What was overheard at the UFO event was just as good as the lectures.
1/31/2000
AlienZoo resident ufologist Jim Dilettoso's article Mission Control explores UFO research, ET technologies, and moments in ufology's past.
Because all the best investigators are there, the International UFO Congress is the Mecca for the latest UFO cases and stories. Poised and polished, the presentations are exquisite, replete with big-screen video, flawless slide images, and a three-camera video shoot. You can get more information in a 90-minute presentation in this format than you can get from a four-hour conversation. It.s really great.
Yet, the IUFOC is also the best place in the universe to hear rumors and graffiti about UFOs and ETs. Conversations on the patio, in the men.s room, and at the bar all hold little gems of the real stuff. Of course, presentations from the stage are well-investigated and analyzed. But the rumors venture a little bit deeper into the unexplained; they're more interesting in some ways because they cover cases in motion, reaching into elements of the uninvestigated, unproven, and utterly fantastic. In fact, what's said in passing is usually too fantastic ever to make it onto the big stage --- too fantastic to be in the mainstream, even.
I feel compelled to let you in on some things I heard. If I were you, I wouldn.t believe a word of what you read below. I'm merely listing items to make you aware of the current ebb and flow of ufology; I'm sharing with you the things I've been faced with considering over the last three weeks. At the end of each rumor, I assign a ranking based on probability of truth, ranging from 1 to 10; the higher the number, the closer I think a rumor is to truth.
Tidbits (in 2-bit bytes)
1. Three government agents were present in the Audience. (7)
2. Dr. Jonathan Reed had been shot recently, and fearing for his life, had a full time bodyguard. (10)
3. The Jonathan Reed story is a government test of the Congress's discretionary abilities. (4)
4. Russian political good guy Mikhail Gorbachev has opened ET studies at his institute. (8)
5. The IUFOC's 10th anniversary event will feature a star-studded concert. (9)
6. The government.s Men in Black have given cancer and heart attacks to some key UFO researchers who are too close to the truth --- Richard Hoaglund, Roger Leir, Phillip Corso, Jim Dilettoso, Karla Turner, and George Filer, to name a few. (2)
7. The Arizona National Guard and Luke Air Force Base are "running scared" over their inability to demonstrate that The Phoenix Lights were flares. The March 13, 2000 flare drop was a dismal failure in its attempt to show that the March 13, 1997 ET extravaganza was due to flares. (10)
8. 1950s and 1960s TV celebrity Dorothy Kilgallen was killed because she was going to go public on what she knew about UFOs from President Kennedy. (7)
9. Marilyn Monroe was killed because she knew too much about ETs from John F. Kennedy. (6)
10. Alleged KGB agent and UFO Researcher Vladimir Terzyiski is now proven to be a KGB agent. Terzyiski made a splash five years ago when he proposed that the Nazis made UFOs. A former KGB agent who defected now admits that Terzerski was a renegade and a plant. (9)
11. The Voyager Spacecraft found methane gas on its moon Titan, after it flew through the rings of Saturn in 1979. Supposedly, it was damaged and shut down until fixed and re-aimed at Phoebe. New SFOF (Space Flight Operations Facility) video shows the images and the audio from mission control, in which the Voyager video feed is ordered to be terminated. (9)
12. Aliens need to heal when they get to Earth. Mitochondria from humans, and fluids from cattle, are the basic materials that aliens need to heal themselves when they reach our planet. It is known that mitochondria do not function well in zero gravity and seem to behave better under infrared light. Maybe that's what they are doing with those nasty probes! (5)
13. IBM's new atomic-level communication device was the last project developed by Marcel Vogel before he died. Vogel analyzed the alleged "alien" atomic soup from contactee Billy Meier, who received it from a Pleiadian ET named Quetzal. Vogel turned his findings into IBM.s latest amazing discovery. (7)
14. The National Science Foundation is sponsoring a national museum tour called Aliens--Are We Alone? The exhibit displays aliens designed by 5th graders, and is part of a national indoctrination program aimed at raising public awareness. (10)
15. NASA's own UFO de-bunker James Oberg, having left NASA for UPI, will now find himself alone in the Universe. Now that he has blown the whistle on the Mars Lander cover-up, which has been vehemently denied by NASA, neither the UFO community or NASA will believe or support anything Oberg has to say. (10)
16. Father Malachi Martin was murdered by Catholic Church assassins. This happened after he spilled the beans --- on the Art Bell show --- about the Catholic Church believing in the existence of UFOs. (6)
17. AlienZoo.com is actually funded by partners of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. Allen, a guitar player and UFO enthusiast, is partners in a computer-communications incubator in Phoenix that provided substantial capital to launch Alien Zoo. (No comment)
The case of the UFO murder
While at the IUFOC, I was given three photographs to analyze. The shots were taken in Azerbaijan, and show a church bell tower a array of lights --- like a disk-shaped UFO. The man who took the photos was killed, and his wife was subsequently arrested for his murder.
Here are the details. The caretaker of a Coptic church woke the priest at 2:00 a.m., so that the priest could hear the man's confession. The man explained that for three nights he had seen lights near the bell tower. Further, he explained, he heard voices. On the second night the voices told him to go to town the following day and buy a disposable camera.
The man did. And on the third night the lights appeared, he took photographs. Interestingly, the lights took form as female beings, who forced him to engage in sexual intercourse with them. This adulterous act was the basis for the man.s late-night confession.
The priest gave the man absolution. In turn, the man gave the priest the film of the strange lights. The man was not seen again until five days later, however, when his mutilated body was found 50 miles away. His wife, a cook, was arrested for the murder. His organs had been removed with a sharp instrument, probably a cook.s knife. At first, it was believed that she killed her husband after discovering his infidelity. The priest came to the aid of the woman and presented the local police with the now-developed photos and a version of the story that did not violate the confidences of confession.
The priest was accused of having an affair with the woman and faking the photos and story, in an effort to free his love and cover his collaboration in the murder. The clergyman contacted a Russian paranormal investigator, who succeeded in having the body exhumed and examined by a cattle mutilation expert. Both the body and the photographs form the basis for the defense.
In terms of nearness to truth, I'll rank this story a "7." The problem with this case is like many others. If it.s a fake, then we must know immediately. Anyone who would make up this kind of situation must be exposed. If it.s real, another set of problems clouds the picture. On the one hand, a woman.s life is at stake. On the other hand, we're faced with the possibility of indicting an ET for murder: The implication that somehow the ETs who seduced the man are responsible for his death is profound, but also bordering on mere conjecture.
I can test the photos and compare them to other circumstances. But the surgical precision with which the man was "mutilated" -- with the exact characteristics of cattle mutilations -- may be the basis for the real concern. These kinds of rumors really bother me. They're what I consider bad graffiti. I prefer, instead, the graffiti sprayed on the side of a scout-ship UFO that's parked in the Arizona desert, which reads, "Will work for di-lithium crystals. God Bless You."