But we're digging ourselves out now. This ship will answer the bell for the next round." **Inquiry Under Way** After a week in San Diego the ship goes to San Francisco for three or four months of repair and overhaul, followed by another tour of war duty. Meanwhile, a board of inquiry investigating all aspects of the fire will take "roughly another two weeks to finish," Iarrobino said. "We don't know whether it was a malfunction of a flare or personnel fault that caused the fire," the captain said. He said that as yet no disciplinary action has been taken against two men who were handling the magnesium illumination flares that triggered the three explosions. ILLUSTRATION # 2 === Page 7 of 8 forces which are responsible for the events. Either hypothesis offers a para-normal explanation; however, one hypothesis suggests that Ted Owens is a passive, receptive, or perceptive participant of these unusual conditions, while the other hypothesis suggests that Ted Owens is an active, or manipulative, agent in these unusual conditions. The events are worthy of scientific investigation, but the hypothesis of active manipulation is one which is morally bothersome to me. - R. Leo Sprinkle, Ph.D. === Page 8 of 8 LIPPINCOTT & CROWELL, PUBLISHERS 521 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10017 LAWRENCE PEEL ASHMEAD Executive Editor March 31, 1980 Ron Bernstein THE RON BERNSTEIN AGENCY 200 W. 58th St., suite 10C New York, NY 10019 RECEIVED APR 12 1980 Dear Ron: Without a supporting publishing program of science fiction novels we'd have a very difficult time launching just one category novel like Rogo's EARTH'S AMBASSADOR. Thank you for letting me see this, Ron, and I'm sorry I can't be more enthusiastic. Best, Larry LPA/cdn enclosure P.S.: Good to see you at Judy's Friday evening. xc: D. SCOTT ROGO 4/14/80 - [x] JEFFREY MISHLOVE Phone: 212-687-3980 TELEX: 83-4566 TWX: 7106700974 Cable: Lippcot, New York Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 3 JCS Journal of Consciousness Studies 8,8 # Journal of Consciousness Studies **Volume 8, No. 8, August 2001** Full text also available from: # Contents ## REFEREED PAPERS **Edward Feser** [Abstract](Abstract) Qualia: Irreducibly Subjective But Not Intrinsic **Andrew Botterell** [Abstract](Abstract) Conceiving What Is Not There **David Holdcroft and Harry Lewis** [Abstract](Abstract) Memes, Consciousness, Design and Social Practice ## CONTINUING DEBATE **Benjamin Libet** Consciousness, Free Action and the Brain: Commentary on John Searle's Article Benjamin Libet **John R. Searle** Further reply to Libet ## OBITUARY NOTICE **Evan Thompson** Francisco J. Varela (1946-2001) [full text](full%20text) ## CONFERENCE REPORT **Bill Faw** Whither Consciousness Studies? ASSC-5 Conference at Duke, June 27-30, 2001 [full text](full%20text) JCS Journal of Consciousness Studies 8,8.html[12/2/25, 20:48:23] === Page 2 of 3 JCS Journal of Consciousness Studies 8,8 # BOOK REVIEWS **Josh Weisberg** Jerry Fodor, *The Mind Doesn't Work That Way* **Chris Nunn** Ralph D. Ellis & Natika Newton (ed.), *The Cauldron of Consciousness* **Hans Dooremalen** Scott Sturgeon, *Matters of Mind, Consciousness, Reason and Nature* **Julian Paul Keenan** Todd E. Feinberg, *Altered Egos* **Bruno Deschenes** Ciarán Benson, *The Cultural Psychology of Self, Place, Morality and Art in Human Worlds* **Gary Fuhrman** Radu Bogdan, *Minding Minds* **Rahul Banerjee** Yvonne P. Bouin, *Effects of Meditation on Respiration and the Temporal Lobes* **Rüdiger Vaas** Sangeetha Menon et al. (ed.), *Scientific and Philosophical Studies on Consciousness* **John Dance** Mary Midgley, *Science and Poetry* **John McCrone** G. Lynn Stephens & George Graham, *When Self-Consciousness Breaks* **Peter W. Ross** Michael Tye, *Color, Consciousness, and Content* **Rocco J. Gennaro** Jospeh Levine, *Purple Haze* **Gary Schouborg** Charles T. Tart, *Mind Science* **Alexander Batthyany** Daniel D. Hutto, *Beyond Physicalism* **Imants Barušs** Jeffrey Mishlove, *The PK Man* ---------- **Andrew Botterell** ## Conceiving What Is Not There Abstract: In this paper I argue that certain so-called conceivability arguments fail to show that a currently popular version of physicalism in the philosophy of mind is false. Concentrating on an argument due to David Chalmers, I first argue that Chalmers misrepresents the relation between conceivability and possibility. I then argue that the intuition behind the conceivability of so-called zombie worlds can be accounted for without having to suppose that such worlds are genuinely conceivable. I conclude with some general remarks about the nature of conceivability. Correspondence: Andrew Botterell, Department of Philosophy, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA 94928, USA. Email andrew.botterell@sonoma.edu ---------- **Edward Feser** JCS Journal of Consciousness Studies 8,8.html[12/2/25, 20:48:23] === Page 3 of 3 JCS Journal of Consciousness Studies 8,8 # Qualia: Irreducibly Subjective but not Intrinsic Abstract: The indirect realist theory of our knowledge of the external world which Russellian philosophers of mind have appealed to in formulating and defending a unique version of the mind-brain identity theory can be applied also to the formulation and defence of a unique version of functionalism. On the view that results, qualia turn out to be features which do not exist over and above the natural world (as materialistic functionalists and Russellians would agree), and are irreducibly subjective (as dualists and Russellians would agree) but are non-intrinsic properties of brain states (as functionalists would agree but Russellians would not). This view, which can be called 'Hayekian functionalism' (after F.A. Hayek, some of whose neglected writings inspired it), thus shows how we can combine the best insights of functionalism with the respect for the subjectivity of qualia which critics of functionalism claim it cannot accommodate. Correspondence: Edward Feser, Department of Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University, 7900 Loyola Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90045. Email: edwardfeser@hotmail.com ---------- **David Holdcroft and Harry Lewis** # Memes, Consciousness, Design and Social Practice It has been proposed by Dawkins, Dennett and others that memes are the units of cultural evolution. We here concentrate on Dennett's account because of the role it plays in his explanation of human consciousness -- which is our principal target. Memes are claimed to be replicators that work on Darwinian principles. But in what sense are they replicators, and in what way are they responsible for their own propagation? We argue that their ability to replicate themselves is severely limited, particularly in the case of language-borne memes. We contend, too, that the theory has unacceptable consequences for the role of design in accounting for cultural change, unless we seriously want to entertain the thought that design has as little relevance to cultural evolution as it does to the evolution of species. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 43 Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 531-576, 2001 0892-3310/01 © 2001 Society for Scientific Exploration # BOOK REVIEWS **The Cholesterol Myths: Exposing the Fallacy that Saturated Fat and Cholesterol Cause Heart Disease** by Uffe Ravnskov, M.D., Ph.D. Published by the New Trends Publishing Co., Washington, D.C., 2000, xiv+297 pp. $20.00 (p). ISBN 0-9670897-0-0. With courage and care Dr. Ravnskov exposes the lack of experimental evidence for the diet-heart theory (DHT), which claims that eating less fat and cholesterol will prevent atherosclerosis. He shows how the abstract or conclusions of a number of papers are at odds with the actual data in the papers. He demonstrates how the use of one statistical method in preference to another can give a false impression that there is an effect of drug or diet in lowering total death rates, where there is, in fact, no significant effect. "This book was written to give you and your doctor some facts about cholesterol and coronary heart disease (CHD). They are facts that even your doctor may not know because these facts have been misunderstood; or because many scientists, health authorities and representatives of the drug companies have suppressed them altogether" (p. 5). Surprisingly, this author has included about 2 dozen cartoons to make this very wrenching expose more palatable. The chapters are called "Myths." Here are the chapter titles, which certainly show the direction of this book: "Myth 1: High-fat foods cause heart disease" "Myth 2: High cholesterol causes heart disease" "Myth 3: High-fat foods raise blood cholesterol" "Myth 4: Cholesterol blocks arteries" "Myth 5: Animal studies prove the diet-heart idea" "Myth 6: Lowering your cholesterol will lengthen your life" "Myth 7: Polyunsaturated oils are good for you" "Myth 8: The cholesterol campaign is based on good science" "Myth 9: All scientists support the diet-heart idea" In a striking graph from one of the papers of John Yudkin, M.D., Ravnskov shows that the number of deaths from CHD in England and Wales between 1910 and 1956 is closely correlated with the number of new radio and television sets purchased each year. This is a perfect example of a correlation without a cause. Another line on the same graph shows that the number of grams of animal fat consumed per day changed by only ~10% during this period. There is no correlation whatsoever between fat consumption and death rates from CHD, which increased 6-fold during this time period. He notes that in the US, coronary mortality increased about 10 times between 1930 and 1960, leveled off during the 1960s, and has since decreased slowly. During the decline of heart mortality the consumption of animal fat declined also, but during the 30 531 === Page 2 of 43 532 Book Review years of sharply rising coronary mortality, the consumption of animal fat also decreased. In another example: "While the death rate from coronary disease increased in most countries after World War II, it decreased in Switzerland. If this decrease had been preceded by a decline in the intake of animal fat, Switzerland would have been a model for health care in other countries. But the diet-heart proponents never mention Switzerland because during the decline in heart mortality, the Swiss intake of animal fat increased by 20%" (p. 31). In still another example: "The Masai [of Kenya] drink 'only' half a gallon of [whole] milk each day.... Their parties are sheer orgies of meat; on such occasions four to ten pounds of meat [eaten] per person is not unusual, according to Professor [George] Mann [of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, USA]. If the diet-heart idea were correct, coronary heart disease would be epidemic in Kenya. But Professor Mann found that the Masai do not die from heart disease--although they might die from laughter if they heard about the campaign against foods containing cholesterol and saturated fat. But this was not the only surprise. The cholesterol of the Masai tribesmen was not sky-high as Mann had expected; it was the lowest ever measured in the world, about 50% lower than the value of [that of] most Americans" (pp. 32-33). Major frauds are decried: "Most supporters of the diet-heart idea think that the increased risk of CHD is present at all cholesterol levels. Those who have a cholesterol level of 200 mg/dL, for example, are worse off than those with a cholesterol level of 150 mg/dL; and those who have a cholesterol level of 250 mg/dL are at even greater risk. The pharmaceutical companies love this concept for it implies that almost everyone should be treated, even those with normal cholesterol levels.... The truth, were it known, would send pharmaceutical stocks plunging. In most studies, the increased risk is present only above a level of cholesterol that includes just a small percentage of the total population. [These are the approximately 0.5% of people with a genetic defect called familial hypercholesteremia (FH).] And women can stop worrying immediately because high cholesterol is not a risk factor for the female sex.... In fact, it seems more dangerous for women to have low cholesterol than high. Dr. Bernard Forette and a team of French researchers found that old women with very high cholesterol live the longest... <1/5 times the death rate of... women who had very low cholesterol. In their report, the French doctors warned against cholesterol lowering in elderly women. But they could as well have warned against cholesterol lowering in any woman, or, to be more precise, in anyone at all" (p. 59). Your reviewer checked one of the citations on MRFIT (Paul et al., 1982) to find that the summary noted honestly that the treatment group had less mortality from CHD and more total mortality than the controls did. That the former was not statistically significant was in the abstract; that the latter was not statistically significant was not in the abstract, but only in the body of the paper. Another problem with both this and some other studies is that the interventions included diet, anti-hypertensive drugs and smoking cessation all at once. === Page 3 of 43 Book Reviews 533 The authors thought that less smoking was beneficial and that anti-hypertensive drug therapy was harmful. But the diet for the treatment group called for lower saturated fat and cholesterol intake and higher polyunsaturated fat intake; the authors did not admit the possibility that this intervention could have been harmful. In an end note Ravnskov simplified a table in this paper and showed that the entire difference in death rates of certain sub-groups was due to quitting smoking, which cut the death rate in half. Dr. Ravnskov went on to show that higher levels of high-density-lipoprotein (HDL, "good" cholesterol) are not protective against CHD and that lower levels of low-density-lipoprotein (LDL, "bad" cholesterol) are not beneficial, although the expected associations of each with CHD are present. Triglycerides were said to be even less correlated with CHD than cholesterol is; the assay for triglycerides is worthless unless the patient has been fasting 12 hours, and the assay is only accurate to ±50%. Intimations in papers that there are "many" or "definitive" studies in reports and papers supporting the DHT were shown to be false by showing that citations often led to other reviews, each trusting the last, and ending in very few original studies, and that even those were often flawed statistically. Dr. Ancel Keys was one of the main proponents of this myth that eating fat causes CHD. In a paper published in 1958, Keys showed a graph of the percent calories from fat in the food of various countries vs. the mean serum cholesterol levels. The data points fell on a smooth curve, showing an excellent correlation. Dr. Ravnskov added data points from a number of countries deliberately ignored by Dr. Keys. These fall nowhere near the curve. Furthermore, CHD death rates among subjects in Finland, Greece and Yugoslavia with similar serum cholesterol levels varied 5-fold depending on which area of the country the individuals lived in! Four studies in the US, one in the UK, one in Israel and one in Finland failed to show any correlation between diet and serum cholesterol levels. "Numerous studies have shown that in people who eat a normal Western diet, the effect on blood cholesterol of eating 2 or 3 extra eggs per day over a long period of time can hardly be measured" (p. 108). Ravnskov dealt with the smear campaign against eggs as follows: "To find out how egg consumption influenced my own blood cholesterol, I once used myself as a human guinea pig without asking the ethics committee at my university. Before and during the experiment I analyzed my [total serum] cholesterol. My usual egg consumption is one or two eggs per day, and my cholesterol value at the start of the experiment was 278 mg/dL, very close to a determination of [my] blood cholesterol made 10 years earlier." On day 0, Dr. Ravnskov ate 1 egg; on day 1, 4 eggs; on day 2, 6 eggs; and on days 3-8, 8 eggs per day! "The data from my daring experiment showed that instead of going up, my cholesterol went down a little [to 246 mg/dL]" (p. 109). Dr. Ravnskov explains that older people have higher concentrations of cholesterol in their blood than younger people. If the serum cholesterol is graphed against the degree of atherosclerosis with all age groups lumped together, === Page 4 of 43 534 Book Review there seems to be a direct relationship. But if only people of about the same age and sex are considered, there is only a weak relationship with a correlation coefficient of 0.29. When the subjects with FH are left out, even the weak correlation vanishes. Some early research was ignored: "The first study designed to demonstrate a possible correlation between blood cholesterol and degree of atherosclerosis was published by the pathologist Kurt Land, and the biochemist Warren Sperry of the Department of Forensic Medicine at New York University... [in] 1936. They studied large groups of individuals who had died violent deaths. To their surprise, they found absolutely no correlation between the amount of cholesterol in the blood and the degree of atherosclerosis.... Because Land and Sperry were cautious and methodical, their study should have nipped the DHT in the bud. Or, more accurately, if those who promoted the DHT later on had read Land and Sperry's paper before beginning their research, they would probably have dropped the idea at once.... But the few who remember Land and Sperry misquote them and claim that they found a connection, or they ignore their results by arguing that cholesterol values in the dead are not identical with those in the living.... [To resolve this argument]... In the city of Agra in India, Dr. K. S. Mathur and his co-workers performed a similar study [in 1961]. Their first step was to measure blood cholesterol in 20 patients shortly before death and then a varying number of hours afterwards. They found that the cholesterol values were nearly the same if samples [were taken] before death and within 16 hours afterwards. Thus, blood samples taken very shortly after death are reliable--an important confirmation of the study done by Drs. Land and Sperry. Dr. Paterson's group in Canada confirmed this.... Next Dr. Mathur and his colleagues studied 200 people who had died in an accident, without any preceding disease. Like Drs. Land and Sperry, and like Dr. Paterson, the Indian researchers could find no connection between cholesterol values and the degree of atherosclerosis. Those with low cholesterol had just as much atherosclerosis as those whose cholesterol was high" (p. 118-120). A report from the Framingham Study found a weak correlation coefficient, 0.36. Dr. Ravnskov found what distinguished this report from all the others he studied: only 14% of the Framingham dead were chosen for autopsy, not close to 100%, as in the other studies. The risk of preferentially selecting subjects who probably had FH hypercholesteremia was said by Ravnskov to be great. To prove that high cholesterol is the villain--and not just an innocent bystander--demands that a change in the cholesterol concentration in each individual is followed by a change in degree of atherosclerosis in the same direction. Examination of all studies on this relationship showed no correlation. Dr. Ravnskov reviewed the evidence presented earlier--that cholesterol levels in blood, or HDL or LDL levels, or the ratio of the latter are not correlated with either atherosclerosis or heart attack rates. It follows that forcible reductions of cholesterol levels by drugs (since diet alone does not change the levels much) would not be expected to change the rate of CHD by lowering cholesterol levels. However, two things are possible with drugs. First, some === Page 5 of 43 Book Reviews 535 unknown mechanism unrelated to cholesterol could lengthen lifespan. Second, some side effect unrelated to cholesterol could shorten lifespan. Furthermore, the pervasive misconceptions about cholesterol have made it nearly impossible to carry out a placebo-controlled trial of new drugs because it is mistakenly considered unethical not to treat people with high cholesterol levels! "In the 1960s, Professor Jeremy Morris of London, England, led a team of physicians and scientists in an investigation to see whether the replacement of animal fat with soybean oil could have some preventive effect on CHD. This oil is rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids, those that are considered [erroneously to be] protective against atherosclerosis and CHD. Enrolled in the trial were about 400 middle-aged men who had previously been admitted to 4 London hospitals because of a heart attack; half of these received a diet containing large amounts of soybean oil. (This is one of the few trials sponsored solely by a government, and not by a drug company or any other vested interest.) . . . . . . . . . . When the researchers analyzed the results 4 years later, they could find no beneficial effects from using soybean oil. Although, in this particular trial, blood cholesterol had decreased considerably in the treatment group, 15 had died of a heart attack. In the control group, 14 had died; and the number of non-fatal heart attacks was the same in both groups" (p. 144-145). Other trials gave the same result. These trials on patients who already had symptoms of CHD are called "secondary prevention" trials. Now Ravnskov describes some of the "primary prevention" work, that is, trials with healthy or at least symptomless patients. Much larger numbers of subjects are needed in an