UFO researchers - Dying to know
Written by FEMA
ATS Weekly, Edition 019, November 22, 2005
Since a 1947 report in which the US Air Force described the crash of an Unidentified Flying Object in Roswell NM, the public has begged for answers
from a government they feel is less than forthcoming. From these questions have sprung researchers who dedicated their lives to a search for the
truth. In many cases the premature deaths of these determined researchers may be considered a case of "dying to know."
In a 1997 UFO Universe Magazine story, Is Someone Killing Our UFO Investigators?, Prof. G. Cope Schellhorn plumbed the disproportionate deaths of
UFO investigators concluding that, as a group, their high rate of mortality ran contrary to the national average. Prof. Schellhorn was not alone in
his suspicions.
Otto Binder, a well-known author and researcher, penned a 1971 Special UFO report for Saga Magazine titled, "Liquidation of the UFO Investigators.
Binder's investigation focused on 137 flying saucer researchers, writers, scientists, and witnesses' who had died in the previous 10 years. Many
were considered to have died under the most mysterious circumstances.
In Binder's 1971 Special Report his inclusion of scientists may have seemed enthusiastically eccentric, however, the recent deaths (many recorded
as suicides) of 30 scientists associated with SDI (Star Wars) research at Marconi Ltd. in England, between approximately 1985-1988, can only leave the
staunchest nay-sayers' scratching their collective heads.
While prosaic explanations may account for some of the deaths the most bizarre death goes to Alistair Beckham, an engineer with the allied firm of
Plessey Defense Systems who was found shocked to death with electric leads attached to his body and his mouth stuffed with a handkerchief. Beckham's
method of death was not unique. Peter Ferry, marketing director for Marconi, was found shocked to death with electrical leads in his mouth.
Authorities have not ruled out foul play in either case.
"The government will go to any length to keep others from gaining the military high-ground by means of technology gleaned from the collection of
alien artifacts," says Clifford E. Stone, a Roswell resident and retired Army Sargent who alleged he was part of a special military team committed to
collection and field exploitation of downed alien artifacts under two projects titled, Blue Fly and Moon Dust. When asked about his comment Stone
answered, "Well, let's just say there are a lot of unsolved murders. That's all I'm going to say about that."
The most public display of the government's willingness to use terminal force lays at the edge of Area-51, a secret facility the government at one
time denied existed. Signs lining the facility periphery have been photographed displaying the ominous warning: "Use of terminal force authorized."
While most will grant that the government has a right to guard the contents of Area-51, others contend the government is housing alien technology and
keeping the knowledge of their research hidden from public view through black-budget slight of hand.
"They came to my house and threatened my dad twice; the second time my mom saw and heard them," complains Charles (Chuck) Smith of Kingston
Ontario, Canada. "I had files pointing to government duplicity regarding UFOs. I handed them off to a local TV station and they turned them over to
the RCMP. They didn't even protect their source! In a few days they were at my door threatening my dad who didn't even know I'd passed off the
files. He didn’t even know I was doing research."
Mr. Smith went on to say the RCMP had another man with them, that the other man had been introduced to his father as an observer from the US
government who had an interest in what he was trying to do. "They told my dad that if I kept trying to get higher levels of disclosure for the files
that I'd be in prison so fast no one would be able to find me for the trial. The last thing they left my dad with was that if I didn't stop, it
would be considered an act of terrorism against the United States. I quit my research. It's all fun and games; little green men and the moon is made
of cheese, that is, until they are at your door and in your face. These guys play for keeps, you can't stand up to them. They roam the halls of
accountability with impunity."
Mr. Smith fared better than other researchers, he lived to tell his tale. Ron (Jerrold) Johnson, was MUFON's Deputy Director of Investigations.
The 43-year-old Johnson was in excellent health when he attended a Society of Scientific Exploration meeting in Austin, Texas, June 9, 1994. Johnson
died quickly amid very strange circumstances during a slide show. Several people sitting close to Johnson heard a gasp and when the lights were turned
back on, Johnson was slumped-over in his chair, his face purple, blood oozing from his nose. A can of soda he'd been sipping was sitting on the chair
next to him.
Another perplexing death was that of Jonathan Walsh, a digital communications expert employed by GEC, Marconi's parent firm. Mr. Walsh had
expressed grave concerns for his life before he allegedly fell from his Abidjan hotel room while working on a British Telecom project on the Ivory
Coast (Africa) in November of 1985. Whom or whatever the circumstances were that raised Walsh's concerns may never be known. So it remains for the
death cases of researchers considered to have passed by foul means.
Since 1947 over two-hundred UFO researchers have died under circumstances considered suspicious by their investigative counterparts; many
contending that getting too close to the truth is terminal.
FEMA
ATS Contributer
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