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Apart from the lack of double ‘s’ in my notepad version, there was no mistaking that this was the kind of feature of those UFOs being described in that list (Item 4). But why had such an obscure piece of 19th century scientific equipment been listed? As will be more than amply demonstrated in Chapter 22, it seems that the ETs are playing games with us – perhaps testing our knowledge and powers of deduction?

Another controversial item in that list is No. 8, which gives the maximum speed of the UFOs as 200,000 miles per second. The measured speed of light, 186,000 miles per second, is generally accepted as being the maximum speed attainable in the universe. This is the basic tenet on which the Special Theory of Relativity stands and most physicists would be quick to pounce on that No.8 item and to denounce it as nonsense. However it seems that most physicists are unaware that, when discussing his General Theory of Relativity, Einstein postulated that the speed of light would vary with the strength of the gravitational field the light happened to be travelling through – and that the generally accepted light speed was a localised one, applying only to the Earth’s environment. So, who knows what the speed of light is in interstellar and intergalactic space?

By telephone, I informed the lady in Wilmslow of my findings and thanked her again for all she had shared with me. But, then, she went on to tell me more. On a Tuesday or Wednesday during mid-September 1973, at 4:45 am., she had been instructed to go outside. There had been a clacking sound followed by a swishing sound. The sky was cloudy and it had been raining. The clouds above her had started rotating rapidly in a circular motion. The clacking sound had returned as she retreated indoors and she’d got the thought, “tomorrow”. At the same time on the following day, the clouds above had rotated again and it had then begun to rain. But she’d received two messages (telepathically?). They were:

“To the apples we salt we return”
– and – “Will not be coming back for a while”.

The first of these seemed to explain why some individuals have several significant UFO encounters during their lifetimes, whilst others (like me) see only occasional unexplained lights in the sky. It seems I am not one of those salted apples!

CHAPTER 18
T
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UNGUSKA
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XPLOSION – 1908
 

During November, 2006, I received authoritative information (from Edward Ashpole) giving me the actual location of the Tunguska event and that it had occurred at 7: 14 a.m. local time. That vital new development presented the opportunity to run my AT programs. The resulting Timings graph is shown below as Fig. 44.

Fig. 44

The graph shows that the timing of the explosion closely coincided with the AT’s prediction of 7:24 a.m. (numerically derived) associated with the No.2, 2130h RA (star related) track over that area. It must also be significant that the SE-NW orientation of that track conforms well with eyewitness accounts of the path of the brilliant object, prior to the explosion. Here is an extract from page 235 of Arthur C. Clarke’s book,
‘Mysterious World’ [17].

“it seemed that the flying object had entered the earth’s atmosphere and become visible somewhere over Lake Baykal and then travelled from southeast to northwest as it plunged downwards, though there was some suggestion that it might have changed direction. Indeed, this thought, based on eyewitness accounts, which now number more than 700, is one of the main planks of those who believe the object was a spaceship. Certainly only a controlled vehicle could have changed direction. No single witness claims to have seen the object actually manoeuvre. But there are sharp contradictions in reports of the flight path as the great ‘pillar’ careered across Siberia. Testimony in the more western area consistently gives a different angle of approach to that from the Baycal area.”

All that is perfectly consistent with Fig.44. From the latitude/longitude map, the qualifying track No. 2 would have passed over Lake Baykal, travelling southeast to northwest, and it is implied that the object would have veered northwards from that path prior to the explosion. This would account for a change of direction during the final approach stage.

Figs. 45 and 46 are global presentations of the situation given by the Fig.44 computations.

The three AT paths passing closest to the Tunguska site are shown extended round the globe. They are seen to pass south of the explosion. Tracks 1 and 3 were shown in green (on the original). The explosion site and qualifying track No.2 were shown red. The approach over the large Lake Baykal is clearly indicated. The Tunguska site is shown in its correct position, at 7:14 a.m., relative to the Earth’s terminator on that day, nine days after the Summer Solstice.

Fig. 45

Travelling on the computed No.2 track, the object would have probably engaged that predetermined track somewhere in the southern hemisphere and then proceeded, in a controlled manner, north-westwards.

