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12th Annual International UFO Convention and Film Festival Review

By Donald Ware

Our 12th winter ufo convention February 2 - 8, 2003 in Laughlin, Nevada was at a larger new conference facility at the Flamingo Resort Hotel. We had approximately 850 very interesting people there for a wonderful learning experience with many dear friends. We have room to add about 300 to that next year. We had 28 speakers from nine countries this year, and 10 films competing for EBE awards. Four evenings Deborah Lindemann hosted gatherings for experiencers, and Thursday morning several told their interesting stories to the audience. The wine, soft drinks, cheese, and fruit provided at the Wednesday "Meet-the-Speakers Party" was sufficient for dinner for many people, and I suspect we each made some new friends in that fun party atmosphere, with dancing by many until late into the night. Bob and Teri Brown, Ken Seddington, the A/V crew, and the Flamingo Resort Hotel staff superbly presented the Saturday night Banquet and EBE awards ceremony.

Haktan Akdogan, pioneering Turkish UFO researcher, was the first speaker Sunday following one Film-Festival entry. He speaks fluent English, French, and Turkish and has 18 years experience in the field. In 1996 his weekly documentary, "UFO Reality," was broadcast on two different national TV channels for a year. In 1998 he founded the Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center and hosted very successful International UFO Symposiums. On January 17 2002 he opened the world’s fourth International UFO Museum, in Istanbul, and he is founder of the Sirius Publishing House to publish important books in Turkish, www.siriusufo.org. He reported on a 16 Sep 01 silent UFO seen visually and on radar for 40 minutes over a military base and filmed. The next day a three-star General flew in from the Turkish AF headquarters to get the facts. On 26 May 02 a rotating object with colored lights, portholes, and projections was filmed.It was similar to an object filmed in Mexico City in 1999. A month later two Air Force men came to Istanbul and asked Haktan to give a lecture on UFOs to high military commanders. It was closed to the media. One young man videoed two silent UFOs over Istanbul and refused to give up the video when asked by a constable. A judge said the young man was entitled to it. A month later, 8 Jan 03, he videoed the same object at the same place, but closer. It had a green glow around it that turned to purple.The most amazing event, though, was a large meteor seen from four airliners in the air, two on the ground, and many other witnesses.At about 45,000 feet a UFO split it in two and then it broke into about 20 pieces as it burned up in the atmosphere.This was captured on camera.

After dinner Stan Romanek, from Denver, accompanied to the convention by his wife and three children, presented his case with the help of Deborah Lindemann, Jack Kasher, and Dana Thibault. A genius with dyslexia, Romanek is a talented graphic artist and expert flute player. On 27 Dec 00 while driving to the scenic mountains, he saw a UFO over the power lines. He heard a loud popping noise as it sped away. On 20 Sep 01 a UFO spotlighted his car, and a lady got it on video. It was about van size, and her daughter yelled, “Aliens, aliens.”The spotlight swept through the car. When it went into a cloud, there was a flash of light. He had sightings three times that month, and strange things started happening. Many birds collided with his car. He found a florescent spot under the skin of his hand. A photo of him showed vertical pupils, and he seems to have a strange effect on electrical systems. Later he woke outside in 20-degree weather in his shorts, and his wife had to let him in. He had nine marks on his body, like from a laser scalpel, and he felt sick. He had a broken rib, and the grass died where there was a depression. He has "learned to be content with being discontent." Through regression he recovered prophetic experiences, as others have, but he also received strange equations.

Deborah Lindemann, founder of the Center for Extraordinary Explorations, is a clinical Hypnotherapist from Fort Collins, Colorado, www.cfree.org. The MUFON Deputy Director referred the case to her for hypnotic regression. She said that after the third sighting of the red balloon-like craft Romanek was afraid it wanted something. He had a "dream" of three large-headed "possum people" the size of his sister, 5’ 2”, who knocked at the door and came in. He said one wore a light blue jump suit, and another wore a long robe with weird necklaces. "Female aliens can be well endowed." She kept looking at him, and he seemed to get a warning for humanity, and those equations he didn’t understand.She put pictures in his head about floods and strong winds, and people, animals, and plants dying. This "dream" ended with his sister standing at the front door with a blank face, and they both lay down and slept.While working with Lindemann, he received a page of symbols through automatic writing.

Dr. Jack Kasher, a popular speaker on UFOs, is professor emeritus of physics and astronomy at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. From 1975 to 1992 he was a consultant and summer employee at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory specializing in electromagnetic theory. He worked on the Strategic Defense Initiative and studied the surface of the sun.He said he tried to bring physical sense to the page of symbols acquired with Lindemann and another acquired while sleepwalking. He showed in great detail that the symbols on one page referred to the element Helium, the element 115, and the Drake Equation for calculating the number of earthlike planets with intelligent life. Much of the second page description was over my head, but he mentioned one equation describing the surface area of a black hole, one describing Lenz’s Law, and a Jack Safrati paper on the energy density required to make an electron-positron pair.

