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Q. How long have you had an interest in UFOs?

I've always believed in the existence of life elsewhere in our galaxy and the universe as a whole. It is common sense. I knew this from an early age even if I didn't really fully understand it.

I suppose I developed my interest in a casual sort of way from my early teens, but it wasn't until the latter part of the 1980s that I saw something which fired up my interest to take a more active role in the subject.

Q. What is your definition of an alien and a UFO?

If you were to listen to an open meeting of UFO enthusiasts, the whole spectrum of interest would be covered, and that going from the sublime to the ridiculous.

I really detest the study of UFOs being regarded as a 'paranormal' subject and thus lumped in with ghosts, spirits, religious cults etc, etc. This devalues Ufology and makes it a target for a disinterested media to poke fun at.
I don't even like the description UFO when describing an alien vehicle.

UFO means exactly that - unidentified flying object. It has come to represent alien craft which is a misnomer. I prefer to use the abbreviation UFO to describe an unidentified flying object and extra-terrestrial craft to describe an alien vehicle. Of course, there are no proven alien vehicles yet. At least not in the public domain. There is a mass of evidence to suggest visitation by aliens, but it is all circumstantial.

As regards aliens themselves, I accept aliens as extra-terrestrial biological entities. That is, living organisms just like me and you, which in some way are born, live and die. Of course, they cannot be like us, as their evolution would be different. That would suit their own environment and thus in turn, their physiology would be different. Such creatures have a life span and reproduce. No doubt they suffer illnesses and can die prematurely from disease or accident.

This is not to devalue the likes of other theoretical entities, such as 'inter-dimensional beings'. Such might exist and in a sense, would be alien, but they are not 'little green men' from other worlds, which most people imagine aliens are. They are something else, and totally different. My understanding of aliens, is 'little green men'. Biological entities which require the security of a machine to convey them across space. Just like us.

Q. What do you make of crop circles?

Crop circles and other more elaborate pictograms are to me very interesting and as a sideline issue, I find the war of words between devotees and hoaxers and 'cerial graffiti artists' equally entertaining.

I do not believe that crop circles as all designs are commonly known are made by aliens trying to contact us. Clearly, the genuine are made by something, and complex designs suggest intelligence. I think these pictures could be conveying messages to us, but if from an unknown intelligence, they are very inaccurately targeted, as many designs appear where there is nobody to see them.

I find the data about cellular manipulation and musical resonances eminating from genuine circles very interesting and of course, so too do the authorities.

I was emailed recently about a claim that crop circle hunters had been using Google Earth to locate designs and that someone had started looking also, but air brushing out those found.

Since the credible discovery that certain designs are geometrically perfect and correlate to musical sounds, I've been informed also, that British military helicopters have been observed hovering over new designs and no doubt photographing them and 'listening' in on them. This has been done apparently in broad daylight - very overtly - and I've had unconfirmed reports that certain farmers have been approached and paid off, to cut the premature crop and plough up the ground, with the military disposing of the vegetation.

If true, clearly, this must worry them and it is something else they'd rather us not know about.

Records exist of complex patterns of great area appearing within minutes and some witnesses claim extra-terrestrial craft are sometimes present. This doesn't prove aliens are making circles. They too could be interested in watching formations.

Britain seems to be a world leader when it comes to crop circles, but I think the main problem with Britain, is its size.

The UK is simply bristling with ancient monuments, be they hut circles or grand affairs like Stonehenge. An alien craft observed over the UK especially if it is low flying or seemingly 'hanging about', can if one looks, be associated with an ancient site. If that site is on a so called ley line, then all sorts of theories start amassing.

The same problem occurs with military bases and other secret and sensitive establishments. There are so many of them, it is difficult not to associate an alien craft with them.

I believe the Rendelsham forest UFO in Suffolk was real enough and of extra-terrestrial origin. However I also believe its association with RAF Bentwaters was pure coincidence. That incident could have happened anywhere.

In larger countries such as Russia or the USA, where military bases and such like are hundreds if not thousands of miles apart, persistent UFO activity in close proximity to such sites would suggest interest by aliens.

Q. And abduction claims?

I believe alien visitation to Earth is a very rare event. Thus, abduction must be even rarer. Yet to listen to adherents to the subject, thousands of people (mainly Americans) are abducted nightly for all sorts of bizarre reasons.

As far as I'm concerned, most of these people are cranks and attention seekers. I'm sure abduction does occur but I'm not so sure that all these unfortunates are actually returned. Sadly, those intrepid enthusiasts who study this facet of Ufology must find it very frustrating trying to sort the genuine from the loonies. False claims cost time, money and hinders the approach to the truth.

I'm particularly against claims of abduction involving procedures involving sexual intercourse, extraction of female eggs or male sperm and claims of alien/human hybrids.

I've said it before. A human can have sex with a chimpanzee or any other large ape genetically close to us ie, gorillas and gibbons, til the end of time. No hybrid baby will appear. This is because of incompatibility between chromosomes. They need to match at least very closely to produce such a cross breed. Invariably, true hybrids are infertile themselves. Nature abhors irregularities and by rendering hybrids infertile, She ensures that a species line is not infiltrated (contaminated) by another species genetic background.

UFO enthusiasts often cite mixing of DNA in laboratory experiments for example, introducing jellyfish genes into mice to make them glow green in the dark. This has nothing to do with hybridisation and reminds me of the confusion over a scare some years ago involving 'IRRADIATED' meat. An unfortunate sounding word had all sorts of ignorant people thinking their meat had been treated with radioactive methods to give such meat a longer shelf life etc.

As such, some alien abductee claimants are asking me to believe that extra-terrestrial biological entities (and they must be biological), rape and pillage them and make some women pregnant, then in this latter case, return to remove the hybrid foetus, when it is seemingly a biological impossibility to hybridise with our closest relatives here on Earth; yet, these victims are party to unions between species that aren't even off the same planet.

Little wonder, that mainstream scientists distance themselves from ufology.

In December '06, it was reported that Geneticist Daniel Barbash at New York's Cornell University had conducted experiments on Drosophila (Fruit Flies). These well known and obliging lab' animals have been used for myriad scientific experiments for years.

Two closely related species Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila simulans can interbreed. It was found that nature's defence in this case, was to kill males before hatching produced by such a union. Not even allowing them the privilage of an infertile life. Such hybrid males carry a unique gene mixture from both parents which naturally spells doom. Females had the privilage of life but unable to breed.

