From: United Kingdom UFO Network <ufo@holodeck.demon.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 20:08:56 +0000
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The United Kingdom UFO Network - a free electronic magazine with
subscribers in over 40 countries.

This issue comes in 4 parts. If any part is missing please mail:
ufo@holodeck.demon.co.uk giving the issue number. The issue will be
reposted to you. Please put the details as below in the subject
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In this issue:

Editorial
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Guests on UK.UFO.NW -IRC- channel
Alien humour

United Kingdom News
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[UK 1] Alien alert as mini meteors do the light fantastic
[UK 2] They're Lights, Jim, But Not As We Know Them
[UK 3] Fireballs Were A Meteor Shower
[UK 4] Sighting M56 near to Runcorn, Cheshire
[UK 5] Abducted
[UK 6] Abducted by aliens
[UK 7] Private rocket nosedives after four seconds above Dartmoor


World News
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[W 1] Firm to send clips of hair into space
[W 2] UFO cult calm as God misses predicted TV appearance
[W 3] Investigation into Clinton jet radar loss


Alien Humour
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Book serialisation
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A FEARFUL SYMMETRY

A TRUE STORY OF ALIEN INTRUSION INTO HUMAN LIVES

By D. Lynne Bishop


Editorial
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Guests on UK.UFO.NW -IRC- channel

United Kingdom UFO Network has had some very interesting guests on
it's IRC (internet relay channel) over the last few weeks. Ros
Reynolds: UK abductee - Nick Redfern: UK ufologist, author and
government conspiracy investigator - Kevin Randle: World respected
ufologist and Roswell expert.

Text transcripts of these meeting can be found on the below web sites:

http://www.holodeck.demon.co.uk/
http://www.crowman.demon.co.uk/

AND we are not stopping there. Future guests include:


Saturday 25th April 98

Philippe Piet van Putten live from Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Director of the Brazilian Academy of Parasciences (ABP) and National
Director for Picard UFO Research International (PUFORI). Editor of
the bimonthly bulletin Aerospatial Phenomena (entering its 4th year
of publication).

Saturday 2nd May 1998

James Bond Johnson

James was the photographer who took the famous 1947 Roswell UFO
crash wreckage in the office of General Ramey in Fort Worth, Texas.


Confirmed UK.UFO.NW -IRC- guests (dates to be organised)

Nick Pope - UK MoD and former head of Sec (Air Staff) 2a at the MoD.

John Carpenter (USA)


Full connection details to the UK.UFO.NW -IRC- channel can be found
at the foot of this e-zine.

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Alien humour

Folks please send us whatever Alien, UFO jokes you have or come
across. Our address as usual is:

ufo@holodeck.demon.co.uk


United Kingdom News
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[UK 1]******

Source: Daily Mail newspaper (UK)
Publish date: Tuesday 17th March 1998

Alien alert as mini meteors do the light fantastic

By David Derbyshire
Science Correspondent

A spectacular meteor shower sent hundreds of anxious onlookers
scurrying to phone the emergency services, convinced aliens were
about to land.

Police and coastguards were inundated with calls when the skies
above Southern Britain lit up with stunning flashes and smoke trails
and echoed to rumbling explosions.

Many mistook the shooting stars for distress flares from a ship in
trouble, while others believed they were seeing UFOs.

Infact, the light show signalled the return of a group of meteoroids
called Virginids, which reach the Earth every Spring. Experts say
they will be around for weeks. Sunday night's display was
particularly spectacular because of the nearly full moon and
crystal-clear skies.

Emergency services across the South and West said yesterday they had
taken hundreds of calls.

Police were also alerted, but soon learned the lights were shooting
stars after checking with weather experts.

The Brixham Coastguard in South Devon said it took up to 30 calls
reporting red distress flares in an area from Exmouth to beyond
Plymouth.

"It was obviously quite a severe meteorite shower," a spokesman
said. "We actually saw one over our own coastguard station. There was
a bright flash of white light with a bang and some smoke. It was like
a very big, very high firework.

Meteorologist Dr Richard Porter, from Kingsbridge, South Devon, told
how he saw a trail of light across the sky.

"It was like a rocket which broke up into five or six pieces and
disappeared but there was a smoke cloud which remained for ten
minutes. I also heard bangs and rumblings for two or three minutes.

"I believe it was a meteor a foot or so across at about 18 to 30
miles up in the sky. This is comparatively low in our atmosphere and
the lowest I have seen. It may have been a piece of space debris and
not a true meteorite."

Gerald White, secretary of the Norman Lockyer Observatory in
Sidmouth, Devon, said the meteors varied  from the size of sand to a
pea or even a cricket ball.

