THE "CLARK KENT" REPORT: S.P.A.C.E. NEWS FROM "METROPOLIS" aka NEW YORK CITY

OPPS! HOPKINS GROUP ADMITS MISTAKE ON MAJOR ABDUCTION CASE New York City, Saturday, March 13, 2004 -- Budd Hopkins, the highly respected UFO abduction researcher, and his Intruders Foundation publically admitted a major mistake in what was a highly promoted well documented abduction case, which has now been proved to be largely false according to the organization's own investigation findings. In the terse public release, issued this week, on the Jim Mortellaro abduction case, once claimed to be one of the most significant recent cases investigated by IF (Intruders Foundation), the statement apoligized for the case's promotion and promised to stick to fact finding procedures. "The case was of great interest because of his alleged medical injuries resulting from his abduction in 2001," the statement reads. "Unfortunately, Mr. Mortellaro has never produced credible evidence in support of these claims." Mortellaro, who has been in the public eye in the media and on the Internet in recent years, has stuck by his story. On November 9, 2002 he and Hopkins spoke of his case at an IF Seminar here in the city titled: "An Important New Abduction Case with Extensive Medical Evidence." Afterwards as doubts were raised about the case, IF launched a full investigation which uncovered many inconsistencies in accounts by Mortellaro about his abduction case and related aspects. The IF statement said, "Furthermore, he has provided us with allegedly official documents which have proved to be fabrications." IF's Advisory Committee, it concludes, "no longer considers this case worthy of investigation." Mortellaro's "questionable credibility has forced us to abandon his case," the release states, reaffirming IF's longstanding committment to its rigorous "proticols," and noting that IF usually has about a dozen ongoing investigations at any one time. There has not yet been a public response by Mortellaro to IF's action in dropping his case. The IF statement said that the possibility remains that he had a real abduction experience and suffered trauma from the experience, hinting that it could have been a driving force in Mortellaro's alleged "fabrications." A prime telltale sign indicating a probably real abduction encounter used by Hopkins in his vigorous detailed research is the emergence of harmful emotional trauma and anomalous physical body markings, along with multiple participants and eyewitnesses. Such indicators, coming from hypnosis sessions or other means, are usually cause for investigation by Hopkins. Errors have been made over the long decades of UFO investigations due to a number of factors, including well-crafted hoaxes. The IF Advisory Committee members are artist Sal Amendola, an accomplished illustrator; astronomer Dennis Anderson, director of the Wagner College Planetarium in Staten Island; Edward Davis, Jr., a mental health professional; Carol Rainey, a video documentarian, co-author with Hopkins of "Sight Unseen" and Hopkins' wife; Peter Robbins, co-author of "Left At East Gate" and UFO City.com editor; Jed Turnbull, a clinical social worker; and Oliver von Kemenczky, an engineering consultant. The full Budd Hopkins' Intruders Foundation press release can be read below:

NEW "ROSWELL" FILM DEBUTS IN NEW YORK

New York City, Saturday, March 13, 2004 -- At the 11th New York Underground Film Festival, "Roswell," a 20-minute, 16 mm "documentary" by underground film director Bill Brown was shown on March 13 at The Anthology at 32 Second Avenue in the East Village. Manhattan.

Of "Roswell," Bill Brown writes: "An amnesiac chases UFOs across New Mexico, or maybe the other way around. Special 10th anniversary." (NOTE: There have been no previews.)

For more details: www.nyuff.com

"TOUCHED," AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY, SHOWN IN THREE STATES IN FEBRUARY

Saturday, February 29, 2004 -- "Touched," an award-winning documentary about abductees which focuses on experiencers who have worked with Dr. John Mack, was shown in San Francisco, Cambridge, Santa Fe and Albuquerque in February.

The major documentary, which debuted in Boston in February 2003, won the Best Documentary Award at the Female Eye Film Festival in Toronto. It was produced by Blind Dog Films, with producer Laurel Chiten.

There was a showing on WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11 at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, as part of the "Chicks Make Flicks" Series. LAUREL CHITEN will appeared.

There were THREE SHOWINGS IN SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20 -- Screening and Reception with LAUREL CHITEN and DR. JOHN MACK. SATURDAY, FEBRAURY 21 with LAUREL CHITEN @ SONOMA FILM INSTITUTE. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22 with LAUREL CHITEN and DR. JOHN MACK @ SONOMA FILM INSTITUTE.

There were TWO SHOWINGS IN NEW MEXICO, one in SANTE FE and one in ALBUQUERQUE in Late FEBRUARY, one of which made a local newspaper.

For further information and full details on future screenings:

www.touchedfilm.com

THE MINDSHIFT INSTITUTE PRESENTS RUDY SCHILD, PHD

New York City, Wednesday, February 25 -- Astronomer Rudy Schild. PhD, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, gave a talk this evening on "DARK MATTER, QUANTUM MYSTERIES AND EXTRATERRESTRIAL ANOMALIES: New Directions of Thought from New Knowledge.

The presentation was held at the Pratt Mansions, 1026 Fifth Avenue, at East 84th Street in Manhattan and was the first presentation in The Mindshift Institute's Alexander Imich Lecture
Series.

Watch for a report on Dr. Schild's talk in the all new "S.P.A.C.E. EXPLORER CONTACT JOUNEY" E-Journal. The program was hosted by the Mindshift Institute, with TRISH CORBETT and MICHAEL MANNION (author of "Project Mindshift"), and it celebrated the 101st Birthday of DR. ALEXANDER IMICH, the Founder and President of the Anomalous Phenomenon Research Center, born on February 4, 1903.

DR. SCHILD is now developing a new picture of the physical universe that will demonstrate that the cosmos is not what we thought it to be only ten, five or even two years ago. Fresh from speaking at an international cosmology conference at UCLA on dark matter, the famous astrophysicist shared the latest developments into his exciting investigations of DARK MATTER and DARK ENERGY.

According to Dr. Schild, recent scientific findings suggest that planets are much more common than previously thought. Astrophysicists now think that almost every star has planets orbiting them (over 100 exo-planets have been detected), and that almost every star system has at least one planet that may support life. That means that conditions for life may be present on billions of planets, and the existence of intelligent life on other worlds now seems to be a certainity.

Dr. Schild also explained how his view of the cosmos was transformed in recent years, not only by new findings in astrophysics, but also, by the inability of his discipline to explain what are called "ANOMALOUS PHENOMENON," -- persistent reports which seem to contradict current physical theory. The tools of his discipline all look outward to the external, "objective" world. Dr. Schild now finds he must look inward as well, to subjective reports, if he is to understand the universe he is investigating.

He described the novel approach to anomalies, helping him comprehend the new knowledge of the universe's makeup, a methodology foreign to standard scientific approach. Dr. Schild has consulted a new breed of "experts," the people who report experiencing anomalous phenomena. Their reports seem to contain facts that Dr. Schild can confirm scientifically, offering new knowledge which will astound and, perhaps, even guide us.

One anomaly, gradually moving from the realm of science fiction to hard science, are UFO sighting and extraterrestrial encounter reports. Dr. Schild, with open-minded skepticism and suspension of disbelief, has investigated claims of some close encounter witnesses. To his surprise, their reports contained facts that can be confirmed scientifically. While science in general dismisses such claims as impossible, a small but increasing number of serious scientists find them worthy of study.

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For more information on upcoming Mindshift programs (one is set for May), call 1-212-721-6785 or e-mail Info@Mindshiftinstitute.org

Also, visit www.mindshiftinstitute.org

THE MINDSHIFT INSTITUTE -- Challenging Thinking * Deepening Emotions * Opening Possibilities

MAGAZINE EDITOR SEES UFO OVER DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN Report by Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center BROOKLYN, NY, Saturday, February 14, 2004 -- A magazine/book editor (name unidentified) was walking down Pacific Street in Brooklyn today about 7:30 p.m., when he saw a glowing whitish neon green orb shoot through the sky going southwest, faintly lighting up the night. He reports, "I stopped in my tracks as it moved as fast as a shooting star, straight on the horizon, about 10,000 feet, but it was huge. the size of a tennis ball at arms length, perfectly spherical, and it left a trail in its wake." "It receded as it moved away from me in a straight line, and vanished into the darkness. I've never seen anything like it in my life," he said. --- from NUFORC, www.ufocenter.com as reported from Skywatch International Filer's Files #12-2004 on March 10, 2004. ******************************** EDITOR'S NOTE: Pacific Street runs from downtown Brooklyn off Fulton Street and into Bedford-Stuyvesant; the report does not specify the location on the road. The west end of Pacific Street is a few blocks south of the famous, historic WILLIAMSBURGH Savings Bank skyscaper with its giant BIG BEN-like CLOCK TOWER, and not far from the FLYING SAUCER CAFE on Atlantic Avenue, as well as near the Collision Theory performance ensemble (of "The Abduction Project" play) office, sites which figure prominently in the S.P.A.C.E. "WOW! Signal" synchronistic episodes, and near where this editor, on a news assignment for his Brooklyn newspaper a few years ago, once photographed a "UFO orb." Note also that this new UFO sighting happened on St. Valentine's Day, the day of the "Cupid trickster."

'THE EXPERIENCERS" PRODUCTION UPDATE

New York City, January 27, 2004 -- "The Experiencers," a major true life feature documentary about eight close encounter witnesses in New York City, is in the middle of production, due for an expected completion later this year, reports Tamago Films, its producers.