Dana Thibault, a former air traffic controller and Director of Denver’s Sophia Institute, has researched fractal dynamics and mental interaction in crop circles, and he is founder of Eyefire, an alien contact group.He concluded that the heart of the Romanek contact experience involves tsunamis and hurricanes causing great destruction.He said that a star chart derived from memory from the experience predicts that the shift of the planet’s molten core under the crust may occur on 12 Dec 03. [However, the original chart was lost in the mail to MUFON.] He mentioned that Velikovski saw evidence of great upheaval and thought it was caused by Venus, but it wasn't. He said that if the aliens in this case are right, then those of "Zeta Talk" are wrong. Planet X should be coming from the area of Hercules, rather than Orion. He did not think it is all doom and gloom when disaster strikes, because survival of the fittest weeds out the weakest genes. He said that it is likely that Planet X is responsible for the legend of the Phoenix.He thought aliens would not stop it, because it is a most sacred event. He also mentioned that Carl Jung saw the evil of the collective consciousness as the rise of the antichrist.

Mark Hazelwood, author of Blindsided, was the first speaker on a day dedicated to Planet X. He has spent much of his young life studying earth-change prophecy and the conspiracy to suppress the knowledge. See www.planetX2003.com. He said he supported the ZetaTalk web site for a long time, but now he feels that NASA is feeding it disinformation. They don’t want people to know when Planet X is coming or where it is coming from. Someone even put out a message to all bookstores that said his book was out of print until April 2003. He said Planet X is a small piece in the transformation of our species. He said his friend wrote the book, Talking To ETs. "This collective guides us." He said his book, Blindsided, puts the pieces together so people can understand it. If I understand my notes correctly, he also said that in 2001, 24 people in Boston saw Planet X over a live Hubble telescope link.

Prof. James McCanney has performed research for over 30 years and was the originator of the Plasma Discharge Comet Model and the Electric Sun Theory.He is author of Planet X, Comets and Earth Changes, and has much information on www.jmccanneyscience.com. He said science has to change. Misinformation campaigns are thriving on the Internet, and some people are paid by government to discredit others. He said his weekly radio show was jammed this week, and after 30 minutes on the backup line "they grabbed it too." The subject at the time was about government scientists faking Hale-Bopp photos. McCanney said they want you to think one date and look toward Orion for the Planet X, but it is not coming out of the Orion constellation. He said the only telescopes on Earth that you can see it from now are in Patagonia and New Zealand. He has a pamphlet titled, "Surviving Planet X-Caused Earth Changes."

Sean David Morton, a California researcher, is Publisher of the Delphi Associates Newsletter and Director of the Prophesy Research Institute. He said that astronomy had been a lifelong hobby. He referred to Sumerian writings about the planet Nibiru with giants called Nefilem. He said that Genesis 2, verse 7 mentions the genetic upgrade of humans. He said that a NASA web site for kids mentions that Nibiru, "the planet of the passing," might be the biggest danger to the Earth because of its magnetic powers, and he mentioned June 2003. He said that www.zetatalk.com says 90% of the population could be killed as a result of the passing of this planet in May 2003. Then he added, "I have found that predictions on this site to be astoundingly wrong. Later he said, "I conclude Planet X doesn’t exist. "He mentioned that the Bible code, from the first five books of the Bible, suggests something big will happen in August 2003. When asked a question about chemtrails, he said he didn’t know what they were, but Ed Teller's paper was mentioned. [I think this referred to Teller's presentation at the 1997 International Seminar on Planetary Emergencies in Italy, "Global Warming and Ice Ages: Prospects for Physics-Based Modulation of Global Change" – found on the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory web site.]

Donald Ware (that’s me) spoke after lunch for just one hour on "Planet X – A Philosophical View." He studied UFOs since he saw seven over Washington, DC on 26 Jul 52 that made headlines around the world. He retired from the USAF at the end of 1982, served as MUFON Eastern Regional Director 1989-1993 and has been a Director of the IUFOC since 1993. See http://home.earthlink.net/~donware. He said we should consider the transformation of the planet from as high a perspective as we can. We are eternal spiritual beings, and our reason for being has been free-will choice polarization of the soul. Many now have a new reason for being, and that is to learn to express unconditional love of others, defined as 4th-density experience. He defined God as Universal Consciousness, or All That Is, since there is some form of consciousness in everything. He said it is very difficult for 4th-density souls to live on the same planet with the less evolved, more selfish souls who project negative energy. He said, "I think the shift will change the dominance of the 3rd-density society on this planet," and this is something to look forward to. He read from the last book of the Bible, The Revelation to John, about what would happen when the seven angels blew their horns. Then he related that to the tsunamis, earthquakes, hurricane winds, volcanic activity, and disease that could result from a shift of the molten core of our planet under the crust as the magnetic fields of Planet X pass by. He described seven independent indicators of a coming shift: Ruth Montgomery’s last book, The World to Come suggesting a 2010-12 date; the RA material suggesting a 2012 shift; white boxcars with shackles and white SUVs, vans, and 4WD pickups stored on federal property and probably owned by FEMA that would be needed to move people; many underground bases worldwide; black helicopters and airborne aircraft carriers that could help in the aftermath of earth trauma; Homo alterios spacialis, or a human/alien hybrid with an upgraded computer; and cattle mutilations that provide hybrid fetus formula when demand exceeds normal supply. Ware said we should plan for an inland place to stay, think seriously about how we will treat the hungry, mean, and armed gangs that will want to take our stuff, and save seeds. He closed with a reminder of the Georgia Guidestones that he thinks will guide our society well during the Golden Age.

