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“Of course, people on the ship, seeing this craft, reacted. And as they were military, they started firing at the craft. The pilots panicked so, via remote control, the W56 remedied the situation, pressing the ‘fly away' option, in which the computer has control. So, when taking off from the ship, the craft destroyed part of the gun that was firing at them. Of course, the W56s—overviewing the situation—reprimanded the pilots, as they had not been in any danger at all.”

The reason given by the Amicizia for the transfer of their technology, Stefano revealed to me, was to have humans performing as well as they did, for example with regard to the “CTR”—the
contrari
—and other groups who opposed them. Furthermore, the W56 group fully expected our pilots to defend themselves against the CTRs. “
These
types of craft,” Stefano emphasized, “could not be captured or damaged by our weapons.”

“How many of your country's pilots have flown these craft?” I inquired. “My guess,” he responded, “is that, among the Amicizia group, ten to fifteen Italian pilots have been trained to fly them.”
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How many other countries have acquired alien technology? I do not know.
But Paul LaViolette confirms that Canada and a number of European countries have been involved in top-secret research programs since the 1950s, and Fred Steckling cited American–Soviet collaboration. Germany, I assume, would be high on the list, based on Hermann Oberth's testimony and that of others. There is also hearsay evidence, cited later, that the United States has shared much information with the United Kingdom.

In any event, as time passes, it will become increasingly difficult to differentiate between “theirs and ours” and—perhaps more pertinently—between “friend or foe”….

Leviathans of the Skies

I
t was the late spring or early summer of 1956—probably May—when
a huge disc-like object was seen by thousands off the northeast coast of Aberdeen, Scotland. One witness is my friend Ian Taylor, who gave me an extremely detailed account of this remarkable, yet now little-known, event.

At around 08:30 Ian was on his way to catch the bus to school, not that far from Aberdeen Airport. A keen plane spotter, as he scanned the mostly clear skies for contrails he noticed what first appeared to be a balloon hovering in the direction of the city. “The object seemed to be stationary, around the one o'clock position to the vertical, but I remember being aware of some gentle sideways movement coupled with similar vertical transitions too,” he told me. By 10:30, at which point Ian was enjoying a break in the playground, the object still remained in the sky, causing him to wonder why, if it was a balloon, it hadn't drifted. It was still there at lunchtime.

“I noted it maintained a different elevation, and immediately became aware of two sets of contrails in the sky, heading up from the south in a northerly direction, toward the city. I noted they had a twin exhaust exit, and that immediately suggested Meteor jets. I knew this type of aircraft had an operational ceiling of around 42,000 feet and that they would probably have come from RAF Leuchars in Fife, near St. Andrew's. It soon became
obvious they were heading toward this object's position.

“Both aircraft then began to separate from their close formation to form a huge circle in the sky, which on reflection I would have estimated to be in the order of two miles in diameter. Both aircraft performed this maneuver for about two to three minutes at least, leaving this incredible graphic imprint in the sky which would have attracted considerable attention for miles around. The aircraft eventually broke away and headed south.

“Sitting at the core of the contrail pattern was this object, and I immediately began to suspect something wasn't quite what it appeared to be. Firstly, the object looked considerably smaller than before. Then, within a short space of time, it seemed to increase in size to return to what was first observed, but perhaps not quite as large. As the contrails began to spread out as they tend to do with upper windshear effects, I noted a barely perceptible drift westward of the contrail ring. As the contrail ring began to drift further westward, this object still maintained its position. I still observed this unusual, slow bobbing and oscillating motion associated with it. And then, when the ring continued moving in a westerly direction it began to obliterate this object and within a few minutes the object was lost to sight, soon to re-emerge as the contrail disc continued moving with the upper air stream.

“I instinctively knew this object was much higher than the contrails by quite a considerable margin and therefore much, much larger than originally considered and it began to become clear that the circling jets were well below this object and that it had in fact ascended to what might be regarded as a safe altitude above the jets. It must have seen them coming.”

On returning to his school, Ian noted that the mystery object remained in the sky, maintaining its position and altitude. By around 14:30 it had disappeared. According to the front-page story in the
Aberdeen Evening Express
(date not known), thousands of people had witnessed the object. Furthermore, its first sighting had been reported north of the city at about 07:00. Photographers from the
Express
had attempted to capture the object with their large plate cameras fitted with standard wide-angle lenses, Ian reports, but “failed to get any image worthy of publication.”