Recent advances in searching humans for traces of Neanderthal genes proves that the two closely related species (closer than any ape), did not produce fertile hybrids. There is as yet no proof that the two species did on occasion mate or even produce offspring, though the two species - human and neanderthal - did occupy the same territories for several thousand years. It would not matter if interbreeding was even a common occurance, clearly, no neanderthal genes are present in modern human DNA.

So, either they never inter bred or they did and never produced offspring, or they did breed, but such offspring were infertile.

Still comparitively rare, Neanderthal bones do turn up and if one belonged to a hybrid, its DNA will show this. This would prove a viable embryo survived but was infertile.

I know of abductee claimants who blantantly state things like they have implants in say their legs, arms or toes etc. The easiest thing in the world would be to trace these objects and extract them for study. Try getting one of these claimants to co-operate. Almost unheard of. There will always be an excuse.

Q. What of the Church and UFOs.

I don't believe in God personally. I do believe however that others do. The established Church in all its Christian guises is a corrupt and corrupting entity.

I find it incredible that intelligent people especially science oriented people believe in a God. Such people are simply sitting on the fence. The Church of course, and especially the Catholic church has moved the goal posts to suit its needs since the inception of Christianity. It still does, and presumably always will.

The Holy Bible is a million miles from the original texts, and the Church has over the centuries twisted the published books making it up to suit. Even eliminating whole scriptures.

I do believe that the Vatican holds the largest archive of treasures which can prove that Earth has been visited by alien life forms. It suits the Church not to publicise this as it would quite simply destroy itself. Virtually none of its sheep like, indoctrinated followers will question their leaders. Fundamentalist Christians are just as dangerous to society as fundamentalists in other religions.

It was not so long ago, that the Earth was the centre of the universe and you would burn at the stake for saying anything but that. However in true Church fashion, science has debunked this and the Church has moved the goal posts to accommodate new findings.

I'm sure ancient peoples saw strange things which were natural events,but which they couldn't understand, but again, I'm sure they observed things which were not natural such as events caused by alien visitation.

Just comparing modern scientific capabilities with some things described in the Bible makes one realise that there were no miracles. Plenty of children are today born to virgin mothers for example.

I see no reason why a so-called immaculate conception of 2000 years ago could not have been more than a simple artificial insemination act or even a slightly more complex embryonic implant. Such might have looked miraculous then, but is a routine procedure today.

Modern worshippers of a Christian god are naive and socially conditioned. The more devout for instance won't even accept that Jesus Christ had several brothers and sisters produced seemingly from more normal reproductive methods. Of course, they are conditioned into this belief by a corrupting force.

I've always believed that Jesus was a 'normal' human being. also, that he had DNA. Archaeological evidence will emerge in time to prove who he was and that his genetics survive today in a line stretching some two thousand years.

I mention DNA because if Jesus was 'implanted' as an existing embryo into 'his mother's' womb, and he had DNA, and his father was God, he would not carry any genetic information from Mary his mum. She would in effect be a surrogate mother carrying someone elses child.

It seems unlikely to me that if God was the father, he would even have DNA himself, so would He for instance pass on DNA or would Jesus be devoid of genetic information?

If in the style of modern abductees and their hybrid babies, Mary (whom I expect was only a girl of perhaps 14 yrs), had one of her eggs fertilised by someone or something, it seems to me that her son Jesus would then carry 50% of the genetic quota, that being from his mum.

Now if the 'father' had DNA, he would have contributed the remaining 50% to the child's make-up. If the father was devoid of DNA, but could somehow fuse with Mary's gamete, Jesus would carry only genetic information from the maternal line and nothing from the paternal line.

That would produce a very interesting scenario for scientists today and of course the clerics.

I'm in no doubt that Jesus was executed for terrorism by the Roman state. Whether he was actually dead when presumed dead is another matter. There is of course the issue of his resurrection, but seemingly, he did not die and was walking about happily a few days after being nailed up. Further to this, I believe a) he had a relationship with the woman described as Mary Magdalen b), he married her c), he had at least one child to her.

Again problems about DNA and genetics arise. Jesus' line almost definately continues through to modern times, so someone out there is a direct ascendent and after two thousand years, many thousands of people in the world must if he had DNA, carry a smattering of Jesus. Either that or there is a line of humans somehow carrying a half load of DNA or none at all.

If I had to bet on it, my money would be on Mary being the biological mother of Jesus and Jesus' father (unknown as yet), being a sperm donor and passing on (perhaps modified) genetic material to his line. She was artificially impregnated and bore this particular child to full term.

As child birth killed many women in those times and the child death rate was very high, this Jesus chappie did seem blessed with survival abilities. It didn't stop tyrant Kings from trying to bump him off as a toddler and certainly when born, nobody prophesised his arrest and execution for political and religious agitation. That came much nearer the time.

Some stories relate that Jesus eventually ascended into the heavens in what can only be described as a modern day abduction scenario. I'd put another £1 on Jesus having died a natural death at some future date, following a period of exile or hiding. Of course if this man was in anyway connected with extra-terrestrials, then he could quite possibly have ascended into the heavens. If his body ever turns up, it will prove or disprove a lot. It might not prove he ascended upstairs, but it would prove that if he did, he returned to Earth dead or to die.

There are none so blind as those who will not see.

What I do find interesting is the descriptions of angels and the story of Christ rising from the dead, and his rising up into the heavens etc. Of course as I stated above, the modern translations of the Bible cannot be trusted and things are lost in translation, but angels could quite easily have been misinterpreted entities flying about with 'jet packs' for want of a better description, and such devices would naturally be interpreted as 'wings'.

I think the established churches in the Christian world and most probably in the Jewish and Muslim worlds know full well that many miraculous events took place not by the hand of God, but by the hand of very real non-human biological entities.

Q. What of Man's beginnings?

My favourite part of all this is the story of Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden.

Although they do find it uncomfortable, all Churches today know full well that so-called Adam & Eve were not the first people on Earth. Some UFO enthusiasts like to think that humans jumped dramatically from other primate lines due to alien interference. I doubt that. I'm more willing to accept that extra-terrestrial meddling has gone on since and Adam and Eve might be a product of that.

