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1976 - HIGHLIGHTS:

Movies:

Rocky, Taxi Driver; All the President's Men; Bad News Bears; Network; Bound for Glory; Marathon Man; Two Minute Warning; The Last Tycoon; Lipstick; The Shaggy D.A.; Revenge for a Rape; The Savage Bees; Helter Skelter; The Seven-Per-Cent Solution; Mother, Jugs and Speed; The Slipper and the Rose; W.C. Fields and Me; Bugsy Malone; Nickelodeon; The Outlaw Josey Wales; Breakheart Pass; The Story of Cinderella; Sherlock Holmes in New York; The Haunting of Julia

Television:

Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman; Charlie's Angels; Wonder Woman; The Bionic Woman; Serpico; Gemini Man; Spencer's Pilots.

NEWS:

Consumer Price Index: 170.5

1976 -
This year will become recognized as the reality threshold of the mass media.
Headed by television, live performances have almost become redundant, replaced by pre-planned, prepared, pre-recorded, acted out images. The North American public have come to associate television coverage with "live" coverage - the real thing. The movie "Network" will endeavour to utilize this shift in perceived reality to suggest emotionally to the viewer that they are watching an event as if it were real. The audience will be encouraged to feel and act out their feelings in response to manipulated circumstances.

In a data overloaded society in which the emotions of individuals have been dulled by overstimulation, the mass media will from now on provide entertainment which is often confused with reality. The commoner, first in North America, secondly in Japan, thirdly in Europe, and fourthly in the Soviet Union and the so-called 3rd world countries - humans will become dependent upon television, movies, and radio to provide them with an emotional life stimulated and calmed by the mass media.

It will become the Mother of the Masses: it will be turned on, to stimulate individual; it will be turned on, to turn aggravation and frustration into denial and laughter; it will be turned on to soothe away loneliness; it will be turned on, to motivate and encourage the individual. Humanity will suckle at the electronic breast. But what would happen to a generation so dependent, if the plug was pulled?

What coping capabilities does a civilization possess when it allows itself to believe, be manipulated by, and to obsess over an illusion. If a human cannot distinguish between a truth, lie, and half-lie (illusion), what will be the basis of life-influencing decisions, and what will be their accuracy?

1976 - Early in January
David Lilienthal, a pioneer in the regulation of the nuclear industry, national and international , spoke at the U.S.A. Senate Government Operations Committee hearing:

"... impending disaster of the rapid international spread of nuclear bombs requires that the United States immediately and unilaterally end shipment of nuclear equipment to all foreign countries. ... If a great number of countries come to have an arsenal of nuclear weapons, then I'm glad I'm not a young man and I'm sorry for my grandchildren. ... The tragic fact is that the atomic arms race is today proceeding at a more furious and insane pace than ever. Proliferation of capabilities to produce nuclear weapons of mass destruction is reaching terrifying proportions."

1976 - In January, one evening just after 11.00 p.m.
Three women reported being abducted.
They had been out to a restaurant for the evening and were on their way home.
After having driven for about 15 minutes, Ms. B. saw a bright red object high in the sky and called the attention of her companions to it. Suddenly, as they watched, it dropped towards the ground. At first, it looked as though it were a plane crashing. As it came closer to the ground, it swelled into a huge ball of fiery red colour. It ceased its descent at treetop level about 300 feet from the car. It then took the form of an oval-shaped dome of metallic grey colour; the outer edge had two red and two white lights. Mrs. A. noticed a bluish light glowing on the top of the dome.

After hovering over the treetops, the craft, now as large as a football field, moved over the car.
It remained motionless for a few seconds and then "angled around to the back of the car ... there was a huge light from the bottom that covered the whole highway ... it flooded the car ... it was white with a blue tint ... we were so frightened because, everywhere we looked, it was there ... the car was swaying back and forth ... Mrs. A., who was driving, attempted to get out from under the thing."

The speedometer registered 85 mph, but the car did not move and "wasn't going anywhere." The car began to go backwards, in spite of Mrs. A's attempts to drive it forward. The craft pulled it through the entrance to a farm protected by a cattle gate made from several rows of iron pipes laid across the driveway. Mrs. A's eyes began to burn; she could hardly see and "kind of went unconscious but struggled to stay awake."

At this point, Mrs. A felt a "piercing pain at the top of my head.
I could not hold my eyes open any longer, and I don't remember anything else until we were in H, a neighbouring town which is approximately 8 miles away." After becoming aware of the surroundings, she looked at her watch and realized one and a half hours had passed since the time they had crossed the cattle gate, but "it seemed that they had just snapped their fingers and they were there."

The women felt strange when they awakened at 12.45 a.m.
Each of the abductees wondered privately whether the others had experienced the same sighting equally. After returning home, Mrs. A. and the two women, as they told her later, had a "dreadful fear" that they had been sexually attacked. Mrs. A. felt "so very dirty ... and I was so weak ... my mind was just all confused ... We all three wondered ... each of us experienced a different examination or whatever they were going to do to us ... but it is hard to remember every detail." Feeling dirty, she took a shower. The water made her hands feel "burning as if they had been on fire."

The burning sensation continued for more than a day.
All three women discovered red marks on their necks that were three inches long and about one inch wide; it took two or three days for the marks to fade. Mrs. A. and her companions suffered piercing headaches that lasted for a week. The pain and the strain of their unexplainable experiences left them exhausted. But even more frightening were the strange encounters that continued during the following months. These had not entirely ceased 18 months after the original abduction.

After having gone to sleep for a short time, Mrs. A. woke up at 3.00 a.m..
Something told me to get into my car and go back to the place of the abduction ... I was so frightened, but I drove all the way back, and, totally alone, at three o'clock in the morning ... I got out of my car ... and I started to walk across the cattle gate." In walking across the iron pipes, Mrs. A. felt an icy wind and she fell flat on her face. (light snow had fallen earlier and a thin layer of ice was on some of the ground) After she had fallen, she ran back to her car, fearing that the action had been evoked by the beings in the earlier craft.

Shaking with fright, she became even more frightened when she saw that 3 rings were missing from her fingers. One morning 6 or 7 weeks later, she discovered one of the rings on the doorstep of her trailer as she went to the mailbox. "I was so frightened, and I screamed, and shut the door and didn't know what to do, and I was scared ... no one knew it yet, how the ring would show up 20 miles away" from where it disappeared. She was too frightened to keep the ring, fearing that the space beings had followed her to return it, so "she threw it as far as she could."

Other exceptional events happened.
Mrs. A. noticed that the hands of her wristwatch speeded up and no longer told the correct time; many things she touched crumbled. Her parakeet, a long-time pet, "shivered with fright" when she passed his cage; stopped eating and died after 3 weeks. Ever since the initial episode, Mrs. A. had felt that invisible forces were watching her. She reported that she saw orange disks in the sky on about 15 different occasions, and she strongly suspected that her abductors occupied them. The discs became visible only at night and they moved at rapid speeds, "straight up and down, coming to a complete stop." At times they seemed to follow her car. One night at home alone, she experienced an unbearable feeling of someone staring at her, and she yelled out, "Look, leave me alone ... I just couldn't tolerate it any longer ... I feel the fight is just about over."

Mrs. A. suffered from unexplainable illnesses for several months after the encounter.
On one occasion, she developed severe chest pains and nausea. Her heart tested as normal. Her left arm became paralysed, incapacitating her for 6 or 7 weeks. She felt she had become more attuned to happenings around her, and she prepared herself for unusual experiences in the future.

At one point, she had felt uneasy all day during which she felt restless and worried without known reason, something unusual for her. Later in the day, her son-in-law phoned to inform her that his father had suddenly died that morning. She found this and other experiences to be frightening and disturbing to her peace of mind.

Ms. B. was one of Mrs. A.'s companions on the night of the abduction.
She was a 35-year-old divorcee who seems to have been made more distraught by her experiences than the other two women were. Her mother had died of cancer a year after their abduction and she felt that her own health had weakened. She told a sceptical interviewer that she was terrified about what had happened to her; she could not leave the house for days following the abduction and remained fearful for months. Since the episode, Ms. B. had become very dependent on her friend Mrs. A. and was amazed that they had become so attuned to each other's feelings. She added that they both "react to the same thing at the same time in the same ways, even though we are miles apart."

For many months after the abduction, Ms. B. felt very depressed and fearful; she became convinced that she would never see another birthday, as her "life is going to be destroyed." Ms. B. was judged by an interviewer to be a very dependent individual who had been very attached to her mother, and who was healthy until the time of the encounter. A few weeks afterwards, Ms. B's mother developed a rapidly spreading cancer, "out of the clear blue ... and within a month it had gone all the way from her lungs to the brain ... she had a stroke; she was paralysed." After her mother became seriously ill, Ms. B. felt alone and turned to her friend, Mrs. A., whom she submitted for her mother and actually began to call "mother".

Following the abduction, Ms. B. began to have strange experiences.
One night, just before falling asleep, she saw an eye that seemed to watch her; it later became two eyes. A few months later, she had a strange encounter after the local television station had gone off the air. She was lying on the couch in her living room and a sensation she believed to come from the spirit world made her turn around. When she did, she saw a man walk through the wall. He was standing in front of her snack bar, "six feet in front of me, and he had this golden hair ... it was curly and this beard." He could not be human; he wore a "robe like those of Biblical times, but was clad also in blue jeans rolled up to his knees." He was about five feet tall and had a "look of authority". He did not express himself verbally, but "talked to (her) mind." His whole demeanour instilled a feeling of security, and she was no longer frightened as she had been during the previous 6 months.

Ms. B., who believed that her experiences with the flying saucer were of a spiritual nature, knew that the man must have been an angel sent by God, as "God sent Christ here to die for us because He loved us, but He says He is coming back. But the next time, it's going to be terrible." She compared her experiences with those of Ezekial; she had suffered as the prophet had suffered, and her suffering was for the good of the people. It had become her duty, now, to "speak where people can hear me." She felt she must be willing to sacrifice her life to deliver the "Message" to the people. However, up to 18 months after the encounter she had not delivered her message.

The three women contacted doctors and the police after their experience, and local newspapers carried the story. UFO organizations became involved and after 6 months, a psychologist hypnotized them in an effort to reconstruct a major part of their abduction which, until then, was largely absent by amnesia.

While under hypnosis, Mrs. A. recalled that her car had been sucked into the spacecraft.
She was separated from the other women, and she found herself lying on a very narrow bed with her arms pinned down to prevent her from getting up. Her face was covered most of the time, adding to her intense fear. She begged

"so hard to be permitted to get up and for someone to talk to ... I would reach out, and I couldn't feel anything, as if there were nothing there."
At one point, her abductors removed the covering from her eyes, and she saw "beings ... they were dark, hooded beings, approximately four feet tall ... but it was dark in the room, and the only things I could see were the eye and just a hand ... it wasn't fingers ... it looked as if a wing had been stretched between the fingers ... it was jagged on the edges and kind of came to a point ... it was the size of a small hand.

They put the things back over my eyes.
One other time it was removed. I saw this instrument thing up in front of me, and I was thinking that it was keeping me alive, because I was so hot and dry. I don't know what. It was a panel thing, approximately 2 feet in diameter. It was completely round and pulsating ... and from the centre, it looked like a clear, transparent coil going all the way around ... it would be between pink and red. It would be pulsating. I don't know why, but I got the impression that it was keeping me alive. I fought so hard to stay awake...

It was so hot, I couldn't swallow ... At one point, I could not breathe ... It felt as if something liquid was pouring over me, but it wasn't water ... and at that point, I was trying to gasp for breathe and I couldn't catch it ... and then it was like a bandaid being pulled off my skin ... The first thing I thought of was that they were making something that looks like me (like a mould of her body) ... it was an unpleasant feeling ... I would just come and go, and I remember desperately begging and crying to anyone to speak to me ..."

Frightened, she felt under the complete control of the "space people"; her will was subjugated to their command that was established by "eye contact". She was told a subject of great importance to people on Earth: "I feel that I may be holding a great secret, and I promised that I would not tell it if they just let me go home." At these words, Mrs. A. became tearful; it was the only occasion during the interview when she showed any indication of being emotionally disturbed. She seemed to be burdened by having to keep the secret that she was not to share with anyone.

The third woman, Mrs. C., was in her late 40s; she was the only currently married woman in the group. She expected that her husband did not believe the story of the women's encounter; therefore, she attempted to conceal what had happened by not talking about the events. She had discussed her perceptions of the experience many times with her companions but refused to be interviewed. According to the reports of the others, she was confined in a device that was like an "iron lung" ... When she would try to yell for us, this thing would tighten around her throat. ... she felt that there was a bullet-shaped object, only larger, being put on her chest and pressed real hard, and she cried softly at times, seeing that it was hurting and she was being choked. The bullet-shaped object on her chest chocked her throat, making a red imprint that remained visible for several days.

Ms. B. was most disturbed by the painful events of her abduction.
Under hypnosis, she revealed that she had been placed on a table and

"four of the (humanoids) were sitting around ...
They were dressed in white doctor's uniforms ... their faces were completely covered except for their eyes." She could see "stars and things" when she looked up. At the beginning of the "examination", the space beings pulled her feet underneath her body, which was extremely painful to her. They ignored her pleas to loosen the agonizing grip on her feet; they proceeded to take her eyebrows off, and they pulled her eyes out of the sockets until "at one point her eyes were almost lying on her cheek ... they left them connected to the sockets and placed them back after they had examined the eyes."

