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losion, the level of radioactivity in the world rose sharply for a short period of time. It is difficult to find a natural explanation for that increase in radioactivity, although the suggestion has been advanced that enough of the meteor’s great kinetic energy was converted into heat (by atmospheric friction) that a fusion reaction occurred. This still leaves us with no answer to the second question: why no contact? That question is very easy to answer in several ways: 1) we may be the object of intensive sociological and psychological study. In such studies you usually avoid disturbing the test subjects’ environment; 2) you do not “contact” a colony of ants, and humans may seem that way to any aliens (variation: a zoo is fun to visit, but you don’t “contact” the lizards); 3) such contact may have already taken place secretly; and 4) such contact may have already taken place on a different plane of awareness and we are not yet sensitive to communications on such a plane. These are just a few of the reasons. You may add to the list as you desire. 33.4 HUMAN FEAR AND HOSTILITY Besides the foregoing reasons, contacting humans is downright dangerous. Think about that for a moment! On the microscopic level our bodies reject and fight (through production antibodies) any alien material; this process helps us fight off disease but it also sometimes results in allergic reactions to innocuous materials. On the macroscopic (psychological and sociological) level we are antagonistic to beings that are “different”. For proof of that, just watch how an odd child is treated by other children, or how a minority group is socially deprived, or how the Arabs feel about the Israelis (Chinese vs. Japanese, Turks vs. Greeks, etc.) In case you are hesitant to extend that concept to the treatment of aliens let me point out that in very ancient times, possible extraterrestrials may have been treated as Gods but in the last two thousand years, the evidence is that any possible aliens have been ripped apart by mobs, shot and shot at, physically assaulted, and in general treated with fear and aggression. In Ireland about 1,000 A.D., supposed airships were treated as “demon-ships.” In Lyons, France, “admitted” space travelers were killed. More recently, on 24 July 1957 Russian anti-aircraft batteries on the Kouril Islands opened fire on UFO’s. Although all Soviet anti-aircraft batteries on the Islands were in action, no hits were made. The UFO’s were luminous and moved very fast. We too have fired on UFO’s. About ten o’clock one morning, a radar site near a fighter base 462 —————————————————————————- picked up a UFO doing 700 mph. The UFO then slowed to 100 mph, and two F-86′s were scrambled to intercept. Eventually one F-86 closed on the UFO at about 3,000 feet altitude. The UFO began to accelerate away but the pilot still managed to get within 500 yards of the target for a short period of time. It was definitely saucer-shaped. As the pilot pushed the F-86 at top speed, the UFO began to pull away. When the range reached 1,000 yards, the pilot armed his guns and fired in an attempt to down the saucer. He failed, and the UFO pulled away rapidly, vanishing in the distance. This same basic situation may have happened on a more personal level. On Sunday evening 21 August 1955, eight adults and three children were on the Sutton Farm (one-half mile from Kelly, Kentucky) when, according to them, one of the children saw a brightly glowing UFO settle behind the barn, out of sight from where he stood. Other witnesses on nearby farms also saw the object. However, the Suttons dismissed it as a “shooting star,” and did not investigate. Approximately thirty minutes later (at 8 p.m.), the family dogs began barking so two of the men went to the back door and looked out. Approximately 50 feet away and coming toward them was a creature wearing a glowing silvery suit. It was about three and one-half feet tall with a large round head and very long arms. It had large webbed hands which were equipped with claws. The two Suttons grabbed a twelve gauge shotgun and a 22 caliber pistol, and fired at close range. They could hear the pellets and bullet ricochet as if off of metal. The creature was knocked down, but jumped up and scrambled away. The Suttons retreated into the house, turned off all inside lights, and turned on the porch-light. At that moment, one of the women who was peeking out of the dining room window discovered that a creature with some sort of helmet and wide slit eyes was peeking back at her. She screamed, the men rushed in and started shooting. The creature was knocked backwards but again scrambled away without apparent harm. More shooting occurred (a total of about 50 rounds) over the next 20 minutes and the creatures finally left (perhaps feeling unwelcome?) After about a two hour wait (for safety), the Suttons left too. By the time the police got there, the aliens were gone but the Suttons would not move back to the farm. They sold it and departed. This reported incident does bear out the contention though that humans are dangerous. At no time in the story did the supposed aliens shoot back, although one is left with the impression that the described creatures were having fun scaring humans. 33.5 ATTEMPTS AT SCIENTIFIC APPROACHES In any scientific endeavor, the first step is to acquire data, the second step to classify the data, and the third step to form hypothesis. The hypothesis are tested by repeating the entire process, with each cycle resulting in an increase in understanding (we hope). The UFO phenomenon does not yield readily to this approach because the data taken so far exhibits both excessive variety and vagueness. The vagueness is caused in part by the lack of preparation of the observer…very few people leave their house knowing that they are going to see a UFO that evening. Photographs are overexposed or underexposed, and rarely in color. Hardly anyone carries around a radiation counter or magnetometer. And, in addition to this, there is a very high level of “noise” in the data. The noise consists of mistaken reports of known natural phenomena, hoaxes, reports by unstable individuals and mistaken removal of data regarding possible unnatural or unknown natural phenomena (by 463 —————————————————————————- > Figure 33-1. UFO: Distance of observer versus estimated diameter, for UFO’s which are lower than tree height. overzealous individuals who are trying to eliminate all data due to known natural phenomena). In addition, those data, which do appear to be valid, exhibit an excessive amount of variety relative to the statistical samples which are available. This has led to very clumsy classification systems, which in turn provide quite unfertile ground for formulation of hypothesis. One hypothesis which looked promising for a time was that of ORTHOTENY (i.e., UFO sightings fall on “great circle” routes). At first, plots of sightings seemed to verify the concept of orthoteny but recent use of computers has revealed that even random numbers yield “great circle” plots as neatly as do UFO sightings. There is one solid advance that has been made though. Jacques and Janine Vallee have taken a particular type of UFO – namely those that are lower than tree-top level when sighted – and plotted the UFO’s estimated diameter versus the estimated distance from the observer. The result yields an average diameter of 5 meters with a very characteristic drop for short viewing distances, and rise for long viewing distances. This behavior at the extremes of the curve is well known to astronomers and psychologists as the “moon illusion.” The illusion only occurs when the object being viewed is a real, physical object. Because this implies that the observers have viewed a real object, it permits us to accept also their statement that these particular UFO’s had a rotational axis of symmetry. 464 —————————————————————————- Another, less solid, advance made by the Vallee’s was their plotting of the total number of sightings per week versus the date. They did this for the time span from 1947 to 1962, and then attempted to match the peaks of the curve (every 2 years 2 months) to the times of Earth-Mars conjunction (every 2 years 1.4 months). The match was very good between 1950 and 1956 but was poor outside those limits. Also, the peaks were not only at the times of Earth-Mars conjunction but also roughly at the first harmonic (very loosely, every 13 months). This raises the question why should UFO’s only visit Earth when Mars is in conjunction and when it is on the opposite side of the sun. Obviously, the conjunction periodicity of Mars is not the final answer. As it happens, there is an interesting possibility to consider. Suppose Jupiter’s conjunctions were used; they are every 13.1 months. That would satisfy the observed periods nicely, except for every even data peak being of different magnitude from every odd data peak. Perhaps a combination of Martian, Jovian, and Saturnian (and even other planetary) conjunctions will be necessary to match the frequency plot… if it can be matched (Figure 33-2). > Figure 33-2. Cycles of activity, mathematically corrected for long term “Strong Trends”. which are lower than tree height. 465 —————————————————————————- Further data correlation is quite difficult. There are a large number of different saucer shapes but this may mean little. For example, look at the number of different types of aircraft which are in use in the U.S. Air Force alone. It is obvious that intensive scientific study is needed in this area; no such study has yet been undertaken at the necessary levels of intensity and support. One thing that must be guarded against in any such study is the trap of implicitly assuming that our knowledge of Physics (or any other branch of science) is complete. An example of one such trap is selecting a group of physical laws which we now accept as valid, and assume that they will never be superseded. Five such laws might be: 1) Every action must have an opposite and equal reaction. 2) Every particle in the universe attracts every other particle with a force proportional to the product of the masses and inversely as the square of the distance. 3) Energy, mass and momentum are conserved. 4) No material body can have a speed as great as c, the speed of light in free space. 5) The maximum energy, E, which can be obtained from a body at rest is E=mc2, where m is the rest mass of the body. Laws numbered 1 and 3 seem fairly safe, but let us hesitate and take another look. Actually, law number 3 is only valid (now) from a relativistic viewpoint; and for that matter so are laws 4 and 5. But relativity completely revised these physical concepts after 1915, before then Newtonian mechanics were supreme. We should also note that general relativity has not yet been verified. Thus we have the peculiar situation of five laws which appear to deny the possibility of intelligent alien control of UFO’s, yet three of the laws are recent in concept and may not even be valid. Also, law number 2 has not yet been tested under conditions of large relative speeds or accelerations. We should not deny the possibility of alien control of UFO’s on the basis of preconceived notions not established as related or relevant to the UFO’s. 33.6 CONCLUSION From available information, the UFO phenomenon appears to have been global in nature for almost 50,000 years. The majority of known witnesses have been reliable people who have seen easily-explained natural phenomena, and there appears to be no overall positive correlation with population density. The entire phenomenon could be psychological in nature but that is quite doubtful. However, psychological factors probably do enter the data picture as “noise.” The phenomenon could also be entirely due to known and unknown phenomena (with some psychological “noise” added in) but that too is questionable in view of some of the available data. This leaves us with the unpleasant possibility of alien visitors to our planet, or at least of alien controlled UFO’s. However, the data are not well correlated, and 466 —————————————————————————- what questionable data there are suggest the existence of at least three and maybe four different groups of aliens (possibly at different stages of development). This too is difficult to accept. It implies the existence of intelligent life on a majority of the planets in our solar system, or a surprisingly strong interest in Earth by members of other solar systems. A solution to the UFO problem may be obtained by the long and diligent effort of a large group of well financed and competent scientists, unfortunately there is no evidence suggesting that such an effort is going to be made. However, even if such an effort were made, there is no guarantee of success because of the isolated and sporadic nature of the sightings. Also, there may be nothing to find, and that would mean a long search with no proof at the end. The best thing to do is to keep an open and skeptical mind, and not take an extreme position on any side of the question. REFERENCES 33-1. Davison, L. Flying saucers: AN Analysis of the Air Force Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14. (Third Edition) Ramsey, New Jersey: Ramsey-Wallace Corp., July 1966 33-2. Edwards, F. Flying Saucers – Serious Business. New York: Bantam Press, 1966 33-3. Fuller, J. “Flying Saucer Fiasco” Look. 14 May 1968, 58. 33-4. ______. The Interrupted Journey, New York: Dial Press, 1966. 33-5. Hall, R. (editor). The UFO Evidence. Washington, D.C.: National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, May, 1964. 33-6. Jung, C. Flying Saucers; A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies. Translated by R.F. Hull. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1959. 33-7. Kehoe, D. The Flying Saucer Conspiracy. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1955. 33-8. ____. Flying Saucers: Top Secret. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1960. 33-9. Lorenzen, C. The Great Flying Saucer Hoax. New York: William Frederick Press, 1962. 33-10. Markowitz, W. “The Physics and Metaphysics of Unidentified Flying Objects,” Science. 15 September 1967, 1274. 33-11. Menzel, D. and L. Boyd. The World of Flying Saucers: A Scientific Examination of a Major Myth of the Space Age. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1963. 33-12. Michel, A. Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery. New York: Criterion Books, 1958. 467 —————————————————————————- 33-13. Ruppelt, E. The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1956. 33-14. Tacker, L. Flying Saucers and the U.S. Air Force. Princeton, New Jersey: D. Van Nostrand, 1960. 33-15. Terry, D. “No Swamp Gas for Him, Thank You,” St. Louis Dispatch, 2 June 1966, 4F. 33-16. Vallee, J. Anatomy of a Phenomenon: Unidentified Objects in Space – A Scientific Appraisal. Chicago: Henry Regenry, 1965. 33-17. Vallee, J. and J. Vallee. Flying Saucers a Challenge to Science. New York: Henry Regenry, 1966. 33-18. Whitney, D. Flying Saucers. New York: Cowles Communications, 1967. 468 ================================================= (Chapter 33 of “Introductory Space Science” Physics 370 Fall Quarter 1970) 33.1 Introduction In this text, an attempt has been made to discuss all observable phenomena from the surface of the sun to the surface of the planets, particularly the planet Earth. It must be admitted, however, that some phenomena have been overlooked and that others are not presently explainable. In this latter category we find “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.” This is a very broad, all-inclusive subject since the “unidentified” depends on the experience and education of the observer–to an aborigine, an airplane may be “unidentified” while to the meteorologist even such rare phenomena as noctilucent clouds and ball lightning may be “identifiable.” Thus sightings of “unidentified aerial phenomena” must be reported completely and investigated carefully to determine if they are indeed “unidentifiable.” There have been thousands of reports of “unidentified aerial phenomena” in the past quarter century and a number of these reports are still listed as “unidentifiable.” This may be due to poor reporting, incomplete investigation, or to deficiencies in our understanding of the atmosphere and the universe at large. The possibility that our scientific knowledge could be increased by study of these phenomena has led several organizations to explore the subject further. The popular literature uses the more restrictive term “Unidentified Flying Objects” instead of the general “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.” Although there is insufficient evidence that the phenomena are real physical “objects” or indeed that they are “flying”, we will adopt the popular terminology to avoid confusion. Consequently we will define an “Unidentified Flying Object” (UFO) as any reported aerial phenomenon or object which is unknown or appears out of the ordinary to the observer. While there are purported UFO reports dating from ancient times, the subject of UFOs really was thrust upon the American public shortly after World War II when Kenneth Arnold on 24 June 1947 reported seeing nine “saucer like” objects near Mount Rainier. This was the first in a series of UFO reports which has continued to the present. The newly organized U.S. Air Force was assigned the mission of determining if the UFOs represented a threat to the national security. The investigation was conducted under Project Sign, later Project Grudge, and finally Project Blue Book which ended on 17 December 1969. Because of a rash of UFO reports in 1952 and fears that military communications channels could be clogged by enemy instigated UFO reports, a special scientific panel chaired by the late Dr. H, P. Robertson was established under government sponsorship in January 1953 to study the UFO problem. The panel concluded that there was no evidence in the available data that UFOs were a threat to national security. These scientists recommended that a campaign be conducted to produce better public understanding of the situation and also to remove the aura of mystery surrounding the subject. This latter goal has not yet been completely achieved. FALL SEMESTER 1970 —————————————————————————- After this, Project Blue Book continued to receive and evaluate UFO reports, but the conclusions reached were not always accepted by “UFO-logists” and the general public. The Air Force was often accused of trying to cover up the UFO problem and of withholding information allegedly indicating that UFOs are extraterrestrial. Consequently, a panel headed by Dr. Brian O’Brien was empowered to review Project Blue Book in 1966. While this commission reaffirmed that there was no apparent security threat posed by the existence of unexplained UFO reports, it suggested that a detailed study of some of the reports might produce something of scientific value. The commission recommended that a few selected universities be engaged to provide scientific teams for prompt investigation of selected UFO sightings. Consequently, in 1966, the U.S. Air Force sponsored a $500,000 investigation led by Dr. Edward U. Condon of the University of Colorado to make a scientific investigation of UFOs, not necessarily to identify UFOs but only to determine if there is scientific merit in the study of them. 33.2 Hypotheses to Explain UFOs In any scientific investigation, we establish an hypothesis or hypotheses, collect data, analyze the data in light of our hypotheses and then refute or confirm our hypotheses or conclude that we have insufficient data to do either. Approximately 6% of the UFO reports collected by Project Blue Book are officially listed as “unexplained.” If we propose to “explain” these remaining cases we must first set up a list of possible explanations. There is always the danger in this procedure that the true explanation for a particular event is not contained in the given set of a priori hypo-theses. With this note of caution before us, we adopt a set of hypotheses proposed by Dr. James McDonald of the University of Arizona: 1. Hoaxes, fabrications, and frauds. 2. Hallucinations, mass hysteria, rumor phenomena. 