What they were most probably, were the first people in a fertile valley isolated from civilisation. Biblical scholars refer to innocence and purity and there is no better way to achieve this, than to isolate a subject and defend it from contamination. Isolate any species, manipulate the breeding and in just a few generations, new features appear as consistencies in that line. That is exactly how so many breeds of dog have come from the wolf. Selective breeding to bring out certain qualities and features.

Archaeologists have known for some decades the whereabouts of the Garden of Eden, that being an isolated fertile valley near the sources of the Euphrates and Tigris and two other now vanished rivers. Indeed today, people still reside there, living a stone age existence in the numerous caves.

If the chronology is correct, then Adam must have appeared in the Garden around 10,000 years ago. I believe he was placed there as part of a social experiment. He had no chance of leaving nor had anyone a chance of reaching the valley. Certain death would ensue from a waterless and too long desert crossing. Archaeologists have identified Nod as being geographically relevant to Eden hence, the Land of Nod, and to be cast out from Eden and banished to Nod was a death sentence.

7400 years ago, retreating ice and a rise in sea levels ruptured the narrow land wall where today we find the Bosphorus. The Black Sea which was then a natural freshwater lake into which many rivers such as the Danube flowed and which was 300 feet below its current level, was inundated. It was from this region that the myth of Noah evolved. That same land wall might have already been weakened by a substantial tsunami which struck the eastern Med' coast following a Mt Etna landslip several hundred years previously.

Today, the sea bed of the polluted Black Sea still shows dune systems and Neolithic villages on the 12 mile wide low plain which lies under 300 feet of sea water. Carbon dating shows the inundation took place 7400 years ago, as the polluted water has actually preserved wood which could be tested, also textiles and snail shells of a freshwater species which still lives in the river deltas.

Mitochondrial DNA testing suggests that these displaced peoples spread across Europe and Asia, carrying with them the story of a Global Flood, a myth known to every culture in the world.

I adhere to the belief that Adam was deliberately placed in Eden to start a line of humans, a line which continues today and which would show in the genetic make up of that line, subtle differences between that line and the otherwise homogenous human population.

As regards Eve originating from a rib bone, I find it fantastic that an ancient text can even contemplate this. Why not just say 'Adam was lonely, so God created a woman - just like he created Adam'!!!! Maybe 'God' did. After all, cloning a human and manipulating its sex at the initial cell level is here and now, but accelerating its growth overnight so to speak to give Adam an almost instant companion is another matter. If anything, she was a genetically suitable mate and the rib operation was a necessary part of creating that suitability. Otherwise, Eve was a clone and the whole affair was worse than an incestuous relationship.

Of course manufacturing bio material is again normal today. So it might well have been a practise used to 'keep it in the family'. To me, Adam was a caged white rat. A laboratory experiment.

Seemingly, Adam's line eventually did leave Eden and on route his future relatives included Noah who was smart enough to notice the groans of stressed rocks and anticipated the deluge which would drown the 'known' world. So he built a boat, which incidently would have been made of reeds. This scotches modern theories that the remains of Noah's Ark is on Mount Ararat. Two points here. There would be no trace of such a vessel and it could not possibly have come to rest on Ararat as this mountain was never anywhere near the deluge which would have filled the Black Sea at the rate of 6 feet per day, and crossed the low plains like a mini tidal bore.

The Ark (if the story is to be believed), came to rest on the lower edges of the Ararat range. Not the principle mountain itself.

Q. What do you think of other groups and individual UFO enthusiasts?

Despite my narrow direction of alien life study, it is important to have a diverse range of opinion. It is important too, not to have a mind set that dismisses anything which doesn't fit comfortably into the spectrum of beliefs. That is not however an open invitation to extremists.

My views on abduction are clear. I believe such occur. What I don't accept is the scale of these crimes. I don't accept that aliens just walk about our Earth. Could we do the same on their worlds? No. Humans have evolved to exist on Earth and even on this planet, he has not conquered all environments without technological assistance. All life must live within the parameters of their worlds. To live beyond this requires technology. Biological entities must build craft to traverse space as we do.

Common sense must prevail.

Nor do I accept that several alien species visit Earth and some just happen to look very human - it is a biological and statistical impossibility that two species totally unconnected could evolve not only similar morphology, but to exist happily in our Earthly environments.

More anon, but I believe that only one or two species are capable of reaching Earth and the chances of even one of these being able to openly interact with humans is remote. Common sense dictates, that an alien life form is an immediate bio-threat to human and other Earth life and this is reciprocal. It is no use an adherant saying "well they're more advanced than us, so they've eliminated disease". That is absolute rubbish.

Only recently on an astronomy website, scientists were discussing whether life on Mars will be ravaged by Earth microbes and other bacteria which the various probes sent to the Red Planet were fully laden.

Something which tickles me, is the levels of paranoia regarding surveillance of UFO buffs and groups. I really dislike those unfortunate souls who lurk in the shadows and skulk about like shady characters in detective B movies. These are the people who distrust anyone who they don't know or who cannot be vouched for. The same people don't reply to letters or emails. Such people have problems.

I know full well that UFO groups are monitored and in some cases, members are plants. Emails are hacked into and stripped from computers and traditionally posted mail is interfered with. Phones are regularly tapped.

I choose to believe this, but it doesn't bother me. If these clandestine agencies want information, they will get it, no matter where you hide. So, there seems little point in wasting time 'dodging' them.

I don't believe that alien life forms have ever established contact with any human agencies. So, no collaboration. I think various parties are keen to get their hands on alien technology and that is in part the driving force to keep the subject under wraps.

Q. Do you think there is a cover-up then?

Of course I do. I believe that despite the cold war, both sides talked to each other and the subject of anomalous objects visible to us and them must have been on the agenda. I expect that on several occasions, nuclear war came close due to inbound alien craft being interpreted as re-entry inter-continental ballistic missiles.

The subject of alien visitation to Earth is far beyond the importance of political ideologies. Also religion. The established churches are so corrupt and pompous, that if a craft landed in Trafalgar Sq' today and a little green man emerged to state that there is no god, he/she/it would immediately be debunked by the Church and pronounced as some manifestation of Satan.

The authorities don't want the public to know of alien life visiting Earth, because they want the technology. The Church does not want aliens simply because it will upset their already perverse agenda.

Q. How many alien races visit Earth and from where do they come?

As I've stated above, a doubt if more than a couple or three technologically advanced species are capable of reaching Earth.

