AUTUMN 2004 NEWSLETTER

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IN THIS ISSUE --- THREE FAMED UFO PROPONENTS DIE: BETTY HILL, DR. JOHN MACK AND GORDON COOPER... NEW UFO WEBSITES BY BRITISH ABDUCTEE & UFO AUTHOR RAY FOWLER... CBS TV DRAMA ON UFO ABDUCTIONS... NEW BUDD HOPKINS 'ABDUCTEE CARE SERVICE'... "SIGHT UNSEEN" IN PAPEBACK... EARTHSONG 2012 WEBSITE... "MINDSHIFT INSTITUTE PRESENTS"... And much more....

FAMED ABDUCTEE BETTY HILL DIES

By HAROLD EGELN

Thursday, October 21, 2004 -- Betty Hill, the New England social worker who with her late husband Barney Hill, a postal worker, were the subjects of the ground-breaking best selling book, "The Interrupted Journey" in 1966 recounting their UFO close encounter in 1961, died of lung cancer in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on Sunday. She was 85.

Hill's passing was the third major UFO-related death within the past few weeks. Dr. John Mack was killed by a car in London on September 27 and Mercury-Gemini astronaut Gordon Cooper, who witnessed UFOs as a young military pilot and spoke often in public about their reality, died on October 4.

The Hill's 1961 UFO incident, along with another abduction account from 1957 in Latin America, were the pioneering stories of UFO stealth encounters, leading to extensive "abduction" research beginning in the mid-1970s with Dr. Leo Sprinkle, Thomas Bullard and John Carpenter, and peaking in the 1980s and 1990s with the work of Budd Hopkins, David Jacobs, the late Dr. John Mack, Ray Fowler, Whitley Strieber, and many others known and unknown researchers.

"THE INTERRUPTED JOURNEY"

"The Interrupted Journey" by "Saturday Review" journalist John Fuller, told of Dr. Benjamin Simon's hypnosis sessions with the Hills about their nighttime encounter by the White Mountains on September 19, 1961, which involved missing time. disturbing dreams and trauma in its aftermath. Dr. Simon stated that they probably had powerful "shared dreams" but respected the Hills feelings that the abduction was a real event, leaving open that possibility.

Look Magazine, in 1966, featured a cover story with excerpts from Fuller's book. Barney Hill died of a stroke in 1969.

Just eight years after Fuller's book appeared, "Astronomy Magazine" in 1974 published a special supplement on the Hill's encounter, "The Zeti Reticuli Incident," with the controversial Marjorie Fish map of the star systems recreated from the holographic-type map Betty Hill recalled from her sessions with Dr. Simon, along a discussion by astronomers, including Carl Sagan, on the incident. The supplement was a very unusual publication for a major popular astronomy magazine.

The Hill's story was turned into a popular NBC TV movie in 1975, "The UFO Incident," starring Estelle Parsons and James Earl Jones. It coincided with the Travis Walton multi-witnessed close encounter at the time, and came two years after the 1973 UFO flap with the widely pblicized Pasagula, Miss. joint abduction of Hickson and Parker.

Two years after "The UFO Incident" TV movie, Steve Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" about UFO abductions and encounters hit the big screen. Then there came "Project UFO" on NBC-TV, produced by "Dragnet's" Jack Webb, from 1978 to 1980, recreating many UFO encounters culled from Project Bluebook, including the Kelly-Hopkinsville, Kentucky, encounter of 1955.

"THE SILENT NETWORK"

Starting in the mid-1960s, Betty Hill's interest in UFOs continued with the formation of "The Silent Network" of UFO witnesses across the nation and around the world, working without the help of UFO investigators.

She experienced many more multi-witnessed UFO sightings, including one with Barney in 1965, with some interaction at a distance with the craft, but no further abductions, she said, except for the 1961 incident with otherworldly "astronauts," her term for the abductors.

In her book, Hill stated that abductions, themselves, are one-time events and spelled out the criteria for "real abductions," and discussed the types of additional interactions, including witnesses' many sightings of ufonauts, more common than actual abductions, she said.

Hill documented her further experiences in a 1995 self-published book, "A Common Sense Approach to UFOs." In her revealing book, she expressed her displeasure with a number of "so-called" UFO investigators who dismissed, and even censored, the "true life stories" of actual encounter witnesses, hence the loose, unpublicized "Silent Network."

Hill paid tribute to J. Allen Hynek, Dr. Benjamin Simon and John Fuller in the book, documenting 30 years of her own fascinating, down-to-Earth style of independent UFO research. Until a few years ago Betty Hill made many public and TV appearances.

In a TV segment in 1980 on astronomer Carl Sagan's 13-part "Cosmos" on national U.S. public television, Sagan recreated the Hill's 1961 incident, dismissive of it for various reasons. But he got his facts wrong in recreating the incident, critics said then, including a rain sequence.

