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Liquidation Of The UFO Investigators
By Prof. G. Cope Schellhorn
4-12-5
Death by gunshot to the head. Death by probable poisoning. Death by
probable strangulation. Deaths possibly by implantation of deadly
viruses. No one lives former. Yet the recent suspicious deaths of
UFO investigators Phil Schneider, Ron Johnson, Con Routine, Ann
Livingston and Karla Turner, as well as the deaths of a host of
researchers in the past, only seem to add emphasis to a reality
with which many of the more aware UFOIogists are now quite
familiar: not only is UFO research potentially dangerous, but the
life span of the average serious investigator falls far short of
the national average.
Mysterious and suspicious deaths among UFO investigators are
nothing new. In 1971, the well-known author and researcher Otto
Binder wrote an article for Saga magazine's Special UFO Report
titled "Liquidation of the UFO Investigators:' Binder had
researched the deaths of "no less than 137 flying saucer
researchers, writers, scientists, and witnesses' who had died in
the previous 10 years, "many under the most mysterious
circumstances."
The late astronomer Dr. M.K. Jessup was the first to reveal details
of the Philadelphia Experiment-he died a few months later.
The selected cases Binder offered were loaded with a plethora of
alleged heart attacks, suspicious cancers and what appears to be
outright examples of murder. We will have occasion to refer to many
of these cases, but first let us take a look at more recent
evidence of highly suspect deaths among present day
researchers.
Phil Schneider
No one has shook up more of those who have been following UFO fact
and rumor the past low years than Phil Schneider. Schneider died
January 17, 1996, reportedly strangled by a catheter found wrapped
around his neck. If the circumstances of his death seem highly
controversial, they are matched by the controversy over his public
statements uttered recently before his death.
Dr. James McDonald tried to convince Congress to look into the UFO
situation. He died after shooting himself a short while
later.
Phil Schneider was a self-taught geologist and explosive expert. Of
the 129 deep underground facilities Schneider believed the U.S.
government had constructed since World War II, he claimed to have
worked on 13. Two of these bases were major, including the much
rumored bioengineering facility at Dulce, N.M. At Dulce. Schneider
maintained, "grey" - humanoid extraterrestrials worked side by side
with American technicians. In 1979, a misunderstanding arose. In
the ensuing shootout, 66 Secret Service, FBI and Black Berets were
killed along with an unspecified number of "greys. It was here he
received a beam-weapon blast to the chest which caused his later
cancer.
If Schneider is telling the truth, he obviously broke the code of
imposed silence to which all major black-budget personnel are
subjected. The penalty for that misstep is presumably termination.
Schneider in fact maintained that numerous previous attempts had
been made on his life, including the removal of lug nuts from one
of the front wheels of his automobile. He had stated publicly he
was a marked man and did not expect to live long. Some of
Schneider's more major accusations are worthy of attention:
(1) The American government concluded a treaty with "grey" aliens
in 1954. This mutual cooperation pack is called the Grenada
Treaty.
(2) The space shuttle has been shuttling in special metals. A
vacuum atmosphere is needed for the rending of these special
alloys, thus the push for a large space station.
(3) Much of our stealth aircraft technology was developed by
back-engineering crashed ET craft.
(4) AIDS was a population control virus invented by the National
Ordinance Laboratory, Chicago, Illinois.
(5) Unbeknownst to just about everyone, our government has an
earthquake device: The Kobe quake had no pulse wave; the 1989 San
Francisco quake had no pulse wave.
(6) The World Trade Center bomb blast and the Oklahoma City blast
were achieved using small nuclear devices. The melting and pitting
of the concrete and the extrusion of metal supporting rods
indicated this. (Remember, Schneider's forte, he claimed, was
explosives.)
Finally, Phil Schneider lamented that the democracy he loved no
longer existed. We had become instead a technocracy ruled by a
shadow government intent on imposing their own view of things on
all of us, whether we like it or not. He believed 11 of his best
friends had been murdered in the last 22 years, eight of whom had
been officially disposed of as suicides.
