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		<title>Flying Saucers and Science: A Scientist Investigates the Mysteries of UFOs: Interstellar Travel, Crashes, and Government Cover-Ups</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISBN13: 9781601630117 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionFlying Saucers and Science is a comprehensive look at the scientific data on the flying saucer phenomenon. Nuclear physicist and lecturer Stanton T. Friedman has distilled more than 40 years of research on UFOs, and shares his work on a wide variety [...]<p>a</p>
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<p><b>Product Description</b><br /><B>Flying Saucers and Science</B> is a comprehensive look at the scientific data on the flying saucer phenomenon. Nuclear physicist and lecturer Stanton T. Friedman has distilled more than 40 years of research on UFOs, and shares his work on a wide variety of classified advanced nuclear and space systems. He answers a number of physics questions   in layman&#8217;s terms, and establishes that travel to nearby stars is within reach without violating the laws of physics.<BR... <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Flying-Saucers-Science-Investigates-Interstellar/dp/1601630115%3FSubscriptionId%3D15TXF0KA1V5T085ANXR2%26tag%3Dxaviermcom-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D1601630115" rel="nofollow">More >></a></p>
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		<title>Interdimensional Universe: The New Science of UFOs, Paranormal Phenomena and Otherdimensional Beings</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISBN13: 9780738713472 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionOver the course of his thirty years of investigation into UFOs, including his own field research, photographic evidence, and meticulously compiled case studies, Philip Imbrogno has provided fascinating new insight into paranormal phenomena. In this book, he reveals for the first time [...]<p>a</p>
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<p><b>Product Description</b><br />Over the course of his thirty years of investigation into UFOs, including his own field research, photographic evidence, and meticulously compiled case studies, Philip Imbrogno has provided fascinating new insight into paranormal phenomena. In this book, he reveals for the first time the detailed findings of prominent paranormal experts as well as his own firsthand experiences.The UFO Phenomenon: Fascinating New Theories and Never-Before-Released PhotosUsing the lat&#8230; <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Interdimensional-Universe-Paranormal-Phenomena-Otherdimensional/dp/0738713473%3FSubscriptionId%3D15TXF0KA1V5T085ANXR2%26tag%3Dxaviermcom-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0738713473" rel="nofollow">More >></a></p>
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		<title>What to do if you see a UFO</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are a couple of guidelines from The Mutual UFO Network, or MUFON, letting you know what to do if you see a UFO: 1. Remain calm. 2. Be objective. 3. Use a video camera or camera to record the event. 4. Tape your tale. If you have a band, record your description of the [...]<p>a</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>These are a couple of guidelines from The Mutual UFO Network, or MUFON, letting you know what to do if you see a UFO:</p>
<p>1. Remain calm.<br />
2. Be objective.<br />
3. Use a video camera or camera to record the event.<br />
4. Tape your tale. If you have a band, record your description of the event as it happens.<br />
5. Few second witness observations.<br />
6. Leave the area alone.<br />
7. Measuring the size.<br />
8. Measuring the distance.<br />
9. Write down all face.<br />
10. Report your results.</p>
<p>Not all UFOs are extraterestrial so you have to be objective whenever you see something on the sky and when you see something you must remain calm for your own safety. By panicing you could get hurt or even drive your car off a cliff or something.</p>
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		<title>UFO Files: Alien Encounters (2007)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For only $21.95 at Amazon you can get this DVD about alien encounters. In this DVD you&#8217;ll get interviews and eye-witness reports from experts and others. A few UFOlogists try to explain a few cases with the help of police, chemical analysts and other independent sources. a<p>a</p>
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For only $21.95 at Amazon you can get this DVD about alien encounters. In this DVD you&#8217;ll get interviews and eye-witness reports from experts and others. A few UFOlogists try to explain a few cases with the help of police, chemical analysts and other independent sources.</p>
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		<title>Can we blame global warming on UFOs?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found an interesting theory where the author is asking the question if we can blame global warming on aliens wanting our planet. Bruce is writing: As I understand it, global warming now is responsible for the bitterly cold weather that has gripped much of the nation this year. According to the author aliens want [...]<p>a</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I found an interesting theory where the author is asking the question if we can blame global warming on aliens wanting our planet.</p>
<p><span class="storydetail">Bruce</span> is writing:</p>
<blockquote><p>As I understand it, global warming now is responsible for the bitterly cold weather that has gripped much of the nation this year.</p></blockquote>
<p>According to the author aliens want to take over our planet, but a full scale invasion is out of the question so they&#8217;re simply making the planet so horrible that we don&#8217;t want it any more. By increasing the temperature so we get global warming, melting polar ices, flooding etc the planet is turning into something we may want to leave.</p>
<blockquote><p><span class="storydetail">Now, however, you rarely hear of UFO reports and look at the condition the climate is in. We have more floods and hurricanes and blizzards and tsunamis than ever. Coincidence? I think not.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>Read the full story at <a href="http://www.cheboygannews.com/articles/2008/03/19/news/opinion/opinion1.txt" rel=nofollow target="_blank">Cheboygan Tribune.</a></p>