attempt to obtain good statistical results, and compliance is always suspect because of the severe side effects of many of the treatments or drugs used in subjects who are basically healthy, and thus may not be compliant because they lack any fear of poor health. When you recall the conclusions in Myth 2, that high cholesterol does not cause CHD, you will not be surprised at the negative findings he has described. In 1967 the Coronary Drug Project tested nicotinic acid, clofibrate, thyroid hormone, and estrogen to lower cholesterol levels in middle-aged men who had already had at least one heart attack. After 7 years the death rates were the same as those of the controls. Worse, all 4 drugs had severe side effects. The researchers fell victim to the "surrogate endpoint." This is the use of an easily measured factor, such as total cholesterol level or blood pressure, as a surrogate or substitute for what is really important--increasing lifespan or the quality of life. In a later chapter Ravnskov calls this a "surrogate outcome." In 1970 the Upjohn Co. (Kalamazoo, MI, USA) sponsored a trial on 2000 men and women with high cholesterol involving its then-new drug colestipol. Two years later no effect was seen in the women. The number of heart attacks in the men in the treatment group was cut in half, a remarkable result never seen before or since. But Ravnskov found the snag: The selection of the patients to be in either the treatment or control groups was done by Upjohn's scientists with the results of the participants' blood assays in hand; it was any- === Page 6 of 43 536 Book Review thing but random. Ravnskov noticed that there were too many control patients with FH. Your reviewer notes that, in the 1996 Physicians Desk Reference entry for this drug, there is not a shred of evidence for longer lifespan; moreover, there were no restrictions on prescribing this drug for women. For the World Health Organization trial, researchers assayed blood cholesterol in 30,000 healthy, middle-aged men in Edinburgh, Prague and Budapest. The 10,000 men with the highest blood cholesterol levels were selected for the trial, half to receive clofibrate, half placebo. After 5 years there were more fatal heart attacks in the clofibrate group. There were 128 total deaths in the clofibrate group and 87 in the placebo group. "Yet clofibrate is still recommended in many countries as a useful drug" (p. 151)! The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute embarked on a new jumbo trial called The Lipid Research Clinics Coronary Primary Prevention Trial (LRC) to test the effectiveness of cholestyramine (Bristol-Myers Squibb). To find about 4,000 test subjects, the 0.8% of 500,000 middle-aged men with the highest cholesterol levels were selected. All were given a few weeks of dietary indoctrination to solve the supposed ethical dilemma of not otherwise treating the controls. Half received cholestyramine and half placebo for 7-8 years. Of those treated, 190 (10%) had nonfatal heart attacks, vs. 212 (11.1%) of the controls. For fatal heart attacks the figures were 1.7% and 2.3%, a difference of 0.6% absolute or 12 individuals. In the summary of the paper on this trial these unimpressive results were presented as a 19% lowering (relative risk) of nonfatal heart attacks and a 30% lowering of fatal heart attacks. This is an example of scientific fraud among efforts to support the DHT. Ravnskov notes how the reporting of differences in fatality rates by percent reduction (say, a 50% reduction in relative risk) is actually misleading when the actual death rates are quite small in both the treatment and control groups of subjects in diet or drug studies. For example, a treatment that changes the absolute survival rate over a multi-year period from 99.0% to 99.5% represents a 50% reduction in relative risk, from 1% to 0.5% absolute. This is often described in papers as a 50% reduction in death rate. However, when the difference is barely significant statistically, as was often the case, Ravnskov points out that there is no real reason to recommend adoption of the treatment, especially if there are potentially serious side effects. Ravnskov continues: "And this was not the only way in which the LRC figures were manipulated. In order to reach their 30% figure, the LRC directors included the uncertain cases, those who may or may not have died from a heart attack, and to reach their 19% figure, they excluded the uncertain cases. If it had been the other way around the results would have been 24% rather than 30, and 15% rather than 19. In other words, they selected data that gave them the results they were seeking." Even worse, the directors abandoned the 99% confidence level with a 2-tailed t-test and settled for a 95% confidence level with a 1-tailed t-test. [In an end note Ravnskov points out that scientists have agreed that a 1-tailed t-test should be used only when it is certain that the result === Page 7 of 43 Book Reviews 537 will go in just one direction. It is not supposed to be used when the drug (or other intervention) may do harm rather than good.] Very revealing is the absence of the number of deaths from all causes. More men in the treatment groups died by violence or suicide (11 vs. 4). In the misleading manner used by the LRC to present results, they could have said that violent death was 175% more likely in the treatment group. In order to achieve essentially nothing, the treatment group suffered gas, heartburn, belching, bloating, abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting; contrarily, the study's report assured readers that the side effects were not serious. Some promoters then claimed that "now that it had been proven that it is worthwhile to lower cholesterol no more trials were necessary!". Ravnskov goes on to show that trials with a seemingly positive result, even for a surrogate endpoint, are cited much more frequently than trials with a negative result. This gives a positive feedback effect, reinforcing the dogma that reducing cholesterol level is beneficial, but this sort of misdirected effort actually does not produce better health. A study showed that patients treated with lovastatin and colestipol had their coronary arteries narrowed as shown by X-rays. The title of the paper on this study indicated the opposite: "Regression of coronary artery disease as a result of lipid lowering therapy..." Ravnskov then presents the results of a meta-analysis of 26 cholesterol-lowering trials that met his standards. Result--no benefit. Ravnskov presents the results of a number of trials of statin drugs in which total death rates are slightly lower than those of the controls. But in an early trial (EXCEL) of lovastatin (Merck's Mevacor) on 8,000 healthy subjects with cholesterol levels between 240-300 mg/dL, the absolute death rate from all causes after just 1 year was 0.5% vs. 0.2% in the placebo group. In another trial with lovastatin on healthy subjects, 5,000 men and 1,000 women, 2.4 % in the treatment group died after 5.2 years vs. 2.3% of the controls. Regarding studies carried out on lovastatin, studies lasting 10 years, Ravnskov found no reports on total death rates. Ravnskov queried Merck & Co. directly and was told that the trial was not designed to measure the total clinical outcome! Deaths from heart attacks were significantly lower in some trials of other statin drugs, but total deaths were 3% absolute lower at best. In the CARE trial, Ravnskov showed that a 12% reduction in heart attacks (- 1% absolute) was overbalanced by a 1,500% increase in cases of breast cancer (+4% absolute). Total deaths were not given. Once again this shows that women should not be treated with statin drugs (or at all), and the benefit for men is quite limited at best with simvastatin and pravastatin. The incidence of breast cancer was said to be a fluke, and was not observed in the LIPID trial lasting 6 years, in which overall mortality was said to be reduced by 22%, but this was relative risk; an overall drop in mortality of 3% absolute was achieved in subjects with a broad range of initial cholesterol levels (Tonkin et al., 1998). In middle-aged men with hypercholesteremia treated with pravastatin for 5 years, death from all causes was reduced by 22%, but this was relative risk; an === Page 8 of 43 538 Book Review overall drop in mortality of 1% absolute was achieved (Shepherd et al., 1995). Ravnskov tries to explain what the polyunsaturated oils are chemically. His effort is one of the few weak points in this book. The degree of saturation actually refers to whether hydrogen can be added to the oil. If so, some of the carbon-carbon bonds in the fatty acid portion of the oil molecule must have been double bonds, which may take up 2 hydrogen atoms each. Olive and canola oils are the best examples of monounsaturated oils (a sole double bond in each fatty acid portion), and safflower, cottonseed and soybean are examples of polyunsaturates (2 or more double bonds in each fatty acid portion). If hydrogen cannot be added in the presence of a catalyst, the oil (or more likely the fat) is said to be saturated, meaning that it cannot take up any more hydrogen. Palm and coconut oils are the best examples. Tallow, lard and chicken fat have some saturated and some monounsaturated fatty acids in their molecules; they are not made entirely of saturated fatty acids by any means. The risk of eating *trans* fats is presented at some length. Ravnskov gives examples of reports of interventions with little or no statistical significance being denied time for presentation at meetings and explains that offers to write minority dissenting reports on certain trials were being denied on the grounds that the conference was supposed to produce a consensus. Statements of DHT proponents and their recommendations are quoted followed by a Ravnskov's refutation of the claimed evidence. He reiterates that even drastic lowering of cholesterol levels with drugs (diet being ineffective) is of no benefit to women and of marginal benefit to men. Ravnskov presents arguments against trying to lower cholesterol levels in children. If Ravnskov were a lone voice among the Philistines, his credibility would be lowered. In Myth 9 he gives the names of several of the scientists who support his position. This includes Mary S. Enig, President of the Maryland Nutritionists Association, whose research concerned the hazards of trans fats and who has written *Know Your Fats*, a book on the composition and effects of fats in the diet. Michael Gurr, Professor of Biochemistry, School of Biological and Molecular Sciences, Oxford University, pointed out the insufficient correspondence in vascular pathology between animal models and man, the selection bias in epidemiological evidence, the lack of correlation between CHD and fat consumption, and the lack of improvement in coronary mortality after dietary and drug intervention. George Mann, Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry at Vanderbilt University (Tennessee), realized from his studies of the Masai in Kenya that animal fat could not possibly be the cause of high cholesterol and CHD, and he has been open and fearless in his criticism of the LRC directors and has called the DHT "the greatest scientific deception of this century, perhaps of any century." Michael F. Oliver, former Professor and Director of the Wynn Institute for Metabolic Research (London, UK), has warned against campaigns for cholesterol lowering in the general population; criticized those who think that the increased mortality from non-medical causes in trials, such as suicide, is due to chance; and is uneasy about the link be- === Page 9 of 43 Book Reviews 539 tween low cholesterol and cancer. Edward R. Pinckney, editor of a number of medical journals, published a book in 1973 called *The Cholesterol Controversy*, which summarized all the inconsistencies in the cholesterol literature; he describes the dangers of lowering one's cholesterol and devotes an entire chapter to the political drama preceding an early anti-cholesterol campaign. Raymond Reiser is a former Professor of Biochemistry at Texas A&M University. He decried the practice of referring to other reviews, each taking the last on faith, which has led to the acceptance of a phenomenon (diet-heart) that may not exist. He reviewed work on fatty acids in the diet, found flaws in most of the studies, and concluded that the type of fat in the diet does not make much difference. He analyzed the references used by the American Heart Association in its rationale for dietary recommendations and found no supportive studies but found instead some that contradicted the recommendations. Ray Rosenman is the retired Director of Cardiovascular Research in the Health Sciences Program at SRI International in Menlo Park (California) and Associate Chief of Medicine, Mount Zion Hospital and Medical Center in San Francisco, CA. In a recent review he wrote that neither diet nor the identity of serum lipids (fats or oils) can explain wide national or regional differences in rates of CHD, or the 20th century variations in rates of CHD. He also pointed out that the CHD preventive effects of diets and drugs have been exaggerated by a tendency in trial reports, reviews, and other papers to cite and inflate supportive results while suppressing discordant data. The late Russell Smith was an American experimental psychologist with a strong background in physiology, mathematics and engineering. In his 1989-91 review of the diet-heart theory he wrote: "...studies are often poorly designed and data are often inappropriately analyzed and interpreted.... Much of the literature, therefore, is nothing less than an affront to the discipline of science...." He considered much of the work of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and of the American Heart Association to be "incompetent" and "sloppy," and that their political and financial power is enormous and without equal, producing a juggernaut willing and able to suppress evidence and logic. "Equally culpable are the editors of the many journals who publish articles without regard to their quality or scientific import. It is depressing to know that billions of dollars and a highly sophisticated medical research system are being wasted chasing windmills." In an extensive 2-part review, William E. Stehbens, Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Wellington School of Medicine, New Zealand, demolished the diet-heart theory and gave specific examples of misinterpretation of data, of the misleading use of relative risk rather than absolute death rates, and of the medical folly of trying to lower cholesterol levels in almost anyone (Stehbens, 2001). Now retired, Lars Werkö, previously Professor of Medicine at Sahlgren's Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden, Scientific Director at the Astra Co. (now Astra-Zeneca), and head of the Swedish Council on Technology Assessment in Health Care, criticized the design of the Framingham Study and pointed out inaccuracies and sloppy data gathering in the MRFIT trial. === Page 10 of 43 540 Book Review As it happens, a number of other physicians and scientists in addition to the ones in Myth 9 agree with Ravnskov's positions. Linus Pauling, in his 1986 book *How to Live Longer and Feel Better* noted that the Framingham Study showed no correlation between CHD and fat intake or with cholesterol intake. Thomas J. Moore, a medical reporter based in Washington, D.C., wrote an article in the September 1989 issue of *The Atlantic Monthly* actually called "The Cholesterol Myth," in which he examined the literature, much as Ravnskov did. Moore's conclusions: "Lowering your cholesterol is next to impossible with diet, and often dangerous with drugs--and it won't make you live any longer." This review was also used in Moore's 1989 book *Heart Failure: A Critical Inquiry into American Medicine and the Revolution in Heart Care.* William Campbell Douglass, Jr., M.D., in 1993 wrote a brochure called *Eat Your Cholesterol: How to Live Off the Fat of the Land and Feel Great!* (Atlanta, GA: Second Opinion Publishing). Many of the dietary studies and trials are the same ones evaluated by Ravnskov, but they are treated in a very popular tone. John B. Allred came to nearly the same conclusions as did Dr. Ravnskov (Allred, 1993). An even more extreme view aired in the United Kingdom is that serum cholesterol level is a relatively poor predictor of CHD, that the many misclassifications may have damaging psychological effects, and that in most cases, even testing cholesterol level, as well as treating raised concentrations, is a waste of National Health Service resources (Sheldon, 1998). Kilmer S. McCully, Ph.D., M.D., in technical papers (McCully, 2001) and in his book (McCully, 2000) wrote, "But no study anywhere has ever proven that lowering the amount of cholesterol in the diet reduces the risk of heart disease. And lowering cholesterol through drugs won't prevent arteries from hardening if homocysteine is high." McCully is the discoverer of the fact that the undesirable amino acid called homocysteine is an actual cause of atherosclerosis and CHD. Charles T. McGee, M.D., wrote, "The cholesterol theory is a fraud on the American public... the theory will be exposed as a scam," in his book *Heart Frauds: Uncovering the Biggest Health Scam in History* (2001, p. 76). The authors of 2 recent reports on the use of electron beam tomography (EBT) to detect calcified plaques in coronary arteries were very circumspect in interpreting their findings, especially in their abstracts, perhaps not fully aware of how completely their findings demolished the DHT. While EBT was very predictive of hard coronary events in both studies, the difference in hypercholesterolemia between the patients with events and those without was not significant. There was absolutely no significance for HDL cholesterol (HDLC) levels as predictive, and the spread in the values for LDL cholesterol, total cholesterol (TC), TC/HDLC and triglycerides shows none of these to be usefully predictive despite the low p values (Hecht et al., 2001; Raggi et al., 2001). Based on Ravnskov's meticulous analyses as well as the considerable support for his stance shown by others who have also studied the cholesterol data, === Page 11 of 43 Book Reviews 541 this book is recommended without reservation. Physicians and other health professionals as well as anyone threatened with cholesterol-lowering treatments would be enlightened and better able to resist worthless treatments. Health insurers might reconsider compensation for frequent (or any) clinical assays for cholesterol or triglycerides, let alone expensive treatments to lower cholesterol levels that reduce quality of life without prolonging it significantly. Joel M. Kauffman Research Professor Chemistry University of the Sciences in Philadelphia 600 South 43rd St. Philadelphia, PA 19104 ### References Allred, J. B. (1993). Lowering serum cholesterol: Who benefits? *Journal of Nutrition*, 123, 1453-1459. Hecht, H. S., & Superko, H. R. (2001). Electron beam tomography and National Cholesterol Education Program Guidelines in asymptomatic women. *Journal of the American College of Cardiology*, 37, 1506-11511. McCully, K. S. (2001). The biomedical significance of homocysteine. *Journal of Scientific Exploration*, 15, 5-20. McCully, K. S., & McCully, M. (2000). *The Heart Revolution: The Extraordinary Discovery that Finally Laid the Cholesterol Myth to Rest*. New York: Harper Perennial. Paul, O., et al. (>200 authors listed) (1982). *Journal of the American Medical Association*, 248, 1465-1477. Raggi, P., Cooli, B., & Callister, T. Q. (2001). Use of electron beam tomography to develop models for the prediction of hard coronary events. *American Heart Journal*, 141, 375-382. Sheldon, T. (1998). Effective Health Care Bulletin [4(1)] in Kmietowicz, Z. (1998). *BMJ*, 316, 725. Shepherd, J., Cobbe, S. M., Ford, I., Isles, C. G., Lorimer, A. R., MacFarlane, P. W., McKillop, J. H., & Packard, C. J. (1995). Prevention of coronary disease with pravastatin in men with hypercholesterolemia. *New England Journal of Medicine*, 333, 1301-1307. Stehbens, W. E. (2001). Coronary heart disease, hypercholesterolemia, and atherosclerosis. I. False premises and II. Misrepresented data. *Experimental and Molecular Pathology*, 70, 103-119 and 120-139. Tonkin, A., et al. (>100 authors listed) (1998). The Long-Term Intervention with Pravastatin in Ischemic Disease (LIPID) Study Group. Prevention of cardiovascular events and death with pravastatin in patients with coronary heart disease and a broad range of cholesterol levels. *New England Journal of Medicine*, 339, 1349-1357. **The Placebo Response: How You Can Release the Body's Inner Pharmacy for Better Health** by Howard Brody with Daralyn Brody. New York: Cliff Street Books (HarperCollins), 2000. 