"The work continues on sorting through the 20 plus hours of footage that we currently have," said Jeffrey Morehouse of Tamago Films in his update. "In the next few months this will be condensed down to a rough edit until a storyline comes through."

"At that point additional footage will be shot to visually underscore (not dramatizations) the gripping realities the experiencers all shared on camera," Morehouse explained.

Videotaping of encounter experiencers took place during the Summer and into early Autumn, either in home or other settings, with an on-site segment in Brewster. All who participated are happy with the way it all went, and are looking forward to the completed production, which they expect to preview this coming Autumn for final input.

Actors Morehouse and Tamago Films co-producer Gus Scharr played in "The Abduction Project" play by the Collision Theory performance ensemble at the HERE Arts Center in Soho in February and March 2001. Morehouse played both the Air Force pilot and newscaster, while Scharr played the mysterious man in an overcoat waving a pocketwatch.

They first approached S.P.A.C.E. at a Collision Theory fundraiser at an art gallery in October 2001 about their plans, with S.P.A.C.E. bringing in its own participants and referring to other experiencers outside of S.P.A.C.E.

For more information, visit the "InProduction" section of the website: www.TamagoFilms.

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WHITLEY STRIEBER'S WARNING ON CONTACT: AN ALARM ON "THE VISITORS" AND "UFO TERROR" By Harold Egeln, Jr. Sunday, December 7, 2003 -- In an extraordinary statement, famed writer Whitley Strieber, author of the "Communion" best seller and several other books about "the visitor experience," has issued a serious warning against the dangers of contact and the threat of alien terrorism. He writes that "ever abductee should consider himself a soldier, because that's exactly what we are," seeing a "war" happening. "Do you want to see one of our heroes? You'll find them in the ordinary world, utterly without weapons, completely defenseless." From his home in San Antonio on Wednesday and today, he raised the alarm in his most disturbing Journal entries yet, the latest in a recent series focusing on a trend towards horrifying encounters that are, in effect, an invasion by stealth and the spreading of fear. Strieber issued the warning on his worldwide popular Unknown Country website, which you can visit below. In the thoughtful and highly unsettling two-part "Shedding Light On The Dark Side" journal entry, Strieber begins with his seminal encounter of Christmastime 1985: "The initial contact had been pretty awful. But it wasn't all bad. In fact, it turned into 15 minutes of a bad experience followed by years of wonder and fascination as I developed a relationship with the fearsome but marvelous presence I called 'the visitors.' My mind was expanded. I lived a life of highest adventure." Over the years since 1985, the positive experiences included group contacts at his old upstate New York cabin and the receipt of thousands of letters from witnesses describing wonderful or fascinating encounters. After "Communion," that evolving relationship, with its ups and downs, was detailed by Strieber in books such as "Transformation," "Breakthrough," "The Secret School," "Confirmation" and most recently in "The Key" and "The Path." Now that adventure of wonder, he says, has "all changed" into "ominious" encounters of fear, explaining that about five years ago, from his experience and the tales of many others, "the tales of wonder slowed down and finally stopped... The only close encounter tales left are tales of terror. I am intimately familiar with some of these cases and the experiences of those people involved and it is very dark indeed... Now I was thinking in terms of how we can band together to protect ourselves." Having started or helped initiate about 20 Communion Network support groups nationwide in 1989 (including one here in New York City -- from which some members later started S.P.A.C.E. in 1992, aiming to empower witnesses and proactively explore contact, for better or worse), Strieber observes the eventual basic uselessness of them, and all other such groups. "Even the groups that came together well were, ultimately, unproductive," he said. "What can we really do in these groups? In the end they were repetitive and did not offer what we need." The Communion Network groups were ended in 1989. Of other groups and the role of such researchers as Budd Hopkins and David Jacobs, acknowledging their foresight in detecting an alien threat, Strieber calls for them to "empower" witnesses rather than dwelling in a fear state. What happened, Strieber wonders, about the apparent benefits of contact, which he pursues in his long discussion into what may have gone wrong with "the visitors." "For whatever reason, I think we have been left to the exploiters and the scum," he says about the dire threat witnesses and the planet in general now faces from the new order of "sinister" visitors apparently now in charge. Strieber emphasizes that witnesses should not be taken in by the fear, not to "innocently embrace a python" nor blame themselves for the fear. Ever controversial and provocative, Strieber, acting, he has said, as a realist and from compassion for fellow witnesses, has now opened a whole new perspective on contact, bound to cause intense debate. To build protection, he calls for "mutual support and knowledge" rather than staying in a state of alien fear control with ignorance, secrecy and misinformation perpetuated, he says, by "the visitors" and a complicit government and mass media about what is really happening that drives the contact interface. In his warning, which he wants to get out to the world at large as well as to experiencers, he said that "the visitors seem to need secrecy if they are to carry out their grotesque program, which appears to involve kidnapping, the theft of genetic and sexual materials, and, sometimes, murder." If one suspects an impending close encounter, through a presence, abduction or UFO sighting, Strieber issues a red alert warning to try to avoid, if possible, the contact, and not to seek out contact, suggesting a united strategy of resistance, through protective means, to "the danger" from the visitors. (To read the two Journal entries, click-on below:)

UNUSUAL TRIANGULAR CRAFT SIGHTING IN BROOKLYN, NEW YORK Thursday, November 20, 2003 -- Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, NY -- An unusual triangular aircraft, flying silently into the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn over the water by the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, the nation's longest suspension bridge and entry gate into New York City, was spotted at around 6:00 a.m., reported by local resident Ellie Crystal. It was her first possible UFO sighting since April 4, 1954, she said, witnessed then by her mother, also, in the Amercan Southwest, which involved a close encounter incident which impacted upon her and her mother. "Coming east from Staten Island at around 6:00 this morning, it was a triangular shaped object with green, red and white lights, all of which were flashing on and off," Crystal reported. "It was made of dark gray or black metal with what looked like a cockpit underneath. It looked like a stealth aircraft, but it made no sound." The craft flew towards her apartment building, which is near Fort Hamilton U.S. Army Base, the last such large military garrison in New York City, commanded by Captain Kewyn Williams. "After heading towards my building, it veered sharped northward up Fourth Avenue, a major thoroughfare with lots of traffic near the Belt Parkway, and then quickly moved up over the avenue, flying over it, and disappeared out of sight," said Crystal. She further inquired about the strange craft, which she did not call a spaceship, and she discovered a few recent sightings of similar objects in other city neighborhoods recently. Newspaper reporter Harold Egeln, founder of S.P.A.C.E., lives in the same Brooklyn neighborhood where the sighting took place. "This is the fourth time within the past decade that I have heard similar reports, direct from the witnesses, all credible people, of strange, silent triangular shaped objects. Two were seen in daylight and two at night, in this area," he said. Crystal is the author of "Sarah And Alexander," an "adventure in time" novel published this year, and she maintains an extensive and informative website, Cystal-Links, which has nearly one million worldwide hits a day.

NEW YORK CITY TEEN INTERVIEWS DR. JOHN MACK ON N.P.R.

By Harold Egeln

Brooklyn, NY - Tuesday, November 11, 2003 -- A Brooklyn teenaged boy recently interviewed Pulitzer-Award winning Harvard Professor of Psychiatry Dr. John Mack, the close encounter researcher and author of "Abduction" ad "Passport To The Cosmos," on National Public Radio, S.P.A.C.E. News has learned.

The teen, Munir Kim, 17, was one of three Pakistani-born teens who appeared on the WNYC produced show "Radio Rookies" in late October. The program, one in a series, was broadcast by NPR and was produced by station reporter Marianne McClure, according to a New York Daily News article on September 12.

Kirim lives in Midwood in Brooklyn. He and his fellow students meet at the Council of Pakistan Organizations on Coney Island Avenue, where Council Program Director Jagjit Singh contacted WNYC's "Radio Rookies."

Young Munir Karim's question about the nature of existence and reality came through a conversation wih an imam, an astronomer and a psychiatrist, Dr. Mack. The program was broadcast late in October

(SOURCE of this report is the PEER - Program for Extraordinary Experiences Research - website posted on Sept. 23 and discovered by S.P.A.C.E. recently. NOTE: Midwood is part of the coverage area of the two newspapers for which Harold Egeln works. For more information, click-on below:)

CONSTANCE CLEAR, "REACHING FOR REALITY" AUTHOR AND SUPPORT GROUP FACILITATOR, DIES

By Harold Egeln

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 -- Constance Clear, the Texan psychotherapist and UFO abduction researcher, died in her sleep early yesterday morning from injuries from a serious motorcycle accident nearly a month ago. She had lost control of her motorcycle on a curve, according to published reports, and no foul play was suspected.

She was known for her book "Reaching For Reality: Seven Incredible True Stories of Alien Abduction" published in 1999 by Consciousness Now, Inc. in San Antonio, Texas, about "seven survivors of alien abduction (who) share their first-hand accounts so others will know (that) you are not alone."

Clear had a Masters of Arts degree in psychology from Trinity University and a Masters of Social Work degree from Our Lady of the Lake University, and was in private practice since 1976 working with individuals, couples and families. For 15 years she facilitated a support group for bereaved people.

It was with this extensive background, knowledge and experience that she stumbled upon the UFO phenomenon 11 years ago while watching a TV program and became active in the field as a helper.