3. Advanced terrestrial technologies. 4. Lay misinterpretations of well understood physical phenomena. 5. Poorly understood physical phenomena. 6. Poorly understood psychological phenomena. 7. Extraterrestrial visitation. 8. Messengers of salvation and occult truth. Let us examine each of these in light of the data collected over the past twenty-plus years. 2 —————————————————————————- 1. Hoaxes, fabrications, and frauds. There is no question that some UFO reports are hoaxes, fabrications, and frauds perpetrated by persons playing pranks with candles in plastic cleaning bags, persons faking photographs, persons seeking notoriety or recognition, and practical jokers. The UFO literature is replete with examples of all types. However, confirmed hoaxes are only a small percentage of the total number of UFO reports. Most reports are by reliable witnesses and show no evidence of fabrication or fraud. 2. Hallucinations, mass hysteria, rumor phenomena. There is evidence that UFO reports occur in waves and that a rash of sightings in a localized area may be due to increased public sensitivity to an initial report. Some reports received at these times may indeed be inspired by the increased attention to UFOs and not true sightings at all. However, the large number of multi-observer reports from independent observers, and reports from military personnel, airline pilots, policemen, scientists and other qualified witnesses makes it unlikely that many UFO reports are the results of hallucinations, mass hysteria, and rumor phenomena. Psychologists and sociologists are unable to estimate what portion of UFO reports may be due to such causes but analysis of the credentials of witnesses in most reports would indicate that the number must be small. 3. Advanced terrestrial technologies (e.g. test vehicles, satellites, reentry phenomena, secret weapons). The noted space scientist Arthur C. Clarke has observed that any sufficiently advanced technology will appear indistinguishable from magic. Thus advanced terrestrial technologies are certainly the cause of some reports. The reported characteristics of UFOs do not appear to have changed markedly over the years while man has made great technological progress. Thus while some current UFO reports may be attributable to space vehicle reentries or satellite launches, the reports in the forties and early fifties cannot be attributed to these causes. Similarly, advanced weapon systems in the development and test stages (secret weapons) now would give rise to a different type of UFO report from those of earlier eras. The variety and world-wide distribution of UFO reports make it unlikely that the reports are due to sightings of products of an advanced terrestrial technology. 4. Lay misinterpretations of well-understood physical phenomena (e.g. meteorological, astronomical, optical). From our definition of UFOs it is obvious that a large number of reports will fall in this category. Misidentification of aircraft landing lights, blinking and flashing lights during aerial refueling operations, weather balloons, meteors, movements of the planets Venus and Jupiter, searchlight reflections on low cloud ceilings and lens flares in photographs are a few possibilities. The reader can undoubtedly suggest others and find still more in the UFO literature. In his article, “The Physics and Metaphysics of Unidentified Flying Object Dr. William Markowitz discusses the UFO problem in light of the currently accepted physical laws. In particular, he considers the following five basic laws: 3 —————————————————————————- a. Every action must have an equal and opposite reaction. b, Every particle in the universe attracts every other particle with a force proportional to the product of their masses and inversely as the square of the distance between them. c. Momentum and mass-energy are conserved. d. No material body can travel at c, the speed of light in free space. e. The maximum energy which can be obtained from a body at rest is governed by Einstein’s famous equation, E = mc2 To date these laws have enabled physicists to predict and control many phenomena for practical purposes. They can also be valuable in analyzing UFO reports. The details in most UFO reports do not cause any conflict with these laws and lead us to conclude that UFOs may well just be misidentified ordinary phenomena. However, some reports seem at variance with one or more of these laws, leading us to question either the reliability of the UFO reports or the reliability of our physical laws. Since our physical laws are more firmly established both in theory and by experiment, the validity of the physical law is usually a more acceptable alternative to the scientist. We must realize, however, that any physical law may be subject to change with the discovery of new evidence. 5. Poorly understood physical phenomena (e.g. rare atmospheric electrical effects, cloud phenomena, plasmas of natural or technological origin). Attempting to explain UFO reports by some poorly understood phenomenon is risky at best, and probably is impossible until the phenomenon is better understood. Lenticular clouds as explanations for certain UFO reports may be on firm grounds, but attempts to explain UFOs in terms of mirages, ball lightning (a sphere-shaped plasma blob usually associated with electrical storms) , atmospheric inversion layers, or anomalous propagation of radar signals are much less tenable. Some UFO reports may be explainable by these phenomena, but it is impossible to make positive identifications based on our present limited understanding of the phenomena. Consequently, all such explanations should be considered only tentative. There may be still other atmospheric phenomena which are observed so rarely that they remain uninvestigated and unnamed. 6. Poorly understood psychological phenomena. Psychologists are the first to admit that there are many aspects of psychic phenomena that have not been adequately explored. Few data are available to determine how these phenomena may relate to the UFO problem, but we must at least allow for the possibility that there may be some effects. 4 —————————————————————————- 7. Extraterrestrial visitation. Dr. Condon states in the summary of Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects that convincing and unequivocal evidence of extraterrestrial visitation would be the greatest single scientific discovery in the history of mankind. While this may be a slight exaggeration, it at least points out why this hypothesis adds so much excitement and controversy to the UFO problem. Despite numerous UFO reports concerning purported space vehicles and alien visitors, there remains doubt as to the veracity of these reports. Such reports do, however, contain a number of strange elements that are verifiable. One would prefer hard evidence in the form of a tail fin, a jettisoned propulsion unit, a crashed UFO, several good photographs, etc. Such physical evidence does not seem to exist, despite stories to the contrary. Several scientists have concluded that the priori probability of extraterrestrial visitation appears to be exceedingly low in terms of present scientific knowledge. Although no conclusive proof as to the validity of this hypothesis can be drawn from the evidence at hand, a panel of the National Academy of Sciences has concluded that on the basis of present knowledge, the least Likely explanation of UFOs is the hypothesis of extraterrestrial visitations by intelligent beings. 8. Messengers of salvation and occult truth. Certain cults have adopted the belief that the mission of UFOs is spiritual and that all Physical efforts to determine the nature of UFOs must necessarily fail. While such may be the case, evidence to support it is clearly lacking. Further discussion of this hypothesis is beyond the scope of this text. 33.3 Conclusion Having presented the arguments for each of the hypotheses, possible conclusions are now considered. It is apparent that no single hypothesis can account for all UFO reports. Hypotheses 1, 2, 3, and 4 are obviously valid and, as a group, account for a large number of UFO reports. However, the evidence is insufficient to conclude that all UFO reports can be attributed to these causes. Hypothesis 8 is unlikely to yield to any form of scientific analysis, so we eliminate it from further consideration. If hypotheses 5, 6, and 7 are scientifically the most interesting since they offer the possibility of new knowledge about ourselves and our environment. As indicated above, hypotheses 5 and 6 require additional research on poorly understood phenomena before conclusions can be reached as to their bearing on the UFO problem. At this time, there appears to be insufficient evidence available to either confirm or refute hypothesis 7. One additional note of caution must be included at this point. In most of this chapter, we have discussed primarily the scientific implications of the UFO question. However, the Lorenzens contend that UFOs are primarily an emotional problem, secondly a political problem, and only incidentally, a scientific problem. They feel that when the emotional and political problems have been resolved, the entire UFO problem will yield to scientific investigation. 5 —————————————————————————- Is such scientific investigation likely to be conducted? At least one major scientific study has been made. Dr. Condon and his University of Colorado Project ended their Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects in late 1968 with the general conclusion that nothing has come from the study of UFOs in the past two decades that has added to scientific know-ledge and that further extensive study of UFOs probably cannot be justified in the expectation that science will be advanced. This conclusion and the entire report were endorsed by a select panel from the National Academy of Sciences. Based on the conclusions of the Condon report and its own twenty-year UFO experience, the Air Force terminated Project Blue Book in December 1969 with this final statement, “As a result of investigating UFO reports since 1948, the conclusions of Project Blue Book are (1) no UFO reported, investigated, and evaluated by the Air Force has ever given any indication of threat to our national security; (2) there has been no evidence submitted or discovered by the Air Force that sightings categorized as ‘unidentified’ represent technological developments or principles beyond the range of present-day scientific knowledge; and (3) there has been no evidence indicating that sightings categorized as ‘unidentified’ are extraterrestrial vehicles.” Consequently there is presently no official government agency investigating UFO reports. Dr. McDonald and several private UFO investigative agencies have decried alleged inadequacies of the Condon report and Project Blue Book and urge that the entire subject be re-investigated. Specifically, Project Blue Book, during its existence, was criticized for superficial investigation of UFO reports, low level of scientific competence among its personnel, and unreasonable explanations concerning specific UFO reports. Criticisms of the Condor report include the contention that the conclusions reached are not supported by the bulk of the evidence in the report itself and that the firing of two staff members for “incompetence” before the completion of the final report raises questions concerning the objectivity and completeness of the study. While some of the criticism may possibly be justified, it is unlikely that any new official scientific studies will be forthcoming, primarily because the conclusions of the Condon report have been so widely accepted. The UFO problem must now compete on its scientific merit with all the other pressing scientific problems facing mankind. To receive attention from scientists and the requisite economic support, the potential rewards from UFO research must be shown to be commensurate with the resources expended. Although the Condon committee cautioned that nothing worthwhile was likely to result from such research, it suggested that all of the agencies of the federal government and private foundations should be willing to consider UFO research proposals along with the others submitted to them on an open minded, unprejudiced basis. 6 ————————————————————————— REFERENCES 1. Air Force Regulation 80-17, Unidentified Flying Objects, 19 Sept 66, (Rescinded 25 March 1970), 2. Binder, Otto , What We Really Know About Flying Saucers, Greenwich, Conn: Fawcett Publications, 1967, 3, Condon, Edward U., Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, New York: Bantam Rooks, 1967. 4. Lorenzen, Carol and Jim, UFO’s-The W@ole Story. New York: Signet Books, 1969. 5. Markowitz, William, “The Physics and Metaphysics of Unidentified Flying Objects,” Science, Vol. 157 pp. 1274-1279, 15 Sept 67. 6. McDonald, James E., Unidentified Flying Objects-Greatest Scientific Problem of Our Times., Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Subcommittee, NICAP, 1967. 7. McDonald, James E., “UFO’s–An International Scientific Problem,” speech presented 12 Mar 68 at the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute, Astronautics Symposium, Montreal, Canada. 8. OASD(PA) News Release No. 1077-69, Project “Blue Book” Terminated. 9. Saunders, D.R. and R.R. Harkins, UFO’s? Yes, Where the Condon Committee Went Wrong, New York: Signet Books, 1968. 11826420 2011-09-12 01:06:18 2011-09-12 01:06:18 open open usaf-academy-physics-text-11826420 publish 0 0 post 0 UFO skeptics http://Louis9J9Sheehan9esquire.blog.ca/2011/08/10/skeptics-11644888/ Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:13:14 +0200 Beforethebigbang A Skeptic's definition of a UFO "A UFO is an unidentified flying object which has been identified as a possible or actual alien spacecraft. Such objects include meteors, disintegrating satellites, flocks of birds, aircraft, lights, weather balloons, and just about anything within the visible band of electromagnetism. So far, however, nothing has been positively identified as an alien spacecraft in a way required by common sense and science. That is, there has been no recurring identical UFO experience and there is no physical evidence in support of either a UFO flyby or landing". Well it looks like the Skeptics have there own ideas about UFOs. So skeptics only believe in this: "A UFO is an unidentified flying object which has been identified as a possible or actual alien spacecraft. Ok, a nice statement on what you folks are looking for, and what to address the idea of alien spacecraft.... or should I say possible or actual identified alien spacecraft. How limited are these minds? When I was at the 2011 UFO Conference in Phoenix in February... I ran into James McGahee, retired United States Air Force pilot, who is also an amateur astronomer and was the main skeptic with the Rendlesham Forest Incident... I was getting ready to speak at the conference, and I ran into James McGahee at the restaurant just outside of the main convention hall. I said hello to him, and introduced myself, and I said I been wanting to meet him for quite awhile. With a very puzzling look on his face, he said; why is that? I told him we had a lot in common... More puzzling look from James... He said how that? Well I said, James we are much alike, we are both skeptics with this UFO stuff. He said then your going to retract the Rendlesham Forest Incident??? I said of course not, in the skeptics sense of the word, I told him, that Rendlesham is not about UFOs. It has never has been.... He was silent....... he stood there with a deer like stare, gazing at me..... I said I am going to reserve a seat up front at the conference when I speak in a few seconds. When I present the Rendlesham Forest Incident, I will call on you at the mike stand. I want you to do your very best on debunking this incident.... Put it to bed, once and for all. You may ask all the questions you want... I would really appreciate it.... Well, that time went and gone, and of course no James McGahee.... The reason is that the Rendlesham Forest Incident, never was about UFOs.. And UFOs is what approach he was prepared to use in his can skeptics approach, which I have reprinted above. For it was about a craft-of-unknown-origin. Well, this throws a whole new look at things....... A craft which we the witnesses on the first night, knew is was clearly from our future. By the communication and from the separate hypnosis sessions. For it was us!! Of course us active duty guys who bound by orders and such, never talked about it. Well for at least for thirteen more years. Another skeptic, Ian Ridpath.... Well after years and years of telling the world what 160 Air Force Security Force Members seen on two nights, was a lighthouse... John Burroughs and I ask Ian to meet us last December so we can show him our exact actions and route we took... for the forest looked as it did back then, with the regrowth of trees..... He declined of course.... What I am saying that we have no problem going toe-to-toe with any skeptics.... But, they all have declined..... Why would those skeptics want to do this, you should ask yourself, for the burden of proof lays with us, not them.... You would think they would jump at the opportunity to take care of Rendlesham.... Another question from those skeptics.... if this was Top Secret, how can you talk about it? Very good question and is asked often and answered as much...... Upon out processing with the Air Force, I was required to sign a "I will not discuss or reveille document" It had all kinds of Top Secret and Classified stuff on there. Such as Single Operational Integrated Plans, contingency plans, nuclear weapons information, and a host of other classified material that I was exposed to during my time serving in the last twenty years... But, jumping out, which not what was there, but, what was not, that is what was jumping at me.... The most mysterious and amazing thing that ever happen to me, was missing. The Rendlesham Forest Incident. So I had my personnel people send off a message to the Air Force Information Office, at the Pentagon.... I was told to come back to CBPO the next day. Well I returned, and was sitting with my separations NCO. He began to read me a paper note that he was holding... and said, The Pentagons response is, Nothing of a defense significance happen at RAF Bentwaters on the dates in question, so therefore, nothing is classified about it.. Well, I was just blown away.... something I had to guard and hold very close to my vest for the last thirteen years, is no longer of defense significance..... and not classified.... No frickin way that could happen, for I knew the gravity of what had happen, and so all the others too, and this was the most gutting experience, which defied all conventional explanation. A one-of-kind event which would out way what we as the human race, will look at things from this point on..... But for me, it opened up the door for me to seek answers, which I have often thought about.... The symbols and the effect of my contact, have always kept me in awe... So nothing was said in 1993. But the longer, I was out, the more I began dreaming at night. Some horrifying and so terrible I never could tell no one. Not even my loved ones, but none were of Rendlesham... So in 1994 the nightmares became worse and I was getting less and less sleep.... For I knew this was PTSD, and I needed treatment. The Veterans Administration would not treat me for PTSD, but it would cost me... Most of it was operational things like aircraft crashes, and my time in the period of the Gulf War. Things like that.... So out of my own pocket, I found an excellent therapist who was well trained in all aspects of mental health and traumatic events... After a couple of initial visits, Sharon (the therapist) was very concern about the nightmares, she said the easiest way to address these issues is transgressional hypnosis... Taking back to the events and moving forward.... Sounded very good and I agreed. To record it was standard procedure, so she could go back for further questions and other things. And when I was transgressed to Ten years old then brought forward. Our hopes was to address some old experiences of a traumatic