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		<title>Reproduced below is the classic order&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reproduced below is the classic order from the Inspector General of the Air Force to all air base commanders in the continental United States on December 24, 1959 Unidentified flying objects &#8211; sometimes treated lightly by the press and referred to as &#8220;flyiny saucers&#8221; &#8211; must be rapidly and acc- urately identified as serious USAF [...]<p>a</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Reproduced below is the classic order from the Inspector General<br />
of the <span class="genmed"><u>Air Force</u></span> to all air base commanders in the continental United<br />
States on December 24, 1959</p>
<p>Unidentified flying objects &#8211; sometimes treated lightly by the<br />
press and referred to as &#8220;flyiny saucers&#8221; &#8211; must be rapidly and acc-<br />
urately identified as serious USAF business in the ZI. As AFR 200-2<br />
points out, the <span class="genmed"><u>Air Force</u></span> concern with these sightings is threefold:<br />
First of all, is the object a threat to the defense of the US?<br />
Secondly, does it contribute to technical or scientific knowledge?<br />
And then there&#8217;s the inherent USAF responsibility to explain to the<br />
American people through public-information media what is going on in<br />
their skies.</p>
<p>The phenomenon or actual objects encompassing UFO&#8217;s will tend to<br />
increase, with the public more aware of goings on in space but still<br />
inclined to some apprehenson. Techinical and defense considerations<br />
will continue to exist in this area.</p>
<p>Published about three months ago, AFR 200-2 outlines necessary<br />
orderly qualifed reporting as well as public-information procedures.<br />
This is where the Base should stand today, with practices judged at<br />
least satisfactory by commander and inspector:</p>
<p>-Reasponsibility for handling UFO&#8217;s should rest with either intelli-<br />
gence, operations, the Provost Marshal or the Information Offices -<br />
in order of preference, dictated by limits of the base organisation;</p>
<p>-A specific officer should be designated as responsible;</p>
<p>-He should have experience in investigative techniques and also,<br />
if possible, scientific or technical background;</p>
<p>-He should have authority to obtain the assistance of specialists<br />
on the base;</p>
<p>-He should be equipped with binoculars, cameria, Geiger counter,<br />
magnifying glass and have a source for containers in which to<br />
store samples.</p>
<p>What is required is that every UFO sighting be investigated and<br />
reported to the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson<br />
AFB and that explanation to the public be realistic and knowledgable.<br />
Normally that explanation will be made by the OSAF information Officer.</p>
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		<title>Tully &#8220;nests&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a transcript from the original article printed in the &#8216;FLYING SAUCER REVIEW&#8217;, Volume 15, No. 3, May/June 1969 issue. (5 shillings) {hey&#8230;don&#8217;t ask me&#8230; we converted to decimal currency in 1966!! These UFO people must have been a bit resistant to change in the old days! } It is part of the &#8216;official&#8217; [...]<p>a</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is a transcript from the original article printed in the<br />
&#8216;FLYING SAUCER REVIEW&#8217;, Volume 15, No. 3, May/June 1969 issue.<br />
(5 shillings) <img src='http://www.roswellufos.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' />  {hey&#8230;don&#8217;t ask me&#8230; we converted to<br />
decimal currency in 1966!! These UFO people must have been a<br />
bit resistant to change in the old days! <img src='http://www.roswellufos.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> } It is part of the<br />
&#8216;official&#8217; Tully report which includes a report by Stan Seers,<br />
ex-president of QFSRB (now URQ), letters between people<br />
involved in the investigation, newspaper articles of the time,<br />
the below article, etc.. etc&#8230;</p>
<p>NORTH QUEENSLAND UFO SAGA &#8211; By Stan Seers and William<br />
Lasich.</p>
<p>The sparsely-populated coast of North Queensland opposite<br />
the Great Barrier Reef abounds in vegetative growth. Tall reed<br />
or cane concealing &#8220;flying saucer nests&#8221; form a notable feature<br />
of the UFO saga which began(1) with the adventure of George<br />
Pedley, a 27-year-old banana farmer of Euramo near Tully, some<br />
95 miles south of Cairns.<br />
At about 9.00 a.m. on the clear sunny morning of Wednesday,<br />
January 19, 1966, Pedley was driving a petrol tractor across<br />
the property of a friend and neighbour, Mr. Albert Pennisi,<br />
cane farmer and resident of some 19 years.<br />
The farm track along which he drove wound its way towards,<br />
and thence alongside, what is locally known as Horseshoe Lagoon.<br />
This contained an area of still water about 5ft. deep and an<br />
acre or so in extent, much of which was covered by a thick<br />
growth of water reeds, the stems of these, about 1/2in. in<br />
diameter protruding above the surface to a height of<br />
approximately 2ft.<br />
As he approached the lagoon, which was to his right, with<br />
the sun by this time well up in the sky to his left, he thought<br />
he detected a misfire in the tractor motor. Almost immediately<br />
over the noise of the tractor he heard a sharp hissing noise,<br />
and then to his amazement he saw rising from the reeds,<br />
approximately 25 yards to his right and slightly ahead of him,<br />
a saucer-shaped object which ascended fairly slowly to an<br />
estimated height of 60ft., tilted a little to one side and then<br />
with a burst of speed quickly vanished in a south-westerly<br />
direction. Except for the original hissing noise, no other<br />
sound was heard. The total time of observation was estimated at<br />
4 to 5 seconds.<br />
Mr. Pedley stated that the object was approximately 25ft. in<br />
diameter, about 9ft thick at the centre, silver-grey in colour<br />
and generally sharp in outline. He jumped from the tractor and<br />
hurried across to the lagoon from whence the object had<br />
ascended and immediately discovered a circular flattened area<br />
within the tall green reeds. The flattened stems were radially<br />
distributed in a noticeably anti-clockwise manner(2). He was<br />
emphatic that the swathed reeds were at that time quite green,<br />
as were all other reeds outside this area. The swathe of<br />
newly-flattened reeds formed a &#8220;nest&#8221; of 30ft diameter.<br />
