Chapter Eight
Intimidation

What follows will not be new to any experienced UFOlogist like myself. In the course of my fifty years of UFOlogy I have gradually come to know, at first hand, the sinister veil of secrecy placed over the whole UFO phenomenon.

My wife Heather, since joining me in 1972, has also been witness to this coverup. We are not fooled by the often ridiculous, even childish explanations offered by Royal Australian Air Force and other Defence hierarchy, for mystery craft seen in the sky or which have left traces of their having landed in remote, isolated areas.

“The planet Venus”, Meteorites”, “weather balloons”, marsh gas”, “migrating ducks” are ‘explanations’ which fool no-one! And yet these authorities continue to present explanations for UFO sightings even close encounters, which defy commonsense!

And when these ‘explanations’ don’t work, particularly in the cases of those who go public in the media with their experiences, these authorities turn to using dirty tactics which usually involve ridiculing these reports and the credibility of the eyewitnesses in the media, so that the ordinary public ends up by thinking these people are either crazy or trying to ‘put one over’ everyone!

Often there are individuals who, dissatisfied by official explanations, become too nosey, and begin to dig deeper into the mystery to discover a cover-up. The response to these people is outright intimidation, and veiled warnings not to go any further, or else they could find themselves in ‘big trouble’!

Some people just disappear without trace. From the very moment that I had my now-famous article “UFO Base Under the Blue Mountains” published in the late Don Boyd’s now legendary “Paranormal and Psychic Australian” magazine [January 1978, Vol 3, No 1] I attracted the [undercover] attentions of ASIO and the phone taps began in earnest.

Not content with listening in on our phone conversations, some ASIO spies want to meet us in the flesh, and have done this by posing as UFO enthusiasts
wanting to join our Blue Mountains UFO Research Club.

They are just too obvious, attend one meeting and never come back, probably disappointed that our members are not involved in manufacturing a nuclear bomb, or perhaps a flying saucer!

Chapter Eight
Intimidation