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directly above them at single-storey height, a huge, diamond-shaped craft beaming orange light from its undercarriage. She noticed writing or ciphers on the craft's tail and that the craft made a steady, droning, humming sound. Victoria, who also got out, later remarked: "It reminded me of a stealth bomber: it was that big and the same shape." The craft then disappeared behind trees, but the four friends, having driven on to another house, noticed bright white lights hovering about. Then, next to a huge pine tree beside the house, Grace observed a shadowy figure. “It was the shape of a human, but there was very little detail. That's when we knew we had to get out of there." The orange-lit object followed for a short distance before turning sharply at right angles, moving from left to right across the road, and vanishing. Then the colourful, flashing lights reappeared above the car, six of them in a semi-circle around them... The next day, the foursome retraced their steps to try make sense of their experience. All of them suffered nosebleeds for two weeks afterwards, headaches for six weeks, frequent memory lapses, electrostatic shocks—and a sneaking suspicion about that time they can't account for. Grace, with other witnesses, had several more encounters with the bright lights and the humming, hovering craft over the ensu- ing month—the last time, directly above her home. She and Victoria are undergoing hypnotherapy to retrieve more detail. (Source: Woman's Day, 26 December '94) MYSTERIOUS MOONS OF MARS ANOTHER UFO ABDUCTION? Among the factors which have focused so At 4.30 am one cold, clear morning last much of our time and talent on Mars are the July, four women driving on a freeway 60 two tiny satellites which orbit the planet, km north-west of Melbourne had a series of where, prior to 1877, no satellites had ever UFO encounters far too close for comfort. been seen before! What should have been a fifteen-minute The famous astronomers Herschel and drive home from a friend's place took an Lasselle had excellent telescopes at their hour and a half. Despite having to stop their disposal—so good that they used them to car several times en route in order to seek discover the moons of Uranus. Yet neither safety and raise an alarm, there was no way these men, nor hundreds of other their journey could have taken them so long. astronomers who observed the planets, were The four women—Grace Kyriakidis, Tina able to see any satellites around Mars. Chatzibasile, Joy Bock, and Grace's niece Then, in one week in 1877, Asaph Hall Victoria McGinley—decided to go public, found that Mars had two satellites where _ in spite of possible ridicule. “This story will none had been seen before. sound too unbelievable for a lot of people," It is also worth noting that not only do said Grace, “but we know what we saw." these two Martian satellites sweep around For the record, none of the women had been the planet at a very high speed but they trav- drinking that evening. el in different directions—factors which had Grace first noticed the brightly glowing led to the suspicion that they are artificial. orange lights in the sky; oblong-shaped, This is the theory advanced by Soviet _ they travelled parallel to the road before dis- astronomer I. $. Schklovsky, who points out appearing behind trees. A few minutes that the Martian satellite known as Phobos later, to the left, Joy observed a spherical exhibits a strange acceleration in its orbit— object making erratic movements. It was an irregularity which would be expected if surrounded by blue haze and amazing the satellite were in reality a huge metal colours flashing like a strobe light—and it sphere that was hollow. The same differ- was following them. ence in speed, however, would be impossi- The women's amazement and awe turned ble for a natural astronomical body. to fear and panic when Joy turned to see a Therefore, says Dr Schklovsky, at least huge, blinding, orange glow covering the one of the moons of Mars is not a natural width of the road and hovering just above object, but an artificial satellite placed in the car, about 20 metres behind. Grace orbit around the 'red' planet in 1877, or accelerated in a bid to outrun the light. shortly before that time. Further on up the road she stopped the car (Source: Strange World by Frank neara hotel to call for help, to no avail. Edwards, Lyle Stuart Co., New York, 1964) Joy got out gingerly, only to see hovering — — ( UTISTS' AWA om 7} 6) | lw eFen oe EN aM | a AND THE ’ Ruwnek-uP..) AY OXFORD LAB INDUCES OOBEs During an out-of-body experience (OOBE), the person experiences moving as a floating consciousness, separate from the body. According to a recent Associated Press report, Oxford University in England has awarded the first ever doctoral degree to someone who was able to produce an OOBE in the laboratory. The method and results are preliminary and not yet published in a scholarly journal, but the event is in itself newsworthy. The Oxford student was Charles McCreery. His laboratory was a closet- sized room with a lounge chair, EEG elec- trodes to monitor the person's brainwaves, a cassette player and earphones to deliver some specially designed, relaxing stimuli, and a special pair of eyeglasses. The relax- ation tape included instructions to relax, as well as ‘pink noise’, which sounds like throbbing static but which reinforces certain brainwave frequencies. McCreery was able to induce OOBEs in 20 per cent of his subjects. (Source: Venture Inward, Sept/Oct!994) se hh 68 ¢ NEXUS FEBRUARY - MARCH 1995