He further noted an area of giant water couch grass<br />
immediately outside the perimeter of the &#8220;nest&#8221;, about a square<br />
yard of which had been apperently clipped short and the<br />
clippings removed. Pedley is positive in recollection that the<br />
water of the &#8220;nest&#8221; was STILL SWIRLING slightly in a circular<br />
motion at the moment when he first saw it.<br />
After a few minutes he returned to the tractor, started the<br />
motor and went on his way. When questioned later, Mr. Pedley<br />
stated that he could not remember whether or not he switched<br />
the motor off when leaving it, stalled the motor when stopping,<br />
or whether it just cut out after he left it, but is quite<br />
certain that the tractor motor was &#8220;dead&#8221; when he returned<br />
since he clearly remembers restarting it. The motor electrical<br />
ignition system was the conventional one for the model.<br />
Later in the day he felt that he should tell someone of what<br />
he had seen, so called on Mr. Albert Pennisi, owner of the<br />
lagoon and surrounding property and related to him his<br />
experience. At about 4.00 p.m. they returned together to the<br />
lagoon. Mr. Pennisi stripped, waded out to the &#8220;nest&#8221; and found<br />
that it was possible to swim through from side to side BELOW<br />
the flattened area, without meeting with any obstruction,<br />
indicating quite clearly that the whole mass of the &#8220;nest&#8221; was<br />
actually FLOATING on the surface.<br />
Shortly afterwards, at about 5.00 p.m., Mr. Pennisi, using<br />
colour film took a series of photographs. The prints<br />
subsequently obtained, clearly substantiate a remarkable<br />
feature which both witnesses had observed and remarked on. The<br />
flattened reeds in the &#8220;nest&#8221; had turned noticeably brown, but<br />
ONLY ON THE UPPER SURFACES. The underside of each reed nearest<br />
the water still remained quite green. this &#8220;browning&#8221; of the<br />
upper surfaces of the reeds had quite obviously taken place<br />
since 9 a.m. that morning.<br />
A resurgence of &#8220;nest&#8221; phenomena at the same Tully lagoon<br />
has occurred recently (January/February 1968). Sometime<br />
earlier, noting a prediction of sunspot maximum for May 1968 by<br />
the Swiss authority M. Waldmeive, QFSRB [Queensland Flying<br />
Saucer Research Bureau - now; UFO Research Queensland. M.W.]<br />
were primed(3) to the possibility of increased UFO activity in<br />
1968.<br />
With this in mind, it was decided to set up two monitor<br />
stations, No. 1 in the Tully district (North Queensland) and<br />
No. 2 in the South, some 20 miles out of Brisbane. The precise<br />
location of sites must remain undisclosed, since the monitors<br />
operate virtually unattended at some distance from habitation.</p>
<p>The equipment at No. 1 station was set up by Mr. Vince Mele<br />
with the assistance of an electronics friend. The monitor is<br />
built around a photo-cell and sensitive magnetic compass. The<br />
photo-cell light beam is interrupted if magnetic dusturbance is<br />
present, and the fluctuation of photo-cell current then<br />
activates the cine-camera release. The camera (Eumig 8mm auto.)<br />
is energised so long as magnetic field disturbance continues<br />
(five frames exposed per 2-second interval).<br />
During February a spontaneous magnetic field disturbance was<br />
actually recorded during initial trials. On the same day a UFO<br />
sighting was reported by an isolated witness, some eight miles<br />
from the base. Heavy cloud cover in the area impeded further<br />
observation of the UFO flight trajectory. The information was<br />
not enough to provide 100 per cent proof that the detector was<br />
UFO-triggered on this occasion. Nevertheless things looked<br />
quite promising.<br />
At the end of February both monitors were fitted with<br />
cameras, tested and operating. On March 2, Tully lagoon<br />
contained four nests, then about three weeks old. The camera<br />
site was screened from view some 50ft. from the nearest &#8220;nest&#8221;.<br />
On this date radio 4KZ broadcast an arresting news flash! An<br />
airliner en route Cairns to Iron Range had been paced at<br />
6,000ft. for some minutes by a UFO some 2,000ft above the<br />
aircraft. Both airline pilots witnessed the event. Somewhere<br />
over Cooktown area the UFO broke contact and shot off at<br />
enormous speed (described as something like 1,500 m.p.h.). An<br />
inspection of the No. 1 monitor found the camera still in<br />
motion although all 25ft of colour film(4) had been run through<br />
and the batteries were nearly exhausted. The roll of 16-mm film<br />
was removed and reversed for a second run, and new batteries<br />
installed. (Technically this indicates the field perturbation -<br />
cum UFO &#8211; was present for the whole 10 minutes the film was<br />
run.)<br />
On March 4, two days later, quite a number of local<br />
inhabitants reported the passage of another UFO. An inspection<br />
of the monitor again revealed that it had been &#8220;triggered&#8221;, but<br />
this time, for some unknown reason, only some 15 or 16 frames<br />
had been exposed. An examination of the batteries which had<br />
been carefully tested and were fully charged when fitted,<br />
revealed that they were quite flat.<br />
The remainder of the film was wound through by hand, removed<br />
from the camera, sealed in the usual container and addressed to<br />
Kodak Ltd., Melbourne, for processing, all of this in the<br />
presence of two reliable witnesses. It was then conveyed to<br />
Tully for posting, the packet was weighed, and the charge was<br />
14 cents. Some 10 days later a letter was received from Kodak<br />
stating that the container, which was returned to the sender,<br />
HAD BEEN EMPTY ON ARRIVAL! The empty container still had the 14<br />
cent stamp attached, and a quick check at the Post Office<br />
established that the postage on an empty container was 5 cents<br />
only. Further exchanges with Kodak Ltd. produced no results.<br />
The loss of the film was reported to the civil police who<br />
were very co-operative, but after a careful detective<br />
investigation interstate, were unable to shed light on the<br />
mystery of the vanished film so far as can be quoted from<br />
official statement. Unofficially, however, a hint was thrown<br />
out by a person of reliable character and seemingly well<br />
informed in police matters, that it was likely that<br />
Commonwealth authorities had taken possession of the film and<br />