Of UFOs now, Hill wrote in her book's conclusion: "Now they are not leaving. The same UFOs are coming back regularly to the same areas. They are coming down in large craft, changing to smaller ones. We can assume they are above us, out in space traveling, circling this planet. They are not hopping back and forth from their planets. They are here to stay."

TV UFO ABDUCTION SERIES HIT

Now 43 years after the Hill's late night encounter, UFO abductions remain a hot popular topic with the American public, a true story missed and dismissed by major U.S. media.

Look at this item, "'4400's' Second Landing," in the TV pages of today's "New York Post" newspaper:

"It's official. There will be another season of 'The 4400,' the record holder for the highest-rated debut in basic cable history.

"'The 4400' became a surprise hit for USA in July, premiering to 7.4 million total viewers, eclipsing previous record holer 'The Dead Zone' by 1 million.

"The six-hour series, which starred Joel Gretsch and Peter Coyote, chronicled UFO abductees who returned to Earth with mysterious powers.

"Production on a new set of 13 episodes will begin in February in anticipation of a June launch, officials said." (--NY Post, Thurs., Oct. 21, 2004, page 86 from Post wire services)

The popularity of the science fiction series, although fictional but loosely based on the UFO abduction experience is: Not surprising!

In "Unusual Personal Experiences: An Analysis of the Data from Three National Surveys," a poll conducted in 1991 and released, in 1992 to the media and 100,000 mental health professionals, by The Roper Organization and financed by Robert Bigelow, with the help of Budd Hopkins, David Jacobs and Ron Westrum, the UFO experience was found to be potentially widespread among the American public, perhaps numbering several millions based on survey results.

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[This writer had the pleasure of seeing and meeting Betty Hill in person twice: at a Jim Moseley Annual National UFO Conference in 1980 at the Doral Inn in New York City and at a New Hampshire MUFON Conference in Portsmouth in 1995. If you get hold of Betty Hill's clearly written, no-nonsense styled book, readers may be surprised, delighted and impressed.]

DR. JOHN E. MACK -- "A FRIEND OF OUR ENIGMAS"

By Harold Egeln

New York City, Wednesday, September 29, 2004 -- While humans have wondered "Are We Alone?" among the stars, we who are close encounters witnesses, knowing that We Are Not Alone, have largely lived lives alone in isolation on our experiences, until we connected with others.

One who made us feel that we are not alone in our isolation was an extraordinary man with a remarkable background and extra special character, Dr. John E. Mack, the famous Harvard University professor of psychiatry and 1977 Pulitzer Prize biography winner for his book, "A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T.E. Lawrence."

In north London late on the evening of September 27, while on his way to a home where he was a guest after giving a lecture at a T.E. Lawrence Seminar, our trustworthy friend was taken away from our world when he was struck and killed by a car, driven by an apparently drunk operator, according to police.

I first learned of this tragic and, yes, untimely loss, when I came home last evening, after consulting with a fellow experiencer and taping a TV show with another, and saw an e-mails from close encounter counselor Deborah Lindemann, about Dr. Mack's death.

The news left me stunned and shaken, in shock and in tears, knowing that we will no longer have a chance to have him around to give us all his warm, encouraging sensitivity and connectiveness on our journeys of recovery and discovery.

Dr. Mack, who would have been 75 on October 4th, has been a supporter and friend to us ever since he was introduced to S.P.A.C.E. through two reviews of his first encounter book, "Abduction: Human Encounters With Aliens," in our print newsletter in May 1994 and my environmental "Eco-Frontier" column in a newspaper in April 1994.

In the mid-1980s I had first heard of Dr. Mack through the Center for Psychological Studies in the Nuclear Age in Boston, where he was its academic director, through a sister organization here in New York, the Center for Psycho-Social Issues in the Nuclear Age, a group of mental health professionals led by Dr. Harris Peck and of which I was a board member as a professional peace organizer then.

A few of us from the S.P.A.C.E. Group first met Dr. Mack in mid-1994 right after he taped a segment about his "Abduction" book on "The Charlie Rose Show" on PBS-TV, taking the taxi with him from the Channel 13 studio, then on West 58th Street, over to Newark Airport and sitting with him snacking at a cafe there as he waited for his flight, seeing him safely off.

"Charlie Rose doesn't buy this," he told us. But Rose gave him plenty of time to state his case, Dr. Mack added, which I saw when I viewed the tape again just a few weeks ago, thinking about John, as he preferred people call him.

Several of us met him later in 1994, first at the New Hampshire MUFON Conference in Portsmith in September, and in November at a meeting held at Julia Richman High School on Manhattan's Upper East Side. It was there that we invited him to attend one of our then monthly support group gatherings. He graciously agreed, noting that he would be in the city for a Learning Annex lecture.

Our meeting with him on January 28, 1995, with over 60 experiencers and supporters attending, was a highly enriching exchange, for which we were extremely grateful, as he related his findings and listened carefully to our experiences.