It is no good looking upon aliens in awe because they're smarter than us. It is important to stick to the facts. I don't accept that travel in excess of light speed is possible for living organisms in any sort of craft. I back the science here. So, aliens are subject to the same laws of physics as we are. I'm sure humans will develop technology to permit space travel at vast speeds in the future perhaps within 500 years from now, and such speeds will over more time increase. Half light speed might be attainable and I see no reason why alien life cannot have developed such travel capabilities already.

There is still however the problem of distance and relative time. At half light speed, it would still take nine earth years to reach our next nearest star (group) Alpha Centauri. A minimum 18 year round trip with very little time to stop and take holiday snaps, and thats accelerating to that speed in a few seconds. The human body could not of course stand that pressure and acceleration would need to be steadily increased.

For deep space flight, even if of just one trip in an astronauts working life, he/she would still have the problem of returning to a home world where time has passed and most friends and relatives would be dead or near death from old age. The further into space one travels and the faster, the more acute this problem.

Humans are gradually becoming more long-lived and I think this is a natural function of evolution. Today, the first babies are being born, which will live to see their 120th birthdays. A 200 year old human is theoretically possible in the future, but is pretty much worthless if he/she retires at 60!!!

Alien life forms would need to have very long lives to see out a return mission to Earth. And of course, this speed and time issue makes a mockery of those old chestnuts, 'aliens are here to gather genetic material or reclaim implanted alien/human hybrid babies'.

The journey time would render collected bio-material useless. Even if it could be obtained for some useful purpose, it would make sense to collect enough in one journey. Not thousands which if you believe some people, aliens have a veritable inter-stellar motorway to our world.

I've worked out my own system which suggests that alien life must originate from within 17 light years of Earth, to possibly make a maximum of one return journey for this greatest distance. Seventeen light years gives us about 50 stars around which extra-solar planets might exist where intelligent life could evolve.

Applying human factors (and there's no proof aliens would even think like us), a half light speed journey of 17 light years would take 34 Earth years. Multiplied by 2 for a return trip and we get 68 Earth years. Assuming that an organism commences such a journey at the start of the second third of its life and spends one third of its life on that return trip, with its latter third in relaxation, such aliens would need to have a minimum (perhaps guaranteed) life span of 68 x 3 = 204 Earth years. Not a lot of difference between that and the projected life span of a human.

Of course we do not know how alien entities occupy their time when travelling to Earth. The faster they go, the less they age, but life back home goes on, relative to the population on the home world. We do know that humans would need to reside in an earth gravity type environment within a star ship and this by definition would be equal to our planet's gravity which is 1G. To acclimatise astronauts on such a ship, the vessel would need to accelerate very slowly over many years, adding a large amount of journey time to the expedition.

To avoid physiological problems, a simple sum might go thus,

Slowly accelerate a vehicle leaving Earth, permitting the astronaut to experience 1G of gravitational force.

Accelerating to 50% the speed of light, the pilot would age a tad over 3 years at which point he'd be some 125 light years away from Earth- it would take about 3 Earth years to accelerate to this speed. Decelerating will take the same amount of time, so another 3 years (for the astronaut). He'd then be 250 light years from Earth.

Repeating the exercise to return home, will have taken almost 13 (astronauts) years. Upon arriving back at Earth, about 500 years will have elapsed.

An alien biological entity would experience the same effect in reverse, travelling from there to us and back.

A sum like this renders arguments about collection of bio-material and hybrid experiments null and void. The science, the physical laws are the same for aliens as they are for us. And remember, the slower the journey, the longer the journey for the space ship's occupants.

The alien craft would need a defence mechanism to stop stellar dust from striking the hull at such tremendous speeds and the power source to drive it while exotic and perhaps unimaginable to us at the moment, still does not have any bearing on the time factor.

To be worthwhile, alien beings would need to come from a point in space where it is (to them) reasonable to travel to Earth (and other worlds) in a time period acceptable to them, and at a speed to make this so.

That is why I believe that extra-terrestrials orginate from within my suggested 17 light years. A longish working life span coupled with craft that can achieve significant percentages of light speed (up to 50% is reasonable) would provide a framework for a good balance.

As regards species of alien entity, the possibility that a creature from another world can even remotely resemble humans is phenominally small; if not impossible. If the universe was re-run an infinite number of times, no species present anywhere
would reappear.

We as humans look like we do, because we've evolved to suit this planet. Nature throws up mutations which by chance can help a species survive if environmental conditions change. Humans for instance can range from between a two feet tall dwarf to a giant of some 8 ft. Neither extreme is particularly long lived, but what is important, is that there are no 1 foot tall humans or 12 feet tall examples. Our environment does not permit this. So science fiction's 50 ft tall women and giant tarantulas frying on power lines just cannot exist. On other planets where the environment was suited yes, certainly, but not on Earth.

Again, resurrection of dinosaurs. If this was remotely possible, only small species could be brought back. Larger examples just could not survive our current atmosphere; it is not the atmosphere such would have breathed in their own rightful time. The largest examples of dinosaurs today are possible 40 feet long crocodiles, a similar length reticulated python or a giant tortoise. These are examples of the only types of reptiles nature permitted to survive and today's environmental conditions limits their sizes.

Returning to aliens, it is pure science fiction fantasy that an alien entity could just land a craft, open the door and step out unprotected from our earthly environment. In order to even breathe our air, such would need to come from an almost IDENTICAL world. And for such an alien to resemble humans too defy's calculation.

I'm more inclined to believe a witness, if he/she claims an alien left a landed craft wearing a suit and breathing apparatus. That makes sense and is more credible.

Perhaps unscientifically, I have a soft spot for the species commonly called a Grey. I rather hope such a creature does in fact exist. If he does though, I'll need to revise my beliefs, simply because here we have an example of a creature which resembles the human form. Add to that claims of breathing our air, exposure to our atmospheric pressure without obvious distress and an animal which has a humanoid form and anthropoid (ape-like) features, and even claims of hybridisation and, what we get is a species which would need to be more closely related to us biologically and genetically than our great ape cousins and extinct neanderthals.

Essentially Greys, would need to be almost human themselves.

The trouble with this goblin like creature is that everyone in the world with a TV has seen one. Abduction claimants and other contactees cannot prove or disprove that what they experience is anything but a memory of this entity.