In terms of the Theory the evidence suggests that it was almost certainly a large delivery/retrieval spacecraft, which was not intended to enter the atmosphere. It seems that pre-programmed and automated control of its progress in ‘super-orbit’ was lost as it passed over China and it began to descend into the atmosphere over Russia. As it’s speed just before the explosion was estimated to be only about 1km./second, it would seem probable that attempts had been made to achieve a crash-landing. When this had seemed to be failing, the craft could have been deliberately destroyed.

Fig. 46

All this can be regarded as a clear indication that the Tunguska object was almost certainly involved in the ETs’ still-ongoing exploration programme.

As this book neared completion, a very informative book about this 1908 event was produced by a leading Ukrainian scientist, Dr.Vladimir Rubtsov. His book,
‘The Tunguska Mystery’,
published by Springer in the U.S.A., gives details of all the scientific investigations carried out in Russia since 1927. Much more is now revealed of what is known about the nature of the object and the final explosion. The AT-based analysis described in this chapter is in no way invalidated by the new evidence presented by the Rubtsov book.

References

(17) Clarke, Arthur C. (book) “Mysterious World” Book Club Associates, © 1980 Trident International TV Enterprises, Ltd., © 1980 Arthur C. Clarke

PHASE 7:
Signs of growing interest
 

During the forty years of this study I met with many people, some of whom have made significant contributions to its development and promotion. The chapters of Phase 7 identify most of those people and acknowledge the help they provided.

CHAPTER 19
P
ROMOTERS AND LINK-UPS
 

The London Link-ups

In Phase 5, I told of the key contribution made to my knowledge of CE4s by the late Ken Phillips of BUFORA. Ken had chaired my 1987 evening lecture in May of that year and he and his wife, Anne, had kindly provided me with overnight accommodation. He had brought me into contact with Mrs. Linda Jones and, thereafter, we became friends-at-a-distance. Ken was the BUFORA investigator for Greater London and thus received UFO reports from witnesses in that area for examination. He had established a good relationship with the Ministry of Defence through their then-collector of reports, Mr. Nick Pope. Ken had promised to send copies of the UFO reports to me for analysis, which he then proceeded to do. He also sent the same reports to Nick Pope for comment. Then I discovered he was sending my analysis reports to Nick Pope and I was receiving Pope’s comments on the same UFO events. Eventually, an opportunity to contact Nick Pope, directly, opened up for me. I sent one of my published short articles to him for consideration. This had explained the nature of the AT and how it had been derived. Nick Pope acknowledged receipt of this but added he could not understand it. My (typically) direct response to this was to ask whether this meant he had ‘binned’ it or had passed it on to someone who might be able to understand it. He responded very politely and said he was obliged to pass on all information he received to the appropriate departments, but was unable to divulge which departments.

Communications continued via Ken Phillips for some months afterwards. Then came the announcement that a book by Nick Pope had just been published, with the title
‘Open Skies, Closed Minds’
, in which he had openly declared his belief that some UFO reports were inexplicable. This conclusion had been drawn after only three years as the MoD’s ‘expert on UFOs’. Since then, Nick Pope has become a household name in Britain and has been, for some years, a favourite speaker at UFO conferences. ( I had the pleasure of sharing a platform with him at Kidlington, Oxfordshire, in 1996 and had long conversations with him more recently at an event to commemorate the life of the late Capt. Graham Sheppard, a well-known participant in two air-to-air UFO encounters during 1967.)

My link-up with Ken Phillips continued until his untimely death on July 18th, 1996, the eve of the 1996 BUFORA conference in Cardiff. He was sadly missed by all who knew him and for me it was great personal loss. In friendly co-operation we had processed innumerable reports over the years until his death.

Another link with BUFORA was through its President and co-founder, Lionel Beer, who, some years ago, kindly provided me with overnight accommodation after a BUFORA meeting in Kensington Library, at which I was the invited speaker. He also drove me round the sights of London on the following (Sunday) morning, before I returned home by train. After Marion and I moved to Torquay, Lionel contacted me again and it was then I discovered that he had been raised at the family home in Paignton, where his mother (now deceased) still lived. We are still in contact and visits are exchanged quite frequently.