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CNI News - Volume 20.2
July 19, 1996
Published by the ISCNI News Center
Editor: Michael Lindemann

The stories in this edition of CNI News are:
   1) OHIO CROP CIRCLE AND UFOs PROBABLY HOAX, EXPERTS SAY
   2) FORBES MAG SAYS PROFIT-MOTIVE THRIVES IN ROSWELL
   3) CAN REMOTE VIEWING SEE THE FUTURE? AN EXPERT OPINION
   4) NEW MISSIONS PREPARE FOR COLONIZATION OF MARS
   5) NEW ROCKET TO CUT COST OF SPACE FLIGHT BY 90%

ISCNI encourages you to respond to stories in CNI News.
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Center Feedback"
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The subject matter of CNI News is inherently controversial, and the views and
opinions reported in the news are not necessarily those of ISCNI or its
staff.

The next edition of CNI News will appear on Friday, July 26.

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Please note: From now through the end of September, both CNI News and Media
Watch will be published every Friday and emailed to all ISCNI members and
staff.

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1) OHIO CROP CIRCLE AND UFOs PROBABLY HOAX, EXPERTS SAY

[This story is based on a report carried in the Dayton (Ohio) Daily News of
Thursday, July 11, plus other sources.]

The sheriff wasn't sure at first, but after talking to the agronomist he
decided the strange, 93-foot diameter circle in a Paulding County field was
made by people, not paranormal powers.

An elaborate hoax, Sheriff David Harrow said on Wednesday, July 10.

"It was a prank," he added. "There was no extraterrestrial landing."

A local pilot spotted the circle the previous week in a field farmed by Dan
Arend and his two brothers.

Hundreds of people have been flocking to Arend's farm every day to gaze at
the circle, which measures 93 feet in diameter. They have been debating about
whether the circle was caused by a UFO or a hoax.

Sheriff Harrow said an Ohio State University agronomist examined the circle
on July 10 and said he could tell the circle was man-made.

"Someone went through an extreme amount of effort to do this. I really don't
have an answer as to why anybody would do this," he said.

Crop circles have been found around the world. Some people claim they are
formed by supernatural forces, but doubters think they are likely the work of
pranksters.

Without doubt, some quite elaborate and impressive formations are made by
human "crop artists," especially in southern England where the majority of
the world's crop formations have appeared over the last decade or more. How
they perform their noctural artistic feats seems a mystery to those outside
the tight fraternity of the circle makers. Even the hoaxers, though, say SOME
of the formations might be made by another force. Who or what that may be has
not been determined to anyone's satisfaction.

Sheriff Harrow had his own concerns in the matter. The person responsible for
the Paulding circle could be charged with criminal trespassing, he said.

Meanwhile, the July 14 edition of UFO Roundup reported that members of the
Tri-state Advocates for Scientific Knowledge (T.A.S.K.) had declared a red
glowing UFO sighted over Middletown and Carlisle in southwestern Ohio on the
night of July 5 to be a hoax. As many as 23 local residents had reported the
UFO to police, and police officers were among those initially mystified by
the glowing object.

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Middleton, that a private pilot was able to get a close look at the object
and identifiy it as "four or five mylar balloons, presumably filled with
helium, towing a red flare."

Strangely, however, UFOs sighted in the vicinity of the Paulding crop circle
on July 3 and July 8 have not been identified. Cone-shaped UFOs were seen on
those dates over the Ohio-Indiana state line, south of Paulding; and another
UFO was sighted over Urbana, Illinois.

The Paulding crop circle was found on July 3. Pilot Mike Dobbelacre, his wife
Sandy and two relatives spotted the circle during a plane ride. They told
Arend, who contacted John Timmerman, a Lakeview resident who studies UFOs.
Timmerman examined the circle and then called in the agronomist.

At first, Harrow said he didn't think the circle was the work of vandals.
Neither did Timmerman.

"When I was out there Saturday, I didn't see any tracks leading in or leading
out of the circle," Harrow said.

Apparently the Sheriff was relieved when the agronomist pronounced it a fake.

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2) FORBES MAG SAYS PROFIT-MOTIVE THRIVES IN ROSWELL

[Well, we weren't expecting to see an article on Roswell and its famous UFO
Incident in the likes of Forbes Magazine -- but we did. Then again, we
weren't expecting any such article to be particularly accurate with respect
to the Incident itself -- and it's not. But, having lately returned from
Roswell myself, I must admit that at least some of the following is more or
less true. In any case, here's how Forbes sees it, from the current (July 15)
edition, with thanks to Rebecca Schatte. - ed.]