During the interview, this one 18 months after the abduction, the significance of the events became more understandable to Ms. B.

"well I know I was down in this volcano, and I was looking through rocks, real smooth, and I was looking up, and it was jagged ... a volcano was the way, as I could explain it, and I could see the sky ... I looked back, and there were rooms back there, and the ship had three floors, and the top floor was where the dome was ... I remember sitting there, and I was watching myself leave the other ship ... and I knew that (Mrs. A. and Mrs. C.) were back there in that one, and I thought that I would never see them again or the earth again ... They were testing me to know what I Could take ... whether I could go fast, to go their speed, without killing me ... It was the speed of lightning ... my feet were stuck on a stool like they were glued."

As she moved through the sky, her feet were twisted underneath her body by a power coming from instruments under the table.

"There was a big stone, clear-like, and there was lightning coming out of it ... It would shoot out from all angles."

She described the stone as a large crystal, about 4 feet high and almost 10 feet in diameter.

The three responded differently in their relationships after the abduction.
Mrs. A. and Ms. B. were drawn closer together by the experience; they spent much time together and shared many activities. They travelled together and supported each other against the townspeople, who ridiculed them. But they spent much of their time exchanging ideas about the many inexplicable mysteries which seemed to surround their experience.

After what happened, Ms. B. went out and started buying every book she could find, looking for something to explain to her what had happened. Then she looked to the Bible to provide her with the answers and in the Books of Ezekiel, Job, and Revelations she believed she had found some of the answers: she now thought that the flying saucers had been on Earth for some time; that she must accept her assigned role without question; that she was being tested to prove her devotion and her willingness to bring God's warnings to people to better their ways. She was somewhat resigned to the possibility that, as at other times in religious history, the people would not listen or change their ways and terrible days would come.

Mrs A. disputed the position held by Ms. B. at that stage (18 months after) and she felt sufficient time had elapsed for her to be released from her pledge of silence. She responded that she had been told that "they journeyed to earth to test their chances of survival on this planet and in its atmosphere ... that their solar system is dying ... and they are searching for another planet ....

The abductees passed polygraph tests.
Otto Billig, one researcher and interviewer, made light of the testimonies putting the experiences down to "highway hypnosis", "hallucination", "hypnagogic states" - described in the literature from as early as 1936. The latter are theoretically connected to "misconceptions, primitive imagery and symbols that emerge to conscious levels... and occur when the ego function is impaired during altered states of consciousness due to a variety of conditions as in half-wakened states prior to falling asleep or while under emotional and physical stress in individuals who may have become susceptible to external pressure.

1976
Charlotte King of Sacramento, California, a Walk-In recounts that ...

(p79) ... sighted her first UFO ... in 1950 ... the foghornlike noises that she began hearing in 1976 "caused so much trouble in my marriage, because no one else could hear them, that after 3 months I filed for divorce." To determine whether the noises were psychic, she enroled in a parapsychology class and ... discovered that she "knew things about the pyramids and their energies that were simply not in the books."

... she said that on ... she was feeling such emotional and physical stress that (she tried to commit suicide) ... just wanted out, to end emotional and physical pain ... reached the hospital too late ... after 16 hours in intensive care she suddenly roused and "became aware ... that I had a job to do ... the old Charlotte,... departed ... and the "new" replacement came from Sirius to alert earthlings on the radical changes that were going to occur on planet earth. The Walk-in Charlotte did put her marriage back together for awhile ... the "new"

Charlotte determined to search in earnest for the causes and sources of the sound and the pain ... she could hear sounds in the 7 to 10 dB range. ... her predictions reveal 85% accuracy on earthquakes and 100% accuracy on volcanic activity worldwide. She explains that there are a series of seven tones varying in pitch, frequency and rhythm that she has learned to associate with seismic activity in specific geographical areas. ... A great deal of pain is associated with the phenomenon ...

(the walk-in) from Sirius came into the body when she found that the occupant of a particularly sensitive body wanted to leave, and that this body would work well for her in her mission to warn earthlings .... Hers is not a karmic indebtedness, but a divinely given ability to help others, through her alerts. ... convinced that it's an actual ability to respond to geomagnetic effects, ... after experiencing pain for some hours or days beforehand, a common denominator (with 13 sensitives) is that shortly before the actual quake, the pain leaves and there's a euphoric feeling.

1976 - On January 14 during the night
Jane Chapin of French Gulch, near Redding, California, U.S.A., saw a being near her bed.
She did not see any feet and when she later drew a silhouette of the being, the head was flat, with large eyes and a big nose, an extended arm.

Jane was born in 1903.
Due to their age, the inaccuracies in reports published by some researchers and media, and their victimization by some individuals and lack of awareness of professional investigation procedures, the Chapins became defensive and uncooperative over the following years. Health difficulties which could have been lessened and which arose after the experiences they had, consequently may never have received adequate treatment.
(see also October 30, 1969 and December 27, 1977)

1976 - During January,
George Bush, new director of the USA CIA did nothing to restrict the Iraqi search-and-destroy campaign against the Kurds and he restricted the House of Representatives Select Committee on Intelligence Activities report which would have indicated the early USA support for the Kurds.

1976 - A January report by
A.G. Wedum reviewing the safety precautions undertaken at Fort Detrick in the 1950s and 1960s , the then USA Army's center for research into the potentials of biological warfare, concluded:

"... there will be some laboratory infections, usually due to breaks in rubber gloves (attached to the safety cabinets), human exposure during entrance and exit of materials, leaks in the system, and human error."

1976 - On January 23,
17-year-old Shelley McLenaghan, saw a "weird" red and green light in the sky near Bolton, in the north of England.
It was 5.15 P.M.. She described the object as the size of a small house, flat on top, with slopping sides and three legs. She felt

"a terrible pressure on my head and shoulders, an off taste in my mouth.
My teeth seemed to vibrate. When I tried to run it was like being in a nightmare.
My arms and legs moved, but in slow motion. I tried to scream; nothing came out."

That weekend, Shelley became ill: a purple rash covered her neck, chest, shoulders, and upper back. Her eyes and joints ached. In her mouth her top fillings had come out, and the bottom ones had crumbled.

1976 - Early in the year,
A stranger who had never been seen before, strolled into Lois's Cafe, in Happy Camp, northern California, U.S.A.
Two women were in the cafe at the time who had experienced UFO sightings previously.
They were quietly having dinner at separate tables. All conversation stopped in the cafe when the man entered. He ordered a steak dinner but seemed unable to use a knife and fork, and eventually left without paying. He had pale skin, oriental looking eyes, wore a bizarre sort of shirt and no coat although it was the middle of winter. He smiled constantly at people in a strange, forced grimace. Among the peculiar things he did was a brave attempt to drink Jello out of a dish.

1976 - On February 8,
Two ufologists were in Happy Camp, northern California, U.S.A. taking testimony from witnesses of area sightings when they heard someone on a CB radio reporting an orange light over Slater Butte. They observed the light over the ridge, going up and down twice. It was described as brilliant, deep orange and its glow reminded them of "a forest fire behind a hill."

1976 - In February,
The National Power Nuclear Reactor Project final contract was signed.
It would become the largest construction project (in cost) ever completed (to date) in the Philippines.

Located in an environmentally and politically unstable country, the power plant would have one 626-megawatt reactor (two were originally considered) and the price would be $722 million ($500 million for two reactors was originally proposed), plus, it would cost an additional $387 million for interest and escalation costs, bringing the total to $1.1 billion. Financing of the reactor was arranged with the USA Export-Import Bank.

The usual Marcos & bureaucracy kickbacks had kicked in.
Disini received at least $50 million personally, of which he gave $30 million to Marcos, and split the rest with Vergara and Disini's business partner, Rodolfo Jacob. A new Disini company, "Power Contractor, Inc.", became the chief subcontractor of civil works on the project. Another Disini company, "Technosphere Consultants Group", provided engineering and construction management.

A further Disini company, "Summa Insurance Corporation", was paid a $10 million premium to write a $668 million policy on the project - the largest single policy ever written in the Philippines. Disini took over "Asia Industries", becoming the Westinghouse Philippine distributor. When under investigation by the USA Securities and Exchange Commission, a district manager for "Westinghouse" in the Philippines destroyed 6 volumes of documents relating to the project and then retired. The investigators were looking for inappropriate disbursement of monies, such as bribes.

The question of location was answered not with safety and environmental or economic consideration but only in accord to how Ferdinand Marcos and his associates could make money from the sale: the two were in opposition. The Romualdez families had taken over a large part of Bataan, opposite Corregidor, some of which was used to build a presidential seaside retreat, the rest turned into a tax-free industrial development zone. Ferdinand made it a condition of the sale that Westinghouse had to build the reactor on Bataan.

National Power , with the help of the "UN International Atomic Energy Agency" (IAEA), picked a seaside location there, and hired "Ebasco Services", a subsidiary of "Ensearch Corporation" of Dallas, to test the safety of the site and monitor construction. Ebasco concluded that the site was vulnerable to tidal waves. National Power compromised on a nearby bluff. "Westinghouse" began clearing the site in March, 1976, BEFORE permits were released OR seismic tests completed. The IAEA recommended that construction be stopped; already, Westinghouse had spent $200 million.

With much behind-the-scenes encouragement, Librado Ibe, head of the Philippine Atomic Energy Commission, issued the construction permit in April 1979, a week after the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in the USA. He then took his wife and children to live in the USA, fearing that the same or worse would happen in the Philippines. Bankers who had delayed the contracts and business arrangements of President Marcos associate had been subjected to assault and threat to their family.

1976 - On February 17,
President Ford, in a statement to the press, reasserted the special privileges which had been accorded to the CIA in the past:

"It is essential that the irresponsible and dangerous exposure of our nation's intelligence secrets be stopped. Openness is a hallmark of our democratic society but the American people have never believed that it was necessary to reveal secret war plans of the Department of Defense, and I do not think they wish to have true intelligence secrets revealed either."

1976 - On February 18,
President Ford signed "Executive Order 11905" declaring that:

"No employee of the United States Government shall engage in,
or conspire to engage in, political assassination."

The executive order removed covert operations from the Director of the CIA's direct responsibility and placed it with an Operations Advisory Group (OAG), which also replaced the 40 Committee. The OAG consisted of the Secretaries of State and Defense, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the DCI, and the President's national security adviser. The Attorney General and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget were to attend the group's meetings as observers. Such a group could not be expected to run covert operations. It had no effective staff. For the bureaucracy, it meant that the DCI (Director of Central Intelligence) would have to consult far more widely BEFORE any operation was started.

Intelligence coordination was made the province of a 3-man "Committee on Foreign Intelligence" (CFI) chaired by the DCI and reporting to the National Security Council (NSC). The committee would "control budget preparation and resource allocation for the "National Foreign Intelligence Program" (NFIP) now shared by the DCI with a deputy assistant to the President for national security affairs and a deputy secretary for defense for intelligence (a new post created for this purpose).

A new director, George Bush, appointed 4 weeks earlier, was to oversee this change and to run the CIA during the election year. Bush had been seen as a political opportunist, by some, and the congressional leadership insisted that Ford give them a commitment that Bush would not be his vice-presidential running mate or else they would block his confirmation as Director. Ford had also removed Henry Kissinger from the post of National Security Adviser thereby making the National Security Council more accessible and influential to the president.

Bush was regarded as "A quasi-aristocrat on the one hand and a self-made Texas businessman on the other."
Self-conscious rectitude was his hallmark. Bush concentrated on improving morale at the Agency during his tenure. Bush would arrange with British Intelligence to have the USA intelligence community provide them with important elements of satellite surveillance not only of the Soviet Union but of other parts of the world. This sharing made it easier to convey the information to the Federation of Peoples' offices in Switzerland.

Bush felt keenly that the CIA still had a role in protecting the USA from surprises, either by intelligence gathering, or, disinformation. His father, Prescott Bush, had been a U.S. Senator and a wealthy Republican. George Bush had proven himself as a Navy flyer during WWII, graduated from Yale University with a degree in economics in 1948, and had been a successful entrepreneur in the oil-equipment business in Texas.

Bush had learned the practicalities of the American capitalist system: find ANY need, politically or economically induced, which you can acquire a monopoly over and a sanction for, provide results (product and delivery) at a cost-effective advantage, keep your strategy and procedures discrete, and, when the market is established - take your profits and get out. Profits can take the form of political favours from obligations owing to you, interim excess monies from an exclusive controlled market, inclusion into a political/military/industrial elite. Importing large amounts of hard addictive drugs into the USA by way of oil drilling platforms off the coast of Texas had been his key.

Bush was committed to the people in the CIA, for, as a contracted agent, they had been loyal to him.
He knew the inner purposes of the Agency and agreed with those purposes. Bush listened more than most of the other directors who had preceded him or would follow him. He knew that listening would garner him more information and respect from the professionals at the CIA than if he tried to tell everyone else their job. He used his position to become completely conversant with intelligence collection and analysis. Bush was an insider. Bush was for secrecy. When Jimmy Carter won the presidency in the fall, Bush's 10 month tenure would finish. Carter was an outsider; he respected the image of John F. Kennedy and patterned himself after it; he wanted the CIA laid bare, and, possibly discontinued.

The prohibition order appears to have been a political rationalization, in reality for it does NOT discourage assassinations for reasons other than political - perhaps the "target" is simply disliked by those in authority. It is highly suspect when Jimmy Carter is moved to pass a similar Executive Order, 12036 on January 24, 1978, and Ronald Reagan follows up with another one, Executive Order 12333, on December 4, 1982.