therefore it would be useless to pursue enquiries further.<br />
To complete the &#8220;cloak and dagger &#8221; atmosphere, even more<br />
bizarre was a seemingly casual suggestion conveyed to one of<br />
the UFO investigators by an individual undoubtedly<br />
knowledgeable in <span class="genmed"><u>government</u></span> intelligence activities. This<br />
&#8220;contact&#8221; advised our UFO researching colleague that NEXT time<br />
the UFO camera ought to be loaded with black and white film. Is<br />
this too incredible? No, probably just the verdict of hard-won<br />
experience in the photographic lab. of &#8220;salvaging&#8221; difficult<br />
aircraft images, under-exposed and diffused by grain and<br />
distortion. Even perhaps of UFOs?<br />
It is not without interest also to record, shortly after<br />
loss of the film, circa March 13, two R.A.A.F. [Royal<br />
Australian <span class="genmed"><u>Air Force</u></span>] helicopters were observed for some time<br />
deploying over the site of the very lagoon significant to the<br />
events described, by the owner of the properties concerned.<br />
Several &#8220;saucer nests&#8221; were still visible at this date.<br />
Mr. Colin Bennett, M.L.A., [Member of the Legislative<br />
Assembly] Barrister, after studying complete documentation of<br />
the incident, expressed keen interest and promptly offered his<br />
every assistance in inquiries. Mr. Bennett then wrote to<br />
Canberra [Federal <span class="genmed"><u>government</u></span>] concerning the missing UFO film,<br />
presenting, he stated, &#8220;a submission to the Commonwealth<br />
Authorities in rather strong terms.&#8221;<br />
In a reply from Canberra dated August 29, Mr. Gordon Freeth,<br />
Minister for Air stated he was unable to offer any suggestion<br />
as to the fate of the film. He denied positively the Department<br />
of Air had ever, at any time, removed from Kodak Ltd., material<br />
relating to UFOs.</p>
<p>So far a disappointing outcome for UFO researchers. Could it<br />
be that sensible lifemanship indicates the affair might as well<br />
be allowed to fade into limbo? Let the UFOs &#8220;buzz-off&#8221; so we<br />
can get on with our own affairs. A public philosophy endorsed<br />
by our officialdom!<br />
MORE VISITATIONS</p>
<p>However the UFOs must be immune to exorcism, or have ignored<br />
the message, since the Cairns-Tully area continues to sport its<br />
UFO-active events. A further &#8220;nest&#8221; was discovered soon after<br />
on April 25 in a cane field close to Cairns (25 miles north of<br />
Tully). Flattened stems lay in an oval-shaped area 70ft. by<br />
30ft. These were described by a horse-riding party as<br />
completely screened by standing cane.<br />
A more recent close encounter with a UFO (October 1) was<br />
reported by Louie Maule, 35, a Tully district farmer. Near on<br />
8.00 p.m. he was headed north driving home from South<br />
Johnstone, when he saw descending from the night sky, a large<br />
black object ringed with red lights. &#8220;I got a shock&#8221;, Maule<br />
said. &#8220;It was GIGANTIC and looked to be slowing up.&#8221;<br />
The headlights of a passing car momentarily obscured his<br />
vision, and he slowed to a stop. &#8220;When I looked again it was<br />
travelling towards South Johnstone at maybe 100 m.p.h.&#8221;<br />
Interviewed by Vince Mele, the motorist Louie Maule stated<br />
the UFOs&#8217; altitude was about 500ft. It was circular in shape,<br />
and about 60ft. in diameter, as clearly out-lined by the red<br />
lights around the perimeter. The red-ringed disc was last seen<br />
to bank and proceed towards the clouds at very high speed.<br />
On the same evening, some 3 miles to the north, Vince Mele<br />
had set up his mobile detector on a hill site overlooking the<br />
surrounding area. Promptly at 8.00 p.m. his detector alarm<br />
sounded and it was two minutes before the alarm re-set itself<br />
automatically. After this, it was quiet for the rest of the<br />
evening.<br />
Although it must be noted that Vince Mele did not himself<br />
see any lights, the October 1 incident now seems to provide<br />
the first good evidence for independent visual sighting<br />
correlated with triggering of the detector by the ambient field<br />
of a UFO.(5)</p>
<p>A Continued Mystery</p>
<p>The Tully UFO photographs (presuming something WAS on the<br />
film) are by no means the first UFO shots to disappear from the<br />
Australian scene. A recapitulation made at the CAPIO Convention<br />
(Canberra, July 1968) produced the following list:<br />
1.  11.00 a.m., August 23, 1953, of nine photographs taken at<br />
Port Moresby by T.P. Drury, Deputy Minister of Civil Aviation,<br />
the five best shots were &#8220;lost&#8221; by CAD, who had loaned them<br />
to the United States <span class="genmed"><u>Air Force</u></span>, <span class="genmed"><u>Washington</u></span>. **[I will type<br />
up and post the full report on this particular sighting<br />
shortly. It is contained in the complete, original 45 page<br />
report entitled "Flying Saucers Over Papua - A Report on<br />
Papuan Unidentified Flying Objects." dated March 1960, by<br />
the Revd. Norman E.G. Cruttwell, M.A. Oxon, of the Anglican<br />
Mission, Menapi, Papua, New Guinea, and documents a lot of<br />
the 79 Papuan sightings of the time, including the full<br />
report on the 'Father Gill' case. M.W.]**</p>
<p>2.  Daytime, Easter 1954, some 200 photographs, cine and<br />
stills, of an object pacing three young men in an Austin<br />
sedan, driving through the interior near the Western and<br />
South Australian border. &#8220;Borrowed&#8221; by the R.A.A.F. and<br />
never returned.</p>
<p>3.  11.00 a.m., July 7, 1961, 6in. by 3in negative of the<br />
&#8220;Thing&#8221; observed by scores of North Queenslanders and<br />
photographed by R.T. Sheward of the Cairns Post. This<br />
negative was sent to Kodak Melbourne by Mt. Stromlo<br />
scientists. This time the container did not arrive empty -<br />
according to Kodak, IT JUST DID NOT ARRIVE.</p>
<p>4.  3.25 a.m., May 27, 1965, several photographs taken by an<br />
airline pilot (Ansett-ANA) of a UFO pacing an air liner in<br />
flight for 10 minutes over Bougainville Reef en route to<br />
Port Moresby. Film confiscated by the authorities.</p>
<p>5.  Actual time unknown, March 4 of this year, Tully, North<br />
Queensland, Missing cine film. We wonder where they all<br />
are?</p>
<p>NOTES<br />
&#8212;&#8211;<br />
(1) &#8216;Queensland Again&#8217; by Judith Magee, FLYING SAUCER REVIEW,<br />
March/April 1966 (Vol. 12, No. 2.)<br />
(2) Clockwise swirl observed contrary to hypothetical ground<br />