312 pp. $25, cloth; ISBN 0-06-019493-6; HarperTrade, 2001, $14, paper; ISBN 006093297X. "The placebo response occurs when we receive certain types of messages or signals from the environment around us. These messages work in some fashion, at some level, to *alter the meaning* of our state of health or illness" (p. xvi; italics in original). === Page 12 of 43 542 Book Review Howard Brody has a Ph.D. in philosophy as well as a medical degree, is a practicing physician and medical educator, and has been interested from the beginning of his career in the placebo response. This book is written in casual "talking-to-you" style and brings to bear common sense as well as a wealth of practical clinical experience. I cannot recommend this book strongly enough. The Placebo Response offers much food for thought about the powerful, mysterious placebo,¹ and anomalists will discern significant possible implications for psychic as well as for psychological phenomena. For example, the emphasis on alteration of meaning is intriguingly consonant with the psychotherapeutic approaches of Albert Ellis² (humanistic psychology, rational emotive therapy) and Maxie Maultsby³ (rational behavior therapy): intellectual or rational interventions effect desired emotional or affective changes. Those approaches emphasize doing something oneself as opposed to having a psychiatrist or psychotherapist do something, and Brody also emphasizes that "previous writing about the placebo response has treated it as something done to you, over which you have little if any control. I'm proposing that, if we line up the scientific clues in the right order, we'll master a variety of means by which we can employ the placebo response and the inner pharmacy to benefit ourselves" (p. xix). The book then proceeds to line up plausible scientific clues and to explain what the inner pharmacy is. Relevant to parapsychology is that the personality trait of acquiescence--which is by no means the same as passivity (pp. 48, 240, 246)--may be linked to placebo responsiveness (pp. 35-36). That is reminiscent of a considerable body of anecdote or folklore that psychic phenomena cannot be controlled at will, and with the sometime suggestion from the PEAR group that the mechanism at work in mind-machine interactions is one of sensing information rather than of exerting physical influence⁴,⁵ (Figure 7 in the latter reference affords a striking illustration of this idea). Chapter 1 of The Placebo Response considers what the placebo response is and how it arises. Important seem to be expectancy that something good will happen; conditioning can help, to some stimulus that has often been associated with good things happening; and meaning, how we interpret what is going on--symbols carry great significance. Thus, when mothers routinely employ Band-Aids to soothe children, those sticky pads in themselves may become able to evoke a response to the mother's loving care, even in absence of the mother (p. 8). [Perhaps the happy faces on some adhesive pads designed for children are more than a marketing gimmick!] Brody now refines his definition of placebo response: "A change in the body (or the body-mind unit) that occurs as the result of the symbolic significance which one attributes to an event or object in the healing environment" (p. 9). The typical "sugar pill" acts because of a symbolic effect; "body-mind" indicates a refusal to "regard physical and mental treatments as being in fundamentally different categories" (p. 10); and "change" acknowledges that the placebo response can be positive or negative (in the latter case it is often === Page 13 of 43 Book Reviews 543 termed *nocebo*). Brody points out here that some commonly used terms for placebo--"inert treatment" and "nonspecific responses"--are misleading. Moreover, the emphasis on meaning undercuts the common misconception that deception on the part of a healer is required to induce a placebo response in the patient (p. 14). The next chapter reviews the history of attitudes toward placebo. Once synonymous with lies or quackery, it has come to be recognized as a usable phenomenon. Denigration of "suggestible" people, and the idea that some things are "only in the mind", have been superseded: the distinction between physical and mental illness is acknowledged nowadays to be artificial. As to "suggestibility", Chapter 3 reveals that "we are all potentially placebo receptors". Deception is not needed to arouse a placebo response--if for no other reason than that some of us, when given a placebo and told that it is a placebo, choose to believe otherwise (pp. 38-40); it is, after all, common knowledge that clinical trials call for some sort of blinding and even double-blinding, so we know that what we are told we are getting may not be what we are in fact getting.⁶ The "inner pharmacy" is Brody's term for the illness-resisting, self-healing mechanisms that living systems possess: the immune system, the capacity to release endorphins, and presumably much that we do not yet know about or understand. This inner pharmacy is "hard-wired" to the mind in some fashion, and so mental activity--the controlling software--can influence it. But how all this works to produce placebo responses remains largely mysterious and there are many individual variations: "What turns on my inner pharmacy may not turn on yours; or what turns on mine in one situation may fail to do so in another situation; or what turns mine on full blast one time, may turn it on only a little on another occasion". Ulcers have responded to placebo--at a rate of 10% in some clinics and 80% in others.......... (pp. 49-53). Chapter 5 reports material evidence of the extraordinary effectiveness of placebo at least occasionally: for example, overriding or even reversing the physiological response induced by an administered medication. Ligation of mammary arteries to ease angina, and arthroscopic treatment of arthritis of the knee, turned out to be no more effective than placebo--in these cases, *pretended surgery*. In one psychiatric study, the *physicians'* expectations turned out to influence the outcome of a clinical trial. Altogether, though, placebo response does seem to correlate with *expectancy of cure*. Chapter 6 argues that this is not, however, the whole story: *conditioning* can evoke a placebo response. Thus, childhood experience that painful injections are associated with powerfully effective medication may cause painful injection to induce a greater placebo response than a painless injection does (p. 75). Conditioning may, however, work through producing expectancy, and Brody acknowledges the difficulty of designing studies to clarify that. He notes (p. 77) that laboratory studies are not necessarily valid indicators of real-life situations; this is one of the obvious similarities between the phenomenon === Page 14 of 43 544 Book Review of placebo and of psychic happenings. *If psychic phenomena are real, then they must involve the body-mind connection in some manner that is like what happens in the placebo response: therefore, it may not be feasible to elucidate fully the nature of spontaneous psychic phenomena by controlled laboratory investigations. Thus, "scientific" studies of consciousness-related phenomena necessitate a more encompassing approach than the traditional protocols that the natural sciences have evolved.*$^{7,8}$ In discussing conditioning and expectancy, Brody points to a largely unstudied question of considerable practical import: "Before now, when medical scientists considered the impact of how many times a medicine was taken each day, they usually had only one thing in mind: If we have to take medicines three or four times a day, we tend to forget or to give up; while if we take them only once or twice a day, we are more likely to be 'compliant.' But what if it turns out that the more often we take the medicine, compliance goes down, yet the conditioned response goes up?... For some people the fewer-times-a-day approach might be best; for others the more-times-a-day approach might be superior" (p. 81). The importance of *meaning and symbols* is discussed in Chapter 7. The uncomfortable fact of nocebo is dealt with in the following chapter, one example being that of mass hysterias. Brody suggests that nocebo likely acts through the same pathways as does placebo; that suggests the optimistic view that methods for harnessing the placebo response would at the same time be methods for avoiding a nocebo effect. Biochemical and neurological processes are reviewed in Chapter 9. Our present knowledge is rudimentary. One study indicated that pain relief by expectancy-induced placebo might work through activation of an endorphin-releasing process, whereas conditioning-induced placebo seemed to work in a different manner (p. 115). How much remains to be investigated! "The stress pathway is the oldest example in twentieth century medical science of linking biochemistry with the mind, yet there are few, if any, studies which tie it directly to the placebo response" (p. 115). How difficult the problems are is illustrated by the reports that "the best placebo responders are people with a moderate level of anxiety when they first see the physician" (p. 122): moderate by contrast to both high and low! Another illustration of the difficulty is that the once highly touted "psychoneuroimmunology has not yet produced many of the remarkable gains it first promised" (p. 125). A fuller discussion of how difficult it is to study the placebo response is provided in Chapter 10, "The Placebo Response and its Mimics". Illnesses are typically self-limiting: how to distinguish placebo effects from natural recovery? Observational studies are subject to statistical fluctuations and their misinterpretations: chance correlations can occur (p. 134), and there are random variations and regressions to the mean. The mere fact of being in a clinical trial may induce behavioral changes conducive to better health (the Hawthorne effect, pp. 135-136), and minor problems may be noted and treated for clinic at- === Page 15 of 43 Book Reviews 545 tendees that would generally make them healthier and make them feel better (see also note 4 below). Where self-reporting is the only real measure, as with pain relief, the "obliging-subject" phenomenon may make it appear that there is a placebo response even where there is none (p. 136). Some "inactive" placebo pills may actually exert a physiological effect, because an appropriate placebo must feel exactly the same to the subject as the actual medication. Semantics can also get in the way: some workers apparently deny that there is a placebo effect while admitting the existence of psychosomatic effects (pp. 137-138). In Chapter 11, the similarities and differences between conventional and alternative medicine are discussed with considerable insight. Chapters 12 through 15 provide practical and sensible suggestions for accentuating one's placebo response, and Chapter 16 talks about choosing a helping healer. The Epilogue pays respect to placebo as a part of the mystery of healing: "Just how and why it happens may remain a mystery. That it happens is as certain as anything can be in the practice of medicine" (p. 254). Henry H. Bauer Professor Emeritus of Chemistry & Science Studies Dean Emeritus of Arts & Sciences Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University hhbauer@vt.edu www.henryhbauer.homestead.com **Endnotes** ¹ See also reviews in *JSE* 14 (2000), pp. 485-491, of *The Powerful Placebo--From Ancient Priest to Modern Physician*, by Arthur K. Shapiro & Elaine Shapiro and of *The Placebo Effect--An Interdisciplinary Exploration*, by Anne Harrington. ² Albert Ellis & Robert A. Harper. (1975). *A New Guide to Rational Living*. North Hollywood, CA: Wilshire Book Co., ISBN 0-87980-042-9. ³ Maxie C. Maultsby. (1975). *Help Yourself to Happiness Through Rational Self-Counseling*. New York: Institute for Rational-Emotive Therapy, ISBN 0-917476-07-7 and 0-917476-06-9. ⁴ Robert G. Jahn & Brenda J. Dunne. (1988). *Margins of Reality: The Role of Consciousness in the Physical World*. New York: Harper Brace Jovanovich. ⁵ Robert G. Jahn & Brenda J. Dunne. (2001). A modular model of mind/matter manifestations. *Journal of Scientific Exploration*, 15, 299-329. ⁶ Toward the end of May 2001, the news media (e.g., *Washington Post*, May 24, p. A1) cited a Danish analysis that challenges the reality of the placebo effect: more than a hundred studies in which various treatments had been compared with placebo as well as with "no treatment" showed no difference between placebo and "no treatment" other than a minor difference as to perception of pain. I choose to disregard this Danish analysis until it is ex- === Page 16 of 43 546 Book Review plained how one can study patients under a "no treatment" protocol without inducing a placebo response. They must know that they are in a trial, otherwise they could not be studied. How can they be prevented from hoping that what is happening to them will be of benefit? Presumably the investigators in these cases had made the common but erroneous presumption that "placebo" means "sugar pill". I suggest that the small effect noted on pain perception may show that, so far as pain management is concerned, a dummy pill adds significantly to the placebo response consequent on the symbolic significance of participating in a clinical trial. Moreover, Brody (pp. 285-286) cites a meta-analysis done in 1994 that confirmed the reality of the placebo response, contrary to the Danish study. $^7$ Robert G. Jahn & Brenda J. Dunne. (1997). Science of the subjective. *Journal of Scientific Exploration, 11*, 201-224. $^8$ Imants Baruss. (2001). The art of science: science of the future in light of alterations of consciousness. *Journal of Scientific Exploration, 15*, 57-68. **Seeing Red: Redshifts, Cosmology and Academic Science** by Halton Arp. Montreal: Aperion, 1998. iv +314 pp. Softcover, $25.00. ISBN 0-9683689-0-5. Don't read this book! For if you should decide after reading this review to disregard this advice, you will need to prepare to have your universe turned upside down. Should you then make your way through this small-print, 306-page tour de force, you will very likely come away doubting what you thought you knew of the large-scale structure of the universe. The cosmological interpretation of redshift for quasars and active galaxy nuclei has been challenged often before, although never so successfully. But one seldom sees serious suggestions that even the redshift-distance relation for ordinary galaxies may be wrong, as you will see here. And as if the implied revolution in cosmology were not enough, your view of the professionalism of scientists and academics in general, and of astronomers in particular, will be another casualty of your reading. One can consume this book to different degrees. For example, a short summary of the evidence and implications appears on pages 239-241. If the writing proves too technical in places, even with the aid of the extensive glossary, one can get the essence of the evidence by just scanning the plates (8 pages in color), figures, and captions that appear on almost every page. For example, it's not difficult to look at the picture of the x-ray filaments in Markarian 205, featured on the book cover as well, and to grasp the deep implications of that image. For if a low-redshift Seyfert galaxy is physically connected to and interacting with two high-redshift quasars, one on either side, then redshift can be neither a distance nor a velocity indicator. And that single picture then disproves the Big Bang and most of mainstream cosmology in its present form. Arp knows the extragalactic sky perhaps better than any other living astronomer. He builds his case against the customary interpretation of redshift === Page 17 of 43 Book Reviews 547 methodically. The earliest hints of problems with redshift came in 1911 with the discovery that the bright, blue stars in our own Milky Way galaxy have systematically higher redshifts than the rest of the stars by about 10 km/s. Later observations showed that the O-stars in clusters within our galaxy are redshifted with respect to the B-stars by another 10 km/s or so--something called the "K-effect" and still disputed because it has no accepted theoretical explanation. However, doubts about the validity of the data were undercut and the K-effect confirmed by more recent measures of the redshifts of supergiant stars in the two Magellanic Clouds, nearby companion galaxies of the Milky Way. These too are redshifted by about 30 km/s with respect to other stars in those small galaxies. Yet no one suspects that all supergiant stars in our galaxy or in our immediate neighbors are fleeing away symmetrically from our own location well out toward one edge of the Milky Way. Companion galaxies in general seem to have net redshifts that exceed that of their parents. All eleven companion galaxies in the Local Group have redshifts with respect to their parent, the Andromeda galaxy in the center of the group. Likewise, all eleven companion galaxies of the neighboring M81 group have redshifts relative to M81. Yet, if these companions were orbiting their parent galaxy, roughly 50% of them ought to have been blueshifted. Although the evidence for companion redshifts is less definitive for more distant galaxy groups, it is still statistically significant. Excess redshifts over blueshifts for companion galaxies relative to their parents is apparently a verifiable feature of the local universe. And that means the redshift must have some cause other than velocity. We begin to get some clues about what may be happening when Arp reminds us of basic facts about radio galaxies. These were discovered long ago to have giant, usually double, radio lobes to either side, presumably the result of explosions and ejections of material from the parent galaxy. Higher resolution radio telescopes have found filaments connecting these lobes to the central galaxy. And the ejected radio pairs are now known to correspond closely with x-ray pairs across the same galaxy. That brings us to the keys to unlocking the whole puzzle--the quasars--because quasars also often correspond with x-ray sources. High and low redshift quasars are associated far more often than reasonable chance allows. These sometimes display interactions and connections and often form pairs across low-redshift objects, which unrelated objects would not do. Working entirely from the observational data, Arp shows us that ejections from active galactic nuclei at speeds up to 10% of the speed of light lead to escape. But ejections at slower speeds may not, especially since all ejections apparently decelerate on the way out. Slower objects end up captured at about 400 kpc from their parent galaxy. But both captured and escaped quasars end up with quite small peculiar velocities. Moreover, the closest and therefore most recent ejections have the highest relative redshifts and the lowest intrinsic luminosities. This leads Arp to suggest that the redshift of matter is an inverse === Page 18 of 43 548 Book Review function of the age of that matter. As much as one wishes to resist this conclusion, Arp shows case after case that conforms to it, many found well after this hypothesis was in print, each with odds of thousands to one against chance. Moreover, these apparently ejected quasars with redshifts ordered inversely with distance from their parent also tend to line up along the minor axis of the parent galaxy. The generality of these startling conclusions is shown by repeated examples, such as the Arp/Hazard pair of similar triplet quasars, having discordant redshifts and a Seyfert galaxy between them. Many other good examples were discovered by mainstream astronomers. However, even when looking in depth at single examples, Arp makes a compelling case against coincidence. A survey of all bright quasars showed that these have a concentration around the Virgo cluster at the center of the Local Supercluster, despite having redshifts that should place them far out into the universe in that direction and make them unrelated to one another. The most conspicuous quasar in the sky is 3C273, one member of a pair of quasars almost exactly aligned across the brightest galaxy in the Virgo cluster center. A peculiar hydrogen cloud known to be in the Virgo cluster near the coordinates of 3C273 has a long, narrow shape pointing back toward the quasar, which itself has a jet pointing toward the hydrogen cloud. An x-ray radiation map (see Figure 5-16) also shows connections between the cluster to the quasar. Yet the quasar is supposed to be 54 times farther away than the cluster, according to its redshift. As Arp says, over 30 years ago, the field of astronomy took a gamble against odds of a million to one that this situation was an accident. The newer x-ray and hydrogen cloud evidence have confirmed that this was a bad gamble, although the field is not yet ready to accept its losses and move on. Because redshift is not a good distance indicator, Arp points out that apparent brightness often is. Quasars near M49 appear relatively random on a sky map until just the brighter ones in a half-magnitude range are plotted. Then magically, there appears a line of quasars emerging from M49, with redshifts decreasing with distance, just as the observation-driven model predicts. Whenever secondary distance indicators are available, they support this picture. In some cases, Faraday rotation caused by traversing a magnetized plasma can be measured for quasars. So the amount of such rotation ought to be a distance indicator. But it was then discovered that quasars with redshifts of about 2 had only 1/3 as much Faraday rotation as quasars with redshifts of about 1, when they ought to have had twice as much rotation. By contrast, this is in accord with Arp's model because the redshift $z = 2$ quasars are intrinsically fainter and therefore are generally seen only at closer distances than those with $z = 1$. Arp concludes that quasars are initially faint, point-like objects of high redshift that transform into lower-redshift, compact objects surrounded by a fuzz as they evolve. These develop into small, high-surface-brightness galaxies with more material around them. Ultimately these mature into normal, quies- === Page 19 of 43 Book Reviews 549 cent galaxies. In this new view of relationships among astrophysical objects, Seyfert galaxies and their close cousins, BL Lac objects, are short-lived evolutionary stages