In 1975 or 1976,
On a rainy night, 2 students, who were walking on the campus of the University of Bogota , heard a strange sound overhead. On looking up, they saw a disc swinging in the air as if in difficulty. They estimated its diameter at four meters and its altitude at 1,000 meters. While this first object seemed out of control, they observed four other disks flying close to it of the same size and shape.

As the students took refuge from the rain under a tree, they saw spouts of a bright liquid ejected from the central disk, some of which fell into the puddles on the street, producing a vapour. All five objects then rose and disappeared into the low rain clouds. The witnesses recovered two metal chunks, about 4 inches by one-fourth inches in size, after letting it cool for ten minutes.

The first analysis was that the metal was aluminum with traces of magnesium and unidentifiable metals. Further testing indicated 93.7% aluminum, 4.8% phosphorus, 0.9% iron, and the rest in trace elements. The sample had been "melted through and through". Further testing showed a surface layer of carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen. Beyond this unexplained layer was found aluminum, magnesium, potassium, sulphur, sodium, and silicium. Phosphorus and iron showed in trace amounts. The sample did not contain any fluoride, a normal by-product of the aluminum refining process, was absent of heavy metals and water.

It should be noted that such "ejected" materials may be of no more significance than the contents of a car ashtray relative to the composition of the car or the nature of the persons who have been in it.

1976 - In the February 28 issue of "Science",
"Man-animal hybrids" were of high interest to the scientific community.
An article entitled "A Computer Under Your Hat", in this journal of the "American Association for the Advancement of Science", contained a quote by Joshua Lederberg that "there is enormous scientific interest in organisms augmented by fragments of the human chromosome set."

A hybrid of human and other animal species is often called a CHIMERA.
In Greek mythology, a chimera was a being with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a serpent. It spat fire. In biology now, a chimera was the name applied to any living structure in which chromosomes of different species are combined. Often there is a human component.

Human intellectualism, scientific emotional immaturity, denial, greed and paranoia about survival made the malleability of humanity a perceived necessity. Perhaps we could be more "perfect" physically, if we took the advantages which other species carried into our own genetic future. The emphasis was on improving organ function and longevity.

Humans still had not learned that changing organ function can change hormone availability which can change emotional expression and immune function which can change disease frequency which can influence longevity. The equation is highly complex; the result can be a benefit or a liability and that may depend upon whether your assessment is long-term or short-term.

1976
On March 8, the largest recorded Meteor to have fallen is observed and retrieved in China. It weighs almost 2 tons.

1976 - On March 24,
The Argentine Armed Forces were given the authority to "control" the population, which under the new military junta, were lobbying for democracy. By February, 1984, democracy would return.

Meanwhile, 30,000 teenagers and young adults would be detained on suspicion of working against the government. All would be murdered. None would be legally charged or tried in court. Under torture or the influence of drugs, the names of other suspects would be acquired. To conceal the illegal and immoral activities, corpses were dismembered and parts of different bodies would by interchanged to frustrate any later identification.

Periodically, some of those questioned and drugged would be loaded unconscious aboard an armed forces plane, flown out over the ocean, stripped, and dumped out of the cargo hatch - to die of trauma when they struck the water, or, from drowning. The local Roman Catholic priests were informed of these events by the relatives of the victims. The Vatican was also notified. No formal acknowledgement of, denunciation of, or penalties for such crimes would be forthcoming from the Roman Catholic Church, the presumed state religion. International publicity of the atrocities would first become widespread in 1995.

A military general would first testify in 1987 that he had personally dropped over 30 people from planes over the ocean. For suspected collaboration with the terrorists, 6 people, including a pregnant woman, were burned to death near a small village. In the process of its mother burning, the foetus inside of at least one pregnant woman was propelled at least 10 or more feet out of the body - a common process caused by the pressures bloating up the woman's body as she burned to death. Military forces frequently broke into the homes of suspects, or their parents, pointing machine guns and brutalizing the men. Some were tortured in front of their families before being taken away. Some were threatened because they were Jews, or were believed to be.

1976 - On March 29,
Eduard Meier, near Hasenbol, Switzerland, photographed a sequence of 9 positions he had captured the flight of a Pleiadian beamship in. The ship flew in from the west and passed behind a tree next to a steep drop in a mountain area beset by changeable weather. The 9th photo, termed "the sunlight scene" impressed many investigators.

1976 - By April,
"Seafront Petroleum and Mineral Resources" was manipulated by President Ferdinand Marcos, and his associates, Jose Campos and Rolando Gapud - to produce a stock market profit of $9.5 million.

Reports that major oil reserves lay off Palawan Island drove Ferdinand Marcos to demand that the owners of Seafront turn over to him all their oil options, or else. Like that of more than 140 other Philippine companies during the period of martial law, the ownership was changed several times to end up in the hands of Marcos and his front men.

Seafront's first drilling came in dry.
Anyone familiar with oil drilling would not be alarmed at this:
one good producing well out of 10 drilled was once considered to be a good average.
Ferdinand and his associates knew little of the industry and were only interested in profits.
Ferdinand refused to take defeat against his pride. He announced on national television that (the dry hole) had been a major oil strike. This resulted in the usual confirmed result .. a rush on the Manila stock market and the price of the stock rose quickly.

Marcos, Campos and Gapud, dumped their stock and a few days later the stock crashed 65% in the selloff and as Ferdinand announced that he was "launching an investigation" to discover if there had been inside trading. As the former Seafront owner, Alfonso Yuchengco, declared, it "was the biggest hypocrisy of all time." A once building company with a potentially good future had been stolen, manipulated, and, destroyed. More would follow.

It was one more instance of humans blandly believing whatever mass media authoritatively reported, and, believing that their civil and government authorities had any better ability to make choices for them than they themselves could.

1976 - On April 14,
Eduard Meier, near Schmarduel, Switzerland, records a picture of a Pleiadian beamship showing a Swiss Air Force jet fighter on manoeuvres in the background.

1976 - On April 23,
The following occurred to Mrs. Jean Kirk (not her real name) in northern California.

The location was a small house with a large yard in Project City, north of Redding.
About 8.15 or 8.30 P.M., Mrs Kirk found she was unable to watch her television as the set had "blacked out" leaving only static and a series of random dots. The radio was only providing static as the time so Mr. Kirk went to bed. Mrs. Kirk thought there might be something outside that could be the problem.

Mrs. Kirk went outside where she observed a small but well-defined "cloud" 300 feet away, coming towards her at ground level. It was "solid white with sharp edges". It hovered behind a tree and was illuminated by a streetlight. As it started moving towards her, she first thought she should run inside the house; then she thought that "a cloud could not hurt her," and her fear went away. What seemed odd at the time was that the sky was cloudless with many stars.

The cloud moved directly over her and Mrs. Kirk could see under and behind the cloud, but she observed no stars above it. She had a short spell of dizziness. All the dogs in the neighbourhood were barking furiously. There was a brief episode of rain; trees, particulary a 40 foot tree nearby, bent wildly in the vicinity, although Mrs. Kirk could feel no wind. The cloud disappeared and she now saw two big lights in the sky; a steady green and a steady red light, slowly moving north without any sound.

Soon she could only see the red light; it was large and hovered.
"It was bright red like the light of an ambulance, but bigger for that distance."
It moved to the top of the hill, in a direction in which the cloud had first appeared and was still hovering there when Mrs. Kirk, feeling cold, decided to return inside the house.

In the following months, the weeds in the area where the cloud had been observed grew to a size double or triple that of identical plants in other areas. They continued to exhibit this pattern of exceptional growth for two years. In April 1977, the weeds actually measured 8 feet tall, while typical weeds of that family only grow to 3-1/2 feet. The grass had grown densely to about 5 feet. Mrs. Kirk cut the weeds but they were high again by May 1978.

1976 - On April 23,
Luis Fernandes Barros, a wealthy businessman and rancher in Quixada, Brazil, was found dazed at 7.00 A.M..
Luis reported that 2 hours before daybreak he saw a large luminous object that projected a beam in his direction. His health deteriorated rapidly: he suffered from nausea, diarrhea, and headaches. He was given medicine by a local doctor which was ineffective. He was further diagnosed as having a brain lesion and sent home.

In the following months, Barro's health continued to worsen.
He no longer told his story because no one believed him except the doctor and his wife.
The doctor, Doctor Moreira Megalhes, himself was ridiculed for taking the report seriously.

In three months the victim's speech deteriorated, and his hair turned white; six months later he had regressed to the level of a one- or two-year old child. In 1986, he was apparently starring ahead, seeing nothing. The doctor, even then, could show that Barros had control of his arms and legs and had not suffered a stroke.

1976 - On April 27,
"Conjugal Dictatorship" by Luis Mijares was published, noting the political and personal embarrassments of the Philippine Marcos regime: Dovie Beams affair, torture by Ver's agents, and the faking of Marcos war record. The book was removed from every bookstore and even the Library of Congress by Ver's agents.

By February, 1977, Mijares himself had disappeared.
Mijares phoned his wife, Manila Judge Priscilla Mijares, saying he was taking a Pan American flight to Guam. He left in the company of Querube Makalintal, a Marcos intelligence officer posing as a revenue attache at the Philippine Consulate in San Francisco. Fabian Ver also boarded the same flight. They changed to a Philippines Air Lines flight to Manila in Guam. NISA agents met the trio at the airport in Manila and took Mijares to Ver's headquarters at Fort Bonifacio, where he was put in a dungeon.

1976 - By May,
The Argentina Military Junta had implemented ruthless measures to suppress civilian subversives who were planting bombs with apparent indiscrimination.

During the next 7 years, approximately 27,000 suspected subversives would be murdered.
Teenagers and adults, males and females were involved. Often, after beatings and torturous interrogations, detained persons would be killed and their bodies incinerated and buried in mass graves. At least 2,000 persons were drugged and thrown alive from airplanes high over the ocean.

These activities were authorized by the highest levels of military and political authority and representatives of the church in this primarily Roman Catholic country, approved the flight executions as "a Christian form of death." The officers involved typically justified their actions as part of a routine of following the orders of a superior authority; in protection of the Fatherland; retribution for the chaos and destruction caused by the civil unrest. While much was suspected, little was acknowledged until the mid-1990's.

The Argentine Navy School of Mechanics (ESMA) in Buenos Aires was used as a front for the kidnapping, torture and disappearance of most of the thousands of civilians involved. "Cleanup flights" were conducted every Wednesday for a period of more than 3 years. Up to 20 prisoners would be dropped into the ocean on each flight. NONE were guerrilla leaders. Adolfo Francisco Scilingo, a lieutenant-commander in the Argentine Navy would later describe the 2 flights which he supervised as typical and including the following details.

Male and female prisoners were selected for the flight and told that they were going to be transferred to a prison in the south (or to a concentration camp) and that they had to be vaccinated. The "vaccine" injected was a sedative which made them groggy, barely able to walk. They were helped up the stairs from the detention cells at the motor pool of the Navy Mechanics School into a truck. It took them to the restricted military zone of Aeroparque, Buenos Aires' in-town airport.

A Navy physician on board would then inject the prisoners with a second sedative, which put them to sleep. The prisoners were then undressed. Over the ocean, at a predesignated spot chosen according to known currents which were expected to carry them further out to sea, the sedated naked males and females were dumped out. Other persons not personally involved with the flights expected that the prisoners had gone to a prison or concentration camp. But their were no large camps or prisons.

Numerous bodies were recovered from the South Atlantic and examined by forensic experts. They found indications of "polytraumatism" that indicated the bone-breaking impact of hitting the water from (a fall) a considerable height, at about 160 k/ph. At the time, there was some discussion as to whether the victims could have been abducted by extraterrestrials, experimented on and then dumped from a UFO.

Rationally and visually, injecting fellow humans with sedatives and throwing them into the night sky made it emotionally easier for the executioners to murder.

"No one was aware he was going to die. ...
Because they put the prisoners to sleep, they didn't have to face them as people.
... It is almost an act of magic. They evaporate."

The ESMA officers never discussed the flights among themselves though most were involved such that anyone who wished to maintain a good performance record for advancement would take part in one or more flights. All would be protected from prosecution by a series of government decisions and pardons from the mid-1980's and many of the officers involved in the extermination flights would still be on active duty in the 1990s.

1976 - On June 22,
A UFO in the vicinity of the Canary Islands, Spain, was observed by many people.
The Spanish Air Ministry later released documentation on 12 of those sightings.
It also impounded photographs taken by a private citizen and instructed the local doctor, Don Francisco-Julio Padron Leon not to speak about his experience. That information was released some months later.

A light, part yellowish and part blue, was seen moving across the sea towards the Spanish Navy corvette Atrevida at 9.27 p.m., slowly gaining in altitude. The light stopped suddenly, went out, and was replaced by a rotating beam of light shinning downwards. Two minutes later, the light took the form of a great halo that continued for 40 minutes, lighting up both sea and land.

The original yellowish-blue light reappeared, splitting into two parts with the bluish part remaining within the halo while the upper part began to climb in an irregular spiral before vanishing in the direction of the neighbouring island of Gran Canaria. It took only 3 minutes to reach there, reaching the astonishing speed of 1900 mph over a distance of 85 nautical miles. Don Padron

Leon and his taxi driver, Francisco Estevez, while travelling between Galdar and Agaete in the NW corner of Gran Canaria, at that time, were suddenly confronted by a giant sphere which seemed to hang a few yards above the ground. The sphere was outlined in pale greyish-blue; the radio in the taxi lost effectiveness almost immediately. Both the doctor, the driver, and Santiago del Pino, the young man who had requested the doctor to visit his mother, felt a wave of cold.