First attracted to the subject of alien abduction after viewing "Visitors From The Unknown," a cable TV network special in 1992, a few years afterwards she started the monthly Friday Night Group at her rural home to give abductees a safe place to talk and give them support.

The stories of Kay, Lydia, Daniel, Theresa, Andrew, Maggie and Sara compose Clear's book, written in their own words, providing an informative, thoughtul and moving narriative of the close encounter experience, with Clear giving them a voice.

Clear last spoke in public on Labor Day weekend at a national conference in New York City at the Hotel Pennsylvania held by ACCET, the Academy of Clinical Close Encounter Therapists, and had spoken recently in Tennessee at the Alternate Realities Conference 2003.

The words that best speak of Clear's impact are those of the people she helped through her Friday Night Group, as told in "Reaching For Reality."

Talking about the importance of sharing in a support group, Kay writes that it would not have been "possible without the loving guidance of our group facilitator, Constance Clear. I think of her as the glue that holds the group together. She is the foundation and support beam."

"When she starts off the meeting. she emits an energy that helps give me the strength to talk about things that need to be said," Kay continues, adding that it was as if she were "chosen," because she is so good "with understanding people."

"Constance Clear's open-minded willingness to speak out on the topic of alien abductions, has been a blessing to me," writes Maggie. "Thank you very much, Constance and colleagues for being here for me. We have been blessed having Constance Clear accompany us on our dreary paths."

When her Friday Night Group's book was published four years ago, three major researchers praised her approach in comments on the book's back cover.

Whitley Strieber, author of "Communion" and so many other books, wrote, "Constance Clear's thoughtful commentary never demands belief, but rather informs a powerful and compelling case that these shocking, amazing and deeply human stories may really be what they seem: commentaries from beyond the edge of the known."

Dr. John Mack, author of "Abduction: Human Encounters With Aliens" and "Passport to the Cosmos," wrote, "Constance Clear is one of the increasing, though still small, number of gifted clinicians who are making it possible for their clients to speak of these extraordinary experiences."

And pioneer researcher David Jacobs, author of "Secret Life" and "The Threat," wrote: "Through her thoughtful analysis and the fascinating accounts of her clients, Constance Clear provides good information about this most important phenomenon while furthering our knowledge of it."

S.P.A.C.E. first learned of Clear's accident through a Journal entry by Strieber on his Unknown Country website on October 11, three weeks after her tragic accident. He called Clear a "brilliant and deeply compassionate psychologist... who has helped so many abductees."

We learned of her passing from Stacy Allen McGee, the director of ARC, the Alternate Realities Center (formerly the U.S. UFO Information and Research Center), who noted that she had spoken at this year's ARC Conference in Tennessee.

In his tribute McGee wrote, "I feel so very priviledged to have known her and have been one of many to call her my friend... Constance will be sorely missed by all who were lucky to meet and get to know her."

ARC, he added, is exploring establishing "The Clear Foundation," or a name close to that, "to honor the many sacrifices Constance made in the field of Alien Contact and Abduction Research."

Clear's deeply caring persona came through very well at her most recent talk in New York City on August 30, and her sense of humor launched her talk when she told the audience of therapists, abductees and other listeners, playful with her own name, "I am Clear. Hmmm, let me say that I am constantly clear." It opened up and connected the audience, laughing, to an insightful and informative presentation.

The last hand written words that this reporter has from Constance are written in her autograph for my copy of "Reaching For Reality:"

"Keep seeking the truth! Constance Clear."

You bet we will!

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In The Words of CONSTANCE CLEAR from "REACHING FOR REALITY": It's bad enough that any person would have to endure the helplessness of an alien abduction, but having to maintain silence about it is cruel and debilitating... Bottom line, something is happening to these people and they need support from the rest of us. The future of humanity may depend on the findings of WHATEVER is studying us. Shouldn't we be taking better care of those they are studying?

"SIGHT UNSEEN" GETS A NEW YORK COLLEGE HEARING

OVER 100 PEOPLE HEAR HOPKINS AND RAINEY ON NEW BOOK; DR. JOHN MACK JOINS THEM

By Harold Egeln

NEW YORK CITY, NY, Sun., October 12, 2003 -- Seen and heard on a New York City college campus yesterday were Budd Hopkins and Carol Rainey talking about their new book "Sight Unseen: Science, UFO Invisibilty and Transgenic Beings."

Pultizer Prize winning author and close encounter researcher Dr. John Mack of Harvard joined them in discussing their new findings, as over 100 people came to Wagner College in Staten Island to learn about the new book, the fourth by Hopkins and the first co-authored by filmmaker/writer Carol Rainey, his wife.

(NOTE: This S.P.A.C.E. EXPLORER reporter was unable to be there for this symposium.)

The Budd Hopkins' Intruders Foundation event was hosted by the Wagner College Planetarium, under Director Dennis Anderson despite a protest by some faculty.

Rainey spoke first on "Question Everything: Revoluionary Scientific Discoveries and UFOS" about quantum physics, cosmology, holography, supersymmerty and multiverses, transgenics and related cutting edge science.

Hopkins described new cases highlighting "Higher and Higher Strangeness: The Latest and Most Disturbing Patterns in UFO Abduction Phenomenon."

A MEDIA ADVANCE FOR UFOS

The event got front page coverage in today's "Staten Island Sunday Advance" newspaper, the Sunday edition of the daily "Staten Island Advance." The article was splashed among four on the paper's front page, and was placed on the bottom, continued on page six with a photo of the conference's literature tables.

The article, headlined "UFOs: The truth and the proof are out there - A conference on abductions draws 100 believers to a Wagner College classroom" was written by Heidi Shrager.

Written straighfordwardly, Shrager properly focued first on a Staten Island couple in the audience (newspaper rule: start with a local angle) who had a UFO close encounter, which involved a close-up sighting and a feeling that there were beings in their bedroom, some of them "very scary."

Then the report, under "The Science of UFOs" sub-heading, told of the "Sight Unseen" book and Intruders Foundation, continuing on page six under the heading, "Things turn paranormal at Wagner UFO meeting," quoting Hopkins saying, "The book tries to take the para out of paranormal." The reporter describes him as a "charismatc, gray-haired abstract artist" with an audience "visibly enamored" by him.

Then the article refers to Rainey's contribution "to bridge the gap between mainstrem science and the science of UFO abductions," citing a scientific study of a wasp that takes control of a spider, making a suggested analogy with alien abduction tactics, leaving the spider clueless of the intrution.

THE TRANSGENIC RABBIT FACTOR

To demonstrate the "clues" from "cutting edge science" that may help bring greater insight and knowledge about UFO abductions, Rainey's presentation includes the Green Fluroescent (GFP) Bunny Alba controversy, an experiment in transgentic art in which jellyfish DNA was implanted in a rabbit embroyo, along with discoveries on faster-than-light travel and wormholes in the fabric of space-time.

Then Hopkins and Rainey, the article continues, focused on cases of transgenic beings, an updating of the hybrid theories.

Then under the sub-heading "Risking Ridicule," the reporter noted the role of Anderson, Wagner's planetarium director, in hosting the conference, who got "angry e-mails" from a couple of factuly members, and Hopkins thanking Anderson for risking "ridicule and derision."

The report mentions Dr. Mack presence's on a panel as giving "key credibility to the field" of UFO research, noting his role at Harvard Medical School, and the other panelist, former Air Force engineer "Ed Reynolds," a college physics professor in Chicago, with a couple of quotes from Reynolds about how humanity will solve the problem of space travel and aliens.

The page six photo shows Ted Davis of IF, and Peter Robbins, UFOcity.com editor in the background, talking with conference goers.

[NOTE: A Book Review of "SIGHT UNSEEN" will appear later this month on this e-magazine's REVIEWS webpage. Please check our homepage table of contents. We also hope to interview Hopkins and Rainey about the book soon after the book review appears.]

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"THE TIMES" MENTIONS UFOS By Harold Egeln New York City, N.Y., Sun., October 12, 2003 -- The most frequent reference to UFOs in The New York Times over a year ago was a famous 1950s photograph of "flying saucers" at a New England Coast Guard base. It was placed in a page of photos, reprinted several times, about the 1950s for a NY Times book. Before that, appearing for a few years, there was a small cartoon ad for the newspaper showing a man opening a door as a flying saucer whizzes by. In today's Metro Section of the Sunday Times there are references to UFOs in an article taking up a third of a full page on page 38 headline: "East Village Journal: Baying at the Moon... Reverently" by reporter Colin Moynihan, subtitled "Singing, chanting and bowing to the lunar pull." It focuses on Steve Jones, who organizes the monthly Full Moon gatherings and celebrations in an urban garden in the East Village. Web designer Jones was the owner of the Chama Teahouse, which hosted the "Strange Scenes of Alien Abductions" art show by David Huggins from August 20 to September 24. Early in October Chama, at 332 East Fourth Street, between Avenues C and D, was forced to close down, after three years of operation, to make for changes in the building in which it was housed. The article tells of the Full Moon celebration last Frday night (Oct. 10) but it also mentions the recent artshow at Chama with the words: "Outside the shop was a large silver replica of a flying saucer and inside were paintings of alien space travelers." It also mentioned, falsely, that Jones once "organized a bicylce tour through Manhattan, identifying and discussing spots where visitors from other planets are said to have been glimpsed." In an e-mail to the many people who loved and supported the Chama Teahouse as a special place to create, Jones pointed out the factual errors in the article, which he liked overall, despite the reporter's misquotes and mistakes. The paintings by Huggins were actually of visitors "from other dimensions" and the bike tour was by a regular city bike tour group, which included a stop at Chama where Jones talked about UFOs. "Baying at the Moon..." mentions Jones' fascinating background, "a longtime fixture in artistic circles in the East Village." Between 1993 and 1998 he ran the Gargoyle Mechanique Laboratory performance space on Avenue B. "In the early 1990s he was a host of a radio show about U.F.O.'s om Steal This Radio, a pirat FM statio based on the Lower East Side," writes Moynihan. A rather haunting, beautiful black-and-white photo in the article shows the garden with the Full Moon and large lighted orbed laterns, giving an enchanting luster to the feature Times article.