effects from a helicopter landing. Rotor blades are driven<br />
with left-hand screw motion.<br />
(3) A study of the graphs (1851 to 1961) contained in the work<br />
&#8216;Anatomy of a Phenomenon&#8217; by Jaques Vallee strongly suggests<br />
the possibility of peak UFO activity being related to maximum<br />
and minimum sunspot activity and/or geo-magnetic activity. The<br />
latter could well be the significant factor, in view of the<br />
UFOs&#8217; well-known electro-magnetic effects.<br />
(4) Film was Kodachrome II, ASA speed 25.<br />
(5) No electric cables, geophysical prospecting, etc., are<br />
present in the area to act as source of magnetic field<br />
disturbances.</p>
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		<title>THE SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE (S E T I) Our Milky Way Galaxy is only one of 10 billion galaxies in the presently observable universe. Our Sun is just one of some 300 billion stars in our galaxy alone. Astronomers have confirmed that the Sun and the galaxy, which make our existence possible, are not [...]<p>a</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>THE SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE<br />
(S E T I)</p>
<p>Our Milky Way Galaxy is only one of 10 billion galaxies in the<br />
presently observable universe. Our Sun is just one of some 300 billion<br />
stars in our galaxy alone. Astronomers have confirmed that the Sun and<br />
the galaxy, which make our existence possible, are not unusual or<br />
basically different from other galaxies and stars.</p>
<p>A few generations ago, astronomers believed that planetary systems<br />
were extremely rare&#8211;that our solar system and our Earth with its<br />
life-supporting environment might well be unique. Chemists and<br />
biologists knew little if anything about the processes that led to the<br />
origin of life. In the last fifteen years, however, a number of<br />
important discoveries have strongly suggested that there is a<br />
fundamental relationship between the origin and evolution of life and<br />
the origin and evolution of the universe.</p>
<p>Advances in astronomy and physics have given renewed support to the<br />
concept that planets are not rare exceptions, but are a natural part<br />
of the star formation process and may number in the hundreds of<br />
millions in our galaxy alone. [In December 1984, the National Science<br />
Foundation announced that a team of Arizona astronomers had detected a<br />
possible solar system around Beta Pictoris, a star 53 light years from<br />
Earth.] Recent biological experiments applying natural energy sources<br />
to molecules have produced some of the organic building blocks that<br />
make up the chemistry of life. Radio astronomers have discovered that<br />
many organic molecules exist even in the depths of interstellar space.<br />
Elements identified in these molecules include hydrogen, nitrogen,<br />
oxygen, carbon, silicon, and phosphorus. Earth has been without life<br />
only a small fraction of its age, which leads many scientists to look<br />
upon the formation of life on other suitable planets as very likely.<br />
Once begun, and given billions of years of relative stability, life<br />
may achieve intelligence and, in some cases, may evolve into a<br />
technological civilization.</p>
<p>One direct way of testing whether intelligent life exists beyond our<br />
solar system is to search for an artificially generated radio signal<br />
coming from interstellar space. As an example, ultrahigh frequency and<br />
microwave radio signals emanating from Earth are expanding into space<br />
at the speed of light. This radio, radar, and television &#8220;leakage&#8221; of<br />
ours currently fills a sphere nearly 100 light-years in diameter. The<br />
same phenomenon would serve to announce the presence of other<br />
intelligent life. Moreover, advanced civilizations might be operating<br />
radio beacons, possibly to attract the attention of emerging societies<br />
and bring them into contact with a community of long-established<br />
intelligent societies existing throughout the galaxy.</p>
<p>Either type of signal (leakage or beacon) would be easiest to detect<br />
at frequencies where the background radio noise is minimal. One of the<br />
quietest regions of the electromagnetic spectrum is the &#8220;microwave<br />
window&#8221; that lies in the frequency band between 1000 and 10,000<br />
megahertz (MHz). It is reasonable to assume that others wishing to<br />
establish interstellar contact by radio might choose this band.</p>
<p>The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is not new, having<br />
first been proposed by U.S. scientists in 1959. Since that time,<br />
numerous scientific and technical studies have been made on an<br />
international scale, and more than 30 radio searches have been<br />
attempted, covering only a minute area of search space. What is new<br />
today is the available technology. Radio telescopes on Earth are<br />
sufficiently sensitive to detect signals no stronger than some leaving<br />
Earth at distances of a thousand light-years or more. The 305 meter<br />
(1000-ft) diameter radio telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, could<br />
detect transmissions from nearby stars that are less powerful but<br />
similar to our own television and radars. Advances in computers and<br />
data processing techniques now make it possible to search<br />
automatically through millions of incoming radio signals each second<br />
and, if it is present, to identify a signal transmitted by an<br />
intelligent society.</p>
<p>The NASA SETI Program is nearing the end of a 5-year research and<br />
development phase, using existing radio telescopes and advanced<br />
electronic techniques to develop prototype SETI instrumentation. The<br />
program is being jointly carried out by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory<br />
(JPL) at Pasadena, California, and the NASA Ames Research Center at<br />
Moffet Field, California. Leading radio scientists from the national<br />
laboratories and academic community have also joined together in the<br />
SETI Science Working Group to assist the JPL-Ames team in developing<br />
the instrumentation and the search strategy.</p>
<p>The proposed plan involves two complementary search modes that are<br />
designed to cover a range of possibilities. One mode is an all-sky<br />
survey that will search the entire celestial sphere over a wide<br />
frequency range (1200 to 10,000 MHz plus spot bands up to 25,000 MHz)<br />