They watched what appeared to be 2 enormous beings inside the sphere, which was transparent and the size of a 2-storey house, working on either side of a central bank of instruments, manipulating levers and switches with hands clad in black cones. They appeared to be wearing tight-fitting clothes in a deep shade of red and had black helmets. The shape of the backs of their heads was disproportionately large.

The taxi driver switched on a spotlight, following which the sphere began to rise, until the observers could see a transparent tube inside it emitting a blue gas or liquid. This gradually filled the sphere, which expanded until it was as big as a 30-storey building, although the beings and their console panels remained the original size. Greatly alarmed, the trio left the area.

A circular area, 33 yards in diameter, was found destroyed in an onion field where the object had been seen to hover by other observers. More than 100 people in Puerto de la Cruz saw it as it passed over the island of Tenerife. Many other observers in the nearby outlying islands also called in reports.

1976 - By June,
George Bush, USA CIA Director, assembled TEAM B, a group of aggressive non-CIA persons, who declare that the CIA (Team A) has underestimated the dangers of a possible nuclear attack. Their report advised the development of an elaborate plan for "civil defense" and a post-nuclear government which would suspend individual rights and convey possession of all property to the state.

The contents of the report were criticized by Ray Cline, the CIA's former Deputy Director, retired CIA intelligence analyst Arthur Macy Cox, and the former head of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency as blatantly manipulating CIA intelligence to forward the profit and power aims of those members of the "team" who were part of the military-industrial capitalist expansionist power structure.

On June 11, in follow-up to the report, President Gerald Ford signed "Executive Order # 11921", Emergency preparedness Functions, authorizing plans to establish government control of the means of production, distribution, energy, wages and salaries, credit and the flow of money.

1976 - During June,
Pope Paul VI publicly censures Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre for preaching against the Vatican II Council pronouncements.

The Vatican Secretary of State suspends the archbishop from office.
Lefebvre responds by preaching a sermon about the Vatican creating "confusion through bastardization." There was "a bastard rite (the Pauline Mass), bastard sacraments, bastard priests .... If the pope is in error, he ceases to be pope!"

Can any human be perfect? If separate humans seek humbly for the answer to or guidance about a matter, in a spiritual manner, The Holy Spirit, as the divine communicator for God, will provide both with the same wisdom and answer. Which one was in God's favour? Were either in God's favour?

1976 - On June 28,
Mayor Alfred Vellucci, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, convened a conference to discuss the safety of allowing biotechnology-bioengineering to be continued at nearby Harvard University.

There was concern that the gene splicing of human genes and bacteria, chimera, or other similar combinations, could result in the creation of a killer lifeform potentially capable of annihilating human and/or other life on the Earth. Concern also existed about the same results happening from an accident such as a spill of genetic material into a sink and its influence upon microbes or insects in the drain such that a mutation might be produced.

The recent introduction of "The Andromeda Strain" movie added to these concerns.
It was decided that continued experimentation with gene splicing would be banned for 6 months.

This marked the first major instance of a formal questioning of the right of the scientist, according to their level of status quo credentials, to act as the authority in making decisions which were capable of altering human history, constructively or destructively. No longer would academic and technical credentials automatically be assumed to be sufficient for social and capital support.

Some biotechnology scientists, obsessive by the nature of the scientific field and its competition for capital support left the USA immediately to work in other countries which had not imposed such restrictions. The attraction of the power, recognition and field dependency of some scientists placed ethical and safety concerns as distant considerations.

1976 - On July 6,
Mr. Yu G., a storekeeper in a cotton factory in the town of Nzara, near the edge of the central African rainforest in the southern Sudan, died. He became the first recorded casualty in the modern occurrence of a viral disease which would be named "Ebola Sudan".

Plantations of teak, fruit trees and cotton surrounded the town, which seemed to be on the threshold dividing rainforest from savanna grass. Most of the local people were of the Zande tribe. Rats and bats lived in the factory where Mr. G. worked and insects would have been carried in with the bales of cotton fibers. Beyond his family, few knew Mr. G.. The account of his death was simple: he went into shock; blood ran from every body orifice; he died.

Within several days, two co-workers, who had worked at desks near to his, began bleeding, went into shock and died with massive blood loss. One, a Mr. P.G., was a popular individual with a wide circle of friends and several mistresses. It would be found later that he had spread the disease to many of these contacts. This was a prolific virus: it passed through as many as 16 generations within each host and travelled from one host to the next by contact with the body fluids of an infected person - making any form of touching a potential pathway. Case fatality rates were 50%

Beginning with Mr. Yu G., the incidence of the disease progressed to co-workers, their family members and social contacts, to persons in nearby towns - to which some of the infected had innocently travelled. At least one infected person reached the Maridi hospital where the medical system seemed to contribute to the spread of this highly contageous and fatal virus. The symptoms began to be recorded.

Some of the dying stripped off their clothes and ran through the streets of the town, naked, and bleeding from every body opening. The infected became mentally disoriented, psychotic and withdrawn. Transportation routes through the area were few and infrequently travelled. There was a minimum of contact with more populous and distant locales. Most of the world would never know of the outbreak nor of its significance. Had an infected person reached a major city or a traffic terminis such as an airport, the disease could have been spread to millions of persons around the world in ever country within 6 weeks!

The other factor which helped to contain the epidemic was its effectiveness.
Because it resulted in the death of the human host so quickly, and the source region was so sparsely populated, there was insufficient opportunity for the disease to be more widely communicated: the hosts died too quickly. Also, the virus had to be communicated by contact; an airborne strain or mutation would have been unstopable. Several hundred individuals died - no exact numbers here - many of the witnesses were buried by others who became infected and died. It was enough to turn several villages into cemetaries.

1976 - During July,
Eduard Albert Meier confided to Louise Zinsstag, a European UFOlogist, how he had watched the recent Soyuz-Apollo space vehicle coupling from a flying saucer at a distance of 3 meters. He had photographs showing the back of a Russian cosmonaut, his helmet, and the three letters "COI" on his suit.

In another, the coupling maneuver was shown in action, much better than on TV.
Louise found Meier's educational level less than that of Adamski, of whom she had earlier written, and disliked his attack on the Roman Catholic church for their ignoring "witches"; she found him "the most intriguing man I have ever met. ... he is so modest and sincere ... his time in jail ... one look at his photos reassures me every time."

1976 - Also during July,
Herbert Runkel and a friend, Harold, went to a site where Eduard Meier had said he had shot 2 trees with a laser gun the Pleiadians had demonstrated to him. When the two looked at the trees they could not figure out how Meier had created these marks that ate through the thick tree bark unless maybe he had used some kind of laser gun.

That day, while Herbert and Harold were studying the two trees, Meier had gone off nearby to look for mushrooms. At the edge of the clearing rambled a thicket of waist-high bushes. As he stepped all the way back to the meadow to eye one of the trees, Harold spotted from the corner of his eye a twig on a small bush. Something had snapped it in two. Something had also charred both of the broken tips. When Harold bent to examine the twig, he saw another one broken a few inches from the first. It, too, was charred.

He called Herbert over and they discovered a perfectly straight line of broken twigs, each of them charred, that went through the tangle of thin branches, bush after bush after bush. It looked as though a narrow beam of intense heat had shot through the thicket. Herbert took pictures of the scene. The straight line ran through the bushes for perhaps a hundred feet. When later questioned, Harold commented: "You could recognize the line of fire by the cracked branches and the blackened tips. It was so thin you could not do it with a welder."

How could such an event have been a hoax?
If Meier had fired a bullet through the bushes the cracked branches would not have blackened tips. The painstaking use of matches to effect the evidence would have been impossible to carry out in a straight line. Even more, why would Meier go to such difficulty, with one arm, to fabricate evidence which few persons would ever see?

In usual fashion, most of the humans who visited Meier and investigated him did so with the expectation that because they had not personally lived the events, they could not be true, and, that somehow, if they were smart enough, they would determine how such a calculating set of hoaxes was devised. Humanity has grown so weak in its inflexibility to expand its awareness and its ability to be humble and open to the awe of the universe that it will surely dissipate into the dust of time, NOT by some foreign force but by the inflexibility which its leaders have conditioned throughout its cultures toward coping with reality.

1976 - On July 28,
A Magnitude 7.8 Earthquake struck a densely populated area of Tangshan, China, without warning.
Violent earth movements thrust persons 6 feet (2 m.) into the air and 20 sq mi (50 sq km) of the city of Tangshan were flattened. Four intense aftershocks added to the destruction and fatality numbers. Serious damage occurred in Peking, 100 miles (160 km) from the epicentre. More than 500,000 persons were killed.

Relative to the loss of 1,300 lives at Haicheng in 1975, when the quake was predicted by "scientific" instruments recording pre-shocks, this level of devastation humbled the Chinese pride and confidence in their ability to predict such occurrences. What was still largely ignored in this age of space travel and nuclear submarines was the fact that several types of geological formation have differing earthquake characteristics.

This was one of perhaps 88% of quakes which cannot be predicted by obvious pre-shocks.
Extrasensory and spiritual techniques did warn of the quake, yet they were ignored because they challenged the credibility of the new approach to material-biased science or were regarded as the ravings of insane or deluded persons. Pride killed 250,000 people - who could have been forewarned in enough time to be proactive, a common human experience.

1976 - During the summer,
Martin Sorge, having read about Eduard Meier and been encouraged by friends, travelled to Hinwil, Switzerland.
Sorge had a degree in chemistry and would publish a book on hypnosis.
Sorge was sceptical. He went to Hinwil with a girlfriend.

Sorge discovered that at the Meier house on Waldenstrasse the family was never alone.
Always there was one, two, or three of the curious, often many more, squeezed into the modest living space. "They stayed the whole night or they left in the middle of the night, or they came in the middle of the night. And the whole atmosphere there was overshadowed by Billy's mission.

He was like a dictator, he said what had to be done and that would have to be done.
Even the needs of the family were overruled by his ever readiness to be at Semjase's call. ... The man appeared to be at one with his story." Sorge sometimes saw Meier so lost in his thoughts he could not communicate for days; he seemed filled with a power that originated from without, and this power so possessed him he was able to put people under a spell.

Sorge remembered that there was always great excitement in the house.
People hurried about, bring Meier his gun, his hat, his boots, his walkie-talkie, his leather coat, preparing him to venture into the forest. Others brewed strong coffee, or warmed the engine of their cars. The ones to accompany Meier wondered if this might be the night they would see the beamship descend or glimpse the ethereal figure of Semjase.

The only nights that compared with these were the nights before publication of the pamphlet Meier called "Wassermannzeit, The Age of the Waterman", who was Meier himself. On those nights Meier would be up all night, sweating in the lighted room on the third floor, feeding and pumping the printing machine furiously with one arm, not resting or slackening his pace until the job was finished. "It was unbelievable to see him running around this machine working it with one hand. Real fast, real hard, like an obsessed person." As Meier in a frenzy cranked out the pages of the pamphlet, music boomed from 2 speakers, the same pounding beat, over and over, causing the walls to quiver, a tempo that matched his own slamming of the press.

Many inflated and dramatized stories were later expressed of how Sorge had obtained some charred colour slides from a fire whereas in reality, Sorge personally conveyed later that he had cultivated a relationship of friendship with Popi (Mrs. Meier) and in a moment of distress she had brought them to him. Sorge saw immediately that the pictures had been taken of models and quickly assumed that Meier was a fraud and that all his pictures and evidence were contrived. Sorge went on to contact various interest groups who conveyed his beliefs contacted other groups and so spread and expanded considerable disinformation.

At no time did Sorge approach Meier and ask him directly about the slides nor try to determine in a more scientific manner if what Meier had to offer was of value. He had gone to Meier's family, who welcomed him openly and honestly, with the intention to prove Meier a fraud. Having confirmed his belief, and in revenge for having to question his own beliefs, Sorge, with only disregard for Meier, he and others proceeded to spread what could only be honestly represented as gossip.

The true context of the events and the reality of the events was entirely different, and unknown for years after the damage was done.

Before Sorge entered the picture, Hans Schutzbach, the man who had driven Meier to many contacts and who had been with him the day the first sounds were recorded, had been shown the pictures in question by Meier. According to Schutzbach, he had been in Meier's study one day in the early fall of 1976 when Meier presented the slides and explained to him that he had carved a model of one of the beamships and then tried to photograph it.

In the pictures the model sat on 3 blocks of wood and lacked the lustre and refined appearance of the glistening beamships in Meier's other photos. Meier said he thought the photographs should be destroyed to avoid confusion, but Schutzbach had persuaded him to keep them. Schutzbach explained later: "I told him, these are an important document. You can't throw them away." Meier agreed and gave the slides to Schutzbach, who kept them safely in his apartment.

Then one day, Popi (Mrs. Meier) went to Schutzbach and asked that she be allowed to have the slides. A few weeks later, after fighting with her husband, she snatched up various documents, photographs, and slides, including those of the model, and threw them into the fireplace. Schutzbach said he had arrived at the house in time to see Meier himself stamp down the flames and then reach into the fire to save the slides.

