laura newsletter number 3

8/4/2019 Laura Newsletter Number 3

1/14

Lima Area UFO Research Associates

Sept/Oct. 2010

Issue #3

LAURA BOARD REPORTMONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2010RIGALI'S PIZZA VILLAGE

LIMA, OHIO......1:00 PM

1. The following were present: Amber Horner. Mike and Peggy Krick, Bob Prater, TomBowman. Absent were Mike Altenberger, Helena Valenti and Diana Baughman .

2. Amber requested a motion to renew the PO Box # 5103 for another year. Tom made themotion and Mike seconded. All present approved.

3. Amber received a thank you card from Judy Gilbert thanking us for the donation to theAmerican Red Cross in her husband Lyle's name. Amber remarked she has had the card and itwas misplaced.

4. Amber reported the results of the auction showed a total income of $118.51. Thanks to Amberfor all the accounting and Tom for playing auctioneer.

5. Amber made the following treasurers report:Total in savings acct. $928.24Total in checking acct. $659.74

She also said another membership due had been received.

6. The newsletter was discussed and it was not determined the date for the next release. Afterfurther investigation it was uncovered the last newsletter was the "July/August" Issue and thenext news is due mid Sept as the Sept/Oct Issue. Bob said he could have it ready in about oneweek. -Thanks to Bob for all his effort.


2/14

7. It was noted that Wendell Stevens had passed away. Mr. Stevens was a "Whistle Blower" onthe UFO subject involving the military.

8. Tom reported he had talked with Jan Pheneger recently and she is working with Billy RayCyrus who is interested in the UFO subject.

9. "Search for the Real Mt' Sinai" is the subject for this months' meeting for the 14th . Mikereported Bob Bennet will, bring the video and in the event it is unavailable Mike will have aback-up.

10. Mike stated that Diana has left for Florida for the winter and Amber stated that we will needanother phone number for the Church [Mkt. St. Presbyterian] to call in the event of a emergencyor meeting room cancellation. Tom said he will call and advise them.

Reminder: The next club meeting is Wednesday Oct. 20th at 7pm at the Mkt. St. PresbyterianChurch. Bruce Maccabee will be making a presentation on magnetism and UFOs.

Meeting adjourned at 2:00 PM.

Tom BowmanSecretary [email protected]

UFOs Visited Nuclear Weapons Sites,

Former Air Force Officers Say

September 27th, 2010Seven former U.S. Air Force personnel gathered in Washington Monday to recount UFO sightings

over nuclear weapons facilities in decades pastaccounts that a UFO researcher says show

extraterrestrial beings are interested in the worlds nuclear arms race and may be sending humans a

message.

At a news conference at the National Press Club, the six former officers and one ex-enlistedman recalled either personal sightings or reports from subordinates and others of UFOshovering over nuclear missile silos or nuclear weapons storage areas in the 1960s, '70s and

'80s.

Three of the former Air Force officersthough they hadnt seen the UFOs themselves - toldreporters that UFOs hovering over silos around Montanas Malmstrom Air Force Base in

1967 appeared to have temporarily deactivated some of the nuclear missiles.
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]


3/14

Much of the testimony already has appeared in books, websites and elsewhere. But UFOresearcher and author Robert Hastings, who organized the news conference, said the time hascome for the U.S. government to acknowledge the UFO visits.

I believe - these gentlemen believe - that this planet is being visited by beings from another

world, who for whatever reason have taken an interest in the nuclear arms race which beganat the end of World War II, said Hastings, who added that more than 120 former militarypersonnel have told him about UFOs visiting nuclear sites.

Regarding the missile shutdown incidents, my opinion is that whoever are aboard these

craft are sending a signal to both Washington and Moscow, among others, that we areplaying with firethat the possession and threatened use of nuclear weapons potentiallythreatens the human race and the integrity of the planetary environment, he said.

Former Air Force Capt. Robert Salaswho has written a book about the Montana incidentssaid he was underground when a UFO hovered over his missile silo in March 1967, and

therefore couldnt see it. He said one of his guards above ground told him a red, glowingobject about 30 feet in diameter was hovering just above the front gate of the facility, in anisolated area far from Malmstrom.