Soon after a friend in New England and I visited Dr. Mack at his PEER (Program for Extraordinary Experiences Research, founded in 1993) in a house at Harvard University in Cambridge, having interesting conversations with him and his volunteer staff, as well as sitting in on a PEER support group meeting, finding it very much like ours.

In Spring 1997 three of us traveled by car to Boston from New York, Dr. Mack's birthplace, to attend "A Dialogue with Budd Hopkins and Dr. John Mack" airing the differences and the commonalities of their research.

Also, in 1997 on April 29, several of us attended a talk by Dr. Mack at the New York Academy of Sciences, sponsored by FIONS, the Friends of the Institute of Noetic Sciences NYC affiliate.

Dr. Mack and I talked on the phone a couple of times in 1999 after I wrote a review for our print "S.P.A.C.E. Explorer" newsletter of his second close encounter book, "Passport to the Cosmos: Human Transformation and Alien Encounters," sharing our thoughts on his latest research on how these experiences affect people and alter or shatter their worldviiews, his major focus.

Several of us next met with Dr. Mack at a Budd Hopkins' Intruders Foundation Conference on a hot May weekend in 2000, held at the New York Hall of Science in Queens. It was Dr. Mack who approached me during a lunch break, aware of my latest turmoil over my own "visitor experiences" and my occassional self-doubts, being highly introspective, about facilitating S.P.A.C.E., a large group of diverse and amazing people.

In his gentle caring way and without telling me what to do at all, he noted, "You come to these critical impasses and you go into high anxiety and distress. And then, Harold, somehow, on your own resources, you integrate what you have just experienced, pass beyond your turmoil, and you then go forward into the next stage, in a new way."

Dr. Mack's going directly to what state I was in, connecting directly with me (a hallmark of his counseling skills and deep humanity noted by others) and approaching it with compassion and full sensitive understanding, not only helped me, but gave me an intimate look into his own professional expertise and his great human heart.

Around that time, in late 1999, Dr. Mack also spoke at a meeting at a Upper East Side hospital. I last saw him two years ago in November 2002 when he, Budd Hopkins and David Jacobs spoke together in a forum sponsored by The Sci Fi Channel to promote its then upcoming cable TV fictional mini-series "Taken," based on true life accounts, by Steven Spielberg.

Seeing Dr. Mack in action in person and on television, reading his books and benefitting personally from him as a friend "who was always there" and as a colleague, even though we met only a few times in eight years, has enriched my own life and the S.P.A.C.E. Group immeasurably.

He spoke often that "experiencers need to find their own voice and then find ways to express it," getting it out into the world, if they choose that.

S.P.A.C.E., founded and facilitated by experiencers themselves rather than helpful outside interested researchers, has been carrying that out, on our own initiative, and we are grateful for Dr. Mack's support for what we do.

I am also grateful for John's voice in world affairs and his tireless work for peace, justice and ecology, affirming the creative impulses in humans to guide the world rather than the destructive ones which now threaten the future. He had an op-ed piece in The New York Times about "the Trickster" factor in world affairs and had prepared an excellent op-ed editorial for The Boston Globe before hs death.

Dr. Mack was a prominent member, ver much in the public eye, of our very large enigma-driven family, which spans planet Earth with all our diverse experiences. He understood very well the disturbance of clashing worldviews inherent in the close encounter interface and saw within that contrast the creative human potential for transformation, a mark he would say of "spirituality," and nurtured that starseed.

Although I and countless others will sorely miss his vibrantly intelligent and kindly presence among us, Dr. Mack's amazing positive life will keep adding to our lives, and improving the life force of humanity, making possible undreamed of cosmic connections.

That will happen through his writings and any collection of those writings yet to be put into book form, the resources and work of the John E. Mack Institute, and through all those whose lives have "touched" his, such as in the treasured moments shared here, as we journey onward in our own search for truth to the ever-question engendering close encounter enigma, through which Dr. Mack befriended us in spite of tough challenges to his work.

John, -- Ad Astra!

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"The abduction phenomenon, it seems clear, is about what is yet to come. It presents, quite literally, visions of alternative futures, but it leaves the choice to us." -- Dr. John Mack in "Abduction."

