Contactees who claim to have been very close to grounded saucers commonly suffer excessive thirst afterwards, a sure sign that they have been exposed to the dehydrating effects of these radio waves.
The late Dr. Olavo T, Fontes investigated a spectacular incident at a fort at Itaipu, Brazil, on November 4, 1957. Two alarmed sentries were engulfed by an intense wave of heat as they watched an orange-colored object hovering nearby. While they screamed and gasped for air, all the electrical systems in the fort failed. For three minutes, according to Fontes’s account as published by APRO, the place was a scene of total panic with soldiers and officers running helplessly back and forth, their weapons too hot to handle. The object finally glided away and the two sentries, both badly burned, were flown off to Rio de Janeiro where they were hospitalized under tight security. News of the event leaked out through the hospital staff and Dr. Fontes looked into it. He said that “officers of the U.S. Army” are supposed to have paid a visit to the fort later and interrogated all of the witnesses.
In October 1973, I interviewed a young man who had been exposed to a low-flying UFO in Ulster County, New York. “Man, it was throwing off some heat,” he complained. “It felt like my sex organs were burning up.”
Microwaves affect the eyes and the testes in particular. Back in the 1960s, I was puzzled during my in-depth interviews with male witnesses when they told me in hushed confidential tones how their testicles bothered them after their sightings. Some later developed nonspecific infections with all the symptoms of venereal disease. Try to explain to your wife or girlfriend that you got it from a flying saucer! When I suffered a dose of this cosmic clap myself in the spring of 1968, I started to research the medical effects of electromagnetic radiation in earnest.
Dr. Berthold Schwarz, a New Jersey psychiatrist, independently investigated a case in which male organs were affected. The victim, a bachelor living alone on a farm in the Catskill Mountains, had this odd experience one night in August 1968:
I heard a shrill sound—a whining like a dynamo. I could not move. I looked at the dog and he was standing motionless…I lost all sense of time—it might have lasted seconds or five or tea minutes…All of a sudden the noise stopped, and I could move. When I looked around, the horse and dog were also moving…Over the barn there were two holes in the sky, as white as snow. It was like looking into a barrel. They were perfectly round—automobile-tire size and about three feet apart. They stayed still and didn’t move for ten or fifteen minutes—then disappeared…There was no effect on the household electric lights, clock or radio, but there was something odd—the telephone didn’t work when I went to make a call that night. It was all right the next day.
When he arose the next morning, this man suffered dysuria: “Burning urine, like a red-hot poker. Ten minutes later it was all right.” Some hours later, red streaks appeared on his penis.
“There was no ostensible reason for these complaints,” Dr. Schwarz noted, “such as cystitis, prostatitis, or various venereal disease.”[5]
On the electromagnetic spectrum, microwaves blur into infrared radiations, which, in turn, lead to those frequencies that produce visible light. Marconi called his microwaves “quasi-optical” for that reason.
Infrared rays are generated by heat and vice versa. Microwave ovens are operating on the fringe line between infrared and the lower frequencies. (Figure 3)
Visible light follows infrared. Dr. Meade Layne and other early UFO investigators observed that the objects often appeared magically as a reddish puddle in the sky, then progressively changed to the other colors of the spectrum until they became a sickening purple and melted into the invisible ultraviolet. The terms “mat” and demat” for materialization and dematerialization were introduced. Often the object is visible for only a few seconds, causing astonished witnesses to blink and gasp, “What in hell was that?”
“Forbidden” books on black magic, witchcraft, and ancient religious beliefs all describe this basic materialization process, including solemn warnings to avert the eyes when you materialize an angel or demon through some secret rite lest you suffer from conjunctivitis and the other painful maladies produced by the rays of the EM spectrum. All mythology tells how one should not gaze upon the countenance of a materialized god. Although they lacked proper terminology for these effects and were obliged to speak in terms of “rays” and “vibrations,” secret cults throughout the ages knew that entities moved into our reality through a process of altering frequencies.
In Babylonia, and probably in much earlier cultures, learned men were also aware of the fact that the earth is constantly being bathed in “rays” from outer space and that somehow these rays influence the human condition. They attempted to define this mathematically through the science of astrology. They knew these mysterious rays definitely affected biological organisms, that the rays fluctuated in intensity at different times of the year, and they assumed these rays influenced different people in different ways. By observing the movements of the stars over periods of hundreds of years, they concluded the rays were controlled by such movements. Eventually they went even further, presuming that the positions of the stars at the time of birth had some direct effect on the personalities and lives of individual humans. A large part of that early astrological knowledge is now lost. Modern astrology is based on the fragmented residue of that knowledge.
The movements of the stars and planets are, of course, largely illusory. The earth is moving instead, and what we see from this pitiful drifting speck of cosmic flotsam is not a valid view of the cosmos. The movement of the planets and stars really doesn’t mean a damned thing. What is important is the movement of the earth and its position in orbit at different points in time. We are moving continuously through vast fields of energy in space. Some of these fields undoubtedly have a great biological effect. It doesn’t matter at all that Venus is in conjunction with Jupiter. What does matter, apparently, is that the planet earth is traveling through a field of energy of a certain intensity at a certain time.