And just as I [called my commander], our missiles began going into whats called a no-gocondition, or unlaunchable. Essentially, they were disabled while this object was stillhovering over out site, Salas said.

Salas and others said the military urged them at the time not to talk about the incidents.

Retired Col. Charles Halt recalled seeing UFOs over the woods near Royal Air Force

Stations Bentwaters and Woodbridge in eastern England in December 1980. He and securitypersonnel were investigating reports of strange lights just outside one of the bases.

All through the forest was a bright glowing object, he said Monday. The best way I can

describe it, it looked like an eyewith bright red, with a dark center. It appeared to bewinking. It was shedding something like molten metal, was dripping off it.

It silently moved through the trees, avoiding any contact, it bobbed up and down, and at one

point it actually approached us. We tried to get closer. It receded out into the field, beyondthe forest, and silently exploded into five white objectsgone. So we went out into the fieldlooking for any evidence, because something had been apparently falling off itand we find

nothing, he said.

He recalled subsequently seeing other objects in the sky, including one that stopped about3,000 feet overhead and sent down a concentrated beam at our feet. No one was harmed.

The best way I can equate it is sort of a laser beam. We stood there in awe. Was this a

warning? Was this an attempt to communicate? Was this a weapon? Or just a probe? hesaid.


4/14

At about the same time, he was hearing radio reports from base personnel that beams fromsome of the objects were falling into or near the weapons storage area.

In a staff meeting later, a general decided it happened off base, so its a British affair, Haltrecalled. In other words, they were loathe to get involved.

The Air Force investigated UFOs from 1948 to 1969 under a program eventually calledProject Blue Book. The service, on its website, says the project concluded that no UFOreported, investigated, and evaluated by the Air Force has ever given any indication of threatto our national security. It also says there has been "no evidence that sightings categorized

as 'unidentified' are extraterrestrial vehicles. Salas said the UFO phenomenon is real, notimaginary. There is current excessive secrecy in our government surrounding thisphenomenon, he said.

A reporter asked how many of the former military personnel subscribed to Hastings theorythat the message of extraterrestrials is that humans should get rid of nuclear weapons, and

how many of them believed that we should get rid of nukes. Of the seven, it appeared thatonly Salas raised his hand.

Captain Ray Bowyer Speaking before the National Press Club 11/12/07

(submitted by Bob Prater)

Could 'Goldilocks' planet be just right for

life?WASHINGTONAstronomers say they have for the first time spotted a planet beyond our ownin what is sometimes called the Goldilocks zonefor life: Not too hot, not too cold. Not too farfrom its star, not too close so it could contain liquid water. The planet itself is neither too big nortoo small for the proper surface, gravity and atmosphere.It's just right. Just like Earth.


5/14

"This really is the first Goldilocks planet," said co-discoverer R. Paul Butler of the CarnigieInstitution of Washington.

The new planet sits smack in the middle of what astronomers refer to as the habitable zone,unlike any of the nearly 500 other planets astronomers have found outside our solar system. It is

in our galactic neighborhood, suggesting that plenty of Earthlike planets circle other stars.

Finding a planet that could potentially support life is a major step toward answering the timelessquestion: Are we alone?

Scientists have jumped the gun before on proclaiming that planets outside our solar system werehabitable only to have them turn out to be not quite so conducive to life. But this one is so clearlyin the right zone that five outside astronomers told The Associated Press it seems to be the realthing.

"This is the first one I'm truly excited about," said Penn State University's Jim Kasting. He said

this planet is a "pretty prime candidate" for harboring life.

Life on other planets doesn't mean E.T. Even a simple single-cell bacteria or the equivalent ofshower mold would shake perceptions about the uniqueness of life on Earth.

But there are still many unanswered questions about this strange planet. It is about three timesthe mass of Earth, slightly larger in width and much closer to its star14 million miles awayversus 93 million. It's so close to its version of the sun that it orbits every 37 days. And it doesn'trotate much, so one side is almost always bright, the other dark.

Temperatures can be as hot as 160 degrees or as frigid as 25 degrees below zero, but in between

in the land of constant sunriseit would be "shirt-sleeve weather," said co-discovererSteven Vogt of the University of California at Santa Cruz.