'THE EXPERIENCERS" PRODUCTION PROGRESSES

A News Update By Harold Egeln

NEW YORK CITY, Sun., October 5, 2003 -- A major feature documentary about close encounter witnesses, "The Door Is Open: The Experiencers," has already taped the stories of six encounter explorers as production on the Tamago Films project continues into early Autumn.

The willing participants, braving public scrutiny, from two New York City-based groups are being taped by producers Jeffrey Morehouse and Gus Scharr, known for their acting roles in early 2001 in "The Abduction Project" play by the Collision Theory at the HERE Arts Center in SoHo in this city.

Morehouse played the newscaster Charles Hart and the Air Force pilot, and Scharr played the mysterious man in a trenchcoat and dark sunglasses swinging the pocketwatch, acting both as guardian between worlds and hypnotist.

They approached S.P.A.C.E. (the Search Project for Aspects of Close Encounters) at a fundraiser at a Madison Avenue art gallery in October 2001 about their film concept, and this past July they began production, to the satisfaction of all participants, who have diverse stories to tell.

Their documentary, using an open-minded approach, is described by Tamago Films as "a feature documentary, exploring the extraordinary experiences of some amazing people who share a common bond that struggles to find an understanding in mainstream society. They all have interacted with extraterrestrials. What they show you may shock you. It may unlock you. It may unnerve you. It may give you peace of mind. The door is open. Are you ready to come inside?"

The Tamago team is going beyond the "talking heads" method and will use innovative visual techniques to convey the stories of the people being interviewed in their homes and on-site of their encounters, such as at an East Village art gallery and in the Hudson Valley.

The feature film follows in the wake of "Touched" by Blind Dog Films, based in Somerville, Massachusetts, released this past February at a P.E.E.R. debut with Dr. John Mack in Boston, and a Sci Fi Channel documentary preceding "Taken" in November 2002 called the Abduction Diaries" by Naked Eye Productions, based in New York City.

Giving encounter witnesses a voice, "The Experiencers" should be ready in about a year, the producers said, for either theatrical release or on a major cable or public television network.

(For more details on the documentary and its origins, see article in this News section posted on March 1.)

Tamago Films is also finishing production with "Septemer 11th" and has produced "Being Marlon Brando," and is in post-production wih "Stalking Phat Ho."

(NOTE: "Touched" will soon be shown in San Francisco. Please check our e-magazine's Calendar for details.)

For more information about "The Experiencers," visit Tamago Films website below:

BUDD HOPKINS' NEW BOOK "SIGHT UNSEEN" IN BOOKSTORES

By Harold Egeln

Saturday, October 4, NEW YORK CITY -- Now in bookstores nationwide is "Sight Unseen: Science, UFO Invisibility and Transgenic Beings," by Budd Hopkins and writer/filmmaker Carol Rainey, his wife, exploring new areas in their abduction research.

This evening Hopkins spoke for the first time in public about the new book at a UFO conference in Bordentown, New Jersey, and will speak about it in New York City for the first time at an Intruders Foundation event at Wagner College Planetarium in Staten Island on Saturday, October 11 (see e-magazine's calendar section for details).

Published by Atria Press, a trademark of Simon & Schuster in New York, it is the first book by Hopkins since "Witnessed: The True Story of the Brooklyn Bridge UFO Abductions" (1996) and his famous worldwide best sellers "Intruders: The Incredible Visiatons At Copley Woods" (1987) and "Missing Time: A Documented Study of UFO Abductions" (1981). It is also his first co-authored book with talented writer Carol Rainey, who has shared in his life for almost a decade.

The combination of this team has produced a deeply articulated and wonderously thoughtful examination of abductees with whom Hopkins has dealt with in a supportive role. It also touches upon two major areas not discussed in Hopkins' books, and brings into play the latest concepts of science as in cosmology, quantum physics, stealth technology, time travel, the stopping of light and supersymmetry to backup the argument of UFO abduction reality.

"I hope that the exploration of these and other new devlopments will help common ground between scientists and people intrigued by UFOs," writes Rainey in the introduction.

Drawing upon several abduction cases, there is information that suggests that hybrids or transgenic beings created through alien intervention live among us, passing as normal people. There are compelling cases of mysterious, awkward interviews and of a strange "phantom support group." This all carries forward from the research of David Jacobs in his last, "The Threat."

"In each part of the book," writes Hopkins, "we will be presenting case material that is almst totally unknown to the general public, as well as unfamiliar and radical new scientific thinking and experimentation in fields such as physics, neurobilogy and genetics that will help the reader further understand the plausibility of UFO technology."

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NOTE: Look for a review of "Sight Unseen" by Harold Egeln soon in the review section of this e-magazine. "This book, the best of Hopkins' four, breaks ground for the public by its references to the lastest scientific discoveries, with some highly disturbing experiencer cases," writes Egeln in a preview of his review. "To those exploring their own encounters, it is a very well written briefing for that public to a very physically real shadowy Twilight Zone that we experience as the enigmatic topsy-turvey realms of high strangeness."

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GRAHAM BIRDSALL, BRITISH "UFO MAGAZINE" EDITOR, DIES AT 49

By Russell Callaghan

Friday, September 19, 2003, ENGLAND (from RevistaUFO)-- At 5:05 a.m. today Graham W. Birdsall, (editor-in-chief of UFO Magazine) suffered heart failure at age 49. He was born on 7 April 1954.

His passing came just two days after undergoing a seven hour operatio following his recent brain haemorrhage (on Sept. 11). Graham never regained consciousness. His wife and daughters (Helen and Louise) were by his side.

Graham was this subject's pillar of strength. He brought serious UFO research into the public domain and delivered a vociferious message to enthusiasts and reseachers around the globe.

His character, enthusiasm and his committment to this subject will be sadly missed. Graham was a loving, caring hsband, father and devoted grandfather. He also leaves his brother Mark, granddaughter Kaly and son-in-law Russel.

His funeral will be on Tuesday, September 30 at 1:00 p.m. at St. Mary's Parish Church in Whitkirk, Leeds.

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GRAHAM BIRDSALL TRIBUTE

By Peter Robbins (editor, UFO City.com)

Friday, September 19, 2003, NEW YORK CITY (excerpt from UFOcity.com bulletin) -- Graham, along with his brother Mark, founded UFO Magazine (UK) and as editor-in-chief built the publication into the most successful and influential magazine of its kind.

Graham was also a friend and mentor to many of the best known, and lesser known, ufologists around the world. He produced many UFO conferences and related events, including the Leeds International UFO Conference, which would have been held if it ad not been cancelled due to his illness.

Those of us who were fortunate enough to know Graham and have him as a friend will miss him terribly, but we will always remember his courage, sense of humor, drive and countless contributions to the field of ufology.

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"SPACE ALIEN" LANDS AT ROCKEFELLER CENTER

By Harold Egeln

NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. - Sunday, September 14, 2003 -- "REVERSE DOUBLE HELIX," an art and entertainment installation featuring a 30-foot tall cartoonish "space alien" who stands atop a frog and symbolically communicates messages from Earth's children to the universe is the feature of an installation by famed creative, cine anime artist TAKASHI MURAKAMI at 30 Rockefeller Center Plaza (site of the Christmas Tree) from Tuesday, September 9 through Sunday, October 12.

The New York Times featured a story about the "ALIEN LANDING" in its Sunday Arts & Leisure section on August 24, 2003 in a story titled "The Giant Cartoon Landing at Rockefeller Center" by art and architecture critic Marion Maneker, pages 1, 23 and 28.

The New York Resident, in its Falls Arts Preview edition of August 25, 2003, featured the "Alien" on its front cover with the Cover Story, "Factory Man: New York Gets Its Second Wave of Murakami As the Japanese 'Warhol' Transforms Rock Ctr." by Sara Bonisteel on page 31.

Murakami is known for his "multi-armed giants, happy flowers and elfin creatures," and the NY TIMES story calls the "alien" -- named Tongari-Kun (Mr. Pointy") -- a cross between Pokemon and Buddha. "Mr. Murakami seems more concerned with reaching beyond the art world to speak directly to a mass audience," says the Times article.

This is the SECOND installation at a Public Place in NYC city this year by THE PUBLIC ART FUND, the first being Mariko Mori's 43-foot-long "WAVE UFO," an interactive scuplture at the IBM Public Atrium, visited by THOUSANDS of visitors.

