(word processor parameters LM=8, RM=75, TM=2, BM=2) Taken from KeelyNet BBS (214) 324-3501 Sponsored by Vangard Sciences PO BOX 1031 Mesquite, TX 75150 There are ABSOLUTELY NO RESTRICTIONS on duplicating, publishing or distributing the files on KeelyNet! November 18, 1990 EARTHLGT.ASC -------------------------------------------------------------------- EXAMINING THE EARTHLIGHT THEORY... An investigation into a mini-flap. by Greg Long. By now we've all heard of "earth lights." Paul Devereux of Great Britian coined the term in 1982 when he published EARTH LIGHTS. In that book, Devereux developed the idea that UFOs are a byproduct of natural processes in the earth. Micheal Persinger of Canada had already been saying the same thing for years in a continous outpouring of papers in which he developed his Tectonic Strain Theory of UFOs. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Vangard Notes... Michael Persinger is the researcher working with pulsating and targeted magnetic fields in the brain. He and his team created a "helmet" using nails wrapped with many turns of wire to form cylindrical solenoids. These were then mounted in a sort of football helmet to allow them to hang over different parts of the brain. When connected to a computer as a "printer", various patterns can be output to magnetically stimulate the brain with specific and repeatable patterns. One of the most fascinating results of the experiment involved the use of subjects with their eyes closed. While a certain pattern was projected or "printed" to the solenoids, a flashlight was aimed toward the subject's eyes and slowly lowered. (a loose description follows) Asked to describe what they saw, EVERY SUBJECT said the same thing, "I see a UFO coming down, it is landing. Now there are small grey people coming out of it towards me. They are taking me into the ship. Now they are doing somekind of physical exploration. I am now being taken from the ship." As the flashlight beam is lifted up, the subject's say that the UFO is now ascending and moving away. Page 1 Dennis Stacy investigated Persinger's work in Canada and reported on it in a December issue of OMNI. I believe it was 88'. We also have papers regarding other experiments in inducing feelings or actions in the body using magnetic, electric and sonic fields. These are being placed on KeelyNet as time and funds allow, with as much technical data as we can provide. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Unfortunately, despite Devereux and Persinger's passion for the concept of a UFO/earth stress link, neither researcher has yet proven the case that UFOs are purely a natural phenomenon. Rock has been crushed in the laboratory, eliciting extraordinary brief pulses of light, but the result of that experiment--in the words of Brian Brady, who developed the experiment--the crushing of rock cannot account for "discrete" light forms seen at high altitude (read : spherical UFOs at high altitude). In fact, Brady's experiment even does away with the famous "piezo-electric effect" as a source of UFOs; in terms of energy output, piezo-electricity is simply too weak to account for anything more than momentary, diffuse glows of light. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Vangard Notes... If you want to demonstrate this effect for yourself Wintergreen Life Saver candies will generate this piezo-electric glow when you crunch them between your teeth. Turn out the light and chew one or more while watching the glow from your mouth in a mirror. As a matter of fact, when this effect was first discovered about these candies, many people working in hospitals percieved them as a very real danger. The concern was that people in oxygen tents might chew one and the resultant spark might ignite and explode the oxygen in the enclosed tent. A scientific study was done on this phenomenon and the effect had no ignition effect whatsoever. -------------------------------------------------------------------- More importantly, how can a mysterious, elusive and unidentified physical mechanism create STRUCTURED objects? This is the great failing of the "earth-lights" theory; it attempts to solve the UFO mystery by ignoring the actual content of the UFO report. Any unexplained object seen in an earthquake-prone region--no matter how artificial in appearance or "intelligent" in its actions -suddenly becomes a byproduct of ionization, plasmas or some other little-understood electrical process. In 1981 I began an investigation into UFO sightings that had occured over 20 years in a single area, the Yakima Indian Reservation in south-central Washington state. Page 2 In the early 1980s, the MUFON UFO Journal published several of my papers based on my preliminary findings. Now the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies has published my complete findings as a book: EXAMINING THE EARTHLIGHT THEORY: The Yakima UFO Microcosm. EXAMINING THE EARTHLIGHT THEORY looks microscopically at the Tectonic Strain Theory of UFOs. I use the Yakima data (nearly 200 reports from a variety of witnesses, plus numerous color photographs) to test the viability of the Tectonic Strain Theory which Persinger believes explains the Yakima sightings. The Yakima data form a "microcosm," a fascinating, self-contained world of strange reports, which include a range of unexplained occurences--orange balls of light, CE3's, possible abductions, Bigfoot sightings, daylight objects, subterrrean sounds and more. Nearly every part of the Reservation experienced some type of unexplained event over a 20 year period, making the Yakima Indian Reservation an excellent "laboratory" for detailed examination of UFO phenomena. Earthquake faults mark the ridges of the Reservation; it lies at the foot of the volcanic Cascade Range; and fire lookouts were in place on top of three mountains to observe and record strange lights year after year...the right conditions for data collection, plenty of UFOs and more than enough meticulous documentation to whet the appetite of a curious scientist in serach of an explanation. EXAMINING THE EARTHLIGHT THEORY takes the reader on a historical journey, following the sightings to their most recent occurence. All data of this unique mini-flap are used to thoroughly evaluate the basic components of the Tectonic Strain Theory. EXAMINING THE EARTHLIGHT THEORY is an experience in detective work, where all the facts of the Yakima micrcosm are weighed, sifted and evaluated in the systematic pursuit of a solution to the mystery of the microcosm. EXAMINING THE EARTHLIGHT THEORY is available through the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies 2457 West Peterson Ave. Chicago, Il. 60659. -------------------------------------------------------------------- this file courteously provided to KeelyNet by the Darkside at 314-644-6705 -------------------------------------------------------------------- If you have comments or other information relating to such topics as this paper covers, please upload to KeelyNet or send to the Vangard Sciences address as listed on the first page. Thank you for your consideration, interest and support. Jerry W. 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