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Georgian Says Fight for UFO Disclosure is `Cosmic' Rights Movement
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BEACHTON, Ga. (AP) _ Ed Komarek says he's fighting for the
rights of the human race when he stages demonstrations demanding full disclosure of U.S. government files on UFOs.
``This is a cosmic civil rights movement,'' said Komarek, a land investor from rural Grady County, just west of Thomasville in south Georgia. ``We are being kept from knowing the totality of our own existence and the existence of the rest of the universe around us.''
Komarek, 43, led a demonstration in front of the White House last month that attracted national media attention, although the reporters outnumbered his 45 marchers.
He is co-founder of Operation Right to Know, a UFO activist group of about 200 members. He believes the government is withholding evidence _ documents, crash debris, even extraterrestrial crash victims _ that would prove visits by intelligent life from other planets.
``What's important is not whether you believe or disbelieve.
What's important is that you become informed,'' he said.
Komarek said he had his first encounter with a UFO in 1992, but he was convinced that extraterrestrials existed even before that.
The night of his first sighting, he had been working north of Cairo, the Grady County seat, he said.
``It came in as a bright red light with purple in the middle.
... It came in from the east going toward the west,'' Komarek said.
``As it slowed down, the bright red light got dimmer. ... When it was hovering, there was no sound. It was hovering just over the treetops. Then it started to accelerate, and the red light got brighter and brighter.''
Acquaintances have told him they have been abducted or have had regular contact with extraterrestrials, he said, adding that he gets reports of UFO sightings near his home about once a week.
W.C. Poppell, 56, of Whigham, west of Cairo, said he and his wife were returning home from a visit with neighbors in 1961 when a flying craft passed over their car, and the ignition immediately cut off.
The craft returned later, he said, hovering over his driveway for about 45 seconds. Suddenly, it flew west at ``unbelievable speed,'' Poppell said. ``It was like a flash and it was gone.''
Philip Klass, former editor of Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine, has written four books on UFOs and is a member of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal.
Klass said he always looks for common explanations for uncommon events like UFO sightings.
``The problem with people like Ed (Komarek) and many others is they don't want to find prosaic explanations, or they're too lazy to dig,'' he said.
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BEACHTON, Ga. (AP) _ Disclosure of U.S. government files on UFOs is more than a personal interest to Ed Komarek. It's part of a ``cosmic civil rights movement.''
``We are being kept from knowing the totality of our own existence and the existence of the rest of the universe around us,'' said Komarek, a land investor from Grady County in southwest Georgia.
Komarek, 43, is co-founder of Operation Right to Know, a UFO activist group of about 200 members. He believes the government is withholding evidence _ documents, crash debris, even extraterrestrial crash victims _ that would prove visits by intelligent life from other planets.
Komarek led a demonstration in front of the White House last month that attracted national media attention, although the reporters outnumbered his 45 marchers.
``What's important is not whether you believe or disbelieve.
What's important is that you become informed,'' he said.
Komarek said he had his first encounter with a UFO in 1992, but he was convinced before that that extraterrestrials existed.
The night of his first sighting, he had been working north of Cairo, the Grady County seat, he said.
``It came in as a bright red light with purple in the middle.
... It came in from the east going toward the west,'' Komarek said.
``As it slowed down, the bright red light got dimmer. ... When it was hovering, there was no sound. It was hovering just over the treetops. Then it started to accelerate, and the red light got brighter and brighter.''
Acquaintances have told him they have been abducted or have had regular contact with extraterrestrials, he said, adding that he gets reports of UFO sightings near his home about once a week.
W.C. Poppell, 56, of Whigham, west of Cairo, said he and his wife were returning home from a visit with neighbors in 1961 when a flying craft passed over their car, and the ignition immediately cut off.
The craft returned later, he said, hovering over his driveway for about 45 seconds. Suddenly, it flew west at ``unbelievable speed,'' Poppell said. ``It was like a flash and it was gone.''
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BELLEVUE, Wash. (AP) _ Many people feel they'll be branded as flakes if others know about their interest or experience with UFOs.
She says she has had continuing contact with UFOs ever since she was a young girl growing up on her family's farm in Denver. Her parents dismissed curious flying discs as part of a Russian spy mission. ``I believe certain people in certain families are tracked,'' Childs said.
John Carpenter, a psychiatric social worker from Springfield, Mo., said cases like Childs' aren't uncommon. He said he has treated more than 80 people who, under hypnosis, have revealed details of alien abductions. Carpenter said the people react much the same way they would to a movie.
``They each have different reactions to the experience,'' he said. ``That's natural human behavior.'' Carpenter and Childs, co-director of the Washington state branch of the Mutual UFO Network Inc., were two of the participants at the weekend UFO research conference in Bellevue.
The two-day conference _ organized by TRIAD, a Missouri-based research group _ presented UFO enthusiasts and skeptics with a chance to learn more about a subject that goes far beyond the outer limits.
An architect offered theories about possible life on Mars. A psychiatrist talked about his case studies of people who, under hypnosis, revealed details of alien abductions. Two journalists accused the U.S. government of hiding information about hidden alien spacecraft.