The next time Popi fought with her husband, Sorge had been visiting Hinwil with his girlfriend, and in a rage, instead of setting fire to the surviving slides, Popi had given them all to Sorge. This had caused problems, said Schutzbach, because Sorge had later written to Meier and threatened to expose him as a fraud. When Popi denied knowing anything about how the slides had gotten into Sorge's hands, Meier had threatened her, she pulled out his gun, and he took it away from her. Then Popi had tried to kill herself with pills.

Sorge later admitted that "Billy's intellect and his spiritual level are much below the message he preaches, therefore it is not possible that he could have invented this. So this indicates he must have gotten it from some other source. I am certain that these are messages from a spiritual being unseen by us but seen by him, coming from another world, and he's capable of hearing these messages."

The damage had been done, thanks to intellectual revenge of the childish sceptic, the dramatization of the mass media, and the emotional gullibility (present in the absence of spiritual strength) of many humans and their educated obedience to mediums of authority such as the mass media and intense speakers and writers - who, are often reacting to some past traumatic memory.

In this and other similar spiritual contacts - whether between a more highly spiritual being such as Semjase represented or through prayer and meditation with the Godforce of the universe - the recipient receives communication which is totally correct. Often the human recipient must be sincere and honest in interest, open in mind and attitude to learning and new concepts, and possessing a strength of intuition. The latter, until melded with Spiritual Guidance and freed from the emotional reactions of hereditary and learned traumatic experience patterns - is often likely to make many errors if they follow their "feelings".

This is because their intuition is twisted by their response patterns to present information which is 180 degrees turned from the truth. In the worst of cases, a potentially gifted person learns from these experiences never to trust their feelings and is thrown into the position of obsessively rationalizing every decision in an attempt to avoid the errors of twisted intuition which result in errors and difficulties in everything they do. Fortunately, this hurdle, of having first to clear the signals coming to the person's consciousness from their intuition does not seem to have been a problem with Meier.

If one's intuition is strong, and clear, and one either solicits the spiritual knowledge by prayer/meditation, or, is approached by a more highly spiritual being - the next potential problem in human societies is coping with information which often seems contrary to intellectualized options and contrary to widely held social norms. There are frequently no mentors to guide the individual. The usual response is for the person to doubt their sanity, to fear the import of their response (rejection by others, depression over humanity's stupidity, elation and awe which can seldom be shared with others) and to abandon this direction and continue their lives at mediocre levels often accompanied by addictive response patterns.

If the self-esteem of the individual and their power of will is strong enough, or is built up by their experience of success in the accomplishment of many activities, the individual will be capable - more than many others - of coping with the ostracism, scepticism, personal ego challenge, and, popularity which an expression of their faith and experience brings forth.

The Pleiadians have tried to rectify the "original error" which one or more of their species made with humanity, by approaching humans with the offer to provide them with spiritual guidance and truth for the purpose of conveying this to other humans in the hope that this new information enable humanity on earth to reach a position of balance with the universe again. This balance was lost when humans lost the capability to synthesize vitamin C in their bodies and largely unable to supplement it in their systems adequately by diet.

This "Error" raised the average human sex drive which raised capacity which raised population density and expansion. Along with these developments came strain on material sufficiency and a requirement for order and authority to counter anarchy. Out of these all of humanity's inequities were strengthened, taught, and encouraged: anger from frustration; hatred from obsessive anger; greed from traumatic want; lust from traumatic loneliness; pride from material or power success; weakness of spirit from addiction spawned by traumatic abuse.

The Pleiadians are NOT perfect even as they are greatly more advanced spiritually; they admit this openly. They are not the only intergalactic species to have committed this sin of interbreeding with humans either.

Earlier, the Pleiadians met with humans, gave them new skills or knowledge to reduce the material insufficiency of the community and tried to impart spiritual values. This approach seemed appropriate at the time. Yet throughout the millenniums, the Pleiadians have never understood the deceptive basic biological transmutation which has resulted in humanity being one of the few species in the universe to be grossly destructive to itself and everything around it. Other intergalactic species have also tried to "redirect" humanity from its evil ways with other methods.

What the Pleiadians appear to be incapable of dealing with, perhaps because it must be the responsibility and choice of humans themselves, are the inequities of humanity. Encouraging people to deny a part of themselves, rather than to void it by bioengineering, has only resulted in the denied aspect becoming stronger and redirected into more negative responses. The Pleiadians expected humans to "recognize the truth of harmony, learn it, and, practice it". Yet with the biodegeneracy which humanity carries in its genes, it suffers to learn the principle and fails to practice it - driven instead by basic needs and the problems which acting on those needs present.

Meier was one of the humans chosen in this century to continue the experiment.
The Pleiadians feel spiritually saddened by humanity's failure to "get its act together" for they know that once AGAIN most of humanity will die in one or more catastrophes, some of which are the making of humanity. Meier was approached as a bright, open-minded boy and offered guidance. He had a choice: continue or walk away in fear. He considered this decision numerous times, and continued. He learned that if he followed the advice he was given, that whatever the outcome, it would be more positive than he could have ever imagined.

He also learned through his experiences that when he chose to ignore, fail to request advice, or, act against what was advised - the outcome was either a disaster or less than least desired. Such direct experience and consistency will eventually imbue the person with a great faith in the counsel or information which they are receiving. The direction of the process, with a goal unknown to the participant, becomes almost compulsive.

As one person phrased it: "If you are chosen by God to complete a task, whatever it is, would you say 'No'? You know it is a superior spiritual force because it is ALWAYS right. You know that it IS a spiritual force because anything asked of you to do cannot ultimately do wrong to anyone. You know it is important AND urgent because the more you know, the more you are aware that what you are doing may save the souls and/or lives of thousands or millions of people.

With those as givens, you place your own ego wants second with the affirmation that 'For me to be completely happy and content someday I must do what God wants me to do - NOT what I think I should do, or what someone else tells me I should do - that seems logical for me to receive happiness. Only the God which made me KNOWS and can guide me to that bliss.'" Without other unnatural skills, the human in such a situation can get into other problems with relationships.

Meier, who had been a loner for most of his life, now had hoards of people swarming into his home. Most frequently, they came unannounced, came for self-serving reasons, and came to disrupt the family life of the Meier's. Eduard felt obligated by his acknowledged purpose and the spiritual reflection of Semjase to welcome all and treat them as straightforwardly and innocently as possible.

Kaliope (Popi), his wife was an average human woman with 3 small children and a home to look after.
She loved her husband yet since Semjase had entered his life, everything else was secondary to Eduard. They saw less and less of him, in private, until, they never saw him in private. There were always these hoards of people invading HER home and treating HER like a servant - even less. She was baking not only for HER family but also for untold guests which seldom volunteered help or assistance.

Popi had not been approached from early childhood and guided to develop the spiritual skills and awareness that Eduard had, or, she had not felt strong enough within to follow that path. She was not interested in what the future had to bring or what the possibilities were for extraterrestrial life, or .... She was interested in her husband and her family and this new entry into Eduard's life seemed to leave her separated from the joys she and Eduard had experienced before Semjase and the beamships arrived.

Popi did not conceal her disappointment and frustration; few people in such a situation could. Through this period, she wanted the whole thing to end and for she and Eduard to go back to how they had been: together, close and happy. Of course, in anger, she would try to sabotage Eduard's activities. She must have felt desperate trying to regain contact with him. Conversely, Eduard had not developed identity and social management skills and until the household became a place of anarchy he did not set out rules, requests and policies for his visiting guests.

Eduard's focus was on getting his part done.
No doubt, at an earlier time, he had wanted a special woman in his life - when God provided her. Popi was that gift to him. Now it would be going back on his word if he didn't fulfill his end of the contract. As the effort continued and the personal problems arose, it was likely that he drove himself harder - to get the job done, to finish whatever was his duty - so he could return to a life of his own.

Humans cannot simply be beacons to others lighting the path to greater awareness.
It is one thing to learn to cope with the influx of spiritual awareness and advanced knowledge; it is another to know how to cope with the human responses of modern day society to that beacon. Gossip is the most common form of human communication. Gossip often communicates 80% fact and 20% lie.

Too often, the "lie" is based on fear, pride, exaggeration, anger, vengeance, misinterpretation, misinformation, greed or lust; it changes the context of the information. Changing the context can reverse the value of the information. Truth dies in the service of security by suggestion. Newspapers, journals, history books and religions constantly supplement and provide more examples of "gossip" for those who practice it. Humans are quick to talk, slow to think, and seldom listen. Biochemically, a vitamin C imbalanced system is the key.

1976 - On August 9,
"Luna 24" is launched from Tyuratam and will be successful in taking a third sample of lunar soil.
Taken from the southeast section of the "Sea of Crises", the sample proves to be very different from previous ones. The most common rock type at this site is a low-titanium, high basalt. It is described as silvery in colour with a brown tint.

1976 - On August 20,
The Viking 1 space probe was launched under the direction of the Pasadina, California Space Mission Control Centre.
Viking 1 is scheduled to land on Mars in 10 months and be joined by Viking 2 six months later.
Soil samples recovered suggested the presence of living organisms and a very active soil chemistry.
In a made-for-television series, "In Search Of", episode titled, "Martians", the suggestion was made that with the use of Planetary Engineering, a phrase meaning "manipulation by humans", the ice at the poles on Mars could be melted to form lakes. This was expected to make Mars more habitable for occupation by humans.

1976
"How Real is Real? - Confusion, Disinformation, Communication", a book by Paul Watzlawick, is published.

"This book is about the way in which communication creates what we call reality. ... the most dangerous delusion of all is that there is only one reality. ... It becomes still more dangerous if it is coupled with a missionary zeal to enlighten the rest of the world, whether the rest of the world wishes to be enlightened or not. To refuse to embrace wholeheartedly a particular definition of reality (e.g., an ideology), to dare to see the world differently, can become a 'think-crime' ....

... when one of the messages is garbled, leaving the recipient in a state of uncertainty, the result is confusion, which produces emotions ranging all the way from mild bewilderment to acute anxiety, ....

... the confusion caused by the different meanings of identical or similar words, "Burro", for example, means 'butter' in Italian and 'ass' in Spanish, and this is responsible for a number of weird misunderstandings - at least in the punch lines of Hispano-Italian jokes. Chiavari (with the accent on the first a) is a beautiful resort on the Italian riviera; chiavare (accented on the second a) is Italian vernacular for love-making. Needless to say, this provides the pointe for a number of somwhat raunchy jokes, all involving tourists who cannot pronounce Italian. ...

Considerably more serious is the frequent mistake committed by translators with the number word "billion", which in the United States and France means a thousand millions (10 to the 9th power) but in England and most continental European countries it means a million millions (10 to the 12th poer). There the U.S. billion is called miliardo, Milliarde , etc. ...

In a written language we stress words by underlining them or printing them in italics, but these are much clumsier devices than the rich nuances of spoken language - tonal stress, pauses, gestures. Written language is therefore often more ambiguous, especially if the words are not embedded in a sufficiently self-explanatory context. ...

All these mistakes could easily (and would be) made by a computer designed to translate from one language into another. ...

Throughout this book we have repeatedly seen that a state of disinformation, of uncertainty produced by events that do not fit into our definition of reality, has a powerful effect, compelling us to seek an order to account for the disturbing phenomena. ...

In the afternoon of your last day God calls you into His office and tells you what it was all about . ...

If the entire life of our planet, from its origin to the present moment, were represented by a 24-hour day, intelligent (human) life appeared within the last few seconds (of the 24 hours). ...

When faced with the everyday necessity of making a choice, any choice, how do I choose? If I really believe that my choice, like any other event, is determined by (is the inescapable effect of) all the causes in the past, then the idea of free will or free choice is an illusion. It does not matter how I choose, for whatever I choose is the only thing I can choose.

There are no alternatives, and even if I think there are, this thought itself is nothing but the effect of some cause in my personal past. Whatever happens to me and whatever I myself do is predetermined by something that, depending on my preference (oops - I mean, of course, depending on some inescapable cause of the past) I may call causality, the Being, the divine experimenter or fate.

If I really believe that my will is free, then I live in a totally different reality.
I am the master of my fate, and what I do here and now creates my reality.

[Spiritually, a person has the additional reality of being aware of the reality of the past and open to guidance as to the most constructive reality of the future. Such a "spiritual freedom" means that the reality of each individual is partially dependent upon the framework of a universe-wide orderliness and complexity, and, partially dependent upon the nature of one's awareness of alternatives and freedom from obsessional and compulsive patterns to effect a free choice.]

But every once in a while we are brutally reminded that our common sense is based not on wisdom but on that old recipe: If you don't look, it will go away. It may go away, especially not if 'it' is the painful, guilt-provoking consequence of a wrong decision. To be able to foresee the future is one of mankind's oldest, fondest dreams - ...

As we move with time, we constantly find ourselves at the line dividing future from past. Our most immediate experience of reality, the present, is merely that infinitesimally short moment at which the future becomes the past. It is also the instant when the properties of reality are somehow turned upside down: the future is changeable but not known; the past is known but not changeable.

[Spiritually, there is an additional reality provided by Guidance received from the Holy Spirit. That Guidance, the accuracy and relevance of which can only be confirmed by personal experience, provides the reverent individual with the best alternative available for the most constructive future experience. This process is not often chosen by humans, although always available, for it involves a high initial perception of risk.

That is, the Guidance given does not provide the individual with the satisfaction of knowing the material outcome of the choice recommended. To do so, would remove any need for risk, trust, and faith - and, induce the individual to become co-dependent and enslaved to the Holy Spirit. Initially, the inexperienced human faces the potential of making a "wrong" choice through deferrence to a mentor who does not reveal the end result of the action-inaction taken.