It's unknown whether water actually exists on the planet, and what kind of atmosphere it has. Butbecause conditions are ideal for liquid water, and because there always seems to be life on Earthwhere there is water, Vogt believes "that chances for life on this planet are 100 percent."

The astronomers' findings are being published in Astrophysical Journal and were announced bythe National Science Foundation on Wednesday.

The planet circles a star called Gliese 581. It's about 120 trillion miles away, so it would take

several generations for a spaceship to get there. It may seem like a long distance, but in thescheme of the vast universe, this planet is "like right in our face, right next door to us," Vogt saidin an interview.

That close proximity and the way it was found so early in astronomers' search for habitableplanets hints to scientists that planets like Earth are probably not that rare.


6/14

Vogt and Butler ran some calculations, with giant fudge factors built in, and figured that as muchas one out of five to 10 stars in the universe have planets that are Earth-sized and in the habitablezone.

With an estimated 200 billion stars in the universe, that means maybe 40 billion planets that have

the potential for life, Vogt said. However, Ohio State University's Scott Gaudi cautioned that istoo speculative about how common these planets are.

Vogt and Butler used ground-based telescopes to track the star's precise movements over 11years and watch for wobbles that indicate planets are circling it. The newly discovered planet isactually the sixth found circling Gliese 581. Two looked promising for habitability for a while,another turned out to be too hot and the fifth is likely too cold. This sixth one bracketed right inthe sweet spot in between, Vogt said. With the star designated "a," its sixth planet is calledGliese 581g.

"It's not a very interesting name and it's a beautiful planet," Vogt said. Unofficially, he's named it

after his wife: "I call it Zarmina's World."

The star Gliese 581 is a dwarf, about one-third the strength of our sun. Because of that, it can't beseen without a telescope from Earth, although it is in the Libra constellation, Vogt said. If youwere standing on this new planet, you could easily see our sun, Butler said.

The low-energy dwarf star will live on for billions of years, much longer than our sun, he said.And that just increases the likelihood of life developing on the planet, the discoverers said.

"It's pretty hard to stop life once you give it the right conditions," Vogt said.

PENNSYLVANIA UFO CONFERENCE

"UFO's. . . Seeing is Believing". The Pennsylvania Mutual UFO Network will present it's 3rdAnnual UFO Conference's on Saturday October 9th, 2010 from 8am-5pm at the Sheraton Hotel400 Oxford Valley Rd Langehorne Pa 19047 and on Saturday October 16th 2010 from 10am to6pm at the Westmoreland Community College 145 Pavillion Ln Youngwood, Pa 15697.

Pennsylvania has been the epicenter of the world's largest UFO wave since the summer of2008. There have been over 650 UFO reports filed with MUFON from Pittsburgh to Philly over

the past two years. John Ventre, the Pennsylvania State Director for MUFON stated, "We'regetting clusters of sightings from every town from Pittsburgh to Philly along the southern half ofthe state. We have 151 reports in the Pittsburgh-Westmoreland County area and 355 in the Phillyarea. I get reports of UFO's coming in from Lake Erie in Ohio and across Wheeling, WestVirginia into the Pittsburgh area and they are seen minutes later on the Eastern part of the state.The Conference will present a combination of expert Paranormal, Abduction and UFO speakers.

Speakers include Richard Dolan who has written numerous books on the governmentcoverup, Bill Birnes of UFO Hunters, Budd Hopkins on Abductions, Kathleen Marden on Betty


7/14

and Barney Hill, Peter Robbins who investigated the Rendlesham Forrest UK incident, JohnVentre of the Mutual UFO Network, Stan Gordon will present Kecksburg then and Leslie Keanwho sued NASA will present Kecksburg now on the 45th anniversary."The quality of speakers at this Conference rivals the larger pricier conferences that take placearound the country", said Ventre.

Professional presentations and vendor tables will highlight this conference in an academicsetting. "We also have a few surprises for the audience and they are not Halloween tricks", saidVentre.