If you were born in 1940, you were bathed in “rays” quite different from those that might have affected people born in, say, 1910. Modern astrology is merely a corrupted method for translating these influences into humanly acceptable terms. It actually works, but I’m sure it worked much better thousands of years ago because the ancient astrologers somehow knew much more about all this than we do. However, we are relearning now and at a very fast rate.
Modern science really did not receive a much-needed kick in the pants until men like Hertz and Marconi stumbled onto the electromagnetic spectrum. A staggering part of our modern technology—almost all of it—is based upon our manipulation of the spectrum, just as ancient astrology, magic, witchcraft, and religion were based in large part on the sure knowledge of “vibrations” and “rays.” The ancients were also aware of the atom, and magical training supposedly enabled earlier sorcerers to manipulate atomic energy, causing objects to materialize or dematerialize at will.
Today, scores of scientists working in widely separated unrelated disciplines are crossing the threshold into the world of ancient science. We call it progress, but Merlin will have the last laugh. Science is inching into magic, and the science of the twenty-first century will probably be nothing more than a revival of alchemy. In the Bible and many other ancient religious works, we are told how the old priests and magicians consulted mysterious metal plates and crystals, communicating with unseen entities through a form of radio. Today our radio astronomers are scanning, the heavens for similar communications, while other scientists are huddled over complicated tape recorders and VLF receivers in their labs, trying to interpret the phantom voices and signals. Radio itself has progressed from massive pieces of ugly furniture to tiny boxes sorting out the EM frequencies with fragments of crystal called transistors.
The study of things like biofeedback, alpha waves (brain waves), and biorhythms have catapulted us backward into realms of knowledge known and practiced by yogis and mystics
for thousands of years. We are simply putting respectable scientific labels on old cultist pursuits. Before the end of this century some laconic college professor will probably receive the Nobel Prize for rediscovering principles of science that literally controlled all ancient cultures.
Beyond the ultraviolet waves of the spectrum—those actinic rays that produce erythema, plain old sunburn, and sear your eyeballs—we enter a more mystical realm. First there are X-rays, very short waves discovered by Roentgen in 1895, which penetrate solid matter and, of course, have important medical applications. But they are also very dangerous. As the waves of the spectrum grow shorter, we have gamma rays. When an atomic bomb goes off, the gamma rays do the real damage.
Cosmic rays, the highest measurable waves on the scale, pour over this planet from space. They would kill us all very quickly if they were not filtered out by the Van Allen Belt, a belt of radiation encircling the earth, and by the atmosphere. It is possible that there are occasional leaks in our natural protection, enabling brief beams of this super energy to reach the surface of the planet and strike poor innocents. In 1968, Professor Fritz Zwicky of the California Institute of Technology said he believed several people are killed every year by such leaks in our cosmic envelope.
The final part of the spectrum resembles figure 4.
The sun is pouring forth energy all along the spectrum, from the warming infrared rays to gamma and cosmic rays. We still don’t understand too much about the sun, but we do know that sunspots, or storms on the sun, raise havoc with our communications on all levels, meaning that energies in the VLF and higher radio ranges are also being generated. The earth is sometimes host to mysterious magnetic storms which foul up radio reception, even telephones, and can even produce widespread power failures. The Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, seems to be a type of magnetic storm, and this phenomenon is closely allied with sunspot activity.
Studies conducted during the International Geophysical Year (1957-58) indicated that solar activity spits great streams of electrons through space. These electrons seep through the earth’s magnetosphere and Van Allen Belt and naturally cluster at the north and south poles, as iron filings group about a magnet. When they enter the atmosphere they ionize or electrify atmospheric particles, causing them to glow. The result is the Aurora Borealis. Some of these highly charged solar particles seep through in other places, forming glowing masses in the sky which can be mistaken for flying saucers. Some scientists have tried to assert that these charged masses, called plasmoids, were the explanation for all UFO sightings. But the U.S. Air Force looked into the concept in 1948 and rejected it. In 1967 scientists at the University of Colorado again examined the theory and concluded that these electrical plasma manifestations were not a workable solution to the overall mystery.
These magnetic storms are predictable and have been accurately predicted, not by astronomers peering at the sun through telescopes, but by astrologers! Lt. Comdr. David Williams (Ret.) was not only a chief engineer for New York’s electrical utility, Consolidated Edison, he was also an astrologer. After studying power failures of the 1950s, he became convinced they were both predictable and avoidable. He calculated, in advance, the New York power failure of August 17, 1959, and noted chat when the lights went out on that date, there was also inexplicable interference with shortwave radio transmission in the affected area. This was proof of a broader phenomenon. On his advice, Con Edison tore up the streets of New York (no one really noticed) and placed special shielding over its 8,460-mile network of underground cables. The number of power failures dropped noticeably.
Unfortunately, the other power companies in the huge northeastern power grid did not follow suit. In November 1965, unshielded cables and relays in the northern part of New York State got caught in a geomagnetic burp, and the lights went our again. Telephones (which operate on their own 45-volt supplies) and battery-powered AM radios worked during the long darkness, but shortwave operators again faced perplexing problems.