Within a human-based political system promoting materialism, the possibility of shame from such an unrationalised (not sanctioned by deferrence to human authority based knowledge) is frequently abuse, penalty, ostracism, judgement, blaming, humiliation, abandonment, criticism, rejection, intolerance, anger, and impatience. In the face of such a high suggestion for identity death within the dominant culture for simply "testing" a spiritual approach, is it any wonder that so few have the courage to do so?]

(The present) is both our most immediate and our most intangible experience of reality. NOW has no length, yet it is the only point in time at which what happens, happens and what changes, changes. It is past before we can even become aware of it and yet, since every moment is immediately followed by a new moment, NOW is our only direct experience of reality ....

But the perennial NOW is hardly ever perceived without the distortions and contaminations introduced into it by the (rational) mind from past experience and future expectations. ... Thus, to empty himself, to free himself from the involvement with (the "educated" superstitions, spurious reasonings, deceptions, misinformations of history sourced by self-biased institutions, of the) past and (all the former plus fantasy of the) future, is the goal of the mystic."

While the mystic seeks to experience reality without the perceptual garbage which clouds the view of most humans in all non-band organized and independent social structures, a Spiritual reality may still not be acquired. Such demands an openness to and a willingness to discover an unexpected and wondrous unknown.

1976 - On the evening of August 26,
The Allagash River Abduction occurred in the USA.
While fishing from a small boat on the river, after having left a large fire burning at their nearby campsite, 4 men noticed the approach of an aerial object which looked like a huge ball of yellow-white light.

It moved silently out of the trees from an initial distance of 150-200 yards.
When one of the men used a flashlight to signal at the object it began to approach and shown a beam of light down towards the water. Brothers Jim and Jack Weiner, Charlie Folt and Chuck Rack became alarmed and paddled as quickly as possible towards the shore. The object caught up to them, positioned itself directly overhead and moved the directed beam to shine on them.

The men next remembered walking on the beach with their campfire almost burned out and a lapse of perhaps 4 or more hours of time. Confused, the men spoke little further about the incident. Almost immediately some dramatic changes seemed to take place with the brothers who were the only ones to remain in contact with each other. While both had persistent nightmares, neither mentioned it to the other for almost 12 YEARS.

Jack thought he had acquired a brain disorder and Jim began to feel that he was hallucinating.
Jack, who had been a mediocre landscape painter became compulsively interested in mathematics, science and physics and he began to work these concepts into his drawings. Jim, who had been a clayworker-potter who made simple plates and saucers, began to mold lifeform and other objects, some of which resembled bipedal insect-like beings with large eyes.

1976 - By September,
Transfers of organized crime monies were being made worldwide by the use of gambling casinos.
Payments for narcotic drugs and illegal cigarettes being offloaded into the USA had to make it back to the Asian sources without raising suspicions in the Revenue Department.

Asian "gamblers" would visit the American cities of Las Vegas, Reno, Lake Tahoe - where they would spend a few nights at the gambling tables running up huge "losses". Their IOU's would be sold to West Coast banks, at a discount, who would in turn redeem them through banks in Hong Kong for service fees. The money was used by the newest, fastest, safest, cleanest and least cumbersome transfer method - electronic computer transfer with the use of key-tested telex transfers. Everyone in the loop made money. So much money, that separate bids were made to acquire the franchise in every casino for this sort of "currency exchange".

USA Federal Internal Revenue, the FBI, the CIA, and the Federal Reserve Board all became very familiar with the nature of these transactions from their investigations.

1976 - Early in September,
The Ebola Zaire Virus was first recorded.

It emerged in the Bumba Zone of northern Zaire, an tropical rainforest area drained by the Ebola River.
Villages were scattered through the district. Bumba is 500 miles southwest of Nzara, the site of a similar, though not as fatal recent virus outbreak. The loose band and tribe social structures of the people together with primitive communication patterns would prohibit the later determination of who first acquired the illness.

No possible analysis of the source of the virus could ever be determined beyond the possibility that it was first communicated to humans through the bodily fluids of some other living being whether recently dead or alive and infected. People in the region eat monkey meat; they are frequently exposed to many kinds of biting and stinging insects; abraisions, scratches and cuts are not rare occurrences.

The first recorded incidence arrived at the Yambuku Mission Hospital, a clinic run by Belgian nuns located north of Bumba, closer to the Ebola River. Yambuku was a small village composed mainly of the hospital, a church, a school, and a number of residences. Late in August, one of the teachers had borrowed a Land Rover vehicle and taken some friends on an exploratory adventure vacation to the north. They had crossed the Ebola River and near the Obangui River, they had stopped and bought some fresh antelope and monkey meat.

Later, the group bounced over the pathway back to Yambuku and feasted on the cooked antelope.
In the morning, the schoolteacher felt ill and went to the hospital for an injection.
Malaria is endemic in the region; medical supplies are difficult to obtain in sufficient quantities to meet the demand. Frequently, hypodermic needles had been used for injections to multiple patients with no sterilization between and few changes during each day. The schoolteacher received an injection. The next day he became the first known case of Ebola Zaire.

Ebola Zaire attacks every organ and tissue in the human body except skeletal muscle and bone. Seven proteins make up the Ebola-virus particle; their combination replicate throughout the human system of cells, eventually forming small blood clots in the bloodstream. These slow the circulation of blood allowing the clot masses of virus to coat the walls of the blood vessels and concentrate in each organ. These in turn replicate more and smaller clots which collect in the smaller capillary regions, effectively shutting off both blood circulation and oxygen from parts of the brain, liver, kidneys, lungs, intestines, testicles, breast tissue and the skin. Red spots develop on the latter, called "petechiae", which are subcutaneous hemorrhages.

Ebola Zaire seems particularly suited for combining with collagen, the main ingredient of the connective tissue which holds organs together. Organ cells begin to separate as if the organ were liquifying or dissolving into individual cells. Tissues coating the tongue, the back of the throat and the windpipe all die, loosen and tend to peel off with the slightest touch or in response to coughing. The skin becomes a blanket of white virus filled blisters and red hemorrhaging spots. Bruise patches form and begin to grow larger. As the various tissues begin to tear apart and the walls of organs and vessels begin to separate, blood flows out of the body through every opening and into the interorgan cavities.

With the reduced blood flow and the increasing density of dead and separated cells, organs, including the brain, become starved for oxygen and begin to fail. Even the lining of the eyeball falls apart such that the eye may be bled into and the victim becomes blind. Salivary glands, tear ducts, seminal vessicles, mucous membranes and nipples may all begin to drip blood, devoid of clotting factors and populated with small clots of virus. The red cells are invariably dead. A great deal of cellular damage is able to occur while the host is still alive because the disease is acting everywhere at once rather than resulting in a more acute stage of death brought on by the total failure of one organ.

Internal organs are each affected and rendered useless by the invasion of the virus.
Each begins to fill with clots of virus which may bloat it up while the connective tissues begin to separate, cracks may form in the organ, and the blood may both flow into the newly formed inner cavities as well as out of the organ. Each organ begins to fail, the nature of the effect being upon the dependency of the organ upon the supply of blood. Often the infected individual will go into generalized epileptic convulsions in the latter stage, as the brain dies. With the kidneys and liver failing, the blood itself becomes toxic with the normally excreted wastes of metabolism: this is one of the causes of the headaches in the earlier stages.

The threadlike Ebola virus is so ideally suited to the composition of the primate body that its replication within it leads partially to its downfall. While the fast replication quickly results in any contained cellular structure quickly becoming congested and bloated, it begins to coalesce into crystal-like formations in the centre of the cell which disintegrate on making contact with the cellular wall. With the feeding frenzy changing its focus from the inner cell components to the wall, the wall quickly disintegrates releasing the virus particles into the blood and into contact with new cells. Eventually, a droplet of the host's blood will contain a hundred million individual virus particles.

Death finds the body of the host already in a partial state of decay from the earlier cell deaths.
Very quickly, the corpse is transformed into a pile of bones and rotting mush. It is as if a "normal" death progression of the body has been accelerated by a factor of 100. To most observers, the totality and visual shock of the symptoms is adequate to inspire fear, paranoia, imagination, panic and horror. These defenses may each prove beneficial if effective in forcing the observer to withdraw away from the victim and raise caution in others. Without the presence of new hosts, the virus cannot spread and continue to replicate.

Ebola Zaire would be found to have different, though short, incubation periods in its human hosts before symptoms occur. In this incident, the environmental, social, and political factors all contributed to mask the origin of the virus. It might have been transfered in the meat of the monkey or antelope; from an insect bite during the trip; from contact before, during or after the trip; from the blood of an earlier patient who had received an injection but who would experience a longer incubation period; .... Whatever the origin, the injection procedure would be suspect in the rapidity of the human incidents.

Virus symptoms became manifest in 55 villages surrounding the hospital, almost simultaneously.
Those who had received injections died first; then their family members. Women, who are largely charged with preparing the dead for burial in the region, were disproportionately infected. Most of the nurses died followed by many of the nuns - beginning with a midwife who had delivered a stillborn from an Ebola-infected mother.

By late September, one infected nun, Sister M.E., was taken by a priest and another nun to Bumba, then by plane to Kinshasa, then to Ngaliema Hospital. Sister M.E. was placed in a private room. Within days, the Sister was dead. Shortly before her death, doctors inserted a needle into her upper abdomen and removed a quantity of her liver for use in a biopsy - a procedure denied by her religious order. After her removal from the room, the floor, chair, walls, and bed in the room were splattered and stained with her blood. No one would go into it for days after to clean it so it was locked shut. Rumours coming out of the jungle presented the untrue observation that whole villages were being wiped out. In reality, families were being targetted selectively.

Sister M.E.'s blood/liver sample was flown to a national laboratory in Belgium and to the English national laboratory at Porton Down, in Wiltshire. Karl M. Johnson, head of the American C.D.C. (Centers for Disease Control) Special Pathogens Branch in Atlanta, Georgia State requested "any little dregs to spare" of the nun's blood be sent from the English lab.

1976 - On September 7, at 4.30 a.m.,
A deputy sheriff in Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.A., while driving alone in his patrol car, two miles outside the town, a strange object in the sky "caught my eye".

He stopped the car to get a closer look.
It was two to three feet wide; red, blue, and green lights seemed to be on its periphery, and a bright white light occupied the centre. He could not count the number of lights because they blinked on and off rapidly. They shifted quickly from red to blue to green, while the centre white light stayed constant. The object did not move during the time he saw it.

Fearing ridicule, the officer did not immediately report the sighting.
When he heard that two other officers had reported a sighting 30 minutes before his occurred, he came forward with his report. The other officers had spotted a flying saucer 12 miles west southwest of his location.

These sightings occurred several days after the landing of the "Viking 1" and "Viking ll" space probes on Mars. The Redstone Arsenal at Huntsville, Alabama was the site of the development of space vehicles in North America, with the assistance of German rocket scientists and the Viking probes were developed there and monitored from there.

1976 - On September 9, at 4.00 a.m.,
The same deputy sheriff from Huntsville, Alabama, who had reported a sighting on the 7th observed a second incident. A reporter from the local radio station was at the police station when the report was called in. He went outside to see for himself and observed

"a very bright, pulsating star ... along its perimeter were multicolour, very minuscule, but equally discernable dots ... and these dots would flash on and off ... they were very small, but they were of clearly different colours ... orange, green, blue, and, most prominently, red."

The object seemed to move side to side.
It was at least twice as big as any star he had ever seen before.
The Space Centre and other authorities suggested that what had been seen was the planet Jupiter.

1976 - During September,
The first recorded outbreak of the Ebola Virus occured in Zaire, Africa.

Simultaneously, 55 villages near the headwaters of the Ebola River, in the northern rainforest, became infected. Nine out of every ten infected, died. In brief, the internal organs were destroyed, and the corpse deteriorated rapidly following death. It softened, and the tissues turned to jelly - even if you put it in a refrigerator. Any autopsy or dissection had to be done shortly after death, if it were to be useful.

The Ebola virus particle contains only 7 different proteins of which 7 are large molecules.
One of the proteins would become understood. Two of the proteins would still remain poorly understood in the early 1990s; the other four would be complete unknowns! Understanding the structure and function of most of the proteins would still be a mystery. Ebola proteins target the primate immune system in an explosive manner. The transmission of Ebola is also poorly understood, although it seems to travel by any bodily fluid escaping from the infected source. The incubation period appears to be from 3 to 14 days.

Ebola is like a predator against any primate.
It kills just as efficiently against monkeys as other primates - and it seems capable of easily travelling between the two. Ebola is distantly related to measles - it triggers a rash all over the body; also to rabies - it produces psychosis and disorientation; to the para-influenza virus - which produces colds in human children; to the respiratory syncytial virus - which can stimulate fatal pneumonia in a compromised body; and, to mumps.

The virus destroys organ tissue, connective tissue, muscle and skin.
The eyes of the dead may be found half open, glassy, bright red, with dilated pupils.
Parts of the brain which control facial expression fail, and, together with the loss of connective facial tissue, the expression left behind on the face is emotionless, staring.

Samples of Ebola Virus would find their way to the "United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID)" at Fort Detrick, in the city of Frederick at the foot of Catoctin Mountain in Maryland State. That was the sanitized name of the facility, changed after President Nixon had signed an executive order in 1969 outlawing the development of offensive biological weapons in the USA.