"P.T. Barnum is alive and apparently living in Roswell, NM"
by William P. Barrett

Let's visit the City Hall office of Roswell, N.M.  Mayor Thomas Jennings.
 Adorning the room: three space-alien dolls, one sitting in a chair next to
Hizzoner's desk.  The official city stationery contains a
flying-saucer-shaped watermark. On one wall hangs the framed July 8, 1947
front page of the Roswell Daily Record with the stunning headline that the
local Air Force base "Captures Flying Saucer on Ranch in Roswell Region."

In good old American tradition Roswell has turned Unidentified Flying Object
mystique into a nice business.  The Roswell area now sports three UFO
museums, competing UFO landing sites and a growing UFO summer festival that
altogether are expected to draw 90,000 tourists this year.  Entrepreneurial
local artists and manufacturers churn out alien dolls and puppets, ceramic
miniatures of crash sites, spaceship earrings, UFO hats, T-shirts showing
aliens spying on soldiers and bumper stickers.  A local candy company makes
"Alien Glow Pop" lollipops for a national market.  The daily newspaper has
sold an estimated 50,000 reproductions of its famous front page on coffee
mugs, T-shirts and single sheet reprints.

City hotel room tax revenues have risen 36% over four years.  Hotel operators
say up to one-fifth of their business comes from UFO seekers. By some
estimates the UFO craze pumps more than $5 million a year into this community
of 50,000, which badly needs the money, median household income here being
27% below the national average.  UFO mania probably lowers the still high
jobless rate -- 7% -- by a full point.  Civic leaders are positively giddy
about prospects for next year's 50th anniversary.

Like Hollywood, Roswell is in the fantasy business.  Top military officials
in 1947 disavowed the captured saucer story within hours, saying that what
landed was the debris of a weather balloon.  The Pentagon now says the
balloon was connected with monitoring Soviet nuclear testing.  But by the
mid-1980s people began recalling seeing dead or dying aliens in varying
numbers, colors and positions of repose.  These accounts have since been
embellished, along with the appearance of testimonials -- now considered
hoaxes [hey, not by everyone! - ed.] -- detailing alien body recovery, and
even a movie said to be of an alien autopsy [OK, OK, maybe the movie is a
hoax - ed.].

Many date Roswell's UFO resurgent economy to 1994, when Jennings became
mayor, edging out a veteran incumbent who thought Roswell had better things
to be known for than UFOs.  Says Jennings, 45, a college marketing major: "My
thought is that there was another industry that could be developed." Does he
believe in UFOs?  "I don't know," Jennings dodges, grinning.  But tourist ads
picturing Jennings with a space-alien doll proclaim: "Roswell -- An unsolved

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mystery.  Drop in anytime.  After all...'they' already may have."

The mayor's flair for promotion is right in character here.  Named for the
father of the professional gambler who cofounded the city in 1870, Roswell is
an experienced hustler for business.  When the dominant Roswell Air Force
Base closed in the late 1960s, threatening economic ruin, the city took it
over and developed a now thriving industrial park.  The diversified economy
includes farming, oil and gas, manufacturing and the world's largest
mozzarella factory.

Lacking anything authentic, the three museums are not exactly the
Smithsonian.  The best known is the International UFO Museum & Research
Center in downtown Roswell -- in a condemned building rented from the city
for $1 a year.  Many of the exhibits consist of mounted newspaper and
magazine articles about UFOs.  Admission is free, but donations are accepted
and the gift shop is busy.  Tax-exempt, the museum's management includes
investor types, some of whom are working side deals concerning UFO endeavors.
 The museum's president just left in an internal dispute partly over budget
and expansion.

Near the airport is the UFO Enigma Museum, owned by ex-videostore owner John
Price.  Admission: $1.  Besides his mounted clippings and gift shop, Price
has an elaborate re-creation of the purported crash site, complete with
flashing UFO lights, alien bodies and a watchful military policeman.

Then there's something called the Midway Sighting UFO Museum, housed in a set
of rundown shacks just south of town.  Its operators, siblings Becky and
Manuel Escamilla, claim UFOs can be videotaped on many days. For $6.50, a
visitor can watch what the Escamillas swear is video of alien UFOs.  Critics
say these UFOs are flying insects.

Where did the supposed UFO crash-land?  In 1994 two UFO researchers
identified a location 30 miles north of Roswell.  They relied partly on the
account of one Jim Ragsdale, who said the UFO crashed next to the pickup
truck in which he and a ladyfriend were dallying.  He identified pictures of
the site and in a sworn statement said that he saw bodies from a distance.
 That land was bought in 1976 by fourth-generation farmer Miller (Hub) Corn.
 No firm believer but also no fool, he now allows tourists to visit the site
-- for $15 a head -- and gets 500 takers annually.

