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tists will announce the results to the public no later than April 1993, says Dames. participants will go to their graves swearing it was real." In repudiating Roswell, Ed Dames puts himself at odds with the UFO community even as he gives that com- munity something it desperately wants: public confirmation of the phenomena from a high level government source. This surely is a prescription for an uneasy relationship between the UFO community and Ed Dames. (By Elaine Douglass. OPERATION RIGHT TO KNOW FORUM Newsletter -Winter 1992-93.) UFO community, Dames has a message that could split the community down the middle. What’s the message? UFOs are real. Roswell isn’t. Dames said that for nearly 10 years he and his colleagues in Psi Tech have used a psychic technique called “remote viewing" to gather information on the UFO phenomena. Remote viewing was developed in the 1980s by psychic Ingo Swann at the Stanford Research Institute. There is much about Ed Dames that will deeply interest the UFO communi- ty. A former Major in the United States Army, Dames is talking openly about UFOs. No deep throat, the Major, no anonymous source. And not a cryptic commentor either. Dames is speaking volumes. He says UFOs are real. The abduc- tions are real. The greys are real. The hybrids are real. The bizarre strange- ness is real. But what is not real is the single most important case developed by the UFO research community. What is not real is the case whose multitude of witnesses and meticulous documen- tation is so impressive it can be present- ed anywhere to any public forum including the US Congress. That case is not real, and the US government has no pieces of a crashed flying saucer in it’s possession, Dames says. What was Roswell? According to Ed Dames, Roswell was a fictitious event staged by the aliens, something Dames calls "brain wave entertainment", some- thing he says he found out about through remote viewing. “Truck dri- vers frozen at the wheel" and "white spheres all over the place.” That's what Dames says the Roswell site actually looked like in 1947, even though "the While he was in the military, Dames studied remote viewing with Swann and trained others in the technique. In 1989 Dames founded Psi Tech, which offers remote viewing services to industry, governments, and organisa- tions. It seems that British mystic, Heather Woods, has prophesied her own staged media event. At least, she had a vision foreseeing stigmata appearing on her body, during Easter week, and the fore- sight to have cameraman on hand to capture the moment on film. By design or chance, the camera was rolling the moment the stigmata— marks of Jesus Christ's wounds—start- ed to form on her forehead in the shape of a cross, and other marks appeared on her body, hands and feet. It was Good (Easter) Friday The footage is being shown on British television (late April) as part of areligious programme. The programme's producer, Mr Colin Bell, said, "The cross on her forehead came up like a welt, white and then red. The stigmata started with round marks which become moist and began bleed- ing as the day went on. "It caused some pain but as mainly an emotional experience for her," he said. Mr Bell claims Ms Woods had a sim- ilar experience with stigmata a year ago, when doctors thought she was in the final stages of cancer. The marks, representing the spear wound and nail holes suffered by Jesus during crucifix- ion, appeared on her body before she recovered. Dames says Psi Tech consists of a team of 8 remote viewers, 6 of whom are “present duty or active duty Army intelligence or Army special operations officers." The team works on projects like finding Iraq's hidden weapons, locating Mozart’s grave, and determin- ing the fate of the passengers of Korean Airline 007. But Psi Tech's major project has to do with UFOs. Psi Tech's major current project, according to Dames, is to provide “sci- entific validation" of an "operational UFO site" he says he's located in Northern New Mexico. Leading scien- Heather Woods is a deacon of a mys- tic Christian church, St Gregory Palamas Orthodox Church, in Lincoln, east England. Her church believes her stigmata are genuine. (Source: Sunshine Coast Daily, 18 April 1993.) o> JUNE - JULY 1993 54¢NEXUS STIGMATA NO STIGMA a ———S—=_=—