Ironically, these displays take place in the context of -- and outside the sphere -- of major UFO programs, such as the "Strange Scenes of ET Abduction" art show in the East Village (Aug. 20-Sept. 24), the recent national Academy of Clinical Close Encounter Therapists Conference at the Hotel Pennsylvania (Labor Day weekend), the UFO researcher Budd Hopkins "Sight Unseen" book release program at Wagner College Planetarium in Staten Island (Oct. 11), and twice monthly meetings of the Disclosure Network of N.Y.

And it was in August that the first science fiction movie from India, "KOI... MIL.. GAYA" about alien contact, was shown for two weeks at a Times Square theater.

Another IRONY -- The "Space Alien" stands at the site of a REDSTONE-MERCURY rocket display (the same type of rocket that launched the first American, Alan Shepherd, into suborbital space on May 5, 1961) that was the centerpiece of the Centennial of Flight Exhibit from July 29 to August 18 this Summer.

Also, although born in Japan, Murakami, 41, lives now in WILLIAMSburg, Brooklyn -- for those who have been following the WILLIAMS connections in S.P.A.C.E.'s "WOW! CONTACT" E-Book.

For More Information visit The N.Y. PUBLIC ART FUND website on the installation and the Unofficial Murakami Website below:

MAJOR UFO CONFERENCE IN NYC LABOR DAY WEEKEND

By Harold Egeln

New York City, NY, Monday, SEPTEMBER 1, 2003 -- In Arthur C. Clarke's famous sci-fi novel "Childhood's End," he tells of a race of winged aliens, resembling devils but which were not, who help move humanity to its next evolutionary quantum leap by cultivating an advanced, super-intelligent generation of children on Earth, changing civilization forever, moving it to invisible realms.

With the concept of "Star Child" as a playful backdrop, the Academy of Clinical Close Encounter Therapists, Inc. (ACCET), a national nonprofit educational organization, held its annual national conference for the first time in the city on Labor Day weekend, providing the worst and best of the contact situations through true firsthand stories by therapists and experiencers.

Held at the famous Hotel Pennyslvania, on a floor legendary for its many Star Trek Fan Conventions of the 1970s and 1980s, ACCET, founded by researcher and author Dr. Richard Richard Boylan of San Francisco, known for his upbeat outlook on UFO encounters, gave an comprehensive accounting of the state of the contact situation in 2003.

Opening the program on Friday evenng, Boylan, who remains solid with his vision and research, gave the welcoming address, followed by social worker Connie Herbert's optimistic talk titled "New Moon Rising: the Seeds of Possibilibities." Both talks gave a positive outlook of hope about close encounters and humanity's future.

Speakers were:

JOYCE Z. MEYERS, LCWS, CHT, PLT spoke on Major Challenges to Our Times and Responding to he Call; JOAN OCEAN, scientist, author of "Dolphin Connection," "Interdimensional Living" and "Dolphins Into the Future," speaking on messages from the dolphin community for humankind; as part of her presentation famed French visionary artist JEAN LUC BAZZOLI will show part of his "VOYAGEOF THE STARSEEDS" video; MARIAN MACNEIL, CHT, ACCET secectary-treasurer, speaking on her life experiences and 20 years as a visitors' contactee; CONSTANCE CLEAR, LCSW, author of "Reaching For Reality: Seven Incredible True Stories of Alien Abduction," speaking on what she has learned from experiencers; RICHARD BOYLAN, Ph.D., ACCET Vice President, author of "Close Extraterrestrial Encounters: Positive Experiences with Mysterious Visitors," "Labored Journey to the Stars" and "Project Epiphany" speing on Star Kids and Star Seeds; BARBARA LAMB, LMFT, author of "Crop Circles Revealed';" and a presentation by the Search Project for Aspects of Close Encounters.

HEALING THE HEART OF DARKNESS On Saturday, New Yorker Joyce Meyers, a clinical social worker, hypnotherapist and past life regressionist, gave the first presentation of the day, speaking in public for the first time about her work and her own experiences. One of her specialities includes working with incest and abuse survivors, as well as working with difficult paranomal experiences. "The severity of the trauma, such as satanic ritual abuse," she said, "blows open a person's boundaries, allowing energies to enter from other levels of reality, including star visitor contact." As one leaves behind their childhood, the abuse "can be used as a shamanistic initiation," said Meyers. "In fact it must, for this darkness must be transmuted or it will turn against the self. Those most traumatically violated have the potential to turn vast amounts of poison into vast amounts of medicine and become excellent healers. It's like homeopathic medicine, where a touch of arsenic can cure food poisoning." There are those, she also said, who have been brutalized and are willing to do their own healing, who have the opportunity, at minimum, to become the wisest and most compassionate of people. "If worked properly, going into the depths of hell can bring you right to the heights of heaven. And that is my mission on Earth to accomplis and why I am here speaking with you today," Meyers said. Her work includes clients who have had ET experiences. In working hypnotically with this population, Meyers has found that most have made what she said "is a promise prior to birth, to work with the star visitors for planetary healing." Many experiencers are unaware until later in life of their star visitor contact, she said, "living an entire life they are unaware of" until something happens to trigger the buried memories, and to seek answers and help. "I was one of them," said Meyers, making her story personal, describing an experience. "I was working through a particularly virulent memory. Then I saw a small dot in my room. It burst into a holographic image of a beautiful, unconditionally loving ET. I knew it was the angels who came to help me as a child. I consider them family." There are highly placed political forces at work that preceive anything that expands consciousness or supports true peacmamking as a threat to corporate profit and military strength, Meyers noted, and will most likely be ignored, banned, discredted or eliminated. "We are all living in the Matrix," she said, referring to the popular "Matrix" movies in which most people are unaware that they live in a controlled reality from an outside reality. "Now it's right in front of our eyes," Meyers said of the present awareness of the real "Matrix." Some children, she discovered in her research, were "injected with ET DNA" and have been used for all sorts of horrible purposes. These children, Meyers said, are now the "Roswell Star Adults." Meyers then introduced one of them, who told his own story, mainly based on recall methods, making his first statement in public, like Meyers. "A ROSWELL STAR ADULT" As a child in Germany, he said, he met a man "in a blue jumpsuit" with "eyes like sunglasses," which, when focused seemed to "look into eternity." "They downloaded information into me," he recalled. The man was subsequently tortured "by the military." Of his experience, he said, "You can't keep it for yourself. You got to get it out." He spent the last seven years dealing with his tortured memories, then telling of an ET connection. "I have a space mom and dad," he said, who give him support, acting as his real parents. ********* THE DOLPHIN-ET CONNECTION The next speaker, scientist and author Joan Ocean of Hawaii, raised spirits with she talk about the "messages from the dolphin community to humankind" and the dolphin-ET connections she has discovered. A fateful meeting in 1977 where John Lily, the pioneer dolphin researcher, inspired Ocean ("It's my real name," she said) into doing her own studies of dolphin, and later whale, communication by intermingling with them. She discovered that they were bascically ETs or of ET origin, living in the aquatic reality, and learned of their ways, their thoughts and ideas. "They have a pod mind which they use to communicate," Ocean said. While distinctly individual, the Pod Mind is a shared mind, she explained, "There are no secrets and no hidden agendas. Everything is out in the open." Her talk was framed by enchanting scenes on a video screen of playing with the dolphins. In 1986 Ocean, who lived in California, got a message. She was "told" to "move to Hawaii: where she would meet ETs. They turned out to be the dolphins, as well as dolphins who were in communication with ETs. She founded Sky Ranch on Hawaii's big island. Although in her talk she did not go into great detail about her ET contact, she mentioned an incident familiar to some ET experiences -- "frozen time" or as S.P.A.C.E. experiencer and writer described it "a holographic postcard." Ocean was in a store when suddenly she noticed that everybody and everything was still, as if frozen. She touched some people and they felt warm but did not budge. After a few moments all resumed in motion. Ocean details her work with dolphins in her book, "Dolphins of the Future." An extra treat for the conference audience was a stunning and magically colorful video excerpt by famous visionary artist Jean Luc Bozzoli, a friend of hers, from "Voyage of the Star Seeds," keeping the audience in awe and wanting more.

