UFOs in Reality (32 page)

A loose-leaf presentation pack of diagrams was prepared for the interview and Marion and I travelled to the university during the morning. We were met at the door of the planetarium by a welcoming Professor and asked to sit down on one of the curved benches in the fully-lit display room. As I began the on-the-knee presentation, we were joined by Arthur Blood, who then listened intently throughout. Dr. Seymour seemed to nod assent as I presented each astronomical step taken towards the final outcome. I can’t remember any interruptions. We had some discussion at the end and then I asked if he could help me to arrange for this material to be presented to a scientific forum. The response was that he was sorry he would not be able to do that, because he had been unable to arrange one for his own work on interplanetary magnetic fields. By then, the allocated hour had flown by and we had to leave. I expressed my thanks to Professor Seymour for sacrificing his lunchtime break. As we left the planetarium, Arthur Blood wanted to find somewhere to talk immediately. The refectory seemed to suggest itself to me as being an appropriate place, so all three of us went there.

Once seated in the refectory, with Marion and I stuffing our faces with much-needed food, which Arthur apparently had no interest in, he proceeded to ask further questions, scribbling my answers into his notebook. He had been clearly impressed by all he’d heard and seen. He thought the Professor had been, as well. He believed he had heard of a discovery that was even bigger than Galileo’s, if it could be confirmed. Retiring soon, from a lifetime of journalism, he thought this story would bring his career to a satisfying conclusion. I hoped so, sincerely. Arthur intended his story to go directly to the national press. He’d had long-standing links with members of it and felt certain they’d share his enthusiasm. Following onto this, Arthur paid us a visit in Torquay and viewed the rest of my material. He left us even more enthused than before.

Sometime later I received his first draft for my approval. He had written a very readable and interesting article and few changes were necessary to the technical details. The article was then sent off to his favoured newspapers in London. In view of his past successes, he was surprised by the lack of response he received. He resorted eventually to telephoning one of his contacts with The Daily Telegraph and asking why he hadn’t had any interest shown in the article. The answer he’d received was, “It’s just too incredible!” Arthur hadn’t been able to believe his ears! He believed the article to be one of the best he had ever written. What a disappointing way to end a career. But he did not give up entirely. He wrote a version of the article and sent it to another old acquaintance, the editor of The Western Morning News. One day soon afterwards, I received a ‘phone call from someone at the ‘News’ office telling me that they had received an article from Arthur Blood about my UFO studies and needed to just check up on a few details. Within days, an article was published with someone else’s name under it. Understandably, Arthur was incensed by what seemed to be blatant plagiarism! Thereafter, his efforts to communicate my work ceased and he took up his life-long hobby of fine art painting, in retirement. We still keep in touch occasionally and exchange Christmas cards. Arthur Blood still has hopes of a UFO breakthrough in his lifetime. Fairly recently he and his wife witnessed an unidentifiable object moving slowly over the River Tamar. Arthur was even more enthused when I told him the timing of this sighting concurred with the nearest prediction on the Plymouth timings graph.

There have been many other, more casual, supporters over the years. It would be impossible to list them all, but I’m extremely grateful for all they have done. Notable among them has been Mr. Brian James, who was once Chairman of Contact International, an Oxfordshire-based research group until it was disbanded a few years ago. I supplied Brian with graphs for his area and he used to send me copies of the group’s magazine. He also kept me informed of any happenings reported to him. My presentation at
the Kidlington UFO Conference in 1996
, where I shared a platform with Nick Pope
and others, was on the invitation of Brian James. We were also allowed to sell a few of our videos at that conference. In addition, I met two people from Reading there and so began an amazing association that continues to this day. Their name is
Glanville
and you will be reading more about our momentous link-up, later, in PHASE 7.

My membership of the
Centre for Crop Circles Studies (CCCS)
and the magazine
‘The Circular’
provided an outlet for some of my material, and CCCS conferences sometimes provided another. For several years I participated in the local branch, down here in Devon, and was involved with investigations of a few local crop-circle events. Local man, Mr. George Bishop, headed the group and, for a while, became Chairman of the CCCS nationally. He was also, for several years, the editor of the magazine and provided information about national and international developments. It was a useful association but I grew tired of the growth of hoaxing, which was throwing a big smokescreen over the scene, and decided to resign my membership.

People we met in the crop fields of Southern England also figured in our lives.

Americans David and Shana Roulison we met early in the 1990s in the company of Colin Andrews in the Winchester area fields. We then discovered we were booked in at the same B&B in Middle Wallop and so had further time to become acquainted. The last time they were in touch was in 1996, when they generously mailed me a copy of the late Paul Hill’s book,
‘Unconventional Flying Objects’
. Two other American friends, Mrs. Terry Schaefer and
Ms.
Thera Querner, who were members of Joyce Murphy’s original party we guided around the Avebury area, are still keeping in touch, mainly at Christmas, but occasionally they send me items of interest.

