Copyright 2017, InterAmerica, Inc.
The UFO Report for November 1978 (pictured) is
fraught with tidbits, almost 40 years ago, that are still resonating with UFO
buffs today, confirming the literary cliché,
plus ça change, plus c'est la même
chose (the more things change, the more they stay the same).
For instance, on Page 6/8, where Messages
to the magazine appear, there is a letter from a Bill Hamilton of Los Angeles,
California which opens with this:
"Since I was present with Ray Stanford when he made his visit to George
Adamski in early 1959 …"
Ray Stanford visited Adamski in 1959 and
was in Socorro in 1964? Mr. Stanford has been in the thick of the UFO hubbub
for a very long time and is still going strong. I’m hearing that more about Mr.
Stanford is about to surface. God bless him.
Beginning on Page 20 of the magazine, an
article by Coral and Jim Lorenzen, An Extraterrestrial Encounter, tells
the tale of an alleged UFO abduction of Air Force Sergeant Charles Moody.
The Lorenzens were and are respected UFO
investigators, even as they endorsed UFO abductions and UFO encounters with
"beings."
In the article, on Page 58, Sergeant
Moody described the leader of his purported kidnappers whom he was with while
in the craft:
"It had a head with a cranium about
one third larger than an average human head. There was no hair, no eyelashes,
no eyebrows. The ears were smaller than a human’s, as was the nose, and the
skin was whitish-gray in color … It was almost like a mask … the mouth was
small and there were no lips. There was no mouth movement at any time."
"The brow was a protruding one and
the eyes beneath were not ovoid like those of a human’s, but more
rounded."
"Moody said the being he was with
[had a height] between four feet, eight inches and five feet."
Moody was taken from his car, initially,
by two larger beings (about 6 feet tall) who were able to overcome him, as he
fought back.
These larger beings wore black outfits
whereas the "leader" inside the craft wore a white tight-fitting
outfit. All were thin, the "leader"weighing about 135 pounds.
The usual examination table was noted
and the lighting without a source also.
Moody was granted a look at the craft’s
propulsion system – rods underneath crystal-like glass. And there was a black
box, which Moody thought was a weapons system.
I won’t bore you further with the
extensive details provided by Moody to Jim Lorenzen, but all the abduction
(experiencer) memes or tropes are intact in the account.
Then on Page 28 there is (was) a piece
by Bryce Bond who interviewed Gordon Creighton, Creighton pushing the idea that
UFOs come from another dimension – that idea often showing up here, at this
blog -- and further dismissed Von Daniken’s ancient astronaut theses.
Further, Creighton fleshed out his
interview with a suggestion of encounters by inter-dimensional beings that
smacks of what Jose Caravaca or Jacques Vallee propose in their theories of UFO
being-appearances.
The magazine had its slew of UFO photos,
as was the norm in the day:
So, nothing has changed, has it ?
We are still dealing with the same UFO
crap in 2017 that UFO buffs were dealing with in 1978, and Ray Stanford
persists.
RR