Tens of thousands of these lumps of rock and iron head towards Earth
every year, but only 100 or so are large enough to survive their
fiery descent and reach the ground.

When they float through space they are known as meteoroids. When
they burn up in the atmosphere they become meteors and if they crash
into the ground they are meteorites.

Meteoroids hit the atmosphere at up to 45 miles a second. Friction
with the air turns them white hot and they appear as streaks of
bright light. Mr White said reports of smoke were explained by
vapour.

Most are the size of grains of sand and disintegrate at least 50
miles up. But larger meteoroids, travelling at five times the speed
of sound, can produce sonic booms as they approach the ground.

They are created when asteroids collide in space, although some are
debris from comets.

Meteor showers occur when the Earth passes through orbiting clusters
of rocks. Some return annually, others every few decades.

[UK 2]******

Source: The South Wales Argus, Monday March 16 1998
Publish date: Monday 16th March 1998
From: Lloyd Bayliss - lloyd@gwent-tertiary.ac.uk

They're Lights, Jim, But Not As We Know Them

By Helen Morgan

Gwent police were enjoying a quiet Sunday evening.  Until 7pm last
night, that is, when their switchboard was suddenly jammed with
callers reporting flashing lights in the sky.

Dozens of people from accross the southh of the county put forward
various explanations for the spectacle.

A plane crashing was the favourite, but there were also theories
that the much publicised 2028 asteroid was making a premature
appearance.

Inspector Ian Morgan, who was on duty at HQ in Cwmbran, said he
checked with Cardiff Airport to make sure no aeroplane was in
trouble.

"They assured us that everything they had in the air was still in
the air," he said.

But a quick call to the Cardiff Weather Centre solved the mystery.
Forecaster John Moreton confirmed there had been a metorite shower.

He explained that when a meteorite hits the atmosphere at an angle,
rather than straight-on, the results are often spectacular as it
burns up.

"It is actually quite common.  If you stand outside for long enough
you would see one most nights," he said.

Mr Moreton put the intensity of interest in the shower down to it
happening on a cloudless night and relatively early in the evening.

"If it had been clear over the whole country, it would have been
seen right accross Wales," he said.

[UK 3]******

Source: Free Press (Wales)
Publish Date: March 1998 (exact date not known)
From: Lloyd Bayliss - lloyd@gwent-tertiary.ac.uk

Fireballs Were A Meteor Shower

Gwent police were put on alien alert on Sunday evening when they
received reports from all over the country and beyond of fireballs
falling from the she sky.

Callers from as far apart as Pontypool, Chepstow, Merthyr and
Bargoed claimed they had seen alien landings in the Ebbw Vale /
Bargoed area. A police spokesman said that officers were despatched
to investigate but a search turned up no evidence of alien beings.

However, the matter was soon cleared up after a call to the experts
at the weather centre.  They told police the alien invasion was just
a meteor shower.

[UK 4]******

Source: Alien Encounters magazine
Publish Date: April 1998

Merseyside, UK

On the evening of 16th January 1998 the two occupants of a car
travelling along the M56 near to Runcorn, Cheshire, were startled by
a large dark triangular shape, which appeared to be tracking about
150 feet above their vehicle.

In the reflection from the motorway lights it was possible to make
out a central fan construction on the underside of the aircraft,
which itself only carried three small peripheral navigation lights.
The objects speed was about 50-70 mph.

A few nights later, on the 19th January 1998, police on Merseyside
received a number of calls about a strange disc like object which
was seen hovering over Liverpool. The craft seemed to have a soft
glow and gave the impression that it was slowly rotating. I received
two calls myself about the sighting, which seemed to be causing some
concern.

Looking out across the river Mersey I was able to determine that
what had caused the stir was infact the airship TV camera platform
covering Liverpool FC's home match!

Sitting barely into a thin cloud layer, at about 250 feet, the
airship did indeed give the impression of a rotating saucer and was a
good example of how easy it is to mistakingly identify unfamiliar
aircraft.

[UK 5]******

uk.ufo.nw says: The below reports appeared in The Sun newspaper over
a period of four days. Following this report is another about the
same family but by a different journalist and viewpoint.

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Source: The Sun newspaper (UK)
Publish date: Monday 16th March 1998

Abducted

The book that proves the truth is out there.

Jason Andrews looks like an ordinary 14 year old. His bright blue
eyes, fringed with dark eyelashes, are set in a round intelligent
face. He is average at school but gets bad marks for forgetting to
do homework.