ENTER THE VISITORS: 20 YEARS OF CONTACT Marion MacNeil, a certified hypnotherapist and ACCET's secretary-treasurer, spoke of 20 years of her contacts with "star visitors," which take place in California where she lives. MacNeil recalled an incident of May 17, 1995 that happened around 2:00 a.m.. "I felt three fingers touch me. There was no one there. There was some sort of electricity smell in my room, like musk," she said. Because of this experience, she made an appointment with Dr. Richard Boylan and met him for the first time, launching her recall of many years of ET contact. "An old scar went fire engine red," MacNeil said of the hypnosis session. "I was too frightened and cried. Dr. Boylan asked me to think about how the touch of the three fingers felt. I said, It was without malice." For many years prior to seeing Boylan she had contact with "a guide called Neuman, which involved "past life recall." She also had two guides, one in armor representing "inner strength" and one called Quin Lee, who was related to her in a past life in China, she felt. What is important in life, she learned from them, was "Intention." "It's what the intention is itself." MacNeil learned to take two perspectives, "The detachment of an observer and the role of participant," she said. After the session with Boylan in 1995 she realized that her guide Neuman was an ET. "But I never made the connection before," she said. She mentioned that Neuman said, "We will always take care of you." "I believe we contract for this life," MacNeil said. "We want to experience what human life is like." A turning point in MacNeil's life was a UFO sighting of two white lights and contact with what she called "the shimmering light" being. "It gave me the ability to heal," she said, adding a new dimension to her life. CONSTANCE CLEAR'S WORK Leaving her motocycle back in Texas and bringing an incredible background of facilitating a support group for abductees was Constance Clear, the well-known licensed clinical social worker who wrote, with seven experiencers, the book "Reaching For Reality: Seven Incredibly True Stories of Alien Abduction." "I may have seen a few UFOs, but nothing up close and personal," Clear said, noting that she has lacked the encounter experience herself but was intrigued enough to start a support group in her home. That came as a result of seeing a cable TV show in 1992 called, ""Visitors From The Unknown" noting it portrayed positive and negative experiences. What she has learned from her in-depth research is that there appears to be "a public acclimation program" going on, a mix of good, valid knowledge with a bit of healthy skepticism thrown in, as the public's acceptance of ET reality "continues to rise." What is frustrating to Clear is getting her colleagues to pay attention to the abduction experience. "I've tried to submit papers to sociology and psychology meetings," she said, but without success. FROM STAR KIDS TO STAR SEEDS Fascinated by Native American perspectives, practices and mythology, Boylan has come to not only learn from that incredibly rich knowledge, but to use it in his life and at ceremonies at his conferences, gently not requiring participation from the audience but only by choice. To those with native American backgrounds (my maternal grandmother had a Cherokee parent), it is a welcomed action. Talking once with an elder, Boylan said he was told, "All of the avators are starmen." That's Moses, Zoraster, Christ, Buddha, Mohammad and more, he said. In the years since he wrote his first book focusing on "Close Encounters of the Positive Kind," with his own research and the accounts of people in his support group, Boylan has studied the phenomenon of "Star Kids" -- children endowed wih extraordinary intelligence and abilities -- and "Star Seeds" --star kids grown to adulthood and acting out their "missions." "Over 20 of the hundreds of people I have worked with feel that they have volunteered to come to Earth and to help," Boylan said. Boylan distributed his Star Kid/Star Seed Identifcation Questionnaire, called "SKIQ" with 54 questions which indicate possible star kidism. A score of 12 or more is a "possible" with 20 or more a "most likely" and a score of 26 or more a "positively Star Kid." You can learn more about these characteristics from Boylan's own website (see below). THE CROP CIRCLES' MESSAGES Barbara Lamb, a licensed marriage, family and child therapist, and a regression heraist for abductees and contactees, spoke of her extensive research and experiences with crop circles in England. Her book, "Crop Circles Revealed: Language of the Light Symbols," is a lushly illustrated volume of many intricate crop formations. It is supplemented with a possible decoding of their "star visitor messages," the focus of Lamb's presentation -- which included fascinating slides of this year's patterns. "THE STAR TEEN" Pegged as a "Star Kid" by Boylan and others was a 16-year-old young man who came to the conference with his mother, and giving the surprise final talk, extemperously delivered. In mid-afternoon, after the proceedings, a busload of speakers and conference attendees boarded the M-4 Madison Avenue bus (of "Honeymooners/Ralph Kramden fame) -- the first Star Bus in the city? -- and headed for a Big Apple "power spot' -- Cleopatra's Needle in Central Park, situated over a century ago behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art. What they may not have realized is that directly west across the park is where a "spaceship" may have landed in 1967 (near the Belvidere Castle) and the Alice In Wonderland statue in the park is about five blocks south of their power site -- A children's favorite playing spot and symbol of S.P.A.C.E.'s "WOW! Contact" as documented in the 30-chapter "Project Wonderland" e-book. The conference was a success, people there said. All told, it brought together a total of 43 people for three days to share and learn, making for an intimate setting and a lasting impact. One person came from Sweden, another from Canada and yet another from Poland, making it an international conference. The conference told of the best and worst of the close encounter experience, and allowed all viewpoints to be expressed in the search for knowledge and truth. Overall, it gave a message of help and hope. The city's newspapers and TV stations' newsrooms were alerted, but did not show up. Time Out NY magazine and the Our Town weekly newspaper had the conference in their listings, and UFO City.com, thanks to editor Peter Robbins, along with UFO Magazine, were among the UFO outlets giving notice of the event. Fortunately, New York City's own Alan Steinfeld, long known for his public access cable TV show which has had many informative UFO programs over the years, was there and videotaped some of the talks. Also, Tamago Films videotaped the S.P.A.C.E. presentation on Sunday morning as part of its supportive documentary "The Experiencers." The producers, Jeffrey Morehouse and Gus Scharr -- talented actors who performed in Collision Theory's "The Abduction Project" play in 2001 here in NYC were thanked by Dr. Boylan for their work. And the S.P.A.C.E. EXPLORER orbitzine -- NYC's voice for the encounter community -- was there to give this account for the many who could not be there. *********************************************************

S.P.A.C.E.: WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED by Harold Egeln

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I gave a briefing of how S.P.A.C.E. emerged from my own experiences and coming to meet others who wanted to explore their own encounters, part of a process leading to the Search Project's formation in March 1992.

Mentioned briefly were the proactive encounters in Brewster (Upper Magnetic Mine Road -- a key contact site there -- is shown above).

For the first time at a national conference, the "WOW! Contact" was talked about. But the immense amount of information could not be fully delivered and people were referred to the "Project Wonderland" e-book, after a few choice high strangeness accounts were given.

Also premiered at a national conference was the "WELCOME HOME: The Story of S.P.A.C.E." eight-minute mini-documentary of a support group meeting with four Spacers, a video this past Spring by New York University film school freshman Blake Gingerich.

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www.joanocean.com
www.ETFriends.com
www.JeanLucBozzoli.com

PUTTING A "FACE" ON MARS

New York City, Wednesday, AUGUST 27 -- The sky over the city on the night of the closest approach of the Red Planet Mars to Earth in 60,000 years was misty, but the message of a press conference at the Mars 2112 Restaurant was clear.

Let us seriously search for life and civilizations, past and/or present on the legendary planet which excites science fiction writers and science explorers.

Longtime UFO researcher and publicist Mike Luckman of the NYC Center for UFO Research and Tom Van Flanders presented what they say is intriquing hints of past or present life and ivilization on Mars, taken by various Mars orbiters since 1976.

The event got global TV coverage due to CNN, which repeatedly showed scenes of the event. "While CNN's treatment was light, they did clearly show all three faces on Mars and the tunnels," said Luckman. "The latest face is very interesting and reminiscent of the Easter Island statues."

Local TV News programs on Fox Channel 5 and WPIX Channel 11 had reports on the press conference on this night's programs.

NASA, whiich has released the famous face photos, believes them to be natural formations of hills, with no indication of artificiality. Other recent photos have show evidence of past or present water on he Red Planet.

An armada of five spacecraft, - orbiters and landers, - launched by four nations or space agencies, is now rushing onward to Mars, set to arrive in December and January.

"Anyone who saw the CNN segment had to go away knowing that something is fishy with NASA's version of Mars," Luckman said.

For more information, check Luckman's COSMIC MAJORITY website and other MARS websites below:

STRANGE SCENES OF ALIEN ABDUCTIONS" PAINTINGS BY REAL-LIFE EXPERIENCER DAVID HUGGINS

By Harold Egeln

New York City, N.Y., Thursday, August 21, 2003 -- About 20 years small artifical intellgent flying saucers visited the East Village in New York City, where flower chldren and hippy counterculture bloomed in the late 1960s. The movie was "Batteries Not Included" produced by Steven Spielberg, starring Hume Crome and Jessica Tandy.

Last evening flying saucers returned to the East Village with a new art show, "Expressions of Close Encounters" featuring the absorbing artwork of painter and real-life experiencer David Huggins in his "Strange Scenes of Alien Abductions" exhibit at the Chama Teahouse, at 332 East Fourth Street, between Avenues C and D.

The art works feature scenes of David's lifelong encounters, from his childhood in Georgia through his young adult life and up to now. He explained why he did the paintings at a one-hour slide presentation at the opening reception last night.

"In the mid-1980s my memories began to surface. I felt a need to express these experiences and returned to art to express them. I had to do something with this!" Huggins said.

Among the artwork are the familiar "visitors" with large heads and big eyes, dressed in blue jumpsuits. They jump in a group towards David the child and, in the next paining, tackle him on the ground. In another painting a "visitor" hands Huggins a book. Yet another shows David being levitated above is Georgia home.

A wiry, thin tall "being" sits in front of tree, greeting the young David. In his stunning artwork, Huggins encounters "hybrid" females, "Praying Manthis" type beings, a trip through a tunnel and a Phoenix which burns, like abductee Betty Andresson Luca's experience almost.

A riviting painting shows a room full of hybrid babies on shelves, which Huggins learns, to his shock, are all his!

Huggins spoke before an audience of people who mostly have not heard a firsthand close encounter witness before, and was well-received. (He would speak again at two more occasions at Chama.)

Also, Huggins has written a gripping play, not yet performed, based on his experiences, showing his relationship with these "beings" who emerge through walls from "other dimensions" normally invisible to us and not from spaceships. The play focuses on his relationship with one female "alien" in particular. In "normal life" Huggins is married and has a teenaged son.