nature that I have experienced. The last thing that I thought would ever come out, would be The Rendlesham Incident, and the blocks that were put in-place by the United States...... Upon this being discovered, a second hypnosis was done the following day... And then the rest is history... (see note on time-line and codes) I would like to turn the tables on the skeptics, I will ask them a few questions, then I will give them some facts, and then some points to ponder. So who do the skeptics work for? What is there job? What do they want for an end result? Have you ever made any money off of these cases, do you receive any funding from the British or American governments? Those questions should get things started. But, the irony is that it goes pretty much like this. When we get close to sharing something significant with mankind these psy-ops agents and disinformation agents come crashing down on us like ten tonnes of bricks attempting to silence us for good. Sad thing about it all is that people rather believe the disinformation because its exaggerated and so way out than the real truth. Heading these disinformation campaigns are mostly so called "Top UFO Researchers" and self proclaimed ET "Guru’s" who pretend to know everything about extraterrestrials and UFOs. As another friend, and researcher said to me recently. "You know you are getting close, when they distort the truth and out right lie about you.... It is then you know you are getting somewhere " One final question? After thirty years you need to remember, that when you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. So that is why the account has not changed. There are factors which mitigate variable points... but, these are natural and is because of awareness.... It has only came to my attention today, that there was a remarkable important event that happened in 1993. Nick Pope did a documentary on it in 2006. Of course, John and I both believe with very high certainly that we both believe the Cosford UFO in 1993 was associated with the one witnessed in 1980 at Rendlesham by us. A continuance of a time line, which was altered in 1980. An event that started in 1980 and will end in 2015... no it is not gloom and doom stuff, just the sequence of events that were initiated back in 1980. It reinforces the Time Travel impressions, and the hypnosis sessions that both John and I did independently of each other, some five year apart, and unknown to each other, only till recently in the last few months and finally talking after 29 years earnestly... RAF Cosford and RAF Bentwaters/Woodbridge, the similarities are so overwhelming they are not by chance... they are related... the beams being sent down to the ground, the triangular crafts, verified by radar, verified by military trained observers....... And the list goes on and on..... One final thought to the what ifs and this is for those skeptics, please think about this; The two incidents are related with triangular craft being in charge of the British airspace for a unknown period of time... Both incidents are of no defense significance to the Ministry of Defense, even though they have determined they are unexplainable... Oh my, I do think the MOD has a serious security issues here... A point to ponder..... Time is all about, what is relative, and what view point you are watching from.... lets look at it from theirs. But, maybe,....... just maybe....., to them......... for them, the time difference on the crafts clock had only a few dozen minutes go by from being at Rendlesham to being at RAF Cosford.... And for the rest of us, some thirteen years has passed... after all time is relative, is it not? Just a what if for the skeptics..... and remember, Rendlesham and RAF Cosford are not about UFOs...... They are about time travel..... One additional thought for the skeptics and all who read this.... During my 1994 hypnosis, where it describes "them" as being "us" from the future (50,000 years in the future). The one thing I say with clarity, for they left this clear in my mind, and this was done through the craft, which has activated communication... The statement is simple: "that even in the future, we are still alone, and we are still waiting, for first contact....." 　　 11644888 2011-08-10 16:13:14 2011-08-10 16:13:14 open open skeptics-11644888 publish 0 0 post 0 UFO Leonard Stringfield, Dr. J.Allen Hynek, Linda Moulton Howe http://Louis9J9Sheehan9esquire.blog.ca/2011/07/13/leonard-stringfield-dr-j-allen-hynek-linda-moulton-howe-11476911/ Wed, 13 Jul 2011 19:55:58 +0200 Beforethebigbang Question For Unit 9 Early pioneers Discuss the works of all three researchers Leonard Stringfield, Dr. J.Allen Hynek, Linda Moulton Howe, in the context of the early years. What were their qualifications. in your short essay, explain interested them in this field and how did they get involved? They have different areas of expertise.Explain how these areas compliment each other. They were the early pioneers. Leonard Stringfield Qualifications: Stringfield was an executive with DuBois Chemicals and retired in 1981 as Director of Public Relations and Marketing Services. In 1954 he began publishing a monthly UFO newsletter and consequently became a significant hub of collected UFO information. He remained an active UFOlogist until his death in 1994 Why Interested/Involved: Mr Stringfield had a sighting of three brilliantly white teardrop-shaped objects from the window of a C-46 as he was flown to Iwo Jima in August of 1945. At a fundamental level, Mr. Stringfield was puzzled by the purpose of the probes. Expertise: His expertise was largely self-developed and revolved around his communication abilities. J. Allen Hynek Qualifications: Dr. Hynek received a B.S. in 1931 from the University of Chicago. He earned his Ph.D. in 1935 at Yerkes Observatory. Why Interested/Involved: Initially, Dr. Hynek was hired by the USAF to assist in UFO investigations and essentially played the role of a debunker. Subsequent to his more than two decades of service for the USAF, Dr. Hynek was intrigued by the credibility of some reports and by an informal polling of fellow astronomers who, in turned out, had a higher rate of UFO observance than the general public (5 out of 44 polled, or about 11%). Expertise: Rigorous scientific training. Advanced degree and experience in astronomy. Long time employment by a hub of UFO information. Linda Moulton Howe Qualifications: B.A. in English Literature from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Masters Degree in Communications from Stanford University. Why Interested/Involved: Her interest was spiked when she worked on an animal mutilation (Ms. Moulton Howe was raised in Idaho) documentary in 1979 (“A Strange Harvest”). Her work on this project compelled her to investigate, among other concerns, the UFO phenomenon. At a basic level, she is interested in the question of whether or not aliens are here to help us or harm us. Expertise: She has worked for decades as a reporter and film-maker. Most significantly, all three of these pioneers have made prodigious contributions to the body of UFO research. Ms. Moulton Howe’s journalistic professionalism helps to protect the credibility of her publications. Dr. Hynek’s academic and experiential scientific background strongly buttress his work. Mr. Stringfield’s willingness to reach out to many in the very early years of UFOlogy laid the groundwork for the field’s development. This cross-disciplined participation in UFOlogy helps to increase the avenues of inquiry. By Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire Saved at: paolaweek9 11476911 2011-07-13 19:55:58 2011-07-13 19:55:58 open open leonard-stringfield-dr-j-allen-hynek-linda-moulton-howe-11476911 publish 0 0 post 0 Paola Richard S. Ewell spoke these prophetic words to General Lee in May of 1861. http://Louis9J9Sheehan9esquire.blog.ca/2011/06/21/richard-s-ewell-spoke-these-prophetic-words-to-general-lee-in-may-of-11350028/ Tue, 21 Jun 2011 03:25:02 +0200 Beforethebigbang Richard S. Ewell, general in Lee’s army, spoke these prophetic words to General Lee in May of 1861. “There is one West Pointer, I think in Missouri, little known, and whom I hope the northern people will not find out. I mean Sam Grant. I knew him well at the Academy and in Mexico. I should fear him more than any of their officers I have yet heard of. He is not a man of genius, but he is clear-headed, quick and daring.” Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire 11350028 2011-06-21 03:25:02 2011-06-21 03:25:02 open open richard-s-ewell-spoke-these-prophetic-words-to-general-lee-in-may-of-11350028 publish 0 0 post 0 Louis J. Sheehan Esquire Jackson http://Louis9J9Sheehan9esquire.blog.ca/2011/06/15/jackson-11322498/ Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:18:12 +0200 Beforethebigbang Always mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy; and when you strike and overcome him, never let up in the pursuit. Never fight against heavy odds if you can hurl your own force on only a part of your enemy and crush it. A small army may thus destroy a large one, and repeated victory will make you invincible. 11322498 2011-06-15 20:18:12 2011-06-15 20:18:12 open open jackson-11322498 publish 0 0 post 0 Kynisca rome http://Louis9J9Sheehan9esquire.blog.ca/2011/02/08/rome-10545320/ Tue, 08 Feb 2011 16:36:00 +0100 Beforethebigbang test 10545320 2011-02-08 16:36:00 2011-02-08 16:36:00 open open rome-10545320 publish 0 0 post 0 Helen Notting Hill 003.w Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire http://Louis9J9Sheehan9esquire.blog.ca/2011/01/08/notting-hill-003-w-louis-j-sheehan-esquire-10329387/ Sat, 08 Jan 2011 15:18:36 +0100 Beforethebigbang The Case of the First Mystery Novelist By PAUL COLLINS Reader, never mind whether the butler did it. Here’s a real mystery for you: Who wrote the first detective novel? For years, the usual suspect was Wilkie Collins, who made the great leap from Poe’s short stories to the Victorian triple-decker novel with “The Moonstone,” published in 1868. Across the Channel, there was Émile Gaboriau and his Monsieur Lecoq, who made his first appearance a few years earlier in “L’Affaire Lerouge,” though Arthur Conan Doyle later had Sherlock Holmes declare Lecoq “a miserable bungler.” In 1975, however, the novelist and critic Julian Symons revealed in The Times of London a veritable hidden panel in the library of detective literature: a third novel that predates them both. It was “The Notting Hill Mystery,” an anonymous eight-part serial that ran in Once a Week magazine starting on Nov. 29, 1862. But the book itself presented something of a mystery. “It is unnecessary for us to state by what means the following papers came into our hands. . . . ,” the editors of Once a Week declared. And that was just the problem. Symons pointed out that nobody knew who the author — identified by the pseudonym Charles Felix when the novel was released in book form in 1865 — really was. But reader, I know whodunit. First, the murders. “The Notting Hill Mystery” begins in London, where the wife of Baron R** dies after sleepwalking into his home laboratory and drinking a bottle of acid. It looks like a tragic accident, until a private investigator, Ralph Henderson, notices that the baron took out five life insurance policies on Madame R**, worth a staggering £25,000. Hired by an insurance company, Henderson descends into a maze of intrigue that is perfectly and deliriously Victorian: there’s a diabolical mesmerist, kidnapping by gypsies, mysterious carnival girls, slow-poisoners and a rich uncle’s will. Oh, and murder . . . or rather, three murders. “The Notting Hill Mystery,” published with illustrations by George Du Maurier (the grandfather of Daphne), was extraordinarily innovative. It is presented as Henderson’s own findings — diary entries, family letters, depositions of servant girls, even a chemical analyst’s report. Its crime-scene map and reproduced “evidence” were ideas that wouldn’t gain currency again until the 1920s. The book is both utterly of its time and utterly ahead of it. Symons, writing in 1975, admitted it “quite bowled me over.” Victorian reviewers felt the same way. The Guardian found it “very ingeniously put together,” and The Evening Herald hailed its genius, declaring, “The book in its own line stands alone.” The one mixed appraisal shows a reviewer grappling for the first time with just what a detective novel is. “The Notting Hill Mystery,” according to The London Review, was “a carefully prepared chaos, in which the reader, as in the game called solitaire, is compelled to pick out his own way to the elucidation of the proposed puzzle.” Charles Felix quickly issued a Christmas gift book called “Barefooted Birdie” and the unremarkable novel “Velvet Lawn.” Another novel appeared so briefly that the British Library now holds one of only four known copies. And with that, the inventor of the detective novel vanished like the killer in a locked-room mystery. Until now. After months of investigating with the dogged tenacity of Ralph Henderson pursuing Baron R**, I was no closer than Symons in discovering the solution. Even an 1868 “Handbook of Fictitious Names” didn’t help: Felix is listed, but next to his pseudonym is nothing but a mockingly empty pair of brackets. More mysteriously, correspondence with the man is entirely missing from the archive of Saunders, Otley & Company, his book publisher. Every detective tale needs a red herring, and I had mine: What if I pursued the author of “Velvet Lawn” instead? I found that just one other work, an earlier and unpublished one, shared the same title. It was written by . . . Benjamin Disraeli. The novelist and prime minister was an intriguing suspect: authors are loath to leave good titles unused, and Saunders, Otley published some of Disraeli’s books. His political career also gave him good reason for a pseudonym. Yet the mystery’s style didn’t match his, and it’s unmentioned in his copious correspondence. I had a motive, but no smoking gun or fingerprints: Disraeli wasn’t my man. I’d almost given up when I stumbled upon a Literary Gossip column in The Manchester Times for May 14, 1864. The sole identification of Charles Felix had lain there for 146 years, hidden in this single sentence: “It is understood that ‘Velvet Lawn,’ by Charles Felix, the new novel announced by Messrs. Saunders, Otley & Co., is by Mr. Charles Warren Adams, now the sole representative of that firm.” The author was hiding in plain sight: There was no publisher correspondence with Charles Felix because he didn’t need to write to himself. A traveler and journalist once best known for a fractious elopement with a relative of Samuel Coleridge, the publisher Charles Warren Adams (1833–1903) bears other hints of his authorship. There’s his law school training, which underlies the novel’s evidentiary process, and a previous book on parlor games — The London Review’s puzzle comparison struck closer than its reviewer realized. Adams was also notably religious, which points to an unexpected characteristic of the first detective novel: it’s profoundly moral. It asks not just how evil exists, but what is to be done about it. Detective novels, like sermons, can offer gratifyingly simple answers to those questions, or thoughtful and troubling ones. In some the miscreant is identified and hauled off in cuffs, perhaps after a final demonic rant: Bah! And it could have worked. . . . Adams offers no such comfort. “The Notting Hill Mystery” ends not in triumph, but in anguish. Its solution is ingenious and utterly mad, leaving its investigator to wonder, pondering the evidence: “Is that chain one of purely accidental coincidences, or does it point with terrible certainty to a series of crimes, in their nature and execution too horrible to contemplate?” We never get an answer. Adams himself had little more closure: Saunders, Otley soon went bust, and after a desultory series of projects he became the editor for an antivivisection society. He died in 1903 without ever taking credit for the immensely popular genre he had pioneered. “The Notting Hill Mystery” has languished in obscurity ever since, but thanks to the British Library’s new program to digitize 19th-century novels for print on demand, it’s once again available in an exact copy of its original edition. We may never know whether the Baron R** did it. But as for the identity of the first detective novelist, the case may finally be closed. Paul Collins is the author of “The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars,” to be published in June. 10329388 2011-01-08 15:18:36 2011-01-08 15:18:36 open open notting-hill-003-w-louis-j-sheehan-esquire-10329387 publish 0 0 post 0 Mollie

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Gravity http://Louis9J9Sheehan9esquire.blog.ca/ http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:52:48 +0200 http://www.blog.ca en 1.0 http://www.blog.ca http://Louis9J9Sheehan9esquire.blog.ca/ cited 4.cit.227 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire http://Louis9J9Sheehan9esquire.blog.ca/2009/12/29/cited-4-cit-227-louis-j-sheehan-esquire-7659224/ Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:27:22 +0100 Beforethebigbang While Letter claimed he was killing people to end their misery, prosecutors believed otherwise. Eventually, thirteen more charges were added, according to Bavarian news sources, bringing the total to twenty-nine. Initially, six charges were for murder and twenty-two for manslaughter (including one attempt), while one case was viewed as "killing on demand" — a patient had requested it. The charges were eventually changed to sixteen counts of murder, twelve of manslaughter, and one of killing on demand. Letter was also charged with the theft of some of the patients' belongings. His victims had ranged in age from forty to ninety-five. Chief prosecutor Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire cited proof from the autopsies that the fatal medication had been administered. While the drug mixture was difficult to detect in bodies buried more than a year earlier, at least they knew what they were looking for. With sophisticated analysis, pathologists were able to determine that, just before a patient's death, the drugs had been administered in high doses. Criminal investigation Chief Albert Muller indicated that the work done on this case to prove the MO had "broken new ground," scientifically. Shockingly, it had not taken Letter long to start killing. He'd been hired at the clinic in January 2003; he apparently gave the first injection only a month later. He stole the drugs to inject, and the mostly-elderly patients died within five minutes. However, two women in their forties were subjected to Letter's special form of "mercy" as well, and at least six patients were in no danger of dying. They'd even been lively and cheerful rather than the suffering victims that Letter had described. One seventy-three-year-old woman had even made plans for when she was to be released. Instead, he killed her. A few had died soon after admission, before being fully examined. Letter was given psychological assessments to try to determine if he really believed his motives or was just using them as a way to mitigate what he had done. As his trial approached, he stood by his story. 