He's cheeky when he can get away with it, terrific on the computer,
hangs out with his friends and thinks money grows on trees. A normal
boy - except that those blue eyes hide a terrible secret.

For Jason has been abducted by aliens.

Today, The Sun reveals his gripping story - the most extraordinary
tale of alien abduction ever.

In the past, such stories have often been dismissed as the fantasies
of cranks. But the mind blowing events you will read about, happened
to this very ordinary family from Kent.

They are not weirdo's. They are not fantasists. Jason's Mum Ann and
Dad Paul, both 41, run a 10-acre smallholding next to Ministry of
Defence training site near the village of Crouch. In the evenings
Paul drives a taxi to make ends meet.

Ann felt compelled to draw this image of an alien, right [typical
greys head], after her family's experiences. And now they have told
their incredible tale in a new book, Abducted. This week The Sun's
Mike Ridley adapts their story. Read it...then make up your mind.

The astonishing story of alien abduction in rural Britain.

Jason Andrews fell into a deep sleep on the sofa after his first
proper birthday party.

He was four years old, stuffed full of birthday cake and shattered
after running around the house with his friends.

Jason's Mum Ann, relieved everything had gone well, settled down for
a quiet cup of coffee with her husband Paul and her Mother Vi.

A loud banging at the door of their cottage in Slade Green, Kent,
interrupted their chat.

It was 10 o'clock at night, too late for casual callers. The noise
was urgent and insistent.

Louder than a fist, it was more like a heavy boot being thrust
against the door with huge force. Paul flung the heavy oak door wide.
The banging stopped the moment he touched the door. There was no one
there. He peered up and down the lane that led to the cottage. It
was empty.

As Paul stepped back into the living room there was a loud crack of
thunder. The storm woke seven year old Daniel, the older son, who
had been asleep in the bedroom. He climbed onto his Grandmothers lap.
Jason slept on.

Suddenly, there was a flash of lightening, so fierce that even Paul,
a big, unflappable man, jumped. Jason sat bolt upright. His eyes
open, staring, but oblivious to the room and the people around him.

He started to talk, pouring out an incredible stream of numbers, as
if he'd hit the jackpot on some weird, mental fruit machine.

Fantastic numbers, huge numbers, strange algebraic configurations,
mathematical terms like 'pi' and 'binary codes', all spewed out of
the mouth of a boy - not yet at school - who normally struggled to
count to ten in his picture books. The loud banging at the door began
again. It seemed to come from the windows and the doors at the same
time.

The whole cottage seemed to shake. Paul grabbed the phone to dial
999 [UK emergency services]. Nothing happened. He had a dialling tone
but the numbers did not register.

Jason stopped talking. At exactly the same moment, the banging
ceased.

Then Jason slid from the settee and, still in a trance, started to
walk towards the door. Paul put his hands on his small son's
shoulders, gently restraining him. The child looked up at his Father
and replied in a strange emotionless voice: "They're waiting for me,
I have to go." As he spoke the knocking began again.

This time his Father grasped him firmly. Jason struggled and Paul,
in desperation, shook him violently to snap him out of it.

Jason fought harder. Then the banging receded, dying out completely
as Jason looked at Paul and asked innocently if he could watch TV.

Paul picked up the phone again and this time was able to get through
to the Police.

When two officers arrived he went through what had happened, without
mentioning Jason's part in it.

They went outside but could find no signs of damage.

All four members of the Andrews family claim to have had X Files
experiences.

Strange things have surrounded Jason from the moment he was born.
Ann would put him into a cot in his bedroom and find him later lying
under the cot. Twice she found him under a chair.

One terrifying night she could not find him at all. Her screams
brought an answering wail from behind the door, where Jason was
lying on the floor.

She thought Daniel, then four, was the culprit.

But Daniel, now 18, remembers that, as a youngster, aliens visited
his bedroom too.

When he was four they turned to Jason. He says he is paralysed in
bed on the nights Jason is abducted.

Ann has witnessed aliens on the family's smallholding. She says she
too has been abducted but, unlike Jason, does not remember
everything that happens.

And Paul, the most skeptical of the lot, once witnesses a bright
orange circular object darting upwards towards the sky at enormous
speed.

After Jason's fourth birthday, electrical equipment in the house
developed a life of  it's own - the TV or hi-fi would come on in the
middle of the day or night.

One night Ann was drifting off to sleep when the house was bathed in
a bright blue light. The lane and farm buildings were lit, brighter
than daylight.

A terrified scream came from Jason's room. "They're back, they're
back!" he shouted in hysterics.