Ivan T. Sanderson passed away unexpectedly. He was head of a major
UFO/paranormal group!
Whatever we think of Phil Schneider's claims, there is no denying
that he was of peculiar interest to the FBI and CIA. According to
his widow, intelligence agents thoroughly searched the premises
shortly after his death and made off with at least a third of the
family photographs.
Ron Rummel
Another recent disturbing case is the death of Ron Rummel, ex-air
force intelligence agent and publisher of the Alien Digest, on
August 6, 1993. Rummel allegedly shot himself in the mouth with a
pistol. Friends say, however, that no blood was found on the pistol
barrel and the handle of the weapon was free of fingerprints. Also,
according to information now circulating, the suicide note left by
the deceased was written by a left-handed person. Rummel was
right-handed. Perspiration on the body smelled like sodium
pentathol, or so it is alleged.
The Alien Digest ran to seven limited issues, all now almost
impossible to acquire. One thing is certain. Ron Rummel's magazine
was touching on sensitive issues such as the predator/prey aspect
of the alien/human relationship and the use of humans as food and
recyclable body parts. Did Rummel cross a forbidden line? It would
seem so. But which line, and where? Interestingly enough, one of
Rummel's friends was Phil Schneider, and the two had been
collaborating.
Ron Johnson
An equally disturbing and more recent death is that of Ron
(Jerrold) Johnson, at the time MUFON's Deputy Director of
Investigations. Johnson was 43 years old and, it would seem, in
excellent health. He had just passed a recent physical examination
with the proverbial flying colors. However, on June 9, 1994, while
attending a Society of Scientific Exploration meeting in Austin,
Texas, Johnson died quickly and amid very strange circumstances.
During a slide show, several people sitting close to him heard a
gasp. When the lights were turned back on, Johnson was slumped over
in his chair, his face purple, blood oozing from his nose. A soda
can, from which he had been sipping, was sitting on the chair next
to him. Did Ron Johnson die of a stroke? Possibly. An allergic
reaction? Another possibility.
Some of the more outstanding facts of Ron Johnson's life might
easily lead a more skeptical-minded person to a tentative
conclusion that his death was probably neither accidental nor
natural. For instance, his most recent job was with the Institute
of Advanced Studies, purportedly working on UFO propulsion systems.
He had been formerly employed by Earth Tech, Inc., a private
Austin, Texas, think tank headed by Harold Puthoff. It would appear
he held high security clearances, traveled frequently between San
Antonio and White Sands, and had attended 2 secret NATO meetings in
the last year or so. One of those meetings, it is rumored dealt
with ET communications.
Although advanced in years, there are some who believe that Dr.
Hynek's death was because of "strange circumstances," due to the
high number of researchers who have died of brain tumors or cancer.
If all or most of the facts offered above are accurate, one thing
seems obvious: Johnson was walking both sides of the street. This
in itself was highly dangerous, and he may have paid the ultimate
price in an attempt to serve more than one master.
As for exactly what killed Ron Johnson, a number of possibilities
beyond natural ones present themselves. It is quite easy in this
day and age to induce strokes through chemicals or pulsed
radiation. It is just as easy, and has been for some time, to
induce heart attacks and other physical debilitations, such as
fast-acting cancers. The best bet is that Ron Johnson was
eliminated by a quick-acting toxin, perhaps a nerve agent. As for
exactly why he was killed, we will probably never know. The
autopsy, somewhat ludicrously, has been officially classified as
inconclusive.
Ann Livingston
As a side note, a nurse returning home from Austin shortly after
Johnson's death reported a similar death-situation aboard her
plane. When she tried to move rearward to offer her assistance, she
was forcefully restrained from doing so. Could it be, one wonders,
that some agent, through an accident, was the victim of his own
machinations? The idea strikes a nice note of poetic justice, if in
fact that were the scenario.