Remarks from S.P.A.C.E. Friends of Dr. John E. Mack "I was shocked to find out about the death of Dr. John Mack. He was such a great person who boldly told the public what was going on in the world. Everyone who was ever interviewed by him, or in some other way was able to be touched by him, will always remember this kind and understanding person. Everybody in the whole UFO community and the great number of people whom he supported will miss this exhalted personality." -- Anders von Bergen, university student in Finland and author of the "Lost In The Wonderland" volume in the "Project Wonderland Chronicles." *** *** *** "It was quite a shock hearing about Dr. Mack's tragic death. He was a wonderful person and UFO infomation contributor. Things can be so cruel when you least expect it." -- Mae Eisenberg, Queens, NY, co-host of "Uniquely You Now" on Manhattan Neighborhood Network cable TV. *** *** *** "We have lost a great pioneer in the UFO phenomenon in Dr. John Mack. I am so sorry, as I know all experiencers are." -- Alan White, musician and composer, "S.P.A.C.E. Explorer" columnist. *** *** *** "I am shocked and saddened about the loss of our brother." -- Rev. Michael Carter, who appeared in a Sci-Fi Channel documentary as a prelude to the "Taken" TV mini-series. *** *** *** "How sad... That was a most special day that he spent with us." -- from someone who was at the memorable S.P.A.C.E. special support group gathering with Dr. Mack in January 1995. *** *** *** "Reading about the tragic death of Dr. Mack is like reading about the loss of a family member... His eyes speak deeply ... the world is so painful." -- David Twidle, artist, shaman and "S.P.A.C.E. Explorer Orbitzine" writer.

MEMORIAL PROGRAMS FOR DR. JOHN E. MACK

*** Saturday, November 13, 2004 @ 12:00 noon: Harvard's Memorial Chapel in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Please check John E. Mack Institute's website's homepage for further details.

*** Saturday, November 20, 2004 @ 7:30 p.m., ARE headquarters, Manhattan, New York City -- Budd Hopkins and David Jacobs will offer their remembrances of Dr. Mack as a segment of an Intruders Foundation Seminar featuring the latest new studies of "Transgenic Beings," thought to be human-appearing hybrids living on Earth. (For details, see the Intruders Foundation website link, elsewhere in this issue.)

*** Also in New York City, Dr. Mack's hometown, a gathering for him is in the early planning stages, tentatively set for Saturday evening, December 11. Watch this space for further details, coming soon.

*** On the West Coast, a large memorial program is planned in San Francisco in early December, and a smaller memorial gathering is planned for Los Angeles in January. See Institute website.

*** Dr. Mack was cremated in London on October 13 with a remembrance's led by Danny Mack, other relatives and friends.

"THE EMERGING PICTURE" "The fundamental changes that abductees make in their lives as they come to grasp the power and meaning of their experiences has been important in convincing me of the truth and signifinance of their stories, whatever their ontological status may be.... "The change in their worldviews and core beliefs is lasting and continues to evolve. They usually feel compelled to share what they have learned as a result of confronting their experiences... When one or more experiencers have shared a lecturn with me, the effect on heretofore skeptical members of an audience has often been quite stunnng." "...They (abductees) may even feel that they have an alien identity or soul and that the spaceships themselves are part of Home..." "In the end, the abduction phenomenon seems to me to be part of the shift in consciousness that is collapsing duality and enabling us to see that we are connected beyond the Earth at a cosmic level. No common enemy will unite us, but the realization of a common Source might." --- Dr. John E. Mack from "Passport To The Cosmos" in "Conculsion: The Emerging Picture," pages 278-280.

AN ENCOUNTER EXPLORER FINDS HIS VOICE: A BRAVE EXPERIENCER'S NEW WEBSITE

By Harold Egeln

"Experiencers need to have their voices heard," the late Dr. John Mack said at a meeting a few years ago.

While researchers have provided a safe haven in which close encounter explorers can safely express themselves and share their experiences among others who are also witnesses, every once in a while an experiencer decides to share their true story with the outside world, which is a real act of courage and ignites a star of knowledge on Earth.

Recently a young man and artist in England, Julez Finch, who had contacted me in late August, stepped forward and bravely published his own website titled "THE VISITORS" (see link below), relating his and his family's "long history" of experiences in England and Australia, where they lived for a time, along with his stunningly realistic and captivating "Alien and UFO Art."

Since it is a prime mission of S.P.A.C.E. to give others voice and help to extend their reach, we present this new website for your information, urging you to save it and to visit it from time to time.

Coming from a stance of "open mindedness," Finch calls his web-site, "a forum" and "a place to share," encouraging others to submit their comments so all can learn together.

"AN EYE-OPENING JOURNEY"

The ongoing experiences with encounters, sightings, balls of light and vivid dreams, Finch says, is an "eye-opening journey and one that has led alot of us to look deeper into ourselves, the world as we know it, and the universe around us."

In relating his gripping accounts, Finch backs it up with stunning artwork to let us see what he saw of "the visitors," along with artwork such as his painting (on the link above) of Dr. Mack, whom he met at a conference while lliving in Australia, and even the lovely Cornwall countryside.

What riveted me to his accounts was the way he conveyed their reality with the emotional and mind-blowing impact they have on Finch, who is awaiting "the next chapter" in his encounters, which began in his childhood.

There is a very real connection made for me as I read and re-read his accounts, with their familiar elements heard often at S.P.A.C.E. gatherings, but uniquely related by a deep searcher, and illlustrated by his astounding artwork.