What would be needed, is to interview or regress a native South American Amazonian or other untainted native who has never heard or seen of a Grey and see if that person recalls the same creature. If he/she had no prior knowledge and described one, then there would be a case for suggesting that they were real.

As for very human looking 'Nordic' type aliens. No. I don't believe such exist. And if they did, they have nothing to do with EBEs. Claims of these associating with Greys is just a kop out - a concoction of a pseudo religious experience unified with an alternative to God. Me thinks.

Q. What of the theory about Panspermia?

Common sense dictates that all life in the universe must be related in the sense that all life must be composed of common elements which only came into existence with the Big Bang. In that way, there is a common relationship. It is like comparing the world's tallest building with a Kalahari bush hut. Both are related in the sense that both are composed of the same atoms. A dwelling or whatever on an alien world will therefore have a relationship to Earth buildings.

Living organisms will be related in the same way. We all evolved from the same singularity. That relationship however is only on the atomic and sub-atomic level. Beyond that, we are diverse entities with no other relationship.

Panspermia addicts seize the opportunity to use this atomic level relationship to claim aliens can look human and inter-breed with us. Great apes are still also products of the Panspermia theory and we can't hybridise with them.

Q. What craft and propulsion systems do they use?

I have no idea. There is no alien craft in the public domain to answer that. All we have to go on at present is propulsion systems which we as humans can envisage. It is fully possible of course and most likely I think that alien craft capable of reaching say half light speed (about 93,000 miles/second - about 16 minutes travelling time to the Sun), will have a propulsion system which today we cannot imagine. Even the material to construct a vehicle capable of travelling at these speeds is beyond our comprehension. It's a bit like trying to imagine a new colour; quite impossible. It is most probably there, but beyond our 'vision'.

Some UFOs tracked by radar seem to be able to accelerate from 0 to off the scale in a blink of an eye. There may be some technology here which we as yet cannot understand, which allows for fantastically acute turns in our atmosphere and acceleration which clearly does not harm any pilots - if they have such. Interestingly, most known reports of the highest speeds suggested seem to not exceed 20,000 miles per hour. This is about the maximum any vehicle could travel through our atmosphere. Still a collosal speed to us and perhaps faster once outside Earth in space proper, but still no where near even half light speed. This suggests, that even aliens must accelerate over a period of time.

Q. It has been said that aliens which appear human are time travellers. What do you think?

I believe time travel in the sense that you go backwards and physically interact with the world then, is not possible simply because in theory to exceed light speed, will reverse time. As this is not possible, time travel cannot occur. Our understanding of time suggests that we would need to exceed light speed to attain this. At present this is the only method which we understand could send us back in time.

I also happen to believe, that if I travelled back to shake hands with say Adolf Hitler in 1938, in 1938, I would have arrived from Adolf's future.

The only way we would know if this subject had in some way been mastered, would be if humans arrived from the future. I think not, and human appearing humans from the future or human appearing aliens from somewhere are just not there.

I toy with the idea sometimes, that if time travel to the past was possible, then a time traveller might be able to arrive at a point in the past, and observe what was going on, but not able to physically interact. As if super imposed on a reel of film. He/she can see events, but can play not part in the film. A neat way of not being able to alter the past to change the future.

I don't believe time travel to the future can be achieved as the future is not set. One minute from now, an infinite number of possibilities could occur to determine the future in exactly one minutes's time. There are theories on how it could be done, but nothing practical - like exceeding light speed enough to travel back in time but to arrive at a point not yet reached in normal time by the astronaut. Technically, travelling to the future.

Q. What is the alien agenda?

Again, this can only be speculation. I suspect that aliens simply visit Earth to study matters, as we ourselves would act if capable of reaching another world where life occured. I'm sure humans would have no problem abducting alien life forms from alien worlds for study purposes, and this probably happens here. Indeed, it would be an absolute necessity. If one imagines humans arriving at an alien world, which was similar to ours, with oceans, freshwaters, forests, grasslands, deserts etc, similar weather, gravity, temperature etc, it would take a long time before Man could set foot on that world and take his first breath of air. Simply because such a world would like ours be full of new fauna and flora, from bacteria to whale size, from unicellular plants to tree like edifices.

Man on Earth has evolved alongside other plants and animals and over the last 3 million years has gradually learned by trial and error which are good, bad, useful, harmful etc. All that would need to be discovered in a few years before a world could be colonised. Otherwise, a man's first gulp of air might be his last. His body would be invaded immediately by unfamiliar bacteria and viruses. Some harmless, but it only needs one harmful species to kill that man and perhaps be contagious to his associates. Human colonisers would need to be immunised against new diseases and sufficient numbers of colonisers would need to arrive to form a viable nucleus population as many, many would die for all sorts of reasons.

Native plants would need study to establish if they can be safe to eat and form agriculture. A creature, even tiny and insect like which bites or stings with or squirts venom or chemical compounds might be so toxic, that death might be instantaneous. Vaccines and medicines will need developing.

I think of Europeans meeting colonist natives of the Americas who had been isolated from the rest of the world by rising sea levels flooding the Bering Sea area route where they accessed the continents, who quickly died in their millions by colds and flu introduced by the newcomers. The same WOULD happen on another world.

I've often had a nagging doubt in my head about certain political events here on Earth which could be applied to alien life.

I always believed that Ronald Reagan's Star Wars programme went ahead in some way. Despite ridicule from many opponents, he alongwith British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher destroyed the communist Soviet Union. I cannot understand why the West knew for years that communism was taking its last gasps, yet entertained a weapons defence/attack system to destroy inbound Inter-continental Ballistic Missiles.

Only the Soviet Union had the capability to launch a nuclear strike against the West. Even China has only a handful of long range nukes. So what exactly were the Star Wars weapons to be pointed at?

Then later, there came about the suggestion of a 'missile defence screen' for Western states. Who was to fire upon us?

Potentially hostile countries which could unleash nuclear weapons, will never have the capability to launch long or even short range nukes. Before getting to that stage, the West would intervene and if a missile could be launched, it would be a glorified SCUD type which would be shot down almost immediately. Enemy states would attack us in a nuclear sense by detonating a weapon in a car, house, boat or brief case. It would not need to have the magnitude of a ballistic warhead to get the enemy point across. Perhaps vapourising a couple of city blocks and a half million citizens and contaminating a million more!!!