Another death involving elements of high strangeness is that of Ann
Livingston, who died in early 1994 of a fast-form of ovarian
cancer. Livingston made her living as an accountant, but she was
also a MUFON investigator and had in fact, published an article
entitled *"Electronic Harassment and Alien Abductions" in the
November 1993 MUFON Journal.
The article was highly critical of Julianne McKinney, director of
the Electronic Surveillance Project of the Association of National
Security Alumni. McKinney discounts UFO phenomena, believing that
what passes for such is most often one kind of governmental ploy or
another, whether in the form of experimental machinery or
experimental psychology.
Some facts which seem relevant to the case stand out. At 7:15 AM,
December 29th 1992, Livingston's apartment close to O'Hare airport,
in Chicago, Illinois, was lit up brightly by a silver white flash.
She was accosted later in the day while in her apartment parking
lot by 5 MIBs (Men in Black) which she described as being almost
faceless and carrying long, flashlight-like black objects. She was
rendered unconscious. What, we must ask, assuming her story is
true, was done to her at this time, and why? And did it have
anything to do with her later rapidly-advancing ovarian
cancer?
It is not a well-known fact that Ann Livingston had been previously
abducted. Her friend, Fran Heiser, has stated that Ann Livingston
had met two handsome people, a man and woman, on an earlier trip to
Mexico. To Livingston's surprise, the man told her that the
attractive young lady she was meeting was in fact her
daughter.
Karla Turner
Could genital intrusions from past UFO abductions have poisoned in
some way Ann Livingston's system? That is exactly the suspicion
Karla Turner (author of Masquerade of Angels, Taken, and Into the
Fringe) had about the breast cancer that preceded her death during
the summer of 1996. Both publicly and privately, Karla Turner held
up the specter of alien retaliation for statements she made in
print, especially in Masquerade of Angels. How much her suspicions
were founded in reality we will probably never know. (A good site
on Karla Turner is UFO Investigator Dr. Karla Turner)
Who or what is killing UFO investigators now and in the past?
Probably some of the deaths presented here-that look at first
glance so suspicious---are in fact natural or accidental or
self-inflicted because of stress or mental imbalances. But, as Otto
Binder noted more than 25 years ago, there are so many. Pure common
sense, and good logic, should lead us to believe that the high
incidence of premature death in a field which has a limited number
of investigators is very disproportionate compared to the
population at large.
Spider Web of Causes
What we may have IS a concatenation, a spider web, of interweaving
threads which are causal and often, in fact, deadly. One thread is
the activities of the US (and other) intelligence agencies. Another
thread is possible ET involvement. A third thread is the
involvement of certain PSI-tech think tanks and private PSI/PK
practitioners, including negative occultists. A possible fourth
thread is highly reactionary religious cults which feel they are
carrying out the will of God. It is more than likely that one or
more or all of the above agencies are responsible in whole or in
part for many of the deaths from the recent past, which have
already been mentioned and many of those remaining cases from the
present to the more distant past, some of which we will now
explore.
Danny Casolaro
Danny Casolaro, an investigative reporter looking into the theft of
Project Promise software, a program capable of tracking down anyone
anywhere in the world, died in 1991, a reported suicide. Casolaro
was also investigating several UFO "NO-Nos" Pine Gap, Area 51 and
governmental bioengineering.
Mae Brussell
Not long ago, Mae Brussell, a gutsy, no-holds-barred, investigative
radio host died of a fast-acting cancer just like Ann Livingston
and Karla Turner. Brussell was acutely interested in UFOlogy.
Deck Slayton
Deck Slayton, the astronaut, was purportedly ready to talk about
his UFO experiences, but cancer also intervened.
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch, young psychic and contactee, died in 1985, purportedly
of a drug overdose. According to Lynch's sister, Geraldine, Brian
was approached approximately a year before his death by an
intelligence operative working for an Austin, Texas, PSI-tech
company. Geraldine said they told Brian they were experimenting on
psychic warfare techniques. After his death, a note in his personal
effects was found with the words "Five million from Pentagon for
Project Scanate."