The screams subsided to sobs and the intense light went off
suddenly. Paul refused to admit a connection between Jason's screams
and the light. But over the next weeks Jason changed. Bedtimes were a
battleground.

He was only really settled if he slept on the floor next to his
Mother's side of the bed.

He became anxious and fractious. He would not even go to the toilet
alone.

As Jason grew older he still suffered disturbed nights. Ann would
wake him for school and sometimes he would get up with muddy streaks
down his legs and arms, yet she knew he had bathed the night before.

Sometimes his pyjamas would be caked with mud and his feet and hands
scratched.

At first the couple tried to dismiss it as sleep walking. But early
one morning Paul poked his head into Jason's bedroom. He had
disappeared. Panic stricken, they checked the shed in the back
garden. Ann strained at the heavy bolts. The door opened and they
found him sound asleep. If Jason had been sleepwalking  he would have
needed all his strength to open the bolts. Even if he had, how could
he close them again?

There were physical problems, too. He complained frequently of
stomach pains but Doctors found nothing. When Jason was ten he had
tests in Maidstone hospital. On the final day, doctors asked Ann why
Jason had a six-inch scar on his right side. She had never seen the
scar before and had no idea.

A week later Jason was suddenly struck with acute stomach pains. He
was readmitted to hospital. There was no scar on his right side, but
there were several red fresh-looking scars on his stomach.

It was another two years before Paul and Ann discovered a possible
cause. At first it was an explanation they could not accept. It was
so far-fetched, so incredible.

In 1995 the family were watching a TV show about hypnosis, when a
man in his 40s explained how he had been driving his normal route
home from work one evening.

A journey that normally took 35 minutes lasted over three hours. He
could not explain what had happened in the extra two and three
quarter hours. But since the mysterious time loss he had suffered
mood swings, depression and an irrational fear of the dark.

Without warning, Jason leapt to his feet, picked up a china dog and
hurled it at the TV.

The boy turned to face his parents and, tears coursing down his
cheeks, he sobbed: "That man there is stupid. He should be glad he
can't remember. He should leave it like that.

"Because I remember. I remember everything. I'm scared. They wont
leave me alone. Why can't they leave me alone?".

He fled the room. Ann and Paul looked at each other in shocked
silence.

Daniel, by then aged 16, spoke first: "Do you still not understand?
This guy on telly was abducted by aliens. Don't you both get it
yet?"

Ann's mind was racing. The behaviour the man on TV had  described
was just like Jason's.

Ann had seen stories in newspapers about people who claimed to be in
contact with aliens, but she scarcely bothered to read them.

As for Paul - if Paul couldn't touch it, it didn't exist.

Daniel told his parents: "I get weird stuff happening, too. Last
night I was woken by a bright light, and when I sat up I felt I had
been hit by something all over. Almost like something had entered me.

"I felt something hot running through me, but I was paralysed. The
next second I was asleep, and I didn't remember anything till this
morning.

"I know the aliens wont hurt Jason, but he needs help Mum. He can't
cope with it. It's really screwing him up." Jason was in the
kitchen, his face buried in his arms. Gulping back sobs, he told his
parents: "It's always the light that comes first.

"It wakes me up. Then I see the tall one rise at the foot of the
bed. Suddenly there's lots of little ones everywhere.

"They're fuzzy and indistinct, and they move very fast.

"I can't move or speak, but I'm awake and I can see and hear and
feel. I want to scream run, but the sound doesn't come and my body
can't move.

"Sometimes I am screaming but it never wakes you, you never come to
help me. I hate them. I hate them. I hate you for not coming when I
need you."

Jason sat up and stared accusingly at his parents: "Why do you let
them take me?

"I have to go to hospital with them. They take me to an operating
theatre. It's all white. Sometimes it's a circular room with a metal
floor.

"It's always cold. I want to go home, I hate it. They're there. The
big one touches me but I don't feel it, as if I've had an
anaesthetic. I hate it, I hate it.

"But you don't believe me. You think I'm a stupid kid making it all
up."

Ann said: "I believe you. I'll help you sort it out."

Did she believe him?

Ann knew instinctively Jason was telling the truth as he saw it. She
felt there must be another explanation, but she knew Jason was not
pretending. The events were real to him.

Paul was even more reluctant to believe what Jason had told them.
But he accepted it was their duty as parents to help. What they
learned took the family on a journey in the realms of science
fiction.

The Ministry of Defence says there have been no secret operations at
the Mereworth MoD site, which backs on to the Andrews smallholding.
They say it is used for training part time Territorial Army
soldiers.