Two years later, Ian befriended James Stewart (long since deceased), a
research scientist with the MacCaulay Soil Research Institute in Aberdeen, who also had observed the strange craft. He had driven home from the Institute to fetch his theodolite (a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles with a rotating telescope). “What he told me was fascinating,” said Ian:

“He drew what he had observed through the device, describing the object as being rounded underneath, and the top—at least what could be seen relative to the observable angle from terra firma—came to a rounded point from what appeared to be a gentle upward sweeping transition from the outer rim. He went on to say it had a beautiful golden metallic luster with high reflectivity values and totally absent of appendages, graphic markings, or symbols. Like me, he was quick to detect its motion characteristics describing, as I had observed, this swaying motion coupled with a slow and gentle vertical bob.

“What he then went on to say threw me completely. He had calculated its overall diameter as being in the order of anywhere between 780 and 800 feet. And like myself, James was convinced enough to reach the conclusion that the arrival of the jets was no mean coincidence; and, as we both recognized the aircraft type, he was quick to assume they would have been taking footage with their nose-mounted gun-cameras, whose field of capture was a five-position lens system, as I recall from
Jane's All the World's Aircraft
, each lens position allowing a level of overlap to create a near panoramic template.”

Years later, Ian joined the Royal Air Force for a period of three years, specialising in air defence work. After training at Compton Bassett in Wiltshire, he was posted to RAF Buchan radar installation, some thirty miles north of Aberdeen. “A few weeks after I settled in my new role,” he recounted, “all the new conscripts were dispatched to RAF Leuchars in Fife. It was on that visit I took the opportunity to step out of the crowd and discuss with one of the host Hunter jet pilots the 1956 sighting, even though I knew he would not have been there at the time. I remember vividly his expression of bewilderment at my question, clearly struggling to offer a response in a manner appropriate to the occasion, especially so from a lowly SAC [Senior Aircraftman] radar operator.

“He eventually responded by saying he knew nothing about such
an incident, smiled slightly, and then moved away to attend to the rest of the party. Naturally I didn't pursue the matter, as it was clear he intended the conversation to end there. Two days following the trip to Leuchars, during what I recall was a day watch for the crew I was attached to, the NCO [Non-commissioned Officer] of the watch came up to me when I was on the radarscope to say I had to report to the Squadron Leader of the watch once my break time came along. Somewhat mystified, no reason having been given, I went to his office as requested. As it happened, this officer was ex-aircrew and a fellow Scot, very well liked among the ranks as well as by lesser mortals like myself. I knocked and entered, stood to attention and all of that and then awaited his address.

“What happened next completely floored me, and it was clear I was in some sort of trouble. Obviously, the officer I had addressed at Leuchars had reported to the base commander about my questioning over the 1956 UFO incident in relation to Leuchars. That inquiry quickly got back to Buchan, probably long before we left Leuchars to return to Buchan, and most likely reached the ears of a senior controller, which then had been passed down the chain of command to this officer. As the officer at Leuchars had access to all the names of the team visiting that day, my name came out of the hat as being the defaulter. The following is more or less what was said to me and, I might add, in no uncertain terms …

“‘It has been brought to my attention that you have been asking questions during your recent visit to Leuchars in regard to UFOs, in particular an incident that took place in the past that you claim had involved the Royal Air Force. As a member of the Royal Air Force, and subject to your position at this base as a radar observer, bearing in mind you have signed the Official Secrets Act to which you must adhere under all circumstances, you must never at any time, on or off the base, discuss the topic of UFOs. This is a subject of the highest sensitivity and you have no authority to discuss any issue relating to it whilst in this service.

“‘If you at any time see fit to pursue the matter, make no mistake you will face a charge of the highest magnitude. The business of UFOs may be of casual interest to you, but whatever you see, hear, or learn of the subject during your time at this base is never to be discussed with other air force personnel, and certainly not with any civilian agencies beyond the
perimeters of this establishment.

“‘It is my understanding that you are a competent, extremely pleasant and reliable individual with an interest in music,' conceded the squadron leader. ‘Don't let that standing be compromised by neglect of duty and of the things you may learn in your role in the air defence system.'