Capt. Don Elkin
In the '80s Eastern Airlines pilot Capt. Don Elkin committed
suicide. He had been investigating the UFO cover up for over 10
years and, at the time, was deep into the study of the Ra material
with ('aria Rucker. There are reports of negative psychological
interferences having developed during this latter
investigation.
Bizarre Death of Scientists
Certainly nothing is stranger, and breeds speculation more quickly,
than the 30-some-odd deaths associated with SDI (Star Wars)
research at Marconi Ltd. in England between approximately
1985-1988. Here in capsulated form is a list of a few of the more
bizarre deaths:
Roger Hill, a designer at Marconi Defense Systems, allegedly
commits suicide with a shotgun, March 1985.
Jonathan Walsh, a digital communications expert employed by GEC,
Marconi's parent firm, falls from his hotel room, November 1985,
after expressing fear for his life.
Ashad Sharif, another Marconi scientist, reportedly tied a rope
around his neck, and then to a tree, in October 1986, got behind
the wheel of his car and stepped on the gas with predictable
results.
In March of 1988, Trevor Knight, also associated with Marconi, died
of carbon monoxide poisoning in his car.
Peter Ferry, marketing director of the firm, was found shocked to
death with electrical leads in his mouth (August 1988).
Also during the same month of the same year, Alistair Beckham was
found shocked to death with electric leads attached to his body and
his mouth stuffed with a handkerchief. He was an engineer with the
allied firm of Plessey Defense Systems.
And, finally, but by no means the sole remaining death in this
unique cluster, Andrew Hall was found dead in September of 1988 of
carbon monoxide poisoning.
What, you may be asking, does SDI research have to do with the
deaths of UFO investigators? Theoretically, quite a lot. If, as
many investigators have hypothesized, Star Wars research was
initiated with the dual purpose of protecting "us" against Soviet
aggression and/or the presence of UFO craft in our atmosphere, then
several possibilities arise. Most compelling is the idea that the
soviet KGB, realizing that the Western powers were on the verge of
perfecting a high-powered beam-weapon that could be used from outer
space or atmospheric space against them, marshaled a last-gasp,
all-out espionage offensive to slow or destroy the project. If this
scenario is true, and the weapon was indeed successfully developed,
we have an explanation for the collapse of the Soviet Union
("Surrender or you might be incinerated").
Other explanations have been offered. For example, scientists
working on the project discovered the true nature of the research
they were involved with and the overwhelming stress led them to
suicide. Or they discovered that their real collaborators were
"greys," or Western politicians working with/for grey aliens. One
thing seems obvious. Something went terribly wrong at Marconi.
Scientists usually don't commit the kinds of bizarre,
"unscientific" suicides we find here.
One other possibility is that a contingent of unfriendly ETs got
wind of what GEC and Marconi and its affiliates were up to and, to
protect themselves, created enough psychic trauma within the minds
of many of the scientists to drive them to suicide. But if this is
so, why have the deaths stopped? Has the project been shelved?
Highly unlikely. The best bet is that the project was completed,
roughly about 1988, and whatever it is, beam-weapon or otherwise,
it is now operational.
Certainly neither the public at large, and not even UFOlogists
generally, seem thoroughly aware of the real risks UFO
investigators run. In fact those UFOlogists who are aware of the
suspicious deaths of some of their colleagues in the 50s and 60s,
seem to believe that whatever forces and agencies that were then
responsible have softened their tactics in the `80s and `90s. The
evidence, as we have indicated, does not seem to support such a
conclusion. There is no doubt, however, that the `50s and `60s
produced some strange goings-on.
Jessup and McDonald
Undoubtedly the most intriguing (and perhaps appalling) deaths in
UFOlogy were those of Dorothy Kilgallen, M.K. Jessup and Dr. James
McDonald - the former an alleged accident, the latter two purported
suicides. The details of these deaths, despite official
pronouncements to the contrary, are disturbing to say the least.
Each of the three individuals seemed to have much to live for, all
were successful, and everyone of them was deeply immersed in the
relatively new UFO-phenomena problem.