It crossed my mind that perhaps the Star Wars programme is to defend Earth from alien intrusion or attack and the missile defence screen is a second line of defence.

There is perhaps no truth to this and is just something I think worth mentioning, but it does seem strange that vast sums of money are being spent on defence mechanisms where there is little or no (human) threat. Who knows, perhaps there is an agenda to invade Earth and an invasion fleet is en route, but which will still take decades to get here!!!!

Q. Did the US go to the Moon?

Yes. But I think all is not as it seems.

It must be remembered that America eyed up the Moon to get one up on the Soviets. The world for years rested on the brink of nuclear war. The US had to dominate space beyond what had been reached by the Soviets.

It is inconceivable that the Americans didn't go to the Moon for three reasons.

1), The Americans set up an array of receivers on the Moon's surface to allow exact distances from Earth to the Moon to be measured. Someone had to have set foot on the moon to place that technology there. The equipment is still used today.

2), There is no way the Soviets would let the Americans pull off a world-wide con like that. It was all about oneupmanship. The Soviets knew full well that the radio signals came from the Moon's surface. Every inch of that journey (as all moon shots etc) was watched by the communists.

3), Genuine rock and dust samples were returned to Earth which have been studied by numerous astro-geologists, including today, Russian scientists and nobody doubts their authenticity.

What I do believe however is that the American Government needed to win the hearts and minds of the American people. National pride was at stake. It is my opinion that the Moon Shot was filmed in a studio setting in advance, and this was to be used if the event failed. The Americans would then perhaps try to pull off a con.

In the end, the mission succeeded, but the military was able to carry on using that footage (with its flaws) and so keep the real footage under wraps.

Q. What proof do you need to confirm alien life visting Earth?

It strikes me that of all the claimed observations of crashed/landed craft/contact, not one single artefact has been recovered which can be claimed to be of extra-terrestrial origin.

A simple device or tool made of substances not yet known on Earth, a craft itself, an alien itself (dead or alive).

The UFO literature is full of claims of tracking implants, alien technology in military hands etc. There is nothing in the public sector. Stories abound of implants being removed from patients. None have ever been proven to be alien. I'm willing to accept that on occasion, alien artefacts do come into the possession of UFO enthusiasts and that these are soon spirited away by the authorities possibly under a barrage of threats to the individual concerned.

The machines used by aliens to travel here might be exotically powered and constructed, but I believe they are vulnerable. All machines can break down and all machines can be broken.

Of the few interactions admitted to by the military in various countries, one thing is clear, that where possible, alien craft will 'run' when challenged by fighter aircraft. Despite their obvious advanced features, machines are machines and can be shot down by the simplistic explosive devices employed by humans!!

There are several records of when aircraft have 'locked on' to a target, that target is aware of the threat and simply accelerates off at enormous speed.

I think the foremost reason to intercept a craft is to frighten it off. It is paramount to deny their existence to the public. If in the event of attempting this, an alien craft is fired upon successfully, then that is a bonus, though one achieved with problems of covering up the deed.

I don't think aliens visiting Earth are directly hostile, though some methods employed might appear so. I'm sure alien craft are more than capable of defending themselves if required, but certainly with nothing so elaborate as what science fiction might offer. If alien life forms wanted to overtly attack us, then we would as a species be pretty defenceless. Though of course, I do think defence would be tried as per Star Wars above.

Q. Do you believe some agencies do deals with aliens?

No.

I believe only a couple or three species can reach Earth. Regardless of their agenda, for one species to interact with humans to the point of covertly arranging deals and agreements, would I think put that species in a precarious position with the others. I've heard stories of deals being struck where alien technology is offered in exchange for not interfering with abductions. I think that's a load of tosh.

These entities don't need to do deals. If they want victims, they'll just take them.

And would you give technology to a race of warring humans who have according to others, shot down or at least openly attacked other alien craft? Sooner or later, the hand that feeds is bitten!!! It is a human trait.

Q. Do you think certain government agencies around the world have acquired aliens dead or alive?

I think it is certainly possible. A downed craft will probably have pilots. Recovery would need to be swift by the authorities and dead or alive, aliens would be immediate bio-threats. There is not a chance that alien life forms would be kept in conditions allowing for further exposure by humans. Dead or alive, such bio-material would be kept in isolation in conditions far superior to even the most carefully controlled germ warfare establishments.

So alien autopsies are out as are practically all claims of physical/close proximity contact with extra-terrestrials ie, Berwyn Mountain aliens in oblong boxes at Porton Down or Air Force personnel at RAF Bentwaters chatting to alien vehicle pilots. And we would be as much a bio-threat to them.

I'm closely involved with the study of the alleged 1974 Berwyn Mountain UFO crash/landing in Wales, UK. One report claims alien bodies were recovered and such were transported by road to a secure establishment, where the containers holding the corpses were opened allowing all and sundry to see the contents. Absolute rubbish. Even in the 50s, science knew of bio-threats, so twenty odd years later!!! I think not.

One thing which puzzles me, is the plethora of cases from around the world regarding alleged UFO crashes. Earth must be the most hazardous place to visit in the galaxy and is a sort of elephant's grave yard for extra-terrestrial craft.

Alien vehicles are most unlikely to malfunction. There seems to be some evidence that energy produced following or during an earthquake can influence some alien craft and disable them. But what are the odds on a spacecraft passing by when an earthquake occurs?

I doubt if Earth history has witnessed more than a half dozen genuine crashes due to malfunctions or even, pilot error.

Certainly in modern times, I'm more inclined to believe that so called crashes if they exist, are as a result of human aggression be it in a defensive or offensive way.
The 'over-plugged' Roswell incident seems more likely to have been a destroyed alien craft, fired upon by the military - and successfully. Wounded. it came down and crashed, that might explain why the military were not involved until debris was reported. I'm not sure they knew it would come down, so ignored matters. It was gone and that was that.

The same at Berwyn in North Wales, UK. I'm aware of one thread of evidence which though circumstantial, suggests a crashed vehicle on the slopes of Cader Berwyn near the village of Llandrillo was in fact successfully hit by fire from naval vessels during an altercation in the Irish Sea (I dispute the actual suggested location of this shoot out). It allegedly later crashed or crashed landed.

Q. Do you think aliens have ever manipulated human evolution?

Yes and no.