Research would build on the paranoia, and reality, that an airborne mutation of the original Ebola could circle the Earth in 6 weeks or less, killing large numbers of people, or, simply emerging constantly, yet erratically, in small groups.

1976 - On September 19,
Reports were received from witnesses around Teheran, Iran.
At about 12.30 am, a strange light, like a helicopter hovering with a massive searchlight was reported. B.G. Yousefit, the Iranian Air Force officer who took the calls, ignored the first few, believing people were mistaking a star for something. On looking out himself, he saw a huge glowing light of immense brightness. He contacted Shahrokhi Air Base to launch a Phantom interceptor.

A Phantom took off at 1.30 am and headed north on an intercept course.
The object was estimated to be 70 miles from the plane, but was so bright that it was easily visible.
Lt. Jafari was the 23 year old pilot. He broke through the sound barrier on his way and as he neared he described the object as "half the size of the moon ... radiating violet, orange and white light". It shot away as he approached, reacting as if aware of his presence and pursuit. Jafari tried to catch up to it without success. Ground control suggested he abandon the chase and return to base.

Almost the second he agreed to return, Jafari radioed "Something is coming at me from behind.
It is 15 miles away ... now 10 miles away ... now 5 miles away ... It is level now. I think it's going to crash into me. It has just passed by, missing me narrowly." Shaken, Jafari asked to be guided back to Shahrokhi. He had apparently lost all instrumentation and communication for a while, regaining them only after he broke off the intercept.

Meanwhile, at 1.40 am, a second Phantom had been launched.
At a range of 27 miles from the object its in-flight radar locked onto the UFO and recorded a closing speed of 150 mph (although the jet was going much faster than that). Moments after the lock-on, the blip accelerated away. The Phantom went into afterburner to reach maximum speed but still was unable to close on the accelerating object.

Suddenly an object was "ejected" from the UFO and propelled straight at them.
It was like a ball of light, estimated 12 feet in diameter, and seemed too much like an air-to-air missile for the radar operator and pilot to be comfortable. Following instructions drilled into them during their training, they moved to launch a counter-strike: firing an AIM-9 Sidewinder infra-red homing missile at the UFO. At that precise moment, all power on the instrument panel was lost. Communications (internally and with ground control) vanished.

In absolute panic, the pilot made a "negative G" dive and tried to evade the "attacking missile".
It was no use, the ball of fire kept coming at them, changing course and closing within seconds to a 4 mile range. Then, in a perfect manoeuvre, the object cut inside the twisting jet, and, making a "U" turn, flew back into its parent craft.

Communications and power returned to the Phantom.
The pilot and radar man watched as a second object emerged from the UFO and travelled vertically down to the ground where it oozed light over the ground rather than landing. Meanwhile the larger UFO accelerated to several times the speed of sound and vanished within seconds.

The pilot took his Phantom down from 25,000 feet to 15,000 feet, keeping a focus on the glowing light near the ground. Eventually, the light extinguished, plunging the desolate terrain below into darkness. There was no point in remaining, but the object had been so bright that the pilot suffered considerable impairment of his night vision. It lasted long enough for him to circle Shahrokhi base several times until his eyes adapted. When the jet passed through 150 degrees magnetic on these circuits, it lost all communications. A civilian plane in the Teheran area at this time also reported the exact same problem.

1976 - By October,
The contact notes of Eduard Albert Meier had grown to over 800 pages and curiosity seekers, witnesses and serious knowledge seekers frequently lined up to his door in Hinwil, Switzerland. Describing what would happen when he was picked up for his talks with Semjase, the Pleiadian spacewoman, he noted several methods.

First, the silver beamship would appear and wait for him silently, hovering a hundred or two hundred feet off the ground. Then with the magnetic force field temporarily reduced, Meier would walk beneath the ship, and in a moment, untouched by any visible force, his body would begin rising. During the 5-second transfer from ground to sky, Meier could observe the landscape. Though Semjase sometimes landed the ship and met with Meier in the meadow, she now utilized the "anti-gravity" system more frequently.

A third, even faster, method was potentially dangerous: Meier could be dematerialized.
Meier called the method "teleportic" which worked only "if I am clear in my head and my heart."
Using it, the Pleiadians could break down Meier's molecular structure as he sat in his office, rematerialize him on board the ship, converse with him for an hour or two, then break him down a second time and reassemble him in an instant inside his office against, or at the edge of a road to be picked up by Herbert, Jakobus, or one of the others who might have driven him to the contact.

When he was "upped" by this method, Meier could feel nothing; the danger lay in the return, for Meier would again have to be clear in mind and heart. According to Meier, if the ship hovered high in the atmosphere ready to place him back on the Earth, and he jumped into the teleportic shaft without his head and heart being clear, he would "die for sure". "You see, they take me up in this way only when they have checked me over and over. And if there is only a very, very small point which isn't clear, they can't go to it. Then I have to go out on my bicycle or tractor or by car, and they take me up the other way.

The opening in the ship through which Meier entered with the anti-gravity method was round and located at the bottom. Meier had either seen it open or closed and did not know how it worked. The interior of the craft was like a central security observation room, to Meier, a former security guard. It had many television screens. The windows around the perimeter appeared to be glass and metal at the same time. As the ship entered different atmospheres they changed colour; in methane they would turn yellow; in other atmospheres, a shade of green, blue, or red. As the ship travelled through interstellar space, a scanning device had to be used for navigation, for in space nothing could be seen through the windows.

Near the ship's controls were three chairs, "like normal chairs, but you can use them as very comfortable seats, or two of them as beds." The beds were not like those on Earth, (they) .. wrapped around you. The extensive control panel was dominated by an array of "metallic blots" accommodating 1 to 4 fingers or the entire hand. The blots were in rows of different colours - silver, gold, red, blue, yellow - and were never touched; the hand or fingers were only placed lightly over them. Small wheels, switches, and rows of levers complicated the instrument panels. "The driving of the ships is very, very easy. There is a red knob, with a small leg, and with it you can do every maneuvering thing you like."

With the Pleiades nearly 500 light years from Earth, conventional Earth physics dictated that travelling at the greatest speed conceivable, a trip from the Pleiades and back would take 1,000 years. The Pleiadian propulsion system was capable of speeds many hundreds of times faster than light. Travelling between Erra and the Earth only took Semjase 7 hours.

When Meier asked the Pleiadians why they did not appear en mass to the public and contact the governments, they explained that

"The masses would merely revere us as gods, as in the ages past, or go off in hysteria.
That is why we regard it as prudent to make contact with individual persons only for a time being, to disseminate, through them, the knowledge concerning our existence and our coming to this planet. Furthermore, all earth governments are made up of human beings for whom power hunger and a thirst for profits are characteristic. They only want, under cover of peace and friendship, to occupy our rayships, to exercise absolute rule over the Earth. But they would not stop there. They would try to capture the cosmos, because they do not know any limits.

They, on the other hand, are not even able to create peace and friendship among the nations of the Earth, not even in their own countries. How then could they be capable of holding such might in their hands as our rayships? We have no interest in revealing ourselves to the general public. It is for the present advisable to maintain contact only with single Earth humans, and by them slowly to allow the knowledge of our existence and mission to become known, and to prepare others for our coming.

A further warning: It lies in the frame of evolution that Earth man must develop himself spiritually before he will solve certain scientific secrets. Even then, the danger exists, that the barbarous earth man, exercising his technical knowledge, might use it for evil-minded and power-hungry motives. He must remember that when he attains the necessary techniques, he cannot fly to other planets in the hope of that he would always be the victor. Other cosmic inhabitants are not helplessly exposed to attack from another race. There could follow deadly defeat for Earth humankind and complete slavery, which would equal a falling back to primeval times.

When earth man tries to carry his barbarous greed for power into the cosmos, he must consider his own complete destruction. This all must be told to the Earth beings, for their spiritual reason is still poorly developed. This was the unfortunate experience of a second race of humans in your own solar system. Their planet was lost in a vast explosion and nothing remained but the desolate asteroids whirling around your sun."

By Christmas of 1976, Meier had found a more secluded residence to move his family to: a 50 acre farm that straddled both Kanton Zurich and Kanton Thurgau, near the village of Schmidruti, 30 minutes from Hinwil, Switzerland. Above the farm, at the top of a hill undercut by the road, sat a single military building, used as a barracks, and an underground rocket silo, which occasionally opened its doors and pushed into view a huge conventionally armed missile. 75 people lived in and around the small village; most of them were farmers. Visitors impressed by Meier and his teachings were impressed enough to raise enough money to fund a mortgage on a farm worth about $250,000. Any land in Switzerland is very costly with good farmland worth even more. In April, 1977, Meier and his family moved from Hinwil to Schmidruti.

1976 - By October,
Louise Zinsstag, wrote a concluding letter about Eduard Meier to several friends and associates , revealing her earlier prejudices and her conclusions about this man of mystery for her:

"I had heard about this extraordinary man long before I met him.
In the sixties, I refused to believe the rumours that Eduard Meier was a true contactee.
I rather looked at him for one of those numerous transmediums pretending to be in contact with space beings and spaceships, getting messages through trance. But at last, in 1976, I met him ... because he had sent me some extraordinarily good ufo photos. I now had a feeling that ... I had wronged the man.

Instead of meeting a sickly, soft-spoken invalid, as expected, we found him to be a person full of vigour and strength, very self-assured with a fantastic story to tell. ... to hear Eduard Meier talk was a real shock. (took us to) a set of fresh (ground circles), ... listened to his story ... heard him explain his approximately 300 photographs ... some funny instinct was giving me a kind of negative pulse, ...

I saw that his features were worn out and hard, and that he had cold and tired eyes ... but his voice was good and strong and healthy, and so were his movements. He was very adept in using his right arm (he had lost his left in a bus accident some years previous). His smile was sometimes disconcertingly friendly and pure, ...

... he told me about his girlfriend Semjase from the Pleiades.
At first I felt much sympathy with her for having contacted a poor handicapped man like Meier.
She seemed to be giving him some extremely interesting information on space and astronomy and to take him for a ride occasionally. (Later, I saw) part of his writings, 15 conversations with Semjase. They proved to be rather disappointing to me ... sounded faulty ... rather frightening ....

In 1976, Meier started to attack ... every religion in the world ... refuting the need for worship or belief in God ... sounded so superficial ... I liked him less and less, and stopped writing to him. ... He always liked meeting new people and was always polite ... I never talked to him about my objections ... His story and his films never failed to impress me. ... I found out that ... he was haunted by bad childhood memories, by his experiences at school, in a children's home, in the Foreign Legion, in jail, in hospitals ...

Due to his lack of diplomacy, prudence, and understanding, he lost some very good friends.
As he said, they were replaced immediately by newcomers, but there were some among his former friends who betrayed him and did a lot of damage to his image without his being aware of it. A lot of them even faked ufo photos, doing pictures on a windowpane, showing them around and telling everybody how easy this was. ... I, for one, am sure that Meier's photos are no fakes. ... To fake such extraordinary films anybody would need a lot of money, but obviously, (he) is a very poor man ....

... in due time Eduard Meier's pictures would come under heavy attack, because it has been the fashion for the last 2 years to declare all close-up shots, showing clear details, as fakes, by those researchers who pretend to know the most and to do their research in a purely scientific manner ... helpful in a conspiracy of defamation."

Louise Zinsstag's opinions and concerns mirror those of many who have gone before. Despite the truth which she believed was present in Meier's witness, she felt uncomfortable with him because he did not support the status quo: the same status quo that hypocritically pays lip service to truth and individuality and honesty - and then castigates people who unabashedly express the truth of their experiences and dares to expose the dark truth that hides behind many of humanity's figures of power and authority.

It is an equal hypocracy that declares that intelligence and cultural sophistication are the apex of human civilization while at the same time revealing prejudices against others because they have a physical handicap or refuse to play the psychological games of manipulation, passive-aggressive communication, deception, and surrender for the purpose of acceptance and power.

It is the same status quo, imprinted (brainwashed) from the earliest age to revere and subjugate themselves as individuals to human-centred institutions which eventually are revealed for the reality of the abuse, neglect and misdirection they have provided.

In Canada, in the 1980's, the reality about the "Little Immigrants", the children used help colonize Canada, yet who were worse treated than farm animals was acknowledged. Beginning in the early 1980's, also in Canada, incident after incident of Roman Catholic priests and nuns having sexually and physically abused scores of children left in their charge for education would be brought to light.

The abuses had continued for many decades, supported by the status quo which refused to question the human given god-like status afforded to a human institution whose leaders had to be sent to alcoholic dry-out sanatoriums like the one that existed in Georgina Township in southern Ontario. The reasons for rejection of Meier also rose from this ability to criticize the authorities on the basis of their reality to those who were addicted to follow their authority without question, never learning from the history such institutions held regarding the downfall of spiritual teachings, the desecration of rights and freedoms, the perpetuation of strife and conflict.

The fact that Meier had disheartening experiences which he remembered, did not justify reference to him as someone traumatized by such experiences. Indeed his sensitivity suggested his degree of awareness; his concern, his spirituality; his lack of desire for power, riches and acceptance - his honesty. Meier was one amongst many sacrificed past or present as evidence of human iniquities.

1976 - By October 8,
The C.D.C. Special Pathogens Branch had received a sample of Sister M.E.'s blood from the "Porton Down British National Microbiological Research Establishment".

It had arrived in cracked glass tubes packed in dry ice in a box and been received by C.D.C. virologist Patricia Webb. The virus infested blood had flowed out of the tubes to dry in a gooey black mass into the box.