Admission price's are $20 in Pitt and $30 in Philly. Advance orders and the Conferenceagenda can be obtained at John Ventre's website at www.johnventre.com or www.mufonpa.com

The Mutual UFO Network was founded in 1969 after the US Air Force concluded their 17year Project Blue Book study of UFO's and concluded that UFO's are not a threat to NationalSecurity. "They never said UFO's don't exist. There is overwhelming evidence that they do. Ibelieve this is an aviation safety issue. The only reason there are not more collisions is becauseof their ability to manuever, not ours", said Ventre.

Mufon has 2700 members worldwide and over 900 certified investigators. The Pennsylvania

MUFON branch has 129 members and 21 certified investigators. Anyone interested in joiningMUFON can speak to John Ventre or one of the many investigators that will be at theconference from Pa, WV, NY, NJ and Ohio. "One thing I know from conducting myinvestigations: if you've seen one, you believe", said Ventre.www.mufonpa.com(submitted by Tom Bowman)

LAURA now has a 27 Color TV hooked up to a combo DVD/VHS player in the UFO office atToms church for anyone who wants to stop in and view a tape or DVD.The TV is the property of the civil war club and the player is the property of LAURA.

LAURA MEMBERS VIEW UFO's:

SIGHTING #1:Member Mike Altenberger reported at the August club meeting he had seen a UFO at SurfsideBeach N.C. at 10:20 pm on Thursday June 17, 2010 while spending time there with family onvacation. The object observed had double blinking white lights and traveled from North to Southacross the Eastern sky.

Mike stated the object's travel time was approximately four [4] seconds and traveled 30 to 40

miles as best could be determined in that time period. Mike said after gaining altitude the objectdescended in a south direction and disappeared behind Palm Trees. In addition to Mike therewere six [6] other family members who observed the event.

The object flew above the 2000 to 3000 foot elevation for the normal flight patterns of thecommercial aircraft in the area, and was possibly 3 to 4 miles off shore.
http://www.mufonpa.com/http://www.mufonpa.com/http://www.mufonpa.com/


8/14

SIGHTING #2:Member and club president , Mike Krick, reported he and his wife Peggy observed a UFOsighting North of Cridersville, Oh over Interstate 75 when returning early August from Dayton.

Mike said the object first appeared as a large ball of light and was moving slowly East to Westacross the Interstate and when it turned it changed to a cigar shape and disappeared shortlyfollowing the turn .

SIGHTING #3:

Joe McMicheal had a sighting Oct.2nd near Huntsville, Oh. It appeared to be similar to thesighting by Mike Krick - oval and turned to reveal a cigar shaped craft.

NOTE: If you, or anyone you know, had a sighting, please report it to LAURA for publication inthe upcoming Newsletters. Our PO Box address is PO BOX # 5193, or e-mail our co-editors aslisted in the newsletter.

MUFON of Ohio (Columbus)Our next regular meeting is Saturday, Oct.23rd from 3:30pm - 6:30pm and youre invited!

We will have special guest Phyllis Budinger of Frontier Research (physical evidence analysis)Admission is free

Hilliard Branch of the Columbus Public Library4772 Cemetary Rd. Hilliard, Ohio 43026

(submitted by Bob Prater)

Leslie Kean's New Book "A Kean Eye for UFOs"

UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go On the Record

A UFO Digest Book Review

UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go On the RecordHarmony Books: NY. 2010. 335 pages.

The new book by Leslie Kean about UFOs is a problem. Its quite unlike most other booksabout UFOs that have been published in recent memory, and its very good. Its a problem

because either every contributor to her edited collection of official testimonies and UFO case


9/14

histories is a liar or completely misguided, or else shes on to something important. Something

about which scientists and the general public should pay attention.

UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go On the Recordis a collection of essays,some penned by Kean herself, about officially-documented and investigated UFO cases that

were considered unexplained by government and military investigators. And just as the longishtitle infers, testimony by well-placed individuals who are and were in positions to know the factsand details about significant UFO incidents show that there is something truly perplexing goingon in the skies overhead.

This isnt a book about UFO crashes or Roswell (although its mentioned in passing on a fewpages) nor is it about abductions by aliens and implants surgically removed from toes and noses.Nor is it about messages imparted by aliens to selected individuals or psychic vectoring of lightsby self-declared Terran emissaries.