But the Andrews are convinced their son IS still being abducted by
aliens. They would love to be proved wrong. But so far no one has
been able to.

1998 Ann Andrews and Jean Ritchie. Extracted from Abducted, The true
story of Alien Abduction in Rural England by Ann Andrews and Jean
Ritchie. Published by Headline in hardback at 16 pounds and 99 pence
and available in all bookshops.

Cynic to believer

Journalist Jean Ritchie, who tells the Andrews family's story in
Abducted, was converted from total cynic to believer as she started
to investigate their story.

Jean, a journalist for more than 30 years, says: "I became convinced
they were telling the truth.

"They are not fantasists. I quickly realised that Ann was not lying,
exaggerating or being manipulated.

"I set out to disprove their story - I couldn't. There are so many
unexplainable things that have happened to them.

"When I went to see Jason, I expected to meet a withdrawn, nervous,
loner of a child - a nerd even. He's not.

"Jason is like any likable, 14-year old. He's outgoing and likes
talking about Arsenal and the Spice Girls.

"I started as so many outsiders do, desperately looking for material
proof- I wanted to touch an alien, take a photograph. Such proof is
elusive, but perhaps this kind of evidence contradicts the nature of
abduction.

"If we are dealing with higher levels of intelligence than our own,
why should they leave fingerprints and clumsy evidence of an event
they choose to shroud in mystery.

"Abductions almost always happen under cover of darkness with all
potential witnesses rendered unconscious.

"What the Andrews family provide is a different kind of proof - a
proof that cannot be dissected under laboratory conditions but is no
less valid.

"Similar stories can be traced back to the beginning of
civilisation, crossing all cultural, social and racial backgrounds.
It is a sheer volume of evidence that cannot be ignored or
dismissed."

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Source: The Sun newspaper (UK)
Publish date: Tuesday 17th March 1998

Ann saw a face staring in the window...but it wasn't human.

Ann and Paul Andrews are an ordinary couple with two sons, Daniel
and Jason.

They run a 10-acre smallholding, called Hawksnest Farm, near the
village of Crouch in Kent. Their home lies next to a Ministry of
Defence training site. Paranormal activity has surrounded the family
since Jason, 14, was born. But it took 12 years for the couple, both
41, to discover the cause: Jason is regularly abducted by aliens.
Neither Paul or Ann wanted to believe it and fought hard to find
more logical explanations.

Now Ann has told their story in a gripping new book, Abducted, which
you can read here first.

Today, Mike Ridley reveals Ann's diary of unexplained events.

Many weird things have happened to Jason Andrews, but among the most
inexplicable are the strange marks that appear on his body.

Jason and his parents are convinced the wounds and scratches are
caused when he is abducted by aliens in the night.

Here is part of his Mother Ann's diary for 1995:

Sept 20: Jason complained of a pain in his side this morning. Showed
me a red triangular-shaped mark on his rib cage. Later there was no
sign of it.

Sept 23: Jason limped slightly. Showed me a mark at the top of his
leg, as if the flesh had been scooped out. But there was no cut.
Later I tried to show Paul, but it had gone.

October 1: Jason has the dice mark on his left knee. (The dice mark
was a square of dots, a quarter of an inch in diameter.)

On another occasion, Jason gashed his hand at a school fete. A St
Johns ambulance first-aider placed five "butterfly" stitches on the
wound and warned Jason he might have to go to hospital.

The next morning when Paul went to wake Jason, the bandage and
dressing were on a bedside table.

His parents examined his hand. There was no sign of a cut or a scar.

Just after Christmas 1996, Jason woke up when the weather was below
freezing outside. His skin was red, like he had been sunbathing. By
the end of the day he had returned to his normal winter pallor. In
June that year, Jason was seen by the family GP [Doctor], Dr Karen
Parks. In a letter, she said: "Jason has shown me marks on his left
side, stating this is where the 'creatures' cut into him.

"I do not know what to make of them. I haven't seen anything like
this before."

Jason was examined by school psychologist Dr Pauline Stevenson who
was satisfied that the youngster was not mentally ill.

FACE IN THE WINDOW: In November 1996, Jason had become so depressed
Ann took him and three pals on holiday to a mobile home at
Allhallows in Kent.

Ann was relieved to see Jason smiling again. But on the Wednesday
night she was woken by his screaming. She rushed to the room he
shared with his best friend Mark. Jason was standing by the bed.

The screaming stopped as Jason realised that she was there. He said:
"Don't touch me, you mustn't touch me," In tears, Ann turned to
leave the room. Jason spoke softly: "Mum, they're making me feel and
see what they feel and see. I'll be all right."

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