It appears that his family, such as his brother, are involved in some intimate way with "the visitors."

By taking the daring step of producing his own website (it's a giant leap for any of us who do so!), doors have opened, for both him and for those who visit the site, allowing a dialogue for a clearer understanding of Finch's encounters, as well as to the countless others of us, who, like Finch, have the contact interface in our lives.

While armchair investigators and skeptics alike have "the luxury" of debating the reality of a powerful yet subtle presence on this planet, Finch, speaking for himself and us, does not have that "luxury," he says on his site.

Finch also mentions "remote viewing" and his "70 percent" success rate with it. It appears, from our research in S.P.A.C.E., that experiencers are capable of such feats, and I have, myself, have been having the "RV" experience, although it seems to be spontaneous and natural to me, for it appears to be an artifact of quantum nonlocality.

Finch, by-the-way, will be attending a UFO conference early in October in Cornwall, and his has details on his web-site.

Julez Finch, welcome to an ever-growing chorus... and thanks!

PIONEER ASTRONAUT GORDON COOPER, UFO PROPONENT, DIES

On Monday, October 4, the 47th anniversary of the Space Age marking the 1957 orbting of the first artificial Earth satellite, pioneering American astronaut Gordon Cooper died of cancer at age 77.

He became famous as one of the seven original Mercury astronauts, chosen by a fledging NASA in 1959 to be among those making the first American manned space flights.

In May 1963 "Gordo" Cooper spent a day and a half in space, making 22 orbits around the Earth in the tiny Mercury space capsule, the last flight of the series. He soared into Earth orbit for a longer period aboard a Gemini spacecraft with another astronaut in 1965.

In the 1970s Cooper achieved further noterity when he spoke out as a proponent of UFOs and intelligent life elsewhere in the cosmos, sharing his true accoounts with the public about his own UFO sighting as a military pilot in the 1950s.

Cooper wrote about his UFO experiences, including a UFO landing on a military base which indirectly involved him, and his testimony at the United Nations on UFO reality in his autobiography, "Leap of Faith," published in 2002.

His death followed that of Dr. Mack's by one week and preceded that of Betty Hill's death, making for three major losses in Ufology within a few weeks -- and putting the close encounter issue in the public domain, with featured obituries in major newspapers, such as The New York Times.

"BEAM ME UP AN ATOM, SCOTTY" & INVISIBLITY: Where Close Encounters and Science Meet -- HOPKINS-RAINEY's "SIGHT UNSEEN" Now In Paperback

"And the beryllium atom said to the Starship Enterprise, beam me up! Two teams of scientists report today that for the first time they have teleported individual atoms, taking characteristics of one atom and imprinting them on a second..." -- Kenneth Chang, science writer, in The New York Times article "Scientists Teleport Not Kirk, but an Atom" - Thursday, June 17, 2004, page A22.

By HAROLD EGELN

There is a signifcance of this latest scientific breakthrough as it relates to the UFO phenomena, which seems to engage in teleportation, probably at a highly advanced but natural stage of development.

The attached chart (from BBC News) here shows how the scientists teleported an atom. It has to do with information, and, in a way, quantum entangelments, and stems, partly, from the famous pioneering Alain Aspect experiment of 1982 in France.

Also, an "invisibility technology" developed by a innovative Japanese inventor not only makes wizard-in-training Harry Potter's "invisibility cloak" a reality through computerized "trick-ology" but tells how walls can become invisible.

A new book by a scientist, "Hacking Matter," also discusses how near-future technology, available within a decade or two, will be able to construct buildings by "re-arranging matter." Which, again, is what the super-advanced hyper-intelligence at the source of many close encounters seems to do!

This all relates to UFO accounts, as described on the S.P.A.C.E. website, in Budd Hopkins' latest book "Sight Unseen: UFOs, Invisibilty Science and Transgenic Beings" and in other close encounter accounts.

"SIGHT UNSEEN" is now out in paperback, as of this September, and is available in major bookstores. In the links below is a book review written a year ago when the book first appeared. At the time, October 2003, there was an Intruders Foundation program at the Wagner College Planetarium in Staten Island featuring the Hopkins-Rainey book team, abductees and the late Dr. John Mack.

In New York City on Saturday evening, November 20, an Intruders Foundation seminar will feature an update on "TRANSGENIC BEINGS" by Budd Hopkins and David Jacobs and the alleged presence of such human-like alien beings living among humanity today. (The seminar will also have a remembrance of the late Dr. John Mack by the speakers; check the Intruders Foundation link below for further details.)