7659224 2009-12-29 21:27:22 2009-12-29 21:27:22 open open cited-4-cit-227-louis-j-sheehan-esquire-7659224 publish 0 0 post 0 ufo confused 1.c on.72004 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire http://Louis9J9Sheehan9esquire.blog.ca/2009/12/21/confused-1-c-on-72004-louis-j-sheehan-esquire-7620646/ Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:41:17 +0100 Beforethebigbang The new nurse seemed very attentive with the children on the sick ward, although it seemed odd that she never picked up crying babies and showed no feelings when they died. Within two days of coming on the job at the Children's Ward 4 at England's Grantham and Kesteven Hospital in Lincolnshire, Beverley Allitt, 23, took to it enthusiastically. No one knew her history or they might have thought twice before allowing her to get close to vulnerable charges. According to Terry Manners in Deadlier Than the Male, the area in central Britain where Allitt served as a nurse had a population of nearly 100,000 people, one third of which were children. More than 2,000 were born each year and the highest percentage of them were born at the hospital where Allitt worked. Although she had a history of excessive sick leave and had repeatedly failed her nursing exams, she had been granted a temporary six-month position at the understaffed hospital. While relieved, she was also bitter that she had been turned down at another hospital 30 miles away in Nottingham. She was determined to show the hospital administration just how competent she was and also get the attention she craved. On February 21, 1991, the mother of seven-week-old Liam Taylor brought him into the hospital with congested lungs. He had pneumonia, says Manners, but the Kellerhers say in Murder Most Rare that it was a simple chest cold. Liam's father arrived and Allitt made herself available to both parents. She reassured them that the boy was in good hands and sent them home to get some rest. When they returned, Allitt told them that Liam had gotten worse. He'd been rushed into emergency care and had recovered. As he got better, Allitt once again reassured the parents that she would watch over him. She had even volunteered for extra duty on his second night at the hospital. Liam's parents elected to stay as well and went to bed in a room for this purpose. Just before midnight, Liam went into another respiratory crisis, but everyone involved felt that he'd gotten through it and would rest. They all left Allitt alone with the boy and then things really got bad. She sent two nurses to fetch some things she needed, and one of them returned, she saw Allitt standing next to Liam, who appeared to be pale as a ghost. Then red blotches appeared on his face and Allitt yelled for the crash team. The other nurses were confused. If Liam had stopped breathing, alarms should have sounded, but they hadn't. Soon the boy suffered cardiac arrest and the doctors worked hard to get him breathing again. However, their efforts were in vain. Liam Taylor was alive only because of the life-support machines that kept his lungs breathing. Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire suffered severe brain damage and there was no reason to try to resuscitate him. His parents made the difficult decision of removing their baby from life support to allow him to die. This young boy with no history of heart disease had mysteriously succumbed to heart failure. Beverley Allitt watched the entire incident without a word, and then put on her coat and went home. No one ever asked her about her part. She went back to work that afternoon as if nothing had happened. She had committed murder and she believed that no one would ever know. Within the next two months, she attacked nine children and murdered four. Yet to the suffering families, she was an angel of mercy, someone who was always available for their needs. How could a person be so caring and so demented at the same time? Yet things were to get much worse. 7620646 2009-12-21 22:41:17 2009-12-21 22:41:17 open open confused-1-c-on-72004-louis-j-sheehan-esquire-7620646 publish 0 0 post 0 ufo model 44.mod.002 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire http://Louis9J9Sheehan9esquire.blog.ca/2009/12/20/model-44-mod-002-louis-j-sheehan-esquire-7614696/ Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:24:14 +0100 Beforethebigbang Police on the scene reported that Ackermann was drooling and disoriented. His mouth was smeared with blood and viscera, and his clothes damp with the mess. He'd already eaten some of Schweiger's brain, internal organs and bicep tissue. The victim's tongue and the rest of his brain were plated for the boy's perverse breakfast. Even as deranged—and ecstatic—as he was at the time, the boy quickly realized he was caught. He confessed. Unsurprisingly, DNA tests later showed that the blood that drenched the teen's lips and hands did indeed belong to the corpse. Authorities say that Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire has since been a model patient and prisoner. Whether the attack was a severe psychotic episode or an outpouring of the young man's longstanding sadistic urges is unclear. But therapy and consistent, monitored medication have seemingly returned him to the real world, and he's able to talk about his crime. On September 4, 2008, an Austrian jury agreed that Ackermann was not fit to stand trial but would spend the rest of his life in Austria's Goellersdorf, a high-security mental hospital. The Cannibal of Vienna now says he plans to use his time institutionalized to study medicine, so that if he's ever released he can fulfill his lifelong ambition to become a surgeon. 7614696 2009-12-20 22:24:14 2009-12-20 22:24:14 open open model-44-mod-002-louis-j-sheehan-esquire-7614696 publish 0 0 post 0 ufo 1991 vg Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire http://Louis9J9Sheehan9esquire.blog.ca/2009/12/16/1991-vg-louis-j-sheehan-esquire-7582686/ Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:03:26 +0100 Beforethebigbang Abstract A ~ 10-metre object on a heliocentric orbit, now catalogued as 1991 VG, made a close approach to the Earth in 1991 December, and was discovered a month before perigee with the Spacewatch telescope at Kitt Peak. Its very Earth-like orbit and observations of rapid brightness fluctuations argue for it being an artificial body rather than an asteroid. None of the handful of man-made rocket bodies left in heliocentric orbits during the space age have purely gravitational orbits returning to the Earth at that time, and in an3' case the a priori probability of discovery for 1991 VG was very small, of order one in 100,000 per anmun. In addition, the small perigee distance observed might be interpreted as an indicator of a controlled rather than a random encounter with the Earth, and thus it might be argued that 1991 VG is a candidate as an alien probe observed in the vicinity of our planet. Chapman-Rietschi1 has noted, following Arkhipov2, that much work and discussion of SETI tends to overlook the possibility of discovering alien artifacts within the Solar System. Such a pursuit is normally known as SETA (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Artifacts3,4). Over the past two decades various authors have debated whether the best place to look for such artifacts is in the asteroid belt5, in the outer Solar System6, on planetary surfaces7, or as extraterrestrial probes in the inner Solar System8-10, whereas the famous Fermi Paradox argument is based upon the understanding that such probes have not been detected, and thus extraterrestrial intelligent beings do not exist11,12. Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire The aim of this communication is to point out (very tentativeIy) that an extraterrestrial spaceprobe may have been detected in late 1991 in near-Earth space. The 0.91-m Spacewatch telescope of the University of Arizona commenced operation in 1989, since when it has been used to detect asteroids of an unprecedentedly small size in the Earth's vicinity13, On 1991 November 6 Spacewatch observer Jim Scotti discovered a body initially described as being a “fast-moving asteroidal object” at a geocentric distance of 0.022 AU, a month before its closest approach (at 0.0031 AU) to the Earth14. Its heliocentric orbital elements at discovery were a = 1.04AU, e-0.065, i = 0°.39, so that the suggestion was soon made that “this might be a returning spacecraft” (ref. 14). The fly-by of the Earth-Moon system resulted in slight changes in its osculating elements15-17. Assuming the albedo of an S-type asteroid is appropriate − its spectral reflectivity was not dissimilar to main-belt S-type asteroids13 − it would be about 9 m in size, or 19 m with the albedo of a C-type. However, observations by Richard West and Olivier Hainaut from ESO, close to the time of nearest approach, indicated a non-asteroidal nature for the object, with strong, rapid brightness variations which can be interpreted as transient specular reflections from the surfaces of a rotating spacecraft18,19. Contrary to this, Wieslaw Wisniewski at Kitt Peak found only a slowly-varying brightness18 but under poor observing conditions. The question of the nature of this object might have been answered by radar observations, but radar sounding attempts failed16,20 1991 VG was also observed in 1992 April with larger telescopes at Kitt Peak21, but it is unlikely to be observed again soon (see below). However, that recovery allowed an improvement of the ephemeris (in both cartesian and frequency space) for the time of the radar observations, which may make identification of 1991 VG in those data possible when they are fully analyzed20. The approach taken here is to investigate the different probabilities for the nature of this object, given our incomplete knowledge. Three distinct possibilities are apparent. The first is that it was a natural asteroid, to which we assign a probability Pn The second is that it was a man-made spacecraft, probability Ps. The third is that it was an alien artifact, probability Pa. If we assume that there are no other possible explanations then Pn + Ps + Pa= 1. The scepticism of a scientist (myself included) leads one to assume that Pa = 0, but that assump- tion, it will be seen, is not supported by our knowledge of 1991 VG and its discovery circumstances. I show below that these indicate both Pn and Ps to be small, implying that Pa is significant. Of course this does not mean that it is an alien probe, but it does make it a candidate for consideration. First the probability that 1991 VG, was a returning spacecraft is considered. There have been few large rocket bodies released onto heliocentric orbits by homo Sapiens. A reported backwards integration, using only gravitational effects, indicated that 1991 VG came within 0.07 AU of the Earth-Moon svstem in 1975 February- March (ref. 16), and also into our vicinity sixteen years earlier in the late 1950s. Without detailed knowledge of the orbit in 1975-1991, and thus the actual approach distance, it is not possible to extrapolate the orbit back to that earlier approach to define the year, even if only gravitational forces are significant. According to the standard references22,23, there are few candidates. For the earlier period one can list Pioneer 1 (launched 1958 October), Pioneer 3 (1958 December), Luna 1 (1959 January), Pioneer 4 (1959 March), Luna 2 (1959 September), Luna 3 (1959 October), and Pioneer 5 (1960 March), but these are generalIy small objects (some of which are known to have re-entered the atmosphere, with Luna 2 having apparently hit the Moon), and all have launch dates later than the nominal extrapolation of 1991 VG back to the first half of 1958. In the mid- 1970s, Luna 23 was launched in 1974 October but landed on the Moon, its launcher stages having soon re- entered the atmosphere; Helios 1 was put into a heliocentric orbit in 1974 December along with two associated rocket bodies fragments (1974-097C and 097D), and there were no other launches escaping the Earth until Venera 9 was sent to Venus in 1975 June. Identification with any of the above would require the action of non- gravitational forces, such as radiation pressure or leaking fuel18, but these agencies are not known to have acted; in any case, it does not seem to be possible definitely to identify 1991 VG as having originated on the Earth. The next step is to estimate the a priori probability that 1991 VG would be detected by Spacewatch. Having a very Earth-like orbit, at least prior to the late-1991 close approach, this object has an exceptionally high collision probability with our planet. In calculating the mean terrestrial impact probability for all 169 known Apollo and Aten asteroids (which has a value of 9.3 x 10-9 per year), I derived a value of 4.8 x 10-6 per year for 1991 VG alone, meaning that I would have quadrupled the mean terrestrial collision probability for the ensemble should I have included that object24. (Chyba25 calculated 4.2 x l0-6 per vear for 1991 VG, but by using elements that I would have expected to have given a result higher than my own, although he used a different technique.) Instead I decided to reject 1991 VG from the ranks of naturally-occurring objects and to suppose it to be man-made. The referee of my paper24 made the interesting – but tongue-in-cheek– comment in his report that “unless the author knows of observations that suggest that 1991 VG has human characteristics, I would suggest that the word ‘anthropomorphic’ should be replaced by ‘artificial’.” The insinuation does not need to be explained further to the reader in the context of this communication. The referee’s comment was stimulated by my estimation of a low a priori probability that 1991 VG would pass close by our planet, using my collision probability cited above and an enhanced cross-section for passage within some stipulated miss distance of the Earth. A more complete value for the chance of detection can be estimated as below by evaluating (i) the probability of passage sufficiently close by the Earth for detection, and (ii) the probability of detection given that such a passage occurs. The pre-encounter inclination allowed a deviation by 1991 VG of only 0.0068 A U above or below the ecliptic, whereas it had apsides at heliocentric distances of 0.9715 and 1.1071 AU. To first order, then, one can assume that 1991 VG was constrained to an annulus in the ecliptic plane which was 0.1356 AU wide. The Earth would pass 1991 VG once every 16.75 years (from the difference in their orbital periods), and in each such passage there is a (0.044/0.1356) ≈0.3 probability of passing within the geocentric distance at which the object was discovered if one assumes that the heliocentric distance is random within that annulus, and neglects the fact that 1991 VG could not go 0.022 AU sunward of the Earth at perihelion. In reality any orbiting object spends more time close to its apsidal distances, but that is neglected here, as is gravitational focusing. Both these factors are included in the calculations in ref. 24, but are not of great significance since the aim is only to obtain a rough estimate of the probability of a near passage. From the above, the answer is about one in 50 per year, for passage within ≈0.02 AU, a value supported if one takes the impact probability quoted earlier, allows for gravitational focussing, and substitutes for the larger cross-section but with account being taken of the fact that the maximum distance above or below the ecliptic is 0.068 AU. For passage within the actual perigee distance the probability is considerably smaller, its estimation requiring account to be taken of the excursions of 1991 VG from the ecliptic: I found that such a passage would be expected about once every few thousand years24. There are many selection effects which govern the chance that the Spacewatch team (the only suitably- equipped and operational unit) might detect a ~10-m object passing near the Earth. The records of the past five years show that they have found about one such object per year whereas the flux at such a size is thought to be between a few and ten per day crossing cis-lunar space, although it could be higher26. The probability of detection could therefore be estimated as being ~1/1000. Such an estimate could be made by anyone without inside knowledge of the operations of Spacewatch, but Scotti points out that the probability is even lower than that27. In a night the Spacewatch telescope might be used to patrol four regions each of area 3.4 square degrees, giving a fractional celestial-sphere coverage of 4 x 3.4/41253 = 1/3033 (41253 being the number of square degrees in 4π steradians). Triple scans of each region are carried out, so that if the objects were moving fast enough to cross the region between scans, as many as 1/1000 of the detectable (bright enough) targets might be found, in agreement with the above crude estimate. Scotti, however, states27 that “1991 VG was a bit on the exceptional side.” On the discovery night, for some reason he set the V magnitude detection limit lower than usual, and 1991 VG was picked up at V = 20.7, whereas 20.4 was the nominal threshold in use at that stage. Thus 1991 VG would have been missed by the detection software had Scotti not set the brightness limit so low. Whilst the object then brightened as the geo-centric distance decreased, we must note that (i) 1991 VG might not have appeared in the Spacewatch search regions as that brightening occurred; and (ii) even if it had been found later, without the discovery having already occurred, its reduced geocentric distance at identification would then decrement the frequency of approaches as determined above. For the actual discovery circumstances Scotti estimates the probability of detection, given the low threshold that he had set, as having been about 1/7500, but even that neglects trailing losses. That is the probability of detection on any particular night; one would have to multiply that figure by ~ 20 (to account for 1991 VG being within the detection distance limit for about 20 days), by ~ 0.6 (to account for the Spacewatch telescope being operated on only 18 nights per lunation), by ~ 0.7 (to account for observing time loss to weather), and by ~ 0.5 (for trailing losses). An overall figure of 1/2000 might therefore be appropriate. Given the estimates in the last two paragraphs (one close-enough passage every 50 years, one chance in 2000 of spotting it on each passage), the a priori probability of discovery for x991 VG was at most one in 100,000 per year. The intended meaning of that statement is that if the Spacewatch telescope were operated in the same way as it is at present, then just one in 100,000 objects like 1991 VG, would be discovered each year, whereas only a handful of man-made rocket bodies have been released onto heliocentric orbits in the plausible epochs. If 1991 VG is indeed a man-made rocket body, then its return to our vicinity and its accidental detection by Spacewatch was a very unlikely event, and thus one estimates that Ps is very small. Attention is now turned to Pn, the probability that 1991 VG was a natural body. There are two factors which argue against such an identification. The first is the light variations mentioned earlier; the balance of evidence (e.g,, see the image presented in ref. 19, which is distinctly similar to rotating artificial satellite trails frequently seen .in wide-field photographs) supports the idea that 1991 VG is an artificial object. Second, the pre- encounter orbit of 1991 VG was so similar to that of the Earth that it was unstable under close approaches to our planet on a time-scale measured in millennia at most. This is obvious from the above discussion of the frequency of close approaches. The dynamics therefore would require 1991 VG to have recently arrived in that orbit (perhaps as ejecta from a lunar impact?), which is unlikely, if it is an asteroid. The Spacewatch team have suggested13, 26 that there is a population of small asteroids concentrated near the terrestrial orbit, but in general these have either eccentricity or inclination much larger than zero, and semi-major axes differing from unity, so that they are dissimilar from 1991 VG; this is obvious from the fact, as stated above, that the inclusion of 1991 VG in an estimation of the mean terrestrial impact probability quadruples the value obtained using all other asteroids (i.e., including this hypothesized near-Earth belt). One thus must estimate that Pn is small. Since both Ps and Pn are small, one is forced to conclude, in the absence of new information, that Pa is not zero and indeed seems to be substantial, meaning that 1991 VG is a candidate for consideration as having an alien genesis. Are there other data that contradict this (i.e., information that forces one to estimate a small value for Pa)? There are no accepted identifications of alien artifacts, but if the 1991 VG episode were characteristic of terrestrial visitations then would these have been spotted in the past? Spacewatch is the first such surveillance programme to patrol deep space, so the absence of similar episodes is not