As I've mentioned in previous answers, I'm inclined to believe that there is an element of truth in most myths and legends and only an advanced intelligence would perhaps 10,000 years ago abduct a man now known as Adam, and isolate him to start a new genetic line. After time, inbreeding would create a line of humans with distinct features. Go a step further and you get a race and later a distinct species. Bear in mind too, that whether by God or aliens, any line of humans orginating from so-called Adam & Eve, was beyond them, greatly incestuous.

I've no proof of course, but I like to believe that this Adam chappie was a laboratory experiment that either went wrong or was abandoned. The lab' technicians here would have had to have been members of an advanced species.

As regards us more normal examples of Homo sapiens, no, we have not had our ancestry tampered with.

Q. Are you influenced by science fiction?

The astro-physics and cosmology disciplines in science have in many, many instances been down to the imaginations of science fiction writers. Such scribes create fantastic possibilities with their writing and science is all about taking a theory and proving or disproving it, So, science fiction has and still does have a role to play in modern scientific thinking. It is the writers who throw up good ideas. It is the scientists who prove their feasibility.

As a child, I thrived on science fiction, from puppet shows to Star Trek. I still recall Super Car and Fireball XL5. Unlike some UFO buffs I've met though, I do know the difference between science fiction and science fact.

Science fiction films and tv series are good fun; entertaining, but that's as far as it goes. I very rarely read any fiction on any subject, much prefering non fiction. Mostly science books, but anything which catches my eye really.

My earliest introduction to 'useful', 'thinking man's' science fiction was in junior school. I was about eight or nine years old and as a class, we watched a dramatisation of Tom's Midnight Garden by Phillippa Pearce. This was described as a masterpiece of children's English literature and won the Carnegie Medal for Children's literature.

It is a time travel story and has been mirrored by other authors and another excellent film springs to mind, The Final Countdown starring Kirk Douglas. Putting aside the plots, the science and the thought put by the original authors into that science is excellent stuff.

Along the same lines but slightly different is The Langoliers by Stephen King and Frequency starring Dennis Quaid.

Indeed, these two latter are more scientifically possible than the former two, as these do not involve physical interraction with the past. Both Tom's Midnight Garden and The Final Countdown involved physical time travel to the recent past and both films concluded with the still 'unaged' characters re-meeting their love interests in the present, who are now old aged.

In both films, the women are told that the men are from the future. Of course when they return to their own time, they vanish from the women's present. Knowing that the men came from the future allows them to be present in later years on the return from the past of the time travellers.

This concurs with my belief that time travel to the past is not practically possible. As I've said elsewhere, to return to and interract with the past, must mean that in the past, I must have arrived from the future. The two events must be connected.

With The Langoliers, the time travellers simply fly into a 'blip' in time, where that time runs incredibly slowly. Of course the air craft passengers are not aware of any change in time - Einsteinian theories here.

What they don't realise immediately, is that they airport they've landed in is full of people and traffic, moving so fast, that this is unseen to them. All the inanimate objects ie buildings seem normal. A struck match which lights several minutes later gives the clue to the void from which the hapless passengers work out how to return to their own time.

Q. You are a hunting, shooting, fishing man, yet run a conservation business website. How do you reconcile that?

Firstly, I regard myself as a science oriented person. These days, I tend only to fish on occasion and I haven't shot for some years now, though I do retain my sporting rights on several hundred acres of land in the Llyn Peninsula. Time is always short.

I see nothing wrong with hunting or shooting quarry species of a wild animal, where that culling does not impact on the viable population. Nature is wasteful and all species have a surplus which can be harvested. That is the part of the population which would naturally die of disease, predation or famine. I see nothing wrong with farming animals to be released for sport. I'm a game and water keeper by trade, so have been involved in rearing game birds for shooting. At least such creatures sample a wild existence before being driven over guns etc, a privilage not enjoyed by intensively farmed meat or egg animals.

Of course, there is a moral issue. But that isn't scientific. As a conservationist, I'm only interested in land management for the benefit of all. Land and its wildlife is not there for the benefit of a few who want it THEIR way.

Q. Were you once attacked in the UFO press for wanting to shoot an alien?

The incident you recall refers to a letter I put in UFO Magazine a few months before it folded. (I believe it was deliberately shut down following Graham Birdsall's death).

I was (and still am) exasperated by all the bogus claims by so called UFO enthusiasts, who claimed that the clandestine agencies and cover-up governments should come clean about alien visitation to Earth. Many of them too claimed to have bits of space ship, alien artefacts etc, etc, yet, many of them always came up with excuses for why this or that didn't happen. So of course, the truth never comes out.

Aliens have probably visited Earth for millenia, but only recently have we humans been in a position to challenge that. Governments and the Church want visitation covered up. The military want it covered up so it can pursue its own agendas. All are condemned by ufo buffs, yet they too stifle progress.

I'm interested only in exposing any cover-up. I want the whole world to know that extra-terrestrial biological entities are real and that they really come here. This charade has been going on mostly since the 2nd world war and still, the truth is coming.

Of course it is. But I want it today, not in another 60 years, or 120 years or whatever. Today. Now.

The public needs to have irrefutable evidence in the public domain to be convinced. This disclosure will change our world forever.

Now I don't particularly care how that evidence is obtained or in what form it is presented. Irrefutable proof, is something like a whole or part craft or a device, made from as yet unknown compounds. Failing that, bio-material (despite the danger). A live or if necessary a dead alien.

Once the object is achieved the future is academic.

Now if I was to come across an alien entity and I was in a position to do so. I would capture that entity (dead or alive). I certainly would not let the opportunity of a life time pass me by.

This is one of those occasions, when the end really does justify the mean.

A few UFO Magazine readers objected to my approach. Yet, these people are quite happy to let aliens 'abduct' humans for their vivisection experiments, but we can't abduct them. So just because a few weak minded people can't control their moral urges, the most closely guarded secret in the history of Mankind must stay secret.

I was recently attacked on an Internet forum for still suggesting this and I stand by it. Interestingly, UFO buffs opposing this are common enough, but I noticed that ALL the sceptics opposed by approach. Seemingly, such anti-ufo people really do not want to be proven wrong and will stoop to any level to prevent the truth emerging.

All opposed to my approach hinder progress and help keep the cover-up alive. They forget, that we Humans are only too happy to conduct experiments on lesser creatures and serious scientific study of say invertebrates in Indonesian rain forest canopies involve gassing small areas and collecting the myriad corpses for classification and study.