to cover the possibility that there may be a few civilizations<br />
transmitting strong signals, possibly as interstellar beacons. Longer<br />
observing times may be allocated to directions that include a large<br />
number of stars, especially the galactic plane. The radio telescopes<br />
employed will be the 34-meter (112-ft) diameter antennas that are part<br />
of NASA&#8217;s Deep Space Network. The survey will be conducted by moving<br />
the telescope across the sky at a constant rate. It will cover at<br />
least 10,000 times more frequency space than all previous survey<br />
attempts, will be about 300 times more sensitive, and will take about<br />
5 years to complete.</p>
<p>The second mode is a high-sensitivity targeted search that will look<br />
for weak signals originating near solar-type stars within 80<br />
light-years distance from Earth. The objective is to examine the<br />
possibility that nearby civilizations may have radio transmitters no<br />
more powerful than our own. Some stellar clusters and nearby galaxies<br />
will also be observed. The frequency range covered will be 1200 to<br />
3000 MHz plus spot bands between 3000 and 10,000 MHz. To achieve very<br />
high sensitivity, the targeted search will use some of the largest<br />
radio telescopes available, including the 305-meter (1000-ft) diameter<br />
antenna at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, and the Deep Space Network&#8217;s 64-meter<br />
(210-ft) diameter antennas. The number of targets covered will be much<br />
larger than previous searches and the range of frequencies covered<br />
will be thousands of times greater. The targeted search is expected to<br />
take about 3 years to complete.</p>
<p>Current astrophysical knowledge and the available technology make the<br />
SETI observing program both timely and feasible. Timeliness also<br />
relates to the rapidly-increasing sources of radio frequency<br />
interference (RFI) in the microwave band. Portions of the microwave<br />
spectrum that directly concern SETI ar subject to allocation to<br />
numerous users worldwide, emphasizing the need to proceed with SETI<br />
while it remains economically possible with our current technology. If<br />
the use of the microwave spectrum continues to increase at its present<br />
rate, the greatest exploration opportunity in the history of mankind<br />
may be placed economically and technologically beyond our reach for<br />
the foreseeable future.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br />
S E T I  SEARCH SUMMARY<br />
______________________________________________________________________<br />
SEARCH PARTICULARS            SKY SURVEY              TARGET SEARCH<br />
____________________________________________________________________<br />
Area Coverage                All directions       1000 stars, regions</p>
<p>Signal search                Continuous Wave       Pulses, drifting CW</p>
<p>Frequency coverage           1200-10,000 MHz +    1200-3000 MHz + spot<br />
spot bands           bands</p>
<p>Frequency resolution         1000, 32 Hz          1000, 32, 1 Hz</p>
<p>Receiver bandwidth           Wide (~250 MHz)      Narrow (~10 MHz)</p>
<p>Observing time per<br />
direction at each            0.3 &#8211; 3 sec          100-1000 sec<br />
frequency setting</p>
<p>Channels analyzed            ~10 million          ~10 million<br />
per second</p>
<p>Antenna diameter            34 meters             305 and 64 meters</p>
<p>Search duration             ~5 years              ~3 years<br />
______________________________________________________________________</p>
<p>SETI, THE SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE, NASA/JPL<br />
400-265,</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) &#8212; The telephone at the air traffic control tower at Joe Foss Field was ringing off the wall early Saturday with callers reporting a bright silver light in the predawn sky. There were so many calls that after a while, tower personnel were answering their telephone with this greeting: &#8220;UFO Watch [...]<p>a</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) &#8212; The telephone at the air traffic<br />
control tower at Joe Foss Field was ringing off the wall early<br />
Saturday with callers reporting a bright silver light in the<br />
predawn sky.<br />
There were so many calls that after a while, tower personnel<br />
were answering their telephone with this greeting: &#8220;UFO Watch<br />
Center.&#8221;<br />
But it wasn&#8217;t a UFO. It was a 340-foot-tall high-altitude<br />
balloon on a scientific experiment.<br />
The balloon, launched Friday evening from Ainsworth, Neb., was<br />
part of an experiment by the University of New Mexico and NASA to<br />
gather anti-matter particles and investigate how stars evolved and<br />
how they are changing, according to Bob Golden, an electrical<br />
engineering professor at the Albuquerque, N.M., school<br />
There hasn&#8217;t been much research into anti-matter, so not much is<br />
known about the tiny particles, he said in an interview.<br />
The unmanned balloon was 340 feet in diameter when inflated and<br />
550 feet long when stretched out on the ground uninflated,<br />
according to a worker at Raven Industries in Sioux Falls. The<br />
balloon was made in Sioux Falls, the unidentified worker said.<br />
The gondola was 15 feet high, 5 feet wide and had a 4,300-pound<br />
payload, including a computer, according to Golden. A 12-member<br />
NASA crew launched the craft. The ground team included researchers<br />
from the Goddard Space Center in Maryland.<br />
The balloon was expected to land Saturday, but scientists<br />
weren&#8217;t sure where it would come to rest.<br />
People in Sheldon and Sioux City, Iowa, reported seeing the<br />
balloon, as did people in parts of Nebraska, authorities said.<br />
Golden said it will take from three months to 12 months to<br />
analyze the data gathered during the balloon flight and that the<br />
results will be published in international scientific journals.<br />
The balloon was so bright in the early morning sky because it<br />
was high enough to reflect sunlight before the sun rose, he said.<br />
The balloon, which also was visible in southwestern Minnesota,<br />
was designed to rise to 120,000 feet, according to a statement from<br />
the National Weather Service&#8217;s Sioux Falls office. The balloon<br />
carried sensitive instruments to measure cosmic ray particles, the<br />
NWS said.</p>