For further supportive scientific evidence of the possible means and methods of close encounter happenings (although the scientists do not mention encounters!), try to back order:

... a Special Edition of "Scientific American" from April-May 2003 (Vol. 13, No. 1) titled "The Edge of Physics" with articles on: wormholes and warp drive, stopping light cold, teleportation, where's the antimatter, extreme experiments, and a theory of everything, and

... the August 2003 "Scientific American" issue (Vol. 13, No. 2) with the feature cover story, "Are You A Hologram? (Quantum Physics Says the Entire Universe Might Be) -- Information in the Holographic Universe" by Jacob Bekenstein.

Also below click-on the "invisibility cloak" picture to see how this new technology trick of an eye looks!

BUDD HOPKINS OFFERS NEW 'ABDUCTEE CARE SERVICE'

By Harold Egeln

New York City, November 1, 2004 -- Ever since Budd Hopkins became famous with the publication of his landmark "Missing Time" book in 1981 based on his early work with stealth close encounter experiencers, letters and calls for professional assistance have flooded into his Chelsea apartment in this city.

With the subsequent publication of "Intruders" in 1987, the CBS-TV movie based on "Intruders" in 1992, the book "Witnessed" in the mid-1990s, the latest book "Sight Unseen," and his countless appearances on TV, radio and conference stages, Hopkins' non-profit UFO Abduction organization, the Intruders Foundation (IF), has been able to handle a fraction of the inquires it receives, to the frustration of both those who try to make contact with IF and to IF itself.

For two decades Hopkins provided appprivate, confidential support group that met on a regular basis, individual sessions by himself or by referral to mental health professionals, where possible.

While IF cannot respond to every inquiry, it recently announced that it has streamlined and improved its process to deal with legitimate inquires that are deemed worthy of investigation with the individuals seeking help, support and advice.

After Hopkins consulted with his board of advisors and shared their ideas and suggestions, IF launched the new service for inquiring people.

"The Intruders Foundation announces a new addition to our organization: the Abductee Care Services (ASC)," writes IF Clinical Advisor Jed Turnbull, LCSW, C.Ht on IF's website.

"The ACS is the first of its kind anywhere. It is a program that is designed to directly address the confusion, trauma and fear that haunts those struggling with their own personal accounts of alien abduction," writes Turnbull, who came on board IF some years ago to share his professional skills, born in part from a deep interest in UFO abductions and desire to help others.

"Moreover, our new program works to aid those whose relationships, work and personal life have been disrupted because of this little understood phenomena," he writes.

Exactly how ACS works is described in full on the Budd Hopkins Intruders Foundation website, (see IF link just before this report) allowing individuals to decide for themselves whether or not they need or want the service.

MAJOR TV DRAMA MESSAGE: UFO ABUCTIONS COVER-UP CHILDHOOD ABUSE TRAUMA

By Harold Egeln

I admit that I have no great liking for present day commercial network television shows with their focus on fear, violence, crime, stupidity and de-evolution reality programs.To me "CSI: NY" evokes the CSI of New York City of the 1950s when CSI stood for Civilian Saucer Investigations, a pioneer UFO group, like its twin in Los Angeles.

So, when I saw that one of the popular crime shows on the CBS network, "Without A Trace," was having an episode on "Alien Abductions" on October 14th, I tuned in, reluctantly.

It's about FBI agents in New York City. Chief investigator Jack Malone and a male-female team are brought in to investigate a missing persons report involving a young man, Teddy Coda, who believes that he his being tracked by aliens and has been abducted since he was a child.

"He's the sweetet man I've ever known," said his pregnant girlfriend, who tells the FBI agents of Coda's fears of UFO abduction. The FBI learns that Coda attends the Clear Skies Society support group and has seen a UFO abduction counsellor, Dr. Bedford.

When Malone sees scans of Coda's head, he said that Coda, who thinks that a mark in his brain is an alen implant, has "a fixation with this subject."

The FBI agents visit the Clear Skies Society offce. After a violent scene, Duncan, who heads the organization, compares the FBI team to "the real-life Scully and Muldor," and tells them that he and Coda were followed by "Men In Black." "The MIB thing is probably a scam," says Malone.

[During the commercial break, there's are scenes of the upcoming movie "The Polar Express" which features a mysterious TRAIN, a close encounter related image.]

Malone visits "alien guru" Dr. Bedford in his offce, accusing him of "scaring Teddy to fork over cash." Dr. Bedford, citing multiple abduction cases, mentions to Malone the Travis Walton abduction case of November 5, 1975 and the November 30, 1989 abduction case of Linda Cortile and three other men, including a UN leader.

He tells Malone that the UFO experience goes back "to the Greeks, the Incas, the Mayans. It simply can't all be a myth," he says.

There's a cutaway showing Dr. Bedford counselling Teddy Coda. "Follow me, they say... It's like a shadow. I see it everywhere," Coda tells Bedford "I'm dying here. I can remember all of it."

Bedford then tells the tortured, traumatized Coda that he has been abducted and compares his plight to other abductees. "They found a way to live through the pain."

An employee of Dr. Bedford, he admits, sent two men to scare Coda, pretending that they were MIB to try to "shake him down."

