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Lima Area UFO Research Associates
Jan/Feb 2011
Issue # 5
"MEETING LOCATION CHANGES FOR 2011"
Please be aware that the location of all meetings has been changed to the "New Creation LutheranChurch", 2701 Allentown Road, Lima, Ohio. Meetings will start promptly at 7:00 pm. This move wasmade so as to maintain our usual third Wednesday Meeting dates. We will now have monthly accessto the Office-Library also located at New Creation.
Meetings will be held in the upper level Fellowship Hall with Kit (handicap) access available. Thanksto New Creation for moving their Bible Study Classes to the lower Level Parlor.-submitted by Tom Bowman
LAURA MEETING REPORT
WEDNESDAY JAN 12, 2011 NEW CREATION LUTHERAN CHURCH
LIMA, OHIO - 1:00 PM
1. The following were present: Mike Krick, Peggy Krick, Mike Altenberger, George Stephenson, BobPrater, Marcia Prater, Tom Bowman , Don Boyd, Mike Altenberger, Joe McMicheal.
2. Elections were held for the 2011 and 2012 seasons with the following being elected.
President; Michael Krick
Vice Pres: Robert PraterSecretary: Thomas Bowman
Treasurer: Amber HornerMember at Large: Mike Altenberger
First Alternate: Helena Valenti Second Alternate: Dianna Baughman
A motion for approval was made by Peggy Krick and seconded by Mike Krick and all present votedyes.
It was determined that the Vice President would automatically move to the office of President aftertheir term of two years.
3. Mike Krick provided the program with two videos. Marcia Prater did the Power Point presentation.
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4. It was determined since the treasurer was not present at the club meeting that all due's collectionwould be withheld till the Feb meeting. Dues for the year remain at $25.00.
5. Tom announced that Anna Hall of the LAURA group had won the Civil War Club raffle for the C.W.Game Chest held in Nov 2010.
6. Tom passed around a "thank you" card purchased to send to Mkt. St. Pres Church for theirallowing us use of their Fellowship Hall for prior meetings. All present signed it and Tom said hewould hold the card till the Feb. Board Meeting so others not present could also sign.
7. Meeting adjourned at 8:50 pm. This was our first meeting of the year in our new Location at theNew Creation Lutheran Church, 2101 Allentown Rd. Lima, Ohio. Our next meeting is to be held Feb.16, 2011 at 7:00 pm.
LAURA BOARD MEETING
Monday, Feb. 7th, 2011RIGALI'S PIZZA VILLAGE
LIMA, OHIO - 1:00 PM
1. The following were present: Mike and Peggy Krick, Amber Horner, and Tom Bowman.
Absent were : Helena Valentine, Robert Prater, Mike Altenberger, Dianna Baughman
2. Tom passed around the "Thank You" card for Mkt. St. Pres. Church for anyone to sign who
had not already done so. Card was mailed after the meeting.
3. Mike Krick to provide the video program for the Wed, Feb 19 meeting. . It will be a Rod
Serling (Twilight Zone) presentation titled "Ancient Astronauts".
4. Refreshments for the meeting on the 19th are to be a bring your own.
5. Amber provided Tom with the January 2011, No. 101 edition of "Flying Saucer Digest" for the
office and library. It will be available in the office on Tue the 8th.
6. Treasurers report provided by Amber today is as follows:
Checking Acct. Balance....................$443.74
Savings Acct. Balance.......................$929.06
Dues received this date.................... 25.00
7. Amber stated she will be at the meeting on the 19th to collect due's payments.
8. The club stationary is in need of updating.
9. Tom said he email address for both Mike Altenberger and Helena is not current and would like
anyone to send him a update. Following the meeting Tom found Helena's update email address to
10. It was noted during the meeting that Amber's husband will go in for Open Heart Surgery on the
9th and Peggy Krick will be having surgery soon also. Wish both well if and when you see them.
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Tom Bowman, SecretaryPh.: 419-999-4785Lima Area UFO Research AssociatesP.O Box 5193 - Lima, Oh [email protected]
NOTE: The library at the church is open most every Tuesday from 11:00 to 1:00 or by appointment.
Call Tom at 419-999-4785
HALL WINS RAFFLE
Anna Hall a Shawnee Township resident , avid Chess Player, and member of the Lima Area UFOResearch Associates [LAURA], wins the Lima Area Civil War Study Club 2010 Raffle of a Civil WarGame Chest donated by Dick Esmonde of the CW Club, and member of New Creation Lutheran
Church.
The winner of the game Chest Anna Hall is a young 84 yearold who is active, still drives , and purchased her winningticket in October 2010 at the UFO Club Meeting and tells methis is the first thing she can remember she has ever won.