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		<title>The Wishing Well -or &#8211; Releasing The Butterfly of Chaos</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wishing Well -or &#8211; Releasing The Butterfly of Chaos by Frater Choronzon The general function of a Wishing Well is understood from an early age by most people. The user projects some required outcome of events, or &#8220;wish&#8221; into the well, perhaps accompanied by a symbolic financial donation, and waits for events to take [...]<p>a</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Wishing Well -or &#8211; Releasing The Butterfly of Chaos</p>
<p>by Frater Choronzon</p>
<p>The general function of a Wishing Well is understood from an early<br />
age by most people. The user projects some required outcome of<br />
events, or &#8220;wish&#8221; into the well, perhaps accompanied by a symbolic<br />
financial donation, and waits for events to take their course.<br />
Similar properties are attributed in popular tradition to acts of<br />
cutting a birthday cake and breaking a wish-bone while devouting<br />
certain species of poultry.</p>
<p>In every sense, the act of making a wish using any of the above<br />
ritual props is a magical operation though experience suggest that<br />
Wells tend to be more effective than both chicken bones and all but<br />
the most esoterically decorated cakes in achieving the intended<br />
result.</p>
<p>As of late, many Wishing Wells have been withdrawn from public<br />
access; and, moreover, recent opinion polls have indicated high<br />
levels of dissatisfaction with the scarcity of wish-fulfillment<br />
opportunities, particularly among vegetarians. This paper attempts<br />
some analysis of the dynamics involved in successful wish-making,<br />
and offers a ritual procedure which readers may find useful pending<br />
the launch of another &#8220;Wishing Well Withdrawal&#8221; from the public eye.</p>
<p>Anyone who has studied non-linear dynamics (or Chaos Mathematics) as<br />
applied to the interaction of complex systems (for instance life-in-<br />
general) will be aware of the extreme sensivity of such systems to<br />
initial conditions. This is illustrated by the so called Butterfly<br />
Effect; a model of the process by which a butterfly flapping its<br />
wings on the Carribean Islands can set in train a series of<br />
atmospheric interactions which may culminate, after some elapsed<br />
time, in the occurence of a hurricane in London.</p>
<p>The hypothesis in this context is that the ritual act of making a<br />
wish sets up initial conditions for a Chao/dynamic process which<br />
culminates, after some elapse time, in the occurrence of whatever<br />
event was the original objective of the wish; hence the subtitle<br />
&#8220;Releasing the Butterfly of Chaos&#8221;. Atmospheric effects are often<br />
synchronous with successful magickal operations as was observed, for<br />
example, by those who were present for (or within earshot of) the<br />
4,000 watt &#8220;Enochian Verse Recital&#8221; in South London, 17.30 Hrs,<br />
Monday, 28 May, 1990; but where magic is concerned the atmospherics<br />
are felt to be little more than by-products of casual sequence which<br />
is primarily electromagnetic in character.</p>
<p>The actual process by which a successful wish is transformed into<br />
its outcome is, of course, magic; at least in the sense that modern<br />
TV receiver might be acknowledged as such by Agrippa or Abra-Melin<br />
the Mage &#8211; Was there ever a more effective acrostic &#8220;for divers<br />
visions&#8221; than an infrared remote control?</p>
<p>A detailed explanation of how the magical process appears to work<br />
would fill a book (reasonable offers from reputable publishers<br />
accepted); suffice it to say that no rewrite of either the Laws of<br />
Physics or the Axioms of Mathematics is required, and to mention<br />
that the Astrological elements of the hypothesis will form the<br />
substance of a paper to be presented to a forth coming meeting of<br />
the &#8220;Talking Stick&#8221;.</p>
<p>For the purpose of this exercise, the process may be appropriately<br />
visualized by consideration of nothing more complicated than a<br />
humble smoke-ring. In mathematical terms this is a Torus (a ring-<br />
doughnut shaped structure) which has a clearly defined, coherent and<br />
self-contained existence for an extended period within a<br />
fundamentally chaotic matrix; ie. it can hung around for several<br />
seconds retaining its structure in the turbulent air of a<br />
smoke-filled room. Such ordered structures fall quite naturally out<br />
of the Chaos Mathematics which models the behavior of gases and<br />
liquids (Fluid Dynamics for the technically inclined). Examples of<br />
such ordered structures in a chaotic environment abound, and not<br />
only on this planet. The Great Red Spot on Jupiter, for instance,<br />
has been in existence at least since Galileo observed it in 1610,<br />
though the chaotic nature of that planets atmosphere was not<br />
appreciated until the flypast of the Voyager spacecraft of 1979.</p>
<p>A perfect smoke-ring requires very little expenditure of energy to<br />
be brought into existence, though that energy, in the form of a<br />
controlled pulse of gas projected from its creator lips has to be<br />
quite precise &#8211; ie. smoke-rings don`t always work, particular if<br />
someone is watching, and the best ones of all usually happen quite<br />
by accident! Significantly, the only way an observer can know if a<br />
smoke-ring is there because it has smoke in it. If an identical<br />
pulse of gas is projected from a non-smoker, the Toroidal ring<br />
structure will be established in the just the same way within the<br />
atmosphere, but its presence is almost impossible to detect, even<br />
with the most sophisticated of scientific instruments.</p>
<p>The atmosphere is not the only chao/dynamic envelope surrounding our<br />
planet; there also exists the magnetosphere, which we perceive at<br />
ground level as the earths magnetic field. At present it exerts a<br />
force which causes a compass needle to point approximately towards<br />
the North Pole.</p>
<p>The magnetosphere extends out into so-called empty space well beyond<br />
the atmosphere of the planet, and is anything but static in<br />
character. Complete polarity reversals can occur. A record of these<br />
is preserved in the sequence of North and South oriented volcanic<br />
rocks which have been mapped in the ocean floor extending outwards<br />
from mid-oceanic ridges, such as that which runs the lenght of the<br />
Atlantic. The magnetosphere exhibits its own &#8220;weather&#8221; patterns<br />
which, like the atmospheric weather, are driven primilarily by<br />