Keans book is about facts. She details what really happened in specific and noteworthy UFO

cases that in some instances made worldwide headlines and others were never made public. Shecites official documents (not disputed documents) and interviews the military or governmentofficials involved.

Arizona - April 1997

Keans capability as an investigative journalist is clearly evident throughout the book, and she

has no interest in arm-waving exercises to dismiss witnesses observations simply on the basisthat flying saucers cannot be real. At the same time, she effectively and deliberately distancesherself from undiscriminating UFO groups and extremists who market themselves as

scholars or activists and who compound the public relations nightmare that UFOs already facewithin public discourse.

In short, Keans work is one of the most important works in ufology published in decades. Her

background in journalism and her passionate search for the truth has allowed her to seek outrespected and staid individuals to tell the story behind what seems to be a most remarkablesuppression of events and information.


10/14

The Belgian Triangle UFO

She starts by introducing Major General Wilfrid de Brouwer, who was in charge of the militaryinvestigation of the Belgian UFO wave of 1989 and 1990. He effectively shoots downdebunkers suggestions that the wave was caused by mass hysteria, helicopters or secret military

maneuvers. Then, Captain Julio Miguel Guerra of the Portuguese Air Force describes a UFOwhich flew circles around his plane in 1982. A team of scientists and military investigators couldnot explain his experience. Later, Captain Ray Bowyer gives testament to the cigar-shaped UFOspast which he flew his commercial aircraft over the English Channel in 2007, and the associatedpuzzling radar returns.

And so on. Retired military personnel and advisors come forward with statements and newtestimony that UFO reports have been filed and investigated by various world governments, long

after Project Blue Book declared UFO research as without any merit. Brazil, Britain, Chile,France and other countries have all been relatively transparent when it comes to release of UFOfiles, and yet, as Kean notes, the United States seems not to have any interest in the matter. Why?

Kean and her contributors all argue that the prevailing attitude of debunking UFO reports,accelerated during the Condon fiasco, should come to an end. They dare scientists who believethe party line that there are no credible and well-investigated unexplained UFO cases to wakeup and take a real look at the collection of factual reports described in detail in Keans book.


11/14

Flying Saucers - "Serious Business" in Washington

If UFOs have no bearing on national security, Kean reasons, then why are military jetsscrambled to chase seemingly solid radar returns? If there is no danger to aviation, why are pilotsconfounded by UFOs on routine flights across the country? Why does the FAA refer pilots toPeter Davenports UFO Center? Why wouldnt the FAA prefer to thoroughly investigate theirown pilots sightings? In one chapter, new evidence provided by the head ofaccidentinvestigation within the FAA even suggests that the oft-noted 1986 JAL incident over Alaskawas not as easily dismissed as some writers insist. And that punch-hole cloud formation overOHare? Kean wonders why the FAA didnt investigate the incident in the name of

transportation safety, and why wont a single witness go on record about it?

Beyond documentation of official military and government UFO case investigation, Kean seeks

the root cause of cynicism and debunking of UFOs among journalists and academia. Detailedstatements by the French COMETA investigators, for example, all scientists in their own right,are diametrically opposite to those made by debunkers. Official conclusions by military andgovernment investigators in several countries collectively call for more serious and objectivestudies of UFO reports, especially in the light of a lack of explanations for some peculiar cases.

The simple way to debunk Keans work is to challenge each and every contributors officialstatements, insisting they are all in error or liars. But this in itself raises an important problem,too. Why would so many well-placed and qualified individuals, most with outstanding servicerecords, make such statements? Not fame, surely. Not for monetary gain. Then why?

Kean carefully crafts her work in a logical and compelling manner, without wide-eyed believersfanaticism but with a rational approach that challenges the reader and leads toward her thesis thatits time for a paradigm shift: a new Kuhnian scientific revolution. She restates and improves

upon the skeptics rallying cry that extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence bymaking a sensible, subtle adjustment: An extraordinary phenomenon demands an extraordinaryinvestigation.


