Are Big Changes in the Wind?
By Whitley Strieber 4/6/95
In the past week I've received information from a number of unrelated sources concerning a possible increase in visitor activity and/or the end of the cover-up. Here's a brief roundup: 1. I've been hearing rumors for about a year that some 16mm film of the original Roswell cleanup has been released by the photographer who took it. First, Turner had it. Then Spielberg was going to include it in the mysterious Roswell film he is or isnŠt making. Now the rumors have settled into fact. The film is 91 minutes long and will first be shown publicly at the British UFO Organization (BUFORA) convention in August. It will then be aired on a BBC documentary. Here is a relevant article from the London TIME: Film of 'aliens' offered to MoD 03/28/95 THE TIMES OF LONDON FILM that is claimed to show the bodies of alien beings who died when a "UFO" crashed in the New Mexico desert in 1947 is to be offered to the Ministry of Defence for analysis. The 91-minute film, which purports to show a number of dead aliens with neither hair nor facial features and the wreckage of their craft, was allegedly shot by US government officials and kept under wraps for 47 years until an unauthorised copy emerged recently. Philip Mantle, director of investigations of the British UFO Research Association, said yesterday: "I am sceptical by nature but potentially this is mind-boggling." The claim is the latest twist in the story of the world's most celebrated UFO mystery which has sparked decades of speculation and conspiracy theories. According to a report in The Times, the US Army announced on July 8, 1947, that an object resembling a "flying disk" had been found near Roswell and sent to the military research centre at Wright Field, Ohio. But last September the Roswell incident was officially identified in a US Air Force report as part of a secret American atomic spying programme. Flying-saucer enthusiasts, reluctant to abandon their theories, denounced the Air Force report as a cover-up and produced the film. The cameraman who leaked the black and white footage passed it to the British TV documentary film-maker Ray Santilli. It will form the basis of a BBC TV documentary due to be screened in August and also shown to an international audience of UFO spotters during a two-day conference at Sheffield Hallam University on August 19-20. Naturally, I'm hopeful that the footage is real and that it will encourage further disclosures. It would be good if some of the people who were at Wright Field and received the debris and bodies came forward, and if General Arthur Exon and Sheridan Ware Cavett would both disclose their full knowledge of the affair. 2.The new Disney "Alien" Exhibit is being promoted by a syndicated documentary that claims without equivocation that aliens are real and that most people will "know an alien" within five years. I haven't seen the film, which seems to pop up almost at random. I have been told, however, that it promotes the _fear_ scenario so dear to the hearts of those who want to end up in control of the contact process. My own thought is, the less fear the better, the more individual control over contact the better. 3. The March, 1995 issue of the Mutual UFO Network's MUFON Journal has a very well-done article by Joseph W. Ritrovato claiming that an anaylsis of various flap cycles has convinced him that another flap is going to take place this spring and summer. I was fascinated that he mentions Mars proximity as a flap indicator. The reason is that, about three weeks ago, I had a substantial segment of memory blocks that have been in place since childhood collapse, and the center of everything I recalled was Mars. This is why I did the Mars Face conference, and now makes it clearer to me why I have been obsessed with Mars since childhood, and with the face since I learned of it. I'm going to make my next book about the summer of my ninth year, when this material about Mars entered my life. In addition to these three things, I am receiving a lot of e-mail and calls from people who are having stepped- up contact. This started about three weeks ago. My e-mail has risen to about thirty letters a day, and fully a third of these are about contacts the previous night or the past few days. So...maybe something's gonna give AT LAST!   |