Here's where things get fuzzy.  According to the plainspoken Corn, the
leaders of the downtown UFO museum invited him to a meeting and offered to
buy the site.  He refused.  Museum officials confirm the meeting but deny any
offer was made.  In any event, within a few months the museum was writing
that Ragsdale had identified a new site 53 miles west of Roswell, on U.S.
Forest Service land in the Capitan Mountains. Before he died last year,
Ragsdale's memory improved, too.  In a second affidavit he vividly described
the dead aliens and even tried to touch one.  His enhanced account endures in
a just-released video (retail, $29.50) and book ($14.95).  The publisher: a
corporation organized by the family of museum secretary/treasurer Max
Littell.  A canny real estate developer, Littell says Ragsdale heirs and the
museum will split proceeds "after our expenses are covered."

In the Capitan Mountains elderly neighbors called by Forbes say flatly the
crash didn't happen there, and -- tellingly -- that no UFO Museum researcher
had bothered to contact them.  "It's all a hoax," says a laughing Dorothy
Epps, 82, whose family has owned land within a half-mile of the supposed
crash site since 1909.  "But let's get it on my ranch."

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3) CAN REMOTE VIEWING SEE THE FUTURE? AN EXPERT OPINION

[The following text, dated June 22, 1996, was distributed by remote viewing
expert Lyn Buchanan, who maintains the Controlled Remote Viewing (CRV) Home
Page at: http://www.ameritel.net/lusers/rviewer/  and can be reached via
email at:  rviewer@mail.ameritel.net. Buchanan's text begins with this
caveat: "The automated notification service of the CRV Home Page presents
many questions which people send in and my answers to those questions. I
understand that my answers are not the only answers, and comments, debate,
counter-comments and any other discussion is invited.  Since I am very
inundated with work, I will wait until the discussion has died down to try to
summarize, rather than spending my entire day posting every comment which
comes in.  Your comments will be read and passed on.]

By Lyn Buchanan

QUESTION:  How do you feel about using Remote Viewing with respect to past or
future events?  Is it useful for, say, seeing the future with any degree of
accuracy?

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has a high degree of accuracy.  In dealing with future events, there is a
saying which seems to apply:

"The future's not what it used to be."

A lot of work has been done in CRV circles to improving "predictive" results,
but the databasing indicates that one rule appears to hold steady: the
further into the future it is, the less dependable the prediction - for most
things.  For example, I can almost always get at least two of the Pick-3
numbers... right before each ball pops up - which is about 5 minutes AFTER
they have stopped selling the Pick-3 tickets for that day.

(Small aside... I was at DIA one day, waiting for one of those endless
meetings to finally let out, and decided to develop some numbers for the
Pick-6 drawing which was that evening.  I felt like I was having a good
session, while trying to appear like I was actually paying attention to what
appeared to be of interest to only the person speaking.  I rarely ever buy
lottery tickets, but this time, it just "felt right", so on the way home, I
stopped at a 7-11 and bought a ticket using those numbers.  The next morning,
I looked in the paper and realized that I had gotten all six numbers right...
 The kicker to this story?  I was in DC for the meeting, and bought the
ticket on the way home -- at a store in Maryland.  No matter how many numbers
on a Maryland lotto ticket match the drawing for the DC lotto, they just
won't pay.)

There is also a thing called "paradoxical tasking":  Let's say that you are
asked by the police to tell you where a criminal will be at 9PM.  You
describe his location as Joe's Bar & Grill.  The police are in place outside
the bar at 8:30, and the criminal comes there at 8:45.  The police jump out
of the bushes and arrest him.  At 9PM, the criminal is in jail.  Everyone's
happy with your results (except the criminal), but inside you, your
subconscious mind knows that it's been had.  Your prediction was wrong.  If
it had told you the criminal would be in jail at 9PM, the police wouldn't
have gone to the bar, and your prediction would have been wrong, again.  The
subconscious mind doesn't take this kind of treatment lightly.  If you don't
1) stay alert to possible "paradoxical tasking" and take measures to avoid
it, or 2) have an understanding with the "customer" about the actions he/she
will take, you can very quickly wreck havoc with your viewers' ability to
perform in future time.  This is a lesson learned the hard way.

I like to use an analogy of us in the ocean of time as being like a bug on
the water.  Wherever the bug has been as it skirts across the water, it can
turn and see its wake.  That much is done and fixed on the surface.  It can
also look ahead and see definite ripples and obstacles in front of it, and
those things are fact as well -- at the moment it is looking.  However, there
are many things in the water making other ripples -- and as the bug
approaches whatever it sees up ahead, a wake of its own ripples preceeds it.
By the time the bug actually gets there, the condition of the water has
changed.  Let's say the bug sees a smaller bug in the distance and thinks
that it would make a good meal.  But the very act of racing toward it makes
the other bug fly away.  However, the rocks and the water which it saw "up
ahead" will still be there.  There are some things that our approach won't
change and some things that it will.