Malone visits a realtive of Coda, his cousin Leo Coda in East Rutherford, New Jersey, whose parents took in Teddy Coda when his parents were killed in a car crash in 1975.

There Malone learns that Coda has been seeing a hospitalized boy, Kevin Burke, telling him that the boy's bruises are due to aliens. "We really need to do something about this. It was the aliens, wasn't it?" Teddy Coda asks the boy, who answers, "Yeah, it was the aliens."

But the FBI team thinks it's physical abuse of a child by his father, Pat Burke. who Malone visits.

Then Coda's girlfriend discovers a videotaped message Coda left her. The distressed Coda says, "This is a goodbye message... I'm done fighting. I have to give them what they want. They hurt children."

"He seems traumatized," Maolne says. "He suffered some childhood trauma." Investigating the car accident that killed Coda's parents, he discovers that the boy was uninjured. And he learns that a bullet fragment was removed by surgeons from Coda's head in 1978, leaving scar tissue, which were seen in the scan photos. His cousin, Leo Coda, then admits, "I shot him."

[In another commercial break, there's an ad on electronic equipment in a home. Suddenly the Energizer Bunny passes through the house, giving us a RABBIT, a repeating image of the "WOW! Contact" as related in our Project Wonderland Chronicles!]

The FBI agents learn that the missing man's cousin, Leo Coda, went to his father's workplace at a small airport where he served as a security guard and shot him with a rifle. Young Teddy Coda was in the security shack, where Leo's father was preparing to abuse him, like he had his son, Leo. A bullet fragment from Leo's shotgun blast struck Teddy, injuring him.

The FBI agents, on a hunch, then find Coda in that same airport shack where he was hit in 1978. Coda is waiting nervously for the aliens to come. Malone tells Coda, "They haven't taken you."

"They came through the window," Coda tells Malone about that night of October 1978. "I saw lights in the sky. I couldn't move. Everything started getting loud. I saw one of them coming after me."

Agent Maolne grabs Coda by his shirt collar, telling him, "Possibly it was a plane landing at night... It was no aliens. It was your uncle. Your uncle raped you."

End of story. It appears that the message of this episode, to the millions who watched it nationwide, was to explain away stealth close encounters (UFO abductions) as stemming from childhood abuse trauma, with the UFO story created by victims to cover-up and handle their trauma. Several mental health professionals, critical of the UFO abduction scenario, have said that this may be the case.

The CBS TV network, in May 1992, gave the public the two-part TV mini-series "Intruders" based on Budd Hopkins' 1987 book of that name. And while they changed around the characters, such as Hopkins and creating a Dr. John Mack-type psychiatrist, played by Richard Crena, they kept fairly close to Hopkins' "Intruders" storyline.

Two nights before the "Without A Trace" program, CBS aired another of its popular crime shows, "NCSI" (Navy CSI), this one about crop circles. I missed it, but I think it may have been along the same lines as the show I watched.

In essence, my suspicions about such fear-based TV shows was confirmed: life is very bad at times (which we know) and true mysteries are just elaborate fantasies to deal with life's harsh realities.

Make no mistake. Those of us who deal with close encounters often have a rough time with it and its consequences. Not everyone. Not all the time. There are marks. But, more so, it makes a mark on our lives.

CBS's "Without A Trace," while containing interesting close encounter references, was a Debunkers Device.

RAY FOWLER IN CYBERSPACE: WEBSITE LAUNCHED OCT. 15th

Raymond Fowler, famed UFO investigator, announced the launching of The Official Raymond Fowler Website on October 15. The author of the Andreasson Affair books, his autobiography "UFO Testament," and the recently published "SynchroFile," among other books, is now in cyberspace and the World Wide Web. S.P.A.C.E. congratulates him!

EARTHSONG 2012 Website: INTERNET GLOBAL NETWORK LIGHTHOUSE

An Internet Lighthouse called EarthSong 2012, centered in England, has been serving as a directional beam for a global network for nearly three years.

The happy chap shown here, David Parsons, (he was on a visit to London) is the guiding lighthouse keeper who produces the EarthSong 2012 website, packed with information, guidance and resources in the interests of enlightenment.

"Join together and listen to all the tales," said Parsons of what the website offers. "EarthSong 2012 has been designed to help help you fiind answers to your questions."

Much mathematical, scientific and technical information is offered in various site sections relating to nature and spirituality. The website invites its visitors to come aboard and share a "common vision of unconventional love and peace."

As with many efforts, there was a beginning, and Parsons describes how the idea for the website service came to him. "EarthSong 2012 was developed following an 'inner voice' guiding me to develop an Internet-based community, a place where anyone seking answers to their questions may find them and be guided by those who may hold the answers," he says on the website.

Acting on that inspiration, in the works right now is the site's "Global Network" providing a sharing of knowledge and support worldwide.