associated with quasar ejection from active galaxy nuclei. In effect, Seyferts are quasar factories. Strong quasar number counts are associated with a nearly complete sample of bright Seyferts, as compared with non-Seyfert control fields. Some of these associations have laughable explanations in mainstream journal articles. Quasar GC0248+430 is described as a "possibly microlensed quasar behind a tidal arm of a merging galaxy," which just happens to be a Seyfert. Indeed, quasars look to astronomers like small portions of active (Seyfert-like) galactic nuclei. Their pairing across such nuclei, their alignment with radio emission pairings, the correspondences of x-ray maps, and the data from optical emission lines all strongly support the ejection interpretation. If nature has not already provided enough hints, an apparent magnitude vs. redshift (Hubble) diagram shows that Seyfert galaxies have too much redshift at fainter magnitudes and do not follow the same relationship as normal galaxies. Indeed, the Hubble diagram for Seyferts trends toward that for quasars, which likewise do not show a normal Hubble relationship between brightness and redshift. One wonders how many different ways nature must repeat this message about redshift not corresponding to distance before it sinks in with the astronomers. Other astrophysical objects are in accord with this message. Water maser emissions are also seen in pairs roughly aligned with quasars. X-ray filaments or jets emerge from Seyfert galaxies and end at quasars, often in pairs of similar redshift on opposite sides of the minor axis of the galaxy between. And high-luminosity spiral galaxies have excess redshifts compared to normal spirals, as judged by the Tully-Fisher method of judging distances from rotation rates (which is independent of redshift). One might well wonder what galaxy clusters have so say about this, since these are clearly physically associated groupings of galaxies. The supporting evidence they provide is truly extensive. Classically, whole galaxy clusters obey a Hubble diagram relation between redshift and brightness, with a dispersion of just a few tenths of a magnitude. But 14 clusters north of Cen A have a much larger dispersion, with a maximum range of 4 magnitudes. Such clusters have no relationship of the type claimed for ordinary galaxies and call into question that the classical Hubble relationship can have the meaning usually attributed to it--that redshift indicates distance--for anything. We may simply have been fooled by both luminosity and redshift being functions of mass, which would lead to an apparent Hubble relationship despite no true distance dependence. Some of the cluster examples are certainly head-turners. Abell clusters of galaxies with higher redshifts are distributed right down the spines of both the Virgo cluster and its Southern Hemisphere twin, the Fornaz cluster. A com- === Page 20 of 43 550 Book Review plete sample over a large region of the southern sky showed that the strongest x-ray cluster concentration had the two brightest galaxies (M83 and Cen A) at its center, despite much larger redshift for the x-ray clusters. In general, x-ray clusters appear more commonly with redshifts of about 0.06 than chance allows, which in Arp's interpretation marks them as young and intrinsically redshifted. Supporting data includes cooling flow measures, which indicate that at least 100 solar masses per year are being lost from these clusters. This implies 100 billion solar masses in a billion years. Where are they going? The obvious possibilities can all be ruled out. BL Lac objects, at redshifts intermediate between quasars and cluster galaxies, are apparently progenitors of clusters of galaxies. Normal galaxies within certain redshift ranges tend to align on the sky in strings, with the lowest redshift galaxy near the center. For example, 13 of the 14 brightest Northern Hemisphere spiral galaxies in uncrowded fields fall on well-marked lines of galaxies that have concentrations of fainter, higher redshift galaxies. And there are anomalous faint, blue, often active galaxies that fill out clusters in the redshift range between 0.2 and 0.4. These apparently evolve into the higher luminosity, lower redshift objects seen at $0.02 < z < 0.2$. Finally, below redshifts of about 0.02 we find strings of galaxies aligned through the brightest nearby spiral galaxies, presumably representing the last evolutionary stage of protogalaxies before becoming the slightly higher redshift companions of the original ejecting galaxies. We are so accustomed to thinking of this sequence as a time evolution that it takes some effort to rethink the whole picture as a mass-luminosity-redshift evolution at a nearly fixed time. So the young-appearing objects with the highest redshifts are aligned on either side of eruptive objects, which implies the ejection of protogalaxies and the association of redshift with youth. Increasing distance from parent leads to brighter, lower redshift objects, so this is the direction of evolution with age. At redshifts of about 0.3 and distances of about 400 kpc from the parent, quasars become very bright at optical wavelengths and in x-rays and evolve into BL Lac-type objects--a short-lived stage because there are few of them. Finally, these evolve into clusters of galaxies, which are seen to appear at comparable distances to the BL Lac objects, implying that clusters may originate from the breakup of BL Lac objects. There is more. Tight multiple-quasars-image groupings were originally dismissed as observational errors until the gravitational lens theory was invoked. Then many more examples were quickly found. G2237+0305 was essentially a high-redshift quasar in the nucleus of a low-redshift galaxy. Lensing was the only way out for cosmologists. The four quasar images were all within one arc second of the galaxy nucleus. But Hoyle computed the probability of such a lensing event as two in a million. Moreover, instead of being arcs as lensing theory predicted, the quasar images are extended back toward the central galaxy. Real arc images don't look much like the predicted arcs either, but === Page 21 of 43 Book Reviews 551 rather like part of an expanded shell. This alternative is in better agreement with the existence of radial arcs, jet arcs, dog-leg arcs, and ejected jets that end in transverse arcs. The last main observational area deals with the quantization of redshifts. In essence, redshifts do not take on all values with equal ease, as they must if they are caused mainly by the velocities of the observed objects. For example, redshifts near 0.061, 0.3, 0.6, 0.91, 1.41, and 1.96, etc., occur more frequently than chance permits. Smaller redshifts too occur at preferred periodic intervals, as Tifft has shown in a study confirmed in an independent sample by Guthrie and Napier. The existence of preferred values for redshifts proves that either we are at the center of a series of expanding shells, or redshift does not indicate velocity. Arp cautions that faint quasars with high redshifts do not continue to show this effect, perhaps because the form of the relationship changes at great distances from us (as faintness would suggest). Also, much of the spread that exists around these preferred redshift values is apparently due to the speed of ejection, which can be up to 0.1 c. The average redshift of a quasar pair generally falls closer to a preferred redshift value than does either individual redshift. BL Lac objects show the same quantization, but to a less pronounced degree, as befits their relationship to quasars. Figure 8-16 shows a striking set of bands and gaps for galaxy redshifts in the x-ray cluster Abell 85 that illustrates the redshift quantization effect at a glance. Arp's strength is observational extragalactic astronomy. With theory he is less proficient, but he has enlisted the aid of Narlikar, Hoyle and others. The concept of mass increasing with age has no adjustable parameters (the characteristic age being given by the measured age of our own galaxy), yet it allows prediction of intrinsic redshifts for objects from K-effect stars to quasars, with results better than an order of magnitude. The Big Bang with many adjustable parameters cannot do as well. Redshift, then, indicates youth. And the slope of the Hubble diagram comes directly from our own galaxy's age. Since luminosity evolves with mass squared, the apparent brightness-redshift relationship is coincidental, and not an indicator of distance. I am no doubt biased here by seeing simpler theoretical explanations for Arp's observational constraints than his variable-mass theory can provide. But Arp concedes in places that theories need to evolve with discoveries, something that the Big Bang stopped doing at a fundamental level a generation ago. Some of the most entertaining reading in this book is provided by Arp's interactions with his colleagues and with referees and journal editors. Arp spices up these exchanges with a bit of his own philosophy. Despite its pessimism, I wonder how any of us could have evolved a philosophy much more optimistic if we had been in Arp's shoes. Anonymous referees frequently use abusive language (such as "ludicrous") or unwarranted generalizations (such as "bizarre conclusions based on an extreme bias of the authors wishing to find non-cosmological redshifts"). It was not infrequent to find referees suggesting that the implications should have been used to prove the observations wrong! A Nobel === Page 22 of 43 552 Book Review laureate and former teacher is quoted as saying "Arp did not get anything right in my course. I should have flunked him but I could not bear to have him repeat the course with me." We see in the anecdotes frequent occurrences of "sniping," unbacked claims that something is true or false for some reason that is not presented to the author for rebuttal. One example: "Oh those claims have been completely disproved." Arp introduces a few names for some of these battle tactics himself. The "Pleiades maneuver" is one such: Measure so much background that the statistical significance of the obvious foreground (such as the Pleiades cluster) is reduced to insignificance. Reaction to the x-ray map showing the connection of the Virgo cluster and quasar 3C273 produced five arrogant and patronizing referee rejections at two journals and were viewed even by some colleagues "like a grisly auto accident along the highway." Sadly, the mainstream is well adapted for survival. So when Arp succeeds in running the minefield and getting his results published despite the referees, an unwritten understanding is that no discussion or citations will follow, so the embarrassing result will soon be forgotten. Arp suggests that a sampling of referee reports, showing "manipulative, sly, insulting, arrogant, and above all angry" referees, ought to be published because it would allow people to evaluate the objectivity of the information they are being allowed to read. Here are some brief quotes outlining what Arp has learned from these exchanges. * "When presented with two possibilities, scientists tend to choose the wrong one." * "The stronger the evidence, the more attitudes harden." * "The game here is to lump all the previous observations into one 'hypothesis' and then claim there is no second, confirming observation." * "No matter how many times something has been observed, it cannot be believed until it has been observed again." * "If you take a highly intelligent person and give them the best possible, elite education, then you will most likely wind up with an academic who is completely impervious to reality." * "When looking at this picture no amount of advanced academic education can substitute for good judgment; in fact it would undoubtedly be an impediment." * "Local organizing committees give in to imperialistic pressures to keep rival research off programs." * "It is the primary responsibility of a scientist to face, and resolve, discrepant observations." * "Science is failing to self-correct. We must understand why in order to fix it." The book has many more like these. === Page 23 of 43 Book Reviews 553 As with any work of such length and depth, a few errors turned up along with a few points that are of dubious merit. None of us can be experts in everything, and we are always pushing the limits of our knowledge and training. Worth a comment are these points: * Arp's arguments against tired light models (p. 97) make a common invalid assumption that quantum particles must be responsible for the energy loss. But there is good reason to suspect that quantum particles are by no means fundamental. * Arp's proposal (p. 219) that even planetary and satellite masses may be quantized uses an invalid statistical argument when bridging large ranges of mass. But he may well be right for small mass differences. Origin in twin pairs by fission usually creates masses in the approximate ratio of 5 to 4, which may partly explain Arp's planet statistics. It might also explain his magical 1.23 redshift quantization ratio if a similar fission process is responsible for the twin ejections in galaxies. * On p. 234, Arp cites the surface brightness test, which must vary as $(1 + z)^4$ in the Big Bang. He applies that to his own model on the assumption that observations support it. However, the observed dependence goes as $(1 + z)^2$. Evolution of galaxies is said to be responsible for the difference in the Big Bang, but that argument would not apply to Arp's model. * On p. 237, Arp incorrectly states that the cosmic microwave radiation must come from a thin shell, saying that this has not been explained. But that radiation is supposed to have flooded the universe shortly after the Big Bang and been cooling ever since. So every point in the universe is today receiving cooled radiation, and there is no shell anywhere. Arp correctly goes on to provide more probable explanations for the radiation than a fireball residue. * Arp's use of statistics cries out for him to explain the difference between *a priori* and *a posteriori* probabilities, if only to assure us that he understands the difference and its importance. * It was disappointing to see no mention of the role of giant elliptical galaxies in the evolutionary scheme of things. Arp correctly points out that one side in this meaning-of-redshift debate must be completely and catastrophically wrong. This leads him to wonder how many other uncertain assumptions might exist in other areas affecting our daily lives about which we are innocently overconfident. That is perhaps the most sobering thought of all. Tom Van Flandern Meta Research http://metaresearch.org Revised and reprinted with permission from *Meta Research Bulletin*, 7, 58-61 [December 15, 1998]. === Page 24 of 43 554 Book Review **A Different Approach to Cosmology** by Fred Hoyle, Geoffrey Burbidge, and Jayant V. Narlikar. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 400 pp. $59.95 hardcover. ISBN 0-5216622-3-0. Beginning about fifty years ago, the community of astronomers was gripped by one of the great scientific debates of the twentieth century. The issue was "Has the Universe existed forever, or was it created in a singular event, from nothing?" Although the question is one to be answered by science, it has a theological tinge and it touches on such fundamental matters regarding who we are and what our place is in the larger scheme. Not surprisingly then, the debate between the major protagonists was often heated and appears to have been driven as much by philosophical as by scientific considerations. For most astronomers, the issue was settled in 1965, with the discovery of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), interpreted as the relict radiation from the cooling fireball of the big bang. Here were all the ingredients of a popular drama: the titanic conflict, the crucial prediction, the dramatic confirmation. Since that time, the dominant view has been that the Universe originated in a big bang about 14 billion years ago and has been expanding ever since. Possibly about 99% of working cosmologists adhere to this position. There is, however, a tiny handful of dissidents, mostly elderly survivors of the pre-CMB earlier era, who continue to maintain that the Universe had no such origin, that it expands and has done so forever, maintaining a quasi-steady state by the episodic creation of matter to fill up the emptiness which would otherwise develop. This book has been written by three of these dissidents; one of the authors, Fred Hoyle, died on 20 August 2001. A *Different Approach* is in part a polemic. It advocates the authors' particular cosmology and argues that modern cosmology is suffused with conformity and led by zealots. One of the most striking images in the book is a marvellous photograph of a flock of waddling geese, with the caption "We have resisted the temptation to name some of the leading geese." However, the polemics leaven rather than dominate the book, and indeed the final chapter is devoted to a discussion of problems which have so far gone unexplained in any cosmology, including the quasi-steady state one advocated by the authors. Such open-mindedness is a welcome change from most articles and books the author has seen in this field. The book is also a first-class exposition of modern cosmology and an account of its development from its roots in the early twentieth century. This historical perspective alone gives a breadth and depth which I have not seen elsewhere (except perhaps in Kragh's *Cosmology and Controversy*, which puts emphasis on the sociology of the debate). In the United States, American astronomers in Arizona and California made the first spectroscopic observations of spiral nebulae, accumulating the spectra of about 90 spirals within twenty years, by which time it was recognized that these nebulae are galaxies lying === Page 25 of 43 Book Reviews 555 beyond our own. It was found that the spectra of the galaxies were systematically shifted toward the red. The only known cause of this phenomenon is a velocity of recession, and the discovery that the redshifts of the nebulae increased *pro rata* with their distances from the observer led to the view that the Universe is expanding. Meanwhile, in Europe, in 1917, Einstein and de Sitter were applying the equations of Einstein's 1915 theory of gravity (general relativity) to the Universe as a whole. At that time the Universe was considered to be static in the mean and Einstein was dismayed to find that his theory did not permit this: rather, his equations predicted that either the cosmos would collapse in on itself or be in a state of expansion. To save the situation, and to yield the desired static cosmos, he had to arbitrarily insert a repulsive term in his equations in order to balance the attractive gravitational one. This arbitrary "cosmological constant," inserted for the wrong reason, has acquired great significance in recent years with the discovery that there does indeed seem to be a repulsion driving the expansion at an accelerating speed. The centrepiece of the historical material is, however, the great debate, which spanned fifteen years. A major centre of this cauldron of controversy was Cambridge, where the new radio telescope built by Martin Ryle was mapping the sky at radio wavelengths. It was here that "the war of the source counts" was fought out between Martin Ryle and his group on the one hand, and Fred Hoyle and his colleagues on the other. The battleground was the number of radio sources plotted as a function of their flux at radio wavelengths. A universe whose properties are unchanging on a large enough scale yields one predicted relationship, an evolving universe yields another. If for simplicity we take all radio sources to have the same intrinsic luminosity, then in a steady-state universe, the number N of sources brighter than some flux S should, on a log-log plot, appear as a straight line of slope - 1.5. If the Universe is evolving, then by looking into deep space, one looks further back in time to an era when galaxies were more closely crowded together, and the fainter sources should be more abundant than expected. In that case the slope should be steeper, say - 2 or - 3. According to the authors, Ryle and his group at the Cavendish were extremely secretive about their research, keeping their data out of reach of the steady-staters until a public announcement was made, claiming that the slope was inconsistent with the steady-state theory. Unfortunately, the Cambridge radio group kept getting it wrong, and the announced slope declined from - 3 in 1955 to - 2.2 and then to - 1.8 in 1961. The modern result, after all the furor of these years, is that there is indeed a small excess of faint sources, which can equally be explained by the canonical hot big bang or the quasi-steady-state theory. It is now known that the Universe is inhomogeneous on scales of about 300 million light years, which is more than enough to yield the observed flux excess without requiring far-reaching cosmological postulates. The big bang theory is founded on three pillars: (1) the Universe is seen to be === Page 26 of 43 556 Book Review expanding, consistent with the concept of creation from a singular event perhaps 14 billion years ago; (2) the light elements helium and deuterium have the precise abundances expected if they were indeed created in a hot, dense fireball; and (3) we are immersed in an isotropic, thermal radiation of 2.73 degrees absolute, expected as relict radiation of the primeval creation event (although the specific temperature is not predicted with precision). There is a pleasing simplicity about this theory. For example, the