“It was a serious ‘hands-off' call, and it left me somewhat shaken but not entirely stirred,” Ian reflected. “I had no option whatsoever other than to comply with what was in effect an official order. That they reacted in the manner they did sent clear messages that the military did indeed take the UFO status quo very seriously…. It has long been my belief that this particular sighting represents what I would consider the most significant daytime happening to have taken place in U.K. airspace following the end of WWII, in terms of the actual size and shape of the aeroform, the sheer duration of the event, and how it behaved during the timeframe, its altitude and, more importantly, the intervention of the military, who of course denied any involvement whatsoever….”

Mother Ships

With regard to the enormity of alien craft, in 1963, during a private meeting in London, which included two high-ranking British officials (Chapter 19), George Adamski described the “mother ships” in considerable detail, which he said served all the needs of space travelers for long journeys through space. “These gargantuan vessels varied in size,” reported my friend Emily Crewe, who was present at the meeting, “but none ever landed on terrestrial ground. They were approximately one to three thousand feet long and hundreds of feet in width. They had many decks, and vast spaces to section off the life support systems, for the growing of foods and the freeze-storage of these supplies. They contained water purified in tanks so big, large sea creatures could swim in them, but this water was fresh and taken from terrestrial waterways such as ours here on Earth.” The water could also be recycled; for example, in our skies.
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In 1965, not long before he died, Adamski revealed additional details to Fred Steckling, some at variance with what he had stated two years earlier. A main base for these giant craft on Earth, he claimed, was alleged to be in a deep ravine some two hundred kilometers west of Mexico City, in v
ery rugged terrain virtually inaccessible except by helicopter. Some of the craft were claimed to be several miles in length and “stacked side by side with their noses pointing to the ground, not actually touching the ground but about three feet above the ground, pointing downward, while the rest of the craft pointed at a slight angle straight up into the air, as if held by some magnetic beam,” Henry Dohan reports. “Near each nose was a hatch and steps of a sort for descending out of the cigar-shaped craft.” Top-level meetings with several of the world's leaders were said to have been held in this remote location.
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Police Patrol

In the small hours of one night in the early 1980s, two Metropolitan Police officers were on patrol in Middlesex, Greater London. “I was a young Police Officer on night duty in a marked vehicle,” Robin Perry wrote to me. “It was the Area Car—an old SD1 Rover—and I was the R/T [radio-telephone] operator, being driven by my colleague. We were traveling very slowly at about 3
a.m.
from the White Hart roundabout along the Ruislip Road, Northolt, toward Greenford. Someone had been setting fire to parked cars at this location in recent days, so we were skulking along the road keeping a watch for any dodgy-looking characters. I have to point out that, back then, the road and pedestrian traffic at this time of the morning was almost non-existent—not as it is today.

“As we were driving along I noticed a large orange light in the sky over to our left—toward RAF Northolt
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—and brought it to my driver's attention. The strange thing is that when we started to talk about it, the object flew directly toward us. As it did so, it flew over a large open park area which was on our left side, leading directly onto the Ruislip Road (Rectory Park).

“As it got closer, I could see that it was a huge black triangle with a light on each point and an orange ball on the middle underside. It was very large, and I estimated it to be at least the size of two football pitches (there were a number of pitches that it flew over toward us). It was very low and made absolutely no noise. It was so low, I couldn't see any of the sky around it.

“The object flew alongside our vehicle on the near side, matching our speed. I was leaning out of the car window and waving at it. We carried along the Ruislip Road for about three quarters of a mile with this thing still
flying alongside and matching our speed, which was still slow. It was barely skimming the rooftops of the houses as it did so. My driver then stopped the car in the middle of the road opposite Greenford [Assembly] Hall and we both got out. The triangle then hovered directly over us at no more than thirty feet, or the height of the Hall to our left. It was huge, dead still, and silent. The driver even turned off the car engine, and we could still hear nothing.

“I then turned on the blue light on the roof and was waving up at the craft, but got no response. After a few minutes (yes, minutes), it turned around and then slowly glided away back along the Ruislip Road. After a couple of hundred yards, it suddenly shot up into the sky at an unbelievable speed and disappeared from view. We sort of ‘came to our senses' and jumped into the car and drove around the corner to Greenford Police Station. We told the Station Officer—an old ‘sweat'—who advised us to keep quiet, otherwise face ridicule from our colleagues. However, I called RAF Northolt straight away and had an interesting conversation with someone who claimed to be in their flight [control] tower. He basically stated that they too had seen it, had no idea what it was, and it was not worth filing an official report. So I never did.