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For a ‘ voca neh, ae her int ed, wel 4 (or crop circles by another name), the CIA's Availability: Wild Flower Press, website mmvormed Approach, and Ter Mlerviews any : : commentaries are full of fascinating snippets interest from the 1950s through early 1980s _http://www.5thworld.com and anecdotes, Infectious reading. in the Ararat anomaly (the possible resting ome-based Italian-American journalist/ place of the biblical Noah's Ark), and FBI teacher Paola Harris has a passion for files on spontaneous human combustion. UFO research and the determination to track The second part, "Saucer Secrets", looks at down key figures in ufology and parapsy- British Admiralty curiosity about the chology to get to the heart of the mystery. "Dartmoor Floating Light" of 1915, WWII And if that means covering the gamut from "foo fighter" reports from various military the scientific to the speculative, then so be it. sources, and top-secret Nazi and American The 25 interviewees who are featured in research into duplication of UFO propulsion. _ this compilation, Connecting the Dots..., Also covered is FBI investigation of ET cover aspects such as historical testimony, contactees such as George Adamski, who the call for official disclosure, insider evi- was deemed to be promoting pro-Soviet dence, off-planet and underground bases, ET ideas, and US and UK official interest in contact scenarios and paranormal perspec- visits by so-called Men in Black. tives. Many of these names you'll be famil- The third part, "Mind Games", focuses on iar with from the pages of NEXUS: the US Army research into the use of supersti- now-deceased Ret. Colonel Phil Corso; tions, witchcraft and magic in warfare; UFO/paranormal investigators Linda Soviet and US military/intelligence research Moulton Howe and Dr Richard Boylan; dis- into psychic powers and mind control; and closure advocates Dr Steven Greer and British Home Office interest in dowsing asa — Monsignor Balducci; insiders Sgt Clifford tool for finding missing persons. Stone and Dr Michael Wolf; secret bases The final part, "X-Creatures", reveals UK researcher Dr Richard Sauder; self-declared military files on anomalous creatures like Andromedan contactee Alex Collier; and sea serpents, the Loch Ness monster and remote-viewing pioneer Ingo Swann, among "alien big cats", as well as FBI knowledge of _ other well-known names like Dr J. Allen the cattle mutilations as far back as 1973. Hynek and David Icke. Extracts from declassified documents and Paola has a special way of eliciting infor- eyewitness accounts are liberally sprinkled mation from her interview subjects, and in throughout. However, while government many cases she even manages to have her agency files exist, they don't necessarily photo taken with them for the record. More point to any solutions to these mysteries,so power to her! Her career in the ufology the authors have to admit they leave us with _field can be traced back to when she started more questions than answers. teaching science fiction at a Colorado high school in 1978. What she gives here are CONNECTING THE DOTS... Making snapshots of the diverse ways of exploring Sense of the UFO Phenomenon and interpreting UFO, extraterrestrial and by Paola Leopizzi Harris paranormal phenomena, and insights into Wild Flower Press, Columbus, USA, 2003 ™any of the personalities involved. ISBN 0-926524-57-7 (224pp tpb) _ Paola advocates an open-minded, well- Availability: Wild Flower Press, website informed approactt and her interviews and http:/www.5thworld.com commentaries are full of fascinating snippets . . . and anecdotes. Infectious reading. D ome-based Italian-American journalist/ 8 NEXUS = 67 DECEMBER 2003 — JANUARY 2004 www.nexusmagazine.com