relative abundances of the light elements are accounted for by a single free parameter, the photon-to-baryon ratio. Further, it has survived a number of tests which could have killed it off; for example, no stars or galaxies are known for sure to have ages in excess of the supposed age of the Universe. Can we then write off *A Different Approach* as relict radiation from the hot fireball of the debate which consumed the participants almost half a century ago, as a polemic by a handful of people who have stubbornly held on to a long-outmoded hypothesis? In the opinion of most cosmologists, the answer is probably "yes." In this reviewer's opinion, it is emphatically "no!" The list of unsatisfactory features in the standard model is formidable: (a) From the big bang perspective, the homogeneity, isotropy and "flatness" of the Universe and the magnitude of the density fluctuations which will seed the growth of galaxies are all built in by postulate; they have no explanation in terms of the theory. Widely separated regions of the Universe, which have always been causally disconnected because of the speed of light, nevertheless have similar properties, including for example identical elements. If the Universe, starting from the size of a football or less, went through a period of superluminal expansion or inflation, then these problems can be solved, and the construction of such inflation-driven cosmological models is a cottage industry. In effect it is postulated that, in the first microseconds of the Creation, there was a large cosmological constant which has since gone to zero. There is, however, no known microparticle foundation for the hypothesis, it appears to make no testable predictions, and the amount of fine-tuning required to get it to work (itemized by Hoyle et al.) is horrendous. (b) Whenever a new result appears it is never as expected, but there is always a parameter to tweak to make agreement appear. This is described by the practitioners as refining the model, but it does raise questions about the predictive power of the theory. For example, recent observations of distant supernovae have revealed that the expansion of the Universe, having slowed, seems to be picking up again. Extraordinary fine tuning is required to stop galaxies from having accelerated out of sight of each other. (c) There are exotic compact objects connected by filamentary structures to some spiral galaxies. To the eye these look like ejecta; the problem is that the redshifts of these apparently connected objects are often wildly different, which is inconsistent with reasonable ejection speeds. And there is a statistically sound excess of quasars, supposedly distant objects from their redshifts, around nearby galaxies. To the authors, these are nearby ejecta of new matter, whose properties are evolving and which yield non-velocity redshifts. In terms === Page 27 of 43 Book Reviews 557 of mainstream cosmology, it can only be assumed that these are striking line-of-sight coincidences. (d) There are the periodicities which exist in the redshift distributions of galaxies and quasars. These appear most strongly in quasars or galaxies angularly close to each other. These periodicities have been claimed over a thirty-year period and have been statistically validated several times with fresh, expensively obtained high-precision data. They stand unrefuted in the refereed literature and are universally ignored: there seems to be no way to fit them into the standard paradigm. On the largest scales, there appears to be a significant excess of structure over theoretical expectations on scales of order of 400 million light years. Much depends on which evidence one chooses to emphasize. If the canonical picture is given *a priori*, then anomalous and periodic redshifts are simply oddballs which will presumably disappear at some stage. If, on the other hand, emphasis is given to the "anomalies," and if the fine tunings and epicycles of the canonical view are seen as warning signs, then the canonical view acquires less credibility. But which evidence gets the emphasis, and why? The role of historical accident in the development of a paradigm is beautifully illustrated in several passages of the book. Thus, in the war of the source counts, forceful advocacy by Ryle persuaded Jan Oort, one of the foremost astronomers of the day, that the Universe was evolving rapidly and that the steady-state description was therefore false. Oort's influence in turn was a major factor in turning opinion against the steady-state cosmology. As stated above, it would later emerge that these radio source counts were completely erroneous; but the damage had been done, and the direction of opinion had been set. What, then, of the cosmic microwave background, the supposed relict radiation from the fireball? Hoyle et al. draw attention to a curious coincidence. Helium-4, which is supposed to have been created primarily in the cosmic fireball, is also synthesized in stars, the energy from these stars yielding a radiation background. If all the helium-4 has been produced in this way rather than in a fireball, then the energy density (say in ergs per cc) of the starlight so produced matches rather precisely the energy density of the CMB. Thus, in a Universe of infinite age, a single mechanism which is known to occur, namely nuclear burning in stars, can account for both the helium-4 abundance and the 2.7-degree microwave background. For this to work, the starlight has to be thermalized. The authors propose that carbon and metallic whiskers could achieve this. Their required space density is low and could readily be accounted for as supernova ejecta. In fact, predictions that there ought to be a 3~K background temperature, arising from reprocessed starlight, can be found scattered through the literature as far back as the 1930s. Some weaknesses in the quasi-steady-state model (to date) are its failure to make quantitative statements about the remarkable degree of thermalization and isotropy of the microwave background and the tiny fluctuations observed in it, and the lack of a detailed model of clustering of galaxies (galaxies are created by the ejection of new matter from other galaxies). A major failing in both === Page 28 of 43 558 Book Review the authors' model and the standard one is the inability to account for the amazing fine-tuning required for life to be possible in a cosmic environment. It could well be that, a few centuries down the line, our current understanding of the cosmos will look downright Ptolemaic. To sum up, this is an excellent and clear account, delivered in lively style, of modern cosmology as seen through the eyes of three protagonists in the great debate. The equations and occasional technical patches will, unfortunately, act as a barrier to many readers even although the essence of the story can be read between them. A charming feature of the book is that the authors, having been involved in the early debates, provide a unique "insiders" perspective on the rough-and-tumble of the period, bruised egos, dirty tricks and all. The villains are clearly identified! Finally, what of the authors' claim that modern cosmology is conformist and dominated by a few "leading geese"? Certain facts are hard to refute. No doctoral student would dare to question the canonical picture, nor would a supervisor lead him into such a minefield. There is almost no chance that a proposal for telescope time to examine any aspect of (say) the discordant redshift claims would get through an allocation panel. No researcher on the make would risk her reputation by getting involved, and any paper giving support to (say) redshift periodicity would have to surmount a wall of hostility. For such reasons, at least in the short term, this book will have no significant influence on the community of cosmologists. I can thoroughly recommend it. Bill Napier Armagh Observatory Armagh, Northern Ireland **Religion and Scientific Naturalism: Overcoming the Conflicts** by David Ray Griffin. Albany: State University of New York, 2000. xvii +345 pp. paperback, ISBN 0-7914-4564-X, hardcover ISBN 0-7914-4563-1. With this book, David Ray Griffin, general editor of the *SUNY Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought* (now nearly two dozen volumes) and himself author, co-author, or editor of half of the volumes in the series (as well as many other books and papers), has contributed a volume that should be required reading for all scientists, theologians, and philosophers--not only those who feel some unease with the current picture of the world as painted by either religion or modern science, but more importantly for those who do *not*. Readers--scientists and theologians alike--should come away from this book with the conviction that some radically new approach to or perspective on the problems of consciousness, free will, life, and their place in the material universe is badly needed. Even if all readers are not entirely convinced by the particular theoretical perspective that Griffin offers, most should come away also with === Page 29 of 43 Book Reviews 559 the conviction that his general argument is correct: that the continued polarization of scientific and religious views about controversial issues is not only unproductive but unnecessary, that both religion and science have discovered fundamental truths about the world but have reached erroneous conclusions by excluding those truths recognized by the other side, and that a more complete and accurate world view will emerge only when the facts and truths from both sides can be fit into some larger framework. This "tertium quid" approach to controversial issues (as Edmund Gurney [1887] termed it) was the guiding principle behind the founding and development of psychical research (or parapsychology) in the late 19th century (Kelly, 2001), but it, like psychical research, seems to have been largely ignored in wider intellectual circles. It is heartening, therefore, to see that Griffin introduces the general SUNY series on postmodern thought with a statement defining his version of postmodernism as an approach that attempts to go beyond *both* the premodern (religious) world view and the modern (scientific) world view by taking the strengths from both and forging a third, postmodern world view. The central question for this book, therefore, as described in the Preface and in Chapter 1, is whether such a merging of the two views is even possible--that is, whether there is anything *essential* to science that absolutely conflicts with anything *essential* to religion. Griffin concludes that there is not, that the dualistic supernaturalism that has been assumed to be essential to the religious world can and must be replaced by naturalism, which acknowledges the lawful regularity of basic causal processes in the universe's operation, but, conversely, that the mechanistic, physicalistic, reductionistic, nihilistic, and atheistic "maximal" version of naturalism, currently assumed to be essential in the modern scientific world view, can and must be replaced by a "minimal" version of naturalism that is nondualistic (in the traditional sense of Cartesian dualism) but that nonetheless also acknowledges will and purpose (whether divine, human, or both) as basic, ongoing natural influences in the world's operation. In Chapters 2 and 5, Griffin argues that "the rise of modern science itself was heavily conditioned by theological ideas and motives" (p. 110) and that, ironically, the materialistic, atheistic world view is deeply rooted in the supernaturalistic dualism of founders such as Galileo, Descartes, and Newton. This original theism is depicted in the familiar picture of inert, mechanical, purposeless matter; a free, active, and immortal soul; and an omnipotent God who made the interaction of the two possible. The glaring problem in this picture, however, of accommodating the evil and suffering in the world with an omnipotent God began a long process in which the concepts of God, purpose, free will, and meaning were gradually pushed off the stage, in a retreat from theism to the deism of scientists like Darwin, who believed in God as the first cause but as having no subsequent role in the operation of the world, to the ultimate nihilism of the modern scientific world view. This world view, however, is inadequate to account for the rise of conscious === Page 30 of 43 560 Book Review experience out of inert matter and for human freedom in a deterministic world, a freedom that all of us, scientists included, assume in action. In failing to account for such fundamental phenomena--"the reality, the efficacy, and the freedom of consciousness" (p. 167)--modern "maximal" naturalism shows itself inadequate not only for religion and ethics, but also for science. As a result, religious thinkers are increasingly challenging the adequacy of the modern scientific world view, and in Chapter 3 Griffin describes three recent attempts to accommodate both the religious and the scientific perspectives. In Griffin's estimation, however, all such attempts fail because they fail to recognize that *both* the supernaturalism assumed to be essential to religion and the materialism assumed to be essential to science are false. In Chapter 6 Griffin argues that the core of the problem with all modern world views, dualistic as well as materialistic, is that they are rooted in the early modern scientific view of matter as inert. Griffin argues that what is needed now is a more serious consideration of pantheism, and in Chapters 4 and 6, he describes the version of pantheism that he finds most persuasive, the "panentheism" or "panexperientialism" of Alfred North Whitehead, so-called because in it all matter has some degree, not of mind or consciousness, but more fundamentally of experience and spontaneity. In Whitehead's system, as described here by Griffin, observations and experiences that led to religious views can be accommodated with those that led to modern scientific views. First of all, Whitehead's system includes a naturalistic theism, in which natural laws are not part of an externally imposed and fixed or unyielding mechanism but are simply longstanding "habits" of the universe that are shaped and directed to varying degrees by many causal factors, the most basic and universal of which is divine influence. Divine influence, therefore, should be understood as "persuasive" and not "coercive," involving no "miracles" or "interruption of the normal cause-and-effect pattern" but being instead "an essential factor in that pattern" (p. 94). Second, Whitehead's system involves a more open, comprehensive scientific naturalism in which complex levels of perception, freedom, mind, and consciousness can be seen as having arisen, not *ex nihilo*, but out of the elementary experience and spontaneity of elementary levels of matter. Even the creation of the universe itself, in Whitehead's naturalism, did not involve an exception to the natural order, because it is seen as a process of bringing order out of chaos, not creation out of nothing (pp. 97, 312). Whitehead's God is not the "God of the gaps," as depicted by supernaturalism, but more fundamentally the universal force permeating every pore of the universe. In two final and lengthy chapters, Griffin discusses in some detail two specific areas of scientific research that expose the modern scientific world view as having many "gaps" of its own. In Chapter 7 he discusses the controversy about parapsychology, which he considers "religion's basic science" (p. 20), even though most orthodox religious thinkers and liberal theologians, like most scientists, have ignored or rejected it. He concludes that parapsychology does in- === Page 31 of 43 Book Reviews 561 deed conflict with the modern scientific world view, and most especially with its assumption that there can be no causal influence at a distance, an assumption that he describes as growing historically out of modern science's foundation on classical dualism's mechanism and supernaturalism. On the other hand, he believes that parapsychological data directly support the more open naturalism advocated by Whitehead and thus provide a strong empirical basis for the development of a postmodern reconciliation of science and religion. Moreover, because the present scientific world view fails so completely to account for other important aspects of human experience, such as consciousness, free will, and aesthetic and ethical norms, "the fact that psi is not consistent with it provides no reason whatever for being suspicious of psi" (p. 219). Finally, in Chapter 8, Griffin discusses the problem of evolutionary theory, not only because it has been so central in the conflict between science and religion, but also because in its modern, neo-Darwinist form, it illustrates many of the failings as well as strengths of modern scientific thought. Griffin first describes fourteen features of current Darwinian evolutionism, in an effort to identify which aspects are valid and essential for a naturalistic theory of life and its many forms and, conversely, which may be inadequate or invalid. He then summarizes some of the more important shortcomings of modern Darwinism. Some of the difficulties are philosophical, such as its materialism and positivism; but perhaps its more glaring weaknesses are its empirical shortcomings, two of which Griffin discusses in some detail. First, there is evidence, contrary to Darwinian theory, that some kind of Lamarckian, or need-induced, inheritance occurs, and new findings in genetics suggest that this is no longer an implausible hypothesis. As Griffin points out, the importance of such an hypothesis is three-fold in that it suggests "that there are factors involved other than natural selection of random variations... [that] purposes can directly bring about structural changes... [and] that all living things, rather than being passive results of forces acting on them, are self-determining organisms" (p. 276). Second, there is the problem of major gaps--the absence of transitional forms of life--in the fossil record, gaps that have become more, not less, pronounced during the 150 years of paleontological research since Darwin's day. Moreover, the issue involves not only this evidential problem, but several related conceptual problems, including how new and complex species could have developed through random variations, when the viability of a species would often have required the simultaneous and instant appearance of several interacting organs, skeletal structures, or other features; and also how life itself arose, especially how the myriad forms of complex life arose so suddenly and rapidly, at the time of "Biology's Big Bang" during the Cambrian period. In the remainder of the chapter, Griffin outlines "how the wider naturalism articulated in this book provides a more helpful framework" (p. 290) for addressing these and other problems and, more broadly, how it takes into account the strengths of the hitherto polarized views of religious creationists and neo-Darwinian scientists. === Page 32 of 43 562 Book Review This is a complex, challenging book, so full of ideas that it is not easy to read, and even less easy to summarize; I have only scratched the surface in my summary here. Griffin examines closely a variety of controversial issues and provides extensive references for readers who want to look more deeply into them. More importantly, he has also presented in detail his--and Whitehead's--proposal for a scientific naturalism that goes beyond the polarization of thought in which all of these issues remain mired. I share completely Griffin's belief that a reconciliation of religious and scientific perspectives in the context of a wider naturalism is essential for any significant advancement in either religion or science. I am less convinced--or perhaps just puzzled--by some of his specific arguments. His explanation (pp. 219-229) of paranormal phenomena in the context of Whitehead's theories was bewildering to me, perhaps because I have not read enough of Whitehead's own work to understand fully his ideas. I also found puzzling Griffin's categorical denial of the possibility of precognition (pp. 228-229). Given his castigation of theologians and scientists who reject phenomena *a priori*, based on their beliefs, world views, or systems of philosophy, one would think that he would be more cautious or restrained in rejecting the idea of precognition as "logically impossible"; and I found completely unconvincing his explanation (p. 229) of why his *a priori* rejection of precognition is different in kind from the similar rejection of psi by other scientists and philosophers. (Another reviewer in this journal of one of Griffin's books finds his dismissal of precognition equally unconvincing; see Beloff [1998] ). Similarly, like many other people before him, Griffin rejects classical dualism in part because of the interaction problem: "We realize that mind and body do interact. We realize, further, that if they were different in kind, this interaction would be impossible," apart from the influence of a *deus ex machina*. The conclusion, according to Griffin, must therefore be that mind and body are not different in kind and "that the mechanistic view of matter must be untrue" (p. 148). This conclusion may be perfectly valid (I am inclined to think it is), but I am unconvinced by his premise, that two unlike things cannot interact, because I do not think that Griffin (or anyone else) has found a more adequate definition of causation than Hume's basically neutral description of it as simply our observations of "constant conjunction." As Griffin himself points out, this understanding of