Anna said she intends to attend the Civil War Club meetings inthe future and missed the Jan meeting due to drivingconditions.
The Club raised $228 and the money was split between theC.W. Club and New Creation Lutheran Church
Congratulations to Anna and Dick for making this a fun event during 2010.
-Tom Bowman
George A. Filer MUFON Eastern Region Director January 19, 2011
Vietnam Veteran: UFO threat to pilots must be dealt with now
Bob Shmidt writes, "I flew A-I Skyraiders in Vietnam for three years and my love of flying followed me into civilian life and for that I have no regrets. Obviously I have clocked up a fair fewhours in the cockpit, since honorable discharge from the Air Force I have owned and flown Cessna's,Pipers and ultra-lights.
Throughout the years I have been in situations where I found myself praying: ice, storms, and zerovisibility. None of these were as frightening as a UFO encounter I experienced a decade ago, while
high above San Diego. One clear June morning as I looked ahead of me I noticed movement out ofthe side of eye. To my shock a huge UFO, twice the size of my Cessna 172 was traveling alongside
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me. I stared at the UFO for less than a minute and it just sped off and vanished in a second. As it didmy plane lunged to the side violently and started to dip. I managed to stabilize things and spent thenext two hours wondering what the heck I had just seen.
Here's a dose of reality which might be hard to swallow for those wishing to stay in the cozy bubbleour governments and media have created for us: Alien and UFO visits to earth are fact: totallyirrefutable certainty. UFOs from other worlds are entering our air space all the time everyone that
'needs' to know it does. UFOs do present a serious risk to pilots, military, commercial and private. Itis essential that the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) and the ICAO (International Civil AviationOrganization) make study of UFOs and the dangers they present as well as advised procedures inthe event of a UFO encounter a non negotiable part of training to earn a Pilot's License.
It is also essential that the FAA generally comes clean to pilots about UFOs in the skies. The FAAshould also train tower personnel on UFOs and admit that those odd things that are observed formtime to time, both on radar and visually are alien craft - so that all pilots can be informed of anynearby UFOs they need to take into account. http://www.allnewsweb.com/page1199999466.php
Proposed McDonnell Douglas (UFO)
Vehicle Research and Development Program
A McDonnell Douglas 25 June 1968 Document states, "The vast majority of the (UFO) vehicle sighting reports indicates strong magnetic fields are generated by the vehicles. These fields are presumed to be connected with the propulsion system.
The background indicates that some UFOsmay be extraterrestrial vehicles; theycertainly have not been proven otherwise.
The existence of extraterrestrial vehicles indicates that vehicles can be built which would havecapabilities quite useful to McDonnell Douglas Corporation. In addition, if the UFOs are vehicles thenthe UFO observations give clues for guiding a research and development program for evolving thevehicles.
In summary, the results of an analysis of the UFO observations provide the basis for MDCmanagement to allocate a small expenditure for high risk-high payoff vehicle R&D. At the same time,the observations provide guidelines for conducting a vehicle R&D.
Analysis of UFO OBSERVATIONS
Three avenues appear worthwhile for obtaining useful data from the UFOs.
1. Compilation of data in the literature.
2. Interviews with contactees.
3. ESP
It is know that Donald Wills Douglas the founder of Douglas Aircraft Corporation was quite interestedin UFOs when he merged with McDonnell Corporation in 1967. Twenty years later in 1997,
McDonnell Douglas merged with Boeing in a $13 billion stock-swap to create The Boeing Company .Thanks to History Channel's Ancient Aliens
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UFO under the USS Eisenhower
Indian Ocean -- Andrew Griffin writes, "Agood friend of mine told me a colleague he worked with shared a strange UFO/USO sighting in 1985.
He was a sailor was on night duty on theaircraft carrier in the Indian Ocean, west ofDiego Garcia. That's when a largesubmersible craft began to rise from theseabed and as it did caused the USSEisenhower to list 10 degrees. It thenhovered near the aircraft carrier and thentook off. The entire ship was told not to tellanything about this. Thanks to AndrewGriffin
Item 1: 20 ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL UFO CONFERENCE INTERNATIONAL UFO CONGRESS2011 IUFOC IN THE DESERTFeb 23 - 27thFt. McDowell Casino/Resort, Fountain Hills Ariz.
Item 2: SOUTHWEST UFO DISCOVERY TOUR Los Alamos - Trinity SiteRoswell UFO Tour - RAFF BaseWhite Sands - Socorro - Sedona
see details on : "http://www.alpventures.com/topsecret/TS_tours.html”
For these and more click on "UFO Conferences 2011" on Google
Top UFO books from 2010
1.) Kean, Leslie UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go On the Record . Harmony
Books: NY.