Ms. Webb, then married to Johnson, retrieved some of the blood and tested it against monkey cells. Signs of cellular destruction were almost immediate. Viruses don't normally die: they just hibernate until the next host becomes available.

1976 - During the year,
St. Augustine Volcano, Alaska, produces a major eruption.

1976 - By October 11,
Sister E.R., from the Yambuku Mission Hospital in northern Zaire, fell ill.
She began to display the same symptoms as Sister M.E., whom she had accompanied from Yambuku to the Ngaliema Hospital in Kinshasa. She also was put into a private room and began to die.

On October 11, Mayinga N., a nurse who had been caring for Sister M.E. at the Ngaliema Hospital began to have headache and fatigue symptoms.

Coming from a poor and ambitious family, and having recently won a scholarship to a college in Europe, she rationalized that the symptoms were unimportant. Worried that if she became sick, she might not be able to travel abroad, she took off a few days to rest - and prepare her travel documentation. She spent most of October 12 waiting in the lineups at the Zairean foreign ministry, coping with the government bureaucracy.

1976 - On October 13 during the day,
Clint and Jane Chapin of French Gulch, near Redding, California, U.S.A., were working at their mine, the Mary Hazel mine where they had worked for over 40 years, an open pit mine with 5 gold veins and some iron. This was the third of at least 3 incidents.

After the incidents, Jane had dizzy spells and Clint became more lethargic than in the past and began putting on some weight.
(see also October 30, 1969 and December 27, 1977)

They suddenly felt something like a heat wave.
Both became ill, vomiting violently. The sky was overcast.
They neither heard nor smelled nor saw anything peculiar. A nuclear fallout cloud from an atomic test in Nevada might have been linked.

1976 - On October 13,
Mayinga N., a nurse at the Ngaliema Hospital, continued to feel ill.
She took a taxi to "Mama Yemo Hospital", the largest hospital in Kinshasa.
Now her headache had become severe and a slight stomach pain had increased considerably.
Mama Yemo was the hospital of last choice for the city's poor; it would often be overloaded with admissions, most of which would be concerned with the endemic malaria or with diseases of malnutrition or with cuts and minor fractures. With her basic symptoms of unease - a headache, stomach ache and tearful eyes - she may have simply been eventually given an injection for malaria and cautioned about being quarantined. There would not have been any space at the Mama Yemo.

Whether treated in this manner here or later, Mayinga next took a taxi to University Hospital. There, the doctor's fail to diagnose anything different. In desperation and increasing intensity of pain, she returns to her own Ngaliema Hospital to be admitted as a patient. She is put into a private room. A South African doctor, Margaretha Isacson, cares for her while wearing a military gas mask. In the tropical heat, the mask becomes unbearable and she eventually removes it. Isacson provided ice cubes to ease the sore throat, Valium to lessen the anxiety, and several blood transfusions to replace the blood which dripped away.

Near the end, Mayinga's heart began to beat fast as it attempted to both maintain adequate blood pressure and stay together. She had become withdrawn, tired and blank of expression. She died of heart failure.

News of the virus and what it was doing to people had travelled through the city streets into the bureaucracy and across diplomatic lines into Europe by one vector alone: gossip. When the news reached the offices of the "World Health Organization (WHO)" in Geneva, panic had already set in for the people of Kinshasa. Fears of the spread of a worldwide plague with such gruesome killing potential encouraged European governments to consider quarantining Zaire.

In response, President Mobutu Sese Seko, the leader of Zaire, quarantined the Ngaliema Hospital and the Bumba Zone with soldiers and roadblocks and orders to shoot any who tried to escape. Riverboat captains refused to stop within the Bumba area. Soon, there was no communication coming out of the region.

1976 - On October 13,
Frederick A. Murphy, a C.D.C. virologist and a leading electro microscope photographer, placed a droplet of Sister M.E.'s blood on a small viewing plate , let it dry, and placed it in the microscope. Startled, he found the sample packed with virus particles that looked like string.

Murphy had helped identify the "Marburg filovirus" earlier and immediately suspected this to be it.
He immediately considered that the lab was necessarily "hot" (highly contaminated) with the virus.
He left the room just long enough to get a container of Clorox bleach and returned to scrub the laboratory thoroughly with it.

Murphy then informed Patricia Webb who contacted her husband and head of the C.D.C. lab, Karl M. Johnson. She summoned him urgently and when he arrived the three proceded to try and classify the shapes of the virus. At 112,000 times magnification, examples of the virus exhibited shapes that looked like snakes, pigtails, bends, loops at the end of a long curve, and others.

On October 14, Patricia Webb ran more tests on the Ebola Zaire virus and found that it was unlike the Marburg virus, or any other known virus. Having isolated it as a new disease agent, Johnson named it Ebola, folowing the convention of naming viruses after the first locale in which they are found.

1976 - On October 16,
Karl M. Johnson, virologist and head of the C.D.C., and his colleagues, left Atlanta, Georgia for the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland on their way to Zaire and Sudan. One of the doctors panicked in Geneva and refused to go further. Years later, Johnson would acknowledge that he was "shit scared" of the virus. When he had reached Kinshasa, there was no news of the progress of the outbreak so anxiety mounted as to whether the virus might be or might have mutated into an airborne strain. Such a strain would be capable of "thinning" the human population by up to 90%.

Joel Breman, the other C.D.C. doctor travelling with Johnson, set out from Kishasa aboard the President's C-130 Buffalo troop transport, which had been outfitted like a palace - with a field exploration team bound for Bumba. The crew terrified, they urged the team out of the plane on landing and then immediately took off. With some financial incentive provided to the Bumba District local politician by the Belgian doctor on the team, several Land Rovers were made available and the team set off toward the Ebola River.

Historically experienced with smallpox epidemics, the village leaders had taken the precaution of isolating their villages with roadblocks until the epidemic was over. This made advancement through the area difficult for the medical team.

Reaching the Yambuku Hospital, the team discovered 3 surviving nuns and one priest together with several native nurses. All the hospital rooms had been cleaned up except for the worst: the obstetric ward. Infected mothers had given birth to infected stillborns there.

Surveilling the nearby villages, Breman came to the conclusion that the hospital had been a centre from which the epidemic had spread. Following a tradition learned from past smallpox epidemics, some of the villages had employed the strategy of a quarantine hut for the ill. A few were still dying; Breman believed that the worst had passed: most of those likely to die had already died. Electronic communications were not working so no word of the regional status could be broadcast out. About 10 days later, Breman and his team caught a passing plane out of Bumba.

During the first several weeks in Kinshasa, Johnson heard nothing from the field exploration team that had been sent out. Fearing the worst, he arranged for a floating hospital ship and had it moored in the Congo River. It was an isolation ship for doctors. The USA Army Airborne was alerted in the USA for the possibility of an airlift of the approximately 1,000 Americans living in or near Kinshasa at the time. The crisis never came. The virus seemed to mutate into a form no longer harmful to humans.

1976 - During this year,
Ronald Reagan, a former actor, TV pitchman, and California State Governor, became a serious candidate for USA president. It was the first time that such skills would be required to win in an election that now emphasized TV appearances and the new technological media.

The firm of "Spencer, Roberts and Associates", of California, was in the forefront of candidate packaging. Stewart Spencer worked for hard-pressed President Gerald Ford in the nomination race, against Reagan. On the Democratic side, Jimmy Carter had six advisors plus his wife directing his campaign. His ad manager spent more than $2,000,000 on TV spots placed in reruns of such well-stereotyped shows as those of Andy Griffith and Lawrence Welk.

1976 - By November,
UFO interest organizations were defeating their goal through pride, envy, greed.

The Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) of Tucson, Arizona, and the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) of Sequin, Texas became the largest organizations in the wake of NICAP's closure. Both organizations had scientists and experts in their membership which lent prestige and credibility to their activities, yet most of the work was done by untrained interviewers and armchair educated researchers who poorly collected information on sightings.

Since the viability of each of many organizations at this time relied entirely on the dues brought in, ... stories, photos and reports gathered by one organization were often jealously concealed from others. Discoveries were concealed as long as possible within the membership and newsletters and forums became an avenue for attacking other groups or their representatives. Emotions ran high and accusations were sometimes vicious. Many ufologists, so-called, automatically dismissed contact cases, especially claims of repeated contact.

1976 - By November,
Har Gobind Khorana, and Indian-born biologist working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and his group of researchers had put together a gene out of shelf chemical that actually did its work as a gene when implanted in a bacterial cell.

In 1970, Khorana had synthesized the first complete gene, a yeast gene involving a stretch of DNA 77 base pairs long. The new gene had the crucial "start" and "stop" signals that, in a living cell, make a gene function. The gene was a linear sequence of 199 components - all involving a combination of the 4 ingredients of the genetic code (AGTC).

This would open the field of biotechnology.
Now, new possibilities would exist: Viruses could be made more lethal, or, harmless; human genetic diseases might be eliminated; modified lifeforms might clean the Earth's environment of pests and toxins, or, magnify current problems; new lifeforms might assist in the survival of humanity, or, destroy it. Cell fusion of human and mouse cells had been pioneered in 1967.

1976 - On November 5, at 8.08 P.M.,
Near Grenoble, France, Miss M., who was watching television at her home in the town of Rives, near Grenoble, saw a bright light outside and called her father. Both went outside on the balcony and observed an intense white source crossing the sky at high speed from northwest to southeast, disappearing behind the mountains in the direction of Montane. The father stated that the light appeared to be spinning.

A French physicist was driving seven miles away, at the same time, near Voreppe on the road that goes from Rives to Grenoble. Looking up, he saw a luminous disk moving in the sky. Stopping the car to look, the disk, was brighter than the full moon, slightly flattened and had an angular diameter about 12 arc minutes (the full moon has an angular diameter of about 30 minutes).

The object was white in the centre and bluish-white at the periphery.
It was surrounded by an intense green halo about 2 or 3 arc minutes thick.
He observed it flying at a constant speed for about eight seconds after which it stopped, hovered for 3 to 10 seconds, then started again in a different direction, 30 degrees away from the previous course, at much greater speed. The whole sighting had lasted 20 to 25 seconds during which time there was no noise from it. The sky was clear, with no wind at ground level.

At about the same time, a witness near Vienna saw a slightly flattened sphere, whose light was similar to that of a very bright neon tube, with a fiery red-orange area underneath. It was flying at an altitude of 1,500 to 2,500 feet, at a speed of 3,600 mph, and had a diameter of between 6 and 20 feet. The halo reminding him, on further questioning, of the color produced by the combustion of copper salts. The doctor, a director of a nuclear physics laboratory, did not mention the sighting to his colleagues and it was only when the observation by Miss M. and her father was mentioned in the newspapers that he volunteered his own experience.

A bright disk was seen 2 hours later by the civilian air traffic control positioned in the tower of the military airport at Aulnat.

1976 - By December,
Ground Saucer Watch (GSW) of Phoenix, had analyzed 10 of Eduard Meier's photos for authenticity, sent to them by a West German researcher.

They reported:
"All of the pictures are hoaxes and they should not be considered evidence of an extraordinary flying craft." Nearly every method of photo fakery possible had allegedly been employed by one-armed Meier - a suspended model, the double exposure technique, the double print method. The West German UFO group immediately ceased their investigation of the Meier case and relayed this disinformation to many other interested individuals.

No one investigated the analysis techniques of GSW until 1978 when Jim Dilettoso discovered that this supposed scientific group using sophisticated computer techniques "were playing with toys", had no structured approach in their analysis, and were deceiving the public with grossly inaccurate conclusions. The public had bought the GSW disinformation for more than 4 years by then based on their educated reverence for anything "computerized".

Just as the reputation and validity of Meier's work was destroyed in the perceptions of many, so also was that of many others, needlessly - due to human pride, weakness for the dramatic, expectation of the negative, envy and greed. No spiritual approach here to investigation, let alone scientific.

1976 - By December,
Pope Paul VI had increased the number of cardinals in the Roman Catholic Church from 101 to 136.
He had increased the number from 70 to 101 in 1965.
Until that time the number had remained 70 according to an interpretation of the Bible.

1976 - On December 27 at 11.00 A.M.,
Clint and Jane Chapin of French Gulch, near Redding, California, U.S.A., were driving up the road with a dead parakeet they were taking to a site where they bury dead animals. There was ice on the highway, so Clint stopped the truck and walked ahead. Suddenly he yelled "Jane! Bring the gun!"

She jumped out and started running only to seem to hit an invisible wall.
She fell to the ground while Clint was thrown back against the side of the road, one arm pinned behind him. Both lost consciousness for about 15 minutes. When they came to they found they both had urinated. Clint remembers an object shaped like a half-egg standing up, which took off rapidly. They drove home immediately, feeling very sick and cold.

Clint suffered a dislocated shoulder and for a time afterwards he walked with his left arm noticeably out of place. He frequently held the arm later with his right hand. He and Jane had worked the Mary Hazel mine for 46 years, an open pit mine with 5 gold veins and some iron. This was the second of at least 3 incidents. After the incidents, Jane had dizzy spells and Clint became more lethargic than in the past and began putting on some weight.
(see also October 30, 1969 and October 13, 1977)

1976 - 1987
(+/-) Soviet Navy underwater studies - bright sphere (Arctic Ocean)

1976 - 1987
(+/-) Soviet Navy U/W studies - vertical cylinder (Pacific Ocean)