Other art shows of Huggins' artwork were held in New York City in the mid-1990s, at the Hudson Bar and Grill and also at the American Primitive Gallery in Soho. Other artworks at both shows include a member of the Allaghash Four in Maine (investigated by Budd Hopkins). There was also a solo Huggins show a few years ago at a bar and restaurant in Hoboken, New Jeresy,

Chamas's program blurb about the artshow calls it "A presentation of creative expressions born from close encounter experiences. paintings by David Huggins predominated the walls, with original gentle ambient electronic soundscape and video art projection. There are also works by Steve Speer, Christine Breyer, Nobbi Bennett, James Romberger, Steve Jones and Katherine Sall."

This art show is also part of the first annual HOWL! Festival of East Village Arts (Aug. 20-26) and was timed to coincide with the ACCET Close Encounter Conference on Labor Day weekend.

Chama, as described by Jones on his website, "is a vortex of creativity for you to work and meet. Art Gallery, Forbidden Science, New Music, Poetry, Internet and more."

It is open on Saturdays 4:00-10:00 p.m., and on Mondays through Fridays 12:00 noon-7:00 p.m., and is closed on Sundays.

Jones, a website designer, has had the Chama Teahouse for three years, and has had programs on Crop Circles, UFOs and related topics. He hosted a radio show on UFOs 10 years ago on "Steal This Radio," a pirate radio station on the Lower East Side.

[UPDATE, Oct. 2003: Unfortunately Chama was forced to close early this month because of changes in the building in which it was housed, a great loss to the entire city. Steve Jones remains active in the East Village and at the nearby garden and conducts Full Moon events there.]

For more information, call 1-646-654-6472 or e-mail stvjns@gargoylemechanique.com, and visit the CHAMA TEAHOUSE website below

"LOST IN THE WONDERLAND" - VOLUME THREE OF "PROJECT WONDERLAND" PUBLISHED

Thursday, June 12, 2003 -- The new Adventures of S.P.A.C.E. in Wonderland continue, making a Quantum Hop to Helsinki, Finland last month and ongoing right now.

Documenting these new cases of High Strangeness is Finnish university student Anders von Bergen in "Lost In The Wonderland," Volume Three of S.P.A.C.E.'s FREE on-line journal-style e-book, "Project Wonderland: The S.P.A.C.E. WOW! Signal Contact."

With a running theme of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Alice Through the Looking Glass," centered on the Rabbit archetype, the three volume e-book documents hundreds of synchronistic-related events bringing together UFO sightings, close encounters, dreams, screen memories, "UFO" photographs and bizzare events involving dozens of people, events, places and time periods.

The "sync events" appear to be a deliberate and artisically, theatrical-like orchestrated stream of information and associations suggesting "contact" and "communication," making links with cutting-edge discoveries in science, quantum physics, cosmology, supersymmetry, brane or superstring theory, quantum computers, parrallel universes in a multiverse, invisibility, dark energy and matter, other dimensions and much more, all delivered directly to close encounter experiencers and witnesses themselves who dare to explore their interface with a larger reality using greater awareness.

Read about the latest events in the link below. From its homepage, Volumes I and II of "Project Wonderland" can be accessed:

"UFO" LANDS AT IBM IN NEW YORK CITY

New York City - May 10, 2003 --- A "UFO" "landed" in the city on May 10 and stays until July 31 to welcome lots of visitors, us Earthlings, that is.

The huge fiberglass, resin teardrop shaped UFO is actually an interactive installation called "Wave UFO" created by Japanese-born artist Mariko Mori, last on display at the Kunzthall in Bregenz, Austria in March.

It is stationed be in the IBM Building Atrium in Manhattan at 590 Madison Avenue and West 56th Street. It is open to the public and is free of charge. There is a long wait in a line and each visit takes seven minutes with a crew of three passengers.

An article in the March 7 New York Times in the "Inside Art" column by Carol Vogel under the heading "A Mind-Reading Installation" describes the fiberglass "Wave UFO" as "an interactive environment that combines architecture, sculpture and video art." It is 34 feet long, 17 feet high and 14 feet high.

Visitors can enter the UFO three at a time, and once inside they are given headsets that pick up their brainwaves and enters the data into a computer. That information is transformed into colors and music and then interfaces with Mori's own visual language, with all images projected onto screens.

Visitors literally see their mind's activities turned into art, with color changes mirroring their state of mind, the article says, followed by a visual feast of stars, flowers and other shapes by Mori, as visitors experience an aesthetic visionary interconnection with the cosmos.

Mori is a Tokyo-born artist who is exploring the individual human and his/hers connection to the cosmos, and explores technology and spiritual links, as demonstrated by her work "Dream Temple" and now "Wave UFO."

Mori, through works like "Wave UFO," brings together "art, science, performance, music and architecture," says the press release on it.

The "Wave UFO" installation, which will be on display through Thursday, July 31 in the public space, is under the sponsorship of nonprofit Public Art Fund and Bloomberg.

The "Wave UFO" experience will be reviewed here.

Gallery hours: Tuesdays 10 am-8 pm, Wednesdays through Saturdays 11 am-7 pm, and Sundays 11 am-5 pm. Closed Mondays.

Please see more information about the exhbit and photos of "Wave UFO" (outer and inner scenes) after the next article.

S.P.A.C.E. is planning a "S.P.A.C.E. Contact Day at Wave UFO" to be announced on our calendar, and hopes to alert Spacers of any talks by Mori about her artwork.

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"DAY EARTH STOOD STILL" ON DISC

March 7, 2003 --- A special edition video disc of the 1951 classic sci-fi film "The Day the Earth Stood Still" was released this week by Fox, reported The New York Times today in Peter Nichols "Home Video" column.

When it was first shown 52 years ago, the world was four years into the modern "flying saucer" era. The film starts with a flying saucer coming in over the Atlantic, whizzing into Washington, DC over the Capitol Building and landing on a park baseball field, setting the stage for the humanoid alien, Klaatu, to warn the Earth to turn away from atomic weapons. His robot Gort acts as an "galactic policeman" to keep the solar system at peace.

In this special edition video, director Robert Wise, now 89, calls himself a "UFO man," having an interest in the subject.

British actor Michael Rennie plays Klaatu, who befriends actress Patricia Neal and her brother. Tommy, played by Billy Gray. Neal went on to play a similar role in "The Stranger From Venus," a 1959 British movie (also known as "Immediate Disaster") that was like the 1951 classic. The British movie was written by Desmond Leslie, who wrote the "Flying Saucers Have Landed" book for George Adamski 50 years ago.

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COLORADO NEWSPAPER GETS A CLOSE ENCOUNTER STORY RIGHT By Harold Egeln Sunday, May 4, 2003 -- A rare media event happened today when a newspaper and its reporter in Colorado published a fair and balanced story on close encounter experiencers. The feature article appears in today's "The Fort Collins Coloradoan" Lifestyle section, written by Kelli Lackett under the heading "IS SOMEONE THERE? - Chances Are, You Don't Believe In Aliens... Unless You've Been Taken By Them." The article is about two experiencers, Stan Romanek and Susan, who participate in a support group facilitated by noted hypnotherapist Deborah Lindemann's Center For Extraordinary Explorations in Colorado. The story does not resort to "the Snicker Factor," Lindemann noted. When I last wrote an article on UFOS in 1989 for one of my newspapers, I was faulted for not making it "funny" by my editor, a request which I, of course, refused. It was encouraging to see this news story, sent to us by Lindemann, after attending a poetry benefit here in New York City for FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting) just last evening. Click-on the URLs below for the Colorado news feature (copyright @ The Fort Collins Coloradoan), and also Lindemann's website.

S.P.A.C.E. FOCUS OF FILM PROJECT

New York City - Saturday, March 1, 2003 --- S.P.A.C.E. will be the main focus of a major documentary, now in the early stages of discussion, by TAMAGO FILMS in New York City.

Producer and director Jeffrey Morehouse, who played two roles in "THE ABDUCTION PROJECT" play by the Collision Theory performance ensemble in Feb.-Mar. 2001 (he played the newscaster Charles Hart and pilot Jonathan Chase), and audio and music director Gus Scharr (who played the mystery man with the pocket watch) will be working on the film, to be done this Summer and expected to be shown later in 2004. It is tentatively titled "The Experiencers."

"The Experiencers will be a feature documentary exploring the extraordinary experiences of some amazing people who have a common bond that struggles to find understanding in mainstream activity," said Morehouse. "They all have interactions with extraterrestrials."

"What we show you may shock you. Or unlock you," he said. "It may unnerve you. It may give you peace of mind."

At least nine people have agreed, so far, to participate in the project.

"Our first experience with Morehouse and Scharr was through The Abduction Project when Collison Theory producers first approached us about their play concept in May 2000," said Harold Egeln, S.P.A.C.E. coordinator. "We were impressed by the interest of the ensemble and how they listened so carefully and so intently, with sincere curiosity, to our stories."

There were two meetings with the ensemble, based in Fort Greene in Brooklyn, and the play was performed several times during February and March 2001 at the HERE Arts Center in Soho in Manhattan. (see review in Orbitzine's Review page)

At a fund raiser in October 2001, Morehouse and Scharr approached Egeln about their idea, saying that after they do a film about the response of people about "9/11" they would work with S.P.A.C.E. on their production. This January they held a first meeting over dinner about the project.

Rather than doing a "talking heads" documentary, the approach will be more directly engaging, with computer techniques to depict the encounter explorers' stories. S.P.A.C.E. perfers the term "encounter explorer" to experiencers or abductee, for it involves witnesses who explore their encounters.