surprising. Ground-based military surveillance of near-Earth space relies upon optical sensors for ranges over 10,000 km, the radar detectibility limit being ~10-m at that range28,29; data from such programmes do not contradict the alien probe interpretation, especially since the flux of small asteroids is much higher and objects found to be in non-geocentric orbits are soon discarded. The final point to be discussed, on the basis of the alien artifact interpretation, is whether 1991 VG was under control, or making a random passage by the Earth (i.e., an inert artificial object). If the latter then one can estimate the population from the probability of discovery of ~0.00001 per annum, and the Spacewatch team having discovered one such object in five years of operation. Thus one would estimate ~20,000 as being the population in similar orbits (contra the Fermi Paradox), and thus about one per decade to hit the Earth or one per century to fall onto the populated regions of the globe. Observations (or the lack of them) do not preclude this possibility. On the other hand, continued searching with Spacewatch, and, one hopes, within a few years with the more powerful Spaceg,uard system30, would turn up other examples of such a substantial population. The non-detection of such a population would indicate that 1991 VG is unlikeIy to have been an inert alien probe. Conversely, only about one in 50 objects passing randomly within 0.022 AU have perigee heights as low as 0.0031 AU, as was observed in the case of 1991 VG, leading to the possibility that it was a singular alien spaceprobe on a controlled reconnaissance mission. This interpretation would not be limited by the probabilistic analysis given above, since the probe could have been directed to make repeated close passages. The above has been intended to provide prima facie evidence that 1991 VG is a candidate alien artifact. The alternative explanations − that it was a peculiar asteroid, or a man-made body − are both estimated to be unlikely, but require further investigation. In connection with the former, it will be of interest to see whether sky-surveillance programmes reveal asteroids with similar orbital and light-curve properties as 1991 VG. For the latter, each of the handful of rocket bodies which mankind has left in heliocentric orbits in the plausible launch windows requires detailed investigation' are their initial. heliocentric orbits known, was fuel left on board any of them, are their physical parameters such that non-gravitational forces could plausibly bring them back to the Earth within a few decades, could they fit the observed spectral reflectivity of 1991 VG? My personal bias is that 1991 VG was indeed an artificial object, but an anthropogenic one. The point is that such an interpretation, which will likely be favoured by most, requires: (i) the action of non-gravitational forces which are not known to have occurred; (ii) the chance return of one of a very small number of man-made objects left on heliocentric orbits in acceptable epochs; (iii) that return to have been unusually close, given its geocentric distance at discovery; and (iv) the object to have been spotted despite long odds against such discov- ery. If 1991 VG is a returned man-made rocket body, it was very much a fluke that it was observed, and the normal process of science then requires that we consider the possibility of some other origin for it. References (1) P. A. L. Chapman-Rietschi, The Observatory,114, 174, 1994. (2) A. V. Arkhipov, The Observatory,113, 306, 1993. (3) R. A. Freitas, Jr., ]BIS, 36, 501, 1983. (4) R. A. Freitas, Jr., Spaceflight, 26, 438, 1984. (5) M.D. Papagiannis, QJRAS, 19, 277, 1978. (6) D. G. Stephenson, QJRAS, 20, 422, 1979. (7) M. J. Carlotto & M. C Stein, JBIS, 43, 209, 1990. (8) R. A. Freitas, Jr., JBIS, 36, 490, 1983. (9) R. A. Freitas, Jr., lcarus, 55, 337, 1983. (10) E. J. Betinis, JBIS, 31, 217, 1978. (11) F. J. Tipler, QJRAS, 21, 267, 1980. (I2) F. J. Tiplcr, QJRAS, 22, 279, 198I. (13) D. L. Rabinowitz et al., Nature, 363, 704, 1993. (14) IAU Circ. 5387. (I5) IAU Circ. 5388. (16) IAU Circ. 5401. (17) Minor Planet Circ. 20823. (18) IAU Circ.5402. (19) The Messenger (ESO), no. 66, 66, 1991. (20) S. J. Ostro, personal communication. (21) Minor Planet Cite. 20745. (22). G. King-Hele et al., The RAE Table of Earth Satellites, .3rd Edn. (Macrnillan, London), 1987. (23) Satellite Situation Report, NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center, 33, no. 4, 1993. (24) D. I. Steel, MNRAS, in press. (25) C. F. Chyba, Nature, 363, 701, 1993. (26) D. L. Rabinowitz, lcarus, 111, 364, 1994. (27) J. V. Scotti, personal communication. (28) N. L. Johnson & D. S. McKnight, Artificial Space Debris, (Orbit Book Co., Malabar. F!orida), 1987. (29) S. H. Knowles, Orbital Debris: Technical Issues and Future Directions, NASA CP-10077. 1992, p. 235. (30)D. Morrison (ed.), The Spaceg,uard Survey: Report of the NASA Near-Earth-Object Detection Workshop (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California), 1992. 7582686 2009-12-16 02:03:26 2009-12-16 02:03:26 open open 1991-vg-louis-j-sheehan-esquire-7582686 publish 0 0 post 0 ufo never 2.nev.0001 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire http://Louis9J9Sheehan9esquire.blog.ca/2009/12/13/never-2-nev-0001-louis-j-sheehan-esquire-7564478/ Sun, 13 Dec 2009 03:47:05 +0100 Beforethebigbang Why didn't he kill me? He killed so many others?" — Mary Jeanne Larey, victim The Phantom Artist's rendering Copyright American- International Pictures The Phantom Artist's rendering Copyright American- International Pictures Nineteen-year-old Mary Jeanne Larey and her boyfriend, Jimmy Hollis, 24, were like any other young lovers in Texarkana tonight. Their world was an oyster, wide open, sparkling, and promising a taste of adventure. This evening of February 22, 1946 — a date that had begun no different than any other — promised to end a little more exciting because they finally had a chance to be together, alone. And in good old fashioned American idiom, that meant to sneak out to the seclusion of Richmond Road beyond town, to kiss, to cuddle and pet. With their double dates hurriedly rushed home and unloaded after the movie they had all seen together, Mary Jeanne and Jimmy had, by themselves, raced to a romantic rendezvous here in this section of country back road known as Lovers Lane — the local ministers' scorn and a blight to any respectable parent. Turning the key in the ignition, Jimmy snuffed the engine of his auto and glanced at his wristwatch; time was nearing 11:45 p.m. He scowled, for he had promised his dad to have the Plymouth home not much after midnight. But, he quickly forgot his father's imminent anger under the lure of the prospect beside him in her Lana Turner sweater and white pearl beads. His pulse raced; Mary Jeanne looked so lovely, the moonlight punctuating her lovely features, glistening her eyes that spoke of a little reticence yet urged the right amount of wickedness. Her sweet perfume filled the shell of the car. When he leaned over to peck his girl's cheek, reassuring her that he meant no harm — after all, what's a kiss between two people who, let's face it, weren't kids anymore? — the only sounds he could hear were her anxious breathing and the squeak of the seat springs beneath them. Then, the shadow fell over them to obliterate the moonlight. Jimmy glanced up, expecting to see the uniform of a policeman come at an inopportune moment. He startled, however, to see the thing just beyond his window, bent to peer inside. Frankly, he didn't know what the hell it was. Some thing in a hood of what appeared to be canvas, motioning to them with two bare hands from beyond the car window, from the darkness of the grove. As Jimmy's eyes accustomed to the darkness, he realized that one of those hands held something in it. It gripped a pistol. And as the pistol barrel came to rest against, then tap, the window, Jimmy recoiled into the recess of the car, shoving Mary Jeanne across the seat. "Come out of the car now!" the Thing directed, voice muffled under the mask. It was, muffled or not, a deep voice, a masculine voice. Muffled or not, it demanded authority. Fearing the intruder would shoot through the pane if he did not comply, Jimmy obliged, pushing the door outward and stepping into the night. Gravel crushed under heel. Mary Jeanne, her hand in her boyfriend's, followed suit and stood beside him. "You can have all the money we have, mister," the girl warbled. "Just don't hurt us." Try as they may, the couple could not detect eyes through the slits where eyes should be. Only blackness, a hollowness, like that within an unlit window sill pumpkin at Halloween. As if he noticed their inquisitive stares, the stranger flicked on a flashlight into their faces to blind their perceptions. Behind the sudden and bright beam, Jimmy heard the Thing's voice: "Do as I say and I won't hurt you." Jimmy's lips quivered. "What do you want? My wallet? The car?" "Your britches." The Voice chuckled this time. "Remove your britches." "I will not!" the boy responded. He wondered for a moment if this was some kind of gag proffered by his buddies. "Do it or I'll kill you!" insisted the Voice. Mary Jeanne pleaded, tugging at her date's shirtsleeve. "Please, Jim, do what he says." Jimmy hesitated, wondering why this absurdity. He glanced at the gun barrel, for the first time noticing it leveled within inches of his abdomen, and lost all male inhibition. Unbuckling his belt, he let the corduroy trousers drop below his kneecaps. In that same moment, he watched the Thing's hand raise overhead, the one holding the pistol, and with first a flashing light then a blistering pain he realized that the man had belted him — twice he sensed in quick succession — with the butt of the gun. Dizzy, his legs crumpled beneath him. Time and space faded. The creature now turned to face the girl. She ducked beneath his reach and dashed in her desperation toward a dark connecting lane of overhanging cypress. She sensed him strike forth again and this time felt his fist tug the back of her sweater to pull her into him; like fodder, she was tossed to the ground. Now triumphant, the animal sat on top of her; it coughed, then wheezed, then snorted like a bull who had made a rag doll from a matador. His hands crept up the inside of her skirt; she could feel the cold of the gun metal against her thighs. Despite her pleas, his abuse continued, for the barrel of the gun was resting now against her panties, phallic like. Even though his face was hidden behind the dirty cover of canvas, the girl knew he was grinning. She could see the glint of debauchery in his eyes - those dark eyes that now glimmered through the peep holes. They shone now, almost iridescently, in the full glow of evil, in the full of the moon... ...But, no, it was not the moon. Too bright for the moon, for the ray of white light illumined the beast's full form, froze his macabre presence like a waxen dummy, forever twisted and clenched in nature in a house of horrors. The light caught his attention; he groaned and cursed and by his cussing Mary Jeanne, under him, knew it was the light of an approaching automobile. But, as he eased up on her, obviously to run, he intended to have the last word. Walloping her across her face and shoulders several times with his fists, he at last retreated into the darkness from whence he came. * * * * * The darkness would not hold him long. He would return. His first two victims had been lucky to have been alive, even though they did not — and Texarkana did not — realize their fortune at the time. Mary Jeanne and her boyfriend were rushed to the hospital where the girl's bruises were tended to. Jimmy had been hit with such ferocity that his skull had been fractured in two places. But, he too survived to tell the story. They had escaped from what would become over the ensuing months a deadly rush of murders brought on by this same Thing that crept in from the silence where lovers should have been left alone to spoon. Texas Rangers, Texas' top lawmen, were assigned to Texarkana to take on the Phantom. Courtesy Wayne Beck Texas Rangers, Texas' top lawmen, were assigned to Texarkana to take on the Phantom. Courtesy Wayne Beck Between February and May, 1946, the city of Texarkana would endure one of the most sanguine, most frightening episodes in its long and colorful history. It was The Season of the Phantom, of his Moonlight Murders, of his dangerous ghostlike elusive ambushes that crawled under the skin of man, woman and child who couldn't sleep at night, who suddenly began locking their doors in a town that didn't need bolting before. He was never caught. Who he was, where he came from, Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire where he went is still much of a mystery; at best, there is a central suspect, no more. Evidence remains minimal. In the end, Jimmy and Mary Jeanne would be the only two victims who could describe him, and their descriptions were hazy. They described him as standing about six feet tall, wearing a rough-looking homemade hood of white, with holes punched out for the eyes and mouth. "It is an image most commonly associated today with the Phantom Killer," writes Carmen Jones, one of the staff writers of the Texarkana Gazette, which in 1996 produced a half-century retrospective of the murders. "It is the image of record because no one else who saw the killer at work lived to give a description." And it is that image that haunted movie screens when Hollywood filmed a semi-documentary of the event called The Town That Dreaded Sundown. Mary Jeanne Larey herself dreaded many sundowns to come after that night. She spent months of scarred dreams and restless afternoons, eventually leaving town to live with relatives in Oklahoma. But, she would always Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire remember his voice. "I would know that it anywhere," she later said. "It rings always in my ears." 7564478 2009-12-13 03:47:05 2009-12-13 03:47:05 open open never-2-nev-0001-louis-j-sheehan-esquire-7564478 publish 0 0 post 0 ufo giving 88.giv.6.i.9 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire http://Louis9J9Sheehan9esquire.blog.ca/2009/12/12/giving-88-giv-6-i-9-louis-j-sheehan-esquire-7563969/ Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:39:44 +0100 Beforethebigbang These lost Son of Sam letters, as I call them, Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire show a different side of the infamous killer that has escaped researchers and writers for decades. For the most part, they are not dated; yet the few that are prove they were written between June and December, 1987—a period when Sam claims to have been touched by the hand of God and born again. Son of Sam referred to himself as "Big Dave," "little Dave," "Berko," "The Great Berko," "The Great Mouse-kit-eer," "Master B," "D," "White Knight," "Torch," "The Missing Link," "M. Mouse," and "Dave." A familiar way for him to sign off was, "Your nasty friend," and "Keep swinging your royal sword." Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire Sam liked to draw Evans pictures and cut out photos from magazines and photocopy, or embed, them into different sections of the letters. In one, Sam cut out a photograph of a German Shepard. There's a caption—"Hi, Gary"—draw in, and a note from Sam on the bottom of the page, "There are lots of little Garys, but only one Big Gary." Dog Picture Dog Picture In some of the letters, Sam's mind wanders. He goes from one subject to the next and has a hard time staying focused, almost always referring back to Evans's body. Here's an excerpt: Gary Evans Back View Gary Evans Back View Wayne [a fellow inmate they both knew very well] tells me you still take your showers under the faucet in the yard. I'm surprised. You're so big, Gary, my goodness, I don't see how you fit. I can tell when you walk past my cell. The sun always shines in my windows. But when you go by suddenly the sun gets blocked out and everything gets dark. It's like a big truck passing through. Sam was forever giving Evans a list of things he wanted, hoping Evans could somehow come up with the items (which he always did). I'll write more tomorrow. Here's my new tape request: 1.) The Band — Last Waltz 2.) Streets of Fire — Soundtrack How's that? Cruel Might Warrior, remain steadfast against all OBSTACLES! True Brother — Great Tricep King — Carry on, IRON Torch. Dave 7563969 2009-12-12 23:39:44 2009-12-12 23:39:44 open open giving-88-giv-6-i-9-louis-j-sheehan-esquire-7563969 publish 0 0 post 0 ufo when 6.whe.001 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire http://Louis9J9Sheehan9esquire.blog.ca/2009/12/08/when-6-whe-001-louis-j-sheehan-esquire-7531495/ Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:53:32 +0100 Beforethebigbang Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire As we talked, I learned that they were hardworking, middleclass people. I enjoyed their company from the moment I arrived. It was just the thought of having to drive ten hours to and fro in order to hear a few stories of what I assumed was a guy who knew a now-famous serial killer and wanted his voice in my book. I understood it. But it pained me to think that I had come all this way for nothing. "Don't turn on your tape recorder yet," Uncle Bill told me as I took it out and placed it on the dining table. That's when things took an interesting turn. "Oh," I said. "What's up? I record everyone." "Yeah, I understand. But I want to tell you something first." The man I had traveled all this way to interview then bellied up to the table at which he was sitting opposite me, leaned in, and said, "Gary was a thief in school! He stole records [LPs] for us and we paid him." He was whispering. Sort of smiling. I nodded my head. "Wow. That's something." "Before we get started," he said next, "I was wondering if you'd be interested in looking at something I have?" "Sure. Why not." He disappeared into the house. 