Dorothy Kilgallen
Dorothy Kilgallen was the most famous syndicated woman journalist
of her day. Stationed in England in 1954 - 55, and privy to the
highest levels of English society and its secrets, she wired two
unusual dispatches which may have contributed to her death. The
first, sent in February 1954, mentioned a "special hush-hush
meeting of the world's military heads" scheduled to take place the
following summer. The 1955 dispatch, which barely preceded her
death from an alleged overdose of sleeping pills and alcohol (a la
Marilyn Monroe), quoted an unnamed British official of cabinet
rank, `We believe, on the basis of our inquiry thus far, that
saucers were staffed by small men-probably under four feet tall.
It's frightening, but there is no denying the flying saucers come
from another planet.'
Whatever the source (rumored to be the Earl of Mountbatten), this
kind of leak in the atmosphere of the mid- 50s was an unacceptable
leak. It is well to recall that the secret CIA-orchestrated
Robertson Panel had met in 1953 and issued the Robertson Report.
Briefly summarized, this document-and the attitudes reflected there
- represented a new hard-line attitude to covering up all
significant UFO phenomena. The year 1953 and the meeting of the
Robertson Panel truly initiated the UFO coverup as we know it
today, with a few extra dollops having been added.
Did Dorothy Kilgallen actually commit accidental suicide? There
appears to be an excellent chance she had help.
Dr. James McDonald, senior physicast, Institute of Atmospheric
Physics and also professor in the Department of Meteorology at the
University of Arizona, died in 1971 purportedly of a gunshot wound
to the head. There is no one who had worked harder in the 60s than
McDonald to convince Congress to hold serious, substantial
subcommittee meetings to explore the UFO reality of which he was
thoroughly convinced. He was definitely a thorn in the side of
those who maintained the official coverup and, needless to say, his
passing to them would be a blessing.
McDonald, allegedly depressed, shot himself in the head. But, alas,
he didn't die. He was wheelchair-ridden but somehow, several months
after his first attempt, he allegedly got in an automobile, drove
to a pawnshop, purchased another pistol from his wheelchair, drove
to the desert and did himself in. How convenient, one might say,
for his adversaries. And McDonald, there can be no doubt, had made
enemies. The question is: How much did these enemies aid and abet
the demise of this most worthy and influential campaigner?
Astronomer MK Jessup
When astronomer and archaeologist M. K. Jessup allegedly committed
suicide in Dade County Park, FL., in 1959 certain alarm bells
should have gone off. There is no doubt the well-known author of
such influential works as The Case for the UFO and The Expanding
Case for the UFO had been depressed. Things had not been going well
for him, and he had, it must be admitted, indicated his gloom to
close friends, Ivan Sanderson, the biologist, and Long John Nebel,
the well-known New York City radio host. Sanderson reported him
disturbed by "a series of strange events" which put him "into a
completely insane world of unreality."
Was the reality Jessup was faced with at the time "completely
insane" or were there, perhaps, forces driving Jessup to the edge,
forces with a plan? Anna Genzlinger thoroughly investigated his
death. Her conclusion: "He was under some sort of control."
Remember, these were the days of secret governmental mind-control
experiments which have only recently been uncovered.
Certain facts about the case raise redflags. For example, no
autopsy was performed, contrary to the state law. Sergeant
Obenclain, who was on the scene shortly after Jessup's body was
discovered, has said for the record, "Everything seemed too
professional." The hose from the car exhaust was wired on; and it
was, strangely, washing machine hose. Jessup died at rush hour,
with more than the usual amount of traffic passing by. He had been
visited by Carlos Allende three days before his death and according
to his wife, had been receiving strange phone calls. We know the
navy was very much interested in what he was doing; and we all
know, or should know, it is the ONI (Office of Naval
Investigations) that has been in the forefront, from the very
beginning, of the UFO coverup.
And what of particular interest was Jessup investigating at the
time? Something that was top secret and would remain so for some
time: the Philadelphia Experiment.