12/14

Kean argues that, like many other countries around the globe, the United States should create asmall official department to investigate UFO sightings in a timely manner and inform the publicof details regarding their actions. This would not be simply a public relations exercise as BlueBook and been, but a way to reassure a frustrated public that its elected officials and taxpayer-funded military are actually doing their job at protecting American interests.

Kean presents the facts of many remarkable UFO cases, summarized in most instances by thewitnesses themselves. Whereas some simply express their bewilderment at what they saw andthe way in which official investigation transpired, because they are in positions to know thecapabilities and limitations of terrestrial aircraft, they cannot contain themselves from concludingthat they could have encountered an alien craft. Its duly noted throughout the book that only a

small fraction of UFO reports are unexplained, and a smaller fraction are thoroughly investigatedand studied.

The fact that a real phenomenon is manifesting in terrestrial skies is the main premise of eachsection of the book. Based on Keans presentation, it is a logical and reasonable conclusion. And

thats a problem, because UFOs arent real, right?

Leslie Kean Log On to Leslie's website

http://www.UFOsOnTheRecord.Com

"UFOs: GENERALS and GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS GO ON THE RECORD"

http://www.amazon.com/UFOs-Generals-Pilots-Government-Officials/dp/0307716848/ctoc
http://www.amazon.com/UFOs-Generals-Pilots-Government-Officials/dp/0307716848/ctochttp://www.amazon.com/UFOs-Generals-Pilots-Government-Officials/dp/0307716848/ctochttp://www.amazon.com/UFOs-Generals-Pilots-Government-Officials/dp/0307716848/ctochttp://www.amazon.com/UFOs-Generals-Pilots-Government-Officials/dp/0307716848/ctochttp://www.amazon.com/UFOs-Generals-Pilots-Government-Officials/dp/0307716848/ctoc


13/14

Lt. Colonel (USAF Ret.) Wendelle C. Stevens

passes at 87

UFO research pioneer, Wendelle Stevens passed today at 4:44 pm in Tucson, Arizona ofrespiratory failure.

Lt. Colonel (USAF Ret.) Wendelle C. Stevens was one of the worlds best known UFO

researchers. Born in 1923 in Round Prairie, Minn., he enlisted in 1941 in the US Army and wastransferred to the Air Corps in1942. He served in the Pacific Theater during World War II andsubsequently in a classified project in Alaska to photograph and map the Arctic land and seaarea, where the data collecting equipment onboard B-29s detected UFOs. Stevens also served as

US Air Attach in South America. He retired from the USAF in 1963 and worked for HamiltonAircraft until 1972.

Wendelle Stevens was actively involved in ufology for 54 years, first as Director ofInvestigations for the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) in Tucson, Ariz., wherehe retired. He amassed one of the largest collections of UFO photos and investigated a number ofcontact cases, published in more than 22 books. His most famous one was the Billy Meier case inSwitzerland.

In Dec. 1997 he received an award for lifetime achievement at the First World UFO Forum inBrazilia, capital of Brazil. He was a founder and Director of the International UFO Congress and

recently transferred his extensive photo collection, library and archives to Open MindsProduction.
http://www.openminds.tv/wendelle-stevens-passes-214/http://www.openminds.tv/wendelle-stevens-passes-214/http://www.openminds.tv/wendelle-stevens-passes-214/http://www.openminds.tv/wendelle-stevens-passes-214/


14/14

Funtime: UFO and Govt Acronyms

E.T. ___________ _______________

M.I.B. ______ ___ __________

U.S.O. _____________ ______________ _______________

E.B.E. __________________ _________________ ______________

D.D. ______________ _________

C.E. 2 ___________ _______________ 2

E.T.H. ________ ______________ _______________

F.O.I.A. ______________ __ ______________ ___

C.I.A. _________ _______________ ___________

K.G.B. ____________ _______________ ______________

The LAURA Club News is a publication of the Lima Area UFO Research Associates, in Lima, Ohio. The studygroup meets on the 3rd Wednesday of the month at the Market Street Presbyterian Church in the fellowship hall

at 7pm-please join us!

Contacts: President Mike [email protected];Secretary: Tom [email protected];Co-editors: Robert and Marcia [email protected]
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]

laura newsletter number 3

Documents