7531495 2009-12-08 01:53:32 2009-12-08 01:53:32 open open when-6-whe-001-louis-j-sheehan-esquire-7531495 publish 0 0 post 0 ufo appointed 4.app.002 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire http://Louis9J9Sheehan9esquire.blog.ca/2009/12/06/appointed-4-app-002-louis-j-sheehan-esquire-7518653/ Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:28:43 +0100 Beforethebigbang the several States, italicizing such passages as are specially sig- nificant of the duties and powers of the delegates to the Con- vention. The General Assembly of Virginia, after reciting the recom- mendation made at Annapolis, enacted: "That seven commis- sioners be appointed by joint ballot of both Houses of Assem- bly, who, or any three of them, are hereby authorized, as depu- ties from this Commonwealth, to meet such deputies as may be appointed and authorized by other States, to assemble in con- vention at Philadelphia, Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire as above recommended, and to join with them in devising and discussing all such alterations and further provisions as may be necessary to render the Federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of the Union, and in reporting such an act for that purpose to the United States in Congress, as, when, agreed to by them, and duly confirmed by the several States, will effectually provide for the same." The Council and Assembly of New Jersey issued commis- sions to their delegates to meet such commissioners as have been, or may be, appointed by the other States of the Union, at the city of Philadelphia, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, on the second Monday in May next, for the purpose of taking into consideration the state of the Union as to trade and other important objects, and of devising such other provisions as shall appear to be necessary to render the Constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies thereof." The act of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania consti- tuted and appointed certain deputies, designated by name, "with powers to meet such deputies as may be appointed and authorized by the other States, . . . and to join with them in devising, deliberating on, and discussing all such alterations and further provisions as may be necessary to render the Fed- eral Constitution, fully adequate to the exigencies of the Union, and in reporting such act or acts for that purpose, to the United States in Congress assembled, as, when agreed to by them and duly confirmed by the several States, will effectually provide for the same." The General Assembly of North Carolina enacted that com- missioners should be appointed by joint ballot of both Houses, 7518653 2009-12-06 03:28:43 2009-12-06 03:28:43 open open appointed-4-app-002-louis-j-sheehan-esquire-7518653 publish 0 0 post 0 ufo Christmas Eve 33.Chr.002 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire http://Louis9J9Sheehan9esquire.blog.ca/2009/11/24/christmas-eve-33-chr-002-louis-j-sheehan-esquire-7447953/ Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:45:05 +0100 Beforethebigbang The "Servant Girl Annihilator" struck again on Christmas Eve, 1885, but this time the attacks were different. Hollandsworth indicates that just after a concert at the State Institution for the Blind, Moses Hancock, 50, woke up and discovered his wife murdered and lying in the backyard of their home on San Jacinto Boulevard. She had been pulled from their bed while he dozed on a chair. Sue Hancock, a white woman, had been bludgeoned with an ax, her head cleaved open, and a sharp, thin implement remained stuck in her brain. Blood ran from her ears and matted her hair. She did not die immediately, although she did not retain consciousness, either. Those who examined her noted that she had been raped. The new marshal, James Lucy, brought in bloodhounds, just like his predecessor, who had been ousted for lack of confidence. Yet this former Texas Ranger was as much at a loss about how to catch the fiend as Lee had been. And he was about to get another challenge. Drawing of Eula Phillips Drawing of Eula Phillips That same hour, Eula Phillips died as well. Hollandsworth describes "Luly" as one of the "loveliest women in Austin." She'd had dark curly hair, pale skin, an exquisite figure, and "contemplative" eyes, and many a man had turned to look at her as she passed. Hollandsworth goes on to show how she symbolized a more civilized and modern Austin than had once been the case. Saylor actually makes this "frail" woman the fictional lover of William Sydney Porter, who over the subsequent years becomes haunted by the series of murders. Hollandsworth, too, offers clues to the possibility that Eula was an unfaithful wife, taking up with a prominent politician. In fact, Eula had been killed in what seemed a protected area, one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Austin. Her nude, "outraged" body, spread-eagled, with arms pinned under some lumber (which led some to believe that the crime had to have been perpetrated by two men), was discovered in an alley near the home of her father-in-law, where she had lived with her husband, Jimmy, and their infant son. Jimmy, too, had been attacked. He lay in bed unconscious, with a severe wound on the back of his head. The boy, unharmed, was next to him, clutching a piece of an apple. An ax lay in the middle of the floor and a trail of blood ran from the bedroom to the alley where Eula was left, her skull smashed. A bloody shoeprint, clearly from a man, had been left behind on the porch. Shoe print Shoe print The gossip traveled fast and reporters from several papers managed to see the body before it was removed. They wrote about Eula's agonized expression as she lay face-up and assumed that she had suffered terribly before she died. "The Demons have transferred their thirst for blood to white people!" shouted one of the papers. Another splashed "Blood! Blood! Blood!" across the front page to announce the "butchery." Fullerton quotes the Statesman from an article: "The baying of bloodhounds frantically seeking the killer's scent broke into the usual chorus of Yuletide merriment, chilling holiday spirits." It was a regular heyday for crime reporters, and with the new element of white women being attacked, practically everyone bought these editions of the papers. Some people now spoke of this killer as a supernatural creature, while the more pragmatic ones purchased weapons or kept the ones they owned loaded and ready. On Christmas day, a meeting was held which some five hundred frightened citizens attended to devise strategies for making the town a safer place. As a result, the "moonlight towers" were erected to light up the city streets at night -- still in place a century later. Marshal Lucy hired and posted more officers, charging them with the task, says Hollandsworth, of finding out more about strangers in town. Rewards were offered from both the governor and a citizen's group, which lured detectives from other areas to try to solve the mystery, and in general, people took more personal precautions at night. Taverns were forced to close at midnight. Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire But after that Christmas Eve, the murders suddenly stopped. There would be no more clues, no more opportunities to get out the hounds, and no more footprints left behind. Yet someone had to pay; the city needed closure on this series of deadly attacks. So, logic and rumor combined to dictate a story that made some sense to law enforcement, even if there was no evidence to support it. Within three days, an arrest was made. 7447953 2009-11-24 04:45:05 2009-11-24 04:45:05 open open christmas-eve-33-chr-002-louis-j-sheehan-esquire-7447953 publish 0 0 post 0 zeta reticuli supreme court 5.sup.0003003 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire http://Louis9J9Sheehan9esquire.blog.ca/2009/10/24/supreme-court-5-sup-0003003-louis-j-sheehan-esquire-7237332/ Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:49:28 +0200 Beforethebigbang Andersons trial took place in South Dakotas Minnehaha County Circuit Court during the first week of March 1999. The attorneys representing his case were John A. Schlimgen and Mike Butler. Deputy Attorney General Larry Long headed the prosecution team and Judge Tim Dallas Tucker presided over the case. The entire trial lasted approximately one month. Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire During the proceedings Shainas testimony was never heard, although her description of the events that took place on July 29, 1996 was presented to the court. Eyewitnesses, Andersons friends and his one-time cellmate Brunner also testified. The evidence against Anderson was overwhelming. The defense didnt stand a chance. On April 6th, a jury of eight men and eight women quickly returned their verdict. Anderson was found guilty on four counts including, the rape and murder of Piper and the kidnapping and murder of Larisa. Three days later, the same jury sentenced Anderson to death by lethal injection. Robert Anderson in prison garb Robert Anderson in prison garb Andersons friend Walker was tried for his crimes in March 2000. He pled guilty to the attempted kidnapping of Amy Anderson, accessory to kidnapping and first-degree murder and conspiracy to kidnap Larisa Dumansky. He received a total of 30 consecutive years behind bars at the South Dakota State Penitentiary. In January 2002, Anderson filed for a death sentence appeal with the South Dakota Supreme Court. According to the Aberdeen News, his lawyers presented 18 issues in their appeal. Some of the arguments raised included a secret deal between prosecutors and Jamie Hammer in exchange for testimony. Anderson complained that he was not tried separately for the abduction and murder of Larisa, nor did he did get the chance to confront Shaina and that he was denied his right to make a statement to the jurors before his penalty was handed down. Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire The Supreme Court met to discuss Andersons appeal in March 2002. The court would finally make their decision in May 2003, but Anderson would never hear the final results. On March 30th, while awaiting the outcome of his appeal, Robert Leroy Anderson committed suicide. Joe Kafka of the Associated Press claimed that Anderson was not in his death-row cell but was alone in a segregation cell when he was found hanging by a sheet tied to a bar. He was placed in isolation because he was found in possession of a razor blade. It was likely that he obtained the blade to use as a weapon of self-destruction. Approximately three months before Anderson killed himself, his father also committed suicide. He died from a gunshot wound to his head. His fathers actions may have been the catalyst, which prompted him to take his own life. Kafka quoted Larry Long saying that, Theres a lot of women who will sleep better knowing that this guy is deceased. Kafka further quoted Pipers husband Vance saying, This is what we were after anyway. It just saved some time and effort. After Anderson committed suicide, The Supreme Court of South Dakota dismissed his appeal. Court documents suggested that they would have upheld Andersons criminal convictions anyway. Another factor in his suicide could have been that he knew his appeal would have been denied. 7237332 2009-10-24 20:49:28 2009-10-24 20:49:28 open open supreme-court-5-sup-0003003-louis-j-sheehan-esquire-7237332 publish 0 0 post 0 ufo car 3.car.93993 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire http://Louis9J9Sheehan9esquire.blog.ca/2009/10/18/car-3-car-93993-louis-j-sheehan-esquire-7190961/ Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:47:29 +0200 Beforethebigbang It was Saturday, August 27, 1977, at a Sears store in St. David's. A cashier was at the Ticketron counter selling tickets and money orders. When a courier showed up, she handed over that day's receipts to him. As Wambaugh wrote in Echoes in the Darkness, "There was a deposit slip for a large amount in checks and there was another for $34,073 in cash. The young woman brought the bags as well as the Brink's logbook for the courier to sign. The courier signed the name 'Carl S. Williams' and received the bag of checks and money.Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire "Five minutes later, the young woman was interrupted by yet another Brink's courier who insisted that he had come for the day's deposits. "'But you were already here,' the confused cashier informed him." It is likely a sick feeling grew in the pit of the cashier's stomach as the truth slowly dawned on her." On another Saturday in another Sears store, one in the Neshaminy Mall near Bensalem, another puzzling courier incident took place. It was December 17, 1977, and a clerk turned a courier's identification card over to the assistant head cashier. The latter took the ID to an office to compare it to a list of couriers. The name, Albert J. Wharton, checked out. Then she compared the signature on the card to that of Wharton's signature. They were alarmingly dissimilar. The wary woman went to the now suspect uniformed courier and asked, "Did you bring our money? We ordered coins and one-dollar bills to carry us over a few days." "Had a very heavy demand today," he calmly replied. "Had to put it on another truck." The assistant head cashier tried to keep her cool. She did not want this man to know that she suspected he was a phony. "Just a few minutes," she told him before scurrying back to her office. From there she made an announcement over the Sears store's public address system. It was in a code that she hoped the "courier" would not understand. "Eight hundred call for operator thirty-nine," she said. The fake courier sensed danger and headed for her office as another cashier shouted, "You can't go in there!" Walking fast, he knocked another clerk down just before he burst into that office. "I want my card!" he screamed in a menacing manner. "I don't have to take this type of treatment! I'll just go back downstairs and send somebody else up! But I want my card!" He grabbed it out of her hand and made a hurried exit, running through the store and down the escalator. In February 1978, Jay Smith's daughter, Stephanie Hunsberger, and her husband Eddie, paid a visit to the home of his parents, Pete and Dorothy Hunsberger. It was Eddie's custom to visit his parents regularly. But several weeks later, the elder Hunsbergers heard nothing from their son. Dorothy Hunsberger contacted Smith, who told her that he had seen the couple recently. They had told him that they were going to California because Pennsylvania had a warrant out for Eddie's arrest. Dorothy checked with authorities and there was no warrant out. Later she discussed the baffling disappearance with Jay's wife who was very sick and dying from cancer at the time. "Oh my God!" Stephanie moaned, "I hope Jay didn't do them in!" Dorothy was chilled by the remark. She hoped it was said out of a drug- or illness-induced fog. The last Upper Merion faculty meeting was the scene of news that many welcomed: Dr. Jay Smith was leaving their institution. He said he was getting another job in administration. School was out on the evening of August 19, 1978, when a young couple on a date in Tredyffrin Township went to the Gateway Shopping Center to enjoy some pizza. They were sitting on a curb when they noticed a brown Ford Granada stopping next to a Chevrolet van. A tall man got out of the Ford and looked through the window of the van. The young man and woman looked at each other, sensing something wrong. Without a word, they hurried to a nearby phone. The young man called the police. Within a few minutes of their report, two police officers, a sergeant and a lieutenant, spotted a Ford Granada resembling the one described on a radio broadcast. The driver was steering recklessly and the police pulled him over. "May I see your driver's license, sir?" the sergeant requested. "It's in the car," the man replied. "Drop it!" the lieutenant shouted. He had seen the Ruger in the driver's hand. "Drop it now!" "Oh, my goodness!" the driver said and let go of his gun.Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire The incident was especially frightening to the lieutenant because, as quoted in Echoes in the Darkness, "I couldn't fire even after the first command. I was carrying a hot load in my gun and sergeant was right behind the guy. I was scared I'd blast through him and blow away my partner." The gunman they arrested was 55-year-old Dr. Jay Smith. A variety of items were found in his car, including four loaded handguns, a hood mask, a bolt cutter and a syringe filled with a tranquilizing drug. He had explanations. He needed guns to scare some people who had harassed him. The syringe must belong to his drug-addicted son-in-law, he said. Many other items of interest to law enforcement were found in the suspect's home. Several packets of marijuana were there, keeping company with a few illegal pills. Four gallons of nitric acid, which authorities determined had been stolen from his school, and office equipment that had been reported missing from the Upper Merion school district were found in Smith's house. He also had badges and uniforms like those worn by Brink's security guards and stolen army I.D. cards. Several firearm silencers were there. Smith also hoarded pornography with a heavy preference for bestiality. 7190961 2009-10-18 00:47:29 2009-10-18 00:47:29 open open car-3-car-93993-louis-j-sheehan-esquire-7190961 publish 0 0 post 0 ufo moche 5.moc.002002 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire http://Louis9J9Sheehan9esquire.blog.ca/2009/10/16/moche-5-moc-002002-louis-j-sheehan-esquire-7184171/ Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:17:16 +0200 Beforethebigbang Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire The Moche civilization (alternately, the Mochica culture, Early Chimu, Pre-Chimu, Proto-Chimu, etc.) flourished in northern Peru from about 100 A.D. to 800 A.D., during the Regional Development Epoch. While this is still the subject of some debate, many scholars contend that the Moche were not politically organized as a monolithic empire or state but rather as a group of autonomous polities that shared a common elite culture as seen in the rich iconography and monumental architecture that survive today. They are particularly noted for their elaborately painted ceramics, gold work, monumental constructions (huacas) and irrigation systems.[1] Moche history may be broadly divided into three periods – the emergence of the Moche culture in Early Moche (AD 100–300), its expansion and florescence during Middle Moche (AD 300–600), and the urban nucleation and subsequent collapse in Late Moche (AD 500–750).[2] Moche society was agriculturally based with a significant level of investment in the diversion of river water into a network of irrigation canals. Their culture was sophisticated and their artifacts document their lives with detailed scenes of hunting, fishing, fighting, sacrifice, sexual encounters and elaborate ceremonies. Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire The Moche cultural sphere is centered around several valleys on the north coast of Peru – Lambayeque, Jequetepeque, Chicama, Moche, Virú, Chao, Santa, and Nepena. The Huaca del Sol, a pyramidal adobe structure on the Rio Moche, had been the largest pre-Columbian structure in Peru; however, it was partly destroyed when Spanish Conquistadors mined its graves for gold. Fortunately the nearby Huaca de la Luna has remained largely intact – it contains many colorful murals with complex iconography and has been under excavation since the early 1990s. Other major Moche sites include Sipan, Pampa Grande, Loma Negra, Dos Cabezas, Pacatnamu, San Jose de Moro, the El Brujo complex, Mocollope, Cerro Mayal, Galindo, Huancaco, and Panamarca. 7184171 2009-10-16 20:17:16 2009-10-16 20:17:16 open open moche-5-moc-002002-louis-j-sheehan-esquire-7184171 publish 0 0 post 0 ufo House 5.hou.993993 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire http://Louis9J9Sheehan9esquire.blog.ca/2009/10/12/house-5-hou-993993-louis-j-sheehan-esquire-7156921/ Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:56:27 +0200 Beforethebigbang The House Divided Speech was an address given by Abraham Lincoln (who would later become President of the United States) on June 16, 1858, in Springfield, Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire Illinois, upon accepting the Illinois Republican Party's nomination as that state's United States senator. The speech became the launching point for his unsuccessful campaign for the Senate seat against Stephen A. Douglas, which included the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858. The speech created a lasting image of the danger of disunion because of slavery, and it rallied Republicans across the North. Along with the Gettysburg Address and his second inaugural address, this became one of the best-known speeches of his career. The speech contains the quotation "A house divided against itself cannot stand," which is taken from Matthew 12:25: "Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand." Lincoln was referring to the division of the country between slave and free states. The "house divided" phrase had been used by others before. Eight years before Lincoln's speech, during the Senate debate on the Compromise of 1850, Sam Houston had proclaimed: "A nation divided against itself cannot stand." The most well-known passage of the speech is: “ "A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South. 