Flying-saucer cultists were convinced that the gentle folk from outer space pulled the switch on New York that night. A private pilot near Clay, New York, reported seeing a flash of light around the power substation there just before the power failed. Was the flash actually a mean Venusian reaching down to pull the fuses? A great many people believe so.
On June 4, 1967, the six-day war between Israel and the Arabs began. Within hours after the first shots were exchanged, there was a four-state power failure in the northeastern U.S. New York was not affected but Pennsylvania was. There had been intensive UFO activity that year, much of it concentrated around Harrisburg, one of the places caught in the blackout.
Weeks earlier I had been booked on Don McKinney’s radio talk show in Philadelphia for June 5. Power was resumed there shortly before I arrived at the studio with James Moseley and Timothy Green Beckley, two well-known New York ufologists. Just before the “On the Air” sign flashed on, Don McKinney turned to us and soberly advised us that we were not to mention the power failure in any manner. This ban puzzled us, and McKinney never explained his reasons.
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Seventy thousand people, many of them crippled and ill, stood in a pouring rain in a field outside Fatima, Portugal, in 1917 when a dazzling luminous disk descended through the clouds and maneuvered overhead. Some thought the sun was falling. All felt a wave of heat so intense that it dried their drenched clothes instantly. Infirm people scattered through the crowd gasped, their pain suddenly relieved by electrical waves surging through their bodies.
This was the miracle of Fatima.
There have been a number of miraculous healings associated with the UFO phenomenon in more recent years. Usually those who were healed were suffering from nervous disorders, arthritis, and other ailments which respond to infrared and ultraviolet radiation, and treatment by VLF and microwaves. We are just beginning to understand the incredible healing powers of the EM spectrum. For example, we know now that VLF waves facilitate the rapid healing of wounds and even speed up the mending of broken bones. We know that higher frequencies can affect the nervous system in ways that are both good and bad. Radiations from UFOs and seemingly controlled beams of energy from some cosmic source can—and often do—have very beneficial effects.
On the other hand, EM waves will not only fry grass roots, they also have bad effects on the brain and blood. Soviet scientists Z. V. Gordon, T. Y. Sazonova, and V. Plekhanov exposed rabbits and mice to VLF and microwaves in a long series of controlled experiments. They found that VLF radiation in the 0.5 kHz to 30 MHz range can give you headaches, insomnia, irritability, and fatigue—all commonly reported symptoms among UFO percipients. Radar waves can be extremely dangerous if you are exposed to them constantly. You can actually hear a humming in your bead, and if you stand in the beam long enough your brain will be fried just like those grass roots.
These radio waves can increase the gamma globulin and leukocyte count in your blood, cause deviations in your brain nerves, and even enlarge your thyroid gland.
Humming and buzzing sounds frequently accompany UFO manifestations (they were also heard at Fatima) and are probably a physiological reaction to the radiations from the objects. There are many places around the globe where these sounds are heard almost continuously—parts of Yellowstone Park and the Pascagoula River in Mississippi (known locally as “the singing river” because of the persistent buzzing sounds).
In the past few years the omniscient telephone company has erected towers all across the country that fire narrow microwave beams from one hilltop to another as a substitute for old-fashioned wire and telephone poles. If you live in any large city, you are being constantly bathed in EM radiations, radio and television waves, and all kinds of VLF waves from power sources. These radiations cover the whole spectrum and often interfere with each other, producing what engineers term “electromagnetic incompatibility/” A bank turns on its computers and all the fuses at the local airport blow out because the computer is accidentally operating on the
same frequency as the airport equipment. A friend of mine had a sound movie projector that was constantly picking up music from a local radio station. In some places, an ordinary tape recorder can astound its user by recording local police broadcasts.
A few years ago, Phoenix, Arizona, was in an uproar over a strange epidemic of illnesses which were all caused by EM incompatibility. Radio waves there were making people sick. And each year there are several episodes of “mass hysteria” in which scores of people in a school or other public place are suddenly stricken with nausea, dizziness, and itching rashes. These are all symptoms of EM radiation. This is a growing problem in our society and one that has been almost completely ignored by the environmentalists. However, the U.S. Bureau of Radiological Health has quietly been studying the problem, and some engineers are making a career of it. They have found plenty to worry about.
Since 1945, the major powers have detonated over nine hundred atomic bombs, mostly in the atmosphere. One of the byproducts of an atomic explosion is “electromagnetic pulse,” a man-made magnetic storm that can spread out for miles, fouling up communications, creating power failures, blowing fuses, and even stalling automobiles. Some of our power problems in the 1960s (and there were many beside the Big Blackout) can be attributed to Soviet and Chinese atomic tests.
Some modern witch doctors worried that the atomic tests might also be tearing holes in our envelope of protection, enabling the deadly radiations of the sun and stars to leak through. Periodically, whole herds of sheep and cows in the West have simply dropped dead for no discernible reason. And, of course, dazzling nocturnal lights have appeared everywhere in the last decade.
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