causation provides "no good reason to stipulate *a priori* that only things with a common nature can causally interact" (p. 148), and without a more definitive understanding of the nature of causation, I do not see how we can do otherwise but take an agnostic position on what can and cannot interact. Perhaps the most important problem, however, that I find with the Griffin/Whitehead position is that, although Griffin says that "panexperientialism..., and apparently it alone, can solve the mind-body problem" (p. 173), it is not so clear to me that it really does. As Griffin explains it, in panexperientialism "a distinction is made between experience as such, which even the low- === Page 33 of 43 Book Reviews 563 est-level individuals (i.e., particles of matter) are said to have, and *conscious experience, which emerges only in very high-level individuals*" (p. 167). Furthermore, a distinction is made between two ways in which low-level individuals can be organized: into 'compound individuals,' in which a higher-level of experience (which might be conscious) emerges, and merely 'aggregational societies,' such as rocks and telephones, in which no higher-level experience emerges. (p. 167) In other words, in some complex aggregates of particles, a higher-level entity--a "mind"--emerges that makes the aggregate a "*self-determining organism*" (p. 155). In other complex aggregates, no such "higher-level experience" emerges from the group of particles. This distinction is not an "ontological dualism" but instead "*an organizational duality*" between compound individuals, which are "*self-determining*," and aggregational societies, which are not (pp. 176, 155). But what makes a higher level of experience emerge in one group of particles (e.g., a bird, or a human) but not in another (e.g., a rock, or [I would add] a computer)? Perhaps more problematically, what makes a higher level of experience emerge in one set of particles (e.g., a living bird) but not in the (apparently) same set at another time (the corpse of the same bird)? Panexperientialism, or any form of panpsychism in the broad sense, is in my view a theory deserving much more serious consideration, as Griffin urges, than it has so far received, in large part because it answers a problem fundamental in materialistic philosophies, namely, how (and when) life, mind, and consciousness emerge from insentient, inert matter. Unfortunately, in the Griffin/Whitehead system the problem of emergence has simply been placed on another level, that of how consciousness emerges from some sets of particles and not from others. The problems that I have in fully understanding or accepting all aspects of Griffin's panexperientialism in no way detracts from what I believe is the importance of this book. One can argue with details or even with Griffin's whole theoretical system; one cannot, I am convinced, argue with the premise that the reconciliation of religious and scientific perspectives, data, and insights within the framework of a wider theory of naturalism is essential, and long overdue. Emily Williams Kelly Division of Personality Studies University of Virginia Health System P.O. Box 800152 Charlottesville, VA 22908-0152 ewc2r@virginia.edu **References** Beloff, J. (1988). Parapsychology, philosophy and spirituality: A postmodern exploration. *Journal of Scientific Exploration, 12*, 324-326. === Page 34 of 43 564 Book Review Gurney, E. (1887). *Tertium Quid: Chapters on Various Disputed Questions*. 2 vols. London: Kegan Paul, Trench. Kelly, E. W. (2001). The contributions of F.W.H. Myers to psychology. *Journal of the Society for Psychical Research*, 65, 65-90. **Outposts of the Spirit** by William M. Justice. Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Publishing Company, 2000, 213 pp. $12.95. Softcover, ISBN 1-57174-157-7. William M. Justice was a Protestant minister for most of his professional life. His interest in understanding the implications of psychical research urged him to consult with many personalities of the day, ranging from scholars such as Albert Einstein, Robert Thouless, and Robert Crookall to celebrated psychics like Edgar Cayce and Arthur Ford. Justice subsequently presented these interactions and the ideas they evoked in a book entitled *Outposts of the Spirit*. That work, published approximately twenty years ago, reflected Justice's striking spiritual interpretation of psychic phenomena, phenomena that he felt were ways to achieve "communion with God." "Outposts of the Spirit are those outpoints along the front lines to which the brave pioneers of the human race have reached in their search for the truth" (p. vii). In the editor's introduction to this reprint, the question is posed, "Why publish a book written almost twenty years ago about a rapidly evolving field that moves forward with new developments almost every month?" (p. v). The Editor's answer is that there still persists the need for a way of looking at the field that accommodates prior beliefs, doubts, and natural skepticism. To assess the veracity of this answer as well as Justice's conclusions would place any reviewer in an uncomfortable position. Given my skeptical attitude toward the purported evidence for spirit communication and the paranormal in general, I am not persuaded by Justice's convictions that parapsychological phenomena provide evidence for God. Yet his convictions are admirably strong and well-articulated. Therefore, I would like to offer a possibly better reason why it was helpful to reprint *Outposts of the Spirit*. A reader does not have to agree with the contents in order to appreciate this book. At the very least, this book offers a wonderful case study on how an intelligent and spiritual man was confronted by and subsequently integrated the paranormal into his personal and professional life. This is true human drama. To be sure, an increased interest in spiritual matters, a sense of well-being, and optimism frequently attend paranormal or transcendent experiences (Kennedy & Kathamani, 1995a,b). However, facing anomalous phenomena can also pose a serious challenge to a person's world views and psychological stability. Many people to this day struggle to accomplish what Justice did--and the inclusion of the new diagnostic code "Religious or Spiritual Problem" in the *DSM-IV* (American Psychiatric Association, 1994, p. 685; cf. Turner et al., 1995)--demonstrates that such struggles === Page 35 of 43 Book Reviews 565 are prevalent enough to warrant the attention and concern of professional clinicians. Justice's religious beliefs, in part, allowed him to successfully make sense of psychical research. In turn, psychical research reinforced his religious beliefs. I imagine many *JSE* readers will not share Justice's convictions, but we all can appreciate the personal journey that shaped those convictions. The stories that we are privileged to read are as fascinating as they are entertaining. On the production level, this reprint includes new sections in addition to the "Editor's Introduction"--a foreword by George G. Ritchie, an epilogue by Lincoln B. Justice, and an afterword (biographical sketch) by William Yates. The epilogue, written by Justice's son, is particularly poignant. It is aptly entitled "The After-Death Experiences of William Justice." Three days after W. M. Justice's death, his son was in prayer. "Words in a small voice" came to the son's mind. The voice related in detail how his father was well, happy, and reunited with loved ones on the other side. The voice also confirmed some of the convictions held by W. M. Justice in life, convictions about the nature of psychic phenomena and how we relate to it as humans. My own father died in 1991, so I can only imagine the joy and serenity this experience provided Justice's son. Who wouldn't want the experience of knowing absolutely that our deceased loved ones are eternally happy? I admit that jealousy came over me while reading the epilogue. Nevertheless, in my opinion, psychical research tells us more about the living than it does about the dead. I also imagine that many *JSE* readers will not agree with that assessment. The point is that the awesome power of paranormal and transcendent experiences is in their ability to inspire some of us to behave more kindly toward our fellow man, to force some of us to understand what they reveal about the human condition, and to draw some of us into a relationship with a higher power. Justice experienced this latter dimension to paranormal experiences. If he is enjoying life after death, no doubt he feels added elation that his personal journey to understand the implications of psychical research touched his son: "It is with great joy that I can witness the fact that my faith in God and in the power of the Holy Spirit has grown stronger as a result of the fearless way that my father sought after truth" (Lincoln B. Justice [epilogue], p. 196). James Houran SIU School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry Springfield, IL jhouran@siumed.edu ### References American Psychiatric Association. (1994). *Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders*. 4th Ed. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association. Kennedy, J. E., & Kanthamani, H. (1995a). An exploratory study of the effects of paranormal and spiritual experiences on people's lives and well being. *Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research*, 89, 249-264. === Page 36 of 43 566 Book Review Kennedy, J. E., & Kanthamani, H. (1995b). Association between anomalous experiences and artistic creativity and spirituality. *Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 89*, 333-343. Turner, R. P., Lukoff, D., Barnhouse, R. T., & Lu, F. G. (1995). Religious or spiritual problem: A culturally sensitive diagnostic category in the DSM-IV. *Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 183*, 435-444. **Remote Viewing Secrets** by Joseph McMoneagle. Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc., 1125 Stoney Ridge Road, Charlottesville, VA 22902 (2000), 296 pp. $14.95, ISBN 1-57174-159-3. Remote viewing (RV), according to Mr. McMoneagle, "is the ability to produce information that is correct about a place, event, person, object or concept which is located somewhere else in time/space, and which is completely blind to the remote viewer and others taking part in the process of collecting the information." RV has had a lengthy history throughout the world but probably has had only around twenty-five years of scientific study in this country. What makes Mr. McMoneagle's method different than most others is this use of strict scientific protocol. Mr. McMoneagle points out in his book that he does not wish to rewrite the history of remote viewing but instead offers an in-depth history written by Mr. Ingo Swann, which can be accessed at: www.biomindsuperpowers.com/Pages/RealStoryMain.html. I have read this and would recommend the site to anyone interested in this subject. It is about fifty-two short chapters, from which the reader will gain a vast knowledge into the history of RV. Two other requirements that must be met are that all persons present during an RV should essentially be blind to the target, and there should be some form or means of validating the material after the RV has been accomplished. About sixty people in eight or nine laboratories in the United States over the past twenty-five years have established these necessary scientific protocols. Using strict scientific protocol is probably what separates Mr. McMoneagle's RV from some other systems of RV or other methods used by some psychics, such as scrying from a crystal ball or interpreting tarot cards, clairvoyance, out-of-body experiences, etc. While these methods generally do not use a set scientific protocol but rather are quite varied and are dependant on the individual or psychic and therefore do not meet his requirements for being termed RV, Mr. McMoneagle does not discredit any methods if they work. Many people confuse RV with "out-of-body experiences," but they are two completely different things. While a person experiencing "out-of-body experiences" feels as though he has left his physical body behind and has journeyed somewhere else, the person experiencing RV receives information by way of symbols, sounds, feelings, tastes and other both accurate and inaccurate stimuli. The advantages of RV over out-of-body experiences is that during an RV session, a "viewer" can discern feelings and other things that would be hidden === Page 37 of 43 Book Reviews 567 from a person during an out-of-body experience. RV operates best for producing information on things known to exist, and is not generally useful for information on mythical creatures, UFOs etc. After completing high school, Mr. McMoneagle enlisted in the U.S. Army. After completing basic training he was recruited into the Army Security Agency and spent thirteen consecutive years overseas. After returning to this country he accepted a commission as a Warrant Officer and was assigned to Headquarters, Intelligence and Security Command. Less than one year later he became Remote Viewer #001 for the top-secret STARGATE project, which was a physic spy unit known by various names throughout its history. As one of the original viewers, Mr. McMoneagle helped design and build an effective paranormal unit that serviced nearly all major Intelligence Agencies within the Federal Government for seventeen years. After retirement from the Army he was hired by Cognitive Science Lab, which was the laboratory responsible for the research and development of the STARGATE project. He is currently fully employed by them today, doing both research on psychic functioning's and RV. I would highly recommend his book to anyone interested in the subject of RV. Bruce Norman MS 8391 National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, MD 20899 bruce.norman@nist.gov **From Mesmer to Freud: Magnetic Sleep and the Roots of Psychological Healing** by Adam Crabtree. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993, 413 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-300-05588-9 (retrospective). I was asked to examine this book, which had been obtained from a remainder catalog, as a possibility for a "Retrospective Review." In these reviews, appropriate older books that deserve current attention can be presented. I found *From Mesmer to Freud* in a local library, and a little research on my part revealed that the book is still available from major distributors. This is fortunate for those with an interest in hypnotic phenomena, especially "magnetic sleep." It has been claimed that the 1784 discovery of magnetic sleep--an artificially induced trancelike state--marked the beginning of the modern era of psychological healing. Crabtree, a psychologist (Centre for Training in Psychotherapy, Toronto), presents the story of the discovery of magnetic sleep and its relation to psychotherapy and the healing arts. I cannot remember reading a more carefully crafted presentation of hypnosis. This book is a comprehensive and outstanding analysis of the personal, social and cultural dynamics that shaped the study of this topic along with the personalities that defined this === Page 38 of 43 568 Book Review field. But the book is also much more than that. The subtleties involved in the evolution of this field shocked and sometimes outraged me. In particular, Crabtree's work, outside of its academic value, is also a sobering case study of how the politics of scientists can operate in disservice to science. Postmodernists will especially appreciate Crabtree's historical analysis because it uncovers and highlights information and ideas that the field disregarded as it adopted the materialistic perspective of Western medicine. I have seen other informal reviews of this book that independently echo this point to the extent that some JSE readers might believe that I have read the minds of these other reviewers or plagiarized their writings. For this reason, I initially hesitated to prepare a lengthy review. Upon reflection, I feel justified in publishing comments very similar to previous reviews because it substantiates that I am not alone in what I think is valuable about this book. In short, some aspects of Western medicine overlap with Eastern medicine, though the labels they ascribe to concepts might differ (e.g., chi or energy). Throughout this work many topics of interest to the SSE are discussed, including possession, dissociation, multiple personality, and paranormal effects associated with "animal magnetism." The scope is impressive and relevant to many areas of current research. Why have I never heard of this book before? This is an example of a valuable work that was missed, but happily may now receive deserved attention. No doubt many good books are unavoidably overlooked. Before reading this book, and despite the fact that one of my graduate school mentors was a hypnotherapist and student of Milton H. Erickson, I had no deep-seated interest in or extensive knowledge of hypnosis. After reading and digesting this book, I can say that each of those issues has changed to an appreciable degree. If you cannot find it in a library, I highly recommend you search it out. At a remainder catalog price, the book is a steal for anyone. At the $55.00 list price from Amazon.com, it is a good deal for serious students or scholars and scientists. Perusing the various reviews posted on the Amazon.com Web page for this work will show you that I am not alone in my sentiments. This is one book that I want for my personal library, and I might never have known about it except for the kind alert. Who knows what other overlooked treasures await to enhance our knowledge and research? James Houran SIU School of Medicine Department of Psychology Springfield, IL === Page 39 of 43 Book Reviews 569 **The PK Man: A True Story of Mind Over Matter** by Jeffrey Mishlove. Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Publishing Co., 2000. 283 pp. $14.95, paperback, ISBN 1-5717-4183-6. Jeffrey Mishlove is a talented parapsychologist used to handling controversial subjects, and in *The PK Man*, he tackles Ted Owens, a tough one indeed. Owens was a well-known "super-psychic," with apparent phenomenal psychokinetic (PK) abilities, especially with regard to the weather. Mishlove's avowed purpose in this book is to present his many years' documentation of Ted Owens' spectacular powers. He started in 1976, after meeting Owens at a parapsychology conference. Mishlove kept a growing file of newspaper articles, affidavits, personal testimonials, and letters about Owens' predictions and warnings and their often dramatic fulfillment. Mishlove was often in contact with Owens, who would tell him when he was causing another storm, or what football team he was going to have win a game. Mishlove also sometimes enlisted other parapsychologists to help design another "experiment" around Ted Owens, and to help him gather affidavits and check for appropriate newspaper articles. Mishlove's documentation is impressive, although, of course, it is not rigorous proof for the skeptical-minded. If Owens predicted a great storm and it occurred, as evidenced by newspaper articles, scientific proof is certainly incomplete. But at the very least, it brings up the old parapsychological conundrum of whether an event has been psychokinetically caused or precognitively predicted. *The PK Man* is very well written using simple, clear prose. The story sometimes reads like a spy thriller; it is truly fascinating. Mishlove includes his own reactions to Owens' personality and powers, which is a useful gauge for the reader, since Mishlove is a parapsychologist with experience in psychic matters. But readers may not be satisfied with Mishlove's treatment of a fundamental issue about Ted Owens: his vindictive, vengeful, egocentric nature, which led him to cause many PK events that caused massive property damage and also cost human lives. Ted Owens was born in Indiana in 1920 and was largely raised by his grandparents. Psychic phenomena were familiar to the family--his great-grandmother was an expert at the ouija board and could predict deaths; his grandfather taught him to dowse. Mishlove recounts Owens' discovery of his extraordinary psychic powers. By Owens' own account, these powers began to manifest themselves when he was four; he spontaneously levitated one afternoon at his house. His early reading concentrated heavily in psychic matters. As a teenager he became a stage hypnotist and gave public demonstrations. After Navy service in World War II, Owens wrote to Dr. J. B. Rhine, head of the famous parapsychology lab at Duke University in North Carolina. Rhine invited Owens to Duke, and Owens worked there as Rhine's assistant for a time. Owens was best known in his lifetime for his PK control of the weather. === Page 40 of 43 570 Book Review Owens told Mishlove he really realized his weather control abilities in 1963, when he was living in Phoenix, Arizona, with his wife. It was extremely hot and Owens, remembering a conversation at Duke about weather control among shamans, decided to try to bring rain. So he pointed at the sky and focused his mental imagery on storms and rain. A little while later, a rain and lightning storm developed. Owens was delighted and began doing many weather experiments. A key aspect of Owens' work, which Mishlove explores at length, is Owens' claim that he was the contact person for Space Intelligences (SIs, as Owens called them). He apparently was not in regular conscious contact with them until the 1950s. But then his psychic powers began slowly to be enhanced, and by the 1960s he communicated with them regularly. In 