This one is the best of the year. Well-written, informative, and it infuriated debunkers as well.Couldn't ask for much more.
http://www.amazon.com/UFOs-Generals-Pilots-Government-Officials/dp/0307716848/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1292516300&sr=1-1
2.) Vallee, Jacques and Aubeck, Chris Wonders in the Sky. Penguin: NY.
A sequel of sorts to Passport to Magonia, Vallee teamed up with Aubeck to produce a highly
detailed cross between The Book of the Damned and the Fortean Times' Classical Corner.http://www.amazon.com/Wonders-Sky-Unexplained-Objects-
Antiquity/dp/1585428205/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1292516355&sr=1-1
3.) Feindt, Carl UFOs and Water Xlibris Corporation: http://www.xlibris.com A paper version of his wonderful website, Feindt has produced a self-published work similar in
nature to that of Vallee, listing hundreds of cases where UFOs and aliens seem to have an attractionto water.
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http://www.amazon.com/UFOs-Water-Physical-Accounts-Eyewitnesses/dp/145009533X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1292516384&sr=1-1
4.) Friedman, Stanton and Marden, Kathleen Science Was Wrong. New Page Books: Pompton
Plains, NJ.Technically not a UFO book, as such, it's even found in "Science" sections of bookstores. Friedman
and Marden authored alternating chapters on a variety of science's shortsightedness, including one
on UFOs.http://www.amazon.com/Science-Was-Wrong-Inventions-
Impossible/dp/1601631022/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1292516412&sr=1-1
5.) Randle, Kevin Crash: When UFOs Fall From the Sky. New Page Books: Franklin Lakes, NJ.
Another chronology (do you see the trend here?), this time regarding stories and references to
alleged UFO crashes. It's remarkably comprehensive, including many previously unknown sources.
http://www.amazon.com/Crash-History-Incidents-Conspiracies-Cover-Ups/dp/1601631006/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1292516457&sr=1-1
6.) Birnes, William Aliens in America. Adams Media: Avon, Massachusetts.Focusing on about 20 major cases in the USA during the past 60 years, Birnes gives a short
overview plus some speculation, and adds travel and tourism tips for those wanting to visit, say,
New Hampshire.
http://www.amazon.com/Aliens-America-Hunters-Extraterrestrial-Hotpspots/dp/1440506280/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1292516482&sr=1-1
7.) Goyette, Danielle OVNIs. Editions Michel Quintin: Waterloo, Quebec.The only foreign language book included in the list, this is part of a series on paranormal
phenomena, looking at cases in Quebec. It is part biography of ufologiste Francois Bourbeau, and
part sighting chronology.
http://www.amazon.com/OVNIS-Danielle-Goyette/dp/2894354673/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1292516514&sr=1-1
8.) Bullard, Thomas The Myth and Mystery of UFOs. University Press of Kansas: Lawrence, KS.Anything by Bullard is a welcome addition to lists like this, especially for his writing, which is
literary and more erudite than most. The book is less nuts-and-bolts and more introspective than
most other UFO works.http://www.amazon.com/Myth-Mystery-UFOs-Thomas-
Bullard/dp/0700617299/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1292516552&sr=1-1
9.) Pilkington, Mark Mirage Men. Skyhorse Publishing: NYIncluded for its slant on the popular interest in conspiracies, Pilkington has produced a work which
asks the question, "What?" Is it possible that ufologists are the sane ones?http://www.amazon.com/Mirage-Men-Adventure-Espionage-
Psychological/dp/1602398003/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1292516589&sr=1-1
10.) Imbrogno, Philip Ultraterrestrial Contact: A Paranormal Investigator's Explorations into the
Hidden Abduction Epidemic. Llewellyn: Woodbury, MN.Not quite as good as Files From the Edge, this book is a kind of autobiography of a ufologist as
Imbrogno describes his personal investigations into UFO reports and other paranormal experiences,
some very weird indeed.http://www.amazon.com/Ultraterrestrial-Contact-Paranormal-Investigators-
Explorations/dp/0738719595/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1292516619&sr=1-1
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The LAURA Club News is a publication of the Lima Area UFO Research Associates, in Lima, Ohio. The study group meets on the3rd Wednesday of the month at the New Creation Lutheran Church (just west of Tom Ahl auto) in the upstairs church fellowship
hall at 7pm-please join us!
Contacts: President Mike Krick [email protected];
Secretary: Tom Bowman [email protected]; Co-editors: Robert and Marcia Prater [email protected]