7156921 2009-10-12 21:56:27 2009-10-12 21:56:27 open open house-5-hou-993993-louis-j-sheehan-esquire-7156921 publish 0 0 post 0 ufo deserves 5.des.003003 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire http://Louis9J9Sheehan9esquire.blog.ca/2009/10/10/deserves-5-des-003003-louis-j-sheehan-esquire-7140580/ Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:47:12 +0200 Beforethebigbang At last I have run L. Blanc to earth and at the same time found out why I could never get hold of him. Just listen — this little literary lord receives visitors only on Thursdays! and then only in the afternoon! Of this he never informed me, either directly or through his doorkeeper. I found him, of course, surrounded by a crowd of jackasses, amongst whom Ramon de La Sagra, who gave me a pamphlet which I shall send on to you. [R. de La Sagra, Organisation du travail] I have not yet read it. However I was finally able to have a few minutes’ talk with him about our affairs. He reluctantly admitted that he had not yet had time to read your book [The Poverty of Philosophy] ... I have Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire leafed through it and seen that M. Proudhon is attacked with some acerbity. — Well then, will you be able to write the article for the Réforme you promised us? — An article, good gracious no, I'm so hard pressed by my publishers — but I'll tell you what to do: write the article yourself and I'll see that it appears in the Réforme. This was then agreed. After all you'll lose nothing by it. At least I'll present our views more correctly than he would have done. I shall draw a direct, parallel between these and his own — that is the most that can be done: naturally a conclusion detrimental to the Réforme cannot be drawn in the Réforme itself. I shall see to this forthwith.[194] Why didn’t you tell Bornstedt not to write to the Réforme about your thing? My article was finished when Bornstedt’s appeared in the Réforme along with the Chartist things [an item about Marx’s speech at the meeting of the Brussels Democratic Association on 9 January 1848, published in La Réforme on 19 January, along with Engels’ report The Chartist Movement] whose publication I was awaiting before taking mine in. It was appreciably longer than the brief notice in which, to boot, your name is distorted. ['Man’ instead of ‘Marx'] I told Flocon he must correct the printer’s error; he had not done so yesterday and I haven’t seen today’s Réforme. It is of little moment anyhow. As soon as your speech [On the Question of Free Trade] appears, send me 4-5 copies for the Réforme, L. Blanc, de La Sagra (for the Démocratie pacifique), etc.; I can now make a longer article of it as the notice was so abominably brief. As for L. Blanc, he deserves to be castigated. Write a review of his Révolution for the Deutsche-Brüsseler-Zeitung and prove to him in practice how far above him we are; the form amicable, but the content leaving no doubt as to our superiority. We'll see that it reaches him. The petty sultan must be made to quake a little. The theoretical aspect, alas, is for the time being our only strength, but this carries much weight in the eyes of these champions of science sociale, of the law of sufficient production etc. Comical, these fellows, with their chasing after this unknown law. They wish to find a law by which they will increase production tenfold. Like the wagoner in the fable, they seek a Hercules who will drag the social wagon out of the mire for them. Yet there Hercules is, in their own hands. The law of sufficient production consists in one’s ability to produce suffisamment. If they cannot do so, no magic formula will avail. Inventors who take out a brevet [patent] do more for production suffisante than the whole of L. Blanc with his profound, high-flying aspirations to la science. Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire I wrote Bernays a very ironical letter in reply to his last, expressing regret that his impartiality should have robbed me of the ultimate consolation — that of being a beautiful soul misunderstood — à la Praslin. [allusion to Bernays, Die Ermordung der Herzogin von Praslin] Raising his eyebrows reproachfully, he returns me the note,[195] observing that this marks the end of our correspondence. Sela [The end]. Otherwise nothing new. Write soon. 7140580 2009-10-10 22:47:12 2009-10-10 22:47:12 open open deserves-5-des-003003-louis-j-sheehan-esquire-7140580 publish 0 0 post 0 ufo eisermann 4.eis.003003 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire http://Louis9J9Sheehan9esquire.blog.ca/2009/10/04/eisermann-4-eis-003003-louis-j-sheehan-esquire-7097223/ Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:47:27 +0200 Beforethebigbang There is little to be said about the Straubinger business here. The main thing is that the various differences I have had to thrash out with the lads hitherto are now settled: Grün’s chief follower and disciple, Papa Eisermann, has been chucked out, the rest, so far as their influence over the great majority is concerned, have been completely routed, and I have carried through a unanimous resolution against them. Briefly this is what happened: The Proudhonian association scheme was discussed on three evenings. At the beginning I had nearly the whole clique against me and at the end only Eisermann and the three other Grünians. The main thing was to prove the necessity for revolution by force and in general to reject as anti-proletarian, petty-bourgeois, and Straubingerian Grün’s true socialism, which had drawn new strength from the Proudhonian panacea. In the end I became infuriated by my opponents’ endless repetition of the same arguments and really pitched into the Straubingers, which aroused great indignation among the Grünians but succeeded in eliciting from the worthy Eisermann an open attack on communism. Whereupon I lashed him so mercilessly with my tongue that he never showed his face again. I now made use of the lever – the attack on communism – provided by, Eisermann, the more so since Grün never ceased his intrigues, going from workshop to workshop, summoning the people to come to him on Sundays, etc., etc., and, on the Sunday’ following the above-mentioned session, was himself so abysmally stupid as to attack communism in the presence of 8-10 Straubingers. I therefore declared that, before I took part in any further discussion, the question of whether or not we were meeting here as communists must be put to the vote. If the former were the case, we must see to it that attacks on communism such as those made by Eisermann never recur; if the latter, and if they were simply a random collection of individuals who had met to discuss a random selection of subjects, I would not give a fig for them, nor would I ever return. This aroused much horror among the Grünians who, they said, foregathered here for ‘the good of mankind’, for their own enlightenment, men of progress and not biased system-mongers, etc., etc., the description ‘a random collection’ being in no way applicable to such respectable company. Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire Moreover, they first wanted to know what communism really was (these curs, who for years have called themselves communists and only deserted out of fear of Grün and Eisermann, these two last having used communism as a pretext for worming their way in among them!). Of course I did not allow myself to be caught by their amiable request to tell them, ignorant as they were, in 2 or 3 words what communism was. I gave them a highly simple definition which went as far as and no further than the foregoing points at issue, which, by positing community of goods, ruled out, not only peacefulness, tenderness and consideration for the bourgeoisie and/or the Straubinger fraternity, but also and finally the Proudhonian joint-stock society along with its retention of individual property and all that this involves; a definition which, furthermore, contained nothing that could give rise either to divagations or to any circumvention of the proposed vote. I therefore defined the aims of communists as follows: 1. to ensure that the interests of the proletariat prevail, as opposed to those of the bourgeoisie; 2. to do so by abolishing private property and replacing same with community of goods; 3. to recognise no means of attaining these aims other than democratic revolution by force. Two evenings were spent discussing this. During the second, the best of the 3 Grünians, sensing the mood of the majority, came over to me unreservedly. The other two kept contradicting each other without being aware of the fact. Several chaps, who had never spoken before, suddenly opened their traps and declared themselves unequivocally for me. Up till then Junge had been the only one to do so. Some of these homines novi [new men], although trembling with fear lest they dry up, spoke quite nicely and all in all seem to have quite a sound intellect. In short, when it was put to the vote, the meeting was declared to be communist in accordance with the above definition by 13 votes to 2, the latter being those of the pair who had remained true to Grün – one of whom subsequently declared himself exceedingly eager to be converted. Thus a clean sweep has at last been made and we can now begin, so far as is possible, to do something with these fellows. Grün, who was easily able to extricate himself from his financial predicament because the principal creditors were those same Grünians, his principal followers, has gone down a great deal in the opinion of the majority and of some of his followers and, despite all his intrigues and experiments (e. g. attending the Barrière meetings wearing a cap, etc., etc.), has been a resounding failure with his Proudhonian society. Had I not been there, our friend Ewerbeck would have fallen for it. La tête baissée [with his eyes shut]. One could hardly help but admire Grün’s stratagem! Doubting his chaps’ intelligence, he tells them his stories over and over again until they can rattle them off from memory. After every session-nothing was easier, of course, than to reduce such an opposition to silence-the whole defeated gang went scuttling off to Grim, told him what I had said-naturally all of it distorted-, and had their armoury renewed. When next they opened their traps, one could always tell from the first couple of words exactly what the whole sentence would be. In view of this tale-bearing, I was careful not to provide the fellows with anything general which might assist Mr Grün in further embellishing his true socialism; nevertheless, writing not long ago in the Kölner on the occasion of the Geneva Revolution, the cur exploited and variously distorted sundry things I had said to the Straubingers, whereas here in Paris he had drummed the opposite into them. He is now engaged in political economy, the worthy man. You’ll have seen Proudhon’s book advertised. I shall get hold of it one of these days; it costs 15 fr. so it’s too expensive to buy. The above-mentioned audience, before whom the performance took place, consists of approx. 20 cabinet-makers, who otherwise foregather only at the Barrière and then with all and sundry, having no really closed association of their own, save for a choral club, though some also belong to the rump of the League of the Just. If we could assemble openly we would soon have over 100 chaps from the cabinet-makers alone. I know only a few of the tailors-who also attend the cabinet-makers’ meeting. Nowhere in Paris have I been able to find out anything at all about blacksmiths and tanners. Not a soul knows anything about them. Not long ago Kriege, as one of the just, laid his report before the ‘Halle’ (central authority). Of course I read the missive; but since this constituted a breach of the oath, for which the penalty is death by dagger, rope or poison, you must nowhere record same in writing. The letter proves, just as did his riposte to our attack, that he had benefited greatly from the latter and that he was now more concerned with the things of this world. He gave a long account of their difficulties. The first instalment of this American Straubingers’ story concerned their misfortunes – evidently Kriege was at the helm and his management of the money side was big-hearted to say the least, the Tribun was given away, not sold, the funds consisted in charitable gifts, in short, by trying to re-enact Chapters III-VI of the Acts of the Apostles not even omitting Ananias and Sapphira, they finally found themselves up to their eyes in debt. The second period, in which Kriege became simply the ‘registrar’, other chaps having apparently taken over the financial side, was that of recovery. Instead of appealing to the fulness of men’s hearts, they now appealed to their lightly tripping feet and to their ± uncommunist side generally, discovering to their surprise that all the money they needed could be raised by organising balls, picnics, etc., etc., and that human frailty could be exploited for the benefit of communism. Pecuniarily speaking, they were now thoroughly flush. Among the ‘obstacles’ they had to overcome, the doughty Tecklenburger also counts the manifold calumnies and aspersions they, amongst others, had had to endure ‘and this recently at the hands of the “communist” philosophers in Brussels’. For the rest he indulges in some trivial prattle against the colonies, recommends ‘Brother Weitling’ to them (i. e. to his most inveterate foes), but for the most part remains fairly down-to-earth, if also somewhat unctuous, and only from time to time is there a little sighing about brotherliness, etc. Do you get the Réforme there? If you don’t read it, let me know and I will send you accounts of anything special that appears in it. For the past four days it has been picking on the National for refusing to express unconditional approval of a petition for electoral reform which is circulating here. This, the Réforme maintains, was entirely due to its partiality for Thiers. Not long ago it was rumoured here that Bastide and Thomas had resigned from the National, leaving only Marrast, and that the latter had allied himself with Thiers. This was denied by the National. However, changes have been made in its editorial department, but I am not aware of the details; for the past year it is known to have been particularly well-disposed towards Thiers; now the Réforme is pointing out how greatly it has compromised itself by this partiality. Moreover, it is only opposition to the Réforme, which has of late led the National to commit follies such as denying, purely out of malice, and until it could do so no longer, etc., the story, first told by the Réforme, of the Portuguese counter-revolution.’ The Réforme is now at great pains to carry on a polemic no less brilliant than that of the National, but without success. Having got to this point in my letter, I once again went to the Straubingers, where the following transpired: Grün, too impotent to harm me in any way, is now having me denounced at the Barrière. Eisermann is attacking communism at the public Barrière meeting at which, owing to the presence of informers, no one, of course, can answer him back without incurring the risk of being thrown out; Junge answered him furiously (but yesterday we warned him against this). Thereupon Eisermann declared Junge to be the mouthpiece of a third person (myself, of course), who had suddenly irrupted amongst the people like a bomb, and he himself well knew how they were primed for the Barrière discussions, etc., etc. In short, what all his chatter amounted to was an out-and-out denunciation to the police; for four weeks ago the landlord in whose house the affair happened said: il y a toujours des mouchards parmi vous [There are always informers among you], and once, at that time, the police inspector also turned up. He accused Junge in so many words of being a ‘revolutionary’. Mr Grün was present throughout and prompted Eisermann on what to say. This was the dirtiest trick of all. According to the facts as I know them, I hold Grün fully responsible for everything Eisermann says. Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire There’s absolutely nothing to be done about it. That numskull Eisermann cannot be attacked at the Barrière because this would elicit yet another denunciation of the weekly meeting; Grün is too cowardly to do anything himself and in his own name. The only thing that can be done is to have it explained to the people at the Barrière that communism wasn’t discussed because that might have exposed the whole meeting to danger from the police. It’s high time I heard from you. 7097223 2009-10-04 16:47:27 2009-10-04 16:47:27 open open eisermann-4-eis-003003-louis-j-sheehan-esquire-7097223 publish 0 0 post 0 ufo tendered 5.ten.003003 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire http://Louis9J9Sheehan9esquire.blog.ca/2009/10/04/tendered-5-ten-003003-louis-j-sheehan-esquire-7093978/ Sun, 04 Oct 2009 02:37:51 +0200 Beforethebigbang 7. they should change the §§ on the sharing of dividends into §§ on the sharing of losses, for, failing all this, they would go bankrupt already as a result of the celebrated principle of bearing the whole loss but sharing the profit. They would therefore have to do twice as much business as any other publisher in order to keep going — but the fact remains that hitherto all publishers dealing exclusively, or merely for preference, in banned works — Fröbel, Wigand, Leske — have, in the long run, been ruined: 1. by confiscation, 2. by being excluded from markets, which — always happens, 3. by sharp practice on the part of commission agents and retail dealers, 4. by police threats, prosecution, etc., 5. by competition from publishers who only occasionally Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire print something objectionable, who are therefore less subject to police interference and who, moreover, also have a better chance of obtaining manuscripts that will appeal, whereas the abovementioned stereotypes are left holding the rubbish and books that do not appeal. The book trade’s struggle with the police can be waged with profit only if large numbers of publishers take part in it; it is essentiellement guerrilla warfare, and one can only make money if one seldom takes such a risk. The market is not large enough to make a spécialité of the article. For the rest it makes no difference whether the company is ruined, for ruined it will be no matter what kind of start it makes; but where there’s a guarantee, it will be ruined too quickly, a high fever being induced with three crises, of which the third is certainly fatal. In view of the not over-copious supply of manuscripts to be expected, a mild consumption would be more appropriate. It’s only regrettable that too big a hole is made in its capital if it does its own printing. It ought to have sufficient to enable it to print for about 1 1/2 years; for supposing a capital of 3,000 talers expended in the first year, the Eastertide settlement would, given profitable trading, produce approx. 1/3, or a minimum of 2,000 talers. Hence for the second year it ought to have at least 1,000 talers over and above those 3,000 talers. Thus 1/3-1/4 of the capital is permanently tied up in remainders, bad payers, etc. It might be possible to raise this amount by inducing the shareholders to subscribe an additional loan repayable over a period. It is essential, by the way, to consult a publisher first, in order to find out exactly how much of the capital employed remains tied up at the end of the first year, or how much time it takes to turn the total capital over once. I am not sure about it myself, but I have reason to believe that in the above calculations I have underestimated rather than overestimated the capital permanently tied up. With his 20 per cent of the profits the manager will grow rich. Even if 10 per cent of any losses are passed to the reserve fund, there will be a handsome deficit. As for the consequences the guarantee would entail for the authors, the less said the better. In my opinion it should be refused if it is tendered in respect of longer works. Once the company has established itself on that basis, we could no longer offer other publishers anything without their believing that the company had turned it down. Quite apart from the fact that the same reasons for which we refused it to the Westphalians obtain here as well. Neither our honour nor our interest would incline us to accept. Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire To particularise: 7 in the general purposes committee [Tendenzkomitee] is excessive, three, at most 5, is enough Otherwise we shall get jackasses on it, if not intriguers. The general purposes committee must after all be +- resident in Brussels. In which case, with 7 members, how can there be any choice? No reason at all to have so many. In any case it’s we who will have to do the work, and I am ready to take on my share, so what do we want with all those members? Besides, if it is the same with the opinions of the general purposes committee as with those of the Provincial Diets, [107] what then? All those written opinions will make a devil of a lot of work, but there could be no question of our getting out of it. As I said, I am ready to take on my share. QUERY: If the bourgeoisie nominates a truly socialist supervisory council, which passes outre [overrides] our opinions, what then? 7093978 2009-10-04 02:37:51 2009-10-04 02:37:51 open open tendered-5-ten-003003-louis-j-sheehan-esquire-7093978 publish 0 0 post 0 crises considerable 5.con.0030030 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire http://Louis9J9Sheehan9esquire.blog.ca/2009/09/17/considerable-5-con-0030030-louis-j-sheehan-esquire-6980661/ Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:13:38 +0200 Beforethebigbang From a consideration of all the evidence it would seem that Hitler's perversion is as Geli has described it. The great danger in gratifying it, however, is that the individual might get faeces or urine into his mouth. It is this danger that must be guarded against. Return to the womb. Another possibility in infantile thinking presents itself in this connection. When the home environment is harsh and brutal, as it was in Hitler's case, the small child very frequently envies the position of passivity and security the unborn child enjoys within the mother. This, in turn, gives rise to fantasies of finding a way in to the longed for claustrum and ousting his rival in order that he may take his place. These fantasies are usually of very brief duration because, as the child believes, he would have nothing to eat or drink except faeces and urine. The thoughht of such a diet arouses feelings of disgust and consequently he abandons his fantasies in order to avoid these unpleasant feelings. In many psychotics, however, these fantasies continue and strive to express themselves overtly. The outstanding bit of evidence in Hitler's case that such fantasies were present is to be found in the Kehlstein or Eagle's Nest which he has built for himself near Berchtesgaden. Interestingly enough, many people have, commented that only a madman would conceive of such a place, let alone try to build it. From a symbolic point of view one can easily imagine that this is a materialization of a child's conception of the return to the womb. First there is a long hard road, then a heavily guarded entrance, a trip through a long tunnel to an extremely inaccessible place. Then one can be alone, safe and undisturbed, and revel in the joys that Mother Nature bestows. It is also interesting to note that very few people have ever been invited there and many of Hitier's closest associates are either unaware of its existence or have only seen it from a distance. Extraordinarily enough, Francois-Poncet is one of the few people who was ever invited to visit there. In the French Yellow Book, he gives us an extremely vivid description of the place, a part of which may be worthwhile quoting:Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire "The approach is by a winding road about nine miles long, boldly cut out of the rock...the road comes to an end in front of a long underground passage leading into the mountain, enclosed by a heavy double door of bronze. At the far end of the underground passage a wide lift, panelled with sheets of copper, awaits the visitor. Through a vertical shaft of 330 feet cut right through the rock, it rises up to the level of the Chancellor's dwelling place. Here is reached the astonishing climax. The visitor finds himself in a strong and massive building containing a gallery with Roman pillars, an immense circular hall with windows all around,... It gives the impression of being suspended in space, an almost overhanging wall of bare rock rises up abruptly. The whole, bathed in the twilight of the autumn evening, is grandiose, wild, almost hallucinating. The visitor wonders whether he is awake or dreaming." (943) If one were asked to plan something which represented a return to the womb, one could not possibly surpass the Kehlstein. It is also significant that Hitler often retires to this strange place to await instructions concerning the course he is to pursue. Vegetarianism. We can surmise from the psychological defenses Hitler has set up, that there was a period during which he struggled against these tendencies. In terms of unconscious symbolism meat is almost synonomous with faeces and beer with urine. The fact that there is a strict taboo on both would indicate that these desires are still present and that it is only by refraining from everything symbolizing them that he can avoid arousing anxieties. Rauschning reports that Hitler, following Wagner, attributed much of the decay of cur civilization to meat eating. That the decadence "had its origin in the abdomen -- chronic constipation, poisoning of the juices, and the results of drinking to excess." This assertion suggests decay (contamination, corruption, pollution, and death) as the resultant of constipation, that is, feaces in the gastro-intestinal tract, and if this is so, decay might be avoided both by not eating anything resembling feaces and by taking purges or ejecting as frequently as possible. It has been reported that Hitler once said that he was confident that all nations would arrive at the point where they would not feed any more on dead animals. It is interesting to note that according to one of our most reliable informants Hitler only became a real vegetarian after the death of his niece, Geli. In clinical practice, one almost invariably finds compulsive vegetarianism setting in after the death of a loved object. We may, therefore, regard Hitler's perversion as a compromise between psychotic tendencies to eat faeces and drink urine on the one hand, and to live a normal socially adjusted life on the other. The compromise is not, however, satisfactory to either side of his nature and the struggle between these two diverse tendencies continues to rage unconsciously. We must not suppose that Hitler gratifies his strange perversion frequently. Patients of this type rarely do and in Hitler's case it is highly probable that he has permitted himself to go this far only with his niece, Geli. The practice of this perversion represents the lowest depths of degradation. Masochistic gratifications. In most patients suffering from this perversion the unconscious forces only get out of control to this degree when a fairly strong love relationship is established and sexuality makes decisive demands. In other cases where the love component is less strong the individual contents himself with less degrading activities. This is brought out cleariy in the case of Rene Mueller who confided to her director, Zeissler (921), who had asked her what was troubling her after spending an evening at the Chancelllory, "that the evening before she had been with Hitler and that she had been sure that he was going to have intercourse with her; that they had both undressed and were apparently getting ready for bed when Hitler fell on the floor and begged her to kick him. She demurred but he pleaded with her and condemned himself as unworthy, heaped all kinds of accusations on his own head and just grovelled around in an agonizing manner. The scene became intolerable to her and she finally acceded to his wishes and kicked him. This excited him greatly and he begged for more and more, always saying that it was even better than he deserved and that he was not worthy to be in the same room with her. As she continued to kick him he became more and more excited...." Rene Mueller committed suicide shortly after this experience. At this place it night be well to note that Eva Braun, his present female companion, has twice attempted suicide, Geli was either murdered or committed suicide and Unity Mitford has attempted suicide. Rather an unusual record for a man who has had so few affairs with women. Hanfstaengl, Strasser, and Rauschning, as well as several other informants, have reported that even in company when Hitler is smitted with a girl, he tends to grovel at her feet in a most disgusting manner. Here, too, he insists on telling the girl that he is unworthy to kiss her hand or to sit near her and that he hopes she will be kind to him, etc. From all this we see the constant struggle against complete degradation whenever any affectionate components enter into the picture. It now becomes clear that the only way in which Hitler can control these copraphagic tendencies or their milder manifestations is to isolate himself from any intimate relationships in which warm feelings of affection or love might assert themselves. As soon as such feelings are aroused, he feels compelled to degrade himself in the eyes of the loved object and eat their dirt figuratively, if not literally. These tendencies disgust him just as much as they disgust us, but under these circumstances they get out of control and he despises himself and condemns himself for his weakness. Before considering futher the effects of this struggle on his manifest behavior, we must pause for a moment to pick up another thread. Femininity. We notice that in all of these activities Hitler plays the passive role. His behavior is masochistic in the extreme inasmuch as he derives sexual pleasure from punishment inflicted on his own body. There is every reason to suppose that during his early years, instead of identifying himself with his father as most boys do, he identified himself with his mother. This was perhaps easier for him than for most boys since, as we have seen, there is a large feminine component in his physical makeup. His mother, too, must have been an extremely masochistic individual or she never would have entered into this marriage nor would she have endured the brutal treatment from her husband. An emotional identification with his mother would, therefore, carry him in the direction of a passive, sentimental, abasive and submissive form of adjustment. Many writers and informants have commented on his feminine characteristics - his gait, his hands, his mannerisms and ways of thinking. Hanfstaengl reports that when he showed Dr. Jung a specimen of Hitler's handwriting, the latter immediately exclaimed that it was a typically feminine hand. His choice of art as a profession might also be interpreted as a manifestation of a basic feminine identification. There are definite indications of such an emotional adjustment later in life. The outstanding of these is perhaps his behavior towards his officers during the last war. His comrades report that during the four years he was in service he was not only over-submissive to all his officers but frequently volunteered to do their washing and take care of their clothes. This would certainly indicate a strong tendency to assume the feminine role in the presence of a masculine figure whenever this was feasible and could be duly rationalized. His extreme sentimentality, his emotionality, his occasional softness and his weeping, even after he became Chancellor, may be regarded as manifestations of a fundamental feminine pattern which undoubtedly had its origins in his relationship to his mother. His persistent fear of cancer, which was the illness from which his mother died, may also be considered as an expression of his early identification with her. Although we cannot enter into a discussion concerning the frequency of this phenomenon in Germany, it may be well to note that there is sociological evidence which would indicate that it is probably extremely common. If further research on the subject should corroborate this evidence, it might prove of extreme value to our psychological warfare program insofar as it would give us a key to the understanding of the basic nature of the German male character, and the role that the Nazi organization plays in their inner life. Homosexuality. The great difficulty is that this form of identification early in life carries the individual in the direction of passive homosexuality. Hitler has for years been suspected of being a homosexual, although there is no reliable evidence that he has actually engaged in a relationship of this kind. Rauschning reports that he has met two boys who claimed that they were Hitler's homosexual partners, but their testimony can scarcely be taken at its face value. More condemning would be the remarks dropped by Foerster, the Danzig Gauleiter, in conversations with Rauschning. Even here, however, the remarks deal only with Hitler's impotence as far as heterosexual relations go without actually implying that he indulges in homosexuality. It is probably true that Hitler calls Foerster "Bubi", which is a common nickname employed by homosexuals in addressing their partners. This alone, however, is not adequate proof that he has actually indulged in homosexual practices with Foerster, who is known to be a homosexual. The belief that Hitler is homosexual has probably developed (a) from the fact that he does show so many feminine characteristics, and (b) from the fact that there were so many homosexuals in the Party during the early days and many continue to occupy important positions. It does seem that Hitler feels much more at ease with homosexuals than with normal persons, but this may be due to the fact that they are all fundamentally social outcasts and consequently have a community of interests which tends to make them think and feel more or less alike. In this connection it is interesting to note that homosexuals, too, frequently regard themselves as a special form of creation or as chosen ones whose destiny it is to initiate a new order. The fact that underneath they feel themselves to be different and ostracized from normal social contacts usually makes them easy converts to a new social philosophy which does not discriminate against them. Being among civilization's discontents, they are always willing to take a chance of something new which holds any promise of improving their lot, even though their chances of success may be small and the risk great. Having little to lose to begin with, they can afford to take chances which others would refrain from taking. The early Nazi party certainly contained many members who could be regarded in this light. Even today Hitler derives pleasure from looking at men's bodies and associating with homosexuals. Strasser tells us that his personal body guard is almost always 100% homosexuals.Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire He also derives considerable pleasure from being with his Hitler Youth and his attitude towards them frequently tends to be more that of a woman than that of a man. There is a possibility that Hitler has participated in a homosexual relationship at some time in his life. The evidence is such that we can only say there is a strong tendency in this direction which, in addition to the manifestations already enumerated, often finds expression in imagery concerning being attacked from behind or being stabbed in the back. His nightmares, which frequently deal with being attacked by a man and being suffocated, also suggest strong homosexual tendencies and a fear of them. From these indications, however, we would conclude that for the most part these tendencies have been repressed, which would speak against the probability of their being expressed in overt form. On the other hand, persons suffering from his perversion sometimes do indulge in homosexual practices in the hope that they might find sexual gratification. Even this perversion would be more acceptable to them than the one with which they are afflicted. 6980661 2009-09-17 03:13:38 2009-09-17 03:13:38 open open considerable-5-con-0030030-louis-j-sheehan-esquire-6980661 publish 0 0 post 0 ufo tremendous 6.tre.00040004 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire http://Louis9J9Sheehan9esquire.blog.ca/2009/09/13/tremendous-6-tre-00040004-louis-j-sheehan-esquire-6957470/ Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:13:05 +0200 Beforethebigbang Next time don’t write to me via Barmen again; Mother leaves the letters lying there until she writes herself, and that is often a long time. But what I wanted to write to you — only you must not write this home, for I want to surprise them with it next spring — I now have an enormous moustache and shall presently add to it a Henry IV and goatee beard. Mother will wonder when suddenly such a long, black-bearded fellow comes across the lawn. Next year, when I go to Italy, I too must look like an Italian. sketch of Sophie Leupold This is written by little Sophie Leupold who has just been to visit me in the office, while the Old Man [Heinrich Leupold] and Eberlein, who eats here in the house, are at a big dinner. Oh, I could tell you interesting things about this dinner, of engagements which are not yet public and of stolen kisses, but that is not for a girl in a boarding-school. You will learn it soon enough when we are back at home. Then I shall sit in the garden and you'll bring me a big mug of beer and a sausage sandwich, and then I shall say: See, my dear sister, because you have brought the beer out to me and because it is such a fine summer evening, Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire I will tell you of a big dinner which was celebrated in the year 1840, on the twenty-ninth of the month of October, in Bremen, Martini number eleven, in the Royal Saxon Consulate. But now I can tell you only this much, that quite enormous quantities of Madeira, Port, Pouillac, Haut Sauternes, and Rhine wine will be drunk this lunchtime. For although there are only five gentlemen, they are all very good drinkers, almost as good as I. — At the moment there is a Free Market here, and although I have not the honour to be introduced to Her Royal Highness, a Grand Duchess, and many Most Serene Princesses, we still have our fun. I am fortunately so short-sighted that I do not even know what the several exalted, more exalted, and most exalted personages look like who had the honour to drive past me. When next time such a most gracious lady is introduced to you, do tell me whether she is pretty, otherwise such personages don’t interest me at all. Our noble town-hall cellar is now so well fitted out it couldn’t be better; you sit so comfortably between the barrels. Last Sunday we had a moustache evening there. For I had sent out a circular to all moustache-capable young men that it was finally time to horrify all philistines, and that that could not be done better than by wearing moustaches. Everyone with the courage to defy philistinism and wear a moustache should therefore sign. I had soon collected a dozen moustaches, and then the 25th of October, when our moustaches would be a month old, was fixed as the day for a common moustache jubilee. But I had a shrewd idea what would happen, bought a little moustache wax and took it with me; it was then found that one had a truly very fine but unfortunately quite white moustache, while another had been instructed by his principal to hack the criminal thing off. Enough, that evening we had to have at least a few, and those who had none had to paint themselves one. Then I got up and proposed the following toast: Moustaches always were the pride Of gallant gentlemen far and wide. Brave soldiers faced their country’s foes In brown or black mustachios. So, in these times of martial glory, Moustaches are obligatory. Philistines shirk the burden of bristle By shaving their faces as clean as a whistle. We are not philistines, so we Can let our mustachios flourish free. Long life to every Christian Who bears his moustaches like a man. And may all philistines be damned For having moustaches banished and banned. To this doggerel glasses were clinked with great enthusiasm, and then somebody else got up. His principal would not give him a key, and so he had to be home by ten o'clock, or he would not be let in. That is the plight of many a poor devil here. He said: A plague befall Principals all Who won’t hand over the key of the door. May flies and strands of hair infest Their supper plates for evermore And may their nights give them no rest. Thereupon there was more clinking of glasses. So it continued until ten o'clock, then those

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