On a later visit, Joyce Murphy brought her party to Torquay, to meet with me and to visit ancient sites in the area. One of the visitors simply called herself Valenya and, during an excursion to an ornamental glass factory after a presentation given by me on the previous evening, she drew me to one side and told me of her deep interest in my claimed discoveries. She wanted to do all she could to propagate them and to participate in testing the time predictions in her own home area, which turned out to be deep within the thickly forested slopes of Northern California. We corresponded for some years after that and I supplied her with a timings graph for that area, which was near a small town called Hoopa. I received a pleasing letter from Valenya some time later. Something creating a very strange noise had overflown her home during the night and the timing of that event had been as predicted by my graph. From then onwards, for some weeks/months, she’d frequently sat on the roof of her home to carry out night-time skywatches, but when nothing unusual had been seen or heard, this practice was discontinued.

After a gap in communications of some years, Valenya again got in touch with me as this book neared completion. She had been writing articles on various topics for a magazine called
‘FATE’
and these had been published. The three magazines were posted to me and Marion and I found her writing style to be very interesting. She felt she wanted to offer an article that would make my discoveries known to a wider audience. I responded rather negatively, but this did not deter her. Soon afterwards I received a draft copy of her proposed article with a request for comments and corrections. She had managed to capture the essence of my research and discoveries in such an informal and entertaining manner that caused Marion to comment that Valenya had explained some aspects better than she would have been able to do (after all these years!). I added a few corrections and returned the script by e-mail. That article was published subsequently in the March 2007 edition of
FATE
magazine, with the title,
‘The discoveries of T.R.Dutton’
. Since then, Valenya has had published an article in the
American ‘UFO Magazine’
(Iss 150, Vol.23, No.9). It was in the form of an interview with me, with the title
‘UFO Revelations’
, for which I am very grateful.

In recent years, I have been often assisted by interested people here, in the Torquay area; notably, Mrs
.
Stephanie Wilson and her husband, John and a Close Encounter witness, Mr. Andrew (Andy) Bell, who lives near Ashburton. Andrew has a blog telling of his encounter(s), promoting my efforts and including a lot of UFO news.

Local newspapers have also played important parts over the years, eg.
The
Manchester Evening News, The Messenger
(Macclesfield)
,
The Sunday Independent, The Mid-Devon Advertiser, and so on. Over such a long period of time it is difficult to remember them all, but their interest has always been welcomed.

PART
3
extra-extraordinary
events & conclusion
 

PHASE 8:
Confrontations with paranormal elements
 

My studies have led me into areas of investigation that were sometimes far removed from the original aerospace scenario. I proceeded to probe those challenging offshoots, because they seemed to have relevance within my overall objective. Some of them led me into the realms of the so-called ‘paranormal’, which the scientific establishment shies away from. Even Edward Ashpole wishes to distance himself from these elements, though he accepts that there is much we have yet to learn about physical reality. That stated, I have not been deterred from exploring them.

CHAPTER 21
T
HE CE4 FOLLOW-ONS
 

Two of the people who had experienced CE4 time-losses and with whom I had become well-acquainted, Mrs. Linda Taylor and Mrs. Linda Jones, both told me of strange experiences they had had after their SAC encounters.

Before addressing those,
I want to put on record that both these women had suffered severe physical after-effects and neither of them had dared to tell their medical specialists of their suspicions about the probable links with the CE4s.
They told me of the nature of those physical and metabolic changes, in confidence. It will have to suffice here for me to emphasise that those pathological changes were indeed severe and, being aware of all the known and revealed features of their encounters, I was able to deduce that there could have been causal links.

I can remember only one of the strange post-CE4 happenings that Mrs. Taylor told me about. She had been out in the garden on a fine day, working near the rear boundary. As she turned to look towards the house, she saw, very clearly, a tall man dressed mostly in white standing beside the garage. As she gazed towards him it seemed he had no face. Suddenly he disappeared and the bewildered Linda reasoned that he must have leapt out of sight behind the garage. Extremely puzzled and curious, she had walked slowly to the closed area behind the garage. On arrival there she could find no trace of him. He seemed to have simply disappeared into thin air.

My knowledge of Mrs. Jones’ happenings is more extensive because I was consulted on several occasions. On Saturday, December 12th, 1987, I received a telephone call from a very concerned Linda Jones. Something completely unheard of had occurred on the afternoon of December 9th. She explained that, as an auxiliary helper at a local school, she had been issued with a plastic lapel badge bearing her name. After she had walked home from school on that afternoon, she had taken off her winter coat and had been taken aback to discover that her name had disappeared from her badge, which she had been wearing beneath her outdoor coat. The next day, she had requested a new badge and displayed the old one to her colleagues. They, too, thought it all to be very weird, because some had worn theirs for years and one badge had even been through a washing machine and emerged in perfect condition. Did I think it was some kind of omen? I thought not – and then went on to ask questions about the nature of the badge. It consisted of a hard white plastic base providing a small safety pin for attachment to a garment. The name tape was ‘Dymo Tape’®, a thin white plastic tape with a coloured top-side, into which alphanumeric characters could be impressed by means of a special tool. The embossed characters on the tool were pushed into the white side of the tape so that the characters showed up white on the coloured side. I asked Mrs. Jones whether the rubbing of her outer coat could have been responsible, but I was told that it had never had that effect previously and she’d worn that coat frequently. I promised to look into the matter.