There will on-site interviewing and filming, such as the upstate Brewster area where interactions with extraordinary intelligences have occured and been sought, as well as other places.

"We are very excited about the Tamago Films project, which will cover the range and depth of our close encounters," said Egeln. "Jeffrey and Gus have demonstrated a remarkable ability and deep curiousity to truly comprehend and portray this mysterious interface, this compeling and preplexing contact with the unknown in an extraordinary manner for public understanding."

Tamago Films hopes to get wide exposure for their documentary.

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"THE ABDUCTION PROJECT" GOES ON THE ROAD

Brooklyn, NY - February 2003 -- Collision Theory is taking "The Abduction Project" on the road, across country.

The play about the close encounter experience, performed to packed houses at the HERE Arts Center in New York City in the late Winter of 2001, will be staged at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California.

That is also the home to JPL, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which monitors NASA's unmanned space missions, such as the famous Voyager probe visits to the outer solar system and the Mars missions, among others.

"We were recently invited to bring our show, THE ABDUCTION PROJECT, to the California Institute of Technology," wrote ensemble Artistic Directors Stephanie Gilman and K. Tanzer in a letter in December. "We are therefore in the midst of putting together a small west cost tour of this past work."

When creating their play, the ensemble interviewed encounter explorers from Budd Hopkins' group, Dr. John Mack's group and the S.P.A.C.E. group, and intergrated their stories to create the play, which uses movement, music and images to convey the close encounter experience rather than a literal re-telling.

Collision Theory, which has produced yearly plays for almost a decade, will present its latest work, a play about "love and memory in wartime" with live music, from this May 12 to June 7 at the HERE Arts Center.

It is being done in collaboration with Hungarian dramaturg Kinga Keszthelyl, award winning writer Patricia Eakins and famed New York composer and musician Jon Madof.

"We are thrilled to learn about the ensemble's west coast tour of The Abduction Project and its performance at CIT, home for JPL," said Harold Egeln, S.P.A.C.E. director. "This is a highly effective way of portraying experiences of high strangeness unique in the history of ufology. The more public exposure, the better. May there be more!"

For more information: www.collisiontheory.org

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NYU STUDENT'S CLASS FILM SHORT ON S.P.A.C.E.

New York City - March 1, 2003 --- A freshman university film student is making a 15-minute film short about "UFO experiencers" as his class project this month.

Blake Gingerich, the young film maker, will film a group of S.P.A.C.E. encounter explorers at a meeting for his class at New York University.

In 1997, at age 14, he and his parents attended the 50th Anniversary of the Roswell incident in New Mexico, travelling from Indiana.

"I've had an interest in UFOs. While at the Roswell conference, I was impressed at how normal and everyday the people were," Gingerich said. "This is what I want to show in my film short and how people deal with their close encounters."

Update: Saturday, March 22, 2003 -- Gingerich and a fellow film student filmed four people from the S.P.A.C.E. group today, the first part of a mini-group support session, led by Harold Egeln, and the second part featuring individual interviews of the four partcipants.

Friday, April 4, 2003 -- Gingerich's film was among student films shown and critiqued in his NYU film class today, with a generally good reception with comments about how "normal" the four people in the film are. It may be shown in the NYU student film festival this Spring.

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"TOUCHED," A FILM ABOUT EXPERIENCERS, PREMIERS IN BOSTON

Boston, Massachusetts -- Thursday, February 20, 2003 -- "Touched," a major film documentary about close encounter experiencers, premiered at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts today.

Made in cooperation with Dr. John Mack's PEER, the Program for Extraordinary Experience Research, the film by the award winning Blind Dog Films, was shown to a sold out crowd in the museum's 300-seat auditorium.

On stage were Dr. Mack, film maker Laurel Chiten and editor Sabrina Zanella Forest. The film features interviews with Dr. Mack, experiencers four experiencers, a high Vatican official, and, in England, Patrick Harpin, author of the book "Daimonic Reality."

Showings were also set for March 6, April 11 and April 16. A showing in New York City may be in the works. For more information, click-on the PEER, Blind Dog Films and "Touched" websites below:

NEWSDAY LOOKS AT UFOs AND RELIGION

Religions and religious beliefs based on UFOs and close encounters have been a part of the ufology scene since the late 1940s.

Three decades ago Rev. Barry Downing of upstate New York wrote a book called "The Bible and UFOS" showing their connections, and a NASA scientist wrote "The Spaceships of Ezekiel." Over 40 years ago a minister was on the board of NICAP, the National Investigation Committee on Aerial Phenomenon.

In the January 29, 2003 edition of Newsday, the Long Island, NY newspaper, an article appeared under the headline "Religion's Final Froniter -- Space Holds Keys for Believers in Extraterrestrials" by Newsday staff writer Carol Eisenberg, prompted by the Clonaid controversy and its connections with the Raelians, founded by French race car drver and sports journalist Claude Vorilhon.

After the usual downplay of anything linked to UFOs and mentioning "tabloid grist," the writer did a fair and balanced article about UFOs and religion, first mentioning the 1997 Heaven's Gate tragedy highlighting the dangers of belief.

There are quotes from spaceship religion scholar Rev. John Saliba, a Jesuit scholar at the University of Detroit-Mercy and director Paul Nugent of the Aetherius Society of Hollywood, Calif, founded by the late George King of England.

The Rev. Michael Carter, a hospital chaplain who was one of the encounter explorers on the Sci Fi Channel's "Abduction Diaries" documentary shown last November, was quoted, mentioning his Sept. 28, 1989 encounter in his Manhattan apartment and how he became convinced of the idea that UFO encounters were the source of Bibical miracles, citing the pillar of fire in the Exodus.

Newsday noted that Rev. Carter's master thesis at the Union Theological Seminary wason UFOs and Religion, the basis for his upcoming book.

"The ancients may not have known what vocbulary to use, but certainly there were things happening in the sky similar to what is happening today," he said in the article.

There are also quotes from Robin Jorgensen, a contractor who has meetings on The Urantia Book in his Soho apartment in Manhattan. He was contacted by Eisenberg through a referral to the Disclosure Network chapter in the city by Harold Egeln of S.P.A.C.E., who was informed of the assignment of Newsday's Eisenberg through a call from a UFO researcher.

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THE SECRET LIFE OF A PUBLIC JOURNALIST S.P.A.C.E. founder Harold Egeln is in a unique position of working as a general assignment journalist and being a close encounter witness, placing him in a role similar to fictional space visitor Superman who disguised his true otherworldly identity as the mild-mannered "Daily Planet" reporter Clark Kent. While Egeln (who is no superman, certainly, but is mild-mannered) works for mainstream newspapers, SPACE, its websites and the whole close encounter experience do not "exist" as no one is aware of his necessary "secret life." UFO stories are banned from his newspapers unless they have a humorous spin. The last and only UFO article by Egeln in those newspapers appeared in October 1989. Does being a journalist who has the close encounter experience compromise his professional work or enhance it? Whatever one may think, it is in the spirit of all the Clark Kents, whatever their professions or backgrounds, leading "secret lives" out there that we present S.P.A.C.E. NEWS FROM "METROPOLIS" focused on New York City.

HAROLD EGELN'S MEDIA BACKGROUND Professional journalist Harold Egeln is currently a fulltime general assignment reporter and photojournalist for two major mainstream weekly newspapers sold on Brooklyn newsstands. The newspapers have been around since 1933 and 1951. He first worked for them from March 1989 to December 1991. He returned as a freelancer to them in mid-1993 and worked there part-time from June 1994 to September 1997, when he went full-time. Egeln's first assignments for the newspapers were as a freelance reporter in early 1984. From March 1984 to June 1989 he wrote a weekly "Peace Talk" column in one of the newspapers, while he was working as executive director of a large New York City peace organization (the New York Council of the national Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy), where his responsibilies included press releases and media contacts and appearances. He averages over 500 newspaper articles with his byline a year, and does numerous re-writes, page layouts and some proof-reading. In his work, he has met and done articles, with photos, on Colin Powell, U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton, NYC Mayors Rudy Guiliani and Michael Bloomberg, Governor George Pataki, Members of Congress, numerous city, state and federal elected officials, military officers, clergy, educators, politicians, civic leaders, acting and sports celebraties, police, firefighters, and everyday people from all walks of life and ages. From February 1992 through January 1995 he was a paid columnist for "Downtown," an alternative newspaper based in the East Village. He wrote about 130 environmental columns called "Eco-Frontier" for that newspaper, with four columns on UFOs, including a two-parter on the work of Budd Hopkins, David Jacobs and Dr. John Mack. As a volunteer grassroots peace activist and organizer in the late 1960s and early 1970s, he had press releases published as articles (without a byline) in the "East Orange Record" and "Independent Press" in Bloomfield, New Jersey. Egeln, in his S.P.A.C.E. related activities, has appeared on at least 18 local public access cable TV shows, two national MSNBC-TV cable shows, and on four national radio programs. He has spoken at nine UFO conferences. His first TV appearance as a child was as a member of the Peanut Gallery on "The Howdy Doody Show." In his peace-related work in the 1980s, Egeln appeared on WBAI-FM radio twice, on Dr. Michio Kaku's "Connections" and on "Bread And Roses." Egeln also was interviewed in 1987 for "Vremya" - the main evening news program in the old USSR. A daring peace action he took while in the Army was mentioned as a news item on the "CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite" in April 1966. ********************************************************

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