On Tuesday Ted Loder, Ph. D., professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of New Hampshire, summarized the brief history of anti-gravity research in the 1950s and recent signs of very advanced technologies. He is a co-author with Dr. Steven Greer of the 2001 Disclosure Briefing Document. He described Bill Uhouse’s work in the 1950s on flying-saucer simulators that were functional by 1962. He said Mark McCandlish reported seeing three saucers floating in a hangar, making a slight hum. He reported that the 9 Mar 92 issue of Aviation Week magazine said the B-2 bomber has the wing leading edge electro-statically charged positive and the trailing edge charged negative for an antigravity system. LTC John Williams is reported to have said the government is spending more money on electro-gravity technology than on any other program. Ben Rich, of the Lockheed "skunk works", said we already have the means to travel among the stars. Loder said the bad news is that there was no need for astronauts to die during re-entry because of 30-year-old technology. He also reported that Lockheed employees in the white world are frustrated, because they don’t have access to black [gray] technologies.

Dr. Nick Begich spoke about technology and its impact on humanity and borrowed the title of his latest book, Earth Rising II – The Betrayal of Science.His parents are the late US Congressman from Alaska and Pegge Begich, a political activist.He is probably best known for his book, Angels Don’t Play This HAARP.He is publisher and co-owner of Earthpulse Press, www.earthpulse.com.He said that on 9 Aug 02 he got an Interfax release from Russia indicating that the High Altitude Aurora Research Program has the ability to manipulate human behavior and the environment.It also can be used for pulsed communication with submarines.He reported that a flashing light on Japanese TV caused 700 children to go to the hospital with seizures.He said the Navy’s new sonar system has caused beachings of cetaceans, and that testing is done at only 1/5000th of the deployment level.He talked about technology in airports that can read your emotional level and cameras in London that can analyze faces and body movement.He closed by saying, “Pick an issue and write it down.Then write down something on that issue that will take just ten minutes to do.”

Jim Marrs is author of Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy and has taught a course on that assassination at the University of Texas since 1976.He also wrote Psi Spies, Alien Agenda, and Rule By Secrecy.See www.jimmarrs.com.He said that the 19 Apr 47 Dallas Morning News had all 16 stories on the front page about the mysterious airship crash at Aurora, TX.One guy said it went straight up after an earlier sighting.Marrs claimed that one objective of the Council on Foreign Relations is “to educate the American public on the desirability of a global government.Examples of his many statements follow.The CFR ”man on a white horse” symbol is similar to the Knights Templar medallion.Many people die from emphysema and lung cancer because the CFR gave them cigarettes during WW II.The British are in Iraq because they need the oil.We don’t need the oil.Seven shots were heard in the Reagan shooting, and Hinckley’s gun only had six chambers.At that point a member of the audience asked, “What is this, a political lecture.”Then he said the Homeland Security Act should be recalled, because congress did not have time to read the 500-page document before the vote.“I worked in mass media.The mass media are dumb, lazy, and won’t go dig into a story.”He said the US capitol sits on lot 666 in Washington, DC.He closed by saying that the ruling elite are trying to contact our ancient creators, have contacted them, or are the ancient creators.

Nancy Red Star, from Taos, New Mexico, is part Cherokee and also a member of the Sovereign Abenaki Nation in Missisquoi, Vermont.She authored Star Ancestors Trilogy, Legends With Star Ancestors, and Life with a Cosmos Clearance, www.nancyredstar.com.She read a draft of a 1947 letter (one month before the Roswell crash) from Dr. Robert Oppenheimer, Director of Advanced Studies at Princeton to Albert Einstein, also at Princeton, on, “Relationships of Inhabitants of Celestial Bodies.”Ideas included the following.It would be necessary to establish communications, assuming they have psychology similar to us, concerning laws among planetary peoples.A species of Homo sapiens may have established itself on our moon or Mars.A superior form of colonizing would have to be a sort of tutelage over us with approval of the UN.Red Star said she interviewed on tape an 80-year-old WW II veteran, Colonel Foy, who described himself as a Shadow Warrior and Windwalker.He had worked in the “spook house” underground at Area 51 to make sure no one unauthorized came in.They communicated telepathically with aliens who described themselves as observers.The aliens he was with had deep-set eyes, three fingers, and fine hair.They liked to eat toadstools and other organically grown food, and they produced very little excretions, mostly regurgitated.He said their high scientists look almost human.He learned to talk to animals telepathically.The aliens at dreamland passed away after one year, and then he left.His official title with the federal government is highly sealed.Foy said that if they needed an assassination done, “we would take care of it.”They were sometimes called a “snatch and snuff” team.“If I mentioned what I did I would be assassinated.”