Again, to listen to some UFO enthusiasts, aliens plague the Earth like nocturnal locusts, but suggest 'bagging' one and all of a sudden, they become very rare entities which should not be treated like that.

In the case of the rainforest example, those scientists would not want to kill anything especially as it might be ultra rare, but it is a chance they take as such collection methods (abduction of lesser creatures really), are the only practical ones.

Just recently too, I was reading about the Yeti (Nepal), Alma (Siberia) and Sasquatch (North America), a creature which I believe exists and is the same animal.

Grover Krantz of Washington State University (1980) who has studied this creature's purported existence, advises anyone coming across a Sasquatch, to shoot it as the only final way of providing scientific proof; a method which I fully support.

I think from this it is clear to see that Ufology is in quite a mess.

Q. When do you think disclosure may come?

Disclosure of alien existence and visitation to Earth will only come 'officially', when either an alien race just turns up and overtly presents itself, or such comes purely by accident.

In the former, I believe officialdom will cover up the situation for as long as is necessary. I don't believe disclosure will ever be formerly announced unless Governments have no choice ie, aliens overtly turning up.

Even SETI has no 'plan b' as far as I know for dodging the authorities should it detect alien life. I'm in no doubt that if SETI discovered alien radio transmissions for example, that it would NOT be on the six o'clock news. I think the discoverers will be gagged or worse. It is stated on its website at www.seti.org that the organisation has a 'Post Detection Protocol' and that there will be no secrets. There is 'A Decleration of Principles Concerning Activities Following the Detection of Extraterrestrial Intelligence'. This is endorsed by 6 international space organisations.

I don't believe for one minute that any official announcement will be made. Note, the phrase - ...endorsed by 6 international space organisations. Not governments.

Nowhere on its site does it seem to say it has government support. It is inconceivable that heads of state would find out that SETI had discovered alien signals at the same time as the rest of us. So there is plenty of scope for any or all organisations involved to be silenced. And I believe they will. It is stated that international agreement will take place before a response is sent. It seems to me that if it was agreed not to send a response or delay such a response indefinately, there would be no need to upset the status quo of Earth by announcing such publicly in the first place.

A common theme supporting purported cover ups, is that ordinary mortals like us, are not ready for ET yet. Surely this is the same whether aliens are here or not. The end result is the same, extraterrestrial life exists. And the end result for world society would be the same.

SETI scientists have contributed to at least one book titled Social Implications of the Detection of an Extraterrestrial Civilisation. SETI of course does not accept that EBEs come to Earth already, but the implications remain the same whether we detect an alien microwave signal or a craft lands in London's Hyde Park.

And naturally, the parasites in the various religious organisations around the world will want to move the goal posts and be in on the greatest scientific discovery so far. Total hypocracy from corrupt outfits who will be interested only in jumping on the band wagon in order to learn, in order to protect itself.

If a signal is discovered and SETI does go public both it, the rest of the scientific community and any one else with common sense should resist any attempt by the Church to influence factors thereafter.

As far as I'm concerned, once the citizens of the world are informed that life elsewhere in the galaxy exists, it will matter not whether it is a signal or if a craft lands on the roof of Buckingham Palace, the result is the same and religion will be cast into its final death throws. By religion I mean, not just the Christian West, but all world religions.

A popular theme for a cover-up is that official contact (directly or indirectly) will plunge the world into anarchy. I believe this to be a fair comment. Whether it might come to pass is another matter, but I believe the more devout in society will have trouble coming to terms with such a discovery.

Such will try to debunk any announcement of a signal from intelligent life forms and will undoubtedly claim SETI etc as being simply wrong. As I've mentioned elsewhere in this write-up, religious zealots fear extra-terrestrial life and more so intelligent beings. By definition if such can travel here, then technologically, they would be smarter than us; probably having enjoyed a longer evolution. It would therefore be reasonable to postulate the theory that such creatures would have a better idea of how the universe was created. The last thing religious crazies want to hear is a little green man telling them God is a load of rubbish.

In the absence of a signal or overt landing, statistically, it will be an ordinary man in the street, Joe Soap, who will discover the crucial evidence. A person not looking for or who is uninterested, in ET. Having said that, I doubt if he or she will be presenting such evidence on national news. That person would be killed immediately to preserve the integrity of the cover up. No doubt about that.

And this seemingly wild claim may not be so wild when it is considered that I personally have posted questions on forums, sent emails and letters world wide, suggesting that Mr Soap is the most likely discoverer (but it could be anyone), and asking just what system the Ufology fraternity has in place to secure both a finder and the find, to disallow interference by clandestine agencies.

I have never received a reply. Yet, virtually every ufo organisation in the world insists on official cover ups and denials. They know the authorities will go to any length to deny alien existence if they truly believed such denial, yet have done nothing to thwart this disgraceful policy.

So, effectively, ufology is assisting the cover up through its own stupidity.

If in relation to an earlier question, I was out and 'bagged a Grey', and quickly spirited the corpse away, who would I talk to? Who would I contact?

Chances are, I'd die or disappear as would the evidence and a bunch of idiots would think "cover up" and assist the cycle to repeat itself.

If these Ufology enthusiasts worldwide, truly believed in cover-ups and genuine alien visitation, they should be fully prepared to secure any person and his/her evidence from contact with anti-alien agencies and ensure that the cover-up does not extend to that person and his/her evidence.

There should be protocols in place which guarantee immediate world wide publicity of the event thus disallowing any cover-up opportunity and if possible, exposure of previous cover-ups, proving that government and/or religions have sponsored such secrecy.

If they are not prepared to do this, they do not deserve to be associated with Ufology.

On this particular issue, I rest my case.

Q. Men In Black?

The traditional image of this character is a dark suited, dark spectacled, ominous figure who allegedly appears to intimidate witnesses to certain events.

I have no trouble with the concept of intimidation by government sponsored agents. I'm sure such must exist, but their use is rare. I'm sure too that these MIB are human. I know some people think otherwise, but they are human.

I doubt if aliens in human form would give a damn if their activities were observed.

I believe that every now and then, someone does see an alien vehicle or device and that such an observation is perceived by government agencies as a threat. The 'boys' are then sent in to rubbish the witness.

It is my belief that world militaries do detect most if not all of the UFOs which penetrate

Piczo