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War Time UFOs A.R. #84)
(Re: “Did Churchill Order UFO Coverup,”
Back in the fall of ’52, NATO forces from several countries held Army, Navy, and Air- Force exercises in the North Sea, code named Mainbrace.
At that time, I was stationed at RNAS Los- siemouth, on the Moray Firth in the north east of Scotland. As we were standing down one evening, there was a great deal of excite- ment. Men were rushing to gain a better view across the airfield toward the little town of Lossiemouth just down the coast toward the east.
Two oppos and I climbed onto a grass covered ammunition bunker to see what all the fuss was about, and it immediately be- came quite clear. Suspended in the clear blue sky above the harbor were four, pale- green oval discs of light in a diamond pat- tern. They were perfectly still; there were no appendages, no flashings of light, no port- holes, nor any other remarkable feature, and no sound. There were just these four, inex- plicable, largish discs of light hovering over the town, the bay, our airfield, and some ships at sea. They could, perhaps, have been described as eerie but were in no wise threat- ening.
“Keep watching,” I told my mates, “I’m going to get my camera,” and I dashed off to do so. By the time I got back, the discs had vanished, but everyone was still standing around waiting to see what would happen next. My friends told me that we had launched fighter aircraft to investigate or challenge the intruders, but even as they left the runway, the “UFOs” simply disappeared. It was a topic of conversation for a long time afterwards. Hundreds of personnel on our air station had seen them; plus thou- sands of men from the fighting forces of var- ious nations engaged in these exercises on land, sea, and air. These were people trained to observe, and we all got a good look. There were other interesting events during Mainbrace, including one of our air- craft (a Meteor I think) being followed down to the ground by a fireball. This was ex- plained as being a ball of static, but we frankly didn’t buy it. The official explanation for the discs of light came down a week or so
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later: It was that they were reflections from the wet decks of fishing boats at sea. No need to dignify that with any further comment, but I still don’t know what those objects were.
George Carter, Baden, Ontario
Danger Beneath
After reading the #84 A.R. article, “What Lies Beneath,” in reference to the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster—which is the Gulf’s second hit in a five-year span—I am re- minded of another scary issue pertaining to the Gulf and environs from a History Channel documentary regarding atomic bombs—H-Bomb?—in the time frame ’55 - ’61.
A B-52 was clipped by a fighter jet (U.S.) on a training mission, damaging its vertical tail, wings, and engine. The “safed” bombs were dropped in the Gulf area. Another H- bomb was dropped near Goldsboro, N.C., into swampland, where it remains to this day—the crash site is a restricted military zone. Still another H-bomb landed in tree branches and 5 of its 6 fuses failed. The sixth fuse averted a nuclear explosion. Any A- or H-bomb detonated in these areas would cause a vast firestorm and radiation contami- nation.
If all the above is true, why has the mili- tary not, at least, removed the nuclear cores? These are truly tragic disasters waiting to happen like dominoes in a row.
L. Bonnett Bronx NY
Defying Darwin
Casey Luskin’s excellent article (“Molecular Machines that Defy Darwin,” A.R. #84) on irreducible complexity is typical of the good work done by the Discovery Insti- tute to counter the official religion of Dar- winism. Actually, the evidence for intelligent design is everywhere in the fossil record. The “evolution” of flight is an example both of ir- reducible complexity and the huge gaps in the fossil record. Flight was “invented” by in- sects, flying reptiles, birds, and bats. Al- though gliding animals exist today, no fossil gliders have been found to precede the flyers. It is as if one day insects crawled, and the next day they walked. No ancestor has been found for flying reptiles or bats, and paleon- tologists cannot agree whether birds “evolved” from an early running dinosaur or some common ancestor of birds and dino- saurs. No gliding dinosaur has been discov- ered.
Just as an airplane needs wings, control surfaces, an engine, and a pilot to get off the ground, a flying animal must have wings and control surfaces, powerful flight muscles, and a heart and lungs to sustain them, and flight behavior. An insect with wings alone would be at a disadvantage and, according to the Darwinists themselves, would be ruth- lessly weeded out by natural selection. A flying reptile with the wings and the muscles but no skill as a “pilot” would soon be dead. And how could a bird fly without all of the above plus the highly complex flight feathers? It’s all or nothing.
Bill Stoecker Sacramento, CA
Ancient Precision
“The Pursuit of Ancient Precision,” Arlan Andrews’ story on Christopher Dunn’s inves- tigation of technologies used in ancient Egyptian stonework (A.R. #83, Sept/Oct 2010), led me to reflect on possible parallels in other areas. Dunn’s demonstration that the manufacturing and machining technolo- gies of early Egypt go far beyond any previ- ously thought to have been possessed by early civilizations is incontrovertible. But his revelation required formidable technological expertise. If investigators with expertise in other fields look closely, eye-opening discov- eries might be made in those areas as well. I will relate one such experience.
Sixteen years ago a colleague and I had a paradigm-breaking experience while at- tempting to understand “ojas,” a material with a central role in the Ayurveda. Ayurveda
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