We can see ahead in time and can very accurately describe conditions at the
"future time" the way they are >as of this moment<, but the very act of
traversing the distance from now to then changes many of those conditions as
we go.  The further away the "then" is, the more variations will occur before
we get there.  Does that mean that we didn't describe the future accurately?
 No.  It just means that we described the future -- probably very accurately
-- as it WAS when we were looking at it across the pond.  But when we get
there, we find that the future's not what it used to be.

The bottom line?  If you want your accuracy rate to stay high in this field,
don't do too much work too far in the future.  It makes you look bad to those
who don't understand what's going on.

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4) NEW MISSIONS PREPARE FOR COLONIZATION OF MARS

[This article appeared in The Times of London on July 17, written by Nick
Nuttall, technology correspondent.]

Four missions are being planned as part of a long-term plan to colonise Mars.
Two decades after the first spacecraft was sent to the red planet, three
international missions are expected to return this year to map the Martian
weather of dust and ice clouds, and another is planned for 1998.

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The projects, led by America and Russia and including scientists from across
Europe, hope to find areas of Martian surface which are stable enough to
support a space base. One of the priorities is a study of the Martian south
pole where, it is hoped, vast quantities of water are trapped in the form of
ice or permafrost.

Richard Zurek, of the Joint Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California,
the researcher heading the Mars Surveyor 98 Mission, said yesterday: "If you
want to put people on Mars and manufacture fuels, you need to know where the
water is."

Details of the missions were disclosed at the two-yearly meeting of the
Committee on Space Research, an international gathering of about 2,000
scientists at Birmingham University. Arden Albee of the California Institute
of Technology, also in Pasadena, said the first launch was scheduled for
November. It will take about eight months to arrive at the red planet which,
at its closest to Earth, is 40 million kilometres away, where the craft will
go into orbit over the Martian poles. The surveyors' cameras will map the
surface in unprecedented detail, and other instruments will monitor weather
and atmosphere.

The second launch is of a large Russian craft called Mars 96. It is employing
two landers and two "penetrators" shaped like golf tees and the size of big
dinner tables. The landers will be parachuted down to the surface and will
monitor the weather a few metres above the ground. The penetrators will study
soils and monitor seismic activity. Possibly the most ambitious mission is
called Pathfinder, another American-led programme to be launched in December.
"It is an engineering experiment to look at new ways of putting landing craft
on the surface," Dr Albee said.

The mission would deploy tiny weather stations and a remote-controlled rover,
the size of a toy, which would roam the planet's surface, taking pictures.

The final mission is the Mars surveyor 1998. It will deploy another landing
craft with a robot arm near the south pole. It will dig a trench through the
dust and ice to discover how hard the surface is and at what depth ice can be
found.

Dr Zurek said the four missions were vital in the push to put a man on Mars
and, one day, possibly transform the planet into a place habitable for
humans. "The most optimistic date of putting a man on Mars is 2020," he said.

Scientists claim to have found evidence of ice on the moon, it was disclosed
at the Committee on Space Research meeting in Birmingham. The existence of
water could help to turn the moon into a giant launch-pad from which mankind
could fly to colonise the solar system and galaxies beyond.

Researchers have suggested it is cheaper to build machines and launch craft
in near-zero gravity. Water is crucial as transporting large quantities of
water from Earth would be extremely expensive.

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5) NEW ROCKET TO CUT COST OF SPACE FLIGHT BY 90%

[This story is based on a NASA press release dated July 2.]

Vice President Al Gore announced on July 2 that Lockheed Martin has been
selected to build the X-33 test vehicle, a one-half scale model of the
Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) which will be used to demonstrate advanced
technologies that will dramatically increase reliability and lower the costs
of putting payloads into space.

Lockheed Martin will design, build and conduct the first test flight of the
X-33 test vehicle by March 1999, and  onduct at least fifteen flights by
December 1999.  NASA has  budgeted $941 million for the project through 1999.

Called "VentureStar," the Lockheed Martin design is based on a lifting body
shape with a radical new aerospike engine and a rugged metallic thermal
protection system which would be  launched vertically like a rocket and land
horizontally like  an airplane.

NASA Administrator Daniel S.  Goldin said the objective of the RLV technology
program is  simple.  "We want to develop technologies that will allow
industry to build a vehicle that takes days, not months, to  turn-around;
dozens, not thousands of people to operate;  reliability ten times better
than anything flying today; and launch costs that are a tenth of what they
are now.  Our goal is a reusable launch vehicle that will cut the cost of a
pound of payload to orbit from $10,000 to $1,000."

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The X-33 will integrate and demonstrate all the technologies in a scale
version that would be needed for industry to build a full-size RLV.  "The
X-33  will be about half the size of a full-scale RLV.  It will be a
remotely-piloted, sub-orbital vehicle, capable of altitudes up to 50 miles
and speeds of Mach 15," said RLV Director Gary Payton.

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