To help in making that happen, a Global Support Network of counsellors is being put together, and a map is on display to enable people to contact these counselors. EarthSong has coordinators in the USA and Australia already in place.

Creating an interactive space, the site has a Chat Room which visitors can sign into, a Guest Board, and a Message Board with topics such Other Dimensions, Walk-Ins, On-Line Discussions, Inspiritual Messages, and "The Truth is Out There" focusing on UFOs and Other Visitors.

There are exciting new features, too. To discover this Internet lighthouse, visit the website below:

THE MINDSHIFT INSTITUTE Presents: NEW SCIENCE, ANCIENT WISDOM, ANOMALOUS PHENOMENA: Openings to Expanded Possibilities

In New York City on Tuesday, December 7, 2004, 7:00 p.m. @ The Pratt Mansions, 1026 Fifth Ave. at East 84th Street in Manhattan, FEATURING:

1)*** "OUR EMERGING NEW SCIENCE" by MICHAEL MANNION, Co-Founder, The Mindshift Institute. "New scientific discoveries are emerging that challenge the dominant worldview and offer valuable insights into subjects such as ancient wisdom and extraterrestrial phenomenon. Together we will look at some of the exciting new ideas taking shape today that will help create a radically different tomorrow."

2)*** "OPENINGS TO NEW PERCEPTIONAL POSSIBILITIES" by JENSINE ANDRESEN, Phd., Center for Buddhist Studies, Columbia University, and former Director of Intenational Faith and Science Exchange. "This short practical session will introduce participants to two complementary techniques to help them expand their perception beyond preexisting conceptual and emotional categories. These include 'samatha' practice, which is based upon the Sanskrit notion of 'one-pointed quiescence,' and also 'rdzogschen' practice, which is based on the Tibetan idea of 'Great Perfection'."

3)*** "WHY ARE THEY HERE?" by TRISH CORBETT, Co-Founder, The Mindshift Institute. "We will take a look at the diversity of opinions of leading researchers about why other intelligences are making contact. Together we will engage in an open-mnded discussion of the implications of intelligent extraterrestrial life, new ways of knowing and pioneering scientific discoveries for our lives and the lives of future generations."

For registration information and more details, see the Events section at www.mindshiftinstitute.org, or call 1-212-721-6785.

"A UFO WONDERLAND" on NEW YORK CITY CABLE TV

The THIRD cable TV show about S.P.A.C.E. this year will be broadcast on the Manhattan Neighborhood Network on WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3rd at 5:30 p.m. on MNN Channel 67, and repeated a week later on NOVEMBER 10th, same time, same channel.

Host Mae Eisenberg once again invited Harold Egeln to appear on her "Uniquely You Now" program, with the topic being "A UFO Wonderland."

There were two previous shows broadcast a few months ago on which a mini-documentary, "Welcome Home: The Story of S.P.A.C.E." produced by NYU film student Blake Gingerich, was premiered.

A major documentary - "THE EXPERIENCERS" - is due for theatrical or television release in 2005. Watch this SPACE for this major feature movie!

JAIME MAUSSAN, DAVID HUGGINS, JAMES COURANT AMONG SPEAKERS AT "GREAT UFO/ET CONGRESS" Mexico TV broadcaster Jaime Maussan, abductee and artist David Huggins, and commercial airline pilot James "Jet" Courant were among the speakers at the Great UFO/ET Congress" on the weekend of November 6-7, 2004 at The Days Inn in Bordentown, New Jersey. The two-day conference, one of two held every year for many years by Pat J. Marcattilo, longtime UFO researcher and founder of The UFO/ET World Travelling Museum, featured on Saturday: Jaime Maussan on "The Big UFO and ET News from Mexico," -- David Huggins on "A Lifetime of Abduction Experiences" with slides of his marvelous, evocative artwork, -- and James "Jet" Courant on "Commercial Pilot Researches UFOs." Featured on Sunday were Rob Swiatek, a Fund for UFO Research executive committee member, on "The 1952 Washington D.C. Sightings & UFOs: The Shape of Things That Come," -- Anthony and Lynn Volpe, DEL VAL UFO directors, on "How the Space People Interact with Us," and T. Peter Park on "Little Green Men, Mini-Men and Frog-Men" about fairie, gnomes, leprechauns, menehne, reptilians, etc. For complete details on this fascinating UFO Conference, click-on the Dr. UFO website below.

The Quarterly Newsletter of the "S.P.A.C.E. EXPLORERS CONTACT JOURNAL" Section with News Feature Stories and Perspective Articles is an effort to understand the Contact and Close Encounter Experience. It may be UPDATED ON A REGULAR BASIS and as MAJOR NEWS STORIES develop throughout the season's or month's issue, so it's advisable save the e-journal and to periodically CHECK-IN. Copyright 2004 @ S.P.A.C.E./Harold Egeln, Editor. All Rights Reserved.