1965 he wrote in his diary, "Tonight they told me that they could give me only so much power, so much knowledge, at a time. Matter of fact, they said I'm an experiment with them--to find out just how much of the PK power a human being can absorb and stand" (p. 65). For a long time the SIs initiated all the contacts. Only once Owens had developed (with their help) a visualization technique was he able to also contact them. Owens claimed he was the "prophet" of the SIs and that his demonstrations of massive, and often dangerous, PK were done at their behest and with their power. Owens placed himself in the rank of the great prophets. As Mishlove states, "Owens used many metaphors to justify the outrageous ends to which he focused his mental powers. He often compared himself to Moses wreaking the ten plagues upon Egypt with the help of God" (p. 7). Mishlove points out that this metaphor is "inappropriate and vainglorious," but he doesn't engage the issue deeply. Owens tried to help sometimes, such as in predicting and then (by his own account) causing storms that ended a drought in California in 1976, and similarly in England the same year. But when people disbelieved his predictions or ridiculed his claimed powers, he often slashed an entire city or state with vengeful weather. Owens was a football fan, and when teams he disliked were on winning streaks, or when a team to whom he had offered his psychic help scorned him, he vengefully caused that team to lose many games, sometimes even an entire season's worth of games. He predicted his revenges ahead of time to Mishlove as well as publicly, so Mishlove was able to collect newspaper articles about the fulfillment of Owens' predictions. Mishlove notes, "...many of Owens' so-called demonstrations had an unsavory aspect to them. There is a clear sense that he went about with a chip on his shoulder--challenging the world to believe in his miracles and then lashing out when people reacted with sarcastic ridicule" (pp. 90-91). But Mishlove did not really explore Owens' unhappy background as part of the reason he used his PK as he did--Owens' father took to gambling, his mother rejected the child, and he was raised by his grandparents. Mishlove also half-heartedly seems to agree with Owens' characterization === Page 41 of 43 Book Reviews 571 of himself as a prophet, without analyzing the vast difference between a prophet, whose spiritual character is humble and sophisticated, and Owens, who was vengeful and childish. Mishlove was clearly disturbed by Owens; near the end of their lengthy relationship, he wrote Owens a long letter chastising him for his unwillingness to grow spiritually. But his basic conclusion is that Owens was the way he was mostly because he received so little respect from society for his powers. This is quite a weak conclusion, especially concerning a man who misused his massive powers so stupendously. However, Mishlove explicitly encourages readers to draw their own conclusions about Owens' behavior. He also addresses several other major issues, including Owens' ability to manifest UFOs and his allegations that the power came from beings. This last is an interesting topic, little researched. But, as Mishlove points out, these superpowers may in fact come from extraterrestrial beings, though smaller paranormal powers, more widely distributed, may not. He also provides a short end chapter on some of the new ideas in modern physics that make many of Owens' claims less outrageous than they might otherwise seem. There is no other book like this one about a unique man and his abilities. Mishlove has done a very good job by bringing the issues before the public eye, and for this we should be thankful to him. Alexander Imich Anomalous Phenomena Research Center 305 West End Avenue, Suite 1401 New York, NY 10023 aimich@juno.com **The Madness of Adam and Eve: How Schizophrenia Shaped Humanity** by David Horrobin. London: Bantam Press (Transworld Publishers), 2001. 275 pp. £18.99, cloth. ISBN 0593-046498. (Available through amazon.co.uk.) "All the good and bad characteristics of humanity seem writ large in the children of schizophrenic parents" (p. 144). Much evidence for this empirical claim is adduced in this fascinating book, which has several facets. In the first instance, it is essential reading for anyone who knows sufferers from schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or dyslexia; the book offers intriguing hints about the genesis of the problems and some genuine hope for better treatments. In addition, this book offers a far-reaching, detailed, and plausible scenario of genetic mutations and environmental factors that led to the evolution of *Homo sapiens* from an ancestor held in common with chimpanzees. For anomalists and students of science, the book offers illustrations of serendipitous discovery (p. 64) and of the (grudging, inadequate, or dismissive) reception of genuinely novel ideas (p. 160). For medical scientists and practicing physicians, the book illustrates the wealth of knowledge and understanding attainable through careful clinical observation of apparent === Page 42 of 43 572 Book Review correlations and happenings. For all of us there is food for thought about how to maintain scientific progress as it increasingly calls for cross-disciplinary work (see, for example, pp. 210, 224, and the epilogue) and how to expand medical knowledge under the (ethically quite proper) constraints imposed on clinical trials in most developed countries (see p. 221). Horrobin has, among other things, taught medicine, founded biotech companies, and been advisor for 3 decades to the Schizophrenia Association of Great Britain. Evidence from a number of directions supports his grand synthesis, which is also made all the more plausible by several testable hypotheses that are likely to be tested within a decade or two. It is, furthermore, persuasive that he reports (e.g., on p. 224) some results that were not what he had anticipated. Along the way some fascinating facts are cited, for example, that a standard treatment for severe schizophrenia (in the 20th century!) was deliberate infection with malaria and that a Nobel Prize was awarded in 1927 for discovery of this treatment. It is tempting to describe in more detail both Horrobin's intriguing syntheses and the many remarkable facts cited along the way. However, this book has some of the appeal that a mystery novel does; the best service to readers probably is to recommend the book in the strongest possible terms while preserving an element of suspense about the details. Readers should, however, be forewarned that there is a degree of repetition throughout the book, possibly inevitable as the various strands of evidence and argument are pulled together; and in places the technicalities of physiology or biochemistry may seem daunting. In that case, by all means skip the technical stuff, but don't fail to read further. Among the questions discussed or clues adduced are these: * What is the most obvious physical or physiological difference between chimpanzees and other apes on the one hand, and humans on the other? * What does it signify that our brains are 250% larger than those of chimps but contain only 100% more neurons? * What clues to evolutionary scenarios are afforded by the way in which human physiology makes use of water? * Why has the rate of cultural progress of *Homo* and ancestors changed so dramatically at least a couple of times, about 100,000 and again about 10,000 years ago? And why were these changes also associated with a dramatic rise in the diversity of cultures? * Is there truth to the popular folklore that genius and madness are closely allied? Is it really the case that "Without the genes which in combination cause schizophrenia we would be like Neanderthals or *Homo erectus*" rather than *Homo sapiens*? (p. 207) * Will further work substantiate initial indications that simple dietary supplements can synergize or even substitute for anti-schizophrenic drugs? Can diet really reduce the incidence of violence (by between 30 and 50%!) among prison populations? "Perhaps it is possible, by manipulat- === Page 43 of 43 Book Reviews 573 ing the environment, to prevent the expression of the illness even in those who have a 100% genetic risk" (p. 208). * How does it come about that the incidence of schizophrenia is much the same in all studied populations: "from the Canadian Arctic to Patagonia, from Lapland to the Cape of Good Hope, from Siberia to the world of the Australian Aborigines" the incidence is between "0.5 and 1.5%--and usually between 0.7% and 1.0% . . . . No other illness shares a similar distribution." (p. 119) * Why should parents in the United States using milk formula for their babies prefer that formulated for premature babies? (see p. 93) * Why are schizophrenics so much less prone to arthritis? Why do they not flush under large doses of niacin? Can there be a physical diagnostic test for this psychiatric disorder? In addition, Horrobin's theses and lines of argument have implications for some other topics as well: * Are the dietary habits of adolescents much more important, even, than is currently believed? If dietary supplements can lessen the incidence of violence in prisons, might they also do so in schools? (see p. 170). * Does this evolutionary scenario have implications for the probability of extraterrestrial intelligences? About the likely longevity of extraterrestrial civilizations? If none of these questions interest you, then you may not find this book as exciting as I did. Henry H. 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That's not to say the rest aren't worthy of your attention--and for that reason I will append my mini-reviews to most of the other books submitted for consideration as well as a few that were not. If you have a book you would like considered for the Anomalist Awards 2001, send it to: The Anomalist, PO Box 577, Jefferson Valley, NY 10535--*Patrick Huyghe* ---------- ## The 2000 Award Winners **The Magic of Shapeshifting** by Rosalyn Greene Explores the myth, legends, sightings, and New Age beliefs about shapeshifting, then compares it to other occult phenomena, including spirit materialization and out-of-body experiences. The author clears away misconceptions and is clear about the sources of her information--which happens to includes personal experience. The perspective may at times make shapeshifting seem like a semantic game, but it's obviously more than that with the author providing ample warning of its dangers. The book turns into a how-to guide to our own inner animal selves, which in some cases, like the author's, is a werewolf, and includes information about a subculture of shapeshifters. Yes, the book is new agey and way out-there, but it's also straightforward, groundbreaking, and totally original. **Captain Edward J. Ruppelt: Summer of the Saucers-1952** by Micahel D. Hall and Wendy A. Conners An extremely detailed biography of Edward Ruppelt that focuses on his years of service as the head of Project Blue Book and the year 1952 in particular. Contains lots of material from Ruppelt's personal papers, quotes from early drafts of his *Report on Unidentified Flying Objects*, and interviews with those who knew and served with Ruppelt. But it is not without faults--it contains too many "thank you" throughout the text, captions, everywhere, in fact, and the tone is sometimes too personal--"Have you seen *The Day the Earth Stood Still*?" Ruppelt's book is a key text in the history of UFOlogy and this book is now the indispensable companion to any reading--and understanding--of that classic book. **Edgar Cayce: An American Prophet** by Sidney D. Kirkpatrick Kirkpatrick is an excellent storyteller, Cayce was one of the century's The Anomalist Book Awards 2000.html[12/2/25, 21:02:00] === Page 2 of 10 The Anomalist Book Awards 2000 most remarkable men, and the author had access to transcripts of Cayce's trances as well as his personal letters and papers. That makes for an absolutely winning combination. Though the author doesn't pass judgment on the legitimacy of Cayce's psychic powers, he is clearly partial towards his subject. This book certainly won't convince any skeptics, and you'll either love or hate it. Despite it's faults, I think it's an excellent biography. The Pk Man: A True Story of Mind-Over-Matter by Jeffrey Mishlove Many, many years ago, while I edited a publication called UFO Commentary, a strange man making strange claims contacted me. His name was Ted Owens. He claimed that he could control the weather, the outcomes of NFL games, and a whole lot more thanks to his friends in high places--the "Space Intelligences" up there in flying saucers above the Earth. I immediately put his correspondence in the nut file. But Jeffrey Mishlove didn't. The budding psychologist found in Owens an ideal subject. He struck up a friendship and a began, with the help of Scott Rogo, a study of Owen. It was a rather informal study, made so in large part by Owens' volatile personality. In reading this fascinating work I found Mishlove a bit gullible at times. And I wish he had done a more thorough job of trying to understand his subject. But who am I to talk? What a story it is. The story of a man whose PK powers seemingly ranged to the criminal. Staggering. Unexplained Phenomena: A Rough Guide Special by Bob Rickard and John Michell If you missed the their 1977 work, Phenomena, or their follow-up five years later, Living Wonders, then Rough Guides have done you a big favor. The authors have combined chapters from both and updating the whole. So you'll find a lot of old favorites like teleportation, frog falls, and spectral armies, as well as many new topics that have emerged in the past two decades like crop circles, chupacabras, and more. Rickard and Michell are at the top of their form here, insightful, reasoned, and humorous. They also bring a much needed long-term perspective to the field, noting, for example, that while crop circles were nearly non-existent before 1980, other phenomena like sea serpents have decreased dramatically, while still others like rat kings and toads-in-the-hole are now virtually non-existent. This excellent volume rivals Jerome Clark's The Unexplained as the best one-volume examination of fortean phenomena. I just wish they had spelled my name correctly in the index. Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience by Willaim F. Williams (editor) More than 2,000 entries--from Alien Abductions to Zone Therapy, as the subtitle explains, and covering phenomena, personalities, events, topics, places, and more--were written by a variety of contributors who were allowed their own points of view. For the most part the entries are balanced, offering both pro and con comments and a bibliography--the exceptions are obviously slanted toward the skeptical. Not all the entries are successful or as complete as some would like, and the photo captions are horrendous, but I found many entries covering subjects that were new to me. Some readers have expressed shock to find entries on scientific subjects in this volume--on Louis Pasteur, the big bang theory, biofeedback, continental drift, and Sir Isaac Newton, for instance--but that illustrates just how thin the line between science and pseudoscience really is. A top-notch, though pricey, one volume The Anomalist Book Awards 2000.html[12/2/25, 21:02:00] === Page 3 of 10 The Anomalist Book Awards 2000 encyclopedia of the anomalous. **Ancient Mines of Kitchi-Gummi** by Roger Jewell We know that 20 million pounds of copper was mined and removed from the Lake Superior region 4,500 years ago. But where did all the copper go? It's not in North America. By following the clues back to their source, Roger Jewell marshals a wealth of evidence all pointing to Minoan traders. Though the book is marred by poor production values, this is one the best presented and most convincing theories of pre-Columbian visitors to the New World I have ever read. (Available from Arcturus Books; for info send email.) ## Other Noteable Books **The Ghost Rocket File** Jan L. Aldrich (compiled by) This book is really nothing more than a compilation of government documents and news articles on the strange objects seen over Scandinavia in the pre-Kenneth Arnold year of 1946. But with more than 1,500 reports of this "ghost rocket" phenomenon made to the Swedish Defense Staff, the period qualifies as a major UFO event that provides some much-needed perspective on what came after. (Available from Arcturus Books; for info send email) **The Dragon's Tail: Rediscovering the Tenth Planet** by Anthony Austin, Brian Crowley On tap here is a tale of Planet X. According to the authors, every 892 years the Earth suffers some dire calamity--Atlantis sinks, the flood (Noah's ark), plagues in Egypt, Little Ice Age, and more. These disasters are caused by the passages of an outermost planet the authors call Draco. While there very probably is a tenth planet out there, I doubt it's responsible for the variety of calamities cited here. In any case, I'll never know the truth and neither will you--Draco is not due to make its next pass until 2115. **The End of Time : The Next Revolution in Physics** by Julian B. Barbour Do you have doubts about that wonderful creation of modern physics called "space-time"? Independent physicist Julian Barbour certainly does and goes even further than that. He says, "time does not exist at all, and ...motion itself is pure illusion." The book seeks support in physics for this controversial view. I personally think that our limited understanding of time is what makes many mysterious phenomena so mysterious in the first place. Worth serious consideration. **The Coming Global Superstorm** by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber A well-written exploration of a frightening topic--could global warming lead to a humongous superstorm that reeks havoc on civilization? The book goes in two directions at once. It looks into the past for other possible examples of superstorms and frankly doesn't uncover any definite examples that could not have alternate explanations. And it details a fictional scenario of what such a superstorm would be like today. Terrifying, yes, but the science is rather thin. **More Chicago Haunts: Scenes From Myth and Memory** by Ursula Bielski 50 Chicago haunts, each a "true encounter told by the encounter," but the author either The Anomalist Book Awards 2000.html[12/2/25, 21:02:00] === Page 4 of 10 The Anomalist Book Awards 2000 introduces or paraphrases most of the accounts--thankfully. Each tale has a photograph illustration of some kind. Good for what it is, but I wish there was more an of effort to come to grips with the phenomena--at least a summary statement of some kind. Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century by Howard K. Bloom Science writer Bloom advances the maverick notion that all lifeforms are part of an emerging global consciousness. It's happened, he says, via group selection, which is arguably more convincing than individual selection. Bloom dazzles with his broad knowledge, which gives the book great historical and scientific scope, but the central theme is never clearly spelled out. Bloom concludes by warning of an approaching war that pits mankind against bacteria. But is this "war" really all that new? The Truth Never Stands in the Way of a Good Story by Jan Harold Brunvand, Erik Brunvand If you have his others books, like the classic The Vanishing Hitchhiker, then this one may come as a disappointment to you. He has covered most of these legends before in his previous books, but those he does discuss he seems to go into greater depth than usual. This one is more of a textbook and it's very light on the paranormal, but it's top-notch urban legend fare. Varieties of Anomalous Experience: Examining the Scientific Evidence by Etzel Cardena, Steven Jay Lynn and Stanley Krippner(Editors) This American Psychological Association volume is an attempt to examine a category of phenomena--tales of strange, extraordinary and unexplained experiences--that have fallen between the cracks of contemporary mainstream psychology. While much of the book deals with conceptual and methodological issues, it covers a range of subjects from hallucinatory experiences, synesthesia, and lucid dreaming, to out-of-body, psi-related, alien abduction, past-life, near-death, mystical, and anomalous healing experiences. All are written by recognized scholars whose focus is on psychological factors and whose aim is to show that these topics can be approached scientifically. Will this book serve as a wake-up call for psychologists who tend to ignore such phenomena? Probably not, but it's a worthy volume nonetheless. Technology of the Gods: The Incredible Sciences of the Ancients by David Hatcher Childress As usual Childress takes the kitchen-sink approach, throwing together everything imaginable relating to the topic, this time "technology of the ancients," meaning such subjects as ancient flight, megalith building, ancient high tech weapons, their use of electricity, and much more. He draws his material from reliable and unreliable sources, as usual. Speculates freely and wanders off-subject. He does provide lots of illustrations, altogether making it a good place to start exploring the subject. Extraordinary Encounters: An Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial & Otherworld Beings by Jerome Clark Do alleged extraterrestrials belong in the same book as fairies and other "oherworldly beings"? Perhaps. Do entries on "Elvis as Jesus" and "Gef," the talking Mongoose? Probably not. Clearly Clark knows his stuff when it comes to UFO-related matters, much of it recycled from his UFO encyclopedias. But for a book that tries to go beyond the usual UFO material, it fails miserably when it comes to including personality profiles, for instance, of anyone outside the UFO field. In fact, there is very little mention of those who have grappled with and tried to come to terms with this kind of material--the works of Hilary Evans, Thomas Bullard, Jader Pereira, and Katherine Briggs, for instance, are either mentioned briefly or not at all. There is a plethora of entries on channeled entities, which suggests to me that there are probably many more not in this book. And some entries are simply inadequate, like the entry on Sasquatch, which doesn't even mention the work of Jack Lapseritis, regardless of what you think of him or the possibility of a Bigfoot-extraterrestrial connection. I am a big fan of Clark's work, but this one is a miss, especially at this price. Then again this book is not intended for The Anomalist Book Awards 2000.html[12/2/25, 21:02:00] === Page 5 of 10 The Anomalist Book Awards 2000 the casual consumer but for libraries and comparable institutional markets. ### Leap of Faith: An Astronaut's Journey into the Unknown by Gordon Cooper Our interest in this book obviously, is: what does this famous astronaut have to say about UFOs? Quite a bit actually. About 20% of this book is devoted to the subject. He recounts his own sighting, which took place in Europe in 1951, and about some other UFO incidents he heard about or was peripherally involved with, including some photos of a crashed saucer taken by an Air Force master sergeant. But I lost all faith in his accounts when, after meeting contactee Dan Fry, he actually expected to go out into the desert with him and take a ride in a saucer. Didn't happen. ### Java Man: How Two Geologists Changed the History of Human Evolution by Garniss H. Curtis, Roger Lewin, Carl C. Swisher I never saw this book, but it's one of three cryptozoology-related titles that Loren Coleman recommends. ### Biographies of Scientific Objects by Lorraine Daston (editor) The item of greatest interest her is the editor's own contribution: "Preternatural Philosophy," the predecessor of the science of anomalies. She traces how a miscellany of rare phenomena was consolidated into a into a coherent category of investigation in early modern natural history and natural philosophy, how specific cultural circumstances charged these strange facts with significance, and finally how and why Preternatural Philosophy dissolved in the early 18th century. Interesting discussions of how topics become of interest to science then sometimes fall out of favor. ### The Zuni Enigma by Nancy Yaw Davis I have yet to see this book in a store and the publisher hasn't seen fit to send me a copy, but William Corliss offers it to his Sourcebook list, so it must be good. This book, which he said is "meticulously researched," presents evidence such as common symbols, blood links, and dentition to support the notion that about 700 years ago a group of Japanese reached the west coast of North America, moved inland, and were absorbed by the local inhabitant, creating a mix we know as the Zuni. ### The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Ancient Earth Mysteries by Paul Devereux In this beautiful, well-illustrated book, Paul Devereux explores a range of topics from death roads to the Nazca lines, spirit traps to rock art, psychic archeology to the bicameral mind, crop circles to hallucinogens--all dealing in some way with earth mysteries. Readers will be familiar with many but not all of these topics, though in any case Devereux's analysis of each is a delight to read. While he rightly debunks some oversensationalized topics, he adds depth to our fascination with others. Though not ground-breaking in any sense, it's a very solid work. ### UFOs and the National Security State by Richard M. Dolan An excellent first volume (1941-1973) of a proposed two-volume set on UFOs and the intelligence and military communities. Puts the UFO issues in a historical context. While not more objective than David Jacob's seminal history of the subject, The UFO Conspiracy in America, it certainly is more complete and up-to-date, given the wealth of information that has become available on the subject since the release of Jacob's book in 1975. Manages to be reasonable and reasoned despite the fact that Dolan is obviously a believer in a government UFO conspiracy and the alien presence. But UFOs were just a pawn in a national security game of cat and mouse played by the US and the USSR; they don't have to exist in any other sense of the word to have been--or continue to be--a national security concern. The Anomalist Book Awards 2000.html[12/2/25, 21:02:00] === Page 6 of 10 The Anomalist Book Awards 2000 ### The Field Guide to Ghost and Other Apparitions by Hilary Evans and Patrick Huyghe Can't very well review my own book, now can I? Of course, I can! I won't tell you how great it is--you already know I would say that--but it's a good read and deals rationally with the many puzzles ghost pose, including their relation to time. The book contains at least one fascinating case that has never been published before and many other obscure ones. I think you'll find that it is at once the most historical and most up-to-date volume on the subject currently available. ### Lives of the Psychics: The Shared Worlds of Science and Mysticism by Fred M. Frohock Frohock's treatment of paranormal topics--from out of body experiences and healing, to ESP, alien abductions and mysticism--will please neither believers nor skeptics. That kind of attitude makes us stand up and pay attention. The author has conducted many in-depth interviews, which are especially valuable, though you might find that his theoretical discussions on the nature of reality, consciousness, and the limitations of scientific inquiry go on a bit too long. It's the personal touch that makes this volume so distinctive. Not only are there accounts of the author's personal experiences he cannot explain, but in the last chapter he analyzes the success and failure of psychic predictions for his own life. A truly undogmatic and refreshing look at these topics from an academic. ### Did Adam and Eve Have Navels? Discourses on Reflexology, Numerology, Urine Therapy, and Other Dubious Subjects by Martin Gardner I never received a review copy of this book so I can't be too specific. But I've read Gardner's pieces in Skeptical Inquirer and many of the past volumes in the series and I'm sure these chapters on "dubious subjects," as he calls them, are well-written, informative, and highly opinionated. That's what makes them interesting, of course, even if the heavy-handed skeptical point of view turns your stomach at times. ### The Undergrowth of Science : Delusion, Self-Deception and Human Frailty by Walter Gratzer We did not receive a copy of this book for review, but we feel it's worth noting. It's about how good science goes bad--at least according to the author--and shows how sober mainstream scientists can be wildly off the mark. Topics covered include cold fusion, N-rays, polywater, spoon bending, mitogenic radiation, and more. ### Champ Quest 2000: The Ultimate Search Field Guide & Almanac for Lake Champlain by Dennis Jay Hall A little field guide to Champ by one who claims to have seen Champ on 20 occasions! Gives background and historical information, some details on a dozen recent sightings, photographs, and some search tips on when you've got the best chance to see Champ from the shores of Lake Champlain in Vermont. For the real lake monster buff only. ### The International Directory of Haunted Places by Dennis William Hauck Hauck is back with a round-the-world version of his United States survey, Haunted Places: The National Directory. As you might expect, most of the 700 entries involve places in Great Britain, North America and Australia; most get a one paragraph description saying that this or that place is haunted and by whom. Actually, most of the places aren't strictly "haunted," in other words a ghost may have been seen at a place once or twice, but this really doesn't qualify as a haunt. I think the phenomenon is largely transient; location being a artifact. ### Haunted Michigan: Recent Encounters with Active Spirits by Reverend Gerald S. Hunter An ordained United Methodist minister investigates 29 modern ghost stories--all in The Anomalist Book Awards 2000.html[12/2/25, 21:02:00] === Page 7 of 10 The Anomalist Book Awards 2000 Michigan. The stories are okay, but "Rev. Gerry's official Haunt Meter" rankings, from a one star meaning "pretty lame haunting" to a five star "watch your backside," was a turn-off. Especially since nothing in the book gets less than two-and-a-half stars. UFOs and Abductions: Challenging the Borders of Knowledge by David M. Jacobs (editor) Jacobs designed this book for scholars and scientists who wouldn't normally think twice about this controversial subject. It's got contributions from all the big and/or respectable names in the field including Michael Swords, Jerome Clark, John Mack, Thomas Bullard and Budd Hopkins. But a few surprises, too, like the essay by Michael Persinger, who is not a true believer by any means. Nothing new here for the UFO hard-core but overall a fine presentation of the issues in and around this amazing subject. Catastrophe: A Quest for the Origins of the Modern World by David Keys Keys, a journalist, reveals the literal meaning of the words "Dark Ages." In this book he argues that sometime in A.D. 535, a worldwide disaster--he favors a great volcanic eruption (mega-Krakatoa) rather than an impact event--struck and uprooted nearly every culture then extant. Orthodox historians will call Keys' thesis "challenging" at best and "catastrophic" at worst, but Keys effectively marshals environmental, demographic, political, and religious material in support of his historical detective tale, which unfortunately is not always well-told. An important work, nonetheless. Through the Labyrinth: Designs and Meanings over 5,000 Years by Hermann Kern This big, beautiful, well-illustrated book deserves praise as "the ultimate source" on labyrinths. It deals with all the historical, architectural, astrological, mathematical, and mythological aspects of the subject matter. Jeff Saward and John Kraft do a terrific job of updating the original 1982 German edition by the late Hermann Kern. I find labyrinths and mazes endlessly fascinating and if you do, too, you'll find this volume well worth the hefty price of admission. Father Ernetti's Chronovisor: The Creation and Disappearance of the World's First Time Machine by Peter Krassa Did an Italian Benedictine monk named Father Pellegrino Maria Ernetti build a time machine--the chronovisor--which allowed him to watch Christ die on the cross, and attend a performance of a now-lost tragedy, Thyestes, by the father of Latin poetry, Quintus Ennius, in Rome in 169 B.C.? So claims Krassa, a German journalist. This is a fun read, like a Umberto Eco mystery, only real. But is it? Visitations from the Afterlife: True Stories of Love and Healing by Lee Lawson A touching collection of first-person accounts about "visitations," those a spontaneous encounters with a departed loved one. The accounts are framed by Lawson's comments and her attractive artwork. Most interesting was the chapter entitled "Evidential Visitations: The Unknown Made Known," the rest being mostly in the "love and healing" category. UFOs and Popular Culture: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Myth by James R. Lewis No question about it, UFOs and its associated phenomena have had a widespread and profound(?) inpact on popular culture--from movies to literature and advertising. There are hundreds of entries on the subject here, and for the most part it's quite well done. Lewis tries to draw the connections in an Introduction, which he wrote, and in a Foreword by Thomas Bullard, but I would think that a narrative would have better served the author's purpose than all these separate entries. I would also argue that a large part of this cultural influence comes more--and more directly--from science fiction The Anomalist Book Awards 2000.html[12/2/25, 21:02:00] === Page 8 of 10 The Anomalist Book Awards 2000 than from UFOlogy per se. But then for some people there is no difference. ### UFO/FBI Connection by Bruce S. Maccabee The FBI angle is a bit of a come on. The truth is the FBI files aren't that interesting; they basically fill in a few holes in the early history of the US government's involvement and illustrate the inter-agency squabbles that characterized the times. Maccabee essentially uses the FBI files to tell the story of the Air Force's growing involvement in UFOs. And because the FBI was often just one of the many recipients of a document that originated at another agency, Maccabee is forced to speculate about the FBI's reactions--"one can only imagine" or "one wonders what Hoover." That sort of thing only goes so far--and we know where Maccabee is coming from. An interesting history nonetheless. ### The Psychic Battlefield: A History of the Military-Occult Complex by W. Adam Mandelbaum This volume is a history of psychic spying from the Old Testament to the CIA of the 1990s by a "New York attorney, practicing psychic, and former intelligence officer." There are some juicy tidbits here and there, including some interesting profiles of the big names in remote viewing, but if you've followed the literature of the subject recently--and there have been a number of books on the subject--you won't find much new here. ### Rule by Secrecy: The Hidden History That Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons, and the Great Pyramids by Jim Marrs I want you to know where I'm coming from: I'm not one to believe in conspiracies; small ones, yes; but big ones spanning all of history, including the power to start and stop wars--I don't think so. Yes, the author's overview of the history of secret societies and the power they have wielded--and continue to wield--is a page turner, as histories of this kind are generally pretty turgid. The end of the book almost reads like a cross between his Crossfire and Alien Agenda works, but I don't for a minute buy his documentation to prove that we come from aliens. ### Remote Viewing Secrets: A Handbook by Joseph McMoneagle When it comes to remote viewing, McMoneagle is one of the best in the business. Unlike his previous books, like his excellent Mind Trek, this one has no narrative. It's a handbook, a how-to-do-it book that's well organized and very useful. If you seriously want to do remote viewing, this book is a must. ### Weird Georgia by Jim Miles Wow, a nice fat book of fortean incidents! It's like Loren Coleman's classic, Mysterious America, only it contains a lot more UFO material and is devoted entirely to Georgia. Georgia? Limiting your collection of fortean events to a single state is, of course, rather meaningless. It's a literary convenience. But it does show that you can take almost any slice of earthly real estate and come up with a wealth of fortean and otherwise anomalous events to ponder. The big drawback to this collection is that unlike Mysterious America, it's just a collection; out of more than 400 pages of material you only get a handful of pages of analysis. ### Searching For Eternity: A Scientist's Spiritual Journey to Overcome Death Anxiety by Don Morse A scientist searches through as much of the evidence as he could find to document the possible existence of God, a surviving soul, and an afterlife. After shifting through tons of information, summarized in this 400-plus page book, he concludes that some form of afterlife does exist. I don't think that anyone has covered the subject of overcoming the The Anomalist Book Awards 2000.html[12/2/25, 21:02:00] === Page 9 of 10 The Anomalist Book Awards 2000 death anxiety in as much depth as Morse. It's worth noting that he considers NDEs the best scientific evidence for survival, not OBEs, apparitions, dreams, channeling, or reincarnation. ### The Farfarers: Before the Norse by Farley Mowat Mowat relies heavily on the work of a maverick Canadian archeologist to show that the earliest European settlement in North America preceeded the Vikings by several centuries. Using longhouses --which probably used leather boats for roofs--and ancient stone beacons as his evidence, Mowat theories that the Canadian Artic and Newfoundland were first settled by a group of capitalist voyagers he calls the Albans. Mowat is a great writer and I'm willing to buy into his thesis, but I'm not a fan of the fictional vignettes he uses to fill in the gaps of the historical record. ### The Roswell Encyclopedia by Kevin Randle Nuff said. ### Best Evidence by Michael Schmicker The subtitle says it all: "An Investigative Reporter's Three-Year Quest to Uncover the Best Scientific Evidence for ESP, Psychokinesis, Mental Healing, Ghosts and Poltergeists, Dowsing, Mediums, Near Death Experiences, Reincanation and Other Impossible Phenomena That Refuse to Disappear." Schmicker has done an excellent job condensing an enormous amounts of material and picking cases he views as the "best evidence" for each of the topics in his subtitle. All in all a good primer accessible to everyone. I only wish he had delved deeper into each of those best evidence cases. ### The UFO Book of Lists by Stephen Spignesi Not eye-candy, not ear-candy, but UFO-candy. Nearly 50 lists on UFO subjects, some interesting--"13 Possible Explanations for Daylight UFO Sightings," and "24 Medical Procedures Performed on UFO Abductees"--but many are rather silly or way off the mark--"9 Oceanic Names for Landmarks of Our Arid Moon," (What?) "6 Baffling UFO abduction Cases" (They're all baffling), 9 Steven King Stories about UFOs or Aliens (So what?), and the "95 chapters of Jerome Clark's One Volume Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial" (Big Deal.). For rabid UFO buffs only. ### The Field Guide to UFOs: A Classification of Various Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon by Dennis Stacy and Patrick Huyghe Yeah, another one of my books. I'll just say this about it. There's a lot of junk in this field and very few honest efforts to grapple with the phenomenon that's been on display for the past 50 or so years. We are skeptics and believers. We are merciless at throwing out the junk, and cautious in displaying the gems. There's something going on here. There are lots of things going on here. We provide some reasonable answers. ### Mysteries of the Sacred Universe by Richard Thompson Is ancient India's Puranic literature only mythological? Or did this sacred text encode information about the terrestrial, astronomical, and spiritual planes all at once? You can guess what point of view Thompson argues in great detail. Of course, all this ties-in with the notion of the existence of an ancient, scientifically advanced civilization presently unrecognized by today's historians. Seems at times like Thompson is reading too much into things, but his thesis is certainly worth serious consideration by scholars. ### A Glimmer of Light from the Eye of a Giant by Joseph Turbeville In number tables created by the author, Turbeville finds representations of many of the The Anomalist Book Awards 2000.html[12/2/25, 21:02:00] === Page 10 of 10 The Anomalist Book Awards 2000 exact measurements made at the Great Pyramid of Giza, as well as in natural forms like petal counts and pine cones. Looks like the pitfalls of playing with numbers to me--reading too much into numbers, in other words--but then what do I know? Great title though. **The Eighth Continent: Life, Death, and Discovery in the Lost World of Madagascar** by Peter Tyson, Russell A. Mittermeier I never saw this book, but it's one of three cryptozoology-related titles that Loren Coleman recommends. **Odyssey of the Gods** by Erich Von Daniken Two dozen books later (post-*Chariots of the Gods*) and our good Swiss guide to the ET wonders of the ancient world continue. This time Von Daniken focuses on Ancient Greece and its stories, like Atlantis. The Greek Gods were ET beings, he agues, and interbred with humans and produced those mythological creatures we know as centaurs and Cyclops. While Von Daniken's thesis has become more detailed over time, it has not become more convincing. **A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth** by Samantha Weinberg I never saw this book, but it's one of three cryptozoology titles that Loren Coleman recommends. 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Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Photos and CD collection This is a special collection. CDs are interviews Jeff did with Ted. The photos are stuck together and couldn’t be separated without damage so we are not touching them. Probably only about 6 photos and two are of Ted. Jeff said the note on back of the envelope of his contacts as early as 1940s that he new were in the field of parapsychology. Jeff definitely said the 1940s. One article from 1973 was found in this folder so will leave it and not move it to larger true folder of 1973 as my goal is to replicate the files and documents electronically without moving them. The interviews were probably conducted in the 1980s. And the photos appear to be sent by Ted January 1975 but of course the photos of people could be much older. As they say in translation, if there is a mistake or lack of clarity in the original language, then also make it a mistake or unclear when translating it. Andy Eastman Misc files Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ted Owens Interviews with Jeff CD (Notes only)