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REVIEWS ©& ever existed) was dismantled, its capacity for details from the approx. 1,600 pages of FBI B oO oO K S misuse too great to justify continued experi- | documents, covering sightings in the 7 mentation. Fr Ernetti went very quiet inthe 1947-1964 period, and interweaves them FATHER ERNETTI'S CHRONOVISOR last decade of his life (by choice or force?), with historical context, his own commentary by Peter Krassa but, in late 1993, he and two surviving sci- and supporting material from Air Force, Publisher: New Paradigm, USA, 2000 entists from the project presented their find- | Army CIC and CIA files. The result is a ISBN: 1-892138-02-6 (214pp tpb) ings at the Vatican before four cardinals and _well-flowing account with fascinating case Price: AUD$37.35; £13.99; USD$16.95; a scientific committee. What transpired has _ Studies and asides (many from other UFO Sources: Aust—Banyan Tree Book not been divulged. researchers). These documents not only dis- Distributors, tel (08) 8363 4244; UK— prove the FBI's public stance but speak vol- Gazelle Book Service, tel 01524 68765; UFO FBI CONNECTION: The Secret umes about the high-level official UFO _ Eur—NEXUS Office, tel +31 321 380558; History of the Government's Cover-up cover-up, how it was instigated and how it's —| i bi intained. Th Is li USA™New Farad Books 1261) 482 by Bruce Maccabee, PHD fee Tape 71, website www. . j chap: $9 Voinen boa the ie aioetes Publisher: Llewellyn, USA, 2000 tions between the Air Force's intelligence Pellegrino Ernetti suggests that this ISBN: 1-56718-493-6 (311pp tpb) apparatus, the FBI and other agencies over Italian Benedictine priest-scientist was a Price: AUD$32.95; NZD$46.95; £11.99; the nature of the UFO phenomenon. man of integrity and would not have created NLGf38,90; USD$14.95; CAD$22.95 Because these documents are now accessi- a hoax about his work on the chronovisor_a Sources: Aust—Banyan Tree, tel (08) ble on the Net (www.fbi.gov), only a couple : 8363 4244: NZ—NEXUS Office, tel (09 of facsimiles are reproduced here—but this alee lure aut abe pictures ¢ into the 405 1963; UK—Airlift Book Co., tel 626 is no reason to bypass Maccabee's book for Venice-based Father Ernetti (1925-1994) 8804 0400; Europe—NEXUS Office, tel the background illumination it gives. was an authority on archaic music, a scholar +31 321 380558; USA—Llewellyn, tel in Greek and Latin, a sought-after exorcist, a (651) 291 1970, www.Ilewellyn.com confidant of the influential, and an object of ocuments obtained by Dr Bruce questioning by the Vatican and NASA. His Maccabee under the FOIA at last con- work on the so-called chronovisor stemmed _ firm that the FBI did take flying saucer from his time at Father Gemelli's electro- sightings seriously enough to investigate acoustical laboratory at the Catholic them. Curiously, they also confirm that such University in Milan from 1952. So writes FBI reports were filed under "Flying Discs: Peter Krassa in his fascinating exposé of Security Matter — X"; in other words, the Father Ernetti's life and work, translated real-life "X-files"! from German and now expanded with sup- Bruce Maccabee, PhD, is an optical physi- porting documents—such as the translation cist who works for the US Navy and has of the lost Latin classic, Ennius's Thyestes, been investigating UFO sightings for supposedly retrieved via the chronovisor. decades, accumulating many once-secret Krassa draws on commentaries from asso- _ files from various military and intelligence ciates of Ernetti, some of them priest-para- organisations over the years. He is also well psychologists who were excited that he may —_ known on the UFO conference circuit. have found a way to tap the elusive akashic For UFO FBI Connection, his second records. Apparently the chronovisor (if it book, Dr Maccabee quotes highlights and ever existed) was dismantled, its capacity for misuse too great to justify continued experi- mentation. Fr Ernetti went very quiet in the last decade of his life (by choice or force?), but, in late 1993, he and two surviving sci- entists from the project presented their find- ings at the Vatican before four cardinals and a scientific committee. What transpired has not been divulged. 76 = NEXUS AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2000