Denise Carpenter, one of TRIAD's three partners, said 10 to 12 more UFO conferences are planned within the next year. She said group would like to overcome common stereotypes associated with unexplained phenomena.
``We think it's important to bring the scientific community together with the public,'' she said. ``This is not a Trekkie convention. These are intelligent people asking intelligent questions.''
Conference organizers expected about 300 participants. They said about 200 had registered by about mid-day Saturday.
Some who attended the first day were impressed. Others remained unconvinced that extraterrestrial beings visit earth.
``I think it's all open to debate,'' said one Seattle woman. ``If anybody really knows, we wouldn't be having these conferences.''
The woman wished to remain unidentified. ``I'm an educator, and if anyone knew I was here ...'' she said with a roll of the eyes.
Ocean Shore residents Ruth and Dave Sharp were happy to be at the conference.
``I think it's just the most exciting thing,'' Ruth said. ``Most people look at people who have an interest in UFO's as kooky, but I think it's one of the most important scientific issues facing us.''
John Carpenter said he has documented studies of multiple abductions, where more than one person is involved. Under hypnosis, the people relate the same story, detail for detail.
These aren't people looking to gain attention, he said. ``They don't show up saying they were abducted by aliens. They just want to know why they can't sleep and why they continue to have panic attacks.''
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THERE HAVE BEEN RECENT "UFO" SIGHTINGS IN NOBLE COUNTY BY A NUMBER OF PEOPLE INCLUDING LOCAL POLICE OFFICERS. ONE PERSON SHOT VIDEO OF THE SIGHTING LAST MONTH. THE NATIONAL GUARD AND LOCAL AIRPORTS REPORTED THAT THERE WEREN'T AIRCRAFT PRESENT WHEN THE UFO WAS SEEN ON TUESDAY NIGHT.
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BELLEVUE, Wash. (AP) _ Don't remember ever being abducted by aliens? That doesn't mean it didn't happen.
In fact, researchers gathering here this weekend say tens of thousands of Americans have been whisked away by UFOs and returned.
Many are left with no conscious memory of the encounter, they said.
John Carpenter, a hypnotherapist from Springfield, Mo., plans to discuss his studies of more than 80 people who, he says, under hypnosis have recalled details of their abduction by alien beings.
Alien abduction, extraterrestrial mutilation of cattle and federal government capture of UFOs are among the theories that will be discussed during the conference Saturday and Sunday at the Bellevue Hyatt Regency.
Organizers say the gathering will attract not only believers but professionals, scholars and scientists. ``We know there are screwballs out there, people who claim all sorts of crazy things,'' Carpenter said. ``But these are quality speakers with good research, not anything built on speculation.''
Among his clients was Skye Ambrose, a St. Louis-area woman who initially knew she and a friend saw a bright light while driving along a Colorado highway. Later, the two couldn't account for a two-hour period of time.
``She didn't have any knowledge about UFOs. But she couldn't sleep at night. She was anxious and she just wanted to get to the bottom of this,'' Carpenter said.
Carpenter said he separately hypnotized both Ambrose and her friend. They each gave 43 identical details of what happened to them, including the shape of the spacecraft _ round _ and the color of the light inside _ rosy.
Both said the beings had pear-shaped heads with dark, slanting eyes, he said. Ambrose, who will speak at the weekend conference, said she now remembers those details.
``I rarely think back on the physical experience. To me, that's the least important part of it,'' she said. More important, she said, is the ongoing mind-to-mind communication she has with the beings she encountered.
``It's telepathic, and I don't even know how to explain it,''
she said. The two-day conference is sponsored by the Missouri-based Triad Research Conference Foundation.
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WASHINGTON (AP) Reporters outnumbered 45 demonstrators outside the White House callling on the government to release all records pertaining to UFO investigations.
The demonstration Monday was by "Operation Right to Know" a group that believes the government is withholding 20,000 pages of documents that proves the existence of Unidentified Flying Objects, including the retrieval of a crashed flying saucer in New Mexico in 1947.
"This demonstration is more important than any demonstration ever held in Washington, D.C." said Hal McKenzle, an organizer from Maryland. "This one affects everyone. We are here to let the world know and here to tell the government: No more lies."
A similar demonstration last year drew only two participants, McKenzie and Ed Komarek, who came to Washington from his farm in Grady County, Ga.
Komarek likened the cause Monday to the civil rights movement , which also got started with demonstrations? "We are not here to tell what to believe," he said. "We just want to get them information."
The pickets attracted little attention, partly because it was so hot: that only true believers and reporters would venture out in merciless heat. President Clinton was in San Francisca , en rovte to the economic summit in Tokyo.
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THE SPHERES, WHICH ISHENKO GUESSED TO BE UFOS, WERE NOT VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE, BUT COULD BE VIEWED ON THE FILM OF THE CAMERA OR THROUGH THE CAMERA'S OBJECTIVE. THE NEGATIVES AND THE PRINTS WILL BE TAKEN TO EXPERTS WHO WILL DETERMINE WHAT THESE SPHERES WERE.
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