Frank Edwards
Frank Edwards, the noted news commentator, died of an alleged heart
attack on June 24, 1967, on the 20th anniversary of the Kenneth
Arnold sighting. Was that coincidence?
Probably not. Several other prominent UFOlogists died the same day,
Arthur Bryant, the contactee, Richard Church, chairman of CIGIUFO
and the space writer, Willie Ley. The circumstances surrounding the
death of Edwards, who like James McDonald was pushing for
meaningful Congressional subcommittee meetings, raise huge
questions. It so happens that a "World UFO Conference" was being
held in New York City at the Commodore hotel on that very day in
June, chaired by UFO publisher and author Gray Barker. Barker
stated publicly that he had received two letters and a telephone
call threatening that Frank Edwards, who was not in attendance,
would not be alive by the conference's end.
It definitely looks like someone was sending a message. As an
unhappy sequel to this account, Rep. Rouse, who had been supporting
Edwards in his campaign for Congressional attention to the UFO
issue, died of a similar heart attack shortly afterwards.
The annals of UFOlogy are frighteningly filled with the deaths of
UFOlogists from unusual cancers, heart attacks, questionable
suicides and all manner of strange happenings. Did former Secretary
of Defense James Forrestal really commit suicide as purported by
jumping out a hotel window at about the time saucers may have been
crashing down in the southwestern desert? Was UFO writer Damon
Runyon, Jr.'s suicidal plunge off a Washington D.C. bridge in 1988
really an act of will? What really happened to Dr. B. Noel Opan
who, in 1959, after an alleged visit by MIBs, disappeared, as did
Edgar Jarrold, the Australian UFOlogist, in 1960.
How do we explain the rash of heart attacks that took so many:
Frank Edwards, Rep. Rouse, author H. T. Wilkins, Henry E Kock,
publicity director of the Universal Research Society of America,
author Frank Scully and contactee George Adamski? How do we
correlate accurately the large number of purported suicides,
including: Rev. Della Larson, contactee, author Gloria Lee (Byrd),
Marie Ford, UFO enthusiast who discovered Larson's body, researcher
Doug Hancock, and, more recently, researcher Feron Hicks? What do
we do with the inordinately large number of cancer deaths which
pepper the UFO field and burn doubtful holes in our credulity:
Canadian researcher Wilbert B. Smith, Brazilian researcher Dr.
Olavo Fontes, Jim and Coral Lorenzen (photos are earlier in this
article), and the deaths of biologist Ivan Sanderson and CUFOS
founder James A. Hynek.
Certainly not all of these individuals, as well as many other less
prominent researchers that space limitations do not allow us to
mention, were marked for termination. Many, perhaps most, died
natural deaths. But so many of the cases leave doubt; some seem to
be branded by the mark of Cain. We know now how easy it is to
induce strokes and heart attacks through chemicals, pulsed beams
and microbes. We have learned that the federal government was (and
still is) involved in PSI-tech research. An individual's mind is
rather easily manipulated, and minds can be subtly beaten like
putty into despair and madness.
UFOlogy is not the safe, hobbyistic pastime some would like it to
be. There is danger, real danger in sticking your nose in places
where the powers that be don't want you to be. Many of the deaths
related above are highly suspicious. Some appear to be outright
murder.
What is the cause, who the villain? Again, it must be emphasized
that the "problem" is complex. Rogue intelligence agencies,
negative ET groups, freelancing PSI-tech firms, and reactionary
cultist groups all seem to play, or to have played, a part in the
more nefarious UFO-related events described here including the
possible homicides of UFO researchers in past decades as well as
more recently. It seems highly likely that sometimes one or more of
these agencies may be working together, either with or without the
knowledge of the other's presence.
What can we do about such a state of affairs? Several things. We
can inform ourselves like good democratic citizens. And we can
inform others. We can and must raise a hue and cry when we suspect
foul play. If we are to protect our very lives and the democratic
hopes we say we cherish, then we must not go, silent and ignorant,
into the night, pretending an innocence we have not earned.