radiation from the Sun/Solar Winds. Magnetic and electric storms<br />
which affect TV and radio reception are a phenomena of<br />
magnetospheric weather, and interaction between the magnetosphere<br />
and the atmosphere can result in phenomena such as the Aurora<br />
Borealis or Northern Lights. Other manifestations include ball-<br />
lightning and St. Elmo`s fire.</p>
<p>The ritual procedure put forward here postulates a process whereby a<br />
sudden pulse of electro-chemical energy, through an operators<br />
nervous system, establishes a magnetic structure which is the<br />
mathematical equivalent of a smoke-ring. It is suggested that this<br />
can occur on the onset of orgasm or accompanying a powerful<br />
martial-arts styled shout or KIAI, by a process akin to that of the<br />
Faraday Induction described in any half-decent textbook. The<br />
&#8220;magical&#8221; part of the process involves injecting a<br />
flash-visualisation of the eventual desired outcome of the magneto-<br />
smoke-ring as it is being established. The rest of the process of<br />
wish fulfillment is left to the wondrous dynamics of Chaos. It may<br />
be helpful for the operator to face towards the geographical<br />
(magnetic) North Pole.</p>
<p>If performed as a solo working, this ritual may usefully be preceded<br />
by a banishing and visualisation exercise. The ritual text is<br />
written in the Enochian language of the angelic calls which were<br />
devised or discovered by Dr. John Dee in the 16th Century. In the<br />
sense that Enochian can be seen as a system of control (or cyber-)<br />
language for &#8220;life, the universe, and everything&#8221; it has many of the<br />
characteristics of a computer programming language. Among such<br />
properties would be those of recursive self-reference (ie. the<br />
ability to modify itself), and some of the phraseology of the<br />
preamble to the ritual is designed to apply ideas developed by<br />
Douglas Hoffstadter in his book Godel, Escher, Bach to the Enochian<br />
language. Specifically, the text of the ritual should increase its<br />
own potency with repetition.</p>
<p>After the Enochian preamble, the participant(s) should make a<br />
vocalized statement of a &#8220;wish&#8221; or willed endpoint for the working,<br />
at the same time strongly visualizing the desired outcome. This<br />
&#8220;wish&#8221; may be of a benefic or malefic intent, but beware! the<br />
Enochian preamble carries a force of personal honor, in wishes of a<br />
dishonorable character they are likely to backfire.</p>
<p>The pre-climatic mantrum &#8220;Zarzas Zarzas Nasatanata Zarzas&#8221; is held<br />
to be untranslatable. It is, by tradition, a formula which opens the<br />
Gates of Hell or the Abyss; in this context it is used to invoke the<br />
dynamic process of Chaos by which the wish can be fulfilled. Some<br />
occult authorities, Crowley among them, assert that the Zarzas<br />
formula is dangerous and advise against using it. Modern Chaos<br />
magicians do not share that view and, besides having employed it for<br />
years with no particular ills impacting the user, is consistently<br />
been found to enhance the effectiveness of most categories of<br />
magical working.</p>
<p>The final climatic KIAI may be shout such as that projected by a<br />
martial arts practioner in the process of shattering a concrete<br />
block (or someone`s sternum), or else an exaggerated cry of orgasmic<br />
ecstasy. Prospective participants with orgiastic inclinations may<br />
care to experiment with variant techniques to effect the final KIAI<br />
exclamation which sets the magical &#8220;butterfly effect&#8221; process in<br />
motion. For example, the Enochian couplet following the statement of<br />
the wish might be committed to memory by operator of either gender,<br />
and repeated while other participants stimulate that operator to a<br />
frenzied pitch of ecstasy, culminating in the final KIAI. Such<br />
variants are for the more experimentaly inclined, but it is the sort<br />
of experiments which magicians of an unhibited frame of mind (or<br />
body) may find it enjoyable to carry out as an end in itself. Any<br />
feedback on results would be welcome!</p>
<p>&#8230;continued by ritual text&#8230;</p>
<p>Ritual text / Enochian Invocation:</p>
<p>COMSELH    I           P          MALPURG      DSI<br />
The circle with        eight      fiery darts  which is</p>
<p>DRILPA     EMETGIS     DE         CHAOS<br />
the great  seal        of         chaos</p>
<p>AS         IOADAF      DE         TOL          GLO<br />
was        in the      of         all          things.<br />
beginning<br />
T          I           TA         HUBAR        BLIOR<br />
It         is          as         a continual  of comfort<br />
burning lamp<br />
NONCA      GMICALZOMA  CRIP       I            CORAXO<br />
to you     of power &amp;  but        is as        thunders of judgement<br />
understanding                       &amp; wrath<br />
CIAOFI     DE          PAR        AG           IAIADIX<br />
to the     of          them       of no        honor<br />
terror<br />
SOLPHETH   BIEN:<br />
hearken    to my voice:</p>
<p>VOMSARG                IADNAMAD                GOHULIM:<br />
unto every one of you  of undefiled knowledge  it is said:</p>
<p>&#8220;OI        EMETGIS     LONSHI     OVOF         SA<br />
&#8220;This      seal        of power   may be       in<br />
magnfied<br />
MIAN       I           SAPAH      DE           OI<br />
continuancewith        the mighty of           this<br />
sounds<br />
LU         IA          HE         BAHAL&#8221;<br />
song       of          honor      cried with a loud voice&#8221;</p>
<p>VLCININ    DS          I          ZA           ZAZ<br />
Happy      is          s/he       who          has framed</p>
<p>ANGELGARD  MANIN       PRGE<br />
thoughts   in the mind with the fire</p>
<p>ANANAEL                PI<br />
of this secret wisdom, s/he</p>
<p>I          VGEG        T          CAPMIALI     FISIS<br />
is         become      also       successively to execute<br />
strong<br />
BUTMONA    ATH         OD         AMMA         EMNA:<br />
By mouth   the works   and        curses       herein:</p>
<p>&gt;&gt; MAKE YOUR WISH HERE &lt;&lt;</p>
<p>SA         CHAOS       ANGELGARD               HARG<br />
Into       chaos       the thoughts            are planted</p>
<p>OD         IONAS                               AZIAGIAR.<br />
and        they will become                    like unto the harvest</p>
<p>ZARZAS ZARZAS NASATANATA ZARZAS</p>
<p>!!! KIAI !!!</p>
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