UFO Review issue 03.pdf

U F O R E V I E W

The Truth is, no one’s got a clue what the hell is going on.

July 2004

£2.50 printed

Number 3

Crop Circles Created by Hostile Aliens!

THIS ISSUE

Welcome

Your editor warbles Page 3

Mars Tonic

Interview with Mac Tonnies about the Face on Mars,

those artefacts up there, and that little bunny. Page 5

Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus: So

Where Does That Leave Ufology?

Sheryl Gottschall examines the gender differences in

relation to Ufology. Page 19

Ufology Dead!

Oh yes it is. Our ace reporter Dam Acne does his thing. Page 21

UFO Review Publication Service

U.S. magazine offer from UFO Review Page 22

Faded Discs

Interview with Wendy Connors about her mission to

keep alive Ufological historical recordings. Page 26

Bigfoot Seen In Yellowstone National Park

Our reporter Dam Acne follows up on a strange encounter

in the National Park. Page 37

Does NASA Deliberately Alter SOHO Data?

We welcome Kithra to our humble publication as

the lady puts forward a very solid argument Page 39

Alien Excrement On E-Bay

Some idiot thought it would be funny. Page 57

Relativity and The Lakes Of Titan

Andrew Pike looks at the Cassinni Page 60

Net Review

A series of seven articles from the Internet that

have caught my eye this past month. Page 65

97 pages of fun filled, frolicsome, wholesome entertainment.

IN THIS ISSUE

Welcome

At last you should be seeing some changes to the way this magazine presents

itself. The first is a more solid and slightly prettier web site from which we can

build and expand. One of the principal alterations is that we are moving the

News Leads section from the rear of the magazine to the web site itself and we

will update this section on a daily basis. It means we can deliver breaking

newspaper or magazine articles immediately as opposed to you having to wait

a month if you’ve missed them elsewhere. On that basis then it’s worth

dropping in each day or every other day just to keep up with what’s happening.

We’ve also finally settled on a means of delivery and for the time being the

magazine will be available principally as a PDF download. Of course this option

was available to me right from the start but I was never that keen on Acrobat

etc. My previous experience of it was that it could be tiresome to download and

not very smooth in its delivery. But my worries have been assuaged and I am

happy with what is going on. If I wasn’t, we’d be doing it another way.

There is also an interesting new offer starting inside this edition. I’d like to

have said “exciting new offer” but that’s a bit old hat and boring so

“interesting” it is. If you look to the left of the screen, one of the buttons you

should see will be marked “Purchase Other Magazines”. No, stop it, don’t press

it now. Be patient. What’s there is contained in this issue of Review anyway

although as I write this, I’m not sure on which page yet. In essence, it is a

facility for UK and European readers to buy magazines not easily available

here. As you’ll see when you get there, we’re starting off with Fate magazine

and we’ll introduce and add other publications as time goes on. What profits

this may generate will be ploughed back in to UFO Review to fund two further

ideas I have, all, needless to say, for the benefit of our readers. Gee, what a

fabulous person I am.

Promotion and publicising of the magazine has also, so far, been near non-

existent. That will also begin to change quite soon too.

As you may have gathered if you don’t live in the UK, some of us over here are

pretty sore about the continuing negative treatment Ufology gets in our

national press. “It’s all over”, “It’s dead” etc. etc. are all we ever seem to hear.

If you then couple this with often inaccurate reporting and stifled rights of

reply, then it can get pretty frustrating.

Dr. David Clarke, who, amongst other things is also a journalist in Sheffield,

recently put the other side of the argument as seen from the journalist’s

perspective. I’m paraphrasing just part of his response but in affect, we’re all

looked upon as loonies. Dodgy so and so’s, given to wild exaggeration. And if

we’re honest, are they wrong?

I suspect the answer is some of the time they’re right and some of the time

they’re not. So what can we do to get a fairer press in the UK? No easy answer,

obviously but I suspect the way lies more with individuals than with a collective

effort. Graham Birdsall for example had excellent connections with the press

and was looked upon as a sound, reliable, levelheaded individual who

understood how the media worked. He rarely had to chase them – they came a

knocking on his door. So there it is then. We need another Graham.

And while we wait for the next Messiah, what can the rest of us do? Well, some

of us could begin acting more responsibly for a start. After the last newspaper

“attack” in The Guardian, Joe McGonagle (I’ll have to stop mentioning him in

this section) wrote a letter to the editor in response to the piece. Not very hard

hitting but nevertheless, he made his point. My response to the article? I rang

The Guardian up and asked them if they were interested in a story about alien

shit! (full story page 57)

So what do I have to say in my defence? Is there a defence? Of course there is.

Err, it was a laugh, a joke, we take ourselves too seriously in ufology etc. etc.

FYI, I have asked a pal of mine, on the next occasion when I have another

“bright” idea, to just gently lead me into a special room in my house that I have

had constructed, with a comfortable bed and padding on the walls, and to lock

me in for a few hours until I start talking sense again. Could be a long wait in

that room.

I am taking a pre-booked holiday from the middle to the end of July. At this

moment, I am not sure therefore if there will be an August issue. I will do my

best to try and get one out. As usual, watch the usual message boards etc.

If not, definitely back in September.

Mars Tonic

A somewhat futuristic impression of Mac Tonnies

There are countless web sites about Mars and countless pundits who hold

themselves up as experts on the planet. Not all of them though get to publish

books, at least not books published by one of the largest houses in the world.

Simon and Schuster are in the business of making money, something they

seem to do quite well, so if their judgement is to give a particular author a

platform, then you can assume that that author has something pertinent to say

which will be of interest to many. They have given such a platform to Mac

Tonnies.

Mac has been running his own web site about the planet for some time now

http://www.mactonnies.com/cydonia.html , from which he offers considered

and insightful opinion on the subject of developmental research and discovery

on Mars. Many people have come to value his well thought-out and measured

analysis and his reputation has grown significantly over the last few years as

someone who can be relied upon for soundness and common sense, a trait that

separates him from the more extreme protagonists in the field. He was kind

enough to give me some time recently and we spoke at length, not just about

the book but also about exactly what’s going on up there. This interview took

place on June 17th. 2004.

SM: Reading through the introduction to the book, the one key point that

seems to stand out in relation to your initial interest was the Face.

MT: Yes, that was the catalyst, although there’s more to it than the Face. But it

does catch the attention -- which may or may not have been the purpose of

making it, if it is in fact made.

SM: When you say it’s not the only thing, are you talking about the traces of

possible artefacts and other evidence?

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