Another retired National Reconnaissance Office intelligence officer interviewed by Red Star was Dan Salter who had worked in the Interplanetary Phenomenon Science and Technology Counter Intelligence Unit in Washington, DC.Salter was an original member of Project Blue Book.Red Star read an interesting and lengthy definition of “black’ from an international dictionary, mentioned ancient communications from the Aldebaran society, and she showed a picture of Hitler using a photo of a Haunebu saucer in a lecture.His goal was to free Germany from use of fossil fuels in going to the stars, but he led the way into the darkness.Hitler was quoted as saying, “Power without religion will go nowhere.”He had set out to destroy the dark.By the 1930s Hitler was exploring teleportation.She showed a drawing of a mothership called Andromeda, and said you could put seven Haunebus in one.She said Himmler was an esoteric scientist, but he used radionics for mind control.She said, “We know that the NSA is in charge of how much information will be released to the public,” and, ”The NRO spies on everybody.”She also said Col. Foy had created a cloud for cover during his escorting of the Dalai Llama out of Tibet.

On Wednesday Eltjo Haselhoff from Holland spoke. He has a PH. D. in Physics and currently works as Senior Scientist in the Magnetic Resonance Marketing Department for a leading provider of professional medical imaging equipment.He is the author of The Deepening Complexity of Crop Circles, and he has had a paper on crop circles published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. See www.deepeningcomplexity.com.(The video of his excellent slide presentation was greatly appreciated by attendees at my monthly Truthseekers meeting.)He showed a circle in a potato field where the plants were all bent and dehydrated 2 inches above the ground.A photo of a carrot field showed half the plants bending one way and half the other with the dividing line among the leaves of one plant row.There were no footprints in either field.Professor Hawkins did some analysis of some fairly simple looking groups of circles that had precise measurements related to the piano keyboard.One, allowing six triple-tangent lines, showed great complexity in planning.Others involved many different types of advanced geometry.He showed tremendous formations in Germany and Holland; some in snow, some with the crop burnt, and some had the crop cut in long lines.His film, “Balls of Light”, won an EBE in last year’s film festival.He said, “I know five people who saw a ball of light stop over a field as a circle formed below.”Balls of light can apparently dehydrate and bend grass a foot above the ground.One batch of crop samples set all together in his garage overnight had the seeds of all controls eaten by mice while all seeds from the formation were untouched. He closed by saying crop circle phenomena are very much underestimated in complexity, and he encouraged further research.He recommended the Dutch English-language site. www.DCCCS.org.

Commander Graham Bethune is a retired Navy pilot who has been current in over 100 different aircraft models and has over 10,000 flight hours.He participated in Operation High Jump, Admiral Byrd’s 1946-47 expedition to the secret land in Antarctica.He said Byrd lived two doors from him, and Byrd went there several times between 1929 and 1957.He was 3 ½ hours late in returning in 1946.He passed a valley with many black dome-shaped buildings.Bethune mentioned a subterranean laboratory built by Germans before WW II with plans given by Pleiadians.When Hitler went to war, the Pleiadians pulled back.On 5 Feb 51 Bethune was on a mission to Iceland to arrange for protection of troops from large circular objects.They saw a “city” of lights perhaps two miles in diameter on the water about 40 miles ahead, off the tip of Greenland.He said that “one yellow light came up over us and flew with us for some time” about 5 miles away.It was reported.They gave us a hard time until 68 UFOs flew over the Capitol in late July 1952.After that they didn’t give us any more problems.Bethune said a Blue-Book guy told him that Steven Spielberg was part of MJ-12.His encounter was first published by Keyhoe, and later a good account was in Hesemann’s book.He spoke of the many excellent photos taken 14 Jul 89 near Nashville of a Pleiadian craft from Alcyone.The photographer said, “I had a feeling I was not in control of what was going on,” and he was told, “You were allowed to take these for people to see.”Two other people took pictures, but not of good quality.The craft was calculated to be about 200 feet in diameter.Debunkers tried to use a model made from one of the photos to discredit the photos.Bethune said that Jay S. Solomon (PO Box 101, Fogelsville, PA 18051) has a Pleiadian friend called Shepherd.Solomon put on a space suit given by Shepherd, and it was telepathically shrunk to fit.Solomon was told the arc of lights over Phoenix were Pleiadian ships in formation.He also said the Tagamont has 11 levels [I think this was the mothership Captain Buttons was taken to from his A-10].He closed by saying Earth is a spiritual training planet, and aliens are not going to give us advanced technology.In the Q and A, he said Mars is where 45% of the craft used here were built.

Valery Uvarov, Ph. D., has been a ufologist by profession since 1989.He heads the Department for Investigation of Extraterrestrial Civilization under the Russian Academy of Sciences, since 1992 has headed the International Information Center for UFO Investigation, and in 2002 became head of the Department of UFO Research, Paleosciences and Paleotechnology for the National Security Academy of Russia.See www.wands.spb.ru and www.ufoav.spbu.ru.He said that in one case soldiers saw a UFO land for repairs for eight hours.They could not get closer to it.After repairs it went into another dimension.Another large object landed and attached two arms to the electric cables.A lady touched it and died of cancer in six months.Others who got too close to UFOs died of cancer. Some contactees are told, “You are living wrong.”One large object that was flying horizontally fell into the middle of a city causing a loud noise and a crater 28 m in diameter and 3-½ m deep.A chunk of soil was thrown 300 m away.Many windows were broken, but no one was even scared.He said, “Right before the crash they took the power to another dimension.”Most of the soil could not be found.I think he said a computer was taken to the crater and a program was mysteriously loaded in that indicated they came from Canis Minor.He said Planet X is a big headache for his department.It is directly behind the sun.Another headache concerns strange things in a 100,000 square mile “forbidden” area – 100 m high hemispheres, parabolic antennas and scalar radiation.

Graham Birdsall is editor of the world’s best selling UFO newsstand publication, UFO Magazine (UK).His presentation, “UFOs: The Awakening,” had good photos and film clips.See www.ufomag.co.uk.An object caught on film in January 2002 over Belfast, Northern Ireland, was similar to one filmed in Florida five days later.He said a black object over London imploded and was gone.One witness said he saw the Alien Autopsy film while with a “Disney chap” 20 years ago.Birdsall said that LTC Halt told him and two others that on the first or second night of the Bentwaters events an unscheduled Galaxy transport landed, and people with no insignia went into the forest and told him to go away.He showed a film clip about the American exchange officer who crashed into the sea on a UFO intercept and mysteriously disappeared from his plane.

Thursday morning Deborah Lindemann held an open mike session for some of the experiencers she met during the week at her evening meetings.She generalized the experiences as "life altering encounters."A man from Los Angeles said that a school classmate talked about being abducted by aliens.He said, “We laughed until the next night when I was abducted."He said he met an alien who said, "Your government shoots our ships down, but we are not going to take action against them.”Another man said he was pondering creation vs. evolution when “a corner of the room opened up, and it was like I was in a museum."It taught him that both creation and evolution have their place.One lady said that at age seven she had a dream of being in a non-earth place with two tall beings.A porthole opened, and through it she saw the Earth obliterated.She was told, "You knew this was going to happen. Now you are in a safe place."She received the message, "Change your ways that you may not destroy yourselves.”A man from Wisconsin said that at age 13 he saw three UFOs leave from near a power plant. He willed them back, and they came back.One lady shared some amazing information from a recently deceased scientist that had worked on "the atom bomb."He said they discovered many things through thought transmission.He said, "it would be impossible to travel from one star system to another in one lifetime if you stay in the same dimension."Thought transmission can pass through as many dimensions as necessary.The scientist had been in contact with many ETs.He said, "Form your questions correctly, and they will respond."One lady, now a clinical psychologist, received an alien image and a message that she should do her dissertation on human/alien hybrids.A voice said, "Don't worry.When you need subjects we will place them in front of you."She has done psychological studies of some of Dr. Roger Leir's subjects.One lady said she was awakened in the hotel room a couple of nights ago.She videoed a UFO after being told to look left.She could not see it with her eyes, but could see it on the camcorder screen.An occupational therapist from Hawaii said that early one morning in 1978 a beautiful being came to her and spoke telepathically.When asked for a name, the being said, "Gary.Well you wanted a name, so I gave you one."

Elizabeth Robinson, author of Secrets, Truth and Destiny, has a degree in counseling/psychology from the University of New South Wales in Sidney, Australia.Her talk was titled, "ET Contact – Awakening A Dormant Humanity."www.elizabethr.com.She said that in 1990 she and her daughter saw three aliens in the family room.They each made drawings of similar beings with black almond-shaped eyes, but the daughter's had wiggly lines surrounding the head.It reminded her of some alien drawings on cave walls.She said her daughter is more multidimensional.Robinson said, "If we all loved unconditionally, I would be out of work."Other interesting comments were: Three mantis types dropped by for dinner one day; rows of uniformed beings marched through a wall; a lifetime of preparing me for a new way of living has caused profound changes; I have had missing pregnancies; a three-fingered being touched Mark on the shoulder and left prints like burns.She thinks her psychic opening may be related to her decrease in tolerance for some foods, such as wheat, rye, and dairy.As an intuitive, she is now given much information about her client's, including past lives.Some people in her audiences see light beings working with her.Some have spontaneous hearings.She closed by saying that we are forging a new, multidimensional humanity.She now lives in Toronto, Canada, "until the government throws me out.”

Dr. John Mack is a Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School and founder of The Center for Psychology and Social Change at Cambridge.He is author of A Prince of Our Deception, Abduction, and Passport to the Cosmos.His talk was on “The UFO Encounter Phenomenon: What are its Psychological and Political Implications?”See www.centerchange.org and www.peermack.org.He said, “Planet X is already here in terms of the destruction of the current paradigm or world view.”He highly recommended astronaut Gordon Cooper’s book, Leap of Faith.He commented on various aspects of the emerging world-view: philosophical, scientific, religious, economic, political, etc.He said, “Imagine two suitors.”One exploits resources to fill his needs.The other suitor acts out of knowledge and love for mutual delight.Which would you choose?He said re-ensoulment would once again cause us to consider all living things as sacred.Leaders would think beyond borders to the whole, beyond nationalism.He said that extremism in defending a worldview is not a vice.Aliens being here is not a big story.The transformation of re-ensoulment is a big story.Paradigm changes affect everything.

Colonel John B. Alexander retired from the US Army in 1988. He was the replacement speaker for Graham Sheppard, an airline pilot from the United Kingdom. He said he got his Doctorate in Thanotology under Elizabeth Kubler-Ross. He started with his rules for speaking – basically, no disinformation, but he can’t tell all he knows. He said the government never guessed that half of the Freedom of Information Act requests received would be about UFOs. They did put up some blocks that kicked UFO reports out of responses. He made many statements almost too rapidly for me to note: Most people don’t care about the big questions like we do; of 8 para-psychological abilities listed in a survey, 90% of the people believe in one or more; he had worked for the National Institute for Discovery Science, but something happened to cause him to leave; and the 9 May 01 Disclosure Project press conference derailed congressional hearings.He said, “I think I am the only person who has briefed all of the lettered agencies that you know about. ”The only strong adverse response he got was from the National Institute of Science.One man there said, “You are not supposed to know that.That is what you are supposed to learn when you die.”One witness from the Bentwaters encounter said, “I’ll tell you about when I touched it.”He said that the Cash-Landrum case women should have died from the amount of radiation that caused the early symptoms, but they didn’t.He paraphrased Carl Sagan in an address at Cornell University as saying, “It’s OK for people like us to address this, but you can’t let the people out there hear about it.It would lead to their downfall.”In closing, he said, “Two things are infinite – the universe and stupidity, and I am not sure about the universe.”In the Q and A session he said that if any politician addresses the UFO issue, his opponent would get a 20-point boost.

Friday Philip Mantle spoke first. He is the former Director of Investigations for the British UFO Research Association, and he was the MUFON Representative for England for 10 years. He is co-author of Beyond Roswell and Without Consent, the story of missing time and alien abduction accounts in the UK.www.beyondpublications.com. He said that Constable Godfrey was called to look for missing cows when he saw lights ahead and a large gray, diamond-shaped object. He stopped and drew a picture.His next memory was when he was farther down the road and driving. He went back and found a swirl in the grass. He later found the cows inside of a fenced area where they did not belong. He restricted his book to British subjects, because some skeptics say that abductions only happen in America. There was one report of short, hairy creatures with claws and the face of a bat wearing a lab coat.One lady had many missing fetuses and smart-baby dreams. She had a scar on the back of her neck. She got to see her hybrid children. Mantle said that David Thomas saw an object in a field in North Wales, and beings took him on board. They took his cassette player and rock-and-roll tape and left him on a road with no memory block.On 1 Dec 87 Philip Spencer took pictures of a green being in a hollow that went into a saucer with a ”box on top. ”The creature had pointed ears and three fingers with a thumb.During the Q and A Mantle said that several now claim to have seen the “Alien Autopsy” film before it was given to Ray Santilli for release.A lady in the audience reported that Steven Spielberg had locked a make-up artist for the movie, “Close Encounters,” in a room with photos of aliens. It was also reported that Prince Phillip subscribes to the British publication, “Flying Saucer Review.”

Michael Hesemann, from Duesseldorf and Rome, wrote UFO: A Secret History and The Fatima Secret, and he co-authored Beyond Roswell.These were published in 16 countries with a combined printing of over one million.He also produced five video documentaries that won several awards.He was received by Pope John Paul II, who later wrote to express his “admiration and appreciation for your laborious research.” His lecture title was “UFOs: European Update 2003.” He said a Romanian was offering to sell a “library of videos” from his grandfather for $5000.After verification, Hesemann made an offer to pay and received no answer.A photo from the Ukraine had the shape of the UMMO vehicle.He had a 1968 film of a UFO over the surface of the moon.During the Q and A it was mentioned that an alien baby found in a home in Russia was sent to Moscow where it “disappeared.”The photo of the body, taken by the local police earlier, appeared like the alien preserved in a jar in Puerto Rico.

James Gilliland is author of Becoming Gods: A Reunion with the Source and Becoming Gods II. He is also founder of the Self Mastery Earth Institute, a 70-acre retreat located in the Sattva Sanctuary at the base of Mt. Adams in Trout Lake, Washington.He spoke on “Project Contact.” www.cazekial.org. He showed interesting pictures of visitors in our past: cave paintings, statues of “lizzies,” petroglyphs, grays on a wall in ancient Egypt, a cone-head skull in Peru, giants, and images on the Abbados Temple walls of cigar-shaped ships, helicopters and saucers.He said, “Did we have to start over again?Sure.” He showed a 1710 painting of a saucer over the baptism of Jesus, and a painting of his crucifixion with a saucer nearby. He said that Star Beings would be helping us through the tumultuous changes that are coming. Gilliland reported physical contacts after asking for solid proof. A beam and three golden balls of light came through the wall and hit him in the chest, and he found himself in a vehicle. A lady there said, “You have all the proof you need.” There was a burn mark on his chest that transformed to a triangle, then a heart, and a thin gold film developed over it before it disappeared.He said that when you meditate, your senses are heightened; your vision can be expanded. He sat meditating in a field and saw orbs to his left. He told someone to take a picture in that direction, and they got a bright one on film.One photo taken by Tom Dongo showed Gilliland leaving his body.

Roberto Pinotti, Ph. D., from Florence, Italy, has been a UFO researcher for 40 years. He is President of Centro Ufologico Nazionale and Editor of the excellent monthly magazine, “UFO Notiziario.”He has organized the World UFO Symposium in the San Marino Republic, with the help of their government, since 1993.His fast moving presentation on historical cases included a cylindrical UFO over France that dropped angel hair in 1950.Scientists at the University of Analytical Chemistry in Florence said it was made of boron, silicon, calcium and cesium.I n a 1954 case an Italian lady met two small aliens who took one of the stockings and the flowers that she was carrying to their craft and departed.Other people saw the craft.In 1974 a man was seen straddling a “block” as he flew over a house. In 1977 three Army helicopters tracked a glowing, orange UFO.In 1978 there were 2500 sightings: The Navy reported one that came out of the water.A huge cigar-shaped ship was over the Northern Adriatic for hours before it left.Two Issues of Panorama Magazine (Italian equivalent to Time Magazine) had UFOs on the cover.The next year four members of parliament made an official inquiry. In 1997 some top-secret documents from the early fascist government were released. They included Mussolini’s order to journalists not to speak of certain events.Pinotti also showed a blueprint of an Italian saucer from the 1930s that was recovered in Germany after WW I.

There was a special film showing after hours Friday night.

Wendelle Stevens and Prof. Sun Shi Li (from China) featured flying humanoids from Argentina, China, and Mexico.

Graham Birdsall provided a controversial, 52 minute film,” Kubrick, Nixon and the Man On the Moon” that was shown in France in December. The headliner of the film said "Fiction or Reality, Find Out for Yourself. It was fiction. After I got home, I had an interview with the Director, William Karel, from ARTE Magazine, translated into English. I know that there was a set of the moon. I know someone who was there. I suspect it was used to dramatize the first step on the moon, because that picture was too tough for NASA to produce without having the photographer first step into the moon dust. I think the primary reason the set was built was to produce film to cover shots that may have otherwise shown us those who were already there.The Director did not say that it was produced to embarrass the United States.

Wendelle Stevens was the first speaker Saturday. He is a retired military officer and test pilot who was working on UFO- related projects before they were called UFOs.He has published 22 books on the subject. He is a founding Director of the IUFOC.He spoke about the extra-dimensional (ED) extraterrestrials (ETs) that the Batallanos brothers in Northern Argentina have been contacting for six years. Hugo, Hulio and another brother have been interested in the spiritual world for a long time, sometimes using the flute, drums and blindfolds to enhance their meditation. They discovered beings that could project their life force and clothe it in ambient prana to be perceived by us.Hulio took 70 photos in one week, and they now have over 450 photos and two full VHS videos of the craft and their occupants. They say that criticism does not change their reality and their contacts.One of the brothers recently spent a day and a half in “the city of light” with his ED friends. On video you can see four ED vehicles morphing to many and back to few.They can float about 3 feet above the ground and change from black to many-colored, and sometimes they are transparent.In 1996 they came to the USA where other people were able to photograph the EDs downtown in Los Angeles and at Griffith Park.Several different types of vehicles appeared in Griffith Park in the same photo sequence.They demonstrated the materialization of images of Christ and Mary through thought manifestation.When they approach the brothers, they “slide” rather than walk.Hulio ascended and increased in size as he entered the ship.In an experiment in Los Angeles three people were given a 35 MM camera and a new roll of film.Daryl and Marco Rios got no images while one of the Batallanos brothers did.Such psi effects have been documented earlier from Ted Serios, so the images may be coming from the minds of the brothers.They said that if Wendelle came to Argentina for contact, he should allow a week for spiritual training.

Budd Hopkins became interested in UFO phenomena in 1964, and his three books, Missing Time, Intruders, and Witnessed have greatly helped many other researchers.He laid the foundation for studies on many subjects from screen memories to the all-important alien reproductive focus and apparent production of hybrid beings.www.intrudersfoundation.org. He described in great detail the important recent abduction case of “Jim” near New York City.Jim had seen his doctor for three years and was taking an anti-depressant for symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. He told Hopkins that a strange thing happened on his way to visit a friend at the hospital. He remembers pulling out of the driveway, but his next memory was pulling back into the driveway with blood on his face and pants due to bleeding from his nostrils and bladder. He had missing time. The doctor found an injury to the inside of his bladder that healed very quickly. There was semen in the bladder. Hypnosis found Jim on a table in an alien vehicle. A praying mantis like figure said, ”We are going to make you feel some pain so you understand that you have to cooperate. ”They put a urethra into his bladder, and then a gray alien put his hand across his head and removed the pain. He was very grateful. They also inserted an object into his brain through his nose. The doctors found the case so unusual they decided to publish it in a medical journal. In the following investigation Hopkins found that Jim’s car had been driven to the suburbs and into a field where it had apparently been picked up and placed back onto his driveway. In the Q and A session, it was noted that this was the least pleasant way that aliens collect semen samples.

Jaime Maussan has been deeply interested in UFO phenomena since 1992. He is well known for his three TV shows in Mexico: “60 Minutes”, “From Sunday to Sunday”, and “ECO”. He is a popular speaker and is appreciated for documenting many important UFO cases. He commented on many important cases starting with the vehicle that landed in a Mexican schoolyard and caused the watches of all the police there to stop at the same time.In August 1999 cameras focused on the erupting volcano, “Popo”, showed a bright UFO flying in and then going straight up over it. The picture was on the front page of the Mileno newspaper for 30 million people to see.T he magnetic energy of the mountain suddenly dropped 80% from its peak level as the UFO went over. On 24 Jul 00 a flying saucer was videoed hovering close to the world trade center, at the later crash site, before it buzzed a tourist helicopter. He suggests that this was prophetic. On 14 Feb 01 an object was videoed going into the crater of Mt. Popo.On 16 Mar 02 fleets of silver spheres were seen in a clear sky for 100 minutes.One was shown moving around another.On 15 Dec 02 this type event was repeated 500 miles away. Such spheres have been seen making signs in the sky at many places.There were 200 seen at once on 1996.He showed the amazing agro-gram near Chilbolton, England that appeared 13 Aug 00. When a 6.6 pixel gauzing filter was applied to the camera the image of a face, possibly hybrid, appeared clear and 3-dimensional.Four days later the message sent out from Aricebo earlier was answered in the field nearby.Then on 22 Aug 02 an agro-glyph of an alien holding a 50-meter-diameter disk of binary code appeared at Crabwood. The message said: Beware the bearers of FALSE gifts and their BROKEN PROMISES. Much PAIN But Still time. BELIEVE There is GOOD out there. We oppose DECEPTION. Conduit CLOSINGHe noted that a 500-year-old painting in Russia depicts an alien with a disk.Finally he showed two videos of live aliens. One was taken at night 16 Sep 94 of a strange being in a cornfield, and the other recently taken of a more familiar alien standing by a fence in daylight.It is still under investigation.Maussan closed with a reminder of the prophecy of the 6th Sun: “the truth will become the light of life, and that which was hidden will be discovered.

Dr. Steven Greer is founder and International Director of the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI). Since August 2000 his CSETI Disclosure Project has recorded the testimony of over 100 military, government and related witnesses of UFO events and projects.His talk title was “Formula for the Red Pill.”www.disclosureproject.org. He mentioned that while at Lawrence Rockefeller’s Ranch at a meeting about the alien presence he was asked, “Do you think they could be a threat to national security?”He answered, “Yes, if they want to be.” Greer said the world is as we are, so let us change ourselves and the universe will grow with us.“This can’t happen while people are deceived.” He said that the reason for secrecy on the UFO subject is because advanced technology is hidden in it.He said that DDT is easy to do – decoy, distraction, and trashing.He said that he told Valery Uvarov that we are all slaves on someone’s plantation, and Uvarov said, “True, but the American plantation is a little more prosperous that the Russian plantation.”Greer said that hidden technologies could allow us to transform so that every village in India could be as prosperous as Scarsdale.He said that the only reason we are in the Middle East is because of oil.He said a holocaust survivor told him, “There will always be certain people who want to do bad things.What is most important is that the good people act.”He asked that we imagine technology the size of this podium that could provide all the energy you need without pollution.Most people in covert programs want this stuff out.He is working with Dr Loder and others to get this technology out.He said he is not talking about black projects, because they have devices that can go to Alpha Centauri and back in two seconds.The device he is promoting produces electric energy at 600 times over unity.He said, “I have had people offer a billion dollars toward the project if I would sell out.”They are smart people, but we have not been threatened because we have the media ready to pounce.Then he said, “Let me be accurate – within 30-60 days we should have the prototype robust enough to take it on tour.Then we will have the largest International Press Club event ever.We have celebrities lined up to power their houses with this.Then he concluded by saying, “We have to put this in place so it can not be used for war.”[I wish he had told us how that was possible.] In the Q and A session he said that in 1992, “I was offered a board seat on MJ-12 if I would sell out.”

On Saturday evening after the banquet there was an awards ceremony for the ten “films” submitted. Ken Seddington, our Director from the United Kingdom, had selected a number of volunteer judges who agreed to watch all of the films, and be impartial judges deciding the awards' recipients.These volunteers are greatly appreciated, because some films did not end until 9:40 PM.A DIALOGUE ON THE ALIEN ABDUCTION EXPERIENCE, produced by PEER and directed by Christopher Lydon, won the EBE for Best Abductee/Contactee Documentary.STAR DREAMS, produced and directed by Robert Nichol, won two awards: Best Documentary in a UFO Related Subject, and Best Musical Score Within a UFO Program.A VIEW OF THE YEAR, produced by Russell Callaghan and directed by Graham Birdsall won Best UFO Documentary. Finally, CROP CIRCLES: QUEST FOR TRUTH, produced and directed by William Gazecki, won the coveted Peoples Choice award. The banquet was another great social occasion and a good excuse to dress up.We appreciate the wonderful technical crew, the IUFOC Convention staff, and especially the Brown family that make this the best UFO related gathering in the world.People seemed especially pleased that we could get same-day production of audio and video tapes for only $8.00 - $12.00 for audios and $20.00 for the videos (before member discounts).Mark your calendar for the 13th Annual IUFOC Convention February 8 – 14, 2004 and for the 14th February 6 – 12, 2005. A Summer Seminar is also tentatively planned for early August 2004, however